Conservative comedian Steven Crowder recently took aim at a leftist activist whose social media posts included approval of punching Nazis and a rallying cry to “kill every member of ICE.”
Image source: YouTube screenshot
He also issued a threat against Crowder himself, declaring he’s “wanted a piece of Crowder for a long time.”
The comedian tracked down the unnamed fellow, who posted on Facebook that he was attending an Aug. 18 rally in Dallas against “white supremacy.”
Crowder got his private phone number from a photo of a petition the guy started (which, Crowder said, “no one signed”).
On the day of the protest — which the leftist cancelled over rainy conditions — Crowder and his video crew showed up, got the guy on the phone posing as a fellow left-wing activist, and arranged a meet-up at a beer garden.
Let the fireworks begin
As video rolled, Crowder strode into the restaurant dressed in an “Aladdin”-like costume and headed over to the leftist who’s “wanted a piece of Crowder for a long time.”
“Your wish is my command, sir, how are you?” Crowder said, standing in front of the fellow.
“Is this Steven Crowder?” he asked, seemingly cracking a smile at the audaciousness of the moment before quickly coming to his senses.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
“Aw, s**t!” he said before dousing Crowder with beer and walking away. “Go f*** yourself you piece of s**t.”
Image source: YouTube screenshot
But Crowder followed him.
“C’mon, man, you’ve been wanting a piece of me for a long time,” Crowder told the guy. “Is that all you’re gonna do is throw some Pilsner?”
Crowder also repeated the leftist’s threats on social media — and even came prepared with a board emblazoned with enlarged shots of the guy’s posts, which Crowder showed him as they walked on the street.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
During the tense walk-and-talk, the leftist surprisingly enough had little of interest to say — and he wasn’t game apparently for taking “a piece of Crowder” on this evening for some reason.
Crowder told him he’d forget about the whole thing if he agreed to take down his posts, but if the guy didn’t agree, Crowder would report him to police — which is apparently what happened afterward.
Crowder signed off with this warning: “As always our first choice is civil discourse on this channel. But if you cross the line into violence, or if you call for the physical harm of others, I will find you, I will report you, I will confront you, and I will shame you.”
Outraged parents are moving swiftly to force officials at a California school district to have a boy removed from its schools after he threatened to kill 30 people at a middle school earlier this year, KTVU-TV reported.
Parents at Sequoia Middle School in Pleasant Hill, California, were unaware before school started that a 13-year-old boy arrested for making terroristic threats at another middle school in the district had been transferred to their children’s school this year.
Kim Childers said she learned the information from her son after he came home on the first day of school. He told her he had two classes with the boy. Authorities have withheld the boy’s name because he’s a juvenile.
“This is a huge deal to me,’’ Childers told KTVU. “I kept my son home today [Tuesday] and we are looking into homeschooling and doing independent study for now.”
Childers went into action and created an online petition urging officials to completely remove the student from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District.
The petition started on Monday has gathered more than 800 signatures.
Classes began Aug. 16 at the San Francisco Bay area school. The two middle schools are about three miles apart.
What’s the back story?
The teenager, who attended Valley View Middle School in nearby Concord, California, at the time, allegedly sent a Snapchat message to another student that said he planned to “kill at least 30 people” on June 7, the last day of school, according to authorities, KNTV-TV previously reported.
A homophobic slur and 30 gun emoji were included in the message, according to KTVU.
A friend notified the Concord Police Department who seized numerous firearms from the teen’s home and took him into custody on suspicion of terroristic threats, according to KTVU.
Following the incident, Valley View principal Lisa Sullivan sent a note to the students.
The FBI was also informed and issued a statement.
“This incident could have been the next school shooting, but because of the partnership we have with our private sector and local law enforcement partners, it was prevented,” the FBI wrote.
The Contra Costa district attorney never charged the boy, spokesman Scott Alonso told the news station.
What did Sequoia’s principal say?
On Tuesday, Sequoia principal Kevin Honey sent home a letter to parents, which was obtained by TheBlaze.
“When a student engages in such behavior, there are two separate processes; one includes school discipline, and the other are criminal proceedings.
“While I am unable to go into specific details, I can confirm that law enforcement was involved as a result of these threats – something all our schools and the District take very seriously – and disciplinary procedures were started. Upon concluding their investigation, law enforcement notified the District that there was no viable threat and they declined to press charges,” Honey wrote.
