BIDEN IS DESTROYING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH A STRATEGIC ALLY

Don't bully Riyadh, Saudi columnists tell Biden administration

 

By Ghaida Ghantous 

Reuters

February 28, 2021

DUBAI - Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty is a red line, Saudi columnists said on Sunday, ramping up rhetoric in defense of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a U.S. intelligence report implicated him in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

 

        Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Prince Mohammed, de facto ruler of the U.S.-allied Gulf powerhouse, has denied any involvement in the 2018 murder of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The U.S. administration on Friday imposed sanctions on some of those involved, but spared the prince. Washington released an intelligence report saying the crown prince had approved an operation to capture or kill Khashoggi.

“America does not have the right to bully a strategic regional ally and it is not in its interest to let domestic differences harm its regional interests and those of its partners,” Khaled al-Malik wrote in local Al Jazirah newspaper.

President Joe Biden’s decision to publish the report withheld by his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, who enjoyed strong ties with Prince Mohammed, brings with it a refocusing of Washington’s stance on dealing with the kingdom, on its human rights record, and on its lucrative arms purchases.

Malik said Saudi Arabia, which has relied on the United States for its defence including during the first Gulf War and after 2019 attacks on its massive oil infrastructure, could look to China and Russia for weapons.

“But the kingdom prefers America due to their historic and strategic ties and common goals,” he said, referring to Iran.

Biden, who has ordered a review of Saudi arms sales, said his administration would make an announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday.

Abdullah al-Otaibi, writing in London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper which is Saudi-owned, said the kingdom, Washington’s oldest Arab ally, was “not a banana republic to be shaken by threats”.

The Saudi government has repeated previous statements that Khashoggi’s killing was a heinous crime by a rogue group, for which a Saudi court jailed eight people last year.

“We want to strengthen deep-rooted ties (with the U.S.) but not at the expense of our sovereignty. Our judiciary and our decisions are a red line,” Fahim al-Hamid wrote in Okaz newspaper.

Since the U.S. report was released, many Saudis have flooded Twitter with the hashtag “We are all Mohammed bin Salman”.

Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority issued a statement on Sunday rejecting the report as “false and unacceptable”. The head of the kingdom’s morality police tweeted that it was a duty under Islam to defend the kingdom and its leaders.

EDITOR'S NOTE: What purpose did releasing the intelligence report serve other than to antagonize the Saudis?

HOW TO STAY SAFER IN NYC

Self-defense Tasers and stun guns surge in popularity across NYC

 

By Dana Kennedy

 

New York Post

February 27, 2021

 

 

(Left to right) Jason Castro, Michel Bertrand, and a woman who would only identify herself as Isabel pose with Tasers and a stun gun flashlight in the lobby of The Atelier Condo building in New York, NY on February 27, 2021

 

Manhattan developer Daniel Neiditch has equipped 15 of his employees with New York City’s latest must-have accessory: stun guns and Tasers.

“Crime is out of control in the city and everyone’s scared,” Neiditch told the Post. “It’s gotten so bad since the pandemic. I’ve watched apartments and stores being broken into and people afraid to ride the subway. I wanted to be proactive and ensure the safety of my employees.”

Neiditch, owner of River 2 River Realty, has properties in the city, Westchester and the Hamptons — but he’s best known as the board president and a stakeholder at the pricey 46-story Atelier condo, which he also manages. Units cost as much as $12 million there, but its location on 42^nd Street between 11^th and 12^th avenues in Hell’s Kitchen is only blocks from such vagrant epicenters as the Port Authority bus terminal.

Most of the workers Neiditch gifted with the defensive weapons — some of which are disguised to look like iPhones, flashlights and batons — work on site at his properties as supers, managers and security guards. And he may get more of them.

“I didn’t want them to be defenseless,” Neiditch said. “I’ve seen what’s happening in the city. The homeless have been very aggressive near our properties on the Upper West Side as well. This way my people can protect themselves without killing anyone. Stun guns are not deadly weapons. They just give you a leg up on maybe not being killed yourself.”

Shootings and murders skyrocketed by 97 percent and 44 percent respectively in 2020 citywide, according to NYPD data. Subways have become violent places, where the so-called “A-Train Ripper” knifed two homeless people to death, and slashed two others, in a one-day spree two weeks ago.

Neiditch said he was especially worried by reports early in the pandemic of an alarming rise in residential and commercial break-ins.

Mayor de Blasio “could have done better working together with the police to find solutions to better combat the increase in deadly crime,” Neiditch said. “He blamed the courts being closed for the uptick in gun violence and crime.”

Jay Castro, 33, often works alongside Michel Bertrand, 40, ferrying Neiditch’s international clients and prospective customers around the city.

“The cops have seen us with [the Tasers] and stopped us a few times but they always let us go when they see what they are,” Castro told the Post Saturday.

Bertrand said he feels much safer: “Crime has definitely gotten worse and you want to feel that you can protect yourself.”

Neiditch is just one of many frightened New Yorkers, and people across the country, snapping up stun guns and more sophisticated and sometimes deadly Tasers.

Stun guns, which usually cost between $35 and $55, require contact with an assailant to work, but often can deter attackers with their noise.

The crackle sound is scary as hell,” said Jennifer Lester, known as Stun Gun Jen, who sells the weapons especially designed for women as part of the California-based Damsel in Defense company. “It’s almost like a warning shot.”

Civilian Tasers — lower-powered versions of what cops use — run at least $450 and shoot spiked probes connected by wires up to 15 feet away. They emit a 50,000-volt charge that interrupts brain to muscle communication. A stun gun can cause pain but not immoblization. Both guns run on batteries.

“Everyone’s buying them” Jay Veng, manager at Jimmy’s Sport Shop in Mineola, LI, said of both weapons. “Our sales went up about 200 percent last year. Women come in to buy them and men buy them too – usually for the women in their lives.”

Dan Neville’s Thugbusters in Rochester, NY, is one of the few places in the state that ships stun guns or Tasers to customers in the five boroughs. Neiditch bought his stun guns from their website. Neville said sales are up 500 percent in the last year — and 95 percent of those stun guns are for women. (Amazon will not mail a stun gun or Taser — or even pepper spray — to NYC addresses.)

Stun gun sales increased by 300 percent last year, said a spokesman for manufacturer Axon.

“Stun guns have come up almost out of nowhere to be part of the national zeitgeist,” said Matt Angorn. “From the George Floyd protests to the attacks of Capitol Hill, we’re seeing people be a lot more concerned about their personal safety. It’s designed to be an alternative to a lethal weapon.”

A federal judge ruled in March 2019 that banning stun guns was unconstitutional. Weapons experts, lawyers, even some politicians in New York believe it’s now perfectly legal to own and use one — as long as it’s in self defense. However, stun guns are still against the law under the state penal code, creating a legal gray area.

“It all comes down to the DA in your county,” said Matt Mallory, a military veteran and firearms instructor at PS & Education, who was the first civilian TASER instructor in New York. “There’s a whole lot of people who want stun guns but they don’t realize you can get an aggressive DA who might go after you for having one. It’s in limbo right now.”

