and there it is…

The military force to guard Washington DC is about to become a permanent force. Will they call it the Revolutionary Guard, the Palace Guard, or something else? Will the uniform include jackboots right away, or will those come later?

I quote:

“Another option would be to create a QRF that permanently resides within the D.C. Guard by reestablishing a military police battalion and staffing it with active Guard reserve troops who live in or near the city year-round, perpetually on active duty.

Vaccine protester= terrorist

This editorial in the Washington Post says that anyone who opposes the COVID vaccine is committing domestic terrorism. The editorial is written by a State Senator from California, who has this to say:

A major weapon of anti-vaccine extremists is the ability to organize disinformation campaigns on Facebook and other social media. Corporate owners of these platforms can moderate and close down groups that promote disinformation and endanger lives.

He goes on:

Getting vaccinated is a patriotic act. So is speaking up to support public health efforts. Let’s not allow extremism, division or fear to slow the efforts to end this deadly chapter in our nation’s history.

Anyone who opposes Democrats and their agenda will be declared a terrorist. It has been coming for months.

Not voting out of this

I posted earlier that the Democrats are pushing to eliminate the caucus in favor of a more easily rigged primary. They aren’t stopping there. Today, President Biden signed an executive order, ordering the FedGov to make it easier for more people to register and to vote. Sounds very fair and reasonable, right?

Except it is intended to assist prisoners and criminals in voting.

How many of you still think we are “going to get them in 2024?”

Fire in a crowded theater

Just over a century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what is perhaps the most well-known, misquoted, and misused phrase in Supreme Court history: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”

Without fail, whenever any controversy about limiting people’s rights comes up, someone will misquote this phrase as proof of limits on the right to free speech, then use that as support for their claim that all rights have limits. Whatever that controversy may be, the law can then be interpreted to mean that we should limit the rights of the people. Holmes’ quote has become a crutch for every would be tyrant in America, yet the quote is often misunderstood.

Go read the case where the phrase originated before using it as your argument. I will wait. The case is U.S. v. Schenck, and it was so bad that was overturned more than 50 years ago.

The case had nothing to do with fires or theaters or false statements. Instead, the Court was deciding whether Charles Schenck, the Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, could be convicted under the Espionage Act for writing and distributing a pamphlet that expressed his opposition to the draft during World War I. The case didn’t call for violence. It did not even call for civil disobedience. It simply urged people to vote out any politician who supported it.

The crowded theater remark that everyone likes to trot out was an analogy Holmes made before issuing the court’s holding. He was explaining that the First Amendment is not absolute. The actual ruling, that the pamphlet posed a “clear and present danger” to a nation at war, landed Schenk in prison. That case, along with two others, was used to toss people in prison for daring to oppose or speak out against President Wilson’s policies.

The case was effectively overturned in 1969, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In that case, the Court held that inflammatory speech, even speech advocating violence by members of the Ku Klux Klan, is protected under the First Amendment, unless the speech “is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Sound familiar? This is why they can’t do shit about what President Trump had to say on January 6, nor can they legally shut down the speech of the right. So instead, they are allowing large megacorporations to have monopolies on the digital town square, they coopting them into performing the censorship for them.

If you are surprised

then you aren’t paying attention.

It was announced today that the National Guard’s occupation of the Capitol will be extended for another 60 days. I told you three weeks ago that they would be staying indefinitely, even though they were claiming that the assignment would only be until mid-March.

They claimed that there was a threat for March 4. That didn’t happen. This is all a bunch of smoke and mirrors. This is a permanent Republican guard. All that is missing is that El Presidente isn’t wearing his military uniform.

Lying liars that lie

The director of the FBI says, “We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribed to Antifa in connection with the sixth.”

How would he know? Why, not even six months ago, the very same FBI director testified under oath to Congress, and had this to say: “Antifa is not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”

How can both statements be true? They cannot. This leads me to one of two conclusions: Either the FBI is lying and is a part of the cabal that overthrew the legitimate government of the United States, or the FBI cannot find his ass using both hands and a treasure map with a giant ‘X’ on it.

The press backed up the statement that Antifa is not an organization, as did the official mouthpiece of the coup, so my bet is on this entire thing being a coup.

Get woke, go broke

The University of Texas has had a long tradition of playing the school alma mater, “The Eyes of Texas,” at the end of each football game. Traditionally, the football team stands in the middle of the field and sings the song with all of the fans, alumni, and boosters.

Until this year.

This year, students and athletes decided that the song, with ties to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, was racist. Many students and athletes were organizing protests and circulating a petition to have the song banned. It all culminated in the team leaving the field and refusing to sing the song.

The backlash from the boosters and alumni was overwhelming. Hundreds of alumni and donors blasted off emails to the university president, demanding that the school stand up to “cancel culture” and firmly get behind the song — or else donors were going to walk away.

The press is roasting the benefactors, calling them the “worst” and claiming that they are racists.

The school, athletes, and students are free to change the traditions of the school. The donors and benefactors of the school are just as free to withhold donations and endowments. Remember when you lectured us and told us how Facebook and Twitter could do whatever they want? It cuts both ways.

Don’t like it? You can always go ahead and start your own school. Or continue to run the existing one without much of your funding. Isn’t that what you told the right when they complained about FB and Twitter?