Shurat HaDin: 'ICC lacks legal jurisdiction and competence' - Arutz Sheva Staff

 

​ by Arutz Sheva Staff

'ICC lacks both legal jurisdiction and competence to rule on rights of sides in Israel-Palestinian conflict,' says Shurat HaDin founder.

 

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner                                                                                            Shurat Hadin

The Shurat HaDin legal organization responded Saturday night to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision paving the way for Israel to be investigated for "war crimes."

In the organization's response, Nitsana Darshan Leitner, founder and president of Shurat HaDin, said: "For over six years we have been warning of the danger that resides in Hague. We have repeatedly tested the impartially of the ICC, by bringing numerous complaints against hideous War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity which have committed by the Palestinian authority officials and others - only to be totally ignored."

"Reading the biased submission of the prosecutor - distorting history and law in order to accept the Palestinian narrative to the conflict and ignoring terror against Israeli men, women and children - we have filled to our submissions to the court.

"Again, we have been ignored, with no material response given to the cries of the Israeli victims and the Jewish communities that have been forced from their homes which we represented.

"Nothing will change the fact that the ICC lacks both legal jurisdiction and competence to rule on the rights of the sides to the conflict and that its decision yesterday disregards both facts and law. We are far from saying our last words on this issue. We shall continue to stand for the rights of Israel, Israeli soldiers and the victims of the Palestinian terror. Nothing will stop us, until truth shall triumph."

 

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Source: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296347 

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Iran U.N. inspectors find radioactive traces, raising fresh concerns - Wall Street Journal

 

​ by Wall Street Journal

Discovery at sites indicates that Iran has undeclared nuclear material

Blinken warns Iran may be just 'weeks away' from nuclear weapon

BRUSSELS -- United Nations inspectors have found new evidence of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran, according to three diplomats briefed on the discovery, raising new questions about the scope of the country's atomic ambitions.

Samples taken from two sites during inspections in the fall by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency contained traces of radioactive material, the diplomats said, that could indicate Iran has undertaken work on nuclear weapons, based on where it was found. The diplomats said they didn't know the exact nature of what was found.

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Last year, Iran blocked IAEA inspectors from checking the sites involved for seven months, leading to a standoff. Tehran has long denied that it has sought to make an atomic bomb and said all of its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes such as power generation and health care. There was no immediate comment from Iran on the findings.

In recent months, Iran has scaled up its nuclear activities, breaching many of the limits in the 2015 nuclear agreement it sealed with the U.S., European powers, Russia and China. These moves started over a year after the Trump administration exited the deal in May 2018 and then imposed broad sanctions on Iran, which had been lifted under the agreement.

It has also threatened to restrict IAEA inspectors' access to sites later this month. These steps have caused growing concern in Washington about Iran's nuclear intentions.

U.S. and Israeli officials have said Iran's retention of nuclear material, equipment and information, contained in a nuclear archive raided by Israel in 2018, show the country plans to rev up its nuclear weapons work again.

The IAEA listed in a report in June questions it was asking Iran to clarify on a range of work that could be used for nuclear weapons. One suspicion was Iranian drilling of a uranium metal disc that could be used to create material for a neutron initiator, experts say, a key component of a nuclear weapon. A second suspicion was that nuclear material had been introduced at a site where Iran may have tested high explosives that can be used to detonate a nuclear weapon.

The agency is also asking Iran about another undeclared site where illicit uranium conversion and processing may have taken place, it said.

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All the suspected activities took place in the early 2000s or earlier, according to the agency. Two of the sites were razed years ago. Another site was sanitized by Iran in 2019, the IAEA reported. The IAEA said it has not ruled out that materials from this nuclear work have been used more recently.

"The discovery of radioactive material at these sites would indicate that Iran does indeed have undeclared nuclear material, despite its denials," said David Albright, a former weapons inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington. "It would indicate that Iran did have a nuclear weapons program in the past, likely leading the IAEA to call for access to more sites and more explanations from Iran."

The IAEA said in 2015 it thought Iran had a structured nuclear weapons program until 2003 and continued some activities after that. Washington and European powers have come to similar conclusions.

The IAEA hasn't yet reported the latest findings to member states, the diplomats said. It is currently asking Iran to provide an explanation for the material, one of them said, a standard practice. The agency declined to comment on the new findings.

The IAEA has previously said it found multiple undeclared uranium particles, including enriched uranium, at a separate secret site in Tehran in 2019, believed to be a warehouse for nuclear equipment. It was that finding that led the agency to seek access to other sites in Iran.

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The U.S., European powers and others have urged Iran to cooperate fully with the agency's widening probe into Iran's past nuclear activities.

Tensions have been growing for the past 18 months over the IAEA's probe into the undeclared material. The IAEA's core function is to safeguard nuclear material used for civilian purposes and ensure it is not diverted for nuclear weapons. Iran is supposed to declare all nuclear material in the country under its international obligations.

Last year, member states on the IAEA board voted to censure Iran for failing to cooperate. Iran rejected the move as unfair pressure and was backed by Russia and China.

Iran says the IAEA probe is based on fabricated Israeli information and has pushed for the agency to complete its work quickly. Iran's threat to restrict IAEA inspectors' access to sites later this month if the U.S. doesn't lift sanctions on Tehran could limit the agency's ability to deepen the probe.

After the IAEA requested access to the two sites in January 2020, Iran repeatedly refused until IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi traveled to Tehran in August and struck a deal . Inspectors took samples at the two sites and carried out an additional inspection at another location soon after.

While the samples were being tested in labs, Mr. Grossi stepped up pressure on Iran to properly explain the presence of the uranium particles found at the Tehran site in 2019.

Mr. Grossi has vowed to continue the IAEA investigation until Iran accounts for all the undeclared material. In November he described Iran's explanations for the uranium particles found at a site in Tehran as "not technically credible" and said Iran needs to account for the material "fully and promptly." Iran has said it is cooperating with the agency.

