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The mainstream media, along with Democrats and supposedly
apolitical student activists, have ratcheted up their campaign against
the “child murdering” National Rifle Association, with a politician in
Dallas calling for the NRA to move its convention from the city. As part of its crusade to promote gun control, CNN has directed much
of its criticism towards the National Rifle Association, recently publishing a “name-and-shame” list of Florida politicians who have received campaign contributions from the NRA. Dallas Mayor Pro Temp Dwaine Caraway, a Democrat, has called on the NRA to move its annual convention from the city.
“It is a tough call when you ask the NRA to reconsider coming to
Dallas,” he said. “But it is putting all citizens first and getting them
to come to the table and elected officials to come to the table, and to
address this madness now.”
Supposedly apolitical student activists who survived the high
school shooting in Parkland, Florida wasted little time in attacking the
NRA, with one suggesting the organization supports “child murderers”
and another calling for it to disband.
“Here’s a time to talk about gun control: March 24. My message
for the people in office is: You’re either with us or against us. We are
losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” declared high school student Cameron Kasky in an interview with CNN.
Another student demanded the organization immediately disband,
while claiming politicians who receive campaign contributions from the
NRA are “accepting blood money” and are “against the children.”
“Disband, dismantle … don’t make another organization under a
different name. Don’t you dare come back here,” said student Emma
Gonzalez. “The fact that you were in power for so long and that you had
so much influence for so long in America just goes to show how much time
and effort we still need to spend on fixing our country.”
She also noted gun control “is just the first thing” they are
focused on – leading one to question just how non-partisan their
supposedly apolitical grassroots activism really is.
Mayim Bialik, an actresss on “The Big Bang Theory,” took to Facebook to declare support for the upcoming National Student Walkout – organized
by the same far-left donors who funded the Women’s March against
President Trump – and called for “civil disobedience” to push Congress
to enact more gun control.
“Say yes to civil disobedience. Walk out, sit down, stand up,
encourage others to do the same, whatever it takes,” she said in a video.
Bialik argued the main contributing factor to school shootings is
not “the media and video games glorifying and encouraging violence,”
“toxic masculinity,” or the “lack of mental health care for people in
this country.” Rather, it is the availability of the AR-15 rifle,
without which “these kinds of killings would not happen.”
Echoing the same talking points as the students calling for gun
control in interviews on CNN, Bialik leveled blame on the NRA and called
for her viewers to “make it your life’s goal to support and vote for
every single person who challenges a politician with NRA money behind
them.”
The escalating pedophilia and sex abuse scandals engulfing the UN and
its “peacekeeping” forces have become so massive that even the pro-UN
media, including the notoriously globalist CNN and TheGuardian,
have been forced to cover it. Indeed, all over the world, the UN is
making headlines for raping and exploiting children — not to mention
sexual abuse and harassment of the UN's own employees. Various “aid”
groups funded by taxpayers are in the crosshairs, too.
As the scandals grow, the UN formally announced —
for the first time ever — that it would not claim “diplomatic immunity”
to protect the estimated 3,300 pedophiles working for the global
organization. So far, though, virtually none of the UN troops involved
in the widespread rape of children have been held criminally
accountable. In fact, those who tried to stop the pedophile rapists were viciously persecuted while the predators continued their horrific abuses.
Meanwhile, as the UN faces global criticism for the abuse, the UN
“education” agency known as UNESCO has just sparked controversy by releasing radical new “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” standards for humanity.
Among other concerns, critics suggested the radical indoctrination
program, which begins by normalizing the “LGBT” agenda and promoting
"sexual pleasure" at age five, would help sexualize and “groom” young
children, facilitating sexual abuse. UNICEF and other agencies
repeatedly caught in pedophilia scandals were also involved in the new
sex standards that critics say facilitate exploitation and abuse of
children.
Aside from the UN itself, a number of globalist and leftist
“non-governmental organizations” that purport to fight for “children”
are also ensnared in growing child-rape scandals. So far, tax-funded
Oxfam, the radical left-wing outfit that shills for globalism and
statism, has taken center stage, with some of its top executives
implicated in organizing or covering up orgies with local victims in
Haiti, including allegations that some of the girls coerced into the
bizarre “sex parties” were children. The scandal reportedly goes all the
way to the top.
Among the explosive stories coming out is one that just hit the
headlines this week. Former UNICEF “child rights” campaigner Peter
Newell, who led the global effort to jail parents who spank their
children as a disciplinary measure, was sentenced to six years in a
British prison for raping a young boy, who was just 12 when the
predatory UN official began raping him. The “horrific” abuse was
perpetrated by Newell while he worked for the UN drawing up the
guidelines for the totalitarian “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,”
a global scheme that sidelines parents and parental rights — thereby
facilitating abuse of children by predators. The U.S. government has not
joined the UN CRC.
And Newell-style abuse of children by UN officials is systemic, experts say — UN
officials were even caught running a child porn studio in UNESCO's
basement forcing children to engage in sex acts for the cameras.
“There are tens of thousands of aid workers around the world with
pedophile tendencies, but if you wear a UNICEF T-shirt nobody will ask
what you’re up to,” said attorney and professor Andrew MacLeod, former
chief of operations of the UN’s Emergency Coordination Center who became
an anti-sex abuse campaigner after realizing the enormity of the
problem. “You have the impunity to do whatever you want. It is endemic
across the aid industry across the world.”
