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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

PROFESSOR INVESTIGATED FOR DECLINING TO ADDRESS MALE STUDENT WITH FEMININE PRONOUNS FILES SUIT

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PROFESSOR INVESTIGATED FOR DECLINING TO ADDRESS MALE STUDENT WITH FEMININE PRONOUNS FILES SUIT
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — An Ohio professor who was placed under investigation for declining to address a male student who identifies as female with feminine pronouns has filed suit, stating that he should not be forced to violate his Christian convictions.
Dr. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, says that for many years, he has referred to his students as “mister” or “miss” or “sir” or “ma’am” as a way of teaching his students how to be respectful to each other, especially in environments where there is sharp disagreement over a controversial subject matter.
In January, during his political philosophy class, he responded to a male student’s question with a “Yes, sir,” but was approached by the student after class, who advised that he identifies as female and would prefer to be referred to with feminine pronouns.
According to the legal challenge, Meriwether thought for a moment and then told the student that he was not sure if he could comply with the request. The student consequently became angry and spouted a vulgarity in close proximity to Meriwether’s face. He allegedly threatened to have the professor fired if he did not refer to him as a woman.
Meriwether reported the incident to university officials, and was instructed by Roberta Milliken, the dean of the university’s college of arts and sciences, to refer to students by their last name only, eliminating any use of pronouns. Meriwether wasn’t sold on the idea, as he thought it felt more like something a football coach would do, as opposed to a philosophy professor.
However, he told Milliken that he would do so in regard to the particular student, while using pronouns for everyone else.
Days later, Milliken approached Meriwether to advise that the student was unhappy with only being called by his last name and had threatened to file a Title IX complaint. Milliken, who originally agreed with Meriwether’s arrangement, told Meriwether that he must refer to the student by his preferred pronoun or he would be in violation of the university’s non-discrimination policy.
Meriwether replied that he would be willing to refer to the student by his desired name, but would not use any titles in front of it, such as “mister” or “miss.” The student went on to complete the class and was given a high grade.
However, in the meantime, Milliken launched an investigation against Meriwether due to the receipt of another complaint from the student. Meriwether outlined in writing that he could not refer to a man as a woman “due to [his] conscience, ethical or religious convictions, or [his] views on free speech.”
He realized that he was faced with two choices: either stop using pronouns for all students and simply refer to them by their first name, or violate his religious beliefs by accommodating the student’s gender identity.
Milliken filed a formal charge against Meriwether, stating that he had created a “hostile environment” because of “the way he addressed” the student. A letter of warning was also placed in Meriwether’s file, and meetings with university leadership to explain his religious convictions were not fruitful.
Therefore, Meriwether has now filed suit against Shawnee State University for not granting him a religious accommodation.
“By punishing and threatening to punish Dr. Meriwether for refusing to communicate a university-mandated ideological message regarding gender identity, defendants have attempted and are attempting to compel Dr. Meriwether’s speech, in violation of his rights under the First Amendment,” the lawsuit reads.
“Defendants’ non-discrimination policies and their enforcement of those policies compel Dr. Meriwether to communicate messages about gender identity that he does not hold, that he does not wish to communicate, and that conflict with (and for him to violate) his religious beliefs,” it states.
Meriwether is seeking an injunction against the enforcement of the university’s non-discrimination policy should he refer to a student by their biological sex.
Read the lawsuit in full here.
According to Sputnik News, university spokesperson Elizabeth Blevins remarked, “We support the freedom of expression by students, faculty, staff, and visitors on our campus—and provide an educational and work environment that is free from discrimination, retaliation, and harassment.”

