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VIDEO=> Antifa Leftist In “Smash The Patriarchy” Shirt SHOT By Police After Pulling GUN At Middle School

A person (who apparently uses they/them/their pronouns) was ventilated by police officers at Cascade Middle School in Eugene, Oregon, after they pulled a gun on the officers who were attempting to take them into custody. The entire incident was captured by body cameras worn by the police officers.

The ma’an, identified as Charlie Landeros, can be seen wearing a shirt that reads “Smash The Patriarchy And Chill” as police are wrestling them to the ground. Landeros draws a handgun from their waistband, and the two officers try to gain control of their arm, as Landeros points the gun at the officers. Then the cops opened fire.

The unedited video is courtesy of KATU News:

Landeros was a well known leftist activist in the Eugene, having led and participated in protests, specifically at University Of Oregon.

Charles Landeros (left) holds a megaphone during a protest at University of Oregon during the college president’s State Of University address in 2017. Photo courtesy of student newspaper Daily Emerald.

According to the U of O student newspaper, The Daily Emerald, Landeros was also a member of an armed antifa group known as “Community Armed Self Defense.”

From the Daily Emerald:

Landeros, who used they/them/theirs pronouns, led a student protest in October 2017 that disrupted UO President Michael Schill’s state of the university address. Landeros and other protestors characterized Schill as a CEO and said that the purpose of the protest was to “empower marginalized students on campus.”

Landeros was a member of Community Armed Self Defense, a group that was created as a “new liberatory and inclusive space for all oppressed peoples to learn about armed self-defense,” according to the group’s Facebook page, which is no longer publicly available on Facebook as of 4 p.m. Saturday.

Community Armed Self Defense’s Facebook page said that they could not count on the police to protect marginalized people, and that firearms help marginalized groups protect themselves.

“The police are not here to protect us. They are more likely to harm us themselves than they are to ‘serve or protect’ us,” the group wrote on their Facebook page description.

The Daily Emerald had also written several stories involving Landeros’s antics when they led students to protest the university’s president during a speech. They apparently faced code of conduct violations and were disciplined by the university. According to another issue of the Emerald, they appealed these sanctions but were ultimately denied relief.

KATU news reports that officers involved acted appropriately and the Lane County District Attorney will not pursue charges against them. Evidently there was some sort of custody covfefe over Landeros’s children, and that’s why they were at the school.

One organization that Landeros was involved with is the Civil Liberties Defence Center, which wrote a long eulogy on their site. Their entire statement reads:

“Do not let anyone quench your fire. Do not let them dismiss your love nor pacify your rage. My love, do not water yourself down.” – Love and Rage, poem by Charlie Landeros. #LoveAndRage4Charlie

Charles (Charlie) Landeros was a 30-year-old person who was shot and killed by unknown Eugene police officer(s) on the morning of January 11, 2019.  Charlie was born in Hong Kong, and migrated with their*[1]family to the US, where Charlie was raised on Kalapuya land in Eugene, Oregon. Charlie attended Cascade Middle School, also where they were tragically killed yesterday, and graduated from Willamette High School, enlisted in the Army at age 17. Upon being honorably discharged from the military, they attended the University of Oregon.  Charlie was most proud of being a parent to two daughters ages 10 and 12.

In addition to the children, Charlie Landeros leaves behind their partner, parents, a younger brother, and numerous other family members and friends. “The biggest thing is trying to figure out how to live without my older sibling, my lifelong support. Charlie has always been there for me when I needed them, but never again. I have accepted this, but I still don’t know how to go from here,” said Joesph Landeros, Charlie’s brother.

The details of this homicide are still largely unknown.  What is known is that Charlie had recently enrolled their daughter at Cascade Middle school as the custodial parent. The school contacted Charlie regarding their child’s safety, and Charlie went to the school to ensure the safety of this child.  We also know that Charlie was shot multiple times by Eugene Police Officer(s), several feet in front of the main entrance to the school.

The family of the deceased requests that the community recognize that deaths like Charlie’s are neither accidental or uncommon. “Charlie was the beating heart of every project they were involved in, the beating heart of our community,” said Ariel, Charlie’s partner. “We will need to learn how to regrow from that, because Charlie’s reach was so big.”

While people of color comprise 38.5 percent of the U.S. population, they make up 51.5 percent of those killed by police.  In spite of this staggering statistic, there is no national database that police departments must submit a record to when they complete an investigation after an officer shoots a civilian.

