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Raising the Red Flag: Americans Fear a Gun Grab on the Horizon

Via Strategic Culture

Like clockwork, with every mass shooting the Democrats demand stricter gun control laws without ever considering other possible roots to the problem.

At the same time, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio is working to pass legislation that has been described as “red laws on steroids.”

“Rubio’s TAPS Act would encourage law enforcement to give EVERYONE a personal threat assessment (adults and children) and single out those they deem as future threats,” writes David Leach in The Strident Conservative. “That information would then be used as a kind of Precog substitute to “stop dangerous individuals before they can commit an act of violence.”

Such slippery-slope legislation would empower anyone – from an acquaintance to a family member to a police officer – to file a complaint with regards to a particular individual they may deem “suspicious.” Perhaps the person is not even mentally ill, but rather just very outspoken on social media about a particular issue, like illegal migrants arriving through the crack in the US-Mexico border, for example. Let’s be honest. What liberal would not jump at the chance of filing a report on some NRA member they despise on Twitter, for example? And judging from what we already know about social justice warriors and their uncanny ability to get legislation passed in their favor, it’s not difficult to imagine the authorities appearing at the crack of dawn at some gun owner’s residence with a court order to seize all weapons.

That is the intrinsic problem with these ref-flag laws. Once authority is granted to seize guns from suspected ‘high-risk’ individuals – on the face of it, not a bad-sounding proposal –the door for interpreting who should be deemed suspicious, and on what grounds, and by whom will challenge the US justice system, not to mention the US Constitution, in a million different ways.

Read the entire article HERE.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Hate-Based Scam That Nearly Caused Me To Be Murdered”

Via Zero Hedge

After internal challenges with discrimination, the Southern Poverty Law Center can’t call itself an arbiter of justice.

I’ll never forget the moment I learned we were on lockdown. It was Aug.15, 2012. My frustration mingled with fear. Trapped on the sixth floor, we knew someone had been shot. We knew we couldn’t leave yet. We knew little else.

While I was missing lunch, a crime scene played out in the office lobby below me. My coworker and friend Leo wasn’t armed, but he’d played the quick-thinking and inadvertent hero, disarming a young man on a mission to kill me and as many of my colleagues as possible. The gunman had packed his backpack with ammo and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches — later admitting that he’d planned to smear them on our lifeless faces as a political statement. Leo took a bullet in the arm but managed to disarm and hold the attacker until law enforcement arrived.

I wrote and edited for the Family Research Council, a public advocacy organization that promoted the principles I’d cared about since childhood: protecting the family, promoting the dignity of every human life and advocating for religious liberty. It reads like a tagline, but it’s also just what I believed and the way I chose to match my career with my convictions.

I never expected that everyone would celebrate or share my beliefs. But I did expect to be able to discuss and debate these differences without becoming a political target in an act of terrorism, the first conviction under Washington, D.C.’s 2002 Anti-Terrorism Act.

It’s always been easier to smear people rather than wrestle with their ideas. It’s a bully who calls names and spreads lies rather than thoroughly reading a brief’s legal arguments or challenging the rationale underlying a policy proposal. The SPLC has chosen to take the easy path — to intimidate and mislead for raw political power and financial benefit.

For years, former employees revealed, local journalists reported and commentators have lamented: the Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its “hate group” list to promote the fiction that violent Neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it’s apologized to public figures; it’s smeared and recently paid out millions to settle a threatened defamation lawsuit.

Read the entire article HERE.

New York Times Launches Crusade to ‘Reframe’ America as Defined by Slavery and Racism

Via Newsbusters

Byron York at the Washington Examiner reports The New York Times is embarking on a very ambitious crusade to define slavery as the dominant narrative of America, even to this day.

This is what the paper hopes the project will accomplish: “It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”

Another, more concise statement from the Times: “The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history.”

The project was launched with an entire edition of The New York Times Magazine loaded with left-wing essays on slavery’s everlasting effects:

— The economy (“If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.”)

— The food we eat (“The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery.”)

— The nation’s physical health (“Why doesn’t the United States have universal healthcare? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War.”),

— Politics and inequality (“America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.”)

— Even daily life (“What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot.”).

The Times promises more 1619 Project stories in the future, not just in the paper’s news sections, but in the business, sports, travel, and other sections. The Times podcast The Daily, which airs on a bunch of NPR stations, will also devote time to it.

York reports the newspaper is also hoping to indoctrinate the children on their slavery narrative.

Read the entire article HERE.

Assisted Suicide Avoidance – John Brennan Intel Asset Joseph Mifsud “Gave Audio Tape Deposition Before Going Into Hiding”…

Via The Conservative Treehouse

According to an interview granted by the lawyer for intelligence asset Joseph Mifsud to journalist John Solomon, professor Mifsud admitted to being a western intelligence asset who was part of a CIA intelligence “operation” against candidate Donald Trump in March 2016.

Yes, stop and read that introductory paragraph again….

Solomon notes that an audio-taped deposition exists from Joseph Mifsud prior to going into hiding after the 2016 Presidential election. From the description it sounds like Mifsud anticipated his assisted suicide and recorded a deposition as leverage against his unwanted demise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4fPWMloqRQ

Read the entire article HERE.

Harvard Climate Loon: Keto Dieters Are Killing the Planet Because Bacon and Butter or Something

Via PJ Media

Add the ketogenic diet to the ever-growing list of monsters under the beds of those suffering from climate change hysteria. Apparently all of the bacon and butter we consume is going to KILL EARTH:

Admittedly, I didn’t even know I was a steward of the planet until I saw that. It has been humming along for well over four billion years without any stewardship from me so I am not sure what my function is here in this role. Should I be wearing a uniform? Is there a stewardship manual?

Business Insider:

The world cannot run on bacon and butter.

Aside from the fact that there are not enough pigs and cows on the Earth to feed every person in such a high-fat way, this kind of meaty diet is dangerous for both human health and our planet’s future.

That doesn’t stop people from trying.

“Eating a keto diet that’s especially high in red meat will be undermining the sustainability of the climate,” Harvard nutrition professor Dr. Walter Willett told Business Insider. “It’s bad for the person eating it, but also really bad for our children and our grandchildren, so that’s something I think we should totally, strongly advise against. It’s — in fact — irresponsible.”

The horror!

Read the entire article HERE.

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