“The District also followed the due process student disciplinary policies outlined in the student handbook and in alignment with Education Code.
“Please know that we would never take actions or do anything to compromise the safety of our students, staff, visitors, and community. We all share the same concerns and fears when it comes to school safety, and it will always be one of our top priorities here at Sequoia Middle School and throughout MDUSD,” the email said.
Honey has urged parents to attend the school board meeting scheduled for Monday night.
What did the police say?
Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Scott Vermillion said there are no plans to increase patrols or security at the school, adding that the school resource officer will continue to make routine visits, according to KTVU.
What did the parents say?
Many parents have left comments on the petition’s wall.
“Students like this should be in alternative learning environments. They need to be in a place where there are professionals trained to deal with violent behaviors,” an anonymous petitioner wrote. “It’s much too risky to put students like this where there is minimum supervision and the campus is quite open. We live in the Sequoia neighborhood and I have school age children. I feel very strongly that students who threaten the lives and safety of others have lost their rights to public education.”
Maria B. wrote, “My children go to Pleasant Hill schools and my daughter is at VVMS. She was petrified of dying in a mass shooting. This child was armed and dangerous and had every intention of killing our children. He should not be on public school campuses!”
“I don’t believe anyone is being served by this decision. The child certainly needs more therapy, guidance, and close monitoring,” another petitioner wrote. “The students & staff at SMS & SES should never have to worry that a known deadly & terrorizing criminal intent was made by a student at their school. I doubt the staff & any security measures are equipped or adequate to handle a potentially volatile student like this. As a retired MDUSD teacher and a resident in the Sequoia neighborhood, this makes no sense to me & is a very short-sighted decision that is certainly not a solution.”
It’s said that just because you’re paranoid, that doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you. There have been constant serious threats to our country since our founding in 1776, starting with the British through the early 19th century and the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and nuclear-armed Soviets in the 20th century. Those were primarily external threats.
Today, our civilization is in more danger than ever. While there are still external challenges, the most serious threats are increasingly internal. Individually, each is troubling but not necessarily fatal. Blended together, like adding glycerol to concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids to form nitroglycerin, we have to ask, is America facing a Perfect Storm?
10. Radical Islam. It took two attempts, but radical Islam finally managed to bring down the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. Since that major attack on America, radical Islam attacks have persisted on a lesser scale. Under the purposely vague label of “terrorism,” according to newamerica.org, there have been 406 jihadist assaults on Americans, resulting in 103 deaths, since 2001. Countless other attempts have been thwarted by law enforcement. A radical American-born Muslim group was busted in New Mexico teaching children to shoot up schools. Meanwhile, with help from a compliant media, sharia law proponents have reached critical mass to win statewide and congressional seats. It’s a creeping threat to our Constitution, the document essential to holding our increasingly diverse population together as a nation. Sharia law is not remotely compatible with our Constitution. Nevertheless, Democrats find themselves increasingly allied with Muslims, including the girlfriend-assaulting deputy chair of the Democratic Party.
9. Lying, Evil, Greedy Politicians with Questionable Loyalties. Nothing defines this issue more than N.Y. governor Cuomo, who said America “was never that great.” Whaaat? Is he referring to the country regarded as the hope of the free world that saved Europe and Asia from fascist tyranny, the country that has given the world transformative improvements in medicine, technology, music and the arts, the country that created the highest standard of living in the history of the world, the country that sacrificed over 300,000 of its men to end slavery, the country with a Constitution that defines the rights of the individual against progressive governments? When obstruction and self-dealing become the primary goals and policy of one of the two major political parties instead of trying to make our country greater, you know there’s a problem.
8. Diversity/Identity Politics. With identity politics cloaked in the guise of diversity, is there room for competence? Federal and state grants come laden with various demands for diversity. Businesses and government institutions find themselves saddled with vice presidents and directors of diversity. Universities have indoctrinated their students with diversity to the point where white males are now under direct assault throughout our society. The diversity purge is a threat to fundamental excellence in major businesses and institutions. Every good American wants all people to be treated fairly and with respect and to be given the right to succeed. We want people to be judged on their competence and their character, not on their race, sex, or sexual preference. Whatever happened to the notion of the best and most qualified person for the job? How is identity politics helpful to our country? It’s not. It’s damaging. It’s a Democrat thing. Any fool can see this.
