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But all is not lost. We have everything we require to take our country back.
All we need is the courage and the will.
Do we have it?
We’ll know on the morning of November 4th.
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One year ago, the United States of America looked and felt quite different than today. I should know. I was there. I recognized it. Do you?
I care. Do you? How many of us do? One percent? Two percent? Ten percent? Fifty percent? I suppose we’ll find out in November, won’t we?
But what’a happening right now? What makes up America around us, on this July 4th of 2020?
I’m going to show you, for a very salient reason. I want you to wake up.
Let’s begin with the Wuhan-19 virus, what the politically correct amongst us call the Coronavirus. It’s not what you think, and it’s not what the LDAMM — Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots — are telling you. Here are some recent facts that the LDAMM aren’t telling you.
Yes, the numbers are going up. So is the testing. But we know that figures lie and liars figure. No one is apparently doing an examination of the numbers themselves, or the situations revolving around the numbers of Wuhan-19 — or, dare I say it — the money.
STUNNING: Fauci’s Remdesivir Costs $9 Per Dose, Will Be Sold at $3,000 per Treatment — China Company Linked to Soros Will Also Mass Produce the Drug
by Jim Hoft, 6-29-20
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://aapsonline.org) filed a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA for “irrational interference” by the FDA with timely access to hydroxychloroquine.
Never in history have we seen such a determined effort by the scientific community and pharmaceutical industry to downplay and lie about the use of a successful drug to treat a deadly disease.
Hydroxychloroquine is the first choice in a study of 6,000 doctors treating the coronavirus. In the field and in independent testing hydroxychloroquine displayed amazing results in treating the COVID-19 virus.
But there was great pushback against hydroxychloroquine for two reasons. The first reason was because it was safe and very inexpensive. The second reason is because Donald Trump promoted its use.
It is not a stretch to say the Democrat establishment would rather see people die than see President Trump be proven right.
As we reported earlier from the beginning Dr. Fauci was against the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. Fauci was thrilled about its use just a few years ago.
Dr. Fauci did promote the use of remdesivir. He was excited to share the news on its effectiveness in April.
The one person behind the promotion of Gilead’s remdesivir is the doctor who has worked with Gilead for a long time, Dr. Fauci. He also has downplayed and criticized the use of the much cheaper drug hydroxychloroquine:
Can there be any uncertainty as to why Dr. Fauci, who worked closely with Gilead, is strongly promoting its more expensive and less effective medication, which has already failed against Ebola, over a readily available, markedly affordable medication with a 91% success rate?
Pharmaceutical giant Gilead announced the pricing for its coronavirus drug remdesivir.
Gilead said the drug will cost $520 per vial, or $3,120 for a six-vial treatment.
A previous report at Bloomberg noted the cost to manufacture remdesivir is only $9 per treatment. Hydroxychloroquine is only $1 per treatment!
Cui bono, Dr Anthony Fauci?
Then there was this from Dr Marc Siegel, on the Wednesday, July 1st episode of Tucker Carlson. Cheating the numbers. Cooking the books. Listen very closely. Begin at 24:20.
And by the way, YouTube has already taken down this segment TWICE.
If you can’t find it, check this story out, cut and paste, and play the video:
Now, it turns out ONLY THAT SEGMENT was removed to YouTube.
Every patient in Texas with Wuhan-19 is being counted in their totals, even if they’re getting treatment for something completely different. Skewed numbers, “widely reported.” But not reported? As the case numbers go up — and even those now are questionable — the death rate remains under 700 per 24 hours per day of new cases. Most of the people getting Wuhan-19 are young people.
The CDC just said that, of the last 15,000 deaths, only 3.9% were under the ages of 44 years old, the same group spreading it. That group has mild cases.
And here’s Dr Siegal’s KICKER: it’s been “widely reported” that “hospitalizations are going up.” But it’s NOT reported that it’s not mostly Wuhan-19.
Instead, it’s because of other cases, because people are finally getting the elective surgeries they needed, cancer operations, hernia, heart operations. Young people are rebelling because of the lockdowns.
WHY isn’t this reported? One answer: politics. “Everything that happens in an election year is about the election.”
A continuing and naked attempt to make President Trump look bad and defeat him in November. Plain and simple.
This is America on July 4th, 2020.
We know where the issues of science and race meet as well, regarding Wuhan-19, as delineated by this story in Newsweek:
Oregon County Exempts Non-White People From Mandatory Face Mask Order
by Katherine Fung, 6-23-20
Lincoln County in Oregon has exempted non-white residents from a new order mandating mask-wearing in public in an attempt to counter racial profiling.
Last week, health officials declared face coverings would be required in public settings where individuals may come within six feet of someone outside their household after the county saw a spike in coronavirus cases.
On Tuesday, the county said “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public” will be exempt from the order.
Because science realizes that the Wuhan-19 virus is so incredibly intelligent that it can differentiate between whites and blacks.
Unless you’re protesting racism and police brutality.
This appears to be the message from some government and health officials, who for months enforced a rigorous and unprecedented economic shutdown in the name of stemming the spread of the coronavirus pandemic — resulting in millions losing their jobs and students being sent home from schools across the country.
But as states just now begin to emerge from those lockdowns, some have argued in favor of an exception to those guidelines for those protesting the death of George Floyd — suggesting the gains from seeking police reforms outweigh the risks of a new surge in virus cases.