IRAQ: MORE THAN 200 MASS GRAVES WITH THOUSANDS OF BODIES DISCOVERED; KILLED BY THE ISLAMIC STATE

IRAQ: MORE THAN 200 MASS GRAVES WITH THOUSANDS OF BODIES DISCOVERED
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 More than 200 mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people 
killed by Islamic State have been discovered in northern and western 
Iraq, according to a UN report released on Tuesday, 5 November.
The report by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and UN Human Rights Office documents the existence of 202 mass graves in the governorates of Ninewa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din and Anbar.
The report emphasises that the evidence gathered will be critical in prosecuting Islamic State militants for war crimes committed against civilians but also in helping families to find out what happened to those who have gone missing, said the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).
In support of bereaved families, the report called for a centralised registry of missing persons as well as the creation of a federal Office of Missing Persons.
“Meaningful truth and justice requires the appropriate preservation, excavation and exhumation of mass grave sites and the identification of the remains of the many victims and their return to the families,” the report said.

To bring this about, the report called on the international community for more resources and technical support.
IS invaded Iraq in 2014 and waged a three-year-long campaign of terror against non-Muslims, forcing most of its population, including Christians in the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, to flee for their lives. Thousands of others were tortured or killed.
In March security forces discovered the remains of 40 Christians in a mass grave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. After capturing the city in 2014, IS had warned Christians to “leave or face execution”.
In July, Human Rights Watch called for more support in unearthing several mass graves in and around the city of Raqqa in northern Syria, containing the remains of thousands of bodies of civilians killed by IS, residents killed in airstrikes and of IS militants themselves.


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BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT ELECT BOLSONARO IS SERIOUS ABOUT GUN LAW REFORM

 Brazilian President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro
BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT ELECT BOLSONARO 
IS SERIOUS ABOUT GUN LAW REFORM 
BY DEAN WEINGARTEN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 
Brazil -(Ammoland.com)- Brazilian President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro is showing he is not your typical politician. Bolsonaro has held his political doctrines for decades. For decades, he has been unable to have them implemented because of the power of entrenched leftists in the Brazilian government. One of those deeply held positions is the belief that trusting the people with more power is the ethical thing to do.
Specifically, President-Elect Bolsonaro is willing to trust them to be capable of protecting themselves with their own firearms.
The government of Brazil has taken the opposite tactic for forty years, making firearms harder and harder for Brazilians to legally own and use for self-defense. From South China Morning Post:
In his first television interview since being elected on Sunday, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro said it was time to abandon what he called the “politically correct fallacy” that Brazil would be a safer place if everybody was unarmed.
“It won’t be any better. If there were three or four armed people here now, I’d be certain that some nutter wouldn’t be able to come in through that door and do something bad,” the right-wing populist told his interviewer from Record, a television channel owned by one of his powerful supporters.
In the 30-minute interview, Bolsonaro – whose sons and supporters are often seen sporting clothing or hats celebrating automatic weapons and the National Rifle Association – said he believed gun laws should be made more flexible.
(snip)
Allowing more people to carry weapons and defend themselves with guns would certainly reduce violence, Bolsonaro claimed.
During the last forty years, the Brazilian murder rate has gone up and up and up.  In 1980, Brazil had a murder rate of about 12 per 100,000 people.
Brazil had an official murder rate of 30.8 per 100,000 people in 2017.  Brazil has about eight firearms for every 100 people. The United States has about 122 firearms per 100 people.  The United States has about fifteen times as many firearms per person as Brazil.
The United States has only one-sixth the rate of homicide in Brazil, while it has fifteen times as many guns per person.
The murder rate in both countries is driven by urban, black, young men, primarily organized into gangs.
Fear of crime in Brazil was a significant driver in the 2018 election cycle.
The number of guns in a society does not drive the murder rate. More guns in Brazil will not do more harm.
The lawless in Brazil have plenty of guns. There are not that many violent criminals.  If violent criminals cannot buy guns on the black market, they make them in small shops. Fully automatic submachine guns are one of the simplest repeaters to make. They are a favorite of Brazilian gangs.
Brazilians who refuse to be victims of crime have not been able to effectively fight back or protect themselves. They have had to become criminals if they carry the means to defend their lives.
President-Elect Bolsonaro aims to change that. He aims for a transformation of the relationship between the law-abiding population and the law enforcers. Armed citizens and police are natural allies.  Disarmed Citizens are not the equal of armed police.
Increase trust in the government. Have more citizens become more difficult to victimize.

