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Food Terrorism

In 1984, a woman deployed a salmonella-tainted liquid onto a salad bar. It was exceptionally lucky that no one did, in fact, die.

“What if terrorists used fentanyl to poison our food supply?”

This was the frightening thought that raced through my mind while scrolling through Facebook. I came across an article with an image of a lethal dose of the opioid drug next to a penny. It was shocking how such a tiny amount of this white powder could kill a single adult.

I couldn’t help but wonder how easily this tiny amount of white powder could be mistaken for flour or powdered sugar. What would happen if a terrorist got a job at a flour or a sugar company and mixed this drug into the product? How many people would die before authorities could figure out what happened?

I know, what a scary thought, right?

Fentanyl is a highly-potent, synthetic opioid drug. It has legitimate uses for extreme pain management, such as with some cancer patients. Fentanyl, both legally and illegally made, is currently the leading cause of opioid overdoses.

Fentanyl, like most of our pharmaceuticals, is manufactured in China.

Some of the legally manufactured fentanyl falls into the hands of drug dealers here in the US. The precursor chemicals needed to manufacture illegal analogs of fentanyl are also largely sourced from China.

Mexican drug cartels have found fentanyl analogs cheap and easy to manufacture. They simply import the needed chemicals from China, synthesize it, and then sell their DIY fentanyl through the same channels that they sell other drugs. Fentanyl is often mixed with heroin or cocaine without the user knowing.

This is not just a problem in the United States.

When most people think of a terror attack, they think of mass violence with bombs, planes, trucks, and guns. It’s a shock and awe attack that leaves people fearful and confused.

We also think of biological attacks. Back in 2014, one of the biggest worries of many preppers was what if someone purposely became infected with the Ebola virus, and traveled to the US before symptoms surfaced to spread the disease.

We don’t tend to think of terrorism through contamination, and especially not through our groceries. When we consider how centralized our food production and packaging are, a large amount of food could be contaminated from just one or two locations. The illnesses and inevitable deaths would take place far away from the contamination site. The culprits would just walk away, free to strike somewhere else. No suicide vests necessary.

Let’s take this one step further. Let’s consider how “cheap and easy” it is to synthesize fentanyl powder. This powder could be manufactured in large amounts. Terrorists could then use this powder to contaminate products at any of the large flour mills and food manufacturers.

Is grocery store poisoning a real threat?

Terrorists have been threatening terror by food for a long time. Agroterrorism is the introduction of a biological agent into the food supply, for example, foot and mouth disease to livestock. This probably wouldn’t make anyone too sick, but it would disrupt the beef industry, as well as trust in the food supply in general. It would wreak havoc on the economy.

In 1984, a woman deployed a salmonella-tainted liquid onto a salad bar. It was exceptionally lucky that no one did, in fact, die.

Her act began the first — and worst — case of bioterrorism in US history. Investigators ultimately determined that the woman and her associates had contaminated 10 salad bars in the town of The Dalles with a strain of salmonella bacteria, giving 751 patrons nausea, diarrhea, bloody stools, fever and other symptoms of severe food poisoning. (Fortunately, no one died.) (source)

Contamination with a drug is a little different, as it isn’t a disease being spread. It would still result, however, in both hospitalizations and deaths. All the other problems of trust in the food supply and economic damage would follow as well.

Here are a few more headlines to make you think:

And this lovely article from September 2017, ISIS Supporters Call for Poisoning of Food in Grocery Stores across US and Europe

“In the third part of an English-language series promoting lone-wolf jihad in Western countries, potential attackers are advised to inject food for sale in markets with cyanide poison,” U.S.-based jihadi monitoring group SITE Intelligence reported. (source)

The article continues:

The potential use of poison is one that has been publicized by the group’s supporters for several years, but never used. Jihadists published a guide that directed “six ways to kill the Jews” in October 2015, the methods given were to “stab him, burn him, poison him.” They have also distributed a guide on how to poison food eaten by “crusaders.” Pro-ISIS groups have also published handbooks on how to make homemade poison. (source)

We know that terrorists are interested in poisoning our food supply. We should probably include our water supply too. We know that fentanyl is cheap and easy to synthesize. We also know that it only takes a tiny amount of fentanyl powder to kill an adult.

