Nancy Pelosi tested positive for COVID on Thursday. She was with Joe Biden and Democrats on Wednesday signing the postal reform bill.Via Charlie Spiering.
Pelosi hugged and kissed Obama’s hand on Tuesday.
WATCH: Suveillance Footage Confirms School Guards Assaulted, Framed Single Father Put On House Arrest For Refusing To Mask 7-Year-Old Son
Surveillance footage obtained by the Gateway Pundit confirms Denver Public Security Guards employed with Lowry Elementary School in Denver, Colorado assaulted the single father of a 7-year-old boy for refusing to send his son to school in a mask.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Lowry Elementary school officials persistently harassed 42-year old Anthony Chavez for standing by his decision to send his son Chase to school unmasked after the state’s governor rescinded the mask mandate for indoor venues.
“Chase’s teacher began putting window screens around him and around his desk,” the Native American Coloradoan explained. “I instructed Chase to kindly put the windows next to the trash and not allow himself to be separated.
“They were attempting to have him sit six feet away from the other children while they were in their ‘numbers corner.’ They made him walk in front of the other kids as they walked through the halls to art class. I found out and I said, ‘That is not going to happen anymore and put a stop to it.’”
The deputy assistant principal attempted to bribe Chase into wearing a mask by “offering bags of potato chips, candy and extra recess” if he complied.
“I sent them an email instructing them to stop going against my parental directive – my instructive was clear, ‘Do not try to incentivize or try to manipulate my son to wear a mask for any reason.’ But he continued to do it,” Chavez said.
Relentless refusal to comply with the mask mandate resulted in Lowry Elementary School and the school district retaliating against the father and son. School officials and guards issued repeated warnings and threats barring Chavez from the school premises.
After being warned by the principal and guards that he was no longer permitted access on school premises, Chavez began dropping Chase off at the schoolyard where was greeted by teachers and escorted into the building.
On January 25, the dispute between the Chavez family and Lowry Elementary School escalated, impeding Anthony’s ability to earn a living and Chase’s ability to attend any school in the district and may even jeopardize Chavez’s custody of his son.
The principal and gym teacher demanded Chase wear a mask during gym class. When he refused, they escorted the second-grader out of the gymnasium into a hall where he was surrounded by a team of security guards.
“Janice Spearmen, the Special Assignment Interim Principal, called me insisting I encourage Chase to wear a mask in the gym. I said, ‘I just can’t go along with it anymore, Jan. I’m sorry.’ The most shocking part about it is, when I picked my son up, they had Denver Public School security was there already.” Chavez said. “When Spearman called me she knew I was not going to cooperate with that.
Late to drop Chase off at school on January 27, the front door of the school was locked after the bell rang.
With only Chavez’s 86-year-old great-grandmother in the state to help care for his son, Anthony ignored “irrational” trespassing restrictions and walked Chase to the front door of the school to assure he safely made it to class.
Chavez maintains the school’s security guard Robert Groissant blocked him from walking back to his car before shoving him to the ground and brawling with him in the parking lot to stop him from leaving in an effort to frame him with trespassing charges and assault.
Surveillance footage, footage of the incident recorded by teachers witnessing the assault while class was in session and bodycam footage recorded by the Denver Police Department and Denver Public Security corroborate Chavez’s claims.
Two guards are seen following Chavez and Chase as they walk to the school building. Officer Groissant and a female guard begin following him. Groissant attempts to use his body barricade to prevent Anthony to the parking lot and shoves him. A female security guard assists Groissant with constraining Chavez on the ground as he was pepper-sprayed.
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Following the assault, Chavez was placed on house arrest.
Groissant provided police with three different accounts of what transpired, Chavez noted after reviewing the security guard’s testimony.
Chase continued attending class following the assault until he was allegedly physically abused by Susan Rayburn.
Susan Rayburn, Denver Public School Special Education Resource Teacher allegedly choked 7-year-old Chase Chavez and threw him across a room.
On February 18, Rayburn, a LGBTQ activist and special ed teacher allegedly choked the small boy while placing him in a restraint hold, carrying him from room to room with her elbows wrapped around his neck. Chase claims he was unable to breathe until she threw him across a room where he landed in a play pin.