It could work. It won't hurt.


About Dean Weingarten:Dean Weingarten
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

MARYLAND: LAW ABIDING GUN OWNER KILLED DURING RED FLAG CONFISCATION RAID

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MARYLAND: LAW ABIDING GUN OWNER KILLED DURING RED FLAG CONFISCATION RAID 
BY BOB ADELMANN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 
Gary Willis, a resident of Ferndale, Maryland, was awakened Monday morning at 5:17 a.m. when two officers from Anne Arundel County knocked on his door. A law-abiding gun owner, Willis answered the door “with a gun in his hand,” according to a police department spokesman. They were there to serve him with an “extreme risk protective order” and remove his legally owned firearms.
According to the spokesman, Willis put his firearm down to read the ERPO but then, apparently recognizing that it wasn’t a legal search warrant issued by a judge in accordance with protections guaranteed to him by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but instead was issued by a local judge under Maryland’s newly minted “red flag” law, he retrieved his firearm.
The spokesman said that Willis “became irate.” In the melee that followed, one of the firearms carried either by one of the officers or by Willis went off. One of the officers then pulled his own sidearm and shot Willis dead.
Family members told Capital Gazette reporters that a distant relative had requested the ERPO the day before, due to an “incident” that occurred at his residence. The details of the “incident” remain unclear at this writing, but the backpedaling by the police chief began almost immediately.
Said Anne Arundel County police chief Timothy Altomare:

If you look at this morning’s outcome, it’s tough for us to say, “Well, what did we prevent?” Because we don’t know what we prevented or could’ve prevented.

