A video has been released of the atrocities committed on 7th October 2023, on Simchat Torah. Simchat Torah is a very joyous which makes what the terrorist groups did on October7th even more horrifying. If that’s possible, and I’m not really sure it is.
A 21 minute and 51 second movie has been released regarding the events of October 7th. Almost all of the footage was shot by the terrorists. They’re quite proud of their actions. There are a few clips in Hebrew that were shot by Israel, you’ll be able to tell which ones. For example the few clips of the terrorists being questioned by Israel, and the one clip in Hebrew as the soldiers arrive to the Nova music festival and find the concession tent. The rest of it? The video was done by the darlings of the gullible western media, the victims de jour of the university and campus crowd, the entire Demoncrat party with the possible exception of Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. and John Fetterman. The Biden-Harris junta helped facilitate it by unfreezing Iran’s assets, who fund hamass and hizbollah and a few others. The also helped by constantly putting pressure on Israel to “agree” to a cease-fire the terrorists do not want. They just want time to rearm and re-group. That’s it. And the gullible west buys it hook line and sinker. They also embrace the lie of the “poor poor innocent Falestinians”…Yeah? Who the heck do they think those people in street clothes are beating and stabbing the stolen Israelis? Yeah, the people the UN and the US demands Israel send supplies to so hamass can steal them and prolong the war.
And along with the pressure to “bring them home”, how about “give them back right now”, the Harris-Biden junta has put pressure on Israel not to go into certain areas.
The six hostages, whose bodies were found Saturday in a tunnel underneath Gaza discovered in Rafah, were in the same exact location Vice President Kamala Harris warned Israel of grave consequences if it entered.
In March, Harris warned Israel of possible U.S. consequences, hinting that it would withhold weapons if it ignored the Biden Administration’s “red line” and invaded Rafah. In this crucial town, Hamas terrorists were believed to be hiding Israeli hostages.
“We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris said during an interview on ABC. “I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go.”
As I understand it, the hostages had been very recently and brutally murdered. In fact one report I heard is the IDF could hear the sound of the gunshots as they were moving through the tunnels. More blood on the Harris-Biden junta. May they rot.
There really isn’t much more I want to say, except just be aware this is very violent. I’m not sure how long it will remain up. But it is a truthful showing, they filmed it, they’re proud of it. Perhaps you might keep it in mind when you hear the Al Jazeera broadcasts of the MSM or your kid comes home from college and explains about the “oppression”. It’s always good to know what your enemy considers “acceptable”, because this will spread. What the college idiots didn’t know what it meant when they chanted “Globalize intifada” wearing their little keffiyeh? It means this will be showing in a music festival near you. Harris-Biden imported them, just for you.
I checked out what Comrade X said, you will need to log into X and then the video will play. I’m guessing it has something to do with the age you claim to be?
Thank you Comrade X!
Ok, here is another site you can watch Unfiltered. You do not need to be a member of anything other than the human race. Some who walk among us no longer qualify. They’ve chosen to turn in their human card.
taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared; preventive; deterrent:
a preemptive tactic against a ruthless business rival.
preempting or possessing the power to preempt; appropriative; privileged:
a commander’s preemptive authority.
Bridge. pertaining to, involving, or noting an opening bid or an overcall in a suit that is at an unnecessarily high level and that is essentially a defensive maneuver designed to make communication between one’s opponents more difficult:
a preemptive bid; to give a preemptive response.
I’ve been hearing a great deal lately about Israel and a “preemptive strike”.
This would make it sound like Israel is striking first before Iran or one of it’s proxies Hezbollah, hamass or the Houthis can strike Israel.
Um, no. On October 7th there was the ceasefire in place that the Harris-Biden crime junta so long for. The hamass violated it and killed 1400 innocent Israelis and kidnapped more.
According to the Daily Wire dated on 25 August 2024
In the more than 10 months since Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, Hezbollah has fired more than 6,700 rockets, missiles, and explosive drones at Israeli communities leading to hundreds of thousands being displaced from their homes.
And
Approximately 100 fighter jets with the Israel Air Force (IAF) struck more than 40 launch areas, preventing what officials said was a much larger imminent attack in which Hezbollah was preparing to fire as many as 6,000 rockets and drones at Israel.
If you really want to look at the rocket attacks in Israel, check out this site, The Jewish Virtual Library. It’s current to June 12, 2024
If you look at that massive amount of rockets launched into Israel already, long before Israel sent planes out on 25th of August, you must admit, far, very far from it being a preemptive strike, it’s a retaliatory strike.
And yet, the whole media world is alive with “Israel” and “Preemptive strike”.
Nonsense.
While the left yammers on about the “poor poor Gazans” who elected hamass and went into Israel with hamss, there are hundreds of Israeli citizens in the north that have been unable to go home for months!! They didn’t vote for a government that in it’s charter says it will annihilate an entire group of people (Jews) anywhere in the world. The Gazans did, and they stand by that as well. I haven’t heard cnn expressing any concern for them.
The media is no more honest in reporting on Israel than they are on reporting on politics.
This is the same mindset you see the left use against armed citizens. “You shouldn’t have shot him, he only had a 16” butcher knife and you had a gun! You didn’t need to kill him, you could have shot him in the knee. Why he didn’t even touch you with that knife”.
Why are good people expected to suffer harm before they can defend themselves? I honestly don’t have a clue except the left is a cult of death.
I listened to a couple of podcasts recently that really got me to thinking about how words are used. The first one is fascinating from beginning to end. Dr. Gil-White was a Tamar guest during Covid, and he was pretty much correct on everything. He said in his country (Mexico) there is a saying “He who hits first, hits twice.”. The whole thing is great, he talks about many topics but they all tie together. He maintains America is protecting Iran here, not Israel.
