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Caruzo: Global Left Ignores Unending Brutality of Venezuela’s Police


CARACAS – The Venezuelan socialist regime has transformed law enforcement agencies into a many-headed hydra of terror. The global media doesn’t seem to be calling for their defunding or even denouncing their heinous acts with the same fervor as they do to America’s police institutions.

I’ve lived in Caracas for most of my life, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Residents must live in abject terror because, if the crime doesn’t kill you, the police and the rest of the regime’s security apparatus might.

Countless cases of police abuse have been reported in Venezuela, especially during times of protest. The abuse of power and uncontrolled police brutality go hand-in-hand with an authoritarian regime and ours is one of the worst cases. In terms of deaths caused by law enforcement officers per capita, Venezuela vastly outperforms the rest of the world. In 2018 alone, a staggering number of 5,287 killings were registered caused by as “resistance to authority.”

That number alone puts us at a rate of 1830.2 per 10 million people — higher than Syria’s 3,364 civilian deaths in 2019. If our homicide statistics are outperforming Syria’s, they definitely outdo America’s, but the media won’t ever tell you that.

Venezuela’s systematic law enforcement brutality is not limited to just the Bolivarian Police. DGCIM, the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence, often tortures its captives. Pictures of its officials wearing skull-shaped masks have become widespread in recent years. You can imagine the intended effect of this in the population’s psyche as they walk past your streets — a man clad in that uniform with that visage does not bring good intentions.

SEBIN, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, is yet another arm in this socialist monster. The Human Rights Watch organization released a report in 2018 where they detail the abuse they inflict on their victims, which ranges from electroshock to sleep deprivation and rape.

Its infamous headquarters, a repurposed subway administrative building that is now known as La Tumba (“the tomb”), is a monument to their human rights violations. Every time you walk or drive past it, you can’t fail to remind yourself that an underground detention facility operates in that very visible building, where “white torture” is applied.

FAES, the Special Action Force of the Bolivarian Police, is the newest and most recent branch. Created in 2017, it is known and feared for its extrajudicial murders, which now number in the thousands. Its members cover up their actions, manipulate evidence, and alter crime scenes.

Residents of the Venezuelan barrios (shanty slum areas of our cities) not only have to endure the worst aspects of the collapse of this socialist utopia, they have to live with constant fear of the Special Action FAES police officers, who keep them in line through sheer fear and terror, twisting the truth through their official reports so as to mask their murders.

The National Guard — which the regime added the Bolivarian prefix to (lest one forgets who they truly serve) – is not exempt of abuse. A few days ago, Eva Leal, a Venezuelan attorney, received a brutal beating at the hands of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) after she refused to pay a bribe. Venezuelans compared the way officers pressed her neck down on the ground to the case of George Floyd, whose Minnesota death at the hands of police prompted waves of riots in America. While she is thankfully still alive, she faced a military tribunal – which, given her status as a civilian, is itself a human rights violation – and may have escaped disappearance exclusively due to social media pressure.

Will the leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization raise their fists and elevate their voice in “solidarity” with Eva, and with the many countless victims of police and military abuse in Venezuela — all of which live through a far worse situation than the one they denounce the United States for? Of course not.

They are open supporters of this socialist regime — ideologically aligned and just as hateful of America as dictator Nicolás Maduro himself.

Will the corporate brands that have run large and loud campaigns in support of Black Lives Matter give us five minutes of coverage on this beyond inhumane reality that we live here? I don’t think so.

Lately, a new method of state-sanctioned law enforcement terror has become the norm. Forced disappearances, mostly targeted at the family members of dissenting voices, serve to quell and coerce individuals whom the regime feels uncomfortable with. These “disappearances” are state-sanctioned kidnappings that often end in torture, such as the case of Ariana Granadillo, a medical student tortured and disappeared for the sole crime of having family ties to a colonel.

As a public dissenter, this fate scares me – not because of anything I may personally endure, but because of my brother. He is innocent of any “counter-revolutionary” activity but, due to his mental condition, he is under my care ever since our mother passed away. The risk is always there for the authorities to storm our house one day and snatch either of us, potentially leaving him without the care he needs to survive.

