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Subject:  Lawyers
Lawyers
 
 
As an attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be considered to be an indictment against my profession.  But I believe there is much truth to the article below.  Very thought provoking.  Lawyers are adversarial and are trained to try to win at all costs.  It may work in litigation but does not work well when governing our nation.  Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization and hatred that now fills our country and leaves no room for common sense or legitimate debate.
Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school, although Gore did not graduate.  Joe Biden (no surprise) was at the bottom of his class.  Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.  Barack Obama was a lawyer.  Michelle Obama was a lawyer.  Hillary Clinton was a lawyer.  Bill Clinton was a lawyer.  John Edwards is a lawyer.  Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.  Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer.  Former Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different.  President Trump was a businessman.  Presidents Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen.  Vice President Cheney was a businessman.  President Eisenhower was a 5 star General.  The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor.  Tom Delay was an exterminator.  Dick Armey was an economist.  Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer.  The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.  Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976.  The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.  This is very interesting. I had never thought about it this way before.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.  The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.  And so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow.  Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, which, in this case should be the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.  Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming.  Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government.  We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit.  We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws.  We are contorted by judicial decisions.  We are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers!  Tort or legal reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits.  This legislation has been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.  When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.
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Reuters Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

Reuters

Islamic State militant gets life in U.S. prison over killing of American hostages

Kanishka Singh
Fri, August 19, 2022 at 3:12 AM

By Kanishka Singh

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of an Islamic State cell known as "The Beatles" to life in prison for involvement in a hostage-taking plot that led to the killings of American journalists and aid workers in Syria.

Families and friends of the four Americans killed and of other hostages previously detained by the militant group looked on as District Court Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, to life without parole, calling his behavior "horrific, barbaric, brutal and of course criminal."

A jury in April concluded the former British citizen was part of an Islamic State cell, nicknamed "The Beatles" for their English accents, that beheaded American hostages in areas of the Middle East controlled by the militant group. He was found guilty on four counts of hostage-taking and four counts of conspiracy after a two-week trial.

The victims' relatives and friends sat in the front rows of the courtroom and were visibly shaken during the course of the hearing as tears rolled down their eyes and they consoled each other. Elsheikh was sentenced to eight concurrent life sentences.

At the peak of its power from 2014-2017, Islamic State ruled over millions of people and claimed responsibility for or inspired attacks in dozens of cities around the world.

Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate over a quarter of Iraq and Syria in 2014, before he was killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in Syria in 2019 as the group's rule collapsed.

Elsheikh, who was born in Sudan and raised in London, was accused of conspiring to kill four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

Foley and Sotloff, both journalists, and Kassig, an aid worker, were killed in videotaped beheadings. Mueller was raped repeatedly by al-Baghdadi before her death in Syria, U.S. officials have said.

The deaths of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were confirmed in 2014; Mueller's death was confirmed in early 2015.

Elsheikh appeared in the federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday wearing a gray jumpsuit, a facemask and glasses. Family and friends of his victims were asked to make statements in front of the judge.

"Hatred completely overtook your humanity," Foley's mother, Diane said, later breaking down in tears. "I pity you. I pray your time in prison will give you a time to reflect." Friday marked the eighth anniversary of Foley’s beheading.

The head of the London police's Counter Terrorism Command, Richard Smith, said in a statement the victims' families "have shown remarkable fortitude and bravery in giving their accounts of what happened to investigators, and in court."

The charges against Elsheikh, whose British citizenship was withdrawn in 2018, carried a potential death sentence, but U.S. prosecutors had previously advised British officials that they would not seek the death penalty.

Prosecutors argued that a life sentence was needed to prevent Elsheikh from causing future harm and to set a precedent that such crimes will get strict punishment.

"The Beatles were genuine psychopaths," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh argued in court on Friday during the hearing, adding that Elsheikh was the highest-ranking member of the Islamic State to ever be convicted in a U.S. Court.

Another cell member, Alexanda Kotey, was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. judge earlier this year. Kotey was held in Iraq by the U.S. military before being flown to the United States to face trial. He pleaded guilty last September to the murders of Foley, Sotloff, Kassig and Mueller.

A third member of the group, Mohammed Emwazi, died in a U.S.-British missile strike in Syria in 2015.

Some former hostages, released by the cell after protracted negotiations, testified during trials about the torture they endured. Family members of those killed also testified.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; writing by Rami AyyubEditing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)


 

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WASHINGTON TGIMES: Biden Silent On Church Attacks

Advocacy  group 'Catholic Vote' launched a $1M  defensive ad campaign criticizing President Biden's  "notable  silence" on multi attacks  on dozens of churches nation wide following the Supreme  Courts ruling reversing RoeV. Wade.

