GOV/MIL Leftists Call For New "Secret Police" Force To Spy On Trump Supporters (AN ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ THREAD)

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Make Way For The Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch Of Government

THURSDAY, JUN 03, 2021 - 11:40 PM
Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”
- Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche To Archetype

We’re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors.


This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend.

Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing.

This far-reaching surveillance has paved the way for an omnipresent, militarized fourth branch of government—the Surveillance State—that came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum.

Indeed, long before the National Security Agency (NSA) became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were carrying out their own secret mass surveillance on an unsuspecting populace.

Even agencies not traditionally associated with the intelligence community are part of the government’s growing network of snitches and spies.

Just about every branch of the government—from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between—now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. For instance, the U.S. Postal Service, which has been photographing the exterior of every piece of paper mail for the past 20 years, is also spying on Americans’ texts, emails and social media posts. Headed up by the Postal Service’s law enforcement division, the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) is reportedly using facial recognition technology, combined with fake online identities, to ferret out potential troublemakers with “inflammatory” posts. The agency claims the online surveillance, which falls outside its conventional job scope of processing and delivering paper mail, is necessary to help postal workers avoid “potentially volatile situations.”

Then there are the fusion and counterterrorism centers that gather all of the data from the smaller government spies—the police, public health officials, transportation, etc.—and make it accessible for all those in power. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the complicity of the corporate sector, which buys and sells us from cradle to grave, until we have no more data left to mine.

It’s not just what we say, where we go and what we buy that is being tracked.

We’re being surveilled right down to our genes, thanks to a potent combination of hardware, software and data collection that scans our biometrics—our faces, irises, voices, genetics, even our gait—runs them through computer programs that can break the data down into unique “identifiers,” and then offers them up to the government and its corporate allies for their respective uses.

All of those internet-connected gadgets we just have to have (Forbes refers to them as “(data) pipelines to our intimate bodily processes”)—the smart watches that can monitor our blood pressure and the smart phones that let us pay for purchases with our fingerprints and iris scans—are setting us up for a brave new world where there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

For instance, imagine what the government could do (and is likely already doing) with voiceprint technology, which has been likened to a fingerprint. Described as “the next frontline in the battle against overweening public surveillance,” the collection of voiceprints is a booming industry for governments and businesses alike. As The Guardian reports, “voice biometrics could be used to pinpoint the location of individuals.”

We are now the unwitting victims of an interconnected, tightly woven, technologically evolving web of real-time, warrantless, wall-to-wall mass surveillance that makes the spy programs spawned by the USA Patriot Act look like child’s play.

Fusion centers. See Something, Say Something. Red flag laws. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data mining. Precognitive technology. Contact tracing apps.

These are all part and parcel of the widening surveillance dragnet that the government has used and abused in order to extend its reach and its power.

The COVID-19 pandemic has succeeded in acclimating us even further to being monitored, tracked and reported for so-called deviant or undesirable behavior.

Consequently, we now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. He might be apprehended in the middle of the night by a roving band of SWAT police. He might find himself on a no-fly list, unable to travel for reasons undisclosed. He might have his phones or internet tapped based upon a secret order handed down by a secret court, with no recourse to discover why he was targeted.

This Kafkaesque nightmare has become America’s reality.
Despite the fact that its data snooping has been shown to be ineffective at detecting, let alone stopping, any actual terror attacks, the government continues to operate its domestic spying programs largely in secret, carrying out warrantless mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone calls, emails, text messages and the like.

The question of how to deal with government agencies and programs that operate outside of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution forces us to contend with a deeply unsatisfactory and dubious political “solution” to a problem that operates beyond the reach of voters and politicians: how do you hold accountable a government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing?

Certainly, the history and growth of the NSA tracks with the government’s insatiable hunger for ever-great powers.

Since its official start in 1952, when President Harry S. Truman issued a secret executive order establishing the NSA as the hub of the government’s foreign intelligence activities, the agency—nicknamed “No Such Agency”—has operated covertly, unaccountable to Congress all the while using taxpayer dollars to fund its secret operations. It was only when the agency ballooned to 90,000 employees in 1969, making it the largest intelligence agency in the world with a significant footprint outside Washington, DC, that it became more difficult to deny its existence.

In the aftermath of Watergate in 1975, the Senate held meetings under the Church Committee in order to determine exactly what sorts of illicit activities the American intelligence apparatus was engaged in under the direction of President Nixon, and how future violations of the law could be stopped. It was the first time the NSA was exposed to public scrutiny since its creation.

The investigation revealed a sophisticated operation whose surveillance programs paid little heed to such things as the Constitution. For instance, under Project SHAMROCK, the NSA spied on telegrams to and from the U.S., as well as the correspondence of American citizens.

Moreover, as the Saturday Evening Post reports, “Under Project MINARET, the NSA monitored the communications of civil rights leaders and opponents of the Vietnam War, including targets such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohammed Ali, Jane Fonda, and two active U.S. Senators. The NSA had launched this program in 1967 to monitor suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, but successive presidents used it to track all manner of political dissidents.”

Senator Frank Church (D-Ida.), who served as the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated the NSA, understood only too well the dangers inherent in allowing the government to overstep its authority in the name of national security. Church recognized that such surveillance powers “at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.”

Noting that the NSA could enable a dictator “to impose total tyranny” upon an utterly defenseless American public, Church declared that he did not “want to see this country ever go across the bridge” of constitutional protection, congressional oversight and popular demand for privacy. He avowed that “we,” implicating both Congress and its constituency in this duty, “must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss.

That is the abyss from which there is no return.

The result was the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the creation of the FISA Court, which was supposed to oversee and correct how intelligence information is collected and collated. The law requires that the NSA get clearance from the FISA Court, a secret surveillance court, before it can carry out surveillance on American citizens. Fast forward to the present day, and the so-called solution to the problem of government entities engaging in unjustified and illegal surveillance—the FISA Court—has unwittingly become the enabler of such activities, rubberstamping almost every warrant request submitted to it.

The 9/11 attacks served as a watershed moment in our nation’s history, ushering in an era in which immoral and/or illegal government activities such as surveillance, torture, strip searches, SWAT team raids are sanctioned as part of the quest to keep us “safe.”

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush secretly authorized the NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans’ phone calls and emails. That wireless wiretap program was reportedly ended in 2007 after the New York Times reported on it, to mass indignation.

Nothing changed under Barack Obama. In fact, the violations worsened, with the NSA authorized to secretly collect internet and telephone data on millions of Americans, as well as on foreign governments.

It was only after whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 that the American people fully understood the extent to which they had been betrayed once again.

Even so, nothing really changed.

Since then, presidents, politicians, and court rulings have come and gone, but none of them have done much to put an end to the government’s “technotyranny.”

At every turn, we have been handicapped in our quest for transparency, accountability and a representative democracy by an establishment culture of secrecy: secret agencies, secret experiments, secret military bases, secret surveillance, secret budgets, and secret court rulings, all of which exist beyond our reach, operate outside our knowledge, and do not answer to “we the people.”

Yet the surveillance sector is merely one small part of a shadowy permanent government comprised of unelected bureaucrats who march in lockstep with profit-driven corporations that actually runs Washington, DC, and works to keep us under close watch and, thus, under control. For example, Google openly works with the NSA, Amazon has built a massive $600 million intelligence database for the CIA, and the telecommunications industry is making a fat profit by spying on us for the government.

Most recently, the Biden Administration indicated it may be open to working with non-governmental firms in order to warrantlessly monitor citizens online.

This would be nothing new, however. Vast quantities of the government’s digital surveillance is already being outsourced to private companies, who are far less restrained in how they harvest and share our personal data.

In this way, Corporate America is making a hefty profit by aiding and abetting the government in its militarized domestic surveillance efforts.

Cue the dawning of what The Nation refers to as “the rise of a new class in America: the cyberintelligence ruling class. These are the people—often referred to as ‘intelligence professionals’—who do the actual analytical and targeting work of the NSA and other agencies in America’s secret government. Over the last [20] years, thousands of former high-ranking intelligence officials and operatives have left their government posts and taken up senior positions at military contractors, consultancies, law firms, and private-equity firms. In their new jobs, they replicate what they did in government—often for the same agencies they left. But this time, their mission is strictly for-profit.”

The snitch culture has further empowered the Surveillance State.
As Ezra Marcus writes for the New York Times, “Throughout the past year, American society responded to political upheaval and biological peril by turning to an age-old tactic for keeping rule breakers in check: tattling.”

This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government’s post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, technologically-wired age.

Marcus continues:

“Technology, and our abiding love of it, is crucial to our current moment of social surveillance. Snitching isn’t just a byproduct of nosiness or fear; it’s a technological feature built into the digital architecture of the pandemic era — specifically when it comes to software designed for remote work and Covid-tracing… Contact tracing apps … have started to be adapted for other uses, including criminal probes by the Singaporean government. If that seems distinctly worrying, it might be useful to remember that the world’s most powerful technology companies, whose products you are likely using to read this story, already use a business model of mass surveillance, collecting and selling user information to advertisers at an unfathomable scale. Our cellphones track us everywhere, and our locations are bought and sold by data brokers at incredible, intimate detail. Facial recognition software used by law enforcement trawls Instagram selfies. Facebook harvests the biometric data of its users. The whole ecosystem, more or less, runs on snitching.”

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, what we are dealing with today is not just a beast that has outgrown its chains but a beast that will not be restrained.

 

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Victor Davis Hanson: Never Let A Plague Go To Waste

THURSDAY, JUN 03, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via PJMedia.com,

During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them.


They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into nursing homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable.

Their rules for prosecuting those who violated social distancing, sheltering in place, mask wearing or violent protesting often hinged on political grounds. Their spending measures on “infrastructure” and “health care” were excuses to lard up redistributive entitlements.

Conservatives moaned that left-wing agendas were at work beneath the pretenses of saving us from the pandemic. And the giddy left bragged that it was true.

After the 2008 financial meltdown, Barack Obama spoke of “fundamentally transforming” the country.

Now he’s back, weighing in on the panic-driven, multitrillion-dollar spending that has pushed America’s debt to nearly $30 trillion.

“There’s a teachable moment about maybe this whole deficit hawk thing of the federal government,” Obama said in a recent interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times.

“Just being nervous about our debt 30 years from now, while millions of people are suffering — maybe that’s not a smart way to think about our economics.”

He apparently means that borrowing tons of money in a pandemic and not worrying too much about paying it back is a new, better approach to economics.

Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted about leveraging California’s statewide quarantine.

“There is opportunity for reimagining a progressive era as it pertains to capitalism,” Newsom said. “So yes, absolutely, we see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.”

Hillary Clinton said something similar early in the pandemic:

“… This would be a terrible crisis to waste as the old saying goes. We’ve learned a lot about what our absolute frailties are in our country when it comes to health justice and economic justice …”

The “old saying” she cited was actually a recycled quote from Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama’s chief of staff. His exact quote was: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Later, Emanuel clarified that crises allow radical changes that had never been considered or were considered impossible. Without catastrophe, no one in his right mind would vote for far-left agendas.

Manipulating COVID-19 is not just a left-wing effort. The Davos crowd responsible for the World Economic Forum has talked of using the global crisis to push “the Great Reset.” These self-appointed guardians wish to create global rules governing the world’s economy, energy, transportation, education, climate, wealth distribution and media. In other words, a few elites will seek to override local laws.

What do all these efforts have in common?

One, they are all top-down agendas. Polls show that average Americans are worried about massive borrowing. They fear the government gaining new powers under the pretext of a pandemic.

Two, our elites are anti-democratic. They talk of forcing change down the throats of citizens through edicts, executive orders, court decisions or bureaucratic directives. Obama, Newsom, Clinton and the Great Resetters don’t want to put up their agendas for discussion before the people and their elected representatives.

Three, behind fancy slogans about not wasting crises, teachable moments and resets is the panic-porn reality that these initiatives are not popular in normal times because they defy common sense. If Americans tried Obama’s economics with their family budgets, they would go broke or go to jail after piling up unpaid debts. Only elites, with their private security guards and the money and influence to remain safe, talk of defunding the police. Few of the woke elites who fly their carbon-spewing jets into Davos ever fly economy class.

Four, our rich revolutionaries have no record of policy success. Massive borrowing, increasing government powers, restrictions on personal freedoms, higher taxes and more regulations don’t appeal to most Americans. Brexit and pushbacks against the European Union suggest that the same is true abroad.

Many members of the left-wing elite became wealthy by monetizing their political careers through lucrative insider networking. A cynic might conclude they didn’t go full reset until they first got filthy rich — allowing them not to live like, think like or listen to the rest of us.

 

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WATCH: Colorado Mother Rebukes Critical Race Theory As ‘Nightmare’ That Needs To ‘End Now’ | The Daily Wire

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WATCH: Colorado Mother Rebukes Critical Race Theory As ‘Nightmare’ That Needs To ‘End Now’

By Chrissy Clark
Jun 2, 2021 DailyWire.com•

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A mother and radio show host rebuked a Colorado school board for implementing critical race theory into the school’s curriculum under the guise of “equity.”

Deborah Flora, a radio show host and a member of the concerned parent organization Parents United America, also admonished the Douglas County School District (DCSD) school board for hiring the diversity consulting firm “Gemini Group.” The equity consulting firm works with city and state governments as well as educational institutions.

According to the Gemini Group’s website, the organization works to “address and eliminate institutional and systemic inequities, most specifically starting with race, through training and technical support.”

In her speech, Flora called on the school board to focus on its job — teaching students. She called the training a “nightmare” that needs to “end now.”

Watch:

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We’ve heard a lot about how the equity education system is not equivalent to critical race theory. However, I’ve heard many things that are very disturbing that show it to be quite the opposite.

First of all, the term equity — it sounds great, but it’s exactly the opposite of equal opportunity. Equity demands an equal outcome. That only happens when you gerrymander things to favor one group or another. It’s not the same as equal opportunity.

The second thing that concerns me is when I heard the definition of equity that has been shared here and through many communications from the district. It talks about groups of individuals. When you talk about groups, it is collectivism. It is separating children into groups. That is exactly what it is doing.

And groups based on what? What we’ve heard … is that groups are broken down into race, gender identity, sexual preference, and oppression. When we look at the Gemini Group teaching — which I took time to watch the entire thing — it is even more disturbing. And this [diversity] group was hired by this board.

In that training, it talks about oppressors and oppressed. That is damaging to every group of children. First of all, some groups of children are thought of as being shamed for who they are. The others are taught that they’re victims without the ability to further themselves and to look at others as the enemies.

We all know the Dr. King quote that has been shared — “color of our skin versus the content of our character.” He had a dream, this is a nightmare. It is a nightmare for our children and it needs to end now.

The training also, by the way, divides basically educators and parents. In the training, it refers to parents as “dissenters.” We are not dissenters. We are the parents. [The training] goes on to say, “and train educators to tell dissenters that this is simply the way we are going to educate your children.” They’re our children.

We are the ones that have the moral authority over their education. We will not be marginalized. The board’s job is to represent the stakeholders. … The stakeholders who were consulted before this policy was implemented does not list parents. Neither does the advisory committee. We are the stakeholders and we need to be included in this.

Let me end [with] this. The job of the board is education. Right now, according to state proficiency tests, only 59 percent of Douglas County students are proficient in reading. Only 48 percent are proficient in math. That is the job of the school.

The teaching of morality, teaching students to be kind, we can teach them to be kind. The rest of it belongs to the parents. Not to social engineering in the schools.

 

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BRIAN KOLFAGE EXCLUSIVE: America is at War, and It is Taking Place Right Before Our Eyes | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Guest post by Brian Kolfage America is at war, and it is taking place right before our eyes.

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BRIAN KOLFAGE EXCLUSIVE: America is at War, and It is Taking Place Right Before Our Eyes

By Joe Hoft
Published June 4, 2021 at 10:10am

Guest post by Brian Kolfage

America is at war, and it is taking place right before our eyes.

The war is against every principle and moral standard that built this nation as it stands today. This ‘fundamental transformation’ was even promised to us when former president Barack Obama took office. He ran on that statement.