7. Fake News, and Now Google. Yes, folks, fake news is very real. Gary Gindler on American Thinker reports, “Google has introduced a practice nicknamed ‘expulsion to the 101st kilometer,’ referring to the Soviets forcibly evicting dissenting citizens 100 kilometers or more from Moscow. … [L]inks to conservative sites has artificially moved beyond the first hundred links. Google knows that people, as a rule, scan just the first ten to twenty links. Consequently, Google creates an impression that the whole world is full of leftist ideas only. Professor Robert Epstein believes that the Google algorithm gifted Hillary Clinton in 2016 with at least 2 million votes.” Facebook routinely shadows conservative stories so they are not seen by a larger audience. “Facebook’s removal of links … has resulted in a 93% decrease in web traffic from this social network to leading conservative sites since the 2016 elections.” Fake news on TV and in newspapers starts with outright lies and slander against conservatives and the president of the United States. One survey found that 90% of news coverage is slanted against the president. Even more insidious is censorship by omission. Important stories on sites like American Thinker, Frontpage Mag, Breitbart, LifeZette, the Geller Report, and Drudge will rarely or never be found in the so-called mainstream media. Americans deserve better.
6. Assault on the Second Amendment. The right to bear arms is a fundamental right granted to Americans by the Bill of Rights. It’s not about hunting or sport shooting. It’s about self-defense from personal assault, home invaders, or potentially a hostile government. Like all fascists and communists, the left dreams of seizing control and confiscating guns from citizens who might threaten the left’s rule. Every time there is a mass shooting, regardless of the reason, such as Islamic terror, drugs, or mental illness, the leftist drumbeat is heard again, demanding more and more controls on gun rights. Chip, chip away is their strategy. The NRA has provided a continuing brilliant defense of the Second Amendment so far, but watch as the left wing continues to attack the NRA and one of our most basic rights.
5. The Drug Crisis. A National Geographic TV series examines the drug crisis in various locations around the country, including Miami, Baltimore, and Montana. The series shows not just the overwhelmed law enforcement people, but also the junkies (victims) and dealers. From opioid use to heroin and even everybody’s favorite “recreational” drug, pot, a significant part of our population, particularly younger people, has been rendered not just useless, but a burden to society. More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. That’s almost 200 a day. Nearly half of all federal prisoners were involved in drug-related crime. Meanwhile, Hollywood and the music industry make drug use look like good old-fashioned fun. The media pretty much ignore the issue. It’s a fundamental cancer in our society. President Trump has just announced a new plan to punish the dealers. We can only hope it works.
4. The Military as a Reflection of Our Society. The American Conservative reports that military recruiters are struggling to fill recruiting quotas. This disturbing problem isn’t just that young people don’t want to join the military; it’s that they are not qualified to serve. The result is that the U.S. military is increasingly not representative of America. “For that to be true, two thirds of our military would have to consist of obese, under-educated former drug users and convicted criminals.” One in four can’t even meet basic high school graduate standards. One in ten has a criminal history. Only one out of eight even wants to be part of the military. There is also a geographical issue. Young people interested in the military mainly come from small towns in the South where there are traditions of military service. The trajectory here is not healthy. The military is among the most respected institutions in our country. We had a true civilian army in WWII. But today it’s disturbing that only an increasing minority can or will serve.
3. Illegals, Homeless and Violence Overwhelming Our Cities. Except for the rich, American cities are becoming increasingly unlivable as illegal and homeless populations threaten to overwhelm city budgets. It’s so bad in San Francisco that the city has funded poop patrols as that once lovely City by the Bay has become a nightmare to citizens and visitors alike. Large groups are canceling conventions. Los Angeles has doubled its homeless budget to $450 million. Los Angeles County plans to spend $374 million. That’s 1 percent of a budget meant to service a population of over 10 million going to just 53,193 people. In addition, violent crime increased in many of the nation’s largest cities in 2016 as metro areas saw jumps in homicide, robberies, and aggravated assaults. Chicago shooting deaths are approaching war-like proportions, with 664 people killed in 2017. So far in 2018, 360 homicides have been reported, most of them from gunfire. The Democrats who run these cities, many of them sanctuary cities, have no clue how to deal with the situation other than to spend more money of taxpayers dumb enough to stay behind. Democrat policies are leading to financial and social disaster. It can’t go on forever.