Stun Gun Jen Lester said Damsel in Defense’s legal team has advised them it is legal to ship here. “It’s our belief that the case wouldn’t hold water if you were arrested for having a stun gun,” she said.

State Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan is trying to regulate stun guns with a bill currently in committee. The measure would allow possession of a stun gun only for “protection of a person or property on real estate that such person owns or leases,” and its use under justifiable circumstances. The exemption does not apply to minors or convicted felons.

“These are dangerous weapons,” Hoylman told the Post, citing the 60-year-old Arkansas man who was arrested while lounging in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the on Jan. 6 Capitol invasion, allegedly armed with a stun gun.

For now, it’s best not to bring them into state and federal buildings. Just ask Long Island private investigator Vincent Schottler, who went into the Manhattan Supreme Court building on Feb. 22 and told the court officers he had a stun gun with him.

“They looked confused and went away to call the DA’s office,” Schottler told the Post. “They came back and told me it was a felony and confiscated my gun. But they didn’t arrest me or ask anything else. I was shocked.”

EL CHAPO'S WIFE APPARENTLY READY TO SING

El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro poised to rat out cartel 

 

By Isabel Vincent

 

New York Post

February 27, 2021

 

                                             El Chapo's wife

 

Emma Coronel Aispuro went back to being a brunette for her mug shot last week.

The glamorous beauty-queen wife of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficker had last appeared in public as a blonde, her hair cascading down her bareback in a glamorous, white-lace wedding dress that she modeled for Mexican designer Benito Santos on Instagram. In another photo, she models a hip-hugging, sparkly purple gown.

But as she prepares to rat out high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including her own stepsons, Coronel Aispuro was forced into a more sober look in drab prison greens, her pouty lips free of red lipstick.

“She’s definitely cooperating,” a federal law enforcement source told The Post, adding that the wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is a likely candidate for witness protection.

“Emma wants to get far away from the violence, and has always wanted to live in the US,” said the source. She was born in California and has dual US/Mexican citizenship.

Coronel Aispuro, 31, turned herself into authorities in Washington earlier this week and faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted on drug-trafficking charges. She is also accused of helping Guzman, 63, escape from a maximum-security Mexican prison in 2015, and helping to plan another escape before he was extradited to the US in 2017, according to court papers.

The leggy brunette, fond of flashy designer clothes, was a fixture at her husband’s trial in Brooklyn federal court in 2019. At the time, The Post exclusively reported that she was under federal investigation for helping to run the cartel that is now spearheaded, the source said, by stepsons Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 30, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, 37, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 34, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, whose age is unknown.

Along the way, the former journalism student and aspiring model has amassed nearly 600,000 Instagram followers. She posts glamorous photographs of herself in low-cut blouses and chandelier diamond earrings, and shared Instagram stories about her luxe vacation in Venice shortly after Guzman was sentenced to life at a maximum-security Colorado federal prison in July 2019. There were videos of gondola rides and dinners overlooking the canals. One video showed two glasses of white wine at an outdoor restaurant, but it wasn’t clear whether she was on a date.

Previous photos uploaded to her social media sites during her husband’s trial showed the brunette in skimpy bikinis on windswept beaches. Others featured her in skinny jeans paired with stilettos and Prada handbags, standing amid a fleet of high-end sports cars. Those photographs and the video stories have since been taken down.

Following the trial, Coronel Aispuro also registered the “El Chapo Guzman” trademark to hawk a line of clothing, cell phone cases and hats, according to public records.

Although it’s unclear if the commercial venture went forward, Coronel Aispuro did retain many of her fans. Shortly after news of her arrest on Monday, many of those social-media followers left heart emojis next to photographs of Coronel Aispuro in a tight black leather jacket, a golden crown on her head, and enhanced red lips.

Her followers expressed shock that “la Reinita” — the little queen — who also managed a guest appearance on VH1’s “Cartel Crew” two years ago, had been arrested. “Is it true that Emma is in jail?” asked one of her Instagram followers. “Free the queen,” wrote another.

Coronel Aispuro, the mother of 9-year-old twin girls Emali Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina, is being represented by a team of lawyers led by Manhattan attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who also defended her husband.

“She already had her defense attorney lined up before she got on a plane to turn herself in,” the source told The Post. “Her number one priority is to protect her kids and remain in the US.”

She has long denied any knowledge of her husband’s drug business. But an FBI agent who debriefed more than 100 members of the Sinaloa cartel said in court papers that “Coronel was aware of multi-ton cocaine shipments, multi-kilo heroin production, multi-ton marijuana shipments and ton-quantity methamphetamine shipments.” After visits to her husband in Mexican prisons, she relayed messages to his trusted deputies, court papers say.

During Guzman’s trial in Brooklyn, Damaso Lopez Nunez, the drug lord’s longtime lieutenant, testified that El Chapo contacted him soon after his capture by Mexican Marines in February 2014. Lopez said his boss asked him to “meet with the mother of the twins,” referring to Coronel. 

Coronel Aispuro was born on July 1989 near San Francisco, but grew up in a remote area of northwest Mexico surrounded by pine forests. Her father, Ines Coronel Barrera, was a cattle rancher in the region and a feared drug lord who worked for Guzman. The daughter met Guzman when she was still a teenager, and a contestant in a beauty pageant during the Coffee and Guava Festival in the village of Canelas in 2007.

Guzman, then 50, fell for her on the spot, although the marriage was widely seen as a way to solidify Ines Coronel Barreras’ position within Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel. Barreras was convicted on weapons charges and marijuana trafficking in 2017, and is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico.

Since Guzman’s extradition to the US, the Sinaloa cartel has been dominated by the eldest of his 15 children, known as “Los Chapitos.” In 2019, their turf war with rival drug gang, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, became particularly brutal, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths. In October of that year, when Mexican authorities captured Ovidio Guzman Lopez — known as El Raton or “the mouse” — the threat of violence was deemed so high that they let him go.

Lichtman refused comment when contacted by The Post.

BIDEN'S TWISTED VIEWS ABOUT PRIORITIZING 'HUMAN RIGHTS' BEFORE ANY OTHER ISSUE IS PLAYING WITH FIRE

Biden administration is reviving the Muslim Brotherhood threat

 

By Eldad Beck

 

Israel Hayom

February 28, 2021

 

The ideological insanity that has seized the Left in western countries can be clearly seen in its approach to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization and its satellites around the world. Because this group is being hounded by most Arab regimes and has been forced to export its activity to Europe and the US, among other places, where it can create the image of a "persecuted political victim," the religious fanatic Muslim Brotherhood organization has managed to join left-wing parties as a legitimate partner in the discourse about "the global" struggle "to promote welfare and democracy."

The Muslim Brotherhood are selling themselves as a "popular" alternative to existing regimes throughout the Middle East, as the true representatives of the people, as a promise for change and freedom. But anyone who really wants to know what happens when the Muslim Brotherhood gain power can learn from the destruction of Turkey's democracy by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; from Hamas' reign of terror in the Gaza Strip, and the insanity from which Egypt was rescued when its military ousted former President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood representative.