Silence through fear, obedience through terror, such is life under an authoritarian socialist regime, and I’m afraid that the Chinese coronavirus has given the regime a carte blanche to further test out and refine their law enforcement abuses — to see what they can get away with. Eva Leal, the attorney, had her head cracked open for being caught driving home from work a few minutes after the local 3 p.m. – yes, 3 p.m. – curfew and refusing to pay a bribe.

I’m sure the worldwide left will step up and denounce these atrocities, and will protest and clamor for the defundment of Venezuela’s authoritarian police and military with the same fervor and enthusiasm that they’ve been denouncing America lately. So I’m just going to sit here and patiently wait for it, because they will denounce all of this anytime now, right? …right?

Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.

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Black Lives Matter Storm Target: We Will Shut Your Business Down


On Friday night,  a group of Black Lives Matter activists began shouting a political script in a Target store in Washington, D.C.

The verbal assault was led by a male with a bullhorn, who read the script in portions which were were then shouted back by the rest of the group.

They yelled, “All black people, living around this neighborhood, because you prioritize money over people, until you stop calling the police, we will continue to shut your business down.”

WATCH:

Drew Hernandez, the reporter who captured video of the Black Lives Matter performance, highlighted the lack of a police response:

Hernandez said Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is removing his followers after his coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.

The male with the bullhorn conducted a similar political performance on Thursday evening, where he led a similar event at a restaurant in the nation’s capital. Thursday’s script read:

We are here tonight while you are dining because black people are dying at the hands of the police. So, while you are dining, we are sorry for your inconvenience, but black people are dying today. While you are dining, we’re going to read you some facts about the murder of black people. We are here tonight because black lives matter. We are here tonight because black trans lives matter.

The protesters also chanted, “Free the people. Fight the power. Fuck the police.”

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Fatality Rate Plunges As CDC Director Says COVID Cases Likely 10X Higher

The number of Americans who have contracted COVID-19 is likely 10 times higher than the 2.5 million currently confirmed cases, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Center For Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield’s estimate indicates that at least 25 million Americans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 to date.

That means the fatality rate could be 10 times lower than previously thought.

By the numbers as of June 28, via the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering:

  • 2,510,337 confirmed cases
  • 125,539 fatalities
  • = 5.0% death rate

But using Redfield’s numbers, the equation looks like this:

  • 25,103,370 cases
  • 125,539 fatalities
  • = 0.5% death rate

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have soared recently amid a massive testing increase in states across the country. But because the virus can be asymptomatic in up to 50% of people, the number of infected is likely far higher, Redfield says.

Millions of Americans have taken antibody tests, which show whether a person’s blood indicates the immune system has responded to infection. Some studies have shown that the number of those infected is far higher than the official count kept by the CDC, as well as the Hopkins count.

Most of the predictions have been far off the mark. First, officials predicted 1.7 million Americans dead; then they redid the models and said 100,000-240,000 would die. But some studies have revealed different scenarios.

A new study suggests that as many as 8.7 million Americans were infected with coronavirus in March, but found that more than 80% went undiagnosed.

“The findings support a scenario where more than 8.7 million new SARS-CoV-2 infections appeared in the U.S. during March and estimate that more than 80% of these cases remained unidentified as the outbreak rapidly spread,” Justin Silverman of Penn State University, Alex Washburne of Montana State University and colleagues at Cornell University and elsewhere, wrote in the study.
Under Redfield’s assertion, millions and millions of Americans have already been infected with the virus. But this has been known for some time (even though the fact has been little reported in the mainstream media).

An antibody study conducted in late April in New York City found that 1 in 5 (21.2%) of residents had already been infected with the coronavirus. There are 8.5 million people in New York City, so that would mean 1.8 million New Yorkers have had the virus.

At the time of the study, there were 16,249 deaths in the city attributed to COVID-19, which meant the death rate in the city was 0.89% — far lower than reports in the U.S. media.

Results of an antibody survey in Los Angeles found as many as 442,000 Los Angeles County residents might have already been infected with the coronavirus by early April, a number far higher than the 8,000 cases confirmed at the time. The survey suggested that the death rate from the virus could be as low as 0.18% of COVID-19 patients, which meant the actual death rate in the city was far lower than reported.

The Daily Mail reported in April that “coronavirus may kill 70 times fewer patients than official UK death figures suggest, studies have shown.” The Mail said a similar fatality rate — 0.19% — was found in a study of residents in Helsinki, Finland.

