Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
Fans of Dr. Demento will already be familiar with the tune and the original, but it’s not a problem if you’ve never heard it. It is a humorous 1963 ‘novelty’ song by Alan Sherman about a kid sent to the fictional Camp Grenada.
You can listen to the original here.
Fast-forward to now, and an enterprising someone (Vaad HaBadchanim?) has rewritten the lyrics. It’s a college kid on campus and, well, you know what’s going on – on campus!
Check it out.
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Campus) pic.twitter.com/GTDnVEK7Cr
— Vaad HaBadchanim (@VaadHaBadchanim) May 2, 2024
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Another week and hundreds more comments. We pick one from each day of the previous week, and you get to vote on who wins the honor. All we ask is that you read them and vote.
One maintenance note: We are waiting on the full backup to proceed with site changes. New management made a once simple task more complicated.
So, here they are!
Post: Promoted from Comments: “For a long time, parents have treated ‘public schools’ like some kind of birthright, to be funded at everyone else’s expense.”
Author: Houmid
Comment: The largest consumer of property taxes in New Hampshire are the school systems. Throwing more money at the schools is not improving our children’s ability to succeed and thrive. What that money is doing is driving more and more divisive programs that promote racial discrimination, sexual depravity, total confusion of reality, and a jobs program for so called educators that would never have been allowed to teach 100 years ago. More to the point, there are zero incentives for public school systems to halt rising costs, much less reduce them.
Property taxes make sense for the provision of necessary services that benefit everyone in a community. Municiple taxes for police, fire & rescue, and road maintenance are needs for everyone. Ditto water and sewage if your municipality provides them. Everything else is fluff. But property taxes for public schools is an abomination that never should have been allowed. Funding for schooling your children should have remained the responsibility of people with children, not everyone. Granted, nearly everyone benefits when education is provided to all children; so some limited taxation for those without children may be acceptable. Unfortunately, our governments suck when it comes to limitations.
The elderly, in general, have not had children in the public school system for over 20 years. The elderly, in general, have paid for 45 years into the public schools. The elderly, in general, will benefit from the services provided by those educated over that 45 year period. However, the elderly are most definitely not going to be benefiting from any further money dumped into the education system. Ergo, the justification for taxation of the elderly is non-existent.
Furthermore, the vast majority of the elderly are on fixed incomes. Their wealth saved over the years is static, or decreasing. Their property, should they own any, is usually their biggest source of wealth, and does not generate any wealth. In short, property taxes on the elderly for school systems is slow theft from the elderly.
New Hampshire currently has RSAs (72:39-a) permitting elderly exemptions from property taxes. The RSAs are convoluted, based on age, income, and assets. Most towns have a form almost as complicated as a 1040 to try to determine if you qualify. Basically, you have to be at the poverty level to qualify; which means it’s useless as a tool to discourage out of control spending.
I propose to simplify the situation. Rescind the current elderly exemption RSA 72:39; and replace it with a blanket exemption from all school taxes for any resident property owner 65 years or older. i.e. You have to own the property, you have to be living on it, and you have to be at least 65 years of age.
Post: Diversity Means, Less White People
Author: Hunter
Comment: All of us will be astonished when the time suddenly arrives. A consensus of the citizens in a situation like this is like a seed crystal dropped into a super-saturated solution. One moment there’s nothing but clear liquid, then one little speck falls in and suddenly there’s a huge mass of interlocking crystals. I doubt any of us will be able to predict the event or moment when the American people will have had enough, but it is pretty clear conditions are ripe. “Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable”, indeed. Just remember Jefferson’s next line.
What exactly will happen once that moment of clarity arrives, who knows? There are any number of actions which could conceivably completely alter the equation forever. Despite the pretensions of “the Men Who Would be Kings” they have nowhere near the power or knowledge to rule 340 million people scattered over 3.8 million square miles of often rugged territory, ESPECIALLY when the main thing uniting those people is a shared cultural heritage of liberty at least most of them know grew from the world’s most successful revolution. Something as simple as a campaign of passive resistance or even ‘malicious obedience’ is quite capable of bringing the entire corrupt edifice crashing down, to say nothing of sterner measures. Why do you think the “Men Who Would be Kings” flail about so desperately?
Their deepest fear is founded on the knowledge that America is only as governable as we CONSENT to be governed. A very large fraction of the population for a myriad of varying reasons is very close to deciding they no longer wish to play along. All that remains now is that spark, that clarifying event to finalize that nascent decision. Some day soon, the American people will remember that they are strong, and don’t HAVE to live in fear of those who are supposed to serve them. Then… things get interesting, in any of a multitude of ways. Only part of what happens after that I’m sure of is that it’ll sure suck to be one of “The Men Who Would be Kings” – just ask the ghost of Daniel Dravot.
Post: Trump Was Right — The EV ‘Bloodbath’ Is Already Here
Author: Kevin Scully
Comment: The fact that the Ford was able to turn a profit despite the breathtaking losses in the EV Division can mean only one thing. When you buy an over-priced ICE vehicle from Ford, you are actually paying for two cars. One for you and one for someone who wants their virtue-signaling EV toy.
Post: Night Cap: Food, Famine, Fear: Beware the Great Agricultural Reset
Author: Steve Smith
Comment: My wife and I have been working with the same institutional financial adviser for 20+ years, and this year when we asked what we should do to prepare for the future, he strongly suggested buying an emergency food supply and ammunition. This was not the typical investment advice, but we now have a 6-month food supply stored away.
Post: Homeschooling Survey: They Use Many Different Methods to Learn to Read
Author: CT Patriot
Comment: Thank you for this analysis, Jody. Even with this small sample of responses, I suspect the results can be extrapolated, applying as well to many more of the homeschool population.
I recall interviewing a high school teacher in Western Massachusetts about 20 years ago (on other matters), and asked him if he thought the literacy level was declining. He replied that at the beginning of every academic year, before he knew his students, he asked for a show of hands how many had parents who read to them–or with them–regularly. Very shortly, and continuing throughout the academic year, he observed that every single student who raised their hands was a fluent reader. Anecdotal results, to be sure, but very consistent.