I’ve been in the crosshairs fighting in Iraq, but never dreamt my own government would point their weapons at me for trying to protect our borders.

I joined the Air Force seven months before the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks. My first day on the job in the Air Force was 9/11/01 and then my last day was 9/11/04 after being struck by an insurgent 107mm rocket directly when our base came under attack for the third anniversary on 9/11. It’s safe to say I know a thing or two about sacrifice and love my country. Anyone who personally knows me understands how grateful I am every single day and the love I have for the citizens of our nation. I’m humbled and thankful.

I started the ‘We Build The Wall’ campaign as an effort to give President Trump the funds needed to build his wall after Democrats held federal funding hostage. After being naive and learning we could not simply give the funds to the government, Mr. Stephen K. Bannon had the idea, “let’s build it ourselves”. The idea was genius. We cut out the middleman and all the red tape, we did it the old fashion way, when Americans didn’t rely on the government for everything. They rolled up their sleeves put in hard work and got the job done. We did just that.

Everyone told us we would never build the wall with private funds, including elected officials. We didn’t let that discourage us. We worked tirelessly going over every single piece of property on the Southern Border and created a full indexed database of each parcel of land.

What we discovered was hundreds of citizens who owned land who wanted us to build them a border wall, and today these citizens still want a barrier. We would be building a wall right now under the Biden Admin if we were not stopped by these politically motivated charges.

We successfully built one of the best border walls on the Southern Border ever, it’s even in the international border wall database. It’s been highly praised by DHS and border agents for doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. It’s never fallen down, nor has it been in threat of falling down, and has never been breached or cut open. The media has lied continuously about it. Leaked DHS memo’s even praise the structure itself after they conducted an engineering inspection. Our wall is working because we listened to the agents on the ground and built it to what they asked for and then increased that about 10-fold. It will stand tall for centuries in the harsh desert climate. It worked so well DHS asked us for help on 30 other projects and we were days away from starting one when the politically motivated indictment came down on our leaders.

Our success was our downfall, and the left feared us. The only way to stop us, using the weaponized SDNY.

Not a single penny from this project was out of place, NOT 1 PENNY. Yet the lying DOJ twisted and spun the facts into a NY Times hit piece, taking key facts and turning them into incriminating offenses when they were not. Especially when a lawyer for one of the biggest firms in America signed off on everything. They wanted to try us in the media, by making statements like “he bought a yacht with donor funds”. This is something that is 100% false and was easily debunked on my social media posts, as I purchased it 2 years before the wall campaign and had photos of it too. And if donor funds bought this boat why have I been making payments on it still to this day? I used my own funds two years prior and I’m still using my own funds!

They also stated that I was “living a lavish lifestyle on donor funds” again all bull crap. I made more money before the wall campaign started, and today after leaving WBTW, inc. I now make more money than I did during that time building the wall. It’s not a crime to be successful, yet that’s what they are trying to allege. I work hard every day, and even after this phony indictment I was able to start another business that is now remarkably successful and I’ll probably buy a bigger boat too, that’s what the American dream is all about. But the Communist/Marxist democrats in this country want to destroy that dream and the way to do that is by attacking the core of America’s beliefs.

Everything in the indictment about WBTW, Inc leaders is 100% false, twisted and grossly exaggerated on a level that rivals the left-wing media hit pieces on Trump. This itself should be a crime against the SDNY prosecution. The truth will come out, the crooks are the SDNY who stole donor funds and the postal service who stole our donor list to target conservative donors.

This is all part of their grand scheme to attack high-profile veterans just like they did with General Michael Flynn. They want to take away the patriotic element from our youth and vilify America’s greatest asset, our service members. If people aren’t willing to signup and die for this nation we are done. We lose it all. We become the generation who lost it all.

If there’s anything I’m guilty of today, it’s being a patriotic straight white male veteran with a beautiful family and a gorgeous model wife, who overcame the loss of three limbs in combat to get an architecture degree. I made no excuses for my disabilities and instead built the American dream for my family.

Anyone who stands up to the status quo is next… its happening right now but together we will win.

 

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Chinese Communist Party Leader Calls For Greater ‘Influence’ Over Western Media. - The National Pulse+

Xi Jinping called on the Chinese Communist Party to strengthen its “influence” over international media outlets.

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Chinese Communist Party Leader Calls For Greater ‘Influence’ Over Western Media.

• JUNE 4, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

Xi Jinping called on the Chinese Communist Party to strengthen its “influence” over international media outlets.

While speaking at a study session at the Central Committee’s Political Bureau, Xi “stressed the need to have a profound understanding of how important and necessary it is to improve the country’s international communication, and to develop a voice in international discourse that matches with China’s comprehensive national strength and international status,” according to state-run outlet Xinhua.

Together, the efforts seek to “promote China’s stand” and outline a case for the regime to “play a bigger role in global affairs.”

While he notes the Chinese Communist Party’s “influence on international discourse has notably improved,” he demanded “greater efforts to construct China’s own discourse and narrative.” Xi also calls for the propaganda to be amplified via “new concepts, domains and expressions.”

Amidst increasing scrutiny over the Chinese Communist Party’s role in the leak – or even release – of COVID-19, Xi also called for “greater efforts to help foreign audiences understand what the Party is pursuing is nothing but the Chinese people’s well-being.”

 

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NC county bans Woka-Cola vending machines…

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NC county bans Woka-Cola vending machines…
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Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney: Joe Biden is Lying About Systemic Racism in the Military… ‘This Is All Made Up!’

Today, The Two Mikes again, and enthusiastically, welcomed Lieutenant General Tom McInerney back to our show. As always, the General

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Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney: Joe Biden is Lying About Systemic Racism in the Military… ‘This Is All Made Up!’

by Two Mikes
June 4, 2021

Today, The Two Mikes again, and enthusiastically, welcomed Lieutenant General Tom McInerney back to our show. As always, the General had plenty of news for us to talk about. One particularly intriguing take was when the conversation turned to Critical Race Theory in the military.

“Look, I can tell you after 35 years in the Air Force, I know not the color of a person’s skin unless they want me to,” he said. “I never saw racial issues in my 35 years. I’m sure they must have happened, but I can assure you that I never saw it personally.”

Gen. McInerney explained that the Biden administration is lying about racism in the military and the need to apply “Critical Race Theory” as a way to combat something that isn’t really a problem. The military has been a beacon of inclusiveness for some time, and as the General noted, it’s only getting better.

“Certainly we’ve grown over those 26 years I’ve been out,” he said. “They’ve gotten better. And so this is all made up.”

The real question comes down to why the Biden administration is so bent on making our military “woke.” As the General explained, it call comes down to the Cultural Marxism that drives this administration, and it didn’t start with Joe Biden.

“This is right out of the Nazi and the Communist playbook and unfortunately our former President Obama has been leading it and been conceiving it over the last four years that they were out,” he said. “And they’ve come at us with a vengeance.”

He also described his personal education about the Wuhan Flu and the vaccines meant to combat it. The bottom line, the General said, was that his discussions with several doctors, who are old and trusted friends, convinced him that the Wuhan Flu was a biological-weapons attack on America by China and its allies in the federal government’s health-and-medical bureaucracy, and that the vaccines being used are causing more deaths and permanent injuries than any other such medicine in recent memory.

Nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by the so-called vaccines, for example, which, if memory is accurate, is more than have been killed in the 20-year-long Afghan war. The General said he was urging people not to take the vaccine, and The Two Mikes put their two cents in arguing that the evidence is accumulating that the U.S. government and Big Pharma are waging war on China’s behalf, against its own citizens, and are now planning to go after our children and infants with their too-often lethal inoculations.

The three of us agreed, on another subject, that for the first time in quite while, the good guys appear to be getting a legal leg-up in the Arizona and the other election audits now going on, and the Democrats appear to be in a bit of a panic and are hiring every stinking lawyer they can find to challenge the audits. The rigged election — like the Wuhan Flu and its vaccines — is another part of the war being waged on the citizenry by Biden and the Democratic Party that hates them and their republic with a passion.

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Biden’s Proposed Funding of Critical Race Theory Puts US on a ‘Very Dark Path’: Inez Stepman

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Biden’s Proposed Funding of Critical Race Theory Puts US on a ‘Very Dark Path’: Inez Stepman
BY KATABELLA ROBERTS AND JAN JEKIELEK
June 4, 2021 Updated: June 4, 2021

The Biden administration’s proposal to fund education programs informed by Critical Race Theory (CRT) is “dangerous and pernicious,” according to senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, Inez Stepman.

In April, the Department of Education proposed a new rule to prioritize funding education programs that incorporate the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi into their teaching of U.S history and civics.

The Department outlined new priority criteria for a $5.3 million American History and Civics Education grant, as well as exemplary materials for K-12 educators to use.

However, Stepman, who is also a senior contributor at The Federalist, told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program that Ibram X. Kendi’s teachings are “incredibly radical” and may instead put the United States on “a very dark path” by teaching children to actively hate each other.

“Just to give you an idea of how radical his scholarship is, one of the things he’s proposed [in his book, Stamped from the Beginning] is to create a department of ‘anti-racism’ in the federal government,” Stepman said.

“So far, that sounds unobjectionable to most people. But he wants that unelected department staffed by trained academics, presumably by him, to have veto power over every municipal state and federal law in the country, if it creates, in his eyes, any kind of disparity between groups. And he wants that body to have veto power over who stands for political office.

“That’s incredibly radical, incredibly contradictory with the American system. But yet the Department of Education is citing this guy as an example of what they want to encourage schools around the country to teach young Americans who then grow up to be voters in this republic.

“I call it woke Stalinism … his position is that a group of unelected academics should have complete veto power over all laws in the United States, and kind of similar to how it works with the mullahs in Iran, to basically select the slate of candidates. The people may vote, but only on the candidates or among the candidates selected by people who think like Ibram X. Kendi.”

Stepman said that Kendi pushes the narrative that in order to undo past discrimination, we need to actively discriminate in favor of marginalized groups today.

“This is literally the U.S. government, according to this proposed rule, this actually becomes a regulation issued by the Biden administration. The federal government of the United States will be giving grants to public schools around the country to teach Kendi. And I think this is incredibly pernicious, especially for a multi-ethnic republic like the United States where we do have citizens of all different backgrounds.

“So I find this whole thing to be dangerous and pernicious and definitely not something that the federal government should be going out of its way to encourage.”

Stepman also noted that the central claim in the 1619 Project that the United States wasn’t founded in 1776 but in 1619 when the first African slave arrived on its shores is “flatly historically false.”

“It has been recognized as false by historians all the way from the socialist left to the conservative, right,” she said.

“And there are many, many inaccuracies besides that one in that project. Again, it’s not something that the federal government should be encouraging teaching in our schools, when it has been blasted across the spectrum, for being not just a radical idea or have radical perspective, but to actually be completely historically inaccurate.”

Stepman added, “We’re not a homogenous society, we never have been. So to actively teach us reasons to hate each other, to me seems to be completely wrongheaded and dangerous and in fact putting the United States on a very dark path.”

CRT has gradually proliferated in recent decades through academia, government structures, school systems, and the corporate world. It redefines human history as a struggle between the “oppressors”—white people—and the “oppressed”—everybody else—similar to Marxism’s reduction of history to a struggle between the “bourgeois” and the “proletariat.” It labels institutions that emerged in majority-white societies as racist and “white supremacist.”

Like Marxism, CRT advocates for the destruction of institutions, such as the Western justice system, free-market economy, and orthodox religions, while demanding that they be replaced with institutions compliant with the theory’s ideology.

Stephan added that “slavery existed for millennia, before the United States,” something she said 30 or 40 percent of people under 40 do not know.

“They think that the United States invented slavery, which is, again, a condemnation of our education system,” she said.

 

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Biden’s Proposed Funding of Critical Race Theory Puts US on a ‘Very Dark Path’: Inez Stepman

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Biden’s Proposed Funding of Critical Race Theory Puts US on a ‘Very Dark Path’: Inez Stepman
BY KATABELLA ROBERTS AND JAN JEKIELEK
June 4, 2021 Updated: June 4, 2021

The Biden administration’s proposal to fund education programs informed by Critical Race Theory (CRT) is “dangerous and pernicious,” according to senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, Inez Stepman.

In April, the Department of Education proposed a new rule to prioritize funding education programs that incorporate the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi into their teaching of U.S history and civics.

The Department outlined new priority criteria for a $5.3 million American History and Civics Education grant, as well as exemplary materials for K-12 educators to use.

However, Stepman, who is also a senior contributor at The Federalist, told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program that Ibram X. Kendi’s teachings are “incredibly radical” and may instead put the United States on “a very dark path” by teaching children to actively hate each other.

“Just to give you an idea of how radical his scholarship is, one of the things he’s proposed [in his book, Stamped from the Beginning] is to create a department of ‘anti-racism’ in the federal government,” Stepman said.

“So far, that sounds unobjectionable to most people. But he wants that unelected department staffed by trained academics, presumably by him, to have veto power over every municipal state and federal law in the country, if it creates, in his eyes, any kind of disparity between groups. And he wants that body to have veto power over who stands for political office.

“That’s incredibly radical, incredibly contradictory with the American system. But yet the Department of Education is citing this guy as an example of what they want to encourage schools around the country to teach young Americans who then grow up to be voters in this republic.

“I call it woke Stalinism … his position is that a group of unelected academics should have complete veto power over all laws in the United States, and kind of similar to how it works with the mullahs in Iran, to basically select the slate of candidates. The people may vote, but only on the candidates or among the candidates selected by people who think like Ibram X. Kendi.”

Stepman said that Kendi pushes the narrative that in order to undo past discrimination, we need to actively discriminate in favor of marginalized groups today.

“This is literally the U.S. government, according to this proposed rule, this actually becomes a regulation issued by the Biden administration. The federal government of the United States will be giving grants to public schools around the country to teach Kendi. And I think this is incredibly pernicious, especially for a multi-ethnic republic like the United States where we do have citizens of all different backgrounds.

“So I find this whole thing to be dangerous and pernicious and definitely not something that the federal government should be going out of its way to encourage.”

Stepman also noted that the central claim in the 1619 Project that the United States wasn’t founded in 1776 but in 1619 when the first African slave arrived on its shores is “flatly historically false.”

“It has been recognized as false by historians all the way from the socialist left to the conservative, right,” she said.

“And there are many, many inaccuracies besides that one in that project. Again, it’s not something that the federal government should be encouraging teaching in our schools, when it has been blasted across the spectrum, for being not just a radical idea or have radical perspective, but to actually be completely historically inaccurate.”

Stepman added, “We’re not a homogenous society, we never have been. So to actively teach us reasons to hate each other, to me seems to be completely wrongheaded and dangerous and in fact putting the United States on a very dark path.”

CRT has gradually proliferated in recent decades through academia, government structures, school systems, and the corporate world. It redefines human history as a struggle between the “oppressors”—white people—and the “oppressed”—everybody else—similar to Marxism’s reduction of history to a struggle between the “bourgeois” and the “proletariat.” It labels institutions that emerged in majority-white societies as racist and “white supremacist.”

Like Marxism, CRT advocates for the destruction of institutions, such as the Western justice system, free-market economy, and orthodox religions, while demanding that they be replaced with institutions compliant with the theory’s ideology.

Stephan added that “slavery existed for millennia, before the United States,” something she said 30 or 40 percent of people under 40 do not know.

“They think that the United States invented slavery, which is, again, a condemnation of our education system,” she said.

They are begging for "it."

 

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Biden Doubles Down On Division ⋆ Politicrossing

“As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to […]

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Biden Doubles Down On Division

June 4, 2021
By
Michael Schmidt

“As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not ISIS, not Al Qaeda, white supremacists.”
~ President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden was in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday speaking at an event remembering the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. Instead of taking the high road and delivering an uplifting speech he chose to double down on a false narrative. The low road is much easier for him to take, you see. Divisiveness fosters anger and resentment. It’s important to keep Black voters in fear of a boogeyman.