The Muslim Brotherhood is not a democratic alternative to regimes in the Middle East. They want to use democracy to enforce a dark, dictatorial religious regime. Comparisons can definitely be drawn to processes that unfolded in Germany in the 1930.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was one of the Muslim Brotherhood's chief PR agents in the US. He worked to promote the idea that there can be no political or democratic reform in an Arab country without the participation of "political Islam," (a code name for the Muslim Brotherhood in western political discourse). Still, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Sultan – unlike the western Left – learned a clear lesson from the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya – as well as the Islamic State phenomenon, which saw a revival similar to the Arab Spring, and decided to eradicate all threats to the Saudi royal family from the Muslim Brotherhood.

They way in which Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is nauseating for many in the West, and hard for them to swallow. But the Middle East has its own rule, and they are not designed to appeal to left-wing, western purists. The three most influential axes in the Muslim world are battling it out in the region: the Iran-Shiite axis; the Saudi-Sunni axis; and the Muslim Brotherhood, led by Turkey and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has found itself attacked by the other two axes. Khashoggi was about to play a major role in the war on Saudi Arabia, and he paid the price.

The Biden administration's attempts to question the status of Mohammad Bin Salman, including through intelligence reports about his role in Khashoggi's murder, are playing with fire. In Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula as a whole, Bin Salman has launched a reform movement and made changes that were vital to propelling the region forward after nearly 100 years of paralysis and atrophy. His contribution, direct and indirect, to Arab normalization with Israel cannot be understated. Without his blessing, the Abraham Accords would never have come into being. He showed courage in handling conservative elements that tried to stick spokes in the wheels of his initiatives toward openness. He also had to exert force against his many opponents.

The Muslim Brotherhood are staunchly opposed to Mohammad Bin Salman's ideas, and they don't want normalization with Israel, either. But the Biden administration, with its twisted views about prioritizing "human rights" before any other issue and without taking unique conditions into account, is about to play into the hands of Bin Salman's opponents, who include the Muslim Brotherhood. We saw the destructive result of this foolish Democratic policy in Iran 42 years ago, when then-President Jimmy Carter refused to allow the Shah to use force to stop the Islamic Revolution, which became an Islamist one that lit up the Middle East and continues to do so. Biden is about to make a mistake that is no less destructive.

HUMAN RIGHTS SHOULD NOT DICTATE FOREIGN POLICY .... BUT UNDER BIDEN, IT DOES

The moral high ground cannot replace foreign policy

 

By Prof. Eyal Zisser

 

Israel Hayom

February 28, 2021

 

A month after taking office US President Joe Biden has decided to no longer sit on the sidelines in the Middle East and make a show of force – one that can only be mounted by a world power the likes of the United States.

However, it is not Iran – the aggressive force seeking the destabilize the region – that Washington has it its sights, but Saudi Arabia, a longtime ally of the US, which has been dealing Riyadh one blow after another in recent weeks.

First, the Americans removed the Houthi rebels in Yemen from the list of terrorist organizations, despite the fact that the Houthis – an Iranian proxy on a par with Hezbollah in Lebanon – are waging a war of attrition against Saudi Arabia and could very well turn their Iranian weapons against Israel, as well.

Saudi King Salman, much like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had to wait far too long for the traditional call from the incoming president.

Now, it what seems to be adding insult to injury, a US intelligence report has determined that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the royal family, in 2018 in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, citing the crown prince's control of decision-making in Gulf kingdom.

While the Biden administration did not penalize the crown prince personally, it did impose visa restrictions on 76 Saudis "believed to have been engaged in threatening dissidents overseas, including but not limited to the Khashoggi killing."

In the Middle East, the American measures are interpreted as a renunciation of the royal family. This is not too far off from the policy the US adopted vis-à-vis the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s, thereby contributing to the fall of his regime and rise of the ayatollahs.

One hopes that the Saudi royal family would rise to the challenge and not repeat the mistake of the Shah, who relied on the US to help him in time of need.

Biden administration officials may be trying to come off like a group of boy scouts but they must understand that asserting the moral high ground cannot replace foreign policy nor can it substitute state interests.

The illusion of being able to "fix" the Middle East failed miserably a decade ago and the Arab Spring, for which the Americans had high hopes, had calamitous implications.

Moreover, the US must also consider the alternatives: do they choose Saudi Arabia, a longtime ally, and try to get it to redeem its ways through a secret and poignant dialogue; or do they choose Iran, the sworn enemy of all that America stands for.

The Saudis most likely eliminated a dissident journalist – many regimes have done the same, be they allies or foes of the United States, which itself has some similar incidents in the past.

The only mistake the Saudis made was getting caught by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – a champion of democracy if ever there was one.

Those seeking the United States' friendship must understand the sensitivities of the administration, which pays great attention to media and public opinions. But when this administration sets put to "right the world" by "destroying the old world," it must understand that its actions have consequences.

A SMALL AMOUNT OF FREEDOM MAY BE RETURNING TO CALIFORNIA

by Bob Walsh

A couple of days ago I saw a brief blurb on the TV news that said the district court of appeals has agreed to reconsider the ban on "high capacity" (actually standard factory capacity) magazines in the formerly great state of California.  Interestingly enough I have been unable to find any further reference to it.  Maybe google doesn't love me any more.

I will post more when I can actually find out more.

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FINALLY FOUND SOME MORE ON MAGAZINE BAN REVIEW

by Bob Walsh

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which isn't as psychotic as it used to be before Trump appointments) acting Thursday set aside a decision made last August by a (divided) three-judge panel of that same court concerning the "high capacity" magazine ban in the formerly great state of California.  An eleven judge panel of that same court will now reconsider the issue.

A lower court had thrown out the ban but the lifting of the ban was stayed pending the state's appeal.  

The current ruling (stayed pending appeal0 says that the ban may have been well-intentioned but that it infringes on the constitutional right to armed self defense.

PLAGUE REPORT UPDATE STOCKTON CA

by Bob Walsh

Well, I went in to get my Covid-19 shot today. First shot of two, Moderna.  It took a while to get checked in, the signage at Rite Aid wasn't so hot but once I got to the right place it went OK and the process took only about 40 minutes from start to out-the-door, including the mandatory 15 minute hang around time.  I also had an appointment with my regular health care provider, Sutter Gould, for three days ago but they cancelled and could not reschedule.  I guess they didn't get their supply of the vaccine and Rite Aid did.  

I understand that Rite Aid is hanging on by a thread financially.  With a bit of luck this will give them some needed business.  I have nothing against them I just seldom drop in because I have a Walgreens just down the street.

The stats are dropping fast in CA.  Hospitalizations are down and positive test results are down too.  Way down for both.  The Governor, in his magnificence, is considering allowing a few more businesses to open.  Some outdoor sports will be able to start and some small degree of semi-normalcy will return soon. Maybe.  With good luck and a tail wind.

