Report: Miami VA Hospital Cafeteria ‘Grimey,’ Infested with ‘Insects and Rodent Droppings’

Report: Miami VA Hospital Cafeteria ‘Grimey,’ Infested with ‘Insects and Rodent Droppings’



A veterans hospital in Miami, Florida, was so filthy it required a deep clean and fumigation after the area failed an October safety and sanitation inspection.

The inspection report, obtained by the Miami Herald, found evidence of “grimy drawers and storage racks,” “unrefrigerated foods” and even “insects and rodent droppings.”

The report provided the cafeteria with a number of scores on their following of health and safety regulations, with the establishment scoring zero points on a number of key issues such as the sanitation of storage equipment, keeping walls, floors, and cooking equipment clean, as well as ensuring the employees were not at risk of falling over due to slippery floors.

“There are now no reported issues involving the canteen kitchen,” said hospital spokesperson Shane Suzuki on Thursday“Out of an abundance of caution … we conducted a thorough extermination, deep clean and re-inspection of the entire canteen.”

Suzuki added that the food of hospital patients were not affected by the unsanitary conditions because their meals are prepared separately from the public cafeteria, known as the Patriot Café.

“We have a completely separate food preparation area for inpatient food service,” he said.

The report’s whistleblower, Scott Davis, who previously testified before Congress over the sub-standard treatment that veterans are receiving, told the Herald that “roaches and food is a consistent thing throughout the VA,” and cited another example of cockroaches being a “persistent presence” at a veterans hospital in Illinois.

According to a report from the Office of the Inspector General on the Illinois facility, authorities were aware that patients were receiving meals containing cockroaches but did not attempt to solve the problem.

In recent years, VA hospitals have been plagued by numerous cases of appalling treatment, which include patients being infected with diseases such as Hepatitis and HIV due to lack of infection control, dead bodies being left unattended for multiple hours, and hundreds of veterans dying on long waiting lists for the necessary care they had requested.

During his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump pledged to fix the wait times and overall problems surrounding the Veterans Affairs and drew up a ten-point plan to reform the department as a whole. In his first White House budget, Trump signed a ten percent increase in spending for the department.

“Veterans should come first in the country they fought to protect, and under a Trump administration, they will,” he said at the time.

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Obama Campaigners Rush Over $1 Million in Secretive ‘In-Kind’ Donations to Shell ‘Independent Expenditure’ Group Backing Doug Jones

Two high level former Obama campaign officials orchestrated more than $1.1 million of “in-kind” contributions over a 17 day period in November to an independent expenditure committee with no apparent assets that supports the election of Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama U.S. Senate election, according to Federal Election Commission reports and publicly available documents.

Bully Pulpit Interactive, a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm founded by former Obama campaign official Andrew Bleeker, provided more than $800,000 in online advertising services to Highway 31, an independent expenditure committee based in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 17 days between November 6, when the Alabama group filed its statement of organization with the FEC, and November 22, the ending date for the first statement of activities it filed with the FEC.

Waterfront Strategies, a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of GMMB Consulting, which was founded by former Obama campaign official Jim Margolis, has provided more than $309,000 in media buy services during that same 17 day period to Highway 31.

Reports filed with the FEC by Highway 31 indicate that it has no cash on hand, and has not paid a single penny to either Bully Pulpit Interactive or Waterfront Strategies. Highway 31’s report shows that it currently owes Bully Pulpit Interactive the full $800,000 it has advanced, and owes Waterfront Strategies the full $309,000 it has advanced.

The unusual and secret arrangement between vendors Bully Pulpit Interactive and Waterfront Strategies and Highway 31, which appears to be little more than a shell legal organization used as a “cut-out,” raises significant ethical questions.

Were Bully Pulpit Interactive and GMMB Consulting (through its subsidiary Waterfront Strategies) simply attempting to mask donations from Washington, D.C. based liberals to the Jones campaign, in effect?

Is the entire arrangement simply a sophisticated ruse to hide the true origins of the more than $1 million that has been poured into Alabama to support the Jones campaign through what appears to be nothing but a shell organization?

A legal expert on federal election law tells Breitbart News this arrangement is probably “a legal in-kind contribution to the IE” by Bully Pulpit Interactive, according to a recent FEC administrative ruling, even if Bully Pulpit Interactive is never paid a dime by Highway 31, the IE.

However, the arrangement may violate the spirit of federal election law if some other group is paying Bully Pulpit Interactive a like amount for an “unrelated project” that requires basically no work. Proving that such a behind-the-scenes arrangement was, in effect, made to compensate, however, would be very difficult, the expert says, even it does exist.

“Yes, this appears to be legal. FEC regulations concerning debt are fairly straightforward: political committees are allowed to have debt as long as they report the amount of debt to the FEC. The regulations do not address the situation of taking on debt when a committee has no assets or donors, ” Tyler Cole, Legislative Director & Policy Counsel at Issue One, a non-profit whose “goal is to pass and protect federal legislation that strengthens accountability and returns America to a system of self-governance for the common good,” told Breitbart News when asked about the propriety of the Highway 31 arrangement with Bully Pulpit Interactive and GMMB Consulting’s Waterfront Strategies.

“Issue One believes that it is important for voters to know who is funding advertisements that seek to influence their vote,” Cole added.

“This is disclosure in name only given that due to the reporting deadlines, voters will not be able to see what individuals or organization are funding Highway 31 until after the election. Unfortunate situations like these are why we believe that disclosure laws should be strengthened so voters get more information and get that information more quickly and easily,” Cole concluded.

Breitbart News asked Bully Pulpit Interactive to confirm FEC records that show Highway 31 owes the company $800,000 for the provision of online advertising services between November 6 and November 22, but has received no response.

Breitbart News also asked Bully Pulpit Interactive to explain how the company’s provision of this $800,000 in advertising services to an independent expenditure committee supporting the Doug Jones campaign without any payment, or any reasonable expectation of ever receiving any payment from the independent expenditure committee, is not an illegal in-kind campaign contribution to the Doug Jones campaign.

Bully Pulpit Interactive did not respond to either question.

