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EARTH ONE CALLING: DISSECTING THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF TRUMP’S GOP

Dear GOP:

• You can no longer lecture us about divisiveness, or lambaste the Democrats foR “playing politics” when your warped media ecosystem has disseminated the very GOP talking points that have routinely tarred and feathered anyone left of Karl Rove on the daily for the past three decades.

• You can no longer drone on about why we should not prosecute your dearly departed Fuhrer "For the good of the country" when your elected representatives are focused only on their own narrow self-preservation and fund-raising. Let’s face it: you don’t give a shit about this country. If you did, you would have stood up to a president who has been actively destroying it for five years.

• You can no longer posture about unity or bipartisanship, especially when Trump’s GOP just spent four years exhibiting telltale fascist tendencies in the dogged pursuit of one-party rule, all the while waging a holy war on the main institutions entrusted with discovery and discernment of truth: the media, the judiciary, science, and education.

• You can no longer plead for civility on the part of Democrats when your representatives and media have spent decades shouting down anyone who isn’t on their side (here's looking at you Jim Jordan). And you especially can no longer lecture us about civility in the aftermath of your own supporters openly advocating-and then enacting-Civil War in the failed 1/6 fascist coup designed to keep your exalted Dear Loser as President.

• You can no longer shout from the top your soap boxes about leftist extremists, radicals, socialism, or communism when your party has veered so far to the right over the last three decades that it now teeters on the edge of a nihilist rightward cliff, about to plunge into full-on fascism.

• You can no longer lecture us about the dangers of violent Antifa and BLM protesters, especially given that a) over 95% of BLM protests were peaceful, b) so-called ”lone wolf” assailants have committed horrific acts of violence (i.e. racially motivated mass shootings) in the name of Donald Trump, and especially c) thousands of Trump supporters committed an act of mob violence on 1/6 so heinous that it has traumatized an entire nation and many of its duly elected Congressional representatives, Be there Republican or Democrat.

• You can no longer claim to be the party of "Law and order.” Don't even try it. Not when the leader of your party is a career criminal who spent the entirety of his presidency rigging the legal system to avoid consequences for his neverending litany of crimes, including Bank and tax fraud, conspiring with Russia to get elected, conspiring to withhold much-needed aid from Ukraine unless their president would ”dome a favor though,” committing election fraud in a call with the Georgia secretary of state, and especially for knowingly inciting the violent insurrection that resulted in over 140 law enforcement officers injured and three dead. Add to this Bill Barr’s politicization of the judiciary, the systematic rigging of our legal system at every level, and the countless Trump administration officials who were caught red-handed violating Federal laws and ethical standards, we need to call the GOP what it is: a lawless party led by angry White men to whom the laws of the land do not apply, and whose nakedly partisan judicial Philosophy has become “the law is whatever I say it is.”

• You certainly can no longer continue to demonize the mainstream media, facts and evidence-based reporting as "fake news", particularly since you have created a parallel media universe whose very existence demands that the brains of your legions of supporters must remain steeped in a toxic cesspool of mendacious venom in which warped talking-head drivel has wholly supplanted the reporting of actual news.

• You can no longer continue to channel Reagan’s dictum about how “government I s the problem,” especially since it has become glaringly obvious that most Republican politicians have no interest in governing to begin with, save for overfunding our military and police, under my name a woman’s right to choose, and squandering precious time and resources on such pressing matters as trans bathroom access and an umpteenth hearing on Benghazi. Once elected, GOP legislators routinely produces budgets that starve government agencies of funding, effectively reducing them to the status of a broke and emaciated pauper begging for spare change. These agencies are offered up as sacrifices to the God of lower taxes. Your anti-government rhetoric has thus morphed into a self-filling prophecy: you spout tired talking points that demonize government, then you get elected and cripple government, only to proclaim "look ma, government doesn’t work anymore". Aside from culture wars, your “Governing” it is not limited to gerrymandering, voter suppression, raising funds to get re-elected, and lining the pockets of your rich cronies. As our country rots away and the public good deteriorates, it is not a stretch to suggest that YOU have become the problem.

• You definitely can no longer claim the mantle of pro-life, not when you denounce science, support the death penalty, oppose access to healthcare, restrict funding for social services, and rationalize away the murder of Black Americans by an increasingly militarized police force. Truth be told, yours is a party that has become decidedly anti-life during the pandemic, first by downplaying the severity of COVID, then refusing to wear masks in the face of a deadly pandemic that has now killed roughly 1 in 700 Americans. Add to this a presidential administration that knowingly lied to the public about the risk posed by the coronavirus, and then systematically failed to address it. President Trump opted instead to corrupt the CDC and wage a public relations campaign rather than performing the necessary governmental function of tackling this deadly disease.

• You can no longer position yourself as the party of ”faith” and family values when you openly show hostility toward non-Christian religious and spiritual orientations, demonize entire races of putative “children of God,” or oppose expanding access to healthcare for families across the nation. Whatever God you are serving, it is certainly want for compassion. Additionally, your politicians and conservative media ritually engage in bad faith arguments in lieu of addressing to the many problems that plague our nation.

• You can no longer drone on about patriotism, or label some Americans as patriotic and others as unpatriotic when you have blindly supported and enabled a President who openly conspired with Russia to get elected, and who unflinchingly professed blind loyalty to the leader of the most hostile foreign power facing the US today. When confronted with credible evidence that the Russian autocrat put bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan, Trump even refused to hold Putin accountable. Seriously. And of course you can no longer call yourself patriotic when you fan the flames of the Great Lie of a stolen election that gave rise to the seditious assault on the Capitol on 1/6. Then 86% of the GOP Senate Caucus voted to acquit Trump on charges that he incited the insurrection. Let's face it: you only hide behind the flag when it provides you political cover.

• Most importantly, you can NEVER lecture Democrats and their supporters about accountability, or responsibility, or pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, or traffic in tired caricatures of crime-plagued inner cities and welfare moms. Why? Because the deficit always increases during Republican presidential administrations. Because Congress passed a tax act that will cost American taxpayers $1.5 trillion over the next decade. Because the GOP has shifted from being a party that believes in small government to a party that has ceased even trying to govern. Because the Republican Congressional Caucus fecklessly supported an administration that did virtually nothing about the pandemic, except to claim it was just another hoax, or to state that “one day it will just go away,” or to host super-spreader events in Tulsa and on the White House lawn. How many lives could have been saved by a serious and coordinated federal government response? No GOP, you are neither responsible nor accountable to anyone except the interests of yourselves, the wealthy, and corporate donors you serve.

But nowhere has Republican irresponsibility been more clearly on display then the 1/6 attack on the US Capitol, where the whole world saw a violent mob of conspiracy-driven Trump supporters wage a vicious terrorist assault on the most sacred hall of American democracy and civil parliamentary debate. It is clear that these insurrectionists were spurred on by the spread of the Great Lie that somehow a legitimately conducted election—one that was unsuccessfully challenged in 61 US court cases—had been stolen from their Dear Leader. The Great Lie was supported by the majority of the Republican House Caucus, a dozen US Senators, and a parallel media universe that has become as unhinged as the power-mad President Trump himself—who was visibly pleased as he watched the unrest unfold on live TV. But as the world watched in horror, the whole web of lies undergirding Trumpism was exposed, unraveled, and irrevocably shattered for all to see.

And yet, in the face of overwhelming evidence that Trump’s violent rhetoric led directly routinely insurrection, when the GOP finally had a chance to hold Trump accountable for his actions, 43 out of 50 Republican US senators punted. They abdicated their Constitutional duty to hold the President accountable for the most reprehensible violation of our democracy in our nation’s history. Although Minority leader Mitch McConnell was deeply troubled, and felt that Trump was directly responsible for the insurrection, he characteristically seized upon the wiggle room afforded by a technicality in order to weasel out of performing his Constitutional duty to prevent Trump from ever holding public office again. Like a grocery clerk telling a customer that quote that is not my department,” McConnell—who tried to thread the needle between retaining hi-dollar donors and appeasing Trump’s base—reasoned that the US criminal justice system that Trump just spent four years attacking and corrupting was the more appropriate forum in which to address the former President’s crimes. One can only hope. Finally, even though they amplified the lie that the November election was somehow stolen from the ex-president, it is safe to say that Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Fox News, Alex Jones and their ilk will never assume an iota of accountability or culpability for the nearly diabolical consequences of their words and actions.

• But the lack of Republican responsibility and accountability is most clearly embodied by President King Baby himself. True to form, despite issuing a vitriolic speech that explicitly and repeatedly called for the mob to “fight” for him, Trump claimed no responsibility for inciting the directly consequential insurrection for which he was impeached a second time. Predictably, Trump wrung his hands of this. Moreover, to hear him tell it, it is safe to s ay that Trump has never done anything wrong and never feels the need to atone for anything. Predictably, like many rich and powerful White American men—over the course of his life the silver spoon-fed Trump has seldom had to face the consequences of his actions.

• No GOP, you can no longer do any of these things anywhere that serious people frequent and the pursuit of truth is held to be sacrosanct. You’re probably just have been revoked. 1/6 and its aftermath shall go down in American history the pivotal moment in which your entire parallel universe of bullshit was finally exposed, and where the web of lies upon which it has been built was irretrievably refuted. It is now time to hold you accountable for your systematic, longstanding, and wholesale war on facts, truth, reason, rational discourse, and even reality itself. So no more false equivalencies, whataboutism, both-sides-ism, performative outrage, disingenuous spin, or just plain bald-faced outright lies. This is not simply a matter of opinion. The lies that you have perpetrated and propagated have had deadly consequences, be they for victims of hate crimes, the many people of color murdered by police forces, or the countless additional deaths due to coronavirus misinformation, or the death of three Capital police officers.

• But the GOP will continue to do all of these things and more because their very existence depends on it. Additionally, Fox News, OAN, Newsmax have way too much invested in their viewers for that to ever happen. The disinfo-meter must be cranked up to eleven, because the conservative media ecosystem has reached a point of no return. To call bullshit on their game now would me more than assuming responsibility: it would mean that the whole web of lies upon which the identities and worldviews of those who inhabit the parallel universe of conservative media would have to be debunked. The mass cult of Trumpism-which extends far beyond QAnon-would have to be painstakingly deprogrammed and deradicalized. The fascist White supremacist elements of Red America—including those in our government, military, and law enforcement—would somehow have to come back from the nether reaches of 8chan and Parler to the ostensibly objective, fact-based reality inhabited by the sane. A massive media literacy campaign and cultural inoculation against demonstrable bullshit would be needed, maybe even a wholesale cultural the programming would become necessary. In the meantime, the only way to combat the parallel universe of Trump’s GOP is by holding people accountable in the pursuit of truth and justice—by shedding light upon lies, crimes, misdeeds, and the pathological creation and dissemination of a hostile alternate reality that continues to threaten to tear our country apart.

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Looking For Anti-Trump Protests? Here Are Dozens To Choose From.

