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Monthly Archives: April 2018

Did We Make the List?

30 Monday Apr 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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Constitution, DHS, government, media, press, spying

DHS to monitor the media:

The Department of Homeland Security sparked concerns among media circles after news spread that the agency was creating an online database to monitor journalists, bloggers, social media influencers and others.

Word got out after Bloomberg Government surfaced a job posting from DHS seeking a contractor for a “media monitoring services” project. The job entails creating a searchable database that has the ability to track about 290,000 news sources, both foreign and domestic, according to the DHS’s statement of work.

The contractor will help DHS monitor “traditional news sources as well as social media, identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event,” the job description reads.

“Services shall provide media comparison tools, design and rebranding tools, communication tools, and the ability to identify top media influencers.”

I’m not sure where this “highly respected web log” would fall on a list of 290,000 outlets. No lower than 291,305 I should think.

An astute member of the media brought this to my attention, seeking my opinion. And … as worrying as this might be I just can’t bring myself to worry about it. There’s already terrific monitoring going on – from the feds and elsewhere.

I suppose it would be an honor to be considered an “influencer” – right up until the time they link the list to the drone system or something.

One, giving the old Constitution an honest read, finds something about a right of and to the free press but nothing about government authority to monitor the same. That’s the real rebranding.

Of note though, DHS’s press secretary tweeted:

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Twitter Twit.

Which is basically what they said in the 90’s about Echelon and Carnivore (post initial denials, of course). That means the hype is true and should be worrisome. Still can’t worry here and no once else will likely even notice.

Voxiversity 6: The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon

29 Sunday Apr 2018

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books, culture, Moira Greyland, Vox Day

Vox reads his forward to Moira Greyland’s book:

Vox Day.

I’ve read much of the book and it’s about the most disturbing subject matter imaginable. I really can’t recommend it unless the reader is deeply into the truth about cultural depravity. Having nerves of steel won’t hurt. Even if so, it’s a lot. The most amazing thing, as Vox notes, is that Moira was not only able to forgive her tormentors but to actually portray them as still somewhat human.

The book makes sense even to those not in the know/care about sci-fi and associated fandom.

Tasseography Verification? #GrenadeControl

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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America, society, the left, violence

The other day Rep. Mo Brooks was predicting more leftist violence.

Today, in the weekly roundup, Taki’s Mag provides a little more evidence Mo may be on to something: the ravings of a hefty California public employee, name of Randa Jarrar:

[Some banal vulgarity and general whitey hating]….I don’t give a fuck. I’m buying guns….I’m going to do some stupid shit. I’m tired of being the bigger person….I’m also just tired of the left being stupid….Why is [Richard] Spencer’s house still standing? I don’t understand. Like, it needs to be fucking broken into. People need to fucking throw grenades into it. I don’t give a fuck.

DO. NOT. WORRY. She still has her tenured job teaching donut eating or something. No investigation. No intervention. She’s diverse and therefore free to spread the same idiotic, violent threats that the left complained about not being investigated just before the Parkland shooting. Actually, they do a lot of the same stuff they complain about.

In their defense, they are a depressed lot. Many are still not over the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, with North Korea poised to fall, they may become unhinged. Get them some lithium or something before they do start throwing grenades. #grenadecontrol?

Political Tea Leaves in the Culture War

28 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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America, culture, culture war, GOP, Mo Brooks, Pat Buchanan, politics, the left

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama claims a horde of GOP House members are quitting over assassination fears. He may only make an excuse for the swinging of the old pendulum. Or he may be on to something.

He also said the “socialist Bernie Sanders wing of society” was pushing for a revolution that would lead to Maoist level of violence.

“There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations,” he said.

If true, this is the result of a turning point Pat Buchanan says happened 50 years ago.

They’re certainly interesting times, these.

Sanctuary Officer

27 Friday Apr 2018

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18 USC 1324, aiding and abetting, California, crime, immigration, invasion, law, police, War

Exciting news from the land of fruits and nuts! One LAPD Officer takes the sanctuary policies of his state very seriously.

A Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging he tried to smuggle two illegal immigrants into the United States this week in southeastern San Diego County.

Mambasse Koulabalo Patara has been charged with violating immigration laws, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday.

Thank you, Emanuel Celler! Mambasse Koulabalo (Another Gift of 1965) Patara.

18 USC 1324. Five years, maybe 10 depending on how they charge. The mule being a cop, he probably has a good record; he’ll likely benefit from the sentencing guidelines. He might even turn informant. His failed run might have been sponsored by LA or the State. Who knows.

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Peace At Last In the Koreas?

27 Friday Apr 2018

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North Korea, peace, South Korea

It looks very much like it.

Surreal scenes capped off the historic meeting between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in today as they held hands and listened to Korean pop music during a lavish farewell ceremony.

Kim became the first North Korean leader to step into the South for 65 years as he and President Moon vowed ‘there will be no more war’ and agreed to ‘complete denuclearisation’.

The two sworn enemies exchanged a warm greeting at the 38th parallel in the truce village of Panmunjom before the pair held talks and planted a commemorative tree together. The dramatic meeting has been seen as a precursor to planned talks between Kim and US President Donald Trump next month.

As the summit came to an end today, Kim and Moon clasped hands as K-pop blared during a bizarre farewell and photos of their meeting were projected onto a massive screen installed in front of the building where they met. Kim then boarded a black Mercedes Benz limousine that drove him back north.

Surreal may be the right word. All my life there’s been conflict on the Peninsula. And American involvement. Technically we’re still at undeclared war there. Maybe that’s about to finally end.

One could kind of see this developing around the time of the Olympics. Kim and Moon deserve the appreciation of their peoples and more. One wonders in Trump will get or take any credit for these developments. His supporters are already suggesting his name to the Nobel Committee. His detractors still detract. Time will tell.

Interesting. Hopeful. Inspiring.

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Daily Mail.

What About That Free Speech?

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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Berkeley, England, free-speech, Khan, law, London, Trump

Sadiq, the Khan Man of London, encourages his tax enablers to protest Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to England. Says the Khan Man, “He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.”

That’s just not entirely true. Londoners may hold those values dear but, if they express them, they can be prosecuted. Feel the Wrath of Khan so to speak. Wrath of Scotland Yard rather.

I’ll encourage Londoners to protest but to refrain from making any comments deriding Trump’s color, race, religion, disability, ethnicity, nationality, or sexual orientation. Refrain from discussing his being American. No talk about “orange,” or “tangerine,” or even “white.” Refrain from mentioning his relations with Melania, Stormy, or who-knows-who-else. For God’s sake, no ridicule of his (real or imagined) disabled hair or hands.

Refrain or risk seven years in prison; see: The Public Order Act of 1986, § 3 (the NO MORE FREE SPEECH ACT OF 1986, as amended several times). Of course, I think the law is rather selectively applied, maybe not so much what your say as who you are.

What were we talking about again? Ah, yes – liberal values and free speech. The concepts seem a tad mutually exclusive, across the Pond, now don’t they?

Fear not! It’s not just spoliated across the Atlantic in the Old Country. That aged Anglo-American bond still holds in places and at certain times. Places like Berkeley (THAT Berkeley, the “free speech” place). Times like when Ann Coulter tries to visit THAT Berkeley.

Free speech is no longer free at UC Berkeley.

A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter by imposing unreasonable restrictions and fees on their appearances.

In a decision late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco said two conservative groups could pursue claims that the school applied its policy for handling “major events” and an earlier policy for “high-profile speakers” in a manner that unfairly suppressed conservative speech.

But the judge also said she was “unpersuaded” by claims by the plaintiffs that the school engaged in intentional viewpoint discrimination, and that the major events policy was too vague. She said the plaintiffs could not seek punitive damages.

Judge Chesney has to know that invidious doesn’t necessarily have to mean “intentional.” The Ninth Circuit surely knows as much.

Anyway, the speech at UCB – if allowed at all by the hordes of violent antifa shock morons – has gotten downright expensive. I think it’s $9,000 now to speak freely in the land where free speech was once actually free. (The flower children had little money and that little they spent on weed…).

I found no such similar fees attached to speaking at London colleges – not that I looked very hard. London College of the Arts, I think.

Interesting. A dichotomy? One could freely stand around Berkeley and call Trump the Marmalade President and do it for free, really free. One in Berkeley could also stand around and call Khan the Paki Mayor, so long as a fee was paid. In London, one could probably get away with the Trump slur, also for free. The Khan comment in London would likely see one off to HMPS Belmarsh or somewhere similar.

What was that about free speech again?

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TFOG Preorder

26 Thursday Apr 2018

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blog, books, J.R.R. Tolkien, slow

Whoa. One of those days when nothing starts. Or doesn’t stop. Or something.

After killing every idea for a post today, including dismissing some lingering drafts, I’ll just give you this:

Preorder The Fall of Gondolin from Amazon.

Or not… Hubba. Working on fidning that “right” idea for today. This may be it.

Tomorrow!

Video on the Students and the Schools

25 Wednesday Apr 2018

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America, education, FP, schools, students, The Perrin Lovett Show, TPC, Youtube

A video to round out (or make) an unintentional trio of academic stories today. Please watch:

Perrin Lovett/YouTube.

Subscribe on YT, share, etc.

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The videos are getting easier and more fun to create. Thanks to all that are signing on. With you good folks, the FP diehards, and our new TPC friends, this thing could take off. Stefan, check that rear view mirror!

More to come.

The Who and Socrates Together At Last!

25 Wednesday Apr 2018

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes, Other Columns

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college, education, Piedmont Chronicles, students, TPC

More today from TPC’s C.F. Floyd Feature Writer of National Affairs, the second of what will surely become a sought-after nationally syndicated column:

The “New” Students: Intellectually Incurious? or Intellectual Curiosity?

…The scene was much the same as it is, here and now, in ancient Athens: “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” So said Socrates, a man somewhat familiar with the youth and their educational endeavors.

Latter day academics continue to observe the various faults of humanity as expressed (or repressed) through the lives of American college students. Twenty five centuries and no change?

Current teachers say the kids are “situationally confused,” sharing no “intellectual curiosity.” Theirs, we’re told, is a listlessly drifting life of boredom, confusion, and constant sexual activity. A former Yale professor of English felt the crisis so compelling that he disavowed the Ivy League. A UVA professor of Christian studies describes the academy as a “sexual free-for-all.”

As inhibitions of the flesh evaporate, resistance to challenging perception and thought seems to grow. …

Read all at TPC. This one with touching tribute to the real C.F. Floyd!

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