The FBI is saying a terrorist attack is imminent.
OF COURSE A TERRORIST ATTACK IS IMMINENT BECAUSE THEY KEEP THE BORDER WIDE OPEN AND MILLIONS HAVE INVADED!
Do you want to know why this is the messaging right now?
Because FISA is up for reauthorization and they need maximum… pic.twitter.com/Vi0hWndNwc
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 8, 2024
BY: SEAN DAVIS
MARCH 29, 2023
8 MIN READ
At some point, instead of hoping the poison vine will produce fine wine, you just have to acknowledge reality and let it die.
SEAN DAVIS
VISIT ON TWITTER @SEANMDAV
I had high hopes for Twitter under Elon Musk’s watch. After all, how could the tech giant get any worse after banning the New York Post, which was founded by Alexander Hamilton himself, for the crime of reporting on possible corruption of the family of a leading presidential candidate in the middle of a close election?
We now have an answer: by banning conservative Christians for reporting on the horrific mass shooting perpetrated by an apparent “trans” person who hated conservative Christians so much she stormed a Christian school in Nashville, opened fire, and murdered three 9-year-old children and three adult staff.
What happened in Nashville was not just another story on the news. We’ve worshipped at Covenant Presbyterian. Dear friends of ours work there, and children we’ve known and loved for years attend school there. We wept throughout the day on Monday, desperately praying and waiting for news of our friends. And when the dust cleared, and facts began to emerge about the demonic evil that was visited upon that school on Monday, we reported the facts about what happened.
One of those facts was that the shooting came just days ahead of a planned “Trans Day of Vengeance,” an event planned by an outfit called the Trans Radical Activist Network.
“I am glad I was in the Stonewall Riot,” the group’s web page announcing the event states. “I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, ‘My god, the revolution is here.’”
Pictures of radical trans activists sporting T-shirts that state “Trans rights… or else” and feature outlines of guns proliferated on social media throughout the week, making clear exactly what these activists desired to happen.
Well, it happened on Monday at a quiet Christian school atop a hill in the middle of Nashville. And by Wednesday afternoon I was banned by Twitter from accessing my account for reporting on the shooting, for reporting on the Trans Day of Vengeance which may well have inspired the cold-blooded murderer, and for sharing a link to a news story from The Daily Wire, another conservative news outlet based in Nashville.
Twitter claimed my reporting violated Twitter’s terms of service and that I had personally threatened, incited, glorified, or expressed a desire for violence. Such a claim isn’t just false; it’s defamatory. Twitter published a notice on my feed (which I can no longer even access) stating I violated its rules. Again, such a claim is false and defamatory. Twitter has a right to ban me for whatever reason it wants, but it doesn’t have a right to viciously lie about me. See the tweet and Twitter’s e-mails to me for yourself:
Ella Irwin, the head of Twitter’s Orwellian “trust and safety group,” claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that the tech company wasn’t banning accounts for reporting on the Trans Day of Vengeance. Instead, she claimed, the company was merely trying to remove scheduling and logistics information for the event, lest people gather and commit violence. She claimed no accounts were being banned or punished for reporting on the event. That is also false. (I would include links to Irwin’s tweets so you can read them in full context, but unfortunately, I’m banned from accessing the service, so you’ll have to take my word for it or search for them yourself).
Irwin and others cling to the facade of safety: We’re only doing this so as not to inflame people, lest they join the Trans Day of Vengeance event. Let’s be clear about this rationale: It is a lie meant to suffocate both the facts and those precious few of us who dare to report them. It is no different than banning reporting of the Holocaust for fear it might incite someone to launch a new one, or banning police and accusing them of murder because they posted a wanted poster with the picture of a murderer on the loose.
What the people behind this censorship are truly worried about is the prospect of the American people understanding the true evil underlying transgender ideology and the danger it poses to the country and its survival. They don’t want you to understand how every major institution of power in this country bends its knee to the radical trans movement, tells its adherents they are victims, and tells them that anyone who utters the verboten truth that boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys wishes to commit genocide against the so-called trans community.