If you can’t make it to one of these events, there’s always the national general strike on Jan. 20. READ MORE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-trump-inauguration-protests_us_58750010e4b043ad97e5c58b?uyabgxkam75vcxr

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National General Strike

‘’Now that Donald Trump has been elected, we must quickly come to terms with how the existing American political system has brought us to this dangerous point in our history. Elections, as controlled by the major political parties, offer us merely a contest of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives. These contests mask the major parties’ underlying unity in a neoliberal economic establishment that serves the wealthy few at the expense of the impoverished many. Because it is precisely this underlying establishment that we must dismantle, we cannot expect conventional electoral politics to provide us with the social and economic transformation we urgently need. No, we cannot vote this establishment away. Our politics must escape the voting booth. We need a change of system, not change within the system. And we need it now. But if we cannot rely on elections for the change we need, what are we to do? We must combat the establishment using a different weapon. That weapon is the general strike. The logic of the general strike is simple. On January 20th, 2017, each and every one of us refuses to comply with whatever orders the economic establishment has given to us. We walk out of our homes, our places of work, and our schools, and we join our fellow citizens in the streets and online in a peaceful display of resistance and solidarity. In this way, we defy the establishment. As Mario Savio said during the 1960s student protests: "There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers and upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" Nothing less than a national general strike can break the operation of the establishment machine. And, beautifully, the strike creates as it destroys. For participating together in this shared activity empowers us to unite into one great organization — big enough to honor and preserve the differences that define us, and strong enough to obliterate the false boundaries and barriers that divide us. Nothing could be more pragmatic than that. Another world is possible. But we must fight for it together. Join the national general strike on Inauguration Day, Friday, January 20th, 2017. Your descendants will thank you.”https://www.facebook.com/events/1122791464440715/

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America’s Social Justice is Socialist and Communist Doctrine

“The New World Order under the UN will reduce everything to one common denominator. The system will be made up of a single currency, single centrally financed government, single tax system, single language, single political system, single world court of justice, single state religion…Each person will have a registered number, without which he will not be allowed to buy or sell; and there will be one universal world church. Anyone who refuses to take part in the universal system will have no right to exist.” –Assessment of the New World by Dr. Kurk E. Koch

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Formula for taking over America. Open the borders and fill the nation with Third world immigrants and refugee’s who have been educated at the helm of dictators, socialists, and through communist doctrines. People who will not mind a nation turning away from the principles of a Constitutional republic. Replace those in America and their morals, with modern societal norms. Replace the family, reduce the powerful middle class, and finally always blame those who hold to traditional morals and values.

“Under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner. . . .” [This is compassionate liberalism.] Fabian Socialist Bernard Shaw in his Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928.

Moreover, by the time America realizes it, there will a new flood of people who don’t mind socialism nor the reduction of the constitution. They will live under the modern America, which will be globalist, modernist, and a new law will rule the land. That new law is that there will be no law. There is no sin. As it has been said, “the whole of the law is this ‘do what thou wilt’***!”

*** This is the Law of Thelema. Thelema is a religion based on a philosophical law of the same name, adopted as a central tenet by some religious organizations. The law of Thelema is “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” The law of Thelema was developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley

The power to this change will be the push for “social justice”! As with communist and socialist takeovers before us, we will promise them equality and justice for all. But when it is finished they will neither have equality nor justice, but we will have power over them to make them do what we want.

We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (February 17, 1950, as he testified before the US Senate). Paul Warburg

Under the guise of the mantra “social justice”, which is another term for socialism or communism; it promises action to get results. Like the societal norms of communism or socialism, the real truth is that it is anything but just, fair, or normal. At the expense of others, we find that people are given handouts they never worked for. It is here we find that generation of Americans who fooled by liberal socialism fall in line with modern doctrines of social justice norms. In addition, even if we look at Communism we find that social justice is a term they don’t have. Both systems are prosecutorial and devoid of individual freedoms, especially freedom of religion.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. — Ayn Rand

America’s Social Justice is Socialist and Communist Doctrine

It is a word that we hear a lot, Justice. Today we have riots, protests, and Americans of all sorts crying for “Justice.” The words socialist, communist, and revolutionary are not dangerous anymore. To these impish and pathetic self styled Millennials and the generation of the Obama era, it is okay to herald your cry for justice. It is as if El Che, or more commonly known Ernesto Che Guevara were their teacher. “El Che” was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who also dabbled as a physician, writer, and diplomat. But his most inspiring feature was that of a military theorist and a guerrilla leader. He was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution. You ever hear of Castro? Well “El Che” was there.

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” ― Ernesto Che Guevara

Guevara pushed for social justice by the barrel of the gun and the point of the pen. However, his project in Cuba led the tiny nation into one of the longest periods of communism the small island nation has seen. Today after Castro has gone, the island is still in the handhold of communism which uses the mantra of socialism like a hammer and a sickle to tell the oppressed and poor of Cuba that everything is okay.

It is here that the word being bantered around “Social justice” was used by Franklin Roosevelt.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man. –Franklin Roosevelt

In the new deal, the idea was to stave off the harm of the great depression. But in fact, the fireside chats which did much to sell the idea of the path of “Social Injustice” failed to solve the real problem of the great depression. In fact the New Deal of Roosevelt did much to hurt those who needed the most help. This was the poor. Today after decades of Roosevelt’s new deal by the Democrats we still find the communities of America full of poor, starving, blacks, latinos, and others living in crime ridden housing projects where like in Chicago murder rates have skyrocketed. While out of FDR’s new deal came Social Security, today the U.S. government owes Social Security $2.7 trillion dollars, which has never been paid back. In order to pay out Social Security to all who require it they must borrow the money to pay rightful Social Security benefactors the money. Social Security is only guaranteed to pay our 100% benefits until 2033. However, the overall problem of FDR’s New deal was clear.

Mounting evidence, however, makes clear that poor people were principal victims of the New Deal. The evidence has been developed by dozens of economists — including two Nobel Prize winners — at Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, the University of California (Berkeley) and University of Chicago, among other universities.-Cato Institute

Further, the Cato Institute quoted above describes that the New Deal of Roosevelt was financed “by tripling federal taxes from $1.6 billion in 1933 to $5.3 billion in 1940. Excise taxes, personal income taxes, inheritance taxes, corporate income taxes, holding company taxes and so-called “excess profits” taxes all went up.” At a time when employment was down, the great depression in throes upon the American population, taxes went up. Of course, the mantra was “Social injustice” and the fireside chats convinced that all this would be worth it. Yet as the information is known today the “New Deal revenue were excise taxes levied on alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, matches, candy, chewing gum, margarine, fruit juice, soft drinks, cars, tires (including tires on wheelchairs), telephone calls, movie tickets, playing cards, electricity, radios — these and many other everyday things were subject to New Deal excise taxes.”

“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?” H.G. Wells The New World Order 1939

All this money to finance the New Deal was unequivocally financed through taxes both on Federal Income taxes and on everyday items that Americans purchased. According to the Cato Institute report this meant that the New Deal was financed by the “middle class and poor people”. In addition in order to hear “FDR’s fireside chats you had to pay FDR excise taxes for radio and electricity”, what a deal! So as a result, according to a Treasury Department report the excise taxes “Often fell disproportionately on the less affluent”. There were other problems with FDR’s New Deal as well like the loss of jobs. To read more go to the Cato Institute link above in the article.

The Huffington Post pushed the thought and danger of a Trump Presidency and in an article gave ideas on how to make a difference. Right away the HP saw Trump as a danger to the leftwing social justice machine of the Democrats. Many of the leftwing pushed the anti-Trump hype because they knew the way to burn a generation into a fire of rebellion was to herald “social injustice”. We have a right, we live in America, how dare you push your doctrine on us was the underpinning of the rebellion. Pushed by social feeds, Instagram, and twitter, among others; the generation of spoiled brats and socialists pushed it to the limits.

Many are fearful of what the next four years under a Trump presidency will entail, especially members of marginalized communities: women, Muslims, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other minority groups. Trump’s actions since securing the presidency do not provide much comfort.

For a generation of millennials and other generational youngsters and young adults who were raised during the eight years of Obama, the main point of the internet was communication among peers. It was here that Obama pushed the concepts of socialism and justice which together infected a spoiled young crowd of Americans to seek this brand of justice remade from the former communist and social foundations of Castro, Guevara, Stalin, Lenin, and other regimes.

If you peruse the world of the so-called “millenial” generation today, be it social media, college campuses, popular culture, you will quickly discover a new phenomenon that has taken the 18 to 35 year old demographic by storm. I refer to the “social justice warrior”…or perhaps we should just call them “socialist justice warriors” as their economic outlook is largely defined by global Communism.

Pope Francis was quoted in the Italian newspaper, Repubblica; which is the supreme authority of the Catholic church. In the article the Pope equated Christianity with Communism. Pope Francis is known for his Marxist ideologies.

“It is the communists, in all cases, that think like Christians. Christ has spoken of a society where the poor, the weak and the excluded are those who make the decisions. Not the demagogues, or the barbarians, but rather the people and the poor that have faith in God or not that we have to help obtain equality and liberty.”

It does not matter to the Pope that Communist China cracks down on the very Christians and Christianity he heralds as the communists being more like. In North Korea, which is another Socialist and communist state we know to be a Christian means death. In Castro’s cuba we also know of persecution, imprisonment, and death for Christians there under Cuban socialist and communist agendas. Make no mistake if Communism is like Christianity then why is Communism anti-God?

Today the Democrats and many of those in America are Socialists. But they share with like minded modern Communists who use the term “Social Justice warriors”. People who seek justice for every liberal cause that they can find. Moving from one protest to another these warriors have no problem finding an excuse or a cause to stand up for. Today Muslims protest Trumps immigration policies that are aimed at stopping threats by Muslims to the US. However these Muslims don’t see this at all. Never mind that in the world today we have Muslim pushed violence and jihad from Indonesia, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Iraq just to name a few. Then you have terrorist plots and bombings and killings by Muslim jihadists that have occurred globally, but also in the UK, Germany, France, Holland, and in America. Yet it seems that these protesting Muslims have not one clue as to why we want to find a way to stop Muslim jihadists from entering.

In addition, we have George Soros money funding over fifty organizations that are pushing the opposition to Donald Trumps agenda. We had a Women’s movement and a march which featured speakers that were off the wall crazy like Donna Hylton who was a former prison inmate for committing murder. She described how she tortured a man by crushing his testicles and then ramming a rod all the way up his rectum. She killed him and in the speech there was no remorse, just a speech saying “now I am here to protect you”! Then there was Madonna in all her anger and vitriol which reminded me of why this women is pure breed evil! The women’s march was covered by the liberal press and was a march to push Planned Parent hood and all kinds of rights. But in fact it was a march by women who supported Hillary and were mad as hell that she lost. The real women’s march was a Pro-life rally by women who were the real women of the marches in DC this year. Yet the liberal media did not want to cover this one. The Pro-life women were dropped by the other liberal women’s protest march backed by Planned Parenthood and Soros backed organizations.

Now with more policies of Trump being put into action, we have more planned action of opposition by people who are campaigning for “Social justice”. They will get their justice even if they have to burn down everything around them. Soros also will watch, after all he has said that he doesn’t consider the moral side of what he does. Those pushing these opposition groups know very well the spoiled nature of America and those young adults raised at the helm of Obama and the tech boom. These only know the information that comes through their Instagram, twitter feed, facebook page, or other social engineering tech device or application. In short, this is a spoiled, rich, tech savy, morally devoid, and socialist leaning generation.

Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Hyek was an Austrian and British economist who defended “classical liberalism”, yet when speaking on the issues of “Social Justice” he warned how it has done much to destroy the judicial safeguards of personal individual freedoms. He recognized the dangers and in this we find that this weapon is used today by George Soros and others in their attempts to bring down America and other nations whose ideals they are in opposition to.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.” -Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Hyek

Today it is clear that the society of people we have today, not only in America but worldwide are of the same caliber of modern ill advised “Social justice” warriors who would embrace socialism, communism, or any other ideology. They would have justice, so they say for all people. While the mantra of socialism and communism is to a form of government that would help all people and put them all on the same footing we know these are lies. We know of the Communists in China and how their justice works, we know of Kim Jong Un and his governments justice works, and we have seen how socialism worked in Russia. Then closer to home we saw how Castro’s version kept him rich and in power along with his friends while the rest of Cuba lived in poverty.

Today those heralding the “social justice” mantra use it to sell their brand of rioting and opposition to the policies of anyone they don’t like. Right now Trump is following what he said he would do. Trump today is pushing policies to stop the danger to America by those who would cross our borders freely or come in as a refugee with ulterior motives. Obama allowed open ended borders, refugees that were Muslim while shutting out Christian refugees from Syria, and much more. We saw the removal of traditional marriage under Obama plus the total remake of the military to a Gay acceptance, transgender, and anything goes agenda. We also saw a more globalist agenda, UN oriented, anti-Israel, and an E.U. policy ridden America under Obama.

Finally, let me add that today as we watch Donald Trump and those who are helping him turn back some Obama Policies; the opposition is fierce. Trump is taking the heat, while the Republicans are standing off letting him take it. I have never seen such a gutless bunch of Republicans like John McCain and others, including Paul Ryan who will not admit that the Policies of Obama were wrong for this country. Those who elected Trump were independent, democrat, and republican. He won in spite of the Democrats and the Republicans.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of “liberalism” they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Norman Thomas, for many years U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate.

So as Kellye Conway said, “Get used to it, there is much more to come”! This means more change!

“Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property (that’s you and your children) in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a charge back for our fiat paper currency.

Every American will be forced to register or suffer being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattels (property) and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading (Birth Certificate) to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, secured by their pledges.

They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debts to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges.

This will inevitably reap us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud, which we will call “Social Insurance”. Without realizing it, every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and we will employ the high office (presidency) of our dummy corporation (USA) to foment this plan against America.” – Colonel Edward Mandell House is attributed (but unverified) with giving a very detailed outline of the plans to be implemented to enslave the American people. He stated, in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson (President 1913 – 1921)

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No let-up in anger in U.S. campaigns after spate of violence

WASHINGTON – Anger over the weekend massacre of 11 people at a Pennsylvania synagogue spilled onto the U.S. campaign trail with just over a week to go before elections that will determine control of Congress.

Campaign workers gather at a Democratic coordinated campaign office to listen to U.S. Democratic congressional Chris Pappas and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S., October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The shooting, which prosecutors said was a hate crime carried out by a gunman who said he wanted to kill Jewish people, followed a wave of more than a dozen package bombs that were sent to prominent critics of President Donald Trump last week, and was widely seen as showing a rising level of rage and violence in U.S. politics.

While elected leaders from both parties voiced sympathy for the victims and denounced violence, the incidents did little to cool the tone of campaigns that will determine whether Trump’s Republican Party keeps control of both houses of Congress in the Nov. 6 elections.

Democrats would need a net gain of 23 seats in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate to take majorities that would allow them to more effectively oppose Trump’s agenda. Nonpartisan forecasters and opinion polls generally give them a good chance of winning the House, with Republicans widely expected to keep control of the Senate.

Following the pattern of mass shootings that have become a recurrent feature over American life over the past few years, Saturday’s massacre in Pittsburgh inflamed the nation’s long-running debate on gun rights, with Trump suggesting that armed guards could have prevented the killing.

“No, Mr. President, the synagogue is not at fault for being insufficiently armed,” Scott Wallace, a Democrat running for Congress in eastern Pennsylvania, said in a weekend statement. “To say that the solution to gun violence is more guns, is like saying that the solution to lung cancer is more cigarettes.”

U.S. Representative Keith Rothfus, a western Pennsylvania Republican, stayed away from the gun rights issue while condemning the prejudice that allegedly motivated the attack.

“You look at what this particular shooter was doing, the vile comments that he had put out there on social media, the anti-Semitic hatred that he was spewing forth,” Rothfus said in a Monday interview on Fox News. “Somebody was aware of the animus.”

Reactions to mass shootings often divide along roughly party lines. Broadly, Democrats favor more controls on gun ownership as a way of reducing gun violence, while Republicans push back against efforts to introduce tighter gun controls, noting that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right to bear arms.

Liberal protesters who crashed a Tennessee rally on Sunday for Republican U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn’s Senate campaign drew her criticism for repeatedly trying to shout her down, including during a moment of silence intended to remember those killed at the synagogue.

“It is a sad day when Phil Bredesen’s party will go as far as interrupting a moment of silence for the victims of Pittsburgh in order to protest,” Blackburn said on Twitter, referring to her Democratic rival, a former governor of the state. “There is no excuse to choose confrontation, ambush, attack or any form of violence to deal with differences of opinion.”

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The violence did not bring a return to civility, with Trump weighing in on Monday on the Florida governor’s race, where he has endorsed former U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis over Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

In a tweet, Trump called Gillum “a thief” and said Tallahassee is “one of the most corrupt cities in the Country.” Florida media have reported that the FBI is investigating Tallahassee’s government. Gillum has said he is not the probe’s target. FBI officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Gillum said on Monday said the name-calling is leading to violence.

“That kind of irresponsible language is now leading to loss of life,” Gillum told reporters, calling it “dangerous rhetoric.”

Full Reuters election coverage: here

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For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.Blessed land For those who entered the United States after the election of Trump, the experience has been more extreme yet. Dieuliphète Derphin, a young man who had made the trip in dating back by Brazil, was arrived just before his investiture. “I have been surprised to make me stop and go six days in detention center. I was wondering: “But why are they the Blacks of a inhuman manner? Why do I not have the right to a toothbrush? How is it that I do not have access to the water? Why are they doing that? Is it because we are blacks?” After this, I no longer wanted to remain in the United States. Not even a second. And it is thus that I had the idea of making me in Canada!” He had crossed the border in August, after only eight months in the United States. Many in the Assembly have had, as Agathe Saint-Preux, the printing of “breathe a different air” upon their arrival in Quebec. And Mania Yanica Quetant has raised a storm of applause by saying about Trump : “I hope that it will never come here, because the land in Canada is a blessed land.” And yet, it did not take them long to understand – past the relief to have escaped the expeditious measures of trump – that the quest for security and stability was far from being completed. A lot of Haitians are come to Canada because they had heard that the Trudeau Government the would welcome with open arms. They knew his famous tweet, sent the day where, in America, a wave of protest was high against the decree of trump prohibiting the entry of the United States to nationals of seven Muslim-majority country: “Those who are fleeing persecution, terror and war, know that Canada will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.” One of the men present has talked about this, and similar messages which had swept the North, conveyed on all the waves, and that he had taken for “a sign of divine. God showed the path, and said: “Come to Canada.”” Unfortunately, they have discovered that the situation was much more complex than expected. During the last month, the Canadian authorities have discouraged the immigrants from the United States – in particular the Haitians – to attempt the crossing of the border, insisting on the fact that, in spite of the Tweets warm and full of good intentions, the policy of immigration to Canada was restrictive and that hundreds of Haitians had been expelled since the month of January. According to Marjorie Villefranche, Director of the House of Haiti, on 60 Haitians who, today, spend the border daily, 50% will get the status of refugees, 25% a alternative status, and 25% are likely to be deported. In addition, since 2004, Canada and the United States are part of the Safe Third Country argument (“The Safe Third Country Agreement”), which stipulates that the asylum seekers “must claim the protection granted to refugees in the first safe country in which they penetrate”. Since the United States is one of these safe countries, Haitians who would find, but who would travel to a post-Canadian border to formulate a request for asylum, would very likely be returned. On the other hand, if they appear as if by magic in Canada, their request can be processed. This is the reason for which the Haitians, as well as thousands of other immigrants fleeing the increasing hostility of the United States, have crossed the border on foot, with the risks that we know. As recalled Mania Yanica Quetant, to have a chance to obtain a legal status in Canada, “You must break the law – you do not want to do it, it you dislike but you must do this”. Between the meshes of the Net A woman in the Assembly held to say to us that before crossing, she had tried to enter legally by a border post. As it had been repressed, the information had been brought to its folder. And because of this, it is the most fragile of the group from a legal point of view: “Because I have been expelled, I can not get a permit to work”, we she said. Another woman has shaken the head: “This is what the whole world, here is trying to avoid.” Canada has not been a model of anti-racism in the face of this wave of immigration. The White supremacists have expressed to the border posts of Lacolle and have deployed a banner anti-immigration to the outside of the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, transformed for the occasion in shelter for the refugees to trump. And to this day the Haitians have not experienced the momentum of popular generosity which have been entitled the Syrian refugees. However, many Montrealers are mobilized to help the Haitians, sometimes with an incredible heat. “We want them to feel right at home here,” said Marjorie Villefranche in speaking of the place where we were. The House of Haiti has opened its doors in 1972, when the previous wave of migration during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorships. Last year, after dozens of years past in the heart of the life of Haiti to Montreal, she moved – and has celebrated the event – in a modern building and Bright from the Quarter of Saint-Michel. Behind Large floor to ceiling windows, overlooking the street, the members of the community have their coffee to meet and chat, and Haitian art, if full of vitality, adorns all the walls. This place is arrived just in time to cope with the Storm Trump. As was the case after the earthquake of 2010, teams of volunteers help today newcomers to fill out their forms of temporary work permits. The members of the staff shall, on their side, to enroll children in school, to provide them with a uniform and pretty workbooks. French courses are offered to adults, and campaigns of collections of clothing, furniture and provisions in any kind are organized. There is mainly the presence of other Haitians who, for many, benefit, in Montreal, for decades, a comfortable life and prosperous. A refugee from Trump we explained: “They tell us: “Do not be afraid. Look, the sun shines for us today. So tomorrow, it will shine for you too.”” Philogene Gerda, a young mother of three children who has spent fifteen days at the Olympic Stadium, has said that in the House “It feels like home, in particular in the space reserved for the women, the Friday night, when you can come with his children”. Finally, there is the action policy conducted by the movement of the rights of immigrants in order to push the Trudeau government to show to the height of its beautiful formulas in favor of refugees. The heated trailers at the border are a help, but this is not enough. Thousands of Canadians have claimed by mail that put an end to the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States. Other campaigns are carried out so that the processing of asylum applications can be accelerated, and that migrants are not for years, victims of a legal vacuum. Has the House of Haiti, the feeling which dominates, c is the determination. After refitting the entire length of the Americas to find here a bit of tranquility, they have, literally, more place where to go, no more leak possible toward the north. As Dieuliphète Derphin entrusted me with: “We arrived. It is the end of the road. We have to live here. And be protected here. That is all. I no longer want to recross this hell.” For Marjorie Villefranche, this is all the more necessary since the Department of Homeland Security announced, this Monday, 20 November, that 50,000 Haitians were now in stay on the territory of the United States. “We expect a lot of the world”, she told me. But she hoped that those who plan to try a crossing on foot will benefit of twenty months that remain to avoid winter and its dangers: “This is not a good idea to cross in winter. It is very hard. Be that as it may, we are willing to welcome: the trailers down there, and we here in the House of Haiti.” Of course, all Haitians faced with the loss of the protection that their ensured their status do not choose the Canadian option. There had been fears – given the threats of John Kelly in May the announcement of 20 November would put the people at the foot of the wall as soon as the month of January.

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Trump Condemned Racism As ‘Evil.’ Here Are 19 Times He Embraced It.

It’s been over a year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and he’s spent much of that time reaffirming the legacy of racism upon which he built both his campaign and his real estate business.

