9th Circuit rules against Trump Travel Order No. 3

But stays its ruling pending Supreme Court review.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled against President Trump’s Third Travel Order on virtually the same grounds it blocked a March iteration of the order.
A copy of the Opinion (pdf.) is embedded at the bottom of this post.

Recycling their (vacated) opinion from June, the same three Clinton-appointed judges, Michael D. Hawkins, Ronald M. Gould and Richard A. Paez, again held—unanimously—that the restrictions exceed the president’s statutory authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act. In doing so, they mostly upheld an injunction issued by the same Hawaii judge who blocked the March executive order.
This Third Travel Order, unveiled as a presidential proclamation in September, prohibits entry of nationals—to varying degrees—from Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia, North Korea and Venezuela. Before it went into effect, district judges in Hawaii and Maryland blocked enforcement.
Crucially, this ruling has no immediate practical effect.
As Legal Insurrection reported on December 4, the Supreme Court has stayed the Hawaii and Maryland injunctions until the Justices either refuse to hear an appeal or rule against the government on the merits. The panel itself noted, “In light of the Supreme Court’s order staying this injunction pending ‘disposition of the Government’s petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is sought,’ we stay our decision today pending Supreme Court review.” As such, the travel order will, for the time being, continue to be enforced with respect to all nationals of the targeted countries.
Summarizing its argument, the panel wrote:

We conclude that the President’s issuance of the Proclamation once again exceeds the scope of his delegated authority. The Government’s interpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) not only upends the carefully crafted immigration scheme Congress has embodied in the INA, but it deviates from the text of the statute, legislative history, and prior executive practice as well. Further, the President did not satisfy the critical prerequisite Congress attached to his suspension authority: Before blocking entry, he must first make a legally sufficient finding that the entry of the specified individuals would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” The Proclamation once again conflicts with the INA’s prohibition on nationality-based discrimination in the issuance of immigrant visas. Lastly, the President is without a separate source of constitutional authority to issue the Proclamation.

This argument is difficult to square with the actual statutory language. For example, Congress did not “attach” a “critical prerequisite to [the president’s] suspension authority” by requiring him to make a “legally sufficient finding that the entry of the specified individuals would be ‘detrimental to the interests of the United States.'” The text of the statute says that

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

Nada about a “legally sufficient” finding. It’s not even clear what a “legally sufficient” finding would be. The Proclamation explains the national security threat posed by each individual country.
The judges also obliquely likened Trump’s travel orders to FDR’s internment of Japanese-Americans. “In assessing the public interest, we are reminded of Justice Murphy’s wise words: ‘All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land.’ It cannot be in the public interest that a portion of this country be made to live in fear,” they wrote quoting a dissenting opinion from Korematsu. It is unclear why “a portion of this country” would “live in fear” if immigration from six countries in the Middle East were paused. It’s also unclear what that has to do with the president’s statutory authority under the INA.
We’re now just back to where we started. The government will appeal to the Supreme Court, which will likely agree to hear the case.
The Fourth Circuit is expected to issue a ruling soon on the Travel Order.
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Hawaii v. Trump – 9th Circuit Decision Affirming Injunction 12-22-2017 by Legal Insurrection on Scribd

 https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/9th-circuit-rules-against-trump-travel-order-no-3/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

Ten “conspiracies” that became FACT in 2017… conspiracy analysts proven correct yet again

The term “conspiracy theorist” was created by the CIA as a derogatory term to limit the so-called “Overton window” of allowable debate. When the establishment wants to shut down all discussion of a specific topic — say, the 9/11 WTC 7 building planned demolition, or more recently the Mandalay Bay mass shooting in Vegas that was obviously carried out by multiple shooters — they simply slap the “conspiracy theory” label on it.

Ordinary people, driven by social conformity and the fear of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” then flee the subject. Mission accomplished.
Except there’s a problem for the status quo: More and more “conspiracy theories” are being outed as FACTS. Matt Agorist from The Free Thought Project has put together a list of 10 former “conspiracies” that have all been proven to be factually true in the last year. I’ve reprinted the full list below. Be sure to read Conspiracy.news for the latest updates on real conspiracies now being proven true, such as the fact that Barack Obama protected Hezbollah drug runners in order to appease Iran while handing them the money to build nuclear weapons.

1. Hollywood and the political elite have been exposed for their rampant and horrifying sex abuse against men, women, and children alike

Just last year, as good people tried to point out that although Pizzagate may not have taken place in some restaurant in DC, the idea of sex abuse among the elite was no laughing matter. However, anyone who mentioned sex abuse among the elite was scoffed at and ridiculed by those in the mainstream.
This ridicule was in spite of the fact that the former speaker of the house admitted to raping multiple little boys and was sentenced to prison last year. This ridicule was also in spite of the fact that whistleblowers have been shouting from the mountain tops about the rampant abuse—for decades—only to have their cries fall on deaf ears.
This year, however, it was different. With Harvey Weinstein as the catalyst, former victims came forward and began publicly naming their abusers and even getting the police involved. The American people also learned that their ostensible representation in D.C. was spending millions to silence the victims of their apparent uncontrollable sex abuse.
No longer will companies like Disney be able to hire convicted pedophiles as the world looks the other way—nor will sicko politicians be allowed the immunity to rape and pillage as they see fit. 2017 will be known as the year the victims fought back.