What would have happened if we didn’t go there at 5 am?
Probably nothing. Because during his many years as a resident at his home in Ferndale nothing untoward happened. His niece, Michele Willis, said “I’m just dumfounded right now. My uncle wouldn’t hurt anybody.”
Chief Altomare announced that since the law became effective on October 1, there have been 19 ERPOs issued in his county, his officers have served nine of them and have seized “around 33 guns” in the process. So successful have the unconstitutional raids been in Anne Arundel County that the department is building a new storage facility specifically to accommodate all the firearms they are expected to confiscate under the new law.
Gun grabbers are delighted with the new laws springing up around the country. Jonas Oransky, deputy director of Everytown for Gun Safety, calls the unconstitutional gun-confiscation laws a “new frontier” in his group’s attack on private ownership of firearms: “We think of this is a new frontier. We don’t have a perfect system in this country, and we can’t stop every act of gun violence. [But these “red flag” laws are] a way for states to take some care and be somewhat nimble when there is a dangerous case.”
The point of the Fourth Amendment (“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.”) is to protect private citizens such as Gary Willis from living in a police state where police can be “nimble” and arrive unannounced at 5:17 in the morning with a piece of paper that says they have the right to take his guns.
The point of the “red flag” laws, however, is to do an end run around that Fourth Amendment. As The New American noted back in March when “red flag” laws started popping up in a number of states in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida: “The ‘red flag’ provisions do not allow the person charged to defend himself or even to know who his accuser might be. Further, he must prove his innocence in order to get his confiscated firearms returned to him. He is “guilty until he proves himself innocent.”
ERPOs lower the standard in the Fourth Amendment — probable cause — to “reasonable cause.” They allow judges to act quickly (in Gary Willis’ case, overnight) before the victim gets wind of what’s coming and can secure legal counsel to defend himself or make other arrangements to protect himself and his property.
Willis isn’t the first citizen to be caught in the “red flag” web, just the first one to die as a result. In Seattle, an agency called the “Crisis Response Squad” has already pre-identified pre-criminals before they committed atrocities and seized their legally owned firearms. On March 1, one of those identified as a “precriminal” didn’t comply with the court order and made the headlines when police entered his residence and forced him to relinquish his weapons.
KOMONews.com covered the incident, informing its readers that the 31-year-old man hadn’t committed a crime but was guilty of “escalating behavior," whatever that means. Some workers at a local restaurant, according to KOMO News, said the defendant “harassed” them while he was carrying a holstered firearm (which is legal there).
KOMO News added that this man’s “precrimes” included a history of police seizing a shotgun from him “in a different incident.” After entering his residence with the so-called warrant (based not on “probable cause” but on the much lower standard of “reasonable cause”), the police not only retrieved a .25-caliber handgun but then entered the residence of one of the man’s family members, where they hoped to find some other firearms belonging to him.
A teenage girl from Pembroke Pines, Florida, was brought to police headquarters and subjected to more than two hours of questioning about her posts on social media. No attorney was present. None was needed. After all, the right to “lawyer up” isn’t allowed under the state's new law. Said Pembroke Pines Police Captain Al Xiques, his “police department will pursue those Risk Protection Orders in accordance with the new law when we determine that it is necessary in order to protect the public’s safety.”
The girl’s attorney is suing to have the new Florida law overturned.
And then there’s the case of Broward County, Florida, Sheriff’s bailiff Franklin Joseph Pinter, age 60, who allegedly made some verbal threats toward other bailiffs and, again allegedly, was seen on the fifth floor of the county courthouse leaning over the railing and pretending to hold a long gun and shooting at people below.
This was all that the judge needed. On Friday, May 25, the sheriff’s office sought the ERPO, which the judge granted that same afternoon. No trial. No defense. No witnesses. No one representing Pinter. In fact, Pinter had no way of knowing about the court order to seize his 67 firearms until deputies showed up at his door.
Where will this end? Repeal isn’t likely, as states, encouraged happily by gun grabbers, are pushing for more “red flag” laws, not fewer. Instead, it will end when a court grows a backbone and declares them unconstitutional. Until then, every citizen legally possessing a firearm in “red flag” states is in danger of having a relative, an acquaintance with whom he has had a disagreement, a disaffected or offended neighbor or co-worker, a mental health “professional,” or as is sometimes the case, the police themselves, petition a judge and obtain an ERPO that enables local police to remove the offending weapons from his possession, by force if necessary.
Resistance, as Gary Willis found out, is not only futile, but fatal.

An Ivy League graduate and former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor to The New American magazine and blogs frequently at LightFromTheRight.com, primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at badelmann@thenewamerican.com.

Related articles:
New Florida Gun-control Bill Contains "Red Flag" Provision
Florida’s "Red-flag" Law Taking Guns Without Due Process
Red Flag Warning: States Confiscating Guns by Ignoring Fourth Amendment
New Oregon Law Green Lights Gun Confiscation in "Emergencies"
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 Gun Gripes #170: "Red Flag Laws"
by IraqVeteran8888
 In this Gripe we discuss the dangers of so called "Red Flag Laws," the consequences and dangers inherent in these unconstitutional laws that completely ignore due process and have been proven to be statistically relevant in states which adopted these laws early on. Stay tuned, much more on the way.
 

"MIGRANT CARAVAN" DWINDLES AS BARBED WIRE GOES UP

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"MIGRANT CARAVAN" DWINDLES 
AS BARBED WIRE GOES UP
BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
 