“The system is at fault, and should have stopped this years ago,” he
warned. Among other policies, MacLeod says tougher background checks, an
end to impunity, and more would be a good start. Acknowledging the
enormity of the problem is important, too.
Citing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' own figures released
last year, MacLeod and a group of campaigners known as “Hear Their
Cries” estimated that there have been 60,000 victims of UN sex abuse
just in the last decade. They also estimate that the UN currently
employees some 3,300 pedophiles, many of whom have access to children
and “diplomatic immunity” to shield them from justice.
When asked by MacLeod whether UN boss Guterres believes legal
immunity applies to UN officials who abuse children, the UN spokesperson
gave what appears to be the first ever statement categorically stating that child abusers will not be protected by immunity.
“Let's be clear. The answer is no,” the UN chief's spokesperson said on
social media. “Sexual abuse is a crime. The United Nations does not and
will not claim immunity in such cases.”
Other former UN employees-turned-whistleblowers have cited the
culture at the UN as one of the reasons for the horrors. Speaking of
“predatory pedophiles” in the so-called “aid” world who abuse children
with impunity, former UN official Rasna Warah explained that “the
culture of silence allows such wrongdoing to continue.” Warah, who wrote
the book UNSilenced: UNmasking the United Nations' Culture of Cover-ups, Corruption and Impunity, said that this impunity was likely to continue at the UN — especially if the predators in question are senior UN officials.
“When in 2005, the UN established an Ethics Office, staff members
believed that they could report criminal or unethical behaviour
confidentially without being punished,” said Warah, who also suffered
retaliation for trying to blow the whistle on UN corruption. “However,
the UN Ethics Office has proved to be a channel through which wrongdoing
is covered up. Very few staff members who have approached the office
for help have obtained justice; on the contrary, many have been forced
to resign or been fired.” To deal with the impunity, Warah wrote in her column at Kenya's The Daily Nation newspaper that officials of donor countries should consider withdrawing funds for UN agencies.
The problem of impunity and persecuting whistleblowers at the UN is
well documented. When UN insiders have attempted to expose even
horrifying abuses such as widespread child rape by the UN and its
“peace” armies, the whistleblowers have typically faced persecution by
UN leaders, while the perpetrators are generally protected at all costs.
Anders Kompass, for example, the former UN human rights worker who
tried to stop child rape in Africa by “peace” troops there, faced
extreme retaliation for doing the right thing. After the persecution, he even wondered publicly whether ethics could ever return to the UN. He concluded that the answer was probably no.
Top officials are implicated, too. The UN “High Commissioner for
Human Rights,” Islamic prince and anti-freedom zealot Zeid Ra’ad al
Hussein, was a key figure who orchestrated the persecution of Kompass
and other whistleblowers. Hussein oversaw a vicious campaign of
retaliation and abuse waged against his own officials such as Kompass,
who blew the whistle on the rape of children by “peace” troops in
Africa. He also persecuted whistleblowers who exposed UN agencies sending sensitive technology to North Korea and another which helped Beijing target human rights activists.
Executive Director Bea Edwards with the Government Accountability
Project, which fights for whistleblowers, was outraged by Hussein's
antics. “And what of Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, the High Commissioner for
Human Rights who oversaw the reprisal? He remains ensconced in his
position. That was nearly five years ago,” she wrote,
citing Hussein's vicious reprisals against his own subordinates who
tried to do the right thing and stop the rape of children and the
attacks on human-rights defenders in China.
“So now, Zeid will step down without seeking a second term,” Edwards
continued. “It seems that no one has any use for him. Not his own
government, nor the governments represented on the Security Council. He
explains his decision to depart come August by saying that the human
rights climate around the world is 'appalling.' For someone committed to
human rights, this would be a reason to stay, but not for Zeid. In any
case, he will long be remembered as the High Commissioner for Human
Rights Who Retaliated Against Whistleblowers. We hope his successor will
be more responsible.”
Even UN employees are not immune from the predators in the UN — and
that is according to even left-wing globalist publications that love the
UN and normally shield it from bad press. “The United Nations has
allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish in its offices around
the world, with accusers ignored and perpetrators free to act with
impunity,” the far-left U.K. Guardianreported last month.
“Dozens of current and former UN employees described a culture of
silence across the organization and a flawed grievance system that is
stacked against victims.” When victims report the rapes or abuse, they
get fired.
While U.S. lawmakers have been suspiciously quiet about the
horrifying abuse they continue to fund with American tax dollars,
British politicians are turning up the heat. Senior Conservative (Tory)
Member of Parliament Conor Burns, who serves as Foreign Minister Boris
Johnson’s parliamentary aide, suggested that what has emerged thus far
is just “the tip of an iceberg in finding out what has been going on.”
“I believe that there has been systematic, organised and covered-up
activity going on over many, many years,” said Burns, who said MacLeod
needed to be taken very seriously.