Your survey results support Ian’s contention that you can’t force a child to learn when he doesn’t want to and, conversely, you can’t stop a child from learning when he wants to.
I guess it’s like the old Chinese saying (paraphrased): When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Post: How Maine Gun Laws Help New Hampshire: Kittery Trading Post Threatens to Move All Firearms Sales to Granite State
Author: Recognizing_Truth
Comment: To determine whether a content- based law passes constitutional muster, courts generally apply a legal standard called strict scrutiny,
under which the government must show that the law is the “least restrictive means” of advancing a “compelling” governmental interest.
So, let’s take a look
1) A waiting period for a firearm has never been shown to diminish the number of suicides, so the argument that a waiting period is necessary because it will “save a life” of someone who is intent on killing themselves is unsubstantiated
2) A waiting period would not have stopped any of the shootings in Maine or elsewhere as every one of the criminals had the guns in their position for periods of time far exceeding “3 days”.
3) Criminals by nature do not follow laws. A waiting period for obtaining a gun will not stop a criminal who does not care about legal means of obtaining firearms, and only legal means of procuring are affected by the 72 hour waiting period.
4) The three day waiting period adds a hardship only with law abiding persons and businesses and adds an extreme hardship for those who have to travel to an FFL that is some distance from them (most of Maine is rural). One long trip to order and sign forms and have a background check. Then the long trip home. 3 days later another long trip to pick up the firearm and then the long trip home. The time, fuel, wear and tear on the vehicle, etc. significantly adds to the cost of obtaining the firearm and more adversely affects lower income individuals. The added fuel consumption in a state that claims all fuel burning should be curbed in the name of ending “climate change” is detrimental to the government’s other compelling interests.
The “government’s compelling interest” is unclear as none of the reasons given for adding this law clearly state what that interest is. As this doesn’t affect criminals intent on crime, but does restrict law abiding citizens in the exercise of their rights, the law does not demonstrate how it either would meet the government’s compelling interest, nor that it is the least restrictive method for doing so. It also more adversely affects lower income individuals and makes it less likely they will be able to exercise their Constitutional right. The law does NOT stand strict scrutiny and will fail judicial review as being unconstitutional.
Post: Night Cap: TWENTY (20) Percent Of Mail-In-Votes in 2020 Were Fraudulent
Author: notoriousBLOG
Comment: Three and a half years later and the “truth” that most on the right already knew is being told. What are we to do when Washington is so corrupted that this type of activity is actually orchestrated from the White House and the ABC agencies? The bigger question is will there even be an election this November? What do the powers that be have in store for us this go-round? Will it be another plandemic? Will it be martial law declared to cancel the elections? Or will the puppets find a way to lock up or otherwise eliminate Trump? This is going to be the year that determines the fate of our entire existence as a sovereign nation.
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Of the 7,309 aircraft in the U.S. commercial inventory, 3,173, or 43 percent, were manufactured by Boeing. As the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems, Boeing supports airlines and U.S. allied government customers in 150 countries.
It is acknowledged that air travel is one of the safest means of transportation. No mode is 100% safe, and it is comforting to know the efforts spent on ensuring the plane we board is as secure as humanly possible. The maintenance and safety inspections are integral to the airline industry’s safety record.
Recent incidents have focused our attention on the credibility of information supplied by Boeing about the quality and safety of the airplanes it manufactures. Admittedly, there are few incidents, but the facts behind the headlines are disturbing. Two in particular are alarming. The first is the door that fell off the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 in mid-flight in January. The fortunate element is that nobody was severely injured or killed in this incident. Unfortunately, the airline may have known the problem; therefore, the plane was restricted to overland versus overwater routes. This plane was at a low altitude when the door was displaced, which was a Godsend, for at cruising altitude, passengers may have been sucked out of the plane. A tire fell off a United Airlines Boeing 777 in March as it departed from San Francisco International Airport. The reasons for these two accidents were very simple. The door was missing a bolt, and the tire had missing nuts.
Boeing has come under close scrutiny and investigation because of these and other incidents. During these investigations, many whistleblowers came forward with disturbing information about alleged practices at Boeing that put airplanes and passengers at risk. Two of those whistleblowers are now dead. I have a difficult time believing this is a coincidence, but I hope to God these men were not killed to prevent damage to a major corporation. I am also not naive enough to believe it is impossible.
There is a core cause of quality issues at Boeing and other companies with similar problems in different industries: DEI. The emphasis on filling quotas and checking boxes in lieu of competence is causing devastating dynamics. I do not care about the color of the skin or the sexual preference of the mechanic, whose job is to put the bolt in the hinge to keep the door on the plane. I want them to understand and perform the job without error. We have abandoned excellence for teamwork and employee feelings that we are paying the price by putting ourselves at risk of injury or death. Had that door fallen off at 40,000 feet over the Pacific, we would have been talking about a major disaster.
People are beginning to understand that DEI is harmful for many reasons and are taking action. Even in my hometown, parents have spoken up and forced the school board to terminate the DEI coordinator who had been placed by the local BLM chapter. People are taking back our country, which had been restricted and modified by the Radical Left and exacerbated by COVID.
There will be investigations, and Boeing will be held accountable for their actions and issues. Hopefully, the death of these two men who bravely came forward to point out issues at Boeing will be found to be natural. If not, we have far deeper problems to address.
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Nashua residents and defenders of liberty are encouraged to attend Nashua Code Week, May 6-10. Nashua is a member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI).
This cheerful, sustainable “environmental” organization is globalist in scale and nature, with over 2,500+ local governments as its members.
A global agenda with high-level events? Like… Davos perhaps?
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Code Week will generate manufactured consent for globalist agendas like “inclusionary zoning” and smart cities and codify these sustainable development goals into Nashua’s zoning ordinance. ICLEI encourages municipal governments to take their directives from un-elected, unaccountable foreign consortiums rather than their own taxpayers.
The first session is Monday, May 6, 7- 8:30 p.m., at City Hall’s 3rd-floor auditorium. Doors open at 6:30. Come learn what’s coming down the pipeline from the UN. The week-long series will conclude on Friday, May 10th.