In addition, Breitbart News asked GMMB Consulting  to confirm FEC records that show Highway 31 owes the company ‘s subsidiary, Waterfront Strategies, $309,000 for the provision of media buy services between November 6 and November 22, but has received no response.

Breitbart News also asked GMMB Consulting to explain how its subsdiary’s provision of this $309,000 in media buy services to an independent expenditure committee supporting the Doug Jones campaign without any payment, or any reasonable expectation of ever receiving any payment from the independent expenditure committee, is not an illegal in-kind campaign contribution to the Doug Jones campaign.

“We are fully compliant, and we don’t discuss client information,” Waterfront Strategies told Breitbart News in an emailed statement provided by GMMB Consulting late Friday.

This is not the first time that the behind-the-scenes activities of Waterfront Strategies have come into question.

In a 2012 article titled Political Consultants From Mysterious Firm Tread Fine Legal Line ‘Putting The Lie To Reality’, the Huffington Post reported:

Waterfront, it turns out, is an internal branch of GMMB. It was incorporated in Delaware, and its president is listed as Raelynn Olson. She is GMMB’s managing partner.

Olson declined to discuss the firm within a firm, but other consultants who sometimes do business with Margolis and GMMB were willing to talk about it without being named.

Waterfront Strategies, they explained, exists so that GMMB has a separate corporate entity where it can employ people to handle outside expenditures — in this case mostly from the House Majority PAC that aims to retake control of the House from Republicans, and the Majority PAC that is trying to preserve Democratic control of the Senate. The arrangement keeps the money legally separate from people who may be working more directly with Senate or House candidates. Thus campaign laws barring coordination are not violated.

That’s an awfully thin fig leaf, critics charge.

“It’s the Kabuki that’s done to conform with the form while putting the lie to reality,” Meredith McGehee, now a strategic advisor with the Campaign Legal Center, told the Post in 2012.

Edward Still is listed as the Treasurer of Highway 31 in documents filed with the FEC. Still, a far left activist attorney based in Birmingham was Director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a non-profit public interest law firm in Washington, D.C. from 1997 until 2001, according to his law firm’s website.

In 2014, Still and a co-counsel “filed a new suit against the provision of Alabama’s campaign finance law forbidding PAC-to-PAC transfers. The law basically prohibits any transfer between political actors except personal contributions to any group, PAC contributions to principal campaign committees, and limited payments from principal campaign committees to political parties,” according to his law firm’s website.

The case was THE ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE, an Alabama political action committee, et al., Plaintiffs, v. LUTHER STRANGE in his official capacity as the Attorney General of Alabama; et al., Defendants.

“Our organizational client uses its funds to run GOTV drives,” Still notes.

Breitbart News left a message for Still on his law firm’s voice mail system on Friday, asking him to explain why the arrangement between Highway 31 and vendors Bully Pulpit Interactive and Waterfront Strategies is legal under federal election law, but has not received a response.

“Bully Pulpit Interactive was founded by the digital marketers of the Obama Presidential campaign to help clients in the public and private sectors create modern versions of what President Roosevelt once called a ‘bully pulpit,’ or a platform, to tell their story, increase their bottom line and shape public opinion,” according to its website.

Its founder, Andrew Bleeker “was the lead digital marketing strategist on both of President Obama’s campaigns as well as a senior adviser to Secretary Clinton. Since founding Bully Pulpit Interactive in 2009, the firm now spans four offices and has managed nearly a billion dollars in marketing spend.”

According to another report filed with the FEC on November 30, these two firms combined to extend an additional $700,000 in credit to Highway 31 to support the Doug Jones campaign in the seven days between November 23 and November 29, bringing the total amount of credit extended by the firms to Highway 31 more than $1.8 million in just 24 days.

The special election for the U.S. Senate in Alabama between conservative Republican Roy Moore and liberal Democrat Doug Jones is scheduled to be held in 11 days on December 12.

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National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry Expected on House Floor Next Week

National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry Expected on House Floor Next Week



National reciprocity for concealed carry is expected to be introduced on the House Floor for a vote next week.

Breitbart News reported that the legislation received a markup from the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That markup indicated committee members were confident national reciprocity had the momentum to reach the House Floor.

The legislation, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, was introduced by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on January 3, 2017. It treats concealed carry permits like driver’s licenses, making a permit from one state valid in the other 49. This saves the common man the hassle of navigating the cumbersome patchwork of concealed carry laws that exist in the U.S., making it easier for him to be armed to defend himself and his family should the need arise.

As national reciprocity moved toward markup, Rep. Hudson said:

My bill is a simple, common sense solution to the confusing hodgepodge of concealed carry reciprocity agreements between states. It will affirm that law-abiding citizens who are qualified to carry concealed in one state can also carry in other states that allow residents to do so. I am pleased to see such strong support in committee, and I look forward to continuing this momentum and bringing the bill to the House floor as soon as possible.

Politico reports that Hudson’s bill “is strongly favored by the National Rifle Association but has drawn fierce opposition from gun control advocates who say it effectively nullifies restrictions passed in states that want to limit the practice.” Gun control advocate Gabby Giffords pointed to the Texas church attack as a reason to oppose the concealed carry legislation. She did not mention that the congregation was unarmed and the attacker was stopped by a citizen who retrieved his own gun, ran to church, and shot the attacker.

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24 State Attorneys General Call Congress to Pass National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry

24 State Attorneys General Call Congress to Pass National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry



On December 1 national reciprocity for concealed carry gained the support of a coalition of 24 state Attorneys General from around the country.

Earlier in the day, Breitbart News reported that the legislation, Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-NC) Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, is expected to make it to the House floor for a vote next week.

Hudson’s legislation treats concealed carry permits like driver’s licenses, making a permit from one state valid in the 49 others. The goal of the legislation is to free the common man from the cumbersome and sometimes confusing patchwork of concealed carry laws which currently exist throughout the U.S.

According to the NRA-ILA, the Attorneys General represent these 24 states:

  • Alabama
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Idaho
  • Indiana
  • Kansas
  • Louisiana
  • Michigan
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

Gun control lobby member Gabby Giffords posits the October 1 Las Vegas attack as a reason to oppose national reciprocity. She also suggested that a bill that allows law-abiding citizens to keep their guns with them more often will “weaken our public safety.”

