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Daily Broadside | Will You Comply This Time Around?

You might recall that last week I described myself as being sick and having to take a couple of days off from work. I figured it was a head cold, as I cycled through a sore throat, then a cough, then it moved up into my nasal cavity, then sneezing, then having a couple of days of blowing my nose, then congestion, then, finally, most of that clearing up but feeling a bit winded.

I told myself that if it didn’t go away within a week, I’d go get myself tested for the Fauci-funded Chinese Bat Flu. I had a couple of friends ask me if it was COVID, but I really didn’t think it was.

Now I’m pretty much back to health and it’s only been nine days since I had the first symptoms, so I didn’t go get tested. But I’ve now heard that at least one person I know experienced the exact same thing as I did and thought it was a cold, but later confirmed that they did indeed have COVID.

That makes me think that I probably had COVID, too.

If you haven’t heard, new strains of the Chinese Lung Pox are making a comeback this summer.

A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission.

The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan. 

Oh noes! A whole two Americans have been identified with the variant and one of them wasn’t even showing signs of illness!

Batten down the hatches!

Scientists identified the case in a database that contains test samples from a small number of travelers entering the US. Independent experts told DailyMail.com they believe the new strain is spreading more widely and in more US states.

The new variant, also spotted in Michigan last week, is causing concern because it stems from an ‘earlier branch’ of the coronavirus, so it differs from the variants targeted by current vaccines.

That concern, combined with an uptick in positive tests across the US, has spooked an Atlanta college and the Hollywood studio Lionsgate into mandating face masks again. But while Covid rates are rising in the US — hospital admissions are up for the fifth week in a row — they remain at near-historic lows.

COVID hospitalizations have risen for the last five weeks, prompting the implementation of mask mandates by Lionsgate studios, who also require employees to self-test before going to the office.

You know, because it worked so well the last time we all did that.

There are reports circulating that colleges and offices are beginning to reinstate COVID mask mandates and contact tracing despite no new cases of the virus being reported.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that Morris Brown College, a black private liberal arts college has reinstated the measures as part of a “precautionary step.” 

The report notes that students and staff will all be asked to mask up while on campus, only one week after classes began.

A communication issued by the college claims there have been “reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center,” a consortium of black colleges and universities located on the western side of Atlanta.

And the timing is amazing as the presidential campaign season kicks into high gear. And we all know how that worked out in 2020.

Here’s my advice: say no to the mandates. Any mandate.

None of that slowed the spread of the virus. Not the masks, not the social distancing, not the “vaccines,” not any of it. We would have been better off letting it run its course without any of that.

The worst part of it is the government overreach. Led by Fauci, courtesy of Trump (probably his worst mistake) and followed by Brandon, these monsters wrecked our society and killed thousands by their insane demands.

No more. We’ve been down that road once and I, for one, am not going down it again.

I will not mask. I will not vaccinate.

I will not give our overlords the benefit of the doubt again. They lied to us for profit and power.

Not just no. Hell, no.

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Daily Broadside | My Name Isn’t Alice And I Don’t Live In A Rabbit Hole

When gays and lesbians agitated for their “rights” to fornicate with others of the same sex without prosecution, they argued that it was nobody’s business what went on in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Once they got that, they argued that they weren’t represented in mainstream America and they couldn’t be discriminated against. So they began to show up holding hands in public and appearing in commercials as though it were the most natural thing in the world. Then they argued that they had the right to get married, along with all the benefits and privileges that came with that station in life. It didn’t “hurt” anybody, and they were the victims of oppression since marriage should be open to everybody. Love is love, right? And when the Supreme Court agreed, they demanded that Christians bake the cake, bigots!

Now the “T” people in the LGBTQANON+ conglomerate are arguing that they have the right to participate in life according to what they declare they are, not what their biological sex has determined that they are. Mostly men pretending to be women want to use the same bathrooms, go to the same prisons, and play the same sports as females.

This sickness is so pervasive that it has radically changed the nature of our culture to the point that a young woman speaking out of her “lived experience” (a favorite phrase of the cultural Marxists) is shut down at a public library for “misgendering” not anyone in particular, but in general, for talking about biological men participating in women’s sports.

This is delusional. We are not just sliding down the rabbit hole, but being forced to live there. And all of our natural rights, including the freedom of speech and of religion and of the right to assemble peacefully and to petition the goverment for a redress of grievances, are being subverted by irrational, specious, weak-minded anti-American cultural Marxists.

I, for one, will not play that game. You don’t get to have your own pronouns, you don’t get to decide you’re a “woman” and demand that I treat you as one if you’re a biological male. I live in reality, and I will not bend to the absurd.

As Christ followers, we cannot deny the truth, even it if causes someone to feel “unsafe” or they claim it’s an act of “violence” to misgender them.

This occurs at a public library, where all over the country drag performers are welcomed and given a platform to perform for the public — especially children. But when an organization that has a different viewpoint wants to use the public facility to share their story, they’re shut down.

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

If you can bear it, watch the whole surreal, nauseating thing.

This isn’t the America I knew.

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Daily Broadside | All the Single (Chinese) Men Put Your Hands Up

There’s never a shortage of outrageous topics to choose from to write about when I review the news every day. Everything from the latest prosecution persecution of Donald J. Trump to the latest tale of corruption and scandal of Resident Brandon and his corrupt progeny to the latest attempts of the far-leftists to mis-educate our children to the administration selling off unused parts of the border wall to the woke nonsense that likely led to the Maui wildfires that killed dozens and destroyed an entire town.

But the one that deserves your attention today happens out of sight, is under-reported, and could be a serious national security threat to the United States.

Border Patrol agents recorded a roughly 800% increase in Chinese migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, according to federal data updated Friday.

There were roughly 17,678 illegal migrant encounters of Chinese nationals between October 2022 and July, compared to 1,970 in all of fiscal year 2022, according to the data. In March, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sent a memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation to agency officials warning of a surge in Chinese migrants.

Chinese immigrants? Coming over the southern border? That seems rather indirect.

Apparently, some of them claim to be escaping religious persecution, specifically those who are Chinese Christians.

“According to CBP, custodial interviews indicate that Chinese citizens are requesting asylum claiming religious persecution by the Chinese Government due to their Christian faith. Additionally, Chinese nationals reportedly make their own smuggling arrangements for most of their journey, only utilizing elements of smuggling networks to cross the border,” the memo stated.

I’d be one of the first to welcome Chinese Christians to the U.S., but I still think they should be crossing the border legally, at formal checkpoints. In fact, this claim makes me scratch my head a little bit, because Chinese Christians are known for faithfully meeting in secret house churches in spite of the persecution they experience. I’m not saying there aren’t any that try to escape to the U.S., but a “surge” doesn’t seem to be in keeping with what is known about the underground church in China.

Another report quoted Dr. Kenneth Allard, a retired Army Colonel and former Dean of Students at the National War College.

“Totalitarian governments like China are great exploiters of opportunity,” Dr. Allard told Breitbart. “They recognize weakness and capitalize on it immediately. What we are seeing reflects a deliberate policy choice by the regime.”

When asked about the potential for China to take advantage of the current crisis along the southern border, Allard says the regime most certainly recognizes the weakness President Biden has exhibited on the international stage, adding “its obvious he is not entirely in control at present, China realizes that as well.”

What little information that is retrieved from the migrants would indicate most are fleeing the repressive regime due to the aftereffects of the extreme COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by Xi Jinping’s government. Another reason cited by the migrants is the negative economic effects of China’s strict COVID-19 policies regarding the exportation and importation of goods.

One of the most worrisome aspects of the surge in Chinese immigrants is that the majority of them seem to be single adult men. It is the same concern that we observed early on in the migrant caravan crisis, that so many of the migrants were single young men.

Nearly three-quarters of those in the caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States are adult men, a senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.

Families and unaccompanied children make up “about 20 to 30 percent” of the caravan, according to Roy Villareal, deputy chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector.

“The rest of that is single, adult males,” Villareal said during a recent tour of the region.

I don’t have any evidence that any of the young adult Chinese males are here on a nefarious mission, but why aren’t we being more cautious? Why do we put up with the erasure of our southern border? Why do we open ourselves up to the possible threat of sabotage from one of our greatest enemies militarily and economically?

For all we know they’re sending carriers of some new disease cooked up in a Chinese lab.

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Daily Broadside | There’s “No Evidence” of Voter Fraud Until There Is

Most of us who supported Trump in 2020, and plenty of those who opposed him, believe that there’s enough evidence of voter fraud to invalidate that election, but we’re constantly told that there’s NO EVIDENCE of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

REPORT: Trump White House Official Confirms Knowledge of Muskegon, Michigan Voter Fraud Report in 2020 – CLAIMS THERE WAS AN ARREST and that BILL BARR Allegedly Killed the Investigation

On Thursday, former Trump administration General Counsel Personnel Police Operations Andrew Kloster joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the Muskegon, Michigan 2020 voter fraud scandal.

Andrew Kloster said he notified Bill Barr’s DOJ – and Barr and his cronies smacked him down and killed the investigation.

The investigation had been buried by politicians, government investigators and the press.

On October 8, 2020, only one month before the 2020 general election, Muskegon, MI City Clerk Ann Meisch noticed a black female, whose name was later redacted from the police report, dropping off between 8,000-10,000 completed voter registration applications at the city clerk’s office. Clerk Meisch immediately noticed that the stacks of registrations included the same handwriting, non-existent addresses, and incorrect phone numbers.

The Muskegon Police Department was contacted and asked to investigate. On 10/21/20 First Lieutenant Mike Anderson was contacted by Tom Fabus, Chief of Investigations for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Office. According to the MI State Police report, Fabus asked for Michigan State Police assistance with a joint investigation of alleged voter fraud being conducted by the Muskegon Police Department and the AG.

An investigative task force was formed, and an investigation was initiated.

During their investigation, the state police discovered the women worked for GBI Strategies. This was included in their police report. The group had temporary offices in numerous Michigan locations. The police also identified Gary Bell as the head of the organization.

You know why there’s no evidence of fraud? Because most of it has gotten ignored or swept aside for long enough that people have lost interest or think it no longer makes any difference.

What ended up happening is my understanding, I reached out and spoke with some local law enforcement. What happened was there was a woman, my understanding is basically loitering outside of a dropbox all day, and she gets picked up by a junior guy and arrested because he’s like, what are you doing? You’re stuffing this box. What’s going on? So they arrest her, and she basically spills the beans. She’s a democratic operative. She’s got filled-out ballots, like 7000 is what I was hearing, and they arrested her. Now, the senior guy, my understanding was off at the time. So the junior guy who picked her up, got her statement and released her, and she went back to Detroit… She went back to Detroit. The senior guy comes back in the next day or later in the day and says, what the know? You had her dead to rights. Why did you release her? And starts trying to get an extradition order from Detroit, because this is before the election. We’re hearing there could be voter fraud. And here you’ve got someone basically copping to it and caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

If you have time, I encourage you to listen to the entire conversation, and especially Andrew Kloster’s comment about Bill Barr. Barr was supposed to be this paragon of integrity and experience who would lend great credibility to Trump’s administration.

The signals I got both through the White House and through the Department of Justice and through the careers at the Department of Justice, was, it was the same story over and over and over again: “Leadership is not interested in this. We’re not even going to make a phone call.”

There’s plenty of evidence; there’s just no will to pursue it.

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Daily Broadside | I Should’a Been A Truck Driver

I had the unfortunate development of a head cold and sore throat after this weekend. I missed yesterday and I’m still not at 100 percent, so today’s post is a short one. Hope to be back to normal by end of the week.

One of my uncles drove truck for BASF for 21 years after starting as a technical illustrator. He made more money driving a rig than he did drawing, but I’ll bet even he wouldn’t believe the amount of money that UPS drivers are now making.

After the Teamsters union secured a win guaranteeing that UPS delivery drivers would make $170,000 in salary and benefits by the end of a 5-year period, people in tech and other white-collar workers had a lot to say about it. As the wife of a UPS driver, so do I.

Let’s start with the facts. The $170,000 is not a base salary — it takes into consideration healthcare and pension benefits. But that’s not even what bothers me most about people’s reactions, which range from wondering why drivers would make that much money to calling them overpaid and undeserving.

I really want people to think about why they believe UPS workers don’t deserve to be fairly compensated. It seems like a lot of it has to do with the snobbery white-collar workers feel toward blue-collar workers. I’m a hairdresser so I see it in my work, too. Some people just feel like they’re better than us and that we don’t deserve nice things or stability.

What’s remarkable is that this UPS driver’s wife goes on and on to justify his salary and benefits, criticizing white collar workers, CEOs and capitalism. None of her reasons truly “justify” that salary and benefits package. It just “is” and good for them.

It would behoove people who are blessed with such material wealth to be thankful for it and stay quiet.

But that’s just me.

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Daily Broadside | The US Ship of State is Swamped and in Danger of Sinking

I hate to miss posting, but this past week was absolutely packed with activity. One of the little’s is getting married this fall, and there were all kinds of tasks associated with hosting guests and putting on a bridal shower that was a beautiful event for all involved. We’re getting to know the future in-laws and some of their extended family, too. I’m slightly more of an introvert than extrovert so expending that much energy with so many people tends to deplete my reserves and will take some time for me to rebound.

But I couldn’t not post with all that’s going on in this bizarre country called the United States of America. At one time the envy of the world, it has been twisted into a grotesque, unrecognizable parody of itself, claiming all the virtues of a free society but acting like a third-world banana republic.

We’re being led by a doddering, angry, dementia-riddled, imbecilic fabulist whose natural language is lying. He’s bought and owned by the Chinese, the Russians and the Ukranians. He’s done nothing worth remembering in his fifty years in government, but we will remember him because of the immense damage he’s inflicted on the economy, politics and the culture in the two-plus years he’s been in office.

Our political elites have weaponized the Constitution and are conducting open lawfare on the previous president while ignoring the crimes of the current one and his family. Lawfare is even being conducted at the state level against conservative politicians, like Texas AG Ken Paxton.

We’re being swarmed with some 7 million foreigners who have crossed our non-existant border illegally without vetting and are actually shlepped around the country to large “santuary” cities, so much so that even hard-left mayors are complaining that they can’t handle the influx and are now asking citizens to open their homes to the invaders.

The Chinese float spy balloons over mainland US with impunity and are apparently behind an illegal biolab full of diseased mice, pathogens, blood, coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes and other infectious agents that was operating in secret without a permit in California, and an illegal police station in New York City to hunt down Chinese dissidents. We’re dependent on China for our pharmaceuticals. It’s shameful embarrassment to our sovereignty and safety.

The chucklehead in the White House printed $4 trillion and set off the worst inflation in 40 years. Interest rates have tripled and gas prices are doubled.

Our cities, once the envy and destination of the world, are turning into third-world $#!+holes full of crime and drugs, homelessness and death. Stores and businesses are closing because it’s unsafe to operate in those fetid markets.

Americans are fleeing “blue” states to “red” states in an effort to escape the insanity that progressives have unleashed in their states. We’re segregating ourselves into “rational” and “irrational” populations — and it depends on which one you identify with that shapes your definition of “rational.”