Other British lawmakers and even Prime Minister Theresa May have
suggested that the United Kingdom would withhold funds from the UN until
it dealt with the wave of sex abuse and pedophilia. A handful of U.S.
lawmakers have also threatened to defund the UN's predatory UN “peace” troops, but so far, the massive U.S. funding continues to flow. Trump's latest budget proposal cuts the funding somewhat — with disgraced agencies such as UNICEF being cut off entirely — but U.S. taxpayers would still be the largest financiers of the dictators club and its horrific crime spree.
Unfortunately, the evil now being exposed at the UN was hardly surprising to seasoned observers of the UN. In fact, as this publication and others have documented extensively, the problem is systemic.
Everywhere UN troops go — Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas — they
have been exposed raping children, killing civilians, abusing power, and
more. In one town in the Ivory Coast where a survey was done, eight out of ten underage girls admitted to being routinely raped and exploited by UN troops. In that same country, the UN
and UN-backed jihadist militias who butchered thousands of Christians
with machetes violently removed the elected Christian president and put a totalitarian Islamic central banker in his place.
Even without knowing the ghastly history of UN abuses, it should be
no surprise that so much evil inhabits the halls of the dictators club.
And it is clear that “reform” is beyond useless. The UN was in fact
birthed from a poison seed — it's first Secretary-General, American
Alger Hiss, who played a lead role creating the UN, was eventually
convicted for serving as a spy of mass-murdering Soviet dictator Joseph
Stalin, one of history's most savage and murderous tyrants. Since then,
the UN has waged practically perpetual war on national sovereignty, self-government, morality, and freedom.
Rather than reform, there is only one true solution for neutralizing
the threat of the predatory UN: disband the dictators club and discard
its remains on the ash heap of history. Congress could help make that
happen by passing the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, also known as HR 193,
to quit and evict the global body. But overcoming establishment and
globalist pressure on Capitol Hill will only happen when enough outraged
Americans finally raise their voices to protest the UN's despicable
behavior. How much more UN child rape and evil the American people will
be forced to support, then, will ultimately be decided by American
voters.
Kimberly and James Snead,
the family that let Florida high school shooter Nikolas Cruz live in
their home, become emotional on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, as they recount
the day of the mass shooting.
Kimberly and James Snead opened their home to shooter Nikolas Cruz after the teen's mother died in November.
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Nikolas Cruz was immature, quirky and depressed when James and Kimberly
Snead took him into their Parkland home. But he was pleasant and seemed
to be growing happier, they said.
How the 19-year-old turned into a killer still baffles them.
“We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t know,”
Kimberly Snead told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in an exclusive
interview Saturday. “We didn’t see this side of him.”
“Everything everybody seems to know, we didn’t know,” James Snead said. “It’s as simple as that.”
Cruz still lived with the Sneads on Wednesday when he walked into
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 rifle and killed 17
people — the worst school shooting since Sandy Hook.
The Sneads’ son had asked whether his friend could move into their home
last Thanksgiving. Cruz’s mother, who had adopted him, died of
pneumonia Nov. 1, leaving him without parents. He stayed briefly with a
family friend in the Lantana area but wanted to move on.
The Sneads quickly agreed — though they realized he was extremely depressed about his mother’s death.
Five days before the shooting, Kimberly Snead took Cruz to the office
of a therapist she has been seeing. Cruz said he was open to therapy but
didn’t like medication. He took a business card and was figuring out
what his health insurance would cover.
James, 48, is a decorated army veteran and a military intelligence
analyst who served stints in the Middle East between 1988 and 1996.
Kimberly, 49, is a neonatal intensive care nurse who cares for premature
and ill babies.
They told Cruz there would be strict rules in their home.
“I told him there’d be rules and he followed every rule to the T,” James said.
The couple both grew up around guns and are comfortable with them, but they insist on gun safety.
They made Cruz buy a locking gun safe to put in his room the day he
moved in. Cruz had a handful of guns, including the AR-15 and two other
rifles that Snead said would be considered assault rifles. Cruz, a
hunter, also had knives, BB guns and pellet guns.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, posed in a bullet-proof vest in this photo posted to his Instagram account.
Snead thought he had the only key to the cabinet but has figured out
Cruz must have kept a key for himself. The family kept their own rifles,
bought after a burglary a couple of years ago, in a separate locked
cabinet.
They told Cruz he needed to ask permission to take out the guns. He had
asked only twice since November. They said “yes” once and “no” once.
Cruz’s mom seemed to have cosseted him.
“He was very naïve. He wasn’t dumb, just naïve,” James said.
He didn’t know how to cook. They had to show him how to use a
microwave. He didn’t know how to do his laundry and also had to learn to
pick up after himself.
He didn’t drive but bought a bicycle and rode it to work at a nearby Dollar Tree.
The Sneads had raised their own three boys and jokingly called the process of teaching Cruz “Adulting 101.”
They insisted he enlist in adult education classes run by the school
district and drove him to school each day. He didn’t have much time to
himself.
He seemed to be doing well and wanted to be an army infantryman. He was excited when an army recruiter visited school recently.
“What else could this family have possibly done to put this young man
on the right track?” said their attorney, Jim Lewis. “They tried to do a
good deed and it went horribly wrong for them.”
So far as they know, Cruz wasn’t particularly close to any of the
victims and they don’t know of any resentment he might have had against
any of the people who were murdered. They have no clue why he did it.
The night before the massacre seemed just like any other, they said.
