A.F. Branco at his best, via Townhall:
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
IRS: Internal Radical Service
The great David Horowitz and his colleague John Perazzo have a new pamphlet just out and you can access it for free online. Here’s Mr Horowitz’s introduction:
How the IRS abuses taxpayer dollars to advance leftwing causes
illegally and unconstitutionally
On August 7, the Democrats passed a bill that authorizes a ten-year, $80 billion hike in federal funding for the Internal Revenue Service, which will make it possible for the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents and will make it larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.
The IRS has already been weaponized as a national federal police
force to harass, punish and obstruct conservative and religious
organizations. Under President Obama, the IRS blocked the efforts of
hundreds of Tea Party and other conservative groups to apply for tax-exempt
status. The objective was to prevent those groups – and the millions of voters
whom they might potentially have influenced – from having a voice in our
democracy.
But this persecution of conservatives is only half the story. Over
the years, the IRS has allowed hundreds of billions of tax-payer dollars to
fund left-wing tax-exempt foundations violating its own rules, while denying
conservative foundations the same access. This has had the effect of creating a
lobby within the Democrat Party that has transformed it into a radical force
bent on “fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
The IRS violations include providing taxpayer subsidies to
Democrat election campaigns; to underwriting Black Lives Matter riots
which caused billions of dollars in property damage and led to the deaths of
scores of individuals; the Internal Revenue Code's explicit requirement that
all charitable activities should “promote the public good”; and the funding of
racist policies which violate the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution.
This booklet -- Internal Radical
Service -- documents these violations and
their destructive consequences. We publish it now as an appeal to Congress to
investigate the abuses, and restore the integrity of an organization which has
become a major threat to our democracy.
Click on the link here for access to the pamphlet.
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Monday, August 15, 2022
The Weaponization of Justice
Frank Miele at RealClearPolitics takes another look at the FBI:
Nothing symbolizes the decline of
the American republic better than the weaponization of justice that we saw last
week when the FBI raided the home of former President Trump.
. . .
Don’t believe a word from either
the Washington Post or the FBI. Trump
had been cooperating with the National Archive and had already turned over 15
boxes of documents, all of which he could have made a claim to legally possess.
If they wanted papers turned over, they could have gone through Trump’s
lawyers. No, they wanted the spectacle. They wanted the sizzle. They wanted the
headlines.
This wasn’t about the rule of law;
it was about the rule of the schoolyard. Bullies get what they want through
force and intimidation, and there is no reason for any of us to believe that
the raid had any purpose other than to intimidate Donald Trump into backing
down from his plans to run for president in 2024.
Essentially what the FBI was saying
is “We know where you live, and we aren’t afraid to come for you.” They even
rifled through Melania Trump’s closet, as if she might have been hiding
top-secret documents in her hat box. When do we find out they also spent an
hour sorting through her lingerie?
This is sickening, no matter how
much MSNBC and the Washington Post
want you to think you can still trust the FBI. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool
me twice, shame on me. Fool me over and over and over again, and I must be a
Democrat.
Read the full column here.
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Sunday, August 14, 2022
Victor Davis Hanson: Mar-A-Lago Raid and the Rule of Law
The interview took place on August 9, but I only just now
came across it. Michael W. Chapman at CNS News reports on Victor Davis Hanson take on the Mar-a-Lago raid:
When asked about the FBI raid on
former President Donald Trump's home in Palm Beach, Fla., professor, author,
and political commentator Victor David Hanson said, "right now, we don't
have the rule of law in Washington," and added that, "The FBI is
beyond redemption."
Hanson, who was awarded the
National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush, made his remarks on the
Aug. 9 edition of FNC's Tucker Carlson
Tonight, guest-hosted by Will Cain.
Cain asked Hanson why the FBI
raided Mar-a-Lago and why were they targeting Trump.
"Well, they're afraid in the
short term," he said, in reference to the Democrats and the left,
"but in the long term they believe they're morally superior to America,
and therefore any means necessary or justifiable for their morally superior
ends."
"And right now, we don't have
the rule of law in Washington," said Hanson. "Whether you're targeted
or exempt depends on your ideology."
. . .
As for the FBI, Hanson remarked,
"I never thought I would say this: The FBI is beyond redemption.