Whether or not Biden is fully aware of what he is saying as he tries his best to read from the teleprompter is debatable. Then again, it really doesn’t matter whether he is lucid or not. Either way, he or his handlers, continue to peddle this divisive rhetoric.

Doubtful that many people across the fruited plain of America have seen roving bands of white supremacists moving throughout their streets. They have seen roving bands of Antifa and BLM thugs across numerous cities though. From New York, Portland, Atlanta, Racine, Seattle, Los Angeles and various other cities the images of these Marxist agitators looting, rioting, burning buildings, and violently beating people into a bloody pulp were a stark reality.

Apparently, these hoodlums aren’t any threat to the homeland though.

So where are these white supremacists Biden speaks of? Is he referring to the Ku Klux Klan or is he referring to the common citizens working in the heartland of America? You know, the ones who are bitter clingers to their guns and religion as Barack Obama put it. Hard to say what is running through Joey’s mind. A short memo to Joe. We aren’t in the 1960’s anymore.

For Biden to use this strawman serves only one purpose. To continue to stir the pot on racial tensions and keep Black voters in the Democratic Party tent. It’s nothing but pure political theatrics. It’s not based in any reality. It’s all about shock value.

Are there still white supremacists in America? Sure. Are there groups of them that gather and plot nefarious schemes? Quite possible. Are they a major threat to our republic in 2021? Doubt it.

If you are a rational person you are much more concerned about these Marxist agitators like BLM and Antifa. As far as external threats go, you are much more concerned about China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Islamic extremists.

We have seen two cyber attacks now in the last several weeks by Russian hackers. The threat to America’s power grid and supply chain is real and growing each day. The threat of a foreign country or rogue actor launching an EMP to take out our electric grid is a much higher probability than white supremacists taking down our republic.

Biden’s former boss spent eight years fostering division through incendiary rhetoric. Obama was “The Great Divider”. In a recent podcast interview Obama said, “I think that what we’re seeing now is Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job.” We are essentially watching the sequel starring Joe Biden in “The Great Divider Part II”.

 

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They Tell Me the Cruelty is the Point

In his essential history of the anti-Vietnam war movement, Out Now, the late Fred Halstead tells of the activist newspapers that were written by veterans and, in time, by active duty servicemen, newspapers that detailed the atrocities of war and urged soldiers to resist in ways grand and small.

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Cal Walker, homeless Vietnam veteran, 2012
In his essential history of the anti-Vietnam war movement, Out Now, the late Fred Halstead tells of the activist newspapers that were written by veterans and, in time, by active duty servicemen, newspapers that detailed the atrocities of war and urged soldiers to resist in ways grand and small. Veteran Stars and Stripes for Peace, Vietnam GI, The Bond - each were messages of defiance against a war that will stand the test of time as an act of utterly unjustifiable barbarity, waged on behalf of the American way. These papers came together around 1968 or so, years before the tide had turned so fully against the war that there was less danger in publicly opposing it, especially for those still employed by the United States military.

Eventually these largely veteran-produced publications would inspire others written and edited entirely by those on active duty, on-base antiwar papers like FTA and Fatigue Press. These guerilla newspapers were a vital indicator of a military whose lowest-ranking members increasingly fought against a war they knew to be immoral.

The veterans and servicemen who made these papers were overwhelmingly white. That is not surprising; the US military presence in Vietnam was overwhelmingly white. It is true, as has been pointed out repeatedly in art and journalism, that there were racial inequities at play in the drafting of conscripts in the latter half of the war, and among all draftees Black soldiers exceeded their percentage of their overall population by about 5%. It is also true, though, that despite what you may have heard most of the fighting in Vietnam was conducted by enlisted men, not those conscripted, and they were white in dominant majorities. One might say that all of this is besides the point; many of the soldiers in Vietnam were coerced or conned into going, and they suffered then and suffered when they came home, white or Black. But today I’m afraid we must place demographics above all else. Who am I to blow against the wind?

The veterans and GIs behind these papers made choices, the right ones: they chose to stand against a hellish war and risked great personal costs to do so. Some did not. Some went off to war and enthusiastically mowed down Vietnamese people, NVA and VC and civilian all the same, stopping only to rape and plunder. Many others simply went on supporting a brutal and unwinnable war after discharge out of toxic political convictions, helping pave the way for more warmongering politics and a total abdication of accountability by those who waged them. My point here is simply that those choices mattered; it was better to be the kind of soldier who risked imprisonment through guerilla resistance against the war machine than it was to be the kind who simply went about the military’s bloody business and enjoyed it.

Behavior matters. Choices matter. We cannot look at moral questions purely through the lens of the gross identity traits of those involved and claim to live in a healthy moral culture. And we must remain alive to that idea in a political environment that every day gets closer and closer to pure demographic determinism. The kind recently put up for vulgar display in The New Republic.

I would not think that I would still have the capacity to be offended, after all these years of being desensitized, but Chris Lehmann has proven me wrong. Lehmann wrote something of such special cruelty that today I am moved to write in anger.

I was initially surprised that this piece had not kicked up a lot of outrage, but then I remembered that it was published in The New Republic and so no one has actually seen it. TNR, a legacy magazine if ever one deserved the name, has stumbled around like Mr. Magoo for two decades, trying to recapture past glories like shaming “welfare mothers” by re-strategizing and re-conceptualizing and re-branding and bringing in one talentless asshole after another to pilot the listless ship. TNR long ago achieved that status of being a publication that exists for no other reason than to keep Managing Editors and Senior Content Directors puttering along, a money pit from which new leadership can extract some expense-account lunches before passing it along to the next rube with a desire to be taken seriously by the worst people alive. At least there’s a kind of value in that, I guess; certainly no one is reading it. The last piece in The New Republic that mattered was, uh. Hmmm. Gawker gets more buzz than TNR and it was shut down five years ago. But Lehmann’s piece requires attention. True moral poverty of this type deserves to be recognized.

The offending piece is a review of a book called How White Men Won the Culture Wars by someone called Joseph Darda, a minor academic who I must congratulate for making such a naked stab for relevance with his book and its title. Its argument, according to Lehmann, is that the anguished fight for recognition, respect, medical treatment, and mental health care waged by veterans coming home from the war in Vietnam was, in fact, simply white male grievance politics. Legless 23 year olds who had been put through a meat grinder by a rapacious and indifferent military machine were, to Lehmann and Darda, no different from the angry white guys who own Ford dealerships that powered Donald Trump’s campaign. Their demands for recognition and access to basic social services can now be safely derided as the special pleading of the privileged; you know, the privilege of being crippled both literally and metaphorically. I urge you to read Lehmann’s piece to see how unbroken and shameless his contempt for these wounded and hopeless victims of empire really is. There is no “to be sure” paragraph here. Lehmann and Darda are committed to the bit.

I am an anti-imperialist. I do not generically “support the troops.” Many who went to Vietnam committed atrocities or casual barbarism or just enjoyed killing the locals a little too much. I have no support or sympathy for them. I celebrate and affirm the Viet Cong and the People’s Army of Vietnam’s victory over American anti-communism. But like all real anti-imperialists I understand that the individuals caught up in these wars are themselves pawns deployed at the whim of great powers, and that those great powers are made up of those whose lives are never at risk. My commitment to fighting imperialism does not reduce the revulsion I feel as Lehmann waves away the the plight of men chewed up and spit out by the Defense department, many of whom signed up after a lifetime of propaganda or in an effort to escape poverty. Sometimes American soldiers are monsters guilty of war crimes; sometimes they’re kids who got sent overseas to die face down in the jungle because Henry Kissinger wanted to project strength. I reserve the right to tell one from another and not squash their experience into one uniform bloc, as is happening in Lehmann’s piece. And I maintain a pre-political commitment to a basic form of human compassion that compels me to want better for suffering people, even if progressive trends declare them to be Bad.

Darda, it is worth noting, has just so happened to release a book about why white men are bad at precisely the right time, riding the wave of what’s politically fashionable among those who write takes and buy books. Lehmann, too, has had a political evolution recently, suddenly injecting clumsy waves at antiracism into his doddering leftish scribblings for places like The Baffler, that bland stew of vague and toothless post-capitalism. Darda and Lehmann are, of course, both white men themselves, and the product they sell is the reassurance to other white men that all white men are bad, save them, the writer and readers; they tell the white men who are undoubtedly the large majority of their audience that there is, in the sea of evil that their own race and gender connote, a tiny elect who get it. Darda and Lehmann believe that they are the good ones, and they are willing to sell that status to whichever white men will buy.

I call these kinds of opportunistically woke white men “crabs in a bucket.” They jostle and scrape for a little glimpse at sunlight, convinced that one day they will emerge on top, and a beautiful Black angel will descend from above and place on their heads a crown that reads “The Only Good White Man.” To Lehmann these veterans are just white men because that perspective is monetizable. He sees nothing of experience, only of demographics, a stance that might leave you wondering how he himself is deserving of his station as “Editor-at-Large” (lol). These are not opinions that Lehmann developed organically, like a tumor growing on his face. Instead I think that this disdain for all things white and male was a calculation. Greying old white men in this industry have collectively decided that ceaselessly complaining about “white men,” an abstraction that they excuse themselves from with every ham-handed denunciation they write, will keep the old career going until they can enter their shuffleboard-playing years. It’s a living, in the sense that necrotizing fasciitis is alive.

Lehmann is a fan of creating an association he can’t really prove through the deeply sophisticated act of placing sentences next to each other. “[P]oised to capitalize in a host of ways on America’s emerging postliberal backlash,” writes Lehmann, “[c]onditions were ripe for returning Vietnam vets to engineer this dramatic change in status. The so-called white ethnic revival announced a defection from the old model of WASP ascendancy, and the assertion of new cultural status on behalf of a cohort of twentieth-century immigrants.” Now, as a piece of history, this is laughable - it was World War II that signaled the beginning of the end of “the old model of WASP ascendancy” and not Vietnam, as that older war thrust “ethnic” whites and WASPs together in socially momentous ways and transformed the ethnic demographics of the white collar workplace through the GI Bill. Whatever WASP elites still existed during Vietnam did not participate at all, in contrast to World War II, in which fully 18% of American men served. JFK’s generation of bluebloods went to war. Their kids did not.

But my concern here is what Vietnam vets engineered, and how. There’s already a postliberal backlash going on, I take it, and so Vietnam vets could engineer a dramatic change in status.

(This is all a little sketchy but then so is Lehmann.) For many, their post-war “change in status” was living under a bridge, but alrighty, let’s go with this - what is the connection between the second-to-last sentence in the quote above and the last? Is the “so-called white ethnic revival” what Vietnam vets engineered? Where is the basic semantic connective tissue needed here to establish an explicit sense of agent and effect? Lehmann can’t be bothered to make an explicit connection, suggesting either someone dishonest enough to try and wing that one by his readers or a writer so out of his depth that he can’t control basic elements of attribution of action. (My guess is both.)

Either way - a little more than 3,000,000 white men served in Vietnam across the entire war, which if we’re defining things honestly took 21 years. Many of them came home to economic and social marginalization; most, likely, simply embraced good old American apolitical life. Is this group sufficient to explain a massive political realignment centered on white male grievance? Certainly representation in Congress would suggest the exact opposite of an explosion in veteran political influence, as the end of Vietnam coincided with a vast decline in veterans in our legislature:

And indeed at the height of representation of Vietnam veterans in Congress a combined 21 in the House and Senate served at once. In fact members of congress born during the years that made one draft-eligible for the Vietnam war were three times more likely not to have served in the armed forces at all than to have served, let alone to have served in combat. If the country was so transfixed by the white grievance politics of Vietnam veterans, why were more not elected to our legislature? Nor can we say that they enjoyed the power of many votes, as veteran status in the population writ large continued to plummet after a mild and brief rise to coincide with the war:


Certainly there can be influence beyond numbers, but then it’s Darda and Lehmann who are asserting some powerful bloc of Vietnam veterans cynically exploiting positive public sentiment to advance white grievance politics. It is therefore on them to provide evidence, and Lehmann’s review contains literally nothing beyond innuendo and a frankly bizarre digression into film criticism. I myself might be tempted to look for an alternative explanation for white identity politics, like, I don’t know, the entire ****ing edifice of the Goldwater-Reagan conservative revolution that captured one half of America’s political consciousness and was conspicuously led by elites who were too old to serve in Vietnam. And, in turn, by those who used their privilege to avoid the draft. But, no, it’s true Chris: they made First Blood and suddenly the country decided white men needed to return to glory. An army of draft-dodging Gordon Gekkos in Brooks Brothers suits didn’t do that. Paraplegics whose bodies were still filled with shrapnel must be the culprits. Thank you, woke Hercule Poirot.

Long article - read the rest here: They Tell Me the Cruelty is the Point

 

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The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants

Homeland Security just issued its fourth danger bulletin this year. And both the weapons and rhetorical tactics of the first War on Terror are increasingly visible.

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The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants

Homeland Security just issued its fourth danger bulletin this year. And both the weapons and rhetorical tactics of the first War on Terror are increasingly visible.

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Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on June 1, 2021 shows a screen displaying U.S. President Joe Biden delivering a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images).

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized.

The first was a January 14 warning, from numerous federal agencies including DHS, about violence in Washington, DC and all fifty state capitols that was likely to explode in protest of Inauguration Day (a threat which did not materialize). Then came a January 27 bulletin warning of “a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist over the coming weeks” from “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority” (that warning also was not realized). Then there was a May 14 bulletin warning of right-wing violence “to attack higher-capacity targets,” exacerbated by the lifting of COVID lockdowns (which also never happened). And now we are treated to this new DHS warning about domestic extremists preparing violent attacks over Tulsa (it remains to be seen if a DHS fear is finally realized).

Just like the first War on Terror, these threats are issued with virtually no specificity. They are just generalized warnings designed to put people in fear about their fellow citizens and to justify aggressive deployment of military and law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. A CNN article which wildly hyped the latest danger bulletin about domestic extremists at Tulsa had to be edited with what the cable network, in an “update,” called “the additional information from the Department of Homeland Security that there is no specific or credible threats at this time.” And the supposed dangers from domestic extremists on Inauguration Day was such a flop that even The Washington Post — one of the outlets most vocal about lurking national security dangers in general and this one in particular — had to explicitly acknowledge the failure:

Thousands [of National Guard troops] had been deployed to capitals across the country late last week, ahead of a weekend in which potentially violent demonstrations were predicted by the FBI — but never materialized.

Once again on Wednesday, security officials’ worst fears weren’t borne out: In some states, it was close to business as usual. In others, demonstrations were small and peaceful, with only occasional tense moments.

Americans have seen this scam before. Throughout the first War on Terror, DHS, which was created in 2002, was frequently used to keep fear levels high and thus foster support for draconian government powers of spying, detention, and war. Even prior to the Department's creation, its first Secretary, Tom Ridge, when he was still the White House's Homeland Security Chief in early 2002, created an elaborate color-coded warning system to supply a constant alert to Americans about the evolving threat levels they faced from Islamic extremists.



DHS Bulletin on domestic extremists, Jan. 27, 2021; DHS Bulletin on domestic extremists, May 14, 2021.

In 2004, Ridge admitted that he had been repeatedly pressured by Bush officials to elevate the warnings and threat levels for political gain and to keep the population in fear. He claims that he, in particular, was coerced against his will to raise the threat level just prior to the 2004 presidential election and resigned for that reason shortly thereafter. DHS's color scheme became "the brunt of endless jokes and derision,” concluded a 2007 scholarly study in the journal International Security, noting that it "became perceived as being politically motivated” largely due to the complete lack of specific information about what Americans were supposed to fear or avoid. Moreover, “its designers assumed that the population would trust in the national leadership and believe in the utility of the system's information.” It failed because of how often the alleged threats failed to materialize, and because the warnings were rarely accompanied by any specificity that could permit action to be taken or avoided.

Though Obama scrapped the unpopular color-coded system in 2011, he — in a classic Obama gesture — merely replaced it with an equally vague and fear-generating bureaucratic alternative that was also subject to political manipulation. National security writers at Lawfare ultimately acknowledged that “like the [Bush/Ridge] system, there were no clear triggers for alerts [under Obama's new scheme,] so the system remained objective and opaque.” As a result, they said, “the lack of specificity over time has resulted in similar levels of confusion as surrounded the [Bush/Ridge] color alerts.”

