Wednesday, November 6, 2024

New Department of Defense Directive: A License To Kill American Citizens?

New Department of Defense Directive: A License To Kill American Citizens?

By Tony Lentini

I was a West Point cadet on May 4, 1970, the day Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War and U.S. incursions into Cambodia. Four demonstrators were killed and nine wounded in the incident. Like the rest of America, my fellow cadets and I were appalled.

Over the ensuing 54 years I have helped a number of young people gain appointments to the United States Military Academy, and upon their graduation I counseled each of them as follows: “At some point in your military career you may receive an illegal order to kill your fellow citizens. Remember that you swore an oath, not to any military or government official, but to the U.S. Constitution. You must disobey any such order.”

That admonition has more relevance today than at any time in my life. Our most basic, unalienable human rights—freedom of speech and religion, self-defense, due process, equal treatment under the law, parental responsibility for our children, free and fair elections—are under attack, not by foreign powers but by our very own government.

Peaceful January 6 demonstrators protesting the highly suspect 2020 election were apparently setup by scores of FBI agents and Capitol Police to fuel the false “insurrection” narrative. Formerly suppressed video footage clearly shows the Capitol Police ushering protestors into the Capitol Building. Other footage shows these same protestors merely walking around inside, neither defacing government property nor threatening anybody. The only people killed in the so-called “insurrection” were unarmed Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbitt, gunned down by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, and Rosanne Boyland, who appears to have been beaten to death by another Capitol Policeman. More than 1,400 people have been charged with entering our own Capitol Building or remaining on the grounds. Many have been held for months in dismal conditions reminiscent of the Soviet gulags on the most spurious of charges. None received due process. Contrast that with the 2020 Black Lives Matter/Antifa George Floyd riots. These violent protests targeted 140 American cities with mass arson and property destruction, looting, assault, and murder, egged on by Democrat politicians who even posted bail for the offenders.

The FBI, our intelligence agencies, the IRS, Bureau of Land Management, Department of State, Department of Justice, and even our military have been weaponized against half the U.S. population and their choice for President of the United States. “America’s Mayor” Rudi Giuliani, 80, has been disbarred, sued for $148 million, and destroyed for daring to challenge the highly suspicious and abnormal 2020 election. Former President Donald J. Trump has survived two assassination attempts made possible by woefully—many believe intentionally—inadequate Secret Service protection and highly inflamed rhetoric by Democrat politicians. Rogue state officials have prosecuted Trump on baseless charges and attempted to keep him off the ballot. Attorney General Merrick Garland and his minions raided the former president’s home, issuing shoot-to-kill orders to the FBI.

Catholics, concerned parents and White males whose only “crime” was to join our military, have been vilified as “White supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” and threatened by the FBI, Department of Defense, and other federal agencies without a shred of evidence. A military-wide stand-down to reflect on “White supremacists” essentially found none.

In contravention to U.S. law, government officials have thrown open our borders to some 20 million illegal aliens, including criminals, drug dealers, rapists, murderers, and military-age men from America’s foreign adversaries, including terrorist nations.

And now, just in time for the election, the Department of Defense has issued directive 5240.01. This unprecedented decree broadens U.S. military intelligence-sharing and cooperation with domestic law enforcement, empowers lower-level officials to act independently for up to 72 hours without obtaining approval from the Secretary of Defense, and permits our military to employ lethal force against American citizens “when lives are in danger” during undefined “national security threats.”

The directive authorizes “Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.”1

The directive appears on its face to be a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, signed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878 and expanded in 1956, 1981 and 2021. The law prohibits federal military forces from enforcing domestic policies within the United States. The Department of Defense has absolutely no authority to overrule a law passed by Congress and signed by the President. What’s next, violating the Third Amendment to the Constitution with forced quartering of soldiers in people’s homes?

With so many norms and Constitutional protections being turned upside down in America these days, this directive raises the specter of sanctioned government murder. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/11/01/new_department_of_defense_directive_a_license_to_kill_american_citizens_1069276.html

Tucker Carlson Brutally Mocks NY Times Reporter Who Asked About 'Proud Boys' Ties

Tucker Carlson Brutally Mocks NY Times Reporter Who Asked About 'Proud Boys' Ties

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We reported recently about how some leftist journalists are trying to play gotcha with prominent conservatives like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro. One of them, New York Times "technology correspondent" Adam Satariano, basically accused (or at least implied) that Carlson was a fan of the Proud Boys, a group that leftists describe as “far right.”

