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Black Box Voting, founded in 2003, performs nonpartisan investigative reporting on elections in an attempt to stop vote rigging.
You may be wondering what the term “black box” means. A “black box” system is non-transparent; its functions are hidden from the public. Elections, of course, should not be black box systems.
Here is a link to a free copy of the book, Black Box Voting HERE.
Author Bev Harris became known for groundbreaking work on electronic voting machines, which can remove transparency of the vote count.
With voting machines, all political power can be converted to the hands of a few anonymous subcontractors:
Extensive analysis on the topic by Alex Jones can be viewed below:
Watch the full interview with Bev Harris streaming now from the Alex Jones Show:
How Elections Are Stolen In America Exposed
Published on Oct 31, 2016
This incredible video by blackboxvoting.org gives you all the details about how elections are manipulated and stolen in America without leaving a trace.
PETITION TO STOP GEORGE SOROS VOTING MACHINES HITS 100K
Will America finally stand up to global elite rigging our elections?
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A White House petition to remove Soros-owned electronic voting machines has passed the 100k votes necessary for a response. Will America finally stand up to global elite rigging our elections?
The U.K.-based company Smartmatic has sent voting machines to important battleground states across the US including Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
“Other jurisdictions affected are California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin,” noted the Daily Caller.
“Smartmatic Chairman Mark Malloch-Brown is a former U.N. official and sits on the board of Soros’ Open Society Foundations.”
The discovery has caused concern among the US voting populace given Soros’ deep ties with Clinton.
Soros Linked Voting Machines To Be Used In Key Battleground States
Donald J. Trump is arguably the only presidential candidate ever to be openly targeted by his own party's (GOP's) establishment, the entire Democratic Party, super-rich leftist organizations complete with their underground cash-dispersal system, and the mainstream media all at the same time.
Yet Trump isn't backing down and in fact he’s telling his supporters -- and undecided voters -- that the current election process is a “rigged” system. He has focused his argument that voters have their only chance to defeat the “rigged” system by electing him.
“Remember folks, it’s a rigged system,” Trump said at a rally. “That’s why you’ve got to get out and vote, you’ve got to watch. Because this system is totally rigged.”
“I believe we’re actually winning,” Trump said Tuesday in Florida. “It’s a rigged system.”
“The media isn’t just against me. They’re against all of you,” he later said in St Augustine. “They’re against what we represent.”
Wikileaks documents lifted from the Internet servers of the Democratic National Committee and from individuals, such as Hillary for President Campaign director John Podesta, when released by Julian Assange gave an unvarnished look at the DNC and Clinton machines. Wikileaks document dumps also suggest that the Democratic Party ranks are rife with voter fraud and those eager to protect the status quo.
Add the recent videos released by 'take-no-prisoners" investigative journalist James O'Keefe -- videos that have Democratic operatives bragging about their unethical at best, criminal at worst, activities -- and it's no wonder conservatives are suspicious.
It wasn't that long ago when conservatives watched in shock as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and certain Democratic Party officeholders targeted Tea Party groups and other right-of-center organizations that were seeking only their rightful tax-exempt status. Not one person at the IRS has been arrested let alone prosecuted for unlawful acts committed by a government agency against its own people.
While conservatives are accused of being infatuated with the Second Amendment (guns) liberals owe their allegiance to the Fifth Amendment (remaining silent to avoid incrimination in an illegal act).
Now with millions of Americans repeating Trump's words -- "The system is rigged" -- the left is seeing that denying it is useless after all of the evidence was made public. Now they are saying this type of talk is “dangerous” to the integrity of our electoral system. They are even ridiculing Trump and asking him to prove his voter fraud allegations.
The argument isn’t whether voter fraud is real, but how widespread it is and will Americans follow the Department of Homeland Security's advise: If you see something, say something. Below are the phone numbers for the authorities in each of the 50 states that citizens can contact to complain about irregularities seen or heard while visiting the polling stations during the elections.
Provide all the information possible and don't worry about "profiling" or any other restrictions placed on cops and prosecutors. Also keep a record of whom you reported an incident, his or her title, the time and date you made the report and voilà you've done your civic duty.
Above are the telephone numbers to call about suspicious activity you've observed while voting.
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The federal government is using the concept of "sustainable development" to usurp complete and unchallengeable control over housing in the United States. There is one group of patriots, however, that refuses to stand idly by while the fundamental right to property is abolished by the bureaucracy.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal agency leading the attack against property rights and against local, accountable self-government after the fashion favored and established by our ancestors.
