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2016 The truth will set you free
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Rape Culture Goes Potty
by Erick Erickson
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Government-Orchestrated Theft
Two fundamental principles America used to honor were one's right to be left alone, and the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty. According to the Institute for Justice, from 2005 to 2012, the IRS turned both principles upside down. In more than 2,500 cases, the tax-collecting agency seized an astounding $242.6 million from individuals they accused of money "structuring" violations. In 618 cases from 2007 to 2013, the agency seized $43 million — even when there was no other evidence of criminal activity. "Every American knows that for the IRS to take somebody's money and to threaten to put them in jail because of how they deposit money in the bank is wrong," testified Institute for Justice attorney Robert Johnson, during a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee last week. "It's not how our country should work." That's putting it mildly.
Most structuring cases are tied to a 1970 law called the Bank Secrecy Act, that created structuring and civil forfeiture laws ostensibly enacted to combat large-scale drug dealing and money laundering. Yet there is a damned if one does, damned if one doesn't aspect to them that is quite disturbing. The law requires banks to report to the government any deposits, withdrawals or transfers of more than $10,000, essentially an invasion of privacy in search of malfeasance. Yet if one decides to make deposits below that threshold, and the financial institution suspects one of doing so to avoid such scrutiny, they are also required to report it. And absent any other indication of criminal activity, if the government decides one is guilty of structuring, one can be charged with a felony punishable by a fine and/or up to five years in prison.
It gets worse. Even as banks are required to report suspicious activity to the feds, they are prohibited from letting the customer know they are doing so. Moreover, banks deemed to have insufficiently scrutinized those customers can be financially sanctioned, and bank employees determined to have neglected their duty in that regard can also be criminally charged and sent to jail.
The inevitable result? "There's lots of risk in under-policing for structuring, and virtually no risk of losing customers due to a policy of over-reporting them to the government," writes columnist Radley Balko. "Most customers will never know. The problem of course is that when you force banks to cast such a wide net, they're going to report a lot of people who have done nothing wrong."
That's exactly what has happened to a number of innocent victims. In 2012, two armed IRS agents informed dairy farmer Randy Sowers that the IRS had seized $60,000 from his bank account because of structuring. The owners of Vocatura's Bakery, a family-owned and operated business started in 1919, were accused of the same crime and the IRS seized $68,382.22. Lyndon McLellan, owner of L&M Convenience Mart, had $107,702.66 seized from his business's bank account.
The agency also helped itself to almost $33,000 from the checking account of Carole Hinders, owner of a cash-only Mexican restaurant she has operated for nearly 40 years. "How can this happen?" Ms. Hinders asked. "Who takes your money before they prove that you've done anything wrong with it?" Government-sanctioned shakedown artists, that's who.
Even more infuriating, when the IRS discovers no crime was committed, those whose funds were seized have to fight to get them back. The IRS gave $33,436 back to Sowers and kept $29,500. They offered McLellan 50% of his money back if he agreed to a settlement before March 30. And after seizing $447,000 from Bi-County Distributors in 2012, the IRS didn't agree to return the money until January 2015 — after attempting to settle with the company by taking $275,000, then $200,000, and finally $50,000 of the total amount before ultimately caving.
That particular gambit was orchestrated by the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York — run by then-U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. In 2014, The Wall Street Journal called Lynch's office a "major forfeiture operation."
Why would an innocent victim settle? Because the alternative could be years of litigation and attorney fees. "In criminal cases, defendants are innocent until proven guilty. Civil forfeiture cases flip this basic legal tenet on its head," said Jason Snead, research associate at The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Prior to last Wednesday's hearing, Committee chairman Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) put this outrage in the proper perspective, saying, "It's so clear on its face: this is an abuse of power." He further reminded Americans these actions are taking place within "the larger context of IRS targeting based on political philosophy and religious beliefs," and the public's concern regarding whether government is watching out for them — or coming after them.
Over the last two years, the IRS and Justice Department altered their internal policies regarding structuring, ostensibly pursuing structuring cases only where the funds involved arise from criminal activity.