 

Wall Street Journal  

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-u-n-inspectors-find-radioactive-traces-raising-fresh-concerns 

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Chasing the Dragon - Peter Schweizer

 

​ by Peter Schweizer

Who was clamoring to undo protections from cyber-warfare directed against America's power system?

• [The Biden Executive Order] order reverses a previous directive by the Trump administration last May, which found that "foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system, which provides the electricity that supports our national defense, vital emergency services, critical infrastructure, economy, and way of life." [Emphasis added.]

• These systems are, of course, highly computerized and the Trump administration's goal was to prevent the Chinese, America's greatest geo-political and economic rival, from having their hands in it. Biden's order strips that protection with the stroke of a pen.

• So, where was the constituency for allowing the Chinese access to the market for providing critical equipment to run and manage the US power grid? Who was clamoring to undo protections from cyber-warfare directed against America's power system?

• [B]y cancelling the pipeline, Biden is not preventing any energy production of fossil fuels in Canada. He is simply shifting that consumption to China.

• Economically, all Biden's order does is damage America's energy production and give the US less control of energy markets, and give China greater leverage.

• With this one order, on his first day of work, Biden has given the communist government of China... a more favorable market for buying the oil that makes it the top producer of carbon-dioxide in the world. It is difficult to see how such moves, done unilaterally and without negotiating anything at all in return, make sense to the security of the U.S.

• The timing alone raises questions about exactly which supporters Joe Biden was making happy.

On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden signed a massive executive order that, among other things, killed the Keystone XL pipeline project. Buried in that same order were two short sentences that will allow the Chinese government to get into the American electrical grid. Pictured: Biden signs executive orders at the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden signed a massive executive order that, among other things, killed the Keystone XL pipeline project. Buried in that same order were two short sentences that will allow the Chinese government to get into the American electrical grid.

Located at Section 7(c), the order reverses a previous directive by the Trump administration last May, which found that "foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system, which provides the electricity that supports our national defense, vital emergency services, critical infrastructure, economy, and way of life." [Emphasis added.]

The Biden order on its surface suspends the previous order for 90 days and directs the US Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine whether it should be replaced. In practice, suspending the rule launches a window of opportunity for Chinese businesses to sell equipment into the US market for bulk-power systems, the crucial infrastructure that stores and delivers electrical power to the entire country.

Bulk-power systems refer to everything from electric power substations, transformers, high-voltage power lines, capacitors, and other equipment necessary to move electrical power from plants where it is produced to end users, whether for civilian, government, or military use. These systems are, of course, highly computerized and the Trump administration's goal was to prevent the Chinese, America's greatest geo-political and economic rival, from having their hands in it. Biden's order strips that protection with the stroke of a pen.

The killing of the Keystone XL project got all the attention. That project, to greatly expand an existing pipeline that brings Canadian shale oil into the US through the central US to the oil facilities along the Gulf Coast that are properly equipped to refine it, has been a target of left-wing environmentalists for years. Biden's cancellation of the pipeline was the fulfillment of a campaign promise he made to shore up support with Democrats who prioritize green energy and environmental fears.

When the Trump order was issued, there were fears that depending on electrical system transformers and other power-moving equipment made in countries hostile to the U.S. would create vulnerabilities to cyber-attack. In late 2015, the power system in Ukraine suffered a cyberattack so severe that it caused a large power outage in the country. Ukraine said that Russian security services were behind it. When the Trump administration issued the order in mid-2020, then-Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said that it is imperative that "the bulk-power system be secured against exploitation and attacks by foreign threats." Analysts at the time identified China and Russia as the two main countries most capable of posing a threat to the U.S. power grid, which is still true today.

So, where was the constituency for allowing the Chinese access to the market for providing critical equipment to run and manage the US power grid? Who was clamoring to undo protections from cyber-warfare directed against America's power system?

The answer may come within the 90-day window given to the energy secretary and the head of OMB to reconsider this rule.

The Keystone XL cancellation itself also benefits energy-hungry China. Without the pipeline, Canadian oil will seek other markets and both suppliers and the Canadian government have invested in pipelines that will make that oil easier to sell to Beijing. The pipeline cancelation immediately threatens the jobs of more than 10,000 construction workers in the U.S. and Canada plus many other related jobs, and an estimated loss of $1.6 billion in revenue. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told Fox News the cancellation would mean most of the oil would instead be carried on rail cars, with worse environmental effects than the pipeline would have had.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his administration was "disappointed" with Biden's decision to revoke the permit for construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, though he approved generally of Biden's commitment to "green energy." By cancelling the pipeline, Biden is not preventing any energy production of fossil fuels in Canada. He is simply shifting that consumption to China. Hedging its bets, Canada was already seeking more access to the Chinese energy market, and this will push them further in that direction. Economically, all Biden's order does is damage America's energy production and give the US less control of energy markets, and give China greater leverage.

With this one order, on his first day of work, Biden has given the communist government of China access to the U.S. bulk-power system and a more favorable market for buying the oil that makes it the top producer of carbon-dioxide in the world. It is difficult to see how such moves, done unilaterally and without negotiating anything at all in return, make sense to the security of the U.S.

The Biden family's ties to China are now well known. His son, Hunter, has made millions from an investment partnership called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) that he built after stepping off Air Force Two in 2012 while his father was Vice President, making a state visit to Beijing. BHR is a private equity firm founded by Hunter Biden and funded with $1.5 billion from the Chinese government via the Bank of China. That was the first of many other deals Hunter and Chinese military-connected firms would broker. In 2015, a Chinese state-run military contractor called Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), acquired a 51 percent stake in Henniges Automotive Co., an American company developing "dual-use" technologies with military applications. The other 49 percent was purchased by Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). Despite the dual-use concerns, the Obama administration approved the deal.