Despite law enforcement’s willful ignorance, in the last several years there have been far too many headlines describing people of color being shot and killed by police. The lesson learned: the experience of dealing with police in America is different for whites and nonwhites. Charlie was of mixed Filipino and Mexican descent.

Unlike the investigation into the police shooting death of fellow veteran Brian Babb, the family demands that this investigation be transparent, unbiased and thorough.

Donations to fund the independent investigation into Charlie’s homicide by police can be made at:  https://cldc.org/donate/ and please note that your donation is in memory of Charlie Landeros.

[1]* Charlie’s gender pronouns are they/theirs.

(Do you know how hard it is to avoid using “he” and “his” through this story? I’m sure all of the “they” and “their” references will confuse many readers.)

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Blackout: Why Won’t TV News Talk About NY’s New Abortion Law?

It’s been a full week since the state of New York legalized late-term abortions, yet none of the major national TV networks has bothered to mention the story. This deafening silence is in stark contrast to the alarmist coverage seen when a state passes legislation that the media see as curtailing “abortion rights.”

If the media are looking for controversy, this legislation has more than enough for journalists to sink their teeth into. The new law has been widely condemned by prominent pro-life organizations, and it has even ignited a debate within the Catholic Church about excommunicating Andrew Cuomo, the state’s governor who signed the bill into law. New York-based Cardinal Timothy Dolan has called it a “ghoulish radical abortion-expansion law, which allows for an abortion right up to the moment of birth.”

An analysis by the Media Research Center found that New York’s Reproductive Health Act has not received a second of airtime on any of the major broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) or liberal cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC) since it was signed into law on January 22. The new legislation legalizes abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy in some cases, and it permits healthcare workers other than abortion doctors to terminate pregnancies.

The media reaction was completely different when the Texas State Senate in 2013 was considering a bill that would have criminalized abortion after 20 weeks. Then, broadcast networks rushed to cover the story, focusing on the left-wing opponents of the masure. After the bill was struck down, ABC’s Good Morning America ran a victorious segment touting the “firestorm of protests.”

The media hype back then propelled hitherto unknown Texas Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis to (fleeting) national prominence, with networks applaudinging her 11-hour filibuster of the bill as “defiant” and “passionate.”

Davis was dubbed a “national political star” by CBS This Morning anchor Norah O’Donnell, and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes celebrated the bill’s “absolutely epic” defeat as an “incredible 24 hours of democracy on display in the United States of America.”

The 2013 bill that failed to pass in Texas was, in many ways, the New York Reproductive Health Act’s opposite. Were the national media merely drawn to controversy, these two measures would both have drawn heavy coverage. Instead, their utter silence about New York’s radical new law makes the press’s agenda glaringly obvious.

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After 4 Officers Shot, Furious Police Union Pres. Lays into Media, Antifa-Types. ‘Sick & Tired of Dirtbags Trying To Take Our Lives… the Ones Spreading Rhetoric That Police Officers Are the Enemy…’

Houston Police Officers’ Union President Joe Gamaldi slammed “dirtbags” who spread anti-law enforcement rhetoric after four Houston police officers were shot Monday night during a drug raid.

The shootout took place while officers were investigating a drug case the southeast section of the city, according to ABC News.

They were met with gunfire as soon as they reached the door of the home they were targeting. Four were wounded immediately, with two shot in the neck, according to CNN.

Two suspects were found dead at the scene.

Initial reports indicated five officers had been shot, but CNN reported that the five had suffered a knee injury.

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Speaking at the hospital, Gamaldi exploded on those who support anti-cop rhetoric.

“We are sick and tired of having targets on our back,” he said.

Police officers have been under fire from the left in recent years, especially with protests from so-called antifa thugs and NFL players like Colin Kaepernick.

The media only fuels the left’s outrage by zealously reporting on alleged incidents of police brutality.

But the media doesn’t report on police officers who’ve been brutalized with anywhere near the same level of interest.

In 2018, 144 police officers died.

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That’s a 12 percent increase from the 129 police officers who died in 2017.

“We are sick and tired of having dirtbags trying to take our lives when all we’re trying to do is protect this community and protect our families,” Gamaldi said. “Enough is enough.”

It’s obvious that Gamaldi was referring to antifa and the left-wing media.

Liberals seem to have no respect for the law — they embrace illegal immigration, want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and even criticize police officers at every opportunity.

Do you think the media is anti-cop?