In the meantime I will wait about 3-4 weeks for Rite Aid to send me an email regarding scheduling of shot #2. 

WHAT DID BIDEN'S VISIT TO HOUSTON ACCOMPLISH?

The Gulf Freeway and Loop 610 were shut down to accommodate the President's entourage, causing an enormous traffic nightmare 

By Howie Katz

President Biden and the First Lady visited Houston Friday ostensibly to see firsthand the suffering caused by the recent winter storm.

Air Fore One landed at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in South Houston, necessitating the closure of the Gulf Freeway in order to accommodate the President's entourage.

Biden stopped of at the Harris County Office of Emergency Management, the Houston Food Bank and the FEMA Covid vaccination site at NRG Park, the latter visit also necessitating the closure of Loop 610.

Biden spent most of the visit at the Houston Food Bank where he spoke with and told the workers they were "doing God's work."

 

Biden at the Houston Food Bank

 

At the federal vaccination site, Biden gave a speech on the importance of everyone getting vaccinated. 

Had Biden not come to Texas, federal disaster relief aid for the people who lost power and clean water, and had their homes damaged or destroyed by broken water pipes, still would have been forthcoming.

So, what did Biden's visit accomplish?  Well, he spoke with a lot of people, which gave them a thrill they can tell their grandchildren about.  And his comings and goings caused the shut down of several major thoroughfares which resulted in an enormous traffic nightmare.  

DEATHBED LETTER ACCUSING FBI AND NYPD OF CONSPIRING TO KILL MALCOLM X IS A FORGERY, DAUGHTER OF DEAD COP CLAIMS

Is letter claiming FBI and NYPD conspired to kill Malcolm X fake? Raymond Wood's daughter says 'not his signature'

 

By Pritha Paul 

 

MEAWW News

February 27, 2021

 

The daughter of Raymond Wood, a deceased former undercover New York Police Department officer, hs claimed that a letter written by her father — where he alleged that the NYPD and FBI were behind the assassination of Malcolm X — is fake. 

In an interview with NY1 on Friday, February 26, Kelly Wood debunked the authenticity of the letter that was made public last weekend by Reggie Wood, the cousin of Raymond Wood, at the scene of the Harlem murder.

In the letter, which was released as part of a joint effort by the daughters of the civil rights leader, Raymond claimed that he was pressured by supervisors to lure two men from Malcolm X’s security detail into committing crimes, a few days before the assassination on February 21, 1965. The arrests kept the two men from managing door security at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights on the day when Malcolm was shot dead, as revealed in the letter. 

 

Scene of Malcolm X shooting in Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965

 

Kelly told NY1 the letter was forged and her father’s cousin only read it out so that he could gain publicity for himself. “I know that my father did not write this letter,” she told the cable news station. “I know that is not his signature and I know the envelope they’re using to somehow justify that the letter was mailed is also a fake.”

She also added that it was not like her father to allow the release of the letter in public only after his November death, to avoid facing its consequences. “My father is not a coward. He would have never, ever asked anyone to speak on his behalf after his passing. If he had something to say, he would have said it when he was alive,” she told NY1.

To top it off, Kelly claimed that the signature on the letter was not her father’s. The letter, was read on Saturday, February 20, at a press conference attended by three of Malcolm's daughters Qubiliah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz and Gamilah Shabazz, civil rights attorneys Benjamin Crump, Ray Hamlin and Paul Napoli and members of Wood’s family.

Apparently Raymond first shared his confession with his family when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2011. At the time, he asked his cousin, Reggie, not to share the letter until after he died.

Historians and members of Malcolm X’s family have expressed doubts over his real killers despite the fact that three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted in the shooting. In light of this new alleged evidence, Malcolm's family wants the whole investigation reexamined.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said last year that his office would reopen the case to investigate if the wrong suspects were arrested. After the letter was made public, Vance’s office released a statement saying its “review of this matter is active and ongoing.”

Meanwhile, the NYPD told the New York Post it is cooperating with prosecutors. “Any evidence that provides greater insight into the truth behind that terrible tragedy should be thoroughly investigated,” said Ilyasah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X’s daughters at the Harlem press conference

QANON NUTJOBS BELIEVE TRUMP WILL BE RSTORED TO OFFICE MARCH 4 BY MILITARY COUP

QAnon supporters believe Trump will be reinstated as President 'after a military coup similar to Myanmar'

 

Daily Mail

February 27, 2021

QAnon supporters told CNN in a bizarre interview on Friday that they believe former President Donald Trump will be reinstated as Commander-in-Chief after a military coup 'like Myanmar.'

CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan, who nearly exclusively covers topics of extremism and disinformation, spoke with QAnon believers at a rally in Ventura, California for a segment on Anderson Cooper 360.

'What's going to happen at some point is there are going to be arrests, and that will include the lying media and then there will be military tribunals,' one woman said.

The woman went on to call Biden 'a puppet president' before insisting that 'the military is in charge.'

'It's going to be like Myanmar, what's happening in Myanmar. The military is doing their own investigation. At the right time they're going to be restoring the republic with Trump as president,' she said.

Another woman echoed her sentiments, saying: 'What's going on in Myanmar right now? The government took over and they're redoing the election.'

The second woman said she 'absolutely' would like to see a military coup 'because the election was stolen from us.'

A third woman, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, said: 'It is my hope that President Trump comes back as the 19th president of the United States under the 1776 and that he is inaugurated on March 4 and that is my hope.'

QAnon conspiracy theorists have reportedly misinterpreted an 1871 law and believe Ulysses S. Grant who was inaugurated on March 4, 1869 was the last legitimate president, according to O'Sullivan.

O'Sullivan then asked the woman if she would 'feel foolish' when Biden is still president on March 5.

'Umm, then Trump has a different plan in play,' she said.

She continued: 'He didn't lose the election, sir. Trump did not lose the election and that's where we differ.'

The woman then repeated false claims that there was widespread election fraud, which she said was proven by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. 

 

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, cited as the basis for the conspiracy theory, was a law that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for D.C.

QAnon supporters believe that the 1871 law secretly turned the federal government into corporation by misinterpretation the meaning of the term municipal corporation used in the it.

Conspiracy theorists believe that the law made every president inaugurated and every constitutional amendment passed in the years since illegitimate.

QAnon supporters believe that President Franklin D. Roosevelt then handed the country over to sinister investors when he ended the gold reserve in 1933, the same year that the original inauguration date of March 4 changed to January 20.

JUDGE NAILS WHITE SUPREMACISTWITH LONG PRISON TERM

Man gets nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb Pueblo synagogue

 

By Patty Niebberg

 

Associated Press 

February 26, 2021

 

A man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison on Friday for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year by a judge who described the case as “dripping with Nazism and supremacy.”

 

Temple Emanuel in Pueblo was built in 1900 and is the second oldest synagogue in Colorado

 

Judge Raymond P. Moore set the 235-month sentence for Richard Holzer, 28, and imposed a 15-year term of supervised release.

