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Mar 21, 2024 15:28:02   #
Biden’s Border Blowup
March 21, 2024
Victor Davis Hanson

Some 8 to 10 million i*****l a***ns from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since Joe Biden took office.

A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying they first needed legal sanction: “We immediately surge to the border all those seeking asylum.”

In contrast, we know legal immigration is America’s great strength, but it has always depended on a few key prerequisites.

Immigration must be legal and measured.

Why? Because only the host nation can adjudicate how many immigrants it can successfully accept and assimilate. It has no desire to encourage Balkanized tribalism so common in nations abroad torn apart by ethnic conflict.

America must have some knowledge of the background of immigrants, especially whether they have criminal records, belong to gangs, are importing drugs, carry infectious diseases, or can be self-supporting.

By contrast, if the first thing immigrants do is illegally cross the American border, and the second is to reside illegally in America, and the third is to obtain fraudulent identification to mask that illegality, then they will establish long patterns of illegal behavior and disrespect for their hosts.

In addition, immigration should be diverse so that large ethnic groups do not form permanent tribal sects in the fashion of the Balkans, the Middle East, or Latin America.

Ideally, the host should prefer immigrants who have some knowledge of the language and customs of the United States. And they should have some ability to be self-supporting so as not to burden American taxpayers or overtax and deprive social services from poorer U.S. citizens.

As for the host?

America must be confident enough in and knowledgeable enough about its values, customs, and traditions to demand immigrants integrate rapidly into the body politic of the United States.

Both the host and immigrants must agree on the basic facts of immigration.

Immigrants, not the host, have chosen to leave their native land to risk a new life and identity in America.

Therefore, the relationship is, by nature, asymmetrical. The host has a perfect right, indeed a responsibility, to impose its own values upon newcomers—not vice versa.

Otherwise, if immigrants do not absorb their newly adopted culture, why would they have left and, in some sense, rejected their homeland in the first place?

To replicate in the United States the very conditions and environment that they so eagerly fled from back home?

So the host must remind immigrants that they chose a completely different paradigm from their native country. And therefore, they must be helped to embrace an entirely new national identity.

Unfortunately, in the last four years, the Biden administration has violated every historical canon critical to ensuring legal immigration enriches the United States.

They have encouraged 8-10 million of the world’s poorest to flood the border and to enter and reside in America without legal sanction.

Most have no prior experience with American traditions, and few speak English.

Host Americans have no idea whether hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of the millions entering illegally have committed crimes in their native countries, or have any record of employment, or are sick, or are here to foment gangs and to import lethal, foreign-made drugs that k**l some 100,000 Americans a year.

Worse, we, the hosts, no longer believe in the melting pot that once made America the world’s only successful multiracial democracy, united by the laws of the Constitution and the unique values that emanate from it.

The combination of mass i*****l i*********n, without audit, into a country beset with $35 trillion in national debt, an existing 50 million residents not born in the United States, and without confidence in rapid assimilation certainly explains the disaster of i*****l i*********n that now manifests daily.

Joe Biden may think nullifying federal i*********n l*w is a smart political trick that, in the past, may have flipped southwestern states from red to blue or warped the census to give blue states more congressional districts.

Or he may assume that with 70 percent of the e*****rate now v****g through poorly audited mail-in b****ting, there is no real way to prevent foreign nationals from v****g for those who neutered the law to let them in.

But in t***h, Biden is unfortunately undermining support for all immigration, legal or otherwise. He is guaranteeing that more imported drugs and gang members will k**l more Americans.

Ironically, Biden is also alienating from the Democratic Party its once loyal black and Latino v**ers. They, not the party elite, must deal concretely with the consequences of Biden’s callous and cynical, ideologically driven policies.

Perhaps the left will only cease destroying i*********n l*w when it realizes that for each i*****l a***n it invites in, it will lose one or more once loyal Democratic v**ers.
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Mar 21, 2024 12:48:19   #
This is why you can trust the lying Democrats and l*****ts in California writing in the Los Angeles Times. Lots of projections here by McManus and the L.A. Times.

https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/577134

Several Trump campaign promises would conflict with California policies
Buckle up. The general e******n matchup between President Biden and former President Trump is set. And when he looks west, Trump promises to reshape California if he wins a second term.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has lambasted California — portraying the state as a dystopian failure brought about, he claims, by Democratic policies. For good reason

“It has become a symbol of our nation’s decline,” he told California Republicans last year. Because it's true.

Times columnist Doyle McManus took a look at Trump’s rhetoric and vows about the Golden State and wrote about what might be in store. Here are three of McManus’ takeaways:

Trump pledges to send law enforcement officials into California

McManus writes:

Trump says he’ll send federal law enforcement officers into Oakland and other cities to stop rampant shoplifting. “If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store — shot!” he said. Hyperbole

McManus adds:

He says he’ll close the U.S.-Mexico border on his first day in office — the day he has set aside to act as “a dictator” — and launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” A dictator? No, nothing like Biden. That's the best reason to v**e for Trump.

His Santa Monica-born immigration advisor, Stephen Miller, says that if Democratic states such as California don’t cooperate, Trump could order National Guard units from red states such as Texas to cross their borders — a recipe for constitutional crisis. As a California resident, I would welcome this. Bring on the constitutional crises.

Trump is focusing on California’s renewable energy, fuel standards and water supply.

