Monday • November 25 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVIII
Manchester, N.H.
The invasion at the southern border presents numerous challenges, including health risks, national security concerns, and humanitarian crises. The unprecedented invasion is primarily composed of military aged men from around the world.
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Concerns about the scale and implications of this influx are rising. There have been multiple apprehensions of individuals on the terror watch list. It is time to address border security. Border security is national security. This regime is doing little to defend the nation from potential threats.
Migrants are being given identification cards and driver’s licenses without proper vetting. This increases their mobility, raising security risks. There are many known cartel/gang members entering. There is an influx of drugs, such as fentanyl. Our crime rate is rising.
Are you concerned about the number of military aged men from nations adversarial to America crossing our southern border? The lack of vetting and identification elevates fear about their intentions.
There were an estimated 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States on Biden’s inauguration day. We’ve been adding about 2 million per year since. It is time to close the border until we reacquire control of it.
The invasion at the southern border has become a humanitarian crisis. Young people, targeted through advertisements, are embarking on dangerous journeys, falling into trafficking. Unaccompanied minors are going missing amid reports of exploitation and sexual abuse. Many new arrivals are in sub-optimal health, some carry communicable disease.
Americans are outraged over the tax dollars being spent preferentially on treatment for capable non-citizen individuals. We need to stop displacing homeless veterans to accommodate illegal immigrants.
America should secure the southern border, complete the wall, and enforce our immigration laws. What are we doing about the invasion at the southern border?
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Joe Biden took a victory lap on Friday to brag about his economy and the Debt Ceiling Bill he will sign on Saturday. An old saying is that numbers don’t lie, and liars use numbers. Joe Biden was a liar in turbo charge on Friday. The problem is with the media parroting every word Biden speaks like it is true.
This Cabal is pulling the wool over half the country. Don’t try to debate them on the facts. Lies are the facts for Biden’s followers.
As Biden sat in the Oval Office addressing the country, he was reading stats supplied but never explained to him. Not that he would understand the concept. Every time Joe talks about the economy, he inevitably goes to the enormous number, which always gets him a positive reaction. Joe always claims he has created 12 million jobs, the most incredible job creation in history. Hogwash, or whatever synonym of BS you would like to use. America lost 11 million jobs as a direct result of the Pandemic. When the masks came off, and people got dressed again, most jobs returned, accounting for the bulk of Joe’s magical 12 million. See how liars can use stats to pump themselves up.
May saw over 300K new jobs, which was above expectations. Hold on, though, as most reports in Biden’s term get revised, usually in the negative. Nobody ever sees the revisions. There is more to the raw number. Most of the new jobs are in the low-paying service sector, not in the higher-paying manufacturing, construction, or professional areas. So payroll growth was low. Wages are not keeping up with inflation. This shortfall is why people are dipping into 401k and savings accounts. It is also why credit is on the rise. People are spending but reaching for the plastic and not their cash. It is not a healthy situation; people are digging a hole just trying to keep up with Biden’s inflation. That is not a sign of a bustling economy, but Joe tries to convince us otherwise.
The two other items of note from the jobs report is unemployment is up, and the Fed will probably be increasing the Prime in June, which will hurt us all. Sorry, Joe, the only thing rosy is the garden outside the Oval.
Joe also took the opportunity to take a victory lap for saving the country and the world from the existential debt default. There is no threat as there is enough monthly tax revenue to cover all essential services. Default is more of an embarrassment than a threat. Joe and Karine Jean-Pierre bored us for weeks with claims and threats that Biden would not negotiate. He did. He caved, and Kevin McCarthy is the one who should be burning rubber and taking a lap. That is not how Biden and the media will play this bill. Lies, it is all lies, and the American people are numb to them. The whole thing is as sad as a poorly placed sandbag on stage in front of our feckless leader. Joe went down as quickly as his empty threats. Sad.
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Eight months ago, members of the Randolph Vermont Girls Volleyball team made a shot heard ’round the world. They got themselves kicked out of their locker room after objecting to a biological boy in their midst.
Make note that in this story, the transgender student made “an inappropriate comment” while the girls were changing. I think many girls are now concerned that boys will use these policies to access the girl’s locker room for nefarious reasons. Did the school administrators allow the sexual harassment of girls in an area that should be their “safe space?”
Accusations of harassment followed from both sides. Several girls were blocked from using their locker room, and the world learned about Randolph, Vermont.
Not long after, Travis Allen, the father of a daughter who complained, was fired from his coaching job at the Randolph Middle School for defending her. That, too, made the news, and the Allens eventually decided to sue.
Eight months later, the School hasn’t changed its gender-bending policies, but it did have to bend over backward and longer punish students and teachers for exercising their first amendment rights.
That settlement requires that the Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust pay $125,000 to the Allen family.
Also under the settlement, the district will reinstate Travis Allen, the father, as middle school soccer coach and will scrub any records of discipline against Travis and his daughter Blake from school records.
The school also must remove any content posted online or on bulletin boards displaying “love and support” messages to the trans-identifying student.
Note the distinction. The question is whether students and parents can express their opinion without fear of retribution or for the District – a government body – to engage in viewpoint discrimination. The School gave in, but this was not settled in court.
The District denies it did anything wrong, nor must it acknowledge wrongdoing. Still, the settlement affirms that the District accepts some error by rehiring the coach and scrubbing those infamous permanent school records.
Travis may want to keep his resume fresh with an eye toward working at a private or charter school (Mid Vermont Christian School comes to mind). Something tells me the Randolph School District will have it out for him.
This is Vermont, and the Rainbow Stasi doesn’t give ground, nor have they, but this is a win for free speech and the rights of students and teachers to express their opinions.
Phil Sechler, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, called it a “resounding victory for freedom of speech.”
“No one should lose their job or get suspended from school for voicing their opinion or calling a male a male,” Sechler said.
And Travis said he feels satisfied with the outcome.
“This settlement was a huge victory for freedom of speech. Not just for Blake and me, but for anyone who wants to voice their opinion on important topics,” he said. “This has taken a toll on our family…. It showed us who will and won’t support us even if they do not agree with our values.”
I admit to being a bit disappointed at the settlement. While the court case would have been prohibitively expensive on both sides, getting a government school to admit to viewpoint discrimination is a conclusion worth the wait. The District’s lawyers must have been smart enough to realize this and took the insurance hit while things were manageable. And I’m sure Alliance Defending Freedom – who has shepherded numerous cases just like this to their conclusion, made that clear.
We’re glad to hear they persevered and won. Too many people are intimidated out of defending their rights, another lesson the Allens learned the hard way.
Note: The headline was changed after publication. After review, it was misleading and needed a good edit.
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Indeed. I’ve now had several confirmations from a number of people that the Belknap County Republican Committee is now directly aligned with the results desired for the 2024 Primary/General elections by the Democrat founded, funded, and led Political Action Committee now known as “Citizens for Belknap”.
Sidenote: I wonder if those Republicans laying out a bunch of coin for the BCRC Mt. Washington cruise are aware of this?
Many of you regular readers know of the “Gunstock Incident” that wracked the political waters here in Belknap County. Let me try to quickly summarize it this way (as its history took place over a lot of posts and videos):
Results:
New CfB aims:
Now, NH GOP Chris Ager is aware of this situation. A couple of the former BCRC Executive Committee members went to see Chris Ager concerning this. They were summarily shuffled off to meet with Bill O’Brien (former Speaker of the NH House) and Elliot Gault (who has turned out to be NH Governor Chris Sununu’s “Fixer” in moving between Sununu’s office, his campaign staff, and being the Exec. Dir of the NH GOP – twice). They told O’Brien & Gault what was transpiring in the county and what might happen later.
They were, to be blunt (my words here) – you ousted the former BCRC leaders and now you’re upset it is being done in return. Sissies – that’s politics.
But now, WHAT are they going to do with an impending Colorado Project that has been launched right under their noses? Aren’t they aware that this is been going on for years?