What could possibly go wrong?

What foods would be most at risk of a fentanyl terror attack?

“Street fentanyl” is a plain, white powder. Any food that is similar would be at risk. That includes (but is not limited to):

  • Flour (All types- white wheat, rice, coconut, etc)
  • Sugar, especially powdered sugar
  • Baking soda
  • Baking powder
  • Yeast
  • Cream of tartar
  • Artificial sweeteners (Splenda, Equal, etc)
  • Natural and alternative sweeteners (Stevia, Swerve, etc)
  • Protein powders
  • Potato starch
  • Corn starch
  • Clear Jel
  • Collagen powders

There are a lot of common pantry items on the above list

This kind of attack would be frighteningly simple to carry out.

All it would take is one lone wolf to easily acquire a moderate amount of fentanyl powder, get a job at one of the large flour mills in the US, and lace the product with this deadly substance. Poisoned flour would be on grocery shelves all over the country. It would take a little time for authorities to figure out what has happened. In the meantime, people would get very sick, and some would die from a drug overdose they never knew they took.

Safety is never guaranteed. One thing I do know is that the more you take control of the food you put into your body, the better off you are. You will be trading your time and labor for this, but you and your family are worth the effort.

Majority of under 30’s approve socialism

” Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”

Many times we hear the question; “Why do the young people accept the premise of Socialism as espoused by the far left factions of the Democrat party in America? Why do they either embrace, or at the very least accept the destructive actions of the AntiFa wing of the Democrats? Are they truly malicious?

I tend to believe that the answer lies in something that was written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the occasion of Adolph Hitler’s ascension to the Chancellorship of Germany;

” Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings  at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. ”

As comedian Ron White has said; “You can’t fix stupid.”

The Andromeda Strain – Redux

So the conclusion at this point is an uncomfortable one. You are likely infected by a mysterious virus that might be nothing, or it may become active at some point and almost certainly kill you.

I’m becoming extremely concerned we are massively unprepared for the next epidemic.

People imagine that any kind of epidemic that occurs today can be more or less mitigated through modern public health infrastructure, stocks of vaccines and antivirals, and basic quarantining measures.

The issue is that in modern, densely populated cities, a sufficiently advanced pathogen would be capable of infecting the vast majority of inhabitants in weeks, before any health measures could have an effect. The population density is enough that current quarantining techniques used in cases like smallpox would be completely ineffective. Antivirals have historically proven ineffective and hard to disseminate while our current vaccine stocks might not work at all.

Currently computer simulations indicate that a dangerous enough pathogen could effectively destroy a city like Los Angeles in a few months. “Destroyed” in the sense that emergency services are shut down, medical services are shut down, all economic output ceases and over 30-60% of the population is wiped out.

In short, a small nation-state or even well-funded terrorist organization could easily reduce the US to the state of a third world nation with. Yet no one  seems to give a shit

There has been a lot of work done with engineering viruses for specific functions such as gene therapy. The main problem and the reason a lot of this research is highly restricted is that many of the same techniques for engineering a virus to kill off all mosquitoes can be applied to almost any target, including hominids.

That and the risk of spillover. You might intend to wipe out mosquitoes, but you end up wiping out a whole class of insects causing complete ecological collapse.

Of course if you’re a terrorist that probably sounds delightful. I’m obviously biased but I considered biological agents, especially viruses, to the be the most dangerous thing in the world today, even more so than nuclear weapons due to their relative affordability and ease of dispersal.

China is one major source of concern. Not only is the place a massive breeding ground for novel agents due to poor agricultural practices, the proximity of humans to animals ensures that novel strains of influenza and other viruses will hop to humans and spread like wildfire.

It literally only takes one mutation of one virus to unleash a pandemic. Every infectious pig or bird is a little viral containment vessel that could birth the next plague.

