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Does the Left Know Something’s Coming Involving Guns?

Have you noticed the multiple calls recently for increased gun control, despite the fact that all of the harm being done presently at leftist riots does not (yet) involve guns?  A car was used in Charlottesville, as vehicles have been used before, yet, as if unaware of the public facts, leftist politicians and activists have increased their calls for greater gun control.  A car was used in Spain, and in Britain before that, and in Paris before that, and each time, American leftists called for greater gun control in the United States.  Paul Ryan mentioned increased gun control at a public forum recently in response to a question asked of him by someone he knew.  Despite the utter lack of a connection with guns in anything to do with Charlottesville, he linked the event to gun ownership in the U.S. and concurred that more control is needed.  Weird, right?

What if they know something we don’t?  This sounds a little “out there,” but we live in a time when what is going on beneath the surface dwarfs what we see as the end result of someone’s planning.  So what if the discordant calls for gun control are because those politicians, anarchists, and activists (though I repeat myself) have foreknowledge of some kind of planned escalation of their brand of “protest” and are setting the stage for disingenuous “I told you sos’?  What if they have something of a timeline along which they either believe that things will happen or will make things happen, to escalate the blitzkrieg of media and hysteria by which they effect “change” – meaning a coup?

What if they and the media are in bed together on this, too, and have prepared their stories and narratives ahead of time?  In Charlottesville, Trump was caught flat-footed but still gave an accurate response regarding hate on many sides, but Terry McAuliffe had a complete speech ready to go, condemning the left’s shadowy enemies while omitting any mention of the Marxist combatants who came to do actual, physical harm.  No one in the media batted an eye. 

Indeed, Charlottesville itself has more than a whiff of this.  Because the KKK types obeyed the law and obtained a permit, the officials in Charlottesville and Richmond, Democrats all, knew precisely where the protesters would gather and when.  Magically, an army of radical Marxist activists materialized, sans permit, many from out of state, as has been confirmed, to confront those who were obeying the law, even if they were saying or believed objectionable things.  When the two factions had been allowed within striking distance of each other by local authorities, who ensured they were not more safely separated, a state of emergency was declared.  The park had to be vacated, the KKK side and the Antifa side were somehow pushed together by police despite other means of egress from the park, a mêlée ensued, and the police who herded them together suddenly were far away, watching what they had facilitated.  The media were right there.

The left, it seems, has orchestrated these fights.  Their surrogates are not there to protest; they are there to provoke.  They come armed, masked, and emboldened by the political support of the left.  It’s the Marxist left’s goon squad, there to ensure that one side speaks, one side controls, and the other side stays quiet or is punished.  Liberal mayors and governors seem disinterested in preventing the violence, even ahead of time.  Police officers report, as in Baltimore and Charlottesville, that they were told to “stand down,” though they knew that harm could have been prevented if they’d been allowed to do their jobs. 

The obvious next step in the string of events being put into effect by the left is a confrontation involving guns.  They seem to want, indeed, to have foreknowledge, that someone at one of these events will use a gun, perhaps one of their own pretending to be an opponent, or maybe a bystander will be threatened and will protect himself and those with him.  Regardless, the purge of the Second Amendment will take off as never before.  Imagine the hysterical, unhinged screaming that an Alt-Right lunatic finally proved all the leftists right and took a shot.  What happened won’t matter.  Truth will be rejected.  The narrative will be everything. 

I fully recall that Republicans have already been shot on a baseball field, but the left won’t permit that discussion.  Even if they do, and even if it is pointed out that a leftist has already crossed that threshold without those on the right responding in kind, it won’t matter.  The false narrative will brook no exceptions.  The right will be blamed for what the left planned, and the calls will go out nationwide for bans and confiscations.

Seeing the unprecedented dishonesty we have seen over the last nine years, practiced by unethical zealots who see their opportunity to gain full control over the wealth of an entire nation, is this too ridiculous to imagine?  I don’t think so.  Conversely, if there isn’t something going on, why are we suddenly being prepared to receive a new surge for gun “control,” bans, and confiscation?

On the other hand, what if the crises don’t happen?  Well, then the left fabricates them.  We saw this clearly in the days and weeks following the election, as dozens of leftists utterly made up hoaxes about being assaulted, or insulted, or seeing churches burn, none of which turned out to be true.  What if, as we saw with the fake “Trump supporters are racist” meme, the left gets tired of waiting for an event that doesn’t come and makes it happen?   In this day and age, with the malice and insanity of the left on full display, who thinks this is not within the realm of possibility?

