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What is EXACTIS?

We know that the government intelligence community has been collecting this data since at least the beginning of the Obama administration. Cover company for the NSA?

What is Exactis—and how could it have leaked the data of nearly every American?

Exactis, a major data company based in Palm Coast, Fla., allegedly leaked the data of 340 million individuals.

The data in question does not include payment information or Social Security numbers but does include email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers as well as other personal information like habits, hobbies and the number, ages, and genders of the person’s children.

How does Exactis have this information?

Exactis gets information on users through cookies, small packets of data sent out by a website when a user visits it and stored in that user’s data.

We know that the government intelligence community has been collecting this data since at least the beginning of the Obama administration. Cover company for the NSA?

SOURCE: Who is EXACTIS?

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A Very Inconvenient Truth

In the United States, victims of MS-13 tend to be Latino immigrant girls or girls from the Northern Triangle countries who came into the country as unaccompanied minors. The girls, some as young as nine years old, were required to have sex with eight to 10 paying customers per day, sometimes seven days per week.

MS-13 Kill Rape and Control

Here is a newsflash you won’t hear from the mainstream media. The migrant flow to the United States is discretionary.

It nearly dried up at the beginning of the Trump administration when migrants believed that they had no chance of getting into the United States. Now, it is going all ahead full again because the message got out that, despite the rhetoric, the policy at the border hasn’t changed.

Children should not be making this journey. It is extremely dangerous to them. But there is now a premium on bringing children because of how we have handled these cases.

Even if a migrant does have a credible fear of persecution, there is a legitimate way to pursue that claim, and it does not involve entering the United States illegally.
First, such people should make their asylum claim in the first country where they feel safe, i.e., Mexico or some other country they are traversing to get here.
Secondly, as only a last resort, they should show up at a port of entry and make their claim there rather than crossing the border illegally.

There is a significant moral cost to not enforcing the border. There is obviously a moral cost to separating a parent from a child and almost everyone would prefer not to do it.

Letting these families in and allowing them to stay and to stay together makes a mockery of our laws and it creates an incentive for people to keep bringing children with them. Some migrants have admitted they brought their children not only to remove them from danger in such places as Central America and Africa, but because they believed it would cause the authorities to release them from custody sooner.

Others have admitted to posing falsely with children who are not their own, and Border Patrol officials say that such instances of fraud are increasing. It is becoming common to have parents entrust their children to a smuggler as a favor or for profit.

If someone is determined to come here illegally, the decent and safest thing would be to leave the child at home with a relative and send money back home. Because we favor family units over single adults, we are creating an incentive to do the opposite and use children to cut deals with smugglers.

And the Coyotes, (human traffickers) have teamed up with the MS-13 gang for what is, to them, a mutually lucrative partnership. THIS is one of the dirty little secrets being buried in the immigration controversy.

Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.

It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day.

The Washington Post has reported on “dozens of prostitutes, many juveniles, being sold for sex in the Washington area by” MS-13, in a move by the gang to expand its illicit businesses. The majority of unaccompanied minors end up in California, New York, Texas, and the Washington DC area that includes Maryland and Virginia — states that have large Central American populations and thus large MS-13 populations. Many of the unaccompanied minors have experienced sexual abuse, exploitation or physical abuse in their home countries or during their migration to the United States.

These are the most vulnerable victims of the failure to enforce our immigration laws. If our feckless politicians continue anong this path they will continue to create misery for these young women by continuing a steady supply of fresh young sex slaves for the MS-13 human traffickers.

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The immorality of immigration

When the American government willy-nilly hands out citizenship papers to millions of foreigners every year, it is, in effect, stealing the value of your citizenship and giving it to someone else.

Today’s blog is a repost from thezman.com

The Immorality of Immigration: Destroying the Value Of Citizenship

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=14158
In all times and all places, the people in charge have certain primary duties, obligations that come before anything else they like to do. It does not matter what form of government is in place, the rulers, for example, have to maintain public order. Being the tribal chief is useless if your people and lands are in chaos. For that matter, having a tribal chief is useless if it means living in chaos. Therefore, one of the primary duties of all rulers in all times and all places is to maintain public order by enforcing laws and local customs.

