Completely forgotten in all of the US politically-correct, virtue-signaling insanity is what “white people” did on this day — not just for the United States, but for the entire planet. They stepped up. Some had choices. Most didn’t. Some accounted well of themselves. Some cried like babies and, yes, called for their mommies while they died bleeding, missing a leg, an arm, part of their jaw, bits of their brain on the beach covered by the lapping tide. But they still stepped up.
I mention color only because color means everything to Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots these days. Some people require “reminding” about color.
D-Day was the beginning of the end for the Germans in World War II.
Seventy-six years ago today.
Named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, and was also known as D-Day.
D for Day, H for Hour means the undetermined (or secret) day and hour for the start of a military operation. Their use permits the entire timetable for the operation to be scheduled in detail and its various steps prepared by subordinate commanders long before a definite day and time for the attack have been set. When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed.
So far as the U.S. Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: “The First Army will attack at H–Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient.”
More than 160,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast, by Germany, of France’s Normandy region.
Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower speaks to the troops.
The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in the history of the planet, and required heretofore unthinkable planning. How to coordinate something this large? Amongst numerous nations? Whilst trying to calculate weather and hundreds of other factors?
Churchill and Montgomery calculate the UK portion of D-Day.
Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. And that is true.
Landscape
Go or no go? That was all up to one man. The Supreme Allied Commander, four-star General Dwight D Eisenhower. At the age of 54, he held the freedom, the fate of the entire planet, in his hands.
As an aside, Eisenhower received his fifth star as General of the Army of December 20th of 1944.
How many 5-star generals have there been in the history of the United States?
That would be five Army and four Navy officers:
George C. Marshall,
Douglas MacArthur,
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Henry H. (Hap) Arnold,
Omar Bradley,
And then Admirals:
William D. Leahy,
Ernest J. King,
Chester Nimitz, and
William F. Halsey.
Omar Bradley was the last officer to receive the rank, in 1950. The rank has remained dormant ever since.
According to military regulations governing rank, only two US Army officers have ever achieved superior rank to that of five stars, even though they never got that many. They were George Washington and John J. Pershing.
And here is General Eisenhower’s D-Day message.
As per normal, fanciful flights of ephemera shape history and, instead of June 5th, Eisenhower determined to wait a day. That timing — and location of the landings — surprised the Germans, and they failed to reinforce the beachheads.
Upon that, and more, is history built.
Conjecture. Fleet. Fancy. Whimsy. Or just plain hope backed with a modicum of planning.
Do I stay or do I go?
4,414 soldiers died on D-Day. Most perished on those meat-grinding beaches.
That was the beginning. Of the end.
Of the Germans and the European Theater.
Japan was next.
You want courage, sacrifice and discipline?
Everything we’re facing now pales in comparison to that.
One of, if not the major reason people justified, overtly or covertly, the cessation of business for “sheltering in place,” was that the science “justified” our doing so. We were attempting to “flatten the curve” as it were, which somehow morphed into “flatten the economy.”
I’ll translate for you:
-Two months ago: “We can’t open until we flatten the curve to save our healthcare system.” -One month ago: “We can’t open until we have a vaccine.” -A few days ago: “We can’t open until we have multiple vaccines.” -Today: We can’t open until Biden wins.
The very persons who bleated that “we can’t politicize a pandemic” were the very first to politicize a pandemic.
As the saying goes: “Whatever the Leftists and Demorats are accusing you of, they themselves are doing right now.”
Which is this: utilizing Fear Porn to keep all you little proles, commoners, groundlings, unwashed masses, subjects and serfs in line.
All you Leftists, remember to stay inside and remain scared. Do whatever your governor or mayor tells you to do. Your business, you livelihood, your job, even your health means nothing if even one governor’s edict or mayor’s edict can be saved. OBEY. Sieg Newsom! Sieg Murphy! Sieg Cuomo! Sieg Pritzker! Linke über alles!
Remain Blue Pilled, all of you people. Quiver in the fetal position underneath your desks, in your closets, under your beds.
Let’s stop here for a moment. It’s no surprise that I’ve lost acquaintances, some fairly close, and even some friends when I voted for Donald John Trump, OMB, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head. Here’s a bit of the “odd thing” about that as well. They drew some clear lines — so I did too.
But I find it amusing that there appears to be a pretty close correlation between Trump and this Wuhan-19 thingie. The same people who kicked my ass to the curb for supporting Trump — are now kicking my ass to the curb for my support of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
You know, that pesky crap called “freedom” and “liberty.”
Frankly, I think that says a helluva lot more about them than it does me.
I’m losing more acquaintances, mostly in law enforcement (and even an actual LE friend), for my stance on law enforcement’s handling of the various incidents involving people who want to get back to work, walk in a park, boogie board on the water, let their kids visit another child, cut hair, eat at a restaurant, work out, or encounter sand.
You can walk through the wet sand, but you can’t be trusted to sit in dry sand for any period of time unless you occupy an adult playpen.
I want my baby rattle. Oh hell. I crapped my diapers. Medic!
In the meantime, some people think that woman is nuts. What’s she doing out? Moreover, what’s anybody doing out? Time to call the police! Time to create a new hashtag! #RespectTheFearPorn!
Let’s be honest; if we haven’t died yet, well, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.
Then there were more recent revelations of these persons.
Here is Dr Ivette Lozano, speaking in Dallas, Texas on May 10th, about the Wuhan-19 virus — daring to give you the truth.
And there you go. YouTube took Dr Lozano’s speech down because it provides an alternative to the goose-stepping Leftist governor and mayor dictator edicts that YouTube and Facebook know and love so well. So I put this up. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Here is Dr Jeff Barke from Orange County, speaking in public about Wuhan-19.
Here is Dr Barke speaking in his office about Wuhan-19 and what he has experienced.
We are seeing an absolutely unprecedented spike in videos removed by both Facebook and YouTube if they even remotely go against the grain of “huddle like a rat inside, genuflect and bow to the WHO, and Dr Anthony Fauci is god.” YouTube and Facebook will not even brook a discussion of any of these issues, as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcocki clearly states here on CNN with George Costanza.
You know, anything that slightly goes against that Chinese managed organization, the WHO — which means that, by dint of doing BZ’s Logical Extension, YouTube is nothing but a puppet for the Chinese Communists and Xi Jenping.
Not to mention the entire paradigm shift made by the WHO, World Health Organization, that kicked the Chinese model to the curb and advocates the open Swedish model of dealing with the Wuhan-19 virus.
WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a ‘model’ for countries going forward
by Jack Salo, 4-29-20
The World Health Organization lauded Sweden as a “model” for battling the coronavirus as countries lift lockdowns — after the nation controversially refused restrictions.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, said Wednesday there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, which has largely relied on citizens to self-regulate.
“I think there’s a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread,” Ryan told reporters. “Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Ryan noted that instead of lockdowns, the country has “put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long-term care facilities.”
“What it has done differently is it has very much relied on its relationship with its citizenry and the ability and willingness of its citizens to implement self-distancing and self-regulate,” Ryan said. “In that sense, they have implemented public policy through that partnership with the population.”
Let us not forget, however, that no one can advocate for hydroxychloroquine or any such cheap or readily-available drug because, after all, if it isn’t personally-embraced immediately by Dr Anthony Fauci, well, it’s just too inexpensive and won’t bring requisite cash and control to Big Pharma.
And isn’t it odd that, somehow, two American plants oddly enough happen to be on fire. I put this together; no one else that it worth mentioning.
Large fire at magnesium factory in Madison, Illinois
by Roche Madden, 5-7-20
MADISON, Ill. – A thick plume of dark smoke could be seen pouring from the site of a factory fire in Madison, Illinois Thursday afternoon.
Firefighters from 35 departments all over the area responded to the fire at Magnesium Elektron. They were afraid the fire would turn into an explosion. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
Firefighters were concerned magnesium was burning.
Magnesium Elektron Launches New Biomedical Solutions Using Magnesium Alloys
Magnesium Elektron, a global materials technology company specialising in the design and manufacture of high performance materials, has announced the launch of magnesium for its first biomedical applications.
The use of the bioresorbable material, specifically Magnesium Elektron’s revolutionary Synermag magnesium alloy, in CE approved, cardiovascular applications has been announced.
This and a wide variety of potential pharmaceutical and biomedical applications are detailed in two new publications available to download here.
Those stories and incidents aren’t linked. What’s the problem or issue?
Magnesium stearate is an ingredient of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Two separate plants that manufacture it were on fire; the one in Madison, Illinois, and a plant in Mexico.
Simply coincidence? BZ does not believe in co-inky-dink any more. I have been terribly disabused of that by recent events.
And just when the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine is being shot down by Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots — because it is absolutely politicized — I can and will talk about articles pointing out the positive, more readily available and workable effects of hydroxychloroquine. Here is one major, major article that no one is featuring and everyone — in the American Media Maggot realm — is purposely avoiding.
Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients
Press Release, 4-28-20
In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®).
To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.
The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Additional benefits shown in some studies, AAPS states, is to decrease the number of days when a patient is contagious, reduce the need for ventilators, and shorten the time to clinical recovery.
Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug remdesivir
by Maggie Fox, 4-17-20
Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial.
The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and fever, but were able to leave the hospital after less than a week of treatment, STAT quoted the doctor leading the trial as saying.
“The best news is that most of our patients have already been discharged, which is great. We’ve only had two patients perish,” Dr. Kathleen Mullane, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago who is leading the clinical trial, said in the video.
In fact, an entire nation is attempting to corner the hydroxychloroquine market because it believes in the results of the drug in helping its citizens. From UK’s TheGuardian.com:
UK bulk buys hydroxychloroquine as potential Covid-19 treatment
by Rajeev Syal and Lisa O’Carroll
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug being taken by Donald Trump as an unproven protection against coronavirus, is being bought in bulk by the UK in case it does turn out to be an effective Covid-19 treatment.
Ministers are seeking 16m tablets in packets of up to 100 as part of a £35m contract put out to tender on Friday.
The drug is being tested by government scientists, health officials said. They are securing additional supplies so it can be distributed among the population if required.
The contract, which was uploaded to a government website on 15 May, is an “open opportunity” for pharmaceutical suppliers to supply more than 33m tablets of various drugs between June and next January.
“Yeah, we don’t believe in the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine because we want to appear politically correct with all of the other talking Leftist heads — but just in case. . .”
What did we know and when did we know it — about hydroxychloroquine? Well, it would seem the extremely praised High Lord Himself, Dr Anthony Fauci, knew something pretty important way back on August 22nd of 2005.
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiosis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. The fact that the drug has significant inhibitory antiviral effect when the susceptible cells were treated either prior to or after infection suggests a possible prophylactic and therapeutic use.
Drug Combo with Hydroxychloroquine Promising: NYU Study
by Alyssa Paolicelli, 5-12-20
NEW YORK – Researchers at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine found patients given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc sulphate and the antibiotic azithromycin were 44 percent less likely to die from the coronavirus.
“Certainly we have very limited options as far as what we have seen work for this infection so anything that may work is very exciting,” said Dr. Joseph Rahimian, Infectious Disease Specialist at NYU Langone Health.
Additionally, from Texas:
39 elderly Texans successfully complete hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19, doctor says
by Jason Whitely, 4-14-20
DALLAS — What happened at a Galveston County nursing home over the last week was one of the first big tests of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients in Texas.
“I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not an acceptable,” said Dr. Robin Armstrong, MD, medical director at The Resort at Texas City.
Fifty-six residents at this senior facility in Galveston County contracted the novel coronavirus. Dr. Robin Armstrong said 39 of them gave him permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine pills.
“Most of the patients have done well. And, you know, and I think that that is suggestive that the medication is helpful,” Armstrong told WFAA.
Of course, you’re only hearing about the negative studies and effects because, frankly, that’s what the Demorats, Leftists and American Media Maggots only want you to hear.
You have to look deeply to find other studies. That is purposeful.
The massive demand didn’t exist then. It does now. But now that the medicine appears to be the worst of all possible worlds to Big Pharma and those doctors quite possibly on the take and padding their bank accounts — it’s cheap and effective — whoa, hold up there on that car wash! Let’s not go all crazy on solving the problem now.
There’s a fat hog to be cut here and we all want our piece.
Now, despite the fact that more and more studies clearly indicated that the Wuhan-19 virus is infinitely more prevalent than anyone previously surmised — meaning that its mortality rate is actually much, much less than previously surmised (right at or just a slight tick above that of the yearly flu), and the World Health Organization (WHO) has abandoned the Chinese model of strict isolation for the open Swedish model — we still have Demorat governors and mayors who are not only adhering to their Draconian measures but actually expanding them and extending their time in place to August and, in some cases, beyond.
Stanford researchers test 3,200 people for COVID-19 antibodies
by Kate Selig, 4-4-20
Over 3,200 people in Santa Clara County were tested for COVID-19 antibodies on Friday and Saturday in an effort to determine the proportion of the population that either has or has recovered from coronavirus. The study, led by researchers at Stanford Medicine, is the first of its kind in the nation.
Preliminary results of USC-LA County COVID-19 study released
USC-LA County Study: Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles (April 20, 2020) – USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread – and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought.
From this, epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis announced the results of a study that measured presence of SARS-2 antibodies in populace: 50 to 85 times more people have had the virus than was previously believed. The infection fatality rate is therefore very similar to the regular flu.
Epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis announces the results of a study that measured presence of SARS-2 antibodies in populace:
50 to 85 times more people have had the virus than was previously believed. The infection fatality rate is therefore very similar to the regular flu. pic.twitter.com/XqGAv6dQaA
Leftists seem to love China. Here’s a report about China’s statistics, from BusinessInsider.com:
The biggest breakdown yet of novel coronavirus cases suggests that 80% are mild. Some patients never show symptoms.
by Morgan McFall-Johnsen, 2-19-20
About 80% of novel coronavirus cases are mild, according to China’s most comprehensive report about the outbreak published so far.
Many patients experience only a fever or dry cough, while some show no symptoms at all.
The new numbers, along with the fact that 322 out of 621 confirmed cases on a quarantined cruise ship involved people who showed no symptoms, suggest that many mild cases of the new coronavirus are going unreported.
The researchers found that 80.9% of the confirmed cases were mild. Those patients might experience a fever or dry cough but weren’t likely to have difficulty breathing or to develop a severe lung infection. The study also found that infected people could show no symptoms at all — that was the case for 1.2% of the patients.
That was the case for the co-owner of the SHR Media Network, Shaun Lewis, who is in his early 40s, when he acquired Wuhan-19 in late March. He was specifically diagnosed with having it, and stayed in the residence where the studio is located for about two weeks. He said it was similar to his having had the flu with coughing, sweating, general weakness, and an occasional temperature. He fully recovered.
I went back to broadcasting in that studio when he felt better. I am almost 70 and quite obese; a proverbial tasty target for Wuhan-19. I don’t wear a mask or gloves when shopping, having stayed inside, and have been to businesses and restaurants when they were open. I am fine.
In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak. All CT images showed no sign of COVID-19 infection.
So I continue to ask: why are those not in the highest risk categories — like those persons over 80 or with a series of serious co-morbidities — still locked down and even taken to jail?