What do you think is the logical conclusion of telling delusional, mentally ill people being surgically mutilated and pumped full of hormones that Christians and conservatives want to commit “genocide” against them? That’s the question you’re not allowed to ask because they know how you’ll answer it because you watched with your own eyes what happened in Nashville on Monday.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican member of Congress, was banned from accessing her account for highlighting the radical trans activists’ “Day of Vengeance.” Luke Rosiak, an investigative reporter for The Daily Wire whose article I linked in my tweet, was banned from accessing his account. Tom Elliott, who runs the invaluable media clip service Grabien, was banned from accessing his account. I am banned from accessing my account unless I delete a tweet that Twitter itself has already removed from my feed. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck, and if it walks like targeted ideological censorship of conservatives for the crime of reporting facts and acknowledging biological reality, then it’s probably targeted ideological censorship of conservative reporters, publishers, and even elected representatives.
As someone who regularly uses Twitter to both publish and consume the news, I was hopeful Musk would be able to clean out the rot inside Twitter once he took over. I hoped he would make good on his promise to restore Twitter as a free-speech platform. I even ponied up the $8-per-month fee for his Twitter Blue service because I wanted to support his efforts. A lot of good that did.
It’s now abundantly clear that despite spending a whopping $44 billion to acquire the company, Musk isn’t in charge of it. I don’t know who actually is, but nobody who believes in free speech would spend the days after a mass shooting banning Christians, conservatives, and prominent reporters and news publications for having the audacity to report on what happened and what might have caused it. After all, you can judge a tree by its fruit.
Nearly a year ago to the day, another reporter for The Federalist was also banned from accessing his account unless he deleted a tweet deemed offensive by Twitter’s Bolshevik censors. John Davidson was banned for tweeting that Rachel Levine (formerly Richard Levine), a high-ranking Biden administration official who claims to be transgender, is indeed a man, and that no amount of lipstick and dress-up can change biological reality. He linked to a story on the topic from The Babylon Bee, a popular Christian conservative satire site. His account was locked, and he’s been banned from accessing it ever since. Are you noticing a trend? Our pleas for his account to be unlocked fell on deaf ears.
When a rage-filled and mentally ill “trans” person shoots up a school, the media blame Republicans, or the NRA, or gun makers, or anyone other than the shooter and her warped ideology. They turn the victims into villains, and they turn the murderer into a martyr.
Twitter responded no differently. It didn’t ban us and lock us out of our accounts for lying, but for telling the truth. Why? Because the facts of Monday’s mass murder are fatal to the left-wing narrative, and the only thing the left wing and its myriad institutions in government, business, and media care about is the narrative. The narrative must be protected at all costs, even if it means lying about the facts and those of us who report them.
No amount of lofty rhetoric or grandiose plans from Musk about his love of free speech and facts can compete with the cold, hard reality that the service he owns doesn’t just oppose free speech; Twitter detests it. The totalitarian drones who spend their days scouring the Internet for anyone who dares say the emperor has no clothes, boys can’t become girls, and radical trans activists are murdering people who oppose their evil ideology prove that the Twitter of 2023 under Musk is the same anti-free speech cesspool it was in 2020, when it banned, under false pretenses, the longest-running paper in circulation in America from reporting on corruption allegations surrounding Joe Biden and his son.
As my friend and colleague John Davidson (also banned by Twitter from accessing his account) noted in a discussion this morning, “Censorship of reportage or discussion of violent extremist groups, whether trans or jihadi, under the pretext that one is ‘promoting’ violent extremism, is some next-level Orwellian bullsh-t, and only serves to reiterate a point I made in my recent Imprimis article about the Twitter Files: ALL social media content moderation is censorship and propaganda. All of it.”
