We are the drain the swamp people

• None other than Sara Carter, intense, respected, informed investigative journalist “on the case” is at least as suspicious, distrustful
• We still have a glimmer of hope and would love to be proved wrong about our doubts
• Excellent source for the latest on this matter, be sure to bookmark her site as we have

Russia Hoax: Are We All Being Played? Put Up or Shut Up. 
By Sara Carter   — bold our emphasis

Russia Hoax: Are We All Being Played? Put Up or Shut Up.

Many people have asked me why I haven’t written a book since the start of my reporting on the FBI’s debunked investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia.

I haven’t done so because I don’t believe the most important part of the story has been told: indictments and accountability. I also don’t believe we actually know what really happened on a fundamental level and how dangerous it is to our democratic republic. That will require a deeper investigation that answers the fundamental questions of the role played by former senior Obama officials, including the former President and his aides.

We’re getting closer but we’re still not there.

Still, the extent of what happened during the last presidential election is much clearer now than it was years ago when trickles of evidence led to years of what Fox News host Sean Hannity and I would say was peeling back the layers of an onion. We now know that the U.S. intelligence and federal law enforcement was weaponized against President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and administration by a political opponent. We now know how many officials involved in the false investigation into the president trampled the Constitution.

I never realized how terrible the deterioration inside the system had become until four years ago when I stumbled onto what was happening inside the FBI. Those concerns were brought to my attention by former and current FBI agents, as well as numerous U.S. intelligence officials aware of the failures inside their own agencies. But it never occurred to me when I first started looking into fired FBI Director James Comey and his former side kick Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that the cultural corruption of these once trusted American institutions was so vast.

I’ve watched as Washington D.C. elites make promises to get to the bottom of it and bring people to justice. They appear to make promises to the American people they never intended to keep. Who will be held accountable for one of the most egregious abuses of power by bureaucrats in modern American political history? Now I fear those who perpetuated this culture of corruption won’t ever really be held accountable.

These elite bureaucrats will, however, throw the American people a bone. It’s how they operate. They expect us to accept it and then move on.

One example is the most recent decision by the Justice Department to ask that charges be dropped on former national security advisor Michael Flynn. It’s just a bone because we know now these charges should have never been brought against the three-star general but will anyone on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team have to answer for ruining a man’s life. No, they won’t. In fact, Flynn is still fighting for his freedom.

Think about what has already happened? From former Attorney General Jeff Session’s appointment of Utah Prosecutor John Huber to the current decision by Attorney General William Barr to appoint Connecticut prosecutor John Durham to investigate the malfeasance what has been done? Really, nothing at all. No one has been indicted.

The investigation by the FBI against Trump was never predicated on any real evidence but instead, it was a set-up to usurp the American voters will. It doesn’t matter that the establishment didn’t like Trump, in 2016 the Americans did. Isn’t that a big enough reason to bring charges against those involved?

His election was an anomaly for the Washington elite. They were stunned when Trump won and went into full gear to save their own asses from discovery and target anyone who supported him. The truth is they couldn’t stand the Trump and American disruptors who elected him to office.

Now they will work hand in fist to ensure that this November election is not a repeat win of 2016. We’re already seeing that play out everyday on the news.

But Barr and Durham are now up against a behemoth political machine that seems to be operating more like a steam roller the closer we get to the November presidential elections. Barr told Fox News in June that he expects Durham’s report to come before the end of summer but like always, it’s August and we’re still waiting.

Little is known about the progress of Durham’s investigation but it’s curious as to why nothing has been done as of yet and the Democrats are sure to raise significant questions or concerns if action is taken before the election. They will charge that Durham’s investigation is politically motivated. That is, unless the charges are just brought against subordinates and not senior officials from the former administration.

I sound cynical because I am right now. It doesn’t mean I won’t trying to get to the truth or fighting for justice.

But how can you explain the failure of Durham and Barr to actually interview key players such as Comey, or former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, or former CIA Director John Brennan. That is what we’re hearing from them.

If I am going to believe my sources, Durham has interviewed former FBI special agent Peter Strzok, along with FBI Special agent Joe Pientka, among some others. Still, nothing has really been done or maybe once again they will throw us bone.

If there are charges to be brought they will come in the form of taking down the subordinates, like Strzok, Pientka and the former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who altered the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application against short term 2016 campaign advisor Carter Page.

Remember DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report in December, 2019: It showed that a critical piece of evidence used to obtain a warrant to spy on Page in 2016 was falsified by Clinesmith.