Science says: It’s time to start easing the lockdowns
by Dr Scott Atlas, 4-26-20,
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been enormous, and New York has suffered more than anywhere else in the world. Compared as a separate country, the New York area would rank, by far, as No. 1 for deaths per capita.
The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area accounts for approximately 60 percent of all US deaths. Theories abound, but the New York area itself is different: New York is the top port of entry for the hundreds of thousands of tourists coming to the US every month from China; Gotham has a uniquely high density of living that swells daily by millions from workers and tourists; and Manhattan sees some 1.6 million commuters daily, mostly on crowded public transit, including 320,000 from Jersey alone.
Multiple recent studies from Iceland, Germany, USC, Stanford and New York City all suggest that the fatality rate if infected is likely far lower than early estimates, perhaps under 0.1 to 0.4 percent, i.e., 10 to 40 times lower than estimates that motivated extreme isolation.
But wait; there’s more.
When states and hospitals abruptly stopped “nonessential” procedures and surgery, that didn’t mean unimportant care. Treatments for the most serious illnesses, including emergency care, were missed. Some estimate about half of cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. Approximately 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Perhaps half or more of acute stroke and heart-attack patients missed their only chances for early treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability. Transplants from living donors are down 85 percent from the same period last year.
And that doesn’t include the skipped cancer screenings, avoided childhood vaccinations, missed biopsies of now-undiscovered cancers numbering thousands per week — and countless other serious disorders left undiagnosed.
Lastly, total isolation prevents broad population immunity and prolongs the problem.
Read that again: “Lastly, total isolation prevents broad population immunity and prolongs the problem.” Another reason, in other words, why people are becoming more “allergic” to certain foods and environments — other than it’s currently “cool” to be so.
For population immunity, it is great news that half of infected people are asymptomatic and that medical care isn’t even necessary for the vast majority of people. That fact has been incorrectly portrayed as an urgent problem requiring mass isolation.
This is what a doctor says.
The curves have been flattened. Now, we must use established medical science and the evidence we have gathered, and for New York City in particular, limit the enormous harms accumulating from broad isolation and economic lockdown. While New York is unique, strategy should now focus on rigorously protecting the most vulnerable and strictly regulate access to senior-care centers.
Officials must issue rational distancing guidelines to the elderly and their families, including self-isolating the mildly sick. Masks could be required for public transit. We know children and young adults in good health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19, so logic means opening most schools.
A very important side-note about what the US population itself has been demanding over the decades, and I think it’s worth mentioning. This is from a Washington Examiner article by Dan Hannan (4-27-20) called “We Get The Leaders We Deserve.” He writes:
This is where public opinion comes in. We are bad at calculating trade-offs at the best of times. When there is panic in the air, we want safety at all costs. Or, rather, we don’t think about costs at all. The very idea of calculating the effect of the shutdown on people’s welfare and, indeed, overall longevity, seems distasteful. It’s far easier and far more satisfying to sloganize, to say, “Better safe than sorry” or “Lives before the economy,” as though the economy were some abstract entity rather than the word referring to human interaction intended to maximize health and happiness.
We get the leaders we deserve. Politicians know that they won’t be punished electorally for erring on the side of caution, the key word here being “erring.” There is an authoritarian tendency in every electorate, and crises of this sort inflame it. Once leaders around the world decided to immobilize their populations rather than just quarantining those most at risk, it became politically difficult to switch course. New evidence tended to be pressed into the existing narrative, that is, to be seized on as further justification for the lockdowns.
Did we bring this on ourselves? Not you, not me, but the greater population of quivering pussies in our nation? In a word, yes. And it’s generational.
Most U.S. Hospitals Are Empty. Soon They Might Be Closed for Good / Opinion
by Rick Jackson, 4-24-20
Tens of thousands of health care workers across the United States are going without pay today, even as providers in the nation’s hot spots struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic
This “tale of two hospitals” is a function of clumsy, if well-intentioned, federal and state directives to halt all non-emergency procedures, which appeared at first blush to be a reasonable precaution to limit unnecessary exposure and safeguard staff, beds and equipment.
But instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds in systems left untouched by the pandemic.
Those hospitals have resorted to unprecedented levels of furloughs to stave off temporary budget shortfalls, but industry and economic trends point to more lasting outcomes unless immediate action is taken.
Note this:
Outpatient services account for half of all hospital revenue, which means hospitals are now making, and spending, half what they were this time last year.
It doesn’t take an economist to understand the underlying economics here. And it won’t just be rural health care that will suffer—hospitals in every corner of the country might close for good.
“But it’s for the children.” The bleat of every society. Even in Germany. Even in the 1930s.
We have to begin asking ourselves a critical question: “Did we murder the economy and throw a fifth of the labor force out of work to save less than 0.01% of the population?”
New York mosque still open for daily prayers while churches across the country face mandatory shutdowns
by Phil Shiver, 4-20-20
A mosque in New York is reportedly still open for daily prayers amid the coronavirus pandemic that has forced Christian churches across the country to close their doors and cancel their in-person gatherings.
While churchgoers in many states have been criticized and even punished for continuing to gather, that same level of scrutiny has apparently not been leveled at the Mosque of Jesus, Son of Mary in Syracuse, New York.
And here’s likely the most important, critical and overlooked statistic of all, which was not just avoidable, but certain New York governors made it a point to infect this class of citizen. From JustTheNews.com:
Ground Zero: A fifth to half of all coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes
by Christine Dolan, 4-27-20
few days ago the World Health Organization’s European regional director garnered global headlines by providing a grim statistic that pinpoints the ground zero in this coronavirus pandemic.
More than half of the COVID-19 deaths in Europe have occurred in long-term care or nursing home facilities. It is “an unimaginable human tragedy,” Dr. Hans Kluge declared.
Europe is not alone. At least one in five deaths recorded in the United States so far has occurred in nursing homes or long-term care facilities and experts believe that percentage may grow substantially.
Those are facts. Deaths not in youthful populations. Deaths not in people in their 20s, 30s or 40s. Deaths in our weakest, most susceptible populations. The elderly. In nursing facilities.
There’s the issue of the numbers themselves. One of the first public places we learned of this from Minnesota Senator Dr Scott Jenson. Hospitals were paid more for Wuhan-19 patients, so that incentivized their reporting a higher death rate from Wuhan-19. There is a massive difference between “dying WITH” and “dying OF.”
Then we have New York City funeral directors telling the truth about Wuhan-19 death statistics as well.
The numbers are skewed. The numbers are lying. Garbage in, garbage out. We know it now. We know the books are being cooked. We know hydroxychloroquine, when prescribed by doctors under medical conditions considering each individual patient, can be an effective tool in fighting Wuhan-19.
We know there are underlying, motivating factors in keeping Americans locked up, ignorant, quaking in fear. Many factors involving politics and cash. Politics and cash.
Dr Scott Atlas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, from April 28th, indicated it’s time to open America back up.
That’s science. The studies quoted above are science. The rationale for locking down Americans and not allowing them to purchase garden hoses, walk on dry sand, or purchase seeds is based only upon power and control. And money of course. Via tinpot Leftist dictator governors and mayors.
And despite all of this, despite all of the science in evidence, we had this in New Mexico — what was patently under-reported or avoided completely.
New Mexico governor orders roads closed to city of Gallup in effort to stop coronavirus spread
by Morgan Phillips, 5-1-20
New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to slow the spread of coronavirus and sealed off the roads into and out of the hard-hit city of Gallup, she announced Friday.
To help control a surging outbreak in the city, the Democratic governor locked down the city at the request of Gallup’s mayor, Grisham said in a news release.
Beginning noon Friday, all roads into the city were shut down and businesses were required to close from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. in the city of 22,000. Additionally, only two people are allowed in a vehicle at the same time.
As of May 22nd, there were a total of 300 deaths from Wuhan-19 in the entire state of New Mexico. Sure. Let’s just lock down an entire town and station the Stasi on the border. Sounds like something right out of East and West Germany and Berlin, doesn’t it? To people who know something about history.
The Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot — who despite her own prohibition, went out and got her own hair done “because I felt better and I have to be in the spotlight” a month ago — tacitly said that having 49 people shot, with 10 fatally in the deadliest Chicago Memorial Day weekend since 2015 is, well, pretty much business as usual.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) May 3, 2020
We can lock up hair salon owners, gym owners, restaurant owners, we can suspend their licenses, their certifications, ruin the lives, dismantle their businesses, and send misguided and wrong-headed cops who aren’t well versed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to do the bidding of Leftist governors and mayors.
Hey wait. How about some more science, since Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots profess to love and revere science:
CDC’s Latest ‘Best Estimate’ of COVID Death Rate Is 13 Times Lower Than Initial WHO Claim
by C. Douglas Golden, 5-25-20
It’s a number that informed so many of our public policy decisions regarding COVID-19 — 3.4 percent.
“Globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected.”
Now, was this based on incomplete information? Of course.
According to the CDC’s data, the symptomatic case fatality percentage is 0.4 percent.
So, do the math: It turns out that means the death rate is only 0.26 percent, according to the CDC’s own numbers.
If we’re talking about something closer to 0.26 percent, putting the world into a new Great Depression seems a bit of an overreaction.
Despite all of this, there are those who want even more power and control over you. When opportunity knocks, people open the door.
So now is a good time to disabuse people of the notion that there aren’t those who wish to place some kind of human trackers into vaccines and such, not unlike programs placing RFID chips in citizens. Of course those who think this may be a goal of various scientists and governments are considered tinfoil-hat-wearers up to and until the time comes that various articles shed light on the truth. From FindBiometrics.com:
New ID2020 Project to Build Biometric ID Program Around Infant Immunization
9-19-19
“The project will involve the exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants, with the aim of building a biometric ID program based on the most successful approaches.”
ID2020, a public-private alliance aimed at supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on universal identity, has announced a new identity project in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh and Gavi, a public-private alliance concerned with vaccination.
The project’s aim is essentially to create a biometric identity system based on immunization efforts conducted by Access to Information (A2I) – a Government of Bangladesh agency – and the Directorate of Health Service (DGHS), with the support of Gavi. The project will involve the exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants, with the aim of building a biometric ID program based on the most successful approaches.
Such as this.
“At the core of our digital strategy is digital identity, which we believe has the promise to deliver a fast-track to inclusion,” Clements explained. “Nearly one billion people worldwide are unable to prove who they are. That is one reason why the Sustainable Development Goals provide all people with a legal identity by 2030.”
And an important element of digital identity is biometric identification, with Clements highlighting the example of a refugee settlement in Jordan, where “refugees are able to authenticate their identity using biometric Iris scans at enabled ATMs before receiving digitally distributed cash assistance.”
Bill Gates assures us all that none of us should attend mass gatherings absent a global vaccine, from ZeroHedge.com:
Bill Gates Crosses The Digital Rubicon, Says “Mass Gatherings” May Not Return Without Global Vaccine
by Tyler Durden, 4-10-20
A recurring theme among conspiracy theorists is that the elite are just waiting for the right moment to roll out their ‘mark of the beast’ technology to remotely identify and control every single human being on the planet, thus sealing their plans for a one world government. And with many people willing to do just about anything to get back to some sense of normalcy, those fears appear more justified with each passing day.
Does this sound like ID2020? Because it is.
In September 2019, just three months before the coronavirus first appeared in China, ID2020, a San Francisco-based biometric company that counts Microsoft as one of its founding members, quietly announced it was undertaking a new project that involves the “exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants” that is based on “infant immunization” and only uses the “most successful approaches.”
For anyone who may be wondering what one of those “most successful approaches” might look like, consider the following top contender for the contract. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed what is essentially a hi-tech ‘tattoo’ that stores data in invisible dye under the skin. The ‘mark’ would be delivered together with a vaccine, most likely administered by Gavi, the global vaccine agency that also falls under the umbrella of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
A simple “tattoo.” Does that sound familiar in some fashion?
Today, with the global service economy shut down to prevent large groups of infectious humans from assembling, it is easier to imagine a day when people are required to have their infrared ID ‘tattoo’ scanned in order to be granted access to any number of public venues. And from there, it requires little stretch of the imagination to see this same tracking nanotechnology being applied broadly across the global economy, where it could be used to eliminate the use of dirty money. After all, if reusable bags are being outlawed over the coronavirus panic-demic, why should reusable cash get special treatment?
Writing earlier this month in these pages, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar provided a compelling argument that the coronavirus, which is driving the world towards a New Great Depression, is “being used as cover for the advent of a new, digital financial system, complete with a forced vaccine cum nanochip creating a full, individual, digital identity.
Storing medical information below the skin’s surface
by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office, 12-18-19
Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history.
MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.
“In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist at all, and electronic databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated,” says Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University.
The researchers showed that their new dye, which consists of nanocrystals called quantum dots, can remain for at least five years under the skin, where it emits near-infrared light that can be detected by a specially equipped smartphone.
Nanocrystals called quantum dots.
To create an “on-patient,” decentralized medical record, the researchers developed a new type of copper-based quantum dots, which emit light in the near-infrared spectrum. The dots are only about 4 nanometers in diameter, but they are encapsulated in biocompatible microparticles that form spheres about 20 microns in diameter. This encapsulation allows the dye to remain in place, under the skin, after being injected.
Please re-read: “This encapsulation allows the dye to remain in place, under the skin, after being injected.”
So people that are telling you “chipping with injectable vaccines” isn’t possible, and that no one will do it? Yeah, now you know they’re full of shit. It is possible and people are dying to do it. To you. Do you think they’ll just drop the idea to have people geotagged? And that you’ll not have to get “updates” just like a new app or program?
And that those updates won’t contain a means to GPS your position, or limit your ability to make purchases, get money, goods, services? How about granting access to public venues? How about access to the DMV to renew a license? How about before you purchase insurance? Buy a house? Consider a firearm? Get groceries? Do any banking?
And though, yes, I am straying a bit, this reminds me of a recent social media bit from Sue Meyer. She wrote:
Here we bloody go. I live in Sweden. It is all about controlling people. We are almost cashless now. I am not allowed to cash out my money. I have not paid cash in almost three years. I absolutely hate it.
Every six months, they block access to our accounts unless we answer some very invasive questions. Making me feel, each time, as if I was living under a dictatorship and being treated like a criminal.
A few days ago there was a “glitch” in the bank system, and millions were not able to access their accounts for two days. Where is our choice and freedom?
Australians, do not allow this to happen because it is a trap, and the government can stop access to our accounts at the push of a button. Wake up.
In various articles it was touted that a cashless society was a plus, as the government could force you to spend during a time of recession, or save during a time of inflation. It’s therefore not your money, and becomes the government’s money.
And while we’re at it, wouldn’t it be great if we were all RFID or nano-chipped? What a wonderful world it would be. We’d have to possess an alternative, though. What about ID cards? Would Dr Anthony Fauci be a fan of that? From Politico.com:
Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’
by Quint Forgey, 4-10-20
The proposal, already being implemented by German researchers, is under consideration in the United Kingdom and Italy.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.
“You know, that’s possible,” Fauci told CNN’s “New Day,” when asked whether he could imagine a time when people across the country carry such forms of identification.