I told you the Wuhan-19 virus knows the difference between good people and bad people!
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose state had some of the harshest lockdown measures in the country, was pictured shoulder-to-shoulder protesting with other officials and demonstrators.
But the outlet noted a page of frequently asked questions about the order on the governor’s website specifically says, “Persons may engage in expressive activities protected by the First Amendment within the State of Michigan but must adhere to social distancing measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including remaining at least six feet from people from outside the person’s household.”
The report also noted that a month ago, she was warning that anti-lockdown protesters who showed up at the Capitol risk forcing the stay-at-home order to continue for longer.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, meanwhile, suggested that protesters against police brutality were more important than business owners keen to know when they could regain their livelihoods.
“I don’t want to make light of this, and I’ll probably get lit up by everyone who owns a nail salon in the state,” Murphy said during a Monday briefing. “But it’s one thing to protest what day nail salons are opening, and it’s another to come out in peaceful protest, overwhelmingly, about somebody who was murdered right before our eyes.
Remember: all you racists have to stay inside and social distance. Unless you’re protesting racism. So only racists protest protesting racism and social distancing doesn’t apply, you racist.
Suddenly, Public Health Officials Say Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance
by Dan Diamond, 6-4-20
For months, health experts told Americans to stay home. Now, many are encouraging the public to join mass protests.
Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.
“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”
“The injustice that’s evident to everyone right now needs to be addressed,” Abraar Karan, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician who’s exhorted coronavirus experts to amplify the protests’ anti-racist message, told me. “While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn’t going to stop #covid19 either,” he wrote on Twitter this week.
It’s a message echoed by mediaoutlets and some of the most prominent public health experts in America, like former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden, who loudly warned against efforts to rush reopening but is now supportive of mass protests. Their claim: If we don’t address racial inequality, it’ll be that much harder to fight Covid-19. There’s also evidence that the virus doesn’t spread easily outdoors, especially if people wear masks.
And Conor Friedersdorf of TheAtlantic.com pointed out:
NPR represented this line of thinking to the masses by tweeting, “Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.” A casual Twitter user could be forgiven for inferring that joining a crowd of protesters carries little risk of catching or spreading disease. But great uncertainty remains—which is why public-health experts spent weeks warning about what might happen if society reopens too quickly.
NPR’s article on concern that protests could spread the coronavirus and the public-health experts’ letter contain a remarkable juxtaposition. The NPR writer Bill Chappell quotes an elected official, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, as saying, “I’m so concerned about [the risk] that I’m urging everybody to consider their exposure if they need to isolate from their family members when they go home and if they need to be tested, because we have worked very hard to blunt the curve.”
Immediately afterward, the article declares, “But the risks of congregating during a global pandemic shouldn’t keep people from protesting racism, according to dozens of public health and disease experts who signed an open letter in support of the protests.” In other words, the politician is emphasizing the epidemiological risk, while disease experts stress the potential political gains.
Yep. All you racists have to stay inside and social distance. Unless you’re protesting racism. So only racists protest protesting racism and social distancing doesn’t apply, you racist.
This is America on July 4th, 2020.
Then we had hate crimes. Or did we?
We know that Jussie Smollett’s case was a fake hate crime. We know that Bubba Wallace’s incident was a fake hate crime. Predominantly not reported was the alleged “nooses” found in an Oakland park were, instead, pieces of equipment that a black man used to exercise in said park. But the lies continue unabated.
I concluded, because of those continuing incidents, that racism in America is apparently so widespread that it needs to be manufactured. Again and again and again.
Then there’s the very foundational issue of law enforcement in America, and one’s ability to defend yourself against violence.
Federal judge orders Denver police to limit firing tear gas, projectiles at peaceful protesters
by Kiernan Nicholson, 6-5-20
A federal judge in Denver issued an order late Friday night that limits the Denver Police Department’s use of chemical weapons and non-lethal projectiles on protesters, saying that protecting First Amendment rights were more important than protecting buildings.
“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.
Jackson issued an 11-page ruling on Friday night after four protesters filed a lawsuit, asking for a temporary restraining order against aggressive police actions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Denver District Court had been moved to federal court.
So there is no real non-violent free speech guarantees. There are no more “peaceful protests.” Free speech can now be interpreted as rioting, burning, vandalizing, and being forced to allow rioters to destroy whatever pieces of government or private property they wish. YOURS too, of course.
But here’s the big kicker. The huge elephant in the room. Removal of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. This could easily break the back of officers throughout the nation and the plan could rapidly spread throughout the states.
Colorado Reforms Allow Departments To Offer Big Settlements, Force Cops To Pay Part Of Them
by Sandy Malone, 6-17-20
Denver, CO – Colorado state lawmakers passed legislation on Saturday that fundamentally changes policing in the state, and the governor is expected to sign it quickly.
Senate Bill 217 – the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Bill – calls for multiple dramatic changes to the manner in which policing is conducted across the state.
Under the new law, every officer in the state will wear a bodycam by July of 2023, and bodycams are required to be activated whenever officers respond to a call, the Denver Post reported.
Failure to activate the camera could result in criminal liability or other penalties.
The law also creates timelines for the release of bodycam footage to the public.
SB 217 also requires officers to intervene if they see another officer using excessive force or face a class 1 misdemeanor or greater charge, according to the Denver Post.
Here is the crux of the biscuit.
The new law also removed qualified immunity protections for police officers, meaning that individual cops can be sued for actions taken in the course of doing their jobs that may violate an individual’s civil rights.
If a police department determines that an officer acted in bad faith, they may hold the officer accountable for up to 5% or $25,000, whichever is less, of the settlement or judgement collected by a plaintiff, the Denver Post reported.
A $25,000 bill can easily bankrupt a cop. And that’s precisely the point.
This leaves officers with no due process to avoid fines outside of their police department’s review. A police department may offer a large settlement to a plaintiff and then force the officer to pay 5% of it.
SB 217 bans chokeholds and carotid control holds, and would ban the use of deadly force against someone for a minor or nonviolent offense.
It also changes the standards of deadly force to say it can only be used as a last resort when absolutely necessary and it cannot be used against a fleeing suspect unless he poses an immediate risk to the officers, according to the Denver Post.
The legislation calls for officers to lose their Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board certification permanently after having pleaded guilty to an inappropriate use of force, failure to intervene to stop excessive force, or after having been found civilly liable for excessive force or failure to intervene.
All the Leftists and Demorats in Colorado — and across the nation — are pissing their pants rights now, thinking “we need this now in our state!”
SB 217 also gives the Colorado Attorney General the authority to go after persistently bad police departments and officers.
SB 217 takes much of the decision-making out of the hands of local police chiefs and puts it in the hands of the state, the Denver Post reported.
And as I said:
Justin Nix, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, told the Denver Post that he thinks that is a good thing and that other states will follow Colorado’s model.
“The level of government that’s best suited to reform police right now is the state government,” Nix said. “I expect that we will see states move pretty quickly to some of the reforms similar to what Colorado is doing.”
The natural path of this will be the demand that officers carry their own insurance policies, much like doctors, to protect against lawsuits.
Awards from lawsuits in law enforcement, however, are frequently the equal to if not greater than those in medicine. Surgeons, for example, pay anywhere between $30,000 and $50,000 per year in premiums. Contrast that with some agencies that pay officers anywhere between $20,000 to $30,000 to $40,000 per year, and you have an individual entering a profession who will, right off the bat, lose money.
Or people will simply avoid the profession altogether. Again, the goal of Leftists, Demorats, BLM, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists and Communists. Make absolutely no mistake.
We know that each police car burned, of the roughly 200 to 400 torched, disabled or made irreparable throughout the nation, is a vehicle that won’t be responding to whatever 911 call people happen to make.
Because of their various specialties and equipment, those vehicles can range from $45,000 to $100,000. Each. That’s already millions and millions of dollars. That’s not counting any other form of equipment or building. Things that won’t be used to help you, because they don’t exist any more.
Yet, remember, things that you will get charged for, because your tax dollars are the source. You know your taxes are going to explode.
On TV, “Cops” was pulled. “Live PD” was pulled. Netflix yanked “Gone With The Wind.”
This is America on July 4th, 2020.
While Chicago was roiled by days of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
And with that, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she of the “my hair is more important than yours,” told her white Alderman to go to hell with his community’s silly ass concerns. Play the audio cut in the story.
LAPD homicides are up 250% in the first week of June. Manufacturing companies are leaving Minneapolis because their buildings weren’t protected. The wealthy are fleeing San Francisco.
It must be racism. Too much racism in San Francisco. But wait. Leftists control nearly every major institution in America:
– Mainstream media
– Academia
– Administrative government
– Courts
– Hollywood
– Big Tech
– Demorat Party, etc.
So if “institutional racism” really did exist, whose fault would that be? I’ll leave you with that contemplative question.
An interesting kerfuffle that you may have missed occurred on the Hannity show of June 9th. On it, Professor Cornel West and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell have opposing views. Interesting point: Terrell, who used to upbraid Hannity constantly and loudly, sides with him now on riots, BLM and George Floyd.
North Face pulling ads from Facebook amid backlash over Trump ads
by Audrey Conklin, 6-19-20
The North Face on Friday said it would no longer be publishing advertisements on Facebook amid backlash over the social media giant’s policies.
The announcement came after groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign, launched Wednesday, including Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color Of Change, Free Press and Common Sense, called on large advertisers to cut ties with Facebook.
“It is clear that Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, are no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy. Such actions will upend the integrity of our elections as we head into 2020,” NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
They called it “poor speech moderation.” I speak Leftist, so I’ll translate: you haven’t clamped down hard enough, Markie, on Conservative speech, you bastard.
And it’s not just North Face. It’s now a veritable plethora of businesses who accuse — this is the delicious point — Mark Zuckerberg of being in league with President Trump. Oh, the exquisite irony, the dripping schadenfreude. Facebook, insufficiently left for The Left.
Jimmy Kimmel announces summer leave amid blackface controversy
by Joe Concha, 6-19-20
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday announced he will be taking the summer off after facing criticism over wearing blackface in a recurring skit he performed while working on “The Man Show” on Comedy Central.
But wait; there’s more. Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and Amazon? Are you certain?
Activists set up guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’ home, call for end to Amazon
6-29-20
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was targeted on Sunday by activists, who set up a guillotine outside his Washington DC home and called for an end to the “exploitation” of the company’s employees.
In front of the guillotine was a sign reading: “Support our poor communities not our wealthy men.”