I hope I’m wrong, but the left is determined to continue the philosophical movements of the Obama years despite its loss.  Leftists don’t care about elections.  They care about raw power, intimidation, disinformation, and corruption.  The wealth of America is a goal well worth lying and cheating for if you’re on the left.  What’s another constitutional right sacrificed?  It’s not as though they’ll be around much longer anyway if they win.

Have you noticed the multiple calls recently for increased gun control, despite the fact that all of the harm being done presently at leftist riots does not (yet) involve guns?  A car was used in Charlottesville, as vehicles have been used before, yet, as if unaware of the public facts, leftist politicians and activists have increased their calls for greater gun control.  A car was used in Spain, and in Britain before that, and in Paris before that, and each time, American leftists called for greater gun control in the United States.  Paul Ryan mentioned increased gun control at a public forum recently in response to a question asked of him by someone he knew.  Despite the utter lack of a connection with guns in anything to do with Charlottesville, he linked the event to gun ownership in the U.S. and concurred that more control is needed.  Weird, right?

What if they know something we don’t?  This sounds a little “out there,” but we live in a time when what is going on beneath the surface dwarfs what we see as the end result of someone’s planning.  So what if the discordant calls for gun control are because those politicians, anarchists, and activists (though I repeat myself) have foreknowledge of some kind of planned escalation of their brand of “protest” and are setting the stage for disingenuous “I told you sos’?  What if they have something of a timeline along which they either believe that things will happen or will make things happen, to escalate the blitzkrieg of media and hysteria by which they effect “change” – meaning a coup?

What if they and the media are in bed together on this, too, and have prepared their stories and narratives ahead of time?  In Charlottesville, Trump was caught flat-footed but still gave an accurate response regarding hate on many sides, but Terry McAuliffe had a complete speech ready to go, condemning the left’s shadowy enemies while omitting any mention of the Marxist combatants who came to do actual, physical harm.  No one in the media batted an eye. 

Indeed, Charlottesville itself has more than a whiff of this.  Because the KKK types obeyed the law and obtained a permit, the officials in Charlottesville and Richmond, Democrats all, knew precisely where the protesters would gather and when.  Magically, an army of radical Marxist activists materialized, sans permit, many from out of state, as has been confirmed, to confront those who were obeying the law, even if they were saying or believed objectionable things.  When the two factions had been allowed within striking distance of each other by local authorities, who ensured they were not more safely separated, a state of emergency was declared.  The park had to be vacated, the KKK side and the Antifa side were somehow pushed together by police despite other means of egress from the park, a mêlée ensued, and the police who herded them together suddenly were far away, watching what they had facilitated.  The media were right there.

The left, it seems, has orchestrated these fights.  Their surrogates are not there to protest; they are there to provoke.  They come armed, masked, and emboldened by the political support of the left.  It’s the Marxist left’s goon squad, there to ensure that one side speaks, one side controls, and the other side stays quiet or is punished.  Liberal mayors and governors seem disinterested in preventing the violence, even ahead of time.  Police officers report, as in Baltimore and Charlottesville, that they were told to “stand down,” though they knew that harm could have been prevented if they’d been allowed to do their jobs. 

The obvious next step in the string of events being put into effect by the left is a confrontation involving guns.  They seem to want, indeed, to have foreknowledge, that someone at one of these events will use a gun, perhaps one of their own pretending to be an opponent, or maybe a bystander will be threatened and will protect himself and those with him.  Regardless, the purge of the Second Amendment will take off as never before.  Imagine the hysterical, unhinged screaming that an Alt-Right lunatic finally proved all the leftists right and took a shot.  What happened won’t matter.  Truth will be rejected.  The narrative will be everything. 

I fully recall that Republicans have already been shot on a baseball field, but the left won’t permit that discussion.  Even if they do, and even if it is pointed out that a leftist has already crossed that threshold without those on the right responding in kind, it won’t matter.  The false narrative will brook no exceptions.  The right will be blamed for what the left planned, and the calls will go out nationwide for bans and confiscations.