Hunter was involved in another deal called Chinese General Nuclear, a Chinese company that was implicated by the FBI in stealing nuclear secrets from the United States. Executives from that company were arrested. In 2017, he also worked on securing a deal with CEFC China Energy to invest in US energy projects, according to documents released by Senate Republicans investigating the matter. That deal eventually fell through, but not before CEFC's founder and former chairman Ye Jianming reportedly gave Hunter a 2.8-carat diamond after a Miami business meeting.

There may be no financial connection between the business interests of Hunter Biden, who is currently under investigation by the FBI for money-laundering, and the Biden administration's first-day retraction of his predecessor's national security restriction on Chinese involvement in the critical bulk-power system. But I suspect many other investigative journalists will be as curious as I am and will be looking into the possibility that there is, given the amount of attention Hunter Biden's activities received in the past year and the lack of any constituency for removing that restriction in the first place. The timing alone raises questions about exactly which supporters Joe Biden was making happy.

Peter Schweizer, President of the Governmental Accountability Institute, is a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow and author of the best-selling books Profiles in Corruption, Secret Empires and Clinton Cash, among others.

 

Peter Schweizer  

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17026/chasing-the-dragon 

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Iran's Role in Yemen: US, EU Go Wobbly - Majid Rafizadeh

 

​ by Majid Rafizadeh

By appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran, the EU and Biden administration are empowering Tehran regime and its terror group, the Houthis.

• Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)... is a key supporter and sponsor of the Houthis, and has been stepping up its weapons supply to Yemen.... Saudi Arabia, Iran's rival, has been the main target of Iran's supply of weapons to the Houthis.

• After the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil installations, Iran's major state-owned newspaper, Kayhan, whose editor is a close adviser of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and was appointed by him, had a front-page headline saying: "The Houthis fired a missile into Riyadh. Dubai is next."

• The Houthis, already in 2019, fired a missile at an Abu Dhabi nuclear facility -- an act most likely meant to create mass civilian casualties. Thankfully, the missile fell short.

• Even the Iranian leaders have admitted they are helping the Houthis. Influential cleric Mehdi Tayeb said the failed Houthi attack on Abu Dhabi's nuclear facility had been carried out in stages by the IRGC with the support of the navy.

• By appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran, the EU and Biden administration are empowering Tehran regime and its terror group, the Houthis.

The Iranian regime is delivering sophisticated weapons to Yemen's Houthi militia group, which was designated as a terrorist organization by the previous US administration. Where are the European Union and the Biden administration on this issue? Pictured: Houthi militiamen in Sanaa, Yemen on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)

More evidence is emerging, including a recent report by the United Nations, showing that that the Iranian regime is delivering sophisticated weapons to the Houthi militia group in Yemen. The Houthi group was designated as a terrorist organization by the previous US administration.

Where are the European Union and the Biden administration on this issue? The Biden administration has suspended some of the terrorism sanctions that the previous administration imposed on the Houthis, and the Biden administration is reviewing the Houthis file to possibly remove it from the terrorist list. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that he has "deep concern about the designation" of the Houthis as a terrorist organization. The EU and Biden administration also appear to be busy charting ways to return to the nuclear deal -- which Iran never signed and which enables Iran ultimately to possess nuclear weapons -- and lift sanctions against the theocratic regime.

The UN annual report also revealed that not only are the Houthis receiving weapons from the Iranian regime, they are also being trained by Iran's military apparatuses:

"An increasing body of evidence suggests that individuals or entities in the Islamic Republic of Iran supply significant volumes of weapons and components to the Houthis. The Panel is also investigating a group of individuals who travelled to Oman on 'mercy flights' in 2015 and onwards to the Islamic Republic of Iran. One later publicly stated that he had received naval training in Bandar Abbas and went on to facilitate maritime smuggling for the Houthis."

The Tehran regime even delivers weapons to the Yemeni ports, according to the UN report:

"The Panel documented several supply routes to the Houthis involving traditional vessels (dhows) in the Arabian Sea. Arms and equipment are trans-shipped in Omani and Somali waters to smaller boats, with the cargo being delivered to ports on the south coast of Yemen and smuggled overland to the Houthis or, in some cases, through the Bab-el-Mandab directly to Houthi-held areas. The lack of capacity of the Yemeni Coast Guard and prevailing corruption in areas held by the Government of Yemen are contributing factors that allow smuggling to flourish despite a number of high-profile seizures."

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- designated by the US State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization -- is a key supporter and sponsor of the Houthis, and has been stepping up its weapons supply to Yemen. The weapons include anti-tank guided missiles, sniper rifles and rocket launchers.

The Houthi terror group has been using the Iranian regime's weapons to advance the mullahs' interests. Saudi Arabia, Iran's rival, has been the main target of Iran's supply of weapons to the Houthis. In one 2017 attack, the Houthi militia targeted Saudi Arabia with four ballistic missiles. The Houthi rebels also claimed responsibility for the drone attacks on two Saudi Aramco plants at the heart of the Kingdom's oil industry. The targets were the world's biggest oil processing facility at Abqaiq near Dammam in the Eastern Province and the country's second-largest oilfield at Khurais. The Houthis can grant Iran critical geopolitical leverage because the terror group is now able to fire ballistic missiles into any Gulf country.

After the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil installations, Iran's major state-owned newspaper, Kayhan, whose editor is a close adviser of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and was appointed by him, had a front-page headline saying: "The Houthis fired a missile into Riyadh. Dubai is next."

The Houthis, already in 2019, fired a missile at an Abu Dhabi nuclear facility -- an act most likely meant to create mass civilian casualties. Thankfully, the missile fell short.