“I mean, it’s one of those things that we talk about when we want to make sure that we know who the vulnerable people are and not,” he said. “This is something that’s being discussed. I think it might actually have some merit, under certain circumstances.”
The proposal is contingent upon the widespread deployment of antibody tests which the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are in the process of validating in the the U.S., Fauci said.
National ID cards. Wouldn’t that be a dream? You know, like the ID cards every state requires to make sure the proper person is voting, that it’s an actual citizen who’s voting, like the ID you need to get into any DNC conference or rally. Like those.
Dr Anthony Fauci is a professional. So is Dr Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Wait; Gates isn’t a doctor. But he plays one on Leftist TV. And what he says, goes. Here, he makes the clear and dictatorial statement that “cases will be exponentially growing anywhere you don’t have a serious shutdown.”
So thank God YouTube and Facebook and all the rest of the social media realize that Dr Gates only hat nur das Beste fur alle Menschen auf dem Planeten im Sinn! Heil Gates!
“You get a hundred, you get a thousand, you get ten thousand.” Yup. Fear Porn.
Your chance of dying from COVID-19 is notably higher if you live in a blue state.
here is only one reliable metric that reveals how likely you are to die from COVID-19 in a given state, and it isn’t what you’re seeing in the legacy media. The number of new cases and deaths, for example, are staples of news stories about the pandemic. Neither of these factoids, however, tells us very much in the absence of sophisticated epidemiological data that just isn’t yet available. A far more predictive metric is “death rate per million.” Why? Testing is far more consistent for fatal cases. By this measurement, you are probably more likely to die from coronavirus if you live in a blue state rather than one of its scarlet counterparts.
Ooooopsie. That is not what the LDAMM want you to read or hear.
Simultaneously, Leftist Oregon Governor Jay Inslee demands contact tracing. Screw those puny things you think you have, called “rights.” Willkommen in Ihrem neuen Nazi-Deutschland. Heil Inslee!
Leftist Illinois Governor JB Pritzker wants you to spend up to a year in jail for breaking his emergency rule that criminalizes business people who defy his “stay at home” order.
So this is still happening. All in the eschewing of science, you see. Because I proven time and again that keeping people locked up is essentially against all of science.
As you already know, all the people who are telling you to “stay inside” and “don’t come out” are the same people who have absolutely no skin in the game. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zed. The Null Set. Bupkus.
At the same time you’ve lost your job, your business, your house, your family, everything you’ve worked for, your life’s savings, perhaps even friends or family members to suicide — these Leftist governors and mayors haven’t lost a dime. Not one penny. They’re still employed.
Oh. And either they or their family members have gone on great vacations to the second or third homes, mansions in Florida, ranches in Wyoming. Time to buy a cowboy hat!
So what do we know? At a time when Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots were berating everyone for saying that now is the worst time to politicize the Wuhan-19, they were the very first to politicize it.
We now know that, particularly now, science has very little to do with onerous exclusions, continued lockdowns and ridiculous strictures.
We know that, in terms of the LDAMM, it has everything to do with money, power and control. “You’re not listening to vat I om zaying? You vill pay a price!” It’s now about power and punishment rather than science.
Let’s examine some final statistics, shall we? Here are some Wuhan-19 death stats at one point. Note the differences.
In Demorat States:
NEW YORK: CLOSED 23,083
NEW JERSEY: CLOSED 10,843
PENNSYLVANIA: CLOSED 4,624
MICHIGAN: CLOSED 5,129
TOTAL DEAD: 43,679
TOTAL POPULATION: 51.11 million
Then, in Republican States:
FLORIDA: OPEN 2,144
TEXAS: OPEN 1,369
GEORGIA: OPEN 1,754
OHIO: OPEN 1,720
TOTAL DEAD: 6,987
TOTAL POPULATION: 72.79 million
And please also note this:
More people have died by Wuhan-19 in NEW YORK and NEW JERSEYNURSING HOMES than all the people combined in FLORIDA, TEXAS, GEORGIA and OHIO.
So we have to ask ourselves this critical question: “Did we murder the economy and throw a fifth of the labor force out of work to save less than 0.01% of the population?”
Because at this point, the answer would have to be a resounding yes.
This was an inadvertent crisis that was turned into a feature and not a glitch by the LDAMM, the Leftists and Demorats, ably abetted and aided by the American Media Maggots. Simply put: getting the US back on its feet its against their goal to defeat President Trump by any means necessary. Getting people back to work goes against that goal. Getting people back to any sense of normalcy is bad.
And guaranteed, the two last states to release their people will be NEW YORK and CALIFORNIA, because a good portion of the US economy rests in those states and the governors know that. To extend your pain and curtail your growth suits their needs and throttles President Trump. How do we know? Easy.
Dems reportedly warning pre-election economic surge could boost Trump
by Adam Shaw, 5-26-20
As President Trump and the rest of the country grapple with an economic downturn and sky-high unemployment rates amid the coronavirus crisis, some Democrats reportedly worry that an explosive economic recovery in the fall could revive Trump’s lagging political fortunes — and boost his chance at reelection.
Politico reports that Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a Harvard professor, told a bipartisan group of policymakers last month that “We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country.”
An Obama Leftists, in a story published by a Leftist organ, says that expected economic recovery isn’t going to be good for Demorats.
The claims may seem counterintuitive amid the bleak economic picture right now. But it’s premised on assumptions that as lockdowns ease, a recovery could follow more quickly than after past economic crises. Since his earlier prediction, Furman has reportedly also been making the case to Democrats, including top members of presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s campaign.
“This is my big worry,” a former Obama White House official told the outlet, who said of the concern about top members of the party: “It’s high — high, high, high, high.”
Translated and meaning: yes, Demorats want you punished, unemployed, bankrupt and even dead — hey, it’s a corollary adjunct — if it furthers their goals of removing President Trump and installing a Demorat in the White House.
Politics, power and money.
Still and all, the most critical questions yet should be:
Will we learn anything at all from this, and
If so, what did we learn?
Or do we leave with this quote:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.
I was writing and saying that, again, years before it became “cool” to do so. Because I had insight to laws violated and, well, I also have at my disposal a grasp of history, facts, logic, rationality, proportion, tradition, context, intent and common sense.
And because those things — power, mighty applications of power, propaganda and weight — can be applied to one president by whom the forces of the Deep State disagree, well, it can thusly be easily applied to another president of a different party by similarly-arrayed forces.
But that’s immaterial with the LDAMM: Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots.
With a number of caveats, of course, including the American Media Maggot factor. Because the AMM will never side with Republicans or Conservatives, not unless and until the AMM are totally eradicated and reinvented. Which may, in time, occur. We certainly know they are moribund.
The AMM hate to be called Fake News, except they continue to go out of their way to prove, each and every week, that they are indeed Fake News.
NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
by Greg Re, 5-11-20
NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later — but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air.
Asked by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge how history would judge the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Flynn case, Barr initially responded, laughing: “Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”
After the brief clip aired, Todd remarked that he was “struck by the cynicism of the answer — it’s a correct answer, but he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this was a political job.”
In the full clip, which the NBC show did not air, Barr immediately went on to state explicitly that, in fact, he felt the Flynn decision upheld the rule of law.
“I think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law,” Barr said. “It upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.”
Here’s how the full cut went, with Catherine Herridge.
Today on Meet The Press, @chucktodd wildly took context out of an answer AG Bill Barr gave about his decision to drop the case into Gen. Michael Flynn.
I cut Todd’s segment along with Barr’s full answer together. Look at how blatantly dishonest this is. pic.twitter.com/tODOEwL48V
Gregg Jarrett: FBI’s actions in Michael Flynn case should send a chill down your spine
by Julia Musto
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Thursday that explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday evening in the government’s case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn are the most “outrageous” and “unethical” actions by government officials that he has seen in 40 years of practicing law.
In an interview on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade, Jarrett explained the findings.
“You know, I thought this is the most outrageous, unethical, dishonest, and corrupt act I have ever seen. And, I have been a lawyer for 40 years. I have never seen such misbehavior by government officials,” he remarked.
Rep Jim Jordan told us what he thought the released documents indicated.
And then former Rep Trey Gowdy weighed in on same.
But what did fired former FBI Director Jimmy “The Leak” Comey say, in 2019, about why he sent FBI agents to the White House? Jimmy reveals: it was a purposeful Perjury Trap. And he did it because he could. He thinks it’s amusing.
Never before have I seen such a sanctimonious, hypocritical, entitled, arrogant, self-serving, preening, alleged law enforcement officer in my life. He is right is better, more sacrosanct and devout than you will ever be.
New Docs Tie Obama in to Effort Against Flynn, Biden Also in Room
by Nick Arama, 5-7-20
You can make the judgment call here, but this does not look good for former President Barack Obama.
According to the newly released documents from the Department of Justice, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates learned about the effort against Gen. Michael Flynn from Obama himself.
“Yates first learned of the December 2016 calls between [LTG Michael] Flynn and [Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey] Kislyak on January 5, 2017, while in the Oval Office. Yates, along with then FBI-Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were at the White House to brief members of the Obama Administration on the classified Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities in Recent U.S Elections. President Obama was joined by his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, and others from the National Security Council,” the document states.
“After the briefing, Obama dismissed the group but asked Yates and Comey to stay behind. Obama started by saying he had ‘learned of the information about Flynn’ and his conversation with Kislyak about sanctions. Obama specified he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information. At that point, Yates had no idea what the President was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can’t recall if he specified there was an ‘investigation,’” it continues.
But how can you discover information if you fail — as the American Media Maggots have purposely failed to do — to even ask the basic question:
And even after all this time, has anyone asked Obama or Biden: what did you know and when did you know it?
Schiff releases transcripts undercutting Dem claims of Russia collusion proof
by John Solomon, 5-7-20
FBI officials admit they knew Papadopoulos had little contact with Russians but opened probe anyways. DNC-connected lawyer reveals CIA contact.
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released thousands of pages of declassified interview transcripts from the Russia investigation that show that more than a year into the probe senior FBI and intelligence officials could offer no specific proof of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow and instead offered rambling explanations of why the probe had persisted.
The testimony of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe typified the testimony that was given back in 2017 to the committee, then under the leadership of Rep. Devin Nunes.
McCabe admitted at one point that while the FBI opened up the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on a tip from Australia that George Papadopoulos may have been told Russia possessed emails of Hillary Clinton, the bureau suspected the former Trump campaign adviser had little or no contact with Moscow.
You can see for yourself. Go here for Russia Investigation Transcripts and Documents.
So agents pivoted instead to another adviser, Carter Page, who had been the focus of Christopher Steele’s now-discredited dossier, he explained.
“Papadopoulos’ comment didn’t particularly indicate that he was the person that had had — that was interacting with the Russians,” McCabe answered when asked by lawmakers why a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant request in October 2016 focused only on Page and not the man the FBI originally predicated the Trump investigation upon.
It was one of the few extraordinary admissions from McCabe: The FBI opened up an entire counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign on a figure agents did not believe was having contact with Moscow.
But wait; it’s all a Nothing Burger that Schiff had to cover up. Schiff said this:
In releasing the transcripts Thursday, the current Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff claimed they provided proof of nefarious connections between Russians and Trump associates. “The transcripts released today richly detail evidence of the Trump campaign’s efforts to invite, make use of, and cover up Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential election,” he alleged.
But this was actually in the documents.
JAMES CLAPPER:
In fact, witnesses were repeatedly pressed to offer specific evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia and could offer none, saying it was either too preliminary or they did not have any.
“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers. “That’s not to say that there weren’t concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence.
“But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence,” he added
LORETTA LYNCH:
Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified that by the time she left office on Jan. 20, 2017 with the case more than six months old, she was unaware of any direct evidence of collusion.
“I don’t recall anything being briefed up to me, and it’s just my recollection at this point is not,” she said. She added that what officials had was mostly fears Russia might be working with Trump.
“Certainly the information that was given in [redacted] was concerning to me and indicated that there was a goal to have coordinated activity,” she said.
SALLY YATES:
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who worked for both Obama and Trump, also acknowledged there had been no determination of any conspiracy to collude before she was fired. Her winding answer was typical of many of the witnesses.
“I think you need to learn — if you want to get to the bottom line answer of was there collusion, conspiracy or coordination — if I got the three Cs right — then you also need to learn about who had contact, because you can’t get to that collusion — the other — the three Cs there, until you figure out who’s having contact with who,” she said.
Pressed to be more specific, Yates conceded there was no finding. “I don’t believe anybody had reached a conclusion yet as to whether there was a nefarious alliance … with the Russians. We were at the fact-gathering stage here, not the conclusion stage.”
MARY McCORD:
Mary McCord, the former assistant attorney general for national security, also testified that by the time she left the department a year into the probe there was no evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to hack DNC or Clinton campaign officials.
“I can’t recall if there was information, any information or evidence at the time I left about conspiring to take part in the actual intrusion,” she said.
ANDREW McCABE:
“What is the most damning or important piece of evidence in the dossier that you now know is true?” McCabe was asked during his December 2017 interview.
“Well, as I tried to explain before, there is a lot of information in the Steele reporting. We have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information,” he answered.
Pressed further to confirm that he did not know if Christopher Steele’s dossier was true, McCabe said, “That’s correct.”
BEN RHODES:
When asked under oath by House investigators if he had any evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, Rhodes said he did not.
“I wouldn’t have received any information on any criminal or counterintelligence investigations into what the Trump campaign was doing, so I would not have seen that information,” Rhodes told investigators.
Pressed again on the topic, he continued, “I saw indications of potential coordination, but I did not see, you know, the specific evidence of the actions of the Trump campaign.”
SAMANTHA POWER:
Samantha Power, former US ambassador to the United Nations, has publicly accused Trump of catering to Russian President Vladimir Putin to compensate him for interfering in the 2016 election.
“Every day @realDonaldTrump finds new ways to compensate Vladimir Putin for his election interference. And every day Putin gains additional incentive to interfere again on Trump’s behalf in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter in November of last year.
But when speaking under oath to House investigators, she sang a different tune.
Asked whether she had seen evidence of Russian interference, she said, “I am not in possession of anything—I am not in possession and didn’t read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community.”
SUSAN RICE:
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice told ABC’s “This Week” in July 2018 that questioning if President Trump was compromised by the Russians was “legitimate” because Putin was benefitting by the commander in chief’s policy decisions.
“What his motivations are I think is a legitimate question … the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin’s interests,” she said at the time.
Less than a year earlier, however, Rice told House investigators that she hadn’t seen evidence proving then-candidate Trump coordinated or colluded with Russia to take the 2016 election.
“I don’t recall intelligence that I would consider evidence to that effect that I saw prior…to my departure,” she said when being questioned by former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC).
The American Media Maggots also did their jobs on behalf of Russia — as you knew they would.
SUPERCUT from me: Put simply. CNN and MSNBC did not have a very good afternoon. After they found out the DOJ was dropping the Michael Flynn case, they called it a “demoralizing,” “destructive,” & “terrifying” “injustice” that signaled the DOJ’s “collapse.” https://t.co/rdwT16rHXKpic.twitter.com/AfCrl9ONZE
Susan Rice’s bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.
Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.
“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.
Remember that convoluted email?
A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.
Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.
Read the rest of the article. It goes step-by-step in a clear timeline delineating everything.