The reporter asked Carlson about his tie, of all things:

The inquiry read: 'In some Telegram posts from chapters of the Proud Boys, they discuss Mr. Carlson wearing black and gold colors at the recent MSG rally for former President Trump in New York.

'Members of Proud Boys have interpreted this as a sign of support for the Proud Boys, which use black and gold as their official colors...was Mr. Carlson's choice of wearing black and gold a sign of support for the Proud Boys?'

Carlson’s response was brutal:

Tucker’s answer was loaded with sarcasm:

He responded facetiously: 'Yes, this is an official Proud Boys necktie. I received it at my Proud Boys initiation several years ago, after swearing a blood oath to the global fascist revolution and the sacred principles of Q Anon.

'As you can imagine, I wouldn't normally admit this. The rules of secret societies being what they are, anything related to dress code is supposed to be confidential. But in this case, I've been outfoxed by your relentless shoe-leather journalism.

'Darn you, New York Times. You win again.'

Ha! Take that, Adam.


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The media has been terrible for years now, but in this election season, they have become absolutely shameless (see the CBS News fiasco). We at RedState have been calling them out every single day, because they deserve to be shamed. You can help us to keep doing it.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/11/01/tucker-carlson-brutally-mocks-ny-times-reporter-who-asks-about-proud-boys-ties-n2181413?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

What Alternative Reality Looks Like

What Alternative Reality Looks Like

by John Hinderaker in 2024 ElectionDemocratsDonald TrumpMediaMedia Bias

The New York Times, which is printed in some bizarre universe with superficial resemblances to our own, explained this year’s election to its readers in an email this morning. This is what the Times has to say about Donald Trump:

If Donald Trump wins, he has promised a far-reaching agenda that includes a rollback of climate regulations, an expansion of oil and gas drilling, the mass deportation of people who entered the country illegally, a reduction in military support for Ukraine, tariffs on all imported goods and a large tax cut.

Yup. That is why we are voting for him. But policy isn’t really the Times’ concern:

Yet his biggest break with American political history is not about any proposed policy. It is his rejection of democratic traditions that both parties have long supported. Trump refuses to accept election results unless he wins…

Trump didn’t refuse to accept the election result in 2020. He thought the Democrats had carried multiple states through fraud, and therefore initiated legal challenges. Just like Democrats often do when they lose. When those challenges failed, he said goodbye to the White House. So what’s the point? It is somehow out of bounds to complain about voter fraud?

…speaks positively about violence…

No he doesn’t. It is the Democrats who approve of violence. Remember the George Floyd riots? Democrats gave rioters special permission to congregate in public because their cause was so noble. The Democrats’ candidate for vice president, Tim Walz, refused for days to call out the National Guard while the city of Minneapolis burned, because–as he himself explained–he sympathized with the rioters. And Kamala Harris doesn’t just speak positively about violence, she helps to bail out violent criminals, so they can commit more violence–including, in at least one case, murder.

…and threatens to use government power to punish his political opponents.

Does this set some kind of world record for lack of self-awareness? Does the Times not understand that the Democrats have been using political power to punish their opponents for years? Most notably Donald Trump, of course, whom they have tried to imprison on absurdly flimsy grounds. But how about Elon Musk, explicitly punished by the State of California for his political views? Do these liberals ever think about the things they write?

He also vows to avoid the pattern of his first term by appointing loyal aides who will carry out his wishes.

We certainly hope so! That is what a president is supposed to do, and what Kamala Harris surely would do, with the help of whoever it is that has been running the Biden administration and now would run hers.

There is no way to reason with people who are this out of touch with reality. You can only beat them.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/what-alternative-reality-looks-like.php

Why Women Support Donald Trump

Why Women Support Donald Trump

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With just days to go until America votes on November 5, Democrats are demanding women “make history” by putting Kamala Harris in the White House as the first female president. As part of a closing argument, vicious, leftist men are out on the airwaves waging war on Trump-supporting women. 

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever," top Harris surrogate and billionaire Mark Cuban told "The View." "It’s just that simple. They're intimidating to him. He doesn't like to be challenged by them." 

Then, “Republican” former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Michael Luttig decided to weigh in. 

“It has been beyond my comprehension how or why any woman in America would vote for Donald Trump,” Luttig told CNN. “I know I would be proud and proud for America to have a woman president, a woman president in the person of the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris."

Stupid, false statements and smears. Let’s take a look at the record. 