And a study, this one by Dr. Justin Silverman, estimated that there were 8.7 million coronavirus infections in the U.S. between March 8 and March 28. And as of April 17, 10% of Americans have been infected — which is roughly 33 million Americans, the study found.

Meanwhile, a Stanford University antibody study in late April estimated the fatality rate from the virus is likely 0.1% to 0.2%. The World Health Organization (WHO) had estimated that the death rate was 20 to 30 times higher and called for isolation policies.

In New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, the death rate for people 18 to 45 years old was 0.01%, or 10 per 100,000 in the population, a May study found. People aged 75 and older, though, have a death rate 80 times that. For children under 18, the rate of death is zero per 100,000.

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UPDATE: One Protester Dead After Shooting at Louisville Black Lives Matter Camp — Shooter Is Member of the Movement

At least two people were shot at the Black Lives Matter protest in Louisville’s Jefferson Square Park on Saturday.

Police have confirmed that one person has died from their injuries.

The shocking shooting was captured on a Facebook livestream, which has since been removed, but multiple people captured the clip.

First responders were seen putting a victim on a stretcher into an ambulance, but it is unclear how many people were shot or their conditions.

“Officers cleared the park completely and have secured the entire area so homicide detectives can conduct their investigation,” LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington told the Courier Journal on Saturday evening at 11:27 p.m. “Detectives are trying to gather as much information as possible in order to identify all who were involved in the incident.”

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said in a statement Saturday evening that he is “deeply saddened by the violence that erupted in Jefferson Square Park tonight, where those who have been voicing their concerns have been gathered.”

“It is a tragedy that this area of peaceful protest is now a crime scene,” Fischer said. “My thanks to the first responders who assisted at the scene. I will have more to say tomorrow, as additional information becomes available.”

People have been gathering in that park for nearly a month to protest the death of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in the city during a drug raid in March. The city was also subjected to violent riots at the end of May and beginning of June after the death of a criminal in Minneapolis Police custody.

On Sunday morning local WDRB reported on the shooter.

The shooter is a member of the movement.

One witness told WDRB News that the alleged shooter told him, “We’re about to set this ‘B’ off,” before he heard a boom followed by four sounds. The witness then ran, he said, ripping his sock as he tried to seek cover.

He said a bullet hit a metal pole as it went “straight past my face.”

The witness said he was familiar with the suspected shooter. “A lot of people have had problems with this individual,” he said, adding that the person had been in at least three fights at the park.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer issued a statement thanking first responders who assisted at the scene.

“I am deeply saddened by the violence that erupted in Jefferson Square Park tonight, where those who have been voicing their concerns have been gathered,” Fischer said. “It is a tragedy that this area of peaceful protest is now a crime scene.”

Fischer said he will say more on the shooting Sunday.

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Communists, Islamists and Radicals Behind the BLM Movement Hijack America – While Others Sheepishly Comply

We reported a month ago that recent riots in the US in many Democrat-led cities around the country are hardly spontaneous. They are coordinated. The groups behind these riots are linked to communists, Islamic groups and the Democrat party.

A major problem is that many US politicians, the mainstream media and companies are complying and supporting this hijacking.

There clearly was no reason for the mass riots taking place around the country after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone who saw the police brutality was appalled and outraged at the sight of the policeman kneeling on the victim’s neck for an incredibly long period of time. The man died. But nothing warrants the wholesale destruction of property and riots around the US since that event.

We now know the following groups are involved with this movement:

1. US Based Islamist groups

In LA rioters vandalized a Jewish synagogue and then came back later in the night to burn it down:

In Minnesota, the Governor’s daughter and Ilhan Omar’s daughter were both sharing Intel with rioters.

Of course, Ilhan Omar is a devout Islamist with connections to radical Islamists in the Middle East.  We know for example that Ilhan Omar’s father was a top propaganda official of the Genocidal Barre Regime in Somalia – then he changed his name and entered the US illegally:

2. Communists Both Domestic and Foreign

We know that China is doing all it can to stoke the fires in the US (much like the Democrats and MSM proclaimed Russia did in the 2016 election).  China has an initiative to rule to media and today’s media is certainly tied to China in ideology and reporting.