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Professor Faces Stiff Criticism After He Pens Pro-Roy Moore Article

Tully Borland, an associate professor of philosophy at Ouachita Baptist University, published an op-ed sympathetic to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore Thursday, immediately setting off a firestorm of criticism from Never Trump commentators and on social media.

“I have a 14-year-old daughter. If I caught Roy Moore doing what was alleged, for starters I would kick him where it counts. That said, I don’t think it’s wrong to vote for Moore,” Borland’s article on The Federalist begins.

Hardly a ringing endorsement of the embattled Alabama Republican, Bordland’s piece makes a defense of some of the legal conduct in which Moore is alleged to have engaged, casts doubt on some of the allegations of clearly illegal conduct, and argues, in essence, that voting for Moore is the lesser of two evils. He cites, for example, Democratic Doug Jones’s stance on abortion as a reason to support Moore even if voters “suppose the accusations are mostly true.”

Most controversially, Borland offered a general defense of older men looking to start families with teenage women. Citing a friend whose grandmother was married at 15 and data suggesting a male-female age gap of around 15 years is most advantageous for starting large families, he writes:

In fact, this practice has a long history and is not without some merit if one wants to raise a large family.

To have a large family, the wife must start having kids when she is young. The husband needs to be well-established and able to support the family, in which case he will typically need to marry when older.

Despite Borland’s description of Moore as a “terrible candidate,” a swift backlash came from the Moore detractors he sought to combat. Never Trump National Review columnist David French, whom Borland named in his piece, called Borland’s argument an “embarrassing effort.”

In response to the assertion he and other Never Trumpers are merely “virtue-signalling” when they express outrage over Moore and his alleged behavior, French writes:

Finally, as so many Moore defenders do, Borland accuses me of “virtue-signaling.” It’s another way of claiming I’m making my arguments in bad faith — hoping that people will see me as moral rather than speaking out of sincere conviction. I’m past caring about that accusation. If condemning Roy Moore is “virtue-signaling,” then I’ll virtue-signal all day.

Other Never Trump stalwarts piled on with their own signals:

General social media response was no less negative. After hundreds of negative comments calling Borland a pedophile apologist, a likely pedophile himself, or worse, the professor took the opportunity to clarify that he was not making a general endorsement of behavior like that of which Moore is accused:

Few of Borland’s detractors were convinced.

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Ghoul Shannon Watts Exploits Kate Steinle’s Death To Promote Gun Control

Kate Steinle was shot and killed by an illegal alien who was deported 5 times and convicted of 7 felonies. Yesterday an asshole jury in San Francisco acquitted this killer of her murder because they really value illegal aliens more than Americans in the liberal Bay Area. As if that weren’t bad enough, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts has used this horrendous not guilty verdict to promote her unconstitutional gun control agenda. If you are drawing a connection between liberalism and shittyism, you are not alone.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate stole a handgun from a federal agent and then used it to open fire on a crowded pier in San Francisco in 2015. He killed Kate Steinle that day, but told the jury that the gun “just went off” and they bought it, clearing him of any murder or manslaughter charges.

Because liberal gun grabbers can never let an innocent person’s death go by without exploiting it for their own gain. MDA lunatic Shannon Watts tweeted out this ridiculous thing:

“The best way to honor [Kate Steinle] and protect the hundreds of Americans who are shot and killed or injured every day in America is to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Why are we more upset that she was shot by an immigrant than that she was shot and killed???” Watts wrote.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, is more upset that Kate was shot by an immigrant than she was killed. First of all, she was shot by a 5-times deported illegal alien, not an immigrant, who was shielded from a 6th deportation by the sanctuary city policies of San Francisco. That’s very upsetting and secondly people are upset because this piece of shit murdered a woman and was acquitted of it, meaning Kate Steinle will get no justice.

Shannon Watts can throw all of the question marks she wants at this, but it doesn’t make her faux outrage true. The issue here is not that Kate’s killer was an immigrant, it’s that he will never pay for the callous murder he committed and that he was even in this country to commit this act.

Oddly enough, that’s not even the dumbest thing about Watts’ tweet. She’s trying to use this case as an example why we need more gun control. She says Kate’s death is why we need more laws to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. If San Francisco had turned this motherf*cker over to ICE like they should have, this wouldn’t even be an issue.

Beyond that, Zarate is an illegal alien, meaning he isn’t allowed to own, purchase, or possess a firearm in the US. He is a 7-times convicted felon, which is 7 more reasons why he isn’t allowed to have a gun. He stole the gun he used to kill Steinle from a federal agent, which is something everyone would agree is outside the law. Even if Watts had her wish and every American citizen were disarmed, Zarate still would have gotten his hands on this gun.

What law does Watts think would have prevented Kate Steinle’s Death? Illegal aliens can’t have guns. Felons can’t have guns. It’s illegal to murder people. Well, it’s apparently not illegal for illegal aliens to murder people in San Francisco, but everywhere it is against the law.

Once again liberals prove that they are the shittiest people on the planet. For Watts to try to exploit Kate Steinle’s death to promote gun control shows what a despicable useless sack of shit she really is.

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Amnesty Advocates Claim Progress in House GOP

Amnesty advocates claim progress in the GOP House towards a quick, no-strings ‘dreamer’ amnesty, but a supposed leading GOP supporter says he actually opposes the ‘clean Dream Act.’

“I don’t support a clean Dream Act,” Virginia Rep. Scott Taylor told Breitbart News.

Amnesty advocates are touting reports that roughly 30 GOP legislators have signed a Taylor-launched letter backing an amnesty for the illegals this December.

But the letter does not tie an amnesty to the 2018 budget, and it does not urge amnesty for the 3 million younger illegals which the Democrats want to amnesty via an unmodified Dream Act,  said Taylor, adding:

Just the [690,000 people in the] DACA population. I don’t think there is a significant amount of GOP folks who favor a clean [unconditional] Dream Act … I think that most of the GOP folks who want to deal with the DACA population would be absolutely willing to negotiate more security and more distinctive for illegal immigration.

It is not going to be the clean Dream Act … there are going to more negotiations on security.