Nonetheless, Roskam emphasized government's "dismissiveness," highlighted by the fact that, despite Committee members from both parties twice sending letters to the IRS, the Treasury and the Justice Department urging them to return "inappropriately" seized funds, government remains obdurate. "They're not seeing an obligation to go and make things right," Roskam explained. "Their feeling, at least what they're communicating so far, is that was then, this is now, and if someone suffered, then someone suffered."
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen apologized to the victims and insisted that "as of a year ago there are no more seizures by the IRS and I think that's important to know that we've reached out to do that."
Yet Johnson insists the IRS is still harassing small business owners, and many of those who were previously harassed and found innocent still haven't gotten their money back.
Who to believe? Johnson works for an organization standing up for people who've had their lives needlessly upended by government. Koskinen is an arrogant government bureaucrat facing congressional impeachment for allegedly failing to comply with a subpoena requiring him to preserve documents related to the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, and lying about erased backup tapes containing copies of disgraced former IRS employee Lois Lerner's emails.
Perhaps it won't matter. Congress is considering the Clyde-Hirsch-Sowers Respect Act, named after victims of this abuse. The "novel" idea behind the bill? Prohibiting the IRS from punishing those who haven't committed any crimes. That such a bill is necessary should tell Americans all they need to know about tenuously thin divide between constitutional governance and banana republic lawlessness. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Burt Prelutsky: "Those who argue from the Left will insist that socialism is the better option because it provides a safety net for everyone, the smart and the not so smart, those who are ambitious and those who aren't. One for all and all for one. Not only equal opportunity, but equal results. An end to greed. A little bit of Heaven right here on earth, as we all join hands and sing 'Kumbaya.' The problem is that like all pipedreams, it ignores the reality of human nature. Why should those who work the hardest or think the most creatively have to share equally with those who don't work or think at all? We might want to share with those we have reason to love, but who wants to work on behalf of people they don't even know? And if they knew them, chances are they wouldn't like them. Isn't that what most people think of as slavery? ... [T]he basic problem with socialism isn't that it inevitably morphs into totalitarian communism, which it does, but that it ignores human nature by denying the competitive spirit of people, and is therefore based in fantasy. Which, if you think about it, is why it inevitably morphs into totalitarianism. Because it is unnatural at its core, it requires force to make people comply." -The Patriot Post
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liar-Trump’s Attack on New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez was a Lie
by Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ Isn’t it weird how liar-Trump saves his most outlandish and least truthful attacks for other Republicans, even though he’s already the presumptive Republican nominee and has no need to run against Republicans at all?... It’s almost the guy grew up as a liberal Democrat and still is one at heart, or something. Anyway, the latest Republican to make him angrier than liar-Hilly Clinton ever has is New Mexico governor Susana Martinez. What was Governor Martinez’s offense? Well, she didn’t attend a rally liar-Trump held in Albuquerque. Note, she did not say she wasn’t attending because she didn’t like liar-Trump although that’s probable – in fact, the story she gave the media was that her schedule would not permit her to attend. She did not at all go full Ben Sasse or Mitt Romney or even Paul Ryano. Nonetheless, that was enough for liar-Trump to go on an extended rant during the rally about Martinez, the focal point of which was the allegation that Martinez was allowing large numbers of Syrian refugees into New Mexico and thus was not doing her job as governor. But it turns out, as it so often does with liar-Trump’s attacks, that it was not true. The total number of Syrian refugees that have been settled in New Mexico since Martinez became governor? A whopping ten. Not ten thousand: ten. As in, the number of fingers you have on both hands... http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/05/30/surprise-trumps-attack-new-mexico-governor-susana-martinez-lie/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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S. Korea says North fails with attempted missile launch
by Jung Ha-Won
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{msn.com} ~ North Korea apparently failed with an attempted missile launch Tuesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for a ballistic weapons programme that aspires to threaten the US mainland... South Korea's defense ministry detected the dawn launch effort, which Japan condemned as an unacceptable and "provocative" act. The ministry declined to speculate on the missile type, but military sources cited by local media said it was a powerful, medium-range "Musudan" that has already undergone three failed launches this year. UN resolutions ban North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology, although it regularly fires short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast...