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Set-Up: Feds Mailed the 15 Boxes to President Trump That They Seized at Mar-a-Lago

he 15 boxes that the FBI seized from President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago this week were mailed to him by the federal government. You can’t make this up. On the one hand, you might think that Trump’s enemies couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to arrest him on some fake charge, thereby turning him into a beloved Nelson Mandela-like martyr figure in American politics for all time. No one is that dumb, right? Then again, when have Trump’s enemies ever proven themselves to be careful and circumspect? They’re going to arrest him and put him in handcuffs, and we need to brace ourselves for that fact.

Miranda Devine at the New York Post has uncovered one of two key facts about the raid and siege of Mar-a-Lago that took place on Monday. The narrative is that Trump took classified documents from National Archives when he left office, which he’s kept sitting around in his basement since last February or so. Here’s what Devine found out:

 “The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump’s presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, and other correspondence with world leaders. A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020.”

Packed up by the General Services Administration (the federal government) and shipped…

Emerald Robinson describes the materials as 15 boxes of autographs, keepsakes and knickknacks. That sounds about right. The fact that the boxes have been locked in a windowless storage room in the basement of Mar-a-Lago all this time suggest that there are no classified documents there. It’s just a bunch of stuff that someone will dig through at some point for the Trump Presidential Library. And even if the boxes did contain classified docs, Mar-a-Lago is crawling with Secret Service agents carrying fully automatic rifles. It’s not like the materials were ever going to fall into the wrong hands.

This was a set-up.

And we know it was a set-up because Newsweek has uncovered a second key fact: The FBI had a confidential informant on Donald Trump’s staff at Mar-a-Lago. The informant told the FBI where the 15 boxes were stored, and also pointed them to the empty safe that the FBI cracked open.

Take two steps back and consider the magnitude of this. The FBI spied on Donald Trump when he was a candidate for president as far back in 2015. They spied on him into 2017 as part of the Russia hoax. And they had a spy on his staff at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, almost two years after he left office. For SEVEN YEARS they’ve been spying on him.

If I see one more squishy, spineless “Republican” fail to condemn the FBI for this and who isn’t willing to call of the complete elimination of the FBI, I swear…

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told some TV show this week, “We need to let this play out.” As if there is going to be some legitimacy to the FBI’s fake attacks on Trump this time. After we “let this play out,” there will be some real evidence at the end of it? Really, Senator Scott? How about “Hell, no.”

The same FBI that fabricated the Russia hoax with the help of the media and the Democrat Party, and fabricated the Ukraine phone call hoax, and fabricated the gun-free “insurrection” hoax on January 6, and fabricated the “two scoops of ice cream” hoax, and fabricated the “burgers piled a mile high” hoax, and sent multiple teams of reporters to investigate whether 5-year-old Jacob Trump had really built a replica LEGO White House all by himself doesn’t get the presumption of legitimacy anymore.

The FBI was formed through an emergency federal mandate more than 80 years ago. It’s done as far as I’m concerned. The very first day of the next Congress, when Republicans have taken over, they need to declare that the FBI has exceeded its mandate and choke off all of its funding until it no longer exists. There are no “good apples” left there. Cut all its funding, demolish the Hoover Building and salt the earth. They get no more benefit of the doubt from us. And any Republican who ever votes for another dime of taxpayer funding for the FBI will lose my vote forever.

Best regards,

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1777 AMERICA

American forces won the Battle of Bennington in what was considered  a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War struggling Colonies

Battle of Bennington

 

 

 

 

Battle of Bennington

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TRAGEDY OF MACBETH...

Time Line  August 15th, 1057- Scotland

Macbeth, KIng of  the Scots was killed in battle by Malclom, the eldest son of king Dulcan,  whom Macbeth  hath slain.

"A drum, a drum, Macbeth hath come...." ~shakespear

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SALMAN RUSHDIE Attempted Assasination on NEW YORK STAGE

Author of infamous revealing Islamic book of "SATONIC VERSES" drew death threats requiring 10 years of police  protection this  publicly attacked, that shocked literary world as a State trooper and sheriff deputy arrested HADI MATAR  on the scene.

Rushdie was taken by emergency helicopter to local hospital where he is expected to survive the stabbing and ferocious beating.

The controversial book was banned in Iran with Ayahtolla issuing in 1989 a "FATWA" death warrant  and $3,000.000 reward on his head

Salman was born into a Muslim family in in India.

Salman Rushdie | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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Terror Charges For Member Islamic State Group Cell Murdered Americans

Associated Press

A member of IS 'Beatles' charged in UK with terrorism

 August 12, 2022 

LONDON (AP) — A member of an Islamic State group cell nicknamed “The Beatles” that tortured and killed Western hostages was charged with terrorism offenses in Britain on Thursday after being deported from Turkey.

