The Next Ruby Ridge

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The Next Ruby Ridge

WrittenBy Marc Kelley
A year has now passed since FBI Director Christopher Wray spent his day answering questions before The Senate Judiciary Committee and speaking about his ideas on curbing the increase in violent crime sweeping across America. During the questioning Texas Senator Ted Cruz unveiled internal FBI training material which had been leaked by a “whistleblower”, and voiced his concern these documents are being used by the FBI to label U.S. citizens as “Militia Violent Extremists” (MVE’s). During his time, Senator Cruz asked Director Wray “What are y’all doing, do you honestly believe these historic American symbols represent Militia Violent Extremists.” With an answer which should come as a surprise to no one, Director Wray claimed to be “unfamiliar” with the documents Senator Cruz displayed; and as such, “makes a practice of not commenting on documents with which he was not familiar.” When pressed further by Senator Cruz, the dog and pony show continued, in typical political jibber jabber, Director Wray promised to look into the matter, to get to the bottom, and to find the truth. However, given the behavior of the FBI and its long and sordid history of having trouble distinguishing truth from fiction, a great many Americans believe, finding the truth was the last thing on Director Wray’s mind. Now that another year has passed can anyone tell me what we have learned from the FBI?
On the twenty-first of this month, our country will mark the 31st anniversary of the eleven day FBI siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. This event ended in tragedy and will forever remain as a stain on the reputation of the U.S. Governmental agencies involved. Those individuals who lost their lives in the mountains of Idaho include: U.S. Deputy Marshal W.F. Degan, Vicki Weaver, the Weavers’s fourteen year old son Sammy and his dog Striker. What follows is a true, albeit ugly story, backed up by the findings of the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee during their investigation into how Randy Weaver became a target of the U.S. Government and how once in their sights, set in motion a series of events filled with deceptions, omissions and lies.
The FBI was not always the FBI; in fact, in its infancy the nation’s top law enforcement agency underwent many changes. In 1896 politician’s began to speak of perceived threats against the U.S. Government itself, as an “existential threat” to our democracy. It was this perception which drove the establishment of a new crime fighting agency called the National Bureau of Criminal Identification. The task of this agency was strictly limited to gathering intelligence and compiling files on known criminals. This system remained in place until September 6, 1901, when William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was assassinated by a blue collar, working-class man who truly believed his own Government was creating the great injustice in American society which allowed the ruling class to enrich themselves by exploiting the poor. This act in and of itself, fueled the already common belief, that the United States Government was under attack by anarchists seeking to change the social direction and ideology of the United States. Following the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President and vowed to quash the Anarchist movement. Roosevelt instructed then Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an investigative service who would have vast autonomy and answer only to the U.S. Attorney General himself. Bonaparte initially recruited thirty-four individuals, including several members of the Secret Service, who would act as Special Agents and report to the “Chief” (The Director), of the newly formed Bureau of Investigation. In turn, the Chief would report directly to the U.S. Attorney General; thereby, establishing the story the newly formed agency would serve the people of the United States and remain free of political influence.
Randy Weaver was a Ret. U.S. Special Forces Green Beret who moved his wife and their four children to the mountains of Idaho in the 1980’s. The Weaver’s believed home schooling their children and insulating them from a world they perceived as corrupt, was the only way to preserve the values, morals, and freedoms in which they believed. The move came shortly after Vicki Weaver (Randy’s wife), a devout Christian woman, began experiencing recurrent dreams of the family living on a mountain top to escape what she believed would be the “apocalypse” as described in the Bible’s, Book of Revelations. Vicki believed the corruption In Washington D.C. had become so ingrained in our system, that our political leaders no longer served We the People, but rather had become, “Servants of the Queen of Babylon.”
Wanting nothing more than to be left alone and to raise their children, the Weaver’s socialized very little; yet somehow, managed to come into contact with an ATF informant named Rico Valentino. Valentino, a former WWE wrestler who portrayed himself as a gay hairstylist during his wrestling career, used his celebrity and homophobic persona to curry favor with a group of white supremacists living in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Valentino had begun working with the AFT sometime in the late 1980’s and was providing information on an Aryan Nation group operating in Idaho and known to have weaponry which was of interest to the ATF. It would be this chance encounter which would lead the ATF to attempt to recruit Randy Weaver as an additional informant. When Weaver refused, the ATF increased their focus on Weaver, believing his military training earned him additional scrutiny. Over the next three years Weaver had multiple conversations with Rico Valentino in which Valentino repeatedly asked to buy “sawed off shotguns” from Weaver. Finally, in July of 1989, Randy Weaver did in fact provide two sawed off shotguns to Valentino and was paid $ 300.00 for each. Valentino, who was wearing a wire at the time, gave a statement in which he indicated the ATF knew of the transaction as it occurred. Interestingly, no charges were filed at the time and interactions between Weaver and Valentino suddenly stopped. In 1990 Weaver was again approached by ATF Agents. This time the sawed off shotgun sale would be used as leverage by the ATF to attempt to force Weaver into becoming an informant. When Weaver again refused, the ATF filed charges against Weaver and in a sworn affidavit, asserted, “Weaver was a known bank robber with multiple criminal convictions.” It would take until the 1995 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation for the U.S. Government to admit Randy Weaver had no previous criminal record.
Formal documents presented to the 1996 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, cite a 1984 dispute over a three thousand dollar land deal with the Weaver’s neighbor, Terry Kinnison, and the ensuing Civil Lawsuit, as the catalyst for the event we now call Ruby Ridge. After losing the lawsuit, Weaver’s aggrieved neighbor wrote a letter to The FBI, The U.S. Secret Service, and The Boundary County Sheriff, alleging Randy Weaver had “ threatened to kill: Pope John Paul II, then President Ronald Reagan, and Idaho Governor John V. Evans. Even though no corroborating evidence was found verifying these threats, Randy Weaver had now become a person of interest to multiple agencies including: The ATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshalls Service.
Internal ATF documents spelled out their belief, it would be “too dangerous” to arrest Weaver at his home and they developed a plan to use undercover agents posing as stranded motorists with vehicle problems and stranded on the road, just outside of the Weaver property boundary. When the vehicle was noticed by the Weaver’s, they approached in their own vehicle and offered their help. The ATF arrested Weaver on the spot and when released on bail he was told his trial would begin February 19, 1991. In what we are to believe was a series of clerical errors and individual oversights, Randy Weaver’s trial date of February 19, 1991 was canceled and rescheduled for February 20,1991. Unbeknownst of the change, Weaver failed to appear on February 20, 1991 and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. 
