Oh, boy. Last week, we saw “CHEVRON deference” overturned, eliminating the ATF-abused procedure of requiring judges to take the agency’s word for it when they creatively reinterpret laws.
Today, the Supreme Court took it quite a bit further in CORNER POST. This is a case over debit card merchant transaction fees, so you wonder what it has to do with Second Amendment issues.
Everything. And the EPA is going to hate this, too. Here’s the background.
In 2021, Corner Post joined a suit brought against the Board under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The complaint challenged Regulation II on the ground that it allows higher interchange fees than the statute permits. The District Court dismissed the suit as time-barred under 28 U. S. C. §2401(a), the default six-year statute of limitations applicable to suits against the United States. The Eighth Circuit affirmed.
The lower courts held that the statute of limitations clock started ticking the rule was published. An interesting take; imagine claiming that statute of limitations for robbery started running when the law was passed, rather than when the robbery took place.
That matters, because Corner Post didn’t exist when the transaction fee rule was published. Just like you might not have been born when the armed robbery law pass enacted. Corner post was injured when they opened for business and started accepting debit cards. That is when the statute of limitations starts counting down.
Held: An APA claim does not accrue for purposes of §2401(a)’s 6-year statute of limitations until the plaintiff is injured by final agency action.
How does that apply to us and the ATF?
Until 1982, semi-auto firearms that fired from the open bolt were semi-autos. But that year, the ATF suddenly decided that open-bolt firearms are easily converted into machineguns, and thus are machineguns. Unless…
To make it worse, it only applied to those models sold after the ruling, while those sold prior somehow remain semiautomatic. This forced complete redesigns on the manufacturers.
Here we have a rule that is arbitrary, capricious, and in conflict with the law defining “machinegun.”
The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
“Restored,” not converted. It had to be a machinegun at some earlier point in its existence. But courts defer to the ATF’s re-definition, and send people to prison over semi-auto “machineguns.”
We got rid of that stupid deference last week. But it still looked like we were stuck with existing stupid, arbitrary, and capricious rules. No more.
Go out and buy one of those open-bolt SM10 machineguns. When you’re told to apply for your tax stamp, sue the ATF over the idiotic rule…
…because you were just now injured by it. And have standing.
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Every swamp agency’s years-old rules are now ripe for challenging all over again, without deference. I saw a comment at SCOTUSblog to the effect that SCOTUS just guaranteed itself horrendously full dockets for next few years.
Held: The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous; Chevron is overruled.
When SCOTUS tossed the ATF’s unconstitutional bump-stock ban, they called out the ATF for attempting to take the legislative power of Congress. I thought it was a good start, and I looked forward to the Loper Bright ruling.
This decision doesn’t specifically mention “Cheveron deference” (the idea that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of a law over that of the challenger), but they certainly did not give the ATF deference here. So that’s a good precedent for gun owners challenging other ATF abuses.
The ATF lives for CHEVRON deference. That’s how two copies of the exact same model of semiauto pistol could be a semiauto, while one assembled the very next day is a machinegun. Or 37 mm projectiles are either not destructive devices (loaded with a black powder pyrotechnic charge) or are destructive devices (loaded with a bean bag). Or the magical way Desert Eagle .50s became destructive devices when they changed the method of measuring the bore. Or…
For too long, the ATF has relied on Just take our word for it, Your Honor. No more; now they have to prove their psychotic re-interpretations really are Congressional intent. And presumed innocence returns.
On the downside, just as has happened post-BRUEN, it’s going to take a lot of effort to get lower courts to pay attention, and stop granting unconstitutional deference to unelected DC swampcrawlers.
I hope the good attorneys at the Firearms Policy Coalition take a look at this decision and that white paper, and see if they can right some very old wrongs.
I originally posted this on my personal blog while TZP was down.
See updates below.
Big news this morning.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority when it issued a rule classifying firearms equipped with bump stocks as machine guns. The case, Garland v. Cargill, challenged the ban enacted following the 2017 Las Vegas concert mass shooting, which it implemented by interpreting a federal law restricting the transfer or possession of machine guns to include bump stocks.
It looks like Clarence Thomas wrote the majority decision, so I’ve got some reading to do. I always enjoy Thomas’ decisions.