Listen now to Adam Schiff. Psychologists term this kind of thing “projection.”
By dropping the case against Flynn, the Justice Dept lost 50 years worth of ground in maintaining its independence post-Watergate.
Once again, Bill Barr is doing Trump’s dirty work.
And once again, Barr has undermined the legitimacy of our justice system and the rule of law. pic.twitter.com/lUuRoqFqeD
One of the biggest questions, of course, is this: who will fold first? Who will try to cut a deal with the DOJ first? Because whoever makes that decision will get the cushion deal and the rest will be out in the cold.
Here is Obama’s former DNI, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, throwing Barack Hussein Obama under the bus. Do you enjoy hot kitchens much, JC?
— ❌??Steve????America First????MAGA??KAG (@SJPFISH) May 8, 2020
You know; the same James Clapper who lied before Congress in 2013.
The case against General Flynn was dropped by the Department of Justice on Thursday of last week. Here is Politico’s take — and please note the biased stance.
DOJ drops criminal case against Michael Flynn
by Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, 5-7-20
The move comes after the president and his allies stepped up their assault on the legal case against the former national security adviser.
The Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, throwing in the towel on one of the most prominent cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The move represents a remarkable reversal two and half years after Flynn initially pleaded guilty to the FBI about his dealings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. In that time, the case has taken a number of dramatic turns: Flynn went from the precipice of being sentenced in 2018, to abruptly switching legal teams in 2019, to trying to withdraw his guilty plea in 2020. Flynn’s attempt to take back his plea led Attorney General William Barr in January to assign a federal prosecutor to review the case.
It was that review that led to the move on Thursday to dismiss the case altogether. Department officials, including Barr, concluded in light of recently disclosed evidence that the FBI’s questioning of Flynn just four days after Trump’s inauguration lacked a proper investigative basis. Flynn admitted in front of two federal judges that he intentionally lied during that interview about his dealings with the Russian ambassador, but the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general formally retreated from those admissions in January.
“A review of the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information, indicates that Mr. Flynn’s statements were never ‘material’ to any FBI investigation,” read the motion filed Thursday seeking to dismiss the criminal prosecution.
This was a Mark I, Model I “Perjury Trap” plain and simple, because I’ve seen them, I’ve worked them. Director Comey admitted to it, plainly and clearly. It was a fishing expedition.
For what? Russia “collusion”? You want to talk about Machiavellian? How’s this for convoluted? The famed Susan Rice “cover your ass” email at the end of the Obama regime.
Try to follow. The Obama Regime and Susan Rice believed General Flynn had to be Putin’s Poodle because he was — correctly, as certainly is confirmed now — emphasizing the threat and danger China is to the United States, whilst also indicating that Russia was — and is — the world stage “has been.”
Thusly proving that General Flynn was a Russian stooge and required targeting.
But mostly because Flynn was a clear threat. For one, he planned to revamp pretty much all seventeen intelligence agencies and, to them, that was a true existential threat. Jobs could be lost! Power could be lost! Control could be lost!
The bastard’s gotta go, the Obama Administration agreed.
For a moment, let’s go back to 2017 and the truthful Marie Harf, Obama devotee extraordinaire.
Ex-Obama State Dept. spokesperson Marie Harf claimed in July 2017 that it’s “absolutely not true,” the Steele Dossier was used to obtain a FISA warrant. pic.twitter.com/BB3IWJlFyW
Memo: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences
by Byron York, 12-11-18
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was “relaxed” during the session.
The new information, drawn from McCabe’s account of events plus the FBI agents’ writeup of the interview — the so-called 302 report — is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn’s defense team.
Citing McCabe’s account, the sentencing memo says that shortly after noon on Jan. 24 — the fourth day of the new Trump administration — McCabe called Flynn on a secure phone in Flynn’s West Wing office. The two men discussed business briefly and then McCabe said that he “felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down” with Flynn to discuss Flynn’s talks with Russian officials during the presidential transition.
McCabe, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to the agents alone, without a lawyer present. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only,” McCabe wrote. “I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.”
Can anyone say “Perjury Trap” again? Hands? Bueller?
Chief conspirator himself, Barack Hussein Obama, had to weigh in on the DOJ dropping the Flynn investigation. Ever notice how Obama isn’t the so-called incredibly brilliant orator when a TelePrompter isn’t around?
I want to know. Why is a FORMER president “pretty darn invested” in the outcome of a DOJ probe into illegal spying on Trump’s campaign and the decision to free Flynn? Why can’t he just retire in his Martha’s Vineyard mansion and let the chips fall? #TREASON#FisaGatepic.twitter.com/nCOlnm4aBy
Why does Barack Hussein Obama care? His presidential ship has sailed. That’s yesterday’s news. Unless he somehow fears that orange really is the new blue.
And speaking of Obama, why doesn’t he want to let us see his archives? I thought — no, wait, I know — Obama said his was going to be the most transparent presidential administration in the history of history.
Obama Sends Private Letter to National Archives Claiming ‘Confidentiality’ To Not Release Biden-Ukraine Docs
by Gregg Jarrett, 5-10-20
What exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?”
Former President Barack Obama has inserted himself into the Russia, Ukraine fiasco; arguably this was not the first time. While Democrats have been denying and protecting their guilt in creating and advancing the Russia Hoax, there is evidence that suggests President Obama likely was aware of the probe. Fox News has obtained a letter from the office of former President Barack Obama to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which manages presidential records.
Why would Obama, four years after leaving office, suddenly get involved? The letter to the National Archives was privately sent in March. Arguably they did not want Fox News to obtain a copy. Nonetheless, the letter bashes Senate Republicans and their investigation of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. Hunter, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, joined the Ukraine company during the Obama administration. Very intriguing.
Obama’s letter to the NARA is a response to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson having requested the Obama administration records on Ukraine-related meetings, placed on November 21, 2019. Obama’s letter claims the senators’ inquiry is an effort “to shift the blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election to Ukraine.”
So depending upon the prevailing political prairie winds, the Leftists and American Media Maggots will always align with, alternately — whenever it suits their purposes of working against President Trump in any fashion — Russia, China, or the loving Nazi George Soros.
GEORGE SOROS SPEAKS ON TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS! @realDonaldTrump “is a purely temporary phenomenon that will disappear in 2020 or before that”-George Soros- To me, this speech sounds like a cloaked threat. Hands up if you agree! ?♀️?♀️?♀️ pic.twitter.com/rYhpa573wI
— ??Extremely Stable Genius #ChinaLied ?? (@MazurikL) May 9, 2020
While we’re here, let’s remind ourselves of what was said between Hillary Clinton and James Comey in 2016.
And let’s review how I knew James Comey was lying back in 2016, and couldn’t be trusted or believed from that point forward. As I wrote in early 2017:
It is crystal clear from the evidence released by the FBI after the first investigation that the former Secretary of State used a private email server to transmit national security information rather than safeguard such information, as required by law, and that she subsequently made statements contrary to the facts as we continue to learn.
Second, the real actor in this Theater of the Absurd is the Justice Department’s decision to commence an investigation that was a sham from the very beginning. After all, it was the Justice Department that failed to convene a grand jury, issue search warrants for computers, place witnesses under oath and appoint a special prosecutor who could operate free from conflicts of interest. Hey, just like Robert Mueller, right?
Comey admits that Clinton lied. But here is the difference (that we won’t know precisely because there was no oath and no recording).
You can lie publicly all you want, if people are sufficiently stupid to believe it — like much of the electorate and the American Media Maggots are doltish enough. But you should not lie to the FBI. My guess is that Hillary Clinton came relatively clean in 3.5 hours. And that is why I believe she was not placed under oath and the interview was not recorded. Things like that make it easier to dispute later when politically necessary.
But James Comey outed himself to Jason Chaffetz:
Chaffetz then asked whether it was that he was just not able to prosecute it or that Clinton broke the law.
“Well, I don’t want to give an overly lawyerly answer,” Comey said. “The question I always look at is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody engaged in conduct that violated a criminal statute, and my judgment here is there is not. “
And this is how James Comey attempts to rationalize his decision. He states he does not believe his case established guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
NEWSFLASH: It is not UP to YOU, Director Comey, to assemble a case that yields a determination of “beyond a reasonable doubt.” That threshold is up to the DOJ or more pointedly a Grand Jury, not you or your organization. All you need to compile a case for submission is “probable cause.” That’s what real cops and real DAs in America do. Their jobs. They stay in their lanes and do their jobs.
As I have said time and again, there are two kinds of crimes as written by statute: those of general intent and those of specific intent. Comey stated that HRC had to have possessed a very specific intent to commit her crimes. EXCEPT that the US codes applicable are not those of specific intent because they do not include the phrase “with the intent to.”
That is how a crime of specific intent is crafted. It is stated.
Even more disturbing: Attorney General Lynch did not recuse herself from the final decision on whether to prosecute the case — nor did she give that decision to a career prosecutor at the Department of Justice. She instead prejudged the case by supposedly blindly accepting the FBI’s recommendation.
“[AG Lynch] said…she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made…” –NYTimes July 1, 2016
Of course she would. The fix was in. And Comey was predestined to take whatever fall occurred, not her. After all, he is white and male; she is black and female.
Here, Maria Bartiromo speaks with Devin Nunes about the situation.
Scum bags Clapper, McCabe, Comey knew enough not to lie to Congress but it didn’t stop them from going on Lame Media-CNN, MSNBC & calling Trump & Flynn Traitors, pushing Fushion GPS dossier paid 4 by #Clinton
Democrats & Media are culprits that KNOWINGLY spread LIES to the public pic.twitter.com/pJes1ZkWzG
— GaPeach?4Trump⭐️⭐️Text Trump to 88022 (@GA_peach3102) May 10, 2020
Now we’re discovering that, of course, Barack Hussein Obama knew what was going on with Flynn — but Joe Biden knew as well. From FoxNews.com:
Obama knew details of wiretapped Flynn phone calls, surprising top DOJ official in meeting with Biden, declassified docs show
by Gregg Re, 5-7-20
President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case.
Obama’s unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn’s calls, which the FBI acknowledged at the time were not criminal or even improper, raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn — and because top FBI officials secretly discussed whether their goal was to “get [Flynn] fired” when they interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017.
Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was “not a fan,” according to multiple officials. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014; Obama cited insubordination, while Flynn asserted he was pushed out for his aggressive stance on combating lslamic extremism.
Obama knew what was going on. So did Joe Biden. No one can possibly think that Barack Hussein Obama was either a stupid or an uninformed individual in the Oval Office. And particularly when dealing with issues of these importance.
So it’s official: we have a name. ObamaGate. Jesse Watters talks about same.
I know what’s going to happen as soon as I click “Retweet”. The white liberals and black Obama-worshipers are going to come out in force. I know better than to ask either group for objectivity, but to quote O-Messiah’s poster, I can HOPE. Can’t I? #ObamaGate#ObamaKnewEverythinghttps://t.co/OItptffg0z
— Giacomo K. Proud member of Black Voices for Trump (@giacoknox) May 10, 2020
And listen how the LDAMM, the Leftists, Demorats by way of the American Media Maggot Brian Stelter, want it both ways. Flynn is just a smoke screen for avoiding Wuhan-19 deaths, which is essentially an overblown flu targeting the elderly while — in the meantime — the nation spent almost four straight years being put through the wringer of the constant whining and keening of little officious pricks like George Costanza on CNN.
Brian Stelter:
It is “disappointing” that “right wing media” is “treating the Michael Flynn story like it’s a better deal than the deaths of 2,000 Americans a day.” pic.twitter.com/itaSwplkf1
Flynn’s lawyer accuses Obama of framing the ex-national security adviser
by Mark Moore, 5-10-20
The lead attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sunday accused former President Barack Obama, other top administration officials and the FBI of setting up her client.
Sidney Powell on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” cited the revelation in recently released-documents that FBI agents didn’t tell Fynn he was under investigation or that lying to them would be a federal crime.
“These agents specifically schemed and planned with each other how to not tip him off, that he was even the person being investigated,” she said.
“So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately as part of their effort to set him up and frame him.”
“The whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, [Former CIA Director John] Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama,” Powell said.
It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal
by The Post Editorial Board
RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?
It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.
Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.
Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.
Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.
Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.
Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.
Everyone, up to and including Barack Hussein Obama, in this treasonous chain, should be prosecuted criminally and civilly.
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
And finally: the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine should prevail. Everyone caught, sentenced or affected by the illegal FISA warrant should be set free, to include Manafort and all others.
I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.
A paddleboarder was arrested 4-3-20 for disobeying Governor Newsom’s “stay at home order” on Malibu Beach. It took a sheriff’s boat, a USCG boat, and about $17,000 worth of fuel, time and man-hours to “corral” the miscreant, who faces 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine — at the same time that actual criminals are released from Kalifornia jails. Perspective, anyone?
The fight continues.
And I am perplexed why it does.
I’m not speaking out of school when I say that this issue is tearing through a number of law enforcement contingents on Facebook, with groups featuring retired and current LE members, who have vastly different opinions on the subject.
Altogether too many of them shockingly wrong.
Wrong how? As in marching lockstep with whatever edicts are handed down by local mayors or state governors. I won’t enumerate all the myriad reasons on this post; I already did so on my prior post in great detail. Read it here.
I find this thinking disappointing and, frankly, a bit shocking and certainly disturbing. In my opinion, altogether too many law enforcement officers are willing to look at the computers in their vehicles, acknowledge a call with an easy fingertip, respond, violate rights, and seemingly think nothing of it, all in the name of what I term Fear Porn.
And now, there’s another reason for cops to continue violating your rights. We’ll get to that in a moment.
Perhaps that might have been initially semi-excusable about two months ago when the numbers were still rolling in — and yet, not very excusable when taken in overall context in terms of rights and freedoms in the United States of America.
The subject was already a primary focus, for two entire hours, on my wireless radio show last Thursday night, the 7th, where I delineated the numerous reasons, in significant detail, why too many responses by law enforcement feature unnecessary, over-the-top — and unconstitutional — reactions to situations that can be best served, easily, by other less heavy-handed means.
And yet the hits and foolishness just keeps on coming. Please understand, the bulk of what I’m addressing with this post applies primarily, as you will read below, to Kalifornia laws.
The most recent incident that set me off — as well as apparently others in the opposite direction — occurred in Fresno, Kalifornia on May 10th, Sunday, Mother’s Day.
WATCH: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother’s Day Diners at Fresno Waffle Shop
by Todd Starnes, 5-10-20
At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno, California.
The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop. Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment. When they refused, the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons. It was during that confrontation that at least two people were taken into custody.
Body cam video from Fresno PD.
Then: off to the races on a law enforcement Facebook group. The original post:
So I can’t find the post where the video of my Alma Mater Fresno PD arrested a guy at a restaurant this morning.
I watched the video earlier and only later decided to respond to it. What I saw was an officer meeting two code enforcement officers to make contact with the management of the restaurant probably to cite them for a muni code violation. As they walk up to the door, the crowd gets ugly. There is a guy blocking the door.
The big guy is about 6-03. He blocks the door as a crowd surrounds the officer and tells him he can’t go in. The big guy also gives the officer some sort of forearm or elbow. The officer arrests him.