2. The Education Disaster. A friend of mine said he heard a caller into the Rush Limbaugh show shortly after Trump’s inauguration say something to the effect of “you have Trump for a short time; we have your children, heh, heh, heh.” I can’t confirm this quote, but I think the statement, true or false, underscores the capture of our educational system by the left. Frontpage Mag offers this stunning video.
Increasingly parents, particularly conservatives, need to be concerned about sending their offspring to expensive universities and having them return as poorly educated dedicated leftists, struggling to find a job, loaded with debt, and unable to think clearly about the world or their place in it. Free speech is often not just discouraged, but essentially banned. High school students are taught little or no history or patriotism. Street interviews reveal young people so uneducated that they can’t identify the vice president, state who won the Civil War, explain what the Fourth of July celebrates, find any country on a map, or qualify for military service. There can be no greater danger to our civilization than a poorly educated public, but increasingly, it seems that’s what we’ve got.
1. Does Anyone Care? A frog put in a pot of cold water on a stove that slowly starts to cook him is the classic example of how danger can creep up. A Bankrate.com survey found that 69% of Americans say they lose sleep stressing over worries about relationship and money. These same hardworking Americans are also busy with their jobs, their families and relationships, their mortgages, and hobbies and activities, while still finding time for recreation and good times. There is precious little time left over to stay current with events. Meanwhile, progressives, many of them wallowing in cushy taxpayer-funded university jobs, are aggressively active and laser-focused on their anti-American agendas. The pot is already simmering.
Frank Hawkins is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies, and published novelist. He currently lives in retirement in North Carolina.
It’s said that just because you’re paranoid, that doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you. There have been constant serious threats to our country since our founding in 1776, starting with the British through the early 19th century and the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and nuclear-armed Soviets in the 20th century. Those were primarily external threats.
Today, our civilization is in more danger than ever. While there are still external challenges, the most serious threats are increasingly internal. Individually, each is troubling but not necessarily fatal. Blended together, like adding glycerol to concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids to form nitroglycerin, we have to ask, is America facing a Perfect Storm?
10. Radical Islam. It took two attempts, but radical Islam finally managed to bring down the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. Since that major attack on America, radical Islam attacks have persisted on a lesser scale. Under the purposely vague label of “terrorism,” according to newamerica.org, there have been 406 jihadist assaults on Americans, resulting in 103 deaths, since 2001. Countless other attempts have been thwarted by law enforcement. A radical American-born Muslim group was busted in New Mexico teaching children to shoot up schools. Meanwhile, with help from a compliant media, sharia law proponents have reached critical mass to win statewide and congressional seats. It’s a creeping threat to our Constitution, the document essential to holding our increasingly diverse population together as a nation. Sharia law is not remotely compatible with our Constitution. Nevertheless, Democrats find themselves increasingly allied with Muslims, including the girlfriend-assaulting deputy chair of the Democratic Party.
9. Lying, Evil, Greedy Politicians with Questionable Loyalties. Nothing defines this issue more than N.Y. governor Cuomo, who said America “was never that great.” Whaaat? Is he referring to the country regarded as the hope of the free world that saved Europe and Asia from fascist tyranny, the country that has given the world transformative improvements in medicine, technology, music and the arts, the country that created the highest standard of living in the history of the world, the country that sacrificed over 300,000 of its men to end slavery, the country with a Constitution that defines the rights of the individual against progressive governments? When obstruction and self-dealing become the primary goals and policy of one of the two major political parties instead of trying to make our country greater, you know there’s a problem.
8. Diversity/Identity Politics. With identity politics cloaked in the guise of diversity, is there room for competence? Federal and state grants come laden with various demands for diversity. Businesses and government institutions find themselves saddled with vice presidents and directors of diversity. Universities have indoctrinated their students with diversity to the point where white males are now under direct assault throughout our society. The diversity purge is a threat to fundamental excellence in major businesses and institutions. Every good American wants all people to be treated fairly and with respect and to be given the right to succeed. We want people to be judged on their competence and their character, not on their race, sex, or sexual preference. Whatever happened to the notion of the best and most qualified person for the job? How is identity politics helpful to our country? It’s not. It’s damaging. It’s a Democrat thing. Any fool can see this.
