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Wed. July 26, 2017
Developing: Clinton-Linked Death Shakes Dems, Media Panics
BY BEN MARQUIS
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There is a running conspiracy regarding the astonishing number of people who have mysteriously ended up dead — either through odd accidents or “suicide” — after becoming involved with or threatening to expose the alleged misdeeds of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Another seemingly suspicious death can now be added to that already extensive list, as a former Haitian government official reportedly killed himself just prior to delivering testimony that was expected to be highly critical of the Clinton Foundation and the disbursement of the funds raised in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated the impoverished nation.
According to the Miami Herald, Klaus Eberwein, who headed Haiti’s economic development agency known as the Fonds d’Assistance Economique et Social from 2012 to 2015, was shot in the head and died in a Miami hotel room on July 11. The death was pronounced a suicide.
Eberwein, who reportedly was working part-time as an Uber driver in South Florida since leaving his post in the Haitian government, was also a partner in a pizza franchise in Haiti. His business associate was surprised by the sudden death as he recalled Eberwein being in good spirits as he planned to expand the business into Florida.
“It’s really shocking,” said longtime friend Gilbert Bailly, owner of Muncheez pizza. “We grew up together; he was like family.”
Eberwein was scheduled to testify on July 18 to the Haitian Senate’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission regarding allegations he faced of corruption and fraud related to the administration of relief funds.
What the Herald and most of the rest of the liberal media fail to mention is that Eberwein was also expected to testify that it was the Clinton Foundation who had misappropriated and fraudulently mismanaged the funds that were ostensibly raised to support Haiti’s recovery from the earthquake, according to WND.
The 50-year-old former official was an outspoken critic of the Clinton Foundation and reportedly told friends that he feared for his life due to those fierce criticisms.
“The Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace,” Eberwein had shouted during a protest outside the Clinton Foundation building in New York City in 2016.
Eberwein had previously stated, and was expected to testify as much, that only a mere 0.6 percent of the billions of dollars raised by the Clinton Foundation for Haiti actually made it into the hands of Haitian relief organizations. Some 9.8 percent of the funds ended up in the coffers of the Haitian government.
The remaining 89.8 percent of the funds, roughly $5.4 billion, were reportedly either unaccounted for or were disbursed to non-Haitian organizations.
Obviously, there is no evidence that the Clintons had anything to do with Eberwein’s death, but yet another suspicious death by a person highly critical of the Clintons and reportedly on the verge of exposing their corruption certainly does raise questions.
Considering that Bill Clinton is still held up as a hero on the left, Hillary is reportedly mulling a third run at the presidency and their daughter Chelsea continues to be groomed by a friendly media for a presumed entry into politics as an elected Democrat in the near future, it really isn’t that surprising that the bulk of the media would avoid digging too deep on this story, as they may not like what — or who — gets exposed.
Aliens Die in Smuggling Operation
On Sunday it was revealed that nine aliens died, and several more were in "dire condition", after they were discovered in the back of a "sweltering tractor-trailer" in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas. Seventeen of the 39 aliens rescued were reported to be in "critical condition".
At one point, it was reported, "more than 100 people" may have been packed into the truck, which was believed to have picked up its passengers on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico. According to the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tom Homan, "[f]our of the survivors appeared to be between 10 and 17 years old."
This is not the first such tragedy, or even the first in Texas. Early in the morning of May 14, 2003, a "milk trailer, piled with bodies" was discovered near Victoria, Texas, abandoned at a truck stop. Press reports stated that 19 died and 55 aliens were rescued in that incident; a five-year-old child was the first to succumb, and the driver eventually received a 34-year sentence for his role in that crime.
Nor was this the only incident that involved transported aliens in San Antonio this weekend. According to press reports:
15 people were detained at a home located at the 100 block of Westhaven Place on the West Side [of San Antonio] Sunday evening. Law enforcement sources tell us that those detained are believed to be human trafficking victims.