We reported the following from a former CIA Operations Officer Charles “Sam” Faddis who penned a post where he outlines China’s efforts to rule the media in the US today.  Below are pieces from his article published at andmagazine.com:

We are now weeks into what amounts to a nationwide insurrection. Monuments have been defaced, statues toppled, and the commercial centers of our great cities gutted. Yet, throughout, most of our mass media has characterized violence and lawlessness on an unprecedented scale as “peaceful protests.” The scope of the destruction has been concealed. The demands of the anarchists and Marxists rampaging across America seemingly systematically mischaracterized simply as demands for justice and reform.

What’s going on? How, in a nation rooted in the rule of law and respect for the democratic process, have we reached a point where violence and lawlessness are not only condoned but championed? Why are the guardians of the First Amendment seemingly in league with groups dedicated to destroying the existing social order?

Some of the explanation no doubt lies in the fact that much of what passes for our mainstream media is simply so blind in its hate for Donald Trump that it will support anyone and anything that seems to oppose him. There are other factors at work, however, and some of what is transpiring may, in fact, be due to a decidedly anti-American agenda and the desire of a particular foreign actor not only to damage this great nation but to promote its own particular ideology.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses propaganda and influence operations as a means of projecting its power and weakening its enemies. Chief amongst the targets for these kinds of operations is the United States. These operations are not run on some kind of ad hoc basis. They are coordinated and directed at a national level by the CCP’s United Front Work Department.

The CCP’s United Front system mobilizes the party’s “friends” to strike the party’s enemies. The system has existed for a long time, but it has been greatly energized and expanded in recent years by Xi Jinping. It operates inside foreign political parties, diaspora communities, colleges and corporations, all with the goal of promoting the party’s interests. The express goals of the United Front system include undermining social cohesion, exacerbating racial tension, and influencing politics.

We also know there are connections between leaders of the Black Lives Matter riot leaders and communist regimes like Opal Tometi with communist dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela:

3. Domestic Terrorists

Across the country we have seen numerous incidents of domestic terrorists tearing the big cities apart from groups like Antifa.

In Portland, Oregon, Antifa showed up as was expected:

In Boston more masked rioters:

The same in Washington DC where Antifa set a church on fire and attacked the people’s house – the White House:

In Santa Monica, Antifa set a police car on fire and chased the police away:

4. Democrats and their media lackeys

The worst part of these riots is that the Democrats and their MSM are in sync with and behind the riots.  Labeling the rioters as protesters or even “peaceful protesters,” for example.  In New York City, the mayor’s daughter is involved and was arrested in the protests:

Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn the looters and rioters, she only attacked President Trump:

Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden looked weak while meeting with members of Black Lives Matter (another domestic group involved in the riots):

At Least 13 Joe Biden Staffers Donate to a radical group supporting violent Minnesota looters and rioters

The problem with all of this is the reaction from politicians and the mainstream media but also from US companies and other organizations.

In an effort to remain supportive of the anti-discriminatory mindset, US companies are doing all they can to prevent being labeled as ‘racists’.   One action is to mandate that their employees watch garbage videos created by BLM related groups which are paid for the video.

(One such example is here – a horrible Anti-American video promoting a racist USA.)

These liberal leaders of these companies, of course, are not offended by this training because it is offensive and supportive of the riots going on in America.  Actions at American universities are worse.

It is disgusting to even consider that Americans are racists.  Most Americans and certainly most Christian Americans maintain a position of love and kindness towards their fellow man.  They don’t need to be force-fed BLM guilt garbage.

In addition, there is pressure on companies to prevent any dissent from false, fraudulent, Anti-American, dishonest, pro-communist messages in the MSM.  Many companies, under pressure for leftist-communist groups in turn put pressure on entities like Facebook and Twitter to curtail pro-American conservative thought.

Facebook over the weekend announced that it will put more sanctions on conservative free speech, like that reported at this site, in an attempt to comply with liberal, communist and radical Islamic pressure.  (Of course, the liberals at Facebook have no problem with shutting down conservative pro-Trump messages.  They’ve been doing it for years.)

It’s clear that the recent riots around the country are not spontaneous. They are coordinated and planned. There is a very high probability these riots are related to the same individuals involved in similar activities over the past year.

It is becoming clear, these people are related to US based Islamist Organizations, domestic terrorists and others related to the Democrat Party. These people hate America.

