Saturday • September 7 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XXXVI
Manchester, N.H.
Reports coming from the North Pole anticipate a long Dark Winter for most of the world’s population this Christmas thanks largely to a recent spike in names added to the naughty list.
“We usually have a pretty substantial list thanks to China but this year it’s off the charts” commented List Master Steve Keebler.
Our sources inside the Claus Compound cite the recent election fraud, wars and rumors of wars, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, human trafficking, disrespectful youth, failing students, and lots of lying by everyone especially those in the news media.
“We haven’t seen anything like this, well, since the days of Noah quite frankly. That was a rough year. With four thousand elves and only sixteen presents to make it was getting pretty tense even here at the Pole. I thought some of the elves were going to be on the naughty list” remembers long-time elf and gift wrapper Ribbons N. Bowes.
Compounding the problem is the halt in coal production which, as many know, is the proper alternative “gift” for correcting bad behavior.
“That Elizabeth Warren is a dingbat,” says Santa. “She’s been on the N-list for as long as I can remember. Does she look like an Indian to you? Me neither. Now she’s stopping coal production! How is anyone going to learn?”
When asked if Bernie Sanders will be getting any gifts Santa lets out a chortle that nearly causes an avalanche in a nearby mountain range. “Bernie? He thinks he is Santa! Besides, he has to believe I even exist. I’m more real than his Utopia, I can tell you that.”
Point taken.
What does this mean for Vermonters? Luckily Uncle Bernie has drafted legislation to make being on the naughty list a hate crime for which Santa is looking to likely get canceled and potentially serve a life sentence stretching out some 7.5 trillion years. The “Gift of Love Bill” has overwhelming support in both the house and the senate, on both sides of the aisle, thanks in large part to a leaker from the Pole who left a Claus Compound Laptop lightly covered in fairy dust at a D.C. hotel with this year’s list on it. Federal agents were surprised to find every single person in the federal government on the list, with most of the Democrats’ names appearing more than once.
When asked to explain the double entries Santa tells us he’s sending a message. “Have you seen 2,000 Mules? They stuffed those ballot boxes like they were Thanksgiving turkeys!”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) says they are more than happy to pick up the slack and, despite locking down over a billion of their citizens, have instituted 24-hour work shifts to make up for the drop in labor.
“It is the most wonderful time of the year…to make money!” says a beaming Xi Jingping. “Santa Claus not white, Santa Chinese!” he jokes as his team of communist administrators offers perfunctory laughter.
Word of this traveled quickly to the real Santa who palmed his face while muttering “For the love of Jesus…”
Our reporter on location in Mexico reached out to Jesus for comment and was told he had recently found work after relocating to Martha’s Vineyard.
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The rumors that factions within the public health industrial complex will reject life-saving surgeries for the unvaccinated are true. Not just overseas but here in Amerika.
Two Christian parents, Chrissy and Lee Hicks, both North Carolina Army veterans, have 11 children, including a 14-year-old girl, Yulia, who is a rescued orphan from Ukraine. Yulia has been shuffled around the US and transferred between caretakers several times and has been finally adopted by the Hicks, who feel a strong determination and sense of duty to give their daughter some stability and justice in life. Despite coming this far, Yulia is now being denied a critical organ transplant due to her vaccination status.
If Yulia doesn’t get a new kidney, she will die. It sounds like they have a live donor but can’t get the deal done locally because vaccine extremists at Duke University hospital are calling the shots, even if the entire staff is not on that page.
This is an unfortunate turn of events but one we all saw coming, and it’s not going to end soon. Hospitals increasingly control all the health care in their ideological blast radius. The Government rewarded fear over facts with buckets of money. And while many hospitals claim to be non-profits, making money is their top priority.
Ironically, the evolution from “do no harm” to harm as a matter of policy originates from the self-proclaimed Party of health care (Democrats). A few years ago, they wanted to keep the Government from getting between you and your doctor. To reduce unnecessary tests or treatments. To cut costs. Since 2021 they’ve been about buying the science of medicine and establishing public health canon, conviction, gospel, and dogma.
State and local boards brand disbelievers as heretics who are excommunicated or “burned” at the social media stake.
If you want to practice medicine, you’ll have to do it their way, or you’ll not do it at all.
Not every state is like that. You can’t be denied care based on vaccine status in New Hampshire, but only because Republicans pushed it through. Democrats in the Legislature objected to every health-freedom reform last session, and given the slim GOP majority this year, getting more of those will be a challenge we must meet head-on.
Please do it for the children, Dems. An adopted immigrant child, in Yulia’s case.
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Silicon Valley and its ilk have long left their more libertarian ideas behind and are solidly behind the more autocratic and Collectivist Party…but you knew that already, didn’t you? Well, here’s some quantification of your belief in that:
(H/T: Powerline)
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New Hampshire has a world-famous opioid epidemic. We are ”ground zero” for the opioid epidemic. My question is, why is it so bad? Who is fueling it? What is their purpose?
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In short, the answer is drug cartels are protected by the government to make lots of money.
Now, let me explain to you how I got there.
According to a Harvard School of Public Health article, “Donations from opioid manufacturers to politicians influence policy decisions. In addition, a revolving door of officials leaving government regulatory agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Agency regularly join the pharmaceutical industry with little to no “cooling off” periods.”
In other words, drug companies give money to politicians to make sure their products stay on the market and don’t get regulated. Also, lots of drug enforcement officers start working for the pharmaceutical industry.
That is just the start of the mess that we have in New Hampshire.
According to Mike Gill, who interviewed thousands of victims of corruption from New Hampshire for his former website, State of Corruption, Dick Anagnost (and men like him) are another reason our opioid epidemic is so bad.
Dick has been the head of a drug cartel in New Hampshire for 40 years. He is also the owner of the Elliot Hospital, among other hospitals. In addition, he owns Hope for New Hampshire, Families in Transition, and the Farnum Center (substance recovery centers).
At the hospitals, they push the drugs. Then, they use the recovery charities to do two things, launder money and bill insurance.
According to Frank Staples, who worked in the recovery community in Manchester, the recovery industry is generally an insurance billing scheme.
They recruit people to go to rehab centers, including homeless people and people from outside of the state. Then, they will sign people up for insurance. If someone’s insurance runs out, they are kicked out of the program. In the programs, they don’t teach the addicts anything, but they expect them to pay rent. Then, the victims cycle through the system, again and again, never getting better.
Mike Gill said that our government is set up to protect this drug rings. It starts with lawyers. The drug cartels have lawyers working for them. Then, they become district attorneys, so they own the courts. Then, the drug cartels support a politician and that politician chooses the judges. Therefore, politicians, lawyers and judges are owned by the drug cartels.
Mike Gill couldn’t do anything in New Hampshire to report what he had found, so he went to the FBI. But, they didn’t even answer the door. Finally, he went to DC, but they refused to talk to him.
He concluded that it was so corrupt that there was no one that he could turn to. We have to rise up on our own.
According to Jean Shaheen’s own website, over the past five years, she has secured $140 million to fight the opioid crisis.
Will Shaheen stop the drug dealers in our hospitals?
Submitted from | NH Freedom.org
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Harkening back to my Biology days – this is utterly amazing to watch! I am just flabbergasted at the technology and techniques needed to be able to watch a virus trying to figure out when and where to penetrate a cell in order to reproduce itself:
Scientists at Duke University have created a real-time video that captures the frantic movements of a single virus as it tries to infect a cell. The video shows a part of the process that’s normally hard to see.
In order to replicate themselves, viruses need to enter cells, but exactly how they do so remains murky. That’s because it’s hard to image them before they get in – in that environment they move much faster and are relatively tiny compared to the cells they infect.
“That’s why this is such a hard problem to study,” said Courtney Johnson, an author of the study. “It’s like you’re trying to take a picture of a person standing in front of a skyscraper. You can’t get the whole skyscraper and see the details of the person in front of it with one picture.”
So for the new study, the Duke researchers developed a new imaging technique they call 3D Tracking and Imaging Microscopy (3D-TrIm). It works by essentially combining two microscopes into one – the first uses a laser to pinpoint the virus’s position thousands of times per second. The virus is made visible by a fluorescent label attached to it, which the laser excites to make it glow so it can be seen by the microscope.
The second microscope takes three-dimensional images of the larger cells around it, creating a real-time 3D video of the virus’s movements as it searches for a way in. The video below shows one example of this. Tracked over two and a half minutes, the virus is visible as the small red dot zipping around, while the purple lines indicate its past path. The green hills surrounding it are actually human intestinal cells.
(H/T: New Atlas)
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It’s December 8th, 2022, and Southern New Hampshire has no measurable snow. We’ve not seen any yer. The odd dusting or a flurry in the air, but no accumulation. It’s not strange but is atypical. It also gets the local climate cultists wound up.
Related: 2022 Hurricane Season Confirms (Again!) No Connection Between CO2 and Cyclone Energy
These folks said Global Warming meant no snow, more snow, and whatever snow or temperature fit the narrative. ”
But no snow is better. Look! No SNOW! It’s warming.
For all the blather about climate change, they only concern themselves (and us) with warming. This or that will add 2.x degrees C to the earth’s temperature as if that means anything (it doesn’t). But they claim that needs fixing, and that will require sacrifice (yours) and trillions of dollars (also yours) laundered through their “friends and family” network (gated multi-million dollar beachfront homes cost money).
But right now, the northern hemisphere is above the 56-year max for snow cover. Not the mean, the max.
NH = Northern Hemisphere
“Extensive snow extent early in the season is an indicator of persistent cold as we head into winter proper,” weather blog Severe Weather Europe said.
It puts the global in warming, or should I say “takes” the warming out. But never fear. Record snow cover, warmer fall or winter months (or unusually cold ones) signifies that your addiction to the modern lifestyle is “warming” the planet.
It’s not, but they intend to make you pay for it. Higher motor and heating fuel prices and rising electricity costs (even our water bill has skyrocketed – the result of progressive overreaction designed to get us to use less). And that record snow cover has got to be the result of our warming mother earth.
That’s what they’ll say, but it seems odd that they are not saying it. No one is reporting on the 56-year record snow cover across the northern hemisphere, even when they could use that to peddle their bipolar narrative.
Record low snow cover would (however) be a significant headline across the climate cult landscape, which again reinforces the fact that the entire scheme is about warming, not cooling. More snow is bad for business, and so is record snow cover.
Be sure to share that fact as you deem appropriate. Rutgers Univerity and NOAA tracking show more snow across the Nother hemisphere than we’ve seen since they started keeping records.
It’s science, and it is a fact.
HT | ZeroHedge
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Crypto6 T-shirt Supporters Are Wearing
[ This story was updated on Dec 8 ~ 9:30 PM eastern to include more of the summary of the days testimony which I ran out of time to include prior, see further down for where the new edition starts ]
One thing to say is Ian’s lawyer is killing it. The prosecution’s doing such a terrible job that it appears they couldn’t convict a ham sandwich in a grand jury hearing where 99.99% of the time prosecutors win because there is no defense allowed.
