I know all too well what it's like to be the target of a vicious, political prosecution.
After nearly 20 years of decorated service as a Navy SEAL, I was arrested and charged with the murder of an ISIS terrorist in Iraq. I was facing not only life in prison, but an endless campaign of slander and misinformation from our corrupt media.
Thankfully my family fought back publicly and fearlessly, caught the attention of President Trump, and I was freed from the brig and allowed to properly prepare for trial. I was found not guilty and allowed to keep my trident, but our life was a living hell for a long time.
Now, Kyle Rittenhouse is in the crosshairs and I refuse to sit back. As I've watched his trial, it's become crystal clear that Kyle acted in self-defense.
I'm emailing you now because through FreeKyleUSA, Kyle's mother Wendy has been furiously working to raise money for his legal defense, and they urgently need our help. Will you make a donation right now?
More and more nowadays, if you're considered a political enemy of the powers-that-be, the rule book gets thrown out and anything goes.
The media, politicians, tech companies and other powerful interests band together to try and crush you financially and personally. The "narrative" takes precedence over the truth, and people's lives can be forever ruined.
That is not the America that I dedicated my life to defend.
It shouldn't have to be this way, but I know from my own experience that if enough people stand up and push back, justice can still prevail. And right now, justice means a "not guilty" verdict and Kyle Rittenhouse getting his life back.
It can happen, but his legal defense is incredibly costly and he needs the support of millions of patriotic Americans across this country.
I'm calling on you to help because believe it or not, your donation will make a difference. So please donate to FreeKyleUSA now, and let's pray that Kyle gets the justice he deserves.
The truth, and our God-given right of self-defense still mean something in this country, and we have the power, today, to stand up for both.
Thank you for your time.
Steadfast,
Eddie Gallagher
Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief (Ret.)
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The way to end a bad law is enforce it and our dictator President has lost all sense of control and adherence to The Constitution. Increasingly radicals, who control him, seek discord and power over "we the people." It must end - NOW! He must be stopped.
Fellow American,
By now, I’m sure you're as furious as I am with the White House’s absurd and illegal COVID vaccine mandate.
The federal government has NO POWER to get involved in your medical decisions. PERIOD!
But for millions of college students in America today, it’s not just the federal government they have to worry about
In fact, more than 2,500 colleges and universities are FORCING students to get the COVID vaccine... DEMANDING that they publicly share their medical history... and BANNING them from school if they don’t comply!
My friend, this is the pattern for vaccine mandates across America--including Joe Biden’s. And if we don’t stand up against it now, there’s no telling how aggressive the federal government will get in their quest to force this vaccine on you and me whether we want it or not.
That’s why Turning Point USA and our army of 400,000 student activists are leading the battle against forced COVID vaccines on campus. Will you stand with these students today by signing TPUSA’s National Open Letter Against Forced COVID Vaccinations?
To ensure that students are ready to win the fight for freedom against radical college administrations, we’ve launched a “NO FORCED VAX” campaign and created engaging and educational activism kits that we’re shipping out to students every week.
Your signature right now will help complement that effort by showing these Leftist university administrators just how many Real Americans are opposed to their radical policies.
This move by the universities is not about vaccines AT ALL. It’s about freedom, choice, information, and constitutional rights.
Young and healthy students —the least affected by the disease — must be free to decide what is best for them alongside their doctors… not college administrators or bureaucrats.
The same goes for all Americans, but the Biden administration has watched what these universities have been able to get away with--and put their policies on steroids.
As I write this email, thousands of students have been denied reentry to their campuses until they can show proof of vaccination. One student at Rutgers was even locked out of his ONLINE college classes until he takes the vaccine!
If we let these schools exercise this kind of power over their students, I hate to see what the White House comes up with next!
We must win this campus battle right now, or we’ll be fighting it on our own doorsteps.
Please partner with TPUSA NOW in the fight against forced COVID vaccinations! With your signature on the National Open Letter today, you’ll help turn up the heat on these radical universities and stand with conservative students across America as they defend their freedom.
Stop Forced Vaccination!
Thank you for your support!