When NFL players were protesting “police brutality,” the establishment media rarely stopped to clarify that the overwhelming majority of police officers are good people dealing with some of the most dangerous elements in society.

Because of the left’s blatant anti-cop rhetoric, tragedies are more likely to happen.

When the left-wing establishment media undermines the law, some criminals see a green light to do whatever they please.

And Monday’s shooting in Houston is exactly the result to expect.

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Residents of Small US Town Send Grave Warning After Governor Claims Border Crisis Doesn’t Exist

When New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham visited the United States’ southern border, she couldn’t be happier.

During a trip to southern New Mexico earlier this year, the Democratic leader proudly proclaimed, “I haven’t seen anything to indicate that we have an emerging crisis here at the border,” according to the Great Falls Tribune.

She might have had a different perspective had she gone farther west in the state.

Residents of the unincorporated community of Hachita, in the southwest corner of New Mexico, live with the realities of the border crisis every day. As the last vestige of civilization before Highway 81 ends at a border entry point, the town has become a hub for illegal immigration.

Every noise now has the potential to leave residents on edge. Some even hear people talking outside of their houses, a terrifying prospect in such a remote area.

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“I’ve heard stuff and it makes me wonder. I don’t want to look outside, because you never what’s outside your window,” retiree Bonnie Denzler told the Tribune. “It’s really disconcerting because you don’t know what’s going on.”

She also has a pointed message for the governor.

“She needs to come down here to this area — to see how wide open it is and how easy it is for people to jump the fence. People need to see what’s down here and that it’s not as safe as they’re spouting it is,” Denzler said.

The border crossing in New Mexico appears to be relatively easy, prompting groups of over 100 to make the trek. More than 26 of these groups have been apprehended since last October.

Do you think we need a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?

Border Patrol officials say many of the illegals coming over in mass numbers are trying to get caught.

Once arrested, groups are taken to a Border Patrol station. There, they are likely to receive unfettered access to water, food and health care. Safely away from the harsh terrain and desert climate, they then begin the process of applying for asylum.

Amanda Adame, the owner of a 24,000-acre ranch, said not all of those passing through the area are harmless asylum seekers. After spotting armed men dressed entirely in camouflage milling around one of her water tanks, she said she became worried the gunmen would follow her home.

“By the time they get to my house,” Adame told the Tribune, “the Border Patrol is not going to catch them. There’s too much space.”

The sparse population and wide open spaces of southern New Mexico lend the illegals a natural advantage, leaving Border Patrol officers scrambling to cover a vast area with limited staff and funding.

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Abandoned buildings, which the town has plenty of, act as rest areas for those illegally crossing the southern border. This has prompted many in Hachita to get dogs. This only goes so far, however.

With groups numbering over 100 illegals common, even the most routine of smuggling operations outnumbers the town’s double-digit population.

A tall and strong border wall wouldn’t only help the citizens of Hachita — it could mean the difference between life and death.

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Democrats Are Moving The Goal Posts — More And More Getting Closer To A Wall

Nancy Pelosi hardest hit. Via Daily Caller: Democratic members have increasingly expressed support for a physical barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border over the course of immigration negotiations, making it harder for party leaders to ignore their positions. Prior to the lengthy partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer seemed to have complete control over […]

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TED MALLOCH: The State of Our Union

TED MALLOCH: The State of Our Union


by Assistant Editor
January 29, 2019

The State of Our Union

Ted Malloch, coauthor of America’s Spiritual Capital

On January 29th President Trump was supposed to go to Congress and deliver his annual State of the Union speech.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to cancel it but he would have none of that, so she disinvited him until the shutdown is over.

Now it is over but it is not yet scheduled.

Why?

He should have played her for what she is a loser and a petty person and given the address on his time and at a place of his choosing.

It would behoove him to either give that constitutionally described and mandated address in the US Senate chambers or in another State capital.

Why let Pelosi and the radical Dems control and box him in?

In that address he could outline where we have come and where we will go under his leadership this coming year.

It is precisely what all Presidents’ are called to do.

He should take a bow for what has been accomplished and also signal how much more he hopes to achieve in the year ahead.
Few Presidents have been so productive.

This next year and then the (re) election in 2020 is a critical and historic crossroads and we desperately need his strong leadership.

We need it on a range of policies and also as importantly, in spirit.

America is a center-right polity and the modern exemplar of the Judeo-Christian heritage of spiritual capital.

