Chris Swecker, former FBI supervisor blasts the home raid on Mark Houck. His phone is “blowing up” over the FBI over the top excessive force.https://t.co/lHJw090ZmZ
— Elizabeth Yore (@ElizabethYore) September 27, 2022
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
BOSTON, MA — Chaos erupted at a local convent yesterday as a team of FBI agents aggressively stormed the building in the early morning hours. Sources say they had received multiple reports of it being a gathering place for a large group of dangerous, right-wing, pro-life extremists.
“We have been surveilling this terrorist organization’s hideout for several weeks and simply felt it was far too dangerous to allow them to continue meeting,” said Special Agent Josh Christophersen, who led the raid. “Allowing these types of devious extremist groups to fester is just too great of a risk.”
The FBI strike team, wearing tactical gear and carrying automatic weapons, used flash-bang grenades and tear gas to breach the doors of the convent before shouting orders and violently wrestling the building’s occupants to the ground. As the dust settled, it quickly became evident that this anti-abortion, conservative hate group was, in fact, the gathering of elderly catholic nuns who live at the convent.
Though questions were being raised about the use of excessive force against a group of old ladies, the FBI was quick to defend itself and its mission. “What do you want us to do? Let these dangerous people keep plotting to overthrow our democracy?” said FBI spokesperson Judah Powers at a press conference following the raid. “These people don’t believe women should be allowed to dismember and murder their own babies. The next thing you know, they’ll be disagreeing with performing gender reassignment surgeries on grade schoolers.”
Go here to read the rest. Let the Stasi FBI be placed on notice that regime enforcers are usually placed on trial after a regime is defeated, in our case, hopefully, peacefully at the ballot box. The defense that I was only following orders is effectively no defense. Good members of the FBI need to come forward now as whistle blowers. Some have already. May their numbers greatly increase.
Ryan-Marie Houck, the Catholic mom of 7 young children whose home was raided by 20+ FBI agents with guns drawn last Friday morning, shares with @TuckerCarlson about the violent political intimidation she & her family endured for their pro-life ministry.
Watch: pic.twitter.com/mmOGoUOVsQ
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 29, 2022
One might get the feeling that Joe Biden and company are trying to resurrect the Cristero War in our day.
Maybe they wish to celebrate the 100 year anniversary coming up in a couple of years, and feel they need to practice tactics before the big day.
Joe fits the profile of a murderous tyrant. Innocent children first.
Then those who support the innocents.
Maybe his dementia will sideline him before the anniversary date.
It was like this for Sister Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and her sister Rosa before they were sent to Auschwitz
Let the Stasi FBI be placed on notice that regime enforcers are usually placed on trial after a regime is defeated, in our case, hopefully, peacefully at the ballot box.
But then that’s just incentive for them to make sure they’re not beaten peacefully, isn’t it?
It’s something Michael Malice has talked about with north korea. That the leaders regularly show the consequences of what happened to the leaders of other regimes that fell – of the lynching the crowds delivered with the words, “if we fall, this is what happens to us.” That fear is what holds the leadership together.
So again, you have to wonder: why would they lay down and take it? Especially if they are convinced you won’t do anything about their defiance? They’re betting their incentive to escalate is greater than yours. If you’re not prepared, they’ll be proven right.
But then that’s just incentive for them to make sure they’re not beaten peacefully, isn’t it?
They almost always are defeated in the long run. Considering their figure head puppet President is looking for dead people, that the gal in reserve is an idiot everyone hates and that they are about to lose Congress, I would think the minions of repression have every reason to be sweating.
No, it was far worse for them. Don’t compare apples and rock salt.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/29/unc-holds-first-amendment-celebration-with-one-sided-condemnations-of-free-speech-values/#more-194525
Jonathan Turley discusses an allied phenomenon. Enormous revenues course through higher education, for the most part revenue streams subsidized with tax collections. What’s the point? We didn’t used to sort the labor market by stewing 2/3 of the population through tertiary schooling. Why do that now if this is the sort of person who works in tertiary schooling?
“Let the Stasi FBI be placed on notice that regime enforcers are usually placed on trial after a regime is defeated, in our case, hopefully, peacefully at the ballot box.”