7. Fake News, and Now Google. Yes, folks, fake news is very real. Gary Gindler on American Thinker reports, “Google has introduced a practice nicknamed ‘expulsion to the 101st kilometer,’ referring to the Soviets forcibly evicting dissenting citizens 100 kilometers or more from Moscow. … [L]inks to conservative sites has artificially moved beyond the first hundred links. Google knows that people, as a rule, scan just the first ten to twenty links. Consequently, Google creates an impression that the whole world is full of leftist ideas only. Professor Robert Epstein believes that the Google algorithm gifted Hillary Clinton in 2016 with at least 2 million votes.” Facebook routinely shadows conservative stories so they are not seen by a larger audience. “Facebook’s removal of links … has resulted in a 93% decrease in web traffic from this social network to leading conservative sites since the 2016 elections.” Fake news on TV and in newspapers starts with outright lies and slander against conservatives and the president of the United States. One survey found that 90% of news coverage is slanted against the president. Even more insidious is censorship by omission. Important stories on sites like American Thinker, Frontpage Mag, Breitbart, LifeZette, the Geller Report, and Drudge will rarely or never be found in the so-called mainstream media. Americans deserve better.
6. Assault on the Second Amendment. The right to bear arms is a fundamental right granted to Americans by the Bill of Rights. It’s not about hunting or sport shooting. It’s about self-defense from personal assault, home invaders, or potentially a hostile government. Like all fascists and communists, the left dreams of seizing control and confiscating guns from citizens who might threaten the left’s rule. Every time there is a mass shooting, regardless of the reason, such as Islamic terror, drugs, or mental illness, the leftist drumbeat is heard again, demanding more and more controls on gun rights. Chip, chip away is their strategy. The NRA has provided a continuing brilliant defense of the Second Amendment so far, but watch as the left wing continues to attack the NRA and one of our most basic rights.
5. The Drug Crisis. A National Geographic TV series examines the drug crisis in various locations around the country, including Miami, Baltimore, and Montana. The series shows not just the overwhelmed law enforcement people, but also the junkies (victims) and dealers. From opioid use to heroin and even everybody’s favorite “recreational” drug, pot, a significant part of our population, particularly younger people, has been rendered not just useless, but a burden to society. More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. That’s almost 200 a day. Nearly half of all federal prisoners were involved in drug-related crime. Meanwhile, Hollywood and the music industry make drug use look like good old-fashioned fun. The media pretty much ignore the issue. It’s a fundamental cancer in our society. President Trump has just announced a new plan to punish the dealers. We can only hope it works.
4. The Military as a Reflection of Our Society. The American Conservative reports that military recruiters are struggling to fill recruiting quotas. This disturbing problem isn’t just that young people don’t want to join the military; it’s that they are not qualified to serve. The result is that the U.S. military is increasingly not representative of America. “For that to be true, two thirds of our military would have to consist of obese, under-educated former drug users and convicted criminals.” One in four can’t even meet basic high school graduate standards. One in ten has a criminal history. Only one out of eight even wants to be part of the military. There is also a geographical issue. Young people interested in the military mainly come from small towns in the South where there are traditions of military service. The trajectory here is not healthy. The military is among the most respected institutions in our country. We had a true civilian army in WWII. But today it’s disturbing that only an increasing minority can or will serve.
3. Illegals, Homeless and Violence Overwhelming Our Cities. Except for the rich, American cities are becoming increasingly unlivable as illegal and homeless populations threaten to overwhelm city budgets. It’s so bad in San Francisco that the city has funded poop patrols as that once lovely City by the Bay has become a nightmare to citizens and visitors alike. Large groups are canceling conventions. Los Angeles has doubled its homeless budget to $450 million. Los Angeles County plans to spend $374 million. That’s 1 percent of a budget meant to service a population of over 10 million going to just 53,193 people. In addition, violent crime increased in many of the nation’s largest cities in 2016 as metro areas saw jumps in homicide, robberies, and aggravated assaults. Chicago shooting deaths are approaching war-like proportions, with 664 people killed in 2017. So far in 2018, 360 homicides have been reported, most of them from gunfire. The Democrats who run these cities, many of them sanctuary cities, have no clue how to deal with the situation other than to spend more money of taxpayers dumb enough to stay behind. Democrat policies are leading to financial and social disaster. It can’t go on forever.
