thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--And Here We Go… Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing

And Here We Go… Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing I ’ ve been warning for some time that things are not what they appear to be , and here is the latest evidence that the Trump administration is not here to “ Make America Great Again , ” but to play the people right into the New World Order .
A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “ approved ” national app database specifically designed for use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Raul Diego has the story at MintPress News : P2P mobile app developed by a Ukrainian military veteran and funded by American hedge fund magnate and close associate of Cambridge Analytica backer , Robert Mercer , has been rebranded and repurposed to serve as a contact tracing tool in the “ fight ” against the COVID-19 pandemic and public safety emergencies , such as hurricanes and other natural disasters .
The rollout happens at a time when ‘ health-related ’ data-collection technology , such as this and other apps , is sparsely regulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unprecedented health crisis , effectively railroading the public into mass adoption of digital products created by companies with questionable track records .
uCampaign , as the original app was called , had been built for Donald Trump ’ s 2016 successful run for the presidency .
It brought in “ more results and had a bigger impact than Clinton ’ s smartphone app , and for far less cost to the campaign , ” according to Thomas Peters , founder of the company which developed the app .
Peters parlayed his success into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s own presidential campaign , and Brexit .
But it wasn ’ t until the summer of 2017 when Peters became aware of the P2P messaging app used by the Bernie Sanders campaign and developed by an Obama campaign strategist called Hustle , that he decided to re-tool uCampaign and apply the lessons learned through peer-to-peer communication technologies in order to “ perfect ” the Democrat ’ s innovation .
The new app , called RumbleUp , has now been accepted into the “ FirstNet App Catalog , ” a library of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by more than 12,000 public safety agencies ” which enables first responders “ to directly text people on the ground in support of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts ” .
Privacy concerns have been raised by the British parliamentary committee , which looked into the Cambridge Analytica “ Facebook scandal ” in its “ Disinformation and ‘ fake news ’ report ” and mentions uCampaign ’ s very “ ‘ liberal ’ attitude to sharing the personal data of app users.
” The app was utilized by the Trump campaign to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words of uCampaign founder Peters .
“ If users download the App and agree to share their address books , including phone numbers and emails ” , stated a Business Insider article from 2016 , “ the App then shoots the data [ to ] a third-party vendor , which looks for matches to existing voter file information.
” RumbleUp , the next-generation version of uCampaign , enjoys the advantages of all such P2P technologies in that FCC regulations have yet to catch up to modern times .
The 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of the nature of P2P messaging , opt-in consent requirements that govern activities like auto-dialers do not apply .
This loophole has been a boon for companies trading in data and a detriment to the people whose data is being harvested and used for all kinds of undisclosed purposes .
RumbleUp ’ s privacy policy makes no bones about it , stating outright that virtually any users ’ data will be collected “ including , without limitation , names , telephone numbers , emails and social media handles , ” in addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your phone or other mobile device.
” All data collected will also be provided to “ third parties to perform functions on our behalf , ” of which they cite only a few examples .
Peters says that the “ spark behind the company ’ s work to join the FirstNet application catalog ” was motivated by Hurricane Michael , which devastated parts of the Florida panhandle in 2018 .
He “ swiftly ” partnered up with the Florida GOP to text over 70,000 displaced individuals in the aftermath of the storm .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other local relief organizations , but also took advantage of the situation to extend “ assistance filling out absentee ballots ” and other voting-related help , which Peters claims resulted in a 10 percent increase in voter participation .
It was at this point that Peters ’ company began talks with FirstNet to be included in the list of “ approved ” mobile tools for first responders .
FirstNet ( First Responder Network Authority ) was authorized by Congress in 2012 as an independent authority within the Department of Commerce , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wilbur Ross .
The network was built through a public-private partnership with AT & T and includes more than 100 products that cover everything from “ dispatch functions , internet of things , drone and body-worn camera solutions , emergency medical and telehealth capabilities ” , as well as tools to manage and collect the information .
Given the fact that there is still no regulatory framework that covers P2P communications or many of the new technologies being aggregated under this recently-created agency , apps like RumbleUp and their direct ties to political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is especially concerning , however , that these unregulated technologies are being rolled out on a national level under the guise of public safety in the midst of a pandemic – using fear to facilitate adoption and delaying any limitations on corporate power until the system is firmly in place .
In case you weren ’ t paying attention , “ public-private ” is nothing more than a soft term for fascism .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

And Here We Go… Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing
I’ve been warning for some time that things are not what they appear to be, and here is the latest evidence that the Trump administration is not here to “Make America Great Again,” but to play the people right into the New World Order. A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “approved” national app database specifically designed for use by public health and safety agencies.
Raul Diego has the story at MintPress News:
P2P mobile app developed by a Ukrainian military veteran and funded by American hedge fund magnate and close associate of Cambridge Analytica backer, Robert Mercer, has been rebranded and repurposed to serve as a contact tracing tool in the “fight” against the COVID-19 pandemic and public safety emergencies, such as hurricanes and other natural disasters.
The rollout happens at a time when ‘health-related’ data-collection technology, such as this and other apps, is sparsely regulated and when the country is undergoing an unprecedented health crisis, effectively railroading the public into mass adoption of digital products created by companies with questionable track records.
uCampaign, as the original app was called, had been built for Donald Trump’s 2016 successful run for the presidency. It brought in “more results and had a bigger impact than Clinton’s smartphone app, and for far less cost to the campaign,” according to Thomas Peters, founder of the company which developed the app. Peters parlayed his success into contracts with the NRA, Ted Cruz’s own presidential campaign, and Brexit.
But it wasn’t until the summer of 2017 when Peters became aware of the P2P messaging app used by the Bernie Sanders campaign and developed by an Obama campaign strategist called Hustle, that he decided to re-tool uCampaign and apply the lessons learned through peer-to-peer communication technologies in order to “perfect” the Democrat’s innovation.
The new app, called RumbleUp, has now been accepted into the “FirstNet App Catalog,” a library of “secure applications that can be used by more than 12,000 public safety agencies” which enables first responders “to directly text people on the ground in support of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts”.
Cambridge Analytica Redux
Privacy concerns have been raised by the British parliamentary committee, which looked into the Cambridge Analytica “Facebook scandal” in its “Disinformation and ‘fake news’ report” and mentions uCampaign’s very “‘liberal’ attitude to sharing the personal data of app users.” The app was utilized by the Trump campaign to go “absolutely granular,” in the words of uCampaign founder Peters. “If users download the App and agree to share their address books, including phone numbers and emails”, stated a Business Insider article from 2016, “the App then shoots the data [to] a third-party vendor, which looks for matches to existing voter file information.”
RumbleUp, the next-generation version of uCampaign, enjoys the advantages of all such P2P technologies in that FCC regulations have yet to catch up to modern times. The 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act fails to account for smartphones and because of the nature of P2P messaging, opt-in consent requirements that govern activities like auto-dialers do not apply.
This loophole has been a boon for companies trading in data and a detriment to the people whose data is being harvested and used for all kinds of undisclosed purposes. RumbleUp’s privacy policy makes no bones about it, stating outright that virtually any users’ data will be collected “including, without limitation, names, telephone numbers, emails and social media handles,” in addition to “geolocation information as provided by your phone or other mobile device.”
All data collected will also be provided to “third parties to perform functions on our behalf,” of which they cite only a few examples.
Public-Private Shakedown
Peters says that the “spark behind the company’s work to join the FirstNet application catalog” was motivated by Hurricane Michael, which devastated parts of the Florida panhandle in 2018. He “swiftly” partnered up with the Florida GOP to text over 70,000 displaced individuals in the aftermath of the storm. The information gathered was shared with FEMA and other local relief organizations, but also took advantage of the situation to extend “assistance filling out absentee ballots” and other voting-related help, which Peters claims resulted in a 10 percent increase in voter participation.
It was at this point that Peters’ company began talks with FirstNet to be included in the list of “approved” mobile tools for first responders. FirstNet (First Responder Network Authority) was authorized by Congress in 2012 as an independent authority within the Department of Commerce, that is currently run by billionaire investor, Wilbur Ross. The network was built through a public-private partnership with AT&T and includes more than 100 products that cover everything from “dispatch functions, internet of things, drone and body-worn camera solutions, emergency medical and telehealth capabilities”, as well as tools to manage and collect the information.
Given the fact that there is still no regulatory framework that covers P2P communications or many of the new technologies being aggregated under this recently-created agency, apps like RumbleUp and their direct ties to political power is enough to be concerned about. It is especially concerning, however, that these unregulated technologies are being rolled out on a national level under the guise of public safety in the midst of a pandemic – using fear to facilitate adoption and delaying any limitations on corporate power until the system is firmly in place.
In case you weren’t paying attention, “public-private” is nothing more than a soft term for fascism.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--The Citizen’s Grand Jury: The Power Of The People To Render Justice

The Citizen ’ s Grand Jury : The Power Of The People To Render Justice Have you wondered why we are not seeing more criminal politicians brought to justice ?
Have you wondered why the federal government continues to grow at an enormous rate with unconstitutional alphabet agencies ?
David Zuniga and John Leyzorek of TacticalCivics.com joins me to discuss the importance of grand juries .
This , working hand in glove with the Constitutional citizen ’ s militia are the people ’ s teeth in our Constitution to uphold the law .
Previous interviews with David on this subject @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mentioned interview with Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo and books mentioned in this episode .
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Have you wondered why we are not seeing more criminal politicians brought to justice? Have you wondered why the federal government continues to grow at an enormous rate with unconstitutional alphabet agencies? David Zuniga and John Leyzorek of TacticalCivics.com joins me to discuss the importance of grand juries. This, working hand in glove with the Constitutional citizen’s militia are the people’s teeth in our Constitution to uphold the law.
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--War on the Suburbs: How HUD’s Housing Policies Became a Weapon for Social Change

There are few things more synonymous with the American way of life than the suburbs .
While certainly not without problems , the suburbs have been home to middle class Americans since the end of World War 2 , and even before .
But the suburbs are under attack from certain elements of the left as a source of social inequality and ( what else ? )
“ white privilege ” and “ white supremacy.
” If you are alarmed by this article , that ’ s a good thing .
Because these elements of the American left seek nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way of life , from the people who live in your communities to the types of houses that you live in to the places where you will be allowed to shop and how you get from one place to another .
The policy is called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing ( AFFH ) , but beyond this specific HUD policy , there ’ s a philosophical and political attack on suburbs that goes well in excess of any single policy .
There is , without mincing words , a War on the Suburbs in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against a geographical location or a type of housing or community , but an attack on a way of life .
Most people are aware of the existence of the Department of Housing and Urban Development , but don ’ t think much about it .
However , HUD has a lot more ambition than you might think : Under the Obama Administration , they made it their mission to radically change the makeup of America by attacking the suburbs .
AFFH isn ’ t just a program .
It ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ etre for the entire Department .
Effectively , the program requires any town or other jurisdiction receiving federal housing funds to keep track of statistics with regard to race , disability , familial status , economic status , English proficiency , and other categories .
Any discrepancy between the community ’ s records and those of targets set by the federal government is considered evidence of discrimination and funds might be withheld .
AFFH isn ’ t just “ social engineering.
” It is a profoundly totalitarian system that forms the bedrock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suburbs .
While the alleged inspiration for this is – what else ?
– “ equality ( of outcome ) , ” the truth is much more hard nosed .
The War on the Suburbs serves the dual purpose of both punishing those who do not kowtow to the totalitarian aims of the Democratic Party as well as further atomizing these communities , breaking them up , urbanizing them and making them easier prey for big business and big government alike .
HUD has moved away from AFFH , or at least the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , under the Trump Administration .
The changes greatly dismayed the Obama-era HUD Secretary Julián Castro , who said they did nothing less than gut what AFFH was under the Obama Administration .
While the new way of doing AFFH was challenged in court , the courts sided with the administration for once .
However , threats of AFFH resurfacing have come up during Joe Biden ’ s 2020 presidential campaign .
Tucker Carlson discussed the effects of AFFH , as well as Biden ’ s plan to continue the regulation : How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
The War on the Suburbs began under President Barack Obama .
Obama himself was an opponent of suburban sprawl and declared in February 2009 that the days of suburban sprawl were “ over.
” Obama ’ s rhetoric – urban-centric – can often be contrasted with that of the previous Democratic President , Bill Clinton , who self-consciously and ostentatiously sought ways to connect with suburban and rural voters .
In comparison , Obama appointees at HUD and EPA tended to come from big cities in blue states .
The term they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effectively means forcing more and more Americans to live in higher density areas .
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and Undersecretary Ron Sims , Transportation undersecretary for policy Roy Kienitz , and the EPA ’ s John Frece all favored this agenda .
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was quite straightforward in his language : the administration sought to “ coerce ” Americans out of cars and onto light rail .
The stimulus package passed by the president to the tune of $ 8 billion focused largely on light rail , which only benefits Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Such policies have little chance of passing through legislation .
However , there are administrative and bureaucratic means to foist these programs on American citizens .
Bureaucratic czars can simply deny funding to cities and states that are not in compliance with the diktats of the president ’ s agenda .
Europe , the UK in particular , provides an example of what houses will look like when the urbanite proponents of “ smart growth ” get their way – the average house size in the UK is a scant 800 square @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prefer the single-family home commonly associated with the suburbs when house shopping , according to the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Home Builders .
Beyond aesthetics or a “ green ” politic , there is another reason why those favoring a strong role of big government and those who cheer for “ woke ” big corporations might prefer to see the suburbs committed to the dustbin of history : the suburbs represent individual aspiration and decentralized control .
Cities represent a highly bureaucratized form of living with much less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , urbanites are more atomized , more controlled by central authority and have less skin in the game – perfect consumers , perfect employees .
There is an element of class war here : the ideological issues that play the best in suburbs ( roads , wages , schools , housing prices ) are effectively the issues of the middle class .
Compare with the agenda advanced by the Democratic Party since the lame duck years of the Obama Administration : climate change , “ gender ” ideology , amnesty for illegals and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are largely the purview of affluent , professional-managerial class types who tend to congregate in America ’ s urban centers .
Finally , the rise of the War on the Suburbs coincides with a rise in suburban voters going red .
While this trend has been underway since 1966 , it was largely reversed under both Obama and Clinton .
However , Scott Brown ’ s election to the Senate in 2010 , and Mitt Romney ’ s failed campaign in 2012 , heralded the beginning of a move by suburban voters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been even more pronounced at the state and local level where governors , senators and congressmen have won office thanks to overwhelming support from the suburbs .
Democrats are right to fear the suburban edge .
Even though there has been explosive growth in urban areas over the last decade , it is mostly concentrated in what are mostly cities in name only – Ft. Worth , Phoenix , Charlotte , Houston – rather than classically dense urban areas such as Boston , Philadelphia or San Francisco .
Thus , the War on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Predictably , even establishment conservatives have joined in this pile on .
No less an institution than The American Conservative , founded by Pat Buchanan , has put forward the notion that the suburbs and the single-family housing unit are a Big Government program that need to be abolished .
This article does little more than put a market-friendly spin on the vitriol produced by the various left-wing sources cited .
It is a striking indictment of movement conservatism .
There are a number of reasons that people choose to live in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boiled down to two : First , you don ’ t have to share a wall with anyone or have your neighbor ’ s house a whopping six feet away .
Second , the suburbs are a much safer place to live – and thus , a far better place to raise a family – than the urban cores .
This is , according to those who wish to destroy your way of life , a form of ( what else ? )
“ white privilege.
” If we have henceforth covered the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the suburbs , consider this an exploration into the ideology they will use to do so .
“ White privilege , ” as with other aspects of so-called “ critical race theory , ” is , in practice , a form of racial demonization whereby whites ( and , increasingly , non-black minorities , in particular Asians and affluent Hispanics ) are painted as unworthy of their property and position in life .
Any disparity in outcomes in favor of whites ( or any other ethnic group ) is treated as de facto @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mentioned is that whites are actually third by income with regard to race ( behind East Asians and Indians ) .
When broken down by nationality , whites appear in only three of the top ten slots with regard to income in a list dominated by Asians .
In the next ten ( i.e.
, the top 20 ) there are only another three white nationalities represented .
Thus , “ white privilege ” theory is , at best , misguided and , if we are being less generous , is an outright @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this the next time you read “ rich ” and “ white ” paired together as a lazy political smear .
Once the suburbs are branded as “ racist , ” it then becomes a matter of public policy to attack them and dismantle them as communities .
This is what is behind the attack on the suburbs in general , but single-family housing units in particular .
Single-family housing units are currently the epicenter of the battle in the War on the Suburbs .
Charlotte , North Carolina has sought to eliminate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minnesota , who in mid-2020 were in the process of eliminating their police department , was able to successfully eliminate single-family housing units by a 12-1 vote .
For its part , some in Albuquerque ( not exactly the picture of urban density ) have suggested banning backyards .
There has been an attempt to retcon the history of single-family housing units as “ racist.
” An article on Chicago Unheard , a left-wing education blog , details the ideology in stark , “ mask off ” terms : wanting your kids to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a nice neighborhood is racist .
Part of this is a general sleight-of-hand by the affluent , professional-class American left , which long since ditched concerns with income and the working class for racial fetishization : “ racism ” no longer means what everyone thinks it does ( i.e.
, actions and attitudes reflecting racial bigotry ) , but rather the definition used by campus radicals : an invisible power structure that , like phlogiston , explains every instance of disparate outcomes .
The News & Observer , the main newspaper in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the question into bold , stark terms informed by the spate of left-wing rioting in the United States , starting in the summer of 2020 : destroying single-family housing is the next phase in the war against the American way of life .
The article calls not just for the allowance of multi-family housing units , but active attacks on single-family housing units .
Leading lights in the Democratic Party likewise championed the destruction of the single-family housing unit at the norm , including 2020 presidential candidates Cory Booker , Elizabeth Warren and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cory Booker claims to live in a $ 435,377 , detached , single-family unit in Newark , though it ’ s not clear that he actually lives there – or , indeed , in Newark at all .
Elizabeth Warren lives in a $ 3.6 million home in Cambridge , Massachusetts .
No word on whether or not they would be selling those to move into a quadruplex , which underscores another important point : The affluent progressives who champion the destruction of the suburbs will , as usual , not have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they support .
They will be able to use their wealth to insulate themselves .
The battle against single-family housing units is philosophically in alignment with the broader War on the Suburbs : Any neighborhood whose demographics do not match those desired by ideologically motivated government bureaucrats is going to be destroyed .
The weapon is the Section 8 housing benefit and we already have a rather famous example of a community destroyed by it : Ferguson , Missouri .
Most Americans know of Ferguson , Missouri as the place where 18-year-old Michael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Brown had threatened and attacked the officer after robbing a nearby store .
None of this mattered much to the rioters , however .
They destroyed the city in an orgy of violence that came in three waves : First , August 2014 , after the initial shooting .
Second , late November and early December , after a grand jury found that there was no evidence to indict officer Darren Wilson on any charges .
Finally , there was a third wave of rioting in August 2015 , on the anniversary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ played a key role in transforming communities like Ferguson from close-knit suburbs into violent , atomized hellholes .
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the matter , detailing how the reasonably comfortable middle-class suburb was transformed into the high-crime area where police were forced to constantly patrol .
The New York Times buries the lede and notes toward the very bottom that “ like other older suburbs , Ferguson has lost a fair share of more affluent residents , and lower-income families have taken their place.
” Time does not mince words : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ How Ferguson Went From Middle Class to Poor in a Generation.
” Within 20 years , the town went from majority white with low unemployment and poverty rates , to majority black with 13 percent unemployment and doubled poverty in a decade .
One of the reasons ?
Ferguson ’ s zoning laws do not prohibit high-density housing structures , which made it an ideal target for destruction by Section 8 .
As America ’ s larger urban centers become more gentrified , there has been a concerted attempt to move the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little political clout .
What we can expect to see under a new Democratic administration is effectively the weaponization of the urban poor to bust up the suburbs and throw them into chaos .
Ferguson isn ’ t the only place where this is happening .
An extensive dive into the subject on City Journal , which called for the end of housing vouchers entirely , discusses how many working-class black families who left the cities to escape the problems that cause everyone to leave cities , are encountering the same social dysfunction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genesis of Section 8 as the primary means of government housing funding comes during the Nixon Administration .
Whereas previously the government had preferred to build housing projects ( which obviously come with problems all their own ) , the Nixon Administration preferred Section 8 for two reasons : First , it favored the free market ( to an extent ) over straight government intervention .
Second , it did not require maintenance costs to be born by the government .
As with many government programs , it quickly became a cash cow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the system while leaving those it was intended to help high and dry .
It also had the impact of creating ghettos in suburbs where once there was none .
Former Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland has stated that Section 8 vouchers replace “ vertical ghettos with horizontal ones.
” The impact goes far beyond simply increased crime , though that would surely be enough .
EMTs are routinely called for the same kind of people clogging urban hospital emergency rooms with vague complaints of nonspecific malaise .
Schools are destroyed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crime emerges where once there were none .
The increased crime comes with increased social costs , all of which must be borne by the working-class families who inhabited the area before the legion of Section 8 tenants were dumped on their community .
The sum total of all of this is that property values decline .
Another unintended consequence is increased segregation .
Where poverty-level blacks who have just moved out of impoverished urban neighborhoods move into comparatively affluent white suburbs , the result is white flight .
Ferguson is an example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t to beat up on Ferguson .
It is simply that Ferguson is a well-known place in America for all the wrong reasons that is also an emblematic example of what Section 8 and high-density housing units can do to a formerly stable , safe , working-class community .
The fight goes even beyond the single-family housing unit and into the entire layout of suburbia .
The Wall Street Journal notes that urbanists have a fixation on “ expand [ ing ] often underused train systems , downtown condominiums , hotels , convention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ -designed art museums , often at the expense of smaller business , single-family neighborhoods and local shopping areas.
” There is a growing hostility toward the yard and the garden .
The New York Times ran a piece denouncing your lawn as racist and contributing to global warming .
In what is perhaps the most extreme form of hostility toward the suburban way of life , in March 2020 , The Atlantic ran a piece by David Brooks attacking the very existence of the nuclear family .
The article discusses the extended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point out the “ unnatural ” ( whatever that means ) character of the nuclear family .
When it comes down to solutions , the mask slips : Brooks suggests that we replace our families of birth with families of choice , effectively bringing the atomized , hyper-individualistic , “ choice ” of the free market to the family unit .
This represents yet another attempt at atomization : Replacing blood families with what are effectively “ Uber for families.
” Such people are necessarily more vulnerable to victimization and predatory activities by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This might at first seem a bit far afield from the matter of housing , but it is not .
The attack on the suburbs must be seen in the broader context of an attack on the American way of life .
It is not an attack on buildings , but rather an attack on a lifestyle – one enjoyed or aspired to by the overwhelming majority of Americans .
The affluent , protected classes , connected to the halls of power , are in no danger .
It is the average American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decline in the quality of public schools has left the affluent , who can send their children to private schools , unscathed , so will the destruction of the middle-class suburb leave unscathed those who can afford to live in gated communities , behind high walls , well insulated from the consequences of their politics .