Come out and support the Crypto6’s Ian Freeman in OUR fight against tyranny and the state. Plenty of people showed up on Tuesday throughout to support the cause. Questions are going around about the mask and ID policy. Unfortunately the court has instituted a mask required policy and a new ID policy in an attempt to deny supporters of the Crypto6 entrance. As a result of prior incidents at the court involving ID and other government monitoring of supporters the court has instituted these policies. It’s possible that someone will try to justify these policies as not being the result of our support. However the facts speak for themselves. The government instituted the ID policy in late November ~ about 30 days prior to the trial. Evidence of this has been posted above. Until jury selection and trial began there was no mask policy or no enforcement thereof. I’ve been to dozens of court hearings in the past year and none of them required a mask. Now you might be thinking- maybe it’s to protect people because there are so many people in the room. This is non-sense. The judge instructed the room that they could remove the masks on Wednesday following the exit of the jurors from the room. This policy or enforcement thereof has nothing to do with the guise of safety. It has to do with keeping supporters out. The justification by the court for the masks is due to CDC guidance when in fact the CDC has NOT recommended masks for quite some time maybe ~6 months or even much longer now.
I’d encourage people not to let this stop you from partaking in observation of the trial and the hearing. The best way to counter these policies and their main aim (to keep us out) is to resist, but ultimately comply. Compliance ensures we put up a fight while still achieving the greater aim. Ultimately this is the only thing we can really do in regard to any of these draconian efforts to undermine the guise of what they call the justice system. That is protest- fight- but do so peaceably as we always have. It’s peace that demonstrates who the real aggressors are.
My resistance led to a 45 minute delay on Tuesday and resulted in me missing part of the jury selection process. It was the best day to resist as not much happens during jury selection that is actually public despite it being “public”. No, it’s not ian that has been secretive, and having something to hide. It’s the court, it’s the government. ~3 hours of classical music playing in the background to inhibit the public from hearing the quiet whispers is right out of the soviet era. A tactic of suppressing dissent while giving the appearance of having an “open” and “free” or democratic system.
We can resist AND support Ian and freedom in more than one way simultaneously. For those who come to the main room there are free the crypto6 t-shirts that say Bitcoin is not a crime available. No charge. I will graciously accept contributions to offset the printing costs however, but more importantly is people find me and get a t-shirt. I have hundreds of crypto6 t-shirts left and I want them GONE by the time this trial is over.
What happened during Day 2 of the trial?
About 15 supporters of the Crypto6 came out to support the trial. Good job guys! Some interesting notes of the day. Where the defense had 1 layer the prosecution’s team had 6 lawyers on the prosecutions side that we know of. Other lawyers likely were helping with the case elsewhere or on other days. The disproportionate funds being spent by government to attack people are far greater than those any individual can generally afford to put into a defense as the government generally isn’t paying for a good defense.
Prosecutor
The prosecutor starts by calling Alex Commoli to the stand. Alex Commoli has an undergrad degree, has a law degree, is an attorney, and a forensics annalist.
She is involved in cyber money laundering, drugs, virtual currency, and works as a case agent alongside prosecutors. She said she worked for the “virtual currency evolving threats unit” for 5-6 years and partook in training activities. She also has worked (exclusively) online as an undercover to “infiltrate online communities”.
Q What was your role in this case?
A Looked at records
She would purchase bitcoin as an undercover agent from localbitcoins.com
Q Do you have a basic understanding of how crypto works?
A Yes
Fiat is currency backed by a government.
Q Do you have a bank account?
A Yes
Q What was the process for opening a bank account?
A Provide ID so they know who you are
Q When purchasing a car with a check whose involved in the transaction?
A Me, you, and two banks
Q What are the banks doing?
A debiting my account and crediting yours
Q In virtual space how would you do this? What does this case use?
A Bitcoin, instead of a check we do it in bitcoin
example 1 bitcoin for car
Q How do we do this transaction?
A Need something to store, send, receive
Q How do we get this?
A Via a wallet, a wallet stores Bitcoin
Q Where is the wallet gotten from?
A There are hardware wallets and web wallets
Q Both have wallets?
A There is a public and private key, an address is like a bank account
Q Private key?
A It’s equivalent to a pin or signature authority, it’s a super secure string #
Q Your wallet to my mine, how many entities are involved?
A Two. You and me.
Q For banks how many entities are involved?
A At least 4 for banks
Q How do we keep score in bitcoin?
A It’s done on the blockchain the same way banks do debits and credits
Q How do I see it?
A Download or via a website
Q How many digits is wallet?
A About ~26 to 36, I can’t remember exactly
It shows ABC2 sent money to ABC1.
Shows amount, time, and other info.
Q Wallet, time, and amount?
A Yes
Bitcoin network verifies transactions
There is no entity that is blockchain
Q Identity notification on blockchain?
A Yes
It’s pseudo anonymous
Q Could I figure out every transaction you made?
A Yes
anonymous means you can’t know
pseudo anonymous means you can know
Q Is the bank pseudo anonymous?
A No
Names are on your checks and banks know who you are
Q Can you investigate a check?
A Police can and a bank can
Q For Bitcoin?
A You can call police, but no recalling is possible
The transaction can’t be undone
It’ can’t be pulled back
Q “anonymous and unrecoverable?”
A Yes
[ The witness falsely indicates here and contradicts what she said earlier that bitcoin is psudo anonymous ]
Q Previously we presumed we already had bitcoin. If we don’t have it how do we get into it?
A Mining. The most common way is through exchanges. Places you can buy crypto..
Q Dollars to bitcoin conversation requires what?
A ID, passport, email, and other info
Q What is another way to do cash to bitcoin?
A LocalBitcoins.com
It’s like craigslist or ebay
It has different options for payment
ie it’s peer to peer or person to person
Q Another way?
Often they will go offline
Q Private sale?
A Yes
Q Other ways?
A Kiosks
You put in money and get bitcoin out
Q LocalBitcoins.com is an investigation you worked on?
A I can confirm Ian Freeman used LocalBitcoins?
[This is technically a false statement, as a forensics expert she only can confirm that someone passing through an internet connection registered in Ian’s name and might be Ian used LocalBitcoins, but it could also be another user, a name in a fraudulent account, or someone proxying through the connection, I have computer forensics training and a computer science degree, and much of what is said by computer forensics “experts” is just wrong or misleading, and this case is no different]
Q We will go through records from LocalBitcoins.com, you have been a buyer here?
A Yes
Q How?
A You put in how much of a % you want to sell and payment methods
Q Like ads for buyers?
A Yes
Q So you found an ad you liked now how do you start?
A Looked for terms like ID required
Q How do you start?
A You enter an amount and click trade. A chat box then opens with the seller.
Q How do you get money to sender?
A LocalBitcoins.com acts as an escrow service. So seller can’t make off with your money without releasing crypto. Can be done with gift cards, wires, etc. Bitcoin is released once the terms are fulfilled.
Q Is feedback important?
A Yes
Feedback is like that on Amazon and Uber and other platforms.
Q Why is feedback important?
A Buyers choose sellers based on high feedback level
[At this point they pull up a record from LocalBitcoin.com]
[This shows information in a database that LocalBitcoin.com maintains pertaining to transactions purported to be in the name of ian, and different churches, and unknown parties ]
Username is important to people as they tend not to use full or their real name.
Real name won’t show to buyer unless seller reveals it.
Q Did Ian?
A Yes
[ This is technically inaccurate as they have not and can’t confirm it is Ian behind the account, none-the-less the so called computer forensics expert testifies to it ]
Q Did he provide phone, email, address, etc?
A Yes
Q When was account created?
A ~2016
Q Last seen?
A June 3, 2020
Q 39 Ads?
A yes
Q Trades?
A 3946
Q What is this?
A drivers license to open account
[Note that a drivers license is not proof that someone opened an account, a drivers license could be obtained via a database leak from the dark web, and then utilized to open the account, while Ian doesn’t appear to be disputing this it’s not as clear cut as the forensics “expert” is making it sound]
[They now admit evidence which is a list of ians advertisements on LocalBitcoin.com]
Q What is this?
A Customer information for user bitcoinbombshell
Q Is account?
A Renee Spinella
Q Are these all to sell Bitcoin?
A Yes
Q What is a wire?
A A transaction between two bank accounts
[They now present a terms of trade document on the screen, the evidence is all being displayed on large TV screens in the courtroom]
Q When does this come up?
A Pops up if a user clicks on an ad
Q Is the time a transaction takes a concern?
A Yes
– For Bitcoin no refund
– Take a pic of entire receipt
Q Why is this important?
A Confirms funds transferred to seller
Ian’s disclaimer on screen:
~”what you do with bitcoin is your business. Don’t tell me what you do. I reserve the right to refuse sale. You certify you are buying and receiving the Bitcoin.”
Q You reviewed each trade?
A Yes
Q Was the disclaimer in every trade?
A Yes
Terms of trade
Q Due to fraud I may ask for additional info
A Yes
“depending on history I may require more info… must right for bitcoin purchase from ftl_ian”
Q “Due to fraud I have had to tighten up security?”
A Yes
Q Why?
A To protect seller
Q This one is for a wire transfer?
A Yes
“Must match government ID”
Photo of government ID required with written note “I certify I am buying Bitcoin from church of invisible hand” on the receipt is required. User name and reference # on receipt + selfie holding slip is required.
[The defense has no objection to chat log localbitcoin.com, logs are from end of 2019 until 2021, chat logs show ian refused to not follow law when buyer wanted to skirt currency transaction reporting requirements]
[The logs show that ian or purported ian is telling the buyer to say the reason for the transaction if asked by a financial institution is to purchase rare coins]
In the chat log ian says to buyer:
“I can not be seen as avoiding a cash transaction report”
“make deposit, upload photos, and then mark complete”
Account partner: 101 local goods
[What is interesting to note here is that these other entities or individuals are what are called payment processors in the industry and are a completely normal part of conducting these sorts of transactions, there are contracts between entities like convenience stores for example to receive money for goods on behalf of other parties]
~“If having agent deposit on your behalf I need ID from both”
[A this point you see a Nigerian passport posted to the chat log and a “victims ID” Mary Hurd is posted too, this evidence was posted to the docket and evidenced Mary Hurd’s involvement in a scheme to defraud the Shire Free Church, this however isn’t presented or hasn’t been, and it may be due to the fact the evidence is hearsay, but the docket evidence shows Mary Hurd told prosecutors or an FBI agent that she didn’t know the fraudster yet wrote on a receipt when buying Bitcoin that she was buying Bitcoin for the fraudster by name, at a minimum her credibility is destroyed and likely why the prosecution dropped her as a witness yet continues to utilize the chat log as evidence here against Ian, the chat log is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159.218.1.pdf and
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159.218.0.pdf
The prosecutor said here that Mary Hurd’s only contacts related to these transactions were with “Arnold” and she does not know Chiedu, or the fraudster, yet bought bitcoin for him according the message communicated to Ian via the receipt. She did in fact know the fraudster Chiedu if you look carefully at the evidence posted in the chat log. ]
“I certify that I am buying Bitcoin from FTL_Ian and the Shire Free Church on behalf of [Chiedu, the actual fraudsters full name]” … and todays date and signature.
