With all of the unrest happening in Cuba and in Haiti there are refugees seeking to come to the United States. Now, if we have learned one thing over the four years of Donald Trump’s Presidency it is that if you are not willing to take on any and all comers from other nations, especially those who are fleeing in fear of their lives, you are a nativist, a racist, and a xenophobe who does not like brown and black people. So imagine my surprise when I learned that the Biden administration’s message to those who are fleeing Cuba and Haiti seeking a better life in America was that they are not welcome here. Here is more:
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had a stern warning Tuesday for Cubans and Haitians thinking of escaping the ongoing unrest in both countries by sailing to the US: Don’t even think about it.
“The time is never right to attempt migration by sea,” Mayorkas said during a news conference. “To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”
Those who could provide what Mayorkas called a “well-founded fear of persecution or torture” would be referred to other countries for resettlement.
“They will not enter the United States,” the DHS secretary added.
It was not all that long ago that the left in general, and Joe Biden in particular, told us that this type of rhetoric was unamerican, that it was not who we are, and that because of this type of anti-immigrant rhetoric America had lost her soul. And now we hear nary a word from the left about turning away families who are fleeing for their lives. And this is not the first time the Biden administration has taken this stance, it was not all that long ago that Kamala Harris told Guatemalan migrants they were not welcome in America.
According to the Gun Control Act of 1968 a person under the age of 21 cannot purchase a handgun or ammunition from a dealer. This does not mean an adult under the age of 21 cannot own or purchase a handgun, they can buy handguns in a private sale, just not through a dealer. (You would think if there was going to be a restriction it would be the other way around but this is the Federal Government we are talking about.)
However that could be about to change as a Federal appeals court has ruled it is unconstitutional to prohibit an adult from exercising their Constitutional right, here is more:
A 53-year-old law preventing federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
A divided panel on the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Virginia federal judge’s ruling upholding the federal Gun Control Act of 1968.
“When do constitutional rights vest? At 18 or 21? 16 or 25? Why not 13 or 33?” asked US Circuit Judge Julius Richardson in his ruling. “In the law, a line must sometimes be drawn. But there must be a reason why constitutional rights cannot be enjoyed until a certain age. Our nation’s most cherished constitutional rights vest no later than 18. And the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms is no different.”
Richardson, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, went on to note that 18-to-20-year-olds “enjoy almost every other constitutional right, and they were required at the time of the Founding to serve in the militia and furnish their own weapons … Despite the weighty interest in reducing crime and violence, we refuse to relegate either the Second Amendment or 18- to 20-year-olds to a second-class status.”
The Biden administration’s war on the Second Amendment is just starting to ramp up so you can rest assured this decision will not go unchallenged, but for now chalk one up for the good guys.
Yesterday Politico published this article in defense of Joe Biden’s proposed plan to send people door-to-door urging Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Oddly enough, this defense centered around a game of semantics; according to the article this plan is okay because it is not government officials who will be going door-to-door but rather people hired by the government.
As troubling as the plan is, and as troubling as this defense of the plan is, it is not the most troubling aspect of the story. Buried in paragraph seven is this little gem:
Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.
As if it were not bad enough that the Biden Gestapo will be going door-to-door looking for people’s papers, and if it were not bad enough that Facebook is monitoring posts for COVID-19 related stories and memes, the government is now preparing to monitor personal text messages between individuals, looking for keywords I would imagine, so they can hassle Americans via texts. And you though the robocalls were bad…
FBI urges people to turn in family members
Back in June Joe Biden urged Americans to turn in their friends and their family members if you had the feeling that they someday might do something nefarious. Not that they had done anything wrong, mind you, but that you feel they might someday in the future.
Well, now the FBI is joining in on Joe Biden’s Orwellian vision. The FBI is now advocating people turning in their family and friends, here is more:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a tweet on Sunday telling Americans to report their own family members and peers for “suspicious behaviors.”
Here is more on the Tweet:
The tweet included a link to a government booklet that was first written in 2015 on “indicators” that someone may be contemplating violent action.
The booklet also states several times that the “indicators” may be constitutionally protected activities, but if they are observed in combination with “other suspicious behaviors,” those indicators may “raise suspicions” and “constitute a basis for reporting”:
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emphasize that many of the indicators described herein may involve constitutionally protected activities and might be insignificant on their own. However, when observed in combination with other suspicious behaviors, these indicators may raise suspicion in a reasonable person and constitute a basis for reporting. Law enforcement action should not be taken solely based on the exercise of constitutionally protected rights, or on the apparent or actual race, ethnicity, national origin or religion of the subject, or on any combination of these factors. Individuals are encouraged to contact law enforcement if, based on these indicators and the situational context, they suspect an individual is mobilizing to violence.
Big Brother is watching…
Sunday, July 11th open thread: ‘Never Enough’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is The Cure performing “Never Enough” live:
Nancy Pelosi’s husband makes millions in tech stocks while tech reform bills work their way through the Congress
According to this story Paul Pelosi purchased somewhere in the neighborhood of $11 million in tech stocks over the last several weeks and it looks like he made millions in the deals. Terrific! Wonderful! This is what it is all about, I always want to see people succeed fairly and honestly in this country.
However, when your wife is Nancy Pelosi and you made these stock purchases while at the same time tech reform bills are working their way through the Congress it does call into question just how fair and honest these dealings were. Here is more:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, bought up to $11 million worth of Big Tech stocks in the last two months as an anti-tech package of bills makes its way through the House at the same time.
In May and June, Pelosi purchased $4.8 million worth of Google shares, up to $1 million worth of Amazon call options, up to $250,000 of Apple call options, and up to $5 million of call options for Nvidia, the large semiconductor, graphics, and electronics company, according to a financial disclosure form filed last week.