There are few things more synonymous with the American way of life than the suburbs. While certainly not without problems, the suburbs have been home to middle class Americans since the end of World War 2, and even before. But the suburbs are under attack from certain elements of the left as a source of social inequality and (what else?) “white privilege” and “white supremacy.”
If you are alarmed by this article, that’s a good thing. Because these elements of the American left seek nothing more than the total destruction of your way of life, from the people who live in your communities to the types of houses that you live in to the places where you will be allowed to shop and how you get from one place to another.
The policy is called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), but beyond this specific HUD policy, there’s a philosophical and political attack on suburbs that goes well in excess of any single policy. There is, without mincing words, a War on the Suburbs in America. It is a war not against a geographical location or a type of housing or community, but an attack on a way of life.
What Is Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing?
Most people are aware of the existence of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but don’t think much about it. However, HUD has a lot more ambition than you might think: Under the Obama Administration, they made it their mission to radically change the makeup of America by attacking the suburbs.
AFFH isn’t just a program. It’s a directive and a sort of raison d’etre for the entire Department. Effectively, the program requires any town or other jurisdiction receiving federal housing funds to keep track of statistics with regard to race, disability, familial status, economic status, English proficiency, and other categories. Any discrepancy between the community’s records and those of targets set by the federal government is considered evidence of discrimination and funds might be withheld.
AFFH isn’t just “social engineering.” It is a profoundly totalitarian system that forms the bedrock of HUD’s war on the suburbs.
While the alleged inspiration for this is – what else? – “equality (of outcome),” the truth is much more hard nosed. The War on the Suburbs serves the dual purpose of both punishing those who do not kowtow to the totalitarian aims of the Democratic Party as well as further atomizing these communities, breaking them up, urbanizing them and making them easier prey for big business and big government alike.
HUD has moved away from AFFH, or at least the Obama Administration’s interpretation of it, under the Trump Administration. The changes greatly dismayed the Obama-era HUD Secretary Julián Castro, who said they did nothing less than gut what AFFH was under the Obama Administration. While the new way of doing AFFH was challenged in court, the courts sided with the administration for once.
However, threats of AFFH resurfacing have come up during Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Tucker Carlson discussed the effects of AFFH, as well as Biden’s plan to continue the regulation:
Americans are fleeing urban areas in huge numbers. Big cities are just too mismanaged, they’re too dangerous. Unless you’re very rich or very poor, you’re getting out. New York City lost 53,000 people in 2019 – they will lose far more than that this year. Most of these refugees have relocated to the suburbs, where they imagine they are safe from the effects of disastrous urban policy. But they’re not. Democrats want to abolish the suburbs. They are too clean and nice, therefore by definition, they are racist. The Biden campaign has highly specific plans on how to do this. It’s called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, it’s a HUD regulation, it was written during the Obama Administration. Biden’s advisor’s plan to enforce it. It will cut off critical federal funds from municipalities unless those municipalities submit to federal control of urban planning. Towns will be ordered to abolish zoning for single-family housing – because single-family homes, needless to say, are racist. Low-income, federally subsidized apartments will go up in the suburbs. It’s a good bet you won’t see any of this, you won’t see projects being built in Aspen or Martha’s Vineyard or anywhere else Eric Holder vacations. But in your neighborhood? Oh yeah.
How Did the War on the Suburbs Start?
The War on the Suburbs began under President Barack Obama. Obama himself was an opponent of suburban sprawl and declared in February 2009 that the days of suburban sprawl were “over.” Obama’s rhetoric – urban-centric – can often be contrasted with that of the previous Democratic President, Bill Clinton, who self-consciously and ostentatiously sought ways to connect with suburban and rural voters. In comparison, Obama appointees at HUD and EPA tended to come from big cities in blue states.
The term they use is “smart growth.” This effectively means forcing more and more Americans to live in higher density areas. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and Undersecretary Ron Sims, Transportation undersecretary for policy Roy Kienitz, and the EPA’s John Frece all favored this agenda. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was quite straightforward in his language: the administration sought to “coerce” Americans out of cars and onto light rail. The stimulus package passed by the president to the tune of $8 billion focused largely on light rail, which only benefits Americans living around a handful of larger cities.
Such policies have little chance of passing through legislation. However, there are administrative and bureaucratic means to foist these programs on American citizens. Bureaucratic czars can simply deny funding to cities and states that are not in compliance with the diktats of the president’s agenda.
Europe, the UK in particular, provides an example of what houses will look like when the urbanite proponents of “smart growth” get their way – the average house size in the UK is a scant 800 square feet.
83 percent of home buyers prefer the single-family home commonly associated with the suburbs when house shopping, according to the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Home Builders.
Beyond aesthetics or a “green” politic, there is another reason why those favoring a strong role of big government and those who cheer for “woke” big corporations might prefer to see the suburbs committed to the dustbin of history: the suburbs represent individual aspiration and decentralized control. Cities represent a highly bureaucratized form of living with much less individual ownership. Put in simple terms, urbanites are more atomized, more controlled by central authority and have less skin in the game – perfect consumers, perfect employees.
There is an element of class war here: the ideological issues that play the best in suburbs (roads, wages, schools, housing prices) are effectively the issues of the middle class. Compare with the agenda advanced by the Democratic Party since the lame duck years of the Obama Administration: climate change, “gender” ideology, amnesty for illegals and racial grievances. The latter of these are largely the purview of affluent, professional-managerial class types who tend to congregate in America’s urban centers.
Finally, the rise of the War on the Suburbs coincides with a rise in suburban voters going red. While this trend has been underway since 1966, it was largely reversed under both Obama and Clinton. However, Scott Brown’s election to the Senate in 2010, and Mitt Romney’s failed campaign in 2012, heralded the beginning of a move by suburban voters to the Republican Party. The difference has been even more pronounced at the state and local level where governors, senators and congressmen have won office thanks to overwhelming support from the suburbs.
Democrats are right to fear the suburban edge. Even though there has been explosive growth in urban areas over the last decade, it is mostly concentrated in what are mostly cities in name only – Ft. Worth, Phoenix, Charlotte, Houston – rather than classically dense urban areas such as Boston, Philadelphia or San Francisco. Thus, the War on the Suburbs is ultimately a political weapon.
Predictably, even establishment conservatives have joined in this pile on. No less an institution than The American Conservative, founded by Pat Buchanan, has put forward the notion that the suburbs and the single-family housing unit are a Big Government program that need to be abolished. This article does little more than put a market-friendly spin on the vitriol produced by the various left-wing sources cited. It is a striking indictment of movement conservatism.
Safe Streets Are a Form of White Privilege
There are a number of reasons that people choose to live in suburbs, but they can mostly be boiled down to two: First, you don’t have to share a wall with anyone or have your neighbor’s house a whopping six feet away. Second, the suburbs are a much safer place to live – and thus, a far better place to raise a family – than the urban cores.
This is, according to those who wish to destroy your way of life, a form of (what else?) “white privilege.”
If we have henceforth covered the mechanisms by which urbanites wish to destroy the suburbs, consider this an exploration into the ideology they will use to do so. “White privilege,” as with other aspects of so-called “critical race theory,” is, in practice, a form of racial demonization whereby whites (and, increasingly, non-black minorities, in particular Asians and affluent Hispanics) are painted as unworthy of their property and position in life.
Any disparity in outcomes in favor of whites (or any other ethnic group) is treated as de facto evidence of discrimination and racism. Rarely mentioned is that whites are actually third by income with regard to race (behind East Asians and Indians). When broken down by nationality, whites appear in only three of the top ten slots with regard to income in a list dominated by Asians. In the next ten (i.e., the top 20) there are only another three white nationalities represented. Thus, “white privilege” theory is, at best, misguided and, if we are being less generous, is an outright, propagandistic lie.
Remember all of this the next time you read “rich” and “white” paired together as a lazy political smear.
Once the suburbs are branded as “racist,” it then becomes a matter of public policy to attack them and dismantle them as communities. This is what is behind the attack on the suburbs in general, but single-family housing units in particular.
The Battle for Single-Family Housing
Single-family housing units are currently the epicenter of the battle in the War on the Suburbs. Charlotte, North Carolina has sought to eliminate single-family housing units entirely. Minneapolis, Minnesota, who in mid-2020 were in the process of eliminating their police department, was able to successfully eliminate single-family housing units by a 12-1 vote. For its part, some in Albuquerque (not exactly the picture of urban density) have suggested banning backyards.
There has been an attempt to retcon the history of single-family housing units as “racist.” An article on Chicago Unheard, a left-wing education blog, details the ideology in stark, “mask off” terms: wanting your kids to go to a good school or live in a nice neighborhood is racist. Part of this is a general sleight-of-hand by the affluent, professional-class American left, which long since ditched concerns with income and the working class for racial fetishization: “racism” no longer means what everyone thinks it does (i.e., actions and attitudes reflecting racial bigotry), but rather the definition used by campus radicals: an invisible power structure that, like phlogiston, explains every instance of disparate outcomes.
The News & Observer, the main newspaper in the Greater Raleigh area, likewise put the question into bold, stark terms informed by the spate of left-wing rioting in the United States, starting in the summer of 2020: destroying single-family housing is the next phase in the war against the American way of life. The article calls not just for the allowance of multi-family housing units, but active attacks on single-family housing units.
Leading lights in the Democratic Party likewise championed the destruction of the single-family housing unit at the norm, including 2020 presidential candidates Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Julián Castro. For their parts, Cory Booker claims to live in a $435,377, detached, single-family unit in Newark, though it’s not clear that he actually lives there – or, indeed, in Newark at all. Elizabeth Warren lives in a $3.6 million home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. No word on whether or not they would be selling those to move into a quadruplex, which underscores another important point: The affluent progressives who champion the destruction of the suburbs will, as usual, not have to live with the consequences of the policies they support. They will be able to use their wealth to insulate themselves.
The battle against single-family housing units is philosophically in alignment with the broader War on the Suburbs: Any neighborhood whose demographics do not match those desired by ideologically motivated government bureaucrats is going to be destroyed. The weapon is the Section 8 housing benefit and we already have a rather famous example of a community destroyed by it: Ferguson, Missouri.
The Sad Tale of Ferguson
Most Americans know of Ferguson, Missouri as the place where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a police officer. Brown had threatened and attacked the officer after robbing a nearby store.
None of this mattered much to the rioters, however. They destroyed the city in an orgy of violence that came in three waves: First, August 2014, after the initial shooting. Second, late November and early December, after a grand jury found that there was no evidence to indict officer Darren Wilson on any charges. Finally, there was a third wave of rioting in August 2015, on the anniversary of the shooting.
Section 8 has played a key role in transforming communities like Ferguson from close-knit suburbs into violent, atomized hellholes. A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the matter, detailing how the reasonably comfortable middle-class suburb was transformed into the high-crime area where police were forced to constantly patrol. The New York Times buries the lede and notes toward the very bottom that “like other older suburbs, Ferguson has lost a fair share of more affluent residents, and lower-income families have taken their place.”
Time does not mince words: Its article on the phenomenon was called “How Ferguson Went From Middle Class to Poor in a Generation.” Within 20 years, the town went from majority white with low unemployment and poverty rates, to majority black with 13 percent unemployment and doubled poverty in a decade.
One of the reasons? Ferguson’s zoning laws do not prohibit high-density housing structures, which made it an ideal target for destruction by Section 8.
As America’s larger urban centers become more gentrified, there has been a concerted attempt to move the underclass out and into low-rent suburbs with little political clout. What we can expect to see under a new Democratic administration is effectively the weaponization of the urban poor to bust up the suburbs and throw them into chaos.
Ferguson isn’t the only place where this is happening. An extensive dive into the subject on City Journal, which called for the end of housing vouchers entirely, discusses how many working-class black families who left the cities to escape the problems that cause everyone to leave cities, are encountering the same social dysfunction in their new suburban homes.
The genesis of Section 8 as the primary means of government housing funding comes during the Nixon Administration. Whereas previously the government had preferred to build housing projects (which obviously come with problems all their own), the Nixon Administration preferred Section 8 for two reasons: First, it favored the free market (to an extent) over straight government intervention. Second, it did not require maintenance costs to be born by the government.
As with many government programs, it quickly became a cash cow for those who knew how to game the system while leaving those it was intended to help high and dry. It also had the impact of creating ghettos in suburbs where once there was none. Former Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland has stated that Section 8 vouchers replace “vertical ghettos with horizontal ones.”
The impact goes far beyond simply increased crime, though that would surely be enough. EMTs are routinely called for the same kind of people clogging urban hospital emergency rooms with vague complaints of nonspecific malaise. Schools are destroyed by an influx of problem pupils. Gang crime emerges where once there were none. The increased crime comes with increased social costs, all of which must be borne by the working-class families who inhabited the area before the legion of Section 8 tenants were dumped on their community. The sum total of all of this is that property values decline.
Another unintended consequence is increased segregation. Where poverty-level blacks who have just moved out of impoverished urban neighborhoods move into comparatively affluent white suburbs, the result is white flight. Ferguson is an example of this.
The point isn’t to beat up on Ferguson. It is simply that Ferguson is a well-known place in America for all the wrong reasons that is also an emblematic example of what Section 8 and high-density housing units can do to a formerly stable, safe, working-class community.
Beyond the Single-Family Housing Unit
The fight goes even beyond the single-family housing unit and into the entire layout of suburbia. The Wall Street Journal notes that urbanists have a fixation on “expand[ing] often underused train systems, downtown condominiums, hotels, convention centers, sports stadia and ‘star-chitect’-designed art museums, often at the expense of smaller business, single-family neighborhoods and local shopping areas.”
There is a growing hostility toward the yard and the garden. The New York Times ran a piece denouncing your lawn as racist and contributing to global warming.
In what is perhaps the most extreme form of hostility toward the suburban way of life, in March 2020, The Atlantic ran a piece by David Brooks attacking the very existence of the nuclear family. The article discusses the extended family as a backdrop, mostly to point out the “unnatural” (whatever that means) character of the nuclear family. When it comes down to solutions, the mask slips: Brooks suggests that we replace our families of birth with families of choice, effectively bringing the atomized, hyper-individualistic, “choice” of the free market to the family unit.
This represents yet another attempt at atomization: Replacing blood families with what are effectively “Uber for families.” Such people are necessarily more vulnerable to victimization and predatory activities by both big business and big government.
This might at first seem a bit far afield from the matter of housing, but it is not. The attack on the suburbs must be seen in the broader context of an attack on the American way of life. It is not an attack on buildings, but rather an attack on a lifestyle – one enjoyed or aspired to by the overwhelming majority of Americans.
The affluent, protected classes, connected to the halls of power, are in no danger. It is the average American who will suffer. Just as the decline in the quality of public schools has left the affluent, who can send their children to private schools, unscathed, so will the destruction of the middle-class suburb leave unscathed those who can afford to live in gated communities, behind high walls, well insulated from the consequences of their politics.
Written by Sam Jacobs Article posted with permission from Ammo.com