On March 14, 1992 Randy Weaver’s case was transferred from the ATF to the U.S. Marshall’s Service, as the Marshal’s are the law enforcement agency of the Federal Court. Several attempts by the Marshal’s Service to get Weaver to surrender peacefully failed as he refused to leave his cabin. Weaver had become increasingly suspicious of the Government and when he was told by his court appointed attorney, if he lost his case “ the government would seize his land, leaving his wife homeless and having no place to live, his children would be placed in foster care”. When Randy Weaver learned of this information the odds he would negotiate with U.S. Government official’s became slim to none. Weaver did agree to negotiate through a third party and just as some progress was being made, the process was cut short by U.S. Assistant Attorney Ron Howen when he gave the order the third party negotiations must cease, and all further communications be held through his negotiator. Viewing this move as just another government ploy, Weaver believed this action was yet another promise broken by the government and stopped all communication.
Beginning in early February, 1991, the U.S. Marshals began surveillance on the Weaver home with the intention of establishing a “Psychological Threat Profile” on Randy Weaver. Again, only through the investigation conducted by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, were the true facts learned. Assumptions made by the U.S. Marshals included: “Weaver was a former Green Beret who would shoot on sight, anyone attempting to arrest him. Weaver had collected certain types of arms, though no identification of the types of arms was disclosed. Weaver had employed booby traps on his property to create a defensive position. Weaver had dug escape tunnels throughout his property.” The government’s psychological profile characterized Weaver as an “extreme threat”, setting into motion a mindset fueled by group think. Again it would take the Congressional investigation to learn the truth about the “threat assessment.” Through questioning by Senator Dianne Feinstein, it was learned the person in charge of building the profile had no first hand knowledge of Randy Weaver, had never attempted to talk with him, and was so unfamiliar with the case, his reference to the subject throughout his assessment was limited to the name Mr. Randall. 
The incident at Ruby Ridge had now caught the attention of the media and on April 18, 1991, Geraldo Rivera, sent a team of producers to fly a helicopter over the Weaver property, seeking to record live television footage. Reports from the media were given to the U.S. Marshals stating their helicopter had been fired upon by Weaver. Even though the pilot of the helicopter signed an affidavit stating “his helicopter was never fired upon”. Rivera’s false reporting combined with his ego and lack of journalistic ethic drove the narrative which became the justification to charge Randy Weaver with Conspiracy Against The Federal Government. On August 21,1991 six U.S. Marshals dressed in camouflage, armed with M16’s and Colt 9mm Sub-machine guns engaged in a gunfight with fourteen year old Sammy Weaver, killing the boy and his dog Striker. Also killed in this initial exchange was Deputy U.S. Marshal William “Bill” Degan who was struck in the chest by a 30.06 round fired by Weaver’s friend Kevin Harris.
Following the initial gunfight the U.S. Marshals requested back-up from both local law enforcement, as well as the FBI. By Saturday August 22, 1991, the FBI and Marshals service had drawn up “special rules of engagement” to be implemented at Ruby Ridge. The forces deployed during the day of August 22, included FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, as well as sniper teams. Before the FBI negotiators had arrived at the Weaver cabin, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi spotted Randy Weaver. Interpreting the agreed upon “rules of engagement” as a “shoot on sight order”, Horiuchi fired a single round from his 308 rifle, striking Randy Weaver in the back. Horiuchi then fired a second round which struck Kevin Harris in the chest and when it exited his body, struck Vicki Weaver in the head, killing her instantly as she held her 10 month old daughter.
On August 23, 1991, communication with Weaver was once again attempted but would fail as a result of Weaver’s lack of trust in the government agents attempting to communicate with him. The siege would not end until August 30, 1991, when civilian negotiators including James “Bo” Gritz, a retired former Special Forces, Lt. Colonel and likely the only person on earth Randy Weaver would trust with his life, begged Weaver to “end the bloodshed and his personal suffering.” Weaver agreed to surrender only if Col. Gritz would oversee the removal of the bodies of his son and wife, which Col Gritz immediately promised to do. Both Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris were removed from the Ruby Ridge cabin and flown to Sacred Heart Medical Center. Weaver’s three daughters were released into the custody of relatives and faced no charges.Both Weaver and Harris were charged with a host of crimes by the Federal Government, and their trial began in April of 1993. Weaver was represented by Gerry Spence, who rested his case in mid June without calling a single witness for the defense of Randy Weaver. Observers present throughout the trial told countless reporters, Spence took the government case apart piece by piece, discrediting the government’s evidence, as well as each of their witnesses. Randy Weaver was acquitted on all charges with the exception of missing his original court date and violating the conditions of his bail. Weaver was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $10,000.00. Ultimately he served 16 months with time off for good behavior. Kevin Harris was represented by Attorney David Nevin an ACLU Lawyer, was also acquitted of all charges. In an act seen by many as nothing short of a vindictive abuse of power, the U.S. Government structured Weaver’s release to include the provision he would never be allowed to profit from telling the story of Ruby Ridge. After Weaver wrote a book titled: “The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge: In our Own Words. The U.S. Government through the IRS prevented Weaver from selling his story. Left without any means of making money, Weaver would begin each day by loading cases of his book into his car and driving to a local Bar / Cafe in Kalispell, Montana. Weaver would sit for hours speaking to anyone who came to meet the man and hear his story. Weaver would not violate the order preventing him from profiting from telling his story; but rather, would give a signed copy to anyone who chose to leave money on the bar to pay for his dinner.Ruby Ridge and Randy Weaver have become symbols of the heavy hand of a government, hell bent on first finding a target and then finding the crime. This week as we remember Ruby Ridge, the Government would have us believe they acted in accordance with the law, and no one is above that law. When you contrast this ideology with the words and actions of the FBI today, we are left with far more questions than answers. As Senator Ted Cruz asked FBI Director Christopher Wray, “what are y’all doing”, he misses the big picture concept. The real question which should be asked is, given the hostile view of some 70 million U.S. citizens by the Biden Administration’s Dept. of Justice: where and when will the next Ruby Ridge occur?So here we find ourselves thirty plus years after Ruby Ridge. In this time both Democrats and Republicans have held power, and as such, controlled the U.S. Department of Justice and more specifically the FBI. From its earliest infancy as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification the FBI has been nothing more than a weaponized arm of the Justice Department, seeking not the truth, but rather total control over anyone they deem to be an “extremist.”

Kleen Becomes New Minot North Dakota Communication/Engagement Manager

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Kleen Becomes New Minot North Dakota Communication/Engagement Manager

Cheyenne Residents, 20-year-old Hannah Wingert and 21-year-old Joshua Moody Arrested For Attempted Homicide, Aggravated Child Abuse

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Cheyenne Residents, 20-year-old Hannah Wingert and 21-year-old Joshua Moody Arrested For Attempted Homicide, Aggravated Child Abuse



CHEYENNE, Wy — On Wednesday, August 23 at approximately 12:36 p.m. a Cheyenne Police Officer was dispatched to a welfare check on a tw0-year-old male at a residence in the 500 block of West 6th street.
It was reported that the child was covered with bruises and the caller was
concerned for his welfare. Upon arrival, the CP Officer located a small child who obviously sustained very severe life-threatening injuries which was the result of physical abuse.

The child was transported by ambulance to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center where he was initially assessed and then life-flighted to Denver Children’s Hospital where it was confirmed that he had multiple broken bones and internals injuries
injuries.


The primary encounter diagnosis indicated non-accidental trauma to the child.
During the investigation, detectives learned that the child was allegedly battered by his mother, Hannah Wingert, 20, of Cheyenne and her boyfriend Joshua Moody, 21, of Cheyenne.
On Friday, August 25, Wingert and Moody were both arrested without incident and booked into the Laramie County Jail on charges of attempted 1st degree homicide and aggravate child abuse.


Putin Ordered Cheka Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane to be shot down by Russian air defense system in the Tver region, not far from Putin’s Valdai own residence.

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Putin Ordered Cheka Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane to be shot down by Russian air defense system in the Tver region, not far from Putin’s Valdai own residence.

The personal, civilian plane of the head of the Cheka Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin was shot down by an air defense system in the Tver region, not far from Putin’s Valdai residence. 10 corpses were found at the crash site. Together with Prigozhin, the entire leadership of the Wagner PMCs flew. A month ago, Prigozhin staged a rebellion against Putin.

Bloomberg finances and coopts state attorneys general:State AG’s aid Bloomberg quest for ‘green’ energy that threatens planet, wildlife and people 

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Bloomberg finances and coopts state attorneys general:State AG’s aid Bloomberg quest for ‘green’ energy that threatens planet, wildlife and people 

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has bankrolled campaigns against large soft drinks and coal and natural gas companies. Not so well known is his covert funding via New York University Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, which provides grants to Democrat state attorneys general, so that they can hire “special assistant” AGs to litigate “specific administrative, judicial or legislative matters involving clean energy, climate change and environmental interests of regional and national significance.” 

The American Tort Reform Foundation says these special AGs are private attorneys “placed in public positions to exercise government authority. Yet, they are not independent or impartial because their mandate is to carry out an overtly political agenda funded by wealthy private donors. This unique setup allows well-heeled individuals and organizations to commandeer state and local police powers to target opponents with whom they disagree.” At the very least, it raises important questions about “corruption and fundamental unfairness in what should be public enforcement of the law.” It also raises ethical, legal and constitutional questions regarding gifts, campaign contributions, bribes and private cooption of public offices. When Bloomberg-funded lawyers prosecute civil or criminal cases against companies or their officers, it raises serious due-process concerns.