Sidenote: Like Zandra Rice-Hawkins, funded by those same Colorado billionaires, who founded and have used Granite State Progress as an umbrella for multiple pop-up groups to execute Saul Alinsky’s Rule #9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself” in creating the illusion that there are many instead of just a few.
So Chris, the Democrats now have a proven design. It worked. The GAC Borg got what they wanted – they can proceed with their original plans (even if scaled down just a bit).
However, while it didn’t electorally work to perfection (YET!) in that only a couple of Democrats were elected to the Delegation but in conjunction with remaining RINOs did give the County a HUGE money gift in a higher budget – just like the Democrats wanted. And denied the NH GOP their Parental Rights bills (HB10 and SB272) for the second year in a row. I could go on but you have the picture in front of you. There’s now a model that worked. While the GAC may be off shussing on the slopes, the Democrats ARE going to expand this model and “finish them off” in due course in the 2024 election.
Or is it a disaster-in-waiting for the NH GOP? Funding, organization, and most important – the motivation. One County down – nine to go. Again, a model that works. And the NH GOP just did a faceplant when told of the [perhaps] of the avalanche that’s heading your way – and you ignored the warning.
It’s sorta like what we are seeing what’s happening here in the nation – traditional mores and norms being hollowed out from the inside out. And now you have a Trojan Horse staring you in the face. Or it is multiples from all directions? And trust me, they will enjoy it (Rule #6).
So what are you going to do, Chris? What will the NH GOP do to negate this new model that is using time-tested principles which work WONDERFULLY when the victims don’t even know what is going on?
Or will the attitude be, similar to O’Brien’s and Gault’s, merely dismissive? Until that “Oh crap” moment hits?
Remember, this type of sign was found in another Republican bastion: Merrimack.
Will that region, or others, remain that way under your watch? The Democrats are on the move because they smell chum and blood in the water.
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Who or what is a “vax-denier.” Well … a fair definition would be: (a) someone who still adheres to the traditional definition of “vaccine,” i.e. preventing infection and transmission and so does not recognize the COVID “vaccine” as a true vaccine; (b) someone able to and unafraid to think for himself who recognizes that the experimental drug being falsely marketed as a COVID “vaccine” may have very deleterious side-effects.
In other words, being called a vax-denier by the Communists and the RINOs is a badge of honor. Wear it as proudly as those dipsh*ts wore/wear their precious masks.
Repeated #COVID19 vaccination weakens the immune system, potentially making people susceptible to life-threatening conditions such as cancer, according to a new study. https://t.co/S6MSrXf8mx
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) June 1, 2023
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After years of writing about other liberty issues, Alu finally decided that it was time to address gun rights in a book. He figured that if he was going to write a book about the topic, it should be as simple as possible and so easy to digest that any child who can read could comprehend the book’s simple points. As he did with his last book, Alu borrowed from Ian Underwood’s ‘Bare Minimum Books’ style when crafting this book.
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Dear Judge Andrew Schulman, I am glad that you have raised the conflicts of interest issue with regard to the Youth Detention Center and State Officials. I also read that State Officials have been subpoenaed by attorneys for the complainants.
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In the article I read, there is mention that the AG’s office believes there are strong ethical walls in place, but I am writing to say that there most definitely are not. The argument below from the AG’s office has been used before by the office, and it is knowingly dishonest.
The attorney general’s office says it has systems in place to build strong “ethical walls” to keep them completely separate.I came across the extreme lack of ethical walls in my research into New Hampshire v Owen Labrie, the civil suit which followed it against St Paul’s School and the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School. I have written many times to the LEACT commission, to the City of Concord Solicitor, to Governor Sununu, to the Police Standards and Training Commission, to the AG’s office, to the NHCADSV, to Paul Halvorsen, to Jane Young, to Geoffrey Ward, to Russ Rilee about my concerns. The State Officials have the records. I believe you will be interested to read my discoveries and the horrific consequences. I have attached several articles – many of these have appeared in The Granite Grok as well to whom I am grateful for publishing these serious subjects. There is no doubt that a racketeering enterprise has been ongoing for decades involving police, prosecutors, DCYF, CAC, NHCADSV, police, the AG’s office (prior to John Formella) and local attorneys. It is a “Kids for Cash” scheme. It exists I believe at the YDC. It was the case for St Paul’s School and also the Diocese of Manchester. And a version of this for Dartmouth College, Phillips Exeter Academy and the FRM Ponzi Scheme as well and the Catholic Medical Center (fined $3.8 million by the US DOJ for a kick back scheme).
I believe that Gordon MacDonald, Jane Young, Geoffrey Ward, Michael Delaney, Amanda Grady Sexton, Lyn Schollett, Paul Halvorsen, and Governors including Chris Sununu, Maggie Hassan, and Jeanne Shaheen owe an explanation. From my research, I believe that David Vicinanzo, Chuck Douglas, and Shaheen & Gordon all have conflicts of interest regarding the YDC cases tied into their respective collaborations with the NHCADSV.
The NHCADSV has extraordinary conflicts of interest. It is a publicly funded agency, a lobbyist, and it receives kickbacks from civil settlements. Meanwhile, NHCADSV trains police to intercept calls and then train witnesses for criminal trials, and they work with police and prosecutors to shape the media message for the police and prosecutors.
Meanwhile, in the case of NH v Owen Labrie and NH v Griffin Furlotte, as a result of their publicity efforts, these teenagers were subjected to horrific physical and mental abuse: Griffin Furlotte was held, age 17, in pretrial detention and testified at to the abuse he received in his plea hearing. One of the teen girls testified that she was stalked, bullied, lied to, and force-fed versions of events. Owen Labrie was put into solitary confinement for close to 2 months “for his own safety” as a result of media that had been controlled by Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV, whose organization stood to gain financially and politically from a conviction and from the civil settlements and AG’s agreement which followed.
Gordon MacDonald argued for the State in the Supreme Court Appeals for Owen Labrie – something that ethically he should never have been allowed to do given that Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin was working for him at the time, had been the investigator into the School for the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation lobbied for by the NHCADSV and had investigated Owen Labrie, lying on the sworn affidavit about the SANE nurse report (which she corrected in trial).
Follow the money and the kickbacks.
My research is extensive and thorough. I am quite horrified by what I accidentally uncovered.
Kind regards,
Email to Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman
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People who know how to get elected continue demonstrating how ill-equipped they are to lead. Take the European Union, for example. They are committed to destroying modernity for what amounts to nothing. But pigs will fly before they discover how badly they’ve botched it. I’m serious about the pigs.
The fat of dead pigs, cattle and chickens is being used to make greener jet fuel, but a new study warns it will end up being worse for the planet.
Animal fats are considered waste, so aviation fuel made from the material has a much lower carbon footprint.
Demand for fuel made from animal by-products is expected to triple by 2030, with airlines leading the charge.
Pigs will fly, are flying (I suppose), but astute readers will have already worked out the flaws in the plan. If you’re not there yet, think about the war between feminists born as women and the transwoman movement. Many on both sides salute the same party flag or pray to the same secular gods, but there’s a schism in their “church.” The “Workers” aren’t united. Biological women’s rights have taken a backseat to “men pretending to be women’s” rights. TERFs vs. the new man-girl patriarchy. Sunni vs. Shia. Red Sox fans vs. Yankee fans.
There are hostilities betwixt the twain.
The green movement has its fair share of splinter groups, at least one of which can’t stop talking about what a strain livestock is on the planet. There’s an entire industry chasing fake and emitting more carbon than the animals in answer to this virtue signal. When you filter out the profiteers, there are always some die-hard green zealots left in the sieve who also want green fuels, but to make planes fly thanks to pigs, you’ll need a lot of pigs.
According to Transport & Environment, a flight from Paris to New York would need fat from 8,800 dead pigs if all the fuel came from animal sources.