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Louisiana Lawmaker:
Declaration of Independence is Racist
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to Democrat Barbara Norton, a Louisiana state lawmaker, the Declaration of Independence is a racist relic of our nation’s past that should not be taught to today’s children... After Republican Rep. Valarie Hodges proposed a bill requiring Louisiana 4th-6th graders to recite the Declaration daily, Norton went on a screed against one of America’s most important historical documents. “I’m not really sure what your intent is,” said Norton on the Louisiana House floor on Wednesday, “but one thing I do know is: all men were not created equal. When I think back to 1776, July the 4th, African-Americans were slaves and for you to bring a bill to request that our children will recite the Declaration, I think it’s a little bit unfair to us to ask those children to recite something that’s not the truth.”...In 1776 they didn't know what racist meant Mrs. Norton. What was the Civil War all about other than to free the slaves. No word of racist was ever mention at that time.
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Netanyahu, Lieberman Recommit to
'Two-State Solution'
by Israel Today Staff
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Avigdor Lieberman officially took his place as Israel’s new defense minister on Monday, and both his and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first order of business was to reaffirm their commitment to a “two-state solution” to the conflict with the Palestinians... At a press conference welcoming Lieberman and his small Israel Beiteinu party into the coalition, Netanyahu said he was ready to engage the Palestinians and the Arab world at large on the basis of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. “I remain committed to making peace with the Palestinians and with all our neighbors. The Arab Peace Initiative contains positive elements that could help revive constructive negotiations with the Palestinians. We are willing to negotiate with the Arab states revisions to that initiative so that it reflects the dramatic changes in our region since 2002, but maintains the agreed goal of two states for two peoples,” said the prime minister...Palestinans are not willing to live side-by-side with Israel. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/29304/Default.aspx
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Palestinians and Syrians Buy Honduran Identities to Make Their Way to the U.S.
by Kausha Luna
by Kausha Luna
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{cis.org} ~ Honduras' National Registry of Persons (RNP) confirmed that hundreds of Palestinian, Syrian, and citizens of other Arab nations were fraudulently registered as Honduran citizens... As a result, these foreigners can then acquire Honduran passports, which can be used to apply for visas to enter to the United States. On Sunday, La Prensa, a Honduran newspaper, revealed the illicit sales of Honduran identity documents to Palestinian and Syrian citizens. La Prensa's investigation was anchored on the case of a Palestinian, Kareen Samer Abdulhadi. In October 2014, Abdulhadi presented himself to the Honduran consulate in Barcelona and with official documentation from the RNP and solicited a Honduran passport—arguing his status of "Honduran by birth." Nevertheless, the language, his marked Arab features, and inconsistent birth data aroused the suspicions of the diplomatic staff about his true nationality and the legitimacy of the documents including a birth certificate and identification card. Further investigation by consular staff revealed that in 2013 there had been an unauthorized intrusion and alteration in the database of birth registrations of one of the municipal records back in Honduras, which allowed the Palestinian to be documented as Honduran... http://cis.org/luna/palestinians-and-syrians-buy-honduran-identities-make-their-way-us
{cis.org} ~ Honduras' National Registry of Persons (RNP) confirmed that hundreds of Palestinian, Syrian, and citizens of other Arab nations were fraudulently registered as Honduran citizens... As a result, these foreigners can then acquire Honduran passports, which can be used to apply for visas to enter to the United States. On Sunday, La Prensa, a Honduran newspaper, revealed the illicit sales of Honduran identity documents to Palestinian and Syrian citizens. La Prensa's investigation was anchored on the case of a Palestinian, Kareen Samer Abdulhadi. In October 2014, Abdulhadi presented himself to the Honduran consulate in Barcelona and with official documentation from the RNP and solicited a Honduran passport—arguing his status of "Honduran by birth." Nevertheless, the language, his marked Arab features, and inconsistent birth data aroused the suspicions of the diplomatic staff about his true nationality and the legitimacy of the documents including a birth certificate and identification card. Further investigation by consular staff revealed that in 2013 there had been an unauthorized intrusion and alteration in the database of birth registrations of one of the municipal records back in Honduras, which allowed the Palestinian to be documented as Honduran... http://cis.org/luna/palestinians-and-syrians-buy-honduran-identities-make-their-way-us
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Glenn Beck suspended by SiriusXM for
'assassinate' liar-Trump interview
by Cheryl Chumley
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{wnd.com} ~ SiriusXM announced Tuesday it was suspending Glenn Beck for a week of broadcasts on its Patriot Channel 125 due to comments made by guest Brad Thor that the company deemed as too inflammatory... Breitbart reported David Webb would take over Beck’s broadcasts in the 9 a.m. to noon time slot for the week. In a statement reported by Breitbart, SiriusXM said: “Sirius XM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs. However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in the company’s judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which SiriusXM cannot and will not condone. For that reason, The Glenn Beck Program is suspended from our Patriot channel for the coming week. SiriusXM is committed to a spirited, robust, yet responsible political conversation and believes this action reflects those values.”... http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/glenn-beck-suspended-by-siriusxm-for-assassinate-trump-interview/
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Former CIA director:
liar-Trump feeding jihadist recruitment
by Paige Winfield Cunningham
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A former CIA director says Donald liar-Trump has hurt U.S. national security by adopting the messaging used by Islamic extremists... "The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world, so when liar-Trump says they all hate us, he's using their narrative … he's feeding their recruitment video," said Michael Hayden of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Hayden spoke in a Sunday appearance at the Hay Festival in the United Kingdom. Hayden, who led the CIA under George W. Bush and briefly under President nObama, spoke on a wide range of security-related topics, including changes wrought by social media. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will probably have greater influence on security than government agencies because of the rules he sets up for the massively popular website, Hayden said...
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Presidential Candidate liar-Hilly Clinton TO BE INDICTED
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Over the weekend, a writer for the liberal Huffington Post reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) will pursue a criminal indictment against Democrat presidential candidate liar-Hilly Clinton... Frank Hugenard, a scientist, public speaker and freelance contributor, had his report removed by HuffPo editors and his account disabled without explanation. The piece was entitled, ““liar-Hilly Clinton to be Indicted On Federal Racketeering Charges” and it quickly went viral before being removed. Huguenard, who seems to support Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), claims to have sources within the FBI who say the agency will recommend racketeering charges against liar-Hilly. As Huguenard explained:...Finally, if this true. http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/Fi-candidate-hillary-clinton-indicted-breaking-news/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2005-31-16%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201
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Putin Warns Mute nObama Over Missile Deployment
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Vladimir Putin is not a world president or king of the world, whatever phony type of disloyal non-leader of the nation that signs his paycheck that Hussein nObama is... He’s addressing the concerns and the interests of Russia and the Russian people and he’s got a message for nObama and the world. The US anti-missile defense system in Europe risks the safety of the entire region. He’s not talking about cell phone or Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa or other non-important “critical issues” like the clown in the White House does. These are real issues, nObama, listen up. In a speech made during a recent visit to Greece, Putin said, “Rockets with a 500 kilometer range are being positioned in Romania now. Rockets with a 1,000 kilometer range are on the way.” He added, “But what’s even worse, these rockets can easily be replaced at any moment with long-range rockets that can travel 2,400 kilometers and no one will notice, even the Romanians.” Putin emphasized, “This is a huge danger to us and we will have to react immediately. Those parts of Romania that didn’t know what it’s like to be in the crosshairs will have to face our countermeasures that ensure our safety... http://rickwells.us/putin-warns-mute-obama-missile-celente/
{rickwells.us} ~ Vladimir Putin is not a world president or king of the world, whatever phony type of disloyal non-leader of the nation that signs his paycheck that Hussein nObama is... He’s addressing the concerns and the interests of Russia and the Russian people and he’s got a message for nObama and the world. The US anti-missile defense system in Europe risks the safety of the entire region. He’s not talking about cell phone or Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa or other non-important “critical issues” like the clown in the White House does. These are real issues, nObama, listen up. In a speech made during a recent visit to Greece, Putin said, “Rockets with a 500 kilometer range are being positioned in Romania now. Rockets with a 1,000 kilometer range are on the way.” He added, “But what’s even worse, these rockets can easily be replaced at any moment with long-range rockets that can travel 2,400 kilometers and no one will notice, even the Romanians.” Putin emphasized, “This is a huge danger to us and we will have to react immediately. Those parts of Romania that didn’t know what it’s like to be in the crosshairs will have to face our countermeasures that ensure our safety... http://rickwells.us/putin-warns-mute-obama-missile-celente/
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White House Fails to Detect a Single Cyber Threat
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The White House has been unable to detect a single cyber security threat more than six months after issuing a “national emergency” to deal with what the administration identified as growing and immediate danger... according to a new government report. Six months after President Barack nObama invoked emergency powers to block the assets of any person caught engaging in “malicious cyber-enabled activities,” the administration has not identified a single qualifying target, according to the Treasury Department, which disclosed in a report that “no entities or individuals have been designated.” The April 2015 directive issued by the White House identified an “increasing prevalence and severity of malicious cyber-enabled activities” among individuals living outside the United States...
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#Neverliar-Trumpers offer only “corruption as usual”
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
by LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Charles Murray, the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, writing in the National Review, says that Donald liar-Trump "is unfit to be president in ways that apply to no other candidate of the two major political parties throughout American history."... Wow. I wonder if Murray has been in a vegetative state for the last eight years. And just who are these Republican establishment "angels" Mr. Murray prefers to liar-Trump? He doesn't say, but he seems to favor the hopelessly corrupt liar-Hilly Clinton as a reasonable alternative, who, according to Murray, tells lies within "normal parameters." I suppose those "normal parameter" lies include Benghazi, "liar-Clinton Cash," the potentially felonious email scandal or her Avogadro's number of other lies...Murray is one sick person. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/nevertrumpers-offer-only-corruption-as-usual?f=must_reads
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Rape Culture Goes Potty
by Erick Erickson
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Marshall University, like many other universities, takes “rape culture” seriously. What is rape culture? According to Marshall University on its website, “Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety.”
The editors of the leftwing Nation magazine declared “Rape culture exists because we don’t believe it does.” The Atlantic chronicled “Rape culture in the Alaskan wilderness.” Mother Jones ran an article entitled, “How to fight fat shaming, internet trolls, and rape culture.” The Huffington Post, with an article titled “Every adult should listen carefully to this teen’s speech on rape culture” implored Americans to listen to Nadia Goldman, an 18 year old who, according to the Huffington Post, “dropped some serious knowledge about misogyny and sexism in a speech she made.” BuzzFeed ran an article entitled “What is rape culture?” It began with a bold subheading that read “anybody can be a rapist.”
Rape culture is taken so seriously by the American left that progressive pundits were quick to seize on a Rolling Stone magazine article about college rape at the University of Virginia. The journalist who wrote the article, Sabrina Erdely, documented an alleged rape at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. When people started pointing out things in the story that did not add up, Erdely and others on the left were outraged that the claims were not believed. Now Erdely and Rolling Stone are being sued because the story did turn out to be the fabrication of Jackie, the student who supposedly was the victim of a rape that did not happen.
But, as with so much on the left, it is not the truth of the matter asserted that is important. Rather it is the seriousness of the charge that matters. Rape culture, according to the American left, is rampant in the country. The nObama Administration is committed to stamping it out.
Now, however, there is a new twist on rape culture. The nObama Administration insists that any school that accepts federal dollars allow boys to use the girls’ bathroom. In a culture the left claims is filled with rapists, the left led by the nObama Administration, wants to let the rapists have free reign in bathrooms across America. If you disagree, you support Jim Crow laws according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The issue, in truth, has nothing to do with actual transgender people, who are estimated to be no more than 0.3 percent of the population. If an authentically transgendered person went into a bathroom, the odds of anyone ever knowing are slim. But there is no standard definition of transgenderism. It is a feeling. If a boy suddenly decides he feels like he is a girl, he can go to the girl’s bathroom.
But what of the legitimate rape victim? Suddenly, the actual victim of violence is cast in the role of bigot for not wanting a member of the opposite sex in her bathroom. In fact, the whole of transgenderism leads to absurd results that fly in the face of other accepted doctrines of the left.
For example, if, as the left claims, our sexual orientation is something we are born with and the male husband in a heterosexual relationship suddenly decides he identifies as a woman, is his female wife suddenly to be a lesbian or will she be labeled a bigot and transphobic for not wanting to stay with her husband who is now supposedly a woman?
None of it makes sense, and the nObama Administration is willing to govern based on feeling while ignoring contradictions and the concerns of others. In a nation where the left believes every man is a potential rapist, they are fine with letting him in the girls’ bathroom if they feel like a girl that day. If you disagree, the Attorney General of the United States and the political left think you are a bigot.
{freedomsback.com} ~ Marshall University, like many other universities, takes “rape culture” seriously. What is rape culture? According to Marshall University on its website, “Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety.”
The editors of the leftwing Nation magazine declared “Rape culture exists because we don’t believe it does.” The Atlantic chronicled “Rape culture in the Alaskan wilderness.” Mother Jones ran an article entitled, “How to fight fat shaming, internet trolls, and rape culture.” The Huffington Post, with an article titled “Every adult should listen carefully to this teen’s speech on rape culture” implored Americans to listen to Nadia Goldman, an 18 year old who, according to the Huffington Post, “dropped some serious knowledge about misogyny and sexism in a speech she made.” BuzzFeed ran an article entitled “What is rape culture?” It began with a bold subheading that read “anybody can be a rapist.”
Rape culture is taken so seriously by the American left that progressive pundits were quick to seize on a Rolling Stone magazine article about college rape at the University of Virginia. The journalist who wrote the article, Sabrina Erdely, documented an alleged rape at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. When people started pointing out things in the story that did not add up, Erdely and others on the left were outraged that the claims were not believed. Now Erdely and Rolling Stone are being sued because the story did turn out to be the fabrication of Jackie, the student who supposedly was the victim of a rape that did not happen.
But, as with so much on the left, it is not the truth of the matter asserted that is important. Rather it is the seriousness of the charge that matters. Rape culture, according to the American left, is rampant in the country. The nObama Administration is committed to stamping it out.
Now, however, there is a new twist on rape culture. The nObama Administration insists that any school that accepts federal dollars allow boys to use the girls’ bathroom. In a culture the left claims is filled with rapists, the left led by the nObama Administration, wants to let the rapists have free reign in bathrooms across America. If you disagree, you support Jim Crow laws according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The issue, in truth, has nothing to do with actual transgender people, who are estimated to be no more than 0.3 percent of the population. If an authentically transgendered person went into a bathroom, the odds of anyone ever knowing are slim. But there is no standard definition of transgenderism. It is a feeling. If a boy suddenly decides he feels like he is a girl, he can go to the girl’s bathroom.
But what of the legitimate rape victim? Suddenly, the actual victim of violence is cast in the role of bigot for not wanting a member of the opposite sex in her bathroom. In fact, the whole of transgenderism leads to absurd results that fly in the face of other accepted doctrines of the left.
For example, if, as the left claims, our sexual orientation is something we are born with and the male husband in a heterosexual relationship suddenly decides he identifies as a woman, is his female wife suddenly to be a lesbian or will she be labeled a bigot and transphobic for not wanting to stay with her husband who is now supposedly a woman?
None of it makes sense, and the nObama Administration is willing to govern based on feeling while ignoring contradictions and the concerns of others. In a nation where the left believes every man is a potential rapist, they are fine with letting him in the girls’ bathroom if they feel like a girl that day. If you disagree, the Attorney General of the United States and the political left think you are a bigot.
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