McManus writes:

Trump has promised to scrap President Biden’s programs to promote renewable energy, including subsidies for electric vehicles and charging stations. His advisors have proposed limiting California’s power to set fuel emission standards for automobiles. Just because they propose something doesn't mean they will follow through with it

He says he’ll stop the state from allowing Sacramento River water to flow into the Pacific to protect the Sacramento Delta. “We’re not going to let them get away with that any longer,” he said. (Water experts say it would be impractical and environmentally disastrous to divert the river’s flow completely. Newsom has already suspended some environmental laws to send more water to reservoirs and is preparing to build a new water tunnel under the delta.) CA has passed several water bond issues, and yet, not one new reservoir has been built in forty years as the population has doubled in that time. The state is planning to destroy three Hydro-dams on the Klamath River. Lake Hodges dam is so old that water is being released because the integrity of the dam is in question.

Trump’s team may be better prepared this time around.

McManus writes:

His first term was launched with little pr********n and no detailed t***sition plan. This time, he’s likely to appoint a more thoroughly Trumpified White House staff and Cabinet, with fewer moderates applying the brakes. Good!

The Supreme Court, with three Trump appointees in its six-seat majority, is friendlier too.EVEN BETTER!

And pro-Trump policy wonks have already produced a 920-page handbook of policy proposals for a second Trump term, “Project 2025.”

Those proposals suggest that a second Trump term, like the first, would produce major collisions between the White House and California’s Democratic-run state government, McManus writes. CA is a one-party state, and the Democrats are trying to make America a one-party country.

“If campaign promises have any meaning, you’re looking not just at a second term; you’re looking at Trump on steroids,” Larry Gerston, an emeritus professor of political science at San Jose State University, told McManus. “The impact on California would be very real.” That's what it will take to undo the damage caused by Biden, Newsome, and the Democrats.

Some of Trump’s proposed ideas may still be difficult to carry out, Donald F. Kettl of the University of Texas, an expert on federal-state relations, told McManus. Of course they will be. But the hyperbole of Trump the dictator shouldn't be believed.

But Kettl had a warning: “At the end of the first Trump term, there was frustration among his aides that they had finally figured out what they wanted to do, but ran out of time. They’ve spent four years planning, learning from their mistakes and compiling an action plan.” Not unlike Obama, Biden, and the Democrat L*****t Progressives who have been at it for over a century, resulting in the destruction of this country.
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Mar 21, 2024 12:23:05   #
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-america-losing-its-mind

There are few things worse than being called “intolerant” or “closed-minded.” Who wants to be that? Isn’t it far better to be open to everything, dismissive of nothing? Well, not necessarily. Michael Knowles explains.
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Mar 20, 2024 22:12:21   #
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770030227390914624?s=20
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Mar 20, 2024 11:07:40   #
pegw wrote:
You have laid out the far right story. Most of what you say is just that, a story. You have some half t***hs. Like Hillary erased evidence, not her emails to dinner appointments and recipes for chicken, but her state department work. She said it was all personal stuff that was deleted. By the way, the FBI looked at her phone records before they were deleted. I just don't believe all your accusations. I think DA Willis was foolish to start a relationship with a coworker, but what was wrong with taking weekends with her lover? Weather Trump is guilty or not is not dependent on just who paid for the trips. It would be a real scandal if Trump had paid for the weekends.
You have laid out the far right story. Most of wha... (show quote)


You believe what the lamestream media regurgitates about Hillary. She is a known liar. Your conclusions are always a non sequitur. You can believe what you want to believe, but that doesn't make it so.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:24:20   #
https://www.johnstossel.com/podcast/?vgo_ee=7dcvkOtC5e%2F1WIkyQFzY%2BqD9XOy4whrsWDDx%2BRJhBO9Zqyw8%3AzGVA4Bp9Xgslf9RGg0%2Bp%2Fw4DahHlp3Cm

Ron Paul is my guest in this week's episode of The John Stossel Interviews.

He talks about Ukraine, runaway Inflation, running for president, and “Ending the Fed."

For more interviews, subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.

https://www.johnstossel.com/podcast/
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Mar 20, 2024 00:05:39   #
Trump Co-Defendant is Destroying the ‘No Widespread Fraud’ 2020 Lie in Court


Fulton County prosecutors have admitted in court that no signature verification was conducted on 148,000 mail-in b****ts during the 2020 e******n. Holy shnit-feathers!

It happened during a hearing in Harrison Floyd’s case. Harrison Floyd is one of the 18 Trump co-defendants who was indicted on RICO charges related to questioning the s****n e******n in Georgia. Since Floyd’s legal team just proved in court that the 2020 e******n was s****n, both prosecutors and the judge are suddenly trying to figure out some way to dismiss the case and get it out of the headlines as fast as they can.

Rather than accept a plea deal, Harrison Floyd and his attorneys have set out to prove that the charges against him are BS because the 2020 e******n was in fact stolen. Since Fulton County is trying to send Floyd to prison for years, his legal team gets to subpoena all sorts of evidence to try to prove his innocence. One of the things that Floyd’s team subpoenaed was Fulton County’s signature verification records from the 2020 e******n.

The reasoning behind this is an affidavit from Mark Wingate, a member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and E******ns (BRE). Wingate was one of the individuals who objected to certifying Georgia’s 2020 e******n results. In his sworn affidavit, Wingate stated that he objected to the certification on the following grounds.

Fulton County did not do any signature verification on any of the 148,000 absentee-by-mail b****ts in 2020. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners stated this directly to the BRE. The Board never provided the chain-of-custody documents that the BRE requested. The Board never provided dropbox surveillance footage that the BRE requested. And the Board never provided answers to the allegations of misconduct at State Farm Arena on e******n night.

Based on the lack of signature verification, the lack of chain-of-custody documents, the lack of dropbox surveillance footage, and no answers to the State Farm Arena shenanigans (where they pulled the magic suitcase b****ts out from under a table after observers had been sent home), the 2020 e******n should never have been certified in Georgia. Period.