Talk about unsustainable, and that’s not news. The bio-jet-fuel industry, driven by self-defeating EU climate policy, has alternatives to the alternatives, but they are worse for the environment than the real thing, as if the alternative was ever better (It’s all very deck chairs on the Titanic and the Paris Climate Accord is the iceberg).
[I]f you put on a massive extra demand source from anywhere from aviation, in this case, the industries where fat is currently being used, will have to look for alternatives. And that alternative is palm oil. So aviation indirectly, will be responsible for increasing the amount of palm oil being pulled through the European systems.”
The increased use of palm oil is linked to rising emissions as older forests which store vast amounts of carbon are cleared for new plantations.
So none of it works, and most of it is more carbon intensive so that someone can claim they tried to stop something that’s not happening and isn’t a threat if it were.
Flying pigs and greased Palm(oil). That’s the climate scam n a nutshell we could be crack by finding people to elect who may not seem electable but who have at least an ounce of common sense. But we’ll need almost as many of them as you need pigs to fly from Paris to New York.
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So this little morsel from Twitter … the Capitol Police have banned the singing of the National Anthem. If you think you are still living in a “free country” … you are in a hopeless state of denial. America ceased to be a free country in 2016, when Donald Trump was elected … because powerful people in BOTH PARTIES refused to accept that their preferred candidate lost and engaged in an … ultimately successful … soft-coup against Trump. And now there is no putting the Police State genie back in the bottle.
SHOCK: The Capitol Police refused to allow students to sing the National Anthem in U.S. Capitol explaining that, "it might offend someone/cause issues." The students were allowed to sing other less controversial songs. @SpeakerMcCarthy https://t.co/ifQbkafSiy pic.twitter.com/rl3JRqpRqs
— @amuse (@amuse) June 2, 2023
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Once again, Critical Race Theory, and its offshoot, Childism, is infesting Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
I had to take one of the Granddaughters down to Manchester for a previously planned visit by her parents as she was staying with us for a few days (we were closer in distance, so I offered). We schlepped on down, registered (they had my address for her denoting that Mom had me cleared as “the bus driver” and able to be with her medically, cooled our heels for a short time in the waiting area, and then we were escorted into an exam room. She was promptly taken away for a few minutes to have her vital measurements taken (e.g., height, weight, blood pressure). Then the “amusement” began.
I was told by one of the DH personnel that I was going to be escorted out of the exam room and that a Social Worker was going to ask me some questions.
Sidenote: yep, the thought did hit me that this going to be like on TV cop shows interrogating perps separately to see if we offered up different stories about “stuff”.
Well, that explained two things: they both (Jill and Sonja) had rainbows on their ID badges (“tell” #1) and immediately (“tell” 2) started to ask the Granddaughter, “What do you want to be called?” Not what is your name, not what is your nickname, but what do you want to be called? Not once, not three times (even after I said her name was <Xxxxxxxxx> but that we call her <Xxxxx>). I saw them “looking askance at me” after I said what her name was, but they continued to pester her, searching for a “correct” name that wouldn’t have reflected her biological sex. I was left by the politico-sexuality curbside.
The only thing that their hectoring accomplished is that she got very confused (she receives special services) even after stating her name several times; they kept trying to lead her on in getting her to use a different name. I sat there kinda, laughing as I knew that <Xxxxx> had NO clue why they were being so insistent.
But I did andwhat was going to happen next? After all, if you do a search on “Dartmouth-Hitchcock transgender,” this is one of the choices you will get:
The Dartmouth Health Transgender Medicine team is aware of the efforts to restrict the rights of trans youth to access gender affirming medical care. We want to assure our patients and their families that we remain steadfast in our commitment to providing you with the care that you seek, and the care that you deserve. Gender affirming care is grounded in science and we are proud to practice evidenced-based medicine that unequivocally leads to best physical and emotional outcomes for trans and gender diverse youth. On behalf of our entire team, we see you, we hear you, and we are here for you.
Translation: like that old song of my youth – “Money, money, money. MONey!” (no, not the ABBA song) as sexual mutilation surgery and experimenting with drugs for purposes not accredited (and sterilizing both sexes) is not “gender-affirming.” Wait until the lawsuits start coming to them in about 10-15 years when minor children become adults and find out what these kinds of willing workers led them to. But I digress.
Immediately (perhaps realizing their faux pas?), they separated the two of us by removing me from the Granddaughter and sequestering me next door, thankfully without handcuffs or leg irons. Another social worker, Jackie, came in. I can tell you that I was committing multiple micro-aggressions because I had my large format planner with me and was furiously writing notes. I think that was giving them some hints of how MY interrogation was going to go (gosh, are they now crawling the ‘Grok waiting for this post as I gave them my biz card?).
I asked, “Is this done with ALL parents – or just me”? The answer was they do this to EVERYONE, at which point I just cocked my head to the side. That’s when my suspicion was confirmed – they, like school systems, have succumbed to CRT applied to a child’s sexuality (or their perception of it): Parents are Oppressive to their own children, and children, being the oppressed, must be saved from their Parents.
I was asked, “Why are you here and not her Parents?” and I repeated what I said at the top of this post. There was another reason, but given the distrust they had already engendered, I wasn’t going to tell them the real reason (although I bet they knew but were trying to verify it – I refused to play their little head game).
They also asked what MY address was, and I announced that it was already in their system as the receptionist had it when I checked the Granddaughter in for this appointment. And then they stated that they were going to start asking various questions about the family: number of occupants, demographics, if there was illicit drug use, random sex…
Sidenote: yeah, from an organization that was working hard (and being paid well) for making sex random in a life-altering way.
…if there were firearms in the homes…you get the idea. Pumping me for information. My response to each one was, “Next question.” After about five questions, one of them exclaimed, “Remember, this is NOT a forensic interview!”. I smiled, and I told them that my role that day was that “I’m just the bus driver.” They did try with more questions, getting a bit more agitated that I wasn’t playing along with “next question” and “not my place to give you an answer – I’m just the bus driver today.”
Heh! In trying to be “neutral” and me saying little, she had let the cat out of their bag, confirming what this was all about with that “NOT a forensic interview” line – they were acting as a gatherer/pipeline for a third party. They got the idea that I knew the game. When I asked, they did tell me that they were asking similar questions of the Granddaughter; my only response was a broad smile and “Good luck with that trying to discern truth from fiction as she does have a propensity for “not always realizing what the Truth is.” I got a very perplexed and disturbed look in return.
Our ‘Grok friends in the NH Legislature will be happy to learn of this cozy private/public relationship, especially when unsuspecting parents may have no clue that they might be ratting themselves out.
I was told, after only wasting 10 minutes of their time, to go wait in the waiting room and that the Granddaughter would be out shortly. I was able to get some work done, but it was clear that the Granddaughter had no idea of what was going on as it was 50 minutes later that she came out to the waiting area. I’m betting that little she said was going to be “of use.”
Anyways, those records are going to get subpoenaed anyways. The question is, did they even do any kind of medical examination?
Well, THIS was interesting – I asked Microsoft Bing (now “AI-Powered”) the following question:
How much revenue does Dartmouth-Hitchcock make from transgender clinics?
Bing:
I’m sorry but I couldn’t find any information on the revenue that Dartmouth-Hitchcock made from transgender clinics. However, I found that the Transgender Health Program is dedicated to providing high-quality gender-affirming care to pediatric and adult patients. Their team includes experienced providers across various departments within the Dartmouth Health system. They are there to support you throughout all aspects of your gender transition.
Me:
How can surgically remove perfectly functional organs and pumping people with drugs that will cause them to be sterile be “gender-affirming”?
Bing (emphasis mine):
I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.
And it concluded that conversation and shut the window down.
Bias much? This is the same AI has given me 8 different founders of GraniteGrok (none of them me) and can’t get it’s starting date right.