American companies and politicians need to stand up and stop this madness, not sheepishly comply.  These weak actions will not lead to prosperity and safety.  They will be the end of America.

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Smackdown: Richard Grenell puts rabid leftist Ted Lieu in his place over new Russia hoax canard


It’s happening again. The left is out of arguments against President Trump so now it’s recycling old ones.

In an anonymously sourced article, the New York Times reports that President Trump and his lieutenants knew all about a Russian bounty placed on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. This, while he was inviting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to a G-7 and otherwise colluding with him. The idea was to make Trump appear indifferent to American lives on the front lines in the name of making cozy with Putin.

Just one problem: It wasn’t true. And former acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has come out swinging, taking on far-left Rep. Ted Lieu, who bought into it hook, line and sinker.

 

 

Trump, too, had some takeout:

 

 

Grenell kept coming, taking on all attackers:

 

 

 

 

Grenell, who’s out of public office now but served as Trump’s acting National Intelligence Director, would be in a position to know. His willingness to open the doors to transparency on the deep state’s doings, enhances his credibility further. The fact that he was there, just there, when the Times’ deep state throat  was speaking enhances further. And lastly, the fact that he owes Trump nothing and can do what he likes makes his smackdown most credible of all.

The Russkis, for what it’s worth, have denied the bounty-hunting charge as well. While no one should put it past them, Grenell’s argument is the strongest. The left is just trying to paint the Russia target on Trump again, given that it has nothing left to attack him with. Now they can’t find a single official to go on the record to call the latest claim true. Not even John Bolton, and rest assured, they would have tried. Call it what it is: Pathetic.

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It’s happening again. The left is out of arguments against President Trump so now it’s recycling old ones.

In an anonymously sourced article, the New York Times reports that President Trump and his lieutenants knew all about a Russian bounty placed on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. This, while he was inviting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to a G-7 and otherwise colluding with him. The idea was to make Trump appear indifferent to American lives on the front lines in the name of making cozy with Putin.

Just one problem: It wasn’t true. And former acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, has come out swinging, taking on far-left Rep. Ted Lieu, who bought into it hook, line and sinker.

 

 

Trump, too, had some takeout:

 

 

Grenell kept coming, taking on all attackers:

 

 

 

 

Grenell, who’s out of public office now but served as Trump’s acting National Intelligence Director, would be in a position to know. His willingness to open the doors to transparency on the deep state’s doings, enhances his credibility further. The fact that he was there, just there, when the Times’ deep state throat  was speaking enhances further. And lastly, the fact that he owes Trump nothing and can do what he likes makes his smackdown most credible of all.

The Russkis, for what it’s worth, have denied the bounty-hunting charge as well. While no one should put it past them, Grenell’s argument is the strongest. The left is just trying to paint the Russia target on Trump again, given that it has nothing left to attack him with. Now they can’t find a single official to go on the record to call the latest claim true. Not even John Bolton, and rest assured, they would have tried. Call it what it is: Pathetic.

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City Officials In New Jersey Charged With Election Fraud After Nearly 20% Of Mail-In Ballots Had Problems, Were Not Counted

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal filed criminal charges against four individuals—including two city council officials—last week for allegedly engaging in voter fraud with mail-in ballots.

Grewal announced the charges at a press conference last week, saying that “if you try to tamper with an election in New Jersey, we will find you and we will hold you accountable. We will not allow a small number of criminals to undermine the public’s confidence in our democratic process.”

The investigation began after hundreds of mail-in ballots were found bundled together in a mailbox in Paterson.

According to a press release from the state, the following four individuals were charged in the case:

Michael Jackson, 48, of Paterson—1st Ward Councilman and Council Vice President, was charged with Fraud in Casting Mail-In Vote (3rd Degree), Unauthorized Possession of Ballots (3rd Degree), Tampering with Public Records (3rd Degree), and Falsifying or Tampering with Records (4th Degree).

Alex Mendez, 45, of Paterson—3rd Ward Councilman-Elect, was charged with Election Fraud (2nd Degree), Fraud in Casting Mail-In Vote (3rd Degree), Unauthorized Possession of Ballots (3rd Degree), False Registration or Transfer (Third-Degree), Tampering with Public Records (3rd Degree), and Falsifying or Tampering with Records (4th Degree).