Trump realizes this truth. He should say so, loud and clear.

Let me present two theses in this regard and demonstrate what they mean for this president’s leadership.

He should deploy them and take the high ground.

The first thesis concerns the logic of modernity.

What distinguishes modernity is the Technological Project, the transformation of nature for human betterment as opposed to fatalistic conformity.

The technological project requires inner-directed individuals and free market economies that maximize both competition and innovation.

Trump confesses this, too.

Say so loud and clear for the country to hear, not just his base.

Free market economies operate best with limited government (Montesquieu’s commercial republic and Madison’s Federalist #10).

Limited government can only be maintained under the rule of law.

The rule of law can only be sustained if there is a larger cultural context that celebrates responsible individual autonomy.

Finally, responsible individual autonomy presupposes a larger ontological claim about human freedom or free will that requires a theological argument.

Moreover, personal autonomy avoids self-destruction and adds a spiritual content to the technological project itself when the responsible use of freedom leads to helping to fulfill God’s plan by eliminating suffering and promoting freedom in and for others.

Recognizing, pursuing, and sustaining autonomy are the spiritual quests of modernity and the technological project, which is best, evidenced, in the on-going American experiment.

The ultimate rationale for the technological project is not material comfort or consumer satisfaction, but the production of the means of accomplishment.

To discover that our greatest sense of fulfillment comes from freely imposing order on ourselves in order to impose a creative order on the world is perhaps the closest way of coming to know purpose.

Three considerations lead us to maintain that responsible personal autonomy requires deep support.

First, personal autonomy presupposes free will.

This amounts to saying that there is no naturalistic (and scientific) explanation of the ultimate truths about who we are.

Second, we understand ourselves as historical beings, but history does not form a self-explanatory system.

Our interpretation of the whole human drama depends on an intimately personal decision concerning the part we mean to play in it.

In the end, this is a religious decision, not a scientific or scholarly one.

Trump needs to connect with the religious communities in America. Underscore pluralism and freedom of conscience—the pillars of America

Finally, sustaining our autonomy under trying circumstances requires stamina. Since naturalism and scientism fail, spirituality in some important sense emerges as the only discipline that can provide ultimate comprehension.

Trump can regain ground by calling on America’s spirit.

The second thesis is the documented history of how settlers, pioneers and immigrants to the United States brought precisely this larger view to America, nourished it, and sustained it.

Trump again needs to restate America’s journey with destiny.

The most important historical development in the last four hundred years has been the rise of the technological project (TP).

The TP, not the market, is the starting point for our American narrative, because, although there have always been markets, it is only since the 17th century that markets have come to play such a dominant role in our lives.

It is the presence of the TP that explains the centrality of those markets.

The TP is the control of nature for human benefit.

The TP radically changed the way people in the West viewed the world and their relationship to the world; and led to fundamental changes in the major institutions of the West (economic, political, legal, and social); which led to the expansion of the West and its domination of the non-Western world, and finally to the internationalization of Western institutions.

The following claims with regard to the TP can be made:

a. It is an irreversible historical fact [Protester’s are forced to use technology in order to mount a protest against it, especially cell phones, the internet, and computers].
b. Abandonment of the TP would have catastrophic consequences for humanity and threaten its very existence.
c. To the extent that the TP creates environmental and other kinds of problems we are now irrevocably committed to using future developments in the TP to address and hopefully solve those problems.

d. Those cultures which have most fully embraced the TP (including military technology) have come to dominate the world and to spread the TP. The spread has not been a matter of the powerful imposing on the weak; the weak have largely come to embrace the project on their own.
e. The thorny issues of globalization would not have developed outside of the context of the technological project.

This leads to the following tension and paradox which Trump should underscore: domestically the government is to maintain a low profile and fairly passive supporting role for commerce but in the international context the government is to promote actively the entire panoply of the Technological Project, Free Market Economies, Limited Government, and the Rule of Law.

To intervene in foreign affairs to bring about this result is incumbent upon free governments.

It is no use pretending that the implications could be otherwise. But Trump is not a neocon interventionist, so he needs to say how American power will be used and who will pay for it.

Our American President abides by and within the established heritage of America’s long established spiritual capital.

He cannot deny it, reject it, or pretend it away. It is our legacy.

The democratic ideal of ‘interventionist socialism’ we have toyed with over recent years, now front and center in the Democrat party, surely must come to an end, as it is totally at odds with the essence of America’s spiritual capital.