John Anthony of Sustainable Freedom Lab recognizes the threat and is warning his countrymen about the scope and severity of the federal assault. "HUD uses our own money to bring communities to heel," Anthony said in a statement released on the group's website October 28. "By saying “no,” we can bring the agency to its knees. We do not need Congress, we do not have the time to wait for deceptive legislation and we cannot depend on political leaders drunk with inside the beltway power. We need our neighbors, political and non-political, building the same coalitions our forefathers built to survive in this new rugged land," he added.
Anthony's assessment of HUD's ultimate aim is spot on. This federal agency and the programs it administers are nothing more than regulations conceived and written by desk-bound dictators who are given unjust authority by the president and whose diktats are beyond the reach of the people who are forced to obey these directives or face being subjected to the full panoply of punishments.
HUD's particular area of unaccountable absolutism is the environment and housing. In this latest effort, the agency's underlying policy is the promotion of “sustainability,” which is globalist newspeak for totalitarianism under one world government.
Here’s the connection, as uncovered in an article published by Property Values Defense, a grassroots organization that “unites attorneys, public officials and activists nationwide to stop federal agency overreach”:
HUD, DOT and the EPA have been instrumental in fostering regionalism since 1993. In 2009, the three agencies formed a “Partnership for Sustainable Development” for the express purpose of merging their unique authorities toward the common goal of advancing sustainable regions. In June 2016, the agency also teamed with the Department of Education to promote regional Equity Assistance Centers to advance income integration in elementary and secondary classrooms.
These agencies are working feverishly to infill suburbs by transplanting urban families into the outlying communities, which then merge with nearby counties and towns into larger regions managed by unelected councils.
Even HUD’s new Assessment of Fair Housing, the document applicants must complete to receive AFFH related grants, requires grant recipients to align their local plan with a regional plan.
Collectivism is being forced on Americans under the guise of protecting the environment and providing “affordable housing” to the less advantaged.
The true purpose, of course, is to collect all mankind into urban mega-centers in order to facilitate the imposition of top-down, strong central government rule, otherwise known as global fascism.
John Anthony rightly perceives that the problem is not one of development, but one of despotism.
"HUD [and other federal agencies] have converged into a massive administration-led autocracy, pre-planning neighborhoods, living patterns, school attendance and even the social makeup of your community," he said.
"Communities that resist face compliance reviews, withdrawal of millions in HUD funding or even civil rights lawsuits that will break the financial backs of most towns and counties. And, of course the counterfeit charges of not caring for America’s poor and needy."
That last charge will be the wedge the federal government will use to divide Americans and to convince the purportedly neglected to accept federal tyranny in exchange for "equal housing opportunities."
Of course, it is one thing for a city or county to want to resist the federal regulatory restrictions, but it is not as easy to maintain this staunch sovereignty in the face of a bag of federal cash and other incentives for playing ball with the bureaucrats.
States, counties, and cities must continue, however, refusing to dance to the tune played by the federal bandleader. They must reinforce American federalism and civil liberties by emphasizing in city and county codes and state laws the sovereignty that exists in states and that exists only on loan to the federal government, no matter how much money the latter can use to bribe the former.
When it comes to caving to the central government's offers: caveat emptor.
The familiar “carrot and stick” gambit is the coin of the realm in D.C. From police to highways, from environmental standards to labor policies, the federal government has stomped its heavy jackboot into all aspects of life — areas that were once the bailiwick of states, cities, or the people themselves.
Anthony and the Sustainable Freedom Lab offer seminars to show municipalities methods for charting a course around HUD's haranguing and around the centrifugal spin of "sustainable development."
The course, entitled "Ending HUD's Tyranny," teaches local governments to "turn the tables on the government’s argument that because you reject HUD overreach, you are a 'racist that does not care about African Americans, women or the protected classes.'"
While such lessons are useful and urgently needed if American cities and counties are to remain independent, free to forge their own infrastructure plans and housing ordinances, there is a more permanent, constitutionally sound system for forcing the federal beast back inside its constitutional cage: the law of agency.
Upon its ratification, the states, as principals, gave limited power to the central government to act as their agent in certain matters of common concern: defense, taxation, interstate commerce, etc.
The authority of the agent — in this case the federal government — is derived from the agreement that created the principal/agent relationship. Whether the agent is lawfully acting on behalf of the principal is a question of fact. The agent may legally bind the principal only insofar as its actions lie within the contractual boundaries of its power.