One may wonder how Nashua is going to co-create a new zoning code in collaboration with the public in the span of 6.5 hours over four days. If what is being discussed is actually new, why is there already a new zoning map ready to be presented on Friday?
Nashua residents are encouraged to attend these public sessions and learn what is going to be done to their city. Grok readers are encouraged to support efforts to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.
Schedule and details for Nashua Code Week can be found here: https://www.nashuarecode.com/
Editor: The author’s identity has been confirmed, but they have asked to remain anonymous.
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I recently spent an evening watching videos and reading news articles about a problem I hadn’t known existed: Squatters are moving into houses that are temporarily empty and then using the courts to delay their removal, using laws designed to protect renters from unfair treatment by landlords.
In a typical story, a homeowner returns from vacation, finds people living in his home who claim to have a lease, calls the police to get them out, and ends up getting arrested himself.
The squatters have learned—and shared on social media—that since the police can’t determine the validity of a lease on the spot, everything has to go through the courts. That takes months, which is exactly what the squatters are relying on. The renter-protection laws require the courts to treat the leases as valid until they can be proven to be invalid.
But one video in particular caught my attention. In this case, a guy was alerted to the presence of squatters on a property that he owns. He showed up to throw them out. One squatter pointed a BB gun at him, which he didn’t know wasn’t a real gun. So the owner shot the squatter.
I don’t know how this will all play out in the criminal justice system. But when the news station was interviewing residents of the neighborhood where this happened, their attitude seemed to be: Man, you break into someone’s house like that, you deserve what you get.
And it occurred to me that there would be at least one person like that on any randomly selected jury — that is, a jury that hasn’t been diluted in order to prevent it from fulfilling its primary obligation, which is to represent a cross-section of views in the community.
That is, a judge is perfectly competent to decide what facts are relevant and allowable and to come to a conclusion about whether a defendant broke the law. We have juries to find out whether some reasonable number of people in a community, put in the same position as the defendant, would conclude: Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy, because I would have done the damn same thing.
Look at how long it took to seat a jury for Trump’s current Manhattan show trial. Jury selection was essentially a process designed to remove people who would have this reaction: Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy because I would have done the damn same thing.
Which is to say, a process designed to suppress the views of a significant part of the community. Next time you hear about the outcome of any criminal trial, keep this in mind.
Some day you might be the one on trial for doing something that any perfectly normal person would have done in your position. In that case, what kind of jury would you want?
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Despite the collapse of the market, rising costs and prices, and the threat to wildlife, the powers that be are moving forward with offshore wind development off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
Related: Wind and Whales
Part of that process involves a public comment period before offshore leases will be sold for development. If you have questions or comments, this is the time.
During the 60-day public comment period (May 1 – July 1, 2024) on the Proposed Sale Notice (PSN), BOEM will hold a series of in-person and virtual public meetings to describe the different elements of the PSN, answer questions, and collect public comments.
Agendas will be posted in the coming weeks
In-Person Meetings
Open House Meetings: BOEM will host three “open-house” style meetings to allow the public to talk with BOEM’s scientists and other personnel. This informal format allows people to ask questions and share information directly with BOEM employees on the Proposed Sale Notice.
At the meetings, there will also be official presentations followed by an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. While the meeting will not be recorded, the Q&A session will be summarized thematically and later entered as a meeting summary on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov. The majority of the meeting time will be focused on providing the public with opportunities to engage directly with BOEM subject matter experts at poster stations.
Attendees can submit official public comments for Regulations.gov, either in writing or via oral recording and transcription at a Comment Station
Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting: BOEM will host the fourth Gulf of Maine Task Force in Plymouth, MA. This meeting will be in-person and also livestreamed; however, virtual attendees will only be able to watch and listen, and not actively participate.
As with prior Task Force Meetings, agenda sessions will include time for facilitated dialog among Task Force members, both in plenary and table discussions. Members of the public are invited to observe all plenary discussions. The agenda will include significant time for public input. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov.
Members of the public interested in submitting individual public comments on the Regulations.gov docket will have the opportunity to do so (in writing or via oral recording and transcription) at a Comment Station.
Virtual Meetings
BOEM will host a series of virtual meetings for various target audiences, ranging from the general public to specific ocean user and stakeholder groups. Members of the public are welcome to attend any of the meetings below, however, user specific meetings will focus conversation on the stated topics and prioritize participation by those from the sector of focus. All virtual meetings will be recorded, with recordings later posted on this web page. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov; however, we will not be transcribing individual comments during virtual meetings.
Governor Sununu has long been in favor of developing wind off the coast of New Hampshire, and his commission can’t be expected to do anything but nod its collective head.
If you object, or think you do, it’s up to you.
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Gardening to poop? Sounds about right in this week’s edition of Manch Talk. We sing the praises of the volunteers helping to clean our parks, and talk about other crap (literally). Want to improve your health? Start here!
Editor: Lost track of these, with apologies – we’ll get back on our schedule this week.
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I have had my driver’s license ready when I go to the polls to cast my vote for some time now. Longer than it has been required in New Hampshire to vote in any election. I have always believed that the opportunity to vote is one of the most significant rights afforded to citizens in America.
I am proud to present my ID to ensure that my vote is cast by me. It takes so little effort to secure the integrity of my vote.
For generations, there were few options to vote. You showed up in person on Election Day, or if there were extenuating circumstances, you cast an absentee ballot. No electronic voting. Just paper ballots and black pencils. In those days, we felt confident in the election process and knew that only in Chicago did dead people vote!
Voting has become so casual in recent years and only exacerbated by COVID. Absentee ballots are now available for people away from home and anyone who doesn’t want to wait in line on Election Day. Election Day has morphed into Election Week or Month for no significant reason but just because you can. You don’t need to turn your early ballot in at town hall when there are drop boxes all over some towns, like mailboxes. If filling out and delivering your ballot is too taxing, you can call a party worker to help you vote and deliver your ballot for you. This procedure is called ballot harvesting and helps to ruin the election’s credibility.
Many of these voting modifications arose during COVID when people’s mobility was restricted. With COVID in our rearview mirror, there is no need to ease the voting process; ballot harvesting should be stopped, and access to absentee ballots should be rolled back. We need controls on our election system, not rampant opportunities for fraud and abuse.
The Left claims that Voter ID is racist and election interference. These are two separate situations, but both are bogus. There is no foundation that minority groups have more difficult access to legal ID. The Left goes so far as to say that Black people have to travel further to obtain an ID. That is a ridiculous stretch. Adults need ID in America for a plethora of situations. Driving, buying alcohol or tobacco products, cashing a check, and traveling by air are but a few. Blacks use these services as much as their White counterparts. Stop the lousy excuses and get the ID.
The argument for election interference is even a bigger stretch. The number of Black and Brown voters has been increasing exponentially over the last few election cycles. There is no evidence to support that Voter ID inhibits minority voting. None. But there is plenty of evidence supporting voter fraud because of states that do not require IDs to cast your vote.
How about we coalesce and spend our energy on legitimate elections, not ways to bend the rules? If your candidates and policies are strong, you have no need to attack attempts to ensure a fair outcome.
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By the time this reaches the readers, most people will have already known that Jeb announced his retirement, so calling this piece “Jeb’s Senate” is appropriate. Adam Sexton called Jeb the Architect of Medicaid expansion, which is NOT a moniker to be proud of, and the senate voted 24-0 for 2023’s SB 263, a Uniparty item, and Jeb is known for pushing their agenda.
Never forget 2022’s SB 400, that housing bill that got shoved into the parking garage House bill. Jeb said the Damn Emperor requested SB 400. Jeb also loves his CMS money, and it’s sacred, as we know from 2022’s HB 1210 debate on 5/5/22. There’s plenty of material on such things for readers to see, both as Grok pieces and internet search results, so let’s move on.
Mr Sylvia, a former rep from the “Impeachment 7,” told some Florida radio show host that the Senate is a place where good House bills go to die. He also said something like, “The senate, yeah, they’re a problem.” JJ Valera, a former rep, called the senate the “country club.” Because I have no representation in the House, I won’t apologize for being extra demanding on the Senate, and the Senate let me down—Jeb’s Senate. I’ve written plenty of stuff on the RTK Tax(HB 1002), so anyone late for dinner is encouraged to read it, as well as many fine pieces by RTK guru and martyr Laurie Ortolano and various others. Please talk to current and former reps if you would like examples of the Senate being a place where good House bills go to die. I want to add that the Senate is a rubber stamp for instead of firewall protection from BAD House bills, such as HB 1002.
Another thing the Senate is known to do is transform House bills, pervert them, denature them, and make them nongermane to the original agenda the sponsor sought to accomplish. Just ask several reps and election security reform activists about their anger against Senator Gray, the Election Law committee chair, and what happened to a bill that was supposed to address covid tyranny at the local level.
Going back to 2021, during the Damn Emperor’s Mask Madness and when “Jeb’s Senate” was “Chuck’s Senate,” the budget bills (HB 1&2) were being crafted. Many incoming freshmen reps had some desperately needed contributions that could only get past the Damn Emperor if shoved into an omnibus bill such as the budget. A few of them included but were not limited to ending COVID-related tyranny, and State of Emergency reform was the one I remember best. When HB 2 entered “Chuck’s Senate,” they gutted it and watered it down.
I complained to my Senator, whom I voted for, about my extreme disapproval of what his peers were doing. Though he’s not a Finance Committee member, he defended the whole body’s reputation against my attack and said something like, “The House always gets stuff wrong, and we have to fix it.” Note that I said “something like” because I am unable to quote him word for word, but you get the picture. During our brief phone call, which was a return call from my text to him, he was definitely more interested in talking about how pleased he was with inserting anti-choice language into HB 2 as well as EFAs and banning CRT. I won’t say that I don’t care about addressing the hot mess that Gov-Ed is, but my central issue(reason for texting him) was that the Damn Emperor needed to be hog-tied, and the rare window of opportunity wasn’t being taken seriously by the senate.
Someone made a comment in a private group that was an analytical observation. The comment was that Jeb’s retirement might not be in the best interest due to his constituency being a purple district and concerns related to that. Such concern does merit some practical discussion on who is to replace Jeb in Seat #3, but not at the podium. Unfortunately, the harsh reality-based prognostication (mine, at least) is that “Sharon’s Senate” will carry on the bidding of Jeb’s Senate. Don’t expect any accomplishments of significance next year, but many great minds preach to us to have an attitude of gratitude. At least Sharon’s Senate is still better than that abomination against Granite State values known as “Donna Soucy’s Senate.”
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We have some good news for once from the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office! After a long legal battle and multiple federal lawsuits, the FBI agreed to return our church property that was illegally seized on March 20, 2016. For those of you not familiar with the backstory, FBI Agents arrived at 73 Leverett Street on that day at 0600 hours and executed search warrant 16-MJ-36-01-06 against the Shire Free Church Monadnock. This raid occurred only two weeks after Minister Mark Edgington on Free Talk Live condemned the FBI for their strategy of running a website that resulted in the distribution of hundreds of thousands of pieces of child pornography to thousands of IP addresses while only making ten arrests. The sealed search warrant was presented in redacted form to the members of the church present for the raid, i.e. Minister Ian Freeman, Parishioner TJ The Spy, and Parishioner James “Robinhood” Cleveland. The warrant alleged that on or about February 20, 2015, someone using the IP address at 73 Leverett Street had accessed the website that was part of the FBI’s vast child pornography distribution network, in violation of 18 USC 2252.
The returned electronic items. Christmas came early!
TJ The Spy confronted the FBI Agents while naked to avoid being shot and immediately informed Scott Bailey, the lead investigating FBI Agent, that all three members of the church were invoking their right to remain silent and asking for legal counsel to be present. See the FBI raid and how to invoke your rights while naked here. When you invoke your right to an attorney, law enforcement is prohibited from trying to question you until your attorney is present. Despite asking for counsel, one FBI Agent attempted to question the church members by calling them “pedophiles” and asking “You know what they like to do to kiddie-diddlers in prison, don’t you?” TJ responded that all three church members enjoyed the presumption of innocence under law and that a federal judge might think his question was a veiled threat designed to pressure, intimidate, or coerce a subject into waiving their constitutionally protected rights to counsel and silence. In other words, the Agent’s question would taint the voluntariness of any admission and rule the confession inadmissible. TJ then called the Agent an “unprofessional fucking asshole” for attempting to break the law with regards to the Miranda decision. The FBI proceeded to seize all the church members’ computers, cell phones, digital storage media, and cameras.
