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>Victor Davis Hanson - Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
>Bill Schoettler - Give Opportunities Not Directions
>Madelyn Greenberg – Knowledge is Power - 14
>Sidney Secular - Appalling Paucity of Newspapers
Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
In truth, “insurrection” has been
fueled by the Left since 2015.
By: Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
July 3, 2022
(Emphasis added)
For 120 days in the summer of 2020, violent protesters destroyed some $2 billion in property and injured 1,500 police officers in riots that led to over 35 deaths.
Because blue-state mayors and governors saw BLM and Antifa instigators as useful street soldiers, most of those arrested were never tried in court. Street thugs paid no price for declaring themselves de facto owners of downtown areas of Seattle, which police themselves conceded were no-go zones. Why did public officials in blue states ignore the violence? They were certain that it enjoyed majority support among their leftwing constituencies.
Indeed, some leftist icons cheered the violence. Well after the failed attempt to storm the White House grounds, in June 2020, the Democratic candidate for vice president Kamala Harris warned us that protestors were “not going to let up, and they should not.” What did Harris mean by “should not?”—when she knew numerous protests that summer had ended in terrible violence? Was she reckless in the manner Trump was said to be by encouraging a demonstration on January 6?
The architect of the “1619 Project” Nikole Hannah-Jones assured the nation that the vast destruction of (someone else’s property) was not a real crime. CNN’s Chris Cuomo gushed that violent demonstrations and riots were American traditions. Were these national voices urging calm during weeks of violent rioting and looting?
There were no investigations, no congressional committees, and no voices of outrage from the left-wing establishment over months of such carnage. Indeed, much of the organization of the violent protests was facilitated by social media that was apparently unbothered that the medium under their stewardship was used to torch and loot.
The Attack on Norms and Customs
Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) urged her followers to tail, dog, and get in the faces of Trump government officials to the point that they would lose their freedom to even be seen in public. “And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she famously admonished.
Corporations began boycotting events deemed illiberal in fears of being boycotted themselves. Not saluting the flag for professional athletes was considered patriotic, saluting it insurrectionary. Mobs of leftists, cheered on by Democratic grandees, began tearing down statues of Confederate generals—but only as a preliminary to defacing the Lincoln Memorial and other statues of Lincoln, Jefferson, and Frederick Douglass.
From 2015-16, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with impunity wiped away thousands of her supposedly personal emails on a likely illegal private server. To cover her tracks, she ordered her devices destroyed, despite many being under subpoena.
Clinton also sought to warp the entire machinery of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Clinton’s skullduggery was hidden behind three firewalls—the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins-Coie legal firm, and the Fusion GPS opposition research firm—to mask her likely illegal payments that enlisted a foreign national and ex-spy, Christopher Steele, to assist her campaign by destroying Donald Trump.
Steele proved a clumsy, grifting con artist who tapped Clinton’s money, her friends, and her former subordinates in concocting a fake “dossier” of gossip, lies, and slander aimed at rendering Trump unelectable. No matter—Steele used Clinton’s State Department contacts and former government clients to compile and seed the lies among a toady media to undermine her political opponent and later sabotage the Trump presidency.
The War Against Institutions
The Left, in revolutionary fashion, has waged a sustained and unapologetic attack on constitutional norms and long-held institutions—whenever it senses they no longer prove conducive to its radical agendas.
Barack Obama declared during a funeral oration for the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) that the filibuster was racist and must end—although as a senator Obama had used it and declared it essential.
The Electoral College? When the so-called “blue wall” fell, it transmogrified from valuable to a bankrupt fossil. The Left has wanted to create two new blue states (the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) to fast-track four left-wing senators, and cram through a national voting law to make the states’ constitutional prerogative to require voter IDs illegal.
There is no border. For two years, Joe Biden, again in true revolutionary fashion, has simply abrogated federal immigration law by fiat. In less than two years, he has welcomed 3 million illegal aliens without audit—or COVID-19 tests or vaccinations—during a pandemic in which unvaccinated federal employees and military personnel faced dismissal. Biden had taken an oath of office to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, but then shortly thereafter destroyed immigration laws as we knew them. No prior president has simply rendered an entire corpus of law null and void.
Fueled by leftist billionaires, the Left waged a multiyear effort to elect big-city district attorneys whose agendas were pure nihilism: to not enforce laws, to release arrested criminals without indictments, to end cash bail, and prematurely to release convicted and hardened lawbreakers. The guiding principle was the revolutionary theory that the law was a simple construct used against marginalized peoples and the poor, and therefore simply could be ignored or discarded.
There is no longer free speech on college campuses. Guests who voice minority opinions are in danger of being shouted down or put into physical danger—with the near certainty that their attackers will face few if any consequences.
“Safe spaces,” dorms, and graduation ceremonies are often racially exclusive—all knowingly in violation of the spirit and the letter of once-vaunted civil rights legislation. At many colleges, faculty and potential faculty are asked to write “diversity statements,” apparently in emulation of the old McCarthy “loyalty oaths” that likewise served both to eliminate any dissent and to frighten would-be apostates. Any dissident professor will have his biography thoroughly scanned for thought crimes, and then be libeled as a “racist” or “sexist”—as a clear warning to others to keep silent.
There is a revolutionary war now being waged against the Supreme Court because it no longer characteristically legislates from the bench. If the Court was once beloved as an iconic institution that was a sort of liberal judiciary, legislature, and executive all in one, it is now utterly despised as counterrevolutionary. Indeed, it is declared illegitimate, and its rulings to be ignored.
Former law professor Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) screams about a need to pack the Court—an insurrectionary attempt to end 160 years of judicial law and custom, that would be impossible without first ending the 180-year filibuster.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called out Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh by name at the doors of the Court, issuing biblical warnings of violence to both: “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
What sort of “force” did a U.S. senator refer to by screaming to a mob about what might “hit” the justices or when he further threatened, that the two “have released the whirlwind and [they] will pay the price”? What price? What whirlwind?
Did such physical threats incite would-be nuts to seek out a court justice—as in the recent case of 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske arrested armed near the home of Justice Kavanaugh and who currently faces a charge of attempting to murder an associate justice of the Supreme Court?
Illegally leaking rough drafts of future opinions is now not unlawful but a voice of conscience—as long as it is seen as another effective leftist tool to intimidate conservative justices.
Leftists, egged on by Democratic politicians, now routinely mass, circle, shout, and seek to intimidate at the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices—a felony violation that is never prosecuted.
Joe Biden, who claimed Trump showed insufficient respect for the judiciary, now while abroad savagely attacks the U.S. Supreme Court in off-topic rants before his smiling foreign hosts.
In sum, laws are said to be irrelevant and to be ignored by states, cities, and counties at will—depending on their usefulness or impediments to the Left’s agenda.
Indeed, leftists are at times states' rights extremists. They attack the federal government’s authority on immigration issues and simply nullify it—as evidenced by 550 sanctuary city jurisdictions in blue states designed to render inert federal immigration law.
Yet at other times, the Left seeks to crush states’ rights. Currently, it is calling for the federal government, in violation of the Hyde Amendment, to nullify states’ rights to establish abortion laws—by creating abortion clinics on federal military bases and national parks inside red states (that is, in states where about 10 percent of the nations’ yearly abortions occur).
The common denominators are not principles—but only the retention of power, and the notion that law is fluid and gains legitimacy only when advancing leftist dogma.
Our Revolutionary Agencies
Former Obama Administration Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan both lied under oath—without legal consequences—to the Congress.
The FBI itself has descended into a sort of revolutionary police force rather than a disinterested investigative body focusing mostly on intrastate and federal crimes. The fired former Director James Comey feigned amnesia or ignorance 245 times in his responses under oath to a House committee.
The subsequent interim director Andrew McCabe admittedly lied three times to federal investigators and likely discussed wearing a wire to entrap the president of the United States. He was never charged with any federal crime.
An FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered a federal affidavit to warp a FISA court hearing. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller claimed under oath that he had no idea what the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS was, even though, arguably, they were the goads that prompted his 22-month-long investigation.
There is no need to review the creepy careers and texts of FBI lawyer Lisa Page and her paramour FBI agent Peter Strzok, other than to note both used FBI resources to advance political agendas. The entire agency was knee-deep in fueling the Russian collusion hoax, itself a veritable revolutionary attempt to destroy a political campaign, a presidential transition, and a presidency.
In the fashion of the former East German Stasi, the FBI hounds political opponents on the Right by surveilling parents at school board meetings, sending a SWAT team to arrest a flamboyant Trump supporter Roger Stone, arriving at the house of journalist James O’Keefe in the deep of night to confiscate his files and devices, and putting former White House advisor Peter Navarro in veritable shackles. The common denominator is the FBI devolving into a retrieval service for the Biden family syndicate, whether by putting on ice Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop or hounding out Ashley Biden’s lurid diary, or intimidating Biden critics.
Yet when asked to produce relevant cell phones of possibly wayward agents, the FBI claims that such data was erased, shrugs, and does not comply. Apparently, the FBI leadership fears the progressive Washington political-bureaucratic-media nexus far more than it fears the consequences of violating the law it is sworn to uphold.
Retired four-star admirals and generals no longer just revolve out of service to woke corporate boards and lobbying firms. Now they must first prepare their trajectories by violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, by damning their commander-in-chief, and thus virtue signaling their bankable corporate orthodoxy.
As a result, the left-wing media and elite have dropped their traditional dislike of such federal authorities, be they the FBI, the CIA, or the Pentagon. Indeed, the Left has come to love those with badges and guns—but solely as a revolutionary force far more efficient than the clumsy Congress in greenlighting their progressive agendas and making life hell for their opponents.
Sort of Sacrosanct Elections, Sort of Not
As far as rejecting the outcomes of federal and state elections, for leftist insurrectionists the validity of an election hinges on whether the Left is a declared winner or loser. Once Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016, her opponent became “illegitimate.” She joined the “Resistance” and later advised Joe Biden to reject the ballot tally if he lost the popular vote. No one claimed she was endangering hallowed institutions or sounding insurrectionary.
For Time journalist Molly Ball, the billionaire effort to undermine the 2020 election by infusing hundreds of millions of dollars of dark money to usurp the work of selected county registrars was a giddy “conspiracy.” For former Obama Pentagon lawyer Rosa Brooks in 2017, the 11-day tenure of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump was already an occasion to weigh the relative advantages of either impeachment, invocation of the 25th Amendment—or a military coup to remove him.
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams became a left-wing cult figure by touring the country claiming she was the real governor of her state who somehow, nonetheless and illegitimately, had lost her campaign by 50,000 votes.
Good Threats of Violence
As far as violence goes, the Left has descended into full assault pornography over the last few years.
Former vice president and “uniter” Joe Biden boasted that he would like to beat up President Trump: “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him . . .” or “He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack him in the mouth.”
Do we remember when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), another 2020 presidential hopeful, railed, “My testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him [Trump], which would be bad for this elderly, out-of-shape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen.”
Robert De Niro similarly announced that he had his sights on Trump, “I’d like to punch him in the face.”
Do such threats have consequences? Maybe. On the day Trump was inaugurated, Madonna incited a crowd outside the White House by warning that she had thought of blowing up the White House. Comedian Kathy Griffin trumped that in a video in which she held up a facsimile of a decapitated Trump head.
Few today remember James Hodgkinson—a former Bernie Sanders campaign worker—and his 2017 attempt to assassinate Republican congressmen at a practice for a charity baseball game.
So yes, let us fear that democracy is dying in media darkness. Real insurrectionists are seeking to dismantle the Constitution, end centuries-long customs and traditions, justify the use of political violence, and disobey all the laws they find inconvenient.
Give Opportunities
Not Directions
By: Bill Schoettler
July 3, 2022
Our government, in fact, any government in the history of the world, whether it be a dictatorship, a kingdom, a democracy, a socialist or republic, or any kind imaginable, DOES NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING.
Governments do not produce stuff. So where does “stuff” come from?
The PEOPLE PRODUCE THE STUFF by which the economy exists and from which the government obtains its income (read “taxes”).
Let me say that again…the government does not make money, produce goods and services, or do anything to make money. Governments do provide rules and supervision (to make sure we follow the rules) and provide protection to all of us.
A quick review. I make something, you make something else. How can we benefit each other? By creating “money” and placing a monetary “value” on what each of us makes. Now we can purchase each other's products. The government supervises this process and provides protection and facilitates the entire operation (through providing the infrastructure) and in exchange for providing its services charges us a fee (called “taxes”). Yes, an oversimplification but you understand the basic working model of our economy.
Now consider the options of performance available to this government that supervises and provides the infrastructure (plus everything else the government does). The government can provide anything you might consider. Anything. The government can provide housing, food, employment, medical care, and the list can go on and on.
BUT, remember how the government is funded. You and I pay for everything the government provides.
Who is it that decides what the government will provide?
a) The government?
b) The People?
Now we get to the question of just what kind of government are we discussing here? If the government is a kingdom then the king makes the decisions as to what he (oops, let us not forget that there have been “kingdoms” that were run by queens) or the queen makes the decisions. The ruler can choose what to provide the subjects of the kingdom and when and how much to tax and everything else they decide the government should do.
If the kingdom has a parliament that “advises” the King/Queen then Parliament makes those decisions. The king/queen enforces them.
If the country is run by an elected group of people then the people who do the voting select representatives who promise to provide what the voters want.
This latter example is roughly speaking just what we have in this country. We the people get to vote for representatives who will decide what choices and services we will have. And if the representatives don’t provide what we want we get to change them every two (or four[presidents] or six, in the case of the Senate) years. It's called a Constitutional Republic.
What do the people want? Well for one thing, mostly to be left alone to live their own lives, to produce, create, work and enjoy their lives, raise children, build homes, go water skiing and motorcycle riding and bike riding and hiking and camping…whatever, wherever and whenever they wish. They want the government to protect them [from criminals and foreign invasion and anything else that is beyond their personal control] and to provide just enough supervision and overall control to allow everything to work comfortably. These might be called “opportunities”. The people will take care of themselves for everything else.
How has this been working? Not too well, it would seem.
As I look at my life, my city, my State, and my Country I see areas where I feel the government has let me down, and failed to live up to the promises that my elected representatives made.
My government, local, State, and Federal has stopped some citizens from producing many of the goods and services that had become valuable to my well-being. My government has permitted untold numbers of strangers to come into my country. My government has, all without my consent, decided to provide free medical care, free housing, free food and other free services to these strangers. My government has decided to become involved in and spend money on foreign wars that do not seem to have any interest to me or my country. My government has allowed gasoline prices to increase, food and other commodity prices to increase, housing costs to increase, airline travel to be restricted, crime to increase, and taxes to increase. My government has not asked me if I am interested in any of these decisions, has not sought my approval for continuing government expenses involving useless investigations or programs, and finally, has made both medical and other social decisions without adequate investigation or consideration of long-term consequences. My government has supported or implemented or encouraged the education system in our country to change the language, change genders, change history, change institutions and change the old heroes.
And perhaps most outrageously, my government has tried to stop and stifle any objections or protestations I might make about the direction in which I see my government moving.
When my government was organized and begun some 250 plus years ago the people who wrote out a blueprint for the successful operation and functioning of my government did so based on the understanding that it was the people, people like you and me, for which the government would work. Not the other way around. The government was for my benefit….I was not, did not function for the benefit of the government. It functioned for my benefit.
There was a recent past President who made a statement that in my opinion has been more harmful than helpful. “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” This is wrong! I do not exist for the benefit of my country…my country exists for my benefit. Yes, I ask what my country can do for me…and for you and for all our neighbors. This government exists for my benefit, I do not exist for the benefit of my government. When the government tries to tell me how to think, how to act, what to say or not say…then I protest and object. That is not the function or purpose of my government. My government exists to serve me, not the other way around.
The people need to take back their government. The people need to re-define, re-purpose, re-imagine the very foundation of our government and bring it back on track. For most of our 250 years, it has worked pretty well. Maybe not perfectly but then, as we all know, man is not a “perfect” creature but one that strives for excellence and perfection in all things. We have stopped striving and need to re-acquire those qualities that have made us great.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
with 2nd Opinions for the Pandemic
Response from Esteemed Doctors & Scientists
Part 14
By Madelyn Greenberg
July 3, 2022
As it relates to the US Senate Hearing from January 24, 2022, “Second Opinions” for “Pandemic Responses”, keeping current as to the facts that come out, will be incorporated into this series of articles.
On June 26, 2022, Dr. Peter McCullough posted on Truth Social a short clip and comment that fits into what is coming to light about the vaccines. Dr. McCullough’s comment with the video clip, was, “Rep Louie Gohmert (R) with Del Bigtree on a case of fatal blood clots in a patient due to the COVID-19 vaccine. Hear his story of blood clots!”
The video where Rep Gohmert said, “Being local I hear about these things, but one was of someone who works here with me. He had a cousin in West Virginia, who got the vaccination and immediately developed blood clots and died. Very quickly. He had been treated for some other things and had no blood clots. They knew that.”
Rep Gohmert continued, “He gets a vaccination and immediately fills up with blood clots and died. So, his personal physician put down on the death certificate that the cause of death was the vaccination. He was immediately verbally assaulted by the local health officer, saying he can’t put that the cause of death was the vaccination. He said there is no question in my mind that it was the vaccination. I am not going to remove it. The widow was upset because it clearly was the vaccination.”
“Then, they continued to hear from government officials that they would not certify the Death Certificate as long as the cause of death was listed as the vaccination. If you have lost people you love, you know to even pick up and start, you can’t transfer money from accounts, you can’t transfer ownership of your car. You have got to have a Death Certificate to get life going again. So, she finally caved and said so look, just get me a Death Certificate. I can’t be in limbo like this.”
Dr. McCullough also posted at Truth Social on June 26, 2022, that, “The Gill paper in Archives of Pathology was conclusive that the Pfizer/BNT was the cause of sudden adult death syndrome in these two boys found dead at home on days 3 and 4 after taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Clear and convincing.” The article posted, “Heart Inflammation Manifested Unusually In 2 Boys Who Died Shortly After Getting the Pfizer Vaccine: Study” the article McCullough cited was dated February 17, 2022. The OAN reporter that covered this in the video clip that Dr. McCullough included, said, “Neither boy had previous medical complications or history of heart disease. An autopsy shows that mysterious heart inflammation was the cause. Only, it isn’t so mysterious, is it? Because, sudden heart inflammation, especially in children, is one of the primary side effects of Pfizer vaccine.”
The OAN host went on to say, “This isn’t some debunked conspiracy theory, as the left-wing media would have you believe. These are known side-effects by the FDA, by Pfizer and these boys did die after getting these injections. Imagine how their parents must feel.”
On June 28, 2022, Dr. McCullough posted, “CDC failed to provide surveillance data of Information Act (FOIA) reply.” Senator Johnson wrote, ‘This raises questions about whether CDC ever collected the information on vaccine safety it originally claimed it would in the January 2021 SOP.’ To the extent that CDC did not generate the surveillance data it initially claimed it would, the senator implored ‘explain why and detail who decided to not follow the SOP and when that decision was made.”
Dr. Peter McCullough posted, “HHS committees all over learning hard lessons on pandemic response. The goal of any pandemic is to prevent hospitalizations and deaths. So, all the focus is on treating the acute illness early whether early whether or not someone has taken a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines are not treatments!”
This was when Dr. McCullough’s Texas Senate testimony on June 27, 2022. At that hearing in front of the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Dr. McCullough testified, “Thousands of reports of patients that were hospitalized and died. Hundreds, if not thousands of reports. The outcome of hospitalization and death is a product of not receiving early treatment. Whether someone is vaccinated or not, the vaccination is irrelevant, because the vaccination is not a treatment. What is relevant is, was the patient treated before the hospital? In every single case, in every single patient, the outcome that I can see. In every single patient, when they were in the hospital, either they received zero patient treatment, or they received inadequate treatment! That was received too late. So, lesson learned, it is always going to be about treating the next infectious disease early.”
At the January 24, 2022, US Senate hearing, during the back-and-forth Q & A, Dr. Robert W. Malone said, “One of the things about Omicron that is really odd, is that the data is showing that the vaccinated seem to be more prone to becoming infected by Omicron. There are some indications in the data. This is my opinion based on the data I have looked at from a number of countries.”
The following statement has been hidden from the public. Dr. Malone stressed, “THERE IS NO EVIDENCE, OMICRON IS ASSOCIATED WITH A HIGHER RISK IN THE VACCINATED POPULATION, THAN THE UNVACCINATED! THAT INCREASED RISK, IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER OF VACCINE DOSES THAT ONE HAS RECEIVED!”
“We are truly blessed; Omicron has such a low risk for severe disease and death. However, it has got a warning sign. It is what Geert has been warning us about and the FDA has acknowledged. That if we continue to implement this universal vaccine. In the original documents, allowing the Emergency Use Authorization, they told the pharmaceutical industry that they desired that the pharmaceutical industry investigate vaccine enhancement disease or antibody-dependent enhancement.”
Dr. Malone went on to say, “What Geert has been warning us about quite stridently, is if we continue to implement this universal vaccination policy, rather than the position of the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ (Explained in Part 10 of this series), which I have supported in multiple Op-Eds…”
“If we continue to pursue this universal vaccination strategy, in the face of the pandemic, particularly with Omicron now. A much more highly infectious virus. What we risk is, DRIVING THE VIRUS THROUGH BASIC EVOLUTION, to a state where it may be more pathogenic where it may be able to elude immune response, for some. I do not want to engage in fear-porn. WE ARE CLEARLY SEEING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ESCAPE MUTANTS, where they can escape.”
“OMICRON IS NOT ONLY RESISTANT TO THE VACCINE, BUT IT IS FACILITATED BY THE VACCINE. IN
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