Should the agent exceed the scope of its authority, not only is the principal not held accountable for those acts, but the breaching agent is legally liable to the principal (and any affected third parties who acted in reliance on the agent’s authority) for that breach.
Under the law of agency, the principal may revoke the agent’s authority at will. It would be unreasonable to oblige the principals to honor promises of an agent acting outside the boundaries of its authority as set out in the document that created the agency in the first place.
Imagine the chaos that would be created if principals were legally bound by the acts of an agent that “went rogue” and acted prejudicially to the interests of the principals from whom he derived any power in the first place. It is a fundamental tenet of the law of agency that the agent may lawfully act only for the benefit of the principal.
Finally, despite seeming like we are constantly "fighting an uphill battle against a government that is corrupt, dishonest packed with legions of uniformed bureaucrats," there are many avenues now open to cities and counties that lead to liberty and the protection of the right to own property and to the permanent ostracism of the globalists and their sustainability scam.
John Anthony is the founder of Sustainable Freedom Lab. He is a nationally acclaimed speaker, researcher and writer. Mr. Anthony’s Property Value Defense Network informs public officials and attorneys nationwide of the impacts of regulatory laws on property rights. His online workshop, Shattering America’s Trance, teaches effective techniques for cross-political communications.
While Americans focus on sustainable development, they often lose sight of the importance of property rights. In many cases people are losing their property, their ability to travel as they choose and even the right to develop their own land. All in the quest to achieve sustainable development.
What they forget is that, the best way to protect land is to own and care for your own.
This series teaches all citizens how to protect their property rights in a changing world while respecting the environment.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. —A federal judge in Alabama who once ordered the removal of Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument has now also blocked a state law banning abortion facilities from operating near k-8 schools. Judge Myron Thompson, appointed to the bench by then-President Jimmy Carter, opined that the law would close two abortion facilities that perform an estimated 70 percent of abortions in the state, and would therefore place an undue “burden” on mothers seeking to obtain an abortion since they would have to drive further.
“This burden would become particularly devastating for low-income women who represent half of all abortion recipients and a significant majority of women seeking abortions in Alabama,” he wrote.
Thompson said that it if women can’t have an abortionist end the lives of their children, they will resort to doing it themselves.
“Recently, Tuscaloosa’s medical director has treated multiple women who attempted to self-abort, such as a woman who consumed turpentine after consulting the Internet and learning about its use as a folk remedy,” he wrote. “So too can Alabama expect an increased level of self-abortions if the school-proximity law were to take effect.”
Thompson also contended that there was no evidence that the law, which was passed in part to keep children from being exposed to the issue of abortion, was necessary.
“The record contains absolutely no evidence of concerns expressed by the school’s students or their parents about the Huntsville clinic or the demonstrations near it,” he stated. “As to Highlands, the State’s two interests (minimizing disruption and supporting a parent’s right to control their children’s exposure to the subject of abortion) would not in any way be furthered by the closing or relocation of the Huntsville clinic.”
As previously reported, the law had been challenged earlier this year by abortionists Willie Parker (a professing Christian) and Yashica Robinson White, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU).
“The Alabama Department of Public Health may not issue or renew a health center license to an abortion clinic or reproductive health center that performs abortions and is located within 2,000 feet of a K-8 public school,” the legislation, S.B. 205, simply reads.
There are two abortion facilities near schools in Alabama: Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville and West Alabama Women’s Center Inc. AL.com reports that the facilities performed 72 percent of the state’s 8,080 abortions in 2014.
Thompson also blocked a law on Thursday that would ban dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions, also known as dismemberment abortions. It made it illegal for abortionists to “purposely to dismember a living unborn child and extract him or her one piece at a time from the uterus through use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush, or grasp, or any combination of the foregoing, a portion of the unborn child’s body to cut or rip it off.”
D&E procedures are common nationwide in second trimester abortions.
Abortions 15 weeks (nearly four months gestation) and later would be “almost wholly unavailable,” Thompson asserted.
“Alabama women would likely lose their right to pre-viability abortion access at or after 15 weeks,” he said, stating that mothers have a “constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before viability.”
The ACLU of Alabama cheered Thompson’s issuance of the preliminary injunctions. He had granted temporary emergency injunctions in July to stop the laws from going into effect on their scheduled date of Aug. 1.