For example, Taylor added that he wants to see an end to the visa lottery program, and he said he supports tougher vetting of would-be immigrants and visitors, plus real cuts to chain migration. Those issues are likely to be part of a larger immigration debate in early 2018. 

The claims of current progress towards a Christmas amnesty — and Taylor’s  denial — are part of a larger effort by amnesty advocates to build apparent momentum in the media for the no-strings quick amnesty. This week “some of the Democrats were trying to use our letter for their own advantage,” Taylor said.

For example, Todd Schulte, the director of a pro-amnesty lobbying group for investors, dubbed FWD.us, touted Taylor’s supposed support.

Schulte’s group is pushing for a no-strings amnesty, in part, because it wishes to block the immigration curbs required by President Donald Trump’s popular immigration principles. Those principles would likely shrink the foreign supply of cheap white-collar labor, so pushing up the salaries that FWD.us’ investors would have to pay white-collar Americans in the marketplace.

Similarly, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus touted claim of amnesty progress by linking to an article about Taylor and his letter. The article is titled “DACA advocates see efforts gaining steam in the House”:

Alida Garcia, an organizer for Schulte’s FWD.us, also claimed progress in the push for a no-strings Dreamer amnesty.

Another group, dubbed #Vote4Dream, is claiming progress for making “personal contact” with legislators, even though “contact” is not an endorsement or pledge of support.

But the actual movement of GOP towards a no-strings Christmas amnesty is minimal.

Two GOP legislators have signed a discharge petition, Arizona Rep. Mark Amodei and Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman, alongside 196 Democrats. If 218 legislators sign the petition, then the ‘Dream Act’ amnesty would be sent to the chamber for a full vote. As of December 1, the discharge petition has only 198 votes.

Roughly 33 Republicans have co-sponsored the “Recognizing America’s Children Act,” drafted by Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo. The bill would provide an amnesty to roughly 2 million illegals, without requiring any safeguards or offsetting reductions in migration. The act of co-sponsoring the legislation carries little risk because few legislators expect the bill ever to get a vote. One reason for the bill’s unimportance is that the Democratic leadership is backing the more generous ‘Dream Act.’

The Taylor letter is also being promoted by amnesty advocates. According to a CNN’s Tai Kopan:

The letter, organized by Virginia Rep. Scott Taylor and Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse, already has signatories numbering in the 20s, according to a source familiar with the letter, and could reach into the 30s by the time it is sent. Taylor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The letter originated with the Republican Main Street Caucus and will remain open for signatures with the hope of sending it by next week, according to the office of Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, who chairs the nascent caucus.

Neither the GOP legislators nor the pro-amnesty activists have released the letter, but Breitbart News has learned that it does not include the demands or timelines preferred by advocates. For example, the letter asks House Speaker Paul Ryan to help the 690,000 DACA beneficiaries, not the 3 million younger illegals, dubbed ‘dreamers’ by business lobbyists, progressives, and Democratic legislators. The letter requests legislation by the end of the year but does not link the amnesty to the 2018 budget. The letter does not endorse a “clean Dream Act,” but instead urges Ryan to include additional border security measures to any amnesty, and also leaves room to incorporate growing GOP consensus for reforming “chain migration.”

On Thursday, November 30, Ryan again shot down business’ hopes for a quick win, after noting that Democratic leaders bailed out from a White House meeting when President  Trump slammed their push for the no-strings Dream Act:

You gotta show up if you want to make your point, and I don’t think the Democrats are in a very good position to be making demands if they are not even going to participate in the negotiations that are necessary to move legislation forward and to solve problems. Do we have to have a DACA solution? Yes, we do. The deadline is March, as far as I understand it. We’ve got other deadlines in front of that, like fiscal year deadlines and appropriation deadlines, but if they want to get to a solution, they ought to come to the table and start talking.

Also, Ryan has repeatedly said he has no plans to include an amnesty in the 2018 budget. His Task Force on immigration is debating whether to go for a big bill that would combine some form of amnesty with an overhaul of the chain-migration system.

Both President Trump and the Senate’s GOP leadership have developed proposals that would tie an amnesty to a larger package of reforms, including an end to chain migration. That broader immigration reform is likely to be debated in early 2018 — and perhaps play a role in the 2018 election.

A Nov. 27 report by the McClatchy news service included an admission by an amnesty proponent that the push for a December amnesty is losing ground:

“Two months have now passed, and I’m sad to report that we’re arguably further away from a solution today than we were then,” said Neil Bradley, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s chief policy officer.

Although nearly all Democrats have signed the Dream Act discharge petition, Democrats have not faced the task of selling a no-strings amnesty which threatens the wages of their blue-collar voters. For example, the Blue Dog Caucus consists of 18 Democrats who are somewhat centrist. Since October 1, the group’s Twitter feed has not endorsed the DACA or Dream Act causes.

Also, the Congressional Black Caucus has backed Dream Act legislation, but voters in the members’ districts may strongly oppose any amnesty which delivers more foreign cheap-labor workers into their workplaces. In an October 12 statement, CBC leaders Rep. Cedric Richmond and Rep. Yvette Clarke declared:

Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant principles are an affront to the millions of people who have travelled from across the world to make America their home. Many of these people, through DACA, TPS, and other programs, were brought here at a young age and have known no other country but the United States as their home. They are among the thousands of Black DACA recipients, and more than 60,000 Black TPS recipients from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, and Haiti.

If Donald Trump has his way, they would be forced to return to war-torn countries and areas affected by cholera, famine, and other inhumane conditions. The time has come to build bridges, not walls, and reject Donald Trump’s unprincipled immigration principles. Congress must pass legislation that protects both DREAMers and those granted TPS.

Democrats embrace the industry-funded “nation of immigrants” polls that shame Americans to say they welcome migrants. But the alternative “fairness” polls show that voters put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigration, low-wage economy. The political power of the voters’ fairness priorities was made clear during the GOP primaries and again in November 2016.

The workplace impact is being highlighted by a bakery in Chicago, which was forced to hire Americans to replace 800 illegal immigrants this year. The enforcement and subsequent reorganization cut revenue at the Cloverhill bakery by 7.5 percent, and trimmed profits from 16 percent to 9.5 percent of revenue once up to $176 million was redirected towards higher wages.