Even the Iranian leaders have admitted they are helping the Houthis. Influential cleric Mehdi Tayeb said the failed Houthi attack on Abu Dhabi's nuclear facility had been carried out in stages by the IRGC with the support of the Iranian Navy. In addition, deputy commander of the IRGC's Quds Force Esmail Ghani has said: "Those defending Yemen have been trained under the flag of the Islamic Republic."

The mullahs also want to take over Yemen as they effectively took over other countries such as Lebanon, through Iran's proxy Hizballah; Syria, Iraq, with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip waiting in the wings.

In fact, this revolutionary mission of the regime is part of its constitution, the preamble of which states that it "provides the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the revolution at home and abroad." It goes on to state:

"[T]he Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ... will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country, but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God's way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God's law throughout the world."

By appeasing the ruling mullahs of Iran, the EU and Biden administration are empowering Tehran regime and its terror group, the Houthis.

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Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17027/iran-role-yemen 

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French president joins other world leaders warning the dangers of Big Tech censoring Trump - Thomas Lifson

 

​ by Thomas Lifson

If you think Joe Biden’s presidency is just the normal back-and-forth of power sharing by election, you are kidding yourself.

It’s come to this: Americans have to learn about how to practice free speech and about threats to democracy from foreign leaders. From France, for crying out loud!

Our Big Tech and major media are now so compromised by their allegiance to the slow-motion coup underway that it takes outsiders, leaders of democratic states like France, Australia, Mexico, Hungary, and Poland, to warn Americans that our democratic republic is slipping away.

This has never happened before.

If you think Joe Biden’s presidency is just the normal back-and-forth of power sharing by election, you are kidding yourself.

AP has the story of the President of the French Republic’s upset at the muzzling of Trump:

French President Emmanuel Macron says he was “very upset” by the way social networks muzzled Donald Trump at the tail end of his U.S. presidency.

Speaking in a recorded video chat with scholars, Macron cited Trump’s example in arguing for more government regulation of social media platforms. The comments, which Macron made in English, were released Thursday by the Atlantic Council think tank.

“At the very second when they were sure” that he would not hold onto power, platforms that had previously “helped President Trump to be so efficient” in making himself heard “suddenly cut the mic and put the mic on mute and killed ... all the platforms where it was possible for himself and his supporters to express themselves,” Macron said.

“It was a unique answer to deliver, but it’s not a democratic answer,” he said.

Emmanuel Macron (photo credit: Estonian presidency, crooped)

Alexander Hall of Newsbusters has the story of Macron’s shock, but adds to that an account of other democratic leaders that are warning us. It should be read in full, but here are some of the key points:

 In the weeks following Trump’s censorship on Twitter, Hungary joined Poland as one of the premier European powers taking on Big Tech. Hungarian Minister of Justice Varga Juditannounced in a January 26 Facebook post: “After consulting with the heads of the involved state institutions, the Ministry of Justice will propose a law to the Parliament this spring about the regulation of the great tech companies’ Hungarian [operation].” Varga warned would-be censors that Hungarians will not tolerate technological tyranny from Big Tech: “The deliberate, ideological or business-motivated digital damaging can no longer happen without consequences in Hungary!” 

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack accused Big Tech of “censorship” following the U.S. Capitol riot. “There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship. But I’m not one who believes in that sort of censorship,” McCormack said. 

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared earlier in January plans to make an international anti-censorship coalition were already underway. “I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” he declared. Obrador slammed Big Tech for behaving “as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed.” Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard also commented: “Given that Mexico, through our president, has spoken out, we immediately made contact with others who think the same.” Mexico had reportedly “heard from officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia," reported AP News.

I am so old that I remember when the United States of America was regarded as the leading democracy of the world. Actually, it wasn’t that long ago.

 

Thomas Lifson  

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/french_president_joins_other_world_leaders_warning_the_dangers_of_big_tech_censoring_trump.html 

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Biden’s Chinada Challenge - Lloyd Billingsley

 

​ by Lloyd Billingsley

Will “Big Guy” Joe Biden come through for the “not bad folks” of Communist China?

 

Joe Biden is on record that the Chinese Communists are “not bad folks, folks,” and “not competition for us.” The Delaware Democrat, is facing a crucial decision on China, by way of Canada, that deserves careful monitoring.  

In December of 2018 in Vancouver, Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. China responded by taking captive Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. As Solarina Ho of CTV News reports, Trudeau has spoken to Joe Biden about the case and “should the U.S. withdraw its charges against Meng, it could give China a reason to release Kovrig and Spavor,” now in their third year of captivity.

While Biden thinks it over, a review of Canada’s response may prove instructive. As “the two Michaels” languish in a Chinese prison, the Trudeau government ignores the captives and steps up integration with the People’s Republic of China.

Secret intelligence documents obtained by Rebel News reveal that the Trudeau government invited the People’s Liberation Army to conduct a “winter survival training exercise” at the Canadian Armed Forces base at Petawawa, Ontario. Defense chief Jonathan Vance canceled the training when China kidnapped Kovrig and Spavor. As the documents reveal, Trudeau was more concerned about placating China than rescuing the captives.

The government documents name Meng Wenzhou, but not Kovrig and Spavor, who show up only as “consular cases,” with no reference to their status as hostages. The biggest revelation was the cooperation between the Trudeau government and the People’s Liberation Army of Communist China. That is strange behavior for one of the “Five Eyes” allies, Canada, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

“That cold-weather warfare you are referring to is just one of 18 different joint projects the Canadian armed forces had with the People’s Liberation Army in 2019 alone, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant told Tucker Carlson of Fox News. “Canada is training one- and two-star Chinese generals in our war colleges, training lieutenants and majors, commanders. We’re sending Canadians over to China, we’re bringing Chinese — I think they are not just soldiers, I think they’re spies, as well, and I don’t know a single person in this country knew about it.”