There are other primary duties of the ruler, like organizing the common defense that are universal to all people and forms of government. Then there are primary duties that are peculiar to a people or to a form of government. If the ruler is understood to be a god, then the ruler and his people have a duty to maintain that myth. A central part of that social order is the transcendent nature of the order itself. In modern western countries, protecting property rights and enforcing contracts is counted as a primary duty of the state.

One of the more destructive things to happen to America over the last half century is the sacralizing of immigration by the followers of Emma Lazarus. The endless repetition of the nonsense phrase “nation of immigrants” has turned a temporary necessity a century ago into an essential element of the nation’s founding mythology. The fact that immigration is a violation of the state’s primary duty to the people is excused, because the immigrant now has a superior place in the moral order. The state is now in service to foreigners.

In a nation like America, one that allegedly is built on consensual government, citizenship has great value. In fact, the most valuable thing to a citizen of a representative democracy is his citizenship. The reason for this, is that citizenship is an ownership stake in the nation itself. In theory, the American government was voluntarily founded as an agreement among individuals, invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare and to regulate the relations among its members. In short, we are shareholders in America.
If you had the option of selling your citizenship, let’s say at some sort of auction, where you get money for your place as an American citizen, there would be no shortage of bidders. For example, there is no shortage of buyers for the EB-5 visa, which costs $500,000. That’s right, you can buy citizenship from the US government. Your citizenship is something of value and therefore, the state has a duty to protect it, just as they have a duty to protect your property rights. This is a primary duty of government.

When the American government willy-nilly hands out citizenship papers to millions of foreigners every year, it is, in effect, stealing the value of your citizenship and giving it to someone else. This is no different than a company diluting the value of its shares, by selling additional shares. It’s why open borders fanatics swear that immigration makes us all richer, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary. They know it is essential that people believe this as even the sacred immigrant is not enough to justify theft.

Now, the argument from open borders people and libertarian loons is that immigration is not just holy and beneficial, but that the duly elected officials are passing these laws, so it is legitimate. The trouble is, we don’t live in a democracy. When 50% plus one vote to rob the 50% minus one, it is still theft, even if it comes after an election. This is why America is not a democracy and it is also why democracy was famously called two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. The very nature of democracy makes it an immoral form of rule.

Additionally, a primary duty of the modern state is the maintenance of equality before the law. In fact, this is what makes the law legitimate. Not only do all citizens have a say in what laws are passed, but those laws apply to all citizens equally. The very nature of immigration violates this principle. Immigration steals from some citizens for the benefit of foreigners and the benefit of a small number of connected citizens. This is true for quasi-immigration schemes like guest workers, as well as for permanent settlement.

If the primary duty of the state is to safeguard the citizens, including the value of their citizenship and maintain equality before the law, then immigration by its very nature is a direct violation of the social compact. It makes a mockery of the very idea of consensual government and sows distrust among the people. It is why all mass immigration quickly leads to a breakdown of order, because it erodes the legitimacy of the ruling authority, as the people see they are no longer willing or able to fulfill their basic duties as rulers.

That does not preclude all immigration. It’s just that the bar is is extremely high. In order to justify that which is naturally and always immoral, the offset must exceed the cost of the deed. Since this is impossible in the modern age, the followers of Emma Lazarus have been forced to turn morality on its head, claiming the first duty of the state is to foreigners at the expense of its own citizens. It has turned America into a bust out where everything of value, including citizenship, is sold for the benefit of a few.

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Mexican war?

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Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday, June 19, 2018 declaring it a “human right” for all North Americans.
“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”
He then declared it as “a human right we will defend,” eluniversal.com reports.
While the election is not until July 1, Obrador is by far the frontrunner.

Here’s what Mexico’s “Law on Population” contains:

• Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society. Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” (Article 34). Furthermore, Article 37 says foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” Can you imagine the uproar if our Congress debated, let alone passed, such a stipulation?
• Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country. Article 73 says federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with immigration authorities in assisting with the arrest of illegal immigrants.
• Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned (Article 116).
• Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported and/or imprisoned as felons (Article 117).
• Illegal immigration is a felony (Articles 123, 125).
• Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law. For example, a Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison (Article 127).