During the March 1 hearing, Fulton County prosecutors explained that they could not provide the signature verification data to Harrison Floyd’s legal team. By the way, Big Fat Fani Willis was absent from the courtroom for this, because she’s got her own problems she’s dealing with right now.

Georgia has a system called Bluecrest that’s used to verify signatures. It sounds handy. You can take batches of mail-in b****ts and run them through the Bluecrest machine, and the computer verifies the signature on the outside of the envelope against your signature that’s on file in one of two places—either the DMV or your v***r r**********n file.

Floyd’s defense attorney told the judge that his understanding was that the Bluecrest sorting and signature verification system was not operational on e******n night. Prosecutors responded that Bluecrest was not used to verify the signatures on those 148,000 mail-in b****t envelopes.
Floyd’s attorney: “My understanding is now that the Bluecrest sorting and signature verification machine was not working?”

Fulton County prosecutor: “No, we just didn’t use it.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger should be immediately fired and prosecuted because of that exchange. Remember when the Georgia Secretary of State’s office did an audit in late November of 2020? They came back after that audit and Raffensperger claimed that there were NO PROBLEMS with the signatures. They had checked the Bluecrest data, according to Raffensperger, and the signatures all matched.

There was never any Bluecrest data to audit, because the machine was not used on e******n night. Raffensperger lied. The Georgia 2020 e******n should never have been certified.

But back to the courtroom. The judge then asks prosecutors if they can provide any b****t images that were scanned on e******n night. One of the prosecutors sheepishly replies, “Nothing was scanned, your honor.”

The signature verification process is necessary to ensure that mail-in b****ts are authentic. Without signature verification, it’s impossible to tell if a mail-in b****t was cast by the correct v**er, or if it was harvested, filled out, and signed by an i*****l a***n working in a sweatshop operated by the Mafia in Philadelphia. (Yes, that actually happened in Pennsylvania in 2020.)

Joe Biden’s f**e margin of victory in Georgia was a mere 11,779 v**es. No signature verification was done on 148,000 mail-in b****ts. We just want to preemptively congratulate Harrison Floyd on the fact that all the charges against him are about to be dismissed.

https://www.conservativenewszone.com/articles/trump-co-defendant-is-destroying-the-no-widespread-fraud-2020-lie-in-court
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Mar 20, 2024 00:02:36   #
continued


FYI, AN ONGOING ACTION BY EL SALVADOR’S NEW PRESIDENT:
President Nayib Bukele has declared a state of emergency and constructed a huge new mega-prison, the largest in the Americas, as the centerpiece. The prison will eventually house up to 40,000 inmates. Tens of thousands of gang members have been rounded up and the first group of 2,000 have been moved to the prison. President Bukele tweeted “This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, unable to do any further harm to the population.”

Dramatic photos online of “President Nayib Bukele’s gang prison” show hundreds of inmates in tight formations completely helpless and compliant. This is a prison where the inmates are neither running the show nor conducting gang operations from inside. Interesting

SOME CONCLUSIONS:
Ø All of this is sad news, bad news, getting worse rapidly, and a true threat to our safety and security.
Ø As usual, we are trying to solve a serious problem with a massive federal bureaucracy, and by throwing billions of dollars at the problem repeatedly and getting the same failed annual results; the true definition of insanity.
Ø Our most senior leaders in the executive and congressional branches have, are currently, and will in the near term fail to lead.
Ø No society can survive without law and order at the local level; that must therefore be the point of execution. At the local level investigate, find the gang members, arrest them, try them, and send them to prison. All the planning and funding must focus on that formula.
Ø We should probably begin to build more prisons.
Ø A lack of law and order is consistently destroying our cities and their economies.
Ø Arresting criminals with long rap sheets of 10, 20 sometimes more prior arrests flies in the face of the simple philosophy that if the criminals are off the streets and in jail, crime will go down.

The U.S. may have to consider using force in Mexico to take down the cartels. I absolutely believe it can be done. See the concept of operations at:
THE U.S. IS UNDER ATTACK www.WeThePeopleSpeaking.com Sep 4, 2023

HOW TO MOVE FORWARD.
The current problem is our president: First, he will not admit he has a problem that exists in his administration. If forced to address a crisis he will do so with the blame game. Most of the time it begins with, “My predecessor…..” as he did 13 times during his recent State of the Union address. Cardinal rule, “Blame” is the first fallback position of a failed leader. Then he will let the issue die out of focus and hope the left media comes to his rescue by dropping it from public view.

BOTTOM LINE: this cannot be allowed to endure.


PART 2, LET’S CLEAN UP THIS MESS
We should recognize that the alphabet-soup government agencies have proven they are, collectively, incapable of solving this problem with their current agenda. Every year, within the local, state, and federal governments we probably produce thousands of studies, have countless meetings spend billions of dollars, and watch the problem get progressively worse every year because NO ONE is in charge. There is no specificity and no focus associated with the day-to-day efforts. There are no identifiable positive results. No best practices are being shared from community to community.

Here is what we need to do:
PHASE ONE, 2024:
Elect a president who can lead, who can plan, who can act, and will kick ass and take names.

PHASE TWO, 20 January, 2025. About 4 pm:
Begin the process of focusing We-the-People on criminal gangs. Begin the process of changing the culture of law enforcement in America. Criminals, once arrested, should not be intentionally and immediately put back on the streets to commit another crime.

The new president’s first Executive Order should specify his or her intent and look something like this:

1) The level of lawlessness and drug abuse in this country is unacceptable and a growing threat to our national security. Therefore, I intend to rid our country of criminal gangs, cartel operatives, and drug dealers by focusing our efforts on identifying every one of them, arresting them, giving them a speedy trial, and, if convicted, putting them in jail, thereby dramatically reducing crimes of all types at all levels and simultaneously reducing the import, distribution, and sale of illegal drugs.

2) To accomplish this, I am hereby declaring a narrowly focused national state of emergency to curb rampant lawlessness across the country. It will NOT infringe on your day-to-day rights and privileges. It will NOT restrict your actions and activities. It will NOT raise your taxes. But it will require you to be a willing participant and to respect and support all of our first responders, law enforcement officers, and those prosecutors and judges administering the judicial system.

3) This will be a focused effort with all actions from families, leaders, and administrators at the local level to the Office of the President, seeking to take down criminal gangs, Mexican Cartel operatives, and anyone associated with the t***sport, warehousing, production, distribution and sale of illegal drugs.

4) Upon publication of this Executive Order, every gang member is hereby designated a criminal guilty of a felony offense simply by being a gang member.

5) What is a “gang”?
· A group whose members share an identity, typically linked to a name, and often some other symbols.
· Members view themselves as a gang, and they are recognized by others as a gang.
· The group has some permanence and a degree of organization and leadership.
· The group is involved in some level of criminal activity.
· This becomes the national definition. No ambiguity, no soft-on-crime individual states, cities, or communities.

6) The law: it is illegal to be a member of an organization, wh**ever size, that is engaged in criminal activity. One does not have to physically engage in committing a crime (for example, selling illegal drugs), simply being a member of a gang that does it is, in and of itself, a crime. Being a gang member is a felony offense. If convicted, jail time is hereby a mandatory sentence. We have to get specific about the law and its consistency among all the states.

7) Family involvement: Across this country, tonight every family, particularly those with teenage youngsters, should have this conversation: Jimmy/Susan, if you are a member of a gang, as of today you are a criminal committing a federal felony offense and you are subject to being arrested, tried and sentenced to prison. The point is that at the dinner table within a few hours of signing this Executive Order there is focused initiative in tens of millions of homes across the entire nation and the 33,000 gang structures are under siege.

8) Human intelligence, Humint, will be the center of gravity for this campaign. Definition: The center of Gravity can be a person, thing, circumstance, or situation that is central to the success of an operation or can cause it to fail. There are an estimated 33,000 gangs in the U.S. In order to take them down law enforcement must know who the members are, where they live, and with what criminal activities they are involved. Certainly, there can and will be some surveillance involved in fact-gathering. But the bulk of the information will come from within the community. People know who the gang members are, and will be encouraged to share their knowledge. But the bulk of the Humint will come from the members themselves.

9) Amnesty: Every community will immediately set up and announce a short-term (weeks not months) amnesty program in which every gang member, cartel operative, and drug dealer is offered the opportunity to make an appointment with law enforcement officials and in a confidentially recorded conversation denounce their membership, disclose the who/what/when/where facts about their organization and in exchange be offered amnesty from prosecution relative to past crimes in which they participated, except for murder. The main objective of the interview is to gather all possible information about the gang’s leaders. Acting on that information, the police should then arrest the leaders which will prompt the remaining members to apply for amnesty and effectively shut down the gang within days of activating this campaign.

10) At the end of the amnesty period, across the country, the mass roundup of active gang members, cartel operatives, and drug dealers will begin.

11) Prosecutors and judges serve at the will of We-the-People they swore to protect. They will use their power to the full extent of the law and if they choose to function outside the intent of this Executive Order, they should be removed and replaced.

12) Outside the bounds of this Executive Order, but still key to reestablishing law and order across the nation are two additional directives:

First, a too-often occurrence today when arresting an alleged criminal is to discover they have a ridiculously lengthy “rap sheet” with a dozen or even dozens of prior arrests. Therefore, it is hereby directed that a third misdemeanor arrest will automatically be recorded and prosecuted as a felony crime.

The second point has to do with minimum sentencing. If a gang member has been convicted of committing a crime and is sentenced, the minimum sentence will be two years in jail without parole just for being a gang member. A gang member arrested with a gun will receive a minimum sentence of 4 years in jail without parole.

As the numbers of gangs and gang members diminish, there will be an impact on illegal drug distribution. The FBI and DEA must go with the flow, and adjust plans and actions to take advantage of reduced foot soldiers to defeat drug importation, distribution, and sale.

Sanctuary states and cities are not excluded from any of the above directives.

The objective of publishing this Executive Order is to dramatically and simultaneously launch the law-and-order campaign in millions of homes and every community today. Tomorrow, actions should begin and will continue until the 33,000 gangs are gone from our communities.

Repeating the previously stated current statistics, the estimated 1.4 million American gang members are responsible for:
48.9% of violent crimes,
42.9% of property crimes,
39.9% of drug sales, and
13% of all homicides.
If we can get perhaps a million of them to accept amnesty in the next few weeks, the crime rates may be reduced to the point that our diminished police forces can effectively handle the remaining crime load.

The overall intent of this campaign is to create an enduring overarching culture of deterrence when it is time for teens to choose between law and order or a criminal street gang, they will think hard about the possibility of landing in jail for two years.

This must become the law of the land. No separate versions for the soft-on-crime individual states, cities, or communities are authorized.

Logically, the Attorney General and Department of Justice should take the lead for the following reasons: First of all, he/she is the existing senior cop in the country; no reason to create a new organization to do this. Additionally, two of the critical subordinate action organizations are already direct-reports to the Attorney General; they are, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

I request that every newspaper and news magazine publish this entire Executive Order at their earliest convenience. I want a couple hundred million Americans to have access to their own personal copy.