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Thursday’s fall for Joe Biden is the latest in a series of trips to the deck. This one is different because someone put a sandbag on stage where anyone could have tripped over it. Over nine hundred graduates and many other speakers and guests navigated the obstacle.
Our President had the bad luck of letting a black bag of sand take him down and out. Maybe his Foster Grant Aviators don’t allow Joe to look down. It might be time for a guide dog. Too cruel? Too bad, this is serious. This man wants another term as President, and he is more suited to arts and crafts on the back porch. The irony to the aviators is that it is a word he could not come up with during his comments. He was at our Air Force Academy graduation ceremony and was at a loss for the word to describe someone who flies planes. Joe, buy a vowel. Try Pilot or Aviator!
The White House and the mainstream media are in lockstep denying our President’s mental and physical issues. Together, they also take to task anyone who challenges their position. The problem is their position is a lie. Joe Biden is not in charge of his faculties or the White House. We obviously have a group of people running this country through Biden. He is just the prop they show the country and the world.
We can blame Biden’s staff for pushing Biden to a bid for re-election. There is a group of people who are actually running this White House through Joe Biden. Joe is just the face of the Presidency and not the decision-maker. That is why he will never see a debate stage with Democrat contenders. He may even find a way to avoid one during the General. His family is even more culpable. His wife and family are guilty of elder abuse. The reason is pure greed. As long as Biden is President, the money flows. The day he exits the White House, the money stream dries up. Without President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden would not get an audience with a world power, let alone his fingers wrapped around a nine-figure check.
One of the obstacles to dealing with Joe Biden’s health and limited mental acuity is our Vice President. Kamala Harris will not fade quietly. She feels she is entitled to the Presidency, and there is nothing the Democrats can offer her as a consolation prize. The house money is on Gavin Newsom, eventually being the fill-in for Biden on the 2024 ballot. The mechanics of how this will happen are vague, but he is clearly unofficially running now for the top job. He is not qualified based on his performance in San Francisco and Sacramento, but he is the obvious choice unless the Democrats want to hedge their future on Pete Buttigieg. It is a short bench filled with bad talent in the Democrat bullpen, unlike the Republicans, who had to build an addition onto our pen.
Excuse the play on words, but it is time for Biden to fall off the campaign trail. He has fallen off everything else.
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Albany New York Medical Center Emergency Room: 1987 – The urology resident waited for the hospital administrator’s decision on whether to reattach the severed penis. Several hours prior, a psych patient managed to break open a safety razor and severe his penis at its base.
A quick-acting local surgeon put delicate clamps on the severed arteries, placed the penis on ice, and transferred the patient to the medical center.
On questioning, the patient was adamant that the penis should not be reconnected, and that seemed to be the end of it. But the hospital administrators were contacted and given the time constraint (the penis on ice would only last so long) and being concerned about the legal consequences of the patient not being mentally competent to refuse reattachment (the hospital could be sued if the patient woke up the next day wondering what happened to his penis) the order came down to reattach.
The resident physician and medical team really did not have an option. If they said no, they probably would lose their job and have a hard time finding another training program. And besides, they had the training, and not every day did an opportunity like this come along. The reluctant patient was not an issue. The anesthesiologist always won.
Most Americans want to believe that the ground-level individuals who perform the tasks of keeping them safe (Police, FBI, Military} are goodhearted folks who, in the face of their superiors ordering them to violate American civil rights, would rise and decline to participate. That is what all the Hollywood movies have been showing for years. The good FBI agent/policeman/soldier (nowadays usually a female or minority) would find a way to take down their corrupt superiors. After all, Americans are not like Nazi concentration camp guards.
The Nazi propaganda machine stoked the anti-Semite German culture, and together they were undoubtedly responsible for the concentration camp guards’ psychological makeup. Combining this propaganda-created deranged mindset and orders from their superiors with the reality that if they were not working at the camps, they would most likely die on the Russian front; is probably what motivated the guards to be complicit in the Holocaust.
The 2015-2023 Washington DC FBI/DOJ employees undoubtedly carried an anti-Trump bias {think Durham report}. Their psychological profile was birthed in their woke college classes, matured by DEI-driven FBI Quantico training, and reinforced by a progressive “State-like” propaganda-driven media. These FBI/DOJ Jason Borne wannabees had the knowledge, training, and access to the power needed to correct the American people’s mistake of electing Donald Trump {think a true insurrection}. And even if unsuccessful, their actions would hamstring the President, and above all, make sure his election did not happen again {Think in any other country treason}. The forces that created the Nazi concentration camps and brutal guards were once again in play, and the resulting events will forever be an ugly stain on America.
The release of the Durham report has put an end to any speculation about the corruption in the Washington DC swamp. The now-exposed conspiracy is so broad that it includes the FBI, the DOJ, the Obama White House, the mainstream media, and Tech Titans. The DOJ/FBI used fraudulent information to request FISA warrants, and the warrants were granted by either incompetent or complicit FISA Court Judges. Using these warrants and other bogus information {think Steele Dossier} the DOJ/FBI fabricated the Russian-Trump collusion narrative. And with no legal predicate, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein illegitimately greenlighted a Special Counsel to investigate a dually elected President of the United States.
Empowered by the “State” and fueled by their personal hate of Donald Trump, the FBI/DOJ Special Council team sought out anyone who could be used to hurt President Trump. Using Joseph Stalin’s head of the secret police philosophy {Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime}.
The FBI/DOJ bankrupted General Michael Flynn and threatened to put his son in jail if he did not plead guilty to the bogus charge of lying to an FBI officer. A vile, corrupt Federal Judge would not even let this go after the Attorney General of the United States withdrew the charges. Paul Manafort was tossed into solitary confinement {essentially tortured} as other FBI/DOJ favorable Judges stood by and allowed justice to be perverted. All Manafort and Flynn had to do was fabricate Trump-Russian collusion, and everything would go away. They refused and suffered terrible mental and physical consequences.
The list of individuals who were harassed and harmed by the illegitimate FBI /DOJ Special Council goes on and on. In the end, President Trump’s pardons were the only thing that saved the most abused American citizens from what amounted to the new American version of Stalin’s gulag.
Emboldened, these corrupt former bastions of American lawfulness moved on to intervene in the 2020 Presidential election. Other pillars of American society followed suit and refused to faithfully perform their essential duties, caving to their self-righteous depravity. The mainstream media {CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC} no longer pretended to be fair and balanced, while the FBI/DOJ manipulated the Tech titans {Facebook/Google/ Twitter} to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop. President Trump was denied access to all social media platforms. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed greater than 400 million dollars to progressive ballot harvesting. Fifty-one former intelligence agents have now been exposed as partisan liars. At the request of the Biden campaign, they signed a letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, and Biden used the lie in a Presidential debate to mislead the nation.
Even though the corrupted FBI, DOJ, the mainstream media, tech titans, and woke culture have perniciously infiltrated all aspects of American society, and things seem hopeless, the America Constitution, battered and under constant progressive attack, still holds strong.
In our darkest hour {think Churchill 1940}, there is one glimmer of hope. The Republicans have a majority in the US House of Representatives. Some incredibly brave whistle-blowers have come forth and are starting to shine a light on the FBI, DOJ, and IRS corruption, along with the Biden family grifting.
To right the ship, in 2024, Americans must unite behind and elect a constitutionally strong disruptor {Think Trump, DeSantis, or Ramaswamy}. The individual cannot be a creature of the political class {Think Sununu, Hutchinson, Pence, or Haley} because it will take an unapologetically strong individual to clean up the FBI/DOJ mess.
All senior management must go and be replaced by non-ideologues whose only loyalty is to the Constitution. To return America’s military to its former glory, the woke presidents and the leadership of all the service academies have to be replaced. Promotion using gender-blind merit needs to be mandated at all levels of the Federal government and hopefully extended to every corner of society.
In that 1987 Albany Medical Center emergency room, the entire medical team probably knew it was not the right thing to reattach the penis. But they were trained and had the ability to perform this challenging operation. And when the authorities told them to do it, there really was no pushback.