Donations provided to Anthony and Chase by The Gateway Pundit’s readers have allowed him to afford the exorbitant fees needed to retain private legal counsel.
After he is cleared of the bogus trespassing charges, Anthony intends to pursue charges against the guards who assaulted him and hold the school district accountable for assault and child abuse, his lawyer explained.
“The video is unbelievable. The security guards totally assaulted my client,” defense attorney Robert Biordino told the Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview. “We have to get rid of the criminal cases and we’re taking it from there. I have handled over 6,000 heavy criminal cases. After practicing law for 24 years, my problem with this case is we have a single parent who is being falsely portrayed as an assiduous person when in fact he’s the one being treated in an aggressive manner by the government.
You can even see that Anthony had walked his son to the door after he heard the morning bell. He sees someone at the door and Anthony literally just said bye to his kids, walks away and gets assaulted – he’s not even confronting anyone. The assault on him began when he was walking to his truck, then the guard blocked the exit. My client has shown great restraint to the point where I am amazed as a parent that he can be this restrained on his own. Chase didn’t want to wear a mask at the gym. Who would?”
Lowry Elementary School and the Denver County school district attempted to force Anthony to abuse his son, Biordino argued.
“For Mr. Chavez to comply with their orders he’s got to commit child abuse because he would be putting his 7-year-old child in a negligent situation by making him walk across the campus alone — it’s absolutely crazy to me. Is 7-year-old Chase going to walk half a mile to the school? How does he even get into the building? The rule for the school is if the doors are closed and you’re a minute late, the parent is supposed to bring him into the school to the principal’s office and they were not letting him bring him to the front door,” he said. “That would be placing his son in a negligent situation. The school is creating a situation whereby the parent would have to break the law to comply with their order. It’s insane.
“He needs to protect his kid. And he’s in Denver. It’s one thing if he is in a lucrative neighborhood like Castle Pines or Cherry Creek, but he’s not going to have his kid walk however far out of his view in Denver. He can’t leave him home alone. If we had a seven-year-old child walking around, I think we would all agree the parent would be responsible for child abuse. They are telling my client to break the law.”
After reviewing all the evidence and footage, Biodino contends it’s clear the police officers who apprehended Anthony willfully neglected to conduct an adequate investigation and instead readily penalized the struggling single father for refusing to comply with COVID-19 marching orders.
“There’s a saying in the law, ‘Leave no stone unturned’ — isn’t that what a good investigator does? A cop’s job when they do an investigation is to gather information from witnesses, look at the video or audio and try to figure out what happened. When the cops got arrived on the scene Anthony told them, ‘I’ve documented the start of all this on video — I can show you I’ve been assaulted.’ They ignored evidence. They did not investigate. How do you ignore a video that he says is exculpatory of someone you are going to put handcuffs on? I win a lot of trials because I show what the police don’t do, like in this case. How does a cop who is there to investigate not look at the video? They went out of their way to arrest someone who didn’t do anything wrong.
“Anthony is facing assault and trespassing charges. Typically the district attorney would look at this case and dismiss it — that would be the normal course of business. The problem here is the DA has dug their heels in so hard to protect these government workers or agents I may have to go to trial on a case they literally fabricated.”
Totalitarian mandates trickle down from the federal government into the school system, authorizing petty tyrants to discriminate and criminalize, the veteran litigator argued.
“Back in December, the mask mandate was lifted. I was just in court today, no one was wearing a mask there. So why are we in the middle of January wrestling, grabbing and physically assaulting a child to put a mask on? As a parent, I can only imagine how Chavez feels,” he said. “It’s a trickle-down, continuation of what’s coming from DC. This is how Nazi Germany was ushered in –the police officers, the security guard, and even the janitors, they think they are dictators and can tell you how to live your life. Look at the flight attendants on airplanes. They are like the Hitler brownshirts — ‘You better pull your mask up over your nose because it’s not over your nose I am going to have to stop the plane to kick you off.’
