a jefferson quote well past its time;
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
its officially 1984 with this development and doublespeak is now official;
A fascinating exchange took place at a UN press briefing the other day between China Global Television Network’s Xu Dezhi and the UN’s Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq about the US military occupation of Syria. The exchange is interesting both for the wild pro-US bias shown by a UN official, and for the way it illustrates how much truth can be exposed when journalists do what they’re supposed to do in the press gallery.
Xu, who has done on-the-ground reporting in Syria in the past, asked Haq some challenging questions about an attack on a US military base in eastern Syria last week which injured multiple American troops and killed an American contractor. In his response, Haq made the extremely incorrect claim that there are no US armed forces in Syria, and refused to say whether the US military occupation of part of the country is illegal.
Here’s the UN’s transcript of the key part of this exchange (emphasis added by me):
Xu: Do you not urge everyone to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria?
Haq: Well of course, that’s a given, and obviously it’s important that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria is respected. At the same time you are aware of the complexity of the situation of foreign forces, but we call for them to exercise restraint.
Xu: But, do you think the presence of the US military in Syria is illegal or not?
Haq: That’s not an issue that we’re dealing with at this stage. There’s been a war.
Xu: But, is that… because it sounds very familiar this week. We talk a lot about the UN Charter, the international law and relative resolutions. But, it sounds to me, a foreign ministry based presence in another country without invitation, sounds like something else to me........more.....
mr peters makes excellent points;
You have probably heard about the person who shot up a Christian School the other day. You may have heard police reports that the shooter was “trans” and – wait for it – had no history of mental illness.
And in other news, the ocean had no history of being wet.
Mentally ill people are inclined to do mentally ill things. Like shoot up a school. But we are not allowed to point out the former thing, because it is a politically incorrect thing to identify a boy who thinks he is a girl (and vice-versa) as . . . mentally ill.
And yet, that is precisely what such a person is. Unless one takes the position that fantasy is the same as reality, in which case why not endorse the fantasy of a 60-year-old man who insists he is a teenage girl and let him date teenage boys? On what basis would an objection to this be made, if one has no objection to a boy insisting he is a girl and must be allowed to enter the girls’ bathroom, as he is in fact a “girl” himself?
This is, of course, insane.
But one cannot fault the insane. Indeed, the law is indulgent toward them and with justice because an insane person is a person who does not appreciate that he is insane. From his – insane – point-of-view, it is the rest of the world that’s off-kilter. Not him........more.......
seems obvious to me that most all of the mass shootings that make the tv are deep state stuff. you virtually never hear of when a black kid kills five or more, which when you dig down are part of the mass shooting numbers and much greater than the ones the tv shows;
REMINDER: Mass shootings are used as fuel for the Culture War. Black vs. White, Left vs. Right, Trans vs. Cis, it doesn't matter: they want us fighting each other. This was posted 1 day after the CO night club shooting; let's see how they spin yesterday to keep us at odds with our neighbor today.
mayorkas is getting his due;
Biden’s totally corrupt head of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, appeared to be on another planet today when asked questions by Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
Biden Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas didn’t answer a single question when asked by US Senators Cruz and Hawley in a hearing today at the US Capitol. Mayorkas who is actively destroying the country by allowing open borders and open access to the country, was asked several direct questions and his responses made it look like he was on another planet.
Mayorkas did not answer any question straightforwardly, he nonemotionally talked nonsense. No country would allow someone like this to hold any position of authority – but this is the Biden regime.
Senator Cruz asked Mayorkas if there was a crisis at the border and Mayorkas would not answer..........more.......
'our' government wants you to believe they work for your freedom;
Just your standard ambiguous phrase so they can stuff anything and everything they want under the umbrella.
Full text is here: www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text
Highlights include allowing the feds to access any of your software or hardware, at any time, without any judicial oversight. Arbitrary designation of foreign parties as enemies, and anyone who communicated with them subject to up to a $1M fine. Anything subject to this bill is exempt from FOIA. Etc. This is a nightmare, but we know the NPCs are going to go along with it.
It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.
Believe it or not, it gets even worse: If you find you in violation, they can put you in jail for 20 years, fine you $1M, and seize your property........more..........