Fast forward to 2019. After multiple requests to the FBI for the property’s return were ignored, TJ The Spy filed a federal lawsuit pro se (without a lawyer) against the FBI alleging that the search warrant was technically defective under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 41(b). Since the First Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled the warrant invalid in another similar case, TJ asked the court for a judicial writ compelling the FBI to return his stolen computers. Faced with the prospect of having to defend an invalid search warrant in open court, the FBI agreed to return the computers belonging to TJ and Robinhood in exchange for dropping the lawsuit. The four computer items were returned unsearched and sealed in their original evidence bags.
A problem occurred when Ian Freeman attempted to get the rest of the church’s property back. Since the remainder of the seized items were owned wholly by the Shire Free Church Monadnock, only a licensed attorney could represent the church before the court. Bonnie Freeman retained Attorney Jared Bedrick from the Champions Law firm in Portsmouth who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the church. Since the first search warrant was ruled invalid, the FBI applied for and was granted a second search warrant to purge the church’s property of any digital contraband. After much waiting, the FBI finally returned all but two of the seized items to the church. The FBI considers this case closed and no criminal charges will be pursued. Yet the possible goal the FBI might have had in this case, of tainting the reputation of Free Talk Live, the Shire Free Church and certain members, was likely accomplished in many people’s minds. So it is important to remember the fact that the allegations were never proven and no evidence was ever produced.
https://forum.shiresociety.com/t/free-talk-live-sponsor-roger-ver-arrested-in-spain-on-u-s-tax-evasion-charges/13808
Parents and taxpayers in SAU16 have been engaged in many battles in the last few years. Much of it started during COVID when they were one of the last districts to reopen. It actually took the Governor to step in and force the reopening. Then, parents were frustrated that they forced every child to wear a mask without any regard for students who had mental or physical challenges.
Parents and taxpayers have been engaged in additional battles to get the administrators to focus on academics.
It was just announced that the DEIJ Director, who is also the Vice Chair of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, was resigning. This is welcome news to many parents and residents who didn’t see any benefit from a political activist working in their school. In the announcement by the Superintendent, Esther Asbell, she indicates that they will be looking for another DEIJ Director. Clearly, the Administrators are good with flushing tax dollars down the toilet.
Let’s look at ways this money could be spent that would actually help students succeed. (Or, God Forbid, returned to taxpayers)
1) Hire additional tutors for kids who are struggling
2) Quality professional development for teachers to support them in the classroom. (Focused on academics and pedagogy)
3) Bonuses or raises for teachers and paras. The ones who are doing the most to educate children in the school.
4) Lower the school budget which will help taxpayers who may be struggling during this period of high inflation.
The DEIJ Director was hired, making more money than many of the teachers in the district. Wasn’t that a slap in the face to the ones who are there doing the important job of teaching children?
Seabrook school board members have been discussing a withdrawal from SAU21. They even put a warrant article on the ballot asking residents if they should study withdrawing from the SAU. The voters said YES.
What do you get for your money by paying the SAU?
1) Inflated administrative salaries. The SAU16 Superintendent is making close to $200,000.00.
2) Dues paid to lobbying organizations that lobby against parental rights. Don’t forget that Superintendent Esther Asbell is the Director for The New Hampshire School Administrators Association.(NHSAA) SAU16 funnels money to the NHSAA through dues paid out of the budget. Talk about a scam on taxpayers.
3) Administrators instead of educators
It was a lobbyist from the NHSAA, who testified before state legislators, and opposed prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Providing pornography to children would get you arrested, but the NHSAA says it’s ok for schools to provide obscene books to your children.
The materials now provided to children in schools also include information to connect students with child sexual predators.You can listen to that here. (1:08:00) You can also read more about that here and here.
Maybe the taxpayers in Exeter do not mind offering their children up to child sexual predators. Maybe they don’t mind wasting their money on a DEIJ director who is more about dividing children versus teaching children how to read. But the parents in the other schools may have a different opinion on all of this.
If so, maybe it’s time to look at removing your school from SAU16. There is absolutely no reason any school has to be part of an SAU, especially one that continues to turn a deaf ear to the residents, and wastes a lot of taxpayer money.
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Of the 8 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 33 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 1 with 5 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | HB1400-2024-1658s) | Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1658s, relative to residential parking spaces and the removal of unauthorized occupants of residential real property, to HB 1400, relative to residential parking spaces. |
Commerce | Tue 5/7 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | I. Provides that zoning and planning regulations shall not require more than one residential parking space per unit.
II. Allows property owners or their authorized agents to request the immediate removal of unauthorized occupants by submitting a verified complaint to the sheriff of the county where the property is located. |
| Support | HB1291 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Commerce | Tue 5/7 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, adds definitions, and increases the maximum square footage. It also gives municipalities the right to require accessory units meet the definition for workforce housing. |
| Of Interest | HB1124 | (New Title) relative to limiting conflicts of interest for municipal board and committee members. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. |
| Of Interest | HB1215-2024-1493s | Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1493s, Housing Appeals Board RSA 679:5 IV, to HB 1215, relative to development approvals and appeals. |
Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill extends the existing 5-year exemption for subdivision plats to 10 years, and increases the preliminary step from 2 years to 5 years. The bill also changes the building code and fire code appeals process, limiting the jurisdiction of the local building code board of appeals to hearing decisions made under local amendments to those codes. |
| Of Interest | HB1628 | relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 5/7 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals certain regulatory statutes that have been preempted by the federal government and moves regulatory authority for apples, cider, and lumber to the chapter relative to standards for farm products. This bill is a request of the committee to study the New Hampshire law relative to standards for farm products and marketing and grading commodities established in 2023, 12:1. |
| Support | HB1121 | relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 5/7 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event. |
| Oppose | SB503 | relative to requiring a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 5/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. |
| Of Interest | HB1118 | relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill further delineates requirements regarding issuance of nonresident alien drivers’ licenses. |
| Support | HB1127 | relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles. |
| Support | HB1204 | relative to government agent entries into secured premises. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes requirements for when a government agent may enter a secured premises without a warrant. |
| Support | HB1391 | allowing new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. | Transportation | Tue 5/7 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. |
| Oppose | HB1394 | (New Title) relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further directs the office of professional licensure and certification, for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, to increase their annual budget by $3,000 for the purpose of hiring temporary or part-time staff, or overtime costs, to help with licensing and administration of the music therapists governing board. |
| Support | SB302 | adding an additional exemption from the regulation of physicians and surgeons. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill exempts from application of the chapter a physician licensed in another state providing care to a patient in New Hampshire when there is a physician-patient relationship in the physician’s home state of licensing with in-person examinations conducted by the physician at intervals appropriate for the patient and the patient’s medical condition, but not less than annually. |
| Of Interest | SB371-2024-1671h | Public Hearing on non-germane amendment #2024-1671h to SB 371, relative to the licensing of resident physicians. |
Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes various changes regarding the licensing of and regulation of physicians, including transferring certain authority from the board of medicine to the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Support | SB505-2024-1739h | Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1739h to SB 505, relative to the prohibition on the sale of hemp products containing certain levels of THC. |
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 5/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the prospective repeal of the prohibition on the sale of hemp products containing certain levels of THC and defines and regulates intoxicating hemp products. |
| Support | HB1222 | relative to physician assistant scope of practice. | Health and Human Services | Wed 5/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill eliminates the collaboration agreement requirement for physician assistants, except physician assistants who have completed fewer than 8,000 hours of clinical practice and work in a health care setting that does not employ a physician. |
| Support | HB1584 | relative to home day care licensing requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 5/8 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill exempts from child day care licensing requirements private homes in which care is provided for up to 4 children in addition to the provider’s own children. Current law permits care for 3 additional children. |
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On May 2nd, a bunch of GOP Reps failed to show up for work. On the day that Kelly Ayotte’s signature issue, illegal immigration, was up for a vote. The bill, HB 563 LOST by eleven votes. Eight “GOP” Reps voted with the DemocratsWoke-Communists to allow sanctuary-cities, while eleven GOP failed to show up (versus seven DemocratWoke-Communist no-shows).
File it under, you-have-no-shame or you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up … NHGOP “Leader” Jason Osborne then issued a statement blaming the DemocratsWoke-Communists for the bill’s failure.
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Constitutional Rights Attorney Kyle Mothershead is our guest. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Local constitutional rights attorney Kyle Mothershead joins Levi Ismail on OpenLine to advocate for people who struggle with still being registered as a sex offender - even years after conviction.
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that I’m going to take a break from these for a week. The demands on my time are overwhelming me. Back in two, maybe three weeks.
Amongst many news sources that I peruse, are these selected ones among many from which I pull. While I’m taking a break, please do visit these regularly:
BARE NAKED ISLAM – It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out
Home – Geller Report
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (legalinsurrection.com)
Gates of Vienna
Israellycool: Radical Truthtelling – Israellycool
Among a cast of many…
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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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TOP OF THE FOLD
Muslim Bedouin ambushed and used for bait on Oct. 7
Dr. Tariq Abu Erar, a Bedouin Muslim Israeli, has a harrowing tale of being ambushed, shot, and used as bait by Hamas on October 7. He stopped to help what he thought was a wounded man, only to be tricked and trapped by the terrorists.
When he told them he was a Muslim, they spoke to him in Arabic. “They asked me verses in the Koran. What are the people of the Prophet Muhammad? Then they said: ‘Shut up, you traitor, you are working with Jews.’”
He then witnessed multiple murders, in case anyone wanted more testimony from the massacre. “They are very barbaric. Not people! They shoot without hesitation, without emotion, they had a clear goal and knew what they were doing.”
Fortunately, he was rescued by the IDF. He’s a living testament to beautiful coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Israel.
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U. Wisconsin Anti-Israel Protesters Chant ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish Students (legalinsurrection.com)
Seething with hate.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the Jews – American Thinker
It certainly won’t end with Plopping Jews like this taking, essentially, the enemy’s side.
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Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? – American Thinker
Diplomacy is the art of the possible. The enemy of the possible is always the ever-elusive perfect solution. We either realize that or continue down the rabbit hole.
Peace is possible, but IMHO only truly possible when Islam’s anti-Semitism and violence has, somehow, been reformed out.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Poll finds overwhelming support from Americans for Israel to completely decimate Hamas (barenakedislam.com)
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Palestinian math lesson:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pali-math.mp4
But they’re totally responsible and good neighbors, right?
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
The truth about Arab population in “Palestine” before Israel’s establishment!
1785: Constantine Francois Volney paints a bleak picture of Jerusalem, describing it as “ruined” and “desolate,” with a tiny population estimated at only 12,000 to 14,000 people struggling in what barely resembled a city.
1843: Alexander Keith reflects on Volney’s observations, noting that even in Volney’s time, the land had not yet reached its ultimate state of prophetic desolation and depopulation, implying even greater emptiness was to come.
1816: J.S. Buckingham’s travels reveal Jaffa as little more than a “poor village,” and Ramleh as mostly ruins, indicative of the broader state of decay and abandonment that characterized much of Palestine.
1835: Alphonse de Lamartine recounts his stark encounter with Jerusalem, comparing its desolate state to the dead cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, experiencing an eerie silence and a complete absence of life both inside and outside its gates.
1857: James Finn, the British consul, reports back to England about the extensive emptiness of the land, emphasizing a dire need for a population to fill the vast, uninhabited spaces of Palestine.
1867: Mark Twain documents his journey in “The Innocents Abroad,” encountering no villages for thirty miles in any direction around the valley, describing Galilee, Judea, and the area around Jerusalem as barren deserts, devoid of any population and lamenting over a land that seemed cursed and hopelessly desolate.