Well boy howdy, do the Demoncrats ever have a task in front of them! Even tougher perhaps than building something that would actually serve America, you know, they country they claim to love, namely, a border wall. No no, that’s not needed or wanted according to the Demoncrat party. No instead they’ve chosen to build the Walz. A third rate politician enamored with the Chinese brand of Communism.
I’m sure we’ve all heard how brave #TamponTim carried weapons in war. Oh? The hashtag? One of his major accomplishments besides allowing his cities to burn during the George Floyd riots to enact social justice for a drug addicted thief who once pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant woman during a robbery was putting tampon dispensers in the boy’s bathroom in schools. Boy if nothing else screams poor judgment, one would think that would! But I’ll see if I can up the ante.
Since we’re on the topic of the George Floyd riots, lets look at how the people #TamponTim is closest to dealt with the riots that burned businesses to the ground and saw many attacked by the likes of Antifa and BLM.
His wife Gwen kept the windows open because she enjoyed the smell of the city burning to the ground.
The wife of Democrat VP-pick Tim Walz said during an interview in 2020 that she kept her windows open for as long as she could so she could smell the burning of tires rioters set on fire during the Minneapolis-area riots in response to the death of George Floyd.
During the 2020 riots, cities like Minneapolis burned, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gov. Walz has been criticized for his slow response to the destruction and violence by the left-wing protesters.
“We had more sleepless nights during the riots,” Gwen Walz told an ABC News affiliate back in July 2020. “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
Well, perhaps his daughter is slightly less deranged than her parents? Nope.
On May 30, 2020, Walz’s daughter, now 23, reportedly reposted and responded to an account on X, formerly Twitter, that urged all protesters to “GET OUT NOW” because the National Guard and SWAT were allegedly on their way to the scene of the Minneapolis riots. In the post thread, she insisted to protesters that the National Guard “WILL NOT be present tonight.”
Her reported post stated that “there is a lot of misinformation that is further spreading fear and chaos at the scene of the protests..the guard can not be sent in within minutes. it takes time for them to deploy because they come from all over the state. to be clear, the national guard will not be present tonight. just because someone asked for something doesn’t mean it’s happening right away or even happening at all. i don’t know about swat but what i do know is the guard will not be present arresting people tonight.”
And how about the radical jihadi Walz is so crazy about? Illan Omar?
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, retweeted a list of supplies for “comrades” who are rioting in Minneapolis.
Isra Hirsi is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and her Twitter bio says she ‘hates capitalism.’
Isra Hirsi retweeted a post from Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists of America): Want to help out your comrades protesting at the 3rd precinct (at Lake and Minnehaha?)
Here’s a good list of much needed supplies (except for milk! Water is always better for eyewashing than milk!! Please don’t bring milk!)
Golly gosh, gee whillikers! Just think of all the primo information his daughter would have to sell out the whole country instead of just a state full of innocent citizens if her dad is ever near the white house.
What did old Kamel-toe herself do during the riots? Did the former prosecutor and VP nominee strongly urge stiff sentences for those that rioted and burned the livelihood and hard work of innocent Americans to the ground? Did she object to the innocent people violently attacked? Naw, in true Demoncratic form, she sided with the criminals. Demoncrats are sometimes predictable.
Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that has since used donor contributions to bail out violent criminals, in a May 2020 blog post.
Harris encouraged her readers to help “the protestors on the front lines” of the riots following the death of George Floyd by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the blog post, first reported by the Washington Examiner. The Minnesota Freedom Fund went on to bail out multiple convicted murderers and other violent criminals in the years following the riots, according to court records.
Now we’ll hit the big one, the “weapons of war” comment.
As I’m sure everyone knows, #TamponTim didn’t go to “war”, he went to Italy and then misrepresented his service and his rank.
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic firearm that bears some superficial similarities to those “weapons of war,” but does not work in the same manner. They’re not the same gun, and yet he stood there and said they were.
But it’s good to be a demoncrat if you’re dishonest, the media will lie for you. Like a rug and without a payoff.
Vice President Kamala Harris has already been an integral part of the most extreme anti-Second Amendment administrations in American history. But things will get even worse for responsible gun owners if Harris takes charge next January.
During her very first campaign rally in Wisconsin after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris pledged that her administration would “pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban” – three pillars of anti-Second Amendment activism. Prominent anti-gun groups have flocked to Harris and offered their enthusiastic endorsement, including Everytown, the Community Justice Action Fund, and the Newtown Action Alliance.
And perhaps one might wonder why would Old Kamel-toe and #TamponTim be so dead set on leaving ordinary Americans defenseless against the criminals they embrace?
Because they’re tyrants, or at least aspiring tyrants.
Let’s look at Kamel-toe first. Jessie Watters did a great breakdown of what the price controls she wants would bring. It’s a bad idea, and not even an original bad idea.
“The proletariat must rise!” Harris shouted in front of a backdrop of a large hammer and sickle flag with armed militants flanking her side. “In order to preserve the rights of the working class the government must seize the means of production and murder all capitalist pigs!”
Harris announced her new platform after pitching a few new economic policies this week that included price caps for food, centralizing economic power, condemning capitalism, and calling for the arrest of all bourgeoise scum.
Yeah, it’s the Bee but it’s not far off.
And #TamponTim? He had Minnesota national guard fire paintballs at innocent civilians standing on the own from porches during his draconian covid lockdown rules.
A major study at Oxford University which tracked equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated kids shows that only the vaccinated kids are dying unexpectedly and experiencing myocarditis and pericarditis.
Expect health authorities to ignore this because otherwise it would make them look bad.
Horrible judgment!
Are American criminals the only ones Walz supports? Not on your Aunt Nelly!