Throughout the sentencing trial, Moore expressed harsh criticism of Holzer’s previous statements to undercover FBI agents and social media accounts – describing Holzer’s life as filled with violent and hateful imagery.

“It is one of the most vulgar, aggressive, evil crimes that can be committed against an entire group of persons,” Moore said.

 

 Richard Holzer

 

Holzer’s defense team argued that his suffering of fetal alcohol syndrome influenced his development into adulthood and contributed to his “unmet and overwhelming need to seem more important than he is.”

The defense asked the judge for a shorter sentence for Holzer to benefit from post-prison rehabilitation for his radical ideas and to have an incentive to prepare for life after incarceration. They also said that Holzer no longer held the supremacist-like beliefs that led him to plan the bombing at Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo.

The Temple Emanuel plot was one of 61 anti-semitic harassment and vandalism cases that the Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region tracked in 2019.

“The notion that he’s turned some corner is fantasy,” Moore said before listing the swastikas found in his jail cell and supremacist symbolism in his signed letters from jail.

Holzer refused the opportunity to make a statement at his trial.

 

Holzer

 

“About two-and-a-half years ago, my first day as U.S. Attorney took me to a vigil for victims from the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue attack,” said U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn in a statement. “Today, my last day in the office, we have sentenced the extremist responsible for the attempted bombing of the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo.”

In October, Holzer pleaded guilty to attempting to stop people from exercising their religion with an explosive or fire and attempting to destroy a building used in interstate commerce in a plea deal with prosecutors.

Holzer was arrested Nov. 1, 2019, after receiving two phony pipe bombs and 14 sticks of dynamite from undercover FBI agents that he planned to use at the Temple Emanuel.

One agent posed as a white supremacist and reached out to Holzer online after seeing his social media posts promoting white supremacy and violence, according to the facts agreed to by both sides as part of the plea deal.

After his arrest, Holzer said the “event planned for tonight would define me as a person who would die for his people,” according to a statement from the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s office.

Temple Emanuel is the second oldest synagogue in Colorado. It was built in 1900 largely by descendants of immigrants from central and eastern Europe.

KOJI AND GUSTAV ARE BACK HOME

Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs recovered safely

 

By Elizabeth Elizalde 

 

New York Post

February 26, 2021

 

Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs were recovered safely Friday evening, two days after they were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded the dogwalker, according to Los Angeles police.

A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station around 6 p.m., Capt. Jonathan Tippett told the Associated Press.

Gaga’s representatives and detectives went to the station and confirmed that the returned dogs were the singer’s Frenchies, Koji and Gustav.

The Grammy Award winner is currently in Rome, filming a movie.

She had said Friday that she was “heartbroken” over the loss of her beloved dogs.

She has offered a $500,000 reward for the return of her dogs; it’s unclear if the woman who returned the dogs will be pocketing the reward.

 

Tippett said the woman who dropped off the dogs appears to be “uninvolved and unassociated” with Wednesday night’s shooting and theft. Cops didn’t say how she got the dogs.

The LAPD says the incident remains under investigation.

Ryan Fischer, Gaga’s dog walker and friend, was shot in the chest Wednesday night while he walking her Frenchies, Gustav, Koji and Miss Asia. He is expected to make a full recovery.

“I continue to love you Ryan Fischer, you risked your life to fight for our family. You’re forever a hero,” she wrote in an Instagram post Friday.

MULTICULTURAL AND DIVERSITY, AND NOW TRANSGENDER PROGRAMS ..... WHY KIDS CAN BARELY READ, WRITE AND DO SIMPLE MATH

Megyn Kelly tells Bill Maher 'divisive racism' in the country is driving people to 'lean into victimhood'

 

By Kunal Dey 

MEAWW News

February 27, 2021

 

Bill Maher invited former Fox News and NBC News star Megyn Kelly for an interview on Friday, February 26, on HBO's Real Time. The duo had a frank discussion about race, social justice and 21st-century “victimhood” in America — and especially how it affected kids and the education system.

Following a brief conversation about the obvious political leanings of some major cable news outlets, Maher asked Kelly why she and her husband had decided to pull their children from their private schools in New York, according to a Deadline report.

“You took your kids out of the school in New York, and I’ve been hearing — anecdotally — very much the same thing from many parents,” said Maher. “Just tell us why, basically, you did this.”

“We were in the New York City private school system,” Kelly recalled, “and they were definitely leftist, we’re more center-right, and that’s fine… then they started taking a really hard turn toward social justice stuff.”

The 'Megyn Kelly Podcast' host said her eight-year-old boy's school had “unleashed three-week experimental trans-education program. It wasn’t about support — we felt that it was more like they were trying to convince them.” According to her, it only “confused the kids.” Meanwhile, she noted how her kindergartner “was told to write a letter to the Cleveland Indians objecting to their mascot.”

“It’s so divisive and counterproductive. And it wasn’t just our school in New York… and it’s all over New York,” Kelly argued. Maher agreed that he had heard similar concerns from parents, who say, "My kids are not ready to be told they’re White supremacists. I’m not ready to be told that.” The HBO star went on to read a letter from a school that reportedly said things like “there’s a killer cop sitting at every school where White children learn."

“I’m tired of White people reveling in their state-sanctioned depravity and snuffing out Black life with no consequences” and “as Black bodies drop like flies around us by White hands…” Maher commented, “It bothers me so much that I have to be on this side of this issue because I’ve always been a civil rights advocate. Don’t make me Tucker Carlson. You’re the f**king nuts — this is insane.”

He added: “There [are] racist problems problems in this country, but this is hyperbole. And this is making people crazy. This is not the way we get to the Promised Land.”

Kelly agreed that the approach was "divisive" and "racist" and does not have the effect they intend. “Everybody gets divided into ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressor’ on racial identity, on sexual identity," she explained.

"I mean, this is really damaging, and as you get older, what the studies show is these sort of implicit biased education efforts bring out racism. So if somebody’s having racist thoughts in the back of their head, it brings it to the frontal lobe, and more people act on their latent racism than they otherwise would have.”

The pair discussed a few more examples of apparent overreach by schools, as well as by some students of color. “Again, I’m with you. Of course we should acknowledge that there is racism in this country, and we have a horrible, sorry history," Maher told Kelly.

"We don’t have an exactly horrible, sorry present, certainly as much as it was in the past. That doesn’t mean there’s not work to do, and we should do it, but don’t gaslight me. … I feel like this is beyond race. I feel like it’s a generational thing where so many people want their identity wrapped up being a victim.”

“That’s the push now, to lean into victimhood," Kelly responded. "And it’s not just a race thing, I see it in some of my fellow women … but we don’t have to lean into victimhood, even when we might be victims. Even if you are a real victim, which I’ve been in the past too, it isn’t psychologically helpful not helpful to lean into it."

"I always use the word ‘target.’ I was the target of certain men — that didn’t make me anybody’s victim," she added. "And the more you wallow in that mentality, the more you veer toward negativity and attract more of it in your life.”

