Category Archives: Legal/Political Columns

A collections of my popular ramblings concerning the law, Natural Law, and political issues. Enjoy!

Perfect

22 Monday Apr 2019

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It makes perfect sense that US banks are currently barred from hiring “small time” criminals. From the WSJ:

Small-Time Crimes a Dealbreaker for Banking Jobs

Banks want changes to law preventing them from hiring employees with certain criminal records

Over the past decade about 1,200 people with criminal records have asked the government to let them work at a bank—with more than 40% of requests rejected or unresolved. The banking industry wants to change that.

Under a 1950 law, banks are barred from hiring anyone convicted of a crime of dishonesty or breach of trust. The only way around the law is to get a waiver from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Since 2008 it has approved around 57% of requests made by individuals petitioning on their own or with bank sponsorship, according to agency data.

Banks say the restriction is too tight, keeping them from hiring a more diverse pool of candidates. The ban covers felonies such as financial fraud, but also misdemeanor offenses that result in no prison time, including minor shoplifting and drug-possession convictions. There is no broad statute of limitations, meaning offenses from early adulthood can stop a candidate decades later.

Everyone knows the banksters are BIG time criminals. At any rate, at this late hour, they might as well allow the little guys in too.

Of Course…

21 Sunday Apr 2019

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The first, notable, nameable arrest along Amerika’s porous Southern border was of the leader of a group of patriots who do the job the government won’t.

The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico.

The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation.

Hopkins, 69, also known as Johnny Horton, was arrested in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on a federal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

“We’re not worried about it, he’s going to be cleared,” said Jim Benvie, a spokesman for the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), blaming his arrest on political pressure from Lujan Grisham.

Even with a national emergency (heretofore with NO emergency action), we can’t halt the migratory flow but we can persecute our own. Hey, Donald! You’re doing it wrong. Ask Nancy and AOC. This guy’s okay. This is a man whom most Democrats wouldn’t mind voting. That is if he really is a convicted felon.

I hope he’s released within 20 days. He’s just an unaccompanied “minor” and “refugee” of the documented variety. No felon is illegal – unless enforcing the law is illegal.

This is one of the reasons why we have the Second Amendment.

Lindsey Raises a Red Flag

20 Saturday Apr 2019

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It’s good to see that Graham has completely recovered from his fit of manliness during the Kavanaugh hearing. And, it’s good to see RepubliCONS like Graham progressing. Instead of waiting, posturing, and then caving to the Dems, they’re now actively proving their uselessness.

Graham is hoping to get bipartisan support for the bill, which he said will provide grants to states that implement “red flag laws.”

Senate Judiciary Committee chair Lindsey Graham told BuzzFeed News he will start crafting legislation next week to expand police powers to preemptively seize firearms from people believed to be a danger to themselves or others.

Graham is angling to get bipartisan support for his bill, and has been in discussions with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Neither would outline specifics Thursday beyond saying it will be an original piece of legislation. Graham said work on hammering out the contents of the bill will begin next week.

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“The benefits are enormous. If you just stop one, that’s enormous. And there has to be due process, we all get that,” Graham said last week at the end of a Judiciary Committee meeting studying red flag laws.

Democrats widely welcomed ERPO legislation, while also saying more reforms are needed.

“I think that Republicans know they can’t do nothing any longer. Republicans know they can’t go into 2020 exposed on the issue of guns like they were in 2018,” said Sen. Chris Murphy. “I don’t think red flags law are sufficient from a policy perspective or a political perspective. They’re diversionary.”

Other Democrats were surprised that a powerful Republican like Graham would be willing to try to pass any kind of red flag law legislation.

Preemptive stupidity to surprise even the Democrats. Yay! And, no, Mr. and Mrs. Libertarian, there’s no need for any of this nor any legal authority for this (or any other gun control).

Now, if “dangerous people” applies to the police and the military, then maybe there’s something there. Of course, we all know who’s dangerous to Washington. We all know that they are dangerous to us, especially the swishy, ultra-leftwing “conservative” types.