Though I’d be surprised if China is actively doing large-scale tests on their population, it wouldn’t surprise me. That said, China’s biological weapons program is much larger than the public or even experts in the field are aware of. They are almost certainly genetically engineering certain viruses (smallpox) to be vaccine immune, but they are probably also engineering them to be more lethal agents in general. We really don’t know the full scale of China’s biological weapons program but I would bet you wouldn’t be able to sleep well if you knew its full scope.

But theoretically, any well-stocked university lab with trained professionals would be capable of genetically modifying a virus to do all sorts of things.

The most difficult thing would be gaining access to some of the more virulent agent such as smallpox or Ebola. Most of these are only available in incredibly well guarded facilities in just a few countries.

North Korea likely has a decently sized biological weapons program as well as a cache of some of the more deadly pathogens. A desperate worker there could theoretically smuggle out any number of terrible diseases and sell them on the black market for $10-$100k, which for a lot of terrorist organizations would be a pittance.

Publicly, we have ceased production of biological weapons. Privately, we already know how to make effective dispersal munitions, and the kind of viral engineering work we do for the purpose of “good” can just as easily be repurposed for evil. If the US military wanted it could quite easily engineer and disperse a literal apocalyptic plague for less money than it takes to build an F-35.

Hypothetically, if our government turned fully tyrannical and evil a-la Nazi Germany, we could have a very robust biological weapons program producing munitions within a year or so… if we don’t already.

I’ve run across a few documents that scared me pretty badly.

One was regarding what are called chimera viruses and research work done in the Soviet Union and more recently in North Korea (hypothesized).

The simple idea of a chimera virus is you combine two viral agents into one, which as you can imagine would make it easy to create a virus with more than 95% mortality rate.

The scarier part is that a chimera virus can theoretically have multiple traits that make it far superior as a biological weapon, and the traits can present at different time periods. For example, Ebola is quite deadly, but it’s actually pretty hard to spread due to needing direct blood contact.

So what would happen if you combined Ebola with say, a common flu? With sufficiently advanced engineering, you could have an Ebola that initially only presents as a standard flu for the first 1-2 weeks. People would continue to take flights, go to work etc thinking it was just a relatively harmless flu.

Then two weeks later you’d have massive “mysterious” outbreaks of Ebola all across the world. Millions of people would suddenly present with symptoms of Ebola and be freaking out.

Meanwhile, people who still had the “flu” would continue taking flights, going to work etc.

By the time we discovered that the flu and Ebola outbreaks were all a part of the same virus, you’d be looking at easily over 100 million dead, completely collapsed infrastructures etc. It would be unprecedented in modern times.

Hypothetically there was a country that wanted to create a doomsday weapon that would function even beyond the deterrent capabilities of nuclear weapons. Basically a “Screw you, world” kind of weapon.

If certain dissidents are to be believed, this weapon has been produced, likely still exists, and may have even been used at some point.

The key feature of the virus is the incubation period. The claim is they extended the incubation period of a certain highly lethal virus to not days, or weeks, but possibly a decade or more, (Think AIDS).

During this extended incubation, the number of virus particles is low enough that it shows zero symptoms, and it would be undetectable unless you were actually looking for it. While transmission rates would be quite low, over the course of a couple years it should be able to easily spread throughout an entire population. A literal 100% rate of infection.

Now this has been known about in the scientific and military communities for a while.

Well one group had the idea of testing this. Is there a latent and highly lethal virus lying dormant in the population?

They took blood samples from people across the US as well as some Western European countries and discovered something quite disturbing. A mysterious virus, referred to internally as “pathogen X” present in something like 95% of the samples.

It’s an unusually large virus with a very particular shape, like a large toroid, ( a toroid is a surface of revolution with a hole in the middle, like a doughnut, forming a solid body. The axis of revolution passes through the hole), with spiky protuberances along the central axis.

The genome is HUGE, and that makes knowing its actual payload at this stage almost impossible. It shares significant similarities with smallpox, Lassa, influenza, and HIV, but it neither looks nor behaves like any of these.