[Photo of the above is written on receipt with selfie posted to chat log]
Q Does he ask for reason for buying crypto?
A No
[The scammer is getting angry in chat log for Ian and the Shire Free Churches excessive Know Your Customer compliance policies, Ian repeatedly insists in the log that the scammer follow the rules]
Q Why is he doing this?
A To ensure he gets paid
[This is the most absurd answer. It’s obvious to anyone who knows anything about financial regulations that the reason he is doing this is to comply with the law that mandates you have a policy on know your customer assuming at least you are a regulated entity of which the church is NOT under the law meaning that ANY KYC is far in excess of what is required, but it’s actually over the top and not even the banks do this level of KYC]
[A dispute is opened by the scammer after the scammer violates FTL_Ian’s terms / the church’s terms and FTL_Ian continues to insist on following the rules]
“You have not provided the required receipt selfie”
[Scammer then threatened to call police on FTL_Ian. Ian then asks scammer to restart trade and fix issues and then will send bitcoin as was agreed to]
Q What is third party trade?
A Agent marry hurd, ftl_ian, and Nigerian national
[basically the forensics expert is saying a third party trade is where there exists an additional party to the transaction, you have the person depositing money into a bank account, and the person receiving the bitcoin is a different individual]
Prosecution
Q The premises of case is “no questions asked”. There was no due diligence on Mary Hurd. This was a red flag. Our whole overarching basis of the case is Ian Freeman engaged in money laundering.
Types of Evidence
– Testimony
– Exhibits
– Stipulations
He submitted a document to the court that he did not remember having any contact with Mary Hurd. Document indicates Ian to say rare coin / investment..
Q Is there any evidence that this was a transaction for rare coins?
A No
[This is blatantly false given that Bitcoin’s value is derived from it’s rarity and the name Bitcoin literally has the word coin in the name, but the government considers the word “coin” to be a legal definition and only ever mean US currency. If you claim a euro coin is a coin you’re somehow committing a crime. Obviously there are non-government coins in existence. Often valuable, often novelty coins, etc In fact my company sells something we refer to as a novelty token, and not a coin ONLY because the government uses this to persecute people, see https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/gnu-slash-linux-token-tpe-linuxcensored, basically we went in and made it obvious we were being censored as we can not utilize the term coin without the risk of the government using this against us under this absurd non-logic]
[Evidence of chats is suppose to show Ian never asked why customers were purchasing crypto as if it isn’t relatively obvious… 99.9% of purchasers are buying crypto as an “investment” whether or not freedom loving folks like that and he even had Marry Hurd write rare coin OR investment]
Q Is there any evidence of buyer making a donation?
A No
[This is also false, Google defines donation as “something that is given to a charity, especially a sum of money”, and the Church is a charity and the proceeds are that “something”]
[From all this presented so far we can gather that the government thinks that retired folks buying bitcoin with retirement funds is suspicious, though it’s not at all clear why this is suspicious, it’s as if old people aren’t interested in growing their wealth, which is obviously not true]
[Prosecutor evidences Ian verified phone #s]
[The forensics analyst is asked about using IP addresses evidence and it appears the prosecutor is trying to show or verify that that the account is controlled by Ian even though this can’t be proven. What is shown is a PUBLIC IP and the expert claims it’s a device IP which just isn’t the case. There is no link connecting Ian to the account conclusively.]
Q Anonymity is not illegal right?
A No
Q Private sale of material good you don’t have to explain your doing right?
A Correct
Q Bank didn’t stop that $750k transaction we talked about earlier right?
A I can’t speak to that
Q Nobody stopped that event right?
A Yea
Q Bank questioned and freeman questioned it too right?
A Yea
Q Ian somehow worked hand in hand with fraudsters right? Any indication he worked with scammer?
A No
Q It stopped on local bitcoin if suspicious right?
A Right
Q It would be crazy if a scammer didn’t want to remain anonymous right?
A Right
Q Did Ian give out spoof’d phone #?
A No
Q Did Ian give out fake name or address?
A No
Q If anybody wanted to go after him they could, right?
A Yes
Q So he wasn’t being secretive?
A Right
[This is important because in the opening statement the government claimed he was being secretive and their own witness is saying he was not secretive]
Q Is that normal for scammers?
A No
Q People want Bitcoin everywhere, right?
A Yea
Q Did Ian know any scammers?
A Nothing I did could make that link
Q Why is age important?
A Indicator of fraud can be age particularly with Bitcoin
We consider this to be red flag
[Wow- the prosecutors own witness testifies to the fact the government is expecting people to discriminate, likely illegally against old people, this conflict makes you a criminal whether you do or don’t comply with the governments interpretation of the regulations]
Q How many transactions did Ian do?
A Over 3,000
[note: it was ~3900, just shy of 4000!!!!]
Q 20 transactions seems like a small # out of over 3,000 transactions, right?
A Yea
Q Did you read Ian’s reviews? The feedback
A Yes
Q Good reviews?
A Yes, customers were satisfied
Q No scams or people being ripped off?
A Correct
Q Did Ian ever meet the Nigerian national?
A No
Q Did anyone follow up on the international scammers?
A Not to my knowledge
Q Why would someone document ID?
A Not a robot, a real person, and be able to dispute a transaction
[Aww this is a crazy answer, it’s obviously done for legal reasons, ie KYC]
Q It would be to protect against scams, right?
A Yea
[Then she admits its to stop scammers !!!! which is what KYC is for]
Q If government wanted to investigate they could because Ian had documented buyers, right?
A Yea
Q Did FBI ever go to Ian and ask for help?
A I’m not aware of that
[great answer, obviously they didn’t]
Q He had protocols to ID people, right?
A Yes
Q Did he try to corneal anything from the FBI?
A No
Q Before Bitcoin there were scammers, right?
A Yea
Q They used gift cards before bitcoin right?
A Yea
Q Nothing secretive about Ian’s bank accounts right?
A Yea
[Governments witness admits Ian didn’t commit a crime as the governments argument is or was he committed fraud against the banks, this part of the charges were dropped before trail]
Q When did bitcoin start?
A 2009
Q Did physical bitcoin ever exist?
A No
[Sort of right sort of wrong, but psychical coins existed after Bitcoin was invented, but more of a novelty item than actual Bitcoin even though they “held” Bitcoin]
Q Original value of Bitcoin was zero, right?
A Yea
Q People liked it because you didn’t have to tell anyone what you were buying, right?
A Yea
Q If you pay in cash for a car nothing is illegal about that right?
A Right
Q Freeman was concerned about impostors right?
A Yes
Q Is this normal for scammers?
A He wanted to make sure they had him
Q Scammers don’t try to protect people, right?
A No, not usually
Prosecutor counters cross examination
Q He is a money launder, not a scammer, right? That’s the government allegation, right?
A Yea
Q Ever Ask about source of funds in transactions we looked at?
A No
[umm 20 carefully selected transactions, but what about the 3880 transactions you DIDN’T look at????]
Q Are scammers hard to find?
A Often can be
Q Are these church entities the scammers?
A No
Q What point of bank account?
A To receive money
Defense responds:
Q banks didn’t ask where money cam from either?
A I couldn’t speak to that
[Obviously not, or if they did it didn’t stop them from doing business either]
Q Is it your experience good old money launders give their real info?
A Sometimes
[holly crap- sure, sometimes, but certainly that isn’t normal]
Q Is that the normal though?
A Yea, not the normal
[Government witness even admits it]
Q He’s flesh and blood, not a shell company, right?
A Yea
[ note: the below was added at ~9:30 eastern December 8th as I ran out of time to include it prior to a following day trial ]
Prosecutor
Theodore Valahakis
Works for: US department of treasury (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN)
Works as: Compliance officer
Education: BA and JA School of law…. [missing full name of school]
Joined in 2009
Bank Secrecy Expert
Answers how to comply with banking laws
Could call or email
Then became compliance enforcement officer
Help with enforcement actions
Help banks to understand rules
Q What is bank secrecy act?
A Requires banks to file reports and report suspicious activity
It applies to financial institutions:
– MSBs or Money Service Businesses
– Casinos
– Hedge Funds
Money services business is based on the type of business that is conducted
– Cash checking
– Money transmission
– Prepaid access
– Postal service
Money transmitters are those who transmit funds by any means
Q How about exchanging Bitcoin?
A Yes because if you exchange for fiat you are a money transmitter
Q Exceptions exist?
A Yes
example: If you cash an employees paycheck once you are not a money transmitter
Depends on facts and circumstances
Q What makes you regulated?
A Regular transmission occurs
1-2 in a year wouldn’t constitute being a money transmitter
FinCEN offers a money service business home page
– It has faqs
– Rulings
– A helpline
Q Guidance on virtual currency?
A Yes, 2013 laid out compliance for users, businesses, etc
A user is someone who make it or spends it
Exchanges virtual currency for fiat is a money transmitter
Q Does size matter for being a money transmitter?
A No
Q Does it it matter if business describes itself as a money transmitter?
A No
Q Does guidance on kiosks exist?
A Yes
Those were in 2014 and just clarify virtual currency for real money makes you a money transmitter
Q Manor does not manor?
A No
Q Are there registration requirements?
A Yes, all must register within 180 days
The form has bank info, name
There is no fee to register
States have their own requirements
Q Registering with the state does not matter?
A Right
All are required to have an anti-money laundering program
1. Policy, procedures, internal controls
2. Compliance officer
3. Education and training
4. Independent review
1. Policy should include:
a. When suspicious what to do
b. Know your customer [aka example you could include an ID requirement, though KYC does not specify this]
c. When to close account
KYC means use of business and type of transactions policy to ask purpose of transmission
[note: the mere sale of crypto wouldn’t necessarily have a intended purpose, only transmission might say if you bought goods, odd for bitcoin sale]
Reporting requirements include those that do all cash transactions over $10k in one business day
Purpose is to help with investigations like who is on behalf of etc
[the guy got this wrong… the # was lowered to $8k recently, assuming this law actually applies which it does not in this unique case, sad that I know more than he does]
Suspicious Activity Report
– They believe possible suspicious transmission occurs
– Most common is called structuring, for example someone deposits $9,900 to avoid being reported
[note: later the prosecutor introduces evidence that actually shows Ian ensured that structuring did not occur]
– Breaking up to avoid currency transaction reports,
[ ie depositing $8,000, then $5,000, yea, people get charged with this all the time for merely going about their business and not actually breaking up anything just because it can appear that they did ]
– Lower income person who starts sending millions of dollars
– 40 boxes, and custom box exist
– Unregistered MSB is an example of the above
info collected for narrative for report
Q How do they collect it?
