NEVER FORGET: Georgia Observer Affidavits Say They Were Told to Go Home on Election Night before they started recounting ballots and shoving stacks through the voting machines several times https://t.co/CFpTICj4od
“BREAKING: The Department of “Justice” lied to Delaware U.S. Attorney Weiss to throw off his investigation into Hunter Biden tax fraud.
This allowed the FBI to withhold damning information from Weiss to protect the Biden family.
A bombshell new report from the Federalist reveals how the FBI falsely claimed that allegations against Hunter Biden originated from Rudy Giuliani… a total lie.
This lie allowed the FBI to withhold documented information in an interview with a whistleblower who claimed Joe Biden accepted a bribe from Ukraine.
So how exactly did the FBI pull this off?
The FBI leaked false information to the New York Times that Rudy Giuliani was responsible for accusations against the Biden family.
The New York Times then reported on these lies in an article titled: “Material from Giuliani Spurred a Separate Justice Depart. Pursuit of Hunter Biden.”
The FBI then sent the false New York Times article to Weiss to throw off his investigation to protect the Biden family, as reported by the @FDRLST
This level of corruption is absolutely insane. Dismantle the FBI.”
If a Republican primary candidate isn't willing to commit in writing to across the board pardons and commutations in writing it should be an automatic disqualifier.
“Five pro-life leaders, who protested inside a D.C. abortion clinic, are facing over a decade in federal prison after a jury trial found the co-defendants guilty of violating a Clinton-era law that forbids interference with so-called “reproductive health care services.”
For forming a pro-life “blockade” on Oct. 22, 2020, that “obstruct[ed] access” to the Washington Surgi-Clinic (WSC), an abortion shop in the nation’s capital that advertises that babies “up to 27-plus weeks” of pregnancy are aborted there, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty were convicted last Tuesday on charges brought forth by Biden’s Justice Department: felony conspiracy against civil rights and Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances (FACE) Act violations.
DOJ attorneys prosecuting the pro-life activists allege that the co-defendants “engaged in a conspiracy” by mobilizing on Facebook beforehand, an event that the mostly Christian “co-conspirators” organized as a faith-based “rescue” to save babies from being slaughtered. “In furtherance of the conspiracy,” Handy, Hinshaw, Idoni, Goodman, and Geraghty traveled to the District of Columbia, hailing from an assortment of northeast and midwestern states, to participate in the live-streamed protest.
According to the two-count indictment, within the waiting room, the pro-life protestors blocked the abortion business’s doors with furniture, rope, and themselves (bound together by chains) as “a physical obstruction” to impede the facility’s baby-killing operations. There, the “rescuers” sang hymns, such as the Immaculate Mary, and recited the St. Michael the Archangel prayer.
At the trial, which commenced on Aug. 9, a nun praying the rosary in the gallery, joined by a priest reading Bible verses, was reportedly reprimanded for making the sign of the cross in the direction of the witness stand. Other observers had been ordered on Day One of witness testimony not to pray “visibly,” because doing so could be perceived as “threatening” acts of intimidation.
Post-conviction, the pro-lifers each face up to 11 years behind bars, three-years supervised release, and a fine of up to $350,000. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a feminist Clinton appointee presiding over the case whose pre-trial rulings recurrently aligned with the whims of pro-abortion apparatchiks, ordered the co-defendants to be immediately incarcerated upon the DOJ’s request for detainment, claiming the pro-life “rescuers” committed a “crime of violence” under federal law. Following the guilty verdict’s reading, an “army” of U.S. Marshals swiftly herded the five co-defendants out of the courtroom, Live Action reported.
In closing statements, Hinshaw’s attorney pleaded that the only individuals to turn towards violent behavior were the WSC’s staff members, one of whom brandished a broomstick and used it to jab at the rescuers, the defense counsel said. Aside from the sit-in, some of the activists kneeled and prayed, some passed out pro-life literature, and some counseled abortion-seeking women.
Attorneys for Idoni, Geraghty, and Handy have vowed to pursue appeals. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.
A separate trial against the remaining four jointly indicted co-defendants is set to begin on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
“For doing right, they now want to send me away for 11 years. I’m 68. 11 years will probably finish it,” one of the convicted pro-life defendants, 68-year-old Hinshaw, of Long Island, New York, told Townhall. Ahead of the trial, Hinshaw exclusively spoke to Townhall to address the case’s eyebrow-raising timing, concerns of jury-packing, and the pro-abortion judge’s political pontification in court orders. In the trial’s aftermath, it’s evident that the case reeked of bias from the very outset.
The Jury
Speaking on the “nightmare” jury-selection process, the pro-life leader, who has “been through a few of them,” said that pro-lifers are “almost always” disqualified. “Again, it says something about the system,” Hinshaw stated, observing how would-be jurors with pro-life beliefs oft-admit to the court: “Yeah, I can’t be impartial. I’m biased over the issue.” Hinshaw, in disbelief, reacted: “What?! Of course, you have the ability to judge this fairly. But, pro-lifers, who tend to be the more honest among us, take themselves off these juries all the time. And, it blows my mind. I don’t see abortion-clinic workers taking themselves off juries.”
According to Catholic News Agency, the jury pool was stacked with pro-abortion activists who admittedly marched for abortion and donated to Planned Parenthood. When the pro-life defense implored Kollar-Kotelly to remove the self-identifying lot from the jury panel, the judge reportedly refused to strike for cause the handful of potential jurors who confessed to being pro-abortion and defended the inclusion of the pro-abortion prospects on the grounds that “access to abortion is legal,” LifeSiteNews reported.”
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another one of the defendants, John Hinshaw
unfortunately I didn’t get to finish his portrait because (despite there being no rule against it) court security made me stop drawing, and a US Marshal took my sketchbook 🙃
“The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) are nongovernmental organizations, their leaders say. When they demand more censorship of online hate speech, as they are currently doing of X, formerly Twitter, those NGOs are doing it as free citizens and not, say, as government agents.
But the fact of the matter is that the US and other Western governments fund ISD, the UK government indirectly funds CCDH, and, for at least 40 years, ADL spied on its enemies and shared intelligence with the US, Israel and other governments. The reason all of this matters is that ADL’s advertiser boycott against X may be an effort by governments to regain the ability to censor users on X that they had under Twitter before Musk’s takeover last November.
Internal Twitter and Facebook messages show that representatives of the US government, including the White House, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the UK government, successfully demanded Facebook and Twitter censorship of their users over the last several years.
ADL is waging a very similar campaign against X/Twitter that it successfully waged against Facebook in 2020. In just three days, 800 companies, including $129 billion consumer products giant Unilever, withdrew tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue from Facebook until it agreed to ADL’s censorship demands. “The Facebook caved to far-left pressure groups and now allows them to silently dictate policy in exchange for ad money,” said Musk yesterday. “That is the relationship they’ve had with X/Twitter for many years. Presumably, they have that with all Western search or social media orgs.”