Former President Donald Trump’s victorious 2016 campaign was helmed by Kellyanne Conway. As campaign manager, Conway, who took over for a fired Corey Lewandowski late in the race, successfully positioned Trump to beat Hillary Clinton by tearing down the Blue Wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 

During Trump’s first term in the White House, his West Wing was teeming with women. Not because of their gender, but because they were capable, smart, qualified and good at their jobs in service to the American people. Ivanka Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh McEnany, Dina Powell, Hope Hicks and Brooke Rollins all come to mind. There were more women and working mothers in senior positions than any other administration in White House history. Trump set the example and led the way. 

Today, Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is led by longtime political operative Susie Wiles. His daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is running the Republican National Committee as co-chair. His operation is packed with capable, smart women and his rallies are filled with thousands of cheering female supporters. 

“I’m told [Mark Cuban] needs help identifying the strong and intelligent women surrounding Pres. Trump. Well, here we are! I’ve been proud to lead this campaign,” Wiles shot back on X. 

“Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s 'hot stuff' but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women - With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong. This guy is such a fool, he’s constantly on Television being critical, and only for the reason that I tuned him out completely while President because he called incessantly,” Trump piled on. “I may, in fact, be surrounded by the strongest women in the World, including Heads of Countries, who make Mark look like a 'baby!' All strong women, and women in general, should be very angry about this weak man’s statement.”

Women support Trump and oppose Harris for a number of reasons. They don’t believe in abortion without limits. They don’t want men preying on their daughters inside locker rooms or stealing their scholarships in sports competitions. They want inflation to stop wrecking their household budgets and to be able to afford a home for their family. They want safe streets, criminals put in prison and violent illegal aliens deported. They're against Harris because they believe the first female president of the United States should actually earn her position through a democratic process, not through a coronation. And much more. 

“For a party that can’t even define what a woman is, shame on you,” former White House Domestic Policy Chief and America First Policy Institute CEO Brooke Rollins said in reaction. 

This isn’t difficult, and yet, leftists like Cuban and Luttig can’t seem to get these concepts through their thick skulls. Millions of American women have voted for Trump before and they’re about to do it again. 

https://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2024/11/01/trump-supporting-women-dont-need-your-lectures-lefties-n2647129?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Bombshell Report Bursts Biden-Harris Claims That It's the Most 'Ethical, Transparent' Admin

Bombshell Report Bursts Biden-Harris Claims That It's the Most 'Ethical, Transparent' Admin

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A new report from The Public’s Trust is pouring cold water on the Biden-Harris Administration’s claims that it is the most “ethical” and “transparent” administration in U.S. history, calling it blatantly false. 

The 26-page report knocked down former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s comments in which she said the Biden-Harris Administration succeeded at “bring[ing] transparency and truth back to government.” It alleges that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have violated ethical standards and failed to live up to promises that it would be a scandal-free administration— especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psaki is also being investigated over "apparent conflict of interest while looking to leave federal service for a high-salary television job." The report blames Biden and Harris and states that the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Interior, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the State Department have also committed such violations. It also alleges that the Department of Interior (DOI) “has a record of cutting ethical corners in favor of special interest policies.” 

This comes after the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) released a report on Thursday finding the “Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan has betrayed the Commission’s independent mission by abusing her authority, trampling on the due process rights of regulated parties, upending the rule of law, and violating ethics standards to advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda.” 

Comer released a statement following the report’s release: 

Rather than fulfill her obligation to ensure the FTC adheres to its independent role, our investigation reveals that Chair Lina Khan abused her power and bent the knee to the Biden-Harris White House. During her tenure, Chair Khan abandoned agency norms, disregarded ethical standards, subverted due process rights by colluding with foreign regulatory regimes, and willingly became a political tool for the Biden-Harris Administration to carry out its ideological goals. It’s now clear that Chair Khan will stop at nothing to accomplish the radical left’s desired ends. If this conduct is allowed to continue, it will further undermine Americans’ confidence in the FTC’s role in protecting American consumers and the U.S. marketplace. Chair Khan’s term expired last month, and she should not be permitted to continue leading an independent agency. 

Meanwhile, The Public’s Trust report found that the White House lawyers acted as Biden’s personal attorney amid the controversy that followed the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. Additionally, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre and White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates potentially violated the Hatch Act. 

“Ethics issues in the Biden-Harris administration didn’t end with Hunter Biden and the president’s family," Director of Protect the Public’s Trust Michael Chamberlain, told Fox News Digital. "Despite their claims to be the most ethical in history, we’ve documented possible ethics violations in most of the Cabinet-level agencies, including confirmed Hatch Act violations, conflicts of interest, and all the hazards that come with having a revolving door between official D.C. and well-connected activist groups.” 