The “migrant caravan” that began in Honduras in October has finally surged into Mexico City and must reckon whether to head for Texas or California.
But the caravan’s numbers are dwindling, news and official reports say, as even a third caravan crossed into Mexico on Friday, likely with the same goal in mind: Crash the U.S. border and tell (perhaps phony) tales of persecution to get asylum and lawsuits filed by anti-American leftists.
Meanwhile, the troops President Trump dispatched to the border to repel the caravan have been erecting barbed wire.
Mexico City Arrival
The latest from the Associated Press shows that the once-mighty train pushing through Mexico is losing steam, much to the chagrin, undoubtedly, of subversives hoping they can use the migrants to attack the president’s immigration policies in court. Lawyers have already filed a lawsuit on behalf of migrants who have not even arrived.
No longer is the caraven a mass of 14,000 people running over everything in their path, as some estimates had it weeks ago, or even the 7,000 it was before that.
A somewhat smaller contingent landed in Mexico City on Monday, having come from Veracruz on Mexico’s Gulf coast, AP reported. Helpfully, AP once again inadvertently proved that the migrants aren’t running for their lives, as their leftist supporters in the United States insist, but instead are running for jobs.
By afternoon 2,000 or more had arrived at the Jesus Martinez stadium, which has a capacity of about three times that, and eagerly began sifting through donations of clothes, gave themselves sponge baths, lunched on chicken and rice under the shade of tents and picked up thin mattresses to hunker down for the night....
Alba Zoleida Gonzalez, 48, from Valle, Honduras, said she had walked for five hours and hitched a ride on a tractor-trailer with about 150 people. Her calf muscles were aching, but that was a small price to pay for the chance at a life better than the one back home.
“I looked for work, and nothing,” Gonzalez said, adding that her husband had been robbed and had to hand over everything he made selling crabs so his assailants wouldn’t do worse. “And when one does find a little job they kill you for the money,” she said.
The credulous AP reporters even told the story of “Oscar Ulloa, 20, an accountant from Honduras.” Accountants are 20 years old in Honduras?
That question aside, the horde is still 1,775 miles from Tijuana on the border with California, 1,354 miles from the Nogales on the border with Arizona, and a little less than 600 miles from either McAllen or Brownsville, Texas.
Migrants Dropping Out, Barbed Wire Awaits
AP’s reporting shows how much the caravan has diminished.
“Mexico’s Interior Ministry estimated over the weekend that there are more than 5,000 migrants in total currently moving through Mexico,” but “2,793 migrants have applied for refugee status in Mexico in recent weeks and around 500 have asked for assistance to return to their home countries.”
On October 20, CNN reported that 2,000 of the foot-soldiers had dropped out of the jobs march.
An AP report on Saturday unpacked the numbers a little more. It explained that “Mexico is now faced with the unprecedented situation of having three caravans stretched out over 300 miles (500 kilometers) of highways in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, with a total of about 6,000 migrants.”
The first caravan now numbers about 3,000 to 4,000, AP reported, while a second that stormed into Mexico last week has between 1,000 and 1,500. A third caravan, this one from El Salvador, crossed into Mexico on Friday. Apparently, another group of 300 is surging toward Veracruz.
In Mondays dispatch from Mexico City, AP reported that the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras want to know who is behind the caravan movement:
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said that “thousands” of his countrymen have returned to Honduras. Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales went further, calling for an investigation of people who “promote or participate” in the caravan, saying they “should be judged based on international laws.”
That would include, presumably, the leftist open-borders activists aiming at destroying American sovereignty.
However many “migrants” get to the border, it might not be as easy to get across as they think. The president deployed 5,200 troops to the border last week, with the promise of some 15,000 more.
And those there are now have begun stringing concertina wire on the Rio Grande.