“It’s long past time for our elected officials to stop wasting time and taxpayer money passing laws that violate women’s constitutional rights and start focusing on the needs of women and families in this state,” said executive director Susan Watson in a statement. “Alabama women deserve to access their rights protected by the Constitution. And our doctors deserve to be able to provide care in clinics, not fight medically unnecessary laws in courthouses.”
As previously reported, Thompson is known for ordering the removal of a Ten Commandments monument placed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in 2003. He also made headlines last October when he ruled that officials must restore the state’s contract with Planned Parenthood because canceling it denied women their choice in reproductive services.
Infowars reporter Millie Weaver catches limousine buses transporting Hillary Clinton voters to polls in swing-state Ohio. Nextgen Climate owned by Tom Steyer, Hillary Clinton's largest single donor, is paying for the limousine services. Millie Weaver confronts them only to find out it's a non-profit organization caught engaging in partisan activities violating IRS rules for non-profit political organizations.
Tom Steyer NARAL Donation: Isn't NextGen focused on Climate, not Abortion?
Democratic Billionaire Tom Steyer:
"I'm Not the Koch Brothers"
"We Don't Try to Hide What We Do"
Steyer's NextGen To Target 1 Million Swing Voters Ahead Of U.S. Election
Published on Sep 4, 2014
Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer's political group on Wednesday said it plans to focus on winning over a narrow band of voters persuadable on climate change issues in key states ahead of U.S. elections in November. NextGen Climate, Steyer's group, said it has made a targeted push to gain the support of more than one million voters in competitive races in seven states, hiring more than 700 staff and volunteers and opening more than 20 offices across the country. The group, with $50 million in backing from Steyer, says it hopes to counter the financial influence of the fossil fuel industry by supporting lawmakers who would work to combat climate change.
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“We learn from history that we do not learn from history,” observed German philosopher Georg Hegel. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than a new survey showing that far too many “millennials” are not just cool to “capitalism,” but are actually cool with communism. As Market Watch reports:
Of the 2,300 Americans polled by YouGov, 80% of baby boomers and 91% of the elderly agree with the statement that “communism was and still is a problem” in the world today. Millennials? Only 55%.
Furthermore, almost half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 20 said they would vote for a socialist, while 21% would go so far as to back a communist.
Capitalism, on the other hand, is viewed favorably by 64% of those over the age of 65, compared with only 42% of millennials.
Citing these results, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s Marion Smith stated, as quoted by MarketWatch, “One of the concerns [the foundation] has had since its establishment is that an emerging generation of Americans has little understanding of the collectivist system and its dark history.” For sure. This was evidenced when a teenager once naively asked me, “What’s so bad about communism?” Another registered a look of shock when I gave him part of the answer: During the 20th century, Marxist governments exterminated approximately 100 million people, making them history’s most murderous ideologues.
Related to this, MarketWatch also tells us that “a third of millennials say they believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin,” clearly oblivious to Stalin’s psychopathic actions having accounted for upwards of 20 million of the above number. Of course, 82 percent of millennials at least knew who Stalin was. This cannot be said regarding Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung; 42 percent of millennials were unfamiliar with this mass murderer of approximately 60 million. Forty percent didn’t know who Argentine Marxist and major Cuban Revolution figure Che Guevara was. With respect to Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, the “unacquainted with” figures were, respectively, 33 and 32 percent.
Not surprisingly, this ignorance goes beyond history. While it’s troubling that almost half of those aged 16 to 20 would support a socialist, there’s good and bad news here. And they’re the same thing:
These young people generally don’t know what socialism is.
As I wrote in February, “People 18 to 29 just helped vault Senator Bernie Sanders to a resounding New Hampshire primary victory, not at all deterred by his socialist label. But while they view that positively, they don’t believe in socialist (in Sanders’) wealth redistribution. In fact, this research shows that they cotton to it little more than do average Americans and no more than their age group did 20 years ago. In other words, millennials may like the word socialism, but, as with so many others, they don’t understand well what it signifies or the nature of those for whom they vote.”
In reality, the label “socialism” is applied loosely today, yet it has a firm definition. Note that socialism was popularized via Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto. And under Marxist doctrine, “socialism” — or the socialist revolution — is the transitional phase that extinguishes economic freedom and ushers in communism. Moreover, there are no communist governments because “communism” is the culmination of socialism, the stage where, the fanciful theory goes, the government has melted away and everyone lives happily and harmoniously in a state of economic equality-induced bliss.