Canadians may also be unaware that the province of British Columbia is training China’s police officers. As Graeme Wood of Glacier Media reports, “the Justice Institute of B.C. (JIBC) has accepted close to 2,000 Chinese law enforcement students, recruits and officials, plus dozens of Chinese state judges, to its purported education and training programs, since 2013.” The province’s international law enforcement studies (ILES) program “is offered to Chinese police academy students, who are China’s future police officers, border agents and prison guards — handpicked by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

JIBC boss Michel Tarko told Wood it was all about “promoting safer communities in a more just society, not just in Canada, but around the world,” and meeting BC’s rising demands for diverse and highly skilled workers.

“Why do we have to gather recruitment from international students?” wondered Ivy Li of Canadian Friends for Hong Kong. “Why can’t we just get the recruitment from our own citizens?” For Michel Juneau-Katsuya of Canada’s Security Intelligence Service, the Chinese police academies represent an espionage threat.

“First of all, they will be handpicked and have the duty to report on everything happening and everyone they are meeting,” Juneau-Katsuya told Wood. Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon, a former Hong Kong police officer, explained, “These would be young men and women, mostly men, who have been selected for their ideological purity to come to Canada and pick up some information and then trot back with it to the People's Republic.”

Prime Minister Trudeau has no problem with it. In 2013, Justin Trudeau expressed his “level of admiration for China,” because “their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.” In similar style, his father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was also a big fan.

In 1960, Trudeau visited Communist China in the midst of Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” that claimed millions of lives. In 1970, during the murderous Cultural Revolution, Prime Minister Trudeau recognized the People’s Republic. The next year, Pierre Trudeau pronounced the United States, Canada’s biggest trading partner and NATO ally, “a danger to our national identity.”

One might imagine the uproar if Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had invited Soviet troops for cold-weather training in Ontario, or allowed provinces to train recruits of the Soviet KGB or East German Stasi. Son Justin is doing the equivalent with China, even as the Communist regime continues to hold Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor hostage. Canadians might wonder what Joe Biden thinks about it.

Biden claims to choose “truth over facts” but it’s hard to find any statement where he criticizes China for taking the two Canadians hostage. If Canadians thought Biden puts China’s interests above those of a close U.S. ally it would be hard to blame them.

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou took place under President Donald Trump, and job one for Biden is to reverse the Trump record. So the Delaware Democrat, who thinks the Chinese Communists are “not bad folks,” just might drop the charge against Meng Wanzhou. Watch also what son Hunter’s “Big Guy” does about China’s crackdown in Hong Kong and increasing Communist aggression against Taiwan and India.

 

Lloyd Billingsley  

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/bidens-chinada-challenge-lloyd-billingsley/ 

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Biden's Magical Mystery Energy Plans - Gamaliel Isaac

 

​ by Gamaliel Isaac

Biden's plans for alternative energy deny reality and will have dangerous long-term consequences.

Days after eliminating tens of thousands of jobs by terminating the Keystone Pipeline and halting drilling on Federal Lands, Joe Biden gave a speech in which he said “Today is ‘Climate Day’ at the White House and -- which means that today is ‘Jobs Day’ at the White House.’” He explained that he would hire Americans to modernize the infrastructure so that it can withstand the increase in hurricanes resulting from global warming. As is true for all of his climate policies, this is delusional.

Increased hurricanes resulting from global warming? In the 51 years from 1915, 19 major hurricanes hit the Atlantic coast; in the 51 years to 2016, just seven did. In the last 11 years, only two hurricanes greater than category three hit the continental USA -- a record low since 1900. From 1915 to 1926, 12 hit.

Biden said his administration would hire people to transform the American electrical sector to produce power without carbon pollution and provide rebates so that Americans would buy electric cars. He said jobs would be created for Americans to build electric charging stations all over the country. He plans to replace with electricity all the energy we get from gas.

Where is all that electricity going to come from? In the same speech, he answered that question. He said: “We’re going to take money and invest it in clean energy jobs in America -- millions of jobs in wind, solar, and carbon capture” and “We need solar energy cost-competitive with traditional energy.”

There’s a fundamental problem with that. Solar energy isn’t anywhere close to being cost-competitive with traditional energy even when the sun is shining. Neither is wind power. This fact alone means that for every job that Biden creates multiple jobs will be lost.

That point was lost on the American public when they voted for Joe Biden. It’s still lost on the majority of America’s youth as shown by a Hill-HarrisX poll. Perhaps America’s youth would have been better served by being taught basic economics in school instead of global warming propaganda. Even fact-checkers such as Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post, who disagree with Biden’s rosy predictions of jobs gained by fighting global warming, don’t seem to realize how many jobs will be lost.

The problem is that, if you replace cheap energy with more costly energy, the additional money you spend is money that otherwise would have paid for jobs. That additional money must come from somewhere and that somewhere is either from taxing, borrowing, or printing.

If you get the money from taxing consumers those consumers have less money to spend on goods with the result that there are fewer jobs for the people who make those goods. If you get the money from taxing corporations, those corporations have less money to pay for salaries. If you borrow the money, you might temporarily stave off the inevitable loss of jobs but the loss will come with interest. Whatever jobs you create will be more than offset by the jobs that will be lost.

Biden’s track record is not encouraging when it comes to job creation. Tony Heller made a video in which he suggested that we examine Biden’s track record and start by looking at the Obama Biden web page from the 2008 campaign. According to that page

The Obama Biden comprehensive New Energy for America Plan will provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump by helping create 5 million new jobs by strategically investing 150 billion dollars over the next 10 years… We will save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined… we will strategically invest 150 billion dollars over 10 years to accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote developments of commercial scale renewable energy, encourage energy efficiency, invest in low emissions coal plants and advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure...