 

By: Paul Driessen 

When you’ve built a financial information and media empire and become the world’s seventh richest person, you get to say dumb things, like suggesting that farming is easy: “You dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top, add water – and up comes the corn.” 

Being ultra-wealthy also shields Michael Bloomberg from any fallout from the climate and energy policies he pursues so zealously. He will doubtless be able to afford electricity at any price for his multiple mansions, from any source, backed up by thousands of battery modules to cover the repeated blackouts his policies will unleash. The other 99.9% won’t be so fortunate. 

Mr. Bloomberg bankrolls campaigns against coal and natural gas; supports efforts to populate the Biden Administration with rogue regulators equally intent on “transforming” America’s energy system, society and living standards; and champions ESG principles for financial firms, companies and investors. His company even has Sustainability and ESG & Climate divisions. Mr. Bloomberg serves as UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions, enabling him to advance his agendas internationally. 

ESG (Environmental Social Governance) helps unelected asset managers use their control over trillions of investment dollars to pressure companies, lenders and consumers to embrace far-left activist versions of public welfare and justice, even if it causes clients’ portfolio values to decline. ESG is a subversive way to bypass legislatures, voters and democratic processes, to impose unpopular political and ideological agendas, often in violation of fiduciary obligations. 

ESG opposes fossil fuels, insisting they are causing climate cataclysms. Any company in that business, or offering to finance a drilling project, gets blackballed. But companies building or financing “clean, green” energy score in the ESG stratosphere – even though most such projects destroy vast swaths of wildlife habitats, involve slave and child labor, and leave widespread toxic pollution in their wake. ESG human rights, ecological and climate justice principles are duplicitous and hypocritical. 

As New York City mayor, Mr. Bloomberg infamously advocated exorbitant taxes on large sugary drinks, claiming they lead to obesity and thus to diabetes, cancer, heart disease and premature death. He simply wanted to help poor people live longer, he asserted, by making Big Gulps less affordable. 

It’s thus puzzling that he now wants to banish reliable, affordable gas heat and coal- and gas-generated electricity for heating and air conditioning – in favor of pricey, weather-dependent wind and solar power, backed up by outrageously expensive batteries. Those policies shorten lives. 

Even if manmade or natural climate change causes average global temperatures to climb 2-3 degrees, modern technologies would keep us safely comfortable. But if laws, policies and ESG pressures make heating and AC inaccessible or unaffordable, indoor temperatures can soar 15-25 degrees in summertime and drop as precipitously in wintertime. People die – and cold is far deadlier than heat. 

When people, especially the elderly, cannot heat their homes properly, they can perish from hypothermia or illnesses they would likely survive if they weren’t so cold. The Economist calculated that expensive energy may have killed 68,000 more Europeans than Covid did last winter. 

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) will help the poorest families – until the subsidy money runs out – but not middle/working classes, and not small businesses. 

Even worse, three billion people worldwide still do not have access to reliable, affordable electricity. Message to climate zealots like Mr. Bloomberg: Access to intermittent, unpredictable wind/solar electricity doesn’t count, especially if it’s only enough to charge a cell phone or power a lightbulb or one-cubic-foot refrigerator. Lack of access to sustained, affordable energy kills. 

The billionaire’s legal power grab is even more insidious and dangerous to democracy. 

In 2017 he began covertly funding New York University Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, which provides grants to progressive (Democrat) state attorneys general, enabling them to hire “special assistant” AGs or “fellows.” 

The Center’s mission is to provide “direct legal assistance” to interested AGs “on specific administrative, judicial or legislative matters involving clean energy, climate change and environmental interests of regional and national significance,” when AGs say they lack sufficient public funds to hire such help. 

NYU now says “the fellows’ sole duty of loyalty is to the attorney general in whose office they serve.” However, these partisan Bloomberg grants pay salaries and “generous benefits packages” to “special assistants” whose functions are dictated by the Center; address specified “regional and national” issues normally beyond the purview of state AGs; are routinely coordinated with energy and climate activists and donors to those causes; and often launch “public nuisance” or RICO litigation against oil companies, to the detriment of targeted industries and the consumers and ratepayers who depend on their products, within the AGs’ home states and in distant states and communities. 

It is the Bloomberg agenda that is being served, by grants that effectively conscript and coopt the public authority and power of the attorney general’s offices. 

As a 2022 report by the American Tort Reform Foundation notes, “These SAAGs are private attorneys placed in public positions to exercise government authority. Yet, they are not independent or impartial because their mandate is to carry out an overtly political agenda funded by wealthy private donors.” 

This “unique” arrangement, the Foundation continues, “allows well-heeled individuals and organizations to commandeer state and local police powers to target opponents with whom they disagree, raising the specter of corruption and fundamental unfairness in what should be public enforcement of the law.” 

Those same considerations also appear to raise fundamental ethical, legal and constitutional issues. They certainly raise questions about laws governing gifts, campaign contributions and bribes – and where Bloomberg-funded lawyers are involved in prosecutions, serious due-process concerns.

And yet the NYU Center has already placed at least 11 special assistants in eight state attorney general offices, which have filed at least 20 lawsuits against a few selected oil companies, charging them with “climate denial” or causing planetary warming, rising seas, more frequent and intense hurricanes and tornadoes, and other “offenses.” 

This litigation ignores the actions of hundreds of other oil and gas companies across the globe; steadily rising emissions from China, India and other rapidly developing nations; the role of natural forces and emissions from wind turbine, solar panel and battery mining, processing and manufacturing; the lack of evidenceto support claims of a climate “crisis” or more frequent and violent storms; and the fact that these issues should be litigated in federal courts or relegated to a democratic political process. 