It seems some of the former citizens of the UK have finally caught on to what their ruling betters are doing to them and they aren’t onboard with having their daughters and wives raped or their shops looted and have spoke out.
Pity for them, they’ve been electing leftists for too long now.
Sources within the British government said Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained committed to retaining power and keeping the people of the UK enslaved under his totalitarian regime.
At publishing time, Russia was rumored to also be in the early stages of making plans to liberate the United States in the event of a Kamala Harris presidency.
Perhaps one of the most, if not the most troubling aspect of this train wreck of a VP candidate is his close association with muslim jihadis in addition to Illan Omar.
A resurfaced video depicts vice presidential nominee and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praising a Hitler-promoting Muslim cleric as a “master teacher,” after his campaign denied that they had a “personal” relationship.
Walz hosted the individual — Imam Asad Zaman — at an Islamic Center event in 2018, where he applauded his wisdom and expressed gratitude for the “lesson[s]” he taught him, according to an unearthed video obtained by The Washington Examiner and published on Tuesday. Zaman has publicly promoted claims that Hitler was a misunderstood hero and declared “[Palestine’s]… right to defend itself “the day Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and killed roughly 1,200 people.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted for Ramadan, social media posts show.
Walz’s ties to Zaman could serve as problematic baggage for the Minnesota governor as he campaigns with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. News of the ties also comes after a Washington Free Beacon report this week found Walz spoke at a 2019 event with an antisemitic scholar who has defended terrorism against Israel.
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In recent years, Zaman has also appeared to equate Hamas committing terrorism to Israel defending itself. State records reviewed by the Washington Examiner show Walz’s administration has awarded over $100,000 in funding to MAS Minnesota.
The Muslim American Society was once described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” court records show. The MAS, which the United Arab Emirates designated as a terrorist group in 2014, came under fire in 2019 after a video surfaced online of children at an event held by its Philadelphia chapter calling for the murder of Jews.
“We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque,” two young girls said at the event, according to the Times of Israel.
How much you might ask, does #TamponTim support hamass? A lot, $100,000 of taxpayer money worth.
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz gave an extreme Muslim cleric’s group $100,000 of public funds and has hosted him at official events as governor of Minnesota, The Washington Examiner reported Friday.
Asad Zaman has been a mouthpiece for Hamas for many years, publicizing its propaganda on his social media.
On October 7th, the day the terrorist organization invaded Israel, massacring 1,200 people, including infants, and abducting some 250 to hold as hostages, the imam said that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.”
And this is the man that Kamel-toe chose over the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, a state she needs, though she may get it anyway. But, I guess considering where she got her “JOY” campaign slogan, that could have been uncomfortable.
No wonder she picked Walz
I’ve heard people ask did Kamel-toe even vet this guy? Did she know how horrible he is? I think that’s naive at best. Of course she did. She picked exactly what she wanted. A Jew hating radical communist. Just like herself. Someone that has no problem using tyranny to rule over innocent defenseless subjects. One would think the fact he abandoned his 87 year old mother who had recently had heart surgery during covid would turn her off. Tim Walz Says During Covid He Isolated and Left His 87-Year-Old Mother, Post-Heart Surgery, Alone in Her Home to Fend For Herself. But I don’t think Kamala is too worried about families herself. She chose and got exactly what she wanted. And that should tell you everything you need to know about the dumpster fire that is the Demoncrat party.
Well, boy howdy. It seems the FIB, or Following Bidens Instructions has completely left the field of investigations behind. I’m not sure if they think Americans are just that stupid or if they know that in the Biden junta no one is ever held accountable.
It seems the young aspiring assassin Crooks, with no social footprint, did in fact have a social media account. But then the FIB said he had no friends, he did. They said he had given no clues, he had. He had talked to a classmate about how much he hated Trump and Republicans.
One of the striking things to me about the hearings that have been going on is how totally unprepared the witness are. One would think if they were going to testify they would have some basic information available to share, since that is their reason for being there. But no, again Biden world junta, so they don’t seem to fret too much about it. Or they just lie.
If you don’t remember Rep. Clay Higgins exchange with Inspector “Clouseau” Wray, here’s a refresher. He refuses to answer part of Rep Higgins’s questions and is totally clueless as to what a common law enforcement term means.
Then when it comes to the attempted assassination, he’s apparently unfamiliar with bullets and gun shot wounds.
Apparently the deputy director actually can confirm that President Trump was in fact, struck by a bullet, and not a murder hornet.
But back to the other FIB statement about no social media, he did have. He mostly seemed to reply to other’s posts, and he made only 9 total posts in 2021. But they did express only left-wing points of view. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is speaking with the same deputy director, Paul Abbate, that knows what a bullet is.
One of the interesting things is the reason all this is coming out accurately is because Andrew Torba, founder of GAB released the information to the public.
And why would he do that you ask?
BREAKING: The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified “social media account” in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted “anti-immigrant and anti-semitic” content.
This is not consistent with Gab’s understanding of the shooter’s motives based on an Emergency Disclosure Request (“EDR”) we received from the FBI last week for the Gab account “EpicMicrowave” which, based on the content of that EDR, the FBI appeared to think belonged to Thomas Crooks.
Many, particularly regime media reporters, have doubted Gab’s claims that this request existed. Normally we don’t confirm the existence or content of law enforcement communications. In this instance we had to make an exception due to the overwhelming public interest in disclosure and transparency.
As a courtesy to law enforcement, we are not going to post the entire request. This is the first page of that request.
The story is this: the account for which data was requested was, UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden’s immigration policy.
To the best of Gab’s knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.
You can read the whole email I got as a blog post here
The thread on X (formerly Twitter) is available here.