Seeing the unprecedented dishonesty we have seen over the last nine years, practiced by unethical zealots who see their opportunity to gain full control over the wealth of an entire nation, is this too ridiculous to imagine?  I don’t think so.  Conversely, if there isn’t something going on, why are we suddenly being prepared to receive a new surge for gun “control,” bans, and confiscation?

On the other hand, what if the crises don’t happen?  Well, then the left fabricates them.  We saw this clearly in the days and weeks following the election, as dozens of leftists utterly made up hoaxes about being assaulted, or insulted, or seeing churches burn, none of which turned out to be true.  What if, as we saw with the fake “Trump supporters are racist” meme, the left gets tired of waiting for an event that doesn’t come and makes it happen?   In this day and age, with the malice and insanity of the left on full display, who thinks this is not within the realm of possibility?

I hope I’m wrong, but the left is determined to continue the philosophical movements of the Obama years despite its loss.  Leftists don’t care about elections.  They care about raw power, intimidation, disinformation, and corruption.  The wealth of America is a goal well worth lying and cheating for if you’re on the left.  What’s another constitutional right sacrificed?  It’s not as though they’ll be around much longer anyway if they win.

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The Real Reason the Democrats Want to Be Rid of Confederate Monuments

George Orwell’s dictum, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” is often quoted, and for good reason.  But it is usually quoted out of context.  The passage begins:  

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. “

Then comes the aphorism, and Orwell continues: 

“And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.  Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.”  

“Reality control” they called it; in Newspeak, “doublethink.”   Taken in its entirety, Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, presciently described the scenario we now see unfolding in the Democratic Party, the party of the American Left.  They intend to erase their own racist past by removing statues and maligning anyone, especially President Trump, who voices an objection.  As Dennis Prager has often asserted, “Truth is not a leftist value.”  It most certainly is not a value of the mainstream media, print or electronic.  Our media are part and parcel of the leftist apparatus that seeks to control how our history is remembered.  They mean to rewrite it, start to finish, and impose their revisionist version on the rest of us.

“Doublethink” in Orwell’s novel meant “to…be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies…to repudiate morality while laying claim to it….”   Does this not describe perfectly the left today?  The media spend their days “rectifying” the news.  They write and print and speak to mislead.  Since they could not factually rectify the outcome of the 2016 election, they have spent every waking moment since constructing lies to delegitimize it; with falsehoods of collusion with Russia, and implications that racism, white supremacism, Nazis, and the KKK somehow denied them their rightful destiny They know none of those imputations are true, but their goal is make the public believe they are factual. 

For the eight years Obama was President, the MSM never reported the vast numbers of people who were forced, enticed and even recruited to dependence on Food Stamps (an additional 10.7 million souls), or the catastrophic, unimaginable sum of 10 trillion dollars, by which he increased the national debt (he doubled it, adding more than all previous presidents combined), or the true facts of Obamacare, driving up costs, and wrecking the finances of what was the best system of medical care in the world).   In Orwell’s book, Winston Smith works in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth which is, of course, exactly the opposite.  His job is to “correct” any words issued by Big Brother or the Party that were in error; those errors disappear forever.  

The American public is fed fake news day in and day out by every mainstream outlets:  NYT, WaPo, LAT, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and even Fox News at certain times of the day.  They think they are convincing people the lies they tell are the truth — but they are not.  Of course, millions of Americans are already believers, those seduced by the indoctrination that is de rigueur at nearly all institutions of public and private education.  Millions more are not.  Millions of others know a bit about real American history, its founding, and the Constitution, and they actually do want their country back from the leftist tyrants in the media and Congress.  That is why Trump won.  The fact that those congressional leaders are part of the Uniparty is no longer in doubt.  McConnell, Ryan, and their adherents are betrayers of the people who put them in Congress.  

The media, academia, the DC Establishment, (the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are united against Trump), Facebook, and Google constitute the embodiment of Orwell’s Thought Police.  Trump fights back, calls them out for what they are.  That is exactly what he did in Phoenix.  His supporters loved it, and the media punditry’s heads exploded; they made utter fools of themselves.  They think that they matter, that people care what they think.  They are confident that their over-the-top, hyperbolic accusations hold water.  They ridicule Trump and his supporters all day long every day.  They do not realize that they are objects of ridicule.

It is the Democratic Party that has the most vicious history of racism and intolerance of any surviving political party in today’s world that once held power. South Africa’s National Party, for instance, had the good grace to disband in post-Apartheid politics.  The statues they now want to disappear, those of Confederate soldiers, were all Democrats.

Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, now shrouded

It was Democrats that opposed desegregation and Civil Rights laws.  Nancy Pelosi’s father dedicated a statue of Robert E, Lee, and now, suddenly, she wants all Confederates removed from the Capitol after she has walked by them for thirty years?  This is the crass hypocrisy that characterizes the no longer liberal but so, so leftist Democrats.  Orwell wrote a book of fiction. He was a proponent of the utopian ideal of democratic socialism, but an opponent of totalitarianism.  Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried.  Totalitarianism reigns still in too many parts of the world.  Our leftists are moving our Republic closer and closer to that end.  They cannot be allowed to succeed. 

George Orwell’s dictum, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” is often quoted, and for good reason.  But it is usually quoted out of context.  The passage begins:  

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. “

Then comes the aphorism, and Orwell continues: 

“And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.  Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.”  

“Reality control” they called it; in Newspeak, “doublethink.”   Taken in its entirety, Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, presciently described the scenario we now see unfolding in the Democratic Party, the party of the American Left.  They intend to erase their own racist past by removing statues and maligning anyone, especially President Trump, who voices an objection.  As Dennis Prager has often asserted, “Truth is not a leftist value.”  It most certainly is not a value of the mainstream media, print or electronic.  Our media are part and parcel of the leftist apparatus that seeks to control how our history is remembered.  They mean to rewrite it, start to finish, and impose their revisionist version on the rest of us.

“Doublethink” in Orwell’s novel meant “to…be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies…to repudiate morality while laying claim to it….”   Does this not describe perfectly the left today?  The media spend their days “rectifying” the news.  They write and print and speak to mislead.  Since they could not factually rectify the outcome of the 2016 election, they have spent every waking moment since constructing lies to delegitimize it; with falsehoods of collusion with Russia, and implications that racism, white supremacism, Nazis, and the KKK somehow denied them their rightful destiny They know none of those imputations are true, but their goal is make the public believe they are factual. 

For the eight years Obama was President, the MSM never reported the vast numbers of people who were forced, enticed and even recruited to dependence on Food Stamps (an additional 10.7 million souls), or the catastrophic, unimaginable sum of 10 trillion dollars, by which he increased the national debt (he doubled it, adding more than all previous presidents combined), or the true facts of Obamacare, driving up costs, and wrecking the finances of what was the best system of medical care in the world).   In Orwell’s book, Winston Smith works in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth which is, of course, exactly the opposite.  His job is to “correct” any words issued by Big Brother or the Party that were in error; those errors disappear forever.  

The American public is fed fake news day in and day out by every mainstream outlets:  NYT, WaPo, LAT, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and even Fox News at certain times of the day.  They think they are convincing people the lies they tell are the truth — but they are not.  Of course, millions of Americans are already believers, those seduced by the indoctrination that is de rigueur at nearly all institutions of public and private education.  Millions more are not.  Millions of others know a bit about real American history, its founding, and the Constitution, and they actually do want their country back from the leftist tyrants in the media and Congress.  That is why Trump won.  The fact that those congressional leaders are part of the Uniparty is no longer in doubt.  McConnell, Ryan, and their adherents are betrayers of the people who put them in Congress.  

The media, academia, the DC Establishment, (the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are united against Trump), Facebook, and Google constitute the embodiment of Orwell’s Thought Police.  Trump fights back, calls them out for what they are.  That is exactly what he did in Phoenix.  His supporters loved it, and the media punditry’s heads exploded; they made utter fools of themselves.  They think that they matter, that people care what they think.  They are confident that their over-the-top, hyperbolic accusations hold water.  They ridicule Trump and his supporters all day long every day.  They do not realize that they are objects of ridicule.

It is the Democratic Party that has the most vicious history of racism and intolerance of any surviving political party in today’s world that once held power. South Africa’s National Party, for instance, had the good grace to disband in post-Apartheid politics.  The statues they now want to disappear, those of Confederate soldiers, were all Democrats.

Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, now shrouded

It was Democrats that opposed desegregation and Civil Rights laws.  Nancy Pelosi’s father dedicated a statue of Robert E, Lee, and now, suddenly, she wants all Confederates removed from the Capitol after she has walked by them for thirty years?  This is the crass hypocrisy that characterizes the no longer liberal but so, so leftist Democrats.  Orwell wrote a book of fiction. He was a proponent of the utopian ideal of democratic socialism, but an opponent of totalitarianism.  Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried.  Totalitarianism reigns still in too many parts of the world.  Our leftists are moving our Republic closer and closer to that end.  They cannot be allowed to succeed. 

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Stacey Dash blasts Maxine Waters as a ‘corrupt media buffoon.’ The backlash is intense.

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters apparently doesn’t have a fan in black conservative entertainer Stacey Dash. The actress and former Fox News contributor blasted the congresswoman for her speech Tuesday at BET’s “Black Girls Rock” event.

During her speech, Waters said, “If you come for me, I’m coming for you,” and called out “right-wing, ultra conservative, ‘alt-right’ haters.”

Waters went on to threaten President Donald Trump’s presidency once again.

Whether it’s the president of the United States of America or any of his Cabinet, we will say to them, ‘We will resist you, we will not allow you to damage this country in the way that you’re doing, we will not allow you to take us backwards.’ Not only will we resist you, we will impeach you, Mr. President.

Dash took to Twitter Thursday to rip Waters, calling the liberal firebrand a “corrupt media buffoon.” The response from the black community was not kind.

Accusations and insults

In response to Waters’ speech, Dash wrote on Twitter, “This is how you spin a corrupt media buffoon sucking up her late in life 15 minutes,” and shared an article featuring Waters’ speech.

Replying to her own tweet, Dash added, “Ok. I digress. I should not name call. She’s NOT A WARRIOR OF TRUTH.”

Backlash

Immediately, insults calling Dash’s “blackness” into question surfaced, but she was prepared to fire back with her own comments.

Apparently addressing commenters in her Twitter feed, Dash hours later tweeted, “Calls for me to ‘be black, act black’ or ‘rejoin the black race’ are endemic of people blinded by the left strategy of self-segregation.”

In response to her cries of “self-segregation,” many Twitter users indicated that they didn’t want her to be part in the black race.

Several articles addressing Dash’s comments were written, addressing her comments about Waters, and boasted headlines like, “Sunken Place Skank Stacey Dash Came For Maxine Waters, Dragged To C**nsville,”Dear Stacey Dash: Go Sit Your A** Down Somewhere,” and from BET itself, who hosted the “Black Girls Rock” event, “Girl, Bye! Stacey Dash Calls Rep. Maxine Waters A ‘Buffoon’.”

Dash’s conservative history

Dash is no stranger to the conservative American movement. In 2014, she joined Fox News as a contributor for “cultural analysis and commentary.”

In 2015, Dash appeared on Fox’s “Outnumbered,” where she claimed that former President Barack Obama “didn’t give a s**t” about terrorism.” After Dash’s comments against the Democratic president went viral, she was suspended from the network for two weeks without pay.

Dash has also called for an end to Black History Month, a move that drew rampant criticism from both black and white critics.

Attacking BET, Dash defended her remarks and said, “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration, and if we don’t want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black.”

Fox News in January announced that Dash’s contract with the network would not be renewed.

Dash began writing a blog on Patheos in May 2015, but has not updated it since April 2017.

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Hunters Epically Troll PETA’s “Shoot Selfies, Not Animals” Facebook With Wild Game Pictures

Burn. Via The Federalist: Hunting season is just around the corner. Of course, the activists comprising the alleged People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are trying to ruin momentum for the upcoming season with their latest efforts to promote their “Shoot Selfies, Not Animals” campaign. However, their attempts to share their message hasn’t […]

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The Circle Completes: CNN Publishes Defense Of ESPN’s Robert Lee Debacle

By now you have all heard the story that because leftwing ESPN has lost all touch with sports fans and reality, because ESPN has devolved from an over-caffeinated sports network into a relentlessly obnoxious, virtue-signaling social justice network, an Asian broadcaster named Robert Lee was taken off the air because of Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate general.

Apparently an Asian guy named Lee, Robert, might have triggered the triggerables triggers and, well, no wonder ESPN is losing viewers like CNN would if CNN actually had viewers.

Anyway, as is always the case when anything or anyone among the Left does something as breathtakingly stupid as this, the madness is never over until someone else on the Left defends it. Think about it. No matter how dumb, how insulting, how evil, violent or racist, no matter how utterly insane or un-American, the circle of such a thing is never complete until an establishment media outlet publishes a hot take explaining why it really is okay.