President Trump fully needs to articulate America’s spiritual capital in all the senses here described.

In my opinion, Trump is the leader we need to not only endorse but to pray for.

All of us, not just conservatives, need to rally behind him now.

He alone has the business acumen; he alone has the executive experience; he alone articulates all of the necessary ingredients here spelled out.

He understands the Technological Project, the free economy of markets, the rule of law and the limits to government.

He is making America greater and putting it first.

We desperately need a leader, one in America’s best spiritual tradition, to get us through the current malaise and economic chaos.

But make no mistake, he is under attack and so is America.

We should support our President and use the framework here laid out to inform that support for a stronger Union

In so doing we will also increase the legacy of America’s spiritual capital and renew its spirit.

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Exclusive–Angel Mom: Kamala Harris’ Staff Threatened to Call Capitol Police When Angel Families Visited Her Office

Angel Mom Maureen Maloney, the vice president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC), says Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)’s staff threatened to call Capitol Police when Angel Families visited her Senate office in Washington, DC, this month.

Maloney — whose 23 years-old son, Matthew Denice, was killed in August 2011 by an illegal alien who ran over him while drunk driving without a license — told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight that the staff of Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris threatened to call Capitol Police when Angel Families visited the offices of prominent House and Senate Democrats to discuss illegal alien crime.

Meanwhile, Maloney told Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that Harris makes it known that illegal aliens are welcome in her office.

“So we went past her office about two weeks ago, we were in D.C. to see … Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, and Kamala Harris, in front of her office, has a big welcome sign in Spanish that says ‘Dreamers Are Welcome,’” Maloney said.

MANSOUR: Were you welcome?

MALONEY: No, in fact two of the people I was with, they threatened to call Capitol Police on them if they didn’t leave.

MANSOUR: Kamala Harris’ staff threatened to call the police on you?

MALONEY: Yes.

Listen to Maloney’s full interview here:

In her 2020 presidential campaign kickoff speech in Oakland, California, Harris portrayed herself as an advocate for crime victims and thanked illegal aliens for visiting lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

You see, in our system of justice, we believe that harm against any one of us is harm against all of us. That’s why when we file a case, it’s not filed in the name of the victim. It reads, “The People.” This is a point I have often explained to console and counsel survivors of crime, people who faced great harm. Often at the hands of someone they trust – be it a relative or a bank or a big corporation. I would remind them. You are not invisible. We all stand together. [Emphasis added]

…

During the health care fight, I saw parents and children with grave illnesses walk the halls of the United States Congress, families who had traveled across the country at incredible sacrifice. They came to our nation’s capital believing that if their stories were heard, and if they were seen, their leaders would do the right thing. I saw the same thing with our Dreamers. They came by the thousands. By plane, train, and automobile. I’m sure they were sleeping ten-deep on someone’s living room floor. [Emphasis added]

Maloney said it is illegal aliens who have the upper hand against their American victims, not only when it comes to trying to speak with lawmakers, but also in the court system.

“Illegal aliens are treated with such leniency compared to American citizens. It’s really sickening what goes on in the courts,” Maloney said.

Harris and other elected Democrat lawmakers are “absolutely not” working on behalf of illegal alien crime victims, Maloney said, noting that she and other Angel Families have been unable to meet with Democrats about the immigration issue for years.

“My senators up here, Sen. Markey and Sen. Warren, I’ve tried for years to get an appointment to meet with them. They’re unable to meet with people here in Massachusetts and down in Washington,” Maloney said. “When I’ve been down in Washington to meet with Democrat leaders, they’re not available. Members of AVIAC have been trying to meet with Nancy Pelosi as long as we’ve been in existence and they’ve made public pleas to meet with her and she won’t meet with any of us.”

“No, I don’t feel that the Democrats are representing my family at all,” Maloney said.

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Report: Some ‘Furious’ House Democrats Want To Make AOC ‘One-Term Congressperson’

Democratic socialist freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) has definitely made her presence known among her colleagues in her few short weeks on Capitol Hill — and that’s not entirely a good thing, according to recent reports.

After taking out an incumbent Democrat who many believed would follow Nancy Pelosi as Democratic House Speaker, Ocasio-Cortez has announced to the world that she has partnered with far-left progressive group Justice Democrats, whose sole focus is primarying establishment Democrats who aren’t sufficiently liberal or "representative" of the Democrats’ increasingly "diverse" base.