The comments in the thread are pretty darn interesting, several pointing out recent FIB deceptions of the American public to favor Demoncrats in an election. Case in point,
That’s a lie. They got the information from Gab and the CEO knew the FBI would lie about it, so they released it first.
At this point, the alphabet agencies are so corrupt the only job they should qualify for is “journalist” for cnn or msnbc….Yeah, that level of lying and corruption.
We’ve long been hearing the violent left speak with impunity about attacking conservatives, including politicians. The feel they are entitled to threaten physical violence and joke openly about it.
I’m sure we all remember the political rallies of 2020 when President Trump’s supporters were attacked by unhinged leftist. Women alone were mobbed, reporter Andy Ngo was viciously attacked and sustained several injuries. During the “summer of love” when Soros funded Antifa and communist groups like BLM ruled the streets motorists were trapped by “mostly peaceful” riots, cars were broken into and 9-1-1 calls were ignored. Our inept, dishonest Vice President Kakela Harris urged people to donate to spring violent antifa members that had been arrested. Setting them free to attack more innocent people, free to burn more buildings. That should have made it clear who’s side she was on.
For years now the corrupt, lying, morally bankrupt media has been assuring everyone Donald Trump is literally hitler! Under no circumstances can he be allowed to regain the white house, I’ve even seen signs saying by any means necessary. Because that’s how democracy works in their brain dead little heads.
Today the fruition of all that was seen in Butler Pa. The Obiden administration decided to go full on banana republic and assassinate their political rival.
Today at a political rally there was an attempt on President Trump’s life. Thank G-d he survived. There are several pictures that have made it out of the rally.
The woundPhoto of the year?Trump Tough
As you can see that wound is a heart stopper. Mine, not his. Some are saying the second photo will be the photo of the year. Myself, I prefer the third photo. The man stood up, told the secret service he had to get his shoes back on and triumphantly pumped his fist in the air telling his supporters to fight, not to give in.
Reaction has been from the sarcastic to the unbelievably stupid. The first one is humor, the second one is an actual CNN aka #Fake News headline. Yep, it just didn’t happen, no one tried to kill President Trump, he “fell”. Dear lord these are very stupid people and or just that corrupt. Its no wonder cnn has like 12 viewers.
You know she’s thinking itTHIS is cnn, Fake News’
But why do I say the Obiden junta decided to go full on banana republic?
Because he’s called for violence and so have demoncratic staffers.
Joe Biden inciting violenceThis is who works with Congress. We pay this salary.
Because of interviews like this one done by the BBC
Because of citizen journalists asking questions like why wasn’t the Secret Service having people stationed on top of all the buildings around there?
No secret service on the roof
Because of podcasters like former Secret Service Dan Bongino who has pointed out Kim Cheatle has denied President Trump full package secret service protection. They have also denied Robert Kennedy Jr. secret service protection at all.
Dan worked in the Secret Service
And who is in charge of the Secret Service?
Oh, Mayorkas
Oh, Mayorkas…guess he’s worried if President Trump gets back in he may be called to account for the millions of illegal invaders he’s let in and flown in all over the country bypassing the border all together, so the numbers will be lower.
Take a look at that wound, one half inch to an inch over I’d be doing a very different column tonight.
Not only would we have a dead political candidate, we’d be fixin’ to see the start of the next civil war. I mean listen to those audiences as the demoncrat politicians are openly calling for violence against fellow citizens. Do they act horrified? No most cheer and applaud.
And that my friends is what we’re facing. Dirty filthy antifa and people like those in the audiences who will more than happily attack people. Because, you know, democracy or something.
As I understand it the assassin is dead, killed by the secret service who’s new motto is ”So secret it’ll be like we aren’t even here!”.
But I’ve heard reports there were actually two assassins. I’ve heard one was oriental looking.
Confusing stocks and magazines? Stocks made of a bunch of cartridges? High-priced ammunition company exchange shares? Who knows? I had a brief impulse to contact Cardin’s office and ask what he was talking about, but…
The fact is, when you’re a tyrannical SOB who wants to regulate, control, or ban everything, it doesn’t really matter if you’re also an ignorant, tyrannical SOB.
As for “mandatory background checks,” sales through Federal Firearms Licensees already have mandatory background checks. And the ATF has already published a rule requiring anyone who might sell, or buy, a gun to be an FFL required to conduct “mandatory background checks.”
It’s almost enough to make me miss New York Congress-scum Major Owens, who at least had the honesty to file bills to simply repeal the Second Amendment outright.
Sometimes you will hear people talk about Jews and the Holocaust. In the past it might be something ignorant such as “It was a long time ago, the Jews really need to let it go and move past it. No one is putting Jews in ovens these days”. This gave way to “It didn’t really happen you know” or “The Jews exaggerated the number of those killed”. How very wise General Dwight Eisenhower was. He had Congress (A legislative body from back when America had three distinct branches of government) and newspaper writers come to Europe to see and document the atrocities that had taken place in the camps.
Professor Harry Reicher talked about an episode which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. While liberating concentration camps and witnessing sights that “beggar description,” General Eisenhower ensured the horrific scenes were captured for posterity in graphic photographs and film. Professor Reicher asserted that he grasped the impact which visual evidence was to have in the Nuremberg Trials, and foresaw the era of Holocaust denial. Video clips of concentration camps were shown
The first Nazi camp liberated by US forces was Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald (the main camp would be liberated one week later). The 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry of the Third US Army entered Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945. When soldiers of the 4th Armored Division entered the camp, they discovered piles of bodies, some covered with lime, and others partially incinerated on pyres. The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:
The things I saw beggar description. … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick … . I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda.”