More on the Mueller Matter

19 Friday Apr 2019

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MB McCart’s good take on the report:

By MB McCart, Editor 

NATIONAL

Well, folks, it finally got released. The redacted version of the Mueller report. As several others commented, I cannot begin to say how impressed I was that several media outlets had already read, disseminated & published their findings on the almost 500-page document literally within an hour or so of it being released. Wow!

As for myself, I’ve scanned most all of it & have seriously read, so far, about a 1/5th of it.

In many ways this just confirmed what you were already believing. If a Trump fan – total vindication; a Trump hater, on the other hand, is going to think this proves there were improper things going on. Who’s right? Really, who cares…

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It is what it is but as is often the case, the truth is somewhere in between the two extremes, though I believe it’s fairly apparent that the whole concept of a “Nothing Burger” was a pretty apt description. And all those folks who’ve been convicted? It was all for non-Russia stuff with the exception of Flynn, who basically just made an honest mistake but then got crucified for it.

And let’s not forget, all of this was built on a lie – the infamous Steele dossier that was paid for by the DNC & the Clinton campaign, and let’s also not forget that it was helped along by those in the intelligence community looking for an “insurance policy.”

But, before all of that, let’s also not forget that all of this purportedly started with Russian groupscreating Facebook pages & groups while spending approx. $100K & that Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta was an idiot & had his email hacked. 

The nerve of Russia, right? If they’re going to do stuff like that, they should do it like the good ole US of A, CIA-style – actually do it in person. Get some boots on the ground. Maybe kill some folks.

My added comment:

Perrin Lovett April 19, 2019 at 12:06 PM

‘Tis as I wrote on March 27th: “Everyone knew this story was complete bullsh!t from start to finish. Now, it’s official.” Trump is not “f*cked” as he originally feared; he’s no longer bogged down and is free to get to work on at least a few major campaign items. Sadly, I predict the invasion will continue and the swamp will remain stagnant and stinking. I’ll also call, officially, Trump’s re-election next year – with or without substantive redress of the rot. Excellent article, Mr. Editor. PS: local (and state) anti-speech laws are routinely stricken by courts. It’s the social media itself that presents the 21st Century, SJW problem.

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UPDATE: nice to see someone agrees with me:

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Investigate Zuckerberg for Privacy Piracy, Whatever

19 Friday Apr 2019

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Ha! Here we go:

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From the Washington Post’s Tech Page.

Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users’ personal information have set their sights on the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, exploring his past statements on privacy and weighing whether to seek new, heightened oversight of his leadership.

The discussions about how to hold Zuckerberg accountable for Facebook’s data lapses have come in the context of wide-ranging talks between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook that could settle the government’s more than year-old probe, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Both requested anonymity because the FTC’s inquiry is confidential under law.

If there’s to be no prison, then how about this: each individual account compromise amounts to a single regulatory violation, max fine for each violation, and the problem is $olved.

Investigate Facebook and Zuck for Theft

19 Friday Apr 2019

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Inadvertent? Right. Here’s the Farceberg outrage of the day minute: 1.5 million accounts robbed of email contacts.

Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts.

Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network, Business Insider can reveal. The Silicon Valley company said the contact data was “unintentionally uploaded to Facebook,” and it is now deleting them.

The revelation comes after pseudononymous security researcher e-sushi noticed that Facebook was asking some users to enter their email passwords when they signed up for new accounts to verify their identities, a move widely condemned by security experts. Business Insider then discovered that if you entered your email password, a message popped up saying it was “importing” your contacts without asking for permission first.

At the time, it wasn’t clear what was happening – but on Wednesday, Facebook disclosed to Business Insider that 1.5 million people’s contacts were collected this way and fed into Facebook’s systems, where they were used to improve Facebook’s ad targeting, build Facebook’s web of social connections, and recommend friends to add.

Why do the police always take Zuck’s word about these “inadvertent” mistakes? Smells kind of like theft to me. 1.5 million consecutive 1-year prisons sentences should do as punishment.

Anyhow, I’ll bet it was more than 1.5 million and it was more than just email contacts. If, for some strange, low-IQ reason, you’re still on FB, do at least check your “secret” file to find out exactly what they admit they have on you.

