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Saudi Sympathies Ring Hollow After Pensacola Shooting
Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas
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Unconstitutional Impeachment
The Real Abuse of Power
By Peggy Ryan
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The House has filed articles of impeachment against President Trump. The charges are vague, not criminal, not in line with constitutional requirements, but Democrats don't care... The American people are opposed to this illegal impeachment, but again, Democrats don't care. They have a mission, and nothing will stand in their way. But then we've been here before, haven't we? In 2009, our government rolled over us like a tank in Tiananmen Square to pass scumbag/liar-nObamacare. Like impeachment, scumbag/liar-nObamacare was unpopular, opposed by most Americans. Like impeachment, Congress and their media pushed the lies, the empty promises: to tamp down opposition. And here we go again. liar-Nancy's marshaling her forces to once again steamroll the people. And she's just as committed to overthrowing our government as she was to enacting a socialist takeover of our health care. Our government operates outside the will of voters because it can. Once we send these people to Washington, we relinquish control, have no way to stop them until the next election, usually years away. The horrifying truth is, we the people no longer matter. This globalist cabal has plans in place to take control of America, and it's not going to let a bunch of Constitution-toting idealists get in the way. We had no say with scumbag/liar-nObamacare, and we have no say in impeachment. That fact was driven home on the eve of the scumbag/liar-nObamacare vote, when thousands of Americans gathered in the square beneath the Capitol to protest the bill. Afterward, Howard Fineman blogged the following on his Newsweek site: I'm sitting in the House Press Gallery writing a piece for Newsweek. It's almost 10 pm and the House is moving toward a vote. On the plaza below, outside the Capitol, I can hear the remnants of a raucous Tea Party crowd. They are chanting "liar-Nancy! Nancy!" and "Kill the Bill." They just sang "God Bless America." I've been around a while, and don't remember a crowd of foes trying to shout down a bill from outside as the vote approached. Maybe it's happened. Though the voices are faint, they're worth noting — and remembering. The American people a footnote "worth noting — and remembering." The people couldn't stop the socialist law because government is by nature tyrannical. "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." —George Washington Our government already has a ruling class. loose lips liar-Joe Biden, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, scumbag-James Comey, and others break the law with impunity, remain free to give speeches, go on book tours, even run for president. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are jailed for far less. "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." —Ayn Rand Today people around the world risk injury, jail, and their lives to reject oppression, to fight for freedom. In Hong Kong, protesters flooded their streets to stop a despotic law that infringed on their liberty. They flew the American flag, sang our national anthem as they faced tear gas and clubs. They're standing up against a far more powerful force than Democrats; they're standing up to China, a merciless dictator with a history of brutality....
scumbag/liar-nObama Era Political Surveillance,
and The Dual Purpose of Fusion GPS
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ With research files on the ’15, ’16 and ’17 political surveillance program; including information from the Mueller report and information from the IG Horowitz report... in combination with the scumbag/liar-nObama-era DOJ “secret research project” their words, not mine; we are able to overlay the scumbag/liar-nObama-era domestic IC operations and gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of approximately four to six years. Working with a timeline, but also referencing origination material in 2015/2016 – CTH hopes to show how the programs interacted and operated. A full review explains an evolution from The IRS Files in 2010 to the FISA Files in 2016. More importantly, the assembly of government reports and public records now indicates a political exploitation of the NSA database, for weaponized intelligence surveillance of politicians, began mid 2012. The FISA-702 database extraction process, and utilization of the protections within the smaller intelligence community, became the primary process. We start by reviewing the established record from the 99-page FISC opinion rendered by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer on April 26th, 2017; and explain the details within the FISC opinion. I would strongly urge everyone to read the FISC report because Judge Collyer outlines how the DOJ, which includes the FBI, had an “institutional lack of candor” in responses to the FISA court. In essence, the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was continually lying to the court about their activity, and the rate of fourth amendment violations for illegal searches and seizures of U.S. persons’ private information for multiple years. Unfortunately, due to intelligence terminology Judge Collyer’s brief and ruling is not an easy read for anyone unfamiliar with the FISA processes outlined. The complexity also helps the media avoid discussing, and as a result most Americans have no idea the scale and scope of the issues. So we’ll try to break down the language... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/14/obama-era-political-surveillance-and-the-dual-purpose-of-fusion-gps/ .
The Democrats are engaged in a coup
What do we do about it?
By Joe Herring
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Stories are freighted with an inherent power to influence, persuade, even form perceptions from whole cloth among those who hear them. Were it not so, Hollywood would be just another town... It is that raw power that has taught us to exercise extreme caution when we hear stories claimed to be faithful retellings of provable facts. For that reason, we raise the bar when the story involves the alleged commission of a crime. We set and maintain a high standard for evidence of the accusation throughout legal proceedings — wisely seeking to strip the "story" of its inherent power and see if it still stands when reduced to the skeletal frame of actual fact. These legal requirements and protections cannot be abridged without inviting unfairness to sit as the presiding judge. The Democrats have been telling a story. The Republicans have noted quite properly in my view that this particular story has quickly morphed from mere political maneuvering into grave legal proceeding, and as such can no longer be permitted to hide beneath cloaks of insinuation, emotion, and supposition. They have rightfully demanded that the "story" be stripped, so all can see clearly whether there is indeed a skeleton of facts, or merely a rush of hot air keeping the story upright, like some grotesque inflatable yard decoration. The rules of order have been twisted and warped by the House Democrats to prevent the examination of the story. Legal prohibitions on conduct have been disregarded, longstanding rules of evidence dismissed, all to protect the story from revealing its framework. Make no mistake: there is hard evidence to be presented, examined, and adjudicated. It just isn't to be found among the slanderous ephemera the Democrats are calling a case for impeachment. The hard evidence is on the side of the president. With the life of the Democrats' "story" dependent on the concealment of the actual evidence, it's no wonder the Left has once again resorted to rigging the game....
liar-Nancy Pelosi broke down in tears when
she found out about this massive
impeachment defeat
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New Jersey Democrat Congressman,
Jeff Van Drew, Will Switch Parties
Over Impeachment Fraud
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Jeff Van Drew is a democrat congressman from New Jersey CD-02. According to multiple media reports he is likely to switch to the republican party next week due to the fraudulent impeachment effort... Van Drew was one of two democrats who did not support the vote for the impeachment inquiry […] Van Drew’s congressional and campaign staff were informed he was planning to switch parties on Saturday, according to Democratic sources. The question was now when, not if, Van Drew was joining the Republican Party, according to several Democrats with knowledge of the ongoing conversations. As of Saturday afternoon, it was still unclear if Van Drew would make the announcement before the House votes on impeachment, which is expected Wednesday. “It was supposed to be bipartisan, it was supposed to be incontrovertible. It was supposed to be something that was always on the rarest of circumstances,” Van Drew told reporters about impeachment earlier this week. “Well it’s not bipartisan.”... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/14/new-jersey-democrat-congressman-jeff-van-drew-will-switch-parties-over-impeachment-fraud/ .
Dershowitz and CNN’s Toobin lock horns in
testy battle over articles of impeachment
by Frieda Powers
{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Attorney Alan Dershowitz locked horns with CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin over the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee against President Donald Trump... The two men sparred as Dershowitz maintained that Democrats are “trying to make it up as they go along,” arguing that the charges against the president do not meet the standards in the U.S. Constitution. Dershowitz began by speaking about his advice to Trump on sticking with a constitutional argument against the articles of impeachment brought this week by House Democrats. CNN host John Berman had asked the professor emeritus at Harvard Law School about recent reports that he will be joining the president’s legal team, but Dershowitz said that he couldn’t speak about the details yet. He went on to note what he has already told the president: that he should focus “on the inadequacies of the two charges” leveled against him. On a party-line vote of 23-17 Friday, the House Judiciary Committee adopted two articles of impeachment against the president, alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Dershowitz contended that Trump’s argument in his defense is solidly backed by the Constitution, which lays forth “fairly specific criteria” for impeachable offenses. Democrats “can’t interpret ‘misdemeanor’ to mean pretty much exactly what the Framers rejected at the Constitutional Convention,” Dershowitz said, prompting Toobin to push back, saying that the offenses in question are ones that “only a president can commit.” “You or I can lie under oath, we can rob a bank, but we cannot withhold money from Ukraine in return for political help in our campaign,” CNN’s chief legal analyst said. “The only person who can do that, who can violate his oath and abuse power is the president.” He debated with Dershowitz, claiming that Trump’s actions are “precisely an abuse of power.” “I can name you 20 presidents that have abused power under those criteria. President Kennedy going after people through the IRS… Roosevelt confining 110,000 Japanese Americans,” Dershowitz fired back... https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/14/dershowitz-and-cnns-toobin-lock-horns-in-testy-battle-over-articles-of-impeachment-864339?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL .
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Saudi Sympathies Ring Hollow After Pensacola Shooting
Cal Thomas
Cal ThomasIf it walks like a duck … you know the rest.
Following a shooting attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a Saudi national identified as 21-year-old Mohammed Alshamrani, the FBI issued a statement saying it presumes the incident was a terrorist attack.
What might have given them that idea?
If profiling were not politically incorrect, authorities might have done a deeper dive into Alshamrani’s background. First, he was a Muslim from Saudi Arabia, from which 15 of the 9/11 hijackers came. It is a nation that promotes the most radical form of Islam, known as Wahhabism, which is taught to some Saudi children in Wahhabi schools. The new leadership in Saudi Arabia has pledged to clean up its textbooks, but convincing evidence is yet to be provided.
Second, Alshamrani and several other Saudi students at the base reportedly watched a video of mass shootings before Alshamrani committed his evil deed.
Third, he reportedly posted a manifesto on Twitter in which he denounced America as a “nation of evil” that is responsible for killing Muslims. He also denounced Israel. Surprise!
Any one of these should have raised concerns and prompted an investigation.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and several members of Congress have rightly called for a review of vetting procedures for foreign nationals at American training facilities, but it will take more than that.
After making the requisite statement that not all Muslims are terrorists, let me suggest that the motivations of those who are terrorists require a more serious combat strategy for the protection of innocents.
The U.K. has had a program for some time designed to “de-radicalize” people arrested on terrorism charges. The problem with that, as terrorist expert Steve Emerson writes on his investigativeproject.org website: “Of the 400+ Islamic terrorists released in recent years, nearly 70 percent refused to take part in any de-radicalization program while incarcerated.”
Emerson notes that the teachable moment (why do we need more?) of Usman Khan, who was on supervised early release from prison when he killed two people and wounded several others Nov. 29 near London Bridge, and the ineffectiveness of “rehabilitation” programs for these radicals: “Many of those who did participate in a rehabilitation program may not be truly de-radicalized.”
President Trump says he spoke with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Al-Saud after the killings, and that the king expressed his sincere condolences and has promised to compensate relatives of the dead and those who were wounded in the attack, but that’s not enough. Yes, Saudi Arabia is an important ally in its opposition to the Iranian regime, but it has yet to be held accountable for the 2018 murder of Saudi businessman and sometime Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Unless Saudi Arabia has a conversion moment that credibly repudiates the extreme wing of Islam it has practiced and taught foe decades, one has a right, even a duty, to question its sincerity in the matter of the Pensacola killer. ~The Patriot Post
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