2. Weather modification just jumped from “chemtrail” conspiracy theory into mainstream reality, as Congress began holding hearings on geoengineering

Geoengineering is finally going mainstream as the U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Energy Hearing, in November, held the first House hearing about the science that until now has generally been considered a “conspiracy theory” and relegated to the fringe’s of society by the Praetorian Guard mainstream media — controlled by the ruling power-elite oligarchy.
The controversial subject of climate engineering or weather modification – which was popularized, and oversimplified with the term “chem-trails” – is stepping from the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny for the first time.
The congressional hearing, titled “Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology,” was attended by members of the House committees as well as representatives of think tanks, academics, and researcher scientists to discuss the future of geoengineering research.
During the first hearing, the potential need to set up a regulatory structure within which experiments would be allowed, at a set scale, was discussed. Now, those who deny the fact that government is involved in geoengineering will be the conspiracy theorists.

3. 20,000 documents were released in August proving the EPA conspired with chemical companies to unleash deadly toxic substances on the public

Highly toxic chemical compounds made by Dow, Monsanto, DuPont and other companies were being developed and marketed in ever greater quantities, and federal agencies were rubber-stamping their approval based on fraudulent safety testing.
The Poison Papers reveal that, instead of acting to protect the public and reassess the chemicals, EPA held a secret meeting with chemical companies to assure them that their products would continue being sold.
The secret meeting between EPA and chemical companies is the most poignant example of a long history of collusion at the expense of human and environmental health.

4. US media giant Sally Quinn admitted she practiced the occult to murder people—and she was praised for it

Although her husband Ben Bradlee died in 2014—who was good friends with former President John F. Kennedy, and executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991—Quinn has since taken the time to give insight into the glamorous life lived by the media’s royal couple. Some of the practices she describes are ones that would normally be written off as crazy conspiracy theories by outlets such as their beloved Washington Post.
However, WaPost actually praised it.
In her latest publication titled, “Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir,” Quinn reveals that she believes she has killed at least three people in her lifetime. She claims that while she did not harm anyone physically, she believes strongly in the occult, and has used hexes on people who got on her bad side.
Seriously.

5. Mainstream media finally admitted the United States has been aiding terrorists in Syria

In November, the BBC released a bombshell report confirming that the US and Syrian Defense Forces knowingly aided thousands of ISIS fighters.
According to the bombshell BBC report:

The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of Islamic State fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city. A convoy included some of IS’s most notorious members and – despite reassurances – dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.

Then in December, an investigation concluded that 97 percent of the weapons used by the Islamic State were supplied illegally by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
The weapons and ammunition were originally purchased by the United States and Saudi Arabia and then distributed to rebel groups. While the U.S. claimed to be fighting ISIS, the fact is that ISIS was one of the Syrian rebel groups opposing Assad, and as the report noted, nearly all of their weapons came from those purchased by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

6. The Federal Reserve bank was exposed in June to be a working arm of US Intelligence

Confidential accounts within the Federal Reserve have been used by the U.S. Treasury and other departments “several times a year to analyze the asset holdings of the central banks of Russia, China, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Libya and others,” according to a report from Reuters that cites more than a dozen current and former senior U.S. officials.

“The U.S. central bank keeps a tight lid on information contained in these accounts. But according to the officials interviewed by Reuters, U.S. authorities regularly use a ‘need to know’ confidentiality exception in the Fed’s service contracts with foreign central banks.”

7. Declassified document proved the conspiracy that the CIA planned and carried out the 1953 Iranian Coup

The newly declassified documents, titled “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954,” provide a notable difference from the State Department’s 1989 version of the coup, which left out any involvement from American and British intelligence.
A memorandum from Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles to President Eisenhower, dated March 1, 1953, serves as a reminder that internally, “the elimination of Mossadeq by assassination or otherwise,” was used as a method in repairing ties with Iran, restoring oil negotiations, and stopping a “Communist takeover.”

8. Billionaire elitists openly admit to Ingesting the blood of young children 

Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it.
As Vanity Fair reports, Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists—like Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and adviser to Donald Trump.

9. CIA drug trafficking conspiracy was blown wide open in an explosive History Channel series

A&E Networks addressed the government’s role in the drug war in a four-part documentary series on the History Channel, titled, “America’s War on Drugs.”
“America’s War on Drugs” is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied itself with the mafia and foreign drug traffickers. In exchange for support against foreign enemies, the groups were allowed to grow their drug trade in the United States.