Twitter is toast, and the sad truth of the matter is that Musk either can’t, or won’t, fix it. Musk may never get his $44 billion back, but until Twitter repents and stops producing rotten fruit, conservatives should keep their $8 in their pockets. At some point, instead of hoping the poison vine will produce fine wine, you just have to acknowledge reality and let it die.
Sean Davis is CEO and co-founder of The Federalist. He previously worked as an economic policy adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, as CFO of Daily Caller, and as chief investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn. He was named by The Hill as one of the top congressional staffers under the age of 35 for his role in spearheading the enactment of the law that created USASpending.gov. Sean received a BBA in finance from Texas Tech University and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School. He can be reached via e-mail at sean@thefederalist.com.
BY: FRANK DEVITO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
7 MIN READ
IMAGE CREDITSHINSUKE IKEGAME/CC BY 2.0
This is what we see when an out-of-control government tries to send a message of intimidation and fear to its perceived ideological enemies.
FRANK DEVITO
On Sept. 23, Pennsylvania pro-life activist Mark Houck was arrested on federal criminal charges. The details of the alleged crime and the arrest itself remain disputed, but we know enough to make a couple of observations about our nation and the current political climate.
Houck was arrested in connection with an alleged assault on a volunteer at a Philadelphia abortion facility. Unsurprisingly, the accounts differ as to what occurred. The Department of Justice issued a press release stating that Houck twice assaulted the alleged victim because he was a volunteer at an abortion facility.
Notice that the press release describes not only the alleged action but an alleged motive. Of course, the press release had to state that the assault occurred because the alleged victim was a volunteer at an abortion facility. If that was not the motive, there would be no jurisdiction for the feds to be involved at all. We will get back to that rather questionable issue.
Houck and his family give quite a different account of the alleged assault. Apparently, the abortion facility volunteer was getting into the personal space of Houck’s 12-year-old son and saying vulgar, inappropriate things to him. This harassment by the volunteer toward a young child allegedly went on for weeks. Houck first intervened by telling the volunteer he did not have permission to speak to Houck’s minor child. When the volunteer persisted, Houck eventually shoved him away from his child. Allegedly the man fell but suffered no injuries.
Already we have a federalism problem here. Perhaps we have become too quick to accept the existence of an elaborate regime of federal criminal law. But as we know from the Tenth Amendment, the federal government has only the limited powers enumerated in the Constitution, with any remaining powers being reserved to the states or the people. From this comes the accepted principle in our federalist republic that states have the general police power. Federal criminal statutes and prosecutions must be limited to cases where the Constitution grants enumerated powers, such as interstate activity or crimes involving foreign agents and national security.
In this case, what we have is a very uneventful assault, where one man pushed another man. Hardly the stuff of a federal crime. An assault is a run-of-the-mill crime, and it is up to states to criminalize and prosecute such routine offenses. It is only when the assault occurs in a discriminatory way — in this case, because the alleged victim works at an abortion facility — that the feds claim jurisdiction. It remains questionable whether access to abortion facilities and assaults that occur on these properties should be within the jurisdiction of federal criminal authorities at all, but that goes beyond the scope of this essay.
A recent article on the incident explains that the Justice Department relies on the section of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that “prohibits violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.”
When you look at the statutes, they may be invoked only when a victim was attacked because he was affiliated with the abortion facility or when the attack attempts to interfere with a person’s seeking of an abortion. If Houck’s account is at all true and there was a dispute related to the volunteer speaking to the minor child, then the necessary element for these FACE Act federal charges disappears entirely.
If Mr. Houck has any evidence that he first warned the volunteer not to talk to his son, there is no way the federal government can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Houck pushed the man because he was a volunteer or that he was attempting to prevent anyone from obtaining an abortion by pushing the man. If Mr. Houck pushed the volunteer because of a dispute about the child, there is simply no material for a federal crime.
Besides the dubious federal criminal charges at issue, the circumstances of the arrest signal a growing crisis in our republic. While the circumstances of the arrest still need clarification, Houck’s wife claims that when the FBI came to arrest her husband, there were 25 to 30 FBI agents present.
She goes on to describe the early-morning scene. First, her husband allegedly told the agents “Please, I’m going to open the door, but, please, my children are in the home. I have seven babies in the house.” Mrs. Houck claimed “they had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house . . . [t]he kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic.” Apparently in this exchange, Mrs. Houck claims she asked for a warrant and was told “that they were going to take him whether they had a warrant or not.” Eventually, they did produce a warrant.
From the Houck residence to Mar-a-Lago, we need to ask a very important question: why are federal law enforcement agents conducting high-profile, heavily-armed raids and arrests on people who show no sign of violence, flight risk, or non-compliance? It appears that not only did Houck do nothing to make the FBI think he would be violent or noncompliant with their investigation, but that in fact, Houck reached out to the FBI to try to learn more and resolve the situation.
A recent news update revealed that the Philadelphia criminal authorities refused to press charges, that a civil complaint by the abortion volunteer against Houck was dismissed, and that shortly thereafter Houck received a “target letter” from the Department of Justice informing him of the federal criminal investigation. Houck’s attorney attempted to contact the DOJ to discuss the situation, but received no response until a large contingent of armed FBI agents came to his door last Friday.
These cases should greatly trouble normal Americans. All the available evidence indicates that Mr. Houck was an ordinary, pro-life activist, that there was a minor altercation with an abortion volunteer, and that the altercation likely had to do with the volunteer’s constant harassing of Houck’s minor child. There were no serious injuries, and the normal state authorities (the Philadelphia police and district attorney) never pressed charges.
We should be concerned that the FBI — who should be quite busy investigating drug cartels and thwarting of major human trafficking rings — is charging Houck with a federal crime that could carry substantial jail time. We should be concerned that there is a statute that even makes such a charge possible. And we should be concerned when this pro-life family man is apprehended by a large number of federal agents with guns drawn, as his wife and several children watch in horror.
This, frankly, is not the stuff of American life, liberty, and happiness. This is what we see when an out-of-control government regime is trying to send a message of intimidation and fear to its perceived ideological enemies. There did not need to be an armed raid on the home of Mark Houck because he pushed an abortion facility volunteer who was likely harassing his son. The Biden administration should already be concerned that the FBI is suffering from a legitimacy crisis in the eyes of the American people. Such terrifying misuses of federal law enforcement only justify that legitimacy crisis.
Frank DeVito is an attorney and a current fellow in the Napa Legal Good Counselor Project. His work has previously been published in The Federalist, The American Conservative, the Quinnipiac Law Review, the Penn State Online Law Review, and the Washington Examiner. He lives in eastern Pennsylvania with his wife and three young children.
AG Barr, FBI Dir Wray Announce Developments in the Investigation of the NAS Pensacola Shooting
Jan 3
Mrs. Robert Storch (above), also known as Sara Matilthe Lord. Her husband is NSA Inspector General.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/25/style/sara-lord-robert-storch.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1992/05/25/406892.html?pageNumber=20
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/q-rstorch-071917.pdf
Sara M. Lord, Mrs. Robert P. Storch, recruits Ukrainian law students to investigate Trump supporters.
Sara was a former Justice Department attorney now in private practice.
Her husband, Robert, is Inspector General for the NSA. He is a lawyer for the Justice Department.
Mrs. Robert Storch, Sara M. Lord, helped train the last class of 39 from July 21st through July 26th, 2018.
As “investigators” using computer software.
In Dnipro, Ukraine.
Investigating who?
Whoops!
National Security.
Unable to say.
https://www.agg.com/news-insights/events/criminal-justice-in-action-07-25-2018/
The FBI installed a surveillance server in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In U.S. Embassy offices there.
Shared with the FBI.
Source is a joint FBI/Ukrainian crime unit press release dated Feb. 3rd, 2016.
