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According to the new jobs report that was released last week, the economy appears to be struggling.

“The numbers are out, and on the top line they are way worse than expected. Something seems very off: only 266,000 jobs created in April, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1%, according to the report,” reported Bloomberg. 

CNBC wrote, “Hiring was a huge letdown in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers. Dow Jones estimates had been for 1 million new jobs and an unemployment rate of 5.8%.”

“Economists were hoping for a figure roughly 1 million jobs larger — making this the biggest miss, relative to expectations, in the history of the payrolls report,” added Axios.

As The Daily Wire reported, “The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said that nearly 10 million Americans, 9.8 million to be exact, remained unemployed in Biden’s economy.”

In bizarre fashion, Biden suggested that this disastrous jobs report actually stands as evidence in favor of his American Rescue Plan and that “more help is on the way.”

“And so, you know, we’re gonna help schools and children, and child centers across the country as well, accelerate the reopening and that’s underway,” Biden said.

“So look, it’s going to continue to improve,” Biden added. “Today’s report makes clear: Thank goodness we passed the American Rescue Plan. Help is here and more help is on the way, and more help is needed.”

BIDEN: "Today’s report makes clear: Thank goodness we passed the American Rescue Plan. Help is here and more help is on the way." pic.twitter.com/pNP4CNoo0k

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 7, 2021

On Twitter, Biden appeared to pivot on his previously positive rhetoric regarding recovery.

“We’re still digging our way out of a very deep hole,” he tweeted. “No one should underestimate how tough a battle this is. We still have a job to do here in Washington. The American people are counting on us. So, let’s get it done.”

This strategy is not only a Biden classic, it’s the standard Leftist reaction to their own failures. The solution to all problems is “more government,” and when the problems get worse because of “more government,” the cure is even more government.

Biden’s American Rescue Plan was a $1.9 trillion spending bill and stimulus package passed in early March to supposedly speed up the United States’ economic recovery following the pandemic.

On January 20, Biden announced the plan, “laying out the first step of an aggressive, two-step plan for rescue, from the depths of this crisis, and recovery, by investing in America, creating millions of additional good-paying jobs, combatting the climate crisis, advancing racial equity, and building back better than before.”

“As last month’s jobs report underscored, the virus and our economy are intertwined. We cannot rescue our economy without containing this virus,” the Biden announcement stated in January.

The problem for Biden here is that we are — by almost all available metrics — containing the virus. The economy should be recovering as a result. And yet, the jobs report suggests otherwise.

As The Daily Wire noted, “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce directly blamed the Biden administration’s stimulus spending for the worsening economy, saying that he was paying people to not work.”

“The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said. “One step policymakers should take now is ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit. Based on the Chamber’s analysis, the $300 benefit results in approximately one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working.”

It’s becoming clear that COVID-19 is no longer the roadblock to economic recovery in the United States. Instead, that role is being played by Democrats.

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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) are doing everything possible to disparage the auditors hired by the Arizona Senate and to try and stop the audit. If they believed in the results of the Election in their County they would be welcoming the audit.  

The MCBOS knows their results from the 2020 Election are bogus.  They show this every day.  They were totally frightened from the first moment that the Arizona Senate mentioned that they wanted to perform an audit of the county’s 2020 Election results.  The Democrats, the media, and the biggest ‘Non-Profit’ Democrat entities continue to do all they can to stop the audit.

Now the MCBOS is going to Twitter and is having a press conference to besmirch the Senate’s audit with some more bogus messages and outright lies.  They sound pathetic and frightened.  If the MCBOS was confident in the results of the 2020 Election in their county they would be welcoming an audit.  Their actions show the opposite.

Let’s compare the MCBOS audits with the Senate’s audit and to get at the truth.

Audit Sponsors:

The Arizona Senate clearly just wants to get to the truth and the accurate vote count from the 2020 Election for President and Senator.  They have no agenda other than that.  They have listened to their constituents and are doing the audit in response.

The MCBOS recently released a series of tweets besmirching the current audit in progress.  They desperately want to shut it down.  They have attacked any and all efforts to audit their results from the 2020 election.  They sued the Senate to stop any audit and then hired their own auditors when they lost the case with the Senate.  The auditors they hired they claimed were certified but we found they were not.

WE CAUGHT THEM: Arizona’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Lied – EAC Updated Website after Gateway Pundit Report Discovered Their Auditors Were Uncertified

Independence and Objectivity of Auditors:

In such a big audit, these items are going to be challenged and they are.  The Senate hired a team, led by a Florida firm, Cyber Ninjas.  These auditors are constantly attacked by the left as biased based on some statements made by one of the members of the team.  In a typical audit, social media activity by the auditors is not under the microscope like it is in this audit.  Overall, we have seen no signs of a lack of independence and objectivity in the activities in the audit to date.

The MCBOS, as noted above, chose two audit firms, claiming they were certified, but at the time they were not.  Per a cursory review of the work of these teams, which is limited, we have come across no audits where these auditors ever claimed differences between the results of the election.   These firms are also highly involved in certifying the machines used in audits.  We also did not observe a lack of independence and objectivity by these auditors but they were onsight for only a short period of time.

Scope:

The Senate audits include audits of 8 truckloads of voting machines, estimated at up to 120 voting machines.  It also includes an entire forensic review and recount of every ballot counted in the election (2.1 million ballots).  The auditors have requested routers and system passwords which the MCBOS is refusing to provide.

IT EXPERT: Maricopa County Officials Refuse to Provide Routers and Passwords to Senate Auditors – They Don’t Want Public to Know Where Data Was Sent and When It Was Sent

The MCBOS also deleted an entire database before handing the machines to be audited to the Senate auditors:

BREAKING: Maricopa County Elections Officials DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines – Including “All Election Information” from Main Database — With Copy of Senate Letter

Each of the firms used by the MCBOS audited a few voting machines.  It’s unclear how many machines were tested, but appears to be only a couple per audit team.  The auditors’ results are available on the County’s website.  Quickly you can see that not much work was done.  These audits did not touch the ballots.  They weren’t recounted, forensically reviewed, nothing.  These were only reviews of a few machines.  From this work, the auditors determined the machines were good to go and to be used in an election.  To no one’s surprise, they found no issues.

Timeframe:

The Senate’s goal is to forensically audit all the ballots for validity by checking folds, paper types, ink, the format of ballots, and more.  The truckloads of voting machines are being audited by a separate team of auditors than those auditing the ballots.  This audit has been in progress for nearly a month and has been put on hold as the facility the audit is being held in is used for other activities.  The audit team has indicated it is through about 25% of the ballots to date and no results have been supplied from their work.

The MCBOS audits each took one week on-site.  The limited scope provided for such a short period of time for the audit.

Cost:

The Senate has allowed for around $150,000 for the audit.  There apparently are others who are funding the work of the auditors but their names have been kept a secret.  This is one of the MCBOS’s bones of contention.

The MCBOS wasted around $100,000 on their audits.

Wait Till the Citizens of Maricopa County Realize Their Board of Supervisors Wasted $100K on Bogus Audits to Help Cover Up the Real Results in the County

Quality of Audit:

The Senate audit is really incredible.  It is taking time but the scope warrants it.  We already know that there are issues with the routers which indicates the County doesn’t want the auditors to know where data went during the election time frame.  There are issues with passwords, indicating that Dominion ran the audit and not those legally required to do so. No doubt there is more in the ballot review.

The MCBOS audits were weak.  They were limited in scope.  They didn’t even look at ballots.  They basically said – these few machines are fine so the audit must be fine.

Transparency and security:

The Senate’s audit is best in class in regards to transparency and security.  At least 9 cameras are on the audit floor 24 hours a day.  (This has never been done before in any audit I am aware of.  I’ve done hundreds of audits around the world and never was videotaped while performing my work.)

The MCBOS audits lacked security controls.  They left the doors to the facility open.  There was only one camera filming the work which sometimes went down.  They also appeared to be rude in at least one account.

Not Only Were Election Auditors in Maricopa County Profane, Sending Out “F##k You” Messages to Observers – But Their Work Was Shoddy and Unprofessional

Overall there is no comparison between audits. 

The Senate’s audit is comprehensive and bold.  They will determine the accurate results of the 2020 Election in the County and will likely identify any issues with voting hardware and software as well. 

The MCBOS audits were a waste of money and were put in place to obtain a clean bill of health based on a very limited audit approach. 

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MSNBC was one step away from saying we were literally in “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Monday afternoon. Host Nicolle Wallace and her frenzied feminist panel spent the first twenty minutes of her show hysterically panicking over news that the Supreme Court would be eventually ruling on a Mississippi abortion law that passed in 2018. 
The state law bans abortions after 15 weeks where the mother or baby was not in danger. Apparently, that is radical and extreme to the majority of Americans, at least according to MSNBC’s Wallace. She declared, “Just the decision to take up this case really strikes fear in the hearts of everyone who cares about this issue, which if you look at polls is 65% of Americans that support reproductive freedoms.”
Former Democrat Senator and MSNBC analyst Claire McCaskill then lectured women younger than her who don’t remember life before Roe while she savagely smeared pro-life advocates as callous to rape victims:
And you know I got to tell you Nicolle, I don’t think younger voters remember what it was like before Roe V. Wade.  I don’t think they realize these folks will not be happy until a rape victim is put in prison for taking the morning-after pill. That’s the road they are going down. That’s the road they’ve been trying do go down for a long time even though they are really pushing provisions that are widely rejected by the vast majority of Americans. 
An enthralled Wallace wanted to hear more about the terrifying future Republicans supposedly wanted for women. She wondered to McCaskill if “just the decision to take up this case is ominous enough?”
McCaskill predicted that if the court upheld the law, every state that voted for Donald Trump would “immediately” make abortion virtually illegal:
“They will immediately begin shutting down the ability of women to have the freedom to choose to terminate a pregnancy with all kinds of limitations and then eventually they’ll keep pushing the cases up until there are none left except the few states that might make it legal,” she feared.
Wallace couldn’t get enough of the panic porn. "It’s such a terrifying thought," she gushed. McCaskill warned that it would be a "wake up call" to young women who were fortunate enough to never have had experienced the fear of an unplanned pregnancy, and she hoped they would drive the upcoming election: 
"This will all be a wake-up call. This will be a shock to their systems. And we have more young people voting this last time. If the court does this, I predict that young women will be a driving force in the midterm elections. Especially if those who support reproductive freedoms are doing their job," she proclaimed.
After moaning again about how "chilling" this news was, Wallace invited McCaskill to whine with her over Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson using the pro-abortion rhetoric of “my body, my choice” when it came to taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Wallace fumed at the Republican “hypocrisy” moving to the “front burner of the culture wars.” 
McCaskill AGAIN smeared pro-life conservatives as heartless to teenage sexual assault victims:
People don’t understand what happens with incest. The young girls who are the victims of incest don’t tell people. It is the most torturous, painful secret that they keep. And when those young girls get pregnant from a stepfather or a father or an uncle, they don’t immediately speak up or understand they’re pregnant. So what Mississippi is saying, if you come forward after 15 weeks you must have your father’s baby, you must have your uncle’s baby but on the other side of their mouth saying no problem if you don’t want to take a vaccine. These guys have a lot of nerve. 
As the segment wrapped up, Wallace hyped the “horrifying” reality before us that Donald Trump set in place with his picks for the Supreme Court. She asked SCOTUS blog writer and attorney Katie Barlow what “65% of Americans who support reproductive freedoms” could cling to as their “best-case scenario”?
Barlow affirmed her fears that it was unlikely the court would rule against the law but she hoped it would be a "very narrow ruling," at least.
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NICOLLE WALLACE: Claire McCaskill, you and I co sort of talked the way through the confirmation of at least the last two Trump appointees. This was Trump’s goal. Just the decision to take up this case really strikes fear in the hearts of everyone that cares about this issue which if you look at polls is 65% of Americans that support reproductive freedoms.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL: This may be the situation that is often described as the dog catching the bus and what happens in America in terms of the political climate if in fact this court overturns decades of precedent and fails to protect women’s reproductive freedoms via this Mississippi case. And you know I got to tell you Nicolle, I don’t think younger voters remember what it was like before Roe V. Wade.  I don’t think they realize these folks will not be happy until a rape victim is put in prison for taking the morning-after pill. That’s the road they are going down. That’s the road they’ve been trying do go down for a long time even though they are really pushing provisions that are widely rejected by the vast majority of Americans. 
WALLACE: Claire, what do you make of the early reaction, just the decision to take up this case is ominous enough? 
MCCASKILL: Yeah. I think what will happen if this case is upheld and if you look at the tea leaves you have to believe it’s going to be upheld. Then look at all of the Republican dominated legislatures in all of the states that’s voted for Donald Trump. They will immediately begin shutting down the ability of women to have the freedom to choose to terminate a pregnancy with all kinds of limitations and then eventually they’ll keep pushing the cases up until there are none left except the few states that might make it legal. That’s the way it was before Roe V. Wade was passed by the court, what? 40, 50 years ago. 
WALLACE:  It’s such a terrifying thought and I think you are right on the generational point. I want to give you a chance to say more about what’s at stake. 
MCCASKILL: I don’t — for young women who went to planned parenthood in college and got birth control, for young woment have never known the fear of an unwanted pregnancy, have never known what that represents in their lives if there is not a safe and legal place to terminate a pregnancy, this will all be a wakeup call. This will be a shock to their systems. And we have more young people voting this last time. If the court does this, I predict that young women will be a driving force in the midterm elections. Especially if those who support reproductive freedoms are doing their job. 
WALLACE: You know Erin It was such a chilling — I will never forget covering the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and then the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett because everyone talked about all that was at stake and this came up. I wonder first your thoughts about the decision and same question to you about what’s at stake. 
(…)
WALLACE: Katie, let me just follow up on that, I mean I—guess the point being— it is indicative of how far to the right. I mean Roberts doesn’t even matter! So Roberts sides again with the liberal justices–It doesn’t matter how he rules — say he goes with them again. If you’re betting on Brett Kavanaugh as your swing vote that might actually be why people are so anxious.

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NAC, short for N-acetylcysteine, is a dietary supplement that has been around for decades. People use it for various reasons, including enhancing athletic performance and treating chronic lung conditions. In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved NAC to treat life-threatening liver side effects of acetaminophen overdose. In the fight against COVID-19, the supplement has been shown to have excellent potential as an effective treatment. With that in mind, though not the final word, the FDA recently reversed its longstanding position on NAC, postulating that it is a “medication,” therefore, it can not legally be marketed as a dietary supplement and should be removed from public sale.

For many years, NAC, which is turned into glutathione by the body when consumed, has been widely used as a standalone product in whole dietary supplements. The FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Program (ODSP), maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), currently shows almost 1,500 products containing NAC. 

Currently, NAC is being studied as a treatment for COVID-19 in several actively recruiting clinical trials across the country. With the FDA alleging it first approved NAC as a drug on Sept. 14, 1963, the FDA is again going after NAC, claiming it does not qualify as a legal dietary supplement. The agency sent warning letters in July 2020 to seven companies selling products containing NAC, arguing that NAC couldn’t legally be sold in a dietary supplement because the ingredient was first approved as a drug (in 1963). Back in September, Dr. Anthony Fauci, skeptical about recommending any supplements for treating COVID-19, admitted he took supplemental vitamin D and C, adding, but “any of the other concoctions and herbs I would not do.”

In reaction to the FDA’s warning letters, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) sent a detailed letter to the FDA on Dec. 4, 2020, pleading with the Agency to reverse its invoked Drug Exclusion Provision in U.S. code Title 21 to ban the sale of NAC, thus prohibiting manufacturers from marketing products containing NAC as dietary supplements. Noting that thousands of consumers have come to rely on these products as a vital source of nutrients, the letter also calls into question information the CRN obtained through the FOIA, showing what appears to be a handwritten approval date of “1963,” raising several questions about the reliability of the approval date. The letter asserts:

This policy—which represents a sudden and drastic departure from past Agency practice—is legally invalid. As such, FDA should revert to its longstanding policy of allowing manufacturers to market products containing NAC as dietary supplements.

For decades, manufacturers have safely marketed products containing NAC as dietary supplements in the United States. There are currently hundreds of dietary supplements containing NAC on the market, and thousands of consumers have come to rely on these products as a crucial source of nutrients. And, until recently, FDA has consistently and affirmatively permitted manufacturers to market these products. In fact, FDA has considered over 100 structure-function claim notifications regarding NAC and at least one qualified health claim petition for a dietary supplement containing NAC and has not objected to the presence of NAC in any of these products.

