Texas Synagogue Attack Smells Like More Evidence of FBI Corruption

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After all hostages were released from Beth Isreal Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas where they were held for 11 hours on Saturday, FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno from the Dallas field office told reporters that the gunman was “focused on one issue” that was unrelated to the Jewish community, and that they are “continuing to work to find the motive.”

That “one issue” is presumably the imprisonment of Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady Al Qaeda,” a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence in a prison less than 20 miles from the synagogue. The gunman, Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen, was heard shouting about Siddiqui’s release and demanding to speak to his “sister,” a terrorist whose release mainstream Muslim groups have recently been lobbying for. Akram died of gunshot wounds after the hostages were released.

The FBI’s statement that they “are continuing to work to find the motive” is another example of the agency’s ineptitude on multiple levels. The first is simply their refusal to even hint at the crime’s motivation as antisemitism, which is the only accurate label for an attack at a synagogue on Shabbat where a rabbi and three congregants are held hostage.

“If the law enforcement community doesn’t understand what’s going on, they’re not going to be able to address the fallout from this,” said Kenneth Marcus, the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. “This was not a mere slip-up. It is symptomatic of a widespread failure with law enforcement to understand the problems of antisemitism and anti-Zionism,” he told Fox News.

But perhaps even more frustrating is the FBI’s corrupt obsession and use of resources on cases that suit their political fancy, like the Jan. 6 Capitol riot or “Operation Varsity Blues” (catching rich people scamming to get their underachieving kids into top universities), while letting serious violent threats to Americans fly under the radar. (Read more from “Texas Synagogue Attack Smells Like More Evidence of FBI Corruption” HERE)

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FBI Dramatically Changes Tune on Synagogue Hostage Situation; Hero Rabbi: Here’s How the Synagogue Leader Ended the 10-Hour Ordeal

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The FBI has changed its tune on the hostage situation at a Texas synagogue over the weekend.

As Rebecca covered, the FBI initially claimed the suspect wasn’t specifically targeting the Jewish community. . .

FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said on Saturday they believed the suspect was “singularly focused on one issue” which “was not specifically related to the Jewish community.”

By late Sunday, the FBI caught up to reality.

“This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force,” the FBI said in a new statement. “We never lose sight of the threat extremists pose to the Jewish community and to other religious, racial, and ethnic groups.”

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Hero Rabbi: Synagogue Leader Threw Chair at Crazed Terrorist to End 10-Hour Hostage Ordeal

By New York Post. The hero rabbi held hostage in his Texas synagogue has credited active-shooter training for helping him save his congregants — revealing Monday that he threw a chair at the terrorist so they could finally escape. . .

“In the last hour of our hostage crisis, the gunman became increasingly belligerent and threatening,” the rabbi said in a statement of British terrorist Malik Faisal Akram, who “wasn’t getting what he wanted.” . . .

He said he remembered the security training warning that “when your life is threatened, you need to do whatever you can to get to safety.”

That came when Akram “wasn’t in a good position” and Cytron-Walker and the two congregants with him were close to an exit, he told CBS, saying he made sure they “were ready to go.”

“I told them to go,” he said. “I threw a chair at the gunman, and I headed for the door. And all three of us were able to get out without even a shot being fired,” he told CBS of the “terrifying” ordeal. (Read more from “Hero Rabbi: Synagogue Leader Threw Chair at Crazed Terrorist to End 10-Hour Hostage Ordeal” HERE)

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The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Vaccine Mandates Is Frighteningly Weak; Supremes Block Biden’s OSHA Vax Mandate

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By The Federalist. It’s long been axiomatic in the legal profession that tough facts make bad law. Yesterday’s forked decisions from the Supreme Court in two vaccine mandate cases now add a corollary to that principle: Quick cases make milquetoast opinions.

The Supreme Court heard the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Medicare/Medicaid mandate cases in tandem on an expedited basis last Friday. Although court observers expected lightning-fast decisions, the opinions in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor and Biden v. Missouri didn’t drop until Jan. 13.

The high court issued both decisions as per curium, or “by the court,” unsigned opinions, with a 6-3 majority staying the OSHA de facto vaccine mandate in National Federation and a 5-4 majority in Biden v. Missouri allowing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ rule requiring vaccines for medical facility workers to take effect. Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh switched sides to join the court’s leftist members in the Medicare/Medicaid case, with Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito issuing separate dissents joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch in Biden v. Missouri.

In National Federation, the six-justice majority entered a stay to prevent OSHA’s “emergency temporary standard,” requiring employers with 100 or more employees to either compel their employees to become vaccinated or to test weekly for Covid and wear masks at work, from going into effect. The court concluded that­ the employers, states, and other entities and individuals challenging the rule were “likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Secretary lacked authority to impose the mandate.”