YES, UNVETTED ILLEGAL "CARAVANS" THREATEN PUBLIC HEALTH WHILE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL SCREENINGS

YES, UNVETTED ILLEGAL "CARAVANS" THREATEN PUBLIC HEALTH WHILE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SUBJECTED TO MEDICAL SCREENINGS 
BY MICHELLE MALKIN
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 We live in bizarro times. Suddenly, it is controversial to state obvious, neon-bright truths. This week, it has become newsworthy to observe that illegal border-crossers who circumvent required medical screenings are a threat to America's public health and safety.
Just look at these hyperventilating headlines and tweets.
From Newsweek, which is supposed to, you know, report actual news of the week: "'We don't know what people have': Laura Ingraham calls migrant caravan a health issue."
And from The Daily Beast: "Fox & Friends Host Brian Kilmeade Fears 'Diseases' Brought By Migrant Caravan."
This is not "news." It's propaganda recycled and regurgitated by lazy political operatives masquerading as journalists. At least the Newsweek writer gave credit to his zealous hitmen sources: "Ingraham's comments," he dutifully wrote, "were first highlighted by Media Matters for America."
MMfA is a militant left-wing oppo research outfit funded by progressive billionaire George Soros. Somehow, not-really-Newsweek forgot to mention this fact. (Alas, mentioning Soros subsidies has also become a forbidden act this week, but that's another story.) The determined intent of these "news" pieces is not to inform readers but to inflame them with the dog-whistle assumption that conservatives, Fox personalities and ordinary Americans who worry about diseases from immigration are de facto racists.
On cue, tennis star and celebrity leftist Martina Navratilova barked at Fox News' Kilmeade on Twitter: "YOU ARE THE DISEASE! the migrants are not the problem, Trump and his sycophants, like you, are the problem. Stop spewing fear and prejudice."
Comedian John Henson tweeted: "Brian Kilmeade is spreading the disease of intolerance every single day..."
And former Clinton press flack-turned CNN hack Joe Lockhart wrote: "This is the disease Fox News spreads every day. They are complicit with Trump in trying to change the character of our country."
Newsflash, fake newsers: It's neither racist nor xenophobic nor hateful to discuss the impact of unfettered mass immigration and unvetted caravans of illegal border-crossers on our public health.
My parents, legal immigrants from the Philippines, were screened for a panoply of communicable and infectious diseases.
My husband's great-great grandparents and their relatives from Ukraine underwent thorough medical and physical exams at Ellis Island immediately after disembarking from their arduous transatlantic journeys. A team of doctors checked for everything from eye disease and muscle weakness to heart conditions, ringworm and mental deficiencies. Those who failed were rejected and ejected. No appeals, no apologies, no amnesty.
I find it especially bizarre that some of the same outspoken, big government advocates for vaccinating every American citizen, young or old, against every possible condition, from the flu to chickenpox to HPV, are the same types now howling over the commonsense idea that we should protect ourselves from foreign diseases.
It wasn't Trump's idea to build a wall against microscopic invaders.
The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates medical screening exams for legal immigrants and refugees from around the world. The tests are performed by authorized physicians in either the applicants' countries of origin or in the United States. The process includes "a physical examination, mental health evaluation, syphilis serologic testing... and chest radiography followed by acid-fast bacillus smears and sputum cultures if the chest radiograph is consistent with tuberculosis (TB)."
Legal immigrants and refugees must provide mandatory proof of vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcus, chicken pox, pneumonia and seasonal flu.
Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control, not Fox News or the Trump White House or any other evil conservatives, reports that "most experts agree that testing for TB, hepatitis B, and HIV should be performed for most new arrivals to the United States. Clinicians should also make a habit of ensuring that this screening has been done for every new non-US-born patient they see, regardless of time since the person's arrival."
Actual public health experts across the Southwest have reported rises in drug-resistant TB and dengue fever. In June, Australian public health researchers reported that "scabies, long considered a disease of the past in the developed world, is making its way back." The scientists pointed to mass global migration as a leading factor, noting scabies outbreaks among refugees to the European Union and along America's southern border.
And in Germany, federal epidemiologists reported that since opening the floodgates to migrants in 2015, data show "increased incidences in Germany of adenoviral conjunctivitis, botulism, chicken pox, cholera, cryptosporidiosis, dengue fever, echinococcosis, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, giardiasis, haemophilus influenza, Hantavirus, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, HIV/AIDS, leprosy, louse-borne relapsing fever, malaria, measles, meningococcal disease, meningoencephalitis, mumps, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhus and whooping cough."
It's simply insane to argue we should turn a blind eye to the health status of law-breaking aliens. And it's treachery, yes, treachery, for so-called journalists to use their platforms to blithely smear those who dare to question open borders orthodoxy or report the highly inconvenient facts.