It’s possible that there has been an increase in hate on X since Elon Musk bought the company. With greater free speech policies comes the possibility of more offensive speech, including racist or antisemitic speech. Bigotry does exist, and it should be challenged.
But there is no good evidence of that. Public has debunked claims by ISD and CCDH of an increase. And researchers have repeatedly debunked ADL’s claims of rising antisemitism for years. In 2009, an Israeli filmmaker found that ADL could not support its claims of an antisemitism crisis. Wrote NPR in a review of the film, “When he presses ADL staffers for evidence to back up their claims of a sharp spike in North American anti-Semitism in 2007, they can offer only wan transgressions…”
Eleven years later, Liel Leibovitz noted in Tablet that ADL had, for a report, “counted hundreds of threatening calls to Jewish community centers made by a mentally troubled Israeli teenager. You had to read the report’s fine print to learn that the number of violent attacks against Jews that year had actually decreased by 47%.”
ADL, ISD, and CCDH have not presented any good evidence that offensive speech online directly causes “hate-motivated violence,” nor that censorship prevents it. Moreover, last week Public reviewed evidence suggesting that the best way to combat hate speech is through open and public debate, which allows people to change their minds, not censorship.
ADL’s main goal is supposed to be stopping “the defamation of the Jewish people,” but the organization is using the legacy of antisemitism and the Holocaust to justify unrelated censorial advocacy work. This is exploitative, and it is defamatory to say that Jews, in general, need and favor censorship. Many Jews on both the left and the righthave argued that ADL does not represent their interests. By claiming to speak for all Jewish people while demanding highly unpopular policies, the ADL may be inadvertently driving antisemitism.
As troubling as these highly partisan ideological biases are, what’s most dangerous are the past and present ties between ADL, ISD, CCDH, and governments, particularly security and intelligence organizations, which we detail below. Neither ADL, ISD, nor CCDH have responded to multiple requests for more information or an interview.
While we have yet to uncover documented proof of a conspiracy by the intelligence and security agencies of the US and British governments to censor citizens, there is sufficient evidence to merit an investigation by members of Congress and the British Parliament.”
The Case For An Investigation
We do not have firm proof that there is a conspiracy by the intelligence and security agencies of the United States and Britain to control the content on social media platforms like X and Facebook through their control over CCDH, ISD, and ADL.… pic.twitter.com/5cZkMbINRJ
“We do not have firm proof that there is a conspiracy by the intelligence and security agencies of the United States and Britain to control the content on social media platforms like X and Facebook through their control over CCDH, ISD, and ADL. Perhaps ideological, cultural, and political alignment alone explains the remarkable coordination we have documented. Perhaps the US and UK government funding for CCDH and ISD is insignificant compared to their nongovernmental funders.
But there is enough evidence of conspiracy for members of Congress and Parliament to investigate CCDH, ADL, ISD, and other so-called “nongovernmental” organizations for the advocacy of censorship. Who is funding them? What are their relationships with government officials? What is their role in intelligence and security organizations?
Evidence abounds of tight connections between the intelligence community and these groups. Consider that all of the above has been taking place in the background of investigations by UK NGO Big Brother Watch, which has discovered and publicized over the last several months a secretive UK censorship organization, the “Counter-Disinformation Unit” (CDU), which collaborated with British intelligence and security organizations, as well as the BBC.
It worked to censor users in the UK just as the Virality Project, run by Stanford Internet Observatory, worked to censor users in the US, on identical issues relating to Covid vaccines. “The intelligence community,” reported the Telegraph of London last week, “which includes MI6, MI5 and GCHQ – continued ‘working closely’ with the CDU ‘where appropriate’ during this time [2019 to 2020], documents show.”
There is reason to believe that the US State Department, which has funded ISD, and the UK government, which has funded CCDH, are using those organizations as “cut-outs” or “fronts” for demanding censorship.
A former member of the UK parliament, Imran Ahmed, started CCDH. And before running for parliament, Ahmed studied Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and earned a bachelor’s degree in war studies at King’s College London, which is famous as a place from where spy agencies recruit.
Ahmed then went to work for the United Nations as a special assistant for political affairs in Mogadishu. After that, he developed his information operation skills at advertising giant M&C Saatchi. His appears to be an intelligence career tailor-made for spreading disinformation and demanding censorship on behalf of the UK government and its allies.
Just this summer, the Member of Parliament who has most championed a crackdown on free speech in the UK, Damien Collins, joined CCDH’s advisory board. The arrival of Collins comes shortly after the UK government gave a 5 million pound grant to a foundation that funds CCDH.
ISD accepts funding from many governments, including Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Canada, the UK, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States. It also receives funding from the European Commission and the United Nations.
The US State Department gave the ISD a grant in September 2021 to “advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda.” The Institute for Strategic Dialogue won the grant after participating in an event sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
What’s clear is that we also need to change our view of ADL, CCDH, and ISD. They cannot be considered “nongovernmental organizations.” Their ties to the government, particularly the national security state, are too strong. It’s high time we got to the bottom of who, exactly, is behind them. After we do, we need to clean house. That will start with replacing the heads of the FBI, CIA, and MI6 and rooting out the unelected, authoritarian, and paramilitary elements within them in the same way our governments did after the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s.”
So stop threatening and do it clowns. No one is buying this schtick anymore. It’s just another play by the uni-party to put even more astronomical debt on the taxpayers.
Nice ratio Senator. Maybe you should listen for once.
People are fed up. Not just with government, but with incumbent representatives who helped create the problem through passage of massive spending packages.
Members of Congress who are beholden to defense contractors, endless… https://t.co/23PdUG0AtS
“Nice ratio Senator. Maybe you should listen for once.
People are fed up. Not just with government, but with incumbent representatives who helped create the problem through passage of massive spending packages.
Members of Congress who are beholden to defense contractors, endless wars and Big Pharma rather than their actual constituents.
Members of Congress who enable a corrupt regime and do nothing as they witness the erosion of our Judicial System and unrelenting attacks on our Constitution.
Our National Debt is a ticking time bomb. Interest payments are now the federal government’s fastest growing “federal program.”
The federal deficit is about to double in size. Double.
And what do we have to show for this out of control spending? Our major cities are unrecognizable hellholes. Inflation is a cancer, eroding the quality of life for lower and middle class segments of our country.
Yet virtually no one in Washington is calling for a smaller federal government or material budget cuts. Nor is there any accountability for the incredible amounts of waste.
The federal government should be a small fraction of its current size. You know this – but for personal reasons you vote for the opposite.
If the federal government was a corporation, you all would have been fired long ago. Instead, you’re protected by incumbency. Insulated from those you claim to represent.
Our federal government is the wasteful, corrupt, bureaucratic monstrosity our Founders sought to protect against. And everyone in DC is part of the problem. Parasites all.
You don’t work for us. So why should we work for you?”
Perfect opportunity to layoff all non-essential federal employees and cut your staff so maybe you can get back to what we hired you for.
Told you about this guy and his ties to Jan6 and Ukraine yesterday.