Anthony’s son has been with him solely since he was 6 months old. He doesn’t have a mom in the kid’s life. We are dealing with one parent who is placed in an abusive situation, not by choice. They put him in a restraint hold. We are subpoenaing everything. We are going to get the footage of the stranglehold incident. The whole thing. Chase is in counseling now. Anthony had to get him into counseling. Chase is out of school. The boy is not comfortable. An adult teacher grabbing — think about that, if your 7-year-old kid was being treated that way and you’re a parent, think about how reserved Anthony has been.”
Help support Anthony and Chase Chavez’s legal battle against the Denver Public School system here.
The Wyoming Corner-Crossing Lawsuit Is Headed to Federal Court, Where a Ruling Could Affect Public Access Across the West
Chief U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl has ordered that the civil suit related to the Wyoming corner-crossing case involving four Missouri hunters be transferred to a federal court, where federal laws favoring public access may have a greater influence on the decision, WyoFile reports. The motion places the issue of corner crossing even more squarely in the national spotlight, allowing a federal jury to decide on the legality of a complex and controversial issue that has dogged hunters in the West for decades.
“The clerk of the district court is hereby advised that jurisdiction over the parties and subject matter of the above-entitled action is deemed removed from the district court to the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming,” wrote U.S District Judge Skavdahl in the order that was filed Thursday.
The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred last fall in Wyoming, when the four out-of-state hunters used a small stepladder to cross from one parcel of public land to another. The public lands bordered private parcels of the Elk Mountain Ranch, which is owned by Iron Bar Holdings. The men were initially charged with criminal trespassing by the Carbon County Attorney, facing $750 in fines and up to six months in jail. They pled not guilty to the charges and asked for all criminal charges to be dropped, but that criminal case is still in progress at the county level.
Earlier this year, Iron Bar Holdings, managed by billionaire Fred Eshelman, filed a lawsuit seeking civil damages from the four Missouri hunters for trespassing on Elk Mountain Ranch. Iron Bar Holdings argued that the men “committed a civil trespass” and is seeking reparation for civil damages. “Iron Bar Holdings has a right to exclusive control, use and enjoyment of its Property, which includes the airspace at the corner, above the Property,” wrote prosecutors in the civil suit.
Then, last month, an attorney for the hunters formally petitioned to move the civil suit to a federal court. He cited the broader implications that the court’s decision will have on public lands and hunting access throughout the West.
“A federal rule of decision is necessary to protect and preserve the limitation on private landowners’ ability to control or restrict access to federally owned public lands,” Ryan Semerad, the hunter’s attorney, wrote in the petition.
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Once all of the hunters’ attorneys file the documents, the lawsuit will immediately go to the federal court system. Iron Bar Holdings will then have the opportunity to ask Judge Skavdahl for the suit to be moved back to the state. Regardless, the hunters will still face trespassing charges as part of the original criminal case that was filed in Carbon County Circuit Court.
At the heart of this controversial lawsuit is the idea of corner crossing, which is the act of crossing between two parcels of public land that share a four-way corner with two parcels of private land in a checkerboard pattern. In the American West, roughly 1.6 million of acres of public land are inaccessible to the public because of this pattern and the public’s inability to cross corners without fear of harassment from private landowners. The legality of corner crossing is a gray area that has never been fully resolved in the court system.
The decision by the U.S. Federal District Judge to move the civil suit to a federal court could result in a precedent that’s favorable or unfavorable to hunters seeking public-land access. A decision in a federal court will have broader reaching implications on the public’s right to access public land, and it could help change the way corner crossing is interpreted by hunters, landowners, and lawmakers throughout the West.
Hillary’s Campaign Manager, Creepy John Podesta, Was Interviewed by Durham – Claimed to Not Know Key Details of Russiagate Origins
According to documents released and reported on yesterday, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s creepy campaign manager was interviewed as part of the Durham investigation looking into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion lie.
John Durham has reportedly been investigating the Russia collusion lie that was used as a vehicle to removed President Trump from office during his first term. The story was a lie that originated in the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Based on records released it’s reported that John Podesta was interviewed along with others who worked for the Hillary campaign. Techno Fog reported that the Special Counsel’s Office reported that they interviewed Clinton’s Campaign Chair (John Podesta) and other members of the Hillary gang. These individuals claim that they were not aware of key elements of the Russia Collusion lie.
In addition, Durham’s team served subpoenas covering documents concerning the same subject matters.