Gunman Nikolas Cruz briefly stayed at this Lantana, Fla., home, before moving in with the Snead family.
Cruz had some odd eating habits. He quietly put a chocolate chip cookie
in his steak and cheese sandwich. He went to bed around 8 p.m., which
wasn’t unusual.
They said they were sure he was bullied; he was the kind of kid that would attract the attention of a bully.
He badly wanted to have a girlfriend and seemed lonely, they said. They
don’t know anything about rumors they’ve since heard about a breakup
with a girl, stalking or fighting.
They also saw no signs of animal cruelty. They are animal lovers, with
two dogs and six cats. He’d have been kicked out if he was mean to their
animals. Cruz seemed to love their pets.
On Wednesday morning, Cruz told them he didn’t need a ride to school:
“It’s Valentine’s Day and I don’t go to school on Valentine’s Day,” he
said.
Cruz had a “boxer’s fracture” in his right hand after falling on a step
in their house about three weeks ago. They now think he removed the
cast on his hand, the second he’d had, the day of the shooting. He’d
also removed the first cast.
Kimberly last saw him around 10 that morning before she left to run
errands. He said he was going fishing and was gone when she returned.
She went to sleep because she was supposed to work a night shift that
night.
Cruz sent their son a few texts that day. In one, he asked what classroom the boy was in. He said he was going to see a movie.
Later he texted he had “something important” he wanted to tell the teen. Then he wrote: “Nothing man.”
They have since figured out those texts were sent during the Uber ride
Cruz took to the murder scene. His last text to their son, as Cruz
pulled up at the school, said “Yo.”
They think Cruz moved out of the home of his late mom’s friend in
Lantana because of tension about his guns and a possible
misunderstanding about money.
Cruz told them he stood to inherit at least $800,000 from his deceased
parents. Most of the money would come when he turned 22, he said. The
Sneads have since seen paperwork they think supports the claim he was
going to be very financially comfortable.
Cruz frequently photographed his weaponry.Cruz thought the family friend in Lantana was stealing money from him
but the Sneads suspect she was innocent and he was just a victim of
common identity theft. They reported about $2,900 in fraudulent charges
on his debit or credit card.
Around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, their son called sounding panic-stricken.
He was safe but had heard shots fired on campus. He helped classmates
flee by climbing a fence to neighboring Westglades middle school.
Snead told his son to walk to Walmart and he’d come get him.
As Snead drove there, a SWAT commander called his cellphone and asked
where his son Nik was. Told him it wasn’t his son and he didn’t know
where he was.
As he kept driving and put two and two together, he became terrified
and called the commander back. Snead told the cop the last he knew Nik
was home alone with Kimberly: “I need a police presence at my house. Go
make sure my wife is OK.”
Snead called his son to say he needed to check on mom first and drove home: “I was fearing for her life.”
Kimberly was sleeping because she was supposed to work the night shift
that night. Law enforcement banged on her door with guns drawn, yelling:
“Put your hands up.”
When they asked where her son was, she assumed something terrible had
happened to her son but soon realized they meant Cruz. They searched the
house but already had Cruz in custody elsewhere.
After an emotional reunion of husband and wife, they were brought to
Broward Sheriff’s headquarters to be reunited with their son. They later
realized he was being questioned by detectives in case he was involved.
Investigators quickly figured out he was innocent.
As they waited, Cruz was led in to the building, handcuffed and wearing a hospital gown, surrounded by deputies.
Kimberly tried to run at him, James held her back.
“Really, Nik? Really?” she yelled at him.
“He said he was sorry. He apologized. He looked lost, absolutely lost,” said James. “And that was the last time we saw him.”
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The FBI and DOJ are not above the law and will be put on
trial if they abused the FISA process, says House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Nunes answered questions Sunday from investigative journalist Sharyl
Attkisson to explain the details of the FISA memo and the continuing
investigation into potential wrongdoing by FBI and DoJ leadership.
When asked why the Carter Page wiretap was so pivotal to the larger investigation of FISA abuse, Nunes said:
“It really boils down to this. You had a campaign. The Hillary
Campaign and the Democratic Party went out and paid for dirt. They got
it from Russians by the way. Then they used that dirt and funneled it
into the FBI.”
“The FBI then used that dirt to get a warrant on a US citizen who was
part of the other campaign. A limited role, yes. But still, to do that,
it’s wrong.”
Attkisson noted Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) declined to
be interviewed and claimed the FISA memo drawn up by Nunes and Rep.
Trey Gowdy (R-SC) were “misleading and omitted material facts.”
“Because we didn’t want to disclose any sources and methods,”
Nunes replied. “We tried to reduce the memo down to what we believed the
American people needed to know. What was most important? So we put in
the memo, the things that were used before the FISA court in order to
justify the warrant. Was there other information? Sure. But it wasn’t,
it wasn’t important in terms of the justification of the warrant.”
Schiff believes the GOP’s goal is to put the whole FBI on trial as well as Mueller’s investigation, said Attkisson.
“Yeah, well FISA abuse has nothing to do with, with the Mueller
investigation. As it relates to Department of Justice and the FBI, if
they need to be put on trial, we will put them on trial,” Nunes assured
her.