There are two important points that these cases underscore. The first is that smugglers are bad people. I am an educated man, and could use more flowery language, or more clinical terms, to make this statement, but that would be gilding a noxious lily. No evil compares to slavery, but if there were any group of individuals who would come close in their wretchedness to slavers, it would be smugglers. Their stock in trade is human flesh, and their hook is the human misery of those who are caught up in their predations. They objectify their customers, and are usually more than willing to cut and run, leaving their victims to their fates.
The second point is that smugglers are aided and abetted by well-meaning individuals in the United States. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick placed part of the blame for the Walmart incident on so-called "sanctuary cities", stating:
Sanctuary cities entice people to believe they can come to America and Texas and live outside the law. Sanctuary cities also enable human smugglers and cartels. Today, these people paid a terrible price and demonstrate why we need a secure border and legal immigration reform so we can control who enters our country. We continue to pray for the families and friends of the victims.
This may seem to be a cruel statement to some, but in my 25-years of immigration experience, it is 100 percent true. Such laws are likely enacted with the intent to "protect" those aliens who have already entered illegally, but they also send a signal to all who foreign nationals would come to the United States illegally that this country is not serious about its immigration laws, and that once an alien enters illegally, he or she will be "home free". It is not boastful to state as an American that we have a higher standard of living, better schools, and better healthcare than most of the world, and certainly those countries from which most illegal aliens come. These are strong inducements to take dangerous risks.
The same is true of other incentives provided to those aliens who have entered illegally. In-state tuition and driver's licenses for aliens here unlawfully send the same message. And, at the end of the day, for nine people in San Antonio, and 19 in Victoria, it is at the end of the day a cruel one.
There will always be immigration laws in the United States. Our institutions and social-welfare systems would collapse without them, crime would increase, and groups and nations that are adverse to our government and people would exploit open borders to harm us and our way of life.
And, as long as we have immigration laws, there must be only one immigration policy, set by the federal government pursuant to the Constitution. States can't have a different policy, and cities can't either. Although the best argument for such a system is the rule of law, it is not the only one. Divergent policies create false hope, and encourage aliens to take the risk of placing their lives in the hands of the worst of criminals.
Does Obama Still Think He’s President?
Over the course of the last six months, former President Obama has not been maintaining a profile that’s typical for most American ex-presidents. Rather than quietly retiring to a life of relaxation and leisure (former President George Bush famously took up painting after leaving office), he’s been keeping up a busy schedule of very actively and publicly combatting the policies and actions of the new Trump administration, both in Washington and elsewhere.
And rather than leaving the nation’s capital as most other ex-presidents have done, Obama has purchased a high-walled, 8,200-square-foot compound in the city’s posh Kalorama neighborhood previously belonging to ex-President Bill Clinton’s press secretary Joe Lockhart. It’s from herer that he reportedly commands an activist army of more than 30,000 hardcore liberal supporters, along with a “shadow government” staffed by his allies, friends and ex-officials of his administration whose mission it is to undermine, infiltrate and co-opt the various agencies, departments and bureaus of the Trump government.
It’s via these tentacles into the “Deep State” that Obama has been able to keep millions of dollars flowing to both himself and his family as the former president’s connections to his party and to globalists both inside and outside the United States make him an all-important figure who still wields considerable influence in Washington.
While a former politician’s connections to his or her party are typically nothing to look askance at, the fact that Obama has been outed recently as traveling to multiple foreign countries, such as South Korea (twice), Italy and Germany and meeting with the presidents or prime ministers of those nations, in some cases just hours after or before President Trump has met with those same leaders means that he could well be in violation of what’s known as the Logan Act.