More info, and ties to Democrats and RINOs………
Someone should be asking Amy Klobuchar about Ukrainian spy, Sergai Dybynyn who is affiliated with the Nazi Azov Battalion since she has a long history with him.
Why Ukrainian spy partook in Jan6 and was never questioned but year later was celebrated not only in Ukraine but a… pic.twitter.com/mffFq7Xtro
What are House Republicans even doing as Democrats WEAPONIZE our government against Americans?
Tens of millions of Americans rest their hope on the House of Representatives to stop the terrible things that are going on. However, I offer you this sincere confession: we aren't…
“What are House Republicans even doing as Democrats WEAPONIZE our government against Americans?
Tens of millions of Americans rest their hope on the House of Representatives to stop the terrible things that are going on. However, I offer you this sincere confession: we aren’t putting up the fight you deserve and it sickens me.
There is plenty that needs to be done. We in the Majority have the power to do it, but we must stop fiddling around like Nero as Rome burns.”
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And neither is this guy…..
Then remove spineless McCarthy.
Tweeting accomplishes nothing.
By your own inaction you are greenlighting the spineless cowards in your own party to continue to do nothing. pic.twitter.com/bD7yLRob4s
— Glen S 🇺🇸, Independent Conservative (@GlenSPhoto) September 5, 2023
🚨🚨🚨On January 6-7 2021 the 1+1 TV station owned by Ihor Kolmoyskyi (an early financial backer of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and the hidden owner of Burisama) and several Ukrainian news outlets like UNIAN published footage from the J6 2021 protests falsely claiming that… https://t.co/bhFpEyMHX9pic.twitter.com/IUB9lJTYzX
“On January 6-7 2021 the 1+1 TV station owned by Ihor Kolmoyskyi (an early financial backer of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and the hidden owner of Burisama) and several Ukrainian news outlets like UNIAN published footage from the J6 2021 protests falsely claiming that Russian operators in support of President Trump were storming the US Capitol.
This active measure was designed to create another fake Russian collusion narrative and conceal the presence of Ukrainian intel operatives and spies like Sergai Dybynyn.
As soon as the #Ukrainian media released this content, intel operators like Michael MacKay @mhmck helped amplify the false Russian identification of Sergai Dybynyn as a Russian.
This was meant to cover up the fact that the US intelligence agencies including the FBI and CIA were well aware of the fact that Ukrainian spies penetrated the US Capitol on J6 2021.
This is an act of war by Ukraine against the US.”
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Here’s the link to the footage filmed by Ukrainian state media 1+1 inside the US Capitol on J6 2021. This footage shows Ukrainian spies who pretended to be an official TV news crew storming the US Capitol.
Because Ukrainian sounds similar to Russian, pro-Ukrainian…
“Here’s the link to the footage filmed by Ukrainian state media 1+1 inside the US Capitol on J6 2021. This footage shows Ukrainian spies who pretended to be an official TV news crew storming the US Capitol.
Because Ukrainian sounds similar to Russian, pro-Ukrainian disinformation agents like @mhmck intentionally misidentified and catalogued Dybynyn as a “Russian” to create the narrative that Russians were working with Trump supporters to storm the Capitol.
This is nothing more than a @FBI & @CIA backed color revolution in the US via Ukrainian Neo Nazi spy operatives.
There are currently warrants out for Sergai Dybynyn and his associates’ arrest in the Russian territories of Ukraine. “
I look forward to contacting @RepKenBuck office to schedule an interview to discuss this letter.
His defense of DOJ isn’t just mostly baseless it’s an appalling inexcusable endorsement of the selective prosecution and imprisonment of Trump supporters. https://t.co/cbGSqbN3yb
I knew it left-liberals would soon rise in defense of the ADL and smear its critics as anti-Semites. These are the same people who are now the CIA and FBI's most vocal defenders.
But it's bizarre to watch this defense of ADL be led by those whom the ADL has called anti-Semitic: https://t.co/ewCMjpuogC
Left-liberals still dislike the ADL for their steadfast defense of Israel, but a much higher priority for them than Palestinians is retaining the power to censor dissent from the internet, and the ADL is a key ally in that goal:https://t.co/BuoxjrQ9uk
The new controversy surrounding the ADL has nothing to do with Israel.
It's about the key role the ADL plays in maintaining the online censorship regime in servitude to establishment liberalism. Left-liberals overwhelmingly support this, so they'll now defend ADL as an ally.👇 pic.twitter.com/emKfumAqEO
You have every right to question and criticize powerful actors who seek to politically shape the world in which you live. That includes ADL, George Soros, the Koch Brothers, NRA, whoever.
Anyone exploiting bigotry accusations to shield them from criticism is dangerous.
“I’ve been speaking out against ADL since before it was cool to speak out against ADL
Now everyone is talking about ADL. But I’ve been speaking out against ADL for years, frustrated how ADL took a good purpose – fighting antisemitism – and weaponized it for leftist political purposes under Jonathan Greenblatt. It will be interesting to see where the ADL-Twitter (X) dustup goes. But one thing is beyond doubt, Greenblatt needs to go.”
“The tweet itself was smug, but in itself cannot explain the firestorm that followed, including Elon Musk saying ADL had been trying to strangle the company, had cost is half its advertising revenue, and threatened to sue ADL for defamation.
Greenblatt’s tweet unleashed a torrent of animosity that had been building, including among people (like me) devoted to fighting antisemitism. Now everyone is talking about ADL.
But I’ve been speaking out against ADL for a long time, as have some other people frustrated how ADL took a good purpose – fighting antisemitism – and weaponized it for leftist political purposes under Greenblatt, much as SPLC weaponized the fight against racism for leftist political purposes. Both ADL and SPLC wield enormous power to ruin lives and businesses through putting people on “hate” lists, and leverage those lists to try to deplatform people and censor lawful political speech. These “hate” lists also are huge moneymakers for both ADL and SPLC, driving massive donations to these wealthy organizations.
Greenblatt has turned ADL into a vast political bully on a myriad of political issues that don’t touch upon antisemitism. It’s offensive, and does great harm to the fight against antisemitism that the charge of antisemitism has been so broadened that it means anything leftists like Greenblatt don’t like.
I’ve been quoted in the the New York Post, Inside the fight for ADL, which some Jewish critics call a tool of Democrats, and Fox News, Anti-Defamation League launches review of education content after Fox News Digital investigation:
The ADL’s post about “Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism” contained “key elements of critical race theory,” Legal Insurrection founder Bill Jacobson said.
The article discussed how the “flip side of white privilege is structural racism, which oppresses and marginalizes people of color through societal institutions like education, law enforcement, voting, employment and other systems” and encouraged teachers to show MTV’s documentary “White People” to students.
“Those concepts are accepted as fact as a starting point rather than open to debate. There are no counter-arguments presented,” Jacobson told Fox News Digital about the lesson plans he reviewed. “These lesson plans … reflect how ADL has lost its way. It substitutes racial justice dogma and ideology for fact-based analysis. This is not education, it’s manipulation.”