“The reason that Congress exists is to oversee these agencies
that we created. DOJ and FBI are not above the law. Congress created
them, we oversee them, and we fund them. And if they’re committing abuse
for a secret court, getting warrants on American citizens, you’re darn
right that we’re going to put them on trial.”
PATRIOT NURSE: "WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IN 'COMPROMISE' ON GUNS~
AND YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER!" Do you have soyboys in your life that are goading you into a fruitless
discussion on your right to defend yourself? Have you been told to
politely engage with uselss people in a parle on your rights? Just say
no, and say yes to standards.
Red Alert! Sen. Feinstein Introduces Bill To Ban All Semi-Autos Sen. Bill Nelson (D., Fla.) on Friday praised Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s
(D., Calif.) proposed assault weapons ban for its lengthy definition of
“assault weapon.”
https://www.infowars.com/dem-senator-...
Dems Announce Plans To Repeal The 2nd Amendment Alex Jones breaks down the democrat establishment's plan to repeal the
2nd Amendment in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Left Wants Your Guns After Fomenting Imperialist Massacres Alex Jones delves into the history of massacres and details the recent
phenomenon of copycat school shootings. The hypocrisy that the left
would want the average citizen's second Amendment rights after recently
fomenting untold bloodshed in other countries is as devious as global
governance gets.
Anti-Gun Lobby Planning March For Life Owen Shroyer lays out the hypocrisy laced within the intentions of the
left as they organize and plan a "March For Our Lives" rally in the wake
of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
Globalists Use Mourning Children To Advance Political Agenda Owen Shroyer exposes how globalist forces have been attempting to use
the kids who died in the Parkland, Florida school shooting to advance
their own anti-gun agenda.
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Here is yet another example of how Leftist “journalists” present news
articles designed to manipulate the public into holding the views they
want them to hold. The Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan M. Pitts calls
Hamas-linked CAIR “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group.” He
adds that “Guandolo frequently cites the claim that CAIR itself supports
terrorism, an assertion the group has repeatedly denied,” as if
Guandolo is the one making that claim, when in fact it comes from the
Justice Department. Pitts didn’t see fit to inform his readers that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refusedtodenounce Hamas
and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have
been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s
cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief
spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements
about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this,
but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets
telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed
virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or
implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United
Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
If Pitts were a real journalist, he would have framed the story in
exactly the opposite way: Hamas-Linked Group Tries to Force Naval
Academy to Cancel Counterterror Expert. But no establishment media
“reporters” would ever do that. Why not? Are they all paid off? Are they
all so thoroughly indoctrinated?
“Muslim civil rights group asks Naval Academy alumni association to drop speaker,” by Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, February 16, 2018:
The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group has called
for the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association to cancel a scheduled
speech by a Texas-based security professional it calls an “anti-Muslim
conspiracy theorist.” John Guandolo, a 1989 graduate of the Naval Academy, former FBI agent
and frequent commentator on what he has described as “the Global Muslim
Movement,” is slated to address a chapter of the alumni group at a
luncheon in San Diego on Feb. 21.
The alumni group chapter describes Guandolo on its website as ”a powerful, dynamic and highly credible speaker.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations disagrees, calling Guandolo
“an infamous Islamophobe” who has made unsupported claims against a
wide range of Muslim-Americans and others. It’s not the first time CAIR has opposed an appearance by Guandolo, a
former U.S. Marine. In January, Trevecca Nazarene University in
Tennessee canceled a scheduled presentation by Guandolo after CAIR
voiced its opposition. The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia
did the same with a scheduled speech by Chris Gaubatz, a Guandolo
employee.
Gaubatz is a vice president at Understanding The Threat, the
Dallas-based company Guandolo founded to provide “strategic and
operational threat-focused” training to law enforcement and others
interested in countering what he calls as a network of militant
jihadists in the U.S.
Guandolo frequently cites the claim that CAIR itself supports
terrorism, an assertion the group has repeatedly denied. He could not
immediately be reached for comment….
the gay-friendly animal rights activist and
feminist is a research fellow for the ERLC
and a contributor to The Gospel
Coalition:
"She might also – if she wasn’t a Marxist Manchurian
candidate using Jesus as a way to inject the church with rabid feminism,
animal liberation theology and general theological ugliness"
Karen Swallow Prior, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is the author ofBooked: Literature in the Soul of Me(T.S.
Poetry Press) and serves on the faith advisory council of the Humane
Society of the United States. She and her husband, Roy, serve as deacons
in their church and keepers of their 100-year-old homestead, where they
live with their horses and dogs—and, more recently, Karen's mom and
dad.
EXCERPT: "Prior is a Research Fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Senior Fellow with
Liberty University's Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, and
a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the
United States."