In the years 2015-23, the Washington DC, Trump-hating FBI agents /DOJ lawyers likewise were trained and had the ability to investigate and harm President Trump and his allies. When they were given the green light to practice their trade {think Nazi concentration camp guards} on otherwise helpless Americans, they did not hesitate. Protected by the Progressive State mainstream media and the Washington DC DOJ Trump-hating legal cabal, they inflicted physical, financial, personal, and reputational pain. Because just like the anesthesiologist who put the reluctant penisless patient to sleep, the swamp FBI/DOJ judicial system, one way or another, always wins.
It is hard to believe that the remedy for the corrupt mess in Washington, DC comes down to the 2024 Presidential election. But it does because only the office of the President of the United States holds the power to right the American ship!
Chose well America or say goodbye to the greatest nation the world has ever known.
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OK, here are the two last videos from the hearing last week. First is that of NH State Rep Travis O’Hara, followed by the follow-up/ending of the hearing. As I have on our GraniteGrok YouTube Channel (PLEASE, SUBSCRIBE!):
This past Friday, 5/26, was my hearing at the NH Legislative Ethics Committee. I had brought NH State Reps Harry Bean and Travis O’Hara to the Committee as they willfully and knowingly broke NH RSA 91-A (NH’s Right To Know law) and NH RSA 24:9-c & D (which governs how County Delegations (all of the NH State Reps from a given county) how to act. Both laws make it mandatory that all meetings of such public bodies MUST be publicly noticed (ad in the local paper, noticed on their website, et al) with specific “days ahead of the meeting” announcements (2 day vs 7 day notice) as well as who is entitled to call emergency meetings (he did but wasn’t entitled to in trying to “meld” the two together).
Gosh, can we “normal” people do that same thing to the laws that he passes that we must obey or go to prison?
This is Travis O’Hara’s testimony which was, if you boil it down, somebody else was supposed to do that noticing, not my job (a common theme among those I issued complaints against) even as he is the Clerk of the Belknap County Delegation and part of his responsibility is to make sure proper noticing is done according to RSA 24:9-d.
Takeaways:
And the end of the hearing:
I also received from the Ethics Committee (under an RTK, ‘natch) what the defendants had sent in response to my complaint. Well, actually, not THEIR actual responses but their common (to Bean and O’Hara) lawyer: Paul Fitzgerald. As we found out during Rep. Bean’s testimony, Fitzgerald is not only Bean’s personal lawyer but also “the lawyer of record” for Belknap County. 1) Conflict of interest (Bean’s protestations aside), and 2) Nice to see, once again, that my tax dollars are being used against my self-interest in trying to, according to Article 8 of the NH Constitution, hold my elected representatives accountable for what they do – or what they have chosen not to do.
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Dr. Jordan Peterson is one of the most staunch defenders of men and masculinity. Peterson was living a relatively quiet life in Canada, teaching psychology and coaching both women and men, when his university and country decided to attempt to compel his speech.
Suddenly the Canadian post-modernists, including Justin Trudeau, demanded others refer to them by their preferred pronouns. Peterson refused. Under the false pretense of personal respect and politeness, these people were making a power play, and he saw right through it. Rather than simple courtesy, they wanted compulsion and the same assumed authority of royalty. What difference is there between being told you must call one “his or her majesty” versus “he/him,” “she/her,” or “they/them”? Essentially there is none.
Furthermore, Peterson is classically trained in psychology while also having an insatiable appetite for learning. His interests include everything from art to history to sociology to environmental concerns (having been tapped by the United Nations to assist in developing data-driven responses to their climate change initiative). As a self-respecting clinician, he understands the value of data, scientific research, and the necessity of rigor applied to the scientific method.
A serious man and defender of what is true, Peterson is not easily manipulated by cultural trends.
As a student of history, he saw the slow march of communism lurking behind the social justice warrior advances in the West. Not one to guess, Peterson reads voluminously and thinks in great depth about issues in order to offer insights and commentary aimed at leading others to reasonable conclusions. Though often the smartest person in the room, Peterson is anything but a know-it-all. His temperament is genial, and his disposition, sometimes stern and other times sensitive, allows listeners a genuine look into the man. Though cognizant of his shortcomings, Peterson isn’t one to fall back on them as an excuse to extract social credit or demand sympathy from others as a ruse to take political power. He would much rather demand more of himself in the service of others. This combination of factors has built a character that is unafraid to take on the kaleidoscope of threats to western culture and values, no matter the cost.
Jordan Peterson is a man who doesn’t just wear the uniform but fulfills his duty. He is a man of principle and truth interwoven by integrity, unwilling to compromise, and with the courage to take a stand against powerful foes who would strip him of his essential manhood if only he would let them.
He won’t.
The attacks against Peterson came slowly at first. His colleagues issued a public denunciation of his unwillingness to play the pronoun charade. He was then interviewed by so-called journalists who used their hi-profile and well-funded platforms to try and paint him as an atavistic misogynist and bigot.
He is anything but.
Though the consummate gentleman Mr. Peterson found himself on the receiving end of attacks by feminists who attempted to put him in his place only to learn he is not one to be trifled with. One interview with BBC darling Cathy Newman was a master class in defending one’s own manhood against an ideologue who prefers cunning and word games to the pursuit of truth. Though pushed to the limits of his patience, Peterson calmly parries her repeated attempts to put words in his mouth or straw-man his positions while trying to embarrass or humiliate him. Instead, she is made famous for being taken down by one of the world’s leading intellectuals, like a kitten attempting to wrestle a lion.
In yet another attempted take-down, Peterson is interviewed by a similarly demure English-woman working for Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ) online who tries the same tactic as Mrs. Newman only to come away man-handled by the clinician who shows no compunction about dismantling poorly reasoned nor weakly supported claims in the presence of a lady. He knows his character and reputation are at stake but doesn’t make the mistake of believing he needs to be nice in order to keep them, and he certainly isn’t willing to walk out on the truth in order to make concessions for better treatment by a social class bending toward insanity.
Jordan Peterson is a man who understands his essential manliness is critical to his mission.
To all of the men reading this, we can’t all be Jordan Peterson, but we can learn from and be like him when facing the slings and arrows of an enemy who has enumerated his tactical style and made clear the rules don’t apply to them.
One thing that does apply is the truth, and the truth cannot be compromised. Its very nature is uncompromising because it is fully integrated and immovable in that it is true.
The left is feathering its attire with any number of distracting splashes of color and flickering lights intended to disarm, manipulate or attract you. It has built its castle on sand made out of lies. It will play victim or play nice and demand pity in exchange for power. It will sloganeer and slander, and if it can’t kill you with cunning masked as kindness, it will drop the act and go on the offensive using scorched earth tactics ranging from mass media mind-control to misuse of law enforcement to violent riots, property destruction, and even murder.
In other words, it will masquerade as angels of light before revealing its demonic nature attempting to take your soul and steal your manhood if only you will let it.
Will you?
I hope not. We need you, your courage, and your authentic masculinity now more than ever.
Act like men.
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Newsweek just reported a ‘huge win’ for Ron DeSantis because a particular judge was assigned to a particular case to which he’s a party. Does anyone else see the problem here? If it matters which judge hears a case, then it means that the answers to the legal questions, in that case, aren’t to be found in the law.
They are to be found in the judge who presides.
In case you’ve ever wondered what it means to live under ‘the rule of law,’ this is pretty much the opposite.
We pretend that what judges do is deduction: Here are the laws, here are the facts, and here is the conclusion that must follow logically from those laws and facts.
All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates must be mortal.
But what they actually do is go in the other direction: Here is the conclusion I want to reach, here are the facts I wish to consider, and here are the laws (and interpretations of those laws) that rationalize the conclusion.
Socrates may be immortal. After all, corporations are legally persons, and corporations may be immortal, so some persons may be immortal. And Socrates is a person.