Public support for a “dreamer” amnesty is also declining. Giving “children … protection from deportation” is the “top priority” for only 11 percent of American voters who identify as independents and “a top priority” for 23 percent of independents in a November poll by Morning Consult and Politico, which was headlined in “Polling Shows Waning Enthusiasm for Congressional Action on Dreamers.”

Also, new evidence is undermining business claims that DACA and dreamer illegals are vital for business. According to a Migration Policy Institute report, only 1.7 percent of older ‘dreamers’ and 4 percent of DACA recipients have earned a college degree, compared to 18 percent of comparable-age Americans.

Each year, four million Americans turn 18 and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.

But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting one million new legal immigrants, by providing almost two million work-permits to foreigners, by providing work-visas to roughly 500,000 temporary workers, and doing little to block the employment of roughly eight million illegal immigrants.

The Washington-imposed economic policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor and spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also encourages discrimination against American workers, drives up real estate priceswidens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts kids’ schools and college education. Furthermore, it pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and reduces the work activity rate below the rate in foreign rivals, which sidelines millions of marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

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Walmart Selling ‘Antifa’ Fan Gear

Walmart Selling ‘Antifa’ Fan Gear



Walmart is selling “Antifa” clothing that “will [allow you to] express yourself inside the opposition to the ideology, organizations, governments and people from the far right (fascism).”

The mega-retailer is offering at least 13 different sweatshirts “made in Mexico of 100% COTTON for all-day comfort” promoting the group whose activities were “formally classified” by the Obama Administration “as domestic terrorist violence” as early as April 2016, according to Politico, despite the group’s efforts to downplay this determination.

“Antifa,” or Anti-Fascist Action, is an informal grouping of communist, anarchist, and other far-left street gangs. Drawing inspiration from the German Communist Party’s street fighters of the 1930s, the modern movement grew out of the European far-left punk scene in the 1980s. These unapologetically violent bands of leftists were largely unknown in the United States until recent years, when America’s post-Occupy Wall Street far-left began adopting the name.

Antifa is well known for dozens of violent crimes against people they consider “fascists” on both sides of the Atlantic. As Breitbart News’ Ian Mason cataloged, to Antifa, “fascists” include:

…in no particular order, former Breitbart News Tech Editor MILOhis readersTrump supporters, other Trump supporters, members of Germany’s populist AfD party, a 20-year-old woman who chose to wear a Spanish-flag bracelet, a Philadelphia free speech rally, former UKIP and Brexit leader Nigel Farage, libertarian VICE News co-founder Gavin McInnes, French policemen, and Israeli-owned bookstores. Interesting, a Salafist Muslim who attacked a “filthy white” Antifa writer because he disrespected Islam does not qualify.

None of this has stopped Antifa from receiving a rash of positive press from American left-leaning media outlets; acceptance from both Democratic politicians and Republicans like John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Mitt Romney; and, now, its own clothing collection at Walmart.

“Just remember to keep creating a better world,” the clothing advertisements encourage.

This glorification of Antifa was mirrored Friday by the New York Times, which published a fashion style guide for the group: “practical advice on how to dress for a riot.” In their guide, the Times explains why a uniform look is needed, from Breitbart News’ Charlie Nash:

“These defensive methods work only if there are enough black-clad others nearby. A single person in all black and multiple face masks is an eye grabber.”

Finally, the Times claimed that dressing in black militant gear and concealing your face forms an “emotional connection” with other rioters.

“Tactical considerations aside, it’s this emotional connection with other members of the bloc that many practitioners highlight the most in interviews,” they proclaimed. “It’s why soldiers and police have uniforms.”

Walmart has come under previous criticism for selling “Black Lives Matter” shirts and other items. Following a request from the national Fraternal Order of Police, the retail giant eventually removed one of the items last December, shirts that said “Bulletproof”, but refused to remove the rest.

As with the “Black Lives Matter” paraphernalia, the Antifa products are being sold by a third party manufacturer, in this case, Tee Bangers, on Walmart’s website.

Tee Bangers list as partners the following household names on their “About Us” page:

In June, Walmart said it wanted to avoid offending any of its customers and, joining Amazon, Sears, Ebay, and others, stopped selling products displaying the Confederate flag. The chain released a statement saying, “We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer. We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the Confederate flag from our assortment — whether in our stores or on our web site.”

Here are Walmart’s current “Black Lives Matter” online offerings:

Amanda House is Breitbart News’ Deputy Political Editor. You can follow her on Twitter at @AmandaLeeHouse.

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American Exceptionalism and Antifa’s Phony War


However, if fascism is really evil, then there really is nothing anyone can do about it, unless the Creator of the Universe is such a bumbler that He needed FDR, Churchill, and Stalin (an atheist, of all people) to correct His mistakes.


No, the answer is that fascism is European and that America’s Constitution of 1787 achieved everything for which Europe would struggle for the next century and a half.


The French Revolution of 1789 failed when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from his Egyptian-Syrian campaign as a French Caesar in 1799 and then plunged into wars until his defeat and first exile in 1814.


Europe rejoiced with the return of peace and the Ancien Régime.  After 23 years of revolution, genocides, and war, “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” were despised.  The Allied powers (Russia, Prussia, England, and Austria) assembled under Prince Metternich in the Congress of Vienna, determined that this would never happen again.  Within a few years, however, ancient problems returned.


The Ancien Régime was a hierarchical class system based upon inequality.  The king, hereditary aristocracy, and high clergy legislated privileges and restrictions for each class according to its function.  It was so intrusive that a peasant could not marry without permission of his craft guild or seigniorial lord.  Bourgeois businessmen enjoyed greater liberty but chafed under trade restrictions.  Aristocrats were prohibited from many occupations even if impoverished.  All functions accrued power to the state, viewed as encompassing the good of all, in a predatory contest with other states doing the same thing.


Additionally, the sale of offices and tax-farming invited corruption, since the buyer expected personal profit from dispensing government services.


Napoleon’s return of “The 100 Days” in 1815 convinced the Congress that liberals or nationalists, as they became known, remained a threat – so much so that Metternich obstructed assistance to the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule.  However, working-class revolts in the 1830s and 1848 forced the nobility to ally with bourgeois bankers and businessmen who only proved more efficient exploiters of the workers than aristocrats.


Liberals split into nationalist and socialist camps.  Both found inspiration in nostalgic tales of Napoleon, who became the mythical liberator of both classes and nations from monarchs.  To an extent, he was.


 Napoleon had hit upon a formula of harnessing mass politics for military conquest.  He abolished feudal privileges, installed a professional bureaucracy, and imposed his Civic Code equally upon all.


When his conquests stalled at the English Channel, he turned east into Russia and a defeat in 1812.  His continental empire suffered more from his own embargo on English trade than Britain’s empire overseas.  Bankruptcy added to his burdens of war taxes and conscription.  His secular liberation antagonized deeply Catholic Spain into unremitting guerrilla war.


Baron von Stein turned Napoleon’s formula into a German war of liberation from the French.  The Italian Republic, Napoleon’s consolidation of feudal states, stood with Napoleon.  Under Metternich, however, both returned to Imperial Austrian rule, which regarded their national aspirations as a threat.  In Spain, Ferdinand VII restored a regime so reactionary that a French army had to rescue him in 1823.


This, however, was Metternich’s system.  Austrian Emperor Francis I summed it up: “My people are strange to each other and that is all right[.] … I send the Hungarians into Italy, the Italians into Hungary. Every people watches its neighbor[.] … From their antipathy will be born order and from their mutual hatred, general peace” (1).


Socialists posed the greater threat.  They elevated Robespierre‘s idea of virtue and terror into a cult of ideological purity, the possibly 80,000 victims of his Reign of Terror and genocide in the Vendée offered as proof.  Gracchus Babeuf had added the idea of abolishing private property and “equality of results,” ideas for which he was executed in 1797.  Karl Marx consolidated all this into a secular religion after the revolutions of 1848.  His “dictator of the proletariat” would be a second Bonaparte.


The nobility leaned on the nationalist cult of tradition and religion.  They proposed modernizing the hierarchy of class, pedigree, and money into one of merit rather than destroying it all for a Marxist utopia.


Between 1860 and 1871, the kings of Piedmont and Prussia turned Napoleon’s formula into wars of national liberation and united their feudal principalities into the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire, respectively.  Both were constitutional monarchies and adopted a Charter of 1814, which Metternich accepted as a concession to Napoleon’s reforms, which he could not reverse.  It provided a representative body that ratified budgets and legislation that only the king could propose.  Liberals tried to expand its authority while monarchs ignored it.  Additionally, Germany crushed the Second Empire of Napoleon III and relieved Europe of another Bonaparte scourge.


WWI destroyed the ancient Hapsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern dynasties, while Bolsheviks, now in tenuous possession of Russia, incited global class war and revolution.  Civil wars broke out from Spain to Finland and east into Russia.  Not even the Middle East was spared.  But only in Russia did the “Reds” succeed.  Nationalists dominated “White” coalitions while adopting Red methods and branding their corporatist economics as “socialist” for mass appeal.  Derived from 1 Corinthians, corporatism recreated the craft guild system on an industrialized, capitalist basis under government planning.


By 1939, most continental regimes were White and authoritarian.  Mussolini’s National Fascist Party was one of them, the only significant party to use the term at the time.  Red propaganda transformed it into a pejorative to smear most of these regimes, at one time or another, effectively transferring the Reds’ own subversive stigma in order to acquire allies for the next war.


Mussolini served as prime minister under King Emanuel III, who remained until 1946.  Hitler and his aristocrat generals overran the continent and then followed Napoleon’s path from the English Channel into Russia and defeat.  For Franco’s Nationalists, the Spanish Third Republic was another Napoleonic regime with Bolshevik advisers.


On 8 May of 1945, the White Nationalists were done, forever.  The USSR was poised for another war.


Almost two hundred years prior, by 1776, the American colonies had already become a nation without feudal classes.  After the Seven Years War, 1756-1763, there was no foreign power on the American continent to seriously contend with.  Establishing a liberal republic went as stated in the Declaration of Independence and nothing more: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them[.]”


Antifa is fighting something that never did and never can exist in America, or anywhere else in the Western world, at this point in time.  Even worse, they’re fighting for identity politics and American elites who are creating a feudal class system of their own.


(1) Frederick Artz, Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832, Harper and Rowe, New York, 1934, pg. 238.










Antifa poses a problem no one is comfortable with.


What’s wrong with fighting fascism?  Ever see a movie in which the sallet helmet wasn’t a symbol of evil?  Not even Star Wars could resist.  FDR also used some pretty strong-arm tactics.


However, if fascism is really evil, then there really is nothing anyone can do about it, unless the Creator of the Universe is such a bumbler that He needed FDR, Churchill, and Stalin (an atheist, of all people) to correct His mistakes.


No, the answer is that fascism is European and that America’s Constitution of 1787 achieved everything for which Europe would struggle for the next century and a half.


The French Revolution of 1789 failed when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from his Egyptian-Syrian campaign as a French Caesar in 1799 and then plunged into wars until his defeat and first exile in 1814.


Europe rejoiced with the return of peace and the Ancien Régime.  After 23 years of revolution, genocides, and war, “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” were despised.  The Allied powers (Russia, Prussia, England, and Austria) assembled under Prince Metternich in the Congress of Vienna, determined that this would never happen again.  Within a few years, however, ancient problems returned.


The Ancien Régime was a hierarchical class system based upon inequality.  The king, hereditary aristocracy, and high clergy legislated privileges and restrictions for each class according to its function.  It was so intrusive that a peasant could not marry without permission of his craft guild or seigniorial lord.  Bourgeois businessmen enjoyed greater liberty but chafed under trade restrictions.  Aristocrats were prohibited from many occupations even if impoverished.  All functions accrued power to the state, viewed as encompassing the good of all, in a predatory contest with other states doing the same thing.


Additionally, the sale of offices and tax-farming invited corruption, since the buyer expected personal profit from dispensing government services.


Napoleon’s return of “The 100 Days” in 1815 convinced the Congress that liberals or nationalists, as they became known, remained a threat – so much so that Metternich obstructed assistance to the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule.  However, working-class revolts in the 1830s and 1848 forced the nobility to ally with bourgeois bankers and businessmen who only proved more efficient exploiters of the workers than aristocrats.


Liberals split into nationalist and socialist camps.  Both found inspiration in nostalgic tales of Napoleon, who became the mythical liberator of both classes and nations from monarchs.  To an extent, he was.


 Napoleon had hit upon a formula of harnessing mass politics for military conquest.  He abolished feudal privileges, installed a professional bureaucracy, and imposed his Civic Code equally upon all.


When his conquests stalled at the English Channel, he turned east into Russia and a defeat in 1812.  His continental empire suffered more from his own embargo on English trade than Britain’s empire overseas.  Bankruptcy added to his burdens of war taxes and conscription.  His secular liberation antagonized deeply Catholic Spain into unremitting guerrilla war.


Baron von Stein turned Napoleon’s formula into a German war of liberation from the French.  The Italian Republic, Napoleon’s consolidation of feudal states, stood with Napoleon.  Under Metternich, however, both returned to Imperial Austrian rule, which regarded their national aspirations as a threat.  In Spain, Ferdinand VII restored a regime so reactionary that a French army had to rescue him in 1823.


This, however, was Metternich’s system.  Austrian Emperor Francis I summed it up: “My people are strange to each other and that is all right[.] … I send the Hungarians into Italy, the Italians into Hungary. Every people watches its neighbor[.] … From their antipathy will be born order and from their mutual hatred, general peace” (1).


Socialists posed the greater threat.  They elevated Robespierre‘s idea of virtue and terror into a cult of ideological purity, the possibly 80,000 victims of his Reign of Terror and genocide in the Vendée offered as proof.  Gracchus Babeuf had added the idea of abolishing private property and “equality of results,” ideas for which he was executed in 1797.  Karl Marx consolidated all this into a secular religion after the revolutions of 1848.  His “dictator of the proletariat” would be a second Bonaparte.


The nobility leaned on the nationalist cult of tradition and religion.  They proposed modernizing the hierarchy of class, pedigree, and money into one of merit rather than destroying it all for a Marxist utopia.


Between 1860 and 1871, the kings of Piedmont and Prussia turned Napoleon’s formula into wars of national liberation and united their feudal principalities into the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire, respectively.  Both were constitutional monarchies and adopted a Charter of 1814, which Metternich accepted as a concession to Napoleon’s reforms, which he could not reverse.  It provided a representative body that ratified budgets and legislation that only the king could propose.  Liberals tried to expand its authority while monarchs ignored it.  Additionally, Germany crushed the Second Empire of Napoleon III and relieved Europe of another Bonaparte scourge.


WWI destroyed the ancient Hapsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern dynasties, while Bolsheviks, now in tenuous possession of Russia, incited global class war and revolution.  Civil wars broke out from Spain to Finland and east into Russia.  Not even the Middle East was spared.  But only in Russia did the “Reds” succeed.  Nationalists dominated “White” coalitions while adopting Red methods and branding their corporatist economics as “socialist” for mass appeal.  Derived from 1 Corinthians, corporatism recreated the craft guild system on an industrialized, capitalist basis under government planning.


By 1939, most continental regimes were White and authoritarian.  Mussolini’s National Fascist Party was one of them, the only significant party to use the term at the time.  Red propaganda transformed it into a pejorative to smear most of these regimes, at one time or another, effectively transferring the Reds’ own subversive stigma in order to acquire allies for the next war.


Mussolini served as prime minister under King Emanuel III, who remained until 1946.  Hitler and his aristocrat generals overran the continent and then followed Napoleon’s path from the English Channel into Russia and defeat.  For Franco’s Nationalists, the Spanish Third Republic was another Napoleonic regime with Bolshevik advisers.


On 8 May of 1945, the White Nationalists were done, forever.  The USSR was poised for another war.


Almost two hundred years prior, by 1776, the American colonies had already become a nation without feudal classes.  After the Seven Years War, 1756-1763, there was no foreign power on the American continent to seriously contend with.  Establishing a liberal republic went as stated in the Declaration of Independence and nothing more: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them[.]”


Antifa is fighting something that never did and never can exist in America, or anywhere else in the Western world, at this point in time.  Even worse, they’re fighting for identity politics and American elites who are creating a feudal class system of their own.


(1) Frederick Artz, Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832, Harper and Rowe, New York, 1934, pg. 238.





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British Labor Party: We Banned Pamela Geller; Now Let’s Ban Trump, Too

The Guardian reported Thursday that “Chris Bryant, a senior Labour backbencher,” has written to British prime minister Theresa May, urging her to “issue an official ban on Donald Trump from entering the UK on the grounds he is condoning fascism and his presence is ‘not conducive to the public good.'”


When Western historians look back at the 21st century, the Geller-Spencer ban in the U.K. will be viewed as one of that once great nation’s darkest moments and a low point for freedom.  It was the victory of Islamic law over Western law, sharia over freedom.



This because Trump retweeted three videos showing Muslims being violent.  Bryant, a former Foreign Office minister, supported this madness by pointing to…me.  He cited the cases of two U.S. far-right bloggers, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who were banned by May in 2013 from entering the U.K.  I was going to be among a group of freedom-fighters – a true rainbow coalition of human rights activists from all over the world (a Hindu princess had been set to join us) – to honor the memory of Lee Rigby, the British soldier who had been murdered on a London street in broad daylight by an Islamic jihadist on May 22, 2013.


We planned to pay our respects to Lee Rigby by placing a wreath at his memorial, in his memory and in memory of his service.  We planned to bring the Stars and Stripes, as well as British and Danish flags, and participate in Armed Forces Day memorial commemorations at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, where Rigby served.


For this we were banned.


When Prime Minister Theresa May, who was the head of the Home Office when she banned us and was thus directly responsible for the ban, threw us under the bus in order to satiate savages who threatened violence, did she really think she or anyone would be safe?  Safe by surrender?  When did they ever work in the history of humankind?