10. Mainstream science showed Vitamin C’s ability to fight cancer

According to researchers from the University of Iowa, ascorbate, derived from Vitamin C, was successfully observed increasing hydrogen peroxide levels in cancer cells, which in turn had a toxic result with cancer cells, killing the cancer cells in lab rats yet not damaging normal cells in the process. The researchers concluded that Vitamin C might, indeed, be lethal to some cancers. 
According to the scientists, “These results indicate that an in vivo measurement of catalase activity in tumors may predict which cancers will respond to pharmacological ascorbate therapy.” Once the exact cancers are identified, which are killed by vitamin C, the researchers concluded, “this information can also be used in finding combination therapies that may increase the efficacy of treatment for those tumors with higher catalase activities.” In other words, extremely high doses of the Vitamin C derivative may potentially be added to conventional cancer therapies to help kill more cancer cells.
In 2017, the world has learned that truth is indeed stranger than fiction as the light continues to shine into the darkness. With all the proven conspiracies in 2017, we can’t help but remain optimistic for 2018 to become the year the world begins to wake up.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

 https://www.newstarget.com/2017-12-21-ten-conspiracies-that-became-fact-in-2017-conspiracy-analysts-proven-correct.html

Hours After Blowing Whistle on Alleged Deep State Plot to Blow Up Federal Building, Black Ops Contractor Injured in Car Accident

Hours After Blowing Whistle on Alleged Deep State Plot to Blow Up Federal Building, Black Ops Contractor Injured in Car Accident  December 22, 2017

https://truepundit.com/hours-blowing-whistle-alleged-deep-state-plot-blow-federal-building-black-ops-contractor-injured-car-accident/
Former independent Black Ops Contractor Cody Snodgres recently took to the airwaves to incredibly allege he was offered $1 million from the CIA to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City prior to the deadly explosion in the 1990s.
Last night Snodgres was involved in a serious car accident, according to reports.
Snodgres said he waited for Hillary Clinton to be removed from U.S. politics before coming forward with the allegations.

Snodgres left an audio message after the crash with some details. Listen Here.
This story is Developing.

Jeff & Cody Snodgres - BLOCKBUSTER! - Deep Black Ops Contractor Exposes OKC! and So Much More Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euw7Lh6XrxM

Jeff & Cody Snodgres -  Waco, Janet Reno, The Clintons, Benghazi & More Part 2https://youtu.be/90slycuIG4w

 

White Hats Report#61

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land,
The swamp creatures were worried, cause a line has been drawn in the sand.
The indictments were sealed and sent to the courts,
Plans being made to cut off escape and cancel passports.

The people were all nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of freedom danced in their heads.
Trump in the White House and Kelly guarding the gate,
History in the making with WAR declared on the deep state.

When out on the lawn at Langley there arose such a clatter,
The media tried to ignore it but Patriots know what’s the matter.
The shadow government being invaded by the Marines,
Bound and determined to restore the Republic by any means.

Documents and computers and hard drives, too,
Evidence and proof of treason collected and the JFK coup.
Time is counting down on these long time traitors,
Draining the swamp of these dangerous gators.

While the media and their lapdogs try to cover it up,
We’re finding out the “Russian collusion” was just a setup.
Not surprising given the Clinton crime family’s treason,
The depth and breadth of the deception is beyond reason.

As Santa checks his naughty and nice list for the holiday season,
The overriding theme of the naughty list is high treason.
At the top of the list, it’s replete with ex-Presidents,
Soon, they will be calling prison their new residence.

Followed closely by the cabal infested DOJ and FBI,
No longer will the country and Trump turn a blind eye.
Their dastardly deeds are being exposed,
The will of the people will soon be imposed.

The witch hunt continues, looking for Russian collusion,
The people know by now, it’s all an illusion.
The only collusion that’s being exposed is by the deep state,
Ironically, the people have woken up and will no longer take the bait.

The cabal controlled media bears much of the blame,
They’ve become so desperate, they’re all without shame.
Continuing to push their insane fake news narrative,
Charging them as conspirators has become imperative.

Further west can be found more names on the list,
Realizing predators and pedophiles are in our midst.
Yes, Hollywood is the target of much attention,
Their undoing is by their own invention.

As Santa closed the book, a tear rolled down his cheek,
He knew this is a time not for the timid or weak.
The US should be the strongest on the block,
But under Bush, Clinton and Soetoro has become a laughingstock.

He wiped the tear and looked up to speak,
He knew his words must be strong and not weak.
Now was the time to invoke his reach,
He gathered himself and began his speech.

“We must protect our children throughout the land,
If we fail them that, then we’ve had a hand.
In the despicable destruction of our own nation,
For its time we find our higher vibration.

And gather together in person and online,
To rid this scourge and begin to shine.
The light on the traitors and pedophiles, too,
The responsibility to take back our Republic is all on you.”

He paused for a moment and gave it some thought,
And recalled with a growl what the predators have wrought.
A nation deceived and a world denied,
It’s time to stand tall for those who have died.

“Gather your children and friends all around,
In your states, cities and all over town.
Unite together and always stand strong,
The abuse and destruction has gone on for too long.

Save your children and your souls before it’s too late,
There’s still a chance this world can be great.”
With that he rose and climbed into his sleigh,
He hoped the citizens would soon find a way.

To rid themselves of the pestilence, fraud and pain,
And in so doing they would have much to gain.
He had packages to deliver and good will to spread,
As he prompted the reindeer and up went the sled.

He smiled and gave all a big wave as he rose out of sight,
“A Merry Christmas to ALL and to all a good night.”