Aine Davis, 38, was arrested at Luton Airport north of London on Wednesday night after arriving on a flight from Turkey and charged with offenses under the Terrorism Act, the Metropolitan Police Service said.

During a court appearance on Thursday, Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring ordered Davis held in custody until his next court appearance on Sept. 2.

The militants dubbed “The Beatles” by their captives because of their British accents, held about two dozen Westerners a decade ago, when IS controlled a large swath of Syria and Iraq. Several of the captives were killed in gruesome beheadings that were broadcast online, including Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff and Britons David Haines and Alan Henning.

Davis spoke briefly to confirm his name and date of birth during a brief hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court. He wasn't asked to enter a plea.

Prosecutors say he has been charged with possession of a firearm for terror purposes, and two charges related to funding terrorism, after a friend allegedly tried to take 20,000 euros to Syria. The charges relate to alleged offenses in 2013 and 2014.

Davis was arrested in Turley in 2015 and convicted in 2017 of belonging to the Islamic State group. During his trial there, he denied being one of “The Beatles.”

The group’s four alleged members knew one another in West London before traveling to the Middle East and joining IS. Mohammed Emwazi, who carried out the executions and was nicknamed “Jihadi John,” was killed in a drone strike in 2015.

Two others, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, were captured by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in 2018 and are imprisoned in the U.S. Kotey has been given a life sentence and Elsheikh is expected to get life when he is formally sentenced later this month.

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A Forgotten Man"Srights

 Wise Word from  A Wise (un)forgotten man

Fredrick Douglas

frederick-douglass“

A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.”

Speech, 15 November 1867 as quoted in Robin Van Auken, Louis E. Hunsinger, Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna (Charleston, SC : Arcadia, 2003), 57.

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If You Care About Media Censorship and Fair Elections...

Alexander: If You Care About Media Censorship and Fair Elections...

"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." —John Adams (1797)

What is the greatest threat to fully informed public opinion, and thus the greatest threat to "free and fair elections," including the upcoming midterm election?

No, it's not the Demos' far more egregious bulk-mail ballot fraud used so effectively to hand Joe Biden a massive popular vote win in 2020. That Demo "voter rights" scam involved mailing tens of millions of ballots to last known addresses of registered voters with no confirmation that those addresses were legitimate, much less that the recipient was even living. The ballots that were returned in bulk, then counted, despite the fact that millions of those vote casters were not authenticated — not by ID, not by signature comparison, not by authentication, period.

A fundamental tenet of election integrity is verifying the identity of every voter — something virtually every other Western nation requires except the U.S., where Democrat-controlled states have discarded voter ID requirements for obvious reasons.

No, it's not even the ballot-harvesting mules suspected to have operated in certain swing states.

So, what is the greatest threat to free and fair elections?

It's a dark and far more nefarious effort to suppress free speech, and, by extension, suppress voter information.

Read on, because this is the biggest factor in rigged elections, and I will explain how.

You have heard of the so-called "fact-checkers" and "fake news busters" who pose as "journalists" with outfits like USA Today, which has targeted The Patriot Post with fabricated fake fact-checks. Under the pretense of "objective journalism," their mission is the systemic redlining of free speech — and in ways that are imperceptible to most Americans. They operate primarily under the umbrella of Demo/Leftmedia propagandists who, in recent years, have perfected their scheme to undermine the First Amendment — and, in effect, rig elections.

How do they accomplish this?

The "fact-checkers" and "fake news raters" find a way to flag conservative news platforms for inert and obscure "violations," then they apply a poor rating to those platforms. Social media platforms, the most influential information networks, then use those ratings to severely restrict the number of people conservative news can reach.

But the real objective of these checkers and raters is not to target the fringe platforms, but to hit legitimate news platforms. They form leftist fronts to suppress free speech, thus undermining free elections — and ultimately, to ensure Democrat majorities.

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HELP: Border crisis solution

HELP

This may get the attention of these Blue state demagogues who think its OK to overwhelm the southern border…until it hits their communities.

 

https://conservativeamericatoday.com/dc-wants-national-guard-help-after-reaching-tipping-point-over-migrants/

 

"...the request for National Guard assistance richly proves the point Texas is making.

The release said that “our communities (in Texas) are overrun and overwhelmed by thousands of illegal immigrants.” The Biden administration’s “open border policies” were blamed for the chaos".

 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/first-bus-of-illegal-immigrants-from-texas-arrives-in-new-york-city/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second

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OUR GOLDEN STATE, California,, GOING, GOING, GONE: Dystopia

Crime the last three years has increased. It is epidemic in local jails. San Francisco has the highest property-crime rate per capita of any major city. The California prison system is a mess, and sanctuary cities ensure that illegal aliens charged with crimes will not be deported. Pick up a McClatchy paper and you’ll see that the day’s fare of Central Valley criminality, even after sanitization and editorializing, is mind-boggling.

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