The Logan Act is a longstanding law originally enacted in 1799, which says that no ordinary citizen of the United States may act on behalf of the U.S. government without explicit permission to do so. The fact that Obama has no official title in our government other than “former president” is specifically the trouble here; if he was just paying a courtesy call to heads of state in foreign countries, that would be one thing, but based on recent reports and conversations from these leaders themselves, it appears that the former president has been discussing U.S. policy and goals. If this is the case, then it may in fact be necessary for Obama to stand before the U.S. Congress and give answers as to what exactly he’s been talking about with these dignitaries.
Has Obama been presenting himself as a surrogate leader of the U.S. whose party will once again sweep into power in a few short years? Is Obama making promises based on people he appointed to roles in the government who still to this day retain their jobs as holdovers from the previous administration? Is he presenting himself as a representative of powerful globalist interests through whom foreign leaders can liaise? If the answers to any of these questions are “Yes,” there could be hell to pay for the ex-president, and even a jail sentence is not out of the realm of possibility.
Just imagining all the possible scenarios is enough to make one’s head spin. Suppose Obama has been telling world leaders that Trump will be impeached in a short time, and the Democrats will once again rule both houses of Congress. In Indonesia several weeks ago, Obama praised the Muslim country on July 4th while castigating the United States for its alleged “nationalism” and “isolationism.” Obama also reportedly blasted Trump’s decisions to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, implement a travel ban to and from six Muslim countries and recommend the repeal of Obamacare.
Has Obama also been trying to gather dirt on Trump by meeting so soon after or before the new president’s official visits to these countries? Has he been attempting to make Trump look bad by presenting himself by comparison? Try to imagine this same scenario playing out in any other country.
For instance, in Great Britain, imagine the leader of the currently out-of-power Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, jetting off to visit world leaders within hours of official visits by the UK’s conservative Prime Minister Theresa May; this would be a scandal for which Corbyn would practically be tarred and feathered by that nation’s press. And yet, as Obama has done the same thing, our national media has been nearly silent on the issue, with only conservative outlets running articles about this behavior.
According to some of those same outlets, these cases of “freelance diplomacy” are also allegedly not the first time Obama has engaged in such shenanigans. Author Michael Ledeen, who wrote the bestselling book Field of Fight with former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, says that in 2008 before he became president, Obama went to Iran “to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic and that they would be very happy with his [future] policies.” Obama also visited Germany, France, the UK, Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iraq. At the time, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential race competitor Senator John McCain said these trips were about “politics.”
Newt Gingrich recently stated on Fox News that Obama will have to testify to Congress about Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Obama may also have to answer charges that the Department of Justice (DOJ) under his last Attorney General Loretta Lynch did the bidding of the Democratic Party.
There is some indication that still-present Obama-era DOJ staffers have been involved in accusations over Russian influence on the Trump campaign. Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina has been grilling Obama’s Director of National Intelligence John Brennan and has vowed that certain surveillance programs authorized by Congress will not be allowed to be renewed until Obama testifies who authorized the “unmasking” of Trump campaign officials by former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
Will Obama also be forced to answer questions about his overseas trips? That’s a $64,000 question in Washington right now. Here’s hoping that Obama’s imperious behavior will be punished according to the dictates of U.S. law or at the very least be reigned in, reminding the former president that he is no longer acting in any official capacity and remains, like most Americans, simply an ordinary citizen.
A Hard Look: The State of the Democratic Party
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating. If the left had been one-tenth as observant and critical of Obama as they are Trump, their party probably wouldn’t have lost so badly in 2016. Instead of learning from those mistakes, they have fully committed to panic. They spew vitriol on everything proposed by the right, and they have absolutely no plan to move forward. Despite the popular narrative, the Democrats are in the worst political shape of their long history. Let’s take a look at the full scope of the problems they face and see how unlikely it is that they can recover.
The Lack of Leadership
When you try to think of who is at the helm of the Democrats right now, no strong names come to mind. Hillary is basically out of the political arena forever. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both fallen from their pedestals and been exposed as run of the mill, corrupt politicians.