It looks like this is primarily based on violation of the Administrative Procedures Act. I tried to tell the ATF just that in my NPRM comments.
I expect I’ll have more on this after I finish reading the decision.
UPDATE: Yes, the ATF violated the APA by exceeding its authority.
Held: ATF exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a Rule that classifies a bump stock as a “machinegun” under §5845(b).
But, Thomas didn’t stop there.
A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock does not fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger.” The phrase “function of the trigger” refers to the mode of action by which the trigger activates the firing mechanism.
A clear, unequivocal, specific ruling that, not only did they exceed their authority, but that bump stocks do not turn firearms into machineguns. As I told them.
In fact, one might almost suspect that Justice Thomas read my NPRM comments. Or maybe my blog.
ATF argues that a shooter using a bump stock must pull the trigger only one time to initiate a bump-firing sequence of multiple shots. This initial trigger pull sets off a sequence—fire, recoil, bump, fire—that allows the weapon to continue firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter. This argument rests on the mistaken premise that there is a difference between the shooter flexing his finger to pull the trigger and pushing the firearm forward to bump the trigger against his stationary trigger.
The law address function of the trigger, not function of the finger. And the off-arm movement needed to make the finger re-engage the trigger is volitional, not an “automatic” function of the firearm.
Thomas included pictures for idiots. But apparently he should have drawn them in crayon for the real morons on the bench.
The dimwitted dissenting Justices — Kagan, Sotomayer, Jackson; go figure — were reduced to this: The ATF says they’re machineguns, therefore…
When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires “automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
Those are the words of overly-emotive panty-pissers incapable of logic.
Added: This decision doesn’t specifically mention “Cheveron deference” (the idea that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of a law over that of the challenger), but they certainly did not give the ATF deference here. So that’s a good precedent for gun owners challenging other ATF abuses.
UNITED STATES v. RAHIMI is in the news with a Supreme Court ruling a few days ago. And the victim disarmament crowd is all over it.
You see, SCOTUS found that someone never convicted of a crime can still lose his Second Amendment rights via a domestic violent prevention order. Associate Justice Thomas dissented. For very good reasons.
Michigan’s Attorney General is one of the people eyeing this ruling with glee.
Rahimi was charged with unlawful firearm possession under 18 U.S. Code § 922(g)(8). An important part of that is this:
(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate;
That’s a problem with Michigan’s ERPO law (“red flag”). Michigan’s law allows ex parte proceedings in which the accused does not receive “actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate.”
So, no, RAHIMI does not support your unconstitutional “red flag” law.
A lower court had dismissed the charge against Rahimi, based on the BRUEN test of general, historical legal tradition; the court found no early laws analogous to firearm possession bans via protective order. But — compromised? — Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, claims to have found not one, but two such laws.
By the 1700s and early 1800s, though, two distinct legal regimes had developed that specifically addressed firearms violence: the surety laws and the “going armed” laws. Surety laws were a form of “preventive justice,” 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 251 (10th ed. 1787), which authorized magistrates to require individuals suspected of future misbehavior to post a bond
[…]
Surety laws could be invoked to prevent all forms of violence, including spousal abuse, and also targeted the misuse of firearms.
Can you spot the subtle difference between a surety bond to prevent a person performing an actual violent act, and a protective order that bans possession of a tool regardless of whether it was used?
Dolly-influenced(?) Roberts couldn’t.
His other example law similarly misses the mark.
The “going armed” laws—a particular subset of the ancient common law prohibition on affrays, or fighting in public provided a mechanism for punishing those who had menaced others with firearms. Under these laws, individuals were prohibited from “riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, [to] terrify[ ] the good people of the land.”
The “going armed” laws were specific to threatening and menacing actions using guns (and other weapons), not the simple possession of those implements.
Roberts missed it by this ……………….. […] ………………….. much. I’m not sure how he missed it, since I figured it out two years ago. Yes, I examined historical surety bonds and such in this very light. Maybe the Fifth Circuit read it, even if Roberts didn’t.
Thomas, dissenting, gets it right, as usual.
To trigger §922(g)(8)’s prohibition, a restraining must bear three characteristics. First, the order issues after a hearing where the accused “received actual notice” and had “an opportunity to participate.”