From taco bowls and travel bans to “birtherism” and scorn about Black Lives Matter, HuffPost has kept running lists during and after the election detailing examples of Trump’s racism dating as far back as the 1970s. We’ll continue to document those incidents here as they happen.

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Trump speaks to the press about protests in Charlottesville at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Aug. 12, 2017.

He said immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries”

In a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office in January 2018, Trump argued against restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti and African nations, describing them as “shithole countries,” sources told The Washington Post and NBC News.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president reportedly said. “We should have more people from places like Norway.”

“Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,” White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah told CBS News in a statement later that day.

He took more than 48 hours to denounce the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia

Trump came under fire in August for his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one counter-protester dead.

The day of the rally, Trump said he condemned the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” without specifically mentioning the white supremacists who organized the rally and the one who ran over a woman with his car.

“The president’s remarks were morally frustrating and disappointing,” former NAACP president Cornell Brooks said at the time. “While it is good that he says he wants to be a president for all the people and he wants to make America great for all of the people, let us know this: Throughout his remarks he refused to” call out white supremacists by name.

Then, more than 48 hours after the rally, after dozens of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and even the maker of the torches used at the rally firmly denounced the white supremacists by name, Trump finally issued a firmer condemnation.

“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” he said following the immense public pressure.

Some of his top advisers and Cabinet picks have histories of prejudice

Since winning the election, Trump has picked top advisers and cabinet officials whose careers are checkered by accusations of racially biased behavior.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right” ― a euphemism that describes a loose coalition of white supremacists and aligned groups. Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart increased its accommodation of openly racist and anti-Semitic writing, capitalizing on the rise of white nationalism prompted by Trump’s campaign.

Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn ― who worked as Trump’s national security adviser until resigning in February amid revelations that he discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador ― has drawn scrutiny for anti-Muslim comments he has made over the years. In February, Flynn tweeted that “fear of Muslims is rational.” Over the summer, he said that there is a “diseased component inside the Islamic world” that is like a “cancer.” Flynn has defended Trump’s past proposal of banning Muslim immigration and suggested he would be open to reviving torture techniques like waterboarding.

In addition, Trump has nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States. The Senate refused to confirm Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 amid accusations that he’d made racially insensitive comments, including that the only reason he hadn’t joined the Ku Klux Klan was because members of the extremist group smoked marijuana. Civil rights groups condemned Trump’s nomination of Sessions, while leading white nationalists celebrated it.

And Steve Mnuchin, who Trump tapped to serve as Treasury secretary, faces allegations of profiting from racial discrimination. As a hedge fund manager, Mnuchin purchased a troubled mortgage bank, sped up its foreclosure rate and sold it for a killing several years later. Along the way, Mnuchin’s bank came under fire from housing rights groups for racist practices like lending to very few people of color and maintaining foreclosed-upon properties in neighborhoods that were predominantly black and brown less than in white neighborhoods.

He denied responsibility for the racist incidents that followed his election

While the hate speech and racist violence emboldened by his campaign only escalated after his win, Trump downplayed the incidents and half-heartedly denounced them.

There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the election, a report released last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. Those attacks include vandals drawing swastikas on a synagogue, schools, cars and driveways; an assailant beating a gay man while saying the “president says we can kill all you faggots now”; and children telling their black classmates to sit in the back of the school bus.

In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the president-elect’s name or his campaign slogans.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Anti-Defamation League have also tracked significant growth in racist and bigoted attacks.

“We’ve seen a great deal of really troubling stuff in the last week, a spike in harassment, a spike in vandalism, physical assaults. Something is happening that was not happening before,” ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt told The New Yorker.

Despite those findings, Trump insisted on CBS’ “60 Minutes” the Sunday after his election that there had only been “a very small amount” of racist incidents.

“I am so saddened to hear that,” Trump said when asked about the racist incidents. “And I say, ‘Stop it.’ If it helps, I will say this, and I will say right to the camera: ‘Stop it.’”

He also accused the media of overstating the attacks.

“I think it’s built up by the press because, frankly, they’ll take every single little incident that they can find in this country, which could’ve been there before ― if I weren’t even around doing this ― and they’ll make it into an event, because that’s the way the press is,” he said.

Trump’s denouncement of hate-fueled violence was relatively mild, especially compared to the zeal with which he routinely attacks other targets ― like, say, “Saturday Night Live,” or the cast of “Hamilton,” who addressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence at a recent performance in New York that Pence attended.

“[Trump] hits the news media when he thinks there’s a story that’s unfair, he tweets when he is outraged about something in the media,” CNN host Wolf Blitzer said in November 2016, after Trump criticized the cast of “Hamilton” for singling out Pence, whom the audience also booed. “But he doesn’t seem to go out of the way to express his outrage over people hailing him with Nazi salutes.”

He launched a travel ban targeting Muslims

In an executive order since blocked by the courts, Trump restricted Syrian refugees and travel by immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.

While White House press secretary Sean Spicer later insisted that it was “not a Muslim ban,” Trump said the day he signed it that he would prioritize helping Syrian Christians and made an exception for admitting refugees who are religious minorities in those countries.

Trump has characterized people from that region of the world as being “terror-prone,” despite there having been zero fatal terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 1975 by immigrants from the seven targeted countries:��Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

A blanket ban on travel from those countries and anti-Muslim bigotry in general is “essentially an extension of the fear and vilification of not only Muslims but everyone perceived to be Muslim that’s been taking place for centuries,” Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit who also works with the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California, Berkeley, explained to Vox.

He attacked Muslim Gold Star parents

Trump’s retaliation against the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army officer who died while serving in the Iraq War was a low point in a campaign full of hateful rhetoric.

Khizr Khan, the father of the late Army Captain Humayun Khan, spoke out against Trump’s bigoted rhetoric and disregard for civil liberties at the Democratic National Convention on July 28. It became the most memorable moment of the convention.

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Khizr Khan, a Goldstar father, speaks on Feb. 2 about Trump issuing an executive order to ban travelers from seven countries.

“Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution?” Khan asked Trump before pulling a copy of the document from his jacket pocket and holding it up. “I will gladly lend you my copy.”

Khan’s wife, Ghazala, who wears a head scarf, stood at his side during the speech but did not speak.

In response to the devastating speech, Trump seized on Ghazala Khan’s silence to imply that she was forbidden from speaking due to the couple’s Islamic faith.

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News that first appeared on July 30.

Ghazala Khan explained in an op-ed in The Washington Post the following day that she could not speak because of her grief.

“Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could?” she wrote. “Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?”

He claimed a judge was biased because “he’s a Mexican”

In May 2016, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action suit against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.

“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”

Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. As a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.

Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.

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Trump delivers a statement in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14, 2017.

“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said, though he clarified that he still endorsed Trump

The comments against Curiel didn’t sit well with the American public either. According to a��YouGov poll released in June 2016, 51 percent of those surveyed agreed that Trump’s comments were not only wrong, but also racist. Fifty-seven percent of Americans said Trump was wrong to complain against the judge, while just 20 percent said he was right to do so.

When asked whether he would trust a Muslim judge in light of his proposed restrictions on Muslim immigration, Trump suggested that such a judge might not be fair to him either.

The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people

When Trump was serving as the president of his family’s real estate company, the Trump Management Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in the Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island boroughs of New York City.

The lawsuit charged that the company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates than it did to white candidates, and that the company lied to black applicants about apartments not being available. Trump called those accusations “absolutely ridiculous” and sued the Justice Department for $100 million in damages for defamation.

Without admitting wrongdoing, the Trump Management Corporation settled the original lawsuit two years later and promised not to discriminate against black people, Puerto Ricans or other minorities. Trump also agreed to send weekly vacancy lists for his 15,000 apartments to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and to allow the NYUL to present qualified applicants for vacancies in certain Trump properties.

Just three years after that, the Justice Department sued the Trump Management Corporation again for allegedly discriminating against black applicants by telling them apartments weren’t available.

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Black Lives Matter protestors stand in a fog of tear gas during clashes at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017.

In fact, discrimination against black people has been a pattern throughout Trump’s career

Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine.

The first-person account of at least one black Trump casino employee in Atlantic City suggests the racist practices were consistent with Trump’s personal behavior toward black workers.

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, told The New Yorker for a 2015 article. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.”

Trump allegedly disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms, according to a 1991 book by John O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.

“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” O’Donnell recalled Trump saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

“I think the guy is lazy,” Trump said of a black employee, according to O’Donnell. “And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Trump told an interviewer in 1997 that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true,” but in 1999 accused O’Donnell of having fabricated the quotes.

Trump has also faced charges of reneging on commitments to hire black people. In 1996, 20 African-Americans in Indiana sued Trump for failing to honor a promise to hire mostly minority workers for a riverboat casino on Lake Michigan.

He refused to immediately condemn the white supremacists who advocated for him

Trump’s response to the Charlottesville chaos wasn’t the first time he appeared hesitant to condemn white supremacists.

Three times in a row on Feb. 28, 2016, Trump sidestepped opportunities to renounce white nationalist and former KKK leader David Duke, who’d recently told his radio audience that voting for any candidate other than Trump would be “treason to your heritage.”

When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he would condemn Duke and say he didn’t want a vote from him or any other white supremacists, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched.

By Feb. 29, Trump was saying that in fact he did disavow Duke, and that the only reason he didn’t do so on CNN was because of a “lousy earpiece.” Video of the exchange, however, shows Trump responding quickly to Tapper’s questions with no apparent difficulty in hearing.

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It’s preposterous to think that Trump didn’t know about white supremacist groups or their sometimes violent support of him. Reports of neo-Nazi groups rallying around Trump go back as far as August 2015.

His white supremacist fan club includes The Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi news site; Richard Spencer, director of the National Policy Institute, which aims to promote the “heritage, identity, and future of European people”; Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, a Virginia-based white nationalist magazine; Michael Hill, head of the League of the South, an Alabama-based white supremacist secessionist group; and Brad Griffin, a member of Hill’s League of the South and author of the popular white supremacist blog Hunter Wallace.

A leader of the Virginia KKK who backed Trump told a local TV reporter in May, “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in.”

Later that month, the Trump campaign announced that one of its California primary delegates was William Johnson, chair of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. The Trump campaign subsequently said his inclusion was a mistake, and Johnson withdrew his name at their request.

After the election, Spencer’s National Policy Institute held a celebratory gathering in Washington, D.C. A video shows many of the white nationalists assembled there doing the Nazi salute after Spencer declared, “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”

He questioned whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States

Long before calling Mexican immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” Trump was a leading proponent of “birtherism,” the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is thus an illegitimate president. Trump claimed in 2011 to have sent people to Hawaii to investigate whether Obama was really born there. He insisted at the time that the researchers “cannot believe what they are finding.”

Obama ultimately got the better of Trump, releasing his long-form birth certificate and relentlessly mocking the real estate mogul about it at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that year.

But Trump continued to insinuate that the president was not born in the country.

“I don’t know where he was born,” Trump said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2015. (Again, for the record: Obama was born in Hawaii.)

In September, under pressure to clarify his position, Trump finally acknowledged that Obama was indeed born in the United States. But he falsely tried to blame Hillary Clinton for starting the rumors ― and tried to take credit for settling them himself with his racist pressure campaign.

“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Trump said. “I finished it.”

He treats racial groups as monoliths

Like many racial instigators, Trump often answers accusations of bigotry by loudly protesting that he actually loves the group in question. But that’s just as uncomfortable to hear, because he’s still treating all the members of the group ― all the individual human beings ― as essentially the same and interchangeable. Language is telling, here: Virtually every time Trump mentions a minority group, he uses the definite article the, as in “the Hispanics,” “the Muslims” and “the blacks.”