1881: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, mapping the region, notes that miles and miles of Judea appeared completely devoid of life or habitation, reinforcing the narrative of an overwhelmingly vacant landscape.
By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, comprising both Arabs and Jews, amounted to only 400,000, less than 3% of today’s population, highlighting the dramatic transformation and revival led by the establishment of Israel.
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Palestinian Jamil Ziyada says the quiet part out loud.
When someone, especially someone with money, power, and influence, says they want to kill you, believe them.
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“Radical islam has cleansed so many minorities around the world”
Remember what Islam is:
The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker
ATROCITIES
From here (video on my Rumble channel):
Screams Before Silence
A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence (https://m.youtube.com/hashtag/screamsbeforesilence) sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
@CherokeeOwl
Movie: Screams Before Silence (rumble.com)
About 55 minutes.
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Bolding added:
Shani Gabay, 25, was a law school graduate who loved dogs, traveling, and singing. She lived in my neighboring town, Yokne’am. On October 7th, she escaped the Nova Music festival and took shelter in a bomb shelter nearby. After Hamas terrorists threw grenades into the shelter, she was severely injured but managed to escape. After being treated by a medic, she tried to take cover inside an ambulance with other festival-goers, but terrorists launched an RPG and burnt the ambulance down, killing everyone inside. Shani was initially considered missing, and her brother Aviel said “She knows everyone. We keep meeting people at the rallies who see her photo and know her from Costa Rica, or the army, or their studies. She cleans beaches and saves cats and dogs. I want to believe she’ll continue doing all of that.” However, 48 days after October 7th, her DNA was found at another girl’s grave, as their bodies had melted together. The remains were separated as much as possible so she could be buried alone and in dignity.
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Never forget. From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gazans-celebrate-oct-7-collage.mp4
Innocent Gazans my ass.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
Un-Informed Anti-Israel Protestors Have No Idea Gays are Routinely Killed in Palestine. Just Listen… | The Gateway Pundit | by Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely no clue. It’s just “the latest and most current thing”.
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To all the Jews protesting and wanting to help the Islamists win, here’s what you’re in for:
What Do You Know? Dhimmi, Jewish Legal Status under Muslim Rule | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (upenn.edu)
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MASSACHUSETTS: ‘Fatties for Palestine’ join forces with ‘Faggots for Palestine’ calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel (barenakedislam.com)
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here – remember, they’re really good at recycling:
This girl’s name is Ghufran Ahmed Awny Naim.
I contacted Mohammed Fayq from Gaza who took the original video. He confirmed that Ghufran has Ichthyosis (genetic), a skin disorder that lead to dry, itchy skin that appears scaly, rough, and red.
I contacted two Israeli dermatologists who confirmed, by looking at the video, that it appears to be Ichthyosis and that she needs topical emollients.
So why there’s a woman whose name is Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis who shows a picture of Ghufran and writes “Israel burns children alive.”?
Garnered hundreds of thousands of views and is being circulated all over.
(Matan Uziel)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/skin-condition-video.mp4
As stated in the pulled text, this is being presented as a case of Israeli attacks.
Except it’s not. Pallywood is a whole industry.
The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool
Pallywood Reporting – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool
And don’t forget this one:
Pallywood
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From here:
Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Egyptian bus driver bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the border crossing at Rafah
Proof the Palestinians are the same as terrorists! They train their children from birth to hate all who aren’t one of them! Therefore there are no innocents in Gaza.
X (https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1785283823497793715?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pal-kids-throw-stones-at-trucks.mp4
So let me see if I have this right. You’re desperate, there’s no food, no medicine, little power, little water… but you’re throwing stones at the trucks bringing these things to you?
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Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Search results for apartheid posters
Lots of posters across multiple posts showing the utter absurdity of the Apartheid charge.
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? (ezrafoundation.org)
Short answer: no.
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Raquella Raiz on LinkedIn: When you read sensationalized headlines with “Settlers” I want you to…
I remember reading, a few years ago, about this – how the kids were primed, organized, with photographers ready.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
From here:
Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University campus last night.
This Is Happening In America
X (https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1784320906866610344?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/northeastern-kill-the-jews.mp4
Related:
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Here is what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious.They have training; it’s clear from the uniformity of stonewalling, of tactics, and lots of funding. These people are serious.
Why is the Pro-Palestinian Encampment Craze Sweeping Our Colleges? | Frontpage Mag
‘Somebody Is Radicalizing Our Students’: NYPD Finds Weapons, ‘Death to America’ Poster in Pro-Terror Encampment – Geller Report
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
The Neo-Nazi Left | Frontpage Mag
The Neo-Nazi Left cannot be negotiated with. There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America.
RTWT. More:
Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters | Frontpage Mag
How Hamas Bought Joe Biden | Frontpage Mag
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Moonbattery Democrats Plan to Bring Gaza to USA – Moonbattery
And WHO will they be angry at?
MISCELLANEOUS
Glazov Gang: Miracles that Saved Israel in War | Frontpage Mag
Hashem is great.
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
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And please share this post far and wide. There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know. Post it, email it, share widely.
Also, if you’re willing:
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
U.S. Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way? | Frontpage Mag (link in original):
It took just 50 terrorists to infiltrate the Tribe of Nova music festival, an Israeli music festival attended by young adults about the same age, or a bit older than, the young adults on America’s college campuses. In one day, they terrorized the event, killed 260, and took hostages. This hostage-taking brought Israel into a bloody war that has destroyed its prestige internationally; brought about the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Gazans (more than 34,000, according to AP) and more than 1200 Israelis; and that has not ended yet.
Now imagine just 100 terrorists in the US. At a signal, they can take hostages among the naive young adults who are in the campus encampments. At a signal, ten campuses can turn into a hostage situation.
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This attack on our nation’s campuses could be followed by a second internal strike, against other targets — strategic targets such as airports, food processing plants and energy grid operations — by terrorists who are now embedded in these many barracks-type housing locations that have been distributed throughout our nation.
Western Civilization stands on the edge of a knife. One misstep and it could fall, calamitously.
We Dare Not Tempt Them With Weakness | Frontpage Mag
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It seemed like a good time to laugh, and I stumbled across a few minutes from Comedian Brad Upton, who always makes me laugh. I thought of you. You could probably use a laugh, too.