Heller says that “that sounds really exciting” and suggests “Let's look now at how Joe Biden did.” After taking a look and myriad specifics, he concludes:

Obama and Biden's efforts were a complete disaster. They invested huge amounts of money in scandals like Solyndra. What actually happened was Biden and Obama sent lots of money to people who donated to their campaign who started up green energy companies, went bankrupt, took the money and ran.

Biden justified the trillions of taxpayer money he plans to collect by scaring everyone about global warming. He said in his speech:

That’s why I’m signing today an executive order to supercharge our administration ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change. And it is an existential threat… We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it’s time to act.

I might have believed Biden except I had to shovel snow this morning. I might have believed all the climate scientists who said that snow would be a thing of the past by now if it hadn’t been so hard to walk to my mailbox only to find that the mailman hadn’t made it through the snow to deliver the mail. I might have thought all this snow was just a fluke if I hadn’t watched yet another great video by Tony Heller about how snow just blanketed places like Death Valley and Arizona.

Our country does face serious threats, but global warming is not one of them. We face the threat of hyperinflation, a threat that will become more serious as Biden goes on a trillion-dollar solar spending spree. Americans face the threat of not being able to pay their heating bills as they skyrocket under the Biden administration. Ironically, his concern with global warming may cause many Americans to be cold in their homes.

We face the threat of virus variants that are more contagious, harder to protect against, and potentially more lethal. We face growing military threats from nuclear powers (North Korea, China, Russia) and an imminently nuclear Iran.

In order to deal with these threats, we need a booming economy, one that can pay for vaccines and that can support a strong military. We need the economy we had under the Trump administration before the coronavirus invaded our shores. Our economy was making a comeback before Biden became president. Within just a few days in office Biden has cost America thousands of jobs, and many more will be lost as he spends our money on windmills in his quixotic fight against global warming.

 

Gamaliel Isaac  

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/bidens_magical_mystery_energy_plans.html 

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Human Rights Violations No One Talks About - Khaled Abu Toameh

 

​ by Khaled Abu Toameh

The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip know that they can continue doing anything they want there because the international community only pays attention when there is way to blame Israel.

• Last year, the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank revealed that Hamas was planning to confiscate large areas of privately-owned lands in the Gaza Strip. According to the PA, Hamas formed the Palestinian Land Authority in the Gaza Strip to facilitate "land-theft."

• A recent report by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights documented the death in 2020 of at least 30 Palestinians in various "internal violence" incidents in the Gaza Strip, including six children and four women. Another 155 Palestinians were injured, including 17 children and 19 women.

• The ongoing human rights violations by Hamas show that the Islamist movement does not care about reports issued by Palestinian human rights groups such as the Al Mezan Center. The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip know that they can continue doing anything they want there because the international community only pays attention when there is way to blame Israel.

• In 2006, the US and European Union made a mistake by allowing Hamas, whose charter openly calls for the annihilation of Israel, to participate in the parliamentary election. If the Americans and Europeans repeat the same mistake, Palestinians in the West Bank will join their brothers in the Gaza Strip and find themselves also living under Hamas's repressive Islamist regime, which has no respect for human rights.

Last month, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Land Authority in the Gaza Strip "removed" three houses, bulldozed about 30 dunums (7.4 acres) of agricultural land, and notified several farmers that it will confiscate their land for the purpose of expanding the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Pictured: Hamas militiamen at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza, on February 1, 2021. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

On January 3, 2021, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Land Authority (PLA) in the Gaza Strip "removed" three houses -- one of which had been inhabited by a family of three -- and bulldozed about 30 dunums (7.4 acres) of agricultural land in the as-Salam neighborhood west of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

The decision to bulldoze the houses and fields -- which came on short notice and did not include direct notifications to those affected by it -- inflicted financial damage on farmers and displaced several Palestinians from their houses, according to the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for Human Rights.

"The decision also sparked public outrage, with some protesters clashing with [Hamas] police," the center said.

"Nine protesters, including three women, sustained injuries after being beaten by the police, and 16 others were arrested. In addition, six police officers, including a chief law enforcement officer, were injured, as the crowd, largely made of up affected persons, threw stones at them."

The PLA also notified several farmers of its decision to confiscate their land for the purpose of expanding the Rafah border crossing.

The incident in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, not the first of its kind, did not attract the attention of human rights organizations and media outlets around the world. Such human rights violations are regularly ignored by the international community because they are perpetrated by Palestinians against Palestinians.

Had the bulldozing of the houses and fields and the confiscation of the lands been carried out by Israel, many human rights organizations and foreign journalists would have shown massive interest in the plight of the Palestinian families and farmers.

It is not uncommon for Hamas to commit human rights violations against the two million Palestinians living under its rule in the Gaza Strip. Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, has been ruling with an iron fist, consistently cracking down on its political opponents and critics and suppressing public freedoms.

In the past few years, Hamas has demolished and confiscated the houses of several Palestinians. Last year, Hamas bulldozers demolished the home of Mohammed al-Astal in the southern Gaza Strip on the pretext that it was illegally built on "state-owned" land.

Last year, the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank revealed that Hamas was planning to confiscate large areas of privately-owned lands in the Gaza Strip. According to the PA, Hamas formed the Palestinian Land Authority in the Gaza Strip to facilitate "land-theft."

After seizing the land, Hamas intends to offer it for sale to the same owners, the PA said. "Hamas will collect tens of millions of [Jordanian] dinars if it succeeds in implementing its plan," the PA added. "Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip, Hamas has been stealing land and giving it to its officials and supporters."

The alleged Hamas "land-theft" has been totally ignored by so-called pro-Palestinian groups around the world, as well as the international media and human rights organizations. If human rights abuses do not contain an anti-Israel angle, many in the international community choose to look the other way.

A recent report by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, also ignored by the international media and human rights groups, details a series of human rights violations in the Gaza Strip during 2020.