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a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN AT CHRISTMAS

REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN

EXTENDING OUR THANKS AND 

APPRECIATION TO THEIR FAMILIES 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Ex-FBI Assistant Director: Patriots Within The FBI Will Soon Step Forward And Expose The "Cabal"

Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom spoke to FBN's Stewart Varney to discuss recent bombshells concerning the FBI, whose top brass has been conducting a highly politicized witch-hunt of President Trump on behalf of the anti-Trump establishment, while protecting then-candidate Hillary Clinton from criminal charges related to her email investigation, Clinton Foundation involvement in pay-for-play schemes, including a farcical probe of the Uranium One scandal.

James Kallstrom, Fmr FBI Asst Director
When asked about morale at the FBI towards the end of the interview, Kallstrom dropped a very interesting breadcrumb:

Varney: What's morale like in the FBI now?

Kallstrom: It's not good, but I think recent events that I'm aware of are going to improve that because there's going to be actually something that's going to happen, in my view.

Varney: You going to leave us on that?

Kallstrom: Well I think there's a lot of patriots that have had it up to here with what's going on, and they're going to step forward and tell people what the shenanigans have been. How they shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation, how other things were done that are so anti-what the FBI and the United States and this country is about.

Kallstrom also said he thinks there are people in the Justice department who may face obstruction charges:

"Now we come to this focus on the fifth estate that I've talked about, that includes multiplicities of people. But now we know it also includes a bunch of sycophants in the FBI - they were part of the Comey team, apparently. And people in Justice also that I believe have exposure now for obstruction of justice." 

Regarding Peter Strzok's infamous "insurance" text to his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page, he said "People tweet each other and they send text messages, but they don't plan. The FBI is not in the business of planning to destroy a President of the United States," adding "I think they were way above their capability. This guy thinks he's the lone ranger, this Peter Strzok."

If that's his thinking, and they were obviously in Andy's office plotting some kind of thing. And I think that some kind of thing is what we're seeing right now. And we've seen for the last, what, ever since he's been elected we've seen this facade and this phony challenge to Trump about collusion and Russia, which nothing could be further from the truth. All the collusion is with the Democrats, and it's very very depressing to be FBI agents. 99 percent are hard working patriotic guys and girls that come to work for the good of the country.

And you've got this cabal of people. You've got this deputy director (McCabe) who should have been out a long time ago for his actions. And then you’ve got Peter Strzok and who knows how many others. -James Kallstrom

Kallstrom then brought up a question that's on a lot of minds currently; just what exactly is Jeff Sessions doing right now?
"I think finally we're going to get to the end of this, but the big mystery here is the Justice Department. What is the Justice Department doing? What is the Attorney General of the United States doing? You know, it's too bad for Donald Trump... ...It's a mystery to me why he hasn't called over to the Attorney General and told the AG "give the oversight committees the documents they're looking for." Why is the Trump Justice Department not complying with subpoenas?"

Varney: I want to summarize this. I want to be very clear about it. I have said in my opinion there is a cabal active within the FBI and the Justice Department.

Kallstrom: Yes

Varney: Which hates trump, which protected Hillary Clinton and tried to bring down Donald Trump. And that is an extraordinary story of interference in an American presidential election.

Kallstrom: yes, yes, yes. It is. Without question that's what it was. Just like the whole "so-called" Clinton investigation, it was phony from the beginning; No grand jury, giving witnesses immunity, putting all the subjects in one room at the same time. I mean it's crazy. It's nuts what they did. 

Watch the clip below: 

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FBI Official WARNS “Patriots” to EXPOSE Clinton Foundation Probe

September to December resignations from Q

Resignations from Sept to Dec in chronological order: 

Equifax CEO Richard Smith Sep. 26, 2017

Dentsply Sirona Inc CEO Jeffrey T. Slovin Oct. 2, 2017

Greater Naples CEO Paul Thein Oct. 4, 2017

Pepsico CEO D Shivakumar Oct. 9, 2017

Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun Oct. 12, 2017

Oman Air CEO Paul Gregorowitsch Oct. 16, 2017

ASCENDAS Funds Management CEO Chia Nam Toon Oct. 20, 2017

Hudson's Bay CEO Gerald Storch Oct. 20, 2017

Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast Region CEO David Brady Oct. 28, 2017

BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth Oct. 29, 2017

Podesta Group founder Tony Podesta Oct. 30, 2017

Menninger Clinic CEO Dr. C. Edward Coffey Oct. 31, 2017

Renaissance Technologies CEO Robert Mercer Nov. 2, 2017

Ardent Leisure CEO Simon Kelly Nov. 7, 2017

El Al CEO David Maimon Nov. 8, 2017

Altice CEO Michel Combes Nov. 9, 2017

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane CEO Themba Dlamini Nov. 14, 2017