Shelim Khalique, 51, of Wayne, N.J., was charged with Fraud in Casting Mail-In Vote (3rd Degree), Unauthorized Possession of Ballots (3rd Degree), Tampering with Public Records (3rd Degree), and Falsifying or Tampering with Records (4th Degree).

Abu Razyen, 21, of Prospect Park, N.J., was charged with Fraud in Casting Mail-In Vote (3rd Degree) and Unauthorized Possession of Ballots (3rd Degree).

NBC New York reported that 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received but only 13,557 votes were counted. Around 800 votes were not counted because they “were found improperly bundled in mailboxes” and the remaining 2,390 disqualifications were due to signature discrepancies.

“We did not receive vote by mail ballots and thus we did not vote,” one resident told NBC New York. “This is corruption. This is fraud.”

An attorney for Jackson said in a statement to CNN that his client will be fighting the charges.

“He will be contesting all of these charges,” Theodore Kyles Jr. said in a statement. “And I can tell you that Councilman Jackson is a fine public servant with many, many years of distinguished service to the community, even before he was elected to the city council.”

Paul Brickfield, an attorney for Mendez, also told CNN that his client will be fighting the charges.

“He’s going to be pleading not guilty to the charges,” Brickfield said. “He looks forward to being vindicated. He looks forward to being sworn in on July 1 as the duly elected councilperson for District 3.”

There have been numerous examples of voter fraud found throughout the U.S. this year, with a couple of notable cases coming out of Philadelphia and West Virginia.

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Pirro: Democrats Don’t Want Reform, They Want Chaos — ‘We Must Put an End to This Anarchy’

Saturday, Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro made her show’s “Opening Statement” a focus on the political motivations of the Democratic Party and their calls for police reform.

Pirro argued Democrats wanted the backdrop of chaos, not for police reform but to help their success for the 2020 elections.

She called on the National Guard to be federalized for the sake of restoring law and order where local Democratic Party leadership had been reluctant to act.

PIRRO: The lunacy in this country is not just about reform, it’s about the destabilization of our nation. It’s about manipulation — the left’s manipulation, causing as much chaos as possible to get President Trump out of office.

Now, equal rights and equal justice are essential. I spent my career passionately fighting for both, fighting to make sure there was a level playing field, that everyone have their day in court, that we try to make victims whole again, and that there are consequences for illegal acts. And we did so without fear or favor. That is law and order in a free society.

As a nation, we, and our laws evolve every day. In 1864, it was a Civil War. In the 60s, it was the Civil Rights Act. In the 90s affirmative action. Today, it’s police reform.

The past weeks, however, have been a horror show. A response to the outrageous killing of George Floyd by a police officer we all agree deserves the harshest punishment.

But Lady Justice must have tears under her blindfold as cities devolved into chaos and anarchy by those allegedly seeking reform, but instead spew hatred and venom, causing injury and damage to people and property.

They riot, loot, burn and take down statues with impunity. Where are the arrests? Where are the prosecutions? Where are the perp walks?

The press release is saying we’re doing our jobs, but no, silence. And I’m tired of hearing, we’re working on it. If justice is not swift and certain, there is no justice.

Now riots in Democrat-run cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Atlanta, Louisville and Oakland, police thrown out of their precincts in Seattle and Minneapolis as Democrat Mayors order police stand down.

Police responding to a report of shots fired in Tampa are then ambushed by hundreds. And as police are vilified, criminals become more emboldened as they injure and kill police in this war on law and order.

Now every officer knows there’s a target on his or her back, which might explain why 272 uniformed cops filed for retirement in the NYPD in the week since George Floyd’s death, and yesterday that Minneapolis City Council is okay to charter to remove the Minneapolis Police Department.

Now once these leftists occupy and take over neighborhoods, they demand and then receive food and water from compliant Democrats. No surprise, within two weeks, the shooting start.

Police to their credit previously chased out of their precinct respond to the 911 call as the hate America group refuses their entry, pelting them. The 19-year-old shot that night dies.

There was no crime scene preservation, no interviewing witnesses. There would simply be no justice in this so-called Nirvana, and then within 48 hours, a second round of shooting in the CHOP zone, and then the third and a fourth, and one of those shot seeking victims status claims the police didn’t respond quickly enough.