Footage from the scene shows demonstrators outside the residence saying: “It is still exploitation, and when they become threatened, and we have no voice, the knives come out.”
Can black men be betrayers and not pass the Leftist Purity Test? Apparently so.
Terry Crews Faces Backlash … Again … for Black Lives Matters Tweet
6-30-20
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Terry Crews is facing the ire of social media again on Tuesday, after sending out another controversial tweet about the Black Lives Matter movement.“If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister,” he wrote. “I have family of every race, creed and ideology.”
He then added, “We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter.”
And WCM (Woke Child Mob) Leftist camshafts were thrown all across the US — but mostly on the coasts, of course.
This is America on July 4th, 2020.
There is a clear indication that Leftist city governments don’t want cops doing their jobs. There are two types, generally, of law enforcement: proactive, and reactive. Reactive means: you call, the comes show up. Proactive means: the cops go out and search for crime. Sometimes they don’t wear uniforms. UH-OH. BAD.
Shootings surge in NYC amid disbanding of NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit
Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.
By comparison, the same week last year there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.
“This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” one angry law enforcement source said Friday.
Minnesota State Rep: Antifa and Muslim Groups Plan to ‘Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule’
by Robert Spencer, 6-24-20
It would have sounded farfetched just weeks ago. It doesn’t anymore.
As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.
The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police. The New York Times noted that “many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community, in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals, with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises. Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.”
If members of the local community end up policing Minneapolis, what might that look like? Back in 2016, a series of Minneapolis Muslims in man-on-the-streetinterviews stated matter-of-factly that they preferred Islamic law over American law. We have seen Sharia patrols in Germany, Britain, and even New York City, where the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is decked out in uniforms that strong resemble New York Police Department uniforms, and drives cars carefully designed to look like NYPD cars, to enforce “fundamentals of the Sharia.”
Muslim leader Siraj Wahhaj explained what that meant: “The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the sharia, doing what they’re not supposed to be doing, but still doing it.” According to a Muslim involved with the MCP, this would involve stopping “Muslim women being out after dark, Muslim men hanging out in the corners doing dope, Muslims drinking liquor,” and enforcing, “basically, the fundamentals of the Sharia.”
If such a community patrol is launched in Minneapolis, it is likely to focus on the same things, but not do anything about the fact that the 5th Congressional District in Minneapolis, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, is the jihad terror recruitment capital of the United States. Stopping young Muslims from engaging in jihad activity is unlikely to be a high priority for a group that is dedicated to enforcing Sharia, since Sharia calls upon Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.
The Sharia enforcers’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this. Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments; in fact, it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law. Consequently, Steve Green’s words don’t appear farfetched at all. The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now, and is grabbing all it can.
How likely is it that Minneapolis really could end up under Islamic rule, with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left? According to the Minnesota Reformer, another Minnesota state Representative, Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis, did not deny the truth of Green’s statements. Instead, when asked about them, he “said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.” And of course, talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “inflame people,” so keep quiet. Keep quiet, that is, if you oppose such an eventuality,not if you favor it. Said Noor: “Minnesota is awake. They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.”
Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects. And if any free people who may still be in Minneapolis want to head this off, the time is now to “inflame people” – not to riot and destroy after the manner of the Left, but to stand up decisively now and stop the power-grab of these insidious totalitarian forces.
Now it’s also time to tear down anything associated with the positive aspects of law enforcement, because clearly cops are all racist — considering that whites are 40% of NYPD and “minorities” are now the majority. You racists.
Washington community honors officers with signs – Police Chief rips them down because it’s “divisive”
VANCOUVER, WA – Today, a huge membership of the Vancouver community came together to honor, support, and love on our police.
Today, the officers felt that love. They felt lifted up and appreciated in a way they haven’t felt in a very long time.
Today, the Vancouver Chief of police, Chief James McElvain, spat in all of their faces.
A few hours after I got home, my phone rang. My heart skipped a few beats in fear because it was an officer calling that I don’t talk to regularly, so of course my mind went straight to my husband, who was working.
Thank God, it was not about that. It definitely wasn’t good news, though.
The officer, whose voice was quivering, said that the Chief ordered everything that was put up by our families and community to be taken down.
Because it was divisive.
Divisive.
Chief McElvain decided today to follow in Clark County Sheriff Atkins’ pandering footsteps and ban the thin blue line from being displayed outside or inside the precincts, on cars, and on mourning bands.
HOA Bans Police Chaplain’s Thin Blue Line Flag, Calling It a ‘White Lives Matter’ Symbol
by Stephen Green, 6-25-20
A Denver homeowners’ association has ordered a local police chaplain to remove the “thin blue line” flag from his property, even while allowing neighbors to fly similar flags for other first responders and the military.
The chaplain, who wishes to remain anonymous for sadly obvious reasons, has flown his Thin Blue Line flag since National Police Officers Day in May.
He told Fox News 31’s Deborah Takahara earlier this week, “I believe that’s why I’m being targeted — because I’m associated with them. I believe it’s just because it’s everything going on in the world right now, in this country.”
The notice from his HOA insisted that the well-known flag flown to show support for all police officers is actually a “white lives matter” symbol.
This is America, on July 4th, 2020.
We know the state of Colorado removed qualified immunity from its law enforcement officers. A GOP Senator, Mike Braun, is advocating the same thing.