No ex parte proceedings allowed.
Just as important as §922(g)(8)’s express terms is what it leaves unsaid. Section 922(g)(8) does not require a finding that a person has ever committed a crime of domestic violence. It is not triggered by a criminal conviction or a person’s criminal history, unlike other §922(g) subsections.
And Thomas correctly notes that this is a deprivation of rights not triggered by a criminal conviction. Plus…
In addition, §922(g)(8) strips an individual of his ability to possess firearms and ammunition without any due process. Rather, the ban is an automatic, uncontestable consequence of certain orders.
The bans firearm possession, not just threatening or menacing actions. Sometimes it’s like Thomas reads my work as much as I read his. (That’s a joke; I’d be dumbfounded if Thomas knows who I am even if prompted with my name.)
And what does Clarence Thomas think of Roberts’ surety laws argument?
Section 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment. First, it targets conduct at the core of the Second Amendment— possessing firearms. Second, the Government failed to produce any evidence that §922(g)(8) is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. To the contrary, the founding generation addressed the same societal problem as §922(g)(8) through the “materially different means” of surety laws.
Aha! the outright ban on mere constitutionally protected possession is not analogous, it is a “materially different means.”
Thomas notes that even the prosecution didn’t try to present surety and going armed laws as analagous to 8 U.S. Code § 922(g)(8).
Despite canvassing laws before, during, and after our Nation’s founding, the Government does not identify even a single regulation with an analogous burden and justification.
The Government couldn’t come up with even one, so Roberts invented one for them.
A WordPress plugin caused WordPress to crash. It crashed so badly that I couldn’t login to WP to kill the bad plugin.
So I tried from the site control panel… but that didn’t give me access to WP functions. I needed a hosting service level login. But I never had that; that was the purview of Jo Ann…
Who passed away.
So I figured I’d go the long way around and fix it with an FTP upload. But I hadn’t had occasion to use FTP in some years, and my login no longer worked; the FTP server name was now invalid.
Sheila got JG, who took over for Brad and Jo Ann at Missouri Bullet company, to help. It took her quite a bit of back and forth with the hosting company, but they finally disabled the troublesome plugin, and…
We’re back!
This would not have happened without JG’s patient help. Thank you very, very much.
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.
That opening sentence explains much: a three judge (2 Dubya appointees, and a Trump appointee) panel, not en banc. I’ve no doubt that the state is preparing a motion for en banc review.
The decision, United States v. Duarte, is here. The majority based this ruling on BRUEN, with a dash of HELLER: there is no national “historical tradition of” barring felons who have completed their sentences from possessing firearms. Some readers may recall that such a bar never existed until the Gun Control Act of 1968, less than 50 years ago.
Almost two years ago, I pointed out that, “Much of the GCA ’68 is on very thin ice.”
The dissent, by Dubya appointee Judge Milan Smith Jr., is interesting in a morbid way.
The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), did not overrule Vongxay. Instead, Bruen reiterates that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens.
That’s a two-fer. First, the referenced Vongxay is a 2010 Ninth Circuit opinion. Smith is asserting that d 2022 BRUEN, by the lowly Supreme Court of the United States — you know; that one above the Ninth — does not override the majestic Ninth’s precedent. His rationale is that BRUEN didn’t specifically mention and overturn Vongxay by name.
Mommy! Timmy won’t stop poking me!</i?
Stop poking your sister, Timmy.
Mommy, he’s poking me again!
Timmy! I told you stop that!
But that was when I poked her with my index finger. You didn’t say I couldn’t use my middle finger, Mama.
Second, BRUEN does not reiterate “that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens.” On the contrary, in BRUEN Associate Justice Breyer, in his dissent admitted:
Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons.
BRUEN determined that law-abiding people do have Second Amendment protected rights, but it does not specifically exclude convicted felons who have completed their sentences, and presumptively reformed and now law-abiding people, whom it’s also presumptively safe to let walk our streets.
Rather like recognizing the right of a convicted felon, who has completed his sentence, to vote.
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.
חג פסח שמח
Happy Pesach/Passover
Next year in Jerusalem!
And be a beautiful Lily.
Lily Tang Williams
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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