This is why the Iron Curtain-disgorging evil empire could, with a straight collective face, call itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. And it’s why we should see a red flag (pun intended) when a politician such as Bernie Sanders calls himself a socialist. Maybe he’s more wizened than wise and doesn’t really know what the word means — or, perhaps, he knows full well — and is capitalizing on the fact that others don’t.
Whatever the case, it would be a mistake to view socialist seduction as solely a “millennial” problem, as this only sparks intergenerational squabbling. For there are old fools and young fools and much foolishness in-between. Yet while we recognize that people are largely products of their upbringing, we nonetheless will analyze a given generation as if it’s a breed apart as opposed to what it almost always is: the next iteration in a pattern.
Consider how 80 percent of Boomers consider communism a problem. While a high number, it’s still a statistically significant drop from their elders’ 91 percent figure. And this is just part of a pattern, with the percentage of each age group that views “socialism” positively being as follows: age 65+, 13 percent; 50-64, 25 percent; 30-49, 34 percent; 18-29, 49 percent (Pew Research Center, Dec. 28, 2011). Evident here isn’t an overnight sea-change, but steadily increasing ignorance.
Tragically, this is a worldwide phenomenon. Marxism has to an extent taken hold in Japan, Spain, and elsewhere, and Karl Marx is more popular than he has been in decades. As I wrote in 2013, “Sales of The Communist Manifesto (the best-selling book in history next to the Bible) and Das Kapital have soared since the 2008 financial crisis. Karl Marx was voted ‘favorite philosopher’ by BBC radio listeners, beating out contenders such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Thomas Aquinas. And in an irony akin to having Marx’s picture on a Bible tract, his image is the one most often chosen by customers of Germany’s Sparkasse Chemnitz Bank — for their credit cards.”
Given the above, it’s not surprising that what inspired mockery of late Senator Joe McCarthy has become reality: Marxist types abound in our government. New York City elected “Bolshevik” Bill de Blasio, who raised money for the Sandinistas, subscribed to their newsletter, and honeymooned in Cuba. John Drew, a former Barack Obama acquaintance and reformed Marxist with whom I’ve spoken personally, revealed that when he knew Obama, Obama was an “ardent Marxist-Leninist” who “was in 100 percent, total agreement with [his] Marxist professors”; this is no surprise because Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA.
Then there are Obama’s appointees, such as former “Green Jobs Czar” and self-proclaimed communist Van Jones; former communications director Anita Dunn, who said that Mao Tse-tung was one of her “two favorite philosophers”; “Manufacturing Czar” Ron Bloom, who said in a speech, “We agree with Mao”; and “Global Warming Czar” Carol Browner, who was until recently listed as a leader of the socialist organization “Commission for a Sustainable World Society.”
And, finally, there’s the woman who wants to succeed Obama, Hillary Clinton. Former Clinton operative Larry Nichols tells us that when he first met her, in the 1970s, she was wearing a medal around her neck stating, “Proud member of the American Communist Party” (video here; forward to 6:07). No wonder the Communist Party USA is “all in” for Hillary.
It’s also no wonder that Clinton is beating Donald Trump by 28 points among under-30 voters. But tolerance for socialism/communism is intolerable. If we learned that almost half of young Americans would vote for a fascist and 21 percent would go so far as to back a Nazi, we’d rightly be aghast. Instead, they’re warming to the ideological descendants of even more prolific killers. Hey, what’s 100 million victims between comrades?
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USA -(Ammoland.com)-Senate candidate from the Empire State earns accolades for openly opposing the gun-hating, 17-year- incumbent liberal Democrat, Sen. Charles “Chuckie” E. Schumer.
“Schumer is basically a premier enemy of the people and probably the whole congress,” said Wendy Long, who is the U.S. Senate nominee for the Republican, Conservative and Reform Parties. “He has consistently been rated ‘F’ by the NRA, his answer to everything is gun control, and he never wastes the chance to undermine Americans’ rights under the Second Amendment.”
Thomas H. King, President of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc., the oldest gun club in the nation, said that Schumer has a terrible record of being anti-gun.
“Schumer has either sponsored or has been a co-sponsor on every single anti-gun bill that has come through the Senate. He is the type of politician that will say he is a supporter of your Second Amendment rights because he supports your hunting rights, and that’s all he’ll ever say, and as you and I both know, hunting rights have nothing to do with the Second Amendment.”
