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Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution?
Nice Try, Nancy
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Military’s ‘Active Denial System’ Can Hit Illegals
at 700 Yards, Instantly Turn Them Back
by C. Douglas Golden
{westernjournal.com} ~ Could the Active Denial System be the answer for possible border problems? Conservative commentator Glenn Beck thinks so... You may not have heard of the ADS, which has been a topic of debate for over a decade now. The non-lethal deterrent system been labeled by both military personnel and press alike as a “pain ray” — which, I suppose, is a catchier way to refer to it than ADS. The U.K. Telegraph, describing the system back in 2010, said that military officials described it as a “non-lethal, directed-energy, counter-personnel weapon.”“Compared with most military vehicles, the device looks relatively harmless — like one of the broadcasting trucks you see outside big sporting events: an anonymous-looking military transport with what appears to be a square satellite dish mounted on top. But it contains an extraordinary new weapon, capable of causing immense discomfort from half a mile away without – its makers claim – doing any lasting damage,” the newspaper reported. “The ADS works by projecting a focused beam of 3.2mm wave electromagnetic radiation at a human target. This heats the water and fat molecules on the skin, causing their temperature to rise by up to 50C (122 degrees Fahrenheit). “Philip Sherwell, a Sunday Telegraph reporter who tried out the ADS in 2007, describes it as ‘unbearably uncomfortable, like opening a roasting hot oven door.’ The immediate is to escape the beam and seek cover — at which point the effect subsides.” A Pentagon is description is less dramatic, but just as persuasive... See the effects of the ADS below. https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/video-militarys-active-denial-system-can-hit-illegals-700-yards-instantly-turn-back/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=holiday-brief&utm_content=conservative-tribune .
loose lips-Biden Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over
Son’s Relationship To Ukrainian Gas Company
by Molly Prince
{ dailycaller.com } ~ A Ukrainian gas company gave a seat on its board to the son of former Vice President loose lips-Joe Biden in an attempt to secure relationships with Democrats... while it was under multiple investigations, according to a recent New York Times report. loose lips-Biden largely took credit for pressuring Ukraine into removing its top prosecutor, who was leading those probes. Ukraine recently relaunched an investigation into the company, the Times reported Wednesday, and President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has repeatedly called for the U.S. Department of Justice to scrutinize the loose lips-Bidens. Hunter Biden was appointed to the four-member board of Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest privately owned gas company, in April 2014. The seat came while the elder loose lips-Biden was serving in former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration and was slated to head relations with Ukraine for the administration. Burisma is a natural gas exploration and production company owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a cabinet member of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich was removed from his position in February 2014. He currently lives in exile in Russia and is wanted by Ukraine for high treason. Zlochevsky later fled the country in late-2014 as Ukrainian prosecutors launched investigations into his time in public office as well as his private businesses. Around the same time, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office froze $23 million in a London account that was linked to Zlochevsky. A British court later unblocked the bank accounts in January 2015 and “found no grounds for further consideration of the case,” according to The Kyiv Post. Roughly two years after Hunter Biden’s appointment to Burisma’s board, the vice president traveled to Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, where he threatened that the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless Ukraine ousted its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was accused of ignoring corruption within his own political office....
Hamas, Islamic Jihad:
We're Close to Open War with Israel
by Khaled Abu Toameh.
The Increasingly Narrow,
Parochial Prism of Journalism
by Douglas Murray.
Egypt, Iran and the
Current Escalation in the Gaza Strip
by Jacob Nagel
{ fdd.org } ~ The current round of conflict between Israel and militant groups in Gaza did not occur because of a lack of mediation. It occurred in spite of such efforts... The current rocket barrages began last week when the Egyptians where in a middle of a new effort to find a short-term arrangement to reduce tensions in the Gaza Strip. However, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) didn’t respect their Egyptian host. In the middle of negotiations, the group authorized the sniper operation that kicked off the current round of violence. Hamas, from what can be determined, did not initially seek out this clash. Israeli officials are thus not ruling out the likelihood that it was PIJ’s Iranian patrons behind the current escalation. The Iranians and their Gaza allies likely believed the forthcoming Eurovision song contest beginning May 14, Israel Independence Day festivities May 15, and Ramadan tomorrow would likely hinder a forceful Israeli response. PIJ and Iran may also have believed that Israel would be reticent to act because of the new U.S. peace plan, soon to be rolled out by the Trump Administration tandem of Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt. However, Iran and its allies may have overplayed their hand. After sustaining more than 600 rockets and four fatalities, with no sign of the violence letting up, even some of the more risk-averse Israeli officials see little choice but to destroy significant terrorist infrastructure in Gaza in a major retaliation. Indeed, there is a growing sense in Israel that the IDF must re-establish deterrence and send a clear message such that the gain/pain equation will be different this time. Israeli military operations in Gaza already look different from previous ones. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has struck Hamas “internal security” headquarters in Rimal, and a building that included the offices of the Turkish Anadolu News Agency, along with other high profile targets. The IDF is also now targeting top terrorists from the air, including Hamed Ahmed al-Khodary. This was the first known targeted strike of its kind since 2014...
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Trump Is a Threat to the Constitution?
Nice Try, Nancy
David Limbaugh
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ This week, two high-profile Democrats mouthed their party's delusional mantra that President Trump is a threat to the Constitution — a rich allegation from those would dismantle major pillars of our republican system of government.
While the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was still burning, quixotic impeachment crusader Rep. Steve Cohen said on MSNBC's "Hardball," "What he has done to the Constitution and the rule of law is as bad as that fire did to Notre Dame. He's torching the entire structure of government and the people's respect for it. And the Congress needs to act." Poor form, poor judgment and just plain over-the-top insanity.
The next day on CNN, House Speaker Nancy Pulosi said, "Everything is at stake in this election: the Constitution of the United States, with the president who's trying to usurp the power of the legislative branch of government; the environment in which we live; a Republican Party that is in denial about the assault on climate and the climate crisis, which is a health issue, a national security issue, an economic and jobs issue, and a moral issue." Misguided, incoherent hyperbole.
I doubt that these dueling attacks were coordinated. When the party sings from the same hymnal — at least on Trump — conspiratorial coordination is unnecessary. But it's noteworthy that they're still beating this drum, even though their collusion gambit has backfired and considering that they are the ones engaging in a full-scale assault on the Constitution. Let us count the ways.
The framers believed our rights are God-given and thus inalienable, and they sought to ensure them by designing a system of limited government. Just providing for the people's democratic participation would be insufficient to secure their liberty, because people can vote themselves into tyranny. They knew men aren't angels and that, left to their own devices, they would eventually subjugate others.
So, in addition to establishing the Bill of Rights, they divided power among different levels of government — national, state and local — and within the federal branch — legislative, executive and judicial. They crafted a partially but not purely democratic system. Indeed, they imposed safeguards against pure democracy including the Electoral College, which they knew could lead to mob rule.
Democrats complain about Trump's supposedly authoritarian disposition — pointing to his bullying nature and combative tweets, as if Stalin, Mao or Hitler would have relied on such anemic methods to amass their power and terrorize their people.
Please don't respond that Trump is engaged in Nazi-like propaganda, and that he threatens the freedom of the press by calling the "fake news media" the "enemy of the people." Trump is mostly defending himself against the daily barrage of propaganda leveled against him by a dishonest, monolithic leftist media that is the arm of the Democratic Party. His rhetorical rejoinders seek to showcase the unfairness and dishonesty of his detractors.
And unaccompanied by any effort to muzzle them, they are, in the scheme of things, harmless. They are certainly no threat to the Constitution.
Long before their recent barrage of proposals to alter and circumvent the Constitution to make it easier for them to win elections, the Democrats worked to undermine our system of limited government. Their judicial activism resulted in the judiciary usurping powers from the other two political branches, thereby upsetting the constitutional scheme. Their penchant for their presidents to issue unlawful executive orders has also undermined the balance of powers. Their passage of the Administrative Procedure Act in 1946 resulted in an enormous power shift from Congress to unelected, unaccountable executive branch bureaucrats whose administrative agencies are models of the type of tyranny the framers warned about because they combine legislative, executive and judicial powers under one tent.
By the way, the allegedly anti-Constitution ogre, President Trump, has done more to disempower this "fourth branch of government" than any other president, and the constitutional system is stronger, not weaker, as a result.
More recently, Democrats have proposed a rash of disturbing ideas designed to alter our system of government through fundamental changes in our elections. The same Steve Cohen who's now yelling about President Trump's threat to the constitutional order introduced a bill to effectively eliminate the Electoral College and provide for the direct election of the president and vice president. Democrats have advanced proposals to pack the Supreme Court, and a majority of them have voted to reduce the voting age to 16, which is egregious on multiple levels and unwise.
In addition, Pulosi introduced the euphemistically dubbed For the People Act, which would overhaul federal election laws to micromanage and centralize the election process now administered by the states, and which would favor the election of Democrats. Other examples of Democrats' mischief that impairs free and fair elections include their opposition to voter ID laws and their objection to a citizenship question on the census form.
And please don't get me started on the Democrats' failed coup to delegitimize and oust President Trump, or their ongoing efforts to baselessly impeach him. Suffice it to say that he represents no threat to the Constitution, but Democrats do. But why shouldn't they? Many of them have openly said that America is not that great, so why trifle over preserving the integrity of the document whose ideas make it unique?
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