2. The Education Disaster. A friend of mine said he heard a caller into the Rush Limbaugh show shortly after Trump’s inauguration say something to the effect of “you have Trump for a short time; we have your children, heh, heh, heh.” I can’t confirm this quote, but I think the statement, true or false, underscores the capture of our educational system by the left. Frontpage Mag offers this stunning video.
Increasingly parents, particularly conservatives, need to be concerned about sending their offspring to expensive universities and having them return as poorly educated dedicated leftists, struggling to find a job, loaded with debt, and unable to think clearly about the world or their place in it. Free speech is often not just discouraged, but essentially banned. High school students are taught little or no history or patriotism. Street interviews reveal young people so uneducated that they can’t identify the vice president, state who won the Civil War, explain what the Fourth of July celebrates, find any country on a map, or qualify for military service. There can be no greater danger to our civilization than a poorly educated public, but increasingly, it seems that’s what we’ve got.
1. Does Anyone Care? A frog put in a pot of cold water on a stove that slowly starts to cook him is the classic example of how danger can creep up. A Bankrate.com survey found that 69% of Americans say they lose sleep stressing over worries about relationship and money. These same hardworking Americans are also busy with their jobs, their families and relationships, their mortgages, and hobbies and activities, while still finding time for recreation and good times. There is precious little time left over to stay current with events. Meanwhile, progressives, many of them wallowing in cushy taxpayer-funded university jobs, are aggressively active and laser-focused on their anti-American agendas. The pot is already simmering.
Frank Hawkins is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies, and published novelist. He currently lives in retirement in North Carolina.
Mark Penn, the former pollster for both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has penned an op-ed in The Hill Wednesday in which he argues that Michael Cohen’s guilty plea shows the double standard that prosecutors have applied unfairly to Donald Trump.
Penn argues that while what Trump is alleged to have done — paying Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement she had sought for five years prior to the election — was legal, Hillary Clinton failed to report campaign expenditures that led to the Steele dossier.
If anyone broke campaign finance law, Penn argues, it was Clinton, not Trump — but prosecutors want Trump out of office.
The usual procedures here would be for the FEC to investigate complaints and sort through these murky laws to determine if these kinds of payments are personal in nature or more properly classified as campaign expenditures. And, on the Daniels payment that was made and reimbursed by Trump, it is again a question of whether that was made for personal reasons (especially since they have been trying since 2011 to obtain agreement). Just because it would be helpful to the campaign does not convert it to a campaign expenditure. Think of a candidate with bad teeth who had dental work done to look better for the campaign; his campaign still could not pay for it because it’s a personal expenditure.
Contrast what is going on here with the treatment of the millions of dollars paid to a Democratic law firm which, in turn, paid out money to political research firm Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele without listing them on any campaign expenditure form — despite crystal-clear laws and regulations that the ultimate beneficiaries of the funds must be listed. This rule was even tightened recently. There is no question that hiring spies to do opposition research in Russia is a campaign expenditure, and yet, no prosecutorial raids have been sprung on the law firm, Fusion GPS or Steele. Reason: It does not “get” Trump.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts would still “be alive” if the United States’ immigration laws were “seriously” enforced.
Law enforcement announced on Tuesday that Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in her rural hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa after she was last seen jogging on July 18.
Illegal alien Christian Bahena-Rivera, a 24-year-old from Mexico, has been charged with first-degree murder in her death after police say he admitted to confronting and chasing down Tibbetts.
Cotton, a staunch opponent of illegal immigration, said he was praying for the Tibbetts’ family and blamed decades of lax enforcement of immigration laws for the death of the young woman.
“Prayers for Tibbetts family & all who knew & loved Mollie,” Cotton wrote online. “Lots of questions—where did this illegal alien work? what was his work status—but one thing is sure: Mollie would be alive if our government had taken immigration enforcement seriously years ago.”
Prayers for Tibbetts family & all who knew & loved Mollie. Lots of questions—where did this illegal alien work? what was his work status—but one thing is sure: Mollie would be alive if our government had taken immigration enforcement seriously years ago. https://t.co/JScrv7aD5P
The illegal alien, charged with first-degree murder, has been living in the U.S. for four to seven years.