Here’s what the Mexican Constitution also says:

• Non-citizens cannot participate in the country’s political life (Article 33). Non-citizens are also forbidden to participate in demonstrations or express opinions in public about domestic politics.
• There are no equal employment rights to immigrants, even legal ones, in the public sector (Article 32).
• Fundamental property rights are denied to foreigners. Article 27 states: “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters….”
• An immigrant who becomes a naturalized Mexican citizen can be stripped of his Mexican citizenship if he lives again in the country of his origin for more than five years (Article 37).
• Foreigners may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33: “The Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

Seems to me that candidate Obrador is advocating an act of war against another sovereign state,

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It’s for the children!

Southwest Key has operated its facilities — 27 in total, across California, Arizona, and Texas — since 1997, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Flores v. Reno that unaccompanied illegal alien minors could not be held in detention facilities.

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Child Border Crossers Have Higher Standard of Living than 13M Impoverished American Children, (let that sink in for a moment).

Migrant children who cross into the United States either alone or with adults have a higher standard of living once they are put into federal care than the more than 13 million American children who are living in poverty across the country.

In Fiscal Year 2017, the federal government referred nearly 41,000 unaccompanied minor border crossers to the Unaccompanied Alien Children program which is facilitated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Data provided to Breitbart News reveals that each unaccompanied minor costs the federal government about $34,660 annually. This is a higher standard of living per child than the roughly 13 million American children who continue to live below the U.S. poverty line.

In 2016, there were about 13.2 million American children under the age of 18 living in poverty. These are U.S. children, for example, whose parents or guardians –in a household of four — earn less than $24,500 a year.

This annual income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor border crosser.

Overall, about $1.4 billion is spent on unaccompanied minor border crossers every year, which American taxpayers foot the bill for, as Breitbart News reported.

Most recently, Breitbart News‘s Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak revealed the comfortable living conditions that unaccompanied minor border crossers are placed into by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Those comfortable living conditions include lodging, meals, clothing, medical care, education, recreation, counseling, among other services.

Inside Shelter for Illegal Alien Children Separated from Parents

The Department of Health and Human Services hosted Breitbart News and other media on a tour of a facility in El Cajon, California, where illegal alien children are being sheltered after being separated from their parents.

The children are separated from their parents — or, to be precise, from the adults accompanying them, who may or may not be their parents — when their parents cross the southern U.S. border illegally and are caught and detained.

Previously, under the “catch-and-release” policy, the adults would be released. Under the “zero tolerance” policy of the Trump administration, the adults are being detained and prosecuted. Under US law, children cannot be incarcerated with them.

However, families that arrive together at legal ports of entry and apply for asylum status are generally not split up and are permitted to stay in the U.S. pending the adjudication of their applications (which can take several years).

Democrats and the mainstream media have accused the administration of separating the children of “immigrants” from their parents and imprisoning them in “cages.” On Thursday, June 14th., CNN analyst and Playboy reporter Brian Karem shouted at White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “These people have nothing. They come to the border with nothing and you throw children in cages.” None of the reporters in the briefing room corrected him.

The facility at El Cajon, however, is not a “cage.” It is a comfortable facility providing lodging, meals, clothing, medical care, education, recreation, counseling, and other services.

It is run by a nonprofit organization called Southwest Key as part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Program, run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Administration for Children and Familes (ACF).

The facility is located on a main street in a quiet, suburban neighborhood. It has 65 beds, occupied by boys ages 6 to 17. The rooms are spare, with three to four beds in each; the boys are responsible for cleaning the rooms and making their own beds. There is an outdoor recreation area with picnic tables and a small soccer pitch.

There is a classroom area, and English lessons. The goal is “reunification”: letting each child depart with a legal guardian.