Here is Techno Fog’s tweet.
We’ve known for some time that Hillary’s gang had more to do with Russia than President Trump ever did. Maria Bartiromo in September of 2021 referred to this during one of her segments with Devin Nunes on FOX News. At this time Nunes mentioned that they had referred 14 criminal indictments to Durham based on their work in the House.
Bartiromo recalled her discussion with John Podesta years ago that we reported on at the time. (The video has since been purged by YouTube.) During one exchange she brought up that Podesta had millions related to his connections with Russia.
John Podesta Gets Rattled After Maria Bartiromo SLAMS Him Over His Russian Investments (VIDEO)
Video of Chinese Kneeling in Street to Authorities While Their Vaccine Passports Are Scanned by Chinese Officials Goes Viral
Chinese citizens were captured on camera kneeling, waiting to be checked for their compliance with the country’s vaccine passport requirements.
Newsweek reported on the video:China is going all-in again with COVID lockdowns and fear-mongering. Compliant Chinese are seen kneeling waiting in line for what appears to be a check by the government to ensure they are vaccinated and have a vaccine passport that is up to date.A video appearing to show Chinese citizens kneeling in the street while their vaccine passports are scanned has gone viral.
The footage was allegedly recorded in Jinan City in Shandong Province on April 1, and it has so far been viewed over 450,000 times.
— Clown World Today 🤡🌎 (@cwt_news) April 4, 2022Back around Christmas in December, the same Twitter account showed Chinese authorities carrying guns at checkpoints. The COVID guards were reportedly checking people’s QR codes and green passes to ensure Chinese citizens comply with vaccine passport requirements.
This is the world of the New World Order where freedom is something that is simply not permitted.shan'xi province ( not shanxi province it's another province) xia county
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) December 26, 2021
My worst nightmare comes true again: Chinese covid guards are carrying guns at every checkpoint to check people's qr code green passes again…
If you don't comply,they can shoot you immediately!
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OUTSTANDING: Rep. Jim Jordan Summarizes Perfectly the Nightmare the Democrats and Elites Created in America (VIDEO)
Rep. Jim Jordan gave one of the best speeches in recent history yesterday on the US House floor yesterday when he summarized the crimes, projections and destruction of America created by the current gang running this country and currently in place.
Jim Jordan presented an excellent list of crimes, projections and corruption over the past few years in a presentation yesterday on the House floor. While the Democrats and elites fight to steal the country, Americans can see these crimes and it is comforting to know that a few in Congress see them too.
Jordan shared:
Democrats have closed the Capitol, allowed proxy voting, kicked Republicans off committee, won’t let Republicans serve on this select committee. First time in the history of the Congress the minority leader was not allowed to put on committee the individuals he or she selected, first time in the history of our nation.
Democrats are trying to end the electoral college, trying to end the filibuster, trying to pack the court, this committee, the Jan 6 Committee altered evidence and presented it to the American people as if it were true. And they accuse us of bein a danger to our democracy.
Although Jordan noticeably failed to list the 2020 Election steal as the major crime committed in our country’s and perhaps world history, the rest was excellent.
Furthermore, there is no way that Kevin McCarthy should be a leader in the Republican caucus ahead of Jim Jordan. No way. This speech by Jordan tells you why. McCarthy would never make this speech.
The Dog That Ain’t Barking in Ukraine
Remember when UK Defense sources were predicting Russia would be finished in 14 days? This was back on March 23:
Russian forces may only be able to sustain full fighting capacity for another ‘ten to 14’ days, senior UK defence sources indicated last night, after which Putin’s men will struggle to hold the ground they have already captured from Ukrainian troops. UK defence sources say that Kyiv has Moscow ‘on the run’ and the Russian army could be just two weeks from ‘culmination point’ – after which ‘the strength of Ukraine’s resistance should become greater than Russia’s attacking force.’ Advances across Ukraine have already stopped as Moscow’s manpower runs short.
Looks like General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not get the memo. He told the House of Representatives a different story this week:
“It’s a bit early, still. Even though we’re a month-plus into the war, there is much of the ground war left in Ukraine,” he added. “But I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know about a decade, but at least years for sure.
In other words, no one knows how long. I admit I was not a good prophet. I was overly optimistic at the outset. I assumed that Russia launched its “special operation” with more troops then it actually did. So, I have been wrong too. Took me a bit to see that Russia’s plan was not to proceed conventionally by occupying cities. I finally listened to Putin’s words and accepted his view that the objective is the demilitarization of Ukraine and the elimination of the Nazi minority that wields too much power over a weak government.
Which brings me to my dog analogy. If you are told there is a ferocious dog in a house and you do not hear any barking, even after you bang on the door, you are faced with a number of possibilities:
- There is no dog.
- The dog is a sound sleeper.
- The dog is not home but will be back soon.
Those in the West are being fed a daily supply of breathless reports about the fierce Ukrainian dog that is savaging the Russians but I do not hear or see any evidence of the big bark. Is there no dog? Are the Ukrainians sleeping? Or are they biding their time? Consider the following:
- Hordes of Western journalists were ushered into Bucha to record the horrors of an alleged Russian atrocity, but I have not seen any of those journalists on the frontlines with the Ukrainians who are actually fighting Russians.
- Russia has hit dozens of airfields, military bases and supply depots with Air Launched Cruise Missiles and other land based hypersonic missiles but the Western reporters are mute.
- Russia has control of most of Mariupol and only reporters embedded with Russia are reporting (and they are doing so from the front).
- The alleged atrocity uncovered in Mariupol was not reported until April 2nd, but had supposedly be carried out in the preceding two weeks. Why did U.S. intelligence fail to report on any of this prior to the 2nd? The U.S. has terrific capabilities with overhead satellites to capture action on the ground. It also can intercept Russian military communications, such as orders to execute civilians or cleanse a town. Do you think that General Milley and his press flacks would have hesitated to beat that propaganda drum? That is a dog that did not bark.
- Also worth noting that suburban towns surrounding Kiev reportedly taken back from the Russians did not show mountains of wrecked Russian armor or dead Russians littering the landscape.
- We have seen brutal images of Ukrainian forces murdering Russian captives. It was so bad that even Ukrainian officials had to go on TV to denounce the actions.
It would be one thing to have a news blackout, especially from the Ukrainian side, if the electrical power grids lighting up the country were obliterated. They are not. The lights are still on. The internet is still up and running as well it appears in most parts of the country. If the Ukrainians were stomping the life out of armed and armored Russian units I would expect a tweet or two from non-combatants in the area. But we are hearing none of that.
The destruction of the oil depots around Ukraine by the Russians cannot be ignored. Those attacks mean that Ukraine’s ability to send fuel is severely degraded. If there is fuel, the Ukrainians face the daunting task of trying to haul it to the army now trapped in the Donbas. Russia’s virtual control of the air gives the Russians a decided advantage in being able to destroy resupply columns.
Food, fuel and ammunition for weapons are critical for an army to remain a viable combat force in the field. This is another dog I don’t hear barking. We have seen no evidence that Ukraine has been able to resupply the army bogged down and in danger of being surrounded by the Russians. If the Ukrainians can pull off a resupply miracle then they might have a chance for delaying or even defeating Russia’s intent to secure the region.
But Ukraine has a bigger problem. Russia’s control of the southern coast of Ukraine means no more imports or exports:
Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain exporters, loading container ships that carry 12% of the world’s wheat supply and 16% of its corn.
That business is done for the foreseeable future. And Ukrainian farmers are not headed to the fields to plant. The Ukrainian Army has planted explosive mines in many of them. Truck convoys and railroad cars going to Poland cannot make up for the loss of container ships sailing from Odessa and Mariupol.
Then there is the import side of ledge. Here are Ukraine’s top ten imports:
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$7.8 billion (14.4% of total imports)
- Machinery including computers: $6.1 billion (11.3%)
- Vehicles: $5.5 billion (10.2%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $5.4 billion (9.9%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $2.52 billion (4.7%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $2.48 billion (4.6%)
- Other chemical goods: $1.3 billion (2.5%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $1.2 billion (2.3%)
- Iron, steel: $1 billion (1.9%)
- Rubber, rubber articles: $927.6 million (1.7%)
The ports are not open for business and Ukraine no longer has a Navy. Therefore Ukraine has no way to dislodge Russia’s stranglehold on its port cities unless NATO decides to intervene. This means nothing short of economic devastation for Ukraine.