James Cancer Hospital CEO Michael Caligiuri Nov. 16, 2017

PR Electric Power Authority CEO Ricardo L. Ramos Nov. 17, 2017

Ellies CEO Wayne Samson Nov. 21, 2017

Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman Nov. 22, 2017

Oi SA CEO Marco Schroeder Nov. 24, 2017

Tumblr CEO David Karp Nov. 27, 2017

London Stock Exchange CEO Xavier Rolet Nov. 28, 2017

Bruce Telecom CEO Bart Cameron Nov. 29, 2017

TravelCenters of America LLC CEO Thomas O'Brien Nov. 30, 2017

Tricentennial Commission CEO Edward Benavides Nov. 30, 2017

City Light CEO Larry Weis Dec. 4, 2017

Steinhoff's R100bn CEO Markus Jooste Dec. 5, 2017

Uchumi Supermarkets CEO Julius Kipng'etich Dec. 6, 2017

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool Dec. 8, 2017

Deutsche Boerse CEO Carsten Kengeter Dec. 8, 2017

Nation Media Group CEO Joe Muganda Dec. 11, 2017

Cheil Worldwide CEO Daiki Lim Dec. 11, 2017

Fenway Health CEO Dr. Stephen L. Boswell Dec. 11, 2017

Diebold/Nixdorf CEO Andy Mattes Dec. 14, 2017

Diebold/Nixdorf CEO Andy Mattes Dec. 14, 2017

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Dec. 15, 2017

Vast Resources CEO Roy Pitchford Dec. 18, 2017

Spackman Entertainment Group CEO Charles Spackman Dec. 18, 2017

ESPN President John Skipper Dec. 18, 2017

Innogy CEO Peter Terium Dec. 20, 2017

Papa John CEO John Schnatter Dec. 22, 2017

NYPD Police Chief Carlos Gomez retires Dec. 22, 2017

Alphabet (GOOGLE) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Dec. 22, 2017

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12.22 - Q/Executive Order/Uranium One/FBI/Pedogate News & More!

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Trump's 81 Achievements, So Far

CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT TRUMP!  Trump's 81 Achievements, So Far

• 12/21/2017
• Washington Examiner
• Paul Bedard

With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.

And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a tax.

According to the White House, the 81 accomplishments are in 12 major categories and include well over 100 other minor achievements.

The unofficial list helps to counter the impression in the mainstream media and among congressional Democrats that outside the approval of Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch and passage of the tax reform bill little was done.

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Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption

Law & Justice

Issued on: December 21, 2017

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328) (the “Act”), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) (INA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.

I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

I hereby determine and order:
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

(i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order;

(ii) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:

(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse;

(B) to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in:

(1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or

(2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption;

(C) to be or have been a leader or official of:

(1) an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or

(2) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order as a result of activities related to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or

(D) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section; and

(iii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:

(A) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of:

(1) any activity described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section that is conducted by a foreign person;

(2) any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(3) any entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section, where the activity is conducted by a foreign person;

(B) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(C) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (iii)(A) or (B) of this section.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the effective date of this order.

Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and the entry of such persons into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is hereby suspended. Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).

Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.

Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 include:
(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order:
(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity;
(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and
(c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to this order.

Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA and the Act as may be necessary to implement this order and section 1263(a) of the Act with respect to the determinations provided for therein. The Secretary of the Treasury may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States. All agencies shall take all appropriate measures within their authority to implement this order.

Sec. 9. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA, the INA, and the Act as may be necessary to carry out section 2 of this order and, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the reporting requirement in section 1264(a) of the Act with respect to the reports provided for in section 1264(b)(2) of that Act. The Secretary of State may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States consistent with applicable law.

Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, is hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of a person listed in the Annex to this order, and to take necessary action to give effect to that determination.

Sec. 11. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).
Sec. 12. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, December 21, 2017.

Sec. 13. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 20, 2017.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0243

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20171221.aspx
Source:

 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/

Minneapolis: Woman Stabbed 14 times By Muslim Migrant

This attack has not been covered at all by the Minneapolis newspapers, and other coverage of it doesn’t mention the identity of the attacker.  This report doesn’t either in the print version.

Only in the video do we learn that the attacker was a “Somali man.”
WAOW - Newsline 9, Wausau News, Weather, Sports

Clearly, the enemedia in Minneapolis don’t want to talk about this incident and others like it for fear that some people in Minneapolis might start to get the idea that inundating the area with Muslim migrants wasn’t such a good idea.

These media outlets need to be thoroughly repudiated and shut off.

This slanted coverage of the most important story of our time is unacceptable, and it leads to attacks like this from Muslim migrants who are emboldened, knowing that no serious effort will be made to stop them, and victims who are careless because they don’t realize there is a threat. This has to stop.

“Woman Stabbed 14 Times Speaks About Ordeal,” KSTP, December 20, 2017:

A Minneapolis woman who was stabbed 14 times while walking to her Uptown home said she is doing better and is focused on helping police catch her attacker.

Twenty-six-year-old Morgan Evenson said she was attacked Dec. 13 while walking home from her job at the Apple store on Hennepin Avenue.

Evenson told KSTP she struggled with her attacker at the corner of 32nd Street and Fremont Avenue and she considers herself lucky to be alive.

“It was horrifying, because I could feel something that felt like it was stinging me, but it was him stabbing me,” she said. “Doctor’s told me I had 14 wounds that needed stitches, including a lacerated kidney.”…

“I cannot imagine anyone attacking someone like that and as a woman it is especially frightening, but I knew I had to fight back and I want him to know I am OK and that he will be caught,” Evenson said.