Some 90% of the children at the shelter arrived at the border without adults; the other 10% were separated from the adults accompanying them. Once the children arrive — usually brought by U.S. Border Patrol agents — they are greeted in the “intake” office, where they receive any urgent medical care, are assigned a case worker, and are given food, a shower, and new clothing. They are also given toiletries and lessons in hygiene — literally how to flush a toilet, brush their teeth, and operate the shower, which some of the children may have never seen in their lives.

The children receive six hours of education daily, which include lessons in English and physical education. The boys interact with girls who are housed offsite and brought to the shelter during the day to access its services.

They have limited access to telephones to call relatives, both in the U.S. and abroad. They receive therapy, both as individuals and in group sessions. They enjoy field trips to local museums, parks, and the zoo, where they can explore the city beyond the shelter. And they also have social activities, including a recent “prom” for which they dressed up.

“Cages,” these are not. What is immediately striking about the facility is the enthusiasm and care of the staff who work there. One administrator greeted the journalists on the tour: “Welcome to our home.” The children at the facility seemed genuinely happy, despite their unfortunate circumstances and the trauma of their long journey.

The real scandal is how the media have portrayed the shelters. When MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff toured a similar facility this week in Brownsville, Texas, for example, he referred to the children there as being “incarcerated,” which is only true in the same sense that hospital patients, too, are not permitted to leave, for their safety. (One official who had seen Soboroff’s televised report accused him of “flat-out lying” about the facility — such as, for example, reporting on a mural of Donald Trump without noting 19 other presidents were similarly depicted.)

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DREAMERS

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The rule of law

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There is a common misconception regarding the term “the rule of law.” Lots of people, including U.S. officials, believe that it means that people should obey the law. But that’s not what it means. What it means is a society in which people have to answer only to the law and not to the edicts or orders issued by government officials. A society in which people have to respond to edicts and orders issued by politicians and bureaucrats is what is called “the rule of men.”

We are supposed to follow the requirements of our Constitution and statutes even when they yield results we don’t like—say, freeing a person who appears guilty.

Generally, that famous phrase—a government of laws not men—is taken as being a safeguard against capricious or arbitrary rule by individuals. Even the sovereign, it was said, is subject to the law.

But the response to Trump and the negative media and political responses to his election—reminded me that there is another, just as important side to the desideratum “a government of laws not men.

What does it mean that several hundred thousand females converge on Washington, D.C., in pink hats and vagina costumes to whine that Donald Trump is “not our president”?

What does it mean that on college campuses across the country, students, often aided and abetted by faculty and the occasional outside agitator, protest that Trump is “illegitimate”?

That various media pundits, on the Right as well as the Left, warn against “normalizing” Donald Trump?
And most worrisome, what does it mean that a smattering of judges across the country argue that the president’s executive orders are illegitimate, unconstitutional because (cutting to the chase) they are THIS president’s orders?

Thus we see another way in which the principle of “a government of laws not men” can be violated. It used to be that we were on the lookout for individuals arrogating to themselves the power of the law. Now we find individuals denying our lawfully elected representatives the legitimacy to exercise their rightful authority.

Ironically, this is the way that things used to work under the old European monarchies. It is what led to the anarchy of the French revolution. It is what led to the Russian revolution that eventually resulted in the rule of Stalin. It’s also the way things work today in Russia under the Putin regime. Government officials issue their edicts and orders, and the people and businessmen are expected to obey them without question.

The difference, however, is that Putin and Russia don’t pretend to operate under the rule of law while unelected U.S. bureaucrats do. Given this truth, who are the bigger hypocrites?

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It’s not “One World”

It is said one of the country’s favorite sayings is women are for children, boys are for pleasure.

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We, as Americans, have too often bought into the fantasy that it is all “One world” and that it is our moral obligation to export “freedom” and “democracy” to some of the “less enlightened” “Third-world” countries. This attitude goes back to the colonial mindset of the 1800s and the concept of “the white mans’ burden”. Time after time in place after place it has led to hostility conflict and bloodshed. Take, for example, our current involvement in Afghanistan, (and the involvement of the Russians before them and the British before them).

Afghanistan has long been considered one of the most religious countries in the world: a place where men and women follow Islamic doctrine carefully

But behind the devout exterior, the country is hiding a dark secret – one which the government has tried to sweep under the rug.

Bacha bazi, which translate as ‘boy play’, is on the surface a harmless form of entertainment – young boys dancing for the entertainment of their elders.

In reality, it is often little more than sex slavery, where boys as young as 10 are passed around a group of middle aged men for their own sexual gratification.

Afghanistan’s poverty has been a driving force in the rise of bacha bazi in the last 15 years. It makes it easy for predators to prowl the streets targeting ‘pretty’ young boys, enticing them from their families with promises of work or education.

These promises more often than not come to nothing: instead, the boys are trained as dancers, made to perform to groups of men dressed as girls, bells on their flowing skirts and make up on the faces.

They command the attention of the room as they move to the traditional songs, with words which do more than hint at what is to come.

Once the party is over, and the dancing has finished, the true horror of their role is revealed.

Then the boys are passed between the men, taken to hotel rooms where they can be sexually abused.

‘The boys don’t earn anything from the parties, but they live as though they are in a relationship with their masters, so their masters keep them, house them and buy them food and things.

They have sex with their masters and then at the parties they are abused by different people.

It is said one of the country’s favorite sayings is women are for children, boys are for pleasure.

The fact homosexuality is forbidden in Islam is swept under the carpet by those who participate, who claim there is a loophole. They are not in love with the boys, and therefore not gay.

Soldiers fighting in Afghanistan after 2001 spoke of their surprise at watching grown men walking down the streets of the conservative country, hand in hand with a young boy.

But even the coalition forces looked the other way.

Unfortunately, these dark actions are not isolated to Afghanistan. Back as far as 2011 there have been hundreds of arrests in regard to child abduction, slavery and forced prostitution. One of the early Interpol investigations was of an internet-based pedophile group associated with a website ,”boylover-dot-net”, that boasted over 70,000 followers.

On Feb. 23, 2018 President Trump gave a press conference from the White House addressing how human trafficking is a “dire problem” domestically and internationally. Trump’s press conference was barely a blip in the mainstream media and the arrests have been almost completely ignored by the MSM altogether.

-On Jan. 27 authorities arrested 42 in a human trafficking operation in Tennessee.

-On Jan. 29 authorities announced that 474 were arrested in a statewide California human trafficking operation and 28 sexually exploited children were rescued.

–108 were arrested from Jan. 18 to Feb. 5 in Illinois as part of a national sex trafficking sting operation.

– 178 people were arrested in Texas for sex trafficking in sting that operated in January till Super Bowl Sunday.

–16 people were arrested in January in Michigan for sex trafficking during the Detroit Auto Show.

-In February, authorities arrested 11 in Virginia in a child sex sting.

-On Feb. 14 the Polk County sheriff announced that 42 were arrested in Florida in child pornography related cases.

The president genuinely does care about children and he’s vowed to make solving the human trafficking epidemic a priority. The recent pedophile arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. We can only pray that this abomination is dealt with quickly and decisively.

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How Deep is the State?

None of this that is happening is random. None of the riots, none of the protests, wherever they show up today and tomorrow and next week is an accident or happenstance. It’s by design, on purpose, has an objective and an agenda.

Deep State Roots

“Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…. The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government…. This group … is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”
— Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech

Unaffected by elections. Unaltered by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law.
Say hello to America’s shadow government.

A corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country, this shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.

No matter which candidate wins the presidential election, this shadow government is here to stay. Indeed, as recent documents by the FBI reveal, this shadow government—also referred to as “The 7th Floor Group”—tried mightily to play a part in who won the White House.

To be precise, however, the president actually inherited not one but two shadow governments.

The first shadow government, referred to as COG or Continuity of Government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a “catastrophe.”

COG is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances—a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown—to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transition to martial law.

Yet it is the second shadow government—also referred to as the Deep State—that poses the greater threat to freedom right now.

Comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes, this government within a government is the real reason “we the people” have no real control over our government.

The Deep State, which “operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power,” makes a mockery of elections and the entire concept of a representative government.

The government, (FBI; CIA etc), often places stories anonymously in news publications to spread false ideas favorable to government goals. Stories that are planted are often picked up and further spread by additional newspapers and other third parties, in a slightly altered form, or even picked up as news and then rewritten by a journalist.

This has been going on since at least the 1950’s and had a formal name; “Operation Mockingbird“.

America is under attack from within. Our culture, our history, our founding are under direct assault and with the willful cooperation of the media, we are being conditioned to accept this as the “New Normal”.

None of this that is happening is random. None of the riots, none of the protests, wherever they show up today and tomorrow and next week is an accident or happenstance. It’s by design, on purpose, has an objective and an agenda.

That agenda is to erase American history. That agenda is to distort, erase, and impugn our history. It is crucial to their plan if they are to succeed.

If enough Americans can be persuaded that America, as founded, is unjust — if enough Americans can be persuaded that America as founded is inherently racist and immoral and illegitimate — then it will be all that much easier to erase America as founded.

The question then becomes, will enough patriots wake up and defend our founding principles?

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At the crossroads

One road we could take is an objective application of the rule of law. No exceptions, no one above the law, no one too big to jail. High crimes and misdemeanors definitely included, no matter who or what the perp.

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We are at a crossroads in this nation.

I see about 0% chance of that happening.

Last Tuesday, 6/6/2018, on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich weighed in on President Donald Trump’s efforts to contain the so-called deep state.

Gingrich observed that with all the revelations regarding the Justice Department bureaucracy’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election that the system was “much more deeply corrupt” than previously thought; “And I think that we have to recognize that the system is much more deeply corrupt than any of us could imagine. That as it is gradually coming out in the open, we realize the elements of the Justice Department at the larger level, elements of the FBI, were corrupted on a scale that is really a threat to the whole American system and the whole rule of law.”

If we do not do it judicially, eventually plain ordinary people will get tired of watching the double standard play out over and over and all hell will break loose.

When you have Judges going against written law and creating their own in order to solve political needs, we are in trouble. Then when they get elected they will begin to pass laws that are incompatible with the Constitution, but are allowed to be enforced the the same Judges, then we are in more trouble. See California for such an example.

I expect a certain amount of corruption in government because by nature power corrupts. I think the level of corruption in our government will probably knock our socks off when/if reveled.

We have passed the crossroads to allow for such a choice. What you are seeing is the crossroads in your rear view mirror.

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If it walks like a duck

Did you know that the phrase “if it looks like a duck…” was originally about a mechanical pooing duck?

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Many people, particularly politicians, like to use the popular “duck test” when making a point about a particular issue or object – “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

Did you know that the phrase “if it looks like a duck…” was originally about a mechanical pooing duck?

In 1738 a French automaton maker fooled the world into thinking he’d replicated life, and accidentally created a flippant philosophical conundrum we are still using.

Although the first printed example is thought to be from an American poet in the 19th century, legend has it that people were saying this long before, in the 18th century, about a certain mechanical duck. And they were being very serious.

That mechanical duck was built to astound audiences, by quacking, moving it’s head to eat some grain which the mechanical marvel seemingly digested and then after a short time, the machine would round things off by plopping out a dollop of, what has been described as, foul smelling sh*t.

It just goes to show how more refined things in the 21st century are in comparison to the 18th century – as this automatic waterfowl was famous throughout Europe!

Not surprising then that the phrase entered common parlance.

While the general populace today is less likely to be taken in by a brass clockwork automaton, we still have a real life example in today’s political “leaders” of both sides of the aisle.

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov used a version of the Duck Test in 2015 in response to allegations that Russian airstrikes in Syria were not targeting terrorist groups, primarily ISIS, but rather West-supported groups such as the Free Syrian Army. When asked to elaborate his definition of ‘terrorist groups’, he replied:
If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist.

In their own way, today’s politicians walk, quack, flap, swim, consume wealth and gift us with copious amounts of organic effluviant.

So, if it walks like a duck…

Lame duck

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