The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump. Donald Trump, July 2015

In that sense, Trump’s defensive explanations are of a piece with his slander of minorities. Both rely on essentializing racial and ethnic groups, blurring them into simple, monolithic entities, instead of acknowledging that there’s as much variety among Muslims and Latinos and black people as there is among white people.

How did Trump respond to the outrage last year that followed his characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists?

“I’ll take jobs back from China, I’ll take jobs back from Japan,” Trump said during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in July 2015. “The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump.”

How did Trump respond to critics of his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.?

“I’m doing good for the Muslims,” Trump told CNN last December. “Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with me. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic.’”

Not long before he called for a blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, Trump was proclaiming his affection for “the Muslims,” disagreeing with rival candidate Ben Carson’s claim in September 2015 that being a Muslim should disqualify someone from running for president.

“I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people,” Trump said then, insisting that he would be willing to name a Muslim to his presidential cabinet.

How did Trump respond to the people who called him out for funding an investigation into whether Obama was born in the United States?

“I have a great relationship with the blacks,” Trump said in April 2011. “I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.”

Even when Trump has dropped the definite article “the,” his attempts at praising minority groups he has previously slandered have been offensive.

Look no further than the infamous Cinco de Mayo taco bowl tweet:

Former Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) offered a good summary of everything that was wrong with Trump’s comment.

“It’s like eating a watermelon and saying ‘I love African-Americans,’” Bush quipped.

In an apparent attempt to win favor with black and Latino voters in the final months of the campaign, Trump fell back on his penchant for stereotyping. At the first presidential debate in September, Trump claimed African-Americans and Latinos in cities were “living in hell” due to the violence and poverty in their neighborhoods. The previous month, speaking to an audience of white people, Trump asked “what the hell do [black voters] have to lose” by voting for him.

Trump’s treatment of longtime White House correspondent April Ryan during a February press conference left many wondering if Trump assumes all black people are friends with one another.

When Ryan, a black reporter for the American Urban Radio Networks, asked Trump if he would hold meetings with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to help craft his urban development policy, he asked her to handle the introduction.

“Well, I would. I’ll tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting?” Trump asked. “Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?”

“No, I’m just a reporter,” Ryan replied.

He trashed Native Americans, too

In 1993, Trump wanted to open a casino in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that would compete with one owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, a local Native American tribe. He told the House subcommittee on Native American Affairs that the Pequots “don’t look like Indians to me… They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”

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In the 1980s, Donald Trump was much younger, but just as racist as he is now.

Trump then elaborated on those remarks, which were unearthed last year in the Hartford Courant, by claiming ― with no evidence ― that the mafia had infiltrated Native American casinos.

He also had no problem using a Native American slur to attack his political rivals.

Just days after proclaiming November as Native American Heritage Month, Trump went after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has identified as part Native American, with a nickname he’s used against her before: “Pocahontas.”

Invoking Pocahontas, an Algonquin woman associated with an English colony in Virginia, to lodge an attack is unacceptable, Indian Country columnist Ruth Hopkins tweeted.

“Pocahontas was prepubescent girl held hostage & raped by European invaders,” she tweeted after Trump’s remarks earlier this month. “Stop mocking her & Native women.”

Later in November, Trump came under fire for using the slur at an event honoring Native Americans.

“You were here long before any of us were here,” Trump told the honored Native American code talkers who served during World War II. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”

Several Democrat lawmakers denounced Trump’s language, and Jefferson Keel, president of The National Congress of American Indians, said Trump’s use of the name as an insult was a distraction from the honorees.

“We regret that the President’s use of the name Pocahontas as a slur to insult a political adversary is overshadowing the true purpose of today’s White House ceremony,” he said in a statement that day.

He encouraged the mob anger that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park Five

In 1989, Trump took out full-page ads in four New York City-area newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty in New York and the expansion of police authority in response to the infamous case of a woman who was beaten and raped while jogging in Manhattan’s Central Park.

“They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” Trump wrote, referring to the Central Park attackers and other violent criminals. “I want to hate these murderers and I always will.”

The public outrage over the Central Park jogger rape, at a time when the city was struggling with high crime, led to the wrongful conviction of five teenagers of color known as the Central Park Five.

The men’s convictions were overturned in 2002, after they’d already spent years in prison, when DNA evidence showed they did not commit the crime. Today, their case is considered a cautionary tale about a politicized criminal justice process.

Trump, however, still thinks the men are guilty.

He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester

At a November 2015 campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he has already fallen to the ground.

The following day, Trump implied that the attackers were justified.

“Maybe [the protester] should have been roughed up,” he mused. “It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

Trump’s dismissive attitude toward the protester is part of a larger, troubling pattern of instigating violence toward protesters at campaign events, where people of color have attracted especially vicious hostility.

Trump has also indicated he believes the entire Black Lives Matter movement lacks legitimate policy grievances. He alluded to these views in an interview with The New York Times Magazine where he described Ferguson, Missouri, as one of the most dangerous places in America. The small St. Louis suburb is not even in the top 20 highest-crime municipalities in the country.

He called supporters who beat up a homeless Latino man “passionate”

Trump’s racial incitement has already inspired hate crimes. Two brothers arrested in Boston in August 2015 for beating up a homeless Latino man cited Trump’s anti-immigrant message when explaining why they did it.

“Donald Trump was right ― all these illegals need to be deported,” one of the men reportedly told police officers.

Trump did not even bother to distance himself from them. Instead, he suggested that the men were well-intentioned and had simply gotten carried away.

“I will say that people who are following me are very passionate,” Trump said. “They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”

He stereotyped Jews and shared an anti-Semitic image created by white supremacists

When Trump addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition last December, he tried to relate to the crowd by invoking the stereotype of Jews as talented and cunning businesspeople.

“I’m a negotiator, like you folks,” Trump told the crowd, touting his 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal.

“Is there anyone who doesn’t renegotiate deals in this room?” Trump said. “Perhaps more than any room I’ve spoken to.”

Nor was that the most offensive thing Trump told his Jewish audience. He implied that he had little chance of earning the Jewish Republican group’s support, because his fealty could not be bought with campaign donations.

“You’re not going to support me, because I don’t want your money,” he said. “You want to control your own politician.”

Ironically, Trump has many close Jewish family members. His elder daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism in 2009 before marrying the real estate mogul Jared Kushner. Trump and Kushner raise their three children in an observant Jewish home.

In July 2016, Trump tweeted an anti-Semitic image that featured a photo of Hillary Clinton over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star next to her face and the label “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”

“Crooked Hillary – – Makes History!” Trump wrote in the tweet.

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The religious symbol was co-opted by the Nazis during World War II when they forced Jews to sew it onto their clothing. Using the symbol over a pile of money is blatantly anti-Semitic and re-enforces hateful stereotypes of Jewish greed.

But Trump insisted the image was harmless.

“The sheriff’s badge ― which is available under Microsoft’s ‘shapes’ ― fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it,” he said in a statement.

Mic, however, discovered that the image was actually created by white supremacists and had appeared on a neo-Nazi forum more than a week before Trump shared it. Additionally, a watermark on the image led to a Twitter account that regularly tweeted racist and sexist political memes.

He treats African-American supporters as tokens to dispel the idea he is racist

At a campaign appearance in California in June 2016, Trump boasted that he had a black supporter in the crowd, saying, “Look at my African-American over here.”

“Look at him,” Trump continued. “Are you the greatest?”

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Mexicans see models of Trump’s ‘impenetrable’ wall, and they’re not impressed.

By Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, October 16, 2017

SAN DIEGO--The prototypes of the Trump border wall are taking shape this month in a sun-baked swath of scrubland abutting a run-down neighborhood of Tijuana. Lined up next to each other, the 30-foot-tall concrete and steel sample barriers--some with extra-stout reinforced bases, others topped with metal spikes--certainly look ominous.

The requirements established to realize President Trump’s vision call for “a fence that is impenetrable, it’s unscalable,” said Roy Villareal, acting chief patrol agent of the San Diego border sector. “They can’t dig under it. They can’t cut through it.”

Even these big warning slabs of concrete, the teeming construction site, and police and helicopters patrolling both sides of the border weren’t enough to stop a half-dozen would-be migrants from hopping the existing fence earlier this month and landing smack in the middle of the project, according to U.S. border officials.

Maybe the fence-hoppers were unlucky, or had chosen an ill-advised, hide-in-plain-sight strategy, but either way their experience is suggestive of how many Mexicans feel about Trump’s wall: no matter how it’s built, it’s not going to work.

“People are still going to cross no matter what is there,” said Kevin Avila Rodriguez, 17, who recycles trash and lives near the spot where the border wall prototypes are being built. “This won’t change things much.”

Most of the Mexican reaction to these prototypes ranges from offended to blasé. Residents of Tijuana and other border cities have lived with various types of American barriers for years, and they are used to them. The existing fence here, built in the mid-1990s, is roughly 10 feet tall and made out of metal sheets from helicopter landing pads left over from the Vietnam War. A second layer of more modern steel-mesh fence, 14 to 18 feet tall, stands behind that.

Despite this seeming fortitude, the two-ply system in San Diego was “compromised”--cut open with axes or motorized saws or blow torches--some 550 times just in the last fiscal year, according to officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.

One irony of building these brawny prototypes at this location is San Diego has long demonstrated the weakness of walls. Nowhere is more famous for its sophisticated border tunnels than this industrial sprawl near the Otay Mesa border crossing. The drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, now imprisoned in New York, disrupted the narcotics trade by building “super-tunnels” here that were dozens of feet deep, equipped with elevators and ventilation and lighting, to move vast amounts of cocaine into California. Seven tunnels of various sizes have been identified by the San Diego sector of the Border Patrol just this year.

The ground here, as one U.S. official put it, “is like Swiss cheese.”

Trump has pledged the border wall will stop both illegal immigrants and drugs. CBP officials, however, said the walls under consideration would likely not go deep enough to block large, sophisticated tunnels.

On the second day of prototype construction, a worker for one of the companies fell backward into what CBP spokesman Ralph DeSio described as a “40-foot-deep hole,” although this was unrelated to drug tunnels, and it did not result in injuries. “It wasn’t a good first step,” he said.

Since then, construction has hummed along. By the end of last week, portions of five of the eight prototypes had been erected, deploying various formations of concrete blocks and metal rods. Each company has a 65-by-65-foot patch of ground on which to build its prototype.

The prototypes are being funded by the Department of Homeland Security. Trump would need congressional approval for funding before any of them could become an actual wall. Even then, CBP officials said they might not simply choose one winner but take aspects of different prototypes. Villareal, the head of the San Diego sector, said he appreciated how Trump has taken an interest in border security and hopes the wall can cut down on the 70 to 100 illegal immigrants apprehended in his sector each day.

“It’s still a very fluid border,” he said.

The project has attracted rubber-neckers but has not sparked mass protests. San Diego police had considered restricting protesters to a designated “free speech zone” near the construction site but no large crowds materialized.

The Mexican government, besides refusing to pay for the wall, has not taken a stand against it, saying such construction is the sovereign right of the United States. The faltering NAFTA trade talks are alarming top Mexican officials far more than the wall.

“For me, they should make it even taller,” said one Tijuana municipal policeman who was patrolling the border near the prototype construction site. “So the crazies, like in Las Vegas, don’t come over here. I’m serious. The danger is over there. So many assassinations happen on your side.”

Many Mexicans have called the wall an insult. Not the police officer.

“What insult is there if it’s in your country?” said the policeman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “What insults me is the government of Mexico, which doesn’t care about its own people. This is an insult. The money being robbed that they are not spending on schools, on science.”

Since the project abuts Tijuana, residents on the Mexican side have the best view of the construction. These neighborhoods, such as Las Torres and Nido de Las Aguilas, are poor and violent, clusters of shanties along unpaved roads. Two burned-out cars, torched within the past month, were abandoned near the fence.

Those cars were directly in front of the home of Cesar, a 60-year-old plant salesman who spoke on condition his last name not be used. He has lived there for 23 years and can remember how so many people used to mill around waiting to cross the border illegally that “it looked a market.”

The flow has slowed. He’s unsure why the United States needs a new wall now.

“I think they should spend the money on something more effective,” he said. “You’ll always see migrants.”

Other residents take greater offense at the project, which they consider a concrete monument to anti-immigrant fervor being whipped up in the United States.

“The president over there, he keeps insulting us, saying that we’re the worst,” said Audelia Avila Rodriguez, 21, who works in recycling and is the sister of Kevin. “This wall is just dividing families. It’s very ugly. It’s sad.”

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In his latest video, Luke discusses how difficult it has been to watch the infighting that is occurring and the responses that media have made to the Charlottesville situation.

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I have been following closely the response to Charlottesville, and sadly the situation is escalating and looks like it will get a lot worse before it gets any better. Leading to what many are speculating will be an all-out civil war in the United States.

I want to talk about some of the important developments that happened after Charlottesville and the reasons why I see the situation becoming worse. I to give you an overall perspective of why this happened and how this situation will only deteriorate further.

Today is August 16th, 2017 a day where there was a memorial held for Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old innocent woman that was murdered while protesting at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville Virginia.

A very emotional day where Heather’s mother came out and said today that she wants her daughter’s death not to silence her daughter but to magnify her and to help channel the anger that’s happening right now into righteous action.

There has been a very strong reaction to what happened in Charlottesville.

Many people are denouncing and attacking Donald Trump after his latest comments on the incident. People are even condemning various hair style’s associated with the alt-right. Others are being forced to flee their homes after being falsely identified as marching.

In Charlottesville Confederate statues and monuments are being torn down all around the country either at the hands of protesters or by local governments who do it after midnight to avoid any further violence and problems in their Cities.

There’s even an incident where a man had five masked anti-Fa members outside of his home attack and stab him. In spite of the fact that he strongly disavowed white supremacy the attackers still labeled him a Nazi sympathizer for not denouncing it enough.

We see a very committed reaction by the left. A lot of people are missing the main point, the fact that for months the anti-Fa which are considered to be far left and the alt-right which is considered the far right have been growing in numbers and opposition to each other.

I think people miss the fact this is a cycle that has been engulfing both sides and emboldening them for some months now. This is pushing people to the extremes where they are being murdered in the streets. This extremism looks like it won’t end anytime soon. Many people have decided to direct their anger against Donald Trump because of the situation, even though Donald Trump has condemned violence on both sides. He even called out the alt left and white supremacy and Nazis at the same time, but many people see that as disingenuous. All because someone from the right killed someone from the left. It doesn’t help the situation that Donald Trump and other alt-right figures and alt-left figures talking generalizations when it comes to major events that benefit their political side.

For those people on the right to sometimes build up completely fabricated stories like sensationalizing and claiming that the West is going to die any day now. Highlighting issues from a very biased perspective. Pushing an obvious ideology of scaring the crap out of people. Manipulating the truth to push their viewpoint. Telling people how they are under direct threat every single day. Not taking any responsibility for it while still tweeting out fake news. From my perspective sadly caring more about their career either as a politician or media pundit than the actual well-being of the people of this country. Creating a huge disservice that divides people even more. One that concentrates on our differences never admits to any faults and progresses us towards the current dismal situation that we’re all involved in right now

They’re not the only ones doing. It’s important to understand here that it’s what the mainstream media does as well. Fox News recently labeling pro-Trump supporter Jack Posobiec as an “ally of Richard Spencer” when in reality the two have very different political ideologies, they have publicly fought before.

CNN also said that “white nationals were planning nine rallies nationwide just this weekend alone.” One of the rallies that they said was supposed to be a white nationalist rally was a “March on Google” which was partly organized by John Posobiec but had nothing to do with white supremacy at all.

We have to ask ourselves why is this weaponized disinformation being used against us? There are many factors but one is simply that fear sells and has led to the current climate that we’re all in right now. It is outrageous titles and headlines that spark fear and anger. I have omitted information that shows a clear bias that is more exciting rather than accurate. Stories pushed both by the mainstream media and pro alt-media that are more profitable.

If you’ve been watching any of the mainstream media, you could see their focus and direction on getting you angry. The same is being done by the elements of the new media mostly of which have predominantly been pro Trump.

When you’re angry, you’re more willing to share an article, and that means more clicks and more ad revenue will be generated. Your brand as a media organization will rise above anyone else who doesn’t strike those primal emotional instincts in people.

It’s mainly fear, and as Yoda said it best, it all starts with fear, which leads to anger, then that anger and outrage lead to hate. This hate then leads to suffering. We’ve suffered enough already, and this group that thinks that sensationalist fear-mongering clickbait news business is a good model needs to be put out of business. You should consciously choose to not click on those articles.

It starts with understanding situations and not generalizing them and not using them as brownie points for your political establishment beliefs. The man involved in the recent congressional shooting who was a Bernie Sanders supporter and strongly anti-Trump does not speak for all Bernie Sanders supporters.

Likewise, the man who ran over Heather Heyer and dozens of other innocent bystanders do not speak for all Trump supporters.

While all of us are fighting each other and blaming each other, we forget that it was the police that never did their job that day. They stood down and pushed together the two groups of protesters wasn’t there blocking off the street so protesters could go by but ultimately left the situation and allowed it to unfold as it did in Charlottesville

We have to understand that both extremist ideologies involved in this divide and conquer game are flawed and are only growing because of each other. Directing more anger, more frustration, more victimization against each other just ultimately divides and lets them conquer us. The establishment government and corporatocracy look at us and laugh.

The US government has previously supported fascists and sadly to this day not many people know about it. There’s barely any outcry because of it.

The issue of financing and supporting fascists should have been a major when Barack Obama did it by supporting the Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the civil war in Ukraine. This effort was directed against the legitimate Ukraine government of that time. Hypocrites like John McCain who previously even shared a stage, supported and backed neo-nazis need to be called out.

These are the same politicians that will sell you down the river. The same ones who are using this political crisis in Charlottesville to get brownie points from you and get your trust. Ultimately they are hypocritical, two-faced backstabbers that don’t mind supporting neo Nazis and fascists. Those people deserve more criticism than they’re getting right now.

Our government finances neo-nazis. The US Congress even had to remove a ban on funding neo-nazis from its year ending spending bill in 2016 following pressure from the Pentagon.

The US Empire does not care who they support as we’re even seeing Donald Trump’s support Marxist YPG Kurdish fighters in Syria.

It doesn’t matter who the U.S. supports as long it goes with their agenda. That’s why we have to ask ourselves what is the agenda here with the latest events that just unfolded in Charlottesville.

It’s kind of stupid that we’re about to start a civil war in this country over statues from the last Civil War. We’re being divided and conquered, pushed against each other more than ever before. Ask yourselves this very important question “Are these Confederate monuments, which this whole situation started about, are they responsible for the death of the middle class? Who are the ones poisoning your food and water supply? Who are they the ones taxing you and using it to finance other Marxist and Fascist regimes all around the world? Is the problem really with your fellow American or is it the people behind the scenes who are pulling the strings?”

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Donald Trump will attend the U.S. Women’s Open as protests begin at Trump Bedminster

As advertised, the three-ring circus will set up the big top at the U.S. Women’s Open, as Donald Trump tweets his intention to attend the major at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., amid anti-POTUS protests.

Welp, it’s official. Looks like Brittany Lincicome’s fears are about to be realized, as Donald Trump is expected to upstage the LPGA Tour stars playing in this week’s U.S. Women’s Open by showing up Friday afternoon at the course he owns and that is hosting this week’s major championship.

Left Paris for U.S.A. Will be heading to New Jersey and attending the#USWomensOpen, their most important tournament, this afternoon.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2017

Fresh from delivering his most recent sexist comments to France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, the chauvinist-in-chief will touch down at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J., in the middle of protests aimed at the USGA and LPGA for staging the crown jewel of women’s golf at a course owned by a man with “a long and well documented history of sexual assault and sexual harassment,” according to the co-founder of the feminist group organizing the dissent.

Trump tells the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron: “You’re in such good shape … beautiful”http://pic.twitter.com/tKCzX15cPl

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 13, 2017

“More than a dozen women have come forward to state that Trump sexually assaulted them,” UltraViolet’s Shaunna Thomas said in a statement responding to Trump’s Friday morning tweet announcing his imminent arrival. “Trump himself was caught red handed proudly boosting of this behavior on the infamous Access Hollywood tape. Let’s be clear, by choosing to hold this tournament at Trump’s course, the USGA and the LGPA are endorsing Trump’s behavior. That is not only shameful and outrageous, but it is a huge disservice to the golfers who are playing this weekend.”

In the tape Thomas cited, Trump is heard bragging about sexually assaulting women. He will become the first sitting president to attend the Women’s Open, which, conveniently, is taking place at his unofficial summer White House.

Here's where Trump will spend most of his time when he does show up. Overlooks clubhouse, 16th tee, 10th and 18th greens. http://pic.twitter.com/aJ9nchtejW

— Luke Kerr-Dineen (@LukeKerrDineen) July 14, 2017

The controversial leader of the free world will touch down at Trumpminster on the same day that UltraViolet and other women’s groups will stage a variety of demonstrations against a man who continues to demean and objectify women at all levels of society.

Since the President tweeted his imminent arrival, the U.S. Women's Open officially became a sidebar. Or maybe not even that. A tack-on note

— Randall Mell (@RandallMellGC) July 14, 2017

Lincicome may have missed Trump’s announcement since she quit Twitter for this week after taking heat for voicing her apprehension that an appearance by the tourney host could overshadow play on the field.

“Hopefully, maybe, he doesn’t show up, and it won’t be a big debacle, and it will be about us and not him,” Lincicome told the Chicago Tribune two weeks ago.

While Mike Davis told GolfChannel.com on Wednesday that his association “would certainly welcome him,” according to Randell Mell, the USGA executive director refuted rumors that Trump would present the trophy to the winner on Sunday night. At least we have that going for us, though that will surely not be enough to mollify the protesters.

“The USGA and LPGA could have made a clear and unequivocal statement against sexual assault by moving this tournament,” Thomas said. “Instead they chose to embrace the man who is a walking talking example of a sexual predator. Shame on the USGA. Shame on the LPGA. This is a stain on your brand that will not wash away.”

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Making France Great Again

It’s nice be remembered fondly 375 years after you’ve died. That’s the case for Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, known to history as Cardinal Richelieu.

Richelieu’s name is easy to find in France; it’s on statues and plaques, street signs and postage stamps. And here’s the newest remembrance: France’s National Front, the nationalist political party led by Marine Le Pen, has announced its campaign platform for the 2017 presidential balloting, scheduled for April and May. A plank in Le Pen’s platform calls for a substantial increase in defense spending, including the construction of a new aircraft carrier, to be named, yes, Richelieu.

Richelieu might be best known to Americans as the scheming villain in Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling historical novel of 17th-century France, The Three Musketeers, which has been made into a movie at least two dozen times.

Of course, to be a proper villain, one must have power. Richelieu had plenty of power, and he used it to change France. And so even if Dumas chose to depict Richelieu as a villain, many in France think of him as a hero.

In fact, admiration for Richelieu is especially strong on the right; for instance, Éric Zemmour, the anti-PC author of the Le Pen-esque best-seller Le Suicide Français and many other works, is an ardent fan of Richelieu. And from the grave, the cardinal seems to admire the author right back: Zemmour is a laureate of the coveted Prix Richelieu.

Richelieu was no saint, to be sure, and yet, warts and all, he is remembered in his country as an effective champion of French power and national unity—more on that in a moment.

Le Pen’s National Front, of course, is the right-of-center party that combines a desire to control France’s national borders with a desire to control France’s international destiny—that is, to leave the European Union (EU). And while the National Front has its own warts, its unabashed nationalism is newly relevant—in fact, it’s now leading in the polls. Why, one could even say that the Front’s goal is to “Make France Great Again.”

Indeed, nationalist hostility to the EU is the force that propelled the United Kingdom toward “Brexit” last year. And so the National Front proudly takes its place among the many political parties in Europe that are opposing the EU, including the UK Independence Party and the Alternative for Germany Party.

It was the same nationalist spirit that animated Americans to elect Donald Trump. Indeed, in January, Le Pen and three of her colleagues were spotted having coffee at a café in Trump Tower in Manhattan. (It’s not known whom within Team Trump, if anyone, she might have met with.)

Okay, so who was Richelieu? And why is he important to French nationalists? Born to minor nobility in Paris in 1585, at the tender age of 21 he was consecrated as a bishop in the Catholic Church. (In those days, it was standard for younger sons—Richelieu was the youngest of three—to be fast-tracked into the clergy.)

Proving himself to be a talented administrator, Richelieu moved up fast; as he said, “Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.” In 1616, he was named secretary of state to King Louis XIII, and in 1624 he became, in effect, the prime minister. He served in that position until his death in 1642.

Without rehashing all the ins and outs of French politics during the era of the Bourbon kings, we can sum up Richelieu’s accomplishments in two specific points: first, an emphasis on national unity, and second, a practical determination to achieve national greatness in the international arena.

With the hindsight of history, not all of Richelieu’s works will sit well with American readers—or with any modern audience—and yet, nevertheless, they are worth knowing. Why? Because Americans have now come to realize that their country faces severe challenges; indeed, on close inspection, one can see that the U.S. in the 21st century faces some of the same challenges that France faced in the 17th century, notably, challenges to national unity and to national greatness.

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So let’s look briefly at how Richelieu responded to and mastered these challenges:

First, an emphasis on national unity. At the beginning of Richelieu’s career, it wasn’t obvious that France was, or ever would be, a unitary nation-state with its capital in Paris. In those days, the aristocracy was strong; each nobleman had his regional domain and his own ideas about power and governance. To put that another way, the nobility viewed France as just a collection of duchies, each with its own army or militia, each with its own special powers of taxation and trade, and many with only a tenuous loyalty to France itself.

From the point of view of local autonomy—that is, local autonomy as controlled by an unelected duke—such an arrangement was fine, but from the point of national power, it was disastrous. And in fact, a decentralized France was riven by bloody feuds, rebellions, even civil wars.

Of course, the reference to “civil war” reminds us of our own Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. The many debates over that conflict will never be resolved, but this much we should know for sure: if the Confederacy had not been defeated—if the Union had not prevailed—the resulting political fragments of North America would never have been able to survive against the emerging world superpowers of Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan, and, yes, France. So we can see a hard imperative of geopolitics: get big or get eaten. It’s the law of the global jungle: the strong swallow the weak. As Richelieu knew, national strength is a matter of sticking together for the sake of survival; it’s hard to think of a higher patriotic value than that.

We might also pause here to note that in our time, it will take a strong central government to put a stop to the foolishness of “sanctuary cities” and even “sanctuary states.” If California, for example, is allowed to keep open its border with Mexico—and through Mexico, with the whole wide world—then that’s a reckless policy that will imperil, too, the other 49 states. So we can see: if we are to be a secure and confident United States, as opposed to an insecure collection of endangered states, then we need a strong national policy. Four centuries ago, Richelieu thought the same thing.

Back in his day, on behalf of French unity, Richelieu never hesitated to take strong action. Through cajolery when possible and force when necessary, he squelched the independence of the nobility.

In addition, and much less pleasantly, he squelched the political power of the Protestants, known in France as Huguenots. The Huguenots were a threat to French unity, Richelieu believed, because they were naturally allied with the Protestant states of Europe, notably, France’s traditional arch-rival, England. As we all remember from school days, in the previous century, the German Martin Luther, a onetime Catholic priest, had launched the Reformation; in the resulting schismatic war within Christendom, most of Northern Europe broke away from Catholicism, embracing Protestantism. And in Richelieu’s time, too, the Catholic-Protestant split was the bloodiest politico-military dividing line in Europe.

From Richelieu’s perspective in France, the choice for his country was clear: Since the vast majority of Frenchmen were Catholic, the best course for national unity was Catholicism. We might note, with a sigh of lament, that the idea of individual freedom of conscience—choosing one’s own faith—was only just beginning to come into existence. One might even hope that a Richelieu of today would be more tolerant, even if still, in his steely way, determined.

Yet back in the day, if the Huguenots didn’t like the idea of having only limited religious freedom under Catholic hegemony, well, they had to either leave the country or be persecuted, even killed. Once again, by modern standards, such harshness is hard to comprehend, let alone justify, and yet it must be said, by way of explanation, if not defense, that such enforced religious unanimity was the general rule back then, on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide.

Ironically, even though he was a champion of Catholic power—he was himself, after all, a Catholic cleric—Richelieu was no Catholic zealot. Indeed, some contemporaries wondered if he believed in God at all.

Interestingly, in that era, it was hard to be a devout Catholic and a national political leader at the same time, because as far as the Roman Church was concerned, true devotion to Catholicism meant submitting to the political will of the pope, and few leaders were willing to do that—and certainly not Richelieu. The greatness of France was Richelieu’s true faith. And so, just as with the Huguenots, the once-powerful Catholic hierarchy would have to bow down to the national interest. Paris before Rome.

So yes, the cardinal wanted Catholics to dominate France, but at the same time, he wanted France to dominate Catholics. And as a practical matter, that meant that the French king, embodying the nation as a whole, would make all the decisions—with Richelieu, of course, helping out.

Indeed, as we look at Richelieu’s wily politicking, we can see beginnings of the idea of “nationalism,” even if the word itself wasn’t coined until the 19th century. (In France, by the way.)

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Thus we’re starting to see why Richelieu, flaws and all, is relevant to today: in his time, he saw himself as the upholder of united French sovereignty against multinationalism—the multinationalism of both the Protestants and the Catholics. And now, four centuries later, Marine Le Pen is similarly seeking to uphold French sovereignty against the multinational EU, as well as, more broadly, the myriad powers of globalism.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., champions of American sovereignty—now led, of course, by President Trump—find themselves in a tough struggle against international combines. That is, American nationalists must defend their country’s uniqueness against the encroachments of, for instance, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the United Nations.

So despite all the differences between then and now, Richelieu can be seen as an early champion not only of French nationalism, but also of all nationalism, in every country. Yes, wherever a leader believes that the basic unit of decision-making ought to be the nation-state, there, also, is the spirit of Richelieu.

Second, a determination to achieve national greatness in the international arena. Richelieu’s France found itself in a dangerous neighborhood—that is to say, Europe. The greatest power of that era was the House of Hapsburg, which, at that time, controlled ruled much of Central Europe and Italy. And a different branch of the the Hapsburg family reigned over Spain and also, for a time, Portugal, as well as all their overseas possessions, including the fabulous gold mines of Mexico and the silver mines of Peru. And oh yes, present-day Belgium and Holland, too.

So if we look at a map, we can see not only that the Hapsburgs, writ large, were preeminent in power and wealth, but that, in addition, they had France surrounded. And the fact that the Hapsburgs were Catholic, same as the French, meant nothing; the Hapsburgs were as eager to gain control over Catholic Paris as they were to regain authority over Protestant Berlin.

So what to do? How to keep France from being crushed? Richelieu had a simple but shrewd idea: Realpolitik. That is, he would step across the religious divide and work with the Protestant powers to check the might of the Hapsburgs. It was not high-toned “moral clarity” that inspired Richelieu; it was bottom-line practicality. That worked a lot better.

In 1618, the many religious tensions in Europe once again erupted into open conflict, in what came to be known as the Thirty Years’ War. During that fighting, Richelieu’s France didn’t just make alliances with Protestant countries such as England, Prussia, and Sweden; it also paid them subsidies to keep their armies in the field—that is, fighting the Hapsburgs. The warfare was savage; the main battlefield was Germany, and it’s been estimated that the population of that ravaged land fell by a third during those three horrible decades. And yet, in the end, the French-led coalition emerged victorious.

From the perspective of nearly four centuries, it’s understandable that most people today might not care about all this history, and yet it’s easy to understand why the French do care. And that’s why Le Pen’s National Front wants to build a new warship and name it after a man who died in 1642.

Okay, so now: What are the implications of Richelieu’s career for the United States? What’s the takeaway for us? We might draw three key lessons:

First, American unity can no longer be taken for granted, and so we must develop a positive strategy for reinstilling nationalistic togetherness. That is, a half-century of unchecked immigration and government-subsidized multiculturalism have taken their toll on our collective solidarity. So even after we regain control of our border, we’d also better find a way to restore the idea of “patriotic assimilation” and policies appropriate for the furtherance of that goal. That is, we can be multi-ethnic, but we must not be multicultural, and down that road is … chaos. We need to be one nation again.

Obviously, the specific tactics that Richelieu used for national consolidation are not applicable anymore, although, of course, the same can be said for many once-accepted elements of life, then compared to now.

Yet still, Richelieu’s larger nationalistic vision is enduringly essential, and that’s what Le Pen is choosing to enshrine. As the Bible said before Richelieu, and as Lincoln said after Richelieu, a house divided against itself cannot stand. And today, as we all know, our own house is tottering—and so we’d better get serious about fixing it. And studying history is a good way to learn about possible repair tools.

Second, America must be realistically practical, as opposed to unrealistically ideological, in pursuit of its national objectives. If, for example, our main goal is to defeat and eliminate Islamic terrorism, then of course we should be working with other countries that share the same goal.

And as we discovered in Afghanistan and Iraq, we can’t do it by ourselves. In both of those forlorn wars, the U.S. and a few half-hearted allies faced not only the active hostility of the insurgents, but also the quiet hostility of many of the major powers in Asia, notably Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan. To put the matter bluntly, in those wars we suffered from a bad case of too many enemies and not enough allies. As Richelieu understood, the goal of diplomacy is to divide one’s enemies, not to unite them.

So if we want to win in the future, we need to “flip” some countries from foes to friends. That’s what we did in World War II, when both Russia and China were on our side in the fight against fascism. Today, some nations, such as Iran, may be hopeless enemies, but other powers could be allies, because they too are confronting the threat of Islamism. Thus Richelieu, who was willing to work with anybody to achieve his national objectives, could be a valuable historical guide.

Third, countries tend to be remember their great leaders—and properly so. And that’s why, four centuries later, France still honors Richelieu.

In the meantime, the United States of America is not even three centuries old, and so most current judgments about our history must be regarded, in the long eye of history, as merely tentative. And yet it’s safe to say that a special place in our pantheon will be reserved for those leaders who have kept our country together.