ROMAN CATHOLICS WORLDWIDE PRAYING IN CEMETERIES TO FREE SOULS FROM "PURGATORY" NOVEMBER 1-8

 "ALL SOULS OCTAVE"
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ROMAN CATHOLICS WORLDWIDE PRAYING IN CEMETERIES TO FREE SOULS FROM "PURGATORY" NOVEMBER 1-8
BY HEATHER CLARK
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As has been the custom for the past 50 years, Roman Catholics worldwide who pray at a cemetery between Nov. 1-8—and follow other requirements—are being offered a plenary indulgence to free their loved one from Purgatory and send their soul to Heaven. The practice has been said to be unbiblical for a number of reasons.
“Purgatory is a travesty on the justice of God and a disgraceful fabrication that robs Christ Jesus of His glory and honor,” Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries in Plano, Texas told Christian News Network. “He alone satisfied divine justice, once and for all, by the perfect and finished sacrifice of Himself.”
“The fatal deception of Purgatory blinds Catholics from the glorious gospel of grace,” he said. “It is one of Satan’s many lies that keep his captives from knowing and trusting the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. It is Christ alone who will present us ‘faultless before the presence of His glory’ (Jude 24).”
THE ‘ALL SOULS OCTAVE’ 
“We can wield unimaginable power for the souls in purgatory during the week of All Souls Day, from Nov. 1-8,” wrote author Patti Armstrong in an article entitled “How to Help Free the Souls in Purgatory,” published by the National Catholic Register on Nov. 2. “If we visit a cemetery and pray for a soul in purgatory, they a can be released by us; one on every one of those days.”
Nov. 1 marked All Saints Day in the Roman Catholic Church, followed by All Souls Day, which began an octave in which adherents of the religion are offered—under certain requirements—a plenary, or complete, indulgence for a deceased loved one or friend. On all other days of the year, the indulgence is only partial.
While indulgences were especially common during the days of Reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), who strongly rebuked the practice, the November offering is a more recent declaration, issued by the Vatican under the leadership of Paul VI on June 29, 1968.
“An indulgence, applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, is granted to the faithful who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed. The indulgence is partial on any day except from the 1st to the 8th of November; on those days it is plenary,” the “Regulations on Indulgences” reads.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other Catholic writings, Roman Catholics believe that there are two types of sin: grave sins, or willful violations of the law of God that send one to Hell, and venial sins, those that are more minor and would not jeopardize a person’s salvation.
Catholic teachings also state that while a person may be forgiven of the guilt of sin through Christ’s sacrifice, a temporal punishment for that sin still remains. The person therefore must either do penance to purge themselves on Earth or be purged in a temporary suffering in the hereafter since Heaven can only accept that which is perfectly pure.
“The whole penitential system of the Church testifies that the voluntary assumption of penitential works has always been part of true repentance, and … God does not always remit the whole punishment due to sin together with the guilt. God requires satisfaction, and will punish sin, and this doctrine involves as its necessary consequence a belief that the sinner failing to do penance in this life may be punished in another world, and so not be cast off eternally from God,” the Catholic Encyclopedia outlines.
The doctrine was stated to have been solidified during the Councils of Florence (1439) and Trent (1545-1563), and Catholics further point to the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees 12, which states, “It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.”
Therefore, to assist those seeking to have their sins atoned for in this life, or to stand in the gap on behalf of the dead, the Catholic Catechism outlines that Roman Catholic leadership “by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus” offers indulgences as a means of intervention “in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain from the Father of mercies the remission of the temporal punishments due for their sins.”
Each November since 1968, the Vatican has offered the living the stated opportunity to obtain plenary indulgences for the dead, so that they might be completely freed from Purgatory and go to Heaven.