The stock transactions were completed just weeks before the House Judiciary Committee passed six bipartisan antitrust bills aimed at reining in tech giants such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
Paul Pelosi’s purchase of Google stocks, through its parent company Alphabet, have already netted him more than $5 million in gains after his $4.8 million stock purchase doubled in value to more than $10 million.
Of course Nancy Pelosi is denying she knew anything about this:
Nancy Pelosi said she was not aware of her husband’s stock purchases.
“The speaker has no involvement or prior knowledge of these transactions,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg on Wednesday, adding that she doesn’t own any stocks.
She doesn’t own any stocks?! Is all their money separate?! And why would she know of her husband’s millions of dollars in business transactions? Doesn’t the ordinary married couple spend millions without informing the other what they are up to?
Of course, in order to keep up the defense of plausible deniability in place Nancy could have told her husband at the dinner table one night what bills were working their way through the Congress and then told him not to tell her about his upcoming business deals. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink…
John Kerry violates mask mandate at Logan Airport
Despite the fact that Joe Biden claimed he was only “asking” Americans to wear masks for 100 days (although nobody has been able to explain to me how making something mandatory was considered “asking”) the Federal mask mandate remains in place. Of course part of that mandate means that you must wear a mask while on public transportation and at airports and the like.
Apparently that only depends on who you are: You might remember back in March John Kerry was caught violating the Federal mask mandate while on an airplane. He defended himself by saying that he only pulled the mask down for a second and somebody just happened to snap a picture at the opportune time.
Well, now he has been caught again and this time it might not be so easily explainable. This time he was caught walking through Logan Airport and going through the metal detector sans mask.
It’s good to be the King…
New York Governor declares gun violence a public health crisis, seizes emergency powers
I really do hate to be the guy who says I told you so but back when Donald Trump was threatening to declare a national emergency at the Southern border to circumvent the Congress and fund the border wall through fiat I warned people that eventually a Democrat would be back in the White House and he or she could use Donald Trump’s example to declare global warming or gun control a national emergency to push forward his or her radical agenda.
It did not take Nancy Pelosi long to come to the same conclusion back in 2019 and now New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is making a test run of his own, preparing the way for a national emergency declaration if all goes well. The would-be dictator has declared gun violence in his State to be a public health crisis and has usurped emergency powers to fight the epidemic. Here is more:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued the first-in-the-nation Executive Order declaring gun violence in New York as a Disaster Emergency — the first step in a comprehensive plan that aims to tackle the surge in gun violence throughout the state.
The disaster emergency status will allow the state to address the gun violence crisis by expediting money and resources to communities so they can begin targeting gun violence immediately.
This new strategy treats gun violence as a public health crisis, using short-term solutions to manage the immediate gun violence crisis and reduce the shooting rate, as well as long-term solutions that focus on community-based intervention and prevention strategies to break the cycle of violence.
Here are some of the key points:
Treat gun violence like the emergency public health it is;
Target hotspots with data and science;
Positive engagement for at-risk youth;
Break the cycle of escalating violence;
Get illegal guns off the streets;
Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people;
Rebuild the police-community relationship
What is the reason the police-community relationship needs to be rebuilt for in the first place? Could it be Democratic politicians supporting the defund movement? But I digress…
It sounds all very well and good on the surface but we know what is going to happen when more and more of the States start following suit, and then what will happen when the Federal Government decides to take a crack at gun control through Executive Order…
You might remember that during the 2020 Presidential campaign whenever a question came up about Hunter Biden’s illicit business dealings and the possibility that he was cashing in on his father’s name and position as Vice-President that Joe Biden claimed he never even discussed Hunter’s business dealings with his son.
Now new emails, with pictures, have surfaced and we are getting more details as to why Hunter Biden once called his Dad his “office-mate” despite Joe Biden’s calm they are two separate adults leading two separate lives. It turns out that Joe Biden did in fact host Hunter Biden’s billionaire business associates in the White House after all, and also flew then on Air Force 2 to Mexico so they could discuss a business deal. Here is more:
Joe Biden entertained his son’s business associates in the vice president’s office, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.
The then-vice president also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán’s son for meetings over a ‘flippin gigantic’ business deal.
The revelations, laid bare in photographs and emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, are the latest in a growing body of evidence calling into question the president’s claim that he never spoke about business with Hunter.
In the light of shocking documents uncovered by DailyMail.com from the laptop, the president now faces serious questions – not just whether he knew about Hunter’s controversial business dealings, but also whether he was involved in facilitating them himself while vice president.
Knowing Joe Biden’s mental decline it is very possible that he has no recollection of this meeting or who those people were, however this happened five years ago, before the decline really started to take place, so I am not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Doctor Fauci accused of HATCH Act violation
Things are going from bad to worse for Doctor Fauci, he is now being accused of violating the HATCH Act for an interview he conducted shortly before the election. Here is more:
A complaint against Dr. Anthony Fauci alleges that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) violated the Hatch Act—which prohibits government employees from “us[ing] his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”
The complaint, filed on Wednesday, was made by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), a non-profit organization “dedicated to promoting compliance in government and restoring the public’s trust in government officials.”
“PPT respectfully requests that you investigate whether National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci violated the Hatch Act in the course of conducting an interview with The Washington Post just days before the General Presidential Election in November 2020,” the group asked.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci’s evaluation of the two candidates running for President during his interview with The Washington Post on October 30, 2020 demonstrated a clear intent to use his influence as one of the nation’s leading COVID-19 experts to affect the outcome of the coming national election,” the complaint reads.
Honestly, I think we all know this is going nowhere…
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