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--Housing Crisis Of 2020: Millions Of Americans Missed Their Last Rent Payments – Tens Of Millions Cou

Housing Crisis Of 2020 : Millions Of Americans Missed Their Last Rent Payments – Tens Of Millions Could Soon Be Evicted Week after week we continue to get economic numbers that are absolutely horrific , and it appears that we are heading for a housing crisis that will be even worse than what we witnessed in 2008 .
Back then , millions of Americans lost their homes , but this time around it could be tens of millions .
I know that a statement like that may sound overly dramatic , but I believe that many of you that feel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reading this entire article .
In order to make rent and mortgage payments , Americans need paychecks coming in , and right now people continue to lose jobs at a pace that is hard to believe .
On Thursday , we learned that another 1.3 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week .
That was worse than expected , and it represented the 17th week in a row when the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits exceeded one million .
And as I keep reminding my readers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a single week prior to this year was just 695,000 .
Overall , more than 51 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the last 17 weeks , and that is by far the largest spike in unemployment in all of U.S. history .
In fact , the numbers that we have been seeing should theoretically be close to impossible .
In February , the number of Americans that were employed peaked at an all-time high of 152 million , and the number of people that have filed new claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than a third of that total .
I know that some people are hesitant to use the term “ economic collapse ” , but what else are we supposed to call this ?
Incredibly , one expert , quoted by USA Today , is telling us that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits could actually “ increase ” next week… Needless to say , this tsunami of unemployment has resulted in a whole lot of people not being able to make their rent payments .
In fact , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans live in households that did not make their most recent rent payments… Large numbers of Americans are getting behind on their mortgage payments as well .
The following comes from Wolf Richter… In the months ahead , millions of Americans will fall so far behind on their rent payments that they will be facing eviction .
And millions of other Americans will fall so far behind on their mortgages that they will be in serious danger of losing their homes .
According to Emily Benfer , we could potentially see a total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people ” get kicked out of their homes in the months ahead… We have never seen anything like this before .
And of course , Benfer is assuming that there won ’ t be another major crisis between now and the end of the year .
So what happens if we get to September , October and November and things in this country start going absolutely haywire once again ?
The closer we get to the election , the higher societal tensions will run , and they are already so high that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any moment .
And I should also mention that the $ 600 weekly bonus payments that were keeping so many unemployed Americans afloat will be terminated at the end of July .
Once those payments stop , millions upon millions of unemployed workers will have a much , much more difficult time making rent and mortgage payments .
Most Americans believe that “ the worst is behind us ” , but the truth is that we are sleepwalking into an unprecedented economic nightmare .
If you follow my work on The Most Important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I am about the end of this year and beyond , and I will be laying out precisely what I believe is coming in my new book which will be released later this month .
The “ perfect storm ” which I have mentioned so many times over the last couple of years is now here , and most Americans are completely and totally unprepared for it .
I would very much encourage you to take the summer months as an opportunity to make the preparations that you need to make for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ detailed two days ago , we are already witnessing nationwide shortages of aluminum cans , soda , flour , canned soup , pasta and rice .
As the problems in our nation intensify , the shortages will only get worse .
Of course , in order to store up supplies you must have somewhere to put them , and for tens of millions of Americans , it is going to be a real struggle just to keep their homes during the months ahead .
It looks like we are facing a housing crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than anything that we experienced during the last recession , and unless Congress starts making money rain from the sky it doesn ’ t appear that there is any hope of stopping it .

Housing Crisis Of 2020: Millions Of Americans Missed Their Last Rent Payments – Tens Of Millions Could Soon Be Evicted
Week after week we continue to get economic numbers that are absolutely horrific, and it appears that we are heading for a housing crisis that will be even worse than what we witnessed in 2008. Back then, millions of Americans lost their homes, but this time around it could be tens of millions. I know that a statement like that may sound overly dramatic, but I believe that many of you that feel that way may change your minds after reading this entire article.
In order to make rent and mortgage payments, Americans need paychecks coming in, and right now people continue to lose jobs at a pace that is hard to believe.
On Thursday, we learned that another 1.3 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week. That was worse than expected, and it represented the 17th week in a row when the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits exceeded one million.
And as I keep reminding my readers each week, the all-time record for a single week prior to this year was just 695,000.
Overall, more than 51 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the last 17 weeks, and that is by far the largest spike in unemployment in all of U.S. history.
In fact, the numbers that we have been seeing should theoretically be close to impossible. In February, the number of Americans that were employed peaked at an all-time high of 152 million, and the number of people that have filed new claims for unemployment since that time represents more than a third of that total.
I know that some people are hesitant to use the term “economic collapse”, but what else are we supposed to call this?
Incredibly, one expert, quoted by USA Today, is telling us that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits could actually “increase” next week…
The rollbacks may spark a new wave of layoffs, especially in hard-hit states like Texas, Florida, Arizona and California, and possibly even push the claims totals higher. “Next week could easily see an increase” in initial claims, economist Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics wrote in a research note.
Needless to say, this tsunami of unemployment has resulted in a whole lot of people not being able to make their rent payments.
In fact, the Census Bureau has announced that 11.6 million Americans live in households that did not make their most recent rent payments…
According to the latest weekly Census Bureau data, 11.6 million people live in households that missed their last rental payments. More than 22 million Americans also have no, or only slight confidence, that they will be able to make next month’s rental payments, the figures show.
Ouch.
Large numbers of Americans are getting behind on their mortgage payments as well. The following comes from Wolf Richter…
In April, the share of all mortgages that were past due, but less than 30 days, soared to 3.4% of all mortgages, the highest in the data going back to 1999 . This was up from 0.7% in April last year. During the Housing Bust, this rate peaked in November 2008 at 2%
In the months ahead, millions of Americans will fall so far behind on their rent payments that they will be facing eviction.
And millions of other Americans will fall so far behind on their mortgages that they will be in serious danger of losing their homes.
According to Emily Benfer, we could potentially see a total of “20 million to 28 million people” get kicked out of their homes in the months ahead…
“We have never seen this extent of eviction in such a truncated amount of time in our history,” Benfer said when asked about how the current homeless crisis compares to the 2008 housing crisis. She continued: “We can expect this to increase dramatically in the coming weeks and months, especially as the limited support and intervention measures that are in place start to expire. About 10 million people, over a period of years, were displaced from their homes following the foreclosure crisis in 2008. We’re looking at 20 million to 28 million people in this moment, between now and September, facing eviction.”
We have never seen anything like this before.
And of course, Benfer is assuming that there won’t be another major crisis between now and the end of the year.
So what happens if we get to September, October and November and things in this country start going absolutely haywire once again?
The closer we get to the election, the higher societal tensions will run, and they are already so high that we could see a major eruption at literally any moment.
And I should also mention that the $600 weekly bonus payments that were keeping so many unemployed Americans afloat will be terminated at the end of July. Once those payments stop, millions upon millions of unemployed workers will have a much, much more difficult time making rent and mortgage payments.
Most Americans believe that “the worst is behind us”, but the truth is that we are sleepwalking into an unprecedented economic nightmare.
If you follow my work on The Most Important News, you already know how concerned I am about the end of this year and beyond, and I will be laying out precisely what I believe is coming in my new book which will be released later this month.
The “perfect storm” which I have mentioned so many times over the last couple of years is now here, and most Americans are completely and totally unprepared for it.
I would very much encourage you to take the summer months as an opportunity to make the preparations that you need to make for the chaos that is approaching. As I detailed two days ago, we are already witnessing nationwide shortages of aluminum cans, soda, flour, canned soup, pasta and rice. As the problems in our nation intensify, the shortages will only get worse.
Of course, in order to store up supplies you must have somewhere to put them, and for tens of millions of Americans, it is going to be a real struggle just to keep their homes during the months ahead.
It looks like we are facing a housing crisis that is going to be far worse than anything that we experienced during the last recession, and unless Congress starts making money rain from the sky it doesn’t appear that there is any hope of stopping it.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--New Hampshire:  Woman Suffers 4 Broken Ribs During Dispute With Husband Cop – Police Arrest Her, Kid

New Hampshire:  Woman Suffers 4 Broken Ribs During Dispute With Husband Cop – Police Arrest Her, Kidnap Her Kids

Rollinsford , NH — If you read the headlines out of Rollinsford , New Hampshire this week , you will see that a “ Domestic violence suspect ” is being sought by police after fleeing from a stop .
You will see the mugshot of Sarah Letendre , 34 , and likely think that it is an open and shut case of a woman beating up on her vulnerable husband and then running from cops .
Here at TFTP , however , we like to look a little further than the headlines and seek out the entire story .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that what we are being told by police may not be true .
It is a fact in America that men experience domestic violence at an alarming rate that is estimated to be far higher than what is reported because of the social stigma regarding their perceived lack of machismo and other denigrations of their masculinity when they become victims .
However , not many of those men who experience domestic violence are MMA fighters or police officers .
But in Letendre ’ s case , her husband is both .
On Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Facebook .
It read as follows : “ My husband , who is a Dover police officer and former MMA fighter , broke 4 of my ribs on Saturday…I was arrested.
” It is a fact that she was arrested and , according to Chief Robert Ducharme of the Rollinsford Police Department , she was charged with domestic violence simple assault , obstructing report of crime and resisting arrest .
That was on Friday and she immediately made bail .
On Saturday , Letendre was accused of violating a protective order for allegedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pulled her over and attempted to arrest her for it .
Likely not wanting to be locked up for a crime she did not commit , Letendre fled the stop and she escaped .
She is now wanted on more charges , consisting of reckless conduct , violation of a protective order , resisting arrest , disobeying a police officer and breach of bail conditions .
As TFTP has consistently reported , police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation .
The average @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in America is around 10 % .
As the National Center for Women and Policing points out , two studies have found that at least 40 % of police officer families experience domestic violence .
That is a four-fold increase .
This number is likely far higher because women , as could be the case in Letendre ’ s nightmare , are unable to report it because the departments circle the wagons and protect the abusive officer .
Though the Rollinsford police department did not confirm her broken ribs , according to Foster @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Letendre ’ s discharge papers , she indeed suffered fractures to “ multiple ribs.
” While the police and media are claiming Letendre is a fugitive from the law , according to her sister , Letendre is being wrongfully persecuted .
Jessica Newman , Letendre ’ s sister , said that Letendre ’ s husband — who is a Dover police officer and MMA fighter — “ abused his power as a police officer in order to have her charged with assault in that incident , and he has used his influence the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where they live ) to bring a whole host of charges against her.
” In a now-viral GoFundMe campaign , Newman says that Letendre ’ s husband is using his power to paint his wife as the aggressor .
This is in spite of the fact that he is the cop , MMA fighter , and according to their Facebook photo , at least twice her size .
“ He is attempting to make her look like the aggressor in order to hide his current and past abuse , ” she said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he will make it so she can never see her two kids again.
” For now , if everything Newman and Letendre say is true , it looks like the police are winning .
People are trying to change that .
To garner support for Letendre , her friends and family have organized a # justiceforsarah movement and there are at least two protests in the works this week .
A “ Justice For Sarah Letendre ” event is being planned for Saturday at Henry Law Park in Dover from 4 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the event ’ s hosts describe Sarah Letendre as “ a kind , proud , passionate and loving woman and mother of two beautiful babies.
” “ This protest is taking place to raise awareness about not only Sarah ’ s situation but the situations that take place all over the country , ” according to the Facebook post , made by Marcie Hardy and Jess Newman , Sarah Letendre ’ s sister .
“ The purpose of these protests is to demand that all officers involved are suspended without pay or fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said on the post .
“ We demand that the chiefs of both departments step down immediately.
” As of Thursday evening , Letendre is still a “ fugitive from justice ” according to the cops .
Hopefully , the facts of this case come out before something really bad happens .
If you would like to help Sarah , please consider donating to her GoFundMe campaign here .
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence , you can seek help at the National Domestic Violence Hotline website @ @ @ @ @

Rollinsford, NH — If you read the headlines out of Rollinsford, New Hampshire this week, you will see that a “Domestic violence suspect” is being sought by police after fleeing from a stop. You will see the mugshot of Sarah Letendre, 34, and likely think that it is an open and shut case of a woman beating up on her vulnerable husband and then running from cops. Here at TFTP, however, we like to look a little further than the headlines and seek out the entire story. In Letendre’s case, it appears that what we are being told by police may not be true.
It is a fact in America that men experience domestic violence at an alarming rate that is estimated to be far higher than what is reported because of the social stigma regarding their perceived lack of machismo and other denigrations of their masculinity when they become victims. However, not many of those men who experience domestic violence are MMA fighters or police officers. But in Letendre’s case, her husband is both.
On Tuesday, Letendre made a disturbing post on Facebook. It read as follows: “My husband, who is a Dover police officer and former MMA fighter, broke 4 of my ribs on Saturday…I was arrested.”
It is a fact that she was arrested and, according to Chief Robert Ducharme of the Rollinsford Police Department, she was charged with domestic violence simple assault, obstructing report of crime and resisting arrest.
That was on Friday and she immediately made bail. On Saturday, Letendre was accused of violating a protective order for allegedly contacting her husband and a Rollinsford officer pulled her over and attempted to arrest her for it. Likely not wanting to be locked up for a crime she did not commit, Letendre fled the stop and she escaped. She is now wanted on more charges, consisting of reckless conduct, violation of a protective order, resisting arrest, disobeying a police officer and breach of bail conditions.
As TFTP has consistently reported, police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of domestic violence among most families in America is around 10%. As the National Center for Women and Policing points out, two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence. That is a four-fold increase.
This number is likely far higher because women, as could be the case in Letendre’s nightmare, are unable to report it because the departments circle the wagons and protect the abusive officer.
Though the Rollinsford police department did not confirm her broken ribs, according to Foster’s Daily Democrat, who obtained Letendre’s discharge papers, she indeed suffered fractures to “multiple ribs.”
While the police and media are claiming Letendre is a fugitive from the law, according to her sister, Letendre is being wrongfully persecuted. Jessica Newman, Letendre’s sister, said that Letendre’s husband — who is a Dover police officer and MMA fighter — “abused his power as a police officer in order to have her charged with assault in that incident, and he has used his influence the get the Rollinsford NH police department (where they live) to bring a whole host of charges against her.”
In a now-viral GoFundMe campaign, Newman says that Letendre’s husband is using his power to paint his wife as the aggressor. This is in spite of the fact that he is the cop, MMA fighter, and according to their Facebook photo, at least twice her size.
“He is attempting to make her look like the aggressor in order to hide his current and past abuse,” she said, adding. “he has also threatened that he will make it so she can never see her two kids again.”
For now, if everything Newman and Letendre say is true, it looks like the police are winning. People are trying to change that.
To garner support for Letendre, her friends and family have organized a #justiceforsarah movement and there are at least two protests in the works this week.
A “Justice For Sarah Letendre” event is being planned for Saturday at Henry Law Park in Dover from 4 to 6 p.m.
According to Seacoastonline, the event’s hosts describe Sarah Letendre as “a kind, proud, passionate and loving woman and mother of two beautiful babies.”
“This protest is taking place to raise awareness about not only Sarah’s situation but the situations that take place all over the country,” according to the Facebook post, made by Marcie Hardy and Jess Newman, Sarah Letendre’s sister.
“The purpose of these protests is to demand that all officers involved are suspended without pay or fired, arrested and charged,” they said on the post. “We demand that the chiefs of both departments step down immediately.”
As of Thursday evening, Letendre is still a “fugitive from justice” according to the cops. Hopefully, the facts of this case come out before something really bad happens. If you would like to help Sarah, please consider donating to her GoFundMe campaign here.
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, you can seek help at the National Domestic Violence Hotline website or by calling 1-800-799-7233.


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-17--The Minority Victims of Whitenessphobia

The Minority Victims of Whitenessphobia

These three things and about three million others have been accused of suffering from a plague of whiteness .
The colonists of Salem saw witches everywhere and the modern racist witch hunters see ‘ whiteness ’ everywhere they look .
Whitenessphobia may be the great mental illness of our time .
To Whitenessphobes , everything has a “ whiteness ” problem .
Headlines like , “ Climate Activists Confront the Movement ’ s Whiteness Problem , ” “ The Enduring Whiteness of the Fed ” , and “ Commercial Real Estate has a Whiteness Problem ” show the sheer scale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the Federal Reserve to Greta Thunberg But you don ’ t have to actually be white to fall victim to “ Whitenessphobia ” .
In Africa , people with albinism are being blamed for the coronavirus pandemic .
“ It is the perceived whiteness of people with albinism .
It is being interpreted that they are carriers of what is seen as a white man ’ s disease .
It comes from China where people have fair skin in the African mindset , ” Dr. Charlotte Baker , the head of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whiteness can mean Africans being blamed for a Chinese disease because pigmentation is relative .
Harvard ’ s Graduate School of Design was accused of “ institutionalized whiteness ” because Mark Lee , the chair of the Architecture Department , had stirred outrage by saying , said , “ I see the GSD as the most Eurocentric school in America , and that is really our strength.
” Lee is Chinese .
GSD ’ s previous dean was Persian .
But you can be Chinese or Persian and still spread “ institutionalized whiteness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hindu deity and be accused of excessive whiteness .
After Shaun King , who really is too white , accused depictions of Jesus of being too white , the Hindu gods also came under fire for their whiteness .
“ We must also ask why Hindu deities are so light skinned , ” Rupa Subramanya , a former Wall Street Journal columnist , demanded .
And , in the era of Black Lives Matter , it doesn ’ t matter how black you are , you can still be accused of whiteness .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flint , Michigan , and made it big in the NFL , is being accused of centering and upholding “ whiteness ” .
A Los Angeles Times column claims that Aunt Jemima was “ selling whiteness ” .
The brand can be accused of many things , but selling “ whiteness ” isn ’ t one of them .
A Psychology Today article claims , “ the concept of Whiteness was imported from Spain and Portugal.
” White people , it seems , didn ’ t exist until they were invented in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered a minority .
And if Latinos are the original white people , then aren ’ t white people minorities ?
The Atlantic even worries that , “ Asians and Latinos could begin to vanish into whiteness.
” And then we ’ ll never get them back .
But if it can happen to Terry Crews and Hindu deities , it can happen to anyone .
Whitenessphobia has become an extended Eddie Murphy routine , but there ’ s no joke and no one is laughing .
Any random thing can be accused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not being diverse enough .
The London Olympics have been accused of a “ velodrome of whiteness ” for not attracting black cyclists and Harper ’ s Wine and Spirit was indicted for its “ silence on race and diversity in the UK wine industry in light of the global Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd.
” After all , if there ’ s anything that George Floyd ’ s death ought to wake us up to , it ’ s the lack of diversity in the UK wine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not to mention commercial real estate and curling .
Curling , a sport that even most sports fans can ’ t grasp , and which seems to exists just to punish casual viewers of the Winter Olympics , is fighting to eliminate its “ whiteness ” problem .
The problem , lies with bagpipes and “ Scottish paraphernalia hanging in curling clubs ” reinforcing the “ dominant whiteness.
” But having a diverse organization or even being a minority is no defense against Whitenessphobia .
What is “ whiteness ” .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whiteness .
Like a Rorschach inkblot , it ’ s anything and everything because Whitenessphobia is about the mental state of the ‘ phobe ’ , not his target .
“ Whiteness is severely under theorized , ” an NBC News Big Think piece worried , “ leaving millions unaware of a history whose constant characteristic is change.
” Believing that the thing you hate is constantly changing , that it is both evil and amorphous , pervading everything and yet almost impossible to pin down , is a core element of conspiratorial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if they “ think of themselves as individuals without a meaningful racial identity ” .
It ’ s also Chinese architects , Hindu gods , and black people who don ’ t want to hate white people .
It ’ s Japanese consumers who purchase skin whitening products and African-American intellectuals who believe in free speech .
Whiteness can sneak up on you when you aren ’ t hating .
Or at least hating enough .
To be free of whiteness , if you ’ re a minority means hating white people .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ you can only hope to escape whiteness by hating yourself .
Like all conspiratorial bigotries , Whitenessphobia demands a constant vigil against the evil influence of that intangible thing which is always changing .
Sometimes it ’ s Eurocentric architecture , other times Freedom of Speech , or Canadian curling .
The victims of Whitenessphobia aren ’ t just white people .
Learning to hate is bad for the bigots and the culture of Whitenessphobia embodied in racist texts like Between the World and Me or White Fragility , the endless hysterical invocations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is poisoning a generation ’ s soul .
But conspiratorial bigotry is also bad for everyone else .
If Whitenessphobes limited their hatred to white people , based on a genetic test or some other racialist nonsense , their racism could at least be contained .
Instead , Whitenessphobia can lash out at anyone .
By transforming their idea of whiteness from a race to a set of attitudes , Whitenessphobes have created a racist ideology that also ideologizes racism , attacking people of any race , including black people , for ideological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uses the familiar tropes of racial hatred , but its targets are chosen ideologically , rather than racially , even as it harnesses racial resentments .
“ Parents have to parent , that children have to achieve unless we raise their expectations and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white , ” Barack Obama declared at the 2004 Democratic National Convention .
A few years later , Jesse Jackson would accuse Obama of acting white .
As John McWhorter noted , “ black nerds get called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around to furnish a basis for the comparison ; the problem arises amidst integration.
” Whiteness Studies is ultimately an academic way of accusing minorities of acting white .
Whitenessphobia deconstructs the original charge of acting white and rebuilds it as a massive conspiracy by 16th century Latinos , then by America ’ s Founding Fathers , Canadian curling and the British wine world to keep black people out , but also as a conspiracy to get minorities involved in their whiteness .
While Black Lives Matter and its allies put their Whitenessphobia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real purpose is segregation , refusing to take part in anything , including America and its anthem , until they are torn down and rebuilt absent of what the conspiratorial bigots deem to be its whiteness .
Whitenessphobia punishes any impulse toward unification .
Colorblindness is one of its greatest sins , integration is a conspiracy to bring minorities into whiteness , and those minorities who don ’ t hate are accused of centering whiteness , institutionalizing whiteness , or other synonyms for acting white .