So the conclusion at this point is an uncomfortable one. You are likely infected by a mysterious virus that might be nothing, or it may become active at some point and almost certainly kill you.

Basic sanitary practices work quite well, (sort of). Keep your house clean, and if possible the surrounding area. Don’t over clean, though.

If you live in a dense city, it’s not the worst idea to wear a medical mask in very crowded spaces (buses/subway) and keep a bottle of Purrell on you.

Obviously, getting away from population dense urban areas before infection would be one of the best ways to protect yourself. The problem is you and everyone else would have the same idea so there is no guarantee freeways would even be functional in a mass panic. You’d need to move quickly after the first signs in the news of some “Mysterious new illness” started appearing.

Sleep well, kiddies.

Prayer for Saturday, October 26, 2019

Genesis 2:21-24

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The Warrior Code

In a world of chaos, gender confusion, divisiveness and stress where the prevailing motto seems to be “Mea Est” (where’s mine?) would that it became possible to return to a time of morality and honor.

Honor is a concept that has, somehow, fallen out of favor in our society. There was a time, not that long ago when part of the definition of being “a man” had much to do with the ascribing to and striving for moral excellence. Our republic was founded by men who lived by the code handed down, in some respects, from the Spartan warriors.

Warrior Ethos

I will always place the mission first

I will never accept defeat

I will never quit

I will never leave a fallen comrade

Honor is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion. It is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or institution such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or institutions) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honor, and the moral code of the society at large.

There are still some institutions that follow this code of morality and honor. One of them is the College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri, (an institution well worth researching). Another is the Citadel, (known as the West Point of the South), located in Charleston, South Carolina in 1842.

The cadets at the Citadel follow “The Honor Code” cadets do not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate those that do. The code is based on Core Values:

Honor

First and foremost honor includes adherence to the Honor Code of The Citadel. A cadet “will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do.” The commitment to honor extends beyond the gates of The Citadel and is a life-long obligation to moral and ethical behavior. In addition, honor includes integrity; “doing the right thing when no one is watching.” Finally, honorable behavior includes exercising the moral courage to “do the right thing when everyone is watching.” The Honor Code is the foundation of our academic enterprise.

Duty

First and foremost duty means to accept and accomplish the responsibilities assigned to me. At The Citadel, my primary duty is to perform academically and then to perform as a member of the Corps of Cadets and the campus community. I accept the consequences associated with my performance and actions. Once I have held myself accountable for my actions, then I will hold others accountable for their actions. Finally, duty means that others can depend on me to complete my assignments and to assist them with their assignments. Duty is also a call to serve others before self.

Respect

First and foremost respect means to treat other people with dignity and worth – the way you want others to treat you. Respect for others eliminates any form of prejudice, discrimination, or harassment (including but not limited to rank, position, age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, physical attributes, etc.). In addition, respect for others means to respect the positions of those in authority which include faculty, staff, administrators, active duty personnel and the leadership of the Corps of Cadets. Finally, respect includes a healthy respect for one’s self.

The College of the Ozarks has a similar code.

In a world of chaos, gender confusion, divisiveness and stress where the prevailing motto seems to be “Mea Est” (where’s mine?) would that it became possible to return to a time of morality and honor.

The Constitution and its meaning

“[T]he ignorance of the people,” he said, “is the footstool of despotism.”

You could argue that there are two basic visions for America: the Hamiltonian and the Jeffersonian. The former is nationalist, calling for centralized power and an industrial, mercantilist society characterized by banking, commercialism, and a robust military. Its early leaders had monarchical tendencies. The latter vision involves a slower, more leisurely and agrarian society, political decentralization, popular sovereignty, and local republicanism. Think farmers over factories.