Fear is crucial for state authority. When the population is filled with it, they will acquiesce to virtually any power the government seeks to acquire in the name of keeping them safe. But when fear is lacking, citizens will crave liberty more than control, and that is when they question official claims and actions. When that starts to happen, when the public feels too secure, institutions of authority will reflexively find new ways to ensure they stay engulfed by fear and thus quiescent.

I saw first-hand how this dynamic functions when doing the Snowden-enabled reporting on mass domestic NSA surveillance under the Obama administration. By the time we broke the stories of mass domestic surveillance on Americans — twelve years after the 9/11 attack — fear levels over Al Qaeda in the U.S. had diminished greatly, especially after the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden. As a result, anger over Obama's sprawling domestic surveillance programs was pervasive and bipartisan. A bill jointly sponsored by then-Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) — which would have greatly reined in NSA domestic spying powers — was on its way to easy, bipartisan victory as a result of that anger over NSA spying. But suddenly, the Obama White House convinced Nancy Pelosi to whip enough Democratic votes to ensure its defeat and save NSA domestic spying from reform. But the momentum which that bill had — it would have been the first since 9/11 to rollback rather than expand government powers — along with anti-surveillance-and-pro-privacy polling data, proved how significantly the playing field had shifted as a result of those revelations and, especially, the reduction in fear levels experienced by Americans.

But shortly thereafter, a new group — ISIS — emerged to replace Al Qaeda. It had a two-year stint with middling success in scaring Americans, but it was sufficient to turn back the tide of pro-privacy sentiment (at one point in 2014, the U.S. intelligence community claimed out of nowhere that a Syria-based group that virtually nobody in the U.S. had ever heard of previously or since — "the Khorasan Group" — was “a more direct and imminent threat to the United States,” but that new villain disappeared as quickly as it materialized). After ISIS’s star turn in the role of existential threat, the Democrats, during the 2016 campaign, elevated Russia, Putin and the Kremlin to that role, abandoning without explanation Obama's eight-year argument that Russia was merely a regional power of no threat to the U.S. This revolving carousel of scary villains ensured that the pressure to reduce the powers and secrecy of the U.S. security state eroded in the name of staying safe.
Before Joe Biden was even inaugurated, he and his allies knew they needed a new villain.

Putin never generated much fear in anyone beyond MSNBC panels, the CNN Green Room, and the newsrooms and op-ed pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. While negative views of Russia increased in the U.S. during Russiagate mania, few outside of hard-core Democratic partisans viewed that country as a genuine threat or primary enemy. Few Americans woke up shaking in fear about what the Kremlin might do to them.

The search for a new enemy around which the Biden administration could coalesce and in whose name they could keep fear levels high was quickly settled. Cast in that role would be right-wing domestic extremists. In January, The Wall Street Journal reported that “Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.”

Pending Domestic War on Terror legislation favored by the White House — sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) — would simply amend the old War on Terror laws, which permitted a wide range of powers to fight foreign terrorist organizations, so as to now allow the U.S. government to also use those powers against groups designated as domestic terror organizations. Just as was true of the first War on Terror, this second one would thus vest the government with new, wide-ranging powers of surveillance, detention, prosecution and imprisonment, though this time for use against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

Even while that legislation is pending, the U.S. government is already waging an aggressive new domestic war on terror that has largely flown under the radar. Grave warnings from DHS are now just as common, vague and unreliable — but also fear-inducing — as they were in the days of Tom Ridge. Domestic surveillance is also on the rise. Last month, CNN reported that “the Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens."

Long article - read the rest here: The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants

 

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View: https://youtu.be/A2Rr6Uu2C4Y
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Compare and contrast: Chinese, Russian and US recruitment videos

 

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NYC Psychiatrist Tells Yale Audience She Fantasizes About Shooting White People in the Head and Burying Their Body with Her Bloody Hands | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Photo credit: New York Post A New York City-based psychiatrist recently told a Yale audience that she fantasizes about shooting white people in the head, burying their body and walking away guiltless.

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NYC Psychiatrist Tells Yale Audience She Fantasizes About Shooting White People in the Head and Burying Their Body with Her Bloody Hands

By Cristina Laila
Published June 4, 2021 at 9:00pm

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A New York City-based psychiatrist recently told a Yale audience that she fantasizes about shooting white people in the head, burying their body and walking away guiltless.

Dr. Aruna Khilanani said she had fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way” during virtual remarks in April.

Audio of Dr. Aruna Khilanani’s remarks can be heard here.

The psychiatrist also said “white people are out of their minds” and their brains are damaged and demented: “They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.”

The New York Post reported (emphasis ours):

Khilanani opened her remarks by telling the audience, “I’m gonna say a lot of things, and it will probably provoke a lot of responses, and I want you to just maybe observe them in yourself.”

She then added “prayers up for DMX” before discussing what she described as the “intense rage and futility” people of color purportedly feel when talking to white people about racism.

“We are calm, we are giving, too giving, and then when we get angry, they use our responses as confirmation that we’re crazy or have emotional problems,” Khilanani said. “It always ends that way, happens every time. Like a goddamn timer, you can count it down.

“Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet,” she said — before talking about how she “systematically” cut off most of her former white friends “around five years ago.

“I stopped watching the news,” Khilanani continued. “Once I started, I couldn’t stop.”

“It was also a public service,” she said. “I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a f–king favor.”

 

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Georgia Board of Education votes to oppose 'critical race theory' curriculum

The Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to reject “critical race theory” curriculum and courses that “indoctrinate students” across a certain political spectrum. Board members voted 11-2 to adopt a resolution affirming the United States “is not a racist country, and that the state of...

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Georgia Board of Education votes to oppose 'critical race theory' curriculum

by Jake Dima, Breaking News Reporter |
| June 04, 2021 01:20 PM


The Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to reject "critical race theory" curriculum and courses that "indoctrinate students" across a certain political spectrum.

Board members voted 11-2 to adopt a resolution affirming the United States "is not a racist country, and that the state of Georgia is not a racist state." The government body vowed not to "support, or impart, any K-12 public education resources or standards which indoctrinate students in social, or political, ideology or theory, or promote one race or sex above another."

"Believes that no state education agency, school district, or school shall teach, instruct, or train any administrator, teacher, staff member, or employee to adopt or believe any of the following concepts: (a) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (b) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously," the resolution read in part.

The education authorities indicated teachers instructing students on political subject matter "should strive to explore such issues from diverse and contending perspectives." Members also voted to reject federal grants that might entail instructing students on race-based curriculum.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp applauded the board's move to reject what has been called "critical race theory."

"I applaud the members of the State Board of Education for making it clear this dangerous, anti-American ideology has no place in Georgia classrooms," he said in a statement. "With their vote today, state school board members have ensured education in the Peach State will reflect the freedom, equality, and God-given potential of each individual."

Kemp referred to the race-based teaching methods as "divisive" and "anti-American" in a letter to the board on May 20.

"I urge you to take immediate steps to ensure that Critical Race Theory and its dangerous ideology do not do not take root in our state standards and curriculum," the letter read.

Opponents of the Thursday move said Georgia still grapples with racism.

“I absolutely am proud to be a Georgian and, no, I do not believe that racism exists across the entire state, but to categorically state and declare that we’re not a racist state flies in the face of all the research that I’ve been taught and that I’ve looked at,” said Tracey Pendley, the state's teacher of the year and a nonvoting member of the education board.

 

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Biden's Disgraceful Exploitation of the Tulsa Race Massacre, by David Limbaugh

This may shock and amaze you if your blinders are on, but President Biden is not only not a uniter; he is actively trying to divide Americans on race — and other issues — purely for raw political power. There is no other plausible explanation.

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Biden's Disgraceful Exploitation of the Tulsa Race Massacre

By David Limbaugh
June 4, 2021 6 Min Read

This may shock and amaze you if your blinders are on, but President Biden is not only not a uniter; he is actively trying to divide Americans on race — and other issues — purely for raw political power. There is no other plausible explanation.

During former President Trump's entire presidency and ever since, we've been bombarded daily with the narrative that he is divisive and a racist. His political opponents and the media distorted his words, such as those he said in the aftermath of the Charlottesville attacks, to paint him as sympathetic to white supremacists. That was always absurd, but it is now largely accepted as conventional wisdom.

Of course, the real ploy was to demonize and marginalize all Trump supporters, not just Trump. The implication was that anyone who would support such a bigot must be a bigot. Truth be told, this nicely fit the left's decadeslong smear of Republicans as racist as evidenced by their ideology.

Before you scoff at this as wanton hyperbole, consider that I'm not alone in my thoughts. A Rasmussen Reports poll released June 1 revealed that 39% of likely voters believe race relations have deteriorated since Biden's election.

Consider also the left's almost-farcical crusade to tie conservative policies to racism. Examples abound: Conservatives favor border enforcement because of their racial animus against Mexicans entering the United States; conservatives are insensitive to examples of police misconduct against African Americans because they're racist; they favor tax cuts to further enrich the wealthy and disadvantage minorities; they promote school choice initiatives to keep minorities down; and — everyone's favorite — they support voter ID measures and other laws in the name of ensuring election integrity but really to suppress the black vote.

If you think I'm exaggerating, note that CNN's Chris Cuomo suggested there is a "through-line" from the Tulsa race massacre to Republicans' election bills. He added that the GOP is "intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote, the boldest attempt since the era of Jim Crow." I wonder what American leftists would say about the fact that 46 of the 47 European democracies reportedly have election voter ID laws. Are they all racist, too?

There is, after all, a method to the left's maddening-ness. Since the Obama presidency, leftists have identified white supremacy as rampant and as a major threat to national security. They maintain that white supremacists are legion and are domestic terrorists. In his speech in Tulsa, ostensibly to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the race riots and atrocities against African Americans in that city, Biden underscored this point with the preposterous declaration that white supremacy is the most dangerous threat to America today. Are you kidding me, President Biden? Have you no shame?

That's not all Biden said in Tulsa to stir the racial pot, making clear that his primary purpose was not to honor the lives and misfortunes of the black victims in Tulsa in 1921. He disgracefully politicized the entire event, using it not for racial reconciliation but racial agitation — and as a platform to vilify his political opponents.

Biden said: "(Y)oung black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding, given the chance, as white entrepreneurs are, but they don't have lawyers. ... They don't have accountants. ... (Y)ou turn on the stations ... And I don't know many commercials you'll see ... two to three out of five have mixed-race couples in them. That's not by accident. They're selling soap, man."

Trump haters can say what they want about Trump, but did he call his accusers racist — ever? It would have been more justified than their ubiquitous claim that we're all racist for the simple reason that they turn everything into a race issue. They also reject colorblindness as a societal aspiration. They insist we look at and treat one another differently based on our race — not as unique individuals God created.

This insanity has got to stop. I know I write about this issue often, but as long as the left keeps fraudulently smearing us as racists, we have got to fight back. These vile slanders must not go unanswered.

People have to call Biden out on his flagrant race-baiting. They must quit depicting Biden as a nice and innocent man when he is abusing his powerful position and his bully pulpit to pit us against each other and severely damage racial relations. Enough is enough.

 

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NYT's Ezra Klein: ‘Not The Worst Thing’ To Make Americans 'Like China’. - The National Pulse+

Journalist Ezra Klein – who's been exposed by the National Pulse for accepting trips from Chinese Communist Party-linked groups in exchange for "favorable coverage" of the regime – asserted it "is not even the worst thing" for China to use TikTok to make Americans "like China more."

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NYT’s Ezra Klein: ‘Not The Worst Thing’ To Make Americans ‘Like China’.

• JUNE 4, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

Journalist Ezra Klein – who’s been exposed by the National Pulse for accepting trips from Chinese Communist Party-linked groups in exchange for “favorable coverage” of the regime – asserted it “is not even the worst thing” for China to use TikTok to make Americans “like China more.”

The Vox co-founder and New York Times columnist made the remarks while speaking on his personal podcast about TikTok, an app whose founder pledged to use the platform to promote “socialist core values” and devotion to the Chinese Communist Party.

They follow The National Pulse exposing Klein for taking a trip from the China United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), which is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. This effort aims to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority” of the Chinese government according to the U.S. government.

Klein visited China in 2010 as part of the program which seeks to garner “favorable coverage” and to “disseminate positive messages” in Western media outlets, according to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings with the Department of Justice.

Beyond praising TikTok, Klein asserts it’s “not even the worst thing” if the app is used to make Americans like China more on his show’s June 4th episode:

“Now, you imagine — I mean, China is making tremendous, tremendous investments in AI. Now, you imagine that some of those actually pay off. You build some of that into TikTok. And just on the margin, they’re trying to make you like China more, which maybe is not even the worst thing. We’ve had propaganda efforts in this country forever trying to make people like America more. Why not use your algorithm on your free video app to serve up things that improve cross-cultural communication?”

Klein also praises TikTok as “remarkable” and “amazing”:

So we’ve been in a debate over the past year or two in this country over TikTok, which is this remarkable social networking app that is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. And there’s been a lot of worries that maybe TikTok is spyware or what is it really doing.

But something very central about TikTok is its underlying algorithm is amazing. If you look at analysis of why TikTok does so well, its ability to intuit what you like through machine learning and feed it to you, it’s absolutely best of class. It needs a lot less information about you than a Facebook or some of these other players do.

 

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9:29 min

The Horror of Teaching Critical Race Theory to Kids
Jun 5, 2021


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Find out all the horror of teaching critical race theory to kids! Should critical race theory be taught in schools? Does critical race theory create racial divide or racial unity? Can you teach love and acceptance through division? Find out as you view all the beautiful horror of teaching critical race theory to kids.

 

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Former AG Bill Barr Issues Massive Warning About America’s Public School System, Outlines Action Plan | The Daily Wire

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Former AG Bill Barr Issues Massive Warning About America’s Public School System, Outlines Action Plan

By Daily Wire News
•May 30, 2021 DailyWire.com•

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Former Attorney General William Barr issued a stark warning during a recent speech about what is happening inside of America’s public education system and how Americans can take action to stop it.

Barr made the remarks while speaking at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s annual Edwin Meese III Award for Originalism and Religious Liberty.

Barr warned that the “increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate in our state-run educational system” was the “greatest threat to religious liberty in America” and that too many people are only looking at the problem in relation to what it means for national unity and not what it means for long-term religious liberty in America.

Barr gave the following two examples of the types of things happening inside America’s public education system:

• Earlier this year an Iowa Public School District, Iowa, taught transgenderism and homosexuality to students at all grade levels, including preschool as part of the Black Lives Matter at school week of action program. The school district distributed children’s coloring book that teaches on a page, I saw it, it says, everyone gets to choose if they are a girl, or a boy, or both, or neither, or someone else, and no one else gets to choose for them. Now, one thing we know, this is not established science, it is a moral, psychological, and metaphysical dogma of the new progressive orthodoxy. In fact, until recently, virtually no one in America had heard of these radical notions. Yet now they are thoroughly institutionalized in many public schools, and in some states, students are permitted to select new genders without the consent of their parents.
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• In the absence of a statewide mandate, curriculum are frequently adopted in particular school districts. These new laws often prohibit opt outs for parents. In Orange County, California, for example, the Board of Education issued an opinion that, quote, ‘parents who disagree with the instructional materials related to gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, may not excuse their children from this instruction.’ But this only really scratches the surface. This gender and sexuality agenda only scratches the surface of the kinds of things being taught in public school these days.