In fact, as of now there are no definitive names in the hat for the next presidential election. Most analysts think the left will have to choose from anywhere between 10 and 17 candidates in the 2020 primaries. The lack of leadership is obvious in everything the left is doing right now. All they can hope for is to stall Republican efforts until they can right the ship. Whether or not that is a real possibility is still up in the air.
2018 Elections
The biggest problem for the left is that they have no time to find central leadership. The next round of elections is a year away, and the Senate race is already stacked in favor of Republicans. There will be 33 seats up for reelection. Of those, 2 are Independent, 8 are held by Republicans and 23 are currently Democrat. This means the Democrats have a lot more to lose in the next cycle.
Even if the parties were on even footing, the left would have to hold all 23 of their seats and flip half of the 10 that are available to take a Senate majority. That is incredibly unlikely. Worse for the left, there current political impotence makes it painfully likely that they will lose ground in the Senate. If that happens, you can expect Trump’s latter two years in office to be astoundingly productive.
The House is a different story. Since every seat is available, it’s likely that some of the Republican seats will lose. If both parties see a majority of incumbent victories, it’ll still favor the left, and it’s hard to imagine a scenario where the Republican House majority won’t slide towards the left.
That said, the current state of the Democrats will make a House majority remain highly unlikely. This is devastating for their side. They are at risk of giving a Republican president a full four years of Congressional majority. It’s also worth noting that historically speaking, the House usually swings to the opposite party in intermediate election cycles. If this doesn’t happen, it will just confirm the strong indicators that the Democrats are in danger of collapsing as a party.
The Shenanigans
This brings us to the state of things today. The left has no leadership, no strong platforms and no plan of action. All they can do right now is dig in their heels and obstruct Republican progress as strongly as possible. They are doubling down on demonizing political opposition, and that makes it even more impossible for them to win right-leaning voters. Instead, the Democrats are desperate to appeal to the Progressives. If they don’t, they risk losing roughly a third of their voting mass, and it is not a fracture the party could survive.
Unfortunately for the left, this forces them to further alienate anyone on the fringe or in the middle. American conservatives have learned to see through these media blitzes, and they are losing effect. The current trends suggest that Trump will be re-elected in 2020, and he stands a strong chance of maintaining Republican majorities for that term as well.
You are only going to hear bad news and attacks on the right from the mainstream media. It’s the only option left to them. Despite that, it is the Democratic Party that is actually in dire straits, and the next two rounds of elections will expose it. When they lose again, you can expect to see a complete overhaul of the part, or it will die for good.
~ American Liberty Report
Deportation Squad Chief BLASTS Sanctuary Cities
by: Jack Heretik
Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan castigated sanctuary cities as "un-American" in a new interview.
"Sanctuary cities, in my opinion, are un-American," Homan said during an interview with the Washington Examiner published Monday.
Homan said jurisdictions that adopt sanctuary city policies are increasing crime in and around them.
"In the last year, I've read all these stories of how the crime rate has exploded in Chicago, and the president's trying to help them," Homan said. "We're stepping up our game in Chicago. Is Chicago doing everything that it can to decrease the criminal activity up there? I say no."
"Sanctuary cities, in my opinion, are un-American," Homan said during an interview with the Washington Examiner published Monday.
Homan said jurisdictions that adopt sanctuary city policies are increasing crime in and around them.
"In the last year, I've read all these stories of how the crime rate has exploded in Chicago, and the president's trying to help them," Homan said. "We're stepping up our game in Chicago. Is Chicago doing everything that it can to decrease the criminal activity up there? I say no."
Veteran, 92, attacked while protecting his flags
Ninety-two-year-old Marine veteran Howard Banks, who is blind, was protecting his American and Marine flags, which have been stolen and destroyed before, when the suspect knocked him down. (Source: CNN/KTVT)KAUFMAN, TX (KTVT/CNN) - At age 92. World War II veteran Howard Banks is legally blind, but his memory is sharp.
On July 11, a day before his birthday, the Marine heard someone outside pulling his American flag down. So he went outside to investigate.
“I walked out, hanging onto the railing, and stepped down. That must’ve startled them,” Banks said.
Banks said the first time this happened, about a year ago, someone shredded his American flag and ripped his Marine flag. He was determined not to let that happen again.
“They could see me. I couldn’t see them. I turned and looked in the other direction, and about then - wham! One of them knocked me down,” Banks said.
Whoever did it took off. Neighbors rushed in to help Banks up. His knee was left a little twisted, he said, and he suffered bumps and bruises.
But he said that can’t stop him from his life’s mission, to honor veterans who sacrifice and serve.
“I think we all had that same feeling, that that flag was our identity. We were Americans,” he said.”The fact that I’m getting older, and the less I can do, at least I can still do that.”
Banks didn’t hear who attacked him. Meanwhile, family, neighbors and police are keeping a close watch on Banks and his flags.
Brazilians funneled as "slaves" by US church, ex-members say
BY MITCH WEISS, HOLBROOK MOHR AND PETER PRENGAMAN
SPINDALE, N.C.
When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and money were confiscated by church leaders — for safekeeping, he said he was told.
Trapped in a foreign land, he said he was forced to work 15 hours a day, usually for no pay, first cleaning warehouses for the evangelical church and later working at businesses owned by the sect's senior ministers. Any violation of the rules risked the wrath of church leaders, he said, ranging from beatings to shaming from the pulpit.
Trapped in a foreign land, he said he was forced to work 15 hours a day, usually for no pay, first cleaning warehouses for the evangelical church and later working at businesses owned by the sect's senior ministers. Any violation of the rules risked the wrath of church leaders, he said, ranging from beatings to shaming from the pulpit.
An Associated Press investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Brazil to siphon a steady flow of young laborers who came on tourist and student visas to its 35-acre compound in rural Spindale. The Brazilians often spoke little English when they arrived and many had their passports seized.
"They kept us as slaves," Oliveira told the AP. "How can you do that to people — claim you love them and then beat them in the name of God?"
Under U.S. law, visitors on tourist visas are prohibited from performing work for which people normally would be compensated. Those on student visas are allowed some work, under circumstances that were not met at Word of Faith Fellowship, the AP found.
In 2014, three former congregants told an assistant U.S. attorney that the Brazilians were being forced to work without pay, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by the AP.
Jill Rose, now the U.S. attorney in Charlotte, promised she would "take a fresh look at it," according to the recording. But the former members said she never responded when they repeatedly tried to contact her in the months after the meeting.
Rose declined to comment to the AP, citing an ongoing investigation.
Oliveira, who fled the church last year, is one of 16 Brazilian former members who told the AP they were made to work while being subjected to physical or verbal assaults.
Former congregant Jay Plummer, an American, supervised remodeling projects for a church's leader business and confirmed the Brazilians' assertions that the U.S. workers who labored alongside them were paid while they were not.
The revelations of forced labor are the latest in an ongoing AP investigation exposing decades of abuse at Word of Faith Fellowship. Based on exclusive interviews with 43 former members, documents and secretly made recordings, the AP reported in February that congregants were regularly punched and choked in an effort to "purify" sinners by beating out devils.
The church has rarely been sanctioned since it was founded in 1979 by Jane Whaley, a former math teacher, and her husband, Sam. Another previous AP report outlined how congregants were ordered by church leaders to lie to authorities investigating reports of abuse.
The AP made repeated attempts to obtain comments for this story from church leaders in both countries, but they did not respond.
Under Jane Whaley's leadership, the church grew from a handful of followers to about 750 congregants in North Carolina and nearly 2,000 members in its churches in Brazil and Ghana and affiliations in Sweden, Scotland and other countries.