The US Supreme Court recently had an opportunity to quash this rampant litigation, but it chose not to review the state and local cases and send them to federalcourts. The seemingly endless lawsuits and acrimony are creating a legal, constitutional, scientific and public policy nightmare for businesses, consumers, courts, states and the nation. 

Rest assured, billionaires like Bloomberg, Gates, Kerry, Zuckerberg and Soros – who demand that we commoners give up our cars, gas stoves and furnaces, steaks, air travel and suburban homes – don’t intend to give up anything. 

Let’s hope the pro-America governors, AGs, legislators, judges and business groups battling ESG and other woke campaigns tackle this NYU Impact Center hornets nest as well.. 

Paul Driessen is a senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environmental, and human rights issues. 

Dry Conditions Cause Grass Fire In Billings Montana

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Dry Conditions Cause Grass Fire In Billings Montana

Treasonous Governor Arms Illegals By Giving Authority To Arrest Americans

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Treasonous Governor Arms Illegals By Giving Authority To Arrest Americans

Treason defined: In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. -Websters 1828 Dictionary

You cannot even make this up…

American Military News reported that Americans could soon be arrested by illegal immigrants.

American citizens could soon be arrested by non-U.S. citizens in Illinois after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law that will allow illegal immigrants to become police officers in the state.
After the signing of Illinois House Bill 3751 by the governor on Friday, U.S. citizenship will no longer be a requirement to serve as a police officer in the state of Illinois starting January 1, 2024.

House Bill 3751 states, “An individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject.”

The law also states that non-U.S. citizens are required to be able to purchase, carry, and possess a firearm legally in order to apply to be a police officer.

Despite federal law prohibiting non-U.S. citizens from serving as police officers and deputies, illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals will be eligible to apply for a position as a police officer, according to Fox News.

Media personality Collin Rugg summarized the opposition to Pritzker’s bill by Republicans and law enforcement, stating, “Imagine getting arrested by someone who illegally entered the country… Clown world.”

Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) also voiced opposition to her state’s decision, tweeting, “At 5 p.m. yesterday, when no one was paying attention, Pritzker signed a bill to allow illegal immigrants to become police officers, giving non-citizens the power to arrest citizens in our state. No sane state would allow foreign nationals to arrest their citizens, this is madness!”

Not only is this madness, but this is also treason, and that on every level (Luke 22:48).

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. –Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution​

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There are still some in this country that just feel that this is politics as usual, as if to suggest that what they do today will have no effect on their children tomorrow.  Friends, if this is not treason then what is it?

The American people have provision in the U.S. Constitution to impeach and to prosecute these individuals and send the message that we will NOT tolerate their crimes against “We the People” any longer.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. -Article II, Section 4

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. -Article I, Section 3, Clause 7

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Conclusion: Like it or not American,s this is judgment upon this nation.  The illegals will be made the head and the Americans will be made the tail if they continuously stand by and watch the corrupt in the halls of government have their lawless ways (Deuteronomy 28:43).

Yet, empowering illegals to arrest Americans is very fitting for a people who refuse to obey the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:63), but to the innocent it is very unfitting.

This criminal act being committed by this tyrant in Illinois is constitutionally unjustifiable at every level.

Friends, consider the source.

Americans, if you continue to allow these criminals to be left unaccountable to the very laws they are to uphold, you and your posterity will continue to suffer more of their abuses.

“You can also commit an injustice by doing nothing.” -Marcus Aurelius

The Big Federal Government Lie: “I can’t answer your (impertinent and inconvenient) question. The matter is under investigation. ”

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The Big Federal Government Lie: “I can’t answer your (impertinent and inconvenient) question. The matter is under investigation. ”

Our nation has likely never seen so many accusations of corruption, unethical actions and outright criminal conduct by Executive Branch “civil servants,” from the president on down — perhaps especially in the Department of Justic and Federal Bureau of Investigation, but also in the Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control. Nor has it witnessed so many all-too-successful efforts to stonewall and stymie investigations and prosecutions of those sordid activities. 

Attorney William Kovacs offers a simple, yet previously never used strategy for our next Republican president, if one is elected in November 2024 – to finally make the Deep State accountable to the People and their elected representatives in (a Republican) Congress. The president need only waive Executive Privilege and issue an executive order declassifying all investigatory materials sought by the new Congress, Kovacs suggests. When Congress requests documents, the Executive should order them produced; when it seeks testimony, provide it without asserting objections. 

Kovacs’ article should be read by every Republican presidential and congressional candidate, and by every voter.

Written By: William L. Kovacs

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The eight most disingenuous words used these days by federal agencies are intended to hide their criminal activity: “I can’t answer. The matter is under investigation.” 

These words are used to obstruct, mislead, delay and discourage congressional investigations into the legality of Executive Branch activity. In effect, they say: “Your question is impertinent, inconvenient and intolerable. How dare you question anything Executive Branch agencies are doing?” 

Unfortunately, this simple statement often achieves its goal of obstructing efforts by Congress to obtain information that it and the American people need and deserve to have, to ensure “government of, by and for the people,” instead of the federal bureaucracy. 

While Congress may be upset with the response, it is often cowed into accepting the assertion that presidents can protect their people from being investigated even for criminal conduct. However, fortunes and precedents can be reversed. 