Legal Insurrection also has published articles about ADL’s partisanship almost since the day Greenblatt took over, including this 2017 guest post, Anti-Defamation League Gets Partisan, and the Damage May Be Irreparable.
More than anything, I’ve talked, and talked, and talked about the ADL problem, particularly with Jonathan Tobin of Jewish News Syndicate, including this December 14, 2021, broadcast which mostly concerned my Cornell Law School problems, William Jacobson: Boycotted for Publishing the Truth.”
“Jonathan has written multiple articles and invited me to multiple podcasts to discuss the ADL problem.
ADL is ‘mired in leftist ideology’ (September 22, 2022):
The revelation that the school curricula being distributed by the Anti-Defamation League as part of their anti-hate programs are filled with critical race theory teachings is shocking, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.
But when seen in the context of everything that has happened during the Jewish defense agency’s transformation in the last several years under CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s hardly surprising, he notes.
According to Tobin, the critical race theory indoctrination being spread by the ADL illustrates that the vital Jewish defense agency has “betrayed its mission,” because “woke leftist ideas that legitimate racialist attitudes are linked to Jew hatred.”
He explains that the ADL is now “mired in leftist ideology in which it has bought into the BLM agenda of equity as opposed to equality.” By emphasizing ideas about race and privilege even though doing so “gives a boost to the lies about Israel being an ‘apartheid state,’” the ADL “undermines the interests and security of the people they’re supposed to be standing up for,” he says.
He’s then joined by LegalInsurrecution.com’s William Jacobson who explains that critical race theory is based on the idea that the American system is “completely corrupted, and completely racist, and … needs to be torn down.” Its goals, he says, are “the exact opposite of the American civil rights movement,” and seek to racialize society almost in the same way as apartheid-era South Africa.
More than that, he argues, it has become inextricably linked with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ideas about Jews being white oppressors.
As Jacobson notes, the ADL has embraced all this because “it fits in with their left-wing narrative.” The organization, he says, has remade itself into a “social justice organization” and become “a functional arm of the Democratic Party.” In doing so, “They’ve burned bridges to anyone who is right of center. And that’s not healthy for the fight against anti-Semitism.”
Though the group still defines in terms of combating anti-Semitism, it has ceased to do so, becoming a mere part of the political back and forth in a divided society, in which they prefer to demonize former President Donald Trump and his supporters, he says.
Moreover, by involving itself in efforts to censor free speech on the Internet, the ADL fails to realize that the same tactics can be used by leftist elites to target Jews and supporters of Israel, he adds.”
“It seems the ADL has gone downhill since Jonathan Greenblatt took over eight years ago: Anti-Defamation League Blasted for Becoming Just Another Tool for the Left
Last November, Liel Leibovitz explained in Tablet Magazine why it’s time to eliminate the ADL. He brought up Kyrie Irving and Greenblatt living up to a horrific Jewish stereotype:
Kyrie Irving, a kooky basketball player who believes that the Earth is flat, that JFK was shot by bankers, that the COVID vaccines were secretly a plot to connect all Black people to a supercomputer, and that Jews worship Satan and launched the slave trade?
Or Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, who accepted $500,000 from Irving last week without even meeting or even talking to the all-star—and who was then forced to give back the donation when Irving blatantly refused to apologize?
Let’s think about it for a minute. One of these guys is a weirdo with dumb opinions he may or may not actually believe. The other is running a soulless racket which just made it clear that you can say whatever you want about the Jews and buy your indulgences at a discount price.
The last paragraph made those disgusting Nazi posters used to turn people against the Jewish population pop into my head. So gross.
It doesn’t take away from the fact that Leibovitz is correct in his post.
Let’s go back to Musk and free speech. It bothered me to see Christian Britschgi at Reason write that Musk taking action against the ADL isn’t something a free-speech absolutist would do.
You can still be a free speech absolutist and file defamation lawsuits. Defamation, which could be libel (written statements) or slander (spoken statements), is not allowed.
However, it is hard to win a defamation lawsuit. Think about it: if it were easy, then people and companies would sue everyone. It reminds me of the South Park episode “Sexual Harassment Panda.” Everybody sues everybody for sexual harassment! Everyone gets mad at “Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda!” At the end of the episode, Petey comes back from the Island of Misfit Mascots as “Petey the Don’t Sue People Panda.”
Anyway, the burden of proof lies solely on the plaintiff. I’m guessing Musk would sue ADL on behalf of X/Twitter, making it a business defamation claim.
The burden of proof lies solely on X/Twitter. The company must prove all of these points:
1. False Statement of Fact About the Plaintiff
2. Publication
3. Fault
4. Lack of Privilege
5. Actual Damage to Economic Interests
The statement must contain facts, be about the plaintiff, and have to be 100% false.
The publication point means the alleged defamation must have happened in the “public in some form, whether the defendant told it to another person, posted it online, or had it published in the local newspaper.”
“Actual malice” will likely come into play under fault. X/Twitter would have to “prove that the defendant either knew that a statement was false or acted recklessly about it.” In other words, INTENT.
The “lack of privilege” is not about the privilege the leftists always scream about. The ADL can claim privilege if its alleged statements are true and cannot be defamatory. X/Twitter has to prove no such privilege exists.
Finally, X/Twitter must show that the ADL’s alleged defamation statements caused the company to lose money. The first four points are pretty easy to prove but the last one? Not easy at all.
Seeing the data dump Musk mentioned in his tweet about the lost revenue will be interesting.”
“Innocent until proven guilty. That’s a fundamental right in America, at least until now.
Anti-Trump groups determined to disqualify the leading Republican candidate for president are urging state election officials across the U.S. to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, claiming he’s an “insurrectionist.” They’re citing an arcane clause in the 14th Amendment, written after the Civil War, that disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding public office.
Here’s the hitch. Trump has never been convicted of insurrection, and none of his prosecutors — not Jack Smith nor Fani Willis — is charging him with insurrection. The House of Representatives impeached him, accusing him of insurrection, but he was acquitted. So, zero convictions, one acquittal.
Even so, left-wing group Free Speech For People has sent letters to state election officials, including the co-chairs of the New York State Board of Elections, labeling Trump an insurrectionist and telling these officials they have a duty to remove Trump from the ballot, just as they would be obligated to remove any presidential aspirant who had not reached the age of 35 or was not a natural born citizen.
Under this scheme, if Trump wants to be on the ballot, he’ll have to go to court and prove his innocence.
In short, guilty until proven innocent. That’s as un-American as it gets. Whether you like Trump or loathe him, you should be concerned.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley calls it “the single most dangerous constitutional theory I’ve seen in decades.”
The ploy could also produce chaos in November and December, as states preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries deal with lawsuits over Trump’s presence on the ballot. New Hampshire’s secretary of state and attorney general issued a joint statement last week saying they are “carefully reviewing the legal issues involved.”
Ultimately, any attempt to remove Trump from the ballot would rocket up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Free Speech For People President John Bonifaz has worked closely with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the lead impeachment manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021. Raskin and Democrats failed to convict Trump then. Resorting to the “insurrection clause” is a ploy to get what they failed to achieve constitutionally.