James P. Pinkerton is a contributor to the Fox News Channel.

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Making France Great Again

It’s nice be remembered fondly 375 years after you’ve died. That’s the case for Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, known to history as Cardinal Richelieu.

Richelieu was no saint, to be sure, and yet, warts and all, he is remembered in his country as an effective champion of French power and national unity—more on that in a moment.

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So let’s look briefly at how Richelieu responded to and mastered these challenges:

Back in his day, on behalf of French unity, Richelieu never hesitated to take strong action. Through cajolery when possible and force when necessary, he squelched the independence of the nobility.

Indeed, as we look at Richelieu’s wily politicking, we can see beginnings of the idea of “nationalism,” even if the word itself wasn’t coined until the 19th century. (In France, by the way.)

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Okay, so now: What are the implications of Richelieu’s career for the United States? What’s the takeaway for us? We might draw three key lessons:

Third, countries tend to be remember their great leaders—and properly so. And that’s why, four centuries later, France still honors Richelieu.

James P. Pinkerton is a contributor to the Fox News Channel.

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Meet the Raging Grannies, Portland’s not-so-secret warriors for civility

Patrik Jonsson, CS monitor, August 16, 2017

PORTLAND, ORE.--Amid the hubbub of Portland’s waterfront “Saturday Market,” song suddenly erupts from what looks like a Mayberry sewing circle, their raised fists punctuating the chorus: “It is a time to care, not to kill....”

The singers’ dresses and hats are mismatched, their song a tad out of tune, but they are, Portlanders say, ever so endearing: Twenty-odd older ladies in hats, outsized glasses, and gingham dresses, belting out protest lyrics set to standards--and sometimes set to dance. One has little cherries hanging off her hat, while others don faded “ERA” pins.

One of the most beloved social activist groups in this Pacific Northwest city, they are the Raging Grannies. “Grannying is the least understood and most powerful weapon we have,” says Granny Rose de Shaw. And in a time when peaceful protest is increasingly giving way to fistfights, clubs, and chemical spray, their humorous message may be more important than ever.

The Grannies offer a kind of satirical street theater that challenges authority while charming the public--but lately, they’re having to act as referee between two opposing political extremes, whose violent tactics led Politico to dub Portland “the most politically violent city in America.”

As cities such as Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle have become epicenters of rolling street fights fueled by intense partisanship, the model of peaceful protest that has held since the civil rights era is being challenged--not just by the emboldened neo-Nazis and white supremacists who roiled Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, but also left-wing anarchists. Here in Portland, both sides’ tactics of physical confrontation have begun to scrape away at the city’s peaceful image.

“We’re struggling with our role,” admits Granny Linda Schmoldt, a retired librarian. “The difference for us now is we’re having to say, amid all this punching and rolling in the streets, ‘You have to stop right now and go to your corners. Be nice to each other.’”

In a new tactic, experts say, the white nationalist movement is targeting progressive cities, calling leftist activists out on their own turf. And for its part, the antifa (short for anti-fascists) movement has embraced violence as a tactic against what it sees as creeping fascism on American streets. The ensuing clashes have rattled residents. In late May, a participant in an alt-right rally stabbed to death two Good Samaritans, and wounded a third, who were coming to the aid of two minority women on the city’s light rail train. The deaths sparked shock and mourning, and then a wave of counter-protests that often have devolved into violence.

The situation has put Portland at the epicenter of what some call a soft civil war of fists and sticks “for control of America’s streets,” as National Review essayist David French writes.

According to University of Michigan political scientist Michael Heaney, only about 3 percent of protest attendees, who tend to be more politically active, say violence is “very” necessary to make a point. (Only 1 percent of the general population makes that claim.)

Notably, he says, that number has not shifted since President Trump’s election, suggesting that Americans are not growing more accepting of political violence in the streets. Indeed, since the 1980s, says Rachel Einwohner, a political scientist at Purdue University, Americans have increasingly come to see nonviolent protests as not only legitimate but necessary for democracy. And so far, most Trump era marches, including the women’s march and Mr. Trump’s campaign-style rallies, have remained peaceful.

Yet the growing frequency of actual street fighting in liberal strongholds like Portland and Berkeley, Calif., says Mr. Heaney, is notable, since the upshot is that America is witnessing a sum total of more political violence, including deadly serious incidents such as the weekend of violence in Charlottesville, Va., that left three dead and several dozen injured, and the targeting of Republican congressmen at a baseball practice this year. The nature of the violence, too, he says, is different.

“This is really ideological and partisan violence … [not] violence in response to very concrete issues,” says Heaney, the co-author, with Fabio Rojas, of “Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11.” “People are clashing now because they see the world in a different way ideologically--and they detest the beliefs that the others have about the world. We have two camps in our society that are not communicating civilly any more. This violence … is one manifestation of that decline in civility.”

Progressive organizers say they are seeing several shifts in response to the stubborn street battles, as people try to turn the emotional temperature down. The Grannies may be the most colorful--if not the most quirky.

The blue-vested Portland Peace Team has seen applications skyrocket since the MAX train stabbings. Progressives in Berkeley have utilized a tactic of empathy tents at rallies, offering 10 minutes of nonjudgmental listening to help ease tensions. Organizers in Portland are being trained as “vibe-watchers” to look out for brewing trouble.

Native American groups, too, have urged peace to bring antifa and the self-described alt-right back from the brink of battle.

Part of the message is getting through. One antifa group, Rose City Antifa, said they would stay away from a July protest, choosing instead to do a fundraiser.

At the same time, mainstream organizers are struggling to persuade the antifa flank that violent tactics are counterproductive. Instead, antifa, who often hide their faces to avoid legal repercussions, have accused the Portland Peace Team of trying to unmask them.

For her part, Granny Denise Busch, she of the cherry hat, says she has been treated warmly by antifa protesters. In turn, she has engaged some of the hooded anarchists with pleas to not fight, some of which, she said, seems to have worked.

“We become idealized grannies to them, and they don’t want to disappoint us,” she says.

Or, as Portland resident Tom Hastings says, “It’s very, very hard to go making nasty, rotten claims about a granny.”

Long-time civil rights protesters, like the Grannies, say they are dismayed by the left fringe’s embrace of violence. While punching Nazis may be a popular internet meme, they argue, the answer to hatred cannot be more hate, and peace movements shouldn’t be in the business of hurting people.

“Movement leaders sort of agree to what is known as a diversity of tactics, but my question now is: Do you want diversity of tactics or do you want diversity of people?” says Mr. Hastings, a Portland State University professor and a veteran of Portland’s so-called nonviolent army. “If there’s a violent flank in a movement, your recruitment numbers go down, which correlates with a much lower chance of succeeding with your announced goal.

“Therefore, God bless the Grannies.”

The Raging Grannies were founded in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1987. A satirical temperance-style union, they cite “a history of trouble-raising when not listened to,” as Ms. de Shaw wrote on the group’s web page. “Even in our times, we grannies have raised a few mountains, caused a few floods.”

Requirements to be a Granny are: being at least 55, and a “willingness to make noise” tempered by “an open heart to learn something new.” “No singing ability” and “no color sense, obviously,” are required, writes de Shaw.

Since Trump’s election, the Portland Raging Grannies’ ranks have almost doubled, to 55. Their oldest member is well into her 80s. They employ a strategy exemplified by the Otpor (“resistance”) movement in Serbia, which helped undermine political and law enforcement support for strongman Slobodan Milosevic through humor, satire, and street theater.

They are also not beyond civil disobedience. Grannies have been arrested during events held by the North Carolina protest movement known as “Moral Mondays.” And a hero of the national group tied her rocking chair to a train track to protest a planned oil rig. She calmly knitted a sweater until police arrested her.

In 5-1/2 years of existence, the Portland Grannies have fine-tuned similar tactics, sometimes to great effect.

“They went to a military recruiting center, a place where I’d been doing candlelight vigils for a year, and they were very gung-ho,” says Hastings, the veteran anti-war organizer. “They put a whole bunch of rocking chairs in front of this recruitment center--a rocking chair blockade. When police came, they warned the Grannies. The Grannies took off but left their chairs, so the police had to load up the chairs. The picture in the paper: Police arrest grandma’s rocking chair.”

The Grannies “show people what it means to be an activist, and in that way it highlights something else that social movements do: They sort of provide therapy for disaffected people,” adds Purdue’s Ms. Einwohner, who studies the dynamics of protest and resistance.

Portland has a long history of protest--40,000 protested the decision by President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003; a decade earlier, President George H.W. Bush’s Secret Service nicknamed the city “Little Beirut” for its raucous anti-war protests.

“What’s happening in Portland is really just the latest chapter of an old story--sort of the frontier spirit where the margins are celebrated and where to be a registered Democrat is something of a stodgy, boring position to take,” says Randy Blazak, who studies hate movements at Portland State University. “There are probably more anarchists out admitting their political position than dyed-in-the-wool traditional Democrats. May Day is the biggest holiday in the city, much bigger than Christmas.”

The roots of the current conflict can be found in the skinhead wars of the 1980s and ‘90s, when punks-turned-antifascist rumblers took on similarly attired neo-Nazi skinheads after the 1988 beating death of an Ethiopian college student by white supremacists. Then as now, antifa would look for tattoos or jewelry that suggested Nazi sympathies--and then attack--verbally or physically.

The stated aim of that Sunday’s “Patriot Prayer” rally was to accuse antifa of domestic terrorism by using tactics to hurt conservatives, including calling their bosses to inform them of their political activities. The focus on leftist agitators is part of a deeper political shift, as well. Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice has disbanded a unit on right-wing extremism and is now monitoring Portland and other cities for evidence of “domestic terrorism” from the left.

“We’re seeing kind of the children of [the skinhead wars],” says veteran Portland organizer Jamie Partridge. “The Proud Boys are the street fighters who aren’t really that ideological, but they are mad as hell. They see in Donald Trump a beacon of hope for bringing back the America that they think once was, but that they’ve never known.”

There are growing concerns among organizers like Mr. Partridge that the self-described alt-right, despite its embrace of white nationalism and white supremacy, is having success in recruiting as a result of the attacks from antifa. The addition of Oath Keepers, a national group of retired law enforcement, as volunteer security has helped give the “Patriot Prayer” movement legitimacy in broader conservative circles.

“The thing about the left, we tend to be Chicken Littles: ‘Oh, this is Hitlerian,’” says Hastings. “We tend to default straight to the bottom of the slippery slope, so our credibility has been radically compromised. Yes, there are spooky parallels between what Trump is doing and what Hitler did. But antifa can’t operate with violence and expect it to produce anything other than a [backlash] in the general population.”

It also is having an impact on rally attendance. On that Sunday, noticeably fewer activists on both sides showed up for dueling rallies before the fighting began, only to quickly dissipate.

Fredric Alan Maxwell, a Portland writer and activist, stayed home from that event with his cat. At an earlier melee, he was left slumped and scratched up after a group of antifa swept past him. Afterward, he wrote that his attackers were “hiding their faces under bandannas as though robbing not speech but a stage….”

Such decisions by longtime peace activists to stay home, as much as the fighting itself, is driving the transformation of protest in the Trump era, including for the Raging Grannies.

In response, the Grannies have adjusted their clothing policy, replacing at times their traditional dresses and hats for black T-shirts for mourning and white T-shirts with sashes for observing rallies--and engaging with edgy young protesters.

“Our message right now is: Don’t hurt people to be peaceful,” says Granny Diana Richardson. “Instead, rally the troops by naming what is wrong. We have to realize we’re part of a huge community, which is the whole world.”

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