Other top lines from Barr’s speech:

• Now, this is not a matter of isolated ideas sort of occasionally popping up in such a discreet and fleeting way that they sort of don’t do much harm. What is taking shape is a full blown, may I say, systemic subversion of the religious viewpoint. … It is a broadside attack on the very idea of natural law, which is integral to the moral doctrines of a number of traditional religions.
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• In recent years, across the country, we’ve seen this rush to embrace critical race theory. Now critical race theory is nothing more than the materialist philosophy of Marxism, substituting racial antagonism for class antagonism, that’s all it is. It posits all the same things as traditional Marxism, that there are meta-historical forces at work, that social pathologies are the result of societal conventions and power structures that have to be torn down. That conflict between the oppressed and the oppressors provides the dynamic and progressive movement in history, and that the individual morality to the extent there is such a thing in a materialist philosophy, is determined by where one fits in with these [historical forces].
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• As the Supreme Court has recognized, there’s nothing more fundamental as a part of religious liberty and a part of our basic liberties, than the right of parents to pass along religion to their children, and it’s monstrous, for the state to interfere with that by indoctrinating students into altered alternative belief systems. So it seems to me that if a school is going to propose to teach a child that they get the pick their gender, and no one else has anything to say about it, that’s infringing on the free exercise of religion.
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• I also think we’ve reached the point where the establishment clause is implicated. When we’re no longer talking about stripping religion out of the school curriculum and now talking about indoctrination into an affirmative belief system, a new credo, resting on materialist metaphysics, and substituting for religion, then the question is whether this involves the establishment of religion. I’m not the first to observe that the tenants of progressive orthodoxy have become a form of religion, with all the trappings and hallmarks of a religion. It has its notion of original sin, of salvation, it has its clergy, it has its penance, it has its dogmas, its sensitivity, that whiff of any heresy, and even the burning at the stake.
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• But while secularism has been afforded the protection of the religious clauses, it has generally not been the subject or subject to the prohibitions in the Constitution. And this creates an often overlooked constitutional double-standard, particularly when it comes to education. The courts, in fact, have foreseen the potential for secularism itself, becoming an established state religion, and one of the first cases, abolishing school prayer, the Supreme Court acknowledged that the state may not establish a religion of secularism, in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion. Thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who believe. It’s time to consider whether our public schools as currently constituted are doing exactly that. If secular, progressivism indeed occupies the same place as religion, and by all appearances it does, then how is it constitutional to have state run schools fervently devoted to teaching little else? And how on earth can these institutions be allowed to use the state to punish traditional religious doctrines as hate speech?
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• The current posture of public schools raises another question. Other than providing public funding for basic education, the other purpose of it was to effectuate the melting pot, to instill a sense of common identity to promote a solidarity among students as Americans. But now the schools have taken the opposite mission of separating us, of teaching unbridgeable differences, of dividing us into many different identities destined to be antagonistic. If that’s the purpose of education now, to separate us from each other, to drive us apart, then why shouldn’t we have diverse school system?
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• The time has come to admit that the approach of giving militantly secularist government school a monopoly over publicly funded education has become a disaster, it is deformed. It has deformed and impoverished the very nature of the educational enterprise, first by purging it of any moral or spiritual dimension, and then by trying to substitute for religion, an irreconcilable rival value system. Parents wishing to opt out from the government secular progressive madrassas are subject to a harsh penalty in the form of private school tuition that most cannot afford. As a result, our public schools have inevitably become cockpits for a vicious winner take all culture war over the moral formation of the next generation. It doesn’t have to be this way. Public funding of education does not require that instruction must be delivered by means of government-operated schools. The alternative is to have public funds travel with each student, allowing the student and the parents to choose the store.
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• In this environment, vouchers may be the only workable and the only constitutional solution. And they would promote diversity in education. And the left talks about diversity, they are not for diversity, they’re for standardization. Diversity is freedom. Diversity is the ability to live your life and to hold views that may not be compatible with with the dominant cultures. It’s freedom. And we stand for diversity. And there’s nothing to fear from diversity. There’s nothing to fear from schools that parents set up for the education of their children.
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• The other thing about it is it addresses I think, the real issue of systemic racism in our country, which is our public school system in the inner cities, where we’ve relegated inner city school children to these failing schools, depriving them of a future, depriving them of opportunity. That’s the system of systemic racism. So President Obama waltzes into Washington, President Obama waltzes into Washington, enrolls his two daughters in the most exclusive private school there, Sidwell Friends, and one of his earliest acts is the terminate a broadly supported and bipartisan program in the District of Columbia that provided scholarships to inner city kids to go to parochial school.
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• So, confronting this issue, I think, is the most urgent task for people are concerned about religious liberty. Religious liberty is not safe in the United States as long as we have the kind of public school system we have, the forced monopoly and the indoctrination of children into these radical secular progressive orthodoxies.

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China's TikTok App Will Collect "Biometric" Data Including "Faceprints and Voiceprints" of Western Users. - The National Pulse+

TikTok is now openly saying that, due to an update of its privacy policy, its app will be collecting “faceprints and voiceprints.” The Chinese Communist Party-linked company was emboldened by the successful efforts in Washington, D.C. to resist President Trump’s attempts to ban the data-mining...

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China’s TikTok App Will Collect “Biometric” Data Including “Faceprints And Voiceprints” Of Western Users.

• JUNE 6, 2021
• CATHERINE SALGADO

TikTok is now openly saying that, due to an update of its privacy policy, its app will be collecting “faceprints and voiceprints.”

The Chinese Communist Party-linked company was emboldened by the successful efforts in Washington, D.C. to resist President Trump’s attempts to ban the data-mining app in 2020.

The new forms of data can be collected from audio and images including scenery, faces, any objects that appear in an image, and the text of words in a person’s User Content.
The new policy does not stop there, however. TikTok has also declared it will be collecting biometric data:

“We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content. Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection.”

What is key about this statement is that TikTok does not specify if the “US laws” are state or federal, and only a few US states have biometric privacy laws at all. This means that, if TikTok only has to obtain consent where “required by law,” users in most US states could have their biometric data collected without being asked first.

TikTok would not provide any more details on its new policy, only saying that its aim with the updated privacy policy is to have more “transparency.”

TikTok has not yet explained further why or how it means to collect all this personal and biometric data, or how it will be obtaining consent from users to do so.

 

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Amazon Driver Arrested After Brutally Beating 67-Year-Old Woman after Pointing Out Her "White Privilege" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

A 21-year-old driver was arrested after beating a 67-year-old woman during a delivery.

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Amazon Driver Arrested After Brutally Beating 67-Year-Old Woman after Pointing Out Her “White Privilege” (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published June 6, 2021 at 8:55am

A 21-year-old Amazon driver was arrested after beating a 67-year-old woman during a delivery.

Amazon driver Itzel Ramirez delivered more than packages. She pounded the woman in the face after the woman complained about waiting for her package.

Itzel said it was self-defense.

The victim called police after the beatdown.

View: https://youtu.be/TP-FqhBdcpY
.36 min

Itzel reportedly said something about the woman’s white privilege.

 

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Ted Cruz: Facebook's Actions and Correspondence with Fauci Shows Big Tech Operating as Extension of Government - Opens Them Up to Legal Liability (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning to discuss ’s roll in suppressing the true information that did not coincide with what Dr.

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Ted Cruz: Facebook’s Actions and Correspondence with Fauci Shows Big Tech Operating as Extension of Government – Opens Them Up to Legal Liability (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published June 6, 2021 at 10:46am

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning to discuss Facebook’s roll in suppressing the true information that did not coincide with what Dr. Fauci was telling the public.

We now know that Fauci was misleading the public for over a year on the coronavirus, where it came from and how to treat it. Millions died following Fauci’s dishonest and misleading reports and advice.

And Facebook acted as an agent of the government to silence anyone who proposed alternative ideas and facts regarding the coronavirus.

This is a huge development!

Senator Ted Cruz: In the email dump that came out, it makes clear that this is not just being sloppy. It is systematic and it is systematically an effort to mislead the American people. And as you noted he wasn’t doing it alone but was doing it with much of the US government behind him and with Facebook and Big Tech operating as an extension of the US government in order to silence any views that disagreed, not with the science, because he wasn’t looking for the science. He was suppressing the science. But rather trying to silence anything that disagreed with the political narrative that was convenient that he was pushing at that moment…

…If you went out and posted the facts that led, a year ago, to the very strong likelihood that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, China. If you posted that a year ago and they took it down, I think there is a very good argument you have a cause of action against Facebook. And, Facebook would ordinarily say, “We’re a private company. We’re not liable.” Well, you know, when they act at the behest of the government. When they contact Fauci. When they say, “Should we censor this and Fauci says, “Yes.” And they censor it for the federal government. And then magically when the government changes its mind and says, “Oh, all those facts that were there a year ago, now you’re allowed to talk about it.”

They stop censoring it with the flip of a switch. That lays a very strong argument that Facebook is operating as a state agency and that opens very seriously legal liability.

Via Sunday Morning Futures:

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Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Virginia County Now "Ground Zero" In Fight Against Critical Race Theory, Parent Activist Says

SUNDAY, JUN 06, 2021 - 01:05 PM
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Loudoun County, Virginia, has become “ground zero” in the fight against critical race theory-based indoctrination in schools nationwide, according to the co-founder of a parents’ group taking on the local education establishment.

Loudoun County Public Schools, Ashburn, Va. on June 4, 2021. (Screenshot Google Maps/The Epoch Times)

Critical race theory (CRT) must be uprooted because it “seeks to view everything through the lens of race and believes all institutions, traditions, language, and history of this country are systemically racist,” said Ian Prior, a parent who helped to found and is executive director of Fight for Schools, which is registered in Virginia as a political action committee.

Prior was principal deputy director of public affairs at the Justice Department in the Trump administration. He is now CEO of his own political consulting firm, Headwaters Media, and co-founder of the website The Daily Malarkey.

CRT proponents believe the nation’s supposedly racist nature can only be remedied by “viewing everything through the lens of race and discriminating in order to end what they believe is systemic racism,” he told The Epoch Times in an interview.

“And it ignores the individual in favor of identity groups, which means it is harmful to people of all races that believe in the concepts of Western liberalism, meritocracy, and equal opportunity for all.”

But Loudoun County, Prior said, is “ground zero in a movement by parents to retake control over what happens in the schools that they drop their kids off to every day.”

This is happening “primarily because of distance learning where we’ve received tips from hundreds of parents, walking by, during a class that they hear online and saying, ‘what is that?’

Or a screenshot or something where they’re able to observe it, where they normally would not have been able to,” he said.

“Parents have a lot more insight over the past year as to what’s going on, and I think that is really what’s driven the accountability and the spotlight on all of this.”

Ian Prior, founder and executive director of Fight for Schools. (Courtesy Ian Prior)‘Runaway Slave Game’

The current problems in Loudoun, the wealthiest county in the United States, according to Forbes, began February 2019 when students at Madison’s Trust Elementary School in Ashburn were directed to make-believe that they were slaves.

“Some educators argue that eliciting intense emotions from students, which simulations are generally designed to do, can be a starting point for inquiry,” according to Education Week. But other radical education activists reject such games, saying they hurt black children.

Youngsters played a game in which as runaway slaves they had to move through an obstacle course meant to represent the Underground Railroad, which was a covert network of routes and safe houses in the antebellum United States that slaves used to escape to free states.

Michelle Thomas, president of Loudoun County NAACP, denounced this “runaway slave game” as “sickening and racist” and demanded race and bias training.

LCPS apologized and promised to hire outside experts for “an equity audit,” requiring all teachers to receive “cultural competence and implicit bias training,” and creating a new post related to “equity and cultural competence.”

In April 2019, LCPS hired Equity Collaborative, a California consulting firm specializing in critical race theory, for $422,000 to run focus groups, train teachers, and generate an “equity assessment.” The firm says it uncovers “personal and institutional biases that prevent all people, and especially people of color, from reaching their fullest potential.” It focuses on “oppression analysis, learning theory, and coaching for change.”

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An investigation followed by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, into allegations that LCPS, among other things, denied students an equal opportunity to participate in elementary school gifted and talented programs based on their race.

Herring came out in favor of critical race theory last year when he urged then-President Donald Trump to rescind Executive Order 13950, which banned teaching CRT to government contractors. Trump said the ideology was “divisive and harmful” and “like a cancer.” President Joe Biden, a CRT supporter, promptly rescinded the order after he was inaugurated.

Leftists counter CRT is needed to promote racial equality by highlighting the supposed damage white people have done to others in society. Herring said Trump’s order “could undo years of important work implementing implicit bias and diversity training.”

Herring’s investigation determined in November 2020 that LCPS’s “policies and practices resulted in a discriminatory impact on Black/African-American and Latinx/Hispanic students.”

The school district settled the case with Herring’s office in February 2021, agreeing to reform its policies, focus on minority outreach, and submit to third-party monitoring. The agreement runs through June 30, 2024.

Meanwhile, after the Equity Collaborative examined Loudoun schools, LCPS released a Comprehensive Equity Plan and a Plan to Combat Systemic Racism last fall.

The plans required training staff in CRT, changing discipline policy to supposedly reduce racial disparities by going easier on students who engage in “disrespect, defiance, and classroom/campus disruption,” apologizing for fighting racial integration efforts six decades ago, creating safe spaces for LCPS staffers of color, and moving away from merit-based admission at elite county schools to give black and Hispanic students a better chance at admission.

Enemies List
Around the same time, radical activists began plotting to undermine anti-CRT parents.

The Daily Wire reported in March that Loudoun County descended into “a moral panic” as the school system “seemed to slide from serving taxpayers to targeting them.”

Members of a 624-member private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County,” including school staff and school board members, reportedly compiled a long enemies list of parents thought to oppose LCPS policies including CRT teachings. The members said they wanted to “infiltrate,” use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and “expose these people publicly.”

“I’m losing any hope that remaining civil towards these people changes anything,” wrote one pro-CRT group member. “Avoiding these people isn’t enough to stop the spread of their evil rhetoric.”

“Anyone know any hackers?” she wrote.

Petition Drive
In May, Fight for Schools launched a petition drive to oust 6 radical members of the 9-member school district board—Denise Corbo, Beth Barts, Brenda Sheridan, Atoosa Reaser, Ian Serotkin, and Leslee King, all of whom are Democrats.

Legally speaking, the petition is based on the fact that “they had a quorum of school board members in a private Facebook group discussing school-related issues,” Prior said, adding that such behavior violates the state’s open meetings law, as well as their own bylaws and code of conduct.

After Prior and others gather the required number of petition signatures, they are then filed in court. The Commonwealth’s Attorney is then supposed to present the case against the school board members for removal from office.

It is a problem, Prior said, that the Commonwealth’s Attorney in the area is Buta Biberaj, a pro-CRT Democrat who participated in the secret Facebook group. “As of April 30, she was still part of the group and commenting on posts about investigating or finding kids’ TikTok videos that could be racist,” he said.

In 2019, Biberaj beat incumbent prosecutor Nicole Wittmann, a Republican, 51-49 percent, after a George Soros-funded political action committee expended $845,000 to get her elected.

Wittmann raised $113,000, The Daily Wire reported. On Twitter, Biberaj praises big-city, anti-police, anti-incarceration district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin of San Francisco.

Before becoming prosecutor, Biberaj was an official with the local NAACP, the media outlet reported. As prosecutor, she went after a Trump supporter for assault for exhaling on anti-Trump protesters while unmasked. She resolved the case by strong-arming the man into donating $3,000 to the local scholarship fund of the NAACP, which had no connection to the incident, in exchange for dropping the charges.

After Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson commented on CRT-related acrimony in the county, Biberaj called him an “unhappy white male.”

“We think there is at least an appearance of conflict, if not an actual conflict, that would make it impossible for her or her office to adequately prosecute the case in court,” Prior told The Epoch Times.

Prior said the other side is in trouble.

“I think that they underestimate our movement. They underestimate the national interest in this, and they’re far too focused on their social media echo chamber and their base of support than they are on the parents, the students, and the taxpayers that are now learning all that’s been going on in this school system over the past two years, and people are not happy about it.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Loudoun County Public Schools for comment. Wayde B. Byard, Public Information Officer for LCPS, said via email that the district declined to comment.

 

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Bovard: Will Treason Mania Destroy America?

SATURDAY, JUN 05, 2021 - 10:30 PM
Authored by James Bovard via The Future of Freedom Foundation,

At the start of the Biden era, America is being torn apart by more allegations of treason than at any time since the Civil War. Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” And few things spur hatred more effectively than tarring all political opponents as traitors.