A Type of guidance on how to identify and report
– Faq
– How to complete SARs
– Webinars
Elder fraud guidance
– Elderly all of a sudden wants to transfer large sums
[ my dad just bought a house and he’s elderly.. I guess he’s a victim of fraud for taking out a lot of money ]
– Does not know what it is
– Direction or control of someone else
Q Purpose of suspicious activity report?
– Bank name
– Suspect info, ID, address, payment instrument
– Find patterns across financial institutions
[ take note that the church is not a financial institution as it DOES NOT transmit anything, not a money transmitter of any kind, important down the line, evidence on day 3 ]
Q Does FinCEN reach out to register?
A Yes
FinCEN sent email to entities indicating it was believed to be a money services business
Shire Cryptocoin FinCEN Letter is shown on screen
Sent via email
2013 guidance sent in 2018
“letter says it isn’t targeting any specific entity”
[ meaning it’s a general letter to lots of businesses]
Letter sent to Shire Cryptocoin
[ take note: no one knows who this is… but it isn’t Ian, it’s not any of the churches involved in the Crypto6s ]
Q What circumstances led to this letter being sent?
A Part of general program
Q Did anyone ever respond to letter?
A No
[ this is a holy crap because it means no kiosk ever responded to their letters as requested, remember this is the prosecution asking this, NOT the defense ]
Q Can you identify if a business registered?
A Yes
Certified letter show business never registered
[ Which one? Shire Cryptocoin? No such entity exists connected to the crypto6 ]
Q Never filed suspicious activity report?
A That would not be possible
[ I’d presume that to mean you can’t file if you aren’t registered ]
Defense cross examination
Q Via electronic delivery?
A Yes
Q Has no human name?
A Correct
Q Not directed to Ian Freeman?
A Correct
Q Who runs Shire Cryptocoin?
A I don’t know
Q Was this even read by Ian Freeman?
A I don’t know
Q All you can testify to is this is a common letter sent to people?
A Right
Q You don’t know if Ian Freeman ever received this letter?
A I do not know
Q On any of the addresses in email or FinCEN letter do you see Ian Freeman, Shire Free Church, or Shire Bitcoin?
A No
Q Shire Cryptocoin?
A No
Q You have no idea if Shire Cryptocoin has anything to do with Ian Freeman?
A I don’t
Q The purpose of this letter is to tell public what is legal not, right?
A Right
Q The law does not have Bitcoin included until 2021, right?
A Correct
It redefined Money Service Business to include real currency or anything that substitutes for it
[ this is important because they have charged Ian with a crime that didn’t exist until after he was arrested, in the United States this is unconstitutional, this is the definition of an ex post facto law, or a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law. Note: that at least it would if applied, but it doesn’t because it only applies to those doing what Ian did AFTER he was no longer able to do it any more due to his bail restrictions, and he didn’t ]
Q Never asked to search suspicious activity for Mary Hurd?
[Mary Hurd was a supposed victim of a scammer who we found out the prosecutors evidence actually revealed that she knowingly took part in the scamming and defrauding the shire free church and knew the scammer by his real name and then lied about it based on a receipt where she wrote she was buying bitcoin for said scammer using his legal name, and then lying to the FBI and saying she hadn’t heard the name of the scammer before, they dropped her as a witness as a result of this, but it appears the prosecutions claims can’t be used due to the FBI interview not being done under oath, so sadly the jury never gets to hear that these “victims” in at least some instances were in fact defrauding the shire free church
Evidence of the fraud against the shire free church is available from the prosecutors own submitted evidence which you can find here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159.218.1.pdf
and here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159/gov.uscourts.nhd.56159.218.0.pdf
]
A No
I did not search for any of the scammers
Q Don’t know if banks complied, right
A Right
[so they didn’t investigate the actual scammers and don’t know if even the banks were doing any KYC, yet Ian Freeman and the Shire Free Church’s policy was to always do KYC on new customers to the determent of the churches financial benefit]
Note: The day is over and the witness testimony continues on day 3
Every time we turn around, it seems, sex is thrown into our faces. As adults, most of us can handle that (well, except for those for whom sex and their own overblown believe in its importance in other peoples lives, I guess) in either tuning in or tuning out such messages and displays. And we can and do have our opinions of whether they are appropriate or not. When it comes to our kids, most Normal people say “leave them alone” but the sex-charged “I AM only that sex/gender I Believe I AM” crowd just can’t stop yammering about it. Especially in schools, in kids’ entertainment, and on social media. Don’t believe me?
Let’s get started with more of the Stack of Stuff and as always, stuff gets reformatted and emphasis is mine): the changing of our Culture
Thanks to smartphones and iPads, it’s also now readily available to kids. There’s an increasing presence of people and characters that pop culture refers to as “transgender” in the entertainment industry, aimed at drawing in younger audiences and normalizing gender confusion and gender intervention treatment…[Taylor] Swift, who has supported Democratic politicians and is pro-LGBT rights, features a transgender model in one of her upcoming music videos, which was spotted by activists when she released this video mashup.
The video itself hasn’t been released yet, but in one scene, Swift is gently rubbing Laith Ashley’s bare back in bed. LGBT activists have already applauded Swift for featuring a transgender model, especially as an object of desire. Just that clip has inspired promotional posts about Ashley’s life and transition. This is one subtle example, which most people would not have noticed were it not for the fact that Ashley was already a well-known model, at least among activists.
Normalizing transgender people in entertainment is sometimes not so subtle. One of the most popular apps for teenagers is TikTok. A simple search will show hundreds of trans users discussing their lifestyles, gender confusion, treatment, transitions, and more. They aren’t shy about it, and articles like this one on “Today” rave about them under the guise that they are informing, teaching, and educating. “Being myself, showing up, taking up space and letting people know we exist will slowly change culture,” a transgender TikTok user said in the article.
…All of these YouTubers are charming and fun, and their videos are exciting and even informative, which may be why young girls are drawn into the videos and eventually, the LGBT lifestyle and specifically the normalization of the transgender lifestyle.
…It doesn’t start or end with teenagers. In fact, the quest to normalize the transgender lifestyle begins very early in the entertainment industry. The new “Muppet Babies” series featured an episode, “Gonzo-rella,” where the male Muppets character attends a princess ball wearing a dress, because the child didn’t want to go in “boys’ clothes.” When the character’s friends realizes who it is, they all discuss how kind it is to let people wear what they want and be themselves.
The problem with such shows featuring such blatant LGBT-friendly characters targeted at kids is that it normalizes the transgender lifestyle for children, and often that’s not age-appropriate, especially if the show highlights overtly sexual content, which often goes hand in hand with the lifestyle.
But Parents are fighting back, like these folks:
…Parents opposed to woke indoctrination in schools are organising. They may even prove to be a decisive force in the elections. Parents Unite, set up by New England mothers Ashley Jacobs and Jean Egan, is one of many groups to have emerged in the past couple of years. It brings together parents, teachers and academics concerned with what children are being taught in America’s independent schools. Having grown quickly, the group held its second annual conference in Boston last week, which I was invited to attend. What became clear from listening to the stories of parents was a growing sense of anger that children are being corralled into uncritically accepting highly contested and political ideas. This is an experience common to every type of school, public and independent alike, across the US.
Many of the parents I spoke to talked about lockdown and ‘Zoom school’ as having been pivotal in making them more aware of what their children were being taught. They say they witnessed lessons that push children to see America as a uniquely sinful country, forged solely out of racial discrimination. Parents say that this stepped up a notch in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020, when suddenly a great deal of the school day was taken up by Black Lives Matter activism. A similar story emerges in relation to teaching about sex and gender. Parents are unhappy at the prospect of sending their daughter to school, only for her to return home questioning whether she might actually be a boy. In addition, there is concern that sex education introduces children to provocative and hyper-sexualised content at far too young an age.
And Parents are having effects on school boards, especially on pornographic books found in their child’s Public School libraries:
On Monday, a Michigan school board finalized a controversial vote to remove a graphic novel from a high school library. Parents on the Spring Lake Public School Board decided that a book about gender and sexuality, which included graphic illustrations, was too explicit for high school students.
And this book is ALSO found in school libraries that serve younger children as well.
The book in question was a memoir titled “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe. The graphic novel is described as a “useful and touching guide on gender identity.” Those on the school board who voted to remove the comic book noted that they did not take issue with the LGBTQ+ themes, but they did find the comic illustrations showing graphic sexual content inappropriate for young audiences. The school board’s decision reversed a previous decision by the district’s Material Review Committee in May to keep the book available to high school students…
Most stores (pharmacies, grocery, convenience, et al) that used to have similar materials used to put brown paper wrappers around such “adult” magazines – now school librarians, arguing for “marginalized communities”, think it is perfectly fine to use our money to “porn-ify” and desensitize our children to its effect. Hey, EVERY body is just a sex object to be played with, right?
Oh wait, wasn’t that part of why the Feminist movement started – to stop womens’ objectification?
So now our schools do it to children instead. Using comic books – I’m no longer accepting the term “graphically illustrated” except that they are – VERY graphic. And yes, they use our money with which to do it and with the flood of Federal money, we Parents can’t even track it via our school boards:
With federal funds, state health departments are pushing queer curricula on schools as sex education, often bypassing school boards.
Federal grants are funding the interest groups spearheading efforts to “queer” education around the country. These groups are hijacking laws with sensible-sounding aims and attempting to create revolutionary changes in sexuality.
Federal programs such as the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) funnel money to state health and welfare departments. Seeing that there is money to be captured, education nonprofits such as Education, Training and Research (ETR), Planned Parenthood, and others develop curriculum and training to deliver the “prevention” programs. Then state health and welfare departments bypass state departments of education and local school boards by providing these curricula to public health agencies, which then provide “sex ed” curriculum directly to schools.
These nonprofits push the theory that sexual repression is to blame for sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy and they hold that greater and earlier openness about sexuality and more inclusivity will prevent all evils. Their curricula encourage sexualizing children as a preventive measure. They believe they occupy the moral high ground: opposing their sexualization of children means encouraging disease, suicide, and unwanted pregnancy.
In other words, Parents who are trying to protect the innocence of their young children are to portrayed as evil and children are to be taught to not pay attention to them.
ETR provides a case study for how this perverse federalism works. ETR’s Reducing the Risk curriculum promises to teach abstinence, but instead delivers a Planned Parenthood-endorsed “LGBTQ inclusive” curriculum that queers education with an emphasis on “gender identity, sexual orientation and behavior.” ETR advocates for teaching elementary students “porn literacy” and shows teachers how to teach “kink and power, pleasure, sexual identity, sexual acts and sexual exploration in relation to pornography.” It also delivers an “LGBTQ centered” curriculum that takes sex education beyond condoms to dental dams, sex toys, and perilous transgender radicalism.