Anti-Trumpers on the Right are also willing to label Trump an “insurrectionist” without legal proof and deem him disqualified. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said as much on the Republican debate stage in Milwaukee on Aug. 27.
The “insurrection clause” was added to the Constitution during Reconstruction, right after the Civil War, to disqualify Confederate officeholders and military leaders.
But the clause became a dead letter when Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who rode circuit and decided appeals court cases as well, ruled in 1869 in Re Griffin that Section 3 by itself could not disqualify anyone from office. Chase’s ruling remains federal precedent.
Free Speech For People and other anti-Trumpers point to a forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Law Review article arguing Chase’s ruling was wrong. Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe also calls Chase’s opinion “poorly reasoned.”
That’s the ivory tower crowd’s take. It doesn’t change precedent.”
Wandering Views 
Nope, no corruption here….
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This admin is corrupt from the top down.
“BREAKING: The Department of “Justice” lied to Delaware U.S. Attorney Weiss to throw off his investigation into Hunter Biden tax fraud.
This allowed the FBI to withhold damning information from Weiss to protect the Biden family.
A bombshell new report from the Federalist reveals how the FBI falsely claimed that allegations against Hunter Biden originated from Rudy Giuliani… a total lie.
This lie allowed the FBI to withhold documented information in an interview with a whistleblower who claimed Joe Biden accepted a bribe from Ukraine.
So how exactly did the FBI pull this off?
The FBI leaked false information to the New York Times that Rudy Giuliani was responsible for accusations against the Biden family.
The New York Times then reported on these lies in an article titled: “Material from Giuliani Spurred a Separate Justice Depart. Pursuit of Hunter Biden.”
The FBI then sent the false New York Times article to Weiss to throw off his investigation to protect the Biden family, as reported by the @FDRLST
This level of corruption is absolutely insane. Dismantle the FBI.”
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Enjoy!
And remember, you built this in the voting booth.
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3rd world BS.
And nary a whimper from #USELESS GOP……
Bingo.
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Totally fine and normal….
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BLM can burn and loot, but peaceful protests from the right are not permitted in Biden’s America.
“Imprisoned for Protesting Abortion: Inside the Insane DOJ Trial of 5 Pro-Life Leaders”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/09/06/face-act-case-dc-pro-life-leaders-n2626728
“Five pro-life leaders, who protested inside a D.C. abortion clinic, are facing over a decade in federal prison after a jury trial found the co-defendants guilty of violating a Clinton-era law that forbids interference with so-called “reproductive health care services.”
For forming a pro-life “blockade” on Oct. 22, 2020, that “obstruct[ed] access” to the Washington Surgi-Clinic (WSC), an abortion shop in the nation’s capital that advertises that babies “up to 27-plus weeks” of pregnancy are aborted there, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty were convicted last Tuesday on charges brought forth by Biden’s Justice Department: felony conspiracy against civil rights and Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances (FACE) Act violations.
DOJ attorneys prosecuting the pro-life activists allege that the co-defendants “engaged in a conspiracy” by mobilizing on Facebook beforehand, an event that the mostly Christian “co-conspirators” organized as a faith-based “rescue” to save babies from being slaughtered. “In furtherance of the conspiracy,” Handy, Hinshaw, Idoni, Goodman, and Geraghty traveled to the District of Columbia, hailing from an assortment of northeast and midwestern states, to participate in the live-streamed protest.
According to the two-count indictment, within the waiting room, the pro-life protestors blocked the abortion business’s doors with furniture, rope, and themselves (bound together by chains) as “a physical obstruction” to impede the facility’s baby-killing operations. There, the “rescuers” sang hymns, such as the Immaculate Mary, and recited the St. Michael the Archangel prayer.
At the trial, which commenced on Aug. 9, a nun praying the rosary in the gallery, joined by a priest reading Bible verses, was reportedly reprimanded for making the sign of the cross in the direction of the witness stand. Other observers had been ordered on Day One of witness testimony not to pray “visibly,” because doing so could be perceived as “threatening” acts of intimidation.
Post-conviction, the pro-lifers each face up to 11 years behind bars, three-years supervised release, and a fine of up to $350,000. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a feminist Clinton appointee presiding over the case whose pre-trial rulings recurrently aligned with the whims of pro-abortion apparatchiks, ordered the co-defendants to be immediately incarcerated upon the DOJ’s request for detainment, claiming the pro-life “rescuers” committed a “crime of violence” under federal law. Following the guilty verdict’s reading, an “army” of U.S. Marshals swiftly herded the five co-defendants out of the courtroom, Live Action reported.
In closing statements, Hinshaw’s attorney pleaded that the only individuals to turn towards violent behavior were the WSC’s staff members, one of whom brandished a broomstick and used it to jab at the rescuers, the defense counsel said. Aside from the sit-in, some of the activists kneeled and prayed, some passed out pro-life literature, and some counseled abortion-seeking women.
Attorneys for Idoni, Geraghty, and Handy have vowed to pursue appeals. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.
A separate trial against the remaining four jointly indicted co-defendants is set to begin on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
“For doing right, they now want to send me away for 11 years. I’m 68. 11 years will probably finish it,” one of the convicted pro-life defendants, 68-year-old Hinshaw, of Long Island, New York, told Townhall. Ahead of the trial, Hinshaw exclusively spoke to Townhall to address the case’s eyebrow-raising timing, concerns of jury-packing, and the pro-abortion judge’s political pontification in court orders. In the trial’s aftermath, it’s evident that the case reeked of bias from the very outset.
The Jury
Speaking on the “nightmare” jury-selection process, the pro-life leader, who has “been through a few of them,” said that pro-lifers are “almost always” disqualified. “Again, it says something about the system,” Hinshaw stated, observing how would-be jurors with pro-life beliefs oft-admit to the court: “Yeah, I can’t be impartial. I’m biased over the issue.” Hinshaw, in disbelief, reacted: “What?! Of course, you have the ability to judge this fairly. But, pro-lifers, who tend to be the more honest among us, take themselves off these juries all the time. And, it blows my mind. I don’t see abortion-clinic workers taking themselves off juries.”
According to Catholic News Agency, the jury pool was stacked with pro-abortion activists who admittedly marched for abortion and donated to Planned Parenthood. When the pro-life defense implored Kollar-Kotelly to remove the self-identifying lot from the jury panel, the judge reportedly refused to strike for cause the handful of potential jurors who confessed to being pro-abortion and defended the inclusion of the pro-abortion prospects on the grounds that “access to abortion is legal,” LifeSiteNews reported.”
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Someone should explain to this corrupt and biased judge that the only crime of violence here is against the unborn.
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HRW,
See, not all Jews, just the corrupt ADL and their fellow activists, and the corrupt govts who pay them.
Just them and their extortion racket.
“The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) are nongovernmental organizations, their leaders say. When they demand more censorship of online hate speech, as they are currently doing of X, formerly Twitter, those NGOs are doing it as free citizens and not, say, as government agents.