I know the officer pretty well. He did everything by the book. The crowd and the tall guy were angry and things went down hill because of them not the police. The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily. Don’t judge until the facts are in.
You may not like the fact that code enforcement was going to shut down the restaurant, fine. In my opinion the officer did his job the way he thought it needed to be done.
I disagreed. After a number of comments I wrote:
Maybe the guy’s (the officer) a good guy. At this point it’s becoming immaterial. The numbers and the science aren’t justifying these actions any longer.
I retired as a cop after 41 years in LE. As a Sergeant I wouldn’t have allowed my troops to be the Covid Gestapo.
I can read and people can read. I smell bullshit and people smell bullshit.
You forget the phrase “with the consent of the governed” at your own peril.
From that point the fire was lighted. One deputy responded to my comment.
The police are being used by the politicians to enforce poorly thought-through directives. The public is getting more and more pissed off about these Draconian measures to contain the virus. What will result is civil unrest as the public grows more defiant against the politicians while the police get caught in the middle. It’s a no-win situation for the police.
By the way I’m a retired deputy sheriff and I’m catching a lot of flack from friends who see more and more intrusion on their civil liberties.
He’s correct. Cops are catching crap — properly — for actions such as this. I replied:
My point precisely.
Then there was a response I hadn’t anticipated, corroborating my thoughts.
You might need to get your glasses checked, the guy he arrested never gave him a forearm or elbow. The officer reacted to a verbal challenge and got pissed off. There was no crime, hope you buddy is ready for the law suit. Also ask your buddy how long it will be before he does gun confiscation as ordered.
Then we were off to the races when I wrote:
I’ve read on any number of LE sites how “politics like this” are ruining these sites. Debatable. The overarching points in my mind are Constitutionality and the Bill of Rights. That’s the oath I took. Not to a mayor, not to a governor, but to the US Constitution. Because LE can do a thing, we always need to ask: “are we doing the right thing for the right reason?”
Spirit of the law vs the letter of the law. Discretion. Malum in se vs malum prohibitum.
One individual began the thread.
So what would you have done if you were directed by your supervisor to assist code enforcement with their investigation?
I replied:
Told my troops to C4, gone over myself to look, listen. The city can send paper later. Is it worth getting my troops or citizens hurt over this when the numbers and stats don’t justify it, when I personally see the same thing happening at Costco or Save Mart, or people standing in line for EEO? Nope.
So when rational arguments don’t work, as with everyone else — and attorneys — you go for the ad hominum attacks:
You worked in Sacramento County, one of the most pussified and liberal departments in California. Where you need permission before you can make a request (he meant arrest). I understand your response. But, in real police work, things are a bit different.
So my 41 years mean nothing. Okay. But factually, again, he was sorely incorrect. I responded:
Oh, you mean SAC PD.
Because historically, with the Sacramento Police Department, you need the permission of a SPD Sergeant to make an arrest absent exigent circumstances.
Not so, historically, at the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office where I worked for 35 years, where myself and others were granted trust and utilized discretion — and did not require a Sergeant’s permission for any arrest.
That is one of many reasons that retired SPD officers came over to Sac SO to work as annuitants because, as most every retired SPD officer told me when I supervised EVOC: “If I’d only known this, that you treat your officers like actual adults, I would have gone with you guys.”
Another individual wrote:
Funny we never went with code enforcement people when they did their job, wasn’t our business enforcing health codes and such, only time I ever responded to assist a code enforcement was when the place had a history of getting physical with the code enforcers and I can’t imagine that was the case here, but one never knows. Personally with all the lies and deception coming from newscum I would have on viewed something en route and not gotten their to be involved…..this isn’t about a virus it’s about the upcoming elections…..
Now we’re getting closer to the crux of the biscuit, because here’s another thought:
Where was the on duty patrol Sgt. That would not have happened if those were my troops. I would have led the Code Enforcement officers through the back door, securred the front door after safely ecorting the customers out the back door after they had finished their meals and as as soon as Code Enforcement was done, ecorted them to their vehicles. Sorry Folks the Waffle House is closed until further notice. 10-8 Clear – return to your beats.
The same goon who hated me hated that response. He posed:
Back doors locked. Now what?
The response?
Have dispatch call them and tell them to open the back door. If that doesn’t work, have a unit borrow a crowbar from the Fire Dept. Do I have to do all the thinking? Apparently.
Boom, shaka-laka.
More comments.
We can all debate the officers actions/tactics, etc. But I’ve read several comments on here referring to the officer as “ short shot, gnome, tweedle dum” etc. It’s disappointing that a few of the arm chair warriors on here feel the need to denigrate an officer who is still out there wearing the badge, doing a difficult job.
And:
That Officer is 5-02 of fury. He is tough as hell any of you who denigrate him based on his size are dicks.
Several comments later, a voice in the wilderness:
The police should not be involved in this issue at this level. Distrust & rebellion are growing, & involving our police is perceived as the overreaction that it is. LE cannot afford further erosion of respect & cooperation. Our collective security is at great risk & anarchy is the result. Big Bird appeared to challenge the officer. I know nothing of him or his motives but that cannot be allowed.
And there we have it. Another comment:
The officers did not have their heads in the game. I led patrol officers as their field Sgt.for 26 years and that was a cluster f..k from the get. They did not follow the 5 Ps – Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
Then it went to this, and rightly so.
Confiscation of lawfully possessed firearms? Better bring a body bag. Our neighbors, friends and every citizen will ultimately be engaged in armed resistance. We’ll be getting a taste of what it was like to be a Redcoat in 1775. Sure, there will be cops and soldiers who will buy in and enforce such orders. I expect the majority will not. I know of none of the Marines I served with who would comply.
Exactly what I want to hear from law enforcement officers.
Another comment.
“The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily.”
I don’t doubt that at all, but I bet their friends and colleagues would have said much the same about many of the Redcoats at Concord on April 19, 1775.
Sometimes “good guys” follow bad orders, and find themselves on the wrong side of history. Time will tell.
And another comment.
Speaking for myself only, if I had to go out on a call to assist another city department, I just stood by to keep the peace. My dog wasn’t in the fight over too many chickens or how tall somebody’s grass was. That’s their call. But, if things started going south then I was in charge and called the shots. It wasn’t worth the potential damage trying to force a hand over a municipal code violation. The department involved could file a report with the city attorney and go about finding another solution. I’d back them but I wasn’t going to get my butt in a sling for them either.
You have to look further down the road. What are the ramifications of this call, particularly a Wuhan-19 call?
The problem today is that the police are in a no win situation. They are expected to uphold the law but in turn are crucified by the press and the public, who know nothing about the law or the situation.
And:
Agencies need to step back and away from all the bull shit. U have people getting arrested and released…real crooks. Not people trying to keep there business going and people hired. Really. Going to arrest people on the beach, or your not social distancing and going to take them. Come on. My son a combat Marine grunt was hired by a agency. After seeing all this the kid withdrew. Told them he wanted nothing to do with what they r doing…He is back in the service
Then this dropped:
I thought this site was an LEO site. All the second guessing sounds like some of you need to be in IA.
A response:
Exactly. Bunch of self righteous assholes
I responded myself:
Who follow the Constitution, Bill of Rights, honor their oaths and don’t blindly obey. So I guess I’m an asshole.
A reply to me:
Right. I’m sure when you were a cop in the 80’s and some asshole mouthed off to you, you immediately thought “of the constitution, bill of rights” and walked away. Come on.
Me:
Apparently you don’t understand the difference between Constitutional and unconstitutional. I’m not someone’s political poodle and this is all politics. These political mayors and governors can fight their own political wars.
Him, with the ad hominum attack, which is what attorneys use when they have no argument.:
Apparently you forgot what it was like to be an officer. Easy for you to judge in retirement how bad ass you were and how you would have done it.
One defender:
Calling out a fellow officer for doing something stupid isn’t anti LEO.
Then I wrote, more pointedly:
Oh please. This is all political bullshit that cops get placed into by fuckhead politicians, meaning it isn’t worth getting my troops embroiled in. I go back to my original reasons above. Numbers, stats, politics.
Then a little more common sense emerged from another officer:
This reminds me of the time I had a municipal code violation for loud music. The guy was ready to go to blows along with his party friends. I issued the ticket noted the refusal, wrote a brief report. The city attorney later got upset and said I should have taken the guy to jail. I asked if they would have stood by me for a use of force complaint over loud music. The look on his face told me I did the correct thing… cops are being pulled into a bad situation with this mess.
Bingo. Thank you. Then another interesting comment making the distinction between a police department and a sheriff’s department.
Can’t fault a city peace officer if he is ordered by a city appointed Police Chief who must answer to city officials who order him to enforce unconstitutionally issued orders, codes or statutes.
A county Sheriff on the other hand is elected and answers directly to his citizens and if he truly believes in the Oath of Office he swore to he will tell those communist leaning officials, whether they be city, county or state, that he will NOT enforce any unconstitutional statue or rule that violates the rights guaranteed to the citizens under the U. S. Constitution.
Whether it be active military or active law enforcement anyone who took the Oath of Office which is a life long obligation, knows full well they do not have to carry out orders they know to be wrong and in this case an egregious violation of the rights of all Americans…….………………
Read what Wikipedia says about governors executive orders. As I interpret it, the governors executive orders apply to only government employees and departments, “NOT” the citizens. If that is the case all of these communist leaning orders they have issued are illegal in the first place and not adhering to an illegality issued statute or code by people exercising their protected rights is not a violation of anything.
Except yes, I still fault the police department.
It’s politics, people. Backed, now that we are cognizant of so many other updates, by smoke and mirrors. The numbers and statistics and even the World Health Organization, the WHO, no longer back the Chinese model, instead selecting the Swedish model. Sounds kind of lascivious. I’d select the Swedish model also.
California Government Code section 8567 states that all orders under the California Emergency Services Act must be in writing and they take effect immediately. When the governor calls a state of emergency, he may suspend any state statute, rule or regulation. (Cal. Gov. § 8571). Please notice that the governor does not have the authority to suspend the California Constitution. As such, any rights contained in the Constitution are still in force. In fact, to make sure the government understands that there are limits to their authority, Cal. Gov. § 8571.5 expressly states that nothing in the California Emergency Services Act gives the government the right to seize or confiscate any firearm or ammunition unless an officer is arresting someone pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime.
And:
On March 4, 2020, Governor Newsom Declared a State of Emergency.
On March 11, 2020, Governor Newsom’s office published the fact that it was California Department of Public Health’s policy of preventing gatherings of groups larger than 250 people “should be postponed.” This was not an executive order by the governor, instead it was a California Department of Public Health policy. This policy does not cite a single law that gives the California Department of Public Health authority to shut down events of 250 people or require social distancing of more than 6 feet. While these may be good guidelines to follow, they are simply policies, they are not the law.
To emphasize that this was just a policy and not a law, on March 12, 2020, Newsom issues his next executive order (N-25-20). This executive order states that “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance of state and local public health officials, including but not limited to the imposition of social distancing measures, to control the spread of COVID-19.”
Notice the language of this order. “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance …”. If you look up the word heed in the dictionary, you will discover that it means “to give consideration attention to.” It does not say you must obey. Gavin Newsom in his executive order utilizing his powers granted him after declaring a state of emergency told the citizens of California that Californians should takes the advice given by the California Department of Public Health into consideration when making decisions.
Now a very important part.
Thus, contrary what you may have been led to believe, Gov. Newsom did not actually issue an executive order requiring Californians to practice social distancing, nor did he actually order gatherings of over 250 people to shut down. All he did was order people to pay attention to what these organizations were saying. These were merely recommendations.
Understand, a policy is different from a regulation. While I was able to find authority that allowed the California Department of Health Services to issue emergency regulations after they jumped through a few hoops, I have been unable to find where their policies would have the full force of law. Laws are passed by the legislature, or under the state of emergency, via executive order by the governor.
We’re not done yet.
Cal. Health & Safety § 101040 permits local health officers to take any preventive measures that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any state of emergency declared by the governor. After a local health emergency has been declared, “The sheriff of each county .. may enforce within the county … all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.” (Cal. Health and Safety Code 101029). Cal. Health & Safety § 101030 specifically gives the county health officer the authority to order quarantines.
As one studies California law, it is clear that the law used to be very explicit that a quarantine was only applicable to those who had a contagious disease or those who had come in contact with someone who had a contagious disease.
While most of the laws regarding quarantine are very broad, Cal. Health & Safety § 120215 appears to have limiting language. This statute reads: Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need for strict isolation or quarantine, each health officer shall: (a) Ensure the adequate isolation of each case, and appropriate quarantine of the contacts and premises. (b) Follow the local rules and regulations, and all general and special rules, regulations, and orders of the department, in carrying out the quarantine or isolation.
And finally:
The quarantine laws are clearly intended to be applied to individuals not to the entire county. The quarantine laws are designed to stop those who might have been infected from passing the disease onto others. Absent the local health officers finding that an individual has the disease or is likely to have the disease, California law does not give them broad authority to quarantine the entire county.
As such, it appears counties such as San Francisco that have issued broad shelter in place laws may be violating California law.
Let’s just be plain and obvious. With altogether too many cops in these circumstances, they are taking the calls personally. It becomes a personal affront. That’s not how this works. Not with politics and politicians — who are all to happy to allow cops to get caught in the middle so that they can be kicked to the curb at will.
And by departments, when faced with use of force complaints, aren’t willing to support their officers when they’re correct.
They are failing to see the ramifications of their short-sighted decisions. That’s my job as a Sergeant, to cover my troops, make sure they’re doing the right thing for all the right reasons, and to ensure people are safe and rights are upheld.
Here is an organization that knows how to protect its troops against an absolutely classic “no-win” situation for law enforcement, the New York Police Benevolent Association.
NYPD union wants cops out of ‘social distancing enforcement’
by Tina Moore, 5-4-20
The city’s largest police union is demanding cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” while slamming New York pols for “releasing criminals,” “discouraging proactive policing,” and leaving subways “in chaos.”
“This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” a statement from Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.
“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.”
Lynch was referring to a fracas that erupted as NYPD cops were trying to enforce social distancing rules over the weekend in the East Village and a cop was caught on video slapping and hitting a bystander who appeared to challenge him.
Lynch added that the politicians are “still watering down our laws, releasing real criminals and discouraging proactive enforcement of fare evasion and quality of life issues.”
“As a result, our subways are in chaos and we have hero nurses getting mugged on their way to our hospitals,” he said, referring to a nurse who had her phone torn out of her hand in Times Square on April 26. “As the weather heats up and the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”
If only more organizations took this logical stance.
Before I go, this came to the forefront:
The original video can be seen here.
There is also this, from a locality closer to my area, Lodi, Kalifornia:
Lodi Police Officer Says He Was Fired For Refusing To Enforce Stay-At-Home Order
LODI (CBS13) — A Lodi police officer says he was fired for not enforcing the states’ stay-at-home order.
In the past 24 hours, his community has raised thousands of dollars to support his family.
Former Officer Jordan Duncan only worked with the police department for four months. The details of the incident aren’t clear, but city officials confirm an April separation date. They would not go as far as to say that Duncan was fired.
Officials did point to a recent ruling which calls the stay-at-home order “lawful,” and said police officers can’t choose which laws to enforce.