But Clinesmith didn’t act alone. He would have had to have been ordered to do such a egregious act and that could only come from the top. Let’s see if Durham ever hold those Obama government officials accountable.

I don’t believe he will.

Why? Mainly because of how those senior former Obama officials have behaved since the troves of information have been discovered. They have written books, like Comey, McCabe, Brennan and others, who have published Opinion Editorials and have taken lucrative jobs at cable news channels as experts.

It’s frankly disgusting and should anger every American. We would never get away with what these former Obama officials have done. More disturbing is that the power they wield through their contacts in the media and their political connections allows these political ‘oligarchs’ unchallenged power like never before.

Here’s one of the latest examples. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top prosecutor Andrew Weissmann just went after Barr in a New York Times editorial on Wednesday. He went so far as to ask the Justice Department employees to ignore any direction by Barr or Durham in the Russia investigations.

I think Barr and Durham need to move fast if they are ever going to do anything and if they are going to prove me wrong. We know now that laws were broken and our Constitution was torched by these rogue government officials.

We shouldn’t give the swamp the time-of-day to accuse the Trump administration of playing politics or interfering with this election. If the DOJ has evidence and is ready to indict they need to do it now.

If our Justice Department officials haven’t done their job to expose the corruption, clean out our institutions and hold people accountable then it will be a tragedy for our nation and the American people. I’m frankly tired of the back and forth. I’m tired of being toyed with and lied to. I believe they should either put up or shut up.

From Weissmann’s New York Times Opinion Editorial

Today, Wednesday, marks 90 days before the presidential election, a date in the calendar that is supposed to be of special note to the Justice Department. That’s because of two department guidelines, one a written policy that no action be influenced in any way by politics. Another, unwritten norm urges officials to defer publicly charging or taking any other overt investigative steps or disclosures that could affect a coming election.

Attorney General William Barr appears poised to trample on both. At least two developing investigations could be fodder for pre-election political machinations. The first is an apparently sprawling investigation by John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, that began as an examination of the origins of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The other, led by John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, is about the so-called unmasking of Trump associates by Obama administration officials. Mr. Barr personally unleashed both investigations and handpicked the attorneys to run them.

But Justice Department employees, in meeting their ethical and legal obligations, should be well advised not to participate in any such effort

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Respected conservative legal commentator has great confidence in John Durham

We find it troubling, however, when the same commentator reveals that for Durham prosecutions are judgment calls where social effects are relevant

That could be a pretty slippery basis of analysis that maybe should be above the prosecutors pay-grade on politically momentous matters, especially where so much evidence points to guilt by politcal actors

The excerpts below are from an article written by Paul Sperry, an excellent reporter for Real Clear Politics. His analysis parallels our own, which we have shared with readers in the past…up to a point!  Our analysis follows.

Ex-Colleagues See Durham Dropping Bombshells Before Labor Day

“Justice Department policy prohibits prosecutors from taking overt steps in politically charged cases typically within 60 days of an election. Accordingly, Durham would have to make a move by the Friday before Labor Day, or Sept. 4.”

“(Durham’s)… team is led by his deputy, Nora Dannehy, who specializes in the prosecution of complex white-collar and public corruption cases. A Democrat with a reputation for integrity, she left a high-paying corporate job to rejoin Durham’s office in March 2019, the month after Barr was confirmed.

– “There’s no question that if Biden is elected, everything Durham has done at that point will be canceled out,” Swecker explained, adding that Biden would replace Barr and possibly even Durham. But by putting indictments and reports “into the public arena” before the election, Durham would put a Biden administration in the position of either taking further action or closing down his probe.

– “I would find it hard to believe that he punts under any circumstances,” said former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker, who knows Durham personally and has worked with the “hard-nosed prosecutor” on prior investigations. 

– (Swecker)… pointed out that Durham “would not risk throwing away 16 months of investigative work if he delayed action beyond the election.”
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Sperry believes, as we do, that Durham is a gifted and persistent prosecutor/investigator. And he also believes that his integrity is strong and that he will see that the facts of his investigation are known to the American people and will make every effort to see that justice is done.

We don’t doubt Mr. Durham’s skill, devotion to justice, or intent to ‘do the right thing’.

However, his perception of “the right thing” might be somewhat different from ours.

It has been suggested, though since apparently denied by AG Barr, that Durham’s sense of the “right thing” might be to not reveal the results of his probe and the conclusions he’s drawn from it until AFTER the election…so as not to appear that it’s “just politics”.

Mr. Swecker doesn’t believe that to be the case. He knows Durham very well and apparently has a solid basis for his ‘faith’ in him.

I guess we’ll see.

There are, to us, some troubling aspects to this, however, that provides some basis for our concerns.

First, of course, is the apparent “heads up” from Barr on Durham’s “political” concerns. Barr’s comments to the House Judiciary Committee did not totally allay our fears that that may be the DOJ’s operative position.

Then there’s Durham’s choice of a “Deputy”, Ms. Nora Dannehy…identified as a “Democrat”, with a “reputation for integrity”. She had worked for Durham when he was Federal Prosecutor  (Conn.) and investigated high profile cases into defendants on “both sides of the aisle”.

We’ve found nothing to refute her reputation’s characterization, other than, we’ve heard a lot of Washington people described precisely that way…Rod Rosenstein, Bob Mueller, James Comey, etc, etc.

For the moment, though, we’ll accept that Ms. Dannehy, although a Democrat, is “impeccable”, “above reproach”, “no nonsense”….

More importantly, maybe, in a ‘puff piece’ by the National Review, entitled, “The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington” (Geraghty article further excerpted below)  “…(regarding the investigation of Trump’s)… potential connections to Russia during the 2016 campaign. Durham will not speak to the press at all until he is done, and probably not even then. He and his team are extremely unlikely to leak. He is not afraid to reach conclusions that will disappoint or frustrate Attorney General Barr or President Trump. He will not be rushed; there is no guarantee that Durham will reach any prosecutorial decisions before the 2020 elections.”

And thus, we have John Durham’s “excellent reputation” going in to the “Trump Investigation”, hailed as “a professional who will not be rushed” , and the views of a former Asst. FBI Director, who knows Durham well, saying that he “would not risk throwing away 16 months of investigative work if he delayed action beyond the election.”

And, so, the question is still out there:

WILL JOHN DURHAM WRAP UP HIS INVESTIGATION, WITH A FINDING THAT THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE PROVES WRONGDOING BY THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, BEFORE THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER?

OR, WILL HE, WISHING TO AVOID BEING ACCUSED OF “POLITICIZING” HIS INVESTIGATION, BE WILLING TO RISK SEEING HIS WORK “CANCELLED OUT” BY A NEW (BIDEN) ADMINISTRATION?

WE’LL SEE.        dlh

Excerpts from lengthy November 4, 2019 National Review article by Jim Geraghty  about Durham:   (bold our emphasis)

The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington

John Durham may be the most consequential and least known figure in Washington right now.

In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and whether it was properly predicated. Some Trump fans believe there was a vast effort by a “deep state” of high-ranking intelligence and law-enforcement officials to smear Trump or hinder his campaign by creating a perception of corrupt ties to Russia. In late October, the New York Times quoted unnamed sources who said that Durham’s probe had officially become a criminal investigation, meaning he now has the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury, and to file criminal charges.    . . .

In September 2008, U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed Ms. Dannehy to supervise a national investigation concerning the dismissal of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006.

“Nora Dannehy has superior legal skills and an unmatched reputation for integrity,” said U.S. Attorney Durham. “During her long tenure in the Justice Department, she led some of the most sensitive investigations ever undertaken by our office. I am thrilled that Nora has chosen to return to public service and look forward to working with her and relying on her counsel and decades of legal experience to further the cause of justice for the people of Connecticut and our nation.”     . . .

In his speech at University of St. Joseph, Durham did not discuss his investigation of the tapes, but he did discuss the prosecutor’s calculus of when charges are warranted, which likely applied in this decision. “You are only authorized to bring a prosecution if you believe, based upon the evidence that you have, that you are likely to be able to prove a case not to the probable cause standard, which is all that is required to arrest somebody, but if you believe you can prosecute the case and prove that case beyond a reasonable doubt, and beyond that, that you would be able to sustain that conviction on appeal,” Durham said. “And if you can’t say, in all honesty, that you would be able to do that, then prosecution is not warranted. When on the nightly news, you’re watching what Bob Mueller is doing, and so forth, however that investigation turns out, whatever Mr. Mueller and his colleague conclude, if it’s not satisfactory to the public, it may very well be because Bob Mueller is an honorable man who applies those principles of law as he’s been taught and as he’s taught to others.”

“Durham was not just saying, ‘Do I have enough here that I could actually get a prosecution?’,” Deitz said. “But ‘Do I have enough here to justify — legally, morally, societally — this person’s conviction?’ That’s another reason why I admire him.”  . . .

Related reading (also by Paul Sperry)

Brief History of the Justice Dept.’s ’60-Day Rule’ (Which Doesn’t Say 60 Days)

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• Either that or one or both are dragging their feet
• In the meantime Dem prosecutors inflame the political situation
  

Manhattan Prosecutor Seeking Trump Taxes Cites ‘Possibly Extensive and Protracted Criminal Conduct’  Wall Street Journal, 8/4/2020

“Possibly?”

MEANWHILE, BILL BARR AND JOHN DURHAM SHUFFLE SLOWLY THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S ENORMOUS AND FAR-REACHING CRIMINAL EFFORTS AGAINST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND ADMINISTRATION

They Don’t Want To Appear “Political”

Barr seems oblivious to the highly “inferior” quality of ‘evidence’ of Democrats versus what is already known (and proven) about Obama-Biden wrongdoing…

And completely unaware that actions like Democrat Vance in New York could cost Trump reelection…and with it, the burial of any accountability by Obama’s minion’s for their criminality! All Durham’s evidence will vanish!

District attorney’s office points to public reports of alleged fraudulent financial activities by Trump Organization; White House says effort is part of ‘witch hunt’

“Public reports”???

Certainly doesn’t appear “political”!  Democrats would never stoop to that, or advantageous timing                        dlh

From the WSJ:

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Let’s see. In Seattle the Antifa and BLM mobs want taxpayers to “pay for the protective equipment” they need to successfully attack the cops and destroy public and private property!

Oprah says it’s those “whites” and their “system” that prevent Blacks (like her?) from being successful and rich!

And, now:

MICHELE OBAMA SAYS SHE IS SUFFERING LOW GRADE DEPRESSION; BLAMES PRESIDENT

Michelle Obama Says She’s Suffering From “Low-Grade Depression” – Blames President Trump

“I’m waking up in the middle of the night because I’m worrying about something or there’s a heaviness,” she said.

“I try to make sure I get a workout in, although there have been periods throughout this quarantine, where I just have felt too low,” she added.

(the entire article can be read at the link)      dlh

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Stand-up material:

For all you aspiring stand-up comics out there, we’ve got some material here that’s guaranteed to “bring the house down”!

Call it the “You CAN make This Stuff Up… but We Didn’t   (not all of it)”:

(These are actual stories from today’s ‘news outlets’ (well, maybe we exaggerated a little with our own comments…but only a little…these people ARE ‘nuts’):

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The story from the NY Post:

BLM Protesters Say Protective Gear Prices Them Out Of civil Rights

A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle are claiming that they’re being priced out of their civil rights by the prohibitive costs of defending themselves against police violence.The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court alleges that the repeated use of force by the Seattle Police Department has made it impossible for them to exercise their right to protest without pricey personal protective gear.

“Because protesters now must purchase expensive equipment to be assured that they will be able to protest safely, the indiscriminate use of weapons by SPD implicates equal protection,” the lawsuit says.

The five plaintiffs — Jessica Benton, Shelby Bryant, Anne Marie Cavanaugh, Alyssa Garrison and Clare Thomas — allege helmets, gas masks, protective clothing, goggles, gloves, boots, umbrellas and other gear are needed to fight off police pepper spray, less-lethal projectiles and other crowd dispersal measures.They claim they have been the victims of “indiscriminate” police violence during protests in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which was home to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, known as CHOP, on June 25.

The suit seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting the department from using force or crowd dispersal munitions.

“Because the Seattle Police Department has acted above and outside the law in dispensing its unbridled force, and the City has failed to prevent same, the government effect is to establish a de facto protest tax: individual protesters subjected to SPD’s unabated and indiscriminate violence now must purchase cost-prohibitive gear to withstand munitions — even when peacefully protesting — as a condition to exercising their right to free speech and peaceable assembly,” the suit said.

A spokesperson for the Seattle City Attorney’s Office said it will “look into these new claims and intend(s) to defend the City in this matter.”

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BLM Protesters Say Protective Gear Prices Them Out Of civil Rights

“Helmets, face shields, body armor , (fireproof) gloves, WonderWoman bracelets that make bullets harmless…all this is just too costly for your average ‘Black Lives Matter’ protester.”Who can afford all that equipment? You try handling Molotov Cocktails without fireproof gloves.”

“And, do you have any idea how much a good, heavy stiff, solid cane to bash cops over the head with, costs?”