Based on its recent fascist, pro-violent, pro-Satan screeds, my money was on The Washington Post stepping up to the plate. My second choice, however, would have been CNN and, well, hereyougo …

Why ESPN and Robert Lee Are Right

Brace yourselves for the dumb …

In the testosterone-laced world of sports, sometimes your name means everything. Think not? I’ve seen men beaten by mobs just for having the gall to scream out “let’s go Cowboys” at an Eagles game. Think of all the racial epithets we’ve heard, of how one football player, Colin Kaepernick, silently taking a knee during the national anthem in personal protest of injustice in America has divided the nation.

We want to pretend that sports are a safe sanctuary from the world’s ugly problems, but that has always been a farce. Truth is, not even the glorious game of football can keep America’s toxic culture of bigotry, hate and violence at bay. It’s just too heavy a burden.

So imagine if you’re scheduled to be the announcer for ESPN’s livestream of the University of Virginia’s season-opener football game against William and Mary in a few weeks and your name is Robert Lee.

The piece actually closes with this …

As one ESPN executive told me Wednesday: “Let’s not go to the zoo if we don’t have to go to the zoo.” Good call. Life is crazy enough already.

What zoo? What are these lunatics talking about? Who exactly is going to see a young Asian man standing over a chyron that reads Robert Lee and … … … That’s the other thing. What do these functional stupes think is going to happen if even one moron is triggered? Is ESPN trying to save a basement television from having a water bong thrown at it?

Other than the fear of memes and jokes, which were assured forever when ESPN pulled poor Mr. Lee, this brainless CNN contributor never once tells us what she believes might have happened had Mr. Lee been allowed to do his job. Nor does she point out that ESPN’s insanity injected those memes with steroids. Instead, she merely uses her hot take-headline as a means to relitigate her endless list of racial grievances.

The good news is that the circle is finally complete, the moronosity has exhausted itself, and other then ESPN losing even more viewers over it, the Robert Lee Affair, as it is now called, is just another example on a growing pile labeled Why Trump Won.

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UN Hypocrites Lecture U.S. on Charlottesville Racism

Anastasia Crickley, The United Nations and Glass Houses

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, acting under its “Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedures,” intervened in the ongoing controversy over the deadly violence in Charlottesville sparked by a white supremacist rally and the Trump administration’s response.

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Australian Prime Minister: Changing Statues, Rewriting History is “Stalinist”

A voice of reason in a sea of insanity.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Friday that attempts to replace or modify statues of English colonialists were reminiscent of Stalin.

The Democrats in America are committed to erasing American historic figures from public viewing.

Democrats have removed or vandalized statues of Confederate figures, Thomas Jefferson, Catholic saints and even Abraham Lincoln in the last month.

Joseph Stalin was famous for erasing purged figures from Soviet history.
Reuters reported:

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a “Stalinist” rewrite of history.

Pressure has grown in the wake of the furor over Confederate monuments in the United States to reconsider statues in Australia that some deem offensive to the country’s indigenous people.

Sydney, Australia’s largest city, is deciding whether to alter a monument erected in Hyde Park, 1879, to commemorate Cook, who charted Australia’s east coast for the first time.

At issue is the engraving on the base of the statue, which says “Discovered this territory, 1770”. Aboriginal people had lived on the continent for an estimated 60,000 years before Cook dropped anchor in Botany Bay.

Sydney City Council has referred the issue, along with a second statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the administrator who turned the British penal colony into a free settlement, to an indigenous advisory board.

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College Republicans president asked Muslim group to condemn Barcelona attack, but got this instead

The president of the College Republicans group at San Diego State University said he received violent threats after sending a letter to the college’s Muslim Student Association asking its members to condemn the recent terror attack in Barcelona, Spains.

In an Aug. 17 letter to the MSA, the same day as the attack in Barcelona, College Republicans President Brandon Jones said his group was “saddened” by the “tragedy” and offered thoughts and prayers to the victims and the families of those who were murdered.

At least 14 people died in the attacks in Barcelona, and more than a hundred others were injured. At least one American, 42-year-old Jared Tucker of Walnut Creek, California, was among those killed in the attack.