Seeing the Nazi crimes committed at Ohrdruf made a powerful impact on Eisenhower, and he wanted the world to know what happened in the concentration camps. On April 19, 1945, he again cabled Marshall with a request to bring members of Congress and journalists to the newly liberated camps so that they could convey the horrible truth about Nazi atrocities to the American public. Within days, congressmen and journalists began arriving to bear witness to Nazi crimes in the camps.
Clearly Eisenhower knew students from Columbia, Haavaad, USC and the like.
And now everything old is new again.
You think these little terrorist supporting mush brained students at elite universities are a new phenomenon? Nopper.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on May 26, 1940—before the French army had even surrendered—to criticize those who closed their eyes to what was happening in Europe. He also warned of a potential threat to American security: “the Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery.”2
According to Roosevelt’s address, a portion of which is featured here, the methods of these “spies and saboteurs” was “to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic…. The unity of the State can be sapped so that its strength is destroyed.”
And speaking of Columbia…this time in Missouri, not the pretend university. Note this was 1936.
Priwer’s article prompted some of her classmates (whom Priwer describes as a “liberal group” of mostly non-Jewish students) to write to the American Jewish Council, asking the organization to expose the propaganda efforts of German exchange students. The resulting report (attached as an addendum to Priwer’s article) was circulated around the University of Missouri campus to warn students and faculty of a major campaign to influence their attitudes toward Nazi Germany.
Apparently, some of the nazis have continued to breed and have an impact at the University of Missouri even up until fairly recently. The latest example being the “journalism professor” Melissa Click who was attempting to throw journalists out of an event at the University by demanding students come help her, she “needed some muscle over here”. Melissa specialized in “audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy”. The University it taxpayer funded. Why? In the photo accompanying the article Melissa can be seen practicing her nazi salute. Actually that whole article is pretty interesting. It points out the attitude of “professors” at these taxpayer funded institutions.
And because outrageous behavior like this at taxpayer funded institutions hasn’t been addressed, it’s continued to fester and rot. Just a search on one, just one website for “Jewish Students” yields a couple of pages of results.
In my previous column I covered many of the abuses Jewish students are being subjected to on campus. These little terrorist sympathizing brain dead, specimens of human excrement have absolutely no self-awareness. None. Whatsoever. Meet Johanna King-Slutsky. No, I’m not, she’s a paid instructor. I guess that would be taxpayer paid instructor. Johanna is part of the takeover at Hamilton Hall.
Talk about unaware? She’s sympathizing with terrorists, terrorists that have indeed put Jews in ovens on October 7th. Infants no less, but that’s who Ms. Slutsky sides with, then in her revolutionary zeal demands the terrorist sympathizers be given food and water. Do we want them to die? Um, speaking strictly for myself here, while I struggle to remain neutral on the question, my kindest answer is don’t care, could go either way.
This is a part of the prayer said during every night for the counting of the omer.
We implore You, by the great power of Your right hand, release the captive. Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Mighty One, we beseech You, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your Oneness.
hamanazi captives
Four months ago in Israel over 1000 musicians met to record a song calling for the return of the hostages.
One of the other things I find interesting is they took hostages. Yep, the little hamass sympathizers took 3 janitors hostage. In another lack of awareness that FDR could have been alluding to in his speech, administrators still haven’t ended the little “Occupy Gaza on the Quad” zones. I don’t think it’s crossed their mind that they may be the next round of hostages. They truly are trying to copy their idols.
It’s been said by people far more learned than I, the Shoah didn’t start with Kristallnacht.
The specimens of human excrement running around campus (taxpayer funded) have long since turned in their “human card” when they choose to side with and support murders and butchers. Will I cut them slack because they’ve been lied to, manipulated and deceived? No. Because they’re about one lit match away from another “mostly peaceful summer of love”. Only this time they have specific targets in mind. It might be worth mentioning the aspiring terrorist’s motto “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” and they are already chanting “Death to America”. Alan Dershowitz recently stated on a podcast that these little aspiring terrorists are going to become actual terrorists. He knew and defended domestic terrorists back in the 60s. He guarantees, some of this crop will follow the same path.
Apparently they don’t teach history at these elite institutions of higher indoctrination. A girlfriend sent me this picture. A tip of my Stetson, Christie, and it’s 100% accurate. The start of hamass and the muslim brotherhoood was the nazis. When the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, haj amin al-husseini, met adolph hitler they formed the start of those groups. The muslim brotherhood was active in Egypt till they were outlawed. I’m not sure, do you suppose that had anything to do with the decimation of the Coptic Christians in Egypt? Either way, remember where this actually started next time a leftist tries to tell you President Trump is literally hitler. Nope, it’s their team.
The hamanazi flag
In the Shoah, there were those brave Jews that fought back, there is a Ghetto fighters House in Israel. It’s actually the first Holocaust museum in the world, and the first to be founded by Holocaust survivors! It was established in 1949, and I’ve been there. Fellow writer Y.B. Ben Avraham tipped me off to it when I went in 2015. How could I not want to see a museum about Partisans? I spent hours there, just like a little sponge soaking up everything I could about these people that were represented.
Today we have Jewish students that have said, “Enough, we’ve flat had enough!”
Within the United States, Sophie Magdalena Scholl is not the best-known resistance fighter, but her story is a powerful one. She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war. On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.
Quite different character than Johanna King-Slutsky, eh?
Today, we have Frat boys. While their mission isn’t the same as the White Rose society exactly, speaking out against attacks against Jews, it is similar in that it’s a refusal to let terrorists take over their schools. Lately there’s been an outbreak of the Fraternities defending the flag, challenging the pro-terrorism students and even having a parade with America proud music and flags.