Evenson said she is extremely grateful to neighbors and passersby who heard her screaming and came to her aid which, she said, ultimately led to her attacker running away….

A GoFundMe page has been established in Evenson’s name.

Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller's commitment to freedom from jihad and Shariah shines forth in her books

 https://freedomoutpost.com/minneapolis-woman-stabbed-14-times-muslim-migrant-local-media-ignore-attack/

Special Treat for the Video-Minded

By Anna Von Reitz

More goodies from the Lighthouse Law Club--but BEFORE you all watch this most enlightening video, write this additional piece of information on your wrist for ready reference and think about it very seriously:  ALMOST ALL THE COURTS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE "FEDERAL".  

They are either outright and obvious federal courts in the sense of US District Courts, or they are federated "state" and "county" courts---- federal courts being run "as" state and county courts.  

How is this possible?  As I have said before and again, in the 1960's the states and counties then-operating were seduced by the lure of federal kick-backs euphemistically known as "Federal Revenue Sharing" and "Federal Block Grants" into incorporating themselves as federal corporations.  

So even though it is called "The State of Wyoming Superior Court" or "The Clark County Court" what you are really dealing with is a federal franchise operation, just like a Burger King or Dairy Queen franchise, presided over by a District of Columbia Municipality Judge or Magistrate.   The correct description of all these courts is: federal courts, federated state court, and federated county courts, because they are all federal corporation franchise operations and they are all operating under international law of the sea, not law of the land at all.  

You have been purposefully mis-identified and mis-characterized in the public records as a federal citizen and federal citizens have no constitutional rights or guarantees.  In the same way, your courts have been usurped upon and foreign international law courts have been substituted for the land jurisdiction courts and public law you are owed.  

Keeping that additional Fat Fact in mind, please find or make the time to watch this video from the Lighthouse Law Club:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZpPorxbwc

So when Mark Emery describes the situation with the "Federal Courts" operating lawlessly and the Congress expediting this circumstance--- bear in mind that there is no real difference between the explicitly named federal courts and the so-called "State of________" and "County of__________" Courts.  

They are all "federal" because they took the bait and incorporated themselves as federal franchise corporations back in the 1960's. 

Are there any courts left in America?  Yes, a few.  The actual State Courts have a different name and are found established under the Session Laws of each state.  

Please note, I am a Justice for "The Alaska State Superior Court", not "The State of Alaska Superior Court".   I have also served as a Judge for the Postal District Court which operates the international land jurisdiction owed to Alaska.  

At this point, ignorance and sloth had nearly finished off the state republics, when a few Americans got busy and stood up. We delved through the lies and deceits used to disinherit and mis-characterize us as federal citizens.  We developed the ways and means to come back home to the land of our birth and reclaim our names and estates.  We re-populated our lawful land jurisdiction courts and served as Justices of the Peace and as Judges operating the Postal District Courts.  

Americans, wake up.  The Bar Associations and the members of Congress and some portions of the military services have conspired against you and against your country.  They have stolen you blind and they continue to pillage and plunder public trusts that they have established "in your NAME" without your knowledge or consent.  

They continue to deprive you of Due Process in foreign courts that merely substitute themselves for the courts you are owed.  

What's the answer?  Get up on your hind feet, educate yourselves, correct the falsified public documents, organize your unincorporated County Jural Assemblies and get this show on the road.  Elect your own justices of the peace to run your unincorporated state and county courts. Elect your own judges to run your international land jurisdiction courts known as Postal District Courts.  

Remember that this is a country where self-governance is not only a right, but a responsibility.  If you do not govern yourselves, you are opening your country and your backdoor to an endless parade of grafters and free-loaders and worse, who will be all too happy to govern you and profit from your ignorance.  

That is in fact what we have going on here, and while it is tempting to blame these crooks and charlatans and they surely bear the bulk of the responsibility for their errors and omissions---- the missing element needed to clean this mess up, is you.

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See this article and over 800 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com

the Military Tree at the Vice President's Residence

Mrs. Pence Talks About the Military Tree 

at the Vice President's Residence

Left Blows Gasket Over Passage Of Historic Tax Cut Bill

Reports of multiple companies announcing wage hikes and bonuses for workers hours after bill’s passage

 

Democrats far and wide are melting down over Republican passage of President Trump’s historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, falsely claiming it only benefits the very wealthy and leaves the middle class abandoned.

Leading Democrats like Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have taken to Twitter to complain about the tax cut bill, claiming it does nothing to help the working class when in fact the bill represents the biggest tax overhaul in a generation, with reports of multiple companies already announcing wage hikes and bonuses for employees due to the bill’s passage.

The liberal media and Hollywood appeared equally sullen about middle class tax relief, jobs and wealth coming back into America.

Hours after passage of the tax cuts bill, reports of multiple companies giving bonuses and wage hikes flooded social media.

https://www.infowars.com/left-blows-gasket-over-passage-of-historic-tax-cut-bill/

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It's a Really Bad News!

 It's a Really Bad News! 

Break Down Illuminati 

David Wilcock

Dec 18, 2017

 

 

OFFICIAL: UN Announces Plan To Bring Armed Peacekeepers Into Democrat-Run, Downtown Chicago

Foreign soldiers to occupy American streets?

 

 Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin is in talks with United Nations officials to explore the possibility of putting UN troops on the streets of Chicago to address the city’s horrendous gun violence problem.

 

 

 

  https://www.infowars.com/official-un-announces-plan-to-bring-armed-peacekeepers-into-democrat-run-downtown-chicago/

Judge Declares Mistrial In Bundy Case Over Withheld Evidence

Admonished prosecution for failing to turn over ‘potentially exculpatory’ evidence to the defense

 

A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case against rancher Cliven Bundy and co-defendants accused of leading the 2014 Nevada standoff, admonishing the prosecution for failing to turn over “potentially exculpatory” evidence to the defense.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro also dismissed the jurors after seven weeks of testimony on charges brought against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne in Las Vegas federal court.
“The judge is obligated to disclose all evidence that might be favorable” to defense attorneys, she said.
Read more


https://www.infowars.com/judge-declares-mistrial-in-bundy-case-over-withheld-evidence/

President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting

President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting 

Dec 20 2017

Many positive comments/responses at the YouTube page,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwSALVcUTkE

The U.S. is Not a Democracy. It Never Was.

by Gabriel Rockhill

Photo by Daniel Huizinga | CC BY 2.0

One of the most steadfast beliefs regarding the United States is that it is a democracy. Whenever this conviction waivers slightly, it is almost always to point out detrimental exceptions to core American values or foundational principles. For instance, aspiring critics frequently bemoan a “loss of democracy” due to the election of clownish autocrats, draconian measures on the part of the state, the revelation of extraordinary malfeasance or corruption, deadly foreign interventions, or other such activities that are considered undemocratic exceptions. The same is true for those whose critical framework consists in always juxtaposing the actions of the U.S. government to its founding principles, highlighting the contradiction between the two and clearly placing hope in its potential resolution.

The problem, however, is that there is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves. Such a dismissive reaction is due in large part to what is perhaps the most successful public relations campaign in modern history. What will be seen, however, if this record is soberly and methodically inspected, is that a country founded on elite, colonial rule based on the power of wealth—a plutocratic colonial oligarchy, in short—has succeeded not only in buying the label of “democracy” to market itself to the masses, but in having its citizenry, and many others, so socially and psychologically invested in its nationalist origin myth that they refuse to hear lucid and well-documented arguments to the contrary.

To begin to peel the scales from our eyes, let us outline in the restricted space of this article, five patent reasons why the United States has never been a democracy (a more sustained and developed argument is available in my book, Counter-History of the Present). To begin with, British colonial expansion into the Americas did not occur in the name of the freedom and equality of the general population, or the conferral of power to the people. Those who settled on the shores of the “new world,” with few exceptions, did not respect the fact that it was a very old world indeed, and that a vast indigenous population had been living there for centuries. As soon as Columbus set foot, Europeans began robbing, enslaving and killing the native inhabitants. The trans-Atlantic slave trade commenced almost immediately thereafter, adding a countless number of Africans to the ongoing genocidal assault against the indigenous population. Moreover, it is estimated that over half of the colonists who came to North America from Europe during the colonial period were poor indentured servants, and women were generally trapped in roles of domestic servitude. Rather than the land of the free and equal, then, European colonial expansion to the Americas imposed a land of the colonizer and the colonized, the master and the slave, the rich and the poor, the free and the un-free. The former constituted, moreover, an infinitesimally small minority of the population, whereas the overwhelming majority, meaning “the people,” was subjected to death, slavery, servitude, and unremitting socio-economic oppression.

Second, when the elite colonial ruling class decided to sever ties from their homeland and establish an independent state for themselves, they did not found it as a democracy. On the contrary, they were fervently and explicitly opposed to democracy, like the vast majority of European Enlightenment thinkers. They understood it to be a dangerous and chaotic form of uneducated mob rule. For the so-called “founding fathers,” the masses were not only incapable of ruling, but they were considered a threat to the hierarchical social structures purportedly necessary for good governance. In the words of John Adams, to take but one telling example, if the majority were given real power, they would redistribute wealth and dissolve the “subordination” so necessary for politics. When the eminent members of the landowning class met in 1787 to draw up a constitution, they regularly insisted in their debates on the need to establish a republic that kept at bay vile democracy, which was judged worse than “the filth of the common sewers” by the pro-Federalist editor William Cobbett. The new constitution provided for popular elections only in the House of Representatives, but in most states the right to vote was based on being a property owner, and women, the indigenous and slaves—meaning the overwhelming majority of the population—were simply excluded from the franchise. Senators were elected by state legislators, the President by electors chosen by the state legislators, and the Supreme Court was appointed by the President. It is in this context that Patrick Henry flatly proclaimed the most lucid of judgments: “it is not a democracy.” George Mason further clarified the situation by describing the newly independent country as “a despotic aristocracy.”