Whaley and her lieutenants travel several times a year to the Brazilian branches, in the southeastern cities of Sao Joaquim de Bicas and Franco da Rocha.
She tells the Brazilian members of her flock that they can improve their lives and relationships with God with pilgrimages to Spindale, according to several of those interviewed.
Some said they also were enticed with the chance to attend college, to learn English, to see a bit of the U.S. Others said they felt they had no choice but to travel to North Carolina.
Perhaps to circumvent the rules against employment, church leaders sometimes referred to the forced labor projects as "volunteer work," according to Brazilians interviewed in both countries.
Many females worked as babysitters and in the church's K-12 school, and many males worked in construction, the former members said. The work included ripping out walls and installing drywall in apartments owned and rented out by a senior church minister, they said.
"It was slave labor," said Rebeca Melo, 29, who grew up in the church in Brazil and visited the U.S. about 10 times.
Whaley's brand of "love" also played a key role in enticing Brazilian males to Spindale — and keeping them there once their visas expired, according to former members of the church.
Ten of those interviewed spoke of male Brazilians obtaining green cards for permanent residency and being able to legally work by being married off to female American congregants.
It is illegal to enter a sham marriage for the purpose of avoiding U.S. immigration laws.
"I can count at least five or six Brazilian guys that moved here to marry an American girl," Melo said. "They would never, ever, ever consider letting you date somebody outside of the church."
"They kept us as slaves," Oliveira told the AP. "How can you do that to people — claim you love them and then beat them in the name of God?"
Under U.S. law, visitors on tourist visas are prohibited from performing work for which people normally would be compensated. Those on student visas are allowed some work, under circumstances that were not met at Word of Faith Fellowship, the AP found.
In 2014, three former congregants told an assistant U.S. attorney that the Brazilians were being forced to work without pay, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by the AP.
Jill Rose, now the U.S. attorney in Charlotte, promised she would "take a fresh look at it," according to the recording. But the former members said she never responded when they repeatedly tried to contact her in the months after the meeting.
Rose declined to comment to the AP, citing an ongoing investigation.
Oliveira, who fled the church last year, is one of 16 Brazilian former members who told the AP they were made to work while being subjected to physical or verbal assaults.
Former congregant Jay Plummer, an American, supervised remodeling projects for a church's leader business and confirmed the Brazilians' assertions that the U.S. workers who labored alongside them were paid while they were not.
The revelations of forced labor are the latest in an ongoing AP investigation exposing decades of abuse at Word of Faith Fellowship. Based on exclusive interviews with 43 former members, documents and secretly made recordings, the AP reported in February that congregants were regularly punched and choked in an effort to "purify" sinners by beating out devils.
The church has rarely been sanctioned since it was founded in 1979 by Jane Whaley, a former math teacher, and her husband, Sam. Another previous AP report outlined how congregants were ordered by church leaders to lie to authorities investigating reports of abuse.
The AP made repeated attempts to obtain comments for this story from church leaders in both countries, but they did not respond.
Under Jane Whaley's leadership, the church grew from a handful of followers to about 750 congregants in North Carolina and nearly 2,000 members in its churches in Brazil and Ghana and affiliations in Sweden, Scotland and other countries.
Whaley and her lieutenants travel several times a year to the Brazilian branches, in the southeastern cities of Sao Joaquim de Bicas and Franco da Rocha.
She tells the Brazilian members of her flock that they can improve their lives and relationships with God with pilgrimages to Spindale, according to several of those interviewed.
Some said they also were enticed with the chance to attend college, to learn English, to see a bit of the U.S. Others said they felt they had no choice but to travel to North Carolina.
Perhaps to circumvent the rules against employment, church leaders sometimes referred to the forced labor projects as "volunteer work," according to Brazilians interviewed in both countries.
Many females worked as babysitters and in the church's K-12 school, and many males worked in construction, the former members said. The work included ripping out walls and installing drywall in apartments owned and rented out by a senior church minister, they said.
"It was slave labor," said Rebeca Melo, 29, who grew up in the church in Brazil and visited the U.S. about 10 times.
Whaley's brand of "love" also played a key role in enticing Brazilian males to Spindale — and keeping them there once their visas expired, according to former members of the church.
Ten of those interviewed spoke of male Brazilians obtaining green cards for permanent residency and being able to legally work by being married off to female American congregants.
It is illegal to enter a sham marriage for the purpose of avoiding U.S. immigration laws.
"I can count at least five or six Brazilian guys that moved here to marry an American girl," Melo said. "They would never, ever, ever consider letting you date somebody outside of the church."
Caddell: Deep State Is Willing to Risk U.S. National Security to Damage Trump
by DAN RIEHL
Pat Caddell joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss the reaction to Sean Spicer’s resignation, possible conflicts of interest for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the dangerous leaks coming from his office, as well.
Caddell said what is going on with Mueller is “very disturbing,” adding, “that office is beginning to leak like a sieve. It is like Washington. This president has got to do something.”
Caddell called the leaks “a super felony if you will. A super breach of national security. These people, the deep state, to achieve their political end are willing to endanger the national security of this country.”
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
Study: Concealed Permit Holders Among the Most Law-Abiding of Law-Abiding Citizens
A Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) study shows that concealed carry permit holders are among the most law-abiding of law-abiding citizens in the country.
For example, for 2016 the study shows that just .0092% of Louisiana permit holders were charged with a felony in 2016. And in 2015 there “were 25,208 violent crimes in Louisiana, with 19 felony charges or convictions against permit holders.” Assuming the felonies were violent and the charges against permit holders stand, this still means permit holders only represent .08% of those who committed violent crimes.
Moreover, “the vast majority of … [cases involving concealed permit holders] are unlikely to involve firearms.”
According to CPRC, the percentage of Michigan concealed permit holders convicted of aggravated assault in 2015-2016 was .003%. The percentage of Michigan permit holders convicted of aggravated assaults in 2014-2015 was .002%
Shifting to Minnesota, the percentage of concealed permit holders convicted of assault in 2016 was .000%, the percentage convicted in 2015 was .000%, and the percentage in 2014 was .000%.
CPRC shows the percentage of Oregon “permit holders who were convicted of any type of felony, violent or nonviolent” in 2016 was .0074%. CPRC stresses that “these cases are unlikely to involve firearms.”
In Oklahoma, the percentage of permit holders convicted of a felony in 2016 was .0071%, in 2015 it was .0062%, in 2014 it was .0069%, and in 2013 it was .0078%.
To put these percentages into prospective, consider the percentages of misdemeanors and felonies committed by police officers. On May 27 Breitbart News reported a CPRC study which showed that from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2007, the yearly rate of misdemeanors and felonies by full-time police officers was .102 percent. On the other hand, the yearly rate for Texas’ concealed carry permit holders in the year 2015–the year campus carry was signed into law in that state–was .0102 percent.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Chuck Schumer Claims Gas Prices ‘Never Go Down’ as Gas Prices Hit Lowest Point in 12 Years
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claims that the price of gas “never goes down” as gas prices hit record lows under the Trump administration.
Schumer told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week Sunday morning that gas prices can only go up, citing “huge companies buying up other big companies” as the cause of rising gas prices.
“Gas prices are sticky — you know, when the domestic price goes, uh, when the, uh, price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up but it never goes down,” Schumer said. “How the heck did we let Exxon and Mobil merge?”
Even though Schumer said gas prices could be “sticky,” the Federal Reserve outlines what goods fall under the “sticky prices” economic theory and cites gas prices as an example of “not sticky” prices. Under the theory, sticky prices do not change in response to economic conditions.
Meanwhile, the nationwide average gas price was at $2.39 per gallon as of July 17, a decrease from the $2.47 per gallon when President Trump entered office, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), gas prices hit their lowest point in 12 years the weekend before July 4.
Jeff Sessions, in recusing himself from the two key matters before his office: The phony Russia investigation and the issues surrounding the Clinton Foundation and Hillary's conduct as Secretary of State, has effectively left his post, AWOL. He cannot act in either of these key investigations because he has recused himself -- recusals which are tantamount to resignation.
Trump should ratify what Sessions has done by replacing him entirely as Attorney General and bringing on someone who will vigorously defend him on the issues of Russia and will play offense in investigating "corrupt Hillary" and the leaks from Mueller and the intel community.
He should name Rudy Giuliani as the new Attorney General.
Rudy is only 73 (Sessions is 71). A national hero, his actions would have great credibility and he would out duel Mueller in a public contest.
The new Attorney General should:
• Investigate the leaks that are proliferating from the prosecutor's office
• Demand that Mueller fire the newly hired members of his staff who have compromised their objectivity by having donated to either political party or any of the 2016 presidential candidates.
• Insist that Mueller limit his investigation to only that conduct by Trump or his associates that is recent. He should not be allowed to act as a sort of appellate court to see if the electorate elected the right person president by rummaging through Trump's 71 years to come up with something to hang on him.
Sessions has neither the strength nor the ability -- in light of his self-emasculating recusals -- to act on this level.
Trump needs and AG who will fight for him and battle the usurpations of the special prosecutor.
And he needs one of sufficient prestige to be able to fire Mueller and assure that the public (or at least Trump's half of it) sides with the Administration.
Giuliani is his man.
Black Woman Fears for Her Life, Gets a Gun: Liberals Angry at Her
Texas grad student Antonia Okafort writes about how she used to be afraid to walk to her car by herself. This is no doubt in small part to the fact that liberals always talk about “rape culture” like it’s going to come down on women like a fog. There’s nothing you can do about it.
However, Okafor didn’t accept that. Writing in the New York Times, she explains how guns were not something she ever thought about, since she grew up in a Democratic household. But now? It’s a new day:
It was my first year as a public policy graduate student at the University of Texas, Dallas, and I was taking all my classes at night so I could work during the day. Every evening, after class got out around 10, I had to walk through the sprawling parking lots to get to my car. I dreaded that time of day. I would pray that no one was lurking in dimly lit areas or behind cars, and I’d try not to think about the campus police alerts I’d seen about sexual assaults in the area.
I had survived such an assault myself when I was a child. The incident left me acutely aware of the realities of being preyed upon just because you are physically smaller and less likely to protect yourself. I know what it means to feel defenseless.
When she told other people about her new self-reliance, however, some were not happy:
Still, I regularly encounter liberals who fear irresponsible gun use and think that college kids (even if they are 21) can’t be trusted with firearms. I understand that fear is a powerful motivator on both sides of this issue. But I fiercely resent being told that I can’t protect myself according to my rights as an American.
The Justice Department estimates that one in five women are assaulted during college. This number does not surprise me, although plenty of my fellow conservatives take issue with it. I have met so many women through my gun advocacy who felt helpless in the face of sexual assault before they carried a weapon — they felt that no one would listen to them, that they didn’t have any options. It is a huge failing of the conservative movement not to take this seriously. Even if the one out of five statistic is imprecise, isn’t one assaulted woman bad enough?
Female gun ownership isn’t a matter of political affiliation. I’ve met women across the political spectrum who own guns for self-defense or for shooting recreationally. In particular, black women have become a lot more interested in gun ownership and shooting classes.
Good for her! Good for them. It’s time that American women stop relying on other people to protect them. Guns are the great equalizer.
I don’t think all people SHOULD carry guns. However, I do know that if there’s a woman in trouble, no woman should wait and hope that a liberal shows up to save the day.
Libs would rather women cower in the shadows waiting for help than actually doing something about it. That is insane.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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