The nine-page majority opinion methodically detailed the backdrop to the Biden administration’s OSHA work-around and the procedural history. That saw the case going from the Fifth Circuit, where the federal appellate court had stayed the rule, to the Sixth Circuit, where after all of the cases challenging the rule were joined the Cincinnati-based court removed the stay. (Read more from “The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Vaccine Mandates Is Frighteningly Weak” HERE)

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Supremes Block Biden’s OSHA ‘Work-Around’ Vax Mandate

By WND. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has suspended Joe Biden’s nationwide workplace COVID shot mandate, which would have caught up tens of millions of Americans in a strategy to impose the experimental shots on those reluctant to take them.

The majority opinion, per curiam, explained the administration, through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, demanded the mandate, “which employers must enforce,” for “roughly 84 million employees.”

The mandate requires that workers gets a COVID-19 “vaccine” and it overrules state laws to the contrary.

“OSHA has never [before] imposed such a mandate. Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,” the opinion said. (Read more from “Supremes Block Biden’s Osha ‘Work-Around’ Vax Mandate” HERE)

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Poll Reveals Astonishing Percentage of Democrats Support Unparalleled COVID Tyranny for Unvaccinated; Major Newspaper Wants National Guard to Bar Unvaxxed Americans From Going ‘Anywhere’

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By Townhall. A shocking percentage of Democrats support the enactment of tyrannical Covid-19 measures on unvaccinated people, according to a Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday.

Well, maybe “shocking” isn’t the correct term given that we’re dealing with hypochondriac, authoritarian leftists drunk with power. Still, when nearly half the members of the ruling political party literally want to see unvaccinated people digitally tracked and forced into “designated facilities,” it’s definitely cause for concern.

via Rasmussen:

– Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters would oppose a proposal for federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine. However, 55% of Democratic voters would support such a proposal, compared to just 19% of Republicans and 25% of unaffiliated voters.

– Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a proposal is opposed by 61% of all likely voters, including 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters.

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Major Newspaper Wants National Guard to Bar Unvaxxed Americans From Going ‘Anywhere’

By Daily Wire. In a panic-stricken weekend editorial, The Salt Lake City Tribune opined that the Utah governor should use the state’s National Guard to bar unvaxxed Americans from leaving their homes in the name of COVID-19 safety. The editorial ran Saturday and included a laundry list of complaints against Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R), new state epidemiologist Dr. Leisha Nolen, and national leaders for supposedly surrendering to the virus.

“That wan fluttering noise you hear coming from the direction of the Capitol building is the sound of the state of Utah waving the white flag of surrender in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Tribune’s editors wrote.

“It’s tragic. It’s disgraceful. And there is lots of blame to go around,” the editorial continued. “Gov. Spencer Cox and the new state epidemiologist, Dr. Leisha Nolen, let it officially be known Friday morning that there are so few tests available in the state, and so many people who reasonably fear that they have contracted the coronavirus, that anyone who is feeling the kind of symptoms associated with the disease should just assume they are infected and stay home.”

The op-ed also blamed both Republicans and Democrats — even President Joe Biden — for acquiescing to supposed misinformation or enacting inadequate policies that could not slow the spread of COVID-19. The editors of the city’s largest paper decried those opposed to mask and vaccine mandates for supplanting safety with claims of protecting personal freedom.

As a result, the paper surmised that “we are free all right. Free to fend for ourselves. To watch our children lose weeks, months, or more of their precious educational opportunities. To wonder whether it is safe to go to work or to the store or to sporting events. To see businesses close for want of employees or lack of customers.” (Read more from “Major Newspaper Wants National Guard to Bar Unvaxxed Americans From Going ‘Anywhere’” HERE)

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Expert: People Who Study the Origins of Civil Wars See ‘Indicators’ the U.S. Is on the Brink of Conflict

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Though the idea of another civil war in the near future seems far-fetched to many Americans, people who study such conflicts might disagree, according to Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University.

Snyder, an expert on the rise of authoritarianism, discussed the future of American democracy in an interview with Insider during which he said he fears the US might not survive if former President Donald Trump runs again in 2024. . .

“First of all, I just want to say that, for the people who actually study the origins of civil wars, not just in the US, but as a class of events, America doesn’t look good right now,” Snyder said.

He cited the high degree of polarization, beliefs in alternative realities, and the celebration of violence, pointing to some who praised the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who killed two people at a racial justice protest in Wisconsin in 2020. (A jury acquitted Rittenhouse, who said he acted in self-defense.)

“Those social scientists who actually work on this topic — neutrally — see indicators in the United States, which suggests that we are on the brink of some kind of conflict,” Snyder said. (Read more from “Expert: People Who Study the Origins of Civil Wars See ‘Indicators’ the U.S. Is on the Brink of Conflict” HERE)

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Doctor Has Medical License Suspended After Writing COVID Vaccines Are Associated With Reproductive Harm

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A doctor in Maine saw her license to practice medicine suspended Tuesday after she was accused of spreading medical misinformation regarding COVID-19.

Dr. Meryl Nass’s license was temporarily suspended after Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine voted to investigate the claims against her and suspend her ability to practice medicine for 30 days, according to a report.

She has been given the opportunity to have the suspension lifted if she transitions to inactive status, the report noted.

Nass is an internist and reportedly affiliated with Children’s Health Defense.