Nearly every state agency that has accepted SRAE and PREP funds has purchased ETR’s curriculum. ETR’s new LGBTQ-centered program, developed with Planned Parenthood, is already operating in 16 states.
And school systems are making it MANDATORY that their staffs participate in this indoctrination at the risk of loosing their jobs like this teacher:
…School districts, despite the national backlash coming from parents, remain intent on indoctrinating young children into far-leftist ideas on race, sexuality, and gender identity. Parents taking issue with this movement have been demonized as bigots for refusing to allow this conditioning to take place. But even teachers have been under the proverbial gun – especially those who resist efforts to force them to inculcate their students with these radical ideas.
A school district in California fired a teacher allegedly because she refused to read books about same-sex marriage to young students between the ages of one and five years old. The Thomas More Society filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Bright Horizon, a national childcare company. The suit also alleges harassment and retaliation. The educator, named Nalli Parinsenkova, worked at the Studio City location for four years before being terminated. The lawsuit alleges that after the director of this location discovered the teacher’s Christian beliefs, she “enforced company policy requiring all teachers to support and promote celebrations of ‘diversity’ including same-sex marriage to children in the care program.”
The educator claims the director harassed her and had security remove her from the premises “like a dangerous criminal.” The director then fired her after she requested that she not be required to read these books to students because of her religious convictions…In April 2022, the director, who is a lesbian, found out Parinsenkova was a Christian and reported her to human resources. She took “personal offense” at the teacher’s beliefs according to the filing.
Which means that Normal Parents who find out about this in their child’s school have to follow that great tag line that Project Veritas has: Be Brave – DO something! Otherwise, you’ve lost. Make no mistake, the LGBT adherents in schools will wage war with you over the control of your children. They DEPEND on the fact that you’re too scared to fight back:
If there is one thing progressives need in order to succeed in their effort to promote transgenderism as a normal and acceptable part of young life, it is ignorance of the fact that it is happening in the first place. But another boon to the pro-trans-ing kids crowd is for sane Americans to be too afraid to oppose them publicly when they are made aware of the movement.
Indeed, the hard left knows it cannot possibly keep its machinations under wraps as they have in the past. Before the COVID-19 pandemic became a thing, school districts were already injecting so-called progressive ideas regarding gender identity and sexuality without parents knowing. It was only when children were forced to learn from home that parents discovered what teachers were presenting to their children.
One of the ways progressives have pushed back against the inevitable backlash is to cow people into remaining silent on the issue. Indeed, they label people as “transphobes” and bigots. They emotionally blackmail parents and others into believing that if children are not allowed to receive “gender-affirming care,” which includes puberty blockers and even surgical treatments, their kids will end up committing suicide.
And we’re domestic terrorists (remember, when I asked, only one out of five of my school board members said that I wasn’t a domestic terrorist) inciting violence. You have to get to the point in believing in yourself and your ability to defend your kids. And what is more important than your kids? You’re brave enough to defend and protect them in other ways (like yanking them out of the way of speeding truck even though you know you will get hit by it, right?) – start standing up to these Crybullies!
And yes, they really are coming after your kids:
In the latest episode of “Progressives Are Lying Liars When They Say They Aren’t Trying to Trans Your Kids,” we have a Pride festival in Wisconsin that engaged in the exact behavior that the left claims is not happening across the country. Participants in the event reportedly offered free “letters of readiness” to minor children who believe they are transgender to make it easier for them to undergo controversial and dangerous “gender-affirming” medical or surgical procedures.
This is yet another example demonstrating how far leftists are encouraging children – especially young girls – to embrace transgenderism and supposedly transition to the opposite sex. It is only a mirror of what is occurring in K-12 schools nationwide. The Post Millennial reported:
A family captured a snapshot of the booth set up by Integrated Counseling, LLC at the Annual Magic Pride Festival put on by the OutReach LGBTQ Community Center on Sunday in Madison, Wisconsin. The family permitted Chris Elston, known by most as “Billboard Chris,” to share it with his followers on Monday.
Elston noted that “Letters of Readiness for Surgery” were available at the festival, which was held in Madison, Wisconsin, “for those identifying as trans or non-binary.”
Integrated Counseling seeks to “provide a space for the LGBTQ+ community throughout Wisconsin to find room to pause, to be, and to heal,” according to its defunct website… The OutReach LGBTQ Community Center is a group that promotes transgenderism among children. It collects chest binders to give to females who believe they are males to conceal their breasts.
Distributing these letters of readiness for surgery is another pernicious way to push kids closer to accepting a transgender identity that they do not actually have. From the Post Millennial:
Yeah, go read the rest of it to see how that “Letter of Readiness for Surgery” works; it is disturbing. Remember, your kids could use it against you. The Left certainly hopes so. They are certainly helping this ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) syndrome to snowball – and it ain’t in the water:
Childhood gender dysphoria diagnoses soared 70% from 2020 to 2021, according to medical records of 330 million Americans analyzed by Komodo Health Inc, Reuters reported Thursday.
The findings reveal a massive uptick in gender dysphoria diagnoses for children aged 6 to 17, with at least 121,882 children receiving that diagnosis in the five years leading up to 2021, according to Reuters. While most children who are diagnosed with the disorder do not medically transition, the rate of children on puberty blockers more than doubled from 2017 to 2021 to just over 5,000.
The data aligns with other findings outlining the rapid rise in transgender identities among adolescents, but it’s less clear why the trend accelerated so rapidly in 2020. Some have attributed the youth transgender trend to social contagion, citing the popularity of trans videos on TikTok and other social media platforms, while others have pointed to school programming on gender identity issues for young children.
Too often, we on the Right are called Christian bigots when we complain about stuff like this. Our response is “you wouldn’t be dong this to Muslims, would you?”.
Heh! It did!
“Intersectionality” is a favorite lib word. It refers to the idea that there is a hierarchy of oppression, so that, for example, Native American women are more oppressed than homosexual white men. All of the allegedly oppressed groups ostensibly make up the liberal coalition, and liberals expect them to take their places in the pecking order.
This works, sort of, as long as everyone is on board. But as we have often seen, divisions often appear between allegedly allied groups. A particularly enjoyable instance of the collapse of intersectionality happened in Dearborn, Michigan, when hundreds of Muslim parents attended a school board meeting to protest homosexual porn in the public schools’ libraries. Megan Fox has the story:
[W]hen hundreds of Muslim parents, upset at gay porn in the school libraries, showed up to a school board meeting in Dearborn, Mich., and it devolved into shouting and chaos with board members running away and gay protesters being chased to their cars, the fallout was absolutely hilarious. The headline in the Detroit Free Press after the event went haywire was “LGBTQ and Faith Communities Struggle for Unity.” BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Can you imagine what the headline would have been if it were a Baptist church chasing gay protesters to their cars? “Fascist White Supremacist Book Burners Bash Gay Man in Parking Lot,” or “Rabid Religious Zealots Terrorize Gay Man Defending Right to Read,” or something equally terrible. I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying this disaster.
The videos are rather awe-inspiring:
Overflow crowd here at Dearborn Public Schools Board meeting for debate over LGBTQ books. AFT union here in support of books. pic.twitter.com/3Rduf03Y5h
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 10, 2022
Shouting between various factions as groups take over Dearborn public schools board meeting. Board members have left. Unclear if they are coming back or if meeting will restart. Heavy police presence. pic.twitter.com/XIMEqIRR1X
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 11, 2022
I guess they put the fear of Allah into them, didn’t they? And it all comes down to the “Lines of the Post”:
They are not “censoring” the millions of books they do not choose, they are privileging a few. Why, as these parents sensibly ask, should Dearborn’s school libraries single out gay porn for the rare honor of being chosen to educate the district’s children?
And that’s EXACTLY what this is – gay porn. Pornography for little kids. Adults distributing porn to children.
They put people in jail for this, don’t they? Oh yeah – the books got yanked (I have to find that post). Thank you, Muslim Parents for actioning “Be Brave – DO Something!”.
They got it done. OK, Christians, Jews, and others – your turn!
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Yes, Kids – We’re Baaaaack!
The 168th Session of the General Court organized itself today in accordance with Part II, Article 3 of the NH Constitution.
So what did we learn today?
We learned that it will be VERY, VERY important for all Republican Reps to be in their seats, and stay in their seats, for this session and any future sessions, in the House with our majority of 201R-198D.
We learned that after swearing in of all 391 House members present, we were able to elect Sherm Packard as our House Speaker by a vote of 205 to 184 (for Rep. Matt Wilhelm) plus 2 blank ballots. This meant that even some Democrats voted for Speaker Packard! We went on to vote unanimously for Paul Smith for House Clerk, and J.B. Cullen for Sergeant at Arms. Speaker Packard immediately appointed Rep. Jason Osborne to be the Republican majority Leader and Rep. Matt Wilhelm to be Minority Leader. Congratulations to all!
We learned that the lunch provided by the NH Humane Society was a vegan lunch, and the food ran out before all legislators got to the buffet. No animals were harmed for the meal that not everyone got a chance to eat. We really do thank NHHS for their generosity and their efforts, but perhaps this might portend that going vegan just might not solve the world hunger crisis.
We learned that Secretary of State, David Scanlan is well-liked and was handily re-elected over contender Sen. Melanie Levesque, by a huge margin of 237-175, with the Senate in joint session with the House. 413 votes were cast with 1 write-in and 0 blank ballots. It was noted that the nomination and second for Secretary Scanlan were bi-partisan, whereas his opponent’s nomination and second were made by Democrats only. That said a lot right there.
We learned that Monica Mezzapelle was re-elected unanimously by the joint session to be our NH State Treasurer. Both she and David Scanlan were sworn in together.
We learned that Rep. Wilhelm (D) was quick to make a motion to pass HR6 – calling for a special election in Rochester where David Walker (R) was in a tie race with Rep. Chuck Grassie (D). But Rep. Ross Berry (R) was just as quick to make a motion to table the House Resolution. Unfortunately, too many Republicans had either left for the day or were confused about how to vote, and the motion to Table failed 187 (Yes)-193 (No). In the end, the House voted to send the matter back to Rochester for a special election so that the voters can be annoyed during the Christmas holiday season with all sorts of robocalls and negative mailers, not to mention the extra added cost to taxpayers for said election. What was interesting was how totally unprepared Rep. Wilhelm was for the motion to Table to fail, as he came up to the well to continue his Ought to Pass motion on HR6. He uttered, “Well, I don’t know how to proceed. I really wasn’t expecting this result” (or words to that effect). In any case, Maj. Leader Osborne mentioned that in the first motion of the session there is bound to be some confusion and claimed it was a joint motion encouraging everyone to support the special election, which they ultimately did with a voice vote on the OTP motion. Additionally, we learned that the House could have just as easily proclaimed Walker the winner and seated him before all of this happened. Alas, that did not happen, and ultimately too many Republicans went AWOL for this vote in the afternoon. Lesson learned. Stay in your seat until the very end of every session from now on and pay attention.