The über-left pol citing the Geller-Spencer ban in the U.K. to ban Trump was inevitable.  It’s like the Geller ban on ads on buses and subways in every major American city: the Catholic Church just tried to run ads on buses in Washington, D.C., and discovered that it couldn’t because of the ban on all political ads that was enacted in order to prevent my ads from running.  Once you sanction the silencing and persecution of one, inevitably, you’ve sanctioned it for all.  It’s open season on the opposition.  Who decides what’s good and what’s forbidden in a totalitarian society?  The totalitarians.


The worldwide howl at Trump’s retweets of videos tweeted out by a British politician is further proof of the Islamization of the West.  It speaks to how deeply and far and widely sharia has been normed and accepted by Western elites.  The videos in the retweets are authentic and have circulated for years.  They’re neither “far-right” nor “Islamophobic”; they’re just factual.  Once again the media are blaming the messenger instead of dealing with Islamic violence.


Trump didn’t add any rhetoric to his tweets.  He retweeted authentic videos.  (The Dutch media now claim that one of them doesn’t depict Muslim migrants being violent, as was claimed.  Even if this is true, Muslim migrant violence is a grim and increasingly common reality in Europe.)  If Muslims sincerely condemn jihad terror and sharia oppression, they shouldn’t oppose him.


In a letter to May, Bryant wrote: “I am writing to you to ask you and the home secretary to take immediate action to ban the president of the United States, Donald Trump, from entering the United Kingdom, due to his apparent support for far-right groups in this country. In retweeting Jayda Fransen’s posts, it is absolutely clear to me that President Trump is supporting and condoning fascism and far-right activity. This activity has frequently taken the form of violence on our streets. Ms Fransen herself has a long history of racism and Islamophobia, some of it criminal. Many of the people you have rightly banned from entering the UK were guilty of less than this.”


“Fascism.”  By that Bryant means “defending British values.”  While admitting numerous jihad preachers, Britain is keeping out the voices of sanity that would call that nation back to a path that would secure freedom for her children and her children’s children instead of a path to national suicide.  And now a call to ban the president of the nation that saved their nation from extinction not 70 years ago.


The full story of my being banned from the UK for standing against jihad, and much more, is in my new book,  FATWA: Hunted in America.  Get the book.  Buy it for friends.  Educate those around you.


Pamela Geller is the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of the Geller Report, and author of the already bestselling book FATWA: Hunted in America as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.  Follow her on Twitter here.  Like her on Facebook here.










The Guardian reported Thursday that “Chris Bryant, a senior Labour backbencher,” has written to British prime minister Theresa May, urging her to “issue an official ban on Donald Trump from entering the UK on the grounds he is condoning fascism and his presence is ‘not conducive to the public good.'”


When Western historians look back at the 21st century, the Geller-Spencer ban in the U.K. will be viewed as one of that once great nation’s darkest moments and a low point for freedom.  It was the victory of Islamic law over Western law, sharia over freedom.


This because Trump retweeted three videos showing Muslims being violent.  Bryant, a former Foreign Office minister, supported this madness by pointing to…me.  He cited the cases of two U.S. far-right bloggers, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who were banned by May in 2013 from entering the U.K.  I was going to be among a group of freedom-fighters – a true rainbow coalition of human rights activists from all over the world (a Hindu princess had been set to join us) – to honor the memory of Lee Rigby, the British soldier who had been murdered on a London street in broad daylight by an Islamic jihadist on May 22, 2013.


We planned to pay our respects to Lee Rigby by placing a wreath at his memorial, in his memory and in memory of his service.  We planned to bring the Stars and Stripes, as well as British and Danish flags, and participate in Armed Forces Day memorial commemorations at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, where Rigby served.


For this we were banned.


When Prime Minister Theresa May, who was the head of the Home Office when she banned us and was thus directly responsible for the ban, threw us under the bus in order to satiate savages who threatened violence, did she really think she or anyone would be safe?  Safe by surrender?  When did they ever work in the history of humankind?


The über-left pol citing the Geller-Spencer ban in the U.K. to ban Trump was inevitable.  It’s like the Geller ban on ads on buses and subways in every major American city: the Catholic Church just tried to run ads on buses in Washington, D.C., and discovered that it couldn’t because of the ban on all political ads that was enacted in order to prevent my ads from running.  Once you sanction the silencing and persecution of one, inevitably, you’ve sanctioned it for all.  It’s open season on the opposition.  Who decides what’s good and what’s forbidden in a totalitarian society?  The totalitarians.


The worldwide howl at Trump’s retweets of videos tweeted out by a British politician is further proof of the Islamization of the West.  It speaks to how deeply and far and widely sharia has been normed and accepted by Western elites.  The videos in the retweets are authentic and have circulated for years.  They’re neither “far-right” nor “Islamophobic”; they’re just factual.  Once again the media are blaming the messenger instead of dealing with Islamic violence.


Trump didn’t add any rhetoric to his tweets.  He retweeted authentic videos.  (The Dutch media now claim that one of them doesn’t depict Muslim migrants being violent, as was claimed.  Even if this is true, Muslim migrant violence is a grim and increasingly common reality in Europe.)  If Muslims sincerely condemn jihad terror and sharia oppression, they shouldn’t oppose him.


In a letter to May, Bryant wrote: “I am writing to you to ask you and the home secretary to take immediate action to ban the president of the United States, Donald Trump, from entering the United Kingdom, due to his apparent support for far-right groups in this country. In retweeting Jayda Fransen’s posts, it is absolutely clear to me that President Trump is supporting and condoning fascism and far-right activity. This activity has frequently taken the form of violence on our streets. Ms Fransen herself has a long history of racism and Islamophobia, some of it criminal. Many of the people you have rightly banned from entering the UK were guilty of less than this.”


“Fascism.”  By that Bryant means “defending British values.”  While admitting numerous jihad preachers, Britain is keeping out the voices of sanity that would call that nation back to a path that would secure freedom for her children and her children’s children instead of a path to national suicide.  And now a call to ban the president of the nation that saved their nation from extinction not 70 years ago.


The full story of my being banned from the UK for standing against jihad, and much more, is in my new book,  FATWA: Hunted in America.  Get the book.  Buy it for friends.  Educate those around you.


Pamela Geller is the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of the Geller Report, and author of the already bestselling book FATWA: Hunted in America as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.  Follow her on Twitter here.  Like her on Facebook here.





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