In conclusion, Maher thanked Kelly for accepting his invitation “and talking about this — not an easy subject, and I hope someday we don’t have to talk about it.”

LADY GAGA'S DOGS WERE TAKEN BY TWO BLACK GENTLEMEN ..... PROBABLY AS BELATED KWANZAA GIFTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN

LAPD releases description of suspects in Lady Gaga dognapping

 

By Gabrielle Fonrouge

 

New York Post

February 26, 2021

 

The Los Angeles Police Department has released a description of the two men who shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stole two of her beloved French bulldogs. 

Both of the suspects are described as black males, between the ages of 20 and 25, who were seen in a white Nissan Altima with four doors, cops said in a Thursday night news release. 

The suspect who shot the dog walker, Ryan Fischer, 30, was armed with a semi-automatic handgun, has blond dreadlocks and was wearing a black hoodie, police said.

The second suspect was wearing dark clothing, cops said. 

Fischer, described by Gaga’s father Joe Germanotta as a “friend” who “risked his life protecting” the dogs, was walking the celebrity pets on North Sierra Bonita Avenue near Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night around 9:40 p.m. when he was ambushed by the suspects

 

                         Ryan Fischer

 

They demanded he turn over the dogs and when Fischer put up a fight, he was shot in the chest, cops said. 

The suspects made off with two of the pups, Gustav and Koji, while Miss Asia got away and has since been returned to Gaga’s team. 

Fischer was in stable condition late Thursday and has been moved out of the ICU, according to police and Germanotta. 

An LAPD spokesperson said the investigation is being handled by the department’s elite Robbery Homicide Division and detectives are currently out canvassing the area for surveillance video. 

They asked the public to get in touch if they have any information. 

CHURCHILL, UNLIKE OBAMA, WAS NOT AN APPEASER ..... THAT MUST BE WHY BIDEN TOSSED THE BUST OF CHURCHILL OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE

What's wrong with appeasement?

 

By Clifford D. May

 

Israel Hayom

February 24, 2021

 

We all disapprove of appeasement, right? The term evokes Munich, where British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made concessions to Adolf Hitler in the hope that would sate, rather than whet, the Fuhrer's appetite for conquest.

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor," Winston Churchill famously chastised Chamberlain afterwards. "You chose dishonor and you will have war."

Also attributed to Churchill is the definition of an appeaser as "one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last." The implication: As a description of policy, appeasement is a misnomer since it suggests not the conciliation of adversaries but rather the futility of attempts to alter their intentions when, at best, only their timetables are subject to change.

To be fair to Chamberlain, he had no good alternatives. Britain had for years allowed its military strength to deteriorate while Germany rearmed. Churchill warned of the danger, and was roundly denounced as a "war-monger."

By 1938, Chamberlain could not convincingly tell Hitler: "Keep your troops within your borders – or else." So, he cut a deal under which Hitler agreed to conquer only part of Europe – to "share the neighborhood," one might say. Hitler, of course, didn't keep his part of the bargain. Despots seldom settle for win-win solutions.

Appeasement is, or should be, a pertinent and timely issue now because President Biden is deciding how to deal with a number of despots, none of them half-a-loaf kinds of guys, none of them likely to keep promises if they can get away with breaking them.

In particular, Biden appears inclined to replicate the approach of President Obama who believed that in exchange for riches and respect, Iran's rulers would slow (not terminate) their pursuit of nuclear weapons, and "share the neighborhood," putting aside their ambition to spread Iran's Islamic Revolution across the Middle East and, in time, beyond.

 

                                       Obama's appeasement policy

 

 

 

Unlike Chamberlain, Biden has alternatives to appeasement. The least bad would be a policy of "peace through strength." Were he to embrace that approach, he would refrain from alleviating economic pressure on Iran's rulers so long as they are actively engaged in terrorism – including unleashing militias to attack Americans in Iraq as recently last week – hostage-taking-and-holding, illicit nuclear weapons and missile development, and both threatening and assaulting their neighbors.

A peace-through-strength policy also would mean ending our reliance on China's rulers for strategic commodities and, as a matter of morality, not buying from them anything produced by workers deprived of basic human rights. Sen. Tom Cotton has just released a report on "Targeted Decoupling and the Economic Long War" with Beijing. It should be required reading within the Biden administration.

Most essential: Peace through strength implies no diminishment of the American military power needed to deter despots. Deterrence makes shooting wars less likely. It's puzzling that so many Western leaders find the logic behind that aphorism difficult to comprehend.

These days, there are those on both the right and the left – I'd call them isolationists, they prefer to be called "restrainers" – who are determined to "end endless wars."

It's a nice bumper sticker. In reality, there's a distinction between wars and long-duration, low-intensity conflicts in which American forces train, advise and assist foreign partners as part of what should be a broader strategy to defeat or at least contain common enemies.

As I write this, there are about as many American troops in Washington, D.C. as in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan – combined. Those forward deployments are economy-of-force missions, enabling our partners to bear the brunt of the fighting.

We have many more troops, tens of thousands, in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the Gulf. Their job is to project American power in order to secure America's national interests in those regions.

"An estimated 33,000 Americans died fighting in Korea and 47,000 in Vietnam," Harvard Professor Graham Allison points out in the current issue of Foreign Policy: "But since the fall of Saigon in 1975, the total number of U.S. battle deaths stands at fewer than 7,500."

Every such death is a tragedy, about that there can be neither dispute nor doubt. But historical perspective is essential in policy-making. In reality, "endless wars" don't end when we stop fighting. Our withdrawals merely cede swaths of the globe to our enemies in the hope they will leave us alone thereafter. But, as noted above, despots are not easily appeased.

On both the right and left there also are those attempting to debunk the endless-war narrative. "Disengagement from competitions overseas would increase dangers to the United States," writes Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, who served as President Trump's National Security Advisor. "The paltry savings realized would be dwarfed by the eventual cost of responding to unchecked and undeterred threats."

Leon Panetta, who served as CIA director and secretary of defense under President Obama, writes: "Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and Pyongyang, in addition to a number of determined terrorist organizations, continue to pursue objectives inimical to American interests. More than ever, Americans must go abroad to remain secure at home. Such a view is neither right nor left policy – it is smart policy informed by modern history of devastating wars, hard lessons from more recent conflicts, and current realities."

Both quotes are from "Defending Forward: Securing America by Projecting Military Power Abroad," a recently released FDD monograph that should be required reading within the Biden administration as well.

Maintaining deterrence is an endless struggle – not quite the same as an endless war. By contrast, appeasement appears to provide a quick and easy way to resolve a conflict. But when dealing with despots, that's an illusion – one that cannot be endlessly maintained.

JUSTICE.....OR MAYBE NOT SO MUCH

by Bob Walsh

Zahara Ismaili, age not given, was the wife of an intelligence official in Iran.  She killed her husband, allegedly in self defense after years of abuse to herself and her children.  She was sentenced to die by hanging.