“Rioting just isn’t any fun if you don’t have a gas mask! And, believe me, they’re expensive”.

“It’s just not a fair fight”, they must lament.

And, finally…Why haven’t Chuck and Nancy put a few million$ into thre COVID bill to cover these costs (Oh…they Have?)

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This is a true story according to the Washington Times:

OPRAH SAYS SYSTEM OF WHITE PEOPLE KEEPS BLACKS OFF ‘LADDER OF SUCCESS’ 

But first, our comment:

“Can you imagine how much a talent like me could’ve made if the ‘racist white man’  hadn’t discriminated against me?”, asked multi-billionaire, Winfrey.

“And, my friend LeBron…with his high intellect and political acumen, if it weren’t for ‘whitey’s system’, he would have been our first 5 term President!”

“I’ve created this for you because in order to stand with us and people that look like me, you have to be educated on issues that pertain to me and fully educated so you can feel the full level of pain so that you can have full understanding,” Mr. Acho said during the episode’s introduction. “I fervently believe that if the White person is your problem, only the White person can be your solution.”

The duo brought in multiple guests to cover topics surrounding racism and unconscious bias.

“As a Black person, White people for the proverbial phrase of White people, they run America. CEOs, Fortune 500 companies, execs, ownership, they run America. Not an individual White person, but collective White people,” Mr. Acho told a guest who was concerned that conversations on race were prone to ignoring or downplaying the existence of poor Whites. “Are there some poor White people in America? Absolutely. How did that happen? I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. Because as a Black person, I understand how we got poor. I totally get that.”

The former NFL player noted that Black Americans become poor by not having access to home ownership or excellent school districts.

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Peeled from the FaceBook page of HP

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• But will the truth be known widely enough?
• Will it matter to many?

At American Greatness:

The New Old Obama
Why is Barack Obama reemerging with greater frequency now? There are a few reasonable suppositions.

BUT WILL IT EVER BE KNOWN?

– “When the truth is finally known, the nation will learn that the Obama Administration was one of the most corrupt in its history by politicizing the IRS and FBI, surveilling the media, unmasking and leaking the names of U.S. citizens swept up in likely illegal surveillance, destroying the sanctity of the FISA court, and spying on a political campaign with the intent of destroying it before a U.S. election.”

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From KC in Michigan

MY SON WAS FLUNKING OUT OF COLLEGE SO I TOLD HIM, “YOU WILL MARRY THE GIRL I CHOOSE.”
HE SAID, “NO.”
 I TOLD HIM, “SHE IS BILL GATES’ DAUGHTER.”
HE SAID, “YES.”
I CALLED BILL GATES AND SAID, “I WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY MY SON.”
BILL GATES SAID, “NO.”
I TOLD BILL GATES, “MY SON IS THE CEO OF THE WORLD BANK.”
BILL GATES SAID, “OK.”
I CALLED THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK AND ASKED HIM TO MAKE MY SON THE CEO.
HE SAID, “NO.”
 I TOLD HIM, “MY SON IS BILL GATES’ SON-IN-LAW.”
HE SAID, “OK.”
AND THAT’S EXACTLY HOW POLITICS WORKS.

And thus, began the practice of hiring morons to work in influential positions of government.
 This practice remains unbroken to this day.

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• Never said better

Trying to find who said it first was futile … Franklin Graham, however, gave the line a new “life” itself. What a courageous, accurate, and supremely great commentary!

“Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment in life.” — Unknown

“The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012″

THIS IS PROFOUND. It is accurate, courageous, and in every respect, a great commentary.

It is sad, troubling, but true.In our view, if anything at all of the America that made it Great, is to be saved, It must happen on November 3, 2020…either the Day Donald trump was reelected, or, the Day America died forever.        dlh

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the
flow that has passed will never pass again. Franklin Graham was
speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville , Florida , when he
said America will not come back. He wrote:

“The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of
Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of
the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled
and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.

A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers,
union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood ,
uninformed young people, the “forever needy,” the chronically
unemployed, illegal aliens and other “fellow travelers” have ended
Norman Rockwell’s America .

You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual
acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get
back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take
zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs
(Republicans In Name Only) to right this ship and restore our beloved
country to its former status.

People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will
probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself
with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture,
our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.

The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back
yard, the American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s
“Rules for Radicals” and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod
along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the
strings on their beige puppet and have brought us Act 2 of the New
World Order.

The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has
been told.

Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that
this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and
political correctness..”

PASS IT ON

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