We learned that from now on – and for this entire 2-year term – all eyes will be on our whips and our attendance lists. There’s gonna be a lot of head counting going on!
Congratulations to all the returning and newly minted House Reps that were sworn in today!! See you on January 4th – Convening Day.
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Update: Busted. I got taken by a parody tweet. It happens. You are in a hurry, and you need content but skip the step where you dig into the source to verify, and boom. But?
Most of the points are still relevant to the issue of crazy-town cultural identity politics voodoo, so I’ll make a few edits and let it fly. And thanks to a reader for the hip check, and here’s a link to the feed; there’s some great satire there for future fun!
So, back to the original:
pic.twitter.com/SlLGJDAXng
— Clown World (@ClownWorld_) December 7, 2022
Your pet will let you know its identity.
I am a dog!
What if they identify as a person or a different animal? All you have to do is say so, and it must be true, but was that what the pet meant?
And what do you mean by gendered clothing?
Drag queens are men who dress up as garish caricatures of women, which is more than a micro-aggression if you think clothing is “gendered.” Why are there no drag queens who dress up like men? Why do they insist on gendered clothing, and why doesn’t that create subconscious or conscious distress?
Some adults decided, and if other adults disagree, call them bigots.
Very one-sided, and that applies to adults with children. A parent obsessed with gendering might decide to dress their boy up in the caricature of a girl because he looked sideways at a barbie doll once, but there’s no going back to a boy after that, is there? He can’t change his mind. And to ensure there is no going back, there are drugs and surgery, and anyone who thinks that might be a bit too permanent, given how fluid “gender” is supposed to be, is also an intolerant bigot.
Forget the risk of fissuring the microsubconcious. This would be the pet equivalent of Munchausen by proxy (and there are people out there who will yell at you for gennnnderrrrring a pet).
But wait. There is no gender except the one you decide based on what you want the signals to mean, right?
Here’s another one. If gender is fluid, then you might create subconscious distress by improperly perceiving your pet’s final form (or a child’s), even if there can be no definitive form.
Anything you do projects your perception or will onto their subconscious, based on your biased interpretations – and how is that not worse than what you insist is the proper view?
And don’ forget to check out the Ann Lesby Twitter. You might want to follow (She/Her).
Name a Christmas song and I will tell you why it triggers me
— Ann Lesby, PhD (she/her) (@AnnLesbyPhD) December 7, 2022
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Hello Dr. XXXXXXX, My name is John Cawthron. I am your patient and had an eye exam scheduled for Monday, December 5th at 8:00 AM. I arrived at Nashua Eye Associates around 7:50 AM. Upon entry, I was approached by an attendant who told me that I had to put a mask on.
I informed the attendant that I would not put a mask on as they served no useful purpose. I was informed that unless I put a mask on, I would not receive service. I then instructed the attendant to cancel my appointment, and I left.
It has been well established in study after study that masks are USELESS in stopping the transmission of viral pathogens such as influenza and corona virus, which are transmitted via airborne aerosol particles of 1 – 62 microns in size. The masks that we are being told to wear have openings of 80 to 500 microns in size. Those openings DO NOT decrease in size if a person dons multiple masks. Please take the time to watch the video below. It depicts the deficiencies of masking in a concise and to-the-point presentation.
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I am one of many that will no longer submit to the tyranny thrust upon us by the medical establishment since March of 2020. It is time for people to stand up and say NO to the continued madness of the COVID cult. I invite you and your colleagues to join us.
If it is the position of yourself and/or Nashua Eye Associates (NEA) that “We are just following what is recommended by the CDC or FDA”, then you would do well to familiarize yourself with other deadly recommendations of the CDC such as the COVID protocols for hospitalization listed below.
This CDC protocol, which was followed by most of the medical establishment, lead to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients who could have been saved via earlier intervention with inhaled steroids, Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, etc. Interventions that the CDC & FDA recommended not be used. In my opinion, following the above protocol was a criminal act.
The CDC & FDA also have recommended that everyone be given the EUA authorized and never fully tested mRNA injections including giving them to pregnant women and children. This was an ethical and moral crime if not outright murder. The death rates for 2019 – 2020 are virtually the same. The death rate began to skyrocket in February 2021 with the massive rollout of the CDC & FDA approved, but NEVER fully tested, mRNA injections. The death rate continues to climb as does the incidence of aggressive cancers, still births, miscarriages, sudden adult and child deaths, the rates of myocarditis, etc.
As per the Life Insurance industry, in the US, “All cause mortality for the 18 – 64 age group” has gone up 40% since the mRNA injections rolled out. This has NEVER happened before. Not in wartime, not during the Spanish Flu epidemic, NEVER.
See here:
And here:
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It is possible that you and your fellow practitioners have not encountered this to date, but reported cases of aggressive optical cancers have risen as well. If that has not been the case in your practice, that is a good thing, but in any event, please take the time to watch the Epoch Times interview on America Thought Leaders featuring Dr. Ryan Cole. In this interview, Dr. Cole outlines the devastation that is being wrought via aggressive cancers brought on by the mRNA injections.
The reason that I mention everything above is due to the fact that I assume that NEA is using the pretext of “Following the CDC Guidance” in the enforcement of NEA’s “Wear a mask or you will not be seen” policy. If the past two+ years has shown us anything, it is, that the CDC & FDA are no longer organizations that can be trusted when it comes to providing medical advice. In fact, the CDC should be ignored outright regarding COVID, vaccinations and medical treatment in general.
As with the criminals that enacted all previous crimes against humanity, when the reckoning comes for all who participated in the COVID debacle comes, saying “I was just following orders” or “I was just following the CDC Guidelines” will not suffice as an excuse for partaking in these crimes.
It is well established that COVID-19 has an overall survival rate of 99.98% and is NOT A HEALTH THREAT to any healthy adult or child.
It is an immoral, unethical and cowardly act for NEA to withhold treatment because a person will not submit to wearing a mask that:
I would hope that, based on the facts at hand, that NEA drop the mask mandate at all of their locations. Failure to do so will prevent patients from receiving care and continue the propagation of a blatant falsehood.
For those amongst us that want to mask up, by all means, they should do so. After all, if their masks work, then based on their own logic, they are protected. For the rest of us, let us make our own health decisions, just as we all were doing prior to the madness that began in March 2020.
Respectfully,
John Cawthron
Nashua, NH
Editors note: Links in the original letter were embedded to make the video viewable to our readers.
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If you recall, way back in February, the shamans and witchdoctors at NOAA – revered by the Climate Cult for their computer modeling wisdom – predicted a busier-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season for 2022. It wasn’t even just below average.
Related: How Hurricane Ian Wrecked The Climate Cult’s Dire Predictions Business
And it’s a huge problem. And not just in the North Atlantic. Total Accumulated Cyclone Energy in the Northern Hemisphere was down 33% in 2022.
The World’s Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity period for year 2022 has passed with the results showing a huge 33% reduction in Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE – which includes data reflecting frequency, intensity and duration of all Northern Hemisphere tropical storms)
The rising bull sh!t CO2 in the atmosphere is supposed to multiply the “frequency, intensity, and duration” of hurricanes,” but the planet has again determined that this is nonsense. The Models are wrong, and there is zero evidence in this graph which, when updated for 2022, will show even less evidence.
Compared to atmospheric CO2.
And look what happens when you overlay CO2 on the Cyclone energy plot.
No correlation! No tipping point. Nothing.
So, we’ve learned two things (we already knew). NOAA and the computer models still can’t guess squat, and higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are in no way connected to hurricane “frequency, intensity, and duration.”
I just wanted to share that. I hope you’d like to share it too because it’s not just hurricanes they get wrong, right?
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Matt Wilhelm, a rising star in the Democrat Party, received 186 votes.
Packard immediately announced that Jason Osborne and Matt Wilhelm will be the leaders of their caucuses (Republicans and Democrats, respectively).
They are now proceeding with the rest of the NH House offices. Paul Smith has been nominated to be the next (continuing) Clerk of the NH House (no other nominations forwarded – a single vote was cast in the affirmative). Ditto for the NH Sergeant of Arms – JB Cullen.
The House is now in recess but will be returning.
Next up after that will be the race for the NH Secretary of State and Treasurer positions.
Secretary of State:
Surprise: NH State Senator Lou D’Allesandro (D) nominated current SecState David Scanlon (R). Wha???
NOT a surprise: NH State Senator Donna Soucy (D) nominated Melanie Levesque. Of COURSE, she threw stones at the office showing that this IS a partisan election.
Voting has started.
Vote total: 413 (207 votes to win)
Scanlon: 238 Winner
Levesque: 175
Treasurer: Dunno, had to leave for a bit.
Rochester District 4 tied race. HR6 is accepted.
HR 1 – all 2022 Rules to be adopted. Passed by voice vote.
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Welcome to our newest “Micro-Grok”, Hollis. I met with a group of Activists last week and was impressed with their actions in holding their local government to account. I love it that I can say that they already brought their own Big Flashlights, charged them up, and are already upsetting those that need to be reined in and bringing light to the darker corners. After all, it is only due to those willing to go after those that form the “Good Ole boys” network will our “self-governance” be upheld and Liberty preserved.
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Two school-related stories have been popping up for me to keep up with them – time to take them off my stack of stuff and get them to you folks. It’s amazing how the Edu-Industrial Complex hates Parents.
I just have to wonder what the redefinition of the redefinition of the definition of the word “involved” is. That’s what we hear all the time – that schools want “involved parents,” but when parents start to get involved, problems start. No, it’s not because of the Parents – it seems to be when parental self-interest for their children is at odds with what School Boards and staff don’t want parents messing with. It always comes down to “who should be in charge of the kids: schools or parents?”
And sometimes it’s the Board, elected to manage Districts by Parents, that don’t want to really deal with Parents:
The North Clackamas School District in Oregon is only the latest in a long string of districts where parents have grown fed up with the school’s woke leftist policies being approved by the school board. Parents have been showing up for school board meetings with a list of grievances over inappropriate, sexualized material in the schools, gender-bending indoctrination, and policies intended to keep secrets from parents regarding their children’s development. After one recent meeting, the board decided to respond, but not by addressing the parents’ concerns. They instead announced that all future meetings would be held “online,” depriving the parents of the opportunity to be heard. As a result, the school is now losing more students and the board members may face the possibility of being removed from their positions. (American Wire)
Oregon’s North Clackamas School District has decided to take the coward’s way out and move board meetings online after parents voiced outrage over LGBTQ+ content being taught in school as academic performance tanks. A Department of Education report has evidently revealed that while woke, sexualized policies are being pushed in the classroom, students are not doing well in their academics.
On October 27 of this year, parents attended a school board meeting and complained about the school curriculum. They also accused the district of trying to keep parents in the dark over various issues, according to KATV.
In response, some of the school board members attempted a move taken straight from the usual leftist playbook, accusing the parents of homophobia. Unfortunately for them, one of the mothers who identified herself as part of the LGBTQ community said, “It isn’t homophobic or transphobic to believe that children should not be sexualized or mutilated under the guise of the LGBT umbrella.” Ouch.
Cowards. If you can’t stand the heat in the “elected kitchen,” resign. Just resign. You are to be responsible to constituents and not run away from them. And once the Board started to throw the homophobia card, the rest of us know that “they’ve got nuttin” as far as a rational argument and defense of their policies go.
And the other tactic when Parents start to criticize what’s going on is to blame them for violence. Yep, criticizing anything of the Left is tantamount for calling for physical violence. Our reaction should be to simply laugh at them:
People on the Left are accusing conservatives of inciting violence by attacking gender activists. Criticisms of “drag queen story hours,” teachers who recruit children to secret communities for gay and transgender students, librarians for putting pornography aimed at children in school libraries abound. I and others point out the obvious: what they are doing is exhibiting all the behaviors of sexual groomers, recruiting children to participate in sexualized activities inappropriate for their age. They encourage children to “transition,” get mutilating surgeries, sterilize themselves, and perform sexualized shows for adults.
Is our criticism of these activities inciting violence? And if so, is that criticism unacceptable?
…With that out of the way, let’s get down to facts and arguments: there is actually no vast expansion of violence being aimed at transgender people. It is simply not there in the statistics.
The murder rate for transgender-identified people is actually lower than the national average. The epidemic of hate and violence toward transgendered folks is a myth. I would expect that they, as with any group outside the mainstream, get more than their share of nasty words thrown at them, but violence and murder? The evidence is not there.
According to the Williams Institute at UCLA there are 1.6 million people who identify as transgender in the United States. The Human Rights Campaign claims that 57 people who are transgender were murdered last year. The murder rate in the US is 6.52 people per hundred thousand. Hence the expected number of murders out of a population of 1.6 million would be 104, or almost twice as many people as identified by the HRC.
Thousands of children who…were assigned female at birth have sought gender-affirming care in recent years. And for reasons not well-understood, they significantly outnumber those assigned male at birth who seek treatment…
Professionals in the gender-care community agree that treatment of all transgender children should be supportive and affirming. The question, for some, is whether peer groups and online media may be influencing some of these patients to pursue medical transition, with potentially irreversible side effects, at a time in their lives when their identities are often in flux.
Corey Basch, a professor of public health at William Paterson University in New Jersey who researches health communication and teens’ use of social media, said she fears that some adolescents are susceptible to making faulty self-diagnoses without adequate input from medical professionals. “Teens are so incredibly vulnerable to information overload and being pushed in one direction,” Basch said. “They could be lacking the analytical skills to question who is giving this advice and if their advice is valid.”
Adolescents assigned female at birth initiate transgender care 2.5 to 7.1 times more frequently than those assigned male at birth, according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a 4,000-member organization of medical, legal, academic and other professionals. Several clinics in the United States told Reuters that among their patients, the ratio was nearly 2-to-1, and similar phenomena have been documented in Europe, Canada and Australia.
…In its new Standards of Care, published in September, WPATH acknowledged for the first time that “social influence” may impact an adolescent’s gender identity. The organization recommends that youths undergo an in-depth evaluation in part so that clinicians “can discern between a person’s gender identity that is marked and sustained and an identity that might be socially influenced,” according to Dr Eli Coleman, director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health who oversaw the update of WPATH’s guidelines.
As I have said before, “misgendering” isn’t a “thing” except for those who wish to control your speech. They want to shut you down, and this behavior is WORSE when it is a government official. And this is what happens when School Board members go Woke – and we’re right back to the nitwittery that “words are Violence”:
A Rhode Island elected school board official involved in promoting a diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda in the district, recently came under fire for claiming that intentionally “misgendering” someone is an “act of violence” that “needs to be dealt with accordingly.”. Jennifer Lima, elected member of the North Kingstown School Committee, shared a social media post from an activist group on November 12 that read, “Purposefully misgendering students is an act of violence. Respond accordingly.”
My “respond accordingly is to laugh at the person hurling that slur at me. Like “assault weapon,” it’s only purposes are to:
And if you ignore all that, her response is “…she believes appropriate responses to someone using the wrong pronoun included “investigating and disciplining such occurrences in the same way as any other biased-based assault.”. And guess who does the investigation and (to use the proper word) punishment (fees, fines, and/or jail)? Yep, Government.
“Her public call for students to ‘respond accordingly’ to non-existent violence is her own tacit call to violence against those who oppose her radical ideology,” Solas continued. “She creates a hostile, paranoid school environment where violence is now more likely to happen thanks to her hysterical message that danger lurks around every pronoun.”
…A study published in the scientific journal Plos One surveyed 256 parents whose children experienced rapid onset of gender dysphoria. The vast majority (86.7%) of adolescents either started spending more time online or were in a friend group with at least one other transgender person prior to identifying as transgender, according to the study.
Similar to the above but with other studies and people. Worth a few minutes.
And then we’re back to porno books again:
A Texas mother, frustrated by her school board’s reluctance to remove books with graphic sexual content from school libraries, found an embarrassing technique for getting board members and the public to pay attention. Her unusual method may have hastened the removal of one objectionable book from shelves and brought the issue of sexual content in school libraries to the attention of social media viewers worldwide…The video shows Shannon Ayres reading from the book, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” at a board meeting of the Frisco Independent School District on Nov. 16.
In the clip, Ayres takes her spot at the podium during public comment and begins reading a passage from the book found in the library of at least one district high school. The excerpt graphically describes a young girl protesting and crying as a boy forces her to perform oral sex…Off-camera, a school board trustee can be heard talking over her as Ayres’ microphone is turned off at the end of her comment period.
“Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you so much. There’s a child in our boardroom, so I’d like for you to please stop reading that,” board president Rene Archambault interrupts, drawing loud complaints from the audience…The irony of Archambault’s comment seems to amaze viewers—that a school library book is too graphic to be presented in front of children.
In their library, sure. Read at the meeting of those who are supposed to manage that District, including its libraries, nope. Next school board meeting, I’m going to do the same thing.
And back to what started this Stack of Stuff – CRT, Critical Race Theory:
Faculty at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law have created a database to identify and record efforts to block critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools across the country. The database, called the CRT Forward Tracking Project, allows users to “track attacks on critical race theory” and filter the information as part of an effort to “support anti-racist education, training and research,” according to the school.
CRT, according to the school, is “the study of systemic racism in law, policy and society,” and suggests efforts need to be made to fix these alleged injustices. Meanwhile, critics say CRT pushes a controversial worldview related to Marxism that analyzes all aspects of life through a racial lens instead of through the concept of class struggle.
UCLA Law announced earlier this month it would track anti-CRT activity through the database at all levels of government across the nation.
“The project was created to help people understand the breadth of the attacks on the ability to speak truthfully about race and racism through the campaigns against CRT,” said Taifha Natalee Alexander, project director of CRT Forward, in a statement.
Can you say “lying through your teeth”? Don’t know what it is? Short version I’ve seen in schools: White are bad and are the Oppressors. Minorities, especially Black, are good but are Oppressed. Marxism sideways – instead of wealth, the Marxist lens is now focused on one of the sorest points of American history: racism. And throw in Saul Alinsky’s axiom to “rub it raw” to create animosity between groups that otherwise were fine to split us all apart.
Transgressive activists are seeking to manipulate and pervert children into sexual identities in order to undermine Western values, institutions, and norms, according to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Shapiro delivered a speech at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on Tuesday night. The focus of Shapiro’s speech was identifying and countering the ideology of leftists using education and entertainment to groom children into embracing sexualized identities and lifestyles: transgressivism. Shapiro first explained the ideology in depth earlier Tuesday in an op-ed in The Daily Wire.
…Mulvaney and Jennings’ new lifestyles as trans women are anchored through a process known as gender-affirming health care, which “ought to properly be termed sex-denying health care.”
Transgressivism treats both behavior and desire as immutable characteristics, like race or sex, thus removing freedom or responsibility,” the conservative commentator continued. The removal of responsibility, and thus purpose, has generally left people feeling aimless, empty, and depressed.
Transgressivism seeks the destruction of Western values, institutions, and norms because they are seen as corruptive influences that constrain and warp one’s true identity, which lies in pure animalistic freedom and desire. Transgressive identities have not just become normalized in society. Large swaths of the Democratic Party, the legacy media, academia, and corporate America are celebrating them, and, conversely, punishing those who criticize them.
Transgressivism has spread with the aid of three factors: the decline of religious practice, the advance of science and easy birth control, and the spread of a belief that traditions and values must be explained “tabula rasa” without an appeal to ancient custom. To further their ideology, the transgressives’ chief target to remake society is children, according to Shapiro.
U.S. citizens’ opinions are turning increasingly negative toward the transgender movement, according to a poll conducted by Christian nonprofit Summit Ministries. In an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report,” Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries, pointed out that people are thinking about the transgender movement as a voting issue.
“And some of it is because the president made it a voting issue. He said, ‘We ought to support every minor when they want to have procedures done,’ pharmaceutical surgery, whatever. And he seemed to be indicating that he supports this at any age with no restrictions. A lot of people in America disagree with that,” Myers said.
“We are doing a lot of polling just to understand the cultural moment. And 75 percent of people in our most recent poll say they believe the transgender movement has gone too far.”
Myers believes that people oppose the transgender movement mainly due to its support of actions such as “mutilating kids.” There are 70 Planned Parenthood clinics offering cross-sex hormones and puberty-blocking drugs to children, many of them being offered without seeking parental consent.
An Ohio school district is facing a lawsuit from a group of Muslim and Christian parents after allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding to their stated gender identity rather than their biological sex. America First Legal filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the parents against Bethel Local School District, located north of Dayton, accusing the district of violating the Title IX protections of students and infringing on parental rights.
According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the Bethel school board adopted a new policy in January 2022 that allowed students to use bathroom facilities based on their gender identity. Previously, transgender students predominantly used a gender-neutral bathroom, according to the lawsuit.
The interfaith group of parents who sued Tuesday say the district is infringing on their ability to exercise their religious beliefs and to direct the upbringing of their children by forcing them to conform to the district’s policy favoring transgender students. The lawsuit also says the district has violated Title IX and Ohio law by implementing the policy. Gene Hamilton, the general counsel at America First Legal, told the Washington Examiner that school district officials like those in Bethel “are actively destroying fundamental rights in ways that would have been unthinkable just 10 years ago.”
“Generations of Americans have grown up in environments that have unquestionably respected students’ personal privacy in intimate spaces, separated by biological sex,” Hamilton said. “Boys are boys, girls are girls, and every student has the right to privacy in intimate spaces that has been enjoyed by every single generation of students before them. We are proud to fight for our clients in this important area.”
Since the policy has been in place, the lawsuit claims that the children of the plaintiffs have felt uncomfortable using the bathroom at school and have resorted to “hold[ing] their urine and avoid[ed] using the restroom at school if at all possible.”
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow. We’ll see.
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Will GOP Commit Political Suicide With Bipartisan Amnesty Bill? – PJ Media
The death of this great Republic is being greatly hastened by congressional Republicans who have a pathetic and almost pathological need to be liked.
That, and GOP squishes who simply cannot believe that the Left has morphed from an honorable “other point of view” (think JFK Jr.) to outright traitors. Or they’re just flat-out in on the theft and don’t care.
Tucker Carlson: This is an actual threat to democracy – Choice Clips (whatfinger.com)
The Senate has been lost as well. And doubtless there are many RINO squishes eager to serve their new up-and-coming masters. Not to mention the Left having years of hiring armies of investigators to dig up leverage to compel compliance when it’s needed. And if that fails there’s always this:
TINVOWOOT.
The Avalanche Has Already Started… – Granite Grok
Things Fall Apart… With A New Cartoon “Getting Ready for the Spicy” – Granite Grok
Things Fall Apart 2 – Granite Grok
Prepare yourself.
Understand, I do not want Spicy Time. I fear it’s coming regardless.
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
– Proverbs 27:12
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My first job as an engineering co-op I wrote a report and, in it, claimed to have solved the problem at hand. My draft got bled over by my boss and it got drilled into me that I cannot – CANNOT – use definitive language. This has become so ingrained to both my speaking and writing it sometimes annoys my wife who asks for a firm statement and my hedging is ingrained.
For Fausti, who has spent his entire life in government, to have used such definitive language when – looking at both history prior and after – he hedges, is vastly revealing to me. IIRC it was in 2022 he said something Covid-related and it was FULL of weasel words and hedging statements. He knows HOW to do it.
Again, his 2017 definitive statement tells me volumes.
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The campfires are dying, the wolves are closing in. Only a matter of time now.
Hungry Wolves and Darkened Campfires – Granite Grok
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And there’s a sweeeeet shotgun I’ve been salivating over. “‘Only’ $1000″. Help a guy out:
Bumper Sticker
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Does this not perfectly capture the vast majority of the sheeple? Bread and circuses… the Romans knew even then, and likely other civilizations before them.
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Pick of the post:
My ongoing frustration with, well, most of the people I know. They’ve bought into the bamboozle and it’s simply too painful to admit they’ve been had… let alone the keen-edged anguish at having to admit we, the unwashed deplorables, were right.
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)
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Construction of The Line city commences.
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Palate cleansers:
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I REALLY wish I had been present to hear THAT conversation about a new baby’s naming process. This is PERFECT! Just PERFECT!
If I have to explain it to you, well, I’m not going to do that. Ask someone else as it is there in black and white. And a bit of a pun.
(H/T: Pleated Jeans)
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We do not get a chance to see Joe Biden questioned by the media folks who spend their days following our President and ensuring he is held accountable for his actions.
Because of this void in the “transparent” administration, we must rely on the President’s surrogates, especially his Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, to explain the workings of the White House and to answer questions.
This is not a perfect system, but we must rely on it to see behind the curtain.
There are two blaring issues why this system of communication is inadequate. The first is that Karine Jean-Pierre is not the right person for the job. The truth is, KJP is in her position because she checked off three boxes on the Diversity Checklist. She is a Black Gay Woman. Besides her diversity, she is inadequately equipped to serve as an effective Press Secretary. The other is the spineless White House Press Corp., Except for the FOX News journalists Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich. No journalist will ever ask tough questions of Jean-Pierre or dare to ask a follow-up.
An example is what happened today during the White House Briefing. Joe Biden is going to Arizona today to celebrate a new chip manufacturing facility. KJP was asked if Biden would visit the Border while he was in a Border State. Rather than answer the question, she turned it around, saying, “what is more important is what the Republicans are going to do to solve the immigration system.” Nobody, not a soul, pressed her to answer the question posed to her. A terrible non-answer, but she got away with it.
As a second act, Biden was questioned while boarding Marine One to leave for Arizona. A reporter shouted, “Mr. President, why are you going to a Border State and not to the Border?” The President responded that a more critical situation was happening with the new factory than the Border. That is a cheap political answer, but with no follow-up, Biden wins the exchange. The obvious next question is, you will only be 200 miles from the Border. Can’t you visit the factory and the Border? Can’t you walk and chew gum as you tell us? That question was not asked.
You will not see Biden or his Border Czar, Harris, anywhere near the Border. If either of these Executive Branch members ever goes to the Border, the press/media will need to go, too. The mainstream media has done an excellent job of keeping the Border off the Prime-Time news cycle. That omission is precisely what the White House needs.
The other example is KJP being asked about the dump of info about the Biden Money Cartel from Elon Musk and Twitter. Karine says the White House will not respond because this information is old news and no longer pertinent. Oh, really? What you are calling “old news” is a story you have denied to exist for over two years. It cannot be both. If you claimed it never existed, and now it is in your face, how is that old news? It is fresh and damaging to the President, which is why he will not respond. She also disparages Twitter by claiming that hate and anti-Semitic content is rising. There is just no evidence this is true. This White House is the best at gaslighting the American people.
Most people see Karine dismissed soon, but the Press Corp has to start doing its job. They are supposed to uncover the facts. To do so, you have to ask tough questions. Give it a try. You might find it rewarding.
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The reality of Dec 7, 1941, is 2,403 military men growing up during the depression lost their lives for a mere salary of 36 bucks a month. For loved ones, the memory of their loss still deeply hurts on this 81st Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the war it triggered.
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Remembering these realities of that time, one can see how this climate of fear demanded revenge, and Congress declared war.
Consider how this emotionalized traumatic sneak attack threatening our homeland seemed only to have tunnel vision. The whole nation was caught up in vengeance; “Remember Pearl Harbor!”
Even while ignoring that, 120,000 Japanese Americans suddenly lost their liberty. It seemed blindness of hate for all Japanese Americans followed. Protections the Constitution secures for all Americans in the Bill of Rights were denied the Japanese as President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, essentially imprisoning 120,000 people in internment camps from 1942 to 1945, of which 2/3 were citizens. For an unknown sober evaluation of reactions to the fear this event sparked, go here.
Today’s “suspension of civil liberties” has a precedent that was aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII. Only this time, we are at war with not just a bug but the “ones behind the bug.” The president suspended the individual inherent rights of all Americans. And Congress, with their silence, represents the president’s agenda, not ours.
Atrocious violations of civil rights then only affected the Japanese. Looking the other way was easy in the war climate. Japanese Americans became victims of illegal government action that took their natural inherent rights.
Executive Orders, again, have been the tool that violates American liberty today. They have activated a force operating over and above the law in a similar climate of fear as in WWII. The unvaccinated are the enemy of the state.
All Americans must realize that our Constitution was created to control the government, not our people. George Washington’s powerful words warn us: Government is not reason , it is not eloquence, it is like fire a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
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Yep, this “movement” is back. People have more wealth than they have need or want but are happy to encircle everyone else with wealth like theirs to be hoovered up by Government. No, they can’t seem to figure out how to spend it on themselves or for other “good motives”. They simply want to be relieved of their “burden” by having Government take it from them in taxes. I wrote about this years ago (2011) concerning the “Patriotic Millionaires” who were demanding exactly that as in “I have too much so take it from me because I can’t fund a library, a hospital, a museum, or any other “public good” on my own.” Please sirs, make me poorer!:
- You know how I can tell this is a Progressive idea, vs just “Patriotic Millionaires”? First, just look at some of the names on their list…Not exactly rock-ribbed conservatives in this bunch, eh? Also, the tactics:
- A collective mentality with an insistence that ALL pay – not just the willing. As Chris over at RightWingNews put it in playing at being a liberal: “Why should I pay more unless they force me to pay more?”. They simply wish to achieve the Progressive ideal of the top paying the entire freight for society’s bill of Government.
- No indication that the other side of the equation, spending, be addressed.
An unwillingness to “just do it” and send a check if they really felt this strongly about “be Patriotic – send money!”.
…”We want to pay more taxes,” said California millionaire Doug Edwards, a former marketing director for Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). “If you’re fortunate, and you make more than a million dollars a year, you ought to pay more taxes.” And the most stunning part – who was doing the organizing of these folks: “The Patriotic Millionaires campaign”, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City,”. Once again, we meet up with Erica Payne (who said “This is not an orchestrated campaign”).
And it’s that last bit that shows how mean and revengeful Progressives are. “I should do THIS to myself. And I’ll make sure all others like me, like it or not, are forced to contribute”. Rather selfish, I’d say. However, that was back in 2011 and a lot of our culture has changed since then – the wrong way. We’ve been through the Social Justice Warrior schtick so now the younger generation doesn’t have to be dragooned into this, they’ve been marinating in this faux “justice” for years. And here is a GREAT act of stupidity – and laziness (reformatted, emphasis mine):
I’m an heiress ‘annoyed’ by my multibillion-dollar inheritance and want nearly all of it taxed away
A German heir inheriting billions of dollars from her extremely wealthy grandparents said she was “annoyed” by the incoming fortune and wants nearly all of it to be taxed away. The surprising response from Marlene Engelhorn, of Austria, came after her grandmother died last month — leaving behind the massive sum of money that came from the family’s centuries-old chemical company (BASF).
“The dream scenario is I get taxed,” the 30-year-old told the New York Times. Last year, in a profile by Vice News, Engelhorn told the outlet in German that “nobody should have that much tax-free money and power.”
I’m betting she’s no fan of Elon Musk right now. Or Bezos (founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post). And it seems that the Patriotic Millionaires went worldwide in wanting to let other rich people make their own decisions:
Engelhorn is the co-founder of a group called Tax Me Now, an initiative of affluent people who want wealth to be redistributed through greater taxes on the rich in Germany and Austria. The heir specifically advocates for high taxes on inherited wealth because, she says, the money isn’t earned by the inheritor and should thus be democratically allocated.
Yeah, that last bit – socialism. Not content to figure out her own way to be poor (hey, just WRITE A ONE TIME CHECK TO THE GOVERNMENT, missy!), she wants Government to relieve her of that burden. And not content with that, she wants to drag everyone else along with her against their will. If this addled SJW with misbegotten ideas wants to put herself into the poor house, let her. That doesn’t mean that she should have the power to do that to others. As I seem to be saying, more and more, there are too many people who can’t keep their noses out of other peoples’ business.
I wonder how many people worked to have this done:
Austria, where Englehorn resides, opted to abolish its inheritance tax in 2008.
(H/T: NY Post)
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