If Republicans win the White House with a presidential candidate who sincerely wants to uphold the rule of law, restore justice to the legal system and hold the “Deep State” accountable, that president can make it happen.

The leading Presidential candidates for the Republican nomination have promised to fire the FBI director and clean house at the Department of Justice. If a Republican wins the presidency in November 2024, FBI Director Wray and Attorney General Garland will resign long before they can be fired. 

So, candidates, please, stop pandering. No one will be fired. It’s all pablum – worthless, insipid, oversimplified assertions, threats and promises.

Suppose a new president truly wants to clean up the deep, dark, corrupt state at the DOJ, FBI and other federal agencies. In that case, the Republican president need only waive Executive Privilege and issue an executive order declassifying all investigatory materials sought by the current Republican House of Representatives. Let Congress bleed the truth out of those subverting the Constitution.

Executive compliance is simple. When Congress requests documents, the Executive should order them produced. When testimony is sought, provide it without asserting objections. Cooperate with the Republican House to find the truth and restore our republican form of government. 

Since the Nixon administration, presidents have asserted Executive Privilege thirty times to block congressional investigations. Presidential assertions included protecting the president’s brother (Billy Carter), girlfriends (Monica Lewinsky), mismanagement of funds (Solyndra), foreign affairs (Benghazi), gun running (Fast and Furious) and tape recordings (Watergate). 

Democrat and Republican administrations have routinely acted as though providing Congress with requested information concerning an investigation will somehow diminish their manhood.

Finding and eliminating corruption is for the benefit of the nation. Hiding corruption does not assist the president in the faithful execution of the law. 

The DOJ/FBI’s long-running minuet of never sharing information with congressional committees is a mechanism of deceit, not of protecting the independence and effectiveness of law enforcement, safeguarding informant identities, avoiding pre-trial publicity, or interfering with prosecutorial discretion. 

The Supreme Court has long recognized the “…implied power [of Congress] to investigate and to compel the production of information” from the Executive branch.

“Executive Privilege for presidential communications is limited to the quintessential power and nondelegation of Presidential power, and those are the core functions in the Constitution.” It should only be asserted to preserve those core constitutional functions. Claiming it beyond the core constitutional functions is a delaying tactic that often allows illegal conduct to continue.

As to declassifying all documents related to alleged criminal activity in the Executive branch, no president should ever intentionally or unintentionally cover it up. The American Bar Association has written: “Under the U.S. Constitution, the president as Commander-in-Chief is given broad powers to classify and declassify such information, often through executive orders.” 

While there are procedures for declassifying the materials, except for certain materials such as nuclear secrets, a president has almost total control to declassify records by executive order. Presidents at all times have the power to shine sunlight on government corruption. When they choose not to expose corruption, it is an intentional coverup.

Unfortunately, since the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, the Executive Branch has forced Congress to issue subpoenas to secure requested documents. Presidents achieve their goal of protecting corruption by requiring years of legal battles to enforce the subpoena.

Hopefully, there will be a Republican Congress, or at least a Republican House sworn in on January 3, 2025, and on January 20, 2025 a Republican president. Between January 3, 2025, and January 20, 2025, the Republican Congress can prepare the appropriate investigative letters to the incoming president, requesting the information needed to root out corruption, especially in the DOJ and FBI, but also in the EPA and CDC over climate, energy and Covid fear-mongering, disinformation and censorship. 

On January 20, when the Republican president enters the White House, his first order of business should be to issue an executive order waiving executive privilege and formally declassifying the documents relating to all congressional investigations. 

These waivers should encompass all alleged DOJ/FBI corruption, as described in the Durham, Mueller and Horowitz Reports, records of payments received by Joe and Hunter Biden and their family members from foreign countries, all matters associated with the development of a two-tier system of justice, efforts by the federal government to force social media companies to manipulate or censor information distributed to the public, and all other matters of high-level DOJ, FBI, EPA and CDC corruption.

By taking this approach, the president will tremendously assist the congressional investigation of executive agency misconduct, without investigating the departments he leads. If Congress finds evidence of criminal or unethical activity, it will refer the evidence to new appointees at a DOJ for appropriate prosecution.

Suppose Executive Branch personnel refuse to testify, or “take the Fifth” to protect their constitutional right not to be a witness against themselves. 

In that case, Congress can grant the Use Immunity, which compels their testimony but provides immunity to the witness for the new information provided. A witness who refuses to testify after being given Use Immunity can be cited for contempt of Congress and imprisoned.

It’s time for the federal government to get serious about corruption in government. 

More intriguing and overdue would be having a president who followed the advice humbly presented here. The nation might uncover who is actually running the Deep State.

William L. Kovacs has served as senior vice president for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, chief counsel to a congressional committee, and a partner in DC law firms. His book Reform the Kakistocracy (government by the least qualified, most unscrupulous) is the winner of the 2021 Independent Press Award for Political/Social Change. He can be contacted at wlk@ReformTheKakistocracy.com

Kristi Nichols Named To Covenant Journey Academy Board Of Advisors

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Kristi Nichols Named To Covenant Journey Academy Board Of Advisors