I might point out the GoFundMe someone started to throw them a keg party is over half a million dollars….proving my point. No more taxpayer dollars should be spent on institutions of higher learning. If they offered anything of value people would buy it on their own. Taxpayer money only makes it more expensive, they turn out brain dead anti-human robots, with useless degrees. Then when their gender studies in puppeteering doesn’t pay the rent or re-pay student loans a corrupt junta like the Biden crime regime will pay them off, thus financing terrorism and stealing another dip from hardworking taxpayers.
During clashes between anti-Israel protesters and pro-Israel counter-protesters on Tuesday night at UCLA in California, one flag held by a counter-protester caught the eye of many.
The bright yellow flag was not that of Israel nor of the PLO, and certainly not the flag of the Hezbollah organization, which is similar in color. Instead, the flag flown by the pro-Israel counter-protester was the yellow “Moshiach” (messiah) flag of the Chabad Hassidic movement.
Perhaps this time it will be different, perhaps this time people won’t say, oh it’s not that bad. Don’t be thin skinned, perhaps this time people won’t put their heads in the sand.
But don’t worry about the little jihadi students. Apparently someone in Iran like my idea. Yes, yes indeed, they are Iran’s kind of peeps. Meanwhile their own peeps are standing in support with Israel. Which of course can get them killed. Yep, lets send the American jihadis to Iran for their free college!
U.S. — Forbes has released its newest list of “Most Desirable Employee Candidates”, which saw Ivy League graduates slip down just below carnies and the people who wash car windows at stoplights.
“We surveyed the top 500 companies in the United States,” explained lead author Dan Rollins. “Employers consistently stated they would pass over a Harvard or Columbia grad for a guy with two years of experience operating a Tilt-A-Whirl. It’s been quite a shift.”
Heroes of Our Land
I read this little book this morning. It’s about some of the soldiers that have fallen in this war. It gives their name, the company they served in, when they fell, who they leave behind, has pictures of each of them. Interestingly it also includes their last letter home, a what if written before they went into battle. They are filled with such hope and love, for their families, their country, their home. Several of them made note in their letters if they were taken prisoner or their bodies were (because the noble falestinians take bodies for hostage knowing Israel wants to bury them according to Jewish law) they forbid their families to allow terrorists to be released to get them back. They say they want no part in allowing the war or terrorism to continue. The book is both inspiring and heartbreaking.
All I can say, is don’t let their sacrifice be in vain, don’t let the millions that died in the Shoah be in vain. May the G-d of Israel guard, guide and protect her and lead her to complete victory soon. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for the coming of Moshiach.
I was going to call this column “Knuckle dragging, poo slinging monkey”. A girlfriend of mine uses this description of her in-laws. Knowing the situation, I gently pointed out that in reality, the monkeys in the zoo have more dignity and behave better than her in-laws. Sad, but still true. She and I were visiting today, and she was talking about Germany during the Holocaust when the Christians in the church just sang louder as the cattle cars passed by their churches with people screaming for help, to avoid hearing their cries you see. I told her about a radio show I had listened to this morning when the host was recounting his father telling him about American and European history. He said they Holocaust and the times of Rome when Christians were fed to lions couldn’t happen again, not today, people were much better informed and had better access to information.
Though anti-Israel protestors were disappointed that they would have fewer opportunities to threaten and berate people on campus, Jewish students were relieved. “Online classes make it really convenient,” said another Jewish student. “Whether I’m out of town, sick in bed, or hiding in an attic to avoid being assaulted by an angry mob who want me and everyone else of my ethnicity wiped off the face of the earth, I don’t have to worry about missing any assignments.”
At publishing time, the Columbia administration had put forth plans to load Jewish students onto train cars and transport them to special camps to help them concentrate.
A pro-Israel assistant professor from Columbia University claims that he was blocked from entering the campus Monday.
Tensions rose at Columbia University as Shai Davidai, a pro-Israel assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was allegedly denied campus entry where anti-Israel protests were underway. The assistant professor took to X, previously known as Twitter, to express his dismay over what happened.
Earlier today, @Columbia University refused to let me onto campus.
Why? Because they cannot protect my safety as a Jewish professor.
You’ve probably heard about the Obiden crime junta’s plan to redistribute income. Where they take the wages of responsible working people and give it to the entitled kids working on gender studies degrees, or underwater basket weaving. Something no doubt of incredible societal enrichment.
So what has the Obiden junta’s redistribution of wealth bought U.S.? This.
At Columbia University, the peaceful students called for Jews to go back to Poland. I wonder if that’s because Auschwitz was in Poland, or if they are just that stupid.
At MIT the students are very openly telling administration, they run the campus, not administration.
At Yale they blocked Jewish students.
And then we have this peaceful protester calling for students to become martyrs at Columbia, and the brain dead lemmings are all set. Sorry Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Ralphie blew himself in the student lounge yesterday. No, we have no idea why.
So for those fools who really think a two state solution is the answer, must I remind you, they had one, it was called Jew free Gaza right up until October 7, 2023. But the mask is off now, the arabs have turned down a “two-state/final” solution many times. Now they aren’t even pretending. And again the Babylon Bee flies too close to the truth. Columbia University Students Reject A Two-Campus Solution
And in case you’ve forgotten what these terrorists in training aspire to be, these are the “innocent denizens of Gaza” they are supporting.
But I’m sure you’re curious why I was going to call this “Knuckle dragging poop flingers”.
I rest my case. I’m sure it’s parents are proud! Isn’t it interesting most of these aspiring terrorists cover their faces one way or another?
From Daniel, Chapter 4, G-d decides who he wants in the land, and there is only G-d. If these Obiden sponsored terrorists choose terror, this is a good description.
25 All this befell King Nebuchadnezzar.
26 At the end of twelve months, he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.
27 The king raised his voice and said, “Is this not the great Babylon, which I built for a royal palace with the strength of my power and for the honor of my glory?”