Chamberlain warned Americans to be careful believing future claims from the Biden-Harris Administration and left-wing media that paint them as a “scandal-free” administration. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/10/31/bombshell-report-dismisses-biden-harris-claims-that-it-is-the-most-ethical-transparent-admin-n2647063?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Once Joyful, Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthyite

Once Joyful, Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthyite

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In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments.

Yet in the modern era, it was not Trump who put large numbers of U.S. residents and citizens into "relocation camps," but liberal Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt who sent Japanese-American citizens and residents into them.

If Harris refers to Trump's supposed fascist policies during his prior four-year tenure, there is no such evidence.

Nonetheless, the once "joyful" Harris is ending her campaign by trafficking in lies and smears reminiscent of the Joe McCarthy era.

Recall that fascists hijack law enforcement and the military to suspend constitutional rights and punish enemies. But Trump did neither.

Instead, in 2016, a corrupt FBI went after Trump himself during the Obama administration with the bogus Steele dossier.

The FBI, which in 2016 had hired the faker Steele, in 2020, fused with social media to suppress accurate news reporting of the embarrassing Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Several FBI directors and intelligence officials -- John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe -- who openly sought to destroy Trump had a long history of either lying or feigning amnesia under oath.

Fascists try to warp the legal system. But Trump's own Justice Department selected an independent special counsel to investigate the invented Russian collusion accusations against him.

In contrast, the Biden Justice Department coordinated with Georgia prosecutors Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James to prosecute Trump, bankrupt him, and keep off the campaign trail.

Fascists use their governments to destroy their enemies.

For the first time in history, the House of Representatives impeached a first-term president twice during Trump's term. In another first, the Senate tried Trump as a private citizen.

A self-styled "anonymous" federal official bragged openly of deliberately, and likely unlawfully, leading a bureaucratic cabal to sabotage Trump's lawful executive orders.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, in collusion with other bureaucrats, deliberately leaked a classified presidential phone call to ensure that Trump was impeached.

Fascists seek to change existing laws to destroy opponents and illegally consolidate power.

Currently, it is only the Democrats who seek to pack the court, destroy the Electoral College, end the Senate filibuster, and create two new states and thus gain four left-wing senators.

In key states, they radically changed voting laws.

As a result, roughly 70 percent of 2020 voters did not cast their ballots in person on Election Day, even as the traditional rejection rates for fraudulent ballots mysteriously dived amid the influx.

Fascists arbitrarily nullify any laws they feel do not aid their agendas. Biden-Harris destroyed immigration law to bring in more than 12 million illegal aliens and gain new constituencies.

They also protected sanctuary cities, as some 600 such jurisdictions illegally and with impunity nullified federal immigration laws in a neo-Confederate fashion.

Fascists seek to politicize the military.

But in Trump's case, his former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, brazenly violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice by libeling Trump as a fascist.

Worse still, Milley sabotaged the chain of command by ordering theater commanders to report directly to him during serious crises.

And in near-treasonous fashion, Milley contacted his Chinese communist counterpart in the People's Liberation Army to assure him that he would warn the Chinese military before carrying out any Trump order he felt existentially dangerous.

Some of the most prominent retired four-star military officers --again in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice -- publicly smeared Trump as a coward, liar, fascist, Hitler-like, a Mussolini, a creator of Auschwitz-like death camps, and worthy of being removed "the sooner, the better."

Fascists seek to control and weaponize the media. So, Facebook and Twitter both conspired with the FBI to censure news accounts favorable to Trump. The major newspapers, social media corporations, television networks, and public broadcasting systematically and continually attacked Trump, censured his supporters, and fused with his opponents.

Why, then, the charges of Trump the fascist and Hitler reincarnation?

Simple. Harris's personal negatives are rising, and her polls are inert.

She has abandoned her prior run-out-the-clock avoidance of the media, her smiley "joy" campaign, and instead now embraces the big lie, while President Joe Biden writes off Trump supporters as "garbage."

Harris is now confirming to voters that she really can neither think nor speak well and has no consistent agenda that appeals to the middle class.

So, in final desperation, Harris is smearing Trump as a fascist, even though, ironically, he has been the target of fascist machinations from her own party and supporters for nearly a decade.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2024/11/01/once-joyful-harris-now-goes-the-full-mccarthyite-n2647085?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl