Month: April 2018

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Facebook Allegedly Deems Pro-Trump Diamond and Silk ‘Unsafe to the Community’

Facebook Allegedly Deems Pro-Trump Diamond and Silk ‘Unsafe to the Community’

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by Lucas Nolan8 Apr 20180



Facebook has reportedly limited the page of the pro-Trump YouTube sensations Diamond and Silk.

In a post on their Facebook page, Diamond and Silk, an internet commentating duo that became popular during the 2016 election for their vocal support of President Trump, stated that after much deliberation, Facebook has deemed their content and videos “unsafe to the community.” The post on the duo’s page reads;

“Diamond And Silk have been corresponding since September 7, 2017, with Facebook (owned by Mark Zuckerberg), about their bias censorship and discrimination against D&S brand page.”

“Finally after several emails, chats, phone calls, appeals, beating around the bush, lies, and giving us the run around, Facebook gave us another bogus reason why Millions of people who have liked and/or followed our page no longer receives notification and why our page, post and video reach was reduced by a very large percentage.”

“Here is the reply from Facebook. Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM: ‘The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.’”

“Yep, this was FB conclusion after 6 Months, 29 days, 5 hrs, 40 minutes and 43 seconds. Oh and guess what else Facebook said: “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.” (Note: This is the exact wording that FB emailed to us.)”

Diamond and Silk then posed multiple questions to Facebook and specifically the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The questions are;

1. What is unsafe about two Blk-women supporting the President Donald J. Trump?
2. Our FB page has been created since December 2014, when exactly did the content and the brand become unsafe to the community?
3. When you say “community” are you referring to the Millions who liked and followed our page?
4. What content on our page was in violation?
5. If our content and brand was so unsafe to the community, why is the option for us to boost our content and spend money with FB to enhance our brand page still available? Maybe FB should give us a refund since FB censored our reach.
6. Lastly, didn’t FB violate their own policy when FB stopped sending notifications to the Millions of people who liked and followed our brand page?

Breitbart News has reached out to Facebook for comment on the issue but has yet to receive a reply at the of the writing of this article.

This isn’t the first time that Diamond and Silk have faced internet censorship, the YouTube stars had their videos demonetized from YouTube’s platform in August of 2017. The duo claimed that YouTube had “stopped over 95% percent of our videos from being monetized, stating: ‘It’s Not Suitable For All Advertisers’.” The internet commentators implied that they may take legal action against YouTube at the time saying in a tweet; “We Smell A Class Action Lawsuit. This…. S.ugar H.oney I.ce T.ea have got to stop. YouTube……Google, this does not look good!”

The two received support at the time from former Governor Sarah Palin;

Fox News commentator Sean Hannity also appeared to voice his support for Diamond and Silk in a tweet;

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan_ or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com

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Boulder City Council Passes Gun Ban On First Reading

The flood gates have been opened.

A controversial city ordinance to ban “assault weapons, bump stocks and high capacity magazines” passed the Boulder City Council unanimously on first reading Thursday night after more than five hours of public testimony on both sides of the issue.

As written, the ban would require anyone legally possessing anything under the ban to either register that gun with the Boulder Police Department (fee charged) or surrender it for destruction.

The first reading passage is not a final decision. The Council could make changes on second or even a third reading before it becomes law.

Councilwoman Jill Adler Grano, who asked for the ordinance, called the ban a “no brainer.”

“I don’t see this as taking away Second Amendment rights,” Grano said. “The Second Amendment does not protect assault weapons. There have been hundreds and hundreds of mass shootings in America. This is a long overdue proposal. I think it’s time to say enough, not in the city of Boulder.”

The interest in the ordinance drew hundreds of residents, most of whom watched the hearing on televisions in two additional rooms.

For the most part, attendees were respectful of each other. The mayor at one point asked the audience to refrain from clapping.

“It is uncomfortable for some,” she said.