"We as Justice Democrats have the chance to really transform the Democratic Party running in competitive primary elections in Democratic-held seats," one of the group’s leaders said in a recent promotional video for their campaign to primary Democrat incumbents (video below). "One of the important things that gets told in order to like settle us down is, ‘I agree with you. We have the same goals,”’ Ocasio-Cortez added. "It’s great that everyone thinks these issues are important. We need to make them urgent." That "urgency" requires new faces and voices, like hers, ready to make radical changes now — which means ousting insufficiently radical incumbent Democrats.

According to The Hill, Ocasio-Cortez’s open call for more radical candidates to take out her fellow Democrats has "infuriated" her colleagues, some of whom are already floating the idea of finding a primary challenger who can make the youngest woman to ever be elected to Congress a "one-term congressperson."

"At least one House Democrat has been privately urging members of the New York delegation to recruit a local politician from the Bronx or Queens to challenge Ocasio-Cortez," The Hill’s Scott Wong reports.

"What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson," the Democratic lawmaker told the outlet on condition of anonymity. "You’ve got numerous council people and state legislators who’ve been waiting 20 years for that seat. I’m sure they can find numerous people who want that seat in that district."

Wong reports that among those who have begun to look sideways at the freshman representative are "many" Congressional Black Caucus members. "Many New York and Congressional Black Caucus lawmakers were also furious with Ocasio-Cortez after a recent Politico report stated she and the grass-roots group aligned with her, Justice Democrats, were considering backing a primary challenge to fellow New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, a Black Caucus member and establishment insider who succeeded Crowley as caucus chairman," Wong writes.

However, Ocasio-Cortez and the Justice Democrats deny the claims in Politico’s report.

For now, reports Wong, her fellow Democrats are playing nice, at least on the surface. Black Caucus member Rep. Gregory Meeks’ (NY) public comments on the newly elected congresswoman demonstrate the kind of skepticism underlying his and his colleagues’ approach to AOC.

"We are going to see what happens," Meeks said in an interview. Though he said he is giving her "the benefit of the doubt" and "the presumption of innocence," he made clear that she’ll only continue to get that if she is a "team player." "I can only tell you that the times I’ve spoken to her, and at the times she’s been at the New York delegation meetings, she’s been cooperative and wants to be a team player," he said. "That’s what she said, so you gotta take her at her word until something changes."

She’s also reportedly angered some among the Congressional Hispanic Caucus with her plan to help the Justice Democrats take out centrist incumbent Dem. Henry Cuellar (TX). "We’re going to protect our members and we’re going to protect our own. Full stop," said former Hispanic Caucus whip Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA), Wong notes. "There are plenty of [swing] races and seats that we can play in, and we want to devote our resources to that."

Others have expressed strong doubt that the New York delegation would dare primary Ocasio-Cortez and noted that no candidate has emerged that could potentially challenge her. One insider, who stressed that the representative is "pissing off a lot of people," suggested that Elizabeth Crowley, 41, the cousin of the man she took out in the primary, might be a possibility.

Read The Hill’s full report here.

Below is Ocasio-Cortez helping promote the Justice Democrats’ plan to oust incumbent Democrats:

Related: Ocasio-Cortez Gets In Twitter Feud With WaPo Fact-Checker; Facts Win, But AOC Claims Victory Anyhow

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The Potomac two-step: Will no one stand up to the corruption in the FBI, DOJ, and CIA?

For nearly ten years now, Americans who have been paying attention have known that our government has become corrupt, that its premier institutions were weaponized by the Obama administration to the point that we have become something of a police state or banana republic.  This is not to say there was no corruption previous to Obama.  As Sidney Powell addresses in her book License to Lie, the current special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his amoral, ruthless right-hand man, Andrew Weismann, had already been practicing their prosecutions of personal destruction for decades.  In the 1980s, Mueller sent four men to prison who he knew were innocent.  He did it to protect a confidential informant.  Two of them died in prison.  The lawsuits filed cost taxpayers $100M.  That trial was connected to the murderous mafia hit man Whitey Bulger, who was finally caught after sixteen years.  He died in prison in 2018.  Was he murdered to protect Mueller?


There was the total destruction of Enron, and then came the obliteration of Enron’s accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.  Those prosecutions were run much as Mueller and Weismann are running their current job assignment.  Mueller successfully ruined both companies, costing thousands of people their jobs and sending nonviolent people to prison, sometimes to solitary confinement like what he did with Paul Manafort.  Fortunately, but too little, too late, nearly all of the guilty verdicts they managed to elicit from juries were overturned by the Supreme Court in both cases.