If this Executive Order, for any reason, becomes a partisan issue, we will be doing the American public a terrible disservice.

End of Executive Order.

Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army, retired, is the author of VISION TO EXECUTION, a book for leaders, FIX THE SYSTEMS, T***SFORM AMERICA as well as the author of a blog WeThePeopleSpeaking.com.

If you do not take an interest
in the affairs of your government,
then you are doomed to live under
the rule of fools.
Plato
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Mar 20, 2024 00:01:44   #
Here’s a plan that SHOULD be implemented!!!

March 17, 2024

Special Edition
CRIMINAL GANGS and CARTELS ARE COMING
TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU;
FIX IT

By: Marvin L. Covault,
Lt Gen US Army, retired
March 12, 2024

PART 1, WHERE WE ARE TODAY
The Problem as defined in some recent headlines;
· HONDURAS DECLARES NATIONAL EMERGENCY OVER GANG EXTORTIONS
· EL SALVADOR: THOUSANDS OF TROOPS SURROUND CITY IN GANG CRACKDOWN
· COLOMBIA'S 'CAPITAL OF HORROR' DESPAIRS AMID NEW WAVE OF GANG VIOLENCE
· GUATEMALA BATTLES WAVE OF MEXICAN DRUG GANGS
· MEXICO’S GANGS ARE BECOMING CRIMINAL CONGLOMERATES
· OVER 200 GANGS ACTIVE IN PANAMA
· THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT IS LOSING GROUND AS GANGS TAKE TERRITORY
· GANGS RULE HAITI’S CAPITAL, KIDNAPPING AND K*****G THOUSANDS

As we move through this discussion, keep in mind that there are three crisis issues inexorably linked together facing Americans every day; gangs, cartels, and drugs.

CRIMINAL GANGS IN THE U.S.
Altogether within the U.S., the FBI reports that some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs are criminally active with about 1.4 million members. The average size gang is about 42 and most of the recruits are ages 17 and 18. Many are sophisticated and well-organized. All use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, and fraud. To help curb the growth of gangs, the FBI, at the direction of Congress, established the National Gang Intelligence Center, or NGIC, in 2005.

Some of the largest gangs in the US include the Latin Kings, 18th Street, MS13, Bloods, and Crips.

T***SNATIONAL GANGS:
T***sitional gangs move us forward from the urban neighborhood street gang that controls a few city blocks and pushes a little dope, to something larger, more violent, and linked and aligned to more advanced and sophisticated crime organizations in Latin America.

MS13, for example, has become a t***snational organization in that leaders in El Salvadore have been sending representatives into the U.S. illegally, to gain control of local MS13 gangs. The representatives then connect the local MS13 gangs to leaders in El Salvador. This t***snational alliance, called “The Program”, or “La Programma,” in which the leaders direct the American MS13 gangs to become more violent and to control territory. The gangs accomplish this by k*****g rivals and extorting legitimate businesses run by legal Central American immigrants and illegal businesses such as prostitution and gambling. The local, U.S.-based MS13 gangs then send a portion of their profits to the leadership in El Salvador.

MS13 is the current leading t***snational gang example. It is the largest street gang in Latin America and one of the world’s largest and most violent gangs. The gang began in Los Angeles during the 1980s, formed by immigrants from El Salvador. The MS stands for Mara Salvatrucha, said to be a combination of Mara, meaning gang, Salva, for Salvador, and trucha, which t***slates roughly into street smarts. The 13 represents the position of M in the alphabet. MS13's motto is, "k**l, rape, control.”

MS13 is a t***snational criminal organization with more than 10,000 members in the United States. They regularly conduct gang activities in at least 40 states and the District of Columbia.

It is important to point out that MS13 is not the only t***snational gang organization in the U.S., the 18th Street gangs also continue to expand their influence in the United States. FBI investigations reveal these t***snational gangs are present in almost every state and continue to grow their memberships

GANGS vs SOCIETY:
American gangs are responsible for:
48.9% of violent crimes,
42.9% of property crime,
39.9% of drug sales and
13% of all homicides.
Gangs are responsible for close to 40% of homicides in most Latin American countries. A Portland study found that 49.1% of human trafficking victims were connected to a gang; 96.4% of the victims were female.

LAW ENFORCEMENT vs GANGS:
MS13 gang member apprehensions in the U.S. in FY 2023 were a trivial 178. In 2019 the FBI dismantled 217 of the existing 33,000 gangs; .0065%.

In 2020, 71% of gang members actively used social media to mobilize and attract vulnerable teenagers, video posting, bragging, and celebrating the life of a gang member.

WHO IS WORKING THE CRIMINAL GANG PROBLEM?
The National Gang Center (NGC) is a project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The NGC is an integral component of the Justice Department’s mission to provide innovative leadership in coordination with federal, state, local, and tribal justice systems to prevent and reduce crime. The NGC disseminates information, knowledge, and outcome‐driven practices that engage and empower those in local communities with chronic and emerging gang problems to create comprehensive solutions to prevent gang violence, reduce gang involvement, and suppress gang‐related crime.

MEXICAN CARTELS:
The current criminal landscape in Mexico is driven largely by the battle between the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS). However, three other major t***snational criminal organizations (TCOs), Los Zetas, Gulf Cartel, and Juarez Cartel, all contribute to high levels of violence.
· Mexican drug cartels are leading suppliers of f******l, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illicit narcotics to the United States.
· The cartels and the drug trade fuel rampant corruption and violence in Mexico, contributing to tens of thousands of homicides in the country each year.
· Since Mexico launched a war on the cartels in 2006, the United States has provided billions of dollars in security and counternarcotics assistance with limited success.

RECENT EVENTS:
Rising violence in 2018 helped propel President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, into office, with Mexicans’ desperation for basic safety a key driver of the v**e for change. He promised a seismic shift, ending the war on drugs with a concept of operations he calls, “hugs not bullets.” It has been and continues to be a complete failure.

As reported in 2019:
“The streets of Culiacan, the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, became a battlefield, with the Sinaloa cartel directly confronting the government and winning. The week before, thirteen police officers were k**led in an ambush in Michoacan, likely by the Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel. Overall, murders and kidnappings are at record levels and spreading through Mexico’s once-safer industrial heartland. Talk of Mexico becoming a failed state is again on the rise.”

Criminal gangs and cartels in Mexico, under AMLO rule are experiencing accelerated growth in seized territory, taking over elected and appointed positions in local governments, the murder of political rivals, and extortion of local businesses. K*****g of government officials, candidates, and political party members increased from 94 in 2018 to 355 in 2020. Good, competent people are reluctant to run for office, fearing for their lives and the safety of their families. The situation is driving Mexican families to the U.S. in record numbers; with about 30,000 in December 2023. Ironically, by diversifying into migrant smuggling, cartels are profiting from the locals who are attempting to flee from cartel control.

Mexico is disappearing one village and town at a time.
The common scenario: Armed criminal gangs and/or cartel operatives will enter a town in force, and start threatening, extorting, torturing, and k*****g locals until they relinquish all control. For example, organized crime groups operated in 16% of Mexico’s municipalities in 2017. Three years later in 2020, that number had increased to 29%. Some of these facts are from an exhaustive Wall Street Journal article last month on 26 February,

Cartels vs criminal gangs; criminal gangs vs cartels; cartel/criminal gang partnerships, etc. “Who’s on first?”
As the cartels continue at war against each other, Mexico's criminal landscape has shifted over the past decade, with splinter groups and more than 400 criminal gangs emerging. Those groups partner with and fight against the remaining major cartels that control much of the drug trade. That proliferation has been both a challenge and an asset for major cartels, but it has overwhelmed Mexican law enforcement. The worst news is that most of these criminal organizations have ties inside the U.S.

The “splintering” is in some cases intentional and operationally advantageous to reinforce a well-known and successful operational concept, “maximum centralized planning, maximum decentralized execution.” The Sinaloa Cartel, for example, has split into more than 37 "small and medium-sized cells." The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion operates with more than 36 cells around the country.

The proliferation of small gangs and the presence of powerful criminal organizations have overwhelmed Mexican law enforcement.

The criminal organizations in Mexico are extremely empowered by the fact that they believe there is no threat to them by the Mexican state.

It is generally held that by threats to individuals and/or their families or by choice many of Mexico’s law-enforcement authorities are actively and sometimes willingly participating in organized crime.

CARTELS IN THE U.S.
There are at least 13 U.S. cities that are used as distribution hubs by the Mexican drug cartels. These cartels primarily employ Mexican nationals to oversee their distribution operations in the U.S. Their second choice for leadership positions is U.S. citizens who are of Mexican origin.

This is where the t***snational gangs in the U.S. come into play. They are the in-place foot soldiers for the distribution and sale of cartel-supplied drugs.

THE IMPORTATION OF F******L:
The availability of massive amounts of f******l changed everything. Since it is so profitable and can be moved in such small quantities, f******l has made the cartels much more empowered, controlling, and rich, thereby overwhelming all levels of authority.

It’s encouraging to hear about U.S. authorities intercepting hundreds or even thousands of pounds of f******l at the Mexican border. That is until we also hear the Border Patrol authorities tell us they estimate that the recovery is only about 5% of what gets successfully into the U.S. and distributed throughout the country.

On average in 2023, 307 young Americans died EVERY DAY from drug overdose, the majority from f******l. Has your president ever mentioned this?

WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT THE INVASION OF CRIMINAL GANGS, CARTELS and DRUGS?
Let’s start at the top….
ü The President: President Biden is so fond of warning us about “emerging existential threats”, shouldn’t criminal gangs and cartel operatives make the list and at least rank up there with “MAGA extremists”?
ü The Vice President: Isn’t this invasion related to the 3 million Biden illegal “gotaways” at our nonexistent southern border? Should we expect something from VP Kamala, our border czar? Dream on.
ü Homeland Security: Isn’t this all about the national security of our homeland or the lack thereof? Where is Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas? Still AWOL?
ü The Attorney General: At its roots, isn’t this all about law and order? What have we heard from the nation’s “top cop” the Attorney General?
ü The FBI: In a couple of Congressional hearings this year, the FBI Director has mentioned gangs but only in the context of them as a growing threat, with no mention of a solution to the problem.
ü Drug Enforcement Administration: The mission of the DEA is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States. How are they doing? 307 Americans overdosed per day.
ü Congress: How about some specific, focused, Congressional hearing to get the above players activated?
ü The National Gang Intelligence Center: NGIC is an agency of the US Department of Justice established by the FBI upon order of Congress in 2005. The NGIC is a multi-agency effort that integrates the gang intelligence assets of federal, state, and local law enforcement entities to serve as a centralized intelligence resource for gang information and analytical support. Ever heard of them?
ü The Drug Czar: Dr. Rahul Gupta, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, ONDCP will have a $46.1 billion FY24 budget to advise the president, evaluate, coordinate, and oversee the international and domestic anti-drug efforts. of executive branch agencies. and ensures that such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities. Ever heard from them?
ü T***snational anti-gang (TAG) task forces: These FBI TAGs continue to work with international partners to eradicate t***snational gangs. The success rate is about zero- nonexistent.
ü The National Gang Center: NGC is a project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The NGC is an integral component of the Justice Department’s mission to provide innovative leadership in coordination with federal, state, local, and tribal justice systems to prevent and reduce crime.