One plenary indulgence per day can be obtained during the eight-day period, and to obtain the indulgence, one must visit the cemetery to pray for the departed, receive communion, go to confession, and pray for the pope, with the minimum being the recitation of the Our Father and the Hail Mary. Other rituals may also be employed.
“The more we do for them (the dead) the more powerful their intercession becomes for us, both in purgatory and before the throne of God,” Susan Tassone, author of “The Way of the Cross for the Holy Souls in Purgatory,” told the National Catholic Register in an article published on Nov. 2 entitled “Praying for the Dead: Catholic Liturgies and Practices.”
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However, Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries told Christian News Network that he finds it lamentable that those who presented the concept of Purgatory to the world many years ago “had the audacity to declare that the suffering and death of God’s perfect man and man’s perfect substitute was not sufficient to satisfy divine justice for sin.”
He said that when his own father passed away, friends even purchased mass cards so that prayers would be said for him following his death.
“When my own dear dad passed away as a devout Catholic of 79 years, I was amazed at the hundreds of mass cards purchased for him by well-meaning friends. We have heard of other Catholics who have willed their entire estates to their religion so that perpetual masses could be offered for them after they die,” Gendron recalled. “It is no wonder that the Catholic religion has become the richest institution in the world. The buying and selling of God’s grace has been a very lucrative business for the Vatican.”
He said that when the concept of purgatory is compared to Scripture, it does not add up.
“God’s word leaves absolutely no possibility for sin to be purged away by anything other than the blood of Jesus Christ,” Gendron declared. “The Apostle John penned these words with irrefutable clarity: ‘The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin’ and ‘all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:7, 9). John did not say ‘some’ sins or ‘most’ sins, but all sins! This soundly rebukes the need for a sin-purging fire.”
He outlined that those who put their faith in Christ are completely freed not just from the guilt of sin, but also the penalty of it.
“God’s word also declares, ‘All things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness’ (Hebrews 9:22). When Jesus ‘made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high’ (Hebrews 1:3),” he noted. “Those who desire to have their sins purged need to trust a person, not a place. The blood of Christ is the only cleansing agent for sin! Those who come to the cross of Christ must come with empty hands of faith, bringing nothing but their sins.”
Gendron, a former Roman Catholic for over 30 years who now encourages Catholics to think biblically, further pointed to Scripture’s teaching that when believers leave their body, they are “present with the Lord,” and therefore not in an in-between state.
“Every blood-bought believer is instantly present with their Redeemer at the moment of death. To be ‘absent from the body’ is to be ‘at home with the Lord’ (2 Corinthians 5:6–8),” he said. “Catholics who believe in Purgatory need to be asked: ‘Who is in charge of releasing souls from the purging fire?’ It cannot be God because of His promise to believers. ‘Their sins and iniquities I will remember no more’ (Hebrews 10:17). After conversion, God no longer counts sins against His children (2 Corinthians 5:19).”
He urged those who are involved in Roman Catholicism to compare tradition to Scripture.
“The apostle Paul warned people about this when he wrote, ‘See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ’ (Colossians 2:8),” Gendron noted. “Jesus strongly rebuked the Jewish religious leaders of His day for nullifying the word of God with their traditions. He said, ‘They worship Me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.'”
“We must test every man’s teaching and traditions by examining them through the lens of Scripture, which is the supreme authority for faith (Acts 17:11),” he said. “God has revealed His truth through His written word, not the traditions of men. We must trust and obey the Sovereign Lord, for our destiny is in His hands, not in the hands of the Catholic clergy.”
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 Bishop Hoeller's homily for the Sunday within the Octave of All Souls' Day. Recorded on November 5, 2017.
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