Sen. Braun bill would change qualified immunity for police. Here’s what it would mean.
by Elizabeth dePompeii, 6-23-20
U.S. Sen. Mike Braun introduced on Tuesday a bill taking aim at qualified immunity, a controversial standard that protects police officers and other government officials from being sued for alleged misconduct.
Currently, qualified immunity can be used as a defense to avoid lawsuits so long as the accused’s behavior doesn’t violate existing and “clearly established” laws or constitutional rights.
Translated: what would another reasonable officer do in a similar situation? Are those actions out of bounds of the standard?
Braun, R-Ind., said the current interpretation of the standard is “overly broad” and “allows law enforcement in many of the high-profile excessive force and abuse of power cases to avoid civil suits.”
His bill would allow qualified immunity to be used as a defense only if the officer’s conduct is already protected by law or a previous court ruling.
Because, as GOP Senator Mike Braun is asserting here, there is no such thing as a “reasonable officer.”
It’s not just Mike Brain. It’s also my former Congressman from Kalifornia, Republican Tom McClintock.
Tom McClintock Supports Efforts To Get Rid Of Qualified Immunity For Cops
6-10-20
Rep. Tom McClintock is one of the rare Republicans in office who speaks for the conservatives in California. But this time he’s side with Congress’ liberals in an effort to overturn the “qualified immunity” that can protect police and other state and local officials from civil lawsuits.
Ah, Kalifornia — land of the fee, and the home of the slaves.
Sheriff orders removal of thin blue line flag from all county equipment
6-24-20
CLARK COUNTY, Wash. – A local sheriff is taking action against a symbol that honors fallen officers and demonstrates appreciation for law enforcement—the thin blue line flag.
However, the meaning of the flag has been hijacked by anti-police groups who’ve associated it with hatred and bigotry.
The symbol is sometimes flown as a flag, attached as a sticker, or weaved into material for a variety of items.
Sadly, the thin blue line flag is now removed from anything associated with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. In a directive sent out late last week, Sheriff Chuck Atkins told all workers that fall under the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to remove all thin blue line materials from uniforms, cars, and office buildings, KPTV reported.
This is, of course, hand-in-hand with Vancouver PD Chief McElvain’s edict.
Dem AG: Letting America Burn Is the Path to Growth
by Josh Cristenson, 6-3-20
Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
“Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to “seize the opportunity” to rid the country of “institutionalized racism,” which she blamed for the violence.
Today in my address to the @bostonchamber, I spoke about how we must seize the opportunity we have right now to build anew in ways that rid us of the institutionalized racism that’s led to America burning today. pic.twitter.com/bJSXMahHyy
Not to be outdone by anyone, Virginia decides it’s past due time to invite assaults on law enforcement officers, almost begging criminals to commit violence against them.
Virginia Democrats Want to Reduce Charges for Assaulting a Police Officer
by Jeremy Frankel, 6-30-20
There are currently 28 proposals from the Virginia Senate Democrat Caucus to reform law enforcement systems. One of which is something so egregious that it should put to bed, once and for all, the myth that the Left cares about law and order or about the police.
According to the Daily Wire, Virginia Senate Democrats want to reduce the charge of assault on a police officer to a simple misdemeanor offense. This would abolish the current law that states that assaulting a police officer is a Class 6 felony with a mandatory minimum of 6 months in prison.
Good luck recruiting new cops to your state, Governor Blackface.
Louisville Police Ordered Under Threat of Suspension To Remove Protective Equipment
6-30-20
There may be no more evidence of weak and cowardly leadership than what has occurred in the Louisville (KY) Police Department.
Following a murder and numerous injuries due to an encampment in Jefferson Square Park, Louisville Metro Police Officers were directed to prevent more encampments and other unlawful behavior that would lead to additional dangerous conditions.
Officials made public statements that no overnight camping would be allowed in Jefferson Square Park and laws would be enforced to prohibit further violence and conflict in Louisville.
Louisville Police Officers stood waiting on Saturday to take necessary enforcement action and restore order if needed.
According to a statement by the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, officers were ordered to remove protective equipment, up to and including ballistic-rated helmets and approach an unruly crowd with a “soft-approach.”
This order was preceded with the “threat of immediate suspension.”
This is America, on July 4th, 2020.
In New York, it’s official. $1 billion dollars to the NYPD. Gone.
New York City Lawmakers Approve $1 Billion Cut From NYPD Budget; Protesters Say It Still Falls Short
The deal includes a $1 billion cut from the NYPD, but some protesters say it still falls short of their demands.
“I think they should have put in the hard work, which is the council should have come up with a different budget,” another protester said.
Protesters built a barricade outside City Hall, only to have it torn down by police, followed by several arrests. The demonstrators said the council only moved budget lines to different agencies, claiming it’s creative accounting, not real cuts.
“They didn’t do what the people needed,” one protester said.
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said he stands with the protesters and was also disappointed, saying he is committed to “holding the mayor’s feet on the fire on this and continue to work for reform.”
“I wanted us to go deeper. I wanted us to take larger head count reductions. I wanted a true hiring freeze. I wanted us to cancel additional classes. But this is a budget processthat involves the mayor, who would not budge on these items,” he continued.
The NYPD’s July class of more than 1,100 recruits is canceled, overtime will be reduced, and crossing guards, school safety and homeless outreach will be shifted out of the department to other agencies.