Millennials, Old People, good times.
Nothing triggers a Gen-Z snowflakes like a boomer with a lot to say, and trust us, Brad Upton has a lot to say!
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Looking at a recent installment in Judy Aron’s series of posts about ‘What we learned from this week’s House session’, it occurs to me that it would be nice if instead of trying to make sure the gun is pointed in ‘the right direction,’ Republicans would focus on unloading it, and even disassembling it.
That is if they would live up to their claim to be the party of smaller government instead of the party of righter government.
To take just two of many examples from the post:
(1) Why is the state involved in marriage at all? Anything that can be accomplished with marriage (sharing of assets and custody, power of attorney over medical decisions, and so on) can be accomplished without it, with one exception: There are situations that involve taking money from some people (who are judged to have a surplus) to give it to other people (who are judged to have a need, or just an entitlement) that can’t be exploited without marriage.
In other words, we have made marriage a gateway to participation in certain Marxist redistribution schemes. When you get married, you commit taxpayers to your future support in various situations. So suddenly, they have to be concerned about who can or can’t line up at the trough.
If we just eliminate the schemes themselves, there would be no reason to fight over marriage. It would be a completely private affair, a commitment that two (or more) people make to each other, and no one’s business but their own.
(2) Why is the state involved in sports at all? It’s because sports are one more thing that we drag under the umbrella labeled ‘school’, so that parents can have their children’s hobbies subsidized by everyone else. That means taxes are involved, and that turns sports into a branch of politics.
Get sports out of schools, and who plays on what teams is no longer a subject for politics, but something that is determined by the choices of individual athletes and their parents.
This seems to be the GOP playbook: Set up state control over an institution or activity where it is inappropriate to begin with, and then spend eternity fighting over whose ideology should be imposed on that one-size-must-now-fit-all situation.
That’s what we learn at every week’s House session.
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Watching enormous crowds of Americans shouting blatantly racist chants in support of an agenda that is unapologetically genocidal, and backed by internationally recognized terrorist organizations – met with at best indifference and at worst the active support of our elite institutions of government, news media, education, and entertainment — I can’t help but think, this is what it must have been like in the 1920s when 30,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan proudly marched through Washington and everyone was like, okay!
Yes, Covid masks and keffiyehs have replaced pointy white hoods and robes as the face-hiding fashion signal of the day, and this generation of disruptive bigots is primarily out to get the Jews, not African Americans (so I guess in that sense more akin to Nazis than Klansmen), but the psychology behind their statements are pretty much the same.
They say they just want peace, but… yeah… no. If they really wanted peace, they wouldn’t just be calling for Israel to cease fire, but also for Hamas to cease fire, maybe return the 130 remaining hostages they took in their October 7 massacre (or at least the ones they haven’t murdered yet), stop using Gaza as a launch pad for sending missiles into Tel Aviv, and how about recognizing Israeli Jews’ right to, you know, exist.
They say they support the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, but… yeah… no. If that’s really what they cared about they would be cheering on Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas – the terrorist organization that was elected to rule Gaza in 2005, has refused to hold another democratic election since, and absconded with billions in foreign aid, leaving the Palestinian people living in poverty and oppression under an anti-women’s- rights, anti-gay-rights, openly racist, violent, theocratic tyranny.
They say they’re horrified by war crimes against civilians taking place, but… yeah… no. Targeting civilians for murder by rape like Hamas did; that’s an actual war crime. Using civilians as human shields as Hamas does; that’s an actual war crime. Conducting military operations out of hospitals and schools as Hamas does; also an actual war crime. Shooting your own people when they try to heed advanced warnings by Israel to evacuate targeted areas; not 100% sure on this one, but probably an actual war crime.
They say they’re opposed genocide, but… yeah… no. If you’re chanting “from the river to the sea…” and sporting a “final solution” sign (see photo below from DC, credit New York Post), you’re advocating FOR genocide. Actual genocide. Nazi-style, kill-all-the-Jews genocide. Not the tragic collateral damage inevitable in war, but as-defined-by-the-UN “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” genocide.
You students setting up tents at Middlebury and UVM are not on the right side of history. You’re on the same side of history as the folks the world executed for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg, and the one who beat us to it by blowing his own brains out in a bunker in April 1945.
This kind of pathogenic societal behavior is what we were supposed to never forget. Not only have we forgotten, but the adults in our classrooms are TEACHING our children and young adults to think and act this way. Many of our elected officials are encouraging it. Others are kowtowing to it. (Looking at you, Bernie, Peter and Becca!) And, frighteningly, it seems they have succeeded to such a degree that this kind of activity is now considered respectably normal.
Which gets me back to my opening thought about the Klan in the 1920s, and an interesting article from NPR (ironically now on board with the “from the river to the sea” crowd) back in 2015 titled, “When The KKK Was Mainstream.” It describes the scene,
In the 1920s, membership in the KKK reached several million people…. And in communities where the KKK really took root, “this meant that a very sizable part of the eligible population was in the Klan.” The KKK was even successful at “block recruiting” of whole clubs or congregations at one time.
And the Klan insinuated itself into otherwise polite society. There were KKK public initiations in many states — including California, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas — and KKK public parades in Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and other states.
The article gives example after example of how openly proud Klan members were elected to public office, held pageants, sponsored youth baseball teams, and engaged in everything from sewing clubs to agricultural societies, all while “their main leaders promoted expulsion and economic retribution against their ‘enemies.” Of course, what made this grotesque facet of our history possible was the fact that the morality behind it was sadly generally accepted. If you weren’t a member of the KKK, at least you tolerated what they were doing. Or, if you were opposed, you were probably too intimidated to speak out.
The author of the article concluded, “How strange and scary and dangerous those times must have been, when large numbers of Klanspeople paraded around, draped in white robes and sinister ideology,” and too often resorting to violence and intimidation to get their way. Strange, scary, and dangerous indeed. Kinda like what we’re seeing on campuses today, and on blocked roads leading to major airports and bridges, ringed outside politicians’ homes, etc. Let’s not let it happen again.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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