When the Red Queen said, ‘Sentence first, verdict afterwards’, it was supposed to be a fictional example of comically illogical behavior.
Its modern judicial equivalent — ‘Conclusion first, justification afterwards’ — is just as illogical. Unfortunately, it’s not fictional. And it’s not comical.
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It’s time to hide the donuts … and the Doritos … and the ice cream … and anything else edible … because the FAT MAN returneth. Chris Christie is going to run for President AGAIN.
Yeah, right … a man who obviously can’t stop himself from consuming the equivalent of an entire grocery store aisle of junk food at each of his no doubt innumerable daily feeding frenzies is going to “stop Trump.” What a joke … the Fat Man running for President AGAIN is only going to HELP TRUMP by further splitting the anti-Trump vote. Indeed, I am sure that Trump welcomes the FAT MAN to the race.
The Fat Man is as much a narcissist as the Sun King. As is the case with the Sun-King’s “candidacy” it’s not really about “stopping Trump”it’s about promoting his brand to set up a post-2024 grift.
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Journalism has often been referred to as the Fourth Estate — critical to keeping the three branches of Government in check. But what happens when a State’s public interest journalists are no longer empowered to keep the three branches of Government in check? When they are replaced by “influencers” who act as agents for law enforcement?
Where they are censored completely or else given talking points or buzz terms by NGOs secretly working on behalf of and in collusion with elected officials, police, prosecutors, or the Federal Government itself?
Eight years ago, New Hampshire Public Radio sent Paige Sutherland to cover the criminal trial of New Hampshire v Owen Labrie. Like other journalists, Paige Sutherland tweeted live updates from the trial. Many years later, she was to discover that her tweets had been included as an exhibit for a motion to seek restrictions for media access. Other journalists attending the trial did not have their tweets included in the motion. She was singled out, and she was unaware.
Paige Sutherland wasn’t writing for a gossip magazine or an online publication reliant on clickbait and # engagement. She was reporting for New Hampshire’s Public Radio station — the one that New Hampshire’s citizens are supposed to be able to rely upon for truthful, unbiased reporting. The public has a right of access to criminal court proceedings. When members of the public can’t attend, they rely on journalists to report what’s going on, and they assume the journalists to be honest.
There was nothing harmful in Paige Sutherland’s tweets, nothing sensational. She was merely reporting live statements of the State’s witness, an anonymous Jane Doe (later known as Chessy Prout), whose legal team had brought attorneys, victims rights activists, media specialists and influencers to the trial after introductions and recommendations made by Concord Police.
The media restriction was backed by an elected public official for the City of Concord, whose non-profit had an unlawful interest in restricting the media for political and financial gain; to serve the interests in her organization’s partnership with the Department of Justice, Department of Education, Department of Defense, the White House “Not Alone” task force, Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s and Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s election campaigns.
I came across the motion and approval by Judge Larry Smukler in 2021/2022 in my research into the trial. A tweet from Paige Sutherland indicated that it was the first time she’d heard about it.
In an article in the Concord Monitor following this motion in August 2015, the following excerpts are noteworthy.
Amanda Grady Sexton, public policy director for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, pointed to the dangers of live reporting, noting that reporters “don’t have that opportunity for editors to weigh in on important journalistic decisions.”
“It is very likely that things are being published that wouldn’t have otherwise made it to print because a discussion would have taken place about what is the fair thing to report,” she said, adding, “Victims are watching and seeing what this very courageous teen is being subjected to. And I’m afraid this is a deterrent, and that’s really heartbreaking.”
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On Thursday, the judge in the case, Larry Smukler, issued an order limiting the number of reporters who can “broadcast” from the court.
Grady Sexton, who is attending the Labrie trial and keeping tabs on the reporting on it, said she hopes the attention starts a broader dialogue about how best to cover similar sensitive cases. …..
“We’re about to have the whole world’s eyes on New Hampshire during the Kibby trial, involving another juvenile sexual assault victim, and we as a community need to come together to have a discussion about best practices for the courts and the media,” Grady Sexton said. “We have an opportunity to set the tone for the national press about our expectations.”
Another document in the Merrimack County Superior Court records for the trial show an instruction granting exclusive TV access to WMUR.
Amanda Grady Sexton’s husband, Adam Sexton, is the political director of WMUR and the reporter who broadcast Owen Labrie’s mugshot following his arrest warrant on July 16, 2014, in the middle of the Dartmouth Sexual Assault Summit introduced by Congresswoman Ann Kuster.
On June 1, 2016, a lawsuit was filed against St Paul’s School: Does v St Paul’s (aka Prout/Does v St Paul’s School). The lawsuit, per an affidavit signed by Michael Delaney, who was legal counsel for St Paul’s School at the time, was given to Jeremy Blackman at the Concord Monitor, Susan Zalkind at Vice Media, and NBC Today Show. Jeremy Blackman had also tweeted from the criminal trial. Susan Zalkind had reported extensively from it.
These journalists were seeking comment from Michael Delaney on the suit against St Paul’s School, but he was unable to obtain a copy because the courts had closed. Jeremy Blackman of the Concord Monitor sent him his copy and said that he’d been given it by “a source.” The lawsuit was filed by Steven J Kelly Esq, Steven D Silverman Esq, and Chuck Douglas Esq.
Steven J Kelly Esq & Amanda Grady Sexton wrote this guide to Pretrial publicity (paid for with a grant from the DOJ) — documenting their work to influence the Associated Press; their work to train police, prosecutors, investigators, witnesses and to tailor a media strategy for these.
In their bios they list their work with lawmakers, including Governors, Senators, and members of Congress. Amanda Grady Sexton’s bio also includes praise she received in Politico Magazine in 2016 for being one of
ncvli-newsletter-pretrial-publicityfriend-and“the most plugged-in activists and elected officials” in NH, and the Boston Globe called her one of NH’s “most desirable endorsements for candidates seeking the Presidency.”
Steven J Kelly Esq had been introduced to NH v Owen Labrie by Laura L Dunn Esq, who’d been recommended to the Prout family by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin several months before the criminal trial. Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin’s budget for the investigation was approved by the City of Concord Council. Amanda Grady Sexton is Chair of the City of Concord Council’s public safety committee to whom the Concord Police Chief reports. The city also approves payments to witnesses for Grand Jury.
Earlier in the year, in March 2016, Owen Labrie was put into solitary confinement for his own safety following a tweet from Susan Zalkind saying she’d run into New England’s most notorious sex offender, sparking police investigation of bus records. These revealed he’d missed his strict curfew of 5pm-8am on a handful of occasions due to commuting from Vermont to Boston for classes. Amanda Grady Sexton wrote a statement on the NHCADSV site to thank Judge Larry Smukler for revoking Owen Labrie’s bail. Susan Zalkind made TV appearances about her achievement.
Unlike Paige Sutherland, who was a journalist for public radio and had a duty to report honestly in the public interest, the question has to be asked as to whether Susan Zalkind qualified as a journalist at all.
Was she, in fact, an influencer or an agent for the police and the NHCADSV? Did she violate the Fourth Amendment? Was she sent by the NHCADSV, Concord Police or Prosecutors, upon suspicion by them that Owen Labrie had violated his curfew hours, to confirm this for them and thus allow them to revoke his bail?
“Finally, it calms down a bit, and there’s just the one man with the Rubik’s cube, screaming, and I introduce myself,” Zalkind said in an interview with Boston Public Radio. “I said hello, Owen, I kind of have to introduce myself, I’m a reporter, I’ve covered your trial for Vice [News]. I did that, and I kind of waited to see where it would go from there.”
Zalkind expected Labrie to recoil and dismiss her, but he didn’t. “He moved over very politely, so I could sit down, and so there I am sitting down next to him…and I asked him what he was up to, where is [was] going,” she said.