Thing is, in this country, especially now, the bureaucracies control the government more than elected officials do. And the FBI is a bureaucracy that is part of a larger bureaucracy, the DOIJ. And the left control the bureaucracies, as they have for some time. This is something conservatives seemingly don’t want to face. The left thinks in decades while the right thinks in terms of the next election cycle. While necessary, it’s going to take more than electing the right people. It’s going to take reining these bureaucracies in. I think conservatives should encourage upcoming generations to consider careers in these agencies as a possible career path toward that end. Otherwise, this will continue, perhaps with brief lulls in between, only to come back with a vengeance afterward.
What I wamt to say here would get traced by the F#$%ing Bunch of Incompetents and they would storm my house.
I wasn’t able to laugh at that Babylon Bee excerpt. It may happen. It was not easy, coming after Janet Reno and Eric Holder, but Merrick Garland is the worst Attorney General in the history of the Republic. I have my thoughts as to how he should be handled, but I will not put that on the Internet.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our worst political class in history has generated a situation where the flow of public sector borrowing is at full wartime mobilizaition levels – 16.7% of gross domestic product per year with a stock of public sector debt of 137% of domestic product.
Across the pond, British borrowing is running at 6% of gdp and the stock is about 95% of gdp. They have a better balance sheet then ours, but now the Bank of England is attempting to goose the bond market because it’s demanding higher returns on British debt issues. Part of the reason they are is that Liz Truss thinks it’s a capital time to have a tax cut (and she wants more immigrants too). Pascal Emmanuel Gobry asks how is it that Britain votes for Brexit and what they get is a remoaner in the pm’s chair and her program is price controls on fuel, tax cuts, and MOAR immigration. It’s almost as if elections are pantomimes and they invariably deliver up people who make all the wrong moves with a program that is injurious to ordinary people in particular. And they have the more competent political class.
Being more competent also means they’re more competent at betraying you.
Nate,
You are answering your own questions here:
So again, you have to wonder: why would they lay down and take it? Especially if they are convinced you won’t do anything about their defiance? They’re betting their incentive to escalate is greater than yours. If you’re not prepared, they’ll be proven right.
The correct action is to escalate more than the left expects and to make sure that when we do so it settles the matter.
The right’s go to play has been to sit back and hope that if we don’t ramp things up then the left will play fair. But they always escalate independently of our actions. There is nothing that the right did that remotely compares to these raids on pro life voices, but the left went ahead with it anyway. Similarly the right never dreamed of weaponizing which cases to prosecute in the way that left wing DAs have. But they did it anyway.
It takes two to deescalate, and the left isn’t going to play ball. So the only other choice is to beat them quickly and decisively in the escalation game.
“The correct action is to escalate more than the left expects and to make sure that when we do so it settles the matter.”
What would such escalation consist of?
“The right’s go to play has been to sit back and hope that if we don’t ramp things up then the left will play fair.”
That is not correct. For example when Schumer amended the Senate rules to take the filibuster off the table on all non-Surpreme Court judicial appointments, McConnell extended it to Supreme Court appointments.
McConnell’s refusal to hold hearings for Garland in 2016 was unprecedented.
The two above I supported. I did not support the idiotic January 6 riot which was also unprecedented when electoral ballots were being counted.
Partisans always think the other side is playing hard ball and your side is too soft. Often times cold analysis reveals that escalation is rarely a one sided thing.
We are in a can you top this environment. What sort of country will we have left at the end of the process? The times now are bad and I fear the worst is yet to come.
“Merrick Garland is the worst Attorney General in the history of the Republic.”
Merrick Garland does not believe in our Constitution nor our civil rights. Under Garland the Second Amendment and the Eighth Amendment, the Bill of Rights mean nothing.
“For example when Schumer amended the Senate rules to take the filibuster off the table on all non-Surpreme Court judicial appointments, McConnell extended it to Supreme Court appointments.
McConnell’s refusal to hold hearings for Garland in 2016 was unprecedented.“
As much as I despise McConnell, he deserves credit where it is due. And he deserves credit for those two examples. Furthermore, as bad as I think McConnell is, who in the conservative wing is competent to take his place?
As to tabling the Garland SCOTUS nomination, McConnell was under at least som pressure to do so, when it was a presidential election year and every GOP candidate, with the exception of Trump, called for McConnell to do just that.
As for Jan. 6, Trump walked right into a trap. And if the full truth about J6 were to be known, it is very possible the federal law enforcement bureaucracy (controlled by the left) bears as much, if not more, responsibility than any MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters.
As for escalation, a good starting point would be to do what you suggested, i.e. putting the higher ups of the FBI on trial. But I would not just restrict the legal actions to the FBI.