Based on the statements Long has made and the people she is associated with, King said Long in comparison to Schumer, is pro Second Amendment to the core.
“Long spoke at our annual meeting and unequivocally stated that she believes in the Second Amendment as the founders wrote it, with no reservations. You have never heard Schumer say that, you have never heard him even come close to saying anything other than he supports hunting rights.”
Long, a wife, mother and New York attorney, said if re-elected Schumer would continue to implement every possible gun control legislation that he can.
“I am consistently opposed to those efforts, and on the contrary, believe that lawful citizens exercising our right to keep and bear arms protect families, protects public safety, and the last line to ensure we do not have a tyrannical government.”
On the campaign trail, Long said everywhere she goes she finds New Yorkers frustrated with the 2013 NY SAFE Act. Passed by the legislature and signed by the governor in the middle of the night, without debate or discussion, the SAFE Act, commonly known as the “un-SAFE Act”, turned law abiding citizens into criminals with the strike of a pen.
“People are enraged over the SAFE Act because it does precisely the opposite of what it purports to do; it makes law abiding citizens less safe,” said Long. Frustration over the SAFE Act extends to the frustration with what upstate voters contend with on a regular basis, she said. “The power New York City sometimes has over the entire state.”
In this critical election year, the former Clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, said if upstate voters turnout on Election Day, their vote will make the difference in who is victorious.
“In terms of raw numbers, voters are roughly equally balanced between the city and upstate, but if we don’t turn out the vote then that’s when the city voters are able to win on anything that is a statewide issue or a statewide candidate. So, it is very important for voter’s upstate to turn out because their numbers are great enough.”
In order to preserve our Second Amendment rights, gun owners and those who care about the Second Amendment and the Constitution, no matter what party affiliation or non-affiliation, ought to get out the vote for the pro Second Amendment candidates on the ballot, said Long.
“Schumer has declared that his number one goal if re-elected is to enshrine what he calls a progressive majority in the U.S. Supreme Court. And that means that the pro Second Amendment decisions from the last 6 years that have clarified the right to keep and bear arms as stated in the Second Amendment, like any other constitutional right, is an individual right that we each have.”
Long said she grew up in a rural environment in New Hampshire. “My whole life, growing up, we had every possible firearm imaginable in our arsenal. We had lots of handguns, shot guns, long guns, and we shot recreationally.”
She said it has been her life experiences, education and norm to defend the Second Amendment.
“I understand that the Second Amendment even precedes our Constitution; that it’s a God-given right; that it’s enshrined in the Constitution; that it cannot be legitimately taken away by any governmental body and it cannot be infringed upon.”
Carl R. Gottstein, Jr., Associate Editor and Staff Writer at Bullet Magazine, said that NY gun advocates are supporting Wendy Long for U.S. Senate in droves because she personifies constitutionalism.
“When America elects our first woman president, let her be a woman like Wendy Long. A great woman exuding excellence and integrity that leaves behind a trail of accomplishment, blazing a positive and healthy path for others to follow.”
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his attorney walked out of the state Supreme Court on Thursday in objection to officials ignoring their motion to recuse Acting Chief Justice Lynn Stuart and others from participating in the selection of judges for Moore’s appeal, and that the judges be active and not retired.
“We have a motion pending to continue this procedure because of the methodology that was set by justices that should have recused in this sealed case,” attorney Philip Jauregui declared. “This court has refused to address that motion.”
“We can’t address it. You may be seated,” replied Stuart, who took over Moore’s job after his suspension and asked that he remove his belongings from the court.
“Well, I’m leaving, your honor, and Chief Justice Moore will address the media outside,” Jaurequi announced as the two, as well as Moore’s family, stood and walked out of the courtroom.
Moore told reporters outside the courthouse that the Court of the Judiciary (COJ) acted wrongfully in craftily suspending him for the remainder of his term since there was not a unanimous vote to remove him from office. Under Alabama law, removal must be by a unanimous decision. There was only a unanimous vote to suspend Moore but not to remove him.
“It’s a de facto removal,” Moore said. “To have the Court of the Judiciary say that we can’t remove you because we didn’t have the votes, but we can suspend you for two-and-a-half years nearly (the rest of Moore’s term), that’s completely improper.”
“It has to be reversed for the sake of the judges and justices in our state or we’re going to warp the law and just let them skip over a unanimous vote for removal and say they they can remove you for the rest of your term,” he opined.
The COJ advised in its order last month that since it did not have the unanimous votes needed to remove Moore from office, it therefore voted unanimously to suspend him—for the remainder of his term. Moore believes the move was an underhanded means to still remove him by making the suspension term-long instead of temporary.
“A majority of this court also agrees with the JIC that the only appropriate sanction for Chief Justice Moore is removal from office. Removal of a judge from office, however, requires ‘the concurrence of all members sitting,” the COJ had written in its decision. “It is clear there was not a unanimous concurrence to remove the Chief from office, so the COJ suspends him for the remainder of his term.”
As previously reported, the controversy surrounding Moore began in 2013 when two lesbians in the state sued Gov. Robert Bentley, Attorney General Luther Strange and Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis—among others—in an attempt to overturn Alabama’s marriage amendment after one of the women was denied from adopting the other woman’s child.
In January 2015, U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade ruled in favor of the women, prompting Moore to send a memo to probate judges throughout the state, advising that they are not required to issue “marriage” licenses to same-sex couples as he believed that Grenade’s ruling only applied to the two women.
Moore also wrote a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley, urging him to “uphold and support the Alabama Constitution with respect to marriage, both for the welfare of this state and for our posterity.”
“Be advised that I will stand with you to stop judicial tyranny and any unlawful opinions issued without constitutional authority,” he stated.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) then filed a judicial ethics complaint against Moore over his letter to Gov. Bentley, and the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) submitted 28,000 petition signatures to the JIC calling for Moore’s removal.
As confusion ensued over Moore’s letter to probate judges, one judge, John Enslen of Elmore County, asked the full Alabama Supreme Court for further guidance. In March 2015, six of the nine judges of the Alabama Supreme Court released a historic order halting the issuance of same-sex “marriage” licenses in the state. Moore recused himself from the matter and was not included in the order.
“As it has done for approximately two centuries, Alabama law allows for ‘marriage’ between only one man and one woman,” the 148-page order read. “Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to this law. Nothing in the United States Constitution alters or overrides this duty.”
Three months after the Alabama Supreme Court issued its order, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges. The Alabama court did not immediately lift its order following the ruling as it took time sorting through the matter.
Therefore, in January, Moore sent another letter advising that the full court’s previous instructions remained in effect until it issued directives in light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell.
“Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect,” he wrote on Jan. 6.
But he also noted that his memo did not weigh in on how June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling has impact on the Alabama Supreme Court’s directive, and said that it was not his place to make that determination.
“I am not at liberty to provide any guidance to Alabama probate judges on the effect of Obergefell on the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court. That issue remains before the entire court, which continues to deliberate on the matter,” Moore wrote.
In March, the court finally issued its opinions on the matter, dismissing all outstanding cases before the bench.
In May, the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) announced that it had filed ethics charges against Moore, and suspended the chief justice while he faced a trial before the COJ.
Moore argued during his trial that he had not issued any orders, but only a status update as the Alabama Supreme Court had not rescinded its previous order following Obergefell. The COJ did not believe Moore and found him guilty of all ethics charges, asserting that he had told judges to act contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
“I would never tell anybody to disobey and order of a federal court; that’s not my job,” Moore said on Thursday. “What I told [probate judges] was the injunction in effect remained valid until it was reversed by the Alabama Supreme Court, when in fact is has not been reversed to this day and that injunction is still in effect.”
“[The COJ] can argue with me or they can argue with the law …. That’s the law of the United States Supreme Court,” he continued. “An injunction once placed by a court is in effect until reversed by that court, the court of first instance, or a higher court, which would be the United States Supreme Court. It still remains in effect.”
Those randomly selected on Thursday for the appeal were retired Judges Frank McGuire III, Ed McFerrin, Susan Moquin, Charles Price, Daniel Reynolds, Michael Nix and Robert Wilters.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —An ethics complaint has been filed against Acting Alabama Chief Justice Lyn Stuart over her handling of suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore and his upcoming appeal.
The organization Sanctity of Marriage Alabama filed the complaint with the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) on Oct. 24, asserting that she has violated multiple Canons of Judicial Ethics in her alleged mishandling of the matter.
“Justice Stuart played a part in a sealed case regarding Chief Justice Moore, has repeatedly, prematurely, and boldly inserted her judgment for that of courts over which she should have no sway, and even now, refuses to disqualify herself from the process of Chief Justice Moore’s appeal,” President Tom Ford said in a statement.