“Attacks of this nature are becoming increasingly common in European countries and other parts of the world and each time the Islamic State (ISIS) takes credit for the attacks,” Jones wrote in the letter to the MSA, adding that such attacks “must not only be stopped, but disavowed by Muslim leaders on our campus and in our community.”

Jones’ letter served as a “formal request” to leaders of the SDSU MSA to condemn the Barcelona terror attack. The College Republicans president said that until campus Muslim leaders disavow the horrific act, “we cannot move forward in creating an inclusive environment for all students.”

“We ask the president of your organization to publicly condemn this morning’s act of radical Islamic terrorism in Spain and those acts similar in nature,” Jones wrote. “If this request is not made, we ask that the president of the Muslim Student Association and any remaining Executive Officers not in compliance, resign immediately.”

The College Republicans president stated that the MSA mission statement describes the group as “an organization dedicated to creating a sense of community and an inclusive environment for ALL students on campus.”

However, as Fox News pointed out, the MSA’s mission statement, according to its own website, is to “serve the best interests of the Muslim students of San Diego State University, within the framework of Islam in deriving guidance and values from the Quran and Sunnah.”

But while you might not think that condemning a violent terror attack in a major international city would be controversial, apparently, it is.

Jones told Fox News that since sending the letter to the MSA, he’s received violent threats through text messages and email.

“I hope you rot in he’ll. We’re coming for you this week … Watch ur back every step u take. SDSU campus will be the war zone against u inhuman rats,” one text message read, according to Jones. He said he also received an email asking him to take his own life.

“You are obviously not fit to serve for requesting any such actions from the muslim community, please resign immediately. You sir are a racist, so please when convenient kill yourself,” the email allegedly read.

San Diego State University officials have since offered campus resources to Jones for his personal protection.

In a Facebook post on Sunday, the Muslim Student Association called Jones’ Aug. 17 letter “distasteful” and thanked “all the individuals and organizations who have expressed their support for us in the past few days.”

“Your kind words and willingness to stand against injustice has showed our members and Muslim students from other universities around the country that we are not alone. Despite hundreds of attempts to stifle our voice and activism, the MSA continues to be a uniting force on campus,” the group told its supporters.

The post went on to state the group’s support for victims of “white supremacy, nationalism, and terrorism,” but it did not specifically mention the attack in Barcelona.

SDSU’s Young Democratic Socialists group also criticized the College Republicans organization, calling Jones’ letter a “bigoted attack.”

“In our current political climate, Muslim students already feel threatened in their own country. By insinuating that MSA members will be considered terrorist sympathizers unless they condemn an attack they had nothing to do with, your organization is making Muslim students feel even more unsafe on their own campus,” an Aug. 18 Facebook post by the SDSU Young Democratic Socialists said.

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Trump Administration Targets Countries That Won’t Take Back Illegal Immigrants

The Trump Administration may impose visa restrictions on government officials and their families who come from four Asian and African nations that won’t repatriate immigrants who have violated section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

A State Department official told Voice of America, “We follow a standard process to implement a visa suspension as expeditiously as possible in the manner the secretary determines most appropriate under the circumstances to achieve the desired goal. That process includes internal discussions with, and official notification to, affected countries.”

Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone were identified as being stubborn about taking the deportees back. They would join China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Iran, Guinea, Cambodia, Eritrea, Burma, Morocco, Hong Kong and South Sudan as nations listed by the Department of Homeland security as recalcitrant.

Mamady Condé, Guinea’s ambassador to the United States, admitted that roughly 2,000 Guineans live in the United States illegally. Bockarie Kortu Stevens, Sierra Leone’s ambassador to the U.S., denied the idea that many or most Sierra Leoneans are in the United States illegally. Census data claims roughly 49,000 Sierra Leoneans live in the United States.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has the capacity to stop all or specific types of visas from being issued to a nation considered unwilling to repatriate deportees.

According to AP, the Department of Homeland Security urged the State Department to take action against four nations out of the dozen recalcitrant countries. When asked for comment, the State Department stated it would only make public the exact penalties for the nations after those nations were informed.

The only two countries previously targeted by the State Department have been Guyana and Gambia. Visa sanctions are rarely imposed on foreign countries because of fear of reciprocity from the targeted nations.

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Berkeley Chancellor’s Fireside Chat On ‘Free Speech’ Devolves Into Blaming Conservatives

On Wednesday, August 23, new UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ held a closed-door fireside chat about free speech in the faculty lounge with representatives from invited political student organizations. The conversation quickly devolved into student government officials, Cal Democrats, administrators, and other liberal-leaning organizations blaming the Berkeley College Republicans and The Berkeley Patriot (two conservative groups on campus) for promoting acts of violence on campus.

Neither the administration nor Chancellor Christ intervened in the conversation to establish that rhetoric, ipso facto, is not responsible for violence, unless it explicitly calls for violent acts. Nobody has even accused either group of promoting violent acts.

In response to the accusations hurled at conservatives during the discussion, the Berkeley College Republicans issued the following statement:

Liberal students used this opportunity to falsely accuse the Berkeley College Republicans and other conservative organizations of directly inciting violence, and shame conservatives for their espousal of unpopular political viewpoints. Individuals claimed without substantiation the Berkeley College Republicans are allies of “neo-Nazis” and “agitators” that harassed minorities.

The Chancellor’s “chat” revealed the shocking misunderstanding student leaders have of First Amendment rights, and the University’s responsibility, as a government institution, to uphold them. The only result was pernicious and direct shaming of the Berkeley College Republicans, and suggested attempts to set up subjective, Orwellian restraints on free speech.

The Berkeley Patriot echoed this sentiment:

We went into the meeting hopeful for a productive dialogue full of action items about how we could address campus safety in the face of upcoming controversial events. But much of the conversation was just a big roast session of Republicans on campus. They called us “agitators” instead of trying to work with us, and hurled baseless accusations of racism at the Berkeley College Republicans. They cut us off when we tried to respond to these accusations and false allegations. We hope everyone enters with the spirit of collaboration next time.

To these Republican organizations, it became abundantly clear this was not a discussion to “create a more shared understanding of free speech” as Chancellor Christ stated previously while promoting Berkeley’s “Free Speech Year.” There was hardly any analysis of federal and state statutes or court decisions to understand the legal and moral obligations the University of California Berkeley has in upholding First Amendment rights. And when there was any substantive discussion of the law and the facts governing Berkeley’s obligations, the Berkeley College Republicans were the only representatives bringing them up.

The conversation was mostly focused on group virtue-signaling, which promotes the “micro-aggression” culture and the demagogic lie from liberal student leaders that free speech is dangerous.

The Student Body President of UC Berkeley, Zaynab Abdulqadir-Morris, directly stated, in diametric opposition to well-settled law, that “hate speech is not free speech.”

As a representative of BCR, I quickly retorted using testimony from Ben Shapiro and Nadine Strossen during a Congressional Hearing on Challenges to Freedom of Speech on College Campuses.

Insisting, “Hate speech is not free speech” is false and dangerous. No matter how vile the speech, viewpoint neutrality is constitutionally compelled, and not optional.

In fact, the open espousal of hateful, racist views helps expose bigots for who they are; as Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in the Supreme Court case Whitney v. California, the “answer to hateful or offensive speech is not forced silence, but more speech.”

Does free speech give you the right to genuinely threaten a person? No, and those individuals should be prosecuted before the law regardless of their political ideology.

In response to these facts, several of the students seemed stumped, and administrators seemed uneasy. It is a sad day when the administration and student government officials drastically misunderstand the bipartisan views regarding the First Amendment.

The conversation devolved further. We spent the next portion of time discussing what “consenting” to free speech means. This suggests that words constitute “assault” and “rape.” Shapiro highlighted this sentiment in his opening statement before Congress, “as Haidt writes, this is why the idea that speech is violence is so dangerous. It tells the members of a generation already beset by anxiety and depression that the world is a far more violent and threatening place than it really is. It tells them that words, ideas, speakers can literally kill them.”

The next policy suggested by the liberal students in order to respect “consent and a safe space,” was to inject themselves into the process of choosing which conservative speakers are invited to campus.

Naweed Tahmas, EVP of BCR fired back, “Then give us some conservative speakers you would like to see at Berkeley.”

Crickets. Not one suggestion came from these student leaders.

Why? Because in the abstract, student leaders and the administration seem committed to free speech. In reality, they do not want conservative viewpoints on campus. Regardless, the Berkeley College Republicans remain committed to bringing conservative speakers to campus.

Bradley Devlin is a student at the University of California Berkeley studying Political Economy and serves as the secretary of the Berkeley College Republicans.

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