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Karen Swallow Prior is a radical animal rights activist who believes animals go to Heaven because naming them gives them personhood, says she’s more upset over animal abuse than abortion, says abortion isn’t murder and calling it such is unchristlike, promoted erotic gay literature, and has attended gay fundraisers and uses gay-affirming language. She calls herself a feminist and attacks complementarianism as unbiblical. Karen Swallow Prior is also a professor at Liberty University and a
research fellow for the leftist Southern Baptist organization, the
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). The ERLC has been
striving ardently to push amnesty for illegal aliens, and its president,
Russell Moore, serves on the globalist Evangelical Immigration Table, which is funded by George Soros. In fact, the ERLC has even been caught retweeting anti-borders globalist propaganda produced by Soros. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that Karen Swallow Prior
(associated as she is with the ERLC), has been busy promoting an
open-borders, globalist position on immigration that is disguised as
Christian charitability.Of course, progressive-left faux-Christianity
is always disguised as bleeding heart Christian charitability, so we
should see it as of little surprise. Swallow Prior wrote an article for The News and Advancealong
with one of her students who is an illegal immigrant. The article
guilt-shames Christians for not doing enough to help those in the
country illegally, known as DREAMers.
The term, “DREAMer” comes from a 2001 piece of legislation and
references the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors
(Dream) Act. The Act was never passed by Congress and the DREAMers (the
minors it references) are not protected by any enacted law. In other
words, “DREAMers” don’t really exist because the Development, Relief,
and Education for Alien Minors Act was never passed into law. The
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was a highly
unconstitutional executive action by President Obama that would
prioritize enforcing immigration law on childhood arrivals last, thus
effectively legislating by executive fiat what was never passed by
Congress.
The ERLC’s Russell Moore, the Progressive Liberals as the Social
Gospel Coalition, Karen Swallow Prior and their acolytes (all of which
are in one way or another beneficiaries of George Soros) have been
trying to convince evangelical Christians that it is our responsibility
to overthrow existing law, embrace illegal immigration as a Christian
duty, and allow the executive branch of government to go unchecked.
Prior wrote the article with Bruno Yupanqui, who is a high school
English teacher and a student of Swallow Prior’s at Liberty University.
Yupanqui is an illegal immigrant, meaning that he came here criminally,
against the laws of the United States and he remains here illegally,
against the laws of the United States. Yupanqui writes:
…I don’t know how much longer I have to continue
defending my humanity. I don’t know how much more I have to clarify that
I’m more than just a statistic, whether that’s used positively or
negatively. I don’t know how much more I have to continue telling others
that I am American.
Because I am.
I am American when I teach students about Hawthorne’s
short stories, or brag about how much the English language has changed
over its life, from old to middle to modern. I am American when I donate
money to just causes or donate blood two or three times a year. I was
American when I purchased my first car on July 4, 2013, and when I
bought a newer model exactly three years later.
Sadly, Yupanqui doesn’t know what it means to be an American. He
thinks teaching English literature, donating blood or spending money
here makes someone an American. In fact, three things make a nation;
laws, borders and language. Without laws, borders and a common language
there is no such thing as a nation-state. Yupanqui seems to have a grasp
of our common language, but he is in violation of both our laws and
borders. He has not taken a loyalty oath to the United States
Constitution. He has not taken a test on the United States Constitution,
as is required of immigrants who apply for Citizenship legally. He
continues:
I have always been American, but it was Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) that made it official, however temporary.
Actually, not. Yupanqui has not always been an American, is not an
American now and never has been. I mean that in the most literal of
ways. In no meaningful, legal, constitutional, or real way is he an
American; he is a foreign national living illegally in America. There is
a difference between the two. Furthermore, DACA made nothing –
absolutely nothing – official. It didn’t make a single person a Citizen.
It simply meant that a United States President, who took an oath to
uphold the Constitution, chose to use his power of the Justice
Department to order them to make enforcing U.S. law when it comes to
childhood arrivals the last departmental priority. It made literally
nothing official, and that’s the problem.
Then, the feminist, Karen Swallow Prior, writes:
Furthermore, as a Christian, I cannot ignore my neighbor
Bruno — nor his fellow DACA recipients. Bruno is not only my former
student; he is my brother in Christ, one who has served at my own
church. Protecting Dreamers aligns with what the Bible tells us: All
immigrants are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and deserve to be treated with dignity. Whatever policies we think best to advocate, Christians must not fail in this.
Of course, we Christians don’t want to ignore “Bruno,” nor do we want
to ignore the sin of violating a nation’s laws and borders. While Bruno
may be a “brother in Christ” (we strongly question whether or not
Swallow Prior is a rightful judge of such things, her own Christianity
being greatly suspect), there is absolutely no reason why being made in
the image of God (which can be said of every criminal on the planet)
means that we have to provide a path to Citizenship for people who are
here against our nations’ legal provisions.
Swallow Prior makes statements that – at face value – all Christians
can agree with. All people are made in God’s image and all people are
due dignity. But what Prior means it is somehow our Biblical
responsibility to show dignity by giving people an undeserved
Citizenship and ignore the rule of law. The documentedly wicked woman
writes:
Bruno has shared with me that his experiences of being
undocumented, of hearing others (including fellow Christians) speak
degradingly and derisively of “illegals,” has made him wonder why he
would be considered an enemy rather than a brother in the faith. He has
wondered why those with whom he worshipped, prayed and broke bread would
treat the foreigners in their land so differently than the Bible
commands.