It is -- all of its bureaus and its institutions that have to be farmed out and
broken up. If you have a warrant, an FBI warrant, there is no
guarantee that that has not been altered. If you subpoena and you
want FBI records on phones ... they will be wiped clean."
"We just saw [FBI Director]
Christopher Wray and he just stonewalled every question and then he flew on
an FBI plane, our plane, a luxury jet because he had to go to his own
vacation spot. He took over, remember, from Andrew McCabe -- what did he do? He
lied four times to federal investigators, and his wife was running for an
office with Clinton-related PAC money while he was investigating Hillary
Clinton's e-mail scandal."
. . .
Read the rest here.
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Saturday, August 13, 2022
Neil Oliver: Trusting Authority
Below is the closing part of the transcript from Neil Oliver’s
latest contemplation. Usual thanks to
Sundance for posting it at Conservative Treehouse.
. . . Rather than dismiss as yet another
conspiracy theory the idea of cash being ultimately replaced with transactions
based on the exchange of what amount to glorified food stamps that will only be
accepted if our social credit score demonstrates that we’ve been obedient girls
or boys … how about taking the leap and focusing on the blatantly obvious …
that if we are not free to buy whatever and whenever we please, free of the
surveillance and snooping of governments and the banks that run them, then we
have absolutely no freedom at all.
And while we’re on the subject of
money and banks, why not pause to notice something else that is glaringly
obvious – which is to say that the currencies of the West are teetering on the
abyss, and that one bank after another is revealed, to those who are bothering
to watch, as being as close to bankruptcy as is possible to be without actually
falling over the edge.
Then there’s the so-called vaccines
for Covid – I deliberately say “so-called” because by now it should be clear to
all but the willfully blind that those injections do not work as advertised. You
can still contract the virus, still transmit the virus, still get sick and
still die. Denmark has dropped their use on under-18s. All across the world,
every day, more evidence emerges – however grudgingly, however much the various
complicit authorities and Big-Pharma companies might hate to admit it – of
countless deaths and injuries caused by those medical procedures.
And yet here in Britain and just
about everywhere else, governments continue to try and get those needles into
as many arms as possible, even the arms of the smallest and youngest. The ripe
stink of corruption is everywhere. I trusted authority for most of my life.
Now I ask myself on a daily basis
how I ignored the stench for so long. Across the Atlantic, the Biden White House
sent the FBI to raid the home of former president Donald Trump. Meanwhile Joe
Biden and his son Hunter – he of the laptop full of the most appalling and
incriminating content – fly together on Airforce 1. No raids planned on the
Obamas, nor on the Clintons. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan
and onwards to China. Her son Paul, an investor in a Chinese tech firm and with
seats on the board of companies dealing in lithium, was along for the ride,
into that part of the world where three quarters of the world’s lithium
batteries are made. Taiwan leads in that technology.
It is hard to think the
unthinkable. It’s hard to think that all of it, all the misery, all the
suffering of the past and to come might just be about money, greed and power.
It is hard to tell yourself you’ve been taken for a fool and taken for a ride.
It’s hard, but the view from the other side is worth the effort and the pain.
Open your eyes and see.
Read the full transcript (or watch the video) here.
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Friday, August 12, 2022
Dr Malone has good words for you
Dr Robert Malone is the one credited with inventing the delivery mechanism for the vaccine, the mRNA technology. And he has been an outspoken critic of vaccine mandates. For that criticism, he's been ostracized, and kicked off Titter and YouTube. Now the medical deep state / US government is trying to erase his discoveries, patents, and the like from the historical narratives; see here. He's no longer a valued colleague; he's an outcast. But he knows he is not the only one, and he posted this on one of his blogs:
I was speaking with a friend
yesterday, and she was so saddened by her family’s rejection of her over her
critical perspective concerning the COVID-19 policies/vaccines. She is just one
of many, many people suffering from being isolated and rejected by family and
friends over what has happened. So many of us have had to re-evaluate what we
think of our government, politics and the US/Global public health enterprise.
So many of us have had to find new communities.
I just want to reach out and let
people know - you are not alone. You don’t have to be isolated. I know it is
hard to make new friends, find new communities, but you don’t have to suffer.
More on this in another post. But please know that you are not alone.
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