This is America, on July 4th, 2020.
You can’t leave Kalifornia out again. From KRON4.com:
Oakland Unified School District votes to eliminate its police department
by Gayle Ong
6-24-20
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — Oakland Board of Educators voted Wednesday to eliminate its police department.
A virtual meeting was held Wednesday night on whether the city’s school district would eliminate the Oakland schools police department.
“This is a historic moment, letting go of the issue of law enforcement that has oppressed our communities for centuries is critically important.”
The district wants OUSD police gone by the end of the year.
Berkeley City Council passes a budget with $9.2 million cuts to police
by Rachel Swan, 7-1-20
Leaders in Berkeley passed a budget Wednesday that included a $9.2 million cut to the city’s Police Department, a sign of how swiftly the protests over George Floyd’s death have moved from streets and Twitter feeds into City Hall.
Mayor Jesse Arreguín proposed the cut, just as the Oakland City Council took steps to further slash its own police budget. The Oakland council had passed a budget last week that chopped law enforcement funding by $14.6 million, then council members decided Tuesday to amend the budget on July 21, after activists said the reduction wasn’t sufficient.
Enough? It’s never enough.
LA School Police Chief Resigns In Response To Deep Budget Cuts
7-1-20
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The chief of police for the nation’s second-largest school district has resigned just one day after board officials voted to slash his department’s budget.
Los Angeles School Police Chief Todd Chamberlain tendered his resignation Wednesday. A Los Angeles Unified School District spokesperson confirmed the resignation.
Officials say more information on what they’re calling the “department leadership transition will be forthcoming.”
The Board of Education voted Tuesday night to slash the school police budget by $25 million, or roughly 35%.
Chamberlain released a statement that read, in part:
“In good conscience, and in fear for safety and well-being of those I serve, I cannot support modifications to my position, the organization and most importantly, the community (students, staff and families) that I believe will be detrimental and potentially life-threatening.”
This is America, on July 4th, 2020.
Studies have proven there is no systemic police racism–despite the propaganda by the American Media Maggots and politicians on both sides of the aisle — there is no proof of widespread racial bias.
In 2019, there were more than 10 MILLION arrests in the United States.
Of those 10,000,000+ arrests, 1,004 ended in the suspect being fatally shot (most were armed).
Of the 1,004 who were fatally shot, 41 were unarmed.
Of the 41 unarmed suspects who were shot, 9 were black, 19 were white and the other 13 were Hispanic, Asian, etc.
Meanwhile, in 2019, 89 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty.
The whole narrative of systemic racism?
The data doesn’t support the claim, and several thorough studies don’t support that claim.
I haven’t seen one shred of evidence yet that the white police officer who had his knee on George Floyd’s neck or that the other 3 non-white officers who helped to hold Floyd down acted out of racism.
George Floyd was killed by these officers, but it appears to be an excessive use of force, abuse of power, and a callous disregard for Floyd’s health. And even that investigation hasn’t concluded.
No one really needs to defund the police. Demorats and Leftists are actively working to make it the most untenable job in America, whereby no intelligent person would ever want to do it. That is their goal. The reverse may soon be true: police will defund themselves by choosing not to appear for work, to retire early, or resign.
I say this to cops today:
None of us took this job for kudos, praises, pats on the back or hugs. We predominantly didn’t get it. Nor did we expect it.
What we did expect is to be treated like adults, allowed to do our jobs, supported when we were correct and smacked when we weren’t. We expected to support the social construct, safeguard lives and property, use discretion, document crimes, arrest criminals, and protect our communities.
That social construct has since dissolved. Law enforcement officers are now one bad call away from having their lives ruined, their families ruined, or prosecuted for doing what 99% of all other officers would have done in a similar situation.
Cops are human beings and, as such, certainly make mistakes.
But when the cards are stacked so distinctly against you, to the point where the department, the community, the media, mayors and governors don’t want you to do your jobs, why are you in law enforcement anyway?
NYPD disbanded their plainclothes unit. They proactively policed. Local and national cops have been told for so long that they “over-police,” they have mostly decided to push the button to acknowledge each call as dispatched, and that’s it.
No self-initiated activity, no proactive policing.
We know where that’s gotten this nation. Look at Chicago. Look at Baltimore. Look at Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New York. Murders are up, property crimes have skyrocketed, overall crime is rising.
There comes a time in a given profession where, when people don’t want you to do that job and, further, you’re targeted for violence, poisoning, assassination and prosecution for defending yourself — well, maybe it’s time to find a new profession.
It’s not your duty to have your life destroyed and that of your family in order to make a paycheck. There are so many others to choose.
The job is tough enough and eats more than a sufficient number of souls under ideal conditions. Add these additional current stressors and you have a recipe for disaster. People aren’t built to work 20 or 40 years under conditions like these.
Get out while you still can. Because one of BZ’s Axioms, “commit less crime, get less shot,” is resonating with very few people today.
It’s pretty simple. If you’ve decided not to support the police — they can easily decide not to support you.
This is America — on July 4th, 2020.
Let us also recognize this:
Democrats are the ENEMY of the United States.
They are the ENEMY, every bit as much as China — and they are more insidious, because they are dissolving America from within due to their hatred of everything American.
Democrats hate the founding fathers. They hate the US Constitution. It doesn’t provide them enough power. It exists to hinder government, not grow it. Your rights come from God, not government. They despise that foundational concept. They want you to revere government, to bow and scrape before government.