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Christians have a theological view of the world that is given us by the Holy Scriptures. Our epistemology, that is what we believe is true and why,
is predicated upon our conviction that the 66 books known as the ‘Holy
Bible’ is inspired, inerrant, sufficient, and true. In the overarching
worldview through which we see history, current events, and the world at
large, Christians have room to accommodate the notion of evil. In fact,
a primary doctrine of Christian theology for thousands of years has
been the core belief that man is essentially bad. Mankind is a race of
fallen creatures, suffering from the disease of wickedness which we have
inherited from Adam. This negative anthropology is as much the heart of
our religion as the solution to such a problem, who is Jesus. If we
weren’t inherently bad, we wouldn’t need a Savior who is inherently
good, who could reach into time and space and give us new natures that
aren’t depraved.
Paul wrote it best in Romans 3, in which he painted an abysmal picture of the heart of man:
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
This view of mankind as essentially evil is in stark contrast to the
collective wisdom of our modern age, which holds to John Locke’s tabula
rasa theorem that man is born with a blank slate. Locke’s hypothesis was
a departure from classical Christian thought that man is born evil. It
is peculiar, then, that the American Founding Fathers considered so
heavily the work of Locke when designing our system of governance, which
is contrastingly formed upon the Christian notion that people are
naturally evil. The Federalist Papers 51 addressed the topic of human depravity in
relation to government head-on, and the famous quotation is most often
attributed to James Madison:
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It
may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be
necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government
itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were
angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men,
neither external nor internal controls on government would be
necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men
over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the
government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to
control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary
control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the
necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Human nature, according to the Federalists, was inherently wicked.
Because mankind does not consist of angels, it must have government.
Because government is comprised of men, government must be limited,
because even the governors are wicked. Therefore, the Founders saw fit
to install a form of government in which the wickedness of man is
checked and balanced at all levels, both for the governed and for the
governors. However, 21st Century American society has largely abandoned the
negative Christian anthropology and adopted an indomitably positive
anthropology that believes men – in general – are innately good. So
then, when tragedies happen like what occurred this week at a Parkland,
Florida public school, Christians and secularists have startlingly
different perspectives on the problem and thus, the solution.
Secularists have no theological framework to accommodate for the notion
of evil. Postmodern in philosophy, secularists don’t believe in an
absolute truth, and without absolute truth, there’s no such thing as
immutable morality. With postmodern philosophy, what is “right” and
“wrong” becomes little more than subjective opinion. Likewise,
secularists have no theological framework to accommodate for evil
because they are evolutionist in their biology. If there is no God,
there is no Law Giver, and if there is no Law Giver, there is no law.
And if there is no Law, there is no “evil,” in any real or meaningful
sense. Therefore, both philosophically and biologically, secularists
have to find different reasons for mass murder besides sheer wickedness.
Christians, much more easily, call such behavior “wickedness, sin,
depravity, or evil.”
For secularists, there must be some reason why this gunman murdered
17 innocent people other than that he is evil. Facts that have surfaced
which lead one to believe the shooter was paranormally influenced by
Satan, such as the Daily Mail reporting
he heard the voices of demons or that he cut himself and banged his
head against the wall, are dismissed by secularists as nothing but
mental illness. Testimonies from classmates that he was “dark,” “evil,”
or “demonic” are quickly overlooked as synonyms for “crazy.” And while
the use of prescribed psychotropic drugs is a clear common denominator
among almost all mass shooters – including this one – our secular
society assumes that such prescriptions are the source of the problem
and not a mere symptom of it.
For other secularists, the problem isn’t only mental illness but it
is a crime-investigation system that is dysfunctional. The FBI was
warned that he publicly stated on YouTube that he was going to be a
school shooter, and they didn’t forward the concern on to the local
field office that could investigate further. His Instagram account was a
vocal cry for help. He conducted training exercises with a supposed
White Nationalist group. He bragged about hurting animals. He had taken
ammunition and other contraband to school. He wasn’t even allowed to
school with a backpack because of the obviousness of his threats. He was
abusive to his girlfriend. He was expelled for fighting. He was a
“Peeping Tom,” a stalker, and stopped his mental health treatment. He
has a sibling who has suffered from mental illness. If someone could
compile a list of warning signs, the gunman’s page would set a record
for “should have seen this coming.” In fact, his classmates are on
record as vocally supposing it was him even during the shooting.
For anyone paying attention to the failure of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, they might include “law enforcement incompetency” as
another reason why this tragedy occurred.
For even more secularists, the problem is the easy access to
firearms. Like so many other mass shooters, this gunman chose as his
weapon the most widely-owned rifle in America, the AR-15. It is a black,
scary, and ominous looking rifle. For many, it doesn’t matter that this
rifle has the same functionality as any semi-automatic rifle that is
commonplace in more than forty million homes. It doesn’t matter, to
many, that this carbine has no better functionality to kill than most
hunting rifles. To those secularists, the problem isn’t that the gunman
was evil; it’s that the gun itself was evil. Oddly enough, even a
secular society can see evil within inanimate objects, even though they
aren’t capable of seeing evil within the hearts of men. This is because
for secularists, there really is no “heart” at all in an evolutionary
view of humanity; there is only the brain, and that brain isn’t evil
(because evil requires a good, and good is subjective), but it must be
mentally ill. So then, Parkland Florida students and certain members of
the community are shouting “shame on you” to legislators for not doing more to curb Second Amendment freedoms because to them, it’s the guns that are the problem.