The FDA used this same tactic on supplements infringing on the financial gain of pharmaceutical companies and may have done the same with NAC since the supplement may effectively reduce the incidence of severe COVID-19.

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Last month, according to several industry sources, Amazon began removing dietary supplement products from its platform that contain NAC (which has a long list of therapeutic uses), and a quick search seems to show that very few if any products remain today. Neil Levin, senior nutrition education manager for NOW, a leading dietary supplement company, recently spoke about NAC in an email:

“NAC is one of the supplements that have dual-use as drug and supplement, as do fish oil, niacin, potassium, etc., that also have prescription forms. Just as not all niacin or fish oil products are sold by prescription, not all NAC is, either. And we don’t make drug claims that would warrant calling our products’ drugs.’”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a study in January 2011 examining NAC’s role in treating addictive behavior. The study concluding that multi-purpose medical and dietary NAC—the supplemental form of L-cysteine, which is a semi-essential amino acid present in our bodies—plays a prominent metabolic role in the body’s overall antioxidant activities by controlling the glutamatergic system (i.e., the regulation of reward, reinforcement, and relapse). The research found NAC quite promising, concluding, “At present, NAC appears to be a compound worth watching—one that may, in the future, play a valuable role in both psychiatric and medical settings.” Labeling NAC as a “safely used supplement,” the decades-old study indicated:

In addition to prescription availability, NAC is commercially accessible as an over-the-counter product and has been safely used as a supplement in humans for years (NAC is relatively rare in food). Commercial NAC is available in 500-mg tablets and capsules, 600-mg tablets and capsules, 750-mg capsules, and 1000-mg tablets.

An article out today by PRN, titled “The FDA, Shock Troops for the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex,” calls into question the notion that individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are protected and touches on the multiple instances where the FDA has attempted to ban effective natural supplements, including curcumin, boswellia and aloe vera from pharmacologic compounding, and now they are striving to do the same to NAC.

N-acetylcysteine that becomes glutathione in the body, is an extremely useful tool against COVID-19 and other illnesses. Why would the FDA put lives at risk? I think we know they’ve been bought and sold. https://t.co/0EVPQtPpMS

— Craig M. Wax D.O. (@drcraigwax) May 16, 2021

While it is unclear if other offices or agencies within the FDA are involved in the evaluation process surrounding NAC (which has been researched by Dr. Fauci as a treatment for HIV) and its potential complete removal as a dietary supplement, on May 10, Cara Welch, Ph.D., Acting Director of the FDA’s ODSP, replied to CRN’s letter stating the Agency is “closely reviewing the information provided in your letter and will provide a more substantive response once our evaluation is complete.” 

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GOP Chair Elise Stefanik: Justice Department Is "Trying To Block" Maricopa County Audit

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The Sheriff of Maricopa County, Paul Penzone (D), has been in the news lately for going ballistic when the auditors from the 2020 Election in the County asked for access to the County’s routers.  TGP contributor Jordan Conradson asked him about this and more today.

We reported last week that the Cyber Ninjas asked for access to the County’s routers so they could identify any curious transmissions recorded on these routers during the 2020 election and counting process.  The County refused to comply with this request:

IT EXPERT: Maricopa County Officials Refuse to Provide Routers and Passwords to Senate Auditors – They Don’t Want Public to Know Where Data Was Sent and When It Was Sent

The County claimed that there was personal data that was maintained in these files (which was not true since routers do not record the content of what is being transferred but rather the times and transfer points of data transfers).

We noted in the response to the request from the auditors, the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Paul Penzone, was cc’d in the letter.  He is probably better known for the $2 million in support from George Soros in 2016 in the Deep State’s effort to see Sheriff Joe lose for the first time in seven elections. This was reported in Arizona at the time:

When Paul Penzone ran for Maricopa County sheriff in 2016, he famously received a $2 million contribution from billionaire George Soros — the liberal philanthropist’s single biggest investment in a local race that year.

Apparently, when notified of the auditors’ requests, the Sheriff had a meltdown:

The Sheriff was not prepared for this and looked very weak walking away from the brave reporter.

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A group of Christians in Aylmer, Ontario, were forced to worship outside Sunday after police seized their building during a worship service, evicted them, and locked the doors last week.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Church of God in southwestern Ontario, most of whose congregants come from the Mennonite tradition, preached an open-air service after Ontario Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas ordered their church facility locked until the provincial gathering limit for indoor church services increases to 30% capacity or more, according to CBC News.

Under Ontario’s shutdown order, both indoor and outdoor religious gatherings are capped at 10 people.

In addition to having their church shut down, Hildebrandt, assistant pastor Peter Wall, and the church face $117,000 in fines and legal fees.

Thomas alleged that the small congregation’s insistence at holding church services had destroyed the tranquility of the town. “This whole thing has turned one small community in Ontario into a cauldron of hostility, one that has pitted neighbour against neighbour. I am deeply concerned about the toxic environment in Aylmer,” Thomas said during a virtual court hearing last Thursday.

“This congregation and these people, although different than the mainstream population of southwestern Ontario, were living in peace and tranquility in this community in the past. Now, I see a splintered community, a fractious community,” he added.

WATCH:

According to video, police officers interrupted the church’s worship service last Friday while congregants sang hymns. As the armed officers entered the sanctuary to order them to vacate, Hildebrandt read from the third chapter of the Book of Daniel, which recounts how Daniel and two of his friends were thrown into a fiery furnace for refusing to worship the king of Babylon.

Hildebrandt and the congregation then prayed for the souls of the police, asking God to forgive them “for they know not what they are doing.”

“Very, very sad day in Canada, to see this actually happening,” Hildebrandt told the camera as congregants shuffled out. “But they’re telling me they have to do their job, so we will have to leave it at that at this point. But we know that God is in control. We know that God is on his throne and that God knows exactly what is happening. We’re looking to the Lord to help us as we faithfully serve him continually.”

“This is what happens when we let our freedoms slide,” he went on, urging Canadians to repent. “This is what happens when we are not vigilant. This is where, so fast, a country can slide down into what we’re seeing here today. But God help us that we would wake up quick.”

Hildebrandt also later preached to the media and police outside who had cut off the surrounding roads, urging them to do the right thing.

As CBC News reported:

Police gathered evidence that will be submitted to the court, [Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko] Horvat said, adding more charges are expected under the Reopening Ontario Act. 

“We’re doing everything that is within our power to shut [Hildebrandt] down,” he said.

“We are working with the Attorney General’s office on that particular topic and with their assistance and the court processes. That’s what our options are and that’s what we’re going to continue to pursue.”

“It’s not a simple matter of just going in and removing everybody,” Horvat added. 

Lisa Bildy, a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is a nonprofit law firm representing the church, said, “Locking the doors of churches in Canada is a poignant symbol of our democracy under threat. This was two weeks to flatten the curve and has become 60 weeks and counting. No outbreaks have been traced to the church… I don’t think we should be locking church doors in this country. Church is fundamental to these people.”

“Another sad day in Canadian history,” Hildebrandt tweeted after the incident. “This afternoon we (the congregation of the Church of God at Aylmer) were ordered to vacate the building where we have met for decades to worship our Lord. To God be the glory, He is worthy of all our praise.”

Another sad day in Canadian history. This afternoon we (the congregation of the Church of God at Aylmer) were ordered to vacate the building where we have met for decades to worship our Lord.
To God be the glory, He is worthy of all our praise.#StandWithGod pic.twitter.com/ExlqfNiX35

— Pastor Henry Hildebrandt (@aylmerpastor) May 14, 2021

Canadian MP Derek Sloan, who has publicly supported other pastors in Canada who have been punished for holding church services, condemned the treatment of Hildebrandt’s church, writing, “Police have come to the Church of God in Aylmer, forced the congregants to leave, and seized the church. We are all less free because of this despicable abuse of power. As [Hildebrandt] says, this is a very sad day for Canada.”

Police have come to the Church of God in Aylmer, forced the congregants to leave, and seized the church. We are all less free because of this despicable abuse of power. As @aylmerpastor says, this is a very sad day for Canada.#cdnpoli #EndTheLockdownshttps://t.co/uci0OIZlyo

— MP Derek Sloan (@DerekSloanCPC) May 14, 2021

Related: Can Religious Liberty Survive COVID-19?

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An Israeli legal scholar’s argument about the legality of Israeli airstrikes was temporarily removed from YouTube on Monday for violating unspecified "content guidelines."

Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University, appeared on RT to explain why Israel’s counterstrikes in Gaza are protected by international law. YouTube removed a video of his appearance because it violated the company’s terms of service. It later reversed the decision and restored the video without an explanation for why the initial action was taken. Kontorovich believes the video was down for 24 hours.

The move continues a pattern of capricious moderation of content related to Israel from social media platforms. In April, the Chinese-owned platform TikTok hosted a series of viral videos of Arabs assaulting Orthodox Jews.

Although it was unclear at press time what rule YouTube cited in removing the video, the company says it removes "content promoting violence or hatred" against a number of groups, including "victims of a major violent event and their kin."

Kontorovich told the Washington Free Beacon he was surprised that YouTube would delete what he believed was "a completely calm, professional, academic discussion of international law."

A YouTube spokeswoman said, "After review by our teams, we determined the video does not violate our Community Guidelines and it’s now available on YouTube." YouTube did not respond to requests for comment on why the video had been taken down.

According to Kontorovich, restoring the video was not enough to combat what he sees as a battle for public opinion of Israel amid this ongoing conflict. Kontorovich told the Free Beacon that there’s "a major campaign to portray" Israeli defense efforts "as illegal and in violation of the laws of war," and that silencing arguments like his are "constraining Israel’s ability to defend itself from Hamas."

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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that police illegally seized a Rhode Island man’s firearms in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. The SCOTUS decision overturned a 1st Circuit Court ruling that said police officers in the case were well within their right to confiscate the man’s firearms.

Police responded to a domestic violence call in 2015, at which point Edward Caniglia’s wife believed he was suicidal. He brought out a handgun, put it on the table, and instructed his wife to “shoot [him] and get it over with.” She ended up leaving for the night but had police conduct a welfare check after she failed to reach him, court documents explain.

When police arrived, Caniglia was sitting on the porch. He agreed to undergo a psychiatric evaluation under the condition that his firearms would not be seized. He was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation, at which point police entered his home and confiscated two of his firearms. Caniglia’s firearms were confiscated without a warrant because he was deemed a threat to himself and others, police said.

Caniglia sued saying his Fourth Amendment rights were violated. Both the federal court and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals stated the police were well within their rights. They cited the “community caretaking exception,” which was established in the Cady v Dombrowski case. In that case, “an officer took a gun out of an impounded car without a warrant. The Supreme Court ruled at the time that police can conduct such warrantless searches if they are performing ‘community caretaking functions’ in a ‘reasonable’ manner,” TIME reported.

According to the Supreme Court, the Cady case is irrelevant to the Caniglia case and “is not an open-ended license to perform [the community caretaking functions] anywhere, as Justice Clarence Thomas explained the Court’s view in the opinion:

Neither the holding nor logic of Cady justifies such warrantless searches and seizures in the home. Cady held that a warrantless search of an impounded vehicle for an unsecured firearm did not violate the Fourth Amendment. In reaching this conclusion, the Court noted that the officers who patrol the “public highways” are often called to discharge noncriminal “community caretaking functions,” such as responding to disabled vehicles or investigating accidents. But searches of vehicles and homes are constitutionally different, as the Cady opinion repeatedly stressed. The very core of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee is the right of a person to retreat into his or her home and “there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.”  A recognition of the existence of “community caretaking” tasks, like rendering aid to motorists in disabled vehicles, is not an open-ended license to perform them anywhere.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU), the American Conservative Union (ACU), and the Cato Institute filed a joint amicus curiae brief in the case, arguing against the Cady application in the case.

“The Fourth Amendment does not permit such a freewheeling balancing inquiry when it comes to searches of homes,” the joint brief explained. “… Given the capacious array of activities that could be called “community caretaking,” it is hardly surprising that courts have relied on it to uphold warrantless entries based on a wide variety of police actions.”

Other organizations that filed amicus curiae briefs include the Institute for Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Firearms Police Coalition, American Association of Suicidology, The Rutherford Institute, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Pacific Legal Foundation, and the Constitutional Accountability Center.

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