To kneel before government.
They hate the First Amendment. They don’t embrace free speech. They want normal people muzzled, you and me, for speaking our minds. Their social media giants do it for them. If they had the power, they’d imprison you for speech. That’s coming.
If they could get away with it, they would burn physical books. At this point they don’t have to. Yet. Because if they wish to eradicate history one day, they could do it with the flip of a switch — and everything you “own” in the cloud is gone. Fiction they don’t like. History they don’t like. Movies they don’t like. It’s happening already with Netflix.
If you think you “own” content, you own nothing. If It’s digital, it’s air. It’s nothing. Books are a guarantee that immure history and thoughts in the physical world. And they’re working on that.
De Blasio doesn’t believe you should own property. Communists don’t believe in the concept of private property. All property belongs to the State. YOU belong to the state.
Democrats hate the Second Amendment. It is the right that stops them from immediately removing your free speech wholesale, which is their goal. Only one speech. Theirs. Only some thoughts. Theirs. Firearms protect your speech and your family and your property.
Democrats hate your free speech. Democrats hate your family. They hate mothers and fathers together in a family. They hate children. They don’t want them born. Many despise the human race. And they certainly hate your private property and its very concept.
They hate your firearms and if they had the power, they would break into your home and forcibly take them. Altogether too many Americans would surrender them, and altogether too many law enforcement officers would obey the order to do so. Even one officer doing so is too many.
They hate your firearms. But they still fear your firearms. Good. Government should fear the people. People should not fear their government.
Democrats exist to remove your freedoms and liberties — occasionally deigning to sell them back to you at a terrible price.
Think: when was the last time a Democrat expanded your freedom or liberty? Reduced government? Respected your rights instead of trampling on them?
There is a lesson to be learned from President Trump. If government, in concert with the media — another issue altogether — could array itself against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president, essentially a soft coup, then that government could crush you in an instant and wouldn’t give two thoughts about it.
NEVER kneel before the mob, never kneel before Democrats, never appease them, never capitulate, never prostrate yourself. Because they will take and take, and can truly never be appeased.
I repeat: Democrats are the ENEMY. There is no shielding this truth any more. No trying to sugarcoat it or downplay it. Democrats are, in no uncertain terms, the enemy.
They despise you, me, normal people, actual Americans. I couldn’t care less about anyone’s “paint job.” This isn’t about color. It’s about holding our country, “a Republic if we can keep it.”
It’s about our liberties, our rights, our freedoms, the very things that so many others are willing to put their lives on the line to enjoy. If this country is so inherently evil, so racist, so misogynistic, why would people care or want to live here?
We must realize that the very things people around the planet are fleeing, Democrats are working for now. Socialism. Communism.Massive, impersonal governments who exist to remove the rights of people and simultaneously acquire more power, more control, more personal wealth for themselves.
NEVER kneel for the mob. NEVER kneel before Democrats. Never attempt to appease them, capitulate to them, acquiesce to them.
We’re seeing the results in Seattle today. Anarchy, chaos, the repression of people, crimes against people. the subjugation of taxpayers. destruction of property.
You and I have been thinking this for some time, but I’m writing and saying it now.
Democrats are the ENEMY.
There can be no bipartisanship or compromise with those persons who wish to completely destroy this country.
Don’t listen to me American Media Maggots as November nears. They want you disillusioned. They want you depressed. They want you to stay away from the polls and from casting your ballots.
They will tell you that President Trump is so far ahead that your vote is not necessary.
Or they will tell you that he is so far behind that your vote is immaterial.
Don’t believe the American Media Maggots. Because so-called “modern journalism” is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Demorats.
One of those facts being that, in 1964, on the floor of the US Senate, Demorats held the longest filibuster in the history of the United States, 75 days. All trying to prevent one thing: the Civil Rights Act.
In summary, we know the election in November is binary. We’re voting for Trump. . .
. . .or we’re voting for what may LOOK like Joe Biden, but will truly instead be his handlers or whomever is chosen to run as Biden’s VP. THAT will be the Demorat Evil pulling the strings in the White House’s Oval Office.
This translates to voting for Trump — or voting for the destruction of what civilization exists in the United States and, by dint of that, the destruction of, essentially, any kind of Western Civilization.
We’re voting for creativity vs demolition. We’re voting for freedom vs Socialism — which any clear thinking person knows leads to Communism.
Because the ultimate goal isn’t any kind of “police reformation.” One billion dollars cut from the NYPD budget? Not enough. Elimination of the Minneapolis Police Department? Not enough. Defunding any number of police departments across the country? Not enough. Removing any protections, figuratively and literally, law enforcement has? Not enough.
Police “reformation”? That’s just a temporary excuse. George Floyd was a tool, long used and, now, long discarded. By this time next year — actually, in perhaps six months or less — no one will remember his name. No one will care.
Just as no one cares about all the black lives lost in Chicago. Or in Seattle, in CHAZ-CHOP, with Horace Anderson. Or New York. Or Atlanta. Any Urban Rat Cage where the greatest mortal enemy of black males are other black males. Not cops.
You’d think this binary decision would mean that the Republicans, knowing this, are stalwart supporters of President Trump, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The Republicans continue with their history of spineless cowardice, conveniently leaving a puddle of yellow piss behind, wherever they’ve been. If they’re walking, look for soiled pants, pantsuits or squishy sounds from an assorted collection of shoes, both male and female.