“On Aug. 21, ICE lodged a detainer with the Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office on Christian Bahena-Rivera, 24, an illegal alien from Mexico, after he was arrested on murder charges,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said in a statement to Breitbart News.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a hopeful for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, said recently, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” One-in-five Democrats agree, but a sizable majority of all voters thinks he was off-base.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters disagree with Cuomo’s statement. Seventeen percent (17%) agree, while just as many (16%) are undecided.
PRESIDENT TRUMP Slams “Open Borders Extremists” “Leading Democrats Want to Abolish ICE – The Want to Abolish Borders”
by Jim Hoft August 20, 2018
President Donald Trump held a special ceremony at the White House today in support of ICE officers who every day put their lives on the line to keep America safe.
During his remarks the president slammed the “open borders extremists” and “leading Democrats who want to abolish ICE and want to abolish borders.”
This was a devastating speech by the president against the Democrat Party extremists.
President Trump: Sadly, in recent months, incredibly I have to say, incredibly, a coalition of open borders extremists, to me that means people who don’t mind crime. They mind it when it happens to them. They don’t mind it when it happens on television. Have waged an unprecedented assault on our American law enforcement, our greatest people, threatening ICE and border patrol for performing their duties admirably and for defending our country from horrible people and horrible, horrible events and crimes. In major cities across America these open borders radicals have blocked entrances to ICE buildings…
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The title of this article is a bit misleading because it’s about so much more than just discrimination against one GOP pundit.
Don’t get me wrong. The methodical targeting of conservatives on social media is nothing short of astonishing. But if you haven’t made the connection between shadow banning and a complete loss of your free speech, you might just be missing the bigger picture.
Doug Wead of The Federalist chronicled an excellent example of what happened to him as Google targeted him for “hate speech.” It wasn’t pretty.
In his piece, Wead gives multiple examples of the stark drop in his circulation on Youtube and Facebook.
After buying a Google ad, he found that both his ad and Google account were suspended.
“Within days, Google blocked my ad and informed my team that we had violated their policies. I called Google. The problem, they explained, was that the video had hate speech,” Wead wrote.
After spending days on the phone with Google employees he received little explanation for the banning.
“Once again my ad was blocked, and this time my Google account was suspended. I felt like Roseanne Barr. Once again I called Google and spent a day trying to figure out what was wrong. ‘This call may be monitored,’ they announced, and I announced back that I would do the same. So the discussion began. Was I too nice to President Trump? Should I have been more critical? Was it something Regan had said? She seems to fairly cover all sides of an issue. Why would they have a problem with her?”
After promising to never again run the video in question, Wead got his account back. But it there is still more to his story.
Should there be action taken against social media for shadow banning conservatives?
Wead had been made. Google, in this case, went to extreme measures to make sure his reach would be diminished to his or any other audience, possibly forever.
“In January, 2018 my channel was hit by shadow-banning. Sometime that month, Google allegedly hired thousands of outside actors supplied by the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center. This was the organization that attacked Ben Carson, the only African American in Donald Trump’s cabinet. They were apparently the new arbiters of decency.
My videos got hammered. But only my pro-Trump material. My interviews defending the Obama children or talking up Chelsea Clinton’s wedding went untouched.
A viral YouTube interview with me and Fox Anchor Neil Cavuto about why Hillary Clinton lost the election was penalized. The video had more than 861,000 views and was earning an average of 15,000 views a day when it suddenly went dark. On February 17, after the new censorship took hold, this video dropped to 50 views a day. That is where it has stayed ever since.”
A video of Wead on “Fox and Friends” with almost one million views and 20,000 views daily, skidded to a near halt — averaging only 30 views per day.
Google didn’t stop with Wead. They also dove deep into the accounts of bigger media personalities and scrubbed Wead’s interviews there too. His interviews with Neal Cavuto were buried more than 300 deep in his related search.
“You can go 300 videos deep and still not find the interview with me that has the second-most views of any Cavuto video,” Wead wrote. “You will pass videos with 22 views and many that are nine years old. I have been censored out of the Cavuto stream.”
Wead thinks he’s cracked the Google shadow ban code. He explains that an auto-generated account was was created in his name, “Doug Wead – topic.” It’s a separate account from his own channel and has no subscribers. They choose the videos that occupy the new auto-generated account and those videos are “not chosen based on popularity, relevancy, or date of publishing.”