That last paragraph? Wrong. Cops have been using discretion in terms of which laws to apply and when for, literally, over a century.
Two aspects the article fails to point out are that, one, he fronted off the Chief of Police in a briefing, telling him what he would and would not do. The other aspect is, two, that he belongs to the easiest class of person in the world to fire, someone on probation.
Fresno County Sheriff Won’t Enforce Stay-at-Home Orders; Too Busy Re-arresting Freed Criminals
by Joel B Pollak, 5-14-20
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.
Mims appeared on the Trevor Carey Show, discussing the challenges facing law enforcement during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the economic hardship. She pointed out that government employees were also vulnerable to the economic damage, because the decline in tax revenues meant that state and local governments would cut services.
Carey asked her: “I’ve heard multiple sheriffs around the nation state they will not enforce their governors’ shelter-in-place orders. Is that your position?
“That is my position. We do not stop the public to find out what they’re doing when they’re not sheltering in place. We don’t ask those questions, we don’t ask if they’re ‘essential’. We’ve got our hands full trying to re-arrest people that are released due to zero-dollar bail. So we’ve got other things that are on our mind that are more important than stopping normally law-abiding citizens.”
Fresno County now, officially, has a Good Sheriff.
Clearly, two camps have emerged in law enforcement.
The strict “we follow the orders and directives all the time” camp — and the other, like mine, who insist there are overarching issues we shouldn’t be ignoring — like the rights and freedoms we as peace officers are sworn to uphold, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, no matter the circumstances. I don’t recall the “Time Out, It’s A Bad Flu” clause in any of those documents.
The bottom line is: there’s no doubt this is a proverbial “dry run” for Leftists and Demorats to push the envelope and see what it is that you, the average American citizen, will tolerate in terms of having your freedoms and liberties removed.
Do they only have to provide some kind of “safety crisis” for you to cave and fold? Will Fear Porn do it? How far can you be pushed before you react negatively?
I think we’re starting to see those answers right now.
We cannot allow law enforcement to be wedged into political issues like this. Because we have to do what I term The Logical Extension:
If law enforcement will willingly obey Fear Porn — what will they do when ordered to confiscate firearms from American citizens should Leftists return to power — which they obviously will, some day? And just as Leftists and Demorats said “nah, we’re not coming for your guns,” wrong, they now state openly they’re coming for our firearms.
Doing again The Logical Extension, that means they’re coming for, eventually, all of your rights — every little thing they can steal. IF you stand there complacently and allow it. But wait. Once you have no firearms?
Yeah. You are going to have to stand there and allow it.
I wish I could say I knew for a fact that all law enforcement officers are not going to act unconstitutionally. I cannot.
And that is so foundationally disturbing to my core.
Never in the history of this nation has it been under such terrible assault in terms of freedoms and liberties.
And I submit that the Wuhan-19 virus has merely accelerated the underlying subtext of nudging freedoms to the side via Leftists and Demorats, ably abetted and assisted by the American Media Maggots.
Multiple cases in point? The numerous actions around the nation by over-reaching governors and mayors in terms of setting proclamations and edicts restricting the rights of residents and citizens dealing with “sheltering in place” and keeping American businesses closed and dark — with clear and obvious disastrous effects on local and national economies.
Is this coming around? Are there changes in the air? Perhaps there are. Let’s deal first with a major event that occurred Thursday morning, with the release of General Michael Fllynn. The details from AP:
Justice Department is dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case
by Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
The action was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
This has been nothing more than a SOFT COUP against a presidential nominee, a president-elect and a sitting president — simply because he was not in keeping with the historical precedent of installing an actual politician behind the Oval Office desk.
In particular a man who is brusque, frequently unpolished, takes crap from few because he doesn’t have to, and is considered to be the proverbial “bull in the china shop” in terms of how the Deep State functions in DC.
His potential was that of blowing apart the jobs and lives of those who have insinuated themselves, like dangerous ticks, into all facets of federal DC politics, and how the massive cadre of unelected parasites have taken collective umbrage at being, first, “outed” and then, second, targeted for pest removal because — the Deep State is an infection upon the nation that must be destroyed.
Wiretapping, Russia, Mueller, dossier, bed piss, FISA courts, Urkraine, strippers, impeachment, Iran, illegals, travel bans, red tape, federal judges and now even a pandemic seems not to deter OMB — Orange Man Bad — President Donald John Trump, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head, from completing his duty to fulfill his campaign promises.
Much to the chagrin and absolute horror of Leftists, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, the Religious Climate Change Leftists, and Globalists everywhere.
They are cornered, they know it, and like wounded dogs they will do and try anything, anything at all, in order to survive. Because their survival is paramount and if you, the Little People, deign to get in the way with yout petty little lives, the LDAMM will smash you like the proles, serfs, commoners, groundlings, unwashed, rabble and insect-like subjects you truly are.
The Wuhan-19 pandemic provided the perfect opportunity for Leftists, Globalists, Progressives and Demorats to push the envelope in order to see just how much oppression you will take as American citizens. Because once they know and identify this Wuhan-19 threshold, they’ll know with greater accuracy how much more to push you when the Fear Porn subsides.
And make no mistake, the LDAMM are all about pushing the Fear Porn right now. In order to relinquish your rights, freedoms and liberties, you must be subjugated with the constant bath of fear — individually and for your family, loved ones, friends and acquaintances.
We have seen, as a result, the shameful acts carried out, thusly, by various law enforcement officers throughout the nation when the obey the edicts of their mayors or governors who have gone out of their way to create a class of criminals from individuals who had no intent of committing crimes but, instead, unlike true criminals, simply wanted to step outside like human beings or worship or get some food or, worse yet, to not allow the Wuhan-19 pandemic to cripple them financially, kill their businesses, eradicate everything they have worked their lives for, go into bankruptcy. They want to pay their bills, their mortgage, feed and clothe their kids.
And now, in my areas of the United States, that’s considered a crime. And certain law enforcement officers are, shamefully, carrying out these edicts against good, honest American citizens.
Unlawfully. Wrongfully. Unconstitutionally.
But first, let’s talk about the alleged science and the numbers utilized in supposedly justifying the removal of freedoms all around our nation. The models, the statistics, and the motivations behind it all.
Because, as per normal, when people “say” it’s not about the money, power or control? Oh yeah; it’s all about the money, power and control.
We were told from the outset that we had to “flatten the curve,” that all would be well, that the models were working, that we could place confidence in the WHO, the World Health Organization, upon whose logic, training, education and experience we could rely.
Though it was run by a Nigerian Director who isn’t really a doctor, put into place by his Chinese superiors, lied about his background, covered up for the Chinese, belittled President Trumps ACCURATE, TIMELY and APPROPRIATE response to place a travel ban on those from first China and then Europe.
Yes, that World Health Organization. The one embracing the strict Chinese Lockdown Model which, resultingly, various Leftist governors and mayors have been following religiously like the strictest of Koran tenets.
Beijing is pushing to become a public health superpower—and quickly found a willing international partner.
While the novel coronavirus is changing the world, China is trying to do the same. Already a serious strategic rival of the United States with considerable international clout, it’s now moving into a new field—health.
After initial denials and cover-ups, China successfully contained the COVID-19 outbreak—but not before it had exported many cases to the rest of the world. Today, despite the falsehoods it initially passed on, which played a critical role in delaying global response, it’s trying to leverage its reputed success story into a stronger position on international health bodies.
We now know that China locked down Wuhan, a city of over 11 million people, immediately. They allowed no one to move or fly from Wuhan into any other points in China. Yet it purposely did not place such limits anywhere else. Chinese could fly anywhere and everywhere around the planet, from Wuhan. And did.
Simultaneously — and this indicates clear consciousness of guilt — China began gobbling up PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) supplies from the world: masks, gowns, gloves, all in an attempt to corner the market, which it did. And then would sell back to various governments and organizations for inflated prices. In some cases a 50-cent mask sold for $8 dollars.
Most critically, Beijing succeeded from the start in steering the World Health Organization (WHO), which both receives funding from China and is dependent on the regime of the Communist Party on many levels. Its international experts didn’t get access to the country until Director-General Tedros Adhanom visited President Xi Jinping at the end of January. Before then, WHO was uncritically repeating information from the Chinese authorities, ignoring warnings from Taiwanese doctors—unrepresented in WHO, which is a United Nations body—and reluctant to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” denying after a meeting Jan. 22 that there was any need to do so.
After the Beijing visit, though, WHO said in a statement that it appreciated “especially the commitment from top leadership, and the transparency they have demonstrated.” Only after the meeting did it declared, on Jan. 30, a public health emergency of international concern. And after China reported only a few new cases each day, WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic March 11—even though it had spread globally weeks before.
Why wouldn’t WHO Director Tedros cooperate? China spent millions of dollars installing him in that position of power. He became their dancing monkey. And the Chinese hated him for it as well because, as we already know, China is literally the most racist and ethnocentric country on earth. Ask blacks who work there. Ask Muslims.
The Chinese have made it quite clear. You can’t trust them.
One reason is that official data from China is often highly dubious—which can lead to ill-advised health policies in other countries, since studies based on information from China are the first used to understand COVID-19. Countless cases of people dying at home in Wuhan—some being described in social media posts—will probably never go into the statistics. And while a report by Caixin on the Chinese province of Heilongjiang said that a considerable percentage of asymptomatic cases has not been reported—which amounts to about 50 percent more known infections in China, according to a South China Morning Post report on classified government data—WHO takes numbers reported by Beijing at face value.
Using those initial skewed and poorly-reported statistics — in some cases no statistics at all, conclusions and models were drawn for not only the United States but other countries.
Over time, however, other discoveries were made and studies published. The information now indicated the Wuhan-19 was much more prevalent and widespread than anyone imagined and, thusly, that meant its fatality rate necessarily plummeted. A number of studies were cited, this one from USC:
Early antibody testing suggests COVID-19 infections in L.A. County greatly exceed documented cases
by Leigh Hopper
USC and L.A. County Department of Public Health officials have released the preliminary results of their antibody tests, which show a surprising number of residents have been infected with the coronavirus.
USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Monday released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread — and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought.
And that was true for the nation, not just Los Angeles.
That led to the heinous conclusion by two now-infamous Kern County (CA) doctors that the time has come to quarantine the sick and release those who are fine, getting them back to work and re-vitalizing the economy. Of course, for suggesting that, the video from Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care was removed from YouTube for “violating community standards.” You can still watch it here.
Then, the worst of all possible worlds for WHO sycophants like all the various and sundry Leftist and Demorats governors and mayors who pretended to utilize “science” in order to justify their Draconian decrees.
The World Health Organization kicked the Chinese model to the curb, in favor of the Swedish model — which embraced no lockdown. From the NewYorkPost:
WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a ‘model’ for countries going forward
by Jackie Salo, 4-29-20
The World Health Organization lauded Sweden as a “model” for battling the coronavirus as countries lift lockdowns — after the nation controversially refused restrictions.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, said Wednesday there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, which has largely relied on citizens to self-regulate.
“I think there’s a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread,” Ryan told reporters. “Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Ryan noted that instead of lockdowns, the country has “put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long-term care facilities.”
In other words, they quarantined and protected the sick, not so the healthy population. And they treated people like adults. Such a concept.
So now we have a massive paradigm shift. The proverbial “sea change.” The WHO discards the Chinese model and embraces the Swedish model.
This is the highly vaunted WHO. The scientific WHO. The WHO whose numbers and thoughts are utilized by American Leftists and Demorats who wish to keep their own populations under thumb.
And, of course, trust the CDC. Until we saw this:
The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers
by Matthew Vadum, 4-9-20
Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted?
It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.
That the CDC isn’t telling the truth to Americans is no conspiracy theory: it’s right out there in the open for everyone to see. The CDC openly admits that it is fudging the COVID-19 death figures.
We know this because, among other truth-tellers, a plainspoken small-town physician from Kalispell, Montana, has pulled back the curtain.
Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, explained in a presentation how death certificates are made. (See “Montana physician Dr. Annie Bukacek discusses how COVID-19 death certificates are being manipulated,”
But wait; there’s more.
Bukacek refers to a March 24 CDC memo from Steven Schwartz, director of the Division of Vital Statistics for the National Center for Health Statistics, titled “COVID-19 Alert No. 2.”
“The assumption of COVID-19 death,” she says, “can be made even without testing. Based on assumption alone the death can be reported to the public as another COVID-19 casualty.”
There is a question-and-answer section on the memo.
One question is, “Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause?”
The answer is: “The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”
Another question is, “Should ‘COVID-19’ be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?”
The answer is:
“COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.” [Boldfacing in original]
“You could see how these statistics have been made to look really scary when it is so easy to add false numbers to the official database,” Bukacek says. “Those false numbers are sanctioned by the CDC.”
“The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think,” she says.
“How many people have actually died from COVID-19 is anyone’s guess … but based on how death certificates are being filled out, you can be certain the number is substantially lower than what we are being told. Based on inaccurate, incomplete data people are being terrorized by fearmongers into relinquishing cherished freedoms.”
And we trusted the numbers coming out of New York City hospitals as well. Until this.
New York City is lying about Chinese virus death rates
by Matthew Vadum, 4-3-20
The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count.
Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we are now regularly inundated on cable TV news with the latest pandemic statistics from the city. The statistics grow gloomier by the hour.
In New York City, the death of anyone who dies who tests positive for COVID-19 is counted as a coronavirus death. This is the case even if the coronavirus failed to play a significant role in the person’s passing or illness.
A medical doctor once explained this critical distinction to me.
Arguing against ordering excessive tests for his patients, he said that plenty of old people die who have cancer present in their bodies. Sometimes they don’t even know the cancer is present because the growth is tiny and slow-growing and doesn’t affect them. As they age, they die of some other cause even though they do in fact have cancer. When they die, it is not counted as a cancer-caused death because the cancer cannot be said to have killed them.
Then there is this audio from a video that was removed from YouTube because it revealed altogether too many material facts — and I knew it would be taken down. So I copied the audio and have it here for you to hear.
So what is the motivation for skewing the statistics? Cooking the books? Funeral directors happened to weigh in.
Funeral Directors Blow Whistle on Fake Coronavirus Death Reports
by Warner Todd Huston, 5-2-20
Funeral directors in New York are busting the fake coronavirus death certificates that state authorities are fraudulently assigning to people who have died this month.
New York authorities are desperate to make the pandemic seem far worse than it is to keep getting more federal financial assistance, and now they have been caught lying on death certificates to keep the cash rolling.
For instance, funeral director in Williston Park, N.Y., told Project Veritas that “Basically, every death certificate that comes across our desk now has COVID on it.”
Project Veritas essentially found that funeral directors are finding nearly everyone who has died is marked as a victim of the virus no matter what has really happened to the deceased.
“They are putting COVID on a lot of death certificates because people who are going to their hospital with any kind of respiratory distress, respiratory problems, pneumonia, the flu — the flu-like symptoms lead into the COVID-19,” said Joseph Antioco of Schafer Funeral Home.
“To me, all you’re doing is padding the statistics. You’re putting people on that have COVID-19 even if they didn’t have it. You’re making the death rate for New York City a lot higher than it should be,” Antioco added.