The Founding Fathers carved the Constitution in light of the horrific political abuses that had proliferated in England in prior centuries. That was why there was a narrow definition of treason in the Constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”

After the end of Reconstruction, treason charges became relatively rare in American politics. Wars were probably the biggest propellants, with anyone who opposed American intervention abroad being tagged with the scarlet T. But by the late 1960s, when the futility of the Vietnam War was becoming clear, treason charges had largely lost their political clout. Gen. Alexander Haig, who later became Richard Nixon’s last White House chief of staff, denounced the Pentagon Papers as “devastating … a security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything I’ve ever seen … it’s treasonable” But the Nixon administration’s protests failed to sway the Supreme Court to block the New York Times from publishing the secret official records of decades of U.S. government deceit on Indochina.

Unfortunately, the political exploitation of the 9/11 attacks included reviving treason accusations against anyone who did not cheer George W. Bush’s promise to “rid the world of evil.” On December 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate Judiciary Committee, “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and … give ammunition to America’s enemies.” At that point, Bush had already suspended habeas corpus and his underlings were busy sabotaging laws limiting federal surveillance of American citizens.

But regardless of how many civil liberties were actually destroyed, critics were traitors.

Run-up to 2016
While Bush was rehabilitated by the mainstream media in recent years as a reward for criticizing Donald Trump, his 2004 reelection campaign relied on tacit treason accusations to tarnish Democrats, liberals, and even a few libertarians. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, keynote speaker Democratic Sen. Zell Miller implied that political opposition was treason: “Now, at the same time young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats’ manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief.”

There was no evidence that such criticism of Bush’s foreign policy was ripping America asunder — but trumpeting the accusation made Bush critics appear a pox on the land. Other Republicans used the same theme. John Thune, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in South Dakota, denounced Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: “His words embolden the enemy.”

Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman condemned the Kerry campaign for “parroting the rhetoric of terrorists” and warned, “The enemy listens. All listen to what the president said, and all listen to what Senator Kerry said.” Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, stumping for Bush, told audiences, “Political criticism is our enemy’s best friend.” Six weeks before the 2004 election, the Washington Post noted, “President Bush and leading Republicans are increasingly charging that Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and others in his party are giving comfort to terrorists and undermining the war in Iraq — a line of attack that tests the conventional bounds of political rhetoric.”

In 2006, the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration was illegally seizing personal financial information of millions of Americans. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, declared, “We’re at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous.” Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) also labeled the Times guilty of “treason.” Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.) suggested that the Times had become the “Benedict Arnold Press.”

After Barack Obama was elected in 2008, treason allegations simmered down, except for occasional allegations that Obama was a secret Muslim scheming to impose Sharia law on America. Former NSA employee Edward Snowden’s leak of NSA documents was the biggest treason boomlet of that era. Numerous congressmen called for Snowden to be charged with treason, though the Founding Fathers neglected to include “embarrassing the government” in the Constitution’s definition of treason. House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and former NSA chief Michael Hayden publicly joked about putting Snowden on a government kill list.

But the Snowden uproar was a kerfuffle compared to the Pandora’s box opened by the 2016 presidential campaign. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton repeatedly effectively asserted that Republican nominee Donald Trump was a Russian tool, betraying the nation.

Treason in the White House
After Trump’s surprise victory in November 2016, treason became the coin of the realm for denigrating political opposition. Democratic politicians, activists, and their media allies responded to Hillary Clinton’s surprise defeat by smearing Donald Trump for colluding with Russia. Leaks to the media from the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies spurred raging controversies that contributed to Trump’s firing FBI chief James Comey. That resulted in the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump. Endless wrangling followed, including a claim by prominent Democrats claiming that Republicans would be guilty of treason if they released a memo detailing the FBI’s abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Mueller quickly became sacrosanct; liberals even bought votary candles with his likeness. A piece I wrote for The Hill on Mueller’s lawless record as FBI chief spurred 1,500 comments, including denunciations of me as a treason weasel, bearded grifter, Alt-moron, lackey, lickspittle, and librarian (some folks can’t spell “libertarian”). In April 2019, Mueller finally admitted that there was no substantive evidence of collusion but that did not stop the endless “RussiaGate” refrain and treason accusations from Trump critics. Most of Trump’s presidency was permeated by charges of treason against him.

But the Mueller-induced treason prattle was child’s play compared to what followed disputes over the 2020 presidential election. As law professor Jonathan Turley noted, after the media announced Biden won, “All court challenges [to election results] then became unethical for lawyers and all congressional challenges became sedition for members.” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro this past December denounced one challenge to the election results as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process” that was guilty of “misleading the public about a free and fair election and tearing at our Constitution.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wailed, “The most serious attempt to overthrow our democracy in the history of our country is under way.” Twitter’s left-wing tilt has helped spur hashtags such as #GOPSeditiousTraitors and #TreasonAgainstAmerica. One leftist activist got 65,000 “likes” when he declared that “Donald Trump should replace Benedict Arnold in history as America’s most reviled traitor.”

On the other side of the political divide, some Republicans sounded equally hellbent on demonizing any opposition to their demands. Republican lawyer Lin Wood declared that Vice President Pence would be guilty of treason for certifying the election results and that he “will face execution by firing squad.” The Pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk tweeted, “After listening to the leaked call put out by the Washington Post we are convinced that Georgia’s secretary of state and his lawyer need to be arrested for Treason!”

After protesters crashed into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 (some crashed into the building while others sauntered in), treason accusations went into overdrive. The definition of treason was vastly expanded to include members of Congress who filed a lawful challenge against the 2020 electoral tally. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Republicans who signaled they would not ratify the Electoral College results earlier that month “gave aid and comfort to [protesters] with the idea that they were embracing a lie … that the election did not have legitimacy.” A court of law would never convict Republican members of treason, but Pelosi can convict them in the court of public opinion, thanks to the hanging judges at CNN and MSNBC.

Civil War politics
Many Trump opponents are invoking 1861, denouncing any Republican challenges to the election as the same type of treason supposed to have been committed by states that exited the union. But the Civil War illustrates the catastrophic damage that can result from broad-brush definitions of treason. Northern politicians quickly persuaded their supporters that all Southerners were traitors — a capital offense. In 1864, Gen. William Sherman wired the War Department in Washington, “There is a class of people — men, women, and children — who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order.” Union armies in Virginia, Georgia, and elsewhere late in the war intentionally devastated civilian populations who were considered collectively guilty of secession and treason.

Unfortunately, many pundits and politicians know only a fairy-tale version of the Civil War. The fact that Trump had high support in many southern states is spurring bizarre proposals that would be the final coffin nails into any hope for a semblance of peaceful coexistence between Americans with different views and values. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the media’s favorite progressive congresswoman, declared, “The only way our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of southern states.” She didn’t specify whether she favored the type of military dictatorship that was ended only by a historic compromise after the fraud-ridden 1876 presidential election. Politico, one of the most respected Washington publications, printed a piece titled, “What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden about Putting Down Violent Insurrections.” The piece stressed, “Grant’s approach relied on a combination of brute military force and a drastic curtailment of civil liberties, yet it nevertheless has relevance for the current moment.” The article stressed the need for “overwhelming force” to suppress the type of people who violated the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Any federal attempt to expunge political dissent in America with “brute military force and a drastic curtailment of civil liberties” would very likely provoke a civil war. But that could be the end result of current trends of presuming that political opponents are traitors who must be exterminated. While Democratic members of Congress and some Biden officials are comforted by the thousands of National Guard troops now occupying Washington at their behest, they would be unwise to presume the troops would obey orders to scourge their countrymen in every nook of the land.

Perhaps the ultimate cause of the proliferation of treason accusations is that politicians have captured far too much control over Americans’ lives. The more power politicians seize, the more unhinged political rhetoric becomes.

American politics is increasingly becoming toxic because presidents nowadays are elective dictators. Rather than a process of selecting a chief executive who will uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws, elections nowadays confer a license to run amok over the lives and property of practically anyone who falls under federal sway. Government has amassed so much power that the vast majority of Americans no longer trust Washington.

The surest recipe for curtailing political vitriol is to reduce political power so elections are not demolition derbies that doom losing sides. Thomas Jefferson in 1799 offered the ideal that can rescue America from strife today: “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” And if presidents and members of Congress choose to openly scorn their oaths of office and constitutional constraints on their power — well, many Americans would consider that to be treason.

 

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CJ Hopkins: Covidian Push Toward A New Totalitarian 'Normal'

SATURDAY, JUN 05, 2021 - 09:30 PM

In a recent interview with Fox News, author and playwright C.J. Hopkins describes the current pandemic paradigm as a worrying prelude to the normalization of a brutal technocratic brand of authoritarianism.

Fox News reports…

As millions of vaccines are distributed around the world each day, mask mandates are lifted, and daily life takes on a semblance of normalcy, one German-based satirist is ringing the alarm bells about what he views as “nascent totalitarianism” seeping its way into society.

C.J. Hopkins is an American playwright and author living in Berlin and a self-described “creature of the left.” Over the past year and a half, Hopkins has been increasingly concerned about long-term implications of what he deemed the “radical restructuring of human society” toward a post-COVID “New Normal,” a term often used by the political class.

“I’m a free speech advocate, against racism, discrimination – anti-authoritarian, basically. And watching our societies transform into this type of authoritarianism, and I go so far as to call it nascent totalitarianism, is horrifying,” Hopkins said in an interview with Fox News.

While Hopkins’ ideological beliefs have aligned with the political left more often than not throughout his career, he has never been one to silently fall in line.

In fact, Hopkins has been openly critical of the lies and deceit coming from the left since the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.

“It was fascinating to watch and track the reaction of the establishment to Donald Trump. He became a figurehead for this populist push back against global capitalist ideology,” said Hopkins.

This “global capitalist ideology” he described, or “GloboCap” as he’s taken to calling it in his writings, is an ideologically monolithic global-capitalist societal structure. Essentially, a ruling class made up of globalist oligarchs.

“It was just so clear they set out to destroy him, make an example of him, and demonize everybody who put him in office,” said Hopkins.

He claimed the demonization of Trump during his four years in office was this ruling class “reminding us who’s in charge and what happens if we elect unauthorized presidents who haven’t been approved by the system.”

Admittedly not a fan of Trump, Hopkins couldn’t help but laugh at all of the ways in which the former president was vilified. “First, he was a Russian intelligence asset, then he was literally Hitler and was going to overthrow the U.S. government with some underground White supremacist militia,” Hopkins recalled, claiming the accusations were “pure fantasy that was taken seriously.”

According to Hopkins, this push toward a post-COVID “New Normal” society in which people are willing to lockdown in their homes when told, wear masks when asked, and carry around their COVID-19 vaccination cards in order to be allowed into public spaces is a continuation of the invisible ruling class asserting its dominance.

“One thing that I’ve been saying to try to get through to people,” said Hopkins, “is just the whole idea of lockdowns. ‘Lockdown,’ this is a prison term, right? And when do you lock down the prison? When the prisoners are rioting and getting rebellious. It’s a way of reminding everyone, ‘Hey, you’re in prison and we’re in charge.'”
“It isn’t really about the vaccines or the tests,” he said in regards to newly implemented guidelines.

“What it’s about is training us, conditioning us to live in a society where we accept this type of control.”

Another aspect of this “synchronization of culture,” as Hopkins called it, and which he finds particularly terrifying is the ideological uniformity being spread by “big supranational entities and corporate media” on behalf of the establishment.

“It’s tearing societies apart, it’s tearing relationships apart, it’s tearing families apart, this extreme polarization and intolerance of dissent and differing views,” he said.

“I feel like if I start questioning or challenging the official COVID narrative, if I start pointing out facts, I’m treated like a suppressive person in the Church of Scientology.”

“The reaction is not one of strong disagreement, anger or to prove me wrong,” he continued.

“The reaction is to shut me up, silence me and make me go away. When a society gets to that place, where dissent is treated that way, that is a really dangerous development.”

Hopkins compared the “suffocating” atmosphere in Berlin to a German word, Gleichschaltung, which arose in the Nazi era and was used to describe the process by which Nazi Germany established a system of totalitarian control over the individual, as well as close coordination of all aspects of society.

All is not doomed, however, according to the American political satirist, who said he has been greatly encouraged by the pushback exhibited in parts of the U.S., naming states like Florida and Texas. Sadly, no such rebellion against the shift toward totalitarianism exists in Germany.

As an artist and a creature of the left, speaking out about the left wing’s authoritarian power grab has been particularly painful for C.J. Hopkins.

“I’m an artist and 99% of the art world has just gone completely ‘New Normal,’” he said, admitting many of his personal relationships have been ruined by him sharing his unpopular opinions.

“Most often I get attacked by folks on the left and liberals who are now telling me that I’m some kind of far-right extremist, but I haven’t changed.”

For Hopkins, remaining silent and falling into line is no longer an option.

“There are some times in history when you need to put those types of career considerations and personal considerations aside because the stakes are that high, and I feel like the stakes are that high this time.”

 

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Is 'Social Justice' REALLY The Kind Of Justice The Greatest Generation Fought To Preserve?

Once again, we come to the page on our calendar which measures one of history's greatest victories against authoritarianism. D-Day.

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Is ‘Social Justice’ REALLY The Kind Of Justice The Greatest Generation Fought To Preserve?

Written by Wes Walker on June 6, 2021

Once again, we come to the page on our calendar which measures one of history’s greatest victories against authoritarianism. D-Day.

June sixth is the day in history where what was left of the free people in Europe and their allies around the world launched a counter-offensive on the seemingly unstoppable force that had devoured most of mainland Europe. We know it as D-Day.

We can see how ideas have changed over the past few years by how D-Day has become the focus of memes. Old-School patriots will share memes like this one:

The more violent strain of the radical left sees that same event through a very different lens. Their memes look more like this one:

They can’t BOTH be right. For whom and what did our forefathers really bleed the sand red?
To recap the event itself: the landings took place on five beaches, from West to East: Utah and Omaha (American), Gold (UK), Juno (Canada), Sword (UK).

They came together to fight the Nazis. The right and left might never agree on who the National Socialist Party really was in terms of left and right, but we can agree, at least, on some objectively known central ideas.

The seed for the Reich began when a small group of agitators leveraged a crisis and past injustices to ascend to political power through lawful means. They had, at the time, only one real political rival, and they leveraged events of the day to demonize and delegitimize their political opponents to tighten their hold on power and to make it impossible for anyone to oppose them politically.

Having secured power, they set about punishing their political enemies and anyone who disagreed with them politically as dangerous enemies to the state. They exploited the public school system to set about indoctrinating children to believe the same ideas the Nazis expected all Germans to believe.

Next, they shifted the nexus of local political power into a more easily manipulated centralized control at the national level.

They exploited the Reichstag fire to secure President Hindenburg’s approval for an emergency decree, popularly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, that suspended individual rights and due process of law. The Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications. It also gave the central government the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments. The decree was a key step in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. Germany became a police state in which citizens enjoyed no guaranteed basic rights and the SS, the elite guard of the Nazi state, wielded increasing authority through its control over the police. — UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum

The undirected rage and energy of university-aged youths was harnessed against an ‘otherized’ and demonized racial scapegoat. They attack Jewish homes and businesses, Kristallnacht, painting it as a righteous cause, blaming the entire racial group for old injustices Germany had suffered.

Nazi Party officials, members of the SA and the Hitler Youth carry out a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Greater Germany. The rioters destroyed hundreds of synagogues, many of them burned in full view of firefighters and the German public and looted more than 7,000 Jewish-owned businesses and other commercial establishments. Jewish cemeteries became a particular object of desecration in many regions. Almost 100 Jewish residents in Germany lost their lives in the violence. In the weeks that followed, the German government promulgated dozens of laws and decrees designed to deprive Jews of their property and of their means of livelihood even as the intensification of government persecution sought to force Jews from public life and force their emigration from the country.

After the pogroms, the implementation of German anti-Jewish policy was gradually concentrated in the hands of the SS. Thus, Kristallnacht figures as an essential turning point in Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews, which culminated in the Holocaust, the attempt to annihilate European Jews during the war. — USHMM

Officials stood silent while cities burned and businesses were looted.

There was no interest in conversation, debate, or persuading other side over by arguments over whose policy was better. There was violence, intimidation, aggression, marginalization, burning of books, and businesses, exclusion, silencing, arrest, and (eventually) murder on a massive scale.

There is an old expression about becoming the thing you hate.

Chris Ray Gun, when ‘Antifa’ was attacking Universities for hosting Right-of-center speakers and beating people with bike locks 4 years ago was making this same point in a very perceptive little video.

View: https://youtu.be/He8xMFgeCC0
5:01 min

The key takeaway boiled down to one image was right here:

The activists who THOUGHT of themselves as being on the right side of history, and smashing the fash so to speak… were so excited about attacking the bad guy that they didn’t stop to ask whether their ends justify the means didn’t make them exactly the thing they assured themselves they were saving the world from.

If they couldn’t be honest about their own motives… how could their judgment possibly be counted upon to correctly assess the actions of others?

Jesus told his followers to remove the log from their own eye before trying to remove the speck from someone else’s.

That lesson was lost on them, as you would expect from those who generally scoff at religion.

But he said something else that has been echoed in some form or fashion around the world.

The Golden Rule.

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

The actual, historical Nazis obviously failed this test. That is, in some sense, the essence of what so many of our grandfathers fought for that day.

The question the aggressive left should take a moment to ask themselves today, is how well would THEY pass this same test.

The tactics they like to employ on people with whom they disagree politically. The aggression, the intimidation, the doxxing, the burning of family-owned businesses to the ground.

If someone applied the very same tactics to their friends, or themselves — would they just smile and nod, and agree that they (Antifa) had it coming? Or would they be outraged and want some kind of justice for the wrongs that had been done to them?

That scenario is not a hypothetical situation, either. The revolutionaries of movements past have a nasty habit of eating their own. Robespierre faced the guillotine. Trotsky was murdered by Lenin.

Do these guys really think the radicals they have aligned themselves are actually MORE trustworthy than their revolutionary heroes of generations past?

 

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YOU’RE ABUSING OUR CHILDREN!! Watch this Mom TEAR school board a NEW ONE over ‘Critical Race’ INDOCTRINATION!

This an amazing video. There are actually a few recent examples of moms torching school boards over their racist, “kill White people, kill cops” curriculum. This mom, though, goes strai…

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YOU’RE ABUSING OUR CHILDREN!! Watch this Mom TEAR school board a NEW ONE over ‘Critical Race’ INDOCTRINATION!

JUN. 5, 2021 3:39 PM BY FRED T • 67 COMMENTS

This an amazing video. There are actually a few recent examples of moms torching school boards over their racist, “kill White people, kill cops” curriculum.

This mom, though, goes straight old west on the lily-livered board members.

“Stop indoctrinating our children. Stop teaching our children to hate the police. Stop teaching our children that if they don’t agree with the LGBT community that they’re homophobic. You have no idea each child’s life. You don’t know what their family lifestyle consists of. You don’t know the makeup of their life,” she said just to start.

“You’re emotionally and mentally abusing our children!” says the outraged mom. “You’re demoralizing them by teaching them communist values!”

“You have children like mine who are Muslim and I’m Christian and everyone would think they would never believe that of her, right, because the way she looks or according to Miss Cyrus,’ she’s too pasty white,'” she said, referring to a specific “educator.”

Well the board had themselves a right fit about their names being used and tried to shut her up. How’d that work out for them?

Take a look:

Rumble video on website 11:10 min

“You work for me. I don’t work for you. You have a duty. We’re entrusting our children to you.

We teach our children morals and values. When they grow up to commit crimes and end up in prison and kill a police officer it’s our fault,” she says. “No, it’s your fault!”

AMEN.

“This is still America. And as long as I’m standing here on this good ground Earth of God I will fight. And this is not the last of me you will see.”

AMEN AMEN AMEN.

 

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Conservative Judge Begs SCOTUS to Do Something About Dem-Run Propaganda Media
We need more judges like this amazing guy...

BY MISSY CRANE
JUNE 6, 2021

As we all know, the media in this country is a propaganda monster that’s grown in epic proportions over the past several years and at this point is virtually unstoppable.

The press wields unfounded power and it’s almost all controlled by the Democrats and Deep State…and no, that’s not a kooky “conspiracy theory.”

While conservatives have found their own alternative ways to get news and information, the mainstream media still rule the roost and there are no signs of them stopping.

But one Reagan-appointed federal judge has seen enough of the biased media and is taking serious action to make sure they’re kept in check.

Judge Laurence Silberman is proclaiming that conservative voices are being quashed by the liberal media and that in order to reestablish a fair playing field, he’s imploring SCOTUS to overturn major legislation that gives the media this huge advantage.

From The Daily Mail
A federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C. has penned a scathing dissent accusing the media of being a ‘trumpet’ for the Democratic Party, while calling on his colleagues to overturn a Supreme Court landmark decision protecting the press.

Senior Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman lamented that conservatives are being oppressed by overwhelmingly liberal news media, academia and tech companies creating ‘a frighteningly orthodox media culture.’

The judge responded to a decision on Friday to toss a libel suit filed by two former Liberian officials against human rights group Global Witness, over a report implying they had accepted bribes from an oil company.

Silberman, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1985, was the only judge to dissent in the case, which found the plaintiffs could not prove ‘actual malice’, under New York Times v. Sullivan 1964.

The 85-year-old judge criticized the legal precedent in his dissent for increasing the power of the media, something he described as ‘so dangerous’, ‘because we are very close to one-party control of these institutions.’

He then went on to launch an attack on media organizations as well as Silicon Valley, which he claims is responsible for the increasingly anti-conservative bias in the news.

 

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Joel Kotkin: The Middle-Class Will Revolt Against Progressives

The college-trained progressives in Biden's White House are creating a bipartisan revolt by ordinary, middle-class Americans, says Kotkin.

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The college-trained progressives in Joe Biden’s White House are creating a bipartisan revolt by ordinary, middle-class Americans, says Joel Kotkin, a left-of-center California demographer who has long been critical of Silicon Valley’s political demands.

“A specter is haunting America, a great revolt that threatens to dwarf the noxious rebellion led by Trump … a new middle-class rebellion against the excesses of the Left,” Kotkin says in a June 4 article for Newsweek.
He continues:

This new middle-class rebellion is being bolstered by a wide-ranging intellectual rebellion by traditional liberals against the Left’s dogmatism and intolerance. Indeed, what we’re about to see has the potential to reprise the great shift among old liberals that had them embracing Reagan in reaction to the Left’s excesses of that generation.

Biden’s policies on race, housing, hiring, “equity,” and crime are deeply unpopular among many Americans, whether white, black, or Latino, he argues. Biden is similarly losing the middle class on immigration,” he wrote.

He said the Democrats’ education, anti-patriotism, crime, energy, and jobs policies are also harmful to many ordinary Americans:

Major pushback on how the progressive Left sees American history is also brewing. Americans by and large remain patriotic, including the poor and working class. This patriotism stands in stark contrast to the prevailing view among progressives, which casts America as the intrinsically and irredeemably evil spawn of slaveholders and racists. This simply does not constitute a popular program to the middle and lower classes, a gap that could become more and more meaningful—especially as the message of the Left spreads.

California shows where progressives will drag Americans unless there is a revolt against their green war on jobs, he argues:

California provides a precursor for the emerging climate regime. Our state’s fixation on renewable energy, along with the closure of natural gas and nuclear plants, has helped drive the cost of electricity and gas to the highest in the continental U.S. It has also systematically undermined key blue collar industries like energy, construction and manufacturing, which have stagnated or shrunk, while regulations designed for climate reasons have helped boost home prices to the nation’s highest.

However, Kotkin downplays the deep impact of labor migration on Americans’ wages, housing costs, and heartland states.

Still, Kotkin is getting praise from mainstream politicians, including J.D. Vance, who is now running for an Ohio Senate seat as a Republican.

Vance has a matching criticism of the nation’s investor-dominated economy. He wrote in 2020:

The [coronavirus] has revealed an American economy built on consumption, reliant for production on regimes either indifferent or actively hostile to our national interest. Production, where it still exists in our country, clusters in megacities, where “knowledge economy” workers live uptown from the low-wage servants (disproportionately immigrants) who clean their laundry, care for their children, and serve their food.

Perhaps we shouldn’t build our cities like that. Perhaps we should make things in America. And if not all things, then at least enough so that the next time China unleashes a plague, it can’t threaten us with a loss of medicines and protective equipment.

In recent days, even Joe Biden and his commerce secretary have championed wage and training policies that contradict Wall Street’s demand for more imported consumers, renters, and workers.

 

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Current “Social Justice” Movement Seeks Identity-Based Retribution

Trying to debate woke activists has proven hopeless. They dismiss opposing arguments—because they believe all such arguments are oppressive.

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Current “Social Justice” Movement Seeks Identity-Based Retribution
Trying to debate woke activists has proven hopeless. They dismiss opposing arguments—because they believe all such arguments are oppressive.

Posted by Michael DahlenSunday, June 6, 2021 at 07:30pm9 Comments

Since the killing of George Floyd, Legal Insurrection has reported numerous examples of individuals who were fired, smeared, or bullied for speaking out. This happened to them not because they made bigoted remarks, but because they voiced ideas contrary to the woke social justice narrative.

The question is why is this happening? People on opposite sides of many issues respectfully disagree with each other all the time; they don’t resort to thuggish tactics in order to silence the other side. But for woke activists, silencing their adversaries is routine. There must be something about social justice ideology that leads to this kind of behavior. What is it?

I answer this question in “A Woke New World,” the feature article in the summer issue of The Objective Standard. A long-form article, “A Woke New World” is a detailed critique of the woke social justice movement and the toxic ideology on which this movement rests.

The first thing to understand about this movement is that it rejects the basic values of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King called for the equal rights of minorities, and he dreamed of a day when black people would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

In contrast to MLK, as I argue in the article, social justice activists don’t want to end discrimination. They don’t want people judged only on the basis of merit and character. They don’t want to replace racial strife with racial harmony. They don’t seek reform, progress, or justice; they seek subversion, disruption, and collective, identity-based retribution. . . . Social justice activists want individuals purged for questioning BLM, purged for defending law enforcement, purged for saying “all lives matter,” purged for supporting peaceful protests over riots. They call for abolishing the police. They defend rioting and looting (or commit it themselves). They block, harass, and shut down speakers. They reflexively slander their adversaries as racists, fascists, Nazis, misogynists, or white supremacists.

And they despise America.

The central premise of social justice ideology is that oppression — in the form of racism, sexism, and the like—is literally everywhere, not just in the past, but in the present. It’s embedded not only in our laws and institutions, but in science and in our language. This ideology also holds that the social world is divided into oppressor groups and oppressed groups. Men, white people, heterosexuals, and cis-gender people are oppressors; women, racial minorities, gay people, and transgender people are oppressed. An individual’s actions, in this view, are irrelevant. A straight, white male is an oppressor simply because he is a straight, white male.

In order to combat oppression, social justice scholars and activists seek to disrupt, demonize, and dismantle “whiteness.” A recent example starkly demonstrates what this means in practice. George Davison, the principal of Grace Church School in New York City, admitted, “We’re demonizing white people for being born. . . . We are using language that makes them feel ‘less than,’ for nothing that they are personally responsible for.” We are attempting “to link anybody who’s white to the perpetuation of white supremacy.”

Trying to debate woke activists has proven hopeless. They have no interest in debating. They believe that any disagreement with their ideology is disingenuous. They dismiss opposing arguments—because they believe all such arguments are oppressive. As I sum up:
Social justice scholarship is an elaborate academic con game. As we have seen, if a white male disagrees with any of it, he’s “fragile,” “willfully ignorant,” or blinded by his “privilege.”

Conversely, if a black lesbian disagrees with any of it, she has “internalized” her oppression, and her voice is not “authentic.” If you say, “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” social justice scholars translate this into “People of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder.” These scholars dishonestly interpret everything as oppressive, and no facts can refute this because, in their view, any evidence or rational arguments to the contrary are also oppressive. . . . The woke social justice ideology is bigotry masquerading as antiracism.

In the name of fighting antiblack, antifemale prejudice, this ideology foments antiwhite male prejudice. Vilifying “whiteness” is not the antidote to antiblack racism. Vilifying masculinity is not the antidote to misogyny. More discrimination is not the antidote to discrimination.

In order to fight this irrational, destructive, anti-American movement, we must first understand its basic premises and why they are wrong. A Woke New World is a good place to start.

Read the entire article here.
A Woke New World - The Objective Standard (long article)

 

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What the Critical Race Theory Left Seeks Is the 'Dictatorship of the DOA'

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What the Critical Race Theory Left Seeks Is the 'Dictatorship of the DOA'

BY MARK TAPSCOTT JUN 06, 2021 8:16 PM ET

Ibram X. Kendi, director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, stands for a portrait Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

When Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in 1925, he clearly described his intent to gain revenge, especially against France, for the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and imposed a host of humiliating limitations on Germany’s ability to regain its military might.

There was also no question that Hitler would do anything required for his National Socialist Party to replace the tottering democratic Weimar Republic with a Nazi dictatorship. And he left no doubt about his tragically murderous intentions toward the Jews.

But nobody took him seriously until 14 years later when the German Army invaded Poland in 1939, leaving Britain and France no choice but to declare war, with a result that Europe was embroiled in World War II. Lesson? When an ideologue tells us his plans, we do well to believe him.

That is why it is imperative that Americans take seriously the proposal of Ibram X. Kendi, one of the most prominent and influential advocates of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

That’s the social justice ideology that says that beginning in 1619, whites established what became the American regime as a tool to protect their privilege by oppressing all people of color (POCs), but especially the African blacks they brought over as slaves.

Because of their “privilege” and the comprehensively oppressive hegemony they’ve established at every level of American society to maintain it by systematically oppressing POCs, whites are irredeemably blind to the incurable racism that their victims can never be guilty of practicing. (Go here for a concise summary of CRT’s four main tenets from Voddie Baucham.)

Kendi appeared in a Politico Magazine video in which he said:

To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding anti-racist principals: Racial inequity is evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups are equals. The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials (with “racist ideas” and “public official” clearly defined).
It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas.

The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.

One suspects upon reading these words and watching the Politico video of Kendi intoning them that the influential author of How To Be An Anti-Racist was at least somewhat aware of the telling irony of his proposal’s acronym.

But he surely means for his words to be taken seriously, being a CBS correspondent and contributor to The Atlantic, a New York Times best-selling author, and a Harvard University scholar. He is also the founder and former director of American University’s Antiracism Center, and is now repeating that developmental exercise at Boston University as founder and director of BU’s Center for Anti-Racist Research.

And his proposal is indeed a deeply serious one because if what he describes is ever actually implemented in this country, America will be locked in a totalitarianism every bit as terrifying as the Soviet Union on its worst day.

Where the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the unquestioned highest authority in that suffering nation, Kendi’s Department of Antiracism (DOA) would be no less destructive.

This new American Politburo would be staffed solely by “formally trained experts on racism,” which is to say a new priesthood of Kendi clones armed with absolute rule answerable to no one. Kendi’s pointed “no political appointees” reference is a telling indication of how utterly insulated the DOA would be from any accountability remotely resembling a democratic process.

No part of American public or private life would be exempt from the DOA’s power “for pre-clearing all local, state and federal public policies” to ensure that they “won’t yield racial inequity.” (Understand that in the CRT vision of the American future, “equity” means equal outcomes for all the animals on the farm.)

And no law that survives pre-clearance would be forgotten because the DOA would be continually monitoring compliance with such laws, while also enforcing total thought and speech conformity with investigations of “private racist policies” and enforcement against public officials linked to “expressions of racist ideas.”

Be assured that the DOA would require an army of informers in every neighborhood to ensure the exposure of all private racist policies and one can easily imagine the Stalinesque DOA show trials of all public officials found to have tweeted unapproved thoughts in the years prior to the CRT revolution that creates the DOA.