ORLANDO, FL — Kristi Nichols has been named to the Covenant Journey Academy (CJA) Board of Advisors, CJA is pleased to announce. CJA is a full-service K-12 online Christian academy available around the world 24/7/365. 
Nichols ministered in the inner city, in prisons, and in senior care centers for many years. Inspired by her faith, Nichols brings hope and encouragement to people with prayer, her presence, and her uplifting spoken word. 
Nichols donates her time to volunteer counseling for breast cancer survivors and their families. She also provides volunteer counseling to income-challenged families who otherwise could not afford these services. 
Nichols is passionate about educating and equipping people on the importance of preserving freedom and understanding the U.S. Constitution. As a result of her efforts, many people she has inspired have run for political office and continue to build their knowledge of accurate American history and understanding of the Constitution. 
In 2016 Nichols ran for U.S. Senate. She now serves as the President of the Republican Women of Greater Kansas City, where she inspires people to civic engagement. 
Nichols’ faith and trust in God are central to everything she does. Her faith has no boundaries or limits. Along with her faith, she believes strong families are a key component in equipping the next generation for leadership and to be productive citizens. 
In high school, Nichols was a cheerleader for the NFL Kansas City Chiefs. She cheered two years for the Chiefs with her sister, and they were one of the first sister teams to make the squad. 
Throughout her life, Nichols has participated in and won many pageants. Her crowns include the following:  Mrs. DC Galaxy 2011 Mrs. North America Galaxy 2012 Mrs. Israel Galaxy 2013 Mrs. New York United States 2014 Mrs. Missouri USA Earth 2015 Mrs. USA Earth 2015 Mrs. Missouri Woman 2016 Mrs. Royalty America 2016 Mrs. Royalty International 2019 Mrs. Missouri United States 2020 Mrs. USA 2021 Mrs. Israel Worldwide 2022 Mrs. Worldwide 2023 
Nichols was crowned Mrs. Israel Worldwide in 2022 and represented Israel in the Mrs. Worldwide pageant in 2023, where she was crowned Mrs. Worldwide. 
Through her pageantry, teaching, and public speaking, Nichols reaches many married women and their families as she shares her faith and teaches biblical values and principles. Her pageantry has afforded Nichols the opportunity to travel and speak throughout the country and internationally for charity and other events. She has traveled to all 50 states and 12 nations, using her faith, trusting God, and thinking out of the box for ministry opportunities.  
For Nichols, the USA is the best place in the world to live, next to Israel. Nichols will always be a Missouri gal. She and her husband, David, are lifelong Missouri residents. 
CJA is a full-service K-12 online Christian academy that is available around the world 24/7/365 with more than 150 courses all taught by certified teachers, along with more than 30 college courses taught by qualified university faculty. 
The dual enrollment options allow students to take college courses while in high school. Students can graduate with a two-year Associate of Arts degree while obtaining their high school diploma.  The mission of Covenant Journey Academy is to provide a superior learning experience built upon the foundation of a Christian worldview. CJA’s vision is to empower courageous generations of highly skilled people thoroughly grounded in a Christian worldview to transform the culture.  There are many unique features of Covenant Journey Academy, including the following:  1. Biblical worldview throughout each course. 2. More than 150 K-12 online courses for home or Christian schools. 3. All K-12 courses taught by certified teachers. 4. Around-the-clock availability 24/7/365 anywhere in the world. 5. Extensive electives to engage children’s unique skills. 6. Fourteen Advanced Placement courses. 7. Multiple levels of six languages — Spanish, French, Latin, German, Chinese, and American Sign Language. 8. A variety of Honors courses across middle school and high school. 9. An Honors high school diploma option. 10. Dual enrollment and college credit that can lead to an Associate of Arts degree. 11. All dual enrollment college courses taught by highly credentialed college professors. 12. Credit Recovery options for many high school courses. 13. Available teachers to support student learning by phone, email, and virtual meetings. 14. Self-paced options perfect for the specific needs of each student. 15. Parent account to track children’s progress anytime. 16. Rolling enrollment EACH week. 17. Full-time or part-time enrollment. 18. Affiliation options for church and private schools to launch or supplement their schools. 19. Parental resources and virtual community engagement.  At Covenant Journey Academy, students are taught to critically think and reason based on the foundation of a biblical worldview.  Founder and Chancellor Mat Staver said, “Covenant Journey Academy is the solution to the education crisis. Covenant Journey Academy brings high-quality private school education into homes and private schools around the world. The journey begins here and continues for life.”  

Abandon fossil fuels, empower China 

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Abandon fossil fuels, empower China 

Former member of Congress Don Ritter served on energy, science and commerce committees. In this important article, he applies his broad experience to analyze the historic geopolitical shift that is now occurring, largely because the United States and other Western nations are turning their backs on fossil fuels and the economies, industries and defense capabilities that depend on those fuels – primarily over exaggerated fears of manmade climate change. 

Meanwhile, China and its growing alliance of Producer and Consumer nations continue to expand their dependence on oil, natural gas and coal. Those countries will continue to grow and prosper, while the USA and rest of the West continue to decline, he says. In the process, global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will continue to grow, regardless of any unilateral actions by the USA and West. 

Is the Biden Administration so deliberately naïve that it would turn US security over to China? 

Written by: Don Ritter 

Published by: Wyoming News

Autocratic Producers (primarily Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Russia, Iran, Qatar, Venezuela and China) and certain democratic (or semi-democratic) Consumers (fossil fuel-dependent nations, mostly in the Global South), are uniting over oil, gas, coal, petrochemicals, natural gas-derived fertilizers and wind-solar-battery raw materials that are essential for building and maintaining modern industrial nations. 

The implications are enormous, for global commerce, and especially for America. 

China straddles both worlds. It’s the world’s largest coal producer and consumer – and the second-largest fossil fuels consumer after the USA. Although the United States remains the planet’s largest oil and gas producer, government policies are restricting investment in future domestic production, forcing U.S. companies to scour the world to increase production. 

The autocratic Producers clearly benefit from America’s declining production, because major Consumers (India, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and others) that buy oil, gas and petrochemicals must feed their people, fuel their vehicles, and sustain or grow their economies at reasonable cost.

Giant energy Producer Russia continues to sustain its economy and finance its war in Ukraine, as it waits for Western electorates to lose patience and reduce military aid. Moscow counts on continued fossil fuel sales to Consumer countries, particularly China. 

China is importing record amounts of oil and gas from Russia, making it the largest financier of Russia’s Ukraine war. China’s dual-use technologies also enter indirectly into the Russian war machine. Courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, China is building new refineries and becoming a major petrochemicals producer – even as Biden energy policies curtail U.S. refinery and petrochemical investments. 

Petrochemicals fuel or provide building blocks for just about everything. They therefore add tremendous value to the crude oil China imports from Russia. 

Meanwhile, America and the West pursue sweeping policies on “manmade climate change.” That means they deride and downgrade the value of fossil fuels that are the lifeblood of all industrialized nations: Producers, Consumers and those fortunate or wise enough to play both roles. 

Western government attitudes toward fossil fuels are derived from fears of a “growing climate crisis.” Those attitudes are creating a deep and abiding conflict of interest between the West and both the Producerand Consumer nations that view fossil-fuel-dependent economic growth as paramount. 

Therein lies the conundrum. 

If the United States and West will no longer be major Producers, where do Consumers turn for the energy and products they require? Unfortunately, they must turn to Producers – which happen to be autocratic states, which respond to those needs by increasing their oil and gas production, to meet global demand, while simultaneously bolstering their economies and strengthening their autocratic power. 

Producers friendly to the West (Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Qatar, e.g.) are not the problem right now. But others are. 

In a nutshell, the West’s fossil fuel cutbacks are being replaced on the global economic, strategic and geo-political stage by an expanding alliance of autocratic Producers that are serving Consumers not just as energy and raw materials suppliers, but as political partners.

Moreover, if those Producers continue replacing America’s and the West’s declining oil, gas and coal supplies, the climate-focused nations will decline as economic and military powers; their influence over climate issues will diminish; and the overall human contribution to climate change will actually grow, as Consumers pursue their own bests interests, which are inextricably linked to fossil fuel use, now and decades from now. 

China is already the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It has no intention of abandoning its economic, military or strategic ambitions – all of which rely on fossil fuels. But it has now effectively, though not officially, abandoned the Paris Climate Accords. That alone likely makes America’s and the West’s fossil fuel sacrifices on the climate altar both “painful and pointless.” 

Ironically¸ the U.S. is now importing environmentally dirty crude oil from autocratic, adversarial Producer Venezuela – rather than expanding its own domestic production. Meanwhile, natural gas exports from Russia to Europe will soon be replaced by Exxon and Chevron production in Algeria. 

Even more ironic (or insane), China dominates the world’s wind, solar and battery technologies, their raw material supply chains and their manufacturing. U.S. politicians may be ramping up talk about reducing dependence on China for critical items related to American economic and national security, they are demanding and pursuing policies that make the USA and West ever more dependent on so-called “clean renewable” energy from wind, solar, battery and fossil powerhouse China. 

We are witnessing a geopolitical shift of historic proportions. Fossil fuel-friendly China and other autocratic Producers will be the biggest winners; fossil fuel-repressing democratic America and the West the biggest losers. 

Indeed, democratic Consumers are already and increasingly beholden to the autocratic Producers. That’s evident from the role that energy supply and demand has likely played in persuading some 80 nations to remain neutral on the Ukraine war. 

Russia and OPEC members know the largest and ever-expanding market for their oil, gas and raw material products is world-leading manufacturer China. That global power, in turn, can more and more manufacture whatever the Producer nationsneed. China gets fuels and raw materials to feed its vast energy-hungry, export-oriented industries and immense agricultural economy. Other Consumer nations likewise purchase or trade for fossil fuel products. 

The symbiosis between Producers and Consumersis clear. 

Meanwhile, no matter how hard they try to deny these realities, or “transition to renewable energy,” The USA and West will remain dependent on fossil fuels from Producers for decades to come. The U.S. Energy Information Agency predicts that even in 2050 America will still be 65% dependent on fossil fuels for its overall energy needs, versus 79% today. Is a 14% reduction worth all the sacrifices? 

The still-growing Chinese manufacturing and military powerhouse will be enriched by the inevitable shift away from Western manufacturers, who will see their costs and prices increase without reliable, reasonably priced fossil-fuel energy and derivative products. 

China’s 1.5 billion people – repressed, surveilled, cajoled and punished for social infractions – are nonetheless disciplined, educated, and increasingly productive and wealthy. With the growing prowess and sophistication of its military, autocratic China is the biggest beneficiary of all from the Western strategy of abandoning fossil fuels. 

If the USA and West continue along their anti-fossil-fuel path, it is quite possible that autocratic Producers will soon dominate the world – while China becomes their biggest Consumer and the world’s preeminent player, surpassing even the United States. Is this the path we really want to follow? 

Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. After leaving Congress, he created and led the National Environmental Policy Institute. 

He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission and founding Co-Chair of the Baltic States-Ukraine Caucus. He is a Trustee of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Museum and co-chairs its Capital Campaign.

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