The alphabet soup issue: POTUS, VPOTUS, HLS, DOJ, FBI, NGIC, DEA, ONDCP, TAG, OJP, NGC, OJJDP, etc. collectively equals tens of billions of annual tax dollars, thousands of bureaucrats, and untold laws and regulations. The problems get studied to death year after year with little or no action at the point of execution which is in every community in America. Case in point, with all that wasted money and manpower we apprehended a grand total of 178 MS13 members in the U.S. in FY 2023, while we lost, to drug overdose, on average, 307 young Americans EVERY DAY.

The drug policy experts tell us, “The magnitude of this calamity now eclipses every previous drug epidemic, from the 1980s to the prescription opioid crisis of the 2000s.”

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Mar 19, 2024 23:12:52   #
https://www.military.com/benefits/2017/02/23/va-burial-pre-need.html?ESRC=mr_240318.nl

Apply for Burial in a National Cemetery Now to Avoid Problems Later

Military.com | By Jim Absher
Published October 20, 2023

Many individuals would like to know, in advance, whether they are eligible for burial in a Department of Veterans Affairs national cemetery. To provide this information, VA performs pre-need eligibility determination to help veterans with burial planning and making sure their wishes are known.

VA's Pre-Need Determination of Eligibility program can greatly reduce stress on surviving family members in trying times.

You can apply for a Pre-Need Burial Eligibility Determination online from VA at any time.

What to Expect After Applying
VA will review pre-need burial applications and provide written notice of a determination of eligibility (a decision letter). VA will save the information electronically for future reference and to expedite processing burial claims at the time of need.

You should save a copy of all documents submitted and the decision letter received. It is also a good idea to communicate with one’s loved ones or estate planners where the documents are and about the preference to be buried in a VA national cemetery.

At the time of need, the next-of-kin, funeral home or other representative responsible for making final arrangements should contact the National Cemetery Scheduling Office at 800-535-1117 to request burial.

If the veteran didn't complete a pre-need determination request prior to death, survivors or funeral directors can request burial in a National Cemetery by faxing eligibility documentation to 866-900-6417 or scanning and emailing the information to NCA.Scheduling@va.gov.

Eligibility for Burial in a National Cemetery
Veterans and armed forces members who die on active duty are eligible for burial in one of VA's 155 national cemeteries. Other eligible veterans must have been discharged or separated from active duty under conditions other than dishonorable and have completed the required period of service. A U.S. citizen who served in the armed forces of a government allied with the United States in a war also may be eligible. Spouses and dependent, minor children of eligible veterans and of armed forces members also may be buried in a national cemetery.

A surviving spouse of an eligible veteran who married a nonveteran prior to Oct. 31, 1990, and whose remarriage was terminated by death or divorce prior to or on that date is eligible for burial in a national cemetery. A surviving spouse of an eligible veteran who married a nonveteran prior to Oct. 31, 1990, and whose remarriage was still intact on or after that date, however, is not eligible for burial in a national cemetery. A surviving spouse who marries a nonveteran after Oct. 31, 1990, is not eligible for burial in a national cemetery.

You can also learn more about burial and memorial benefits available for veterans and their families from our burial and memorial overview page.

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Jim Absher is Military.com's former benefits editor and columnist. He joined the Navy to see the world and later realized the world is two-thirds water. He also worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs in field offices and Washington, D.C. before coming to Military.com in 2015.
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Mar 19, 2024 22:43:08   #
California City Residents Just Fought Back – They Make 1 Historic Move to Punish Their Leaders
By Sean Kerrvin
March 16, 2024


L*****t Democrats have been running roughshod over residents in Blue cities for decades. Their radically “progressive” policies have caused higher crime rates, forced businesses to close, and prompted taxpaying residents to flee for safer communities.

Residents of these crime-infested cities that want to stay have had enough. They want so-called municipal leaders to shut down crime and return the cities to safe places that attract people to live and work there.

Separate groups of concerned residents filed lawsuits against one of the most notoriously liberal cities in the nation. They want a court to force city officials to fix the problems.

From the Daily Caller:
A group of residents in San Francisco’s most crime-ridden neighborhood sued the city over open-air drug markets and rampant homelessness, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of four unnamed Tenderloin residents and the Phoenix and Best Western hotels, alleges that city policies have allowed an open-air drug market to persist in the city and that officials have tolerated criminal activities in the area, according to the Chronicle.

The city was also hit with other lawsuits from both sides of the equation. The Coalition on Homelessness, a nonprofit assisting the homeless in the city, argued the city has been cruel in its application of homeless ordinances, and the University of California (UC) College of the Law, San Francisco, argued that the city has been too lax.

At the center of the city’s problems is the spike in crime in the Tenderloin district. Crime increased by 240% from August 2022 to August 2023, according to crime data calculated by San Franciso.

A statement from the city defended its efforts in reducing crime, disrupting open-air drug markets, and addressing homelessness. Officials stated progress is being made according to court orders. Plaintiffs in the lawsuits don’t appear to agree with the city’s position.

“The city blithely treats the Tenderloin as a place where this type of harmful activity can happen on the streets and sidewalks, and it’s inconceivable that they’d allow it in other neighborhoods,” Matthew Davis, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in both the UC College of Law San Francisco case and the Tenderloin residents case, told the Chronicle.