But the fact of the matter is that the US and other Western governments fund ISD, the UK government indirectly funds CCDH, and, for at least 40 years, ADL spied on its enemies and shared intelligence with the US, Israel and other governments. The reason all of this matters is that ADL’s advertiser boycott against X may be an effort by governments to regain the ability to censor users on X that they had under Twitter before Musk’s takeover last November.
Internal Twitter and Facebook messages show that representatives of the US government, including the White House, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the UK government, successfully demanded Facebook and Twitter censorship of their users over the last several years.
ADL is waging a very similar campaign against X/Twitter that it successfully waged against Facebook in 2020. In just three days, 800 companies, including $129 billion consumer products giant Unilever, withdrew tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue from Facebook until it agreed to ADL’s censorship demands. “The Facebook caved to far-left pressure groups and now allows them to silently dictate policy in exchange for ad money,” said Musk yesterday. “That is the relationship they’ve had with X/Twitter for many years. Presumably, they have that with all Western search or social media orgs.”
It’s possible that there has been an increase in hate on X since Elon Musk bought the company. With greater free speech policies comes the possibility of more offensive speech, including racist or antisemitic speech. Bigotry does exist, and it should be challenged.
But there is no good evidence of that. Public has debunked claims by ISD and CCDH of an increase. And researchers have repeatedly debunked ADL’s claims of rising antisemitism for years. In 2009, an Israeli filmmaker found that ADL could not support its claims of an antisemitism crisis. Wrote NPR in a review of the film, “When he presses ADL staffers for evidence to back up their claims of a sharp spike in North American anti-Semitism in 2007, they can offer only wan transgressions…”
Eleven years later, Liel Leibovitz noted in Tablet that ADL had, for a report, “counted hundreds of threatening calls to Jewish community centers made by a mentally troubled Israeli teenager. You had to read the report’s fine print to learn that the number of violent attacks against Jews that year had actually decreased by 47%.”
ADL, ISD, and CCDH have not presented any good evidence that offensive speech online directly causes “hate-motivated violence,” nor that censorship prevents it. Moreover, last week Public reviewed evidence suggesting that the best way to combat hate speech is through open and public debate, which allows people to change their minds, not censorship.
ADL’s main goal is supposed to be stopping “the defamation of the Jewish people,” but the organization is using the legacy of antisemitism and the Holocaust to justify unrelated censorial advocacy work. This is exploitative, and it is defamatory to say that Jews, in general, need and favor censorship. Many Jews on both the left and the righthave argued that ADL does not represent their interests. By claiming to speak for all Jewish people while demanding highly unpopular policies, the ADL may be inadvertently driving antisemitism.
As troubling as these highly partisan ideological biases are, what’s most dangerous are the past and present ties between ADL, ISD, CCDH, and governments, particularly security and intelligence organizations, which we detail below. Neither ADL, ISD, nor CCDH have responded to multiple requests for more information or an interview.
While we have yet to uncover documented proof of a conspiracy by the intelligence and security agencies of the US and British governments to censor citizens, there is sufficient evidence to merit an investigation by members of Congress and the British Parliament.”
“We do not have firm proof that there is a conspiracy by the intelligence and security agencies of the United States and Britain to control the content on social media platforms like X and Facebook through their control over CCDH, ISD, and ADL. Perhaps ideological, cultural, and political alignment alone explains the remarkable coordination we have documented. Perhaps the US and UK government funding for CCDH and ISD is insignificant compared to their nongovernmental funders.
But there is enough evidence of conspiracy for members of Congress and Parliament to investigate CCDH, ADL, ISD, and other so-called “nongovernmental” organizations for the advocacy of censorship. Who is funding them? What are their relationships with government officials? What is their role in intelligence and security organizations?
Evidence abounds of tight connections between the intelligence community and these groups. Consider that all of the above has been taking place in the background of investigations by UK NGO Big Brother Watch, which has discovered and publicized over the last several months a secretive UK censorship organization, the “Counter-Disinformation Unit” (CDU), which collaborated with British intelligence and security organizations, as well as the BBC.
It worked to censor users in the UK just as the Virality Project, run by Stanford Internet Observatory, worked to censor users in the US, on identical issues relating to Covid vaccines. “The intelligence community,” reported the Telegraph of London last week, “which includes MI6, MI5 and GCHQ – continued ‘working closely’ with the CDU ‘where appropriate’ during this time [2019 to 2020], documents show.”
There is reason to believe that the US State Department, which has funded ISD, and the UK government, which has funded CCDH, are using those organizations as “cut-outs” or “fronts” for demanding censorship.
A former member of the UK parliament, Imran Ahmed, started CCDH. And before running for parliament, Ahmed studied Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and earned a bachelor’s degree in war studies at King’s College London, which is famous as a place from where spy agencies recruit.
Ahmed then went to work for the United Nations as a special assistant for political affairs in Mogadishu. After that, he developed his information operation skills at advertising giant M&C Saatchi. His appears to be an intelligence career tailor-made for spreading disinformation and demanding censorship on behalf of the UK government and its allies.
Just this summer, the Member of Parliament who has most championed a crackdown on free speech in the UK, Damien Collins, joined CCDH’s advisory board. The arrival of Collins comes shortly after the UK government gave a 5 million pound grant to a foundation that funds CCDH.
ISD accepts funding from many governments, including Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Canada, the UK, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States. It also receives funding from the European Commission and the United Nations.
The US State Department gave the ISD a grant in September 2021 to “advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda.” The Institute for Strategic Dialogue won the grant after participating in an event sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
What’s clear is that we also need to change our view of ADL, CCDH, and ISD. They cannot be considered “nongovernmental organizations.” Their ties to the government, particularly the national security state, are too strong. It’s high time we got to the bottom of who, exactly, is behind them. After we do, we need to clean house. That will start with replacing the heads of the FBI, CIA, and MI6 and rooting out the unelected, authoritarian, and paramilitary elements within them in the same way our governments did after the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s.”
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Don’t care.
So stop threatening and do it clowns. No one is buying this schtick anymore. It’s just another play by the uni-party to put even more astronomical debt on the taxpayers.
“Nice ratio Senator. Maybe you should listen for once.
People are fed up. Not just with government, but with incumbent representatives who helped create the problem through passage of massive spending packages.
Members of Congress who are beholden to defense contractors, endless wars and Big Pharma rather than their actual constituents.
Members of Congress who enable a corrupt regime and do nothing as they witness the erosion of our Judicial System and unrelenting attacks on our Constitution.
Our National Debt is a ticking time bomb. Interest payments are now the federal government’s fastest growing “federal program.”
The federal deficit is about to double in size. Double.
And what do we have to show for this out of control spending? Our major cities are unrecognizable hellholes. Inflation is a cancer, eroding the quality of life for lower and middle class segments of our country.
Yet virtually no one in Washington is calling for a smaller federal government or material budget cuts. Nor is there any accountability for the incredible amounts of waste.
The federal government should be a small fraction of its current size. You know this – but for personal reasons you vote for the opposite.
If the federal government was a corporation, you all would have been fired long ago. Instead, you’re protected by incumbency. Insulated from those you claim to represent.
Our federal government is the wasteful, corrupt, bureaucratic monstrosity our Founders sought to protect against. And everyone in DC is part of the problem. Parasites all.
You don’t work for us. So why should we work for you?”
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Told ya. 🙂
Fed Op.
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Told you about this guy and his ties to Jan6 and Ukraine yesterday.
More info, and ties to Democrats and RINOs………
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He ain’t wrong….
“What are House Republicans even doing as Democrats WEAPONIZE our government against Americans?
Tens of millions of Americans rest their hope on the House of Representatives to stop the terrible things that are going on. However, I offer you this sincere confession: we aren’t putting up the fight you deserve and it sickens me.
There is plenty that needs to be done. We in the Majority have the power to do it, but we must stop fiddling around like Nero as Rome burns.”
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And neither is this guy…..
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There’s that name again…..
Same one that bought the Biden family….
Burisama…..
“On January 6-7 2021 the 1+1 TV station owned by Ihor Kolmoyskyi (an early financial backer of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and the hidden owner of Burisama) and several Ukrainian news outlets like UNIAN published footage from the J6 2021 protests falsely claiming that Russian operators in support of President Trump were storming the US Capitol.
This active measure was designed to create another fake Russian collusion narrative and conceal the presence of Ukrainian intel operatives and spies like Sergai Dybynyn.
As soon as the #Ukrainian media released this content, intel operators like Michael MacKay @mhmck helped amplify the false Russian identification of Sergai Dybynyn as a Russian.
This was meant to cover up the fact that the US intelligence agencies including the FBI and CIA were well aware of the fact that Ukrainian spies penetrated the US Capitol on J6 2021.
This is an act of war by Ukraine against the US.”
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“Here’s the link to the footage filmed by Ukrainian state media 1+1 inside the US Capitol on J6 2021. This footage shows Ukrainian spies who pretended to be an official TV news crew storming the US Capitol.
Because Ukrainian sounds similar to Russian, pro-Ukrainian disinformation agents like @mhmck intentionally misidentified and catalogued Dybynyn as a “Russian” to create the narrative that Russians were working with Trump supporters to storm the Capitol.
This is nothing more than a @FBI & @CIA backed color revolution in the US via Ukrainian Neo Nazi spy operatives.
There are currently warrants out for Sergai Dybynyn and his associates’ arrest in the Russian territories of Ukraine. “
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#USELESS GOP
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HRW,
Not Jews, just the ADL and it’s ilk of leftist activists.
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And of course the ADL has idiots who defend this extortion racket they run.
Even the Prince of Grift, David French….
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Democrat rule totally rocks!
For the criminals, not the public.
“Videos Show Beverly Hills Becoming a Ghost Town During Los Angeles Crime Wave”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/videos-show-beverly-hills-becoming-a-ghost-town-during-los-angeles-crime-wave/
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“I’ve been speaking out against ADL since before it was cool to speak out against ADL
Now everyone is talking about ADL. But I’ve been speaking out against ADL for years, frustrated how ADL took a good purpose – fighting antisemitism – and weaponized it for leftist political purposes under Jonathan Greenblatt. It will be interesting to see where the ADL-Twitter (X) dustup goes. But one thing is beyond doubt, Greenblatt needs to go.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/i-was-speaking-out-against-adl-before-it-was-cool-to-speak-out-against-adl/
“The tweet itself was smug, but in itself cannot explain the firestorm that followed, including Elon Musk saying ADL had been trying to strangle the company, had cost is half its advertising revenue, and threatened to sue ADL for defamation.
Greenblatt’s tweet unleashed a torrent of animosity that had been building, including among people (like me) devoted to fighting antisemitism. Now everyone is talking about ADL.
But I’ve been speaking out against ADL for a long time, as have some other people frustrated how ADL took a good purpose – fighting antisemitism – and weaponized it for leftist political purposes under Greenblatt, much as SPLC weaponized the fight against racism for leftist political purposes. Both ADL and SPLC wield enormous power to ruin lives and businesses through putting people on “hate” lists, and leverage those lists to try to deplatform people and censor lawful political speech. These “hate” lists also are huge moneymakers for both ADL and SPLC, driving massive donations to these wealthy organizations.
Greenblatt has turned ADL into a vast political bully on a myriad of political issues that don’t touch upon antisemitism. It’s offensive, and does great harm to the fight against antisemitism that the charge of antisemitism has been so broadened that it means anything leftists like Greenblatt don’t like.
I’ve been quoted in the the New York Post, Inside the fight for ADL, which some Jewish critics call a tool of Democrats, and Fox News, Anti-Defamation League launches review of education content after Fox News Digital investigation:
The ADL’s post about “Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism” contained “key elements of critical race theory,” Legal Insurrection founder Bill Jacobson said.
The article discussed how the “flip side of white privilege is structural racism, which oppresses and marginalizes people of color through societal institutions like education, law enforcement, voting, employment and other systems” and encouraged teachers to show MTV’s documentary “White People” to students.
“Those concepts are accepted as fact as a starting point rather than open to debate. There are no counter-arguments presented,” Jacobson told Fox News Digital about the lesson plans he reviewed. “These lesson plans … reflect how ADL has lost its way. It substitutes racial justice dogma and ideology for fact-based analysis. This is not education, it’s manipulation.”
Legal Insurrection also has published articles about ADL’s partisanship almost since the day Greenblatt took over, including this 2017 guest post, Anti-Defamation League Gets Partisan, and the Damage May Be Irreparable.
More than anything, I’ve talked, and talked, and talked about the ADL problem, particularly with Jonathan Tobin of Jewish News Syndicate, including this December 14, 2021, broadcast which mostly concerned my Cornell Law School problems, William Jacobson: Boycotted for Publishing the Truth.”
“Jonathan has written multiple articles and invited me to multiple podcasts to discuss the ADL problem.
ADL is ‘mired in leftist ideology’ (September 22, 2022):
The revelation that the school curricula being distributed by the Anti-Defamation League as part of their anti-hate programs are filled with critical race theory teachings is shocking, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.
But when seen in the context of everything that has happened during the Jewish defense agency’s transformation in the last several years under CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s hardly surprising, he notes.
According to Tobin, the critical race theory indoctrination being spread by the ADL illustrates that the vital Jewish defense agency has “betrayed its mission,” because “woke leftist ideas that legitimate racialist attitudes are linked to Jew hatred.”
He explains that the ADL is now “mired in leftist ideology in which it has bought into the BLM agenda of equity as opposed to equality.” By emphasizing ideas about race and privilege even though doing so “gives a boost to the lies about Israel being an ‘apartheid state,’” the ADL “undermines the interests and security of the people they’re supposed to be standing up for,” he says.
He’s then joined by LegalInsurrecution.com’s William Jacobson who explains that critical race theory is based on the idea that the American system is “completely corrupted, and completely racist, and … needs to be torn down.” Its goals, he says, are “the exact opposite of the American civil rights movement,” and seek to racialize society almost in the same way as apartheid-era South Africa.
More than that, he argues, it has become inextricably linked with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ideas about Jews being white oppressors.
As Jacobson notes, the ADL has embraced all this because “it fits in with their left-wing narrative.” The organization, he says, has remade itself into a “social justice organization” and become “a functional arm of the Democratic Party.” In doing so, “They’ve burned bridges to anyone who is right of center. And that’s not healthy for the fight against anti-Semitism.”
Though the group still defines in terms of combating anti-Semitism, it has ceased to do so, becoming a mere part of the political back and forth in a divided society, in which they prefer to demonize former President Donald Trump and his supporters, he says.
Moreover, by involving itself in efforts to censor free speech on the Internet, the ADL fails to realize that the same tactics can be used by leftist elites to target Jews and supporters of Israel, he adds.”
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Reasonable people not pushing an agenda understand this concept. There’s a high bar for Musk, who insists he has the data to prove it. We will see….
“No, Elon Musk Isn’t Anti-Semitic Because He Threatened a Lawsuit Against the Anti-Defamation League”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/no-elon-musk-isnt-anti-semitic-because-he-threatened-a-lawsuit-against-the-anti-defamation-league/
“It seems the ADL has gone downhill since Jonathan Greenblatt took over eight years ago: Anti-Defamation League Blasted for Becoming Just Another Tool for the Left
Last November, Liel Leibovitz explained in Tablet Magazine why it’s time to eliminate the ADL. He brought up Kyrie Irving and Greenblatt living up to a horrific Jewish stereotype:
Kyrie Irving, a kooky basketball player who believes that the Earth is flat, that JFK was shot by bankers, that the COVID vaccines were secretly a plot to connect all Black people to a supercomputer, and that Jews worship Satan and launched the slave trade?
Or Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, who accepted $500,000 from Irving last week without even meeting or even talking to the all-star—and who was then forced to give back the donation when Irving blatantly refused to apologize?
Let’s think about it for a minute. One of these guys is a weirdo with dumb opinions he may or may not actually believe. The other is running a soulless racket which just made it clear that you can say whatever you want about the Jews and buy your indulgences at a discount price.
The last paragraph made those disgusting Nazi posters used to turn people against the Jewish population pop into my head. So gross.
It doesn’t take away from the fact that Leibovitz is correct in his post.
Let’s go back to Musk and free speech. It bothered me to see Christian Britschgi at Reason write that Musk taking action against the ADL isn’t something a free-speech absolutist would do.
You can still be a free speech absolutist and file defamation lawsuits. Defamation, which could be libel (written statements) or slander (spoken statements), is not allowed.
However, it is hard to win a defamation lawsuit. Think about it: if it were easy, then people and companies would sue everyone. It reminds me of the South Park episode “Sexual Harassment Panda.” Everybody sues everybody for sexual harassment! Everyone gets mad at “Petey the Sexual Harassment Panda!” At the end of the episode, Petey comes back from the Island of Misfit Mascots as “Petey the Don’t Sue People Panda.”
Anyway, the burden of proof lies solely on the plaintiff. I’m guessing Musk would sue ADL on behalf of X/Twitter, making it a business defamation claim.
The burden of proof lies solely on X/Twitter. The company must prove all of these points:
1. False Statement of Fact About the Plaintiff
2. Publication
3. Fault
4. Lack of Privilege
5. Actual Damage to Economic Interests
The statement must contain facts, be about the plaintiff, and have to be 100% false.
The publication point means the alleged defamation must have happened in the “public in some form, whether the defendant told it to another person, posted it online, or had it published in the local newspaper.”
“Actual malice” will likely come into play under fault. X/Twitter would have to “prove that the defendant either knew that a statement was false or acted recklessly about it.” In other words, INTENT.
The “lack of privilege” is not about the privilege the leftists always scream about. The ADL can claim privilege if its alleged statements are true and cannot be defamatory. X/Twitter has to prove no such privilege exists.
Finally, X/Twitter must show that the ADL’s alleged defamation statements caused the company to lose money. The first four points are pretty easy to prove but the last one? Not easy at all.
Seeing the data dump Musk mentioned in his tweet about the lost revenue will be interesting.”
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Orange Man Bad.
So getting him is all that matters to the TDS sufferers, the constitution be damned.
“Orange Man Bad.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/06/trashing_the_constitution_just_to_get_trump_149719.html
“Innocent until proven guilty. That’s a fundamental right in America, at least until now.
Anti-Trump groups determined to disqualify the leading Republican candidate for president are urging state election officials across the U.S. to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, claiming he’s an “insurrectionist.” They’re citing an arcane clause in the 14th Amendment, written after the Civil War, that disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding public office.
Here’s the hitch. Trump has never been convicted of insurrection, and none of his prosecutors — not Jack Smith nor Fani Willis — is charging him with insurrection. The House of Representatives impeached him, accusing him of insurrection, but he was acquitted. So, zero convictions, one acquittal.
Even so, left-wing group Free Speech For People has sent letters to state election officials, including the co-chairs of the New York State Board of Elections, labeling Trump an insurrectionist and telling these officials they have a duty to remove Trump from the ballot, just as they would be obligated to remove any presidential aspirant who had not reached the age of 35 or was not a natural born citizen.
Under this scheme, if Trump wants to be on the ballot, he’ll have to go to court and prove his innocence.
In short, guilty until proven innocent. That’s as un-American as it gets. Whether you like Trump or loathe him, you should be concerned.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley calls it “the single most dangerous constitutional theory I’ve seen in decades.”
The ploy could also produce chaos in November and December, as states preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries deal with lawsuits over Trump’s presence on the ballot. New Hampshire’s secretary of state and attorney general issued a joint statement last week saying they are “carefully reviewing the legal issues involved.”
Ultimately, any attempt to remove Trump from the ballot would rocket up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Free Speech For People President John Bonifaz has worked closely with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the lead impeachment manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021. Raskin and Democrats failed to convict Trump then. Resorting to the “insurrection clause” is a ploy to get what they failed to achieve constitutionally.
Anti-Trumpers on the Right are also willing to label Trump an “insurrectionist” without legal proof and deem him disqualified. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said as much on the Republican debate stage in Milwaukee on Aug. 27.
The “insurrection clause” was added to the Constitution during Reconstruction, right after the Civil War, to disqualify Confederate officeholders and military leaders.
But the clause became a dead letter when Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who rode circuit and decided appeals court cases as well, ruled in 1869 in Re Griffin that Section 3 by itself could not disqualify anyone from office. Chase’s ruling remains federal precedent.
Free Speech For People and other anti-Trumpers point to a forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Law Review article arguing Chase’s ruling was wrong. Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe also calls Chase’s opinion “poorly reasoned.”
That’s the ivory tower crowd’s take. It doesn’t change precedent.”
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