Why were these two men not disbarred?  How this malicious and vindictive man continued to rise to be a U.S. attorney in Massachusetts and California before becoming head of the FBI is a still unexplained mystery.  The old adage about what rises to the top appears to be true too often.  Obama definitely used the FBI, DOJ, and CIA for his own ends without regard for the Constitution, rights to privacy, and basic decency.  People like Mueller have been around for years and years, poisoning the agencies they are charged with running lawfully.  Mueller is just one of the worst, but he has plenty of company: Patrick Fitzgerald, Eric Schneiderman, Eliot Spitzer, and Eric Holder come to mind.  Each of them perpetrated crimes against the DOJ and the American people as surely as Comey and McCabe have against the FBI, by using the power of the government for their own despicable ends. 


Mueller was not hired to investigate Trump; he was hired to cover up crimes, his own and those of his fellow travelers, their elaborate plot to derail the Trump campaign and then to orchestrate his impeachment by any means necessary.  His appointment was successfully manipulated by Comey and Rosenstein for their own purposes.  Now Mueller has authorized the over-the-top SWAT-team, guns-drawn raid of Roger Stone’s home, an exercise that would be comical if it were not so deadly serious.


It appears we are now a police state.  Stalin would be proud.  The left and the media all approved of this preposterous bit of nasty theater.  Stephanopoulos said such tactics are “common,” a blatant lie.  As Tucker Carlson pointed out, Mueller sent more men to get Stone than Obama sent to get Osama bin Laden!  But then Stephanopoulos is nothing but a tool of the left, a talking head with a script to read.  Who writes the bilge he reads?  Would be good to know, but one thing is certain: they have as their goal the destruction of America and its most cherished values. 


There is a scene in the film Clear and Present Danger (1994) in which the president says to the CIA analyst who has uncovered his treachery and is threatening to spill the beans: “You’ve got yourself a chip in the big game.  You’re going to tuck that away and save it for a time when your own ass is on the line, and then you’re going to pull it out, and I’m going to cash it in for you.  The old Potomac two-step.”  One can only conclude that far too many people in D.C. know that dance, and they dance their way to the top.  Is there no one aside from Trump who will work to help drain this swamp?


Image: James Ledbetter via Flickr.


For nearly ten years now, Americans who have been paying attention have known that our government has become corrupt, that its premier institutions were weaponized by the Obama administration to the point that we have become something of a police state or banana republic.  This is not to say there was no corruption previous to Obama.  As Sidney Powell addresses in her book License to Lie, the current special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his amoral, ruthless right-hand man, Andrew Weismann, had already been practicing their prosecutions of personal destruction for decades.  In the 1980s, Mueller sent four men to prison who he knew were innocent.  He did it to protect a confidential informant.  Two of them died in prison.  The lawsuits filed cost taxpayers $100M.  That trial was connected to the murderous mafia hit man Whitey Bulger, who was finally caught after sixteen years.  He died in prison in 2018.  Was he murdered to protect Mueller?


There was the total destruction of Enron, and then came the obliteration of Enron’s accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.  Those prosecutions were run much as Mueller and Weismann are running their current job assignment.  Mueller successfully ruined both companies, costing thousands of people their jobs and sending nonviolent people to prison, sometimes to solitary confinement like what he did with Paul Manafort.  Fortunately, but too little, too late, nearly all of the guilty verdicts they managed to elicit from juries were overturned by the Supreme Court in both cases.


Why were these two men not disbarred?  How this malicious and vindictive man continued to rise to be a U.S. attorney in Massachusetts and California before becoming head of the FBI is a still unexplained mystery.  The old adage about what rises to the top appears to be true too often.  Obama definitely used the FBI, DOJ, and CIA for his own ends without regard for the Constitution, rights to privacy, and basic decency.  People like Mueller have been around for years and years, poisoning the agencies they are charged with running lawfully.  Mueller is just one of the worst, but he has plenty of company: Patrick Fitzgerald, Eric Schneiderman, Eliot Spitzer, and Eric Holder come to mind.  Each of them perpetrated crimes against the DOJ and the American people as surely as Comey and McCabe have against the FBI, by using the power of the government for their own despicable ends. 