African albinos, Hindu gods, and Chinese architects.
These three things and about three million others have been accused of suffering from a plague of whiteness. The colonists of Salem saw witches everywhere and the modern racist witch hunters see ‘whiteness’ everywhere they look. Whitenessphobia may be the great mental illness of our time.
To Whitenessphobes, everything has a “whiteness” problem.
Headlines like, “Climate Activists Confront the Movement’s Whiteness Problem,” “The Enduring Whiteness of the Fed”, and “Commercial Real Estate has a Whiteness Problem” show the sheer scale of Whitenessphobia which is triggered by everything from the Federal Reserve to Greta Thunberg
But you don’t have to actually be white to fall victim to “Whitenessphobia”.
In Africa, people with albinism are being blamed for the coronavirus pandemic.
“It is the perceived whiteness of people with albinism. It is being interpreted that they are carriers of what is seen as a white man’s disease. It comes from China where people have fair skin in the African mindset,” Dr. Charlotte Baker, the head of the Albinism in Africa Network, explained.
Whiteness can mean Africans being blamed for a Chinese disease because pigmentation is relative.
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design was accused of “institutionalized whiteness” because Mark Lee, the chair of the Architecture Department, had stirred outrage by saying, said, “I see the GSD as the most Eurocentric school in America, and that is really our strength.”
Lee is Chinese. GSD’s previous dean was Persian. But you can be Chinese or Persian and still spread “institutionalized whiteness”. Or you can be a Hindu deity and be accused of excessive whiteness.
After Shaun King, who really is too white, accused depictions of Jesus of being too white, the Hindu gods also came under fire for their whiteness. “We must also ask why Hindu deities are so light skinned,” Rupa Subramanya, a former Wall Street Journal columnist, demanded.
And, in the era of Black Lives Matter, it doesn’t matter how black you are, you can still be accused of whiteness. Terry Crews, who grew up in Flint, Michigan, and made it big in the NFL, is being accused of centering and upholding “whiteness”. A Los Angeles Times column claims that Aunt Jemima was “selling whiteness”. The brand can be accused of many things, but selling “whiteness” isn’t one of them.
A Psychology Today article claims, “the concept of Whiteness was imported from Spain and Portugal.”
White people, it seems, didn’t exist until they were invented in the 16th century by Latinos, who are considered a minority. And if Latinos are the original white people, then aren’t white people minorities?
The Atlantic even worries that, “Asians and Latinos could begin to vanish into whiteness.”
And then we’ll never get them back.
But if it can happen to Terry Crews and Hindu deities, it can happen to anyone. Whitenessphobia has become an extended Eddie Murphy routine, but there’s no joke and no one is laughing.
Any random thing can be accused of whiteness at any given time for not being diverse enough.
The London Olympics have been accused of a “velodrome of whiteness” for not attracting black cyclists and Harper’s Wine and Spirit was indicted for its “silence on race and diversity in the UK wine industry in light of the global Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd.”
After all, if there’s anything that George Floyd’s death ought to wake us up to, it’s the lack of diversity in the UK wine industry. And in the London Olympics. Not to mention commercial real estate and curling.
Curling, a sport that even most sports fans can’t grasp, and which seems to exists just to punish casual viewers of the Winter Olympics, is fighting to eliminate its “whiteness” problem. The problem, lies with bagpipes and “Scottish paraphernalia hanging in curling clubs” reinforcing the “dominant whiteness.”
But having a diverse organization or even being a minority is no defense against Whitenessphobia.
What is “whiteness”. A better question is what isn’t whiteness. Like a Rorschach inkblot, it’s anything and everything because Whitenessphobia is about the mental state of the ‘phobe’, not his target.
“Whiteness is severely under theorized,” an NBC News Big Think piece worried, “leaving millions unaware of a history whose constant characteristic is change.”
Believing that the thing you hate is constantly changing, that it is both evil and amorphous, pervading everything and yet almost impossible to pin down, is a core element of conspiratorial bigotry.
Whiteness is white people even if they “think of themselves as individuals without a meaningful racial identity”. It’s also Chinese architects, Hindu gods, and black people who don’t want to hate white people. It’s Japanese consumers who purchase skin whitening products and African-American intellectuals who believe in free speech. Whiteness can sneak up on you when you aren’t hating.
Or at least hating enough.
To be free of whiteness, if you’re a minority means hating white people. And if you’re white, you can only hope to escape whiteness by hating yourself. Like all conspiratorial bigotries, Whitenessphobia demands a constant vigil against the evil influence of that intangible thing which is always changing.
Sometimes it’s Eurocentric architecture, other times Freedom of Speech, or Canadian curling.
The victims of Whitenessphobia aren’t just white people. Learning to hate is bad for the bigots and the culture of Whitenessphobia embodied in racist texts like Between the World and Me or White Fragility, the endless hysterical invocations of resentment, victimhood and guilt, is poisoning a generation’s soul.
But conspiratorial bigotry is also bad for everyone else.
If Whitenessphobes limited their hatred to white people, based on a genetic test or some other racialist nonsense, their racism could at least be contained. Instead, Whitenessphobia can lash out at anyone.
By transforming their idea of whiteness from a race to a set of attitudes, Whitenessphobes have created a racist ideology that also ideologizes racism, attacking people of any race, including black people, for ideological offenses in racist terms. Ideological racism uses the familiar tropes of racial hatred, but its targets are chosen ideologically, rather than racially, even as it harnesses racial resentments.
“Parents have to parent, that children have to achieve unless we raise their expectations and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white,” Barack Obama declared at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. A few years later, Jesse Jackson would accuse Obama of acting white.
As John McWhorter noted, “black nerds get called ‘white’ when white kids are around to furnish a basis for the comparison; the problem arises amidst integration.”
Whiteness Studies is ultimately an academic way of accusing minorities of acting white.
Whitenessphobia deconstructs the original charge of acting white and rebuilds it as a massive conspiracy by 16th century Latinos, then by America’s Founding Fathers, Canadian curling and the British wine world to keep black people out, but also as a conspiracy to get minorities involved in their whiteness.
While Black Lives Matter and its allies put their Whitenessphobia forward as a desegregating impulse, its real purpose is segregation, refusing to take part in anything, including America and its anthem, until they are torn down and rebuilt absent of what the conspiratorial bigots deem to be its whiteness.
Whitenessphobia punishes any impulse toward unification. Colorblindness is one of its greatest sins, integration is a conspiracy to bring minorities into whiteness, and those minorities who don’t hate are accused of centering whiteness, institutionalizing whiteness, or other synonyms for acting white.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-07-18--Criminals Try To Tear Down Columbus Statue In Chicago’s Grant Park (Video)

Criminals Try To Tear Down Columbus Statue In Chicago ’ s Grant Park ( Video ) More carnage from lawless Chicago .
This is happening right now .
Expect another bloody weekend in the Windy City .
BREAKING : Protesters Try To Tear Down Columbus Statue In Chicago ’ s Grant Park CHICAGO ( CBS ) — A group of protesters and Chicago police officers squared off at Chicago ’ s Grant Park Friday night .
A large group of protesters at a rally to defund the police was seen attempting to tear down the Columbus statue in the park @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one man away from the scene in handcuffs .
Around 8:15 p.m. police had pushed demonstrators back from the statue , leaving a clear line between the statue , police and demonstrators .
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Criminals Try To Tear Down Columbus Statue In Chicago’s Grant Park (Video)
More carnage from lawless Chicago. This is happening right now. Expect another bloody weekend in the Windy City.
The Mayor of Chicago is in the running for the title as "the worst Mayor in America. She is a close second to the Mayor of New York. @seanhannity @BernardKerik WH Press Secretary Kaleigh McEnany calls Chicago Mayor Lightfoot derelict https://t.co/coQKrXx1J7 via @YouTube — TheLeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) July 17, 2020
BREAKING: Protesters Try To Tear Down Columbus Statue In Chicago’s Grant Park
By CBS Chicago, July 17, 2020
CHICAGO (CBS) — A group of protesters and Chicago police officers squared off at Chicago’s Grant Park Friday night.
A large group of protesters at a rally to defund the police was seen attempting to tear down the Columbus statue in the park.
Protesters are currently trying to pull down the Columbus statue in Grant Park @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/DAGcrsYzvD — Marissa Parra (@MarParNews) July 18, 2020
Police were seen taking at least one man away from the scene in handcuffs.
Around 8:15 p.m. police had pushed demonstrators back from the statue, leaving a clear line between the statue, police and demonstrators.
Police have pushed demonstrators back from Columbus statue. Now a clear line between the statue, police and demonstrators. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/4vmIieJwAn — Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) July 18, 2020
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller