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Daily Broadside | The DOJ Pleads Leniency By Quoting MLK for a BLM Rioter Who Killed a Man

Absolutely astonishing. And infuriating.

Here’s what the government’s sentencing memo says, in part.

Mr. Lee credibly states that he was in the streets to protest unlawful police violence against black men, and there is no basis to disbelieve this statement. Mr. Lee, appropriately, acknowledges that he “could have demonstrated in a different way,” but that he was “caught up in the fury of the mob after living as a black man watching his peers suffer at the hands of police.” As anyone watching the news world-wide knows, many other people in Minnesota were similarly caught up. There appear to have been many people in those days looking only to exploit the chaos and disorder in the interest of personal gain or random violence. There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBS’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

He was just caught up in the “fury after living as a black man,” you guys! He was just “giving voice” to his feelings, cuz!

Hey, I think those J6 protestors were just caught up in the moment after living as conservatives watching their country suffer at the hands of anarchists, Marxists and Democrats. The J6 protest was just “the language of the unheard.”

But noooOOOOOooo!

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the unrest on January 6th. Convicted of seditious conspiracy, Tarrio, who was not present at the Capitol, pleaded for leniency but received none.

Tarrio wasn’t even at the Captiol where the government killed at least two protestors. He gets 22 years, but a violent rioter who killed a man with five children gets ten years because he’s a black man just letting off steam and besides, didn’t you hear what Martin Luther King, Jr. said?

The DOJ is a partisan political organization with the force of law and guns behind it and this memo just underscores the fact that we no longer have equal application of the law. Federal courts need to vacate all J6 sentences produced by these show trials. The victims need to be pardoned and their records expunged.

And the DOJ needs to be shut down. Merrick Garland needs to be impeached for leading a Gestapo-like gang of enforcers for his political clients. We are barreling down a path that will not end well for anybody.

Have a good weekend.

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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.

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Daily Broadside | Why Civil War Statues in the South Are Important

I had a thought prompted by an article in The American Spectator a couple of days ago. In it, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. observes about the American Civil War that,

… the monuments to only one side remain, and many of the ignoramuses who are tearing down monuments have their eyes too on Union leaders whose reputations they sully with the slander of racism. There was racism to be sure on both sides in times past, and there were other forms of intolerance: religious intolerance, ethnic intolerance, and intolerance of immigrants, for instance. Today, intolerance is still around, but it is being taught in the nation’s classrooms. There, intolerance is being taught under the guise of progressivism with perfumed words such as diversity, equity, and inclusion. Intolerance, apparently, you always have with you.

He’s referring, of course, to the grotesque specter of the wild, woke and irrational antifa and BLM fascists who rampaged across our nation a couple of years ago in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Shortly afterward I chronicled the number of statues and monuments that were torn down or defaced. Several of them were men from the Confederacy like Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis, but others were from the Union including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

After the initial spasms, several cities and counties permanently removed statues honoring heroes of South. According to a CNN article in 2022, “73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021,” leaving 723 across the US.

Last year, a towering statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed in Richmond, Virginia, and added to the growing list of Confederate symbols that had been taken down across the country. This week, Richmond began the process of removing the pedestals that once held the monuments to the Confederacy, which included Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Jefferson Davis and others, according to CNN affiliate WRIC.

Of course, the vandalism forced all of us to wrestle with a fair question: why do modern Americans tolerate monuments to men who were racists and who fought to keep the institution of slavery? Until then had it ever been seriously considered?

Here’s my thought: the answer is to be found in the final line of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address.

“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

After beating the Confederate army, Lincoln faced the task of healing a severely divided nation. He was extending an olive branch to the Confederate south, of which Lee would surrender his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865.

Healing the country, rather than vengeance, directed Grant’s and the Lincoln administration’s actions. There would be no mass imprisonments or executions, no parading of defeated enemies through Northern streets. Lincoln’s priority—shared by Grant—was “to bind up the nation’s wounds” and unite the country together again as a functioning democracy under the Constitution; extended retribution against the former Confederates would only slow down the process.

For Lincoln there would be no gloating, no shaming, no exulting in the defeat of his countrymen. He would not take out his anger and frustration on his kinsmen; he would allow them the dignity and respect due a noble foe. It started with Ulysses S. Grant allowing General Lee and his men to return to their homes and letting the officers, cavalrymen, and artillerymen keep their swords and horses if the men agreed to lay down their arms and abide by federal law.

It was as if two brothers had gotten into a fist fight and one finally gave up. The victor, rather than relishing his victory, hated that the fight had to be had, and extended a hand to help his brother up. Putting his arm around him, they walked into the house and got cleaned up. After all, they were members of the same family and would have to go on living together.

That’s why we allowed the memorials to be built. It was part of an extended act of forgiveness and respect for the members of our family who had made a principled, but misguided and ultimately, futile stand.

Our modern fascists, however, are determined to do what Lincoln refused to do: take vengeance. They are punishing in absentia those whom Lincoln refused to punish. They have withdrawn the offer of a “just and lasting peace” and instead have taken out their anger on both sides of the issue that had been settled nearly 160 years ago.

The South’s decision to defend slavery was indefensible. But they were Americans, our countrymen. We took them to the woodshed, but tended their wounds after breaking them of their poor habit.

If only we could still see it that way.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Remembering a Man of Principle in a Time of Racial Division

Daily Verse | Genesis 41:41
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

Monday’s Reading: Genesis 41-44

It’s Monday and the annual day on which we recognize the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King was a Baptist minister and social activist who is remembered for his leading role in the American civil rights movement. An advocate of organized non-violent resistance based on the approach of Mahatma Gandhi, King led peaceful marches and boycotts to draw attention to the segregation of blacks across America.

An ardent student of the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dr. King was much impressed with the Mahatma’s befriending of his adversaries, most of whom professed profound admiration for Gandhi’s courage and intellect. Dr. King believed that the age-old tradition of hating one’s opponents was not only immoral, but bad strategy which perpetuated the cycle of revenge and retaliation. Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation.

In a 1957 speech, Birth of A New Nation, Dr. King said, “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence is emptiness and bitterness.” 

Due in no small part to King’s leadership, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

Martin Luther King Jr Accomplishments Featured

The irony, of course, is that more than a half-century later, the progressive Left, Black Lives Matter, Inc., Antifa activists and the flying monkeys in the mainstream media have abandoned King’s approach and are using violence and shame to accomplish their mission of destroying “white” culture, rather than be “included” in it.

They’ve also set back race relations to the 100 years of Jim Crow laws, i.e., enforced or legalized racial segregation. You know, “separate but equal.” We now have separate commencements, housing and activities for Blacks on school campuses.

“The aftermath of violence is emptiness and bitterness,” indeed.

In essence, the radicals have gone to great lengths to undo all that King accomplished and that we commemorate on this day. I wouldn’t be surprised if his monument in Washington, D.C., is destroyed someday by the self-righteous judges of woke for King’s attempts to integrate black society with “white supremacists.”

In the meantime, I encourage you to appreciate who King was and how he led the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s. One way you can do that is to read his Letter from Birmingham Jail, in which he wrote one of his famous axioms: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” He explains in this letter his approach to non-violent direct-action demonstrations and he justified to his critics why he was in Birmingham and why he accepted being in jail.

He was a principled man of action—with emphasis on “principled”—something sorely lacking in today’s leaders.

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Daily Broadside | Society is Acutely Sick with More Than Covid-19

Daily Verse | Mark 13:37
“What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!'”

Monday’s Reading: Mark 14-16

Happy Monday! My parachuting school practices with 55-gallon black garbage bags while telling us to “roll like bananas.”

We live in a culture that is increasingly hostile and shows collective pathological gratification in the devaluing and destruction of others based on dubious moral claims and outright lies. We see it expressed in the violence of the BLM and Antifa movements, the cancel culture — and also in the hostility in the stands between fans of opposing teams.

NFL: Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens

NHL: Nashville Predators and Seattle Kraken

NFL: Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams

MLB: San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t recall seeing fights this regularly between fans. There’s always been taunting, yelling and the occasional hat-flicking, but these are hard-core bare-knuckle brawls. And many of them include women, as in this altercation between Carolina Panther and Minnesota Viking fans:

I’m no sociologist, but I think these outbursts, along with the near-anarchy of Burn Loot Murder, Inc. and Antifa, are evidence of the coarsening of our culture: the loss of self-control, the application of force to trivial matters, the lack of compassion and the devaluing of human life. It is quite barbaric in some cases.

I’ve heard some commentators say that a lot of this is the result of pent up frustration over being locked down and being otherwise restricted during the Chinese Panic Plague of 2020. On the other hand, maybe people are just showing their true selves. Or maybe both.

Whatever it is, our culture is displaying a sickness — and not just the Peking Pox variety. We’re showing a soul sickness.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

Of course, the Bible doesn’t leave us without hope. It also goes on to describe what a life led by the Spirit of God looks like.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

What this implies is that our culture is not, generally speaking, led by the Spirit, i.e., we are a post-Christian society. I know most of us are aware of that, but I think it’s worth reiterating that whereas we still have with us the accoutrements of days gone by (e.g. the bas relief portrait of Moses in the House chamber that has hung there since 1950), they are mostly meaningless symbols to contemporary society except as irrelevant artifacts of an era long gone.

I used to say we were coasting on the fumes of our Christian heritage, but I don’t think even the fumes are with us any more — we’ve rolled about as far was we can go with the kinetic energy of our spiritual ancestors.

For believers, this presents a more difficult — but more illuminating — environment in which to demonstrate Christian character. Those who demonstrate love and joy and peace and the like will stand out like stars against a night sky.

The era in which we live is not ideal, but embrace it without ignoring the dysfunction, and watch for where God is at work around you. Who knows but that you were born for such a time as this?

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Daily Broadside | Bush 43’s Appalling Comparison is Revealing

Daily Verse | Daniel 6:23b
And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

It’s Tuesday my friends. I’ve had enough of kumquats in the fruit salad.

I wasn’t always interested in politics. In many ways, I was your typical naïve citizen who believed that all of our presidents and congressmen were good men and women who sought the best for the country, revered our founding documents, and were worthy of the office.

It wasn’t until later that I discovered that many of them were scoundrels who played dirty out of sight of the public. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed historic civil right legislation but predicted that, by doing so, he would “have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Then there was Richard M. Nixon, who infamously lied about what and when he knew about the Watergate break-in and eventually resigned in disgrace as he faced certain impeachment and removal from office.

Still later, as I matured in my political knowledge and understanding of how our government operates, I began to see that even Republicans — the party of Lincoln! — and, ostensibly I thought, the keepers of tradition and conservative values — weren’t “conservative” as a whole. There were conservatives, of course, in the Republican Party, but there were also moderates and liberal Republicans — even libertarians!

And then I began to see a frustrating pattern. Democrats would be shredding the Constitution, our traditions, our morals, and the Republicans would make a lot of noise opposing the Democrats — but nothing would change. Republicans just sit there and act as if they’re powerless to do anything.

In other words, it slowly dawned on me that many Republicans were part of the “establishment” just as the Democrats were. And that awareness left me feeling politically homeless.

I write all of that to set up what has been a further disappointment coming out of the 20th anniversary of September 11. Former president George W. Bush gave a short speech at the 9/11 memorial service for Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Bush was president when the Islamic jihadist terrorist attacks were carried out, and he helped set the tone and the direction for the nation in the immediate aftermath of the devastation. He was generally lauded for his leadership then.

But now this speech.

In his brief comments, Bush likened the American citizens who breached Capitol Hill on January 6 to the radical Islamic jihadists who flew suicide missions on September 11, killing nearly 3,000 innocent people.

There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them.

That’s right. George W. Bush compared American citizens protesting a clearly questionable election result to Islamic extremists. The only people to die that day were two of the protestors, with one being shot by a Capitol Hill officer and the other possibly being killed by Capitol Hill police using “a highly noxious gas on protesters.”

The protestors had no guns, didn’t kill anyone (not even the officers who subsequently died of other causes!) and most simply wandered through the building like lost tourists. Those that did cause damage should be charged and held accountable, as many are.

But it wasn’t an insurrection.

That didn’t stop Bush, whose comparison was appalling. While he didn’t specifically mention January 6, his words implied who he had in mind by leading with “their disdain for pluralism.” He didn’t mention BLM or Antifa, either, and we know those two movements, which celebrate “pluralism” and disdain whites, have been more destructive to our national bonds than anything that happened in January.

Bush is part of the swamp and his comments demonstrate a frightening fact: it’s not just the Democrats who despise conservatives — it’s the entire ruling class that they’re a part of, including men like George W. Bush.

Our political machine is rotten through and through, and those fighting against it from the inside, like Donald J. Trump was, are the exception.

“So interesting to watch former President Bush, who is responsible for getting us into the quicksand of the Middle East (and then not winning!), as he lectures us that terrorists on the ‘right’ are a bigger problem than those from foreign countries that hate America, and that are pouring into our Country right now,” Trump said in a statement distributed by Save America PAC.

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“He shouldn’t be lecturing anybody!” Trump added.

George W. Bush agrees with the illegitimate junta that America’s greatest threat are patriots who dispute the last presidential election and are therefore “domestic terrorists” or, as some have called them, “the American Taliban.”

We are under the illusion that there are two main political parties fighting each other for power and influence, but when you get right down to it, they are all part of the same untouchable elite who disdain “Normal” Americans.

It’s deeply disappointing, but instructive.

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Daily Broadside | How To Defeat Uncertainty Between the Races

Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 12:14
King Rehoboam did evil because he had not
set his heart on seeking the Lord.

Happy Monday my friends. I’ve only met one person I wanted to spend my whole life with.

It’s no secret that our country is being torn apart by Critical Race Theory, which posits that power is based on race, rather than personal character, skill or achievement. In today’s narrative, if you’re white, you’re inherently racist and therefore an oppressor; if you’re a person of color, and especially if you’re black, you’re a victim of a power imbalance that is the result of a rigged system.

This ideology has swept colleges, corporations and, unfortunately, even churches. Not all churches, not all corporations, not all colleges, but enough to further erode our culture. We’ve seen with blazing clarity this last year the effect it’s had through Burn Loot Murder and antifa’s destructive marauding through our cities. We’ve seen it with companies like Coca-Cola that tell us to “try to be less white.” And we see it with “woke” majority-white churches that abase themselves before black brethren for sins they didn’t commit against them and preach a gospel of social justice.

I realized recently that while I completely reject CRT and the nonsense it espouses, I’ve nonetheless been affected by it personally. And by that I mean that I have become hyper-aware of race. Because of the constant drumbeat of “white supremacy,” “white privilege,” “systemic” or “institutional” racism and how aggrieved blacks are portrayed in the media, I find myself second-guessing interactions I have with someone of another color—especially blacks.

Last week an Amazon delivery truck pulled into my driveway while I was outside doing some yard work. Since I was there, I walked over to the truck to take the parcel from the driver, figuring I could save him some time. As I approached the truck, I saw that the driver was a young black man.

Normally I’d walk up, say “Hi” and complete the transaction without giving it a second thought. But this time my brain started asking questions even though I hadn’t asked it to.

“Does he think I’m a racist?”

“I wonder if he resents delivering packages to white people in the suburbs?”

“I wonder if he’s angry at me?”

“Will wishing him a good evening once I’ve got the package be interpreted as I think I’m superior to him?”

“Does anything I say even matter to him?”

These questions all floated, unwelcome, through my mind as I walked over to the truck. Note that I couldn’t possibly answer any of them—they all depended on what he thought, and I couldn’t possibly know what he thought unless he told me.

In the end, I greeted him, he said “Hey,” he gave me my package, I thanked him and said, “Have a good one.” He wished me the same. No sign of contempt from him. Just a guy doing his job.

But the experience deeply bothered me. I have never been so conscious of race and have always treated everyone the same, no matter their skin color or national origin. I can’t claim to have done so perfectly but, frankly, I’d be surprised if anyone can. Motivated by my Christian faith, I keep in mind that I’ve never locked eyes with anyone who didn’t matter to God. As the old children’s song goes,

Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

I leaned on that knowledge and brushed the other thoughts away from my mind. But that’s evidence of the damage being done to our society. The few people I’ve shared that story with have immediately recognized themselves in it. CRT activists are causing whites to second-guess themselves, creating uncertainty. Uncertainty leads to division and demoralizes those who can’t sort it out.

Over the weekend I flew to Atlanta and stayed overnight in a hotel in Marietta, Georgia. I shared the elevator several times with black men and women. It never got wonky, it was always friendly and the only vibe I got was from a young black guy wearing a “Black Lives Matter” facemask. He didn’t say anything or acknowledge my presence even though we were the only two in the elevator.

But so what? Everyone else was friendly. I took some encouragement from that. Maybe most blacks are cool with whites; maybe they don’t buy what BLM is selling. Most whites I know are cool with blacks and are horrified to be thought of as racist.

Me, I’m going to keep going back to the scriptures. That’s my foundation. If I do what God calls me to do, then I’ve done what is right—even if those questions present themselves—and the grievance mongers can complain to Him if I don’t go along with the program.

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Daily Broadside | The Left Means to Destroy Our Country As Founded

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 24:20
It was because of the Lord’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.

It’s Thursday and the slow burn of the country formerly known as the United States of America continues apace. At the top of the list is the sacrificial white man Derek Chauvin who was tossed to the braying mob by the jurors in the false hope that it would appease the gods of woke. That of course won’t happen because once you feed the beast instead of starving it, it only wants more.

So now the activists that reside in Washington, D.C. will push their advantage by opening a “civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis police department has engaged in a pattern and practice of unconstitutional … policing,” announced yesterday by Merrick Garland, the US attorney general.

The probe will also determine “whether the Minneapolis police department engages in a pattern and practice of using excessive force during protests.” Garland said this new civil investigation was “separate from and independent of the federal criminal investigation into the death of George Floyd.”

So now we’re going to harass the cops who are trying to keep the streets safe and protect innocent civilians during “protests.” Anyone want to bet on what the findings will be? Wouldn’t want any mostly violent protesters getting hurt by the police while they’re breaking windows, setting fires, beating passersby, and looting stores. Gee, I wonder why cops are retiring in record numbers?

In spite of the convictions the Chauvin jury returned, these BLM activists demand that people trying to eat at a local restaurant leave New York City (NSFW language). See how pacified the black and white Marxists are? Let the healing begin!

Then there’s the insipid tendentiousness of the Bronx ditz Ms. AOC. She offered a take on climate change that challenges our understanding of the English language and all rules of logic.

“We must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change, that the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change, because … we are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to health care, the right to housing and education.”

Seriously, what does one do with that Gordian verbal knot?

“Trampling indigenous rights is a cause of climate change.” Who knew that populating America with white people would cause the climate to “change”?

“Trampling racial justice is a cause of climate change.” Same. Can you believe that the Democrats and their defense of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow laws would cause the earth to cool, then to heat up!?

“Because …” Here come the reasons …!

“We are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights …” Wait, wut?

“… and deny people the right to health care …” Seriously? I thought Obamacare took care of that. It didn’t?

“… the right to housing and education.” Who in this country is denied housing or education? You know that we’re even providing all the illegal alien children with in-person schooling, right?

And this somehow all translates into the dreaded “climate change.”

She’s speaking English but it’s all Greek to me. Sometimes I think progressives just blurt a stream of consciousness that in their own head makes perfect sense—or maybe not—but that normal people can’t understand and therefore can’t respond to. Mind you, she wants to introduce legislation based on this mindless mishmash of unproveable claims. In days past, AOC would’ve been roundly mocked for her delirium, but that is verboten in today’s climate of change. (See what I did there?)

Finally, here’s one I bet you didn’t see coming. The United States Post Office has been spying on your social media posts.

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

Oh. Gone are the days of holding envelopes up to the light. Now the postman is reading through what you post on social media in order to rat you out to “government agencies.” I thought they delivered mail, not intelligence. This is part of a troubling trend of an expanding U.S. surveillance state.

A conviction for murder is a validation of racism. Racism is a cause of climate change. And the United States Post Office is taking notes on your social media accounts and passing them “across government agencies.” Like the FBI, DOJ, IRS and who knows who else.

Our once proud nation is being eroded at a faster and faster pace. I’ll give the last word to David Horowitz who, in a piece about the Chauvin verdict, writes about the activists pushing the narrative about racism.

In fact, we won’t be able to stop these destroyers until we recognize that they regard us – America – as the criminals. They have no respect for us and our laws and institutions. They hate us. They are busy spreading the Hate-America-Lies of our enemies Communist China, Islamo-fascist Iran and Putin. And they mean business. Their goal is the destruction of America. They will succeed unless we start taking them seriously and work to expose and crush them.

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Daily Broadside | Progressives Are Altruistic Marxists Until They Get Rich

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 6:16
“Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

Happy Friday, fellow Broadsiders. Russian dolls are full of themselves.

We’ve all heard of the BLM Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), the umbrella organization of the BLM movement. This is the group responsible for inciting the mostly violent peaceful protests and demonstrations across our nation last year after the tragic in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

A core tenet of BLM that no longer appears on their website is the disruption of the nuclear family. The statement was included among BLM’s public policy positions on a “What We Believe” page. That page was removed in September 2020, although you can still see the entire page here on the Way Back Machine. Here’s what the statement said:

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

This is nothing short of Marxist ideology, which seeks to disrupt the nuclear family. That should be no surprise, since BLM’s co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and others as “trained Marxists.” BLM also used clearly Marxist language in the deleted “What We Believe” page, including the words “comrades,” “collective,” “struggle,” and “communal.”

In other words, BLM is a socialist ideology dressed up like a civil rights movement. Socialism, remember, is a political and economic system built on collective ownership of the means of production and the equal distribution of the products of labor. The goal is a “classless” society whose members are economic equals—a true workers’ paradise.

Imagine the shock, then, when we learned that Patrisse Cullors, now the executive director of BLMGNF, has purchased four homes in the U.S. worth $3.2 million.

Just kidding! — wasn’t shocked.

The leader of a movement advocating the equal distribution of wealth has more homes than socialist icon Bernie Sanders. That isn’t sitting too well with those formally or informally affiliated with the BLM movement. After all, BLMGNF’s 2020 Impact Report shows that the organization is sitting on some $60 million out of $90 million in donations received. It’s natural to suspect that maybe the leader is getting a sizeable cut of those “operating expenses.”

A page from BLMGNF’s “2020 Impact Report” showing the breakdown of their finances.

But, no, Cullors “serves in this role in a volunteer capacity and does not receive a salary or benefits,” BLM said in an official statement.

BLM also deflected the controversy by injecting race into the discussion, claiming, Without Evidence, that the “narratives being spread about Patrisse have been generated by right-wing forces” who put “Patrisse, her child and her loved ones in harm’s way” and “continues a tradition of terror by white supremacists against Black activists.”

It turns out that BLM has been under pressure to be more transparent about their finances.

“For years there has been inquiry regarding the financial operations of BLMGN and no acceptable process of either public or internal transparency about the unknown millions of dollars donated to BLMGN, which has certainly increased during this time of pandemic and rebellion,” the chapters said.

So if not through BLMGNF, how did a self-described anti-capitalist monetize her activism? She founded a consulting firm, “Janaya & Patrisse Consulting.” She wrote a a New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. She also signed a multi-year, multi-platform deal with Warner Brothers (although to do what isn’t known).

Well, good for her. I’m really not that upset or even that interested in what Patrisse Cullors does with the money she seems to have made. If there’s anything that bothers me about it, it’s this: she’s no Marxist—she just plays one on TV.

Cullors is just another clear-eyed capitalist who’s figured out how to leverage the grievance industry into personal wealth. Look at Barack Hussein Obama and his $12 million mansion. He’s the same one who said, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Right. We’re all altruistic Marxists until we get fabulously wealthy. Then we’re all greedy capitalists.

I say, a pox on both their houses. BLM agitators deserve Cullors. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of commies.