Both have claimed the mantle of liberty. Both have aristocratic elements, despite today’s celebration of America as democratic. On the Hamiltonian side we can include John Adams, John Marshall, Noah Webster, Henry Clay, Joseph Story, and Abraham Lincoln. In the Jeffersonian camp we can place George Mason and Patrick Henry (who, because they were born before Jefferson, could be considered his precursors), the mature (rather than the youthful) James Madison, John Taylor of Carolina, John C. Calhoun, Abel Upshur, and Robert Y. Hayne. The Jeffersonian Republicans won out in the early nineteenth century, but since the War Between the States, the centralizing, bellicose paradigm has dominated American politics, foreign and monetary policy, and federal institutions.

Jeffersonians hold a “compact theory” of the Constitution:

“The constitution of the United States of America . . . is an original, written, federal, and social compact, freely, voluntarily, and solemnly entered into by the several states of North-America, and ratified by the people thereof, respectively; whereby the several states, and the people thereof, respectively, have bound themselves to each other, and to the federal government of the United States; and by which the federal government is bound to the several states, and to every citizen of the United States.”

Under this model, each sovereign, independent state is contractually and consensually committed to confederacy, and the federal government possesses only limited and delegated powers—e.g., “to be the organ through which the united republics communicate with foreign nations.”

Employing the term “strict construction,” many decry what we call “activist” federal judges, insisting that “every attempt in any government to change the constitution (otherwise than in that mode which the constitution may prescribe) is in fact a subversion of the foundations of its own authority.” Strictly construing the language of the Constitution meant fidelity to the binding, basic framework of government, but it didn’t mean that the law was static. Among legitimate concerns, for instance, was how the states should incorporate, discard, or adapt the British common law that Blackstone had delineated.

We understand the common law as embedded, situated, and contextual rather than as a fixed body of definite rules or as the magnificent perfection of right reason, a grandiose conception derived from the quixotic portrayals of Sir Edward Coke. “[I]n our inquiries how far the common law and statutes of England were adopted in the British colonies,”

In other words, if you want to know what the common law is on this side of the pond, look to the operative language of governing texts before you invoke abstract theories. Doing so led Founding scholars to conclude that parts of English law were “either obsolete, or have been deemed inapplicable to our local circumstances and policy.” In this, they anticipated Justice Holmes’s claim that the law “is forever adopting new principles from life at one end” while retaining “old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off.”

What the several states borrowed from England was, for the Founders, a filtering mechanism that repurposed old rules for new contexts. They used other verbs to describe how states, each in their own way, revised elements of the common law in their native jurisdictions: “modified,” “abridged,” “shaken off,” “rejected,” “repealed,” “expunged,” “altered,” “changed,” “suspended,” “omitted,” “stricken out,” “substituted,” “superseded,” “introduced.” The list could go on.

The English common law, accordingly, wasn’t an exemplification of natural law or abstract rationalism; it was rather the aggregation of workable solutions to actual problems presented in concrete cases involving real people.

Having been clipped from its English roots, the common law in the United States had an organic opportunity to grow anew in the varying cultural environments of the sovereign states.

St. George Tucker, a scholar who studied Blackstone’s legal thoughts as they related to US jurisprudence

had a knack for aphorism. “[T]he ignorance of the people,” he said, “is the footstool of despotism.” More examples: “Ignorance is invariably the parent of error.” “A tyranny that governs by the sword, has few friends but men of the sword.”

Reading Tucker reminds us that for most of our country’s formative history the principal jurisprudential debates were not about natural law versus positivism, or originalism versus living constitutionalism, but about state versus federal authority, local versus national jurisdiction, the proper scale and scope of government, checks and balances, and so forth. To the extent these subjects have diminished in importance, Hamilton has prevailed over Jefferson. Remembering Tucker today can help us see the costs of that victory.

Sedition

McRaven does not argue that President Trump has done anything wrong in particular, but that he has no respect for America’s values. These values, McRaven declares, involve a commitment to “help the weak and stand up against oppression and injustice” around the world.

Retired Admiral William McRaven has published an op-ed in Friday’s New York Times titled, “Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President,” urging that Trump be removed from office — “the sooner, the better.”

McRaven’s op-ed gives a military imprimatur to what President Donald Trump has already likened to a “coup,” as Democrats attempt to impeach him with barely a year to go before the next presidential election.