When the American republic slowly came to be relabeled as a “democracy,” there were no significant institutional modifications to justify the change in name. In other words, and this is the third point, the use of the term “democracy” to refer to an oligarchic republic simply meant that a different word was being used to describe the same basic phenomenon. This began around the time of “Indian killer” Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign in the 1830s. Presenting himself as a ‘democrat,’ he put forth an image of himself as an average man of the people who was going to put a halt to the long reign of patricians from Virginia and Massachusetts. Slowly but surely, the term “democracy” came to be used as a public relations term to re-brand a plutocratic oligarchy as an electoral regime that serves the interest of the people or demos. Meanwhile, the American holocaust continued unabated, along with chattel slavery, colonial expansion and top-down class warfare.

In spite of certain minor changes over time, the U.S. republic has doggedly preserved its oligarchic structure, and this is readily apparent in the two major selling points of its contemporary “democratic” publicity campaign. The Establishment and its propagandists regularly insist that a structural aristocracy is a “democracy” because the latter is defined by the guarantee of certain fundamental rights (legal definition) and the holding of regular elections (procedural definition). This is, of course, a purely formal, abstract and largely negative understanding of democracy, which says nothing whatsoever about people having real, sustained power over the governing of their lives. However, even this hollow definition dissimulates the extent to which, to begin with, the supposed equality before the law in the United States presupposes an inequality before the law by excluding major sectors of the population: those judged not to have the right to rights, and those considered to have lost their right to rights (Native Americans, African-Americans and women for most of the country’s history, and still today in certain aspects, as well as immigrants, “criminals,” minors, the “clinically insane,” political dissidents, and so forth). Regarding elections, they are run in the United States as long, multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in which the candidates and issues are pre-selected by the corporate and party elite. The general population, the majority of whom do not have the right to vote or decide not to exercise it, are given the “choice”—overseen by an undemocratic electoral college and embedded in a non-proportional representation scheme—regarding which member of the aristocratic elite they would like to have rule over and oppress them for the next four years. “Multivariate analysis indicates,” according to an important recent study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, “that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination […], but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy.”

To take but a final example of the myriad ways in which the U.S. is not, and has never been, a democracy, it is worth highlighting its consistent assault on movements of people power. Since WWII, it has endeavored to overthrow some 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically elected. It has also, according the meticulous calculations by William Blum in America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy, grossly interfered in the elections of at least 30 countries, attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, dropped bombs on more than 30 countries, and attempted to suppress populist movements in 20 countries. The record on the home front is just as brutal. To take but one significant parallel example, there is ample evidence that the FBI has been invested in a covert war against democracy. Beginning at least in the 1960s, and likely continuing up to the present, the Bureau “extended its earlier clandestine operations against the Communist party, committing its resources to undermining the Puerto Rico independence movement, the Socialist Workers party, the civil rights movement, Black nationalist movements, the Ku Klux Klan, segments of the peace movement, the student movement, and the ‘New Left’ in general” (Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom, p. 22-23). Consider, for instance, Judi Bari’s summary of its assault on the Socialist Workers Party: “From 1943-63, the federal civil rights case Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General documents decades of illegal FBI break-ins and 10 million pages of surveillance records. The FBI paid an estimated 1,600 informants $1,680,592 and used 20,000 days of wiretaps to undermine legitimate political organizing.” In the case of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (AIM)—which were both important attempts to mobilize people power to dismantle the structural oppression of white supremacy and top-down class warfare—the FBI not only infiltrated them and launched hideous smear and destabilization campaigns against them, but they assassinated 27 Black Panthers and 69 members of AIM (and subjected countless others to the slow death of incarceration). If it be abroad or on the home front, the American secret police has been extremely proactive in beating down the movements of people rising up, thereby protecting and preserving the main pillars of white supremacist, capitalist aristocracy.

Rather than blindly believing in a golden age of democracy in order to remain at all costs within the gilded cage of an ideology produced specifically for us by the well-paid spin-doctors of a plutocratic oligarchy, we should unlock the gates of history and meticulously scrutinize the founding and evolution of the American imperial republic. This will not only allow us to take leave of its jingoist and self-congratulatory origin myths, but it will also provide us with the opportunity to resuscitate and reactivate so much of what they have sought to obliterate. In particular, there is a radical America just below the surface of these nationalist narratives, an America in which the population autonomously organizes itself in indigenous and ecological activism, black radical resistance, anti-capitalist mobilization, anti-patriarchal struggles, and so forth. It is this America that the corporate republic has sought to eradicate, while simultaneously investing in an expansive public relations campaign to cover over its crimes with the fig leaf of “democracy” (which has sometimes required integrating a few token individuals, who appear to be from below, into the elite ruling class in order to perpetuate the all-powerful myth of meritocracy). If we are astute and perspicacious enough to recognize that the U.S. is undemocratic today, let us not be so indolent or ill-informed that we let ourselves be lulled to sleep by lullabies praising its halcyon past. Indeed, if the United States is not a democracy today, it is in large part due to the fact that it never was one. Far from being a pessimistic conclusion, however, it is precisely by cracking open the hard shell of ideological encasement that we can tap into the radical forces that have been suppressed by it. These forces—not those that have been deployed to destroy them—should be the ultimate source of our pride in the power of the people.

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/13/the-u-s-is-not-a-democracy-it-never-was/