“At the time, he was worried, because the train was stopped, because of this guy with his arm stuck, so he was worried about making curfew, but at the time it was conceivable to me that he would make it on time. I didn’t report that he had broken his curfew, it didn’t raise eyebrows to me that he had, it might have been a tight call, but that’s not what my story was about.”
Zalkind tweeted out a few quotes from her interview, wrote up a piece for Vice News, and waited for reactions. One unexpected response came from a detective from the police force in New Hampshire, Julie Curtin. Curtin launched a full-scale investigation which revealed that Labrie had been making a habit of violating his curfew. After an expedited hearing, Labrie’s bail was revoked, and the 20-year-old was sent to jail.
The lady doth protest too much — “I didn’t report that he had broken his curfew……wrote up a piece for Vice News, and waited for reactions. One unexpected response came from a detective from the police force in New Hampshire, Julie Curtin.”
A couple of months later, Susan Zalkind was the lucky recipient of the leaked lawsuit against St Paul’s School, which led to a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School with Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin as the main investigator. It also led to a contract for the NHCADSV with St Paul’s School. Who paid Vice Media for Susan Zalkind’s coverage?
Who decided that it was OK for Susan Zalkind of Vice Media to cover the trial but had issues with NHPR’s Paige Sutherland’s live tweets?
In August 2016, Michael Delaney, acting as counsel for St Paul’s School, filed a response to the June 1 lawsuit in which he stated that Steven D Silverman Esq had been suspended by DC Bar in 2014 for using media to influence the judicial outcome in Doe v Cabrera.
Later in August 2016, NBC Today Show featured Chessy Prout and her family, who publicly revealed their names for the first time on national TV.
In March 2018, Susan Zalkind promoted a “memoir” by Chessy Prout and Boston Globe reporter Susan Zalkind with an introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster. She was effectively working for them all as their publicist while also working for the Concord Police and NHCADSV as an agent, a spy, and an informant.
In July 2019, Amanda Grady Sexton, the NHCADSV, and elected officials in New Hampshire, including Congresswoman Ann Kuster, launched a social media and phone campaign to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie upon his release from jail.
“Why is ABC giving convicted rapist Owen Labrie a platform to claim his innocence? As the judge in his case stated, Owen is ‘a very good liar.’ As Owen stated himself: ‘You deny until you die.’ #MeToo #NOMORE #OwenLabrie #IHaveARightTo,” a portion of the coalition’s tweet read.
That tweet and a series of other social media posts began a conversation that quickly caught the attention of national victims rights groups to include Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE), National Network to End Domestic Violence, End Rape On Campus, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, NO MORE, and Love is Respect. In addition to those organizations, coalitions in Mississippi, Montana and Colorado; several New Hampshire survivors; U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster and state representatives continue to weigh in with their own posts and calls for the network to rethink its decision.
How odd — Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV were only too happy for Susan Zalkind of Vice Media, their agent & spy, to sidle up to him on a subway and report her conversation with him so they could get him arrested for curfew violations. They were also very happy to plaster his face all over the news but complained that they shouldn’t have to see it unless it was under their terms — where they could get away with comparing their Harlequin Romance-style fantasy rapist to an Isis terrorist, Brett Kavanaugh or Donald Trump.
Even convicted felons have first amendment rights, except in New Hampshire, where neither the first amendment nor the fourth amendment is respected by publicly elected officials, police, prosecutors or even judges. They do not respect independent public interest journalism. It’s a pity because one day, they might need honest Fourth Estate reporting for themselves.
What are the consequences?
In October 2019, Professor David Bucci of Dartmouth College committed suicide.
His wife cited the media coverage in Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth in which he was named 31 times, as a possible cause of his downward spiral. He’d been accused, in a lawsuit filed by Steven J Kelly & Chuck Douglas, of knowing of sexual misconduct in his department and failing to report it. He claimed he had no knowledge but was denied the right to speak for himself. A media grant from Times Up Legal Defense Fund/National Women’s Legal Center paid for the pretrial coverage.
In May 2023, Michael Delaney formally withdrew his application for a lifetime judicial position on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
His withdrawal followed criticism of his representation of St Paul’s School and allegedly forcing Chessy Prout to reveal her identity behind her “Doe” status in her family’s civil suit against St Paul’s School. Despite Michael Delaney’s explanations, he was effectively canceled by the Prout family with Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell behind them — publicly shamed in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee now have records from New Hampshire’s State Witness & erstwhile “survivor” mascot, Chessy Prout, alleging Delaney (a former AG) tampered with witnesses for the State and that Amanda Grady Sexton informed Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle of this tampering and that Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle allowed the witnesses to give testimony anyway (one of them, Andrew Thomson, being the son of Governor Maggie Hassan’s legal counsel, Lucy Hodder who teaches at UNH).
Had the Merrimack County Superior Court not restricted access to the trial of NH v Owen Labrie; had Amanda Grady Sexton not been involved in making editorial decisions; had WMUR not been the only TV station allowed access; had Susan Zalkind of Vice Media not been favored over Paige Sutherland for NHPR then:
Perhaps Michael Delaney’s judicial nomination wouldn’t have fallen foul — it might never have made it to the starting gate if an honest reporter from NHPR had been allowed to report on the prosecutor’s interference with the cross-examination of Andrew Thomson.
Perhaps the judicial outcome of NH v Owen Labrie would have been different.
Perhaps Owen Labrie would not have been put in solitary confinement for his own safety.
Perhaps the lawsuit against St Paul’s School would have had a different outcome or not even be filed at all.
Perhaps the NHCADSV would not have got a contract with the school.
Perhaps Owen Labrie’s appeals might not have been denied.
Perhaps AG Gordon MacDonald wouldn’t have found the need to hide files of corrupt police officers.
Perhaps there wouldn’t have been a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into the School with a decision made behind closed doors to keep it private from the public who paid for it.
Perhaps Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin wouldn’t have been transferred to Epping Police Department.
Perhaps Amanda Grady Sexton and Congresswoman Ann Kuster wouldn’t have needed to violate the first amendment to shut down a citizen’s right to speak for himself on TV.
Perhaps Professor David Bucci might not have been driven to suicide.
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Vermontistan’s hoplophobic Marxist Mullahs continue to notch wins in their war against the Bill of Rights, while so-called Republican Gov Phil Scott can’t even be bothered to pretend he’s interested in protecting them.
The plan requires a 72-hour waiting period to purchase a firearm, it calls for the safe home storage of guns, and it expands the use of risk prevention orders.
Scott says he has strong concerns that the waiting period is unconstitutional, but he allowed the bill to become law without his signature because he says the issue will likely be settled in federal court.
While Vermont Democrats make public safety shadow puppets, Gov. Phil figures it’s okay to take a knee and hope the courts will shine a light he can’t be bothered to bring to bear. It’s a missed opportunity.
The Dem majority legislature would likely override any veto, but that’s the point. Much like the poorly conceived and unpopular Heat Standard legislation, you could have made them double down on the gun grab. By abrogating your duty, both political (as the de facto figurehead of your state Republican party) and constitutional (you swore an oath, dumbass), you’ve given the left a free ride further down the slippery slope on the notion that millions of dollars and years in court that the right judge on the right day might agree with you.
A veto might not have changed the inevitability of passage via override, but not one Democrat had to double down before their constituents over the whittling away of their rights. You abandoned those optics, and Vermont Republicans would be right to wonder what else they will be asked to surrender.
As a friend, author, and ‘Grok blogger Ian Underwood reminds us,
Justice Thomas rightly noted in Bruen that the kinds of restrictions that have been placed on the right to keep and bear arms are simply not applied to other constitutional rights. …
A right is fundamental. It’s something you have simply by virtue of being human, and it is, as the Declaration of Independence says, inalienable. It can’t be taken from you or even given away because it’s part of who you are.
When do the Democrats roll out the 72-hour waiting period to exercise your right to free speech or assembly? Will there be a form you must fill out or a pencil-pusher to appease mandatory training and speech red flag laws? Too absurd?