City attorney Tom Carr asked the audience to stop laughing at him as he tried to explain the nuances of various types of guns.

Those in favor of the ban say something must be done to stop the bleeding. Those opposed say gun ownership is a Second Amendment right.[..]

David Kopel, a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law and Independence Institute Research Director told council members they should talk to the Attorney General before they take any action, saying there are profound problems with state preemption laws.

“The city attorney’s point of view that any gun that doesn’t have a pistol grip but just has some kind of protrusion on the stock turns this into a very, very broad ban,” Kopel said, also encouraging them to ask about other features that make it illegal. “If two people own a gun and one is 5-foot-2 and the other is 6-foot-4 the stock can be adjusted so it’s a better fit for the user. It is hard to see how that does not violate the constitutional right to arms to say that a gun because it fits better becomes more unconstitutional, and I think the same can be said about many of the other features on the list.”

Kopel, who is considered one of the foremost authorities on the Second Amendment, has written more than a dozen books on the subject. Still, Councilman Sam Weaver challenged Kopel because of his affiliation with the Independence Institute and the National Rifle Association.

Kopel added magazines over 10 rounds constitute over half of all magazines sold in the last 20 years.

“The criminalization of them with no grandfathering will turn a very large percentage of the population of Boulder into retroactive criminals, and people won’t register because they are afraid of confiscation,” he said.

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Boycott Kimmel Petition Reaches 50k Signatures After ABC Host Mocked Melania Trump’s Accent

Boycott Kimmel Petition Reaches 50k Signatures After ABC Host Mocked Melania Trump’s Accent

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by Jerome Hudson8 Apr 20180



A petition to boycott ABC’s late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel has reached more than 50,000 signatures after the Live host dedicated a segment of his show on Monday to mock First Lady Melania Trump and her accent.

“We may not get him kicked off the air,” reads the recently launched petition, which calls for the boycott of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “But we can send a message that these attacks on our First Lady will NOT be tolerated!”

Kimmel caused a stir last week with his monologue mocking Mrs. Trump reading a children’s book to kids at the White House Easter Egg Hunt.

“No White House Easter celebration would be complete without story time with our first lady,” Kimmel said.

“Be clever and curious, just like a cat,” Mrs. Trump reads in the video played by Kimmel. “Ask lots of questions. about this and that.”

While his audience laughed along, Kimmel delivered a mocking impression of the first lady’s accent, saying, “Yeah, about dees and dat.”

“Guillermo, you know what this means, you could be first lady of the United States,” Kimmel said to his Mexican immigrant sidekick.

The boycott organizers plan to mail the petition to “the front door of Disney/ABC Studios in Burbank, CA.”

“Let’s send a message that these attacks on our First Lady will NOT be tolerated!” the group said.

Kimmel — who is facing fierce criticism for repeatedly making grotesque gay sex jokes about Fox News host Sean Hannity and President Donald Trump — said last month that he’d seen polling that shows his anti-Trump rhetoric “has cost me commercially.”

“That’s not ideal, but I wouldn’t change anything I said,” Kimmel said defiantly.

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Washington Post Deletes Article On Mueller Witness Being A Pedophile

In mid-March, The Washington Post published a report on their website from the Associated Press that documented the fact that a supposed cooperating witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is a convicted pedophile. The Post has now deleted the article, without providing any sort of explanation or retraction.

The article, titled “Nader, Mueller’s latest cooperator, a convicted pedophile,” was published on March 15 and documented George Nader’s “15-year-old pedophilia conviction in Europe that has not been previously reported.”

However, at some point over the last couple of weeks, The Washington Post decided to delete the article without offering any explanation or retraction. (A digital archive can be viewed here.)