” These men and women, of all political persuasions, have seen the assaults on our institutions: on the intelligence and law enforcement community, the State Department and the press. They have seen our leaders stand beside despots and strongmen, preferring their government narrative to our own. They have seen us abandon our allies and have heard the shouts of betrayal from the battlefield. As I stood on the parade field at Fort Bragg, one retired four-star general, grabbed my arm, shook me and shouted, “I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!”

The admiral, well-respected for his role in overseeing the operation to kill Al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011, argues that senior military leaders have lost confidence in the president and feel he is a threat to the nation.

McRaven does not argue that President Trump has done anything wrong in particular, but that he has no respect for America’s values. These values, McRaven declares, involve a commitment to “help the weak and stand up against oppression and injustice” around the world.

The admiral is unwilling to wait for the 2020 presidential election to see a change of power. He declares (emphasis added): “It is time for a new person in the Oval Office — Republican, Democrat or independent — the sooner, the better. The fate of our Republic depends upon it.”

Moreover, McRaven makes no reference to voting, or elections — or even impeachment.

McRaven might want to consult with a competent attorney regarding Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and U.S. Code § 2384. Seditious conspiracy

Transgender policy in America

The goal of the LGBTQ ideology is not to help a child or adult who is going through confusion regarding gender. It is to do away with the understanding of the factual existence of Males and Females.

Jack Martin

A very serious deception challenges the very moral culture of our nation. The 60’s ushered in the if it feels good do it mentality. Colleges began to indoctrinate, rather than educate back then. And we are now reaping the fruit of that in every aspect of our culture.

Through out history Homosexuality was considered abnormal sexual relationships, until the 60’s illegal in almost every state in our nation. Sodomy defined as sin as stated in the Bible. But with the sexual revolution that began to change, combined with the total destruction of the Biblical family of Father Mother, husband wife roles. 

With time the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual movement has expanded to the place where most of America can repeat LGBTQ. But as dangerous as the first three letters in that are, its the fourth, Transgender that perhaps poses the most danger. For years we heard Christians don’t believe in Science. 

Issues like global warming, abortion, etc was echoed through liberal gatherings.

But time and scientific discovery have debunked both the extreme global warming views, and the point in which a life begins in the womb. 4D ultrasounds clearly show a viable living child, not a tissue blob. Evidence shows the point where pain is felt.  But when it comes to gender dysphoria, that defies all logic. 

Biology teaches 2 sexes, and I will call them 2 genders. Even in our languages, we refer to Masculine gender, Feminine gender, and Neuter gender. The latter referring clearly to inanimate items, not people. XY was always a male, XX was always a female. But now we say gender is different, its what you feel like.  Forgive my honesty but that is insane.  

Research shows that 98 percent of boys and 88 percent of girls who go through a period of dysphoria in their puberty years come back to full agreement with their biological sex by or near their 18 birthday. With the frontal lobe of the brain, not being fully developed until some time near age 25. 

We don’t find it strange that a child during those years will one day be a firefighter, and the next a doctor or lawyer, and yet when a child has confusion caused by any number of natural or event induced feelings we want to rush to change their so called gender pronouns, clothing, and begin medications to begin a change in their development. When they are legally qualified we rush to have gender re assignment surgery. And then when they continue to be confused and depressed and commit suicide, we blame it on those who tried to warn them.

In many states it is illegal to counsel a person back to a Biblical or or heterosexual mindset. Even has a growing number of transitioned individuals are de-transitioning back to their biological sex.

The goal of the LGBTQ ideology is not to help a child or adult who is going through confusion regarding gender. It is to do away with the understanding of the factual existence of Males and Females. It is a direct assault on Gods declaration that He created mankind male and female with the intent that they marry for a lifetime and procreate. Replenishing the earth. 

When quality research shows gender dysphoria for what it is, a state of confusion for a multitude of possible reasons, the LGBTQ supporters simply resort to names like homophobe, hater, or they falsely show bogus research that they claim discredit true evidence.

Teachers are forced in schools ( Pasco County Florida presently ) to use false pronouns, and false names to identify students. They are threatened if they wont oversee such things as girls in boys locker rooms. ( See ProtectPascoChildren.org ) and in regards to sports, girls are wrongly positioned to lose sports scholarships, championship honors, or even suffer horrible injuries at the hands of boys who are confused over their gender.

This battle will shape the future of our nation, and our Supreme Court will ultimately decide. Pray for them to love mercy, do justly and walk humbly before the Lord.

The Deep State is real…and it IS watching you

According to a new declassified ruling from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), FBI personnel systematically abused National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance data in both 2017 and 2018. The 138-page ruling, which dates back to October 2018, was only unsealed 12 months later in October 2019.

We were hoping that President Donald Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” would involve the firing (or indictment and conviction) of rogue members of the deep state who couldn’t care less about the Constitution and run their agencies like their own unaccountable fiefdoms.

So far, the president has managed to cut back on a lot of regulations and reign in otherwise benign agencies from implementing willy-nilly all sorts of onerous new regulations that cost businesses and consumers lots of money but don’t really accomplish much other than to make government bigger.

But the real deep state power lies in the intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and they continue to run roughshod over statutory law and our basic rights as Americans.

As reported by CPO Magazine, that includes the FBI — yes, the same one Barack Obama politicized and James Comey ran: 

According to a new declassified ruling from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), FBI personnel systematically abused National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance data in both 2017 and 2018. The 138-page ruling, which dates back to October 2018, was only unsealed 12 months later in October 2019. It offers a rare look at how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been abusing the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens with alarming regularity. The court ruling is also a stinging rebuke to the FBI’s overreach of its ability to search surveillance intelligence databases.

This could be the FISA court’s ‘revenge,’ so to speak, for being taken advantage of by the Comey-run FBI in which judges on the court were allegedly intentionally mislead by FBI agents seeking surveillance warrants for 2016 Trump campaign officials — over bogus “Russian collusion” charges.

CPO Magazine noted the key elements of the FISA court ruling:

— Judges found that FBI employees improperly searched data that had been collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). 

— Those abuses amounted to accessing NSA surveillance data so FBI  analysts and employees could examine the online communications of Americans, to include family members and fellow FBI employees. 

— In all, the FISA court suspects there were thousands of improper queries made, which were done without any reasonable suspicion or expectation of a crime or risk to national security. 

— The improper searches also did not delineate between foreign intelligence targets and U.S. citizens.

If we can’t trust our intelligence community we are in serious trouble

The FISA court itself operates in secret; it must because it operates as part of the intelligence community and examines secret evidence in making a determination as to whether or not to grant federal agents surveillance warrants.

But the court most often hears cases regarding foreign surveillance targets — not Americans, which isn’t unheard of, just rare. What makes this ruling all the more significant is the fact that the court came down on a federal agency — even more rare. 

“Simply put,” CPO Magazine noted, “the data was available to search, and the FBI willingly took advantage of every opportunity to query the NSA database. For example, FBI employees routinely used mass surveillance data to investigate potential witnesses and informants.”

In 2017, the FBI conducted more than 3.1 million searches of that surveillance data compared to a paltry 7,500 searches combined by the NSA and CIA. That’s really problematic, officials note, because the surveillance data is only supposed to be accessed and searched if there is a reasonable suspicion of crimes underway or a clear national security risk.

There is also this. Americans have to be able to trust government officials in the FBI, CIA, and NSA because nearly all of their work is conducted in secret, with only moderate congressional oversight.

The FISA court got burned by James Comey’s FBI — obviously more than once, and who knows for how many years.

Sources include:

CPOMagazine.com

TheNationalSentinel.com

Prayer for Saturday 10/19/2019

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.” -Proverbs 11:2 KJV

All of the good qualities ethical humans are to posses have an element of humility within them. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control … you can’t have any of these things without humility.

C.S. Lewis defined humility this way, “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”