For America,
Charlie Kirk - Founder & CEO Turning Point USA
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Middle of Somewhere is now a mini docu-series
By Salena Zito
So thrilled to finally showcase The Middle of Somewhere mini Video docu-series — a series that takes you into the lives of ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives in the middle of somewheres across the country who shape the fabric of who we are. Photojournalist Justin Merriman masterfully captures and creates the essence of the story… All I do is ask the annoying questions. Not only would I really love you to take the couple minutes to watch I am really interested in your thoughts about the first of four that will be rolling out in the next four weeks. Oh and please share. Lots of sharing. This has been a labor of love.
Click here for the full story.
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The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people
Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.
London School of Economics Old Building in central London. Credit: Willy Barton/Shutterstock.
The violent scenes surrounding this week’s appearance by Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, at the London School of Economics shocked decent people in Britain.
After her talk and subsequent discussion took place uninterrupted, Hotovely had to be bundled out of the building under heavy security against an aggressive mob outside. Police held back protesters as they tried to rush the ambassador’s car, yelling “aren’t you ashamed” and calling Israel a “terrorist state.” Frightened Jewish students concealed their kipahs as they walked past the protesters.
The protests were organized by Palestinian and Islamic societies across London universities. Groups on campus had shared calls for violence while accusing the LSE students’ union of “platforming racism.”
An Instagram group called LSE Class War called on social media for the ambassador’s window to be smashed. “Let’s f****** frighten her,” it ranted. “Let’s make her shake.”
British politicians called this LSE thuggery “deeply disturbing” and “unacceptable.” Needless to say, this treatment would be meted out to no other ambassador from any other country in the world.
Hotovely, a former deputy foreign minister under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was ostensibly being targeted because of her uncompromising views on the right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, her opposition to the “two-state solution” and her religious opposition to intermarriage.
The LSE Student Union’s Palestinian Society said Hotovely had “a track record of anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and war crimes as well as actively facilitating apartheid and settler-colonial occupation.”
Hotovely is demonized in this way simply because she articulates certain unambiguous truths: the legal and historical right of the Jews to the entire land of Israel; the exterminatory, anti-Jewish animus behind the Palestinian cause; and the unparalleled record of Israel and its military in adhering to human rights.
Anyone who speaks these truths is vilified by those who inhabit an alternative universe in which the unique legal and historical right of the Jews to the land of Israel is “occupation,” the return of the Jews to their unique ancestral homeland is “colonialism,” and genocidal Palestinian anti-Semitism is “resistance.”
At the LSE, Hotovely told the students that the Israel Defense Forces never target civilians—only civilian places where rockets are being launched from “because according to international law, you’re allowed to target places that are the infrastructure of a terror organization.”
Reportedly, this made the students gasp. That’s because they have been indoctrinated to believe the blood libel that Israelis are wanton child-killers.
For the notion that the LSE protests were caused by Hotovely’s personal views is disingenuous. Anti-Jew and anti-Israel hatred, with its egregious lies, demonization and double standards, has been running rampant in Britain and on the Western left for decades.
Over the years, Israeli speakers in British campuses have been treated to a similar onslaught. Demonstrators on British streets have repeatedly chanted, as they did at the LSE, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—the call for Israel to be exterminated.
Protesters have run Israeli businesses out of their premises and disrupted performances by Israeli artists, while university lecturers, the BBC and much of the mainstream media continuously pump out inflammatory Palestinian lies and incitement.
Whenever Israel takes military action to stop the murderous attacks against its citizens, there follows a spike in anti-Semitism in the West. Yet despite all this evidence of rising anti-Jewish madness, Diaspora Jews always seem taken by surprise.
A study of anti-Semitism in the United States during Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” in May—published this week by the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv—found that Jewish communal leaders were surprised by violence against Jews that took place during the conflict.
One of the authors, Shahar Eilam, expressed his puzzlement that the U.S. Jewish establishment hadn’t anticipated this given that similar rises in anti-Semitism in relation to Israel had happened before.
Unfortunately, Diaspora Jews are all too prone to this kind of self-delusion. Desperate to believe that anti-Semitism is a problem marginal to their own lives, they persistently fail to grasp that the best they can hope for is to be tolerated under a thin veneer of civility.