Regarding Nader’s pedophilia-related convicted, The report stated:

Nader was convicted by Prague’s Municipal Court of 10 cases of sexually abusing minors and sentenced to a one-year prison term in May 2003, said Marketa Puci, the court spokeswoman. She said the crimes occurred between 1999 and 2002…

…In one case, Nader requested oral sex from a 14-year-old in a room at the Hilton Hotel in Prague, Puci said. After the boy refused, Nader masturbated in front of the boy and paid him 2,000 koruna — worth about $100 today, she said.

The verdict cites other examples of Nader providing money, jewelry, cellphones, clothes and accommodation for sexual services. The AP was able to see a copy of the verdict, which gives Nader’s birthdate as May 15, 1959. Nader was separately accused in Washington, D.C., of child pornography infractions in 1985, but those charges were later dropped. A criminal docket sheet obtained by the AP shows the same birthdate for Nader.

The report documents how Mueller stopped Nader, who has a history of being an “international fixer,” while he was traveling through Dulles International Airport. According to the report, Nader’s electronic devices were seized and he later agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation after he met with his lawyer.

Sources that spoke to The Post said that Mueller is interested in high-level get-togethers that Nader was involved in after the 2016 election, which suggests that his interest in Nader has nothing to do with the alleged collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials, which is what his investigation was supposed to be about.

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South Carolina Republicans Introduce Bill To Secede Over Gun Rights

Late this week, a group of Republican lawmakers in South Carolina introduced a bill that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government violated the Second Amendment.

The measure, which was referred to the South Carolina State House Judiciary Committee on April 5, would open the possibility of the state seceding from the U.S. if the federal government began confiscating legally purchased firearms. The bill states:

Notwithstanding another provision of law, the General Assembly shall convene to consider whether to secede from the United States based upon the federal government’s unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this State.”

The Hill reports that the bill was “introduced by GOP Reps. Mike Pitts, Jonathon Hill and Ashley Trantham, comes amid an intense debate over the nation’s gun laws that was reignited in February after a deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Fla.”

The Hill noted that South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860 during the time leading up to the American Civil War.

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Calls For Target Boycott After Man Exposes Himself to Child In Women’s Restroom

National big-box retailer Target was badly burned in the public relations arena two years ago when it decided that it would choose sides in the culture wars by announcing that the chain’s restrooms would not be limited to the gender of birth for shoppers but rather their gender identity.

The policy change came during the big push at the end of the eight-year Obama horror show to throw open women’s restrooms to not only transgenders but potentially perverts and child molesters and Target paid dearly at the time with conservatives choosing to do their shopping elsewhere as well as Christian organizations calling to boycott the corporation.

Things died down after the suits at corporate headquarters mollified critics by spending millions on adding a third single bathroom to stores but the controversy has once again reared its head after a pervert exposed himself to a young girl at a Chicago-area location last weekend.

Via Business Insider “Outraged shoppers threaten to boycott Target after a man exposes himself to a young girl in a store’s bathroom”:

Target is facing widespread outrage and calls for a boycott after a man exposed himself to a girl in the women’s bathroom of one of its stores.

The evangelist Franklin Graham slammed Target for the incident in a Facebook post on Wednesday and urged his more than 6.7 million followers to boycott the company in response. In the post, Graham blamed the incident on the company’s bathroom policy, which was changed two years ago to allow transgender customers to use the bathroom or fitting room that matched their gender identity.
Though a suspect has not been named and there was no indication the man was transgender, Graham’s post has been shared more than 58,000 times and has generated more than 17,000 comments, most of which expressed support for a Target boycott.

Target says the man who exposed himself was drunk when he entered the women’s bathroom at one of its Chicago stores and pushed into a stall that was being used by a young girl, pushed her out of the way, and used the bathroom before leaving. The police are still searching for the man, according to the Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ.

“At Target, the safety and security of our guests is critically important to us,” a Target spokeswoman, Danielle Schumann, told WMAQ. “Immediately after a guest notified us of this incident, we called law enforcement and provided them with video footage from our store entrance to help with their investigation.”