But perhaps the scariest line of Kendi’s Politico proposal is its concluding notice that the DOA’s experts would “be empowered with disciplinary tools” against all public officials “who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.”

With that mentality in power, do not doubt that the DOA’s newly established California’s Death Valley re-education camps would be the final destination of every Republican public official from obscure rural county commissioners to famous GOP senators and congressmen who refuse to “voluntarily change.”

By that time, of course, Trump will have been stood up against a wall and shot. Or worse. Defacing and tearing down all those statues and dragging them through the streets in recent years was mere practice for the real thing.

In other words, what we see in Kendi’s DOA is the Left’s fascination with and inevitable succumbing to the totalitarian temptation.

 

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Anti-White Racist Psychiatrist Speaks At Yale

Dr. Aruna Khilanani delivers lecture fantasizing about murdering whites. Yale yawns.

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Yale’s Anti-White Racist Psychiatrist

Dr. Aruna Khilanani, racist (ArunaKhilanani.com)
JUNE 5, 2021
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2:32 AM
ROD DREHER

It’s hard to come up with a better example of the woke totalitarian capture of elite institutions than this Yale School of Medicine lecture by a hardcore anti-white racist psychiatrist, the audio of which is posted on Bari Weiss’s Substack. Weiss highlights these lines from the lecture:

• This is the cost of talking to white people at all. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil. (Time stamp: 6:45)
• I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a ****ing favor. (Time stamp: 7:17)
• White people are out of their minds and they have been for a long time. (Time stamp: 17:06)
• We are now in a psychological predicament, because white people feel that we are bullying them when we bring up race. They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath. We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall. It’s just like sort of not a good idea. (Time stamp 17:13)
• We need to remember that directly talking about race to white people is useless, because they are at the wrong level of conversation. Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. They can’t. That’s why they sound demented. They don’t even know they have a mask on. White people think it’s their actual face. We need to get to know the mask. (Time stamp 17:54)

This racist rant was sponsored by Yale. From the poster:

If you go to the Bari Weiss site, you can also read the text of an interview that Katie Herzog did with Dr. Khilanani. It’s chilling, absolutely chilling. What we all need to confront is the fact that this psychiatrist, under the auspices of one of the most prestigious universities in America, delivered a lecture featuring unapologetic, unrestrained racism, and … nobody in that institution or in her circles cared. This is par for the course. They expect it. At some level, they want it.

Do I believe that most white people who heard it, or who, within the Yale community, heard it, believe what Dr. Khilanani said? No, I don’t, though I’m just guessing. But I am 100 percent sure that they are terrified to say something about it, because if you spoke up, that would be the end of you professionally.

This is how our elites think, people. They are mainstreaming anti-white racism, and treating it as good. This is a psychiatrist, invited by Yale to speak about white people as psychopaths, fantasizing openly about murdering white people because of the color of their skin, and we just go along like it’s no big deal. The New York Times doesn’t care. The Washington Post doesn’t care. NPR doesn’t care. The networks don’t care. If a whiny middle-aged white woman makes life uncomfortable for a person of color in public, it’s time for a new round of Karen stories. But let one of the most privileged people in this country — a New York psychiatrist invited to lecture by Yale — deliver a lecture demonizing white people, and … yawn. The fact that Dr. Khilanani felt at liberty to give a talk like this without fear of repercussion tells you a lot about where we are.

I don’t ever want to see Donald Trump again. He had these people’s number, in a way, but he did little or nothing effective to stop them. I want to vote for a presidential candidate who will move against these dirtbags and their institutions without mercy. Enough is enough. I’m not sure what can be done, but if we keep tolerating this, there is going to be violence, one way or another. I am not willing to sit here and listen to these aristocrats like Dr. Khilanani, and malignant institutions like Yale, turn people against me, my children, and my neighbors, because we are white.

What is wrong with you people at Yale, white and non-white, standing for this? Do you have consciences? Do you have spines? You disgust me. Live not by lies!

UPDATE:The New York Times reports on the controversy today. It says Yale is trying to distance itself from this loon.

 

[33dInd]

Wow. These people are demon incarnation
Too many instances of them saying kill whites
Any white
All whites
We
Are
In
Deep
Shite

 

[33dInd]

AS an aside
Having listened to her vileness
She is a psychiatrist. Well trained I’m sure
Will she herself pull through trigger

nope
But her words are projected onto people with mental issues

she is ineffect projecting to those people to do the thing she desires

 

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Influential "Atlantic Council" Partnered With Flagged CCP Propaganda Group. - The National Pulse+

The influential Atlantic Council think-tank has partnered with a premier Chinese Communist Party propaganda organization flagged for “co-opting” Western elites and academics into backing “positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” The National Pulse can reveal. The Atlantic Council...

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Influential “Atlantic Council” Partnered With Flagged CCP Propaganda Group.

• JUNE 7, 2021
• NATALIE WINTERS

The influential Atlantic Council think-tank has partnered with a premier Chinese Communist Party propaganda organization flagged for “co-opting” Western elites and academics into backing “positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” The National Pulse can reveal.

The Atlantic Council hosts regular, high-profile events in Washington, D.C., briefs policy and lawmakers, and has presented speeches from the likes of President Bush, Governor Huntsman, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The Atlantic Council receives its funding from corporates such as Facebook, as well as national governments and even Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian oil firm Burisma.

Alongside a number of Western media outlets, think tanks, and politicians, The Atlantic Council think-tank has also collaborated with the China-United States Exchange Foundation.

Founded by the chairman of the “highest-ranking entity overseeing” China’s United Front, CUSEF functions as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. The billion-dollar effort aims “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and influence Western elites to “take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission.

AN ATLANTIC COUNCIL REPORT WAS FUNDED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

In practice, the group has set out to “effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public” regarding the Chinese Communist Party, according to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings with the Department of Justice.

Together, the two entities produced the study “China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future,” which “examines how China-US Cooperation is the key to the global future,” according to a CUSEF summary.

WATCH: BLM Founder Calls for Undemocratic REVOLUTION.

“The report was presented to policymakers, foreign policy elites, and the public in both countries to provide a better understanding of the global trends, challenges, and threats faced by both nations and their policy implications,” CUSEF adds.

“This project and report were made possible by the generous support of the China-United States Exchange Foundation,” the 2013 report, which was authored by Atlantic Council and Chinese Institute of International Studies (CIIS) scholars, reads. CIIS is an explicit Chinese Communist Party entity, operating under the auspices of the regime’s Ministry of Foreign affairs.

Among the U.S. participants were Atlantic Council fellows, Stanford and Georgetown academics, and former intelligence officials. William Colglazier, then-Science and Technology Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, functioned as an “observer” to the effort.

PARTICIPANTS.

The report argues in favor of closer ties between the two countries, positing “the future prosperity and security of both China and the United States require sustained cooperation.”

“The three scenarios explored in this report indicate that if Washington and Beijing fail to find ways to build a stronger, more cooperative relationship, there are very bad potential outcomes for the global future,” the study reiterates.

READ: Scribd doc on websites

 

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WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: NY Accounting Program Bans White People. - The National Pulse+

A summer accounting program sponsored by a number of major New York universities and designed for high school students does not permit white students to apply. The program, “Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession,” is sponsored by the Moynihan Scholarship Fund and the New York State...

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WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: NY Accounting Program Bans White People.

• JUNE 7, 2021
• CATHERINE SALGADO

A summer accounting program sponsored by a number of major New York universities and designed for high school students does not permit white students to apply.

The program, “Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession,” is sponsored by the Moynihan Scholarship Fund and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, as well as nine leading New York universities, including five public universities. The course intends to introduce to the accounting profession 250 “promising underrepresented high school students.”

According to Campus Reform:

“In addition to virtual sessions about forensic accounting, interviewing skills, public speaking, networking, and an ‘accounting profession overview’ featuring a panel discussion with experts in the profession.

Nine institutions of higher education in New York — including Ithaca College, Medgar Evers College, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. John’s University, Siena College, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oswego, the University at Buffalo, and Westchester Community College — are listed as hosts for the program, which is free of charge for students. . .

Five of the nine schools participating in the program — including Medgar Evers College, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oswego, the University at Buffalo, and Westchester Community College — are public universities funded by New York state.”

On the application form for the program, however, applicants are supposed to choose a “race” or ethnicity option with which they identify. Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Native American are among the options on the application form. “White,” however, is not even an option.

THE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION APPLICATION FORM, COURTESY OF CAMPUS REFORM

A father whose son, a high school junior, is interested in business anonymously expressed his “frustration” over the racial prejudice of the program to Campus Reform. The father was upset that his “child can’t apply because he’s white.”

Campus Reform reached out to the universities sponsoring the accounting program and received a response from SUNY Oswego’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Scott Furlong that indicated Furlong agrees that the program may be unfair.

“SUNY Oswego participates in supporting the program and sees this as a beneficial service to the profession, but we strongly believe that all disadvantaged students would benefit from the COAP program,” Furlong stated. “While we do not participate in recruiting the student participants in COAP or in the setting of policy for student membership, SUNY Oswego would prefer a more inclusive perspective regarding membership in COAP and the NYSSCPA policy.”

While saying that the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants is responsible for setting the policies that only allow “students of color” to apply, Furlong added that the program’s exclusion of white students “merits much future discussion for the purposes of having SUNY Oswego reassess our involvement and reconsider our sponsorship.”

 

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Ron DeSantis Signs Bills to Stop Nefarious Foreign Interference

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed two pieces of legislation, one of which will ban Confucius Institutes in the state.

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Ron DeSantis Signs Bills to Stop Nefarious Foreign Interference: Corporate Media ‘in the Pocket of the Communist Party of China’

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed two pieces of legislation, one of which will ban Confucius Institutes in Florida, aimed to combat nefarious foreign influence and corporate espionage in the Sunshine State.

“Foreign adversaries will not have access to our schools, government, or companies like they have in the past, DeSantis said during Monday’s press conference in Miami, Florida:


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“Not the Communist Party of China, not Russia, not Cuba, not North Korea, not Iran, not Syria, not Venezuela. In fact, the first bill signed today safeguards our public institutions from undue foreign influence, and that means prohibiting agreements between public entities and the Communist Party of China or Cuba or any of these other malignant forces,” he said, detailing the real-world application.

For instance, the bill will ban such things as Confucius Institutes on universities or college campuses in the state of Florida.

Beyond that, the bill “also makes sure we don’t make deals with private companies that are closely tied to these adversaries,” DeSantis explained. Further, it makes sure all nations, states, corporations, individuals, and those seeking to engage in colleges and universities are “fully vetted.”

DeSantis is also signing the Combatting Corporate Espionage in Florida Act, which creates “new criminal offenses in Florida for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets.

“Anyone who willfully works without authorization steals or attempts to steal a trade secret and use it for their benefit will now face a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. If the same person tries to sell the stolen trade secret, they’ll face a second-degree felony with even more penalties,” DeSantis said, explaining that the penalties will be “significantly enhanced” if an individual does so on behalf of a foreign government.

The Republican governor used China’s coverup of the Chinese coronavirus as his backdrop before previewing the measures, explaining how the world has suffered due to the malfeasance of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

He said in part:

If you look at what’s gone on now with the coronavirus pandemic and the coverup of the origins of COVID-19, it’s pretty clear that this was a virus that almost assuredly leaked out of this lab in Wuhan. This is the lab where these scientists were working very closely with the Community Party of China as well as the Chinese military. When you had these folks fall ill who were working in that lab last fall, the Communist Party of China decided to cover it up. They didn’t give any information out. They didn’t ask for any assistance. They didn’t give a heads-up to anybody. They tried to cover it. … The world has had to endure over a year-and-a-half of a lot of bad stuff as a result of this.

‘They covered it up, and they need to be held accountable for this,” DeSantis added.
However, DeSantis said it is also “pretty clear” that there were people “scurrying around” to cover up the fact that this may have come out of the lab even if they acknowledged it privately, as seen in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails. That alone, DeSantis said, further exposed the relationships between institutions in China in the research realm and bureaucrats in the United States.

While DeSantis said the bills focus on foreign influence from seven countries specifically, he stated that there is probably “no single entity that exercises a more pervasive, nefarious influence across a wide range of American industries and institutions than the Communist Party of China.”

Academia, he explained, is “permeated” with influence, detailing how researchers are getting indicted at major institutions “for being in cahoots with the Chinese government.”

The corporate media and entertainment industry are no better, he continued.

“You look at corporate media and entertainment industry in this country. They are in the pocket of the Communist Party of China. I mean, if Hollywood comes up with a movie the CCP doesn’t like, they get censored,” he said, adding that the corporate media assisted in suppressing the truth about the lab leak theory. He also noted the deep financial ties the corporate media have to the CCP.

Big Tech, DeSantis continued, also runs interference for CCP, while celebrities and athletes continue to “virtue-signal” for things in the U.S., yet almost all of them fail to do the same for the atrocities the CCP commits.

“Enough is enough,” DeSantis said. “We’ve got to start fighting back.”

DeSantis’s action precedes the Senate’s vote on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) China bill, which Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) described as a “massive boondoggle that’s going to help the Chinese” and hurt Americans.

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Dakd8Y3aQ
6:36 min

How Critical Race Theory Is Making People More Racist | Relatable With Allie Beth Stuckey

•Jun 7, 2021


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James Lindsay of New Discourses joins Allie Beth Stuckey to explain how people can get sucked into the world of Critical Race Theory (CRT), and how it demands an extreme amount of passion for one issue and nothing else.

 

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New Tom MacDonald Anti-SJW Music Video Featuring Blaire White Goes Mega Viral, Tops iTunes Charts | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

Rapper Tom MacDonald is once again topping the iTunes charts with an incredible music video slamming woke social justice warriors.

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New Tom MacDonald Anti-SJW Music Video Featuring Blaire White Goes Mega Viral, Tops iTunes Charts

By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published June 7, 2021 at 8:41pm

Rapper Tom MacDonald is once again topping the iTunes charts with an incredible music video slamming woke social justice warriors.

The stunning video for his new song “Snowflakes” also features popular right-wing political commentator Blaire White.

View: https://youtu.be/fCMwlorNEZk
3:45 min

“I hear ’em preaching at a protest that hatred’s the problem, but hating straight men, white folks, and Christians is common. Coca Cola telling people they should be less

“There’s a race war here, elections based on fear — Black lives only matter once every four years.”

“Snowflakes” reached #1 on the iTunes all-genre sales listing on Friday afternoon, beating out BTS’ “Butter (Cooler Remix).”

As of Monday evening, the video had been viewed 3,664,399 times.

MacDonald previously topped the charts with his video for “Fake Woke.”

 

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Obama: 'Certain Right-Wing Media' Monetizing Stoking Fears of White Americans

Former President Barack Obama said Monday during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that "certain right-wing media venues" were monetizing, stoking fears of white Americans. | Clips

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Obama: ‘Certain Right-Wing Media’ Monetizing Stoking Fears of White Americans

Video on website 4:10 min

Former President Barack Obama said Monday during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that “certain right-wing media venues” were monetizing, stoking fears of white Americans.

Cooper said, “Looking back as president, did you tell the story of race in America enough do you think?”

Obama said, “Yeah, well, look, I tried. I think I told a lot of stories. You take a look at the speeches I gave in Selma and the speech I gave during the campaign about Reverend Wright and that episode and each and every time I tried to describe why it is that we are still not fully reconciled with our history, but the fact is that it is a hard thing to hear. It’s hard for the majority in this country of white Americans to recognize that look, you can be proud of this country and its traditions and history and our forefathers and yet, it’s also true that this terrible stuff happened and that, you know, that lingers and continues.”

Obama said, “I also think that there are certain right-wing media venues, for example, that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing America and seeing demographic changes and do everything they can to give people a sense that their way of life is threatened and that people are trying to take advantage of them.

He added, “We’re seeing it right now where you would think with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now that the Republican Party would be engaged in a significant debate about how are we going to deal with the economy and what are we going to do about climate change and what are we going to do about this. Low and behold, the single most important issue to them apparently right now is critical race theory. Who knew that that was the threat to our republic?”