The group is outspoken in its opposition to vaccines and mandates. (Read more from “Doctor Has Medical License Suspended After Writing COVID Vaccines Are Associated With Reproductive Harm” HERE)

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LGBT Activists Have Been Using Courts to Harass This Christian Baker for Ten Years

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Jack Phillips is an American. His nation’s supreme law claims to protect his inalienable rights to free speech and to freely practice his faith. Yet for ten years, these same rights have been effectively suspended by a state legislature and multiple courts, despite a 2018 win in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Phillips, who lives in the Denver, Colorado suburb of Lakewood, was first prosecuted for faithful Christianity in 2012. He was hauled into Colorado’s non-judicial Civil Rights Commission, then later into real courts, for offering to sell a gay couple anything in his bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, except a custom cake celebrating homosexual acts. He’s still in court now.

His ten-year battle, Phillips said in a Jan. 14 phone interview, “had profound effects on me and my faith. My faith is much stronger now, my family is much closer. First coming out, there were death threats and things, hateful phone calls and emails. There was a time when my wife was afraid to come to the shop because you didn’t know what you would expect.”

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court found Phillips was essentially the victim of government entities prejudiced against Christians and other traditional religions, noting the personal hostility expressed against him by commission members. . .

Immediately after the Supreme Court decision in Phillips’s first case, LGBT activists hauled Phillips back into court, not once but twice more, again with clear personal animus. In the current case, a lawyer named Autumn Scardina claims the right to force Phillips to draw a picture of Satan smoking marijuana and to bake a cake celebrating transgender mutilation. Not being able to force others into expressing things they don’t believe, Scardina claims, constitutes discrimination against LGBT people. (Read more from “LGBT Activists Have Been Using Courts to Harass This Christian Baker for Ten Years” HERE)

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Video Shows Pennsylvania Official Admitting Election Laws Were Broken in 2020

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“So, we’re going to actually follow the law fully this time,” Delaware County, Pennsylvania’s Christina Perrone told fellow election-related workers during a Zoom meeting after the November 2020 election. This video—the latest obtained by The Federalist—provides yet another example of widespread violations of election law during the last presidential election.

Regina Miller, a contract worker for the large Pennsylvania county, filmed the video of the April 7, 2021 Zoom meeting, which involved voting officials discussing plans for the upcoming elections, according to sources familiar with the recording. The video began with Perrone, who, according to a lawsuit filed against her, other Delaware County officials, and the county, served as a project manager for the county, saying they would “talk about that off-line”—with the “that” not specified.

The remainder of the clip, however, gave some clues, with Perrone saying she had a brief conversation with “Jim,” “and this time it’s much different than last time because we’re going to have them sign oaths. There’re going to be W4s and we need them to sign something allowing somebody else to pick up. So, we’re going to actually follow the law fully this time,” Perrone ended with a laugh.

The Federalist contacted Delaware County, inquiring on the identity of “Jim” and the other participants in the call and seeking comment on videos filmed by the whistleblower. The public relations director for the Pennsylvania county, Adrienne Marofsky, stated that as the matter involved “pending litigation,” the county was “not responding to press questions.” Marofsky added, however, that, “The county is confident that the elections in 2020 and 2021 were conducted fairly and fully complied with state and federal laws.” (Read more from “Video Shows Pennsylvania Official Admitting Election Laws Were Broken in 2020” HERE)

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Prince Andrew Likely Dated Ghislaine, Pal and Ex-Royal Guard Claim

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Prince Andrew may have once dated Ghislaine Maxwell, according to friends and a former royal protection officer who claims Jeffrey Epstein’s madam was constantly “in and out” of Buckingham Palace.

Former palace cop Paul Page said in a new documentary that Maxwell became a regular visitor from 2001, the year Andrew and his sex accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, were photographed in Maxwell’s London home.

“From the way she was allowed to enter and exit the palace at will, we realized — suspected — that she may have had an intimate relationship with Prince Andrew,” Page said.

“A colleague of mine remembered her coming in four times in one day. She kept coming in and out, in and out,” he told the doc, “Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Pedophile,” set to air on Britain’s ITV in full on Tuesday.

A banker friend of Maxwell’s who socialized with the now-disgraced group shared the sentiment. (Read more from “Prince Andrew Likely Dated Ghislaine, Pal and Ex-Royal Guard Claim” HERE)

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Wrong Arm of the Law: Disturbing Video Shows Cop Grabbing Female Officer by the Throat During Arrest

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A veteran Florida police officer is under investigation after he was caught on video grabbing a female cop by the throat when she tried to pull him away from a handcuffed suspect.

Sunrise police Sgt. Christopher Pullease, 46, is accused of attacking the 28-year-old female officer, who hasn’t been named, outside a Shop & Save convenience store on Nov. 19, WSVN reported.

The ordeal unfolded when Pullease and several other cops were arresting a man for aggravated battery after he had hit people outside the store. . .

The female cop suddenly ran over and tugged on Pullease’s belt in a bid to get him away from the suspect, the bodycam video showed.

Pullease whipped around, grabbed hold of the officer’s neck and shoved her against another patrol car, according to the footage.

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