She died of a heart attack while watching the 16 male prisoners hung ahead of her.  The officials in charge had her dead body stood up on a chair and a rope placed around her neck or so late husband's mother could kick the chair out from under her lifeless corpse.  

I guess those people are really serious about what they laughingly refer to as justice.

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PROMISES PROMISES.....AS ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

by Bob Walsh

Remember Joe Biden promising you would have your $2,000 stimulus check before he took his first crap in the White House?  You get yours yet?

Remember the $15 per hour minimum wage chiseled in stone and take it to the bank.  Ain't gonna happen, at least not in the near future.  They can't even PRETEND that it is budget neutral so it was dropped this time around.

Why does anybody believe ANYTHING these lying sacks of shit say?  One thing I have to give Trump, he actually TRIED to deliver the shit he promised, and was on occasion actually successful. 

SNOWFLAKES

It's Winter Again in the Northern Hemisphere. But This Year The World Has Gone Nuts

 

It snowed last night…

08:00 - I made a snowman.

08:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snowwoman. 

08:15 - So, I made a snowwoman.

08:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snowwomen everywhere.

08:20 - The homosexual couple living nearby threw a fit and moaned it could have been two snowmen instead.

08:22 - The transgender man/women...person asked why I didn't just make one snowperson with detachable parts.

08:25 - The vegans at the end of the road complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

08:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

08:31 - The middle eastern bloke across the road demanded the snowwoman be covered up .

08:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended but were not sure by what.

08:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snowwoman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

08:43 - The council bylaws officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

08:45 - TV news crew from CNN showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snowwomen?

            I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

09:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

09:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

09:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding I be arrested.

By Noon it had all melted - Global warming was blamed.

Moral:

There is no moral to this story.
It is exactly what we have become.....all caused by Snowflakes.

THE EVILNESS OF HILLARY DIVULGING GEORGE H.W. BUSH'S DALLIANCE WHEN BILL WAS A SERIAL CHEATER AND ACCUSED RAPIST

How Hillary Clinton twisted the knife in George H.W. Bush during the 1992 election by tattling on his affair with his buxom blonde assistant - a liaison that drove wife Barbara into a deep depression, new book about the family reveals

 

Daily Mail 

February 25, 2021

 

George H.W. Bush had an affair with his blonde assistant Jennifer Fitzgerald. The affair became public two decades later in 1992 when Hillary Clinton spilled about it in a Vanity Fair interview - costing Bush the election. 

 

Bush is seen sitting beside his assistant Jennifer Fitzgerald. The pair were rumored to be romantically involved in the 70s and the affair became public two decades later thanks to Hillary Clinton. Wife Barbara is seen sitting behind them

 

Dorothy Walker Bush warned her son George H.W. Bush that the rumors about his relationship with assistant Jennifer Fitzgerald would  'follow you forever'. The formidable family matriarch tore into him over the affair and told him to 'fix it' or risk his political future, a new book obtained by DailyMail.com claims. 

The affair is said to have contributed to Bush's wife Barbara considering suicide because she was so depressed. The details are included in 'Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty ' by J. Randy Taraborrelli, our Tuesday, March 2. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: In addition to being a serial cheater, Bill was accused by Juanita Broaddrick of raping her while he was the state Attorney General during his 1978 campaign for Arkansas governor.

LA'S POLICE-HATING DA HIRES POLICE-HATING WOMAN WHO CALLS FOR PRISONS TO BE ABOLISHED AND PLACES HER IN AN EXECUTIVE POSITION

Gascón under scrutiny after hiring public defender to high-ranking prosecutor position

 

By Bill Melugin

 

Fox 11

February 24, 2021

 

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is under scrutiny after he hired a public defender who helped with his campaign to a high-ranking prosecutor position in his administration.

 

 

That public defender has in the past posted anti-police comments on social media and now, the police and prosecutor unions are crying foul.

Last summer, FOX 11 reported on a series of controversial social media posts from Tiffiny Blacknell. During the George Floyd unrest across Los Angeles, Blacknell called LAPD barbarians in a tweet and described them as an occupying army with the hashtag #DefundPolice

She also posted that prison is obsolete and called for prisons to be abolished. The former public defender posted on Facebook during the series of looting that took place in May 2020 that she herself was a looter during the 1992 Rodney King riots. Blacknell shared a message for anyone complaining about the looting of West Hollywood or Santa Monica to "cry me a river."

Blacknell posted a selfie wearing a shirt that says "The Police Are Trained to Kill Us."

 

Now, FOX 11 has confirmed that Gascón is bringing Blacknell over from the public defender's office and hiring her as a Grade 4 Deputy DA, which is the second-highest grade a prosecutor can achieve. On top of that, the salary of that position can be up to $15,000 a month.

Cindy Wallace has been a prosecutor in the DA's office for almost 13 years. Wallace is a Grade 3 and says Blacknell's hire doesn't smell right.

"It's really unfortunate. I think it's unfair," Wallace said. "It seems like she was given some sort of preferential treatment for helping George Gascón’s election, being on the transition team, it’s nepotistic a bit."

Eric Siddall is the vice president of the union representing prosecutors in the LA County DA's Office. Siddall says according to office policy, a Grade 4 prosecutes the most difficult and complex felony cases and is required to have at least two years of experience working as a Grade 3 deputy DA, an experience level Blacknell does not have.

"I think it's a slap in the face to all of our members who are patiently waiting for a promotion," Siddall said.

"What's curious is that a Grade 4 position requires prosecutorial experience. I don't believe she has any," Siddall added. "I think what's really at issue is Mr. Gascón just doesn't seem to follow the rules... this is really about political cronyism rather than someone who actually meets the qualification standards of a Grade 4 position."

"She’s put some really negative, toxic things out about the law enforcement community, and these are people that as a prosecutor, you work directly with," Wallace said. "Nothing she has tweeted has shown she has any respect for law enforcement or even prosecutors, and it’s just amazing and mind-blowing she would now want to come to our office."

As FOX 11 reported in December 2020, while serving as a public defender, Blacknell was also involved in an alleged secret "sweetheart" plea deal offer of seven years to a suspected gang murderer. A deal offered behind the backs of the prosecutor on the case and the family of Fernando Rojo, the murdered victim in the case.

That deal fell apart after Judge Mark Arnold found out about it and criticized it. Now, the union representing LAPD rank and file is slamming Gascón's decision to hire Blacknell, telling FOX 11:

"It’s unconscionable, but not surprising, that George Gascón would appoint someone as a top prosecutor who just a few months ago was involved in a secret deal to get her criminal defendant client a sweetheart deal on a murder charge. Once again, Gascón is thumbing his nose at crime victims by hiring someone who wants to abolish prisons, defund public safety, and who has expressed outright hatred toward police officers. With murders and shootings at a 10-year high, do we really need criminal defense attorneys on both sides of the aisle?"

FOX 11 reached out to Gascón's office with specific questions about whether or not Gascón condemns Blacknell's social media posts, the position she had been hired for and how she is supposed to work with police as a prosecutor, given her anti-police rhetoric.