All the liberties lost during COVID should be fresh in the minds of the masses —religious, assembly, and association. Many lost their body autonomy to people who made their name fighting for a woman’s right to her own. Free speech was likewise assaulted as people who turned out to be right about almost everything had that speech flagged as misinformation to be censored at the direction of the government on social media.
Criminals don’t care about waiting periods, and red flag laws are not passed in the interests of the vulnerable; they are a selectively applied political weapon wielded clumsily by partisans responsible for understaffed local law enforcement. An idea that, not that long ago, would have inspired outrage in Vermont. These days you can’t even get your Republican governor to try and put some political points on the board.
HT | WSHU.org
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Here in the Upper Valley the leadership among the local churches has a variety of approaches to leading their congregants, so far as teaching the Bible and sharing the gospel. Some churches and their leaders take a traditional approach with acoustic hymns and worship styles followed by line by line exegesis of the scripture.
Others prefer fully amplified music with radio friendly worship songs followed by topical preaching intended to help you live a better life with God, while others blend a mixture of musical and teaching styles. All of them are concerned with faithfully carrying out their calling – to reach and save the lost and to edify the body of believers.
Despite their numerous denominational, doctrinal and stylistic differences, one thing they all seem to agree on is avoiding politics in the pulpit. Why is that?
Though the very first amendment offered in the Bill of Rights clearly protects the freedom of speech and the right to redress grievances, the modern understanding bends toward the “wall of separation between church and state” written by Thomas Jefferson to the Dansbury Baptist church in Connecticut, which he meant as a protection for the minority religious body (Baptists) from the state sanction Congregationalist church. Rather than offering liberty to churches it’s been used to silence them in political matters.
Added to this pressure to remain politically neutral is the tax exemption clause for 501(c)(3) religious organizations. The stipulations disallowing churches or religious bodies from enjoy tax exemption are:
Clearly the federal government (i.e. state) has no problem influencing the liberties protected for the church and its leaders on the basis of money, and herein lies the rub. This is the equivalent of moral bribery conferring power to the state by quieting the likeliest source of its accountability – the faithful men (and women) who are called to minister to the culture via the pulpit.
This two-pronged approach to curbing political speech from within the largest source of cultural persuasion has effectively neutered the call from God to “be the light of the world” (Matthew 7:14), a light called to “have nothing to do with the fruitless evil deeds of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).
Having spoken to and confronted several local church leaders, ones who are keenly aware of the Marxist based culture war, it stuns me how quickly they trot out the notion of avoiding politics, either in the pulpit or outside of it. One chooses to avoid it by saying it’s not their calling, while another says the great commission to “make disciples of all the nations” is intended to be fulfilled by singular one-on-one evangelism. Still another leans on the Calvinist doctrine of predestination with a shrug, since it’s bound to happen. Perhaps the most prominent church in my area simply ignores any admonition while walking the hi-wire of political correctness in designer shoes set to a Top 40 beat.
Meanwhile, child grooming explodes, God’s command to be fruitful and multiply is assaulted, and women are left alone to defend themselves yet again.
It seems the cleverness of the enemy reveals itself again by getting those called to “be strong and courageous and act like men” (Joshua 1:9; 1 Corinthians 16:13) in the face of evil to instead punt in order to stay in the game and keep the butts in the seats.
Jesus said, “You can’t serve both God and money.” (Matthew 6:24) yet somehow the American church at large, including here in the Upper Valley, has figured a way to defy that edict.
A closer look at the prohibition for 501(c)(3) puts primary focus on political campaigns and candidates. Alliance Defending Freedom has sought to remind churches of both their right and their calling to speak truth to power with Pulpit Freedom Sundays by encouraging their preaching on political issues. “This is designed to provoke a response from the IRS that would permit a constitutional challenge to the IRS regulations. To date, the IRS has not taken any formal action against participating pastors, and no legal challenge has been filed.”
Acts of provocation are a staple among the political left, thanks to Alinsky’s urging:
Rule #13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Drag Queen story hour, Dylan Mulvaney, Target’s pride displays in the front of store, street protestors stopping cars on the way to work, classic works of art being destroyed, pride flags being hung on state buildings, and schools allowing porn among children are all types of mid-level violence intended to provoke.
Yet the leaders of the churches in my area remain passive, as if to model the lamb who was slain.
Ironically they forget He is also likened as a lion, who provoked the political and religious leaders of His time by confronting them with authentic manliness by beating money changers in the temple, confronting tax-collectors, and rebuking churches for being overly tolerant of sexual immorality.
Yes, He turned the other bloodied cheek, He wore the crown of thorns, and doesn’t bruise a withered reed.
He is also coming back to sort out the sheep from the goats, and the goats include the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the adulterers, liars and…
…the cowardly.
Act like men.
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This is worth reading, sharing, and saving, from Dr. Peter Mucullough’s Substack. Written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1943), it explores how “the German people—in spite of their vast education, culture, and intellectual achievements—had fallen so far from reason and morality.” Sound familiar?
Bonhoeffer engaged in an intellectual search for understanding on the question of how these people could allow that guy (Hitler) to rise to power. Fair question. He concluded that it was stupidity. Otherwise, good and well-meaning people with capable intellects mislead. Useful idiots, if you prefer the “something so stupid only a smart person would fall for it” sort of thing.
We’ve seen and heard a lot of stupid in the past few years, most of it linked to the pandemic, but there is no shortage of a wide range of topics in Modern America that coincidentally lead otherwise intelligent people to accept the sort of authoritarian rule that Bonhoeffer was trying to explain.
Give Dr. McCullough the clicks for the full read here, but I wanted to whet your appetite with a few pull quotes.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than wickedness. Evil can be protested against, exposed, and, if necessary, it can be prevented by force. Evil always harbors the germ of self-destruction by inducing at least some uneasiness in people. We are defenseless against stupidity. Nothing can be done to oppose it, neither with protests nor with violence. Reasons cannot prevail. …
In contrast to evil, the stupid person is completely satisfied with himself. When irritated, he becomes dangerous and may even go on the attack. More caution is therefore required when dealing with the stupid than with the wicked. Never try to convince the stupid with reasons; it’s pointless and dangerous. …
One gets the impression that stupidity is often not an innate defect, but one that emerges under certain circumstances in which people are made stupid or allow themselves to be made stupid. …
A closer look reveals that the strong exertion of external power, be it political or religious, strikes a large part of the people with stupidity. Yes, it seems as if this is a sociological-psychological law. The power of some requires the stupidity of others. Under this influence, human abilities suddenly wither or fail, robbing people of their inner independence, which they—more or less unconsciously —renounce to adapt their behavior to the prevailing situation. …
Having become an instrument without an independent will, the fool will also be capable of all evil, and at the same time, unable to recognize it as evil. Here lies the danger of diabolical abuse. Through this, a people can be ruined forever.
Powerful stuff from 70 years ago that shines a bit of light on (again) a number of current trends, the pandemic response not the least of them. A symptom of the larger disease fed by fear and delivered by the same people who swear they are our saviors—a warning whose remedy is neither simple nor easy.
But it is also quite clear here that it is not an act of instruction but only an act of liberation that can overcome stupidity. In doing so, one will have to accept the fact that, in most cases, real inner liberation is only possible after outer liberation has taken place.
They may not see the light until well after the light of much-needed chaos has cracked the once impenetrable darkness. It might be a vaccine death (COVID) or rolling blackouts (Climate Cult), unmitigated crime (gun control), systemic poverty (urban education/welfare), the crush of illegals (border policy), hyperinflation (monetary policy), attacks on US soil (foreign policy), empty shelves (economic policy), or any number or combination of things.
Whatever the catalyst, it needs to have a measurable personal impact – a lived experience – on the individual or group to break them out of the trance of whatever mass formation psychosis has trapped their otherwise capable mind—the classic road to Damascus moment.
Elsewise, they remain stupid.
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