Mueller was not hired to investigate Trump; he was hired to cover up crimes, his own and those of his fellow travelers, their elaborate plot to derail the Trump campaign and then to orchestrate his impeachment by any means necessary.  His appointment was successfully manipulated by Comey and Rosenstein for their own purposes.  Now Mueller has authorized the over-the-top SWAT-team, guns-drawn raid of Roger Stone’s home, an exercise that would be comical if it were not so deadly serious.


It appears we are now a police state.  Stalin would be proud.  The left and the media all approved of this preposterous bit of nasty theater.  Stephanopoulos said such tactics are “common,” a blatant lie.  As Tucker Carlson pointed out, Mueller sent more men to get Stone than Obama sent to get Osama bin Laden!  But then Stephanopoulos is nothing but a tool of the left, a talking head with a script to read.  Who writes the bilge he reads?  Would be good to know, but one thing is certain: they have as their goal the destruction of America and its most cherished values. 


There is a scene in the film Clear and Present Danger (1994) in which the president says to the CIA analyst who has uncovered his treachery and is threatening to spill the beans: “You’ve got yourself a chip in the big game.  You’re going to tuck that away and save it for a time when your own ass is on the line, and then you’re going to pull it out, and I’m going to cash it in for you.  The old Potomac two-step.”  One can only conclude that far too many people in D.C. know that dance, and they dance their way to the top.  Is there no one aside from Trump who will work to help drain this swamp?


Image: James Ledbetter via Flickr.




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Covington Kids’ Attorney Lists Potential Libel Lawsuit Targets, and It’s Fantastic


Attorney Robert Barnes is representing several students from Covington Catholic High School who he says were libeled in the aftermath of the incident at the Life for March.

And, in an appearance on Fox News over the weekend, he listed the individuals he would be going after.

First, those who are in the clear: Rep. Ilhan Omar, who posted a tweet that claimed the students told a woman, “It’s not rape if you enjoy it” and who took the side of the Black Hebrew Israelite sect harassing the students, saying they were harassing the sect instead. Barnes said they asked her to retract the tweet and she did.

Also on that list was comedian Kathy Griffin, who retracted tweets which were aimed at doxing the students.

Then there those facing possible suits. The first mentioned was Reza Aslan, the former CNN host who’s known for his frequently profane rants against anything that has to do with Donald Trump or conservatives.

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Here was his take, not retracted, seeming to call for violence against a minor:

In an interview Saturday with Fox News Jesse Watters, Barnes said Aslan is one possible target of a lawsuit.

Another potential target is Matthew Dowd, the ABC News analyst who first lambasted the kids and then clung to the idea that the fuller video showed them to be racists.

Those tweets were still up late Monday morning, which means Dowd was looking at a possible lawsuit.

The New York Daily News is another potential target for their article mistaking a Covington Catholic “blackout game” for an instance of blackface.

As Watters pointed out, however, libel lawsuits can be difficult to win.

“From my limited understanding of the law — I did not go to law school — it’s a very high bar, the slander and the libel,” Watters said. “I mean, you have to show malicious intent and knowingly that something is wrong and defamatory. It doesn’t always work in court. Are you confident you’re going to be able to secure judgments?”

Do you think these journalists should be sued?

Barnes pointed out, however, there was a “unique exception.”

“When there is a defamation and libel of private citizens, particularly minors, then the legal standard goes way down,” Barnes said. “So you no longer have to prove actual malice or malevolent intent. All you have to prove is that a false statement was made — or in Kentucky, the law is even broader, ‘an unflattering impression given and a person’s impression in a false light’ — and otherwise … that it just be negligent to do so.”

That, Barnes explained, is why the families gave individuals a 48-hour window to retract or delete their statements.

“If they still refuse to do so, it’s clearly negligent for them to keep false statements up.”

And that’s not something I think the left particularly wants. At least at this point, the media is able to pass the kerfuffle off as a cultural Rorschach test: You see what you want to.

If it gets into a court of law and journalists who should have known better are clearly shown to have not known better, that’s not only going to drag this on — it’s more than likely to move this into a stage where news organizations are going to try to dig up dirt on minors to defend themselves or admit they were desperate to keep the narrative alive.

It’ll likely show, in a very public forum, how they denigrated and villainized underage kids for clicks and ratings.

That’s not a fate anyone who rushed to judgment on this case wants. The longer their arguments are out in the sun of public scrutiny, the more they wither and putrefy — and to a jury, that could look like a large cash award.

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