Additional details via Chicago ABC affiliate ABC 7 “Police: Man exposed himself to child in South Loop Target restroom”:

Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to a child last Sunday at a store in the South Loop.

A mother was with her young child at about 4:08 p.m. in the women’s restroom at the Target at 1154 S. Clark when the man entered and insisted he had to go to the bathroom, according to Chicago Police.

He then pushed into the stall where the child was and exposed his genitals before leaving the bathroom, police said.

He was described by police as black with a dark complexion, about 30 to 40 years old, 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, 170 to 190 pounds and wearing a red jacket, dark-colored hat, gray pants and sunglasses.

Reverend Franklin Graham is calling for Christians to send Target a message by boycotting the store and no, this is not the same as David Hogg’s cyberbullying to crush free speech but rather a legitimate response to a retailer that should have seen this coming when it decided to mix business with politics.

Perverts are perverts and they will prowl but why would anyone make it easier for them?

Now a poor child has been traumatized by some freak wagging his wiener in her face and Target is left holding the bag – again.

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Ex-Heroin Addict Sees How Liberal Programs Destroy People, Turns Conservative

A former heroin addict, now self-described political junkie, is turning into a viral hero after she described how discovering that “(t)he left encourages and enables dependency,” turned her into a conservative.

In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday by user @Ellysa_Maye, who runs a conservative Facebook group called Red, Right + True, she discussed why she turned on the left during her time as a drug addict.

She describes a period where she “left treatment, got kicked out of rehab — but learned a lot.”

That’s when she said she became disillusioned with the political dogma of the left.

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“Try and make guns illegal, but have fun trying to take guns away from a meth head,” she states.

“Have fun trying to track those down.”

She also said that period taught her a great deal about the values of the American political left.

“The left encourages and enables dependency in so many ways,” she says in the video.

Do you support what this former junkie had to say?

“Financially, physically, if we’re talking about drugs,” she continues. “People would trade food stamps for heroin, food stamps for rides (to pick up drugs), food stamps for weapons.”

“I saw a lot of bad things, experienced a lot of bad things.”

She said that while no one side is totally to blame for these problems, it’s mostly a function of larger government — the province of the American political left, which many Republicans can still fall prey to.

“Politicians on both sides create problems so that they can offer us solutions,” she said. “And then we vote for those solutions.

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“We are always promised things that will never happen,” she says. “That’s why it’s just better to live your life aiming to be an individual.

She adds that “there needs to be help for people in the system, of course.

“But there is so much abuse in the system. America is essentially subsidizing people’s self-destruction. We don’t need to be so government-minded. We don’t need to rely on them for everything.

“If nobody was dependent and there were no problems to offer solutions to, the left would have no power,” she concludes.

Her video gained a lot of traction, particularly from former users and their family who were followers.

All we can say is, amen.

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Immigration Raid Takes 97 Into Custody At Tennessee Plant

Beat the rush, self deport.

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A federal immigration raid that took 97 people into custody at a Tennessee meat processing plant may be the biggest employment crackdown under President Donald Trump’s administration, civil rights activists said Friday.

Eleven people were arrested on criminal charges and 86 were detained for being in the country illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Tammy Spicer said in a statement Friday.

The Thursday raid on Southeastern Provision, a meat processing plant in Bean Station in eastern Tennessee, is the largest single worksite immigration enforcement action since the administration of President George W. Bush, said Jessie Hahn, labor and employment policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.

“This is part of the stepped-up Trump mass deportation enforcement agenda for sure,” Hahn said.

The current administration has promised to crack down on employers who hire immigrants living in the country illegally, and several raids have taken place across the country. A total of 21 people were arrested after immigration agents raided 7-Eleven stores nationwide in January.[…]

An affidavit filed with the search warrant and signed by a special agent with the IRS says the government has probable cause to believe that the company and its owners have committed tax evasion and are employing immigrants in the country illegally. An undercover police officer was hired at the company using a false name and he was paid in cash, the affidavit filed by IRS Special Agent Nicholas Worsham said.