Wait. The statistics are being padded for money? For federal cash? From Globalresearch.ca:
US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
by Wayne Dupree, 4-15-20
Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He’s also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingram where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information.
Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association is now “encouraging” doctors to overcount coronavirus deaths across the country.
Jensen received a 7-page document that showed him how to fill out a death certificate as a “COVID-19 diagnosis” even when there isn’t a lab test confirming the diagnosis.
“Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.” (Dr. Sen. Scott Jensen, from Fox Interview)
So make no mistake. There are deaths. Some hospitals are zoos. But there is so much more going on than can be documented here in just this brief post. Money is involved. Influence is involved. China is involved and attempting to pull as many international strings as possible so as to avoid their nation being destroyed — as well it should — because of their staggering negligence, if you wish to be positive, or what could be interpreted as an attempt at war — by way of crashing the economy and killing what will turn out to be hundreds of thousands of lives around the planet.
So with the aforementioned knowledge, that Leftist governors and mayors are essentially doing the work of China by keeping American citizens locked up and the economy split apart — which obviously serves the needs of Leftists and Demorats and works against President Donald Trump — we see that our current US scenario becomes a couple of things.
First, a test bed for pushing the freedom envelope.– how much will you take?
And second, the final revelation that Demorats and Leftists are actually working against America and for Chinese interests, still continuing to push for Globalism simultaneously, which is nothing more than a naked and abject power grab in order to centralize control, and strength. As if that worked well for the EU.
The Wuhan-19 response model has changed, according to the WHO, from the Chinese to the Swedish. Let my people go.
So those governors and mayors wanting their denizens locked up have all changed their minds, right? Now is the time to embrace the Swedish model.
Siomiak wrote on the Facebook post that he is being “cited again” after he made statements for non-essential businesses to re-open at Councilmember’s Garry Bredefeld press conference on Tuesday.
“Told it was unlawful to operate my website and to cease immediately,” Siomiak wrote on the Facebook post that went up today. “I have tried to reach the lady who is in charge at the city but so far no luck. I wonder how many fines they are handing out for doing the safest form of business there is.”
According to a statement from the city, he was issued a warning notice on March 31, a $1,000 citation April 23 and a $5,000 citation Wednesday after the city received complaints about the continued operation of his store and advertisements of his store website for pick-up sales, which are not allowed at this time.
Bad Benrie. From Wisconsin, where a woman dared to allow her children to play with others:
Caught On Video: A pair of Wisconsin police officers on a crazed power trip show up at a woman’s home because she “violated a state order” by allowing her daughter to play at a neighbor’s house pic.twitter.com/JTtogvoE1X
More than 200,000 report neighbours to police for breaking virus lockdown rules
Police have fielded nearly 200,000 calls from members of the public snitching on neighbours or reporting other lockdown breaches, it emerged yesterday.
House parties, public loitering and other coronavirus-related concerns are being swiftly reported to police, who have now issued more than 9,000 lockdown fines in England and Wales.
There have been hundreds of repeat offenders, senior officers revealed, while breaches of social distancing are partly responsible for a doubling in antisocial behaviour offences.
On May 1st, CHP officers arrested protesters who had gathered at the state capitol after having not acquired a permit to protest there — because the CHP said no protests would be authorized. Tell you what. Let’s not even talk about the First Amendment issues. Let’s talk about the “Governor Newsom says you must social distance and you should wear a mask in close quarters.” Let’s talk about that. Because here are photos of CHP in the background doing precisely what the protesters were accused of doing. Not wearing masks. Not social distancing. That’s a fucked-up look, CHP, endemic of, again, “do as I say but not as I do.”
UPDATED: Knox County, Tenn., Bans Communion, Hymnals—and Even Bibles—at Church
by Paula Bolyard, 4-30-20
One of the things we’re beginning to see as states move toward “reopening” is elected officials and health directors mandating even more stringent precautions than had existed in prior orders. In Ohio, for example, Gov. Mike DeWine announced last week a plan to reopen the state, even while ordering restaurants, stores, and their customers to wear masks — something that wasn’t required under his previous shutdown order.
It’s even worse in Knox County, Tenn., where the health department just announced that while churches may reopen on May 1, the Lord’s Supper is forbidden.
The order was announced by Knox County Health Department Regional Hospital Coordinator Charity Menefee, who announced that Communion is not part of “core worship.”
New Mexico governor orders roads closed to city of Gallup in effort to stop coronavirus spread
by Morgan Phillips, 5-1-20
New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to slow the spread of coronavirus and sealed off the roads into and out of the hard-hit city of Gallup, she announced Friday.
To help control a surging outbreak in the city, the Democratic governor locked down the city at the request of Gallup’s mayor, Grisham said in a news release.
The Riot Control Act allows the state’s governor to enact temporary restrictions under a state of emergency, including prohibiting residents from being on public streets and the use of certain streets and highways.
Beginning noon Friday, all roads into the city were shut down and businesses were required to close from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. in the city of 22,000. Additionally, only two people are allowed in a vehicle at the same time.
To this date, New Mexico has had 163 deaths as of this writing. Allegedly, the lock was lifted May 4th. I’ve seen nothing about that and cannot confirm. Yet that’s worth walling off a city, according to the Leftist female governor. Won’t wall of for illegals, but certainly will wall you off. No, not kidding.
Oregon DHS Announces Plan to Confiscate Children if Foster Parents Test Positive for Coronavirus and Deemed Unable to Provide for Them
by Jim Hoft, 5-3-20
Several states reopened last week. Several more will open at least partially this week from the Fauci lockdown.
But Democrat-led Oregon is not one of them. Oregon, a state with 4.14 million residents, did not reopen on Friday. In fact, the liberal state is not reopening anytime soon.
Leftist Governor Kate Brown is extending the state’s lockdown until July 6th. After the 4th of July, naturally.
Yet Oregon is ranked 40th of all the states in Coronavirus deaths.
On April 22nd the state initiated a plan to remove children from foster homes if one of the parents comes down with coronavirus.
The state of Oregon will remove the children and place them with “substitute care” if the parents are deemed unable to support them.
Likely the State of Oregon cribbed this idea from the WHO’s Dr Michael Ryan, who advocates removing children from families by force and isolating them during Wuhan-19. Not kidding.
Calif. Gov. Newsom releases list of approved outdoor activities: ‘Wash the car,’ ‘watch the sunrise’
by Jessica Chasmer, 5-1-20
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has released a list of outdoor activities that are approved under the state’s shelter-in-place order, including watching a sunset and “throwing a baseball” as long as it’s not in a group.
“We want you to see sunsets,” the governor said. “We want you to enjoy activities outdoors. What they don’t want is people congregating outside in large groups.”
“If We Need to We Will Arrest You and We Will Take You to Jail” – Chicago Commie Mayor Outlaws Parties Under Her Watch
by Jim Hoft, 5-2-20
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot released a video on Saturday. The commie mayor will NOT ALLOW parties in her city. If you attend a party you will find yourself in jail.
Citrus Heights newlyweds arrested in Hawaii for violating quarantine, officials say
5-4-20
WAIKIKI, Hawaii —
A newlywed couple from Citrus Heights was arrested while on their honeymoon in Hawaii for allegedly not following the state’s mandatory traveler self-quarantine order, Hawaii’s governor’s office said Friday.
Borice Lepovskiy, 20, and Yuliia Andreichenko, 26, were taken into custody on Thursday by special agents from the Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, the governor’s office said.
The couple arrived at their Waikiki-area hotel Wednesday night. Officials said the front desk manager read them the requirements of the self-quarantine order.
“[The couple] reportedly said this contradicted what airport screeners told them. They also indicated they planned to visit friends and go to parks and beaches and claimed airport screeners told them that was okay,” the governor’s office said in a statement. “The hotel manager reiterated the rules and said the couple scoffed at him again and then left the hotel.”
The couple returned to the hotel after midnight with pizza, telling the manager they were allowed to be outside and buy food, officials said.
The couple “refused to sign the required quarantine acknowledgment,” the statement said.
On Thursday, the hotel’s general manager was told the couple left their room again. When they came back, the couple was told — again — they violated the self-quarantine order.
“AG Special Investigators were notified and arrested the couple. They are being charged under Hawai‘i Revised Statutes for unsworn falsification to authority and violation of the 14-day quarantine,” the governor’s office said.
Evil criminals! Hawaii has had 17 deaths from Wuhan-19. Not kidding.
HUNDREDS OF MISSOURI RESIDENTS FEAR CONSEQUENCES OF ‘SNITCHING’ ON CORONAVIRUS RULEBREAKERS AFTER INFORMATION LEAKS ONLINE
by Bryan Kirk, 5-4-20
Scores of Missourians who tipped off county authorities that local businesses had violated COVID-19 lockdown requirements in March and April are now worried about being publically shamed after their names and addresses were published on Facebook.
Jared Totsch, who shared the names on his Facebook page on April 16 after obtaining the list of 900 complainants from St. Louis County official under Missouri’s Sunshine Law, said on his Facebook page that tipsters should have realized their information could be made public, according to a report in the newspaper Independent.
Now, some of those who snitched may be worried these business owners may show up at their homes or businesses, and Totsch said he thinks that’s just too bad.
“If they are worried about retaliation, they should have read the fine print which stated their tips would be open public record subject to a Sunshine request, and should not have submitted tips in that manner, to begin with,” Totsch said. He added that he released the information to discourage this kind of behavior in the future.
You know what they say about snitches and stitches. Not kidding.
A conservative law firm is calling a new order in Kansas City, Missouri, “Nazi-like” for requiring churches to “surveil, track, and spy” on anyone who attends an in-person service, but the mayor is pushing back.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas’ 10/10/10 rule took effect May 5, restricting nonessential businesses, like churches, to 10 people inside and 50 people outside, as long as they practice social distancing.
In addition, nonessential businesses can operate at 10 percent maximum capacity.
The mayor said in late April that venues “need to keep track of those who come in” for more than 10 minutes, and the written order states each “should consider maintaining a record of customers.”
He’ll check back for your “papers.” Not kidding.
Then most recently from Dallas — and luckily this has drawn large attention from media — the semi-Conservative media, that is.
Dallas salon owner jailed for reopening in violation of court order
by Lavendrick Smith, 5-5-20
A Dallas salon owner will spend a week in jail after she was found in contempt of court Tuesday for violating an order to close her salon during the coronavirus pandemic.
In addition, Shelley Luther was fined $7,000 for contributing to operate her business, Salon à la Mode, in violation of a judge’s temporary restraining order issued against the business.
The problem? She failed to kiss an Obama advocate’s ring and, unconstitutionally, admit guilt in his courtroom.
Dallas Salon Owner Gets Out of Jail After Texas Supreme Court Orders Release
by Bryan Roth and Paul Weber, 5-7-20
Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther walked out of the Dallas County Jail shortly before 2 p.m. on Thursday, after the Texas Supreme Court ordered her release.
Luther was met with cheers and hugs from supporters who have rallied around her since she reopened her North Dallas salon: Salon A La Mode, despite state orders against it.
“I just want to thank all of you who I just barely met and now you’re all my friends,” said Luther to the crowd. “You mean so much for me and this would have been nothing without you.”
“We either run around in fear of getting a virus or we’re homeless,” said owner Cherie Baldridge. “I’m going to be homeless if I don’t open my business back up.”
From the packed parking lot to the bustling dining room, the restaurant saw its first lunch rush in more than a month.
“I found myself just smiling the whole time. I was like, ‘Wow this feels awesome,'” customer Kathy Ralph said.
“It felt like getting back to normal,” Glenn Ralph added.
The quaint restaurant along Pleasant Valley Road serves breakfast and lunch and only seats about 25 people. Nearly 100 people made their way through for the diner’s reopening. Baldridge said social distancing is just not possible.
“If you want to come in, come in. If you don’t, you don’t,” she said.
That’s called freedom. That’s called being an adult.
Luckily, after having watch law enforcement officers all across the nation arrest fathers in parks in front of their kids — for being in an empty park, arresting boarders in the ocean by themselves, and many many other examples of over-wrought enforcement, there are a few lights on the horizon.
Some Arizona sheriffs won’t enforce Gov. Ducey’s stay-at-home order
by Melissa Blasius, 5-1-20
At least three Arizona sheriffs say they will not fully enforce Governor Doug Ducey’s extended stay-at-home order.
Most non-essential businesses have remained closed across the state, but there is some rebellion.
Some businesses have reopened without permission, when the governor failed to lift the stay-at-home order on Thursday. Some Arizonans have also protested, saying social distancing rules should be loosened immediately, in part to save small businesses from ruin.
Anyone who defies the governor’s stay-at home-order, including businesses that reopen in violation, are committing a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,500 fine. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said he won’t enforce the penalties. Lamb said the governor’s order seemingly conflicts with the U.S. Constitution.
“Keeping people from going out and working and being able to live their lives like they normally do,” Lamb said. “I think you can make a clear claim that that’s a constitutional violation.”
Lamb added that refusing to let people inside businesses and restricting gatherings could be a violation of the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly.
Mohave County Sheriff Doug Schuster, at Thursday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, said his deputies are not going to be the “social distancing police.”
“It’s my job to ensure their freedoms and liberties are safeguarded,” Schuster said. “I am not going to make criminals out of law abiding citizens that are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table.”
He clarified Friday, saying it is recommended and advisable to take precautions against coronavirus.
Friday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Gila County Sheriff’s Office told ABC15, “We are encouraging people to follow CDC guidelines, but we will not be arresting anyone or closing any businesses.”
Acting with discretion and Constitutionally. Now there’s a concept to embrace. But wait; there’s more.
In Snohomish County, Wash., Sheriff Adam Fortney is refusing to enforce the governor’s stay-at-home order. He claims the order “intrudes on our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” On April 22, he told constituents via a Facebook post that “along with other elected Sheriffs around our state, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office will not be enforcing an order preventing religious freedoms or constitutional rights.”
These Washington sheriffs are far from alone. They’re part of a nationwide group of sheriffs who feel beholden to no one but their voters. As they have on issues such as immigration and gun regulations, they will lead rebellions against higher levels of government — in this case, undermining public health efforts in the name of their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Here’s how.
Sheriffs are unlike other elected officials.
Unlike police chiefs or commissioners who are generally appointed, sheriffs are law enforcement officials elected by residents of their counties. While research finds that police generally try to carry out their responsibilities in a nonpartisan manner, sheriffs are influenced by the desire to be reelected. Sheriffs run for office in the same way that members of Congress or the president do: they run on campaign platforms they believe will win a majority of votes. Sheriffs’ campaign platforms consist of their political and law enforcement records, personal philosophies and policy priorities.
What sheriffs promise to do is quite likely to come true, because they have much more autonomy than do other elected officials. Legislators can’t do much without first going through lengthy and involved policymaking efforts that involve collaborating with their fellow legislators. Governors and presidents have to work with the legislative branch of government. Because sheriffs don’t have these constraints, their personal attitudes are quite likely to affect how they carry out their jobs.
So remember: if you’re a Leftist, allowing law enforcement to utilize discretion and not carry out ramrod, goose-stepping Leftist edicts is, well, just not cool, man.
Constitutionalist sheriffs believe that the Constitution appoints sheriffs as the ultimate law enforcement authority, even above the federal government. The Constitutionalist Sheriffs and Peace Office Association (CSPOA) claims to have over 400 members. Constitutionalist Sheriffs vow not to enforce federal laws that they consider a violation of individual rights granted by the Constitution.
Constitutionalist sheriffs have been attacking stay-at-home orders, which elevate the rights of the community over the rights of the individual. For example, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler, who identifies himself as a constitutionalist sheriff, posted a letter to Bonner County, Idaho, Facebook page asking the governor to “reinstate the Constitution” because “Covid-19 is nothing like the Plague.” This sentiment is echoed by sheriffs across the country.
I think you can clearly grok the gist of the article. Free-thinkers can go right to hell and should never interfere in Leftist philosophy. To which I reply: thank God for Constitutionalist Sheriffs in this nation. We need more, not fewer.
California sheriff says he can’t enforce coronavirus orders making ‘criminals’ out of business owners, others exercising rights
by Bradford Betz, 5-6-20
A Southern California sheriff on Tuesday announced he will not be enforcing the state’s stay-at-home order on the grounds that doing so would make “criminals” out of business owners and others who are merely exercising their constitutional rights.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco delivered the remarks during a meeting with the county’s board of supervisors, who were deciding whether or not to remove the county health officer’s order.
Bianco said that the state order forced residents into their homes, closed their businesses, kept them from going to church.
“In the name of a public health crisis, our civil liberties and constitutional protections were placed on hold,” Bianco said.
And:
“Not only do we not have the resources to enforce unreasonable orders, I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms, and otherwise healthy individuals for exercising their constitutional rights,” Bianco said. “There cannot be a new normal. We are talking about a country formed on the fundamental freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Any new normal is a direct attack on those basic rights which set us apart and make us the greatest country in the world.”
Thank you, Sheriff Bianco.
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones wrote yesterday:
It is time.
It is time to let people out of their houses and responsibly open the economy, to let businesses thrive and employees and former employees get back to work.
It is time to develop a plan to open ALL businesses. If car washes, Starbucks, adult boutiques, and pot shops have been considered ‘essential’ throughout this, really aren’t ALL businesses essential?
It is time to reflect on decisions we have made under the pretext of this pandemic: Such as why we were forced to let over 1100 inmates out of Sacramento’s Covid-free jail into a community where the law-abiding are still locked down?
It is time to place responsibility for hygiene and healthy practices back into the hands of the public, rather than being forced upon them by government.
It is time to recognize that this year is and will continue to be tragic because of the pandemic, but that it does not mean that the next SEVERAL years have to be devastated as well by economic and social ruin from continued inertia. Remember Newton’s Law of Motion (and lack of motion).
It is time to understand that stay-at-home equals loss of tax revenue, and THAT equals significant cuts to law enforcement and fire departments next year, including potential public safety layoffs all over California and the nation.
It is time to recognize that We the People have willingly acquiesced to loss of freedoms, loss of income, and loss of social connection for the greater good, but now we are ready to responsibly get back to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is time.
Thank you, Sheriff Jones.
Please again note that those officers deigning to use discretion in enforcement are markedly Sheriffs as opposed to Chiefs of Police. Elected vs appointed. A large difference in freedom there, eh wot?
As Mark Pantano wrote: “What has the government learned? All they have to do is declare an “emergency” and Americans will give up their jobs, close their businesses and confine themselves to their homes. They will tolerate criminals released and parents arrested for playing outside with their kids.”
This addendum as well. Demorats are saying: “While Americans have lost their jobs, dying of Wuhan-19, while the economy is tanking, let’s sow more chaos and division, change voting laws and ram through everything we can of our Leftist agenda. Fuck Americans. Especially those who didn’t vote for us.”
Democrats trying to use coronavirus crisis to rewrite all US election law
by David Harsanyl, 4-9-20
I’m sorry, but you have no constitutional “right” to vote by mail. You have no constitutional “right” to vote six days after an election is over. Nor do you have any “right” to censor information related to an election. Not even during a pandemic.
This week, the US Supreme Court ruled that a lower federal court couldn’t overwrite Wisconsin’s election laws and force the state to accept ballots without any postmark deadline nearly a week after the election. Likewise, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Tony Evers didn’t have the authority to arbitrarily suspend in-person voting.
If these dictates had been allowed to stand, they would have created destructive precedents, taking elections out of the hands of local legislatures. If we discard legal norms every time there’s a crisis, we no longer have a nation of laws.
The usual suspects, of course, lamented the alleged anti-democratic animus of Chief Justice John Roberts’ high court. Liberal pundits, apparently unable to differentiate between partisan policy preferences and the rule of law, launched into their customary hysterics, denouncing the Supreme Court for disenfranchising minorities and putting people’s lives at risk.
But the court doesn’t exist to fix your local government’s incompetence or make life safer. It exists to uphold the Constitution.
BINGO. Pay attention, people. This is critically important.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has already proposed mandating automatic and same-day voter registration, ending ID requirements, compelling states to have 15 days of early voting and forcing states to adopt voting by mail, among other liberal pet projects. She wants the federal government to bribe states billions to adopt these standards.
And she wants those changes implemented by November.
She isn’t alone. In “Phase 4” of the coronavirus rescue package, Democratic leaders are reportedly including provisions that would compel all states to offer voting by mail. Presidential hopeful Joe Biden also supports such a mandate, because, he claims, “all the experts” say we should do it.
Folks, this is a power grab. A cynical and overt power grab.
Democrats have spent years weakening the integrity of elections, but voting by mail opens up the process to real-world voter intimidation, disenfranchisement, fraud — and a host of other problems.
Then again, people of goodwill can disagree over the particulars of election policy. It’s far more critical to note that neither the Senate, nor the House, nor the White House, nor federal courts have any business compelling states to adopt uniform standards regarding mail-in ballots or IDs or voting machines or much of anything else. A national mail vote is meant to federalize the election, leaving smaller states to the vagaries of a national majority. It’s exactly the kind of situation the Founders wanted us to avoid.
“Let’s make sure this crisis doesn’t go to waste.” –Rahm Emanuel
This is another is a series of examples illustrating what happens when we’re not paying attention as a nation, when we are distracted. Nothing good. Something bad. A perfect opportunity for Leftists and Demorats to cheat, aided by the American Media Maggots.
Fear Porn is distracting us from seeing the obvious. Our freedoms are taking wing, leaving the nation, courtesy of the LDAMM.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Coronavirus crisis — Does America still have a Constitution?
I have been taking some heat from friends and colleagues for my steadfast defense of personal liberties and my arguments that the Constitution — when interpreted in accordance with the plain meaning of its words, and informed by history — does not permit the government to infringe upon personal freedoms, no matter the emergency or pandemic.
For those who agree with me, worry not. We will persevere. For those who trust the government, worry a lot. You are not in good hands.
The purpose of the Constitution is to establish the government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are written in the Constitution itself. Most of the limitations that pertain to personal freedoms are found in the Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments.
These amendments were ratified to restrain the federal government from infringing upon personal liberties. Since the enactment of the 14th Amendment in 1868, and subsequent litigation, these amendments, for the most part, restrain the states as well. The courts have characterized these protected liberties as fundamental.
So, the rights to thought, speech, press, assembly, worship, self-defense, privacy, travel, property ownership, interstate commercial activities and fair treatment from government are plainly articulated or rationally inferred in the first eight amendments. The Ninth is a catchall, which declares that the enumeration of rights in the first eight shall not mean that there are no other rights that are fundamental, and the government shall not disparage those other rights. The Tenth reflects that the states have reserved powers to themselves.
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here” — referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that.
But the ease with which police state tactics have been employed and the equal ease with which most Americans have accepted them have been breathtaking.
People will argue that a temporary police state has been justified because of the allegedly unique threat to life posed by the new coronavirus. I do not believe the data will bear that out. Regardless, let us at least agree that we are closer to a police state than ever in American history.
“Police state” does not mean totalitarian state. America is not a totalitarian state; we still have many freedoms. In a totalitarian state, this article could not be legally published, and if it were illegally published, I would be imprisoned and/or executed. But we are presently living with all four of the key hallmarks of a police state:
But listen to this:
The reason I believe this is a dress rehearsal is that too many Americans appear untroubled by it; the dominant force in America, the left, supports it, and one of the two major political parties has been taken over by the left. Democrats and their supporters have, in effect, announced they will use state power to enforce any law they can to combat the even greater “existential” crisis of global warming.
On the CNN website this weekend, in one of the most frightening and fanatical articles in an era of fanaticism, Bill Weir, CNN chief climate correspondent, wrote an open letter to his newborn son. In it, he wrote of his idealized future for America: “completely new forms of power, food, construction, transportation, economics and politics.”
“You cannot get there without a police state.”
If you love liberty, you must see that it is jeopardized more than at any time since America’s founding. And that means, among other things, that at this time, a vote for any Democrat is a vote to end liberty.
Steve Apfel wrote, concerning the perils of submitting to petty tyrants:
We let bureaucrats decide for us what businesses are more important than others to society.
Without a squeak we acquiesce to being put under de facto house arrest.
We hardly blink when troops are deployed to enforce lockdown.
People believe they’re doing their duty by reporting on neighbors.
Passively, we observe our right to protest neatly cut off when public gatherings are outlawed in the name of social distancing.
We accept the obligation to go bankrupt and hungry as the cost of beating the virus but don’t expect our lawmakers to make the same sacrifice that they imposed on us.
That the chance of death in lockdown due to hunger, addiction, depression, violence, neglect, etc. may be higher than dying from the virus matters not one iota to the commissars of lockdown.
With bovine servility, we greet every inroad into private lives by lawmakers who too often have a rotten past.
We are blind to the political basis of the divide between those who advocate keeping the economy closed until the cows come home and those desperate for the economy to reopen.
Though we may see it, we fail to grasp that deliberate destruction of the socio-economic fabric is about exercising power over people instead of a life-or-death imperative.
Bureaucrats blame the pandemic for threatening untold lives: “The World Food Programme suggests that 130 million people around the world could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Wait a minute! “As a result of”? COVID-19 causes sickness and death, mostly of minuscule proportions. It took just 1 in 1 million Indians to die to panic bureaucrats to lock up a billion people. What virus ever caused people to starve? Lockdown policies did that. The dire condition of our world is no fault of a virus. It was man-made. More to the point, it was expert-made and government-administered.
I said for quite some time that security and liberty are a scales. And I’ve said this for years: law enforcement officers, REMEMBER YOUR OATHS to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You owe NO allegiance to a transitory governor or mayor acting improperly or unlawfully. NONE.
I’ll let Dan Bongino talk to my law enforcement brothers and sisters:
Law enforcement officers, LISTEN UP.
You either HONOR the oaths you swore to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, or you DISHONOR your badge.
I somewhat began this post with General Flynn, and I’ll somewhat end the post with my thoughts on General Flynn because they too have to do with law enforcement.
I worked for the FBI and US Marshal and locals. This problem and issue with handling Flynn is institutional in the FBI. There are MANY other agents who knew what was happening, what was wrong, but did nothing. They KNEW about Comey. They KNEW about McCabe.
Just as I called bullshit on UC Berkeley PD, Portland PD, San Jose PD, Sacramento PD. Berkeley PD, I call bullshit on the FBI.
It hasn’t stopped with Comey. It’s continuing with Wray. When you have the alleged “premiere law enforcement” agency of the entire US acting this way, it’s not a “one-off.” I still speak to agents. They’re not stupid. But they know if they air dirty laundry their careers are over. That is institutional fear. There is NEVER an excuse to NOT do the right thing, ESPECIALLY at the FBI. Agents are embarrassed and ashamed, and they SHOULD BE.
Look, I HAD to play by all the rules. I couldn’t show bias. I couldn’t have political motivations. I had to apply for all my search and arrest warrants. I had to OBEY the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If I didn’t, I faced discipline or criminal prosecution.
So no, I don’t excuse the FBI.
I PAID political prices for doing the right thing several times on my department. I was told to my face not to apply for Lieutenant because I’d never make it. Guess what? I didn’t.
Why? For doing the right thing against the wishes of my “superiors.”
So I’m VERY sensitive about doing the right thing. Why? Because stains like those created by the FBI taint ALL of law enforcement and LE can ill afford that, at all, in these times.
NO SLACK for the FBI.
What I can also say is this: keep pushing Americans who want to pay their bills, feed their kids, not see their lives ruined and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
Keep pushing, Leftist governors and mayors. I submit, especially the hotter it gets, that we’re just a measly few weeks away from many in government seeing just how the “consent of the governed” truly works.
After all of this, though, what will we have learned? What should we learn? Nothing more than a continuance of this.
Freedom is never free.
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
And:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
And:
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – JFK
God bless America, the last and best experiment on the planet with regard to freedom and liberty. Because when we lose it here — and people keep wanting to be here because of it — what other country do you go to find it?
Completely forgotten in all of the US politically-correct, virtue-signaling insanity is what “white people” did on this day — not just for the United States, but for the entire planet. They stepped up. Some had choices. Most didn’t. Some accounted well of themselves. Some cried like babies and, yes, called for their mommies while they died bleeding, missing a leg, an arm, part of their jaw, bits of their brain on the beach covered by the lapping tide. But they still stepped up.
Named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, and was also known as D-Day.
Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower speaks to the troops.
Churchill and Montgomery calculate the UK portion of D-Day.
As an aside, Eisenhower received his fifth star as General of the Army of December 20th of 1944.
One of, if not the major reason people justified, overtly or covertly, the cessation of business for “sheltering in place,” was that the science “justified” our doing so. We were attempting to “flatten the curve” as it were, which somehow morphed into “flatten the economy.”
As the saying goes: “Whatever the Leftists and Demorats are accusing you of, they themselves are doing right now.”
All you Leftists, remember to stay inside and remain scared. Do whatever your governor or mayor tells you to do. Your business, you livelihood, your job, even your health means nothing if even one governor’s edict or mayor’s edict can be saved. OBEY. Sieg Newsom! Sieg Murphy! Sieg Cuomo! Sieg Pritzker! Linke über alles!
Remain Blue Pilled, all of you people. 
Let’s stop here for a moment. It’s no surprise that I’ve lost acquaintances, some fairly close, and even some friends when I voted for Donald John Trump, OMB, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head. Here’s a bit of the “odd thing” about that as well. They drew some clear lines — so I did too.
In the meantime, some people think that woman is nuts. What’s she doing out? Moreover, what’s anybody doing out? Time to call the police! Time to create a new hashtag! #RespectTheFearPorn!
Particularly in light of not only the revelations of the 
A simple “tattoo.” Does that sound familiar in some fashion?
And though, yes, I am straying a bit, this reminds me of a recent social media bit from Sue Meyer. She wrote:
I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that 
Try to follow. The Obama Regime and Susan Rice believed General Flynn had to be Putin’s Poodle because he was — correctly, as certainly is confirmed now — emphasizing the threat and danger China is to the United States, whilst also indicating that Russia was — and is — the world stage “has been.”
Here is an organization that knows how to protect its troops against an absolutely classic “no-win” situation for law enforcement, the 
Never in the history of this nation has it been under such terrible assault in terms of freedoms and liberties.
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