The joint crime unit is called NABU or National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/fbi-has-provided-nabu-equipment-digitizing-paper-documents
From the same press release, here are pictures of the FBI server and other computer hardware in Ukraine:
https://nabu.gov.ua/en/novyny/fbi-has-provided-nabu-equipment-digitizing-paper-documents
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Storch are partners in the coup to impeach President Donald J. Trump using Ukraine and the:
NABU is a partnership between the FBI and Ukrainian prosecutors.
To uncover corruption?
Or cover it up?
https://www.agg.com/news-insights/events/criminal-justice-in-action-07-25-2018/
Mrs. Robert Storch is standing, third person from the far right, without her glasses. The latest Sara Lord recruiting class of 39 Ukrainian law students used to spy on Trump supporters from Ukraine. Students were called “NABU Detectives”. They all are fluent in English.
https://nabu.gov.ua/en/tags/criminal-justice-action
https://nabu.gov.ua/en/tags/criminal-justice-action
https://www.agg.com/professionals/sara-lord/
Sara M. Lord, aka Mrs. Robert Storch, are in Ukraine June 23rd, 2009.
They are attending a meeting of the State Audit Service with top officials from Ukraine.
http://www.dkrs.gov.ua/kru/en/publish/article/56088;jsessionid=DBD12FDCF98BBB16576FFC8C766FBD75.app1
Bottom far left is Mrs. Robert Storch, Sara M. Lord. Sitting next to her is husband, Robert.
http://www.dkrs.gov.ua/kru/en/publish/article/56088;jsessionid=DBD12FDCF98BBB16576FFC8C766FBD75.app1
Pictured at the bottom, far right in short sleeves, elbows on the table, is Mrs. Robert Storch, Sara M. Lord.
http://www.dkrs.gov.ua/kru/en/publish/article/56088;jsessionid=DBD12FDCF98BBB16576FFC8C766FBD75.app1
Who represented the U.S. in Ukraine during 2006 to 2009?
Yep.
The same Bill Taylor and George Kent who testified against President Donald J. Trump at the House Impeachment Hearings.
Taylor is U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
Kent is Assistant Secretary of State.
Kent’s office is with Taylor and the FBI in Kyiv.
George Kent (above), Assistant Secretary of State
https://www.scribd.com/document/433926031/Testimony-George-Kent
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/legal-attache-offices
Robert Storch failed to fully disclose his involvement in Ukraine with NABU and Ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, dating back to Dec. 2007.
Setting up NABU.
All three of them:
His sworn testimony to the Senate and House was necessary for his appointment as Inspector General to the NSA.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO24/20170201/105513/HHRG-115-GO24-Bio-StorchR-20170201.pdf
Storch failed to disclose in written testimony on July 5th, 2017 to the Senate that:
Six times?
Doing what?
Destroying evidence so that no one would know that the FBI was conducting surveillance on the President from Ukraine?
These disclosures, however, were made on live television in Ukraine on May 25th, 2017.
The video of Storch’s interview with the Ukrainian Parliament on May 25th, 2017 is below:
Please fast forward to the 58:58
Storch omitted this Ukraine video from his testimony to the Senate on July 5th, 2017.
Storch replaced Henry Ellard as Inspector General for the NSA on Dec. 22nd, 2017.
Storch never disclosed his role in setting up the NABU/FBI crime task force to President Donald J. Trump either.
Or that the task force was conducting illegal surveillance from Ukraine on:
In Storch’s defense, the Senate never asked to hear it.
Or read the transcript.
Who was supposed to disclose it to the President?
Who did Robert’s background check?
Peter Strzok or Andy McCabe?
https://www.congress.gov/115/chrg/CHRG-115shrg26418/CHRG-115shrg26418.pdf
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/410485.html
“Robert Storch . . . was recommended by the US Embassy in Kyiv.”
Source:
https://ua.usembassy.gov/memorandum-understanding-signed-fbi-nabu/
NABU/FBI started a joint crime unit on June 29th, 2016.
At the same time the FBI was trying to get a warrant to spy on the Trump family and campaign team.
From May 2016 to Oct. 2016 the surveillance on Trump was illegal.
Surveillance without a warrant.
It was finally approved on Oct. 25th, 2016.
And backdated to May, 2016.
The FBI moved their surveillance collection point to a server in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 3rd, 2016.
In offices of NABU.
From there, the data was sent back to the FBI in Washington, D.C.
Who said so?
Nellie Ohr. She was a contractor for the FBI and CIA.
With top secret clearance.
She helped write the Russian dossier to take down Trump.
Her husband, Bruce, was once the fourth top ranking official in the Justice Department.
Nellie testified that the Russia dossier was delivered to her in the U.S. from the NABU unit in Ukraine.
Bruce and Nellie Ohr (above)
Pictured in the above press release is Maria Yovanovitch (middle).
She was the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
She testified against President Trump in the House Impeachment events.
Source:
(Breitbart) – An illegal alien has been arrested after allegedly murdering a woman in Cobb County, Georgia, and shooting her teenage son days before Christmas.
Juan Antonio Gonzalez, a 32-year-old illegal alien, allegedly led Cobb County officers on a car chase after he fled the home of 38-year-old Oralia Melo Meza and her 16-year-old son. According to police, Gonzalez shot and killed Meza before shooting her son in the arm, leaving him with a non-life threatening injury, on December 21.
Police said when they arrived at Meza’s home following a 911 call about a domestic dispute, Gonzalez pulled out of the driveway and fired at Cobb County officers. At one point, the illegal alien hit on the officers’ cars and led them on a car chase for about six miles.
Gonzalez was taken into custody only after he crashed his car into another vehicle on the road.
For now, Gonzalez has been hit with one count of murder, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of possession of a firearm, and one count of attempting to evade police. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has placed a detainer on Gonzalez so that should he be released, he will be deported.
New York Jailbreak: Illegal Alien Freed After Allegedly Killing Mother Of Three On Christmas Eve
A New York state law that allows accused criminals to be freed from prison the same day they are arrested for violent crimes has freed an illegal alien accused of killing a mother of three on Christmas Eve.
Jorge Flores-Villalba, a 27-year-old illegal alien, according to Assemblyman Colin Schmitt, was arrested after he allegedly admitted to hitting and killing mother of three Marie “Rosie” Osai, who was a legal immigrant from Haiti, in a Christmas Eve crash on Long Island, New York.
“I was driving and I did strike a person,” Flores-Villalba allegedly told law enforcement officials. “I didn’t call the police. I was afraid because I don’t have a license.”
After being charged with felony fleeing the scene of a deadly accident, Flores-Villalba was arraigned and then freed without bail on Christmas day — less than 24 hours after Osai was allegedly killed.
Family friend Irene Secone told New York CBS Local that Osai’s friends and relatives are “devastated” while “this man on Christmas day goes home and spends it with his family.”
The illegal alien’s immediate release is now required by law in New York after state Democrats, against the wishes of law enforcement and even the most liberal district attorneys, rammed through a series of bail reform measures and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed the legislation into law.
The law will ensure that suspects accused of crimes deemed “non-violent” are not jailed before their trial dates and do not have to post bail. Instead, these suspects are released directly back into the public and expected to show up for their court dates. About 125,000 accused criminals are expected to be released from prison every year in the state.
The list of crimes for which suspects will be freed from prison before trial includes:
As part of the law, accused criminals will actually be allowed to investigate their own crime scenes and be given a list of named witnesses testifying against them within 15 days of their arrangement. The law means that if a suspect is charged with home burglary, that suspect will be allowed to return to the victim’s home and inspect their property as part of their defense.
Featured image credit: CCSO
breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/27/iillegal-alien-allegedly-murdered-woman-shot-her-son-days-before-christmas/