In fact, anti-Semitism in the Diaspora inescapably goes with the territory (or lack of it). It is always to be expected.
What really should be worrying Jews sick is the part being played in the demonization of Israel by Jews themselves. Jews on the left—some of whom reportedly took part in the LSE demonstration—routinely deploy the same lies and distortions about Israel as do its other existential foes by accusing it of apartheid, racism or human-rights violations.
Jewish Voice for Peace, for example, damns Israeli policies and actions, along with supporters of Israel, as being motivated by deeply rooted Jewish racial chauvinism and religious supremacism.
Na’amod, which describes itself as “British Jews Against Occupation,” has campaigned against any Jewish organization inviting Hotovely to speak.
Its petition to ban her says: “Our uncritical platforms have helped Hotovely deflect criticism of her far-right racist views.” In October, its members disrupted a talk by Hotovely at a synagogue on the outskirts of London with posters condemning her for “nakba denial” (her rejection of the Palestinians’ claim that the foundation of the State of Israel was a “catastrophe”).
Its website declares: “Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza is a system of violence and discrimination that infringes Palestinians’ freedom, dignity and human rights.”
These are the kind of Jews who said Kaddish in the summer for those Arabs killed when they tried to storm the Gaza border under direction from Hamas.
Other Jewish Israel-bashing groups are more canny, restricting their rhetoric to condemning the “occupation” and supporting boycotts or labeling of products coming from the Israeli “settlements.”
By misrepresenting Israel as behaving illegally in the “occupation” and thereby furthering the lie that it is intent on stealing legally non-existent “Palestinian land,” such groups also fuel the campaign intent upon Israel’s destruction—often while claiming grotesquely that these lies represent “Jewish values.”
Diaspora Jews should not only be saying out loud the kind of things that Hotovely is saying about Israel in order to counter the lies and educate a generally ignorant public. They should also be publicly calling to account those Jewish groups that demonize Israel. This is vital not just to puncture their lies but to destroy the Jew-haters’ alibi that Jews themselves are saying these things.
Defenders of the Jewish people should be pointing out that the Jewish identity of these Israel-bashers is irrelevant. Their activities in demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and singling it out alone for such treatment are not just anti-Israel, but anti-Judaism and anti-Jew.
Jewish leaders in Britain and America should be saying of these anti-Israel Jewish groups: “Not in our name.” Unfortunately, though, too many of these leaders have either themselves signed up to these falsehoods or else provide these groups with the space to promulgate them without any comeback under the community leadership umbrella.
Such Jewish leaders may not themselves know enough about Israel and Judaism to counter these lies. Most are palpably frightened of provoking divisions in the community and giving the impression that it is split.
Above all, many are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.
Anti-Semitism must be fought, whether it emerges in a violent campus mob or in the mouths of Democratic Party ultras. But the more urgent and lethal threat to Diaspora Jewish communities comes from within.
Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy.” Go to melaniephillips.substack.
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Has America Gone Mad? Biden’s Presidency Now Being Met With Incredulity in Europe
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
October 27, 2021
After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but misleading phrase, “We’re back.”
As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”
From the European perspective, American leadership of the West has produced excellent results and few unpleasant surprises since the United States stepped into that role under Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II. At that time, the entire future of Western civilization rested essentially upon the shoulders of just two men, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and it was the epochal good fortune of all of us that they were more than equal to their great task.
The level of acuity and success of the subsequent administrations, as the competence of government of any nation must, has fluctuated. The emphasis was on continuity, though, and the containment policy elaborated in the Truman Administration was generally followed through to the great bloodless victory of the West, as the Soviet Union crumbled and international Communism as we had known it evaporated.
No one could foresee that, just 30 years after the hammer-and-sickle was hauled down over the Kremlin and Russia reverted to the European borders that it had held when it was only the Grand Duchy of Muscovy 400 years ago, the international Left would have taken over the conservation and ecology bandwagon and manipulated the leading capitalist countries into a savage assault on their own economies to reduce carbon emissions.
No one could have anticipated that some African Americans would have celebrated their emancipation and the elevation of an African American president by lionizing antiwhite extremists and producing policing policies that have facilitated a vertiginous spike in violent crime in America.
Even two years ago no one could have foreseen that the Chinese would inadvertently release a virus which the entire Western world would obligingly respond to by shutting down almost their entire economy for a year and increasing the money supply by 30% — producing an economic upheaval that will linger for a long time.
Nor is there precedent for the completely avoidable and shaming debacle of the American defection from its own alliance and helter-skelter flight from Afghanistan, leaving thousands of desperate people of many nationalities who had relied upon the United States, to fend for themselves against the new terrorist regime that seized power there (and $85 billion of U.S. military hardware along with it).
No one could have foreseen that the egregious chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley — who appears to have been stuffed into his over-decorated tunic and bears more evidences of military distinction than victorious five-star combat generals George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, and Dwight D. Eisenhower combined — would promise his Chinese analogue that he would warn him if President Trump intended to attack China, that he agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that his commander-in-chief (President Trump) was insane, that he would proudly help institute “diversity, equity, and inclusion” lessons in the Armed Forces, and that he would inform a congressional committee while under oath that he had warned Biden about the dangers of his Afghan policy (warnings the president professes not to have received).
We have now also learned that despite President Trump’s hugely expensive renovation of the American military, it now has no answer to Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons.
General Milley and the rest of his over-promoted cabal were too busy politicizing their apolitical offices and confusing the ranks with their historical revisionism to assure the comprehensive defense of the United States, consult normally with allies serving at American request in the mission in Afghanistan, or to demand a sane evacuation plan when the commander-in-chief determined to scuttle the 20-year Afghan deployment.
Various well-informed British and Europeans told me that they found a variety of utterances by Joe Biden and his spokespeople grievously inappropriate or absurd. Most upsetting were Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ po-faced assurance that “the border is closed” while on the other half of the split-screen people were simultaneously wading or walking into the country illegally; climate czar John Kerry importuning the Chinese government to decelerate their pell-mell commissioning of new coal-fired power plants; Secretary of State Blinken’s fatuous lamentation about the “lack of diversity” in the new Taliban government in Afghanistan; and White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion that the administration “welcomed the competition” of Russia’s hypersonic nuclear-tipped missiles.
The Internet assures a widespread transmission of such howlers and the next time Messrs. Biden or Blinken lay the egg about America being “back” and trusted, the Washington Post should dedicate its entire front page to Pinocchio.
The British and Europeans have always worried about the Americans, largely out of envy and continental vanity, which produced disbelief that any other country could perform the role of the world’s leading power more effectively than Britain and the other major European countries had done.
They feared that Harry Truman was a rube, Dwight Eisenhower an aging golfer, that JFK and Clinton and Obama were too inexperienced, that LBJ knew nothing of the world, that Nixon was devious, Ford and Carter were not up to it, Reagan was a mere actor, the Bushes were too inarticulate, and that Trump was completely infeasible.
They warmed to most of those men, (except Mr. Trump, though he is recognized as uncategorizable and inexplicably formidable), but they are completely flummoxed by Mr. Biden.
For three years ending in 2019, Britain had a prime minister who professed to be enacting the wishes of the narrow public majority in favor of withdrawing from the European Union by continuing in that Union and pretending to secede: Theresa May was articulate and diligent but when the plausibility of trying to reconcile contradictory options became clear, she was advised that her support had vanished and she left the prime minister’s office as if fired from a cannon.
The thought of the most successful alliance in history being “led” for three more years by an American president whose round-the-clock gaffes are not protected in Europe as Mr. Biden is in the United States by a totalitarian social media platform cartel and terminally biased national political media is a subject of profound and general disconcertion.
Despite my substantial agreement with their concerns, I vigorously attempted to defend the American interest. The best I could do was to remind them that the United States was the most successful country in history and always worked out its problems and that even after three more years of this ramshackle defeatism, a nation as great as America could quickly be restored to its traditional confidence and solidity. I was not entirely persuasive: my knowledgeable British and European friends not only do not think America is back, they think it has gone mad
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Radicals know about one bad apple's impact and particularly so on pliable young minds.
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