Our military is more interested in being woke than in being prepared as evidenced by dismal recruiting that has left us thousands of soldiers short. In addition, we are short on munitions and are far behind China in naval readiness.

As Victor Davis Hanson writes,

We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.

The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath. The Revolution was boosted by fanatic opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. And the result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was a mere decade ago.

There’s little that one person can do to fight the assault on our way of life. It will take a critical mass of citizens who have decided they’ve had enough and are ready to fight — and sacrifice for — the survival of America.

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Daily Broadside | Woke Scold Leads U.S. Team to Early Exit — and Americans Cheer the Loss

This week is going to be light on posts due to family obligations.

For as long as I can remember, I have been proud of my country and proud of being an American. I don’t know how I “got” it, but from a young age I seem to have had a sense of how great our country was in the history of the world. I remember decorating my banana-seat bike with handmade decorations for the July 4 bicentennial celebration in 1976 and riding up and down the neighborhood street, proud to display my patriotism.

Some of the most moving memories I have are when American teams dominated competitions against other countries, like in the Olympics or in international competitions for a specific sport. For instance, I remember when the American hockey team beat the Russians for the gold in the “Miracle on Ice” at Lake Placid in the 1980 Olympics, one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

Still gives me chills.

The guys on that team were our standard-bearers, the heroes of our country, for being the upstart David against the seasoned Goliath. Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Mark Johnson, Rob McClanahan — they did us proud, and we all celebrated with them as they defeated our arch nemesis. I’ll never forget the sheer joy of that moment and the unbridled pride associated with it.

My patriotism has been so consistently strong that recently, while I didn’t actively root against an American team, I found myself cynically hoping that one would lose. Why? Because the team I’m thinking of has been infected with woke nonsense that leads them to stupidly complain from their privileged platform about how terrible America is, while kneeling and refusing to sing the National Anthem.

The perennial top-ranked team in the world and two-time defending champion, which was trying to win a record third cup in a row and an unprecedented fifth overall, was eliminated by Sweden in a pulsating match that needed 120 minutes of play in the field and a record seven rounds of penalty kicks before Sweden prevailed, 5-4.

Sweden, ranked No. 3 in the world, advanced to face Japan in the quarterfinals Friday.

For the U.S. women, it was their earliest exit in the 32-year history of the World Cup, having advanced to at least every semifinals before this distinctly devastating disappointment.

Now, the USWNT is left with many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.

Good. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of females. The attitude and disrespect for citizens like me (after all, what is a country but its people?) who love this country has soured a lot of us on their team.

Most glorious of all is the karma-like exit for Meghan Rapinoe, the blue-haired lesbian activist (who some say bullied other players into kneeling for the national anthem) leaves the game with an embarassing performance on a clutch play — a penalty kick — that with her experience should have been as natural as tying her boots.

I don’t revel in her humiliation. What I enjoy is that her failure diminishes her stature as an anti-American voice. If she had been the heroine of the game, scoring on that kick and thereby winning the game, she would have been fêted and given a platform from which she could spew her anti-America garbage. This way, she’ll be asked about how it felt to lose the game for the team.

I joke. No one’s going to ask her that.

But they will ask her about the loss and how it felt to choke and the pressure. Any interview she does will be from a position of failure, not success. And while she has had a stellar career that will maintain her credibility, she will always walk under the shadow of going out a loser. And no one cares what you say if you don’t perform.

She humiliated the country with her woke garbage and now she has to live with her own personal humiliation. Not that I expect it will humble her at all.

Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who has been accused of poisoning her teammates with her toxic attitude, was lambasted by critics after she missed a crucial penalty kick that resulted in the US team being eliminated from the World Cup and then laughing about it.

Rapinoe, a notorious “woke” scold, was playing in what would be the final game of her illustrious career, and in a defining moment when she could have come through for her teammates and the country, the 38-year-old lesbian not only completely missed the net on the free kick, but was caught by the cameras snickering about it before crying as her defeated team walked off of the playing field in Melbourne, Australia.

A lot of Americans are unhappy with the team. A sampling from X and from the NY Post.

You know what they say. Get woke, go broke.

And good riddance.

If they’re smart, the team recalibrates now that Rapinoe’s gone and they contemplate the “many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.”

Maybe they can start with love of country.

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Daily Broadside | We the People Are Getting Fed Up

It’s no secret that our country is descending into lawlessness what with George Soros DAs refusing to enforce the law evenly or even at all in many lefty cities. The worst of it are criminals who simply walk into a business of some kind and shamelessly steal products without batting an eye.

Here’s a story about Dale Hardware in Fremont in California’s Bay Area, whose owner’s grandfather started the business in 1955. Guess how much they’ve lost in the last year?

We’re flirting with anarchy and it’s anybody’s guess how much your average citizen is going to take before taking matters into their own hands.

We’re starting to see hints that we’re reaching a breaking point.

“You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15

There’s a reason it’s one of the Ten Commandments.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Terrorist Attack in Heartland Gets Virtually No Coverage

In the early 2010s I started warning my Facebook community to pay attention to the occasional attacks by Islamic jihadis in America. Most of them were lone wolf attacks, like the attempted car bombing in Times Square in 2010, or the beheading in Oklahoma in 2014, or the multiple stabbings in Minnesota in 2016, or the one in New York in 2023.

There’s lots more like those, but generally, you don’t hear about jihadi attacks that often. You’d think that if there were one, you’d hear about it.

At a news conference on Wednesday, North Dakota authorities said that the shooter responsible for the death of a Fargo Police Department officer and the injury of two other officers used 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives to unleash a “murderous barrage of fire.”

Mohamad Barakat, 37, was fatally shot by Officer Zachary Robinson, 31, authorities said. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was killed, while officers Andrew Dotas, 28, and Tyler Hawes, 22, were critically injured. A woman was also shot, but authorities have not said who shot her.Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

“In the wake of Mohamad Barakat’s murderous, unprovoked attack, Officer Zach Robinson’s use of deadly force was reasonable, it was necessary, it was justified, and in all ways, it was lawful,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters. “Mohamad Barakat engaged in a savage attack. … He unleashed what can only be described fairly as a murderous barrage of fire. But that isn’t to say it wasn’t precise. In fact, it was.”

Did you know that an Islamic jihadist attack had happened? No? You’re not alone.

It’s all been hush-hush.

In the week since the July 14 attack took place, authorities have resisted providing any specifics about the Muslim terrorist or his motive. Flag Family Media, a local radio station, had its request for information about Mohamad because it had already all been turned over to the FBI.

Mohamad’s neighbors in the Fargo housing complex claimed that he was quiet and refused to interact with them. “He didn’t want to be around you and of course that made you not want to be around him.”

Why then was Mohamad in America? As previously revealed by a Front Page Magazine investigation, decades of aggressive refugee resettlement has fundamentally changed the face of this quintessentially American city. 8% of Fargo is foreign born and Somalis, Iraqis and other Muslim refugees outnumber Hispanics in the school system. The nearby mega-mosque, blocks from where Mohamad carried out his attack, and Muslim businesses attracts other arrivals.

Our best boys at the FBI interviewed Mohamad in 2021 but didn’t see any threat.

The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined he had done nothing illegal and no further action was taken, authorities said Thursday.

In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous tip about Mohamad Barakat in July 2021 in which the tipster expressed concern about Barakat’s mental state, saying he had access to a “significant number of firearms” and had used threatening language.

But no worries! He hasn’t done anything illegal — yet. Besides, we’ve got Trump to frame and sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics to harass and they haven’t done anything illegal either!

All I’ll say is that our so-called “leaders” haven’t learned anything about the nature of Islamic jihadists or, if they have, don’t want to face it because it causes tension over their goals of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).

Pay attention.

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Daily Broadside | Leftist Lunacy in Illinois Gives Foreigners Policing Powers

Of all the insanity and intentionally destructive acts of the anarchists who hate America and the rule of law, I give you Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzger’s latest defilement of common sense and respect for the citizens of this formerly great country.

Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker has signed into law a bill allowing non-citizens to become police officers over the objection of the biggest police union in the state, which called it a “potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement.”

Mr. Pritzker signed HB3751 into law on July 28, allowing non-citizens to apply to become police officers in Illinois with immediate effect, provided that they’re legally authorized to work in the United States.

Foreign nationals who are legally authorized under federal law to work in the United States or any foreign national who “is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process” but who is authorized to possess a firearm can now apply to become a police officer in Illinois, according to the text of the bill.

Federal law states that only U.S. citizens can serve as police officers and deputies but laws and legislative efforts in a number of states have changed that in the face of staffing shortages.

Any guess which states are having “staffing shortages”?

The biggest police union in Illinois calls it a “potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement.” You bet it is — just as the Leftists have planned. It’s just the capstone atop demonizing and defunding the police at every turn since St. George Floyd died of drug induced stress after trying to pass a forged $20 at his local Cup Foods for a pack of cigarettes in May 2020.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD), alongside many other departments across the United States, is hemorrhaging officers faster than it can find qualified applicants. Data suggests that the CPD has lost more than 3,300 officers and staff between 2019 and 2022, but has hired just 1,600 people to fill vacancies after a wave of quits by officers demoralized by the anti-police riots and calls to “defund the police” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

Now that the anarchists’ have achieved their cause célèbre and Democrat-run cities are dealing with a shortage of officers and out-of-control crime — like Chicago — what better way to replenish their forces than with illegal aliens who will do the jobs Americans aren’t allowed to do, like enforce the law?

Perfect!

Not only are Illinois elites ignoring federal law, precedent, and common sense, but they’re giving the big double-barreled middle fingers to the citizens.

Can you imagine an armed foreigner pulling you over and demanding to see your license and registration? How about arresting you for demonstrating outside an abortion clinic, now that Pritzker has also signed into law the “Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act” targets crisis pregnancy centers using “deception, misinformation, or misrepresentation to interfere with access to abortion services or emergency contraception.” Of course, what any of that means is left ambiguous, not to mention that abortion service providers are exempt from the law.

The new policing law, which gives to non-citizens the power of law enforcement over American citizens, turns any sense of civic order on its head. It would be as if I moved to Spain and was given the power and the authority — a gun and a badge — over the nationals themselves without being a citizen myself. Imagine how offensive that would be to native Spaniards.

Well, same here. It’s like outsourcing law enforcement to the U.N.

Giving foreigners a gun and a badge is not only offensive, but it is troubling, too. If J.B. Pritzker and his minions in the Illinois government are willing to flaunt federal law in favor of non-citizens, what other laws are they willing to flaunt? If a foreigner makes an error in enforcing the law, will the Illinois system of justice favor the non-citizen or the citizen?

If you have to ask, you haven’t been paying attention.

Some Illinois Republicans pushed back on the bill, but only seven out of 40 House Republicans in the 118-member chamber opposed the amended bill after it passed the Senate 37-20.

During the debates on the Senate floor in May, Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) said, “To hand the power to arrest and detain a citizen of this state, or a citizen of any state in the United States, to a noncitizen is a fundamental breach of democracy. It is antithetical to the police power of any state.”

Giving people who do not have legal status to become the enforcers of U.S. laws also diminishes the citizenship of native Americans, and I don’t mean American Indians. What does citizenship mean if a foreigner can exercise authority over a natural citizen?

If we’re giving police power to a non-citizen, what’s next? Can a non-citizen run for elected office? Why not? Pritzker has already given illegals driver’s licenses and has considered giving them some limited voting rights.

I have an idea. Let’s have a non-citizen run for governor to replace J.B. Pritzker.