The city is a hotbed of social problems and questionable tactics used by the city to combat criminal activity and homelessness. The Coalition of Homelessness lawsuit in 2022 alleged that San Francisco has violated the Eight Amendment and its cruel and unusual punishment protections along with the Fourth Amendment by removing homeless people from public areas and seizing their belongings.

As city residents demanded more police to combat crime, officers claimed they were underfunded by the local government. The persistent problems in the city contributed to the San Francisco Bay Area losing 250,000 residents between 2020 and 2022.

It looks like lawsuits are the only way to force government officials to follow the law and do their jobs in these liberal cities.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.915062/gov.uscourts.cacd.915062.11.0_4.pdf

This poor bastard (and many others) all mistakenly believed they still resided in The United States of America, not realizing it went on life support during the 2020 e******ns and passed away just as the v**e counting was concluded.

He provided the t***h about Biden and Burisma now the FBI is charging him with providing f**e info even though the payments are documented and Biden is seen alive on tape admitting to it.
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Mar 19, 2024 20:22:29   #
WHAT A NASTY, DISTURBED LITTLE B***H!!! (But I agree with her on this one!)


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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/ai-sued-suit-defamation-libel-chatgpt-google-volokh.php

Can AI be sued for defamation?
MARCH 18, 2024
By JOEL SIMON

Around the time that ChatGPT began to hallucinate, Eugene Volokh had a moment of clarity. When the noted First Amendment scholar and UCLA Law professor ran some queries about newsworthy individuals in March 2023, ChatGPT generated answers that were both false and defamatory. Specifically, ChatGPT claimed that a public figure, whom Volokh identifies only as R.R., had pleaded guilty to wire fraud, a false allegation that it backed up with an invented Reuters quote. Under a second series of prompts, ChatGPT falsely claimed that several law professors had been accused of sexual harassment. “I started wondering: What are the legal consequences?” Volokh told me.

Volokh convened a group of legal experts for a virtual symposium on artificial intelligence and free speech, and in August he published an article titled “Liability for AI Output.” His conclusion: ChatGPT, or any AI content provider, is legally liable for defamatory content if certain conditions are met. While the issues are far from settled, the prospect of creating civil liability for AI-generated content could have broad implications for how people get their news.

The game changer is the consensus, shared by Volokh, that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 does not apply to AI. Section 230 currently provides legal immunity for hosting content generated by others. Because of 230, you can’t sue Google for serving a link that falsely accuses you of murder; and you can’t sue Facebook or Twitter/X if that link circulates on their platforms.

But AI-generated content is different, because it is produced by the programs themselves. While its answers are assembled from words, ideas, and concepts produced elsewhere, this is true of almost all writing. “If the software is making it up, that’s not protected,” Volokh says. In other words, if ChatGPT falsely accused you of murder, you might have a case.

There are two possible frameworks for legal action, according to Volokh. The first is under the actual-malice standard first articulated by the US Supreme Court in 1964 in New York Times v. Sullivan. Sullivan protects an enormous range of speech about public figures. But it does not protect statements published with “reckless disregard for the t***h.” When a human being is generating the material, it’s sometimes possible to prove that they knew that information was false and published it anyway. That’s not the case with AI content, which is created by machine. However, if an AI company were alerted that their program was generating specific false and libelous content and took no action, then it would be acting with reckless disregard for the t***h, Volokh believes. That would open the door for legal action.

Separately, Volokh argues, AI companies may be liable for negligence if there are flaws in the product design that cause it to generate defamatory content. That would particularly be the case for private individuals who suffer demonstrable harm, such as loss of income or employment.

The theories may be tested in court. Several libel claims have been filed against AI, including one by technologist Jeffery Battle, who is suing Microsoft in Maryland because a Bing search using ChatGPT confused him with Jeffrey Battle, a convicted terrorist.

RonNell Andersen Jones, a law professor at the University of Utah and a senior visiting research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, agrees that there is a path to creating legal liability for AI companies. But she sees the challenge as shifting the legal focus onto the mental state of AI creators. “We will surely find a way to impose liability for the reputational harms that come from AI-generated libel,” Andersen Jones told me. “The fault structure within our current defamation liability regime entirely presupposes a real human speaker with a real human state of mind. It just isn’t an immediately neat fit for this new technological reality. Judges and legislators have a big task ahead of them as we work to map old principles onto a new communications landscape.”

There is a risk, of course, that creating lability for AI content will promote a kind of automated self-censorship. For example, Gemini, the new Google AI product, won’t answer questions about e******ns or political candidates. (Its response: “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.”) ChatGPT, meanwhile, caveats answers to political questions with qualifications and bland language, noting that such answers are subjective “and depend on individual perspectives and interpretations.”

But introducing greater liability for AI also presents the possibility of a fundamental recalibration. The goal of the Supreme Court in the 1964 Sullivan decision, articulated by Justice William Brennan, was to ensure that public debate is “uninhibited, robust, and wide open,” but with legal consequences for those who deliberately publish false information. The protections offered by Section 230 have been essential to innovation and growth in the digital sphere, but the lack of legal guardrails has at times produced a kind of information chaos that is antithetical to informed public debate.

Will mediation carried out by large language models with some level of legal accountability produce better outcomes? Like everything about AI, it’s impossible to know at this juncture. But I hope we can create liability for AI sooner rather than later. It’s not just a question of fairness. Legal liability for content moderators with all the necessary carve-outs and qualifications is essential for informed democratic debate. And it’s been missing for too long.

Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
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publican wrote:
Prove it!


Prove it! Must be the only argument you have in your keyboard warrior arsenal. So far, you've said nothing and wasted everyone's time with your inane comment. I will not get into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent such as yourself.
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