The report calls on Hamas to work to control the use of weapons and their spread, prevent the storage of weapons and explosives in densely populated areas and respect the right to form civil societies, and protect the right to peaceful assemblies and freedom of expression.

The Al Mezan Center report also documented the death in 2020 of at least 30 Palestinians in various "internal violence" incidents in the Gaza Strip, including six children and four women. Another 155 Palestinians were injured, including 17 children and 19 women.

Referring to a Hamas ban on public gatherings, the report pointed out that this was a "clear violation of the Palestinian Basic law."

Also during 2020, the report revealed, at least 23 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip fell victim to various incidents of violence and intimidation, including arrests, summons' for interrogation and confiscation of their equipment.

Moreover, two Palestinians reportedly died in Hamas-controlled prisons in the Gaza Strip in 2020 as a result of torture and cruel inhuman treatment, the report noted.

On January 13, Hamas arrested Palestinian journalist Omaya al-Kahlout after he had posted a statement on Facebook in which he criticized Hamas measures against poultry farmers.

Two days later, Hamas detained Palestinian activist Sabah Karibeh for organizing an online protest against a local mobile phone company. Hamas officers seized his mobile phone and laptop before releasing him on bail.

The ongoing human rights violations by Hamas show that the Islamist movement does not care about reports issued by Palestinian human rights groups such as the Al Mezan Center. The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip know that they can continue doing anything they want there because the international community only pays attention when there is way to blame Israel.

Now that the Palestinians are talking about the possibility of holding new presidential and parliamentary elections -- in which Hamas leaders have indicated their desire to participate -- it is important to pay attention to Hamas's practices in the Gaza Strip. Hamas, which won the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary election, has a good chance of scoring another victory -- if and when the elections take place.

In 2006, the US and European Union made a mistake by allowing Hamas, whose charter openly calls for the annihilation of Israel, to participate in the parliamentary election. If the Americans and Europeans repeat the same mistake, Palestinians in the West Bank will join their brothers in the Gaza Strip and find themselves also living under Hamas's repressive Islamist regime, which has no respect for human rights.

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Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16964/gaza-human-rights 

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What to Expect from Trump's Upcoming Impeachment Trial - Jonathon Moseley

 

​ by Jonathon Moseley

Here is a preview for thinking Americans of some things to look for.

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to begin a trial on impeachment of Donald J. Trump officially announced for "the week of" February 8.  According to C-SPAN, that means 1:00 P.M. EST on February 9, 2021.  C-SPAN allows you to watch, live or whenever is convenient on demand, on a special web page.

Here is a preview for thinking Americans of some things to look for.  You will be watching something like playing the Super Bowl in five minutes, with the best of players slipping and falling all over each other.  No one can elegantly mash a two- to four-week trial into only a couple of half-days, while the Senate also conducts other business in the morning.  compression will harm Trump's due process. 

Each side has submitted briefs.  The Democrat impeachment managers released an 80-page trial brief in small print.  Trump's new lead attorneys, Bruce L. Castor, Jr. and David Schoen, submitted an "Answer" from Donald Trump later the same day on February 2, 2021.  It is only 13 pages in big type plus a conclusion and signature block.

However, that was not Trump's trial brief.  It was a reply to the Articles of Impeachment.  It is in the style of "the allegations of paragraph 48 are denied in part and admitted in part."  That sort of thing. 

Trump's lawyers need to also file an actual trial brief.  However, Castor and Schoen came on board only late last week.  A case of this magnitude and complexity (more complex than you might think, with lifetime disqualification from public office and even criminal prosecution possibly down the line) would normally afford six months to eighteen months before going to trial.  So Castor's and Schoen's Answer for Trump was thin.

Trump's new lawyers hit hard on a "bill of attainder."  The U.S. Constitution absolutely forbids two things: an ex post facto law and a bill of attainder.  An ex post facto law means that Congress criminalizes something only after you did it already.  In fact, the Democrats are changing interpretations so severely that they are violating the ex post facto prohibition. 

A "bill of attainder" is a legislature singling out a person for punishment rather than enacting a law of general application.  Because the prohibition in the Constitution is absolute, Trump's lawyers raise it as a total bar. 

In other words, they have put tyrannosaurus rex teeth into the argument that you cannot impeach a former president.  They belabor the circumstances that the articles of impeachment have created: "a class of one" with only Donald Trump in the class.

That supports both an equal protection violation and a bill of attainder violation.  They come close to arguing equal protection, but it sounds as though they ran out of time before hammering that point home.

Now, clearly, everyone is focused on whether Trump is disqualified from holding any political office in the future.  That could include something like serving on a board, not just running for president.  Democrats have made clear that their goal is to not face Trump at the ballot box on November 5, 2024.  How convenient and banana republic–like to disqualify political opponents.  The Democrats' fever is practically an admission that they might lose a rematch with Trump.

The news media have been in a fit over whether or not Trump (his lawyers) will argue that the 2020 election was stolen.  Don't bet the farm on Castor and Schoen being that brave, because most lawyers are really not.  But typically trial lawyers would be mystified by the question "are you going to argue A or B?"  As my law professor asked in a (pretend) stunned expression:  "Why do I have to choose only one?"  A good trial attorney would be required to hit and smash each and every accusation against his client, in a row.  Leaving any accusation alive is not in a trial lawyer's DNA.

Amazingly, though, Trump's brief reminds us that the Democrats are actually required to prove that the election was not stolen.  The articles of impeachment do not merely open the door and allow Trump to prove there was election fraud.  They accuse Trump of falsely claiming there was fraud in the election, thereby inciting protests.   

Can you cry "fire!" in a crowded theater?  Well, is there in fact a fire?  Then yes.  A prosecutor would have to prove there wasn't any fire.

In order to prove their case, the impeachment managers are actually required to prove that Trump's statements were false.  The burden of proof is on the Democrats to prove that there was no fraud anywhere in the election.  If Trump's statements were true or he reasonably believed they were true, then the articles of impeachment fail.  And Trump should be able to respond.  Of course, the Senate won't tolerate that or allow that much time.

Trump's lawyers hit hard on whether Trump's statements were incitement.  They argue not only that Trump was exercising his rights of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, but also that the impeachment trial violates Trump's constitutional rights for that reason.  Trump's Answer argues that the Constitution "specifically and intentionally protect[s] unpopular speech from government retaliation."

The impeachment managers effectively admit that Trump called for peaceful lobbying of the Congress, which is an exercise of their right under the First Amendment to peacefully assemble and "petition their government for redress."  On page 14, their brief quotes Trump as saying:

I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D.C.  They won't stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.

This is the classic purpose of a lawful and peaceful protest.  Many dozens of protests gather every year in D.C. for this very same purpose: to gather in large numbers and make their demands be known to their elected politicians.  Every protest is intended to change the government's policies, positions, or actions.

The Democrats accuse Trump of whipping up his supporters.  But their brief is an 80-page rhetorical screed that whips up their own supporters with inflammatory rhetoric.  This is where most attorneys will probably try to be too nice and respectable.  Most won't even know what hit them in a rhetorical sandstorm.  The brief is filled with opinion and incredibly cites the Washington Post as evidence.

The Democrats' brief continues the false narrative that Trump generated the protests.  They actually say Trump "announced" the "Save America March" — which was organized by others.  Women for America First filed for a permit from the Park Service.  The protest at the Capitol was planned earlier than December 23.  The Capitol Police media office is staying mum about the permit issued for the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds.  But Trump did not suggest that anyone go to the Capitol.  There was already a 1:00 P.M. demonstration with a permit pre-planned on the Capitol grounds.

The Answer also challenges the way that the articles of impeachment commingle and confuse allegations of different events and charges, in violation of Senate Rules and the Constitution.  In that way, it is impossible to know if senators are all voting for the same charges or some voting for a few charges and others for different charges.

Totally neglected by everyone: the January 2 phone call.  But I'm out of space.  Maybe in another installment.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

 

Jonathon Moseley  

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/what_to_expect_from_trumps_upcoming_impeachment_trial.html 

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San Francisco Votes to Rename Schools Named for Founding Fathers - Sara Dogan

 

​ by Sara Dogan

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are officially cancelled.

 

In the latest excess of radical left cancel culture, the San Francisco School Board has voted to rename 44 public schools after a biased and historically inaccurate report judged their namesakes to be unworthy of the honor.

Famous Americans whose names are to be stricken from the schools include Founding Fathers George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well as less obvious targets such as California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a radical Democrat. Feinstein's crime? While mayor of San Francisco in 1984, she replaced a Confederate Flag which stood as part of a larger display outside City Hall, after it was vandalized and removed by activists. The display featured 18 flags and was intended to showcase the stages of America's history. 

So flagrantly politicized were the renaming decisions, that they sparked the furor of Democratic activist group, Families for San Francisco, which denounced the school board's decision-making process in a lengthy report. 

Families for San Francisco condemned the School Names Advisory Committee which selected the 44 schools to be renamed, noting that "The Committee was not guided or informed by professional historians or any other parties with the historical expertise required for the Committee to do its work" and  "As a result...The Guiding Principles used by the Committee was a 'Just One Thing' test, where a historical figure was to be removed from a school name on the basis of just a single incident from a list of criteria."

The similarities to leftist cancel culture did not end there. Additionally, the report points out that "The research process consisted of reviewing the names of schools 'pretty quick with some really casual Google searches,'" and "numerous factual errors were made, and relevant historical context was often not processed or considered." Zoom recordings of the naming committee's meetings show that Abraham Lincoln was discussed for under five seconds before being rejected as a suitable namesake for San Francisco schools.

The "Guiding Principles" used by the Committee to make its decisions held that "We will seek to change the names of schools that are named for: Anyone directly involved in the colonization of people; Slave owners or participants in enslavement; Perpetuators of genocide or slavery; Those who exploit workers/people; Those who directly oppressed or abused women, children, queer or transgender people; Those connected to any human rights or environmental abuses; Those who are known racists and/or white supremacists and/or espoused racist beliefs."

As overarching and subjective as these guidelines are, the Naming Committee compounded their failure by failing to apply their own rules equally to all historical figures. Families for San Francisco points to the case of civil rights leader Malcolm X as an example: "The Committee was going to decide quickly not to recommend Malcolm X Academy for renaming, until one of the members pointed out there was historical evidence that Malcolm X had “directly oppressed or abused women.” A ten minute discussion followed that rationalized reinterpreting the Guiding Principles to consider all Malcolm X had done in his life in order not to recommend the school for renaming. To be crystal clear, we agree wholeheartedly that Malcolm X should be judged by the entirety of his life. The same is true of all other historical figures."  

“We are applying impossible standards for naming when even Abraham Lincoln doesn’t qualify for this honor,” Jennifer Raiser, a longtime San Francisco author and activist, told the New York Post. “We are sending a message to our kids that even if you do your best and make some mistakes, you are not good enough.”

When even San Francisco leftists think your attempts to rewrite history and erase America's founding have gone to far, maybe it's time to give your crusade another look. 

To learn more about the Freedom Center's campaign to halt indoctrination in K-12 schools, please visit our website,  www.stopk12indoctrination.org.  To read the K-12 Code of Ethics CLICK HERE. To order the Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, “Leftist Indoctrination in Our K-12 Public Schools,” CLICK HERE. To donate to our campaign to stop K-12 Indoctrination CLICK HERE.

Sara Dogan  

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/san-francisco-votes-rename-schools-named-founding-sara-dogan/ 

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