Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 25, 2021 | Sundance | 212 Comments

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced today to 22½ years in prison after being found guilty in the 2020 murder of George Floyd. (Story Here) Prior to the sentencing Derek Chauvin made a brief, and seemingly cryptic, statement.

Odd Stuff:

Derek Chauvin lived in the same house for over a decade.

No-one in the neighborhood knew he was a police officer.

The immediate neighbors (7 years) didn’t know he was a cop.

Chauvin never once drove a police vehicle home.

No-one ever Chauvin in a police uniform.

In addition to being a police officer, Chauvin worked at a dance club as security.

Chauvin worked at the club for 14 years while also being a police officer.

George Floyd also worked at the club, also as security.

The club, El Nuevo Rodeo, had a sketchy ownership background.

Coincidentally El Nuevo Rodeo was one of the first buildings burned to the ground in the “riots”.

The prosecution never called the club owner as a witness.

The defense never mentioned the relationship.

George Floyd was busted for passing a counterfeit $20 (that was the reason for the call to police).

Just weird…. nothing more.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 25, 2021 | Sundance | 304 Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a lawsuit against the State of Georgia, the Georgia Legislature and the people of Georgia in order to stop any election reform that will deconstruct decades of carefully assembled election fraud. [DOJ Announcement Here]

Georgia is very important to the corrupt agents within federal institutions.  The leftist activists have worked methodically to use Georgia as a key battleground in their efforts to continue manipulating election outcomes.

The DOJ is worried, very worried, that as people wake up to the scale of election fraud perpetrated upon this nation more states will begin enacting laws that will block voter fraud.

The DOJ civil rights division does not want their gains in Georgia to be lost in the same way those , schemes collapsed in Florida over the past four years.  Strong laws that require voter ID to verify the validity of a person to vote are antithetical to the fraud Washington DC needs in order to control the U.S. government.

The issue of voter ID is a critical one that gets conflated by parseltongue words intended to confuse the issue. The issue of voter ID is NOT about proving “who you are“; the issue of voter ID is “proving you are eligible to vote“.

Erosion of state requirements for valid and authentic voter ID has made the challenge more difficult. Ex. a driver’s license is NOT proof that you are eligible to vote. A utility bill or some arbitrary document is NO proof of that either. To be eligible to vote you have to provide a legal: (1) Birth certificate, or (2) A Certificate of Naturalization, or (3) a voter ID which was obtained with one of the above. Voter ID is not proving who you are; voter ID is proving you are lawfully eligible to vote. There is a big difference.

The DOJ does not want to see people having to prove they are lawfully eligible to vote, that is the essence of the lawsuit against Georgia – and that will be the essence of every lawsuit of a similar nature.

(DOJ ANNOUNCEMENT) – The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board over recent voting procedures adopted by Georgia Senate Bill 202, which was signed into law in March 2021. The United States’ complaint challenges provisions of Senate Bill 202 under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

[…] The United States’ complaint challenges several provisions of Senate Bill 202, including a provision banning government entities from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot applications; the imposition of costly and onerous fines on civic organizations, churches and advocacy groups that distribute follow-up absentee ballot applications; the shortening of the deadline to request absentee ballots to 11 days before Election Day; the requirement that voters who do not have identification issued by the Georgia Department of Driver Services photocopy another form of identification in order to request an absentee ballot without allowing for use of the last four digits of a social security number for such applications; significant limitations on counties’ use of absentee ballot drop boxes; the prohibition on efforts by churches and civic groups to provide food or water to persons waiting in long lines to vote; and the prohibition on counting out-of-precinct provisional ballots cast before 5 p.m. on Election Day. The complaint asks the court to prohibit Georgia from enforcing these requirements.

Pay attention to this next part:

[…] Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco also issued a memo to United States Attorneys and FBI Field Offices today on investigating and prosecuting threats to election officials. To assist with this important effort the department will also establish an intra-Departmental task force to address the rising threats. (read more)

As we have mentioned previously, the United States Department of Justice is prepared to use federal law enforcement (FBI) to secure their position.  The purpose of this announcement should be crystal clear to everyone.  We discussed and outlined the background previously.  {Go Deep 1} and {Go Deep Two}

In the background of these maneuvers Big Tech and Corporate Media have been instructed to push the “domestic extremist” narrative; and any truth-tellers are considered subversive, ie. against the interests of the U.S. government.  The January 6th DC protest is being used as evidence for that narrative. Deplatforming, censorship and ultimately control of voices who would warn of the larger issues continues daily.

Let me be very clear… stop and hear the drums… Something is about to happen.  Approximately 100 million American voters are considered dissidents now.

The FBI is preparing for the American people to realize, perhaps reluctantly, and then implement the grassroot solution to deal with a corrupt federal government; a solution I would call “extreme federalism”.

The solution to the scale of DC corruption is local and state action using the constitution, specifically the 10th amendment, against the advancing overreach of corrupt DC officials. Extreme federalism is local and state government refusing to comply, totally ignoring, unconstitutional demands by the federal government. This approach can become visible in varying degrees of intensity.  State laws protecting voting integrity is only one facet.