Present day millennials may never have been taught about the Eastern Bloc media of the Cold War. Those media outlets were nothing more than propaganda mills for the communist party — the party controlled and censored their content. There was no alternative news. It’s pretty clear to me, present day social media is closely mirroring those dinosaur tactics.
The president has made several comments addressing social media’s heavy-handed actions against conservatives. While he has been successful in reaching his more than 53 million followers on Twitter, at the end of the day, the powers there can pull his plug any time they want.
That’s a lot of power. And it could mean the end of free speech.
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American liberals love to talk about the supposedly rampant racism and oppression of minorities in the United States, but recoil and look away when presented with examples of blatant racism and obvious oppression of racial minorities in other countries — if those minorities don’t fit the liberal worldview.
Right now, that means what is happening in South Africa, where the majority black government is literally stealing land away from minority white farmers to be redistributed among the black population as compensation for past racial sins, ignoring the timeless adage that two wrongs don’t make a right.
In response to racially oppressive policies by apartheid-era South African governments, the current African National Congress ruling party has enacted a policy that will expropriate land from white farmers, without just or reasonable compensation, to be redistributed among the majority black population. And it looks like that policy has already been put into action for at least two parcels of land, according to Australia’s News.com.
Local media in South Africa is reporting that two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are slated to be seized by the government at an unspecified date, a decision that was made after “negotiations” broke down between the government and the land owners.
One of the land owners, Akkerland Boerdery, demanded he be compensated 200 million rand — roughly $18.7 million — for his land and the improvements on it, but the government offered him only one-tenth of that price, 20 million rand, or about $1.87 million.
Boerdery had received notice that his land would be seized from him earlier in the year via a letter from the government’s Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs, but managed to obtain an emergency injunction by a court to prevent his eviction until the court issued an ultimate ruling on the matter. Of course, the department opposed that motion.
“What makes the Akkerland case unique is that they apparently were not given the opportunity to first dispute the claim in court, as the law requires,” Annelize Crosby, a spokeswoman for the AgriSA union, told the City Press newspaper.
The effort to take Boerdery’s land without just compensation is believed to be a “test case” on the whole expropriation policy, which some believe is already allowed under a certain provision in South Africa’s constitution — as it is being done “in the public interest.” Others are calling for an amendment to the constitution that would specifically allow for expropriation of white-owned land without any compensation.
The reasoning behind this manifestly racist and tyrannical policy of stealing white-owned farms to be redistributed communally among blacks is the fact that some 72 percent of private farmland in South Africa is owned by whites, who number only about 4.6 million in the entire country and make up less than 9 percent of the population.
Do you think this South African policy is racist?
Previously, after the racist apartheid regime fell in 1994, the South African government had an appropriate “willing seller, willing buyer” policy with regard to the desire to see fewer white-owned farms and more black-owned farms, but that apparently wasn’t righting the racial wrongs fast enough, so to speak.
Ominously, the Boerdery farm was near the top of a list released by a civil rights group known as Afriforum. Afriforum represents the white Afrikaner minority and claimed the list of about 190 farms was being “circulated” among the Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs as prime pieces of land that were targeted for expropriation.
The government has denied using such a list and claimed it was fake, with department spokeswoman Linda Page telling the media outlet News24: “We don’t know where they got (the list) from. There is no truth to this document.”
The government, as well as South African media, has slammed Afriforum for “fearmongering” and distributing “fake news,” but the deputy CEO of Afriforum, Ernst Roets, countered by pointing out that the two targeted farms were the first two farms on the list he had leaked.
“So the debate about the authenticity of the list is settled then?” Roets asked via Twitter.
“We hope that the gravity of the state’s plans for expropriation is understood and that people will see through the dishonesty of the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development. We hope that the attempts to discredit the legitimacy of the list has now been proven to be malicious for good. We shouldn’t be misled by those who sing Kumbaya while the state is planning to expropriate property,” he added.
According to News.com, a farmer named Jo-An Englebrecht, who operates a cattle ranch outside Johannesburg, explained to the media last month how his land was now “worth zero” in light of the expropriation policy, and described how he couldn’t even sell his land if he wanted to now, as “Why would you buy a farm to know the government’s going to take it?”
This anti-white racist policy of expropriating land without compensation from minority white farmers by the majority black government in South Africa has been all but ignored by the liberal American media. While that in and of itself is a travesty, it is also quite revealing of just how one-sided the liberal view of racism truly is.
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