FOX 11's Bill Melugin received the following statement from Gascón's office: 

"D.A. Gascon has the utmost confidence in his Executive Team and is looking forward to having Tiffiny Blacknell join the office."

"If he really wants to effectuate change, he should look at the people who are currently in his office that want to do that, versus bringing in hostile, inexperienced outsiders in here who essentially want to dismantle the entire system, who anti-police, anti-prison, anti any sort of punishment at all for any crimes," Wallace said.

PIERS SLAMS BIDEN FOR TRANSGENDER POLICY

There's nothing equal or fair about your transgender 'equality' order, President Biden - all it will do is destroy women's sports, damage women's rights, and turn people against the trans cause

 

By Piers Morgan

Daily Mail

February 25, 2021

President Joe Biden is big on equality and has spent much of his life fighting and campaigning for it.

Indeed, in his inauguration speech on January 20, he reminded us that the American dream is predicated on the belief 'that we are all created equal'.

But he did so with this sobering caveat: 'Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure. Through civil war, the Great Depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward, and we can do that now.'

I was very moved when he said this, and I believed his commitment to equality for all was entirely sincere.

But now I wonder if President Biden even understands what the word means?

According to the dictionary, it is defined as 'the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities'.

By that criteria, I believe in equality and I'm sure Joe Biden would say this is what he believes it to mean too.

But where we differ is over what to do when a campaign to achieve equality in any particular aspect of society where inequality and discrimination exists, creates a new inequality and discrimination.

That's the point we've reached in the battle for trans rights and in the process a new destructive inequality against women's rights is being directly fuelled by President Biden.

Let me be very clear for those already charging to have me summarily cancelled for my 'transphobia': I support the right of all trans people to be treated equally in every way and have loudly said so for many years.

But that long, hard-fought and very necessary battle cannot come at the expense of another long, hard-fought battle for equality waged by women.

Yet that is exactly what's happening.

One of the first things Biden did after taking office was sign Executive Order 13988 which demands that measures be taken to 'prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.'

This sounds perfectly reasonable until you get into the weeds of the order and discover that among various recommendations, it seeks to allow transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity, as opposed to their biological sex.

Specifically, it says that transgender women who have gone through male puberty should be able to compete in women's sports.

This, I'm afraid, is utter madness.

The majority of trans women born to male biological bodies who've gone through puberty are self-evidently going to be bigger, stronger, faster and more powerful than women born to female biological bodies.

Again, this is not me being 'transphobic', it's me stating an obvious fact.

That's why we have gender-specific competition in almost every sport and events like the Olympics.

Put bluntly: Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player ever but would be beaten by any of the Top 1000 men's players.

And if this new presidential endorsement of trans women's rights to compete in women's sport becomes the accepted norm, then women's sport as we know it in America will be destroyed.

 

 

In this Feb. 7, 2019 file photo, Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, far left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn.

 

The problem is so obvious, I can't believe it actually has to be spelled out again. But sadly, it does.

And it's vital that it is.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, a gay woman and one of the world's most vociferous LGBTQ campaigners, articulated all the issues perfectly in a newspaper op-ed two years ago.

She explained, respectfully, how trans women born to male biological bodies have a large physical advantage: 'Hundreds of athletes who have changed gender by declaration and limited hormone treatment have already achieved honours as women that were beyond their capabilities as men, especially in sports in which power rather than skill is paramount. But simply reducing hormone levels — the prescription most sports have adopted — does not solve the problem. A man builds up muscle and bone density, as well as a greater number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, from childhood. Training increases the discrepancy. Indeed, if a male were to change gender in such a way as to eliminate any accumulated advantage, he would have to begin hormone treatment before puberty. For me, that is unthinkable.'

Then she warned of another more cynical potential consequence: 'A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires. It's insane and it's cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair.'

Of course, Navratilova was absolutely right about all of this including the likelihood of the final grim scenario happening.

Cheating in sport for huge financial gain has never been more rampant.

But for pointing out the bleeding obvious, Navratilova was shamed, vilified, cancelled by various official bodies who accused her of 'perpetuating dangerous myths', and convicted of being 'transphobic' by the court of social media.

All of which just showed how dangerously deluded and absurd this debate has become.

Now, President Biden has poured a whole heap of fuel onto the already raging fires.

And once more, Martina Navratilova is courageously putting her neck on the line to safeguard women's sport.

She has formed a coalition, The Women's Sports Policy Working Group, designed to promote what it termed an ethical, science-based approach to address the 'vitriolic' public debate.

The group argues that trans girls and women who have never experienced male puberty or 'mitigated their sex-linked advantages' should be fully included in women's sport, but those trans women who've gone through puberty as males should be barred from competing against women who haven't.

This seems an entirely sensible and rational compromise to me.

Navratilova reaffirmed that she has a 'long history of advocating for women's and LGBTQ rights' but added: 'In sport, however, advocating for women's rights means talking sex and sex-linked biology. The performance gap between male athletes and female athletes emerges from the onset of male puberty, and from that point forward even second-tier males can beat the very best females.'

And there, surely, is the proverbial nail on the head of this debate?

What can possibly be 'equal' about a system that allows mediocre athletes in men's sport to switch genders, without any requirement for surgery to change sex, and instantly become world-beating athletes in women's sport - as we've been seeing more and more in things like sprinting, weight-lifting and cycling?

How does that do anything but create a new inequality and discrimination against women born to female biological bodies?

How does it not damage women's rights as it seeks to promote trans women's rights?

Yet that is what Joe Biden wants to let happen.

Yesterday, his administration announced it was rescinding support given under the Trump administration for a lawsuit aimed at preventing transgender athletes from competing in girls' high school sports.

It was filed by three young female athletes who believe their ability to compete has been unfairly damaged by trans women competing against them.

One of them, Alanna Smith, said: 'People should realize that a lot of biological females have missed out on making it to meets that really matter like states and regionals and the transgender athletes have taken spots on the podium that belong to biological females. We train for so many days a week, so many hours to be the best in our state and the best in our region and these biological males are just taking it away from us and we really deserve it.'

These girls deserve fairness and equality too, don't they?

The bottom line is this: trans women should be free to play competitive sport.

Whether that means they compete against each other or against men born to the same biological bodies is a matter for serious debate.

But allowing women born to physically superior male biological bodies who've gone through puberty to compete against women born to female biological bodies should be banned because all it does it create a new inequality and a new discrimination.

Everybody knows this, but very few people in authority seem prepared to say so for fear they will be the next for the trans lobby cancel culture chopping block.

That's why I salute Martina Navratilova who has fought so hard for equality all her life, including for trans people, and sees the inherent inequality that Biden's executive order represents.

She also knows that this furore will only serve to further alienate trans people rather than win much-needed support from non-trans people.

If Biden truly believes in the American dream that everyone is equal then he needs to stand up to the ultra-woke hard-left progressive elements of his party forcing through this obviously unfair agenda and defend the right of women not to see their sport demolished at the altar of political correctness.

It's time to show you know what equality really means, Mr President.