However, for Christians, we recognize that sometimes the problems in
someone’s head are nothing but an extension of the problems in someone’s
heart. We recognize that some people are wicked, and they don’t shoot
up innocent people because they’re driven to by madness, but by sheer
hatred. More often than not, these mass murderers commit their crimes
with cold calculation and forethought in a way that a truly mentally ill
person is incapable. Their minds are functioning at high capacity; it
is their soul that is ill.
Likewise, Christians recognize that if one evil man is a danger, then
a hundred wicked men are even worse. We recognize that a society
without a means to protect itself from a government that is more wicked
than this mass murderer, it will lead to only more carnage but on a much
more massive scale. We recognize that the words of Madison are still
true, that it’s because of the evil of human nature that the Citizenry
must always be prepared to curtail the power of a government that is
comprised of men, who from time to time are capable of extreme
wickedness. We, as Christians, are not blind to world history, in which
an unarmed Citizenry has been murdered far more efficiently and
methodically than this gunman could ever have imagined. This man’s
offense pales in comparison to that of Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler,
Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Pasha, Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Yahya Kahn and
those mass murders conducted by countless warlords and despots even
today, in smaller numbers and more easily overlooked because of their
unfortunate impertinence to American life, but far more orderly and
successful than any school shooting in the United States. We believe
that evil on a small scale should not overshadow the possibility of evil
on a large scale, perhaps even conducted by a legally constituted
government.
It is the negative Christian anthropology that allows us to blame
certain actions upon the not-overly-simplistic reality of evil that
makes us unwilling to give up our only earthly defense against it, which
is the use of force. Because we recognize that there will always be
wolves, we refuse to turn ourselves into unarmed sheep. For the
secularist who believes ultimately that the government is the closest
thing to God in the world, they hold out optimistic hope that with
enough laws and government control, tragedies will not occur. In doing
so, they tragically overlook the reality that more times than not, the
government itself can be a far greater evil. We Christians believe that
evil will be in this world until Jesus comes in his fullness, and until
then, we have to be realists and prepare ourselves to confront it.
From a Christian worldview, the ownership of weapons is a necessary
protection against evil. While it is true that Jesus told Peter to put
away His sword because he must be crucified for the sins of the world (Matthew 26:52), he told them that very night to buy a sword in advance of their coming persecution (Luke 22:36). While Jesus’ exhortation that we turn the cheek from insult (Matthew 5:39)
has been taken by pacifists (defined by JD’s dictionary as “those who
let others die for their lives and liberties”) to be the locus classicus
text for passive non-resistance, a robust theology of persecution
reveals that the thrice-holy God has indeed called his people to
self-defense, protection of the innocent through violent means, and
promotion of the general welfare through war. There is no logical reason
to believe that God’s call to arms throughout Scripture has been
abrogated in this current dispensation, for God does not change (Malachi 3:6) and his Word is immutable (Hebrews 6:17).
Furthermore, the call to martyrdom that we see repeated throughout the
New Testament does not imply that our death for the sake of the cross be
a peaceful surrendering of ourselves over to injustice or voluntary
death.
A thorough analysis of God’s divine hand guiding the body-politic of
ancient Israel reveals an understood right of self-defense. We are to
deliver the innocent from those that seek them harm (Proverbs 8:4). While murder is clearly prohibited (Leviticus 24:16-17), the taking of a murderer’s life is not prohibited and neither is it murder (Genesis 9:6). The qualifying distinctions between killing and murder are found in places like Exodus 21, Numbers 35, and Deuteronomy 19.
In the commonwealth laws of Israel, delivered by God, one had the right
to take the life of one breaking into their home in the night (Exodus 22:2).
The general equity of this Old Testament law (to use words from the
London Baptist and Westminister Confession) – that is, what is moral,
universal and perpetual in nature – is that it is morally acceptable to
take the life of one who will harm the innocent.
Even though our enemies are not flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12),
the same is true for the Israelites as they were rebuilding Jerusalem’s
walls, when they were instructed to arm themselves for potential
conflict (Nehemiah 4:17).
The realization of spiritual enemies did not negate the reality that
there might be some people in need of a good killing, and God’s people
were to be prepared to fight back. When Haman’s plans went awry because
of Esther’s obedience, God’s people were instructed to kill those who
sought their lives (Esther 9:2-5). When Abraham’s family was in jeopardy, he raised an army and killed their captors (Genesis 14:14-18) and was later blessed by God for that action.
David’s hands were taught to operate a lethal weapon by God (Psalm 18:24). And while we do not trust in our weapons, but in God (Psalm 44:7),
this presupposes the ownership of weapons. On any given day, I may
carry a number of different lethal weapons, but my trust is in God that
they will fire properly, hit their target, or in God’s kind providence,
I’ll find their use unnecessary.
Although we are, indeed, sheep sent out to wolves, the Good Shepherd
never intended and neither does he ask us to provide a pacifistic buffet
of mutton for any wolf that would seek to devour us.
So then, it is because of these deep-seeded differences in
theological worldviews that we Christians refuse to be disarmed. We
recognize that evil people will always do evil things and that they will
find ways (guns or not) to accomplish such things. So then, recognizing
the reality of evil, we’ve chosen the best course of action to repel
that evil in the temporal realm; chiefly, this means having the right to
keep and bear arms, a right our Constitution says, “Shall not be
infringed.”