28 The word was still in the king’s mouth, [when] a voice fell from heaven, [which said] “To you they said ‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, your kingdom has turned away from you.
29 From man they will banish you, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field; like cattle, they will feed you grass, and seven periods will pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of man, and to whom He wishes, He gives it.”‘
30 At that time, the matter was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was banished from man, he ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of the heavens, until his hair grew like [the feathers of] eagles and his nails like [the claws of] birds.
31 And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my understanding was restored to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and glorified Him Who lives to Eternity, Whose dominion is an eternal dominion, and Whose kingdom is with every generation.
32 And all the inhabitants of the Earth are reckoned as nothing, and according to His will, He foes with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the Earth, and no one can stop His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”
But there are solutions. My first solution is send in the cops and the national guard, round up everything calling for the murder of Jews and they have within two hours won themselves a one way ticket to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, or Egypt. Their choice. I’m pushing for them to choose Iran, as that’s the best way to join hamass.
The other recognizes the Obiden junta has imported the middle east into the mid-west and both coasts. The illegal invaders that are being supported by U.S. and are living their terrorist dreams with assisted financing by Soros, no doubt. The answer was given by Rabbi Meir Kahane HY’’D in a speech some time ago. But his words and his thoughts are timeless I feel.
The Obiden junta is absolutely sponsoring terrorism, he’s stealing our money to do it. A vote for a Demoncrat is a vote for antisemitism and terrorism. These aspiring terrorists have the time and money to do this, in part because the Obiden junta enables it.
You know, it’s been my observation that the ones that hate communism the most, are the ones that actually know what it is. Not the pig ignorant college students that are running around the streets acting like moneys flinging poop at the zoo. The Russians and Ukrainians I’ve met have a very strong conservative streak, all were supporters of President Trump, and most were strong Second Amendment supporters. Years ago there was a Demoncrat member of the House of Reps in my state, he spoke every year at the Second Amendment rally held in the spring. He had a very compelling presentation. He and his family had come here from Germany and shortly after arriving here had some untoward experiences. One of the first things he did as soon as he was legally able was to purchase a gun. He was a free citizen now you see, he was a free citizen and he was entitled to defend his life and that of his family. Of course that was years ago, when common sense, values, principles and decency were on both sides of the aisle. When Demoncrats waved American, not Ukrainian flags, when they were concerned about, not even more concerned, just concerned, about America’s borders more than another country’s. A country we’ve sent billions to that has shut down elections, shut down church services and seized land from religious organizations, all in the name of “democracy” which gives you and idea of their idea of “democracy”. Don’t exhale yet Republicans, I’m coming for you next.
Recently there have been quite the votes going on in the swamp. The uni-party is spending more to defend another country’s border and civilization than they are ours. They’ve sent more to help Ukrainian citizens and oligarchs than they have the victims of disasters in East Palestine, OH and Lahaina, HI., citizens under attack from an illegal invaders in every state of the union. Joe’s handlers have been shipping them in since he assumed control. Of course after the massive spending bills passed, the Demoncrats waved little Ukrainian flags. Well, they’re honest about that I guess. It’s who they represent. Sadly it’s Americans paying their salary. It’s not just what is coming across the border. Who other than demoncrat politicians benefits from this? Those paying more in taxes? Those losing their jobs to an illegal, those who had their retirement home taken over by illegals? Who? I can not believe the majority of Americans want this. Well, maybe the elites living in their bubble, but real Americans? No. Nor are they going to sign on to this and continue to vote for it. I’ve seen many videos of people in Chicago and NY expressing strong support for President Trump and the America First agenda, though the Mainstream media can’t and won’t believe it, it’s true. Many Americans are not as stupid as the press gambles they are as they continue to lie to them. And one would think the Demoncrat party would quickly begin to re-evaluate their policies, and yet, they aren’t. In fact, they’re doubling down, almost as though they don’t have to answer to voters. What kind of political system is that?
On of the recently passed pieces of tyranny allows spying on American citizens without a warrant. Something that has been violated by the FIB in ways that most wouldn’t believe. There are actually 3 different categories or titles in the FISA warrant program. Title 1 Title III and Title VII. Title VII is where the much abused section 702 comes in.
In a late-night ballot on April 20, the U.S. Senate voted to reauthorize a controversial spying authority. President Joe Biden signed it into law the following day.
The authority in question, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), has come under increased scrutiny in recent years by privacy and civil liberty advocates in the wake of a series of abuses.
After rejecting a series of amendments designed to strengthen civil liberty protections—including an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to require a warrant to search Americans’ Section 702 data and another by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to prohibit federal law enforcement from purchasing Americans’ data from third-party brokers—the Senate reauthorized the program 45 minutes after it lapsed.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has delayed a vote on two bills relating to FISA Section 702 extension and reform, making it likely that the unconstitutional Section 702 will be renewed without change until April 2024.
Johnson has reportedly refused to take a side on this issue and continues to change his stance. Johnson previously said he would bring both bills to the floor.
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.
This was a betrayal of Americans.
Shortly before the final passage of H.B. 7888 on Friday, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant to spy on Americans. However, 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on April 14 defended his crucial vote against an amendment that would have required intelligence agencies to get a warrant to search Americans’ data under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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That final passage came after an amendment by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) to require a warrant to query Americans’ communications and other data failed in a rare tie vote. Mr. Johnson, who, as speaker, doesn’t always vote, cast the decisive vote that killed the proposal, prompting outrage and condemnation from some conservatives.
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During an April 14 appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Mr. Johnson defended that vote, saying that a warrant requirement is “not helpful.”