Compare Ukraine’s Zelensky’s hysterical pronouncements against the stoic silence from Putin. I have seen no evidence that Putin is panicking. He is not the one begging for Western military intervention without regard to the implications of that request for the very survival of his government. Notwithstanding the heated, belligerent rantings of senile Joe Biden, U.S. and NATO military commanders appear to understand that Russia is dead serious about engaging any Western planes, tanks or troops that dare venture into Ukraine. Crossing that line puts nuclear weapons in play.
General Milley is wrong. This is not going to take years. Ukraine does not have the economic means to survive even if there is a military stalemate in the East. I guess Milley was too busy studying pronouns to take time to consider the economic disaster facing Ukraine. In six months, if he lasts that long, Zelensky won’t be begging for bullets. He will want bread.
President Trump’s Motion to Disqualify Clinton-Appointed Judge in Case Against Hillary Clinton Is Denied by Same Clinton-Appointed Judge
On Tuesday President Trump requested that the Clinton-appointed judge overseeing his Russiagate case against Hillary Clinton and others be removed from the case due to obvious conflicts of interest.
President Trump recently sued a number of individuals and former officials for their actions related to the Russiagate hoax and attempted coup of his administration.
Somehow this case was assigned to Clinton appointed Judge Middlebrooks and Judge Ryon McCabe.
President Trump urged the courts to replace the Clinton judge with someone who is not biased in the case.
On Wednesday Judge Ryon McCabe recused himself from the case.
But Judge Middlebrooks will not recuse himself from the case.
Last night Judge Donald Middlebrooks announced he will deny President Trump’s motion to approve Judge Middlebrooks from the case.
This is how our judicial system works today. If you’re a Republican you get screwed.
Here is Judge Middlebrooks’ statement.
If You Are Calling Out Russia’s War Crimes But Ignoring The West’s, You’re Part of the Problem
This article was originally published by Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project.
Currently, in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is carrying out atrocious acts of war in which 1,400 men, women, and children have been killed. Millions of Ukrainians have lost their homes, and their careers and have been displaced — turned into refugees, overnight. Many parts of the country have been reduced to rubble and it will take years to rebuild — even if the war ended tomorrow.
On top of the 1,400 deaths, another 2,000 have been injured and that list is growing by the day. By all definitions, Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. This much is clear and most everyone would agree. Rightfully so, millions of people are demanding justice for Ukraine.
But something peculiar happens when we examine these calls for justice and the desire to hold war criminals accountable for their actions. If you truly support the cause for war criminals to be held accountable, then you must remain consistent in this inclination. Unfortunately, however, the overwhelming majority of people calling for Putin to be held accountable for war crimes, are egregiously inconsistent.
Last month, President Joe Biden called Putin a war criminal, and as pointed out above, this is correct. But if Biden were truly interested in accountability for war criminals, he would turn himself in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, for immediate prosecution.
But Biden is not interested in accountability and the US, just like Russia, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. This is because justice is not the point, demonization of Russia and out political enemies is the point.
The propaganda behind the well-deserved demonization of Russia is so thick that it has blinded the West from seeing the very well-documented war crimes committed by their own governments.
Journalist Julian Assange pointed out some of these war crimes by releasing the “Collateral Murder” video through WikiLeaks. We had video evidence of the United States targeting and murdering civilians — including two Reuters journalists — and the only one who’s been arrested is Assange, who has been tortured in isolation for years for exposing these crimes.
If the West were truly concerned about war criminals we would have already arrested Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Every single one of these people have overseen the wholesale slaughter of over a million people, nearly half of whom were innocent men, women, and children.
If we care about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we must also care about the US invasions, occupations, and aerial warfare programs carried out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Pakistan.
If we are concerned about the 4 million displaced refugees from Ukraine, certainly we must be concerned with the 39-59 million refugees created by US foreign policy in the post 9/11 interventions, invasions, and occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria.
If the West demands Hungary be ejected from the EU for having diplomatic relations with Russia during the invasion, then we must also be concerned with the support, logistics, and weapons given to Saudi Arabia as they lay waste to Yemen with US bombs, killing thousands of innocent children and displacing millions more. Not to mention, the US sanctions on Yemen are facilitating a mass genocide, starving hundreds of thousands of civilians — mostly children — to death.
If we are concerned that Russia is intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure — a war crime — we must also be concerned with the villages, schools, hospitals, and cities the US has turned to rubble since 2001.
We know exactly who is responsible for all of these war crimes and instead of moving in to arrest them, we build them statues, libraries, and airports.
Since 2001, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been murdered by US puppets in the White House. These puppets even admit it and instead of accountability, they are celebrated.
Instead of trials or prison time, these mass-murdering psychopaths retire to their million-dollar mansions as those who expose their war crimes rot in prison like Julian Assange and Daniel Hale.
If anyone attempts to point out this hypocrisy on a massive scale, the majority of Americans — who claim to be against war criminals — accuse those individuals of engaging in “whataboutism” and supporting Russians. It is absolute insanity, yet it has become status quo.
The bottom line is that what’s happening in Ukraine right now is a travesty. Innocent people are suffering and it is unacceptable. War is the plight of mankind and should be avoided at all costs. Unfortunately, however, when a physical conflict or war breaks out, it is always preceded and accompanied by psychological attacks, in the form of propaganda which helps to start it and keep it going. These psychological attacks are usually carried out against the citizens of the country who engage in the war, or who profit from the war.
The propagandists involved in the Ukrainian crisis have been in a full-court press well before the first shot was fired or border crossed. Americans were bombarded with conspiracy theories about Russian false flags before the invasion and they have been bombarded with false stories taking place after it began. The result of such a massive propaganda campaign has ushered in a new era of McCarthyism.
The Ukrainian people are being used as cannon fodder for US imperialism and most Americans are completely oblivious — opting for a Ukraine flag emoji and obstinance instead. Unfortunately, this is nothing new and has long been a function of empires. As Chris Hedges reminds us:
The mass slaughter of industrial warfare, the failure to hold ourselves to account, to see our own face in the war criminals we condemn, will have ominous consequences. Author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi understood that the annihilation of the humanity of others is prerequisite for their physical annihilation. We have become captives to our machines of industrial death. Politicians and generals wield their destructive fury as if they were toys. Those who decry the madness, who demand the rule of law, are attacked and condemned. These industrial weapons systems are our modern idols. We worship their deadly prowess. But all idols, the Bible tells us, begin by demanding the sacrifice of others and end in apocalyptic self-sacrifice.
Are you willing to blindly support war to the point of apocalyptic self-sacrifice or are you willing to admit that all war is hell, not just the ones you’re told to care about? Will you see this blind spot and realize that maintaining this hypocrisy is marching humanity off of a cliff? Or, will you continue to be part of the problem and ensure our mutual demise because the television told you that “Russia bad”?
Democrat Mayor Who Painted “Black Lives Matter” on Street to White House Now Says She Never Supported Defund the Police
Defund the Police street mural in Washington DC at night
Radical Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained national attention in June of 2020 after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” in support of the violent street protesters who vandalized historical statues, attacked police and torches a historic DC church.
But now, after being part of the Democratic movement that has turned the nation’s capital into a lawless urban disaster, Mayor Bowser is pretending she never supported the “Defund the Police” movement.
Last year Washington DC had 227 murders, the fourth straight year of rising murders.
The Conservative Treehouse reported:
This is well beyond pretending not to know things, this is just plain lying in an effort to rewrite history.
DC Mayor attended an Axios sponsored “What’s Next” summit to discuss the future of policymaking, business and politics. According to Axios, Mayor Bowser denied ever supporting the “Defund the Police” movement in her city; however, the truth is the opposite. The mayor even supported the movement as it was painted on the road outside her office:
(Via Axios) D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday said she “never supported defunding the police” and talked up her plan to hire up the city’s police force to 4,000 officers — with 30% made up of women cops by 2030.
What she’s saying: “We and many cities across the country are facing spikes in violence, and we’re throwing every resource that we have in curbing that violence,” Bowser said.
[…]
D.C. hit 227 homicides last year, the fourth year of rising murders, sparking renewed debate over public safety in the nation’s capital.