Beyond simple legislative push-back, imagine if the State of Texas refused to facilitate any task for the border visit by Kamala Harris. No Texas state trooper escorts, no security, no facilitation once the White House entourage exits the airport. Extreme federalism is the intentional use of the state right provisions outlined within the constitution to stop facilitating federal offices of any form or function.

Imagine if FBI field offices were forced to close by state action taking back ownership of the property by eminent domain. Imagine if state national guard elements were instructed not to comply with federal requests for support. Extreme federalism is local sheriffs, constitutional officers, rebuking unconstitutional decrees and refusing to comply with federal agencies.

Extreme federalism is executed along the same concept of “sanctuary cities” or “sanctuary states” defying federal law.  However, extreme federalism is the reverse scenario where the unconstitutional efforts are identified by states who create sanctuaries for law-abiding citizens who forcefully demand representative government and self-determination.

Extreme federalism is a reaffirmation of the original intent of the United States constitution, and we do not need F-15s and nuclear weapons to achieve it.  What we need is strong–will, brave state-level leadership and unrelenting citizen determination.

Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com on JUN 24, 2021 AT 6:58 PM

And Neither did Epstein..

Another mega millionaire has allegedly committed suicide in prison. John McAfee was found dead in his jail cell, but the details remain sketchy. The libertarian rebel made it clear many times—he would never kill himself. He even had a tattoo testifying to that. Yet he is gone and the question is, what will his ‘kill switch’ reveal? Apparently the ‘Q’ that was posted on Instagram contain coding that might be key to unlock that switch.

Will information be revealed that shows us the evil that is being done by the ruling elite? In my opinion it’s unlikely. If McAfee could have revealed the truth about what’s going on by the global elitists, why didn’t he do it already? Obviously the oligarchs weren’t afraid of the kill switch. They wanted him whacked in Spain. Killing him as soon as he landed in an American prison cell would have been too obvious.

We don’t really need the kill switch to know what’s going on. We already know. They know we know. Like Solzhenitsyn once said, “They lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.” In the Soviet Union you had to pretend or face a gulag assignment. Or a bullet to the back of the head. In America, we still have a few vestiges of freedom left, so don’t believe them—and speak out against them! McAfee was killed for speaking out to some degree, but they can’t whack all of us.

God protect Julian Assange!

—Ben Garrison

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 24, 2021 | Sundance | 85 Comments

One step forward; however, in the longer term I fear this is two steps back…  The next lawfare chess move looks transparent, but maybe I’m wrong.

In the Atlanta ballot lawsuit Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero has granted the ability of Fulton county, the county elections board, and county courts clerk, as offices, to be removed as defendants in the lawsuit filed by Garland Favorito and nine plaintiffs. However, Judge Amero kept the lawsuit alive by granting the plaintiffs’ request to add individual members of the county board of elections as respondents.

The problem this presents is transparent. The next move by Lawfare lawyers representing opposition to the case will be for each of the individual members to now claim sovereign immunity as none of their specifically individual actions will be identified as contributing to any ballot fraud. This level of legal confidence seems present in the defense statements after the ruling was released:

“Don Samuel, an attorney for the Fulton elections board, said he planned to file motions to dismiss the claims against the board members because there are no allegations they had a role in counting the county’s ballots.” (link)

Favorito released a statement showing confidence in the result.  However, CTH is not so sure.

(link to VoterGA)

Perhaps the plaintiff lawyers have a good argument to focus on the individual board members, but in my experience any petition therein would have to show direct evidence linking a specific person to the specific harm claimed by the plaintiff.

If the Fulton County board of elections is not responsible for the way the ballot counting was handled, it seems challenging to identify a specific member of that board who would be responsible.  I’m not a lawyer, but that’s the way the defense argument seems to be framed.

The bottom line in this private civil lawsuit is the harm needs to be identified in order for the discovery, the actual inspection of the 147,000 absentee ballots, to be conducted.  The plaintiff is alleging harm based on the sworn depositions of election workers.  However, the defense is telling the court that a specific person will need to be identified as responsible for the alleged fraud the election workers are claiming to have witnessed.  This is a typical Lawfare catch-22.

The solution for this is obviously the Georgia Senate ordering an audit of those ballots via a legislative subpoena.  However, it doesn’t appear the Georgia legislature has taken any steps toward that goal.

I may be wrong, but I am less optimistic now than before.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Jun 24, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I have always been a sports car nut. I use to say the day I get an automatic, it’s time to die. Well, thank God I do not live in California. They have just outlawed manual transmissions. You cannot order a Porshe with a manual transmission in California. So exactly where does this lead? Will you eventually have your car confiscated if it’s manual in California? What if I buy one in Vegas and drive it to California? Would I get a ticket and have my car confiscated?

This is how society crumbles. Decisions are made by bureaucrats who are never put to a vote in any democratic manner. This is how tyranny flourishes. California has just entered the twilight zone.