He insisted that Section 702 is an important tool that has stopped other terrorist attacks like 9/11.
“Remember, that’s how we killed terrorists. That’s how we stopped terrorist plots on US soil,” Mr. Johnson said. “That’s why we haven’t had another 9/11 since that terrible tragedy.”
Does he not understand who, exactly the current junta considers “terrorists”?? Is he totally clueless about parents being dragged out of school board meetings? Is he as dumb as Kamala “Kneepads” Harris? Or is it something else?
Former Trump official Kash Patel reminded Americans of the hundreds of thousands of times the DOJ-FBI used FISA to spy on Americans.
According to an official intelligence document the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families.
This comes from the 2022 memorandum on FISA abuses.
On page 29 of the report: 23,132 separate queries on J6 protesters to find evidence of possible foreign influence despite having no indication of foreign influence related to the query terms used.
On page 31 of the report the analysts admitted to 278,000 non-compliant FBI queries of raw FISA-acquired information.
The FIB is far from the only government agency that isn’t following it’s own rules.
“The Department of Justice confirmed to us last night that the ATF agents involved in the execution of a search warrant of the home of Bryan Malinowski weren’t wearing body cameras,” Cotton and Boozman said in a joint statement. “We will continue to press the Department to explain how this violation of its own policy could’ve happened and to disclose the full circumstances of this tragedy.”
“Mr. Malinowski’s family and the public have a right to a full accounting of the facts,” the Republican lawmakers added.
So the alphabets have gone rogue, no one is holding them accountable and neither party is standing up for U.S. and our new “conservative” speaker of the house has already sold us out.
New Speaker same as the old speaker
So, what if it is something else? What kind of system are we living under where the fruit of our labor is taken from us and given to illegal invaders, to people who chose not to work and play the system, to foreign countries? What is that system called?
If you go back to the opening of this column, a cup or two of coffee ago, I was speaking about people that hate communism because they’ve lived under it, I’ll tie this up, or Hogg tie it, if you will.
Meet Lily Tang Williams, she spoke to David Hogg aka #MoneyHogg who is desperately trying to remain relevant.
Pesach starts tonight, when we celebrate the miracle of freedom, when G-d took us out of slavery into freedom and living with laws, morals and a relationship with him. Choose that, choose good, do good, pray often.
I saw a video recently that just made me salivate. Nope, not a new recipe to try, but it is something sweet and yummy.
I myself try to avoid places that are posted No Concealed Weapons. Yes, I realize the point of carrying concealed is that people can’t tell, but I figure if you don’t want “my kind” there, well then I certainly won’t offend you with my money either. The other reason I try to avoid them is it seems to me that most of the mass attacks are in gun free zones. It seems those pesky criminals don’t obey the sign clearly posted against having a weapon in their “Gun Free Zone”.
or, if you prefer a musical version (what the heck, I’m in a whimsical mood)
I’ve never quite really understood why businesses are responsible for slips, trips and falls, too hot coffee or a burgler breaking in and being injured. Yes, businesses have been sued for all those things. I would stay those are things the business really couldn’t prevent in large. Yes, if the sidewalk or walkway in front of the store is icy and they stay open for business they should clear it. And probably most business owners would do that without being told as they know if a customer falls on their icy walkway they risk a lawsuit.
But when it comes to allowing concealed carry on premises they shrink back and clutch their pearls. I’ve asked a few business owners about that and they’ve said their insurance company insists on it, but they don’t agree with it. I had one jewelry store owner tell me he had no problem with me carrying in his store and he wished I would that way if something happened there would be two of us. I guess nobody wants to be hauled to the back of a store and shot huh?
So back to Georgia’s HB 1364, it doesn’t infringe on the property owners rights, all it says if you deprive someone of the right to defend themselves with the most effective tool, then you bear the responsibility for their safety as you’ve chosen to remove their right to defend themselves should something untoward happens. This would also include parking lots.
Here’s a snippet
(1) ‘Lawful weapons carrier’ shall have the same meaning as provided for in Code
Section 16-11-125.1.
‘Weapon’ shall have the same meaning as provided for in Code Section 16-11-125.1.
A person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls a property and has the authority to prohibit weapons on such property, including, but not limited to, such authority provided by Code Section 16-11-127, assumes absolute custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of a lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon, including a concealed weapon, while on such property and any other property such lawful weapons carrier is required to traverse in order to store or retrieve such weapon.
The absolute custodial responsibility imposed upon the person, business, or other entity provided for in paragraph (1) of this subsection extends to the conduct of other invitees, trespassers, and employees of such person, business, or other entity.
Any public notice posted on a property that includes language which provides that weapons are prohibited on such property shall also contain language citing this Code section and providing that any lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon, including a concealed weapon, while on such property shall be under the absolute custodial care of the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property.
Any lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon,including a concealed weapon, and who is injured, suffers bodily injury or death, or incurs economic loss or expense, property damage, or any other compensable loss as the result of conduct of another person occurring on property where the lawful possession of weapons is prohibited, shall have a cause of action against the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property and causes such prohibition to occur.
In addition to damages, the lawful weapons carrier shall be entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees, expert witness costs, and other costs necessary to bring the cause of action.
To prevail in an action brought under this subsection, the plaintiff shall show by a preponderance of the evidence that:
(A) The plaintiff was a lawful weapons carrier at the time of the incident giving rise to the action;
The plaintiff was prohibited from carrying a weapon, including a concealed weapon, on the property where the incident occurred by the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property; and
Every time I think about gun free zones, I think about Suzanna Gratia Hupp’s poignant testimony before congress.
This is a bill I’ve wanted to see in my state for a long time. If it’s the insurance companies pulling the strings, then shop owners really aren’t making their own choice anyway are they?