Seattle Police then released a five-minute video showing police and emergency responders being prevented by a violent crowd from getting to that victim.

And now schizo, summer of love Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan asked the occupants to leave. The squatters, of course refused and threatened business owners with retaliation if they paint over their graffiti.

Capitol Hill businesses and residents are now suing over the handling of CHOP zone, claiming that she and the city effectively authorized the actions of these anarchists.

And this woman is so tone deaf to the damage she facilitated that she started her reelect 2021 mayoral campaign early.

So who are these people who claim to be about eliminating racism, yet tear down statues of Ulysses Grant who galvanized the Union Army to defeat the Confederacy? Who destroyed the monument of an abolitionist in Boston, paid for by the first all-black regiment who fought in the Civil War?

They are now eyeing Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation monument. Even the black entertainment television founder, Robert Johnson, is slamming protesters for toppling even Confederate statues calling these protesters quote, “borderline anarchists.”

He questions whether black Americans even support this and the universities where this thinking all got started, today, Princeton University announced it will remove President Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus citing his racist thinking.

They have burned and vandalized churches from St. Patrick’s in New York to St. Johnson, Washington, a historic church, a short walk from the White House where Abraham Lincoln would go to pray. Christian figures and symbols and even Jesus in particular have been targeted.

Think about it. What states were you prevented from practicing your religion during COVID? All Democrat states. Now think about the states where this militancy is happening. Democrat.

Are you beginning to see a pattern here? There’s far less looting and burning in Republican-led states because the Republican governors will call on the National Guard, in addition to ordering police to arrest those violating the law.

This mob rule is all about creating chaos to defeat President Trump. Do the arsonists and looters know that there aren’t going to be consequences for their actions? Who are they?

Take a look. Here’s a leader of the New York chapter of Black Lives Matter.

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HAWK NEWSOME, GREATER NEW YORK BLACK LIVES MATTER PRESIDENT: If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right.

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PIRRO: This is an insurgency that is destabilizing our government. Where are our leaders condemning these acts? Where are our leaders, Democrat and Republican? Where is the outrage? Are they afraid? Where is the guy running for President, Joe Biden? He’s not criticizing this. And he doesn’t even need to come out of his bunker to say the obvious.

He needs to take a stand. Or is he in favor of this? Is he in favor of this unruly lawlessness? And where is Nancy Pelosi? Her only thought, blame Republicans for the death of George Floyd. And where is Hillary Clinton? She hasn’t stopped yapping since she lost the election.

And where is the chorus of people we elected? The people we campaigned for? Gave money to? Believed in to stand up for our law and order?

One leader though we have heard from is Barack Obama. Take a listen.

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BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There is a great awakening going on around the country.

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PIRRO: So that’s what you call it? The anti-cop sentiment and rage has caused police deaths and over a thousand injured across the country. In spite of the incredible number of shootings in Chicago in one weekend, prompting a letter from President Trump to Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot calling on them to protect victims, these Democrats are at best, hands off, and at worst, encouraging the lawlessness.

A hundred and four people shot, 14 killed, including a three-year-old last weekend.

This lawlessness creates an atmosphere of anarchy that itself invites actions like a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk set on fire by firecrackers by a couple of thugs, where a man is shot in cold blood in New York City simply wiping down his car, where a white employee in Macy’s is beat down by a black man in the store with no one coming to help.

Now, no surprise gun and ammunition sales are now through the roof. The combination of the coronavirus lockdown and the daily shock of repeated lawlessness has people on edge. They feel helpless and alone, afraid.

And with crime statistics increasing, gun purchases rising, police reluctant to or told not to respond, including 911 calls that may yield no response, there is destined to be trouble.

I don’t know when reform will happen, because the Democrats refuse to work with one African-American Republican Senator. Why? You figure it out.

They don’t care about reform. They want chaos. It’s a great political issue for them in November. So, we must put an end to this anarchy.

The National Guard needs to be federalized to keep peace, where Democrats are refusing to do so. We need to start supporting law enforcement or deal with the increase in gun ownership and the problems that will inevitably arise from people trying to defend themselves.

Now, I believe most Americans, if they have a gun, don’t want to have to use it. They’d rather keep it locked in a safe, but ordinary citizens aren’t properly trained. The police are.

The only alternative now is to support law enforcement, pass police reform and allow the police to protect and defend us. If not, individual Americans will be left to defend themselves. And that’s not where America needs to be.

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Turkey’s Christians Decry Crackdown on Religious Freedom


A number of Christian pastors have warned of growing repression of Christianity under the rule of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Deutsche Welle reported Saturday.

The president of the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation (IPKV), Timur Topuz, said that Christian pastors in Turkey are facing growing hostility, especially since the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who had been detained in Turkey for nearly two years on charges of involvement in the failed July 2016 coup against President Erdoğan.

Pastor Brunson was finally released in October 2018, but only after the Trump administration put enormous pressure on the Turkish government, including the imposition of tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum imports.

“Since the Brunson incident, all Protestant pastors are treated with suspicion,” Mr. Topuz observed.

A pattern is emerging of pastors and their families in Turkey who are either having their residence permits revoked or not renewed, Topuz noted, adding that “thirty five pastors of the Turkish-Protestant community are experiencing problems of this kind.”

“Pastor Carlos Madrigal, a Spaniard, has been our spiritual leader for 19 years — and has had his residence permit renewed every time by the Ministry of Labor after the state intelligence agency (MIT) gave the go-ahead,” Topuz declared, and yet after his most recent request, “it has not been renewed.”

Topuz told Deutsche Welle that he is deeply disappointed that Turkey is reining in religious freedoms, noting that “back in 2006, our church was recognized as a place of worship, which sent a strong signal that gave us hope.”

As Breitbart News reported Friday, one prominent religious scholar has insisted that President Erdoğan has been using the nation’s Christians as a “welcome scapegoat” to distract from his political blunders in Syria and Libya.

“The persecution of Christians in Turkey continues,” said Alexander Görlach, senior fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. “While the world is busy fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with mass unemployment and a global recession, the Turkish government is taking advantage of the situation to further pressure minorities.”

Erdoğan has been adopting a nationalist and Islamic rhetoric, resulting in a further marginalization of Turkey’s Christians, the New York-based expert in comparative religions declared this week.

The Turkish president, in fact, has “been busy reorganizing his secular republic into a mixture of Ottomanism and Islam for some time now,” Görlach said.

As the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, Erdoğan has tried to patch up his damaged image by playing to the religious fervor of his Islamic population, reviving plans to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.

The sixth-century Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia was one of Christendom’s most treasured churches, but was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II “the Conqueror” after he took the city in 1453.

In 1931, Turkey’s President Atatürk turned the mosque into a museum as part of his program to modernize and secularize the country.

But now tensions are again growing between the Turkish government and the country’s small Christian population, Deutsche Welle reported Saturday, and religious freedom is once again “in jeopardy.”

A case in point is Joy Anna Crow Subasigüller, an American woman married to Turkish Christian pastor Lütfü Subasigüller. The couple have lived peacefully in Ankara for the past ten years together with their children, but recently Turkey’s migration department announced its refusal to renew her residence permit without giving any reason for the decision.

“This decision makes me very sad — I love Turkey and the Turkish people,” said the stay-at-home mother of three. “I have lived here for ten years, they were the best years of my life.”

Pastor Subasigüller claimed there is evidence suggesting that Turkey wishes to deport his wife because it deems her a threat to national security and public order because of her ties to Turkey’s Christian community, something he finds unbelievable.

“We are people who pray for our country, we do not threaten the national interest,” the pastor said.

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Demon Pelosi Tries to Revive Dead Russia Hoax — Says Russians Must Have Something on Trump

Demon Pelosi tried desperately on Sunday to revive the Russia hoax.

After three years of investigations and spying on candidate trump, his campaign, his family, his transition team and his administration, the criminal Obama deep state were not able to find any links between Russia and Donald Trump. Democrats smeared him in their attempted coup but found NOTHING.

But that didn’t stop Demon Pelosi from pushing the collusion hoax again on Sunday morning.

According to deep state leakers Russia was paying the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Trump wants US troops out of Afghanistan.

Pelosi today told ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos that Russia must have something on President Trump.

Speaker Pelosi: “This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed. I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore, he wants to bring them back to the G-8 despite the annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine.”

This woman is shameless.

Is there a woman in America more toxic and dishonest as Nancy Pelosi?

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