Oh, there are a few who still have courage and guts. Off the top of my head, Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw. But my fetid little brain is tasked with thinking of any more — though I’m sure there are a few.
The rest need to be dumped and changed faster than a baby with crab cake diarrhea.
Altogether too many Republicans, even my once-admired Tom McClintock, are taking pandering and cowardice to new heights — or perhaps depths. They are frightened NOT OF YOU, REPUBLICANS. Not of you voting them out.
They are frightened of the MOB. They are frightened that the mob will track them down. Find their house. Harass their family. Locate the schools of their kids. Camp outside their home. Kill their dog. Maybe even target them for death.
You won’t. Republican voters won’t. They don’t fear you.
Here’s what these capitulists don’t realize: when you meet the insanely unhinged halfway, in an attempt to placate, capitulate, subsume, pander or appease, it makes you dangerously insane too.
Because that means you lack the capability to see and understand that these insane lunatics will not be appeased. They cannot be appeased. Logic, facts, all completely immaterial.
Lengthy history has illustrated this very clearly, as well as recent history. But you know most Americans — and certainly the bulk of politicians — they are riddled with what I term Historical Alzheimers.
There is a phrase I heard recently that sums it all up. The Republicans — sadly, the apparent bulk of Americans — don’t understand that unless you’re willing to surrender EVERYTHING — you’d better surrender NOTHING.
And guess what? The Demorats, Leftists, American Media Maggots, anarchists, Antifa, BLM, Socialists and Communists are COUNTING ON IT.
Two traitorous and betraying Republican Senators have called for the removal of Columbus Day or Columbus. Even Joe Biden hasn’t. So apparently THEY are more in tune with Leftists than Biden? Two Republicans have called for the removal of qualified immunity for law enforcement — Mike Braun and Tom McClintock. Joe Biden hasn’t. So what’s going on?
Republicans are also silent. Dangerously and deathly silent. They are quaking with fear under their desks, in the fetal position.
They are allowing America to be taking down one statue, one landmark, one bit of freedom at a time, along with wholesale chunks of free speech, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and more.
Their silence only enlivens, supports, buttresses, emboldens and energizes the Demorats, Leftists, American Media Maggots, anarchists, Antifa, BLM, Socialists and Communists.
Altogether too many Republicans have joined hands and locked lips with the enemy.
And make no mistake, Demorats are the enemy. The ENEMY.
Of everything American.
This is America on July 4th, 2020.
It’s a Republic. Can we keep it?
I hope what I write now is true.
Dear Government:
We The People have entrusted the preservation of our history, freedom and liberty with you.
You are now on notice: if you’re disinterested in preserving these things, WE will do it FOR you. Some may not care for our methods. But we will NOT relinquish the US.
Pastor Martin Niemoller already reminded us.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me —
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Wake up America.
We can save this country.
We have all the requisite training, education and experience to do it. We have the number of people to do it. We have the infrastructure to save her and pull her back.
But the biggest question remains: do we have the WILL?
Hours 1 and 2: “Survive, Thrive, Stay Alive” site creator KATE KRUSZEWSKI was in the Saloon, and spoke to us about her military service and battles involving human trafficking.
We also discovered that, at the age of 13, she was kidnapped in Greece and sold into human sexual trafficking herself, in order to pay a familial debt.
Hers is an astounding story of courage, fortitude, character, and sheer force of incredible will. She survived, joined the military, and built her own company — one whose job it was to liberate and rescue victims of human trafficking.
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Hour 1: Attorney, senior columnist at Townhall.com, retired US Army Colonel, radio host, Renaissance Man, rapscallion and author KURT SCHLICHTER stepped into the Saloon tonight in order to talk about his newest fiction book COLLAPSE, about a United States riven with hate, strife, discontent and separated blue and red states. Sound even remotely familiar, anyone? Sequitur re ficta.
Hour 2:BZ examined what New York BLM leader Hawk Newsome thinks of America and what he plans. “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.”
Then reality steps in, as illustrated by “our problems are self-inflicted.” And “all the killing in our community ain’t coming from white people.”
The usual and standard Poverty Pimps and Race Baiters are making money off the deaths of black Americans. If you solve the problem or deal with it, their jobs and dollars go away and — worse yet — problems may actually get fixed.
“We can’t have that!” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson bleat.
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Hours 1 and 2:BZ engaged one of his favorite guests, the ever-ebullient JACK ALEXANDER of the Jack Alexander Experiment, as he and BZ discussed the two diametrically-opposed ways to take back CHAZ-CHOP from Antifa, BLM, Leftists and anarchists. One is by force, the other is by allowing Seattle to rot from within.
We also discussed the stupid race play of Bubba Wallace, reminiscent of another black Publicity Hog named Jussie Smollett. Here, Wallace tries to justify his Drama Queen bullshit with co-conspirator Don Le-Mans. Yes — yawn — another Fake Hate Crime.
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Hours 1 and 2: BZ featured an SHR Media Network Special Report: “This Is America On July 4th, 2020,” an examination of where we are now as a country, and where we may be heading in 2021.
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Hour 1: Attorney, senior columnist at Townhall.com, retired US Army Colonel, radio host, Renaissance Man, rapscallion and author 
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