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Chicago Suburb That Banned ‘Assault Rifles’ Is Paying a Big Price

A pro-gun group has filed a federal lawsuit against a Chicago suburb that banned so-called “assault rifles” as well as high-capacity magazines, a press release stated.

The Second Amendment Foundation made the announcement just days after Deerfield, Illinois passed the ban, saying that it violated state law.

“The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit against the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois seeking an injunction against enforcement of the ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and ‘large capacity magazines’ adopted by the Village Board of Trustees earlier this week,” the statement read.

“Joining SAF in the legal challenge is the Illinois State Rifle Association and a private citizen, Daniel Easterday, who resides in the village and is a gun owner.”

According to WLS-TV, residents who refuse to comply with the ban would face a fine of up to $1,000 a day. Village leaders have the power to decide what qualifies as an “assault weapon.”

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Liberals in Deerfield were ecstatic at the meeting where the ban was passed.

“This is our fight. This is our generation’s fight, and we’re going to keep fighting,” anti-gun Deerfield High School student Ariella Kharasch told the village leaders. “Thank you for being part of that.”

“If Highland Park, if Deerfield, if more towns say no to this type of weapon, maybe the state of Illinois says no,” Deerfield Village Manager Kent Street said. “Maybe the federal government says no.”

While a previous Deerfield gun-grabbing ordinance covering high-powered weapons survived scrutiny by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015, the Second Amendment Foundation’s lawsuit focuses on a provision in state law.

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“The lawsuit challenges the village ban under a 2013 amended state statute that declared ‘the regulation of the possession or ownership of assault weapons are exclusive powers and functions of this State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that ordinance or regulation, that purports to regulate the possession or ownership of assault weapons in a manner that is inconsistent with this Act, shall be invalid.,’” the press release notes.

“We moved swiftly to challenge this gun ban because it flies in the face of state law,” Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb is quoted as saying in the press release.

“While the village is trying to disguise this as an amendment to an existing ordinance, it is, in fact, a new law that entirely bans possession of legally-owned semi-auto firearms, with no exception for guns previously owned, or any provision for self-defense.

“The new ordinance also provides for confiscation and destruction of such firearms and their original capacity magazines,” he continued.

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“What is particularly outrageous about this new law is that it levies fines of up to $1,000 a day against anyone who refuses to turn in their gun and magazines or move them out of the village by the time the ordinance takes effect in June. This certainly puts the lie to claims by anti-gunners that ‘nobody is coming to take your guns.’”

Deerfield resident Dan Cox may have put it best. At the same village meeting where liberals were doing a victory lap, he issued a stern warning to those who would take their guns away.

“You are the bureaucrats that Thomas Jefferson warned us about,” Cox said.

And now, if the Second Amendment Foundation has any say in it, they’re going to pay.

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South Carolina Legislators Introduce Bill For Secession If Feds Begin Seizing Legal Firearms

South Carolina Legislators Introduce Bill For Secession If Feds Begin Seizing Legal Firearms


by Lucian Wintrich
April 7, 2018

Republican lawmakers in South Carolina have introduced a bill that opens up secession talks, should the federal government confiscate legally purchased guns. The bill, referred to the state House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, states that “the general assembly shall convene to consider whether to secede from the United States based upon the federal government’s unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this state.”

The bill comes after national talks on extream gun control measures have reached a fever pitch with some anti-gun activists calling to repeal the Second Amendment altogether.

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South Carolina debated seceding from the Union more than 150 years ago, a decision that ultimately led to the Civil War. Now, the topic has come up again, amid a national debate over firearms and gun rights. […]

The measure sponsored by Reps. Mike Pitts, Jonathon Hill and Ashley Trantham has no real chance this session. The deadline for bills to move from one chamber to the other is April 10.

In 1860, South Carolina became the first state to declare that it had seceded from the Union.

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