Strike that… If you’re still on the Zuckbook, then just keep looking at those pics and “reading” all those worthy Russian trolling attempts. You don’t need privacy nor need you be worried about anyone invading it; small minds aren’t worth reading.

The Mueller Report

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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Here, at last, is the great disappointment of the Democrats:

MUELLER’S “RUSSIA” REPORT

Read through ALL of that…

It was the 448-page version of what Barr released last month in his substantially shorter summary.

My summary (with future extrapolation):

  • Russians attempted interference in the US 2016 election (as the US attempts the same worldwide in numerous countries and their affairs)
  • There was no collusion between Trump and Russia
  • There probably was a collusion between Team Hillary and someone Russian
  • There was definitely collusion by and among the Deep State to rig the election and defeat (later, frame or bog down) Trump
  • There was no Obstruction of Justice by Trump
  • This whole case was BS from the start and now it’s over
  • The Deep State is desperate
  • They need not be … no sealed indictments, no GITMO, no treason trials
  • Little if anything will be accomplished for Americans – On with the More of the Same Show!
  • Trump will be reelected in 2020
  • More of the same … for maybe a decade or so longer. Then…

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Debanking: The Banksters are the Mortal Enemies of the Free People

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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“Chase is not involved with any like, you know, alt right people or anything.” – Chase Bank SJW1234

Since Vox Day left a few years ago, and since Pat Buchanan is available elsewhere, I really haven’t paid much attention lately to WND. But, this story on a horrific trend in US banking is worth the read.

Chase Bank is shutting down accounts of people and organizations with controversial political views, according to an undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

O’Keefe’s latest probe found that Chase, without explanation, abruptly closed the account of a political activist that had existed for 15 years in good standing.

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“First we get silenced on social media, which is a new public square. Then PayPal. And then I get debanked,” he said.

“It’s a very dangerous trend.”

Too big to fail? I’d say just about right for breaking up. The associated video:

I’d say boycott – and we should – but we may run out of businesses. You know, there should be an alternative to the banking stranglehold monopoly. That would involve an alternative to the Satanic Federal Reserve. I think I have a plan that should do the trick. All we need is an honest Congress and a President with a set of … nevermind.

Stop. Mueller Time.

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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We anticipate the full partial redacted whatever portion on the Mueller Report a little later today. I’ll get that up, maybe with a little analysis – like there’s anything to analyze, at some point. Check Drudge, news junkies.

Anyway, I assume that tomorrow, Good Friday, we will start seeing the unsealing of all those secret military indictments. Let the treason trials (Nuremberg-style) commence. … I crack me up…

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First Venezuela, Now Syria. When, here, America?

17 Wednesday Apr 2019

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And, thank you, Christian Russia, for checking the insane plans of the Washington Neocons. Syria, parts of it, are becoming Christian (again).

A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago.

The converts say the experience of war and the onslaught of a group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them toward their new faith. After a number of families converted, the Syrian-Turkish border town’s first evangelical church opened last year.

Islamic State militants were beaten back by U.S. air strikes and Kurdish fighters [and Russia and the Regime] at Kobani in early 2015, in a reversal of fortune after taking over swaths of Iraq and Syria. After years of fighting, U.S.-backed forces fully ended the group’s control over populated territory last month.

Though Islamic State’s ultra-radical interpretation of Sunni Islam has been repudiated by the Islamic mainstream, the legacy of its violence has affected perceptions of faith.

Many in the mostly Kurdish areas of northern Syria, whose urban centers are often secular, say agnosticism has strengthened and in the case of Kobani, Christianity.

Christianity is one of the region’s minority faiths that was persecuted by Islamic State.

So, maybe all it takes is a depression and a civil war to reverse the curse in the United States of Babel. Or, do we have to wait until we’re the minority? We already have the persecution from our own brand of ultra-radicals.

Anyway, good for the people of Kobani. May the faith spread.

This reminded me of a plea from a Syrian Priest – against both the Islamists and the Neocon loons: