Border Patrol

Open Thread

Mark Noonan22 Comments

There’s video out there showing Border Patrol agents using a forklift to raise up the barbed wire Texas placed along the border so that illegals can steam in. Need to really understand all that is happening here.

All law enforcement officers take an oath to uphold the law. All persons in the military and law enforcement are instructed in their duty to disobey illegal orders. It is against the law to illegally enter the USA – even if you’re an asylum-seeker, you’re still supposed to present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. There is never any justification for anyone to cross the US border outside of legal border crossings. What the Border Patrol – the agency tasked with defending the border! – is doing is abetting illegal activity. They are breaking the law. Now, they’ll just say they are obeying orders…and you know they are! But that is irrelevant: since WWII “I was just obeying orders” is no defense; nobody is supposed to obey an illegal order. Not under any circumstance.

Understand that our law enforcement agencies will break the law and will obey any order given. While some county Sheriff’s departments might be on our side (especially in deep red areas), I wouldn’t bet a nickle that a city or State (let alone federal) police agency will protect my rights. They are not, at the moment, going out of their way to oppress but they are definitely willing to obey any order to oppress. One thing we need to do is completely revamp how policing is done in the United States. It needs to be very local and very much under the control of the people.

The Biden people are in a funk – they are trying to thread the needle between supporting Israel and pleasing their increasingly anti-Semitic base and it just isn’t working. My perception now is that they’ve decided to lean towards the Islamist side: just more votes and money in it (nations like Qatar provide buckets of money to any institution willing to parrot the Islamist line…if you’re really wondering how America’s prestige universities became anti-Semitic sewers, there ya go). Just as Israel is set to encircle Gaza City, itself, and thus contain (and eventually destroy) the prime area of Hamas power, Pudding Brain’s people are out there saying we need a “humanitarian pause”…you know, a breather for Hamas and more time for Iran and Hezbollah to deploy forces which can strike Israel. Yes, it really is disgusting…but when your internal polls are showing you down in Michigan and that promised “consulting” job paid for by Qatari money is being pulled, you do what you gotta do.

And that anti-Semitism is getting more vile and open, isn’t it?

To be fair, it isn’t all on the Left; there are plenty of Right voices also joining in on it, on the absurd notion that “America First” is undermined by the Jews. These idiots just need to remember – if they know anything at all – that most Russian Jews weren’t Bolsheviks even if a lot of Bolsheviks were Jews (as one Russian Jewish leader put it: “the Trotsky’s make the headlines but the Bronstein’s pay the bills”). Yes, there are Jews in the Globalist groups undermining all Western nations. There are also Protestants and Catholics. For the Globalists whatever ethnic or religious status they might have is secondary to their Globalist ideology. Meaning: that they are Jewish or Catholic or Protestant is entirely secondary. Their nature is Globalist first and foremost. In the end, probably better these vile people revealed themselves to us – we can ditch them and move on; they only make up a very small proportion of the Right.

On the Left, though, it is becoming endemic. To keep your Leftists bona-fides these days you pretty much have to offer support for Hamas; you have to, in one way or another, approve of 10/7. Anyone who doesn’t is a racist, sexist, homophobic, settler colonialist bastard. This is why we get people calling for a ceasefire: it is the easiest way to support Hamas without overtly stating support for Hamas. To the casual observer, calling for a ceasefire seems like a good thing and not in Hamas’ favor; but, of course, it is. It is, in fact, the one thing that can save them now. It is, in the end, a call for a repeat of 10/7 at a later date. And anyone who thinks for a moment or two realizes this…including all those Leftists in the USA who are calling for a ceasefire. They know what they are doing: and they are doing it to maintain their Leftist membership.

They do have a problem, though: most Americans – and at least a plurality of Democrats – don’t like anti-Semitism and broadly support Israel’s right to self defense. This is going to make it hard for Democrats, even with the MSM working overtime to hide the Leftist anti-Semitism.

Destroy the Corporate Media

Mark Noonan40 Comments

I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the mounted Border Patrol people being accused of whipping Haitian illegal immigrants. I’m sure you also know the story is a complete fabrication. It never happened. Nothing even remotely like it happened. But, the MSM created the lie and they are still running with it. Today, Axios ran a story (I won’t link to them) with the headline:

Gov. Greg Abbott to Border Patrol agents who whipped at Haitian migrants from horseback: “I will hire you to help Texas secure our border.”

Can you believe it? Well, of course you can: we’re all used to this. It is, perhaps, just a little more brazen than it used to be, but egregious lying has been par for the course for the MSM since at least Reagan took office. As I said – and as you know – no whipping took place. As far as eyewitness accounts go – including from the photographer who took the picture being held up as proof that a whipping happened – nobody was hit by anything. But what got me going was a comment about the story from Stephen Miller: a good guy and a smart, well informed person.

There are decent journalists at Axios but why the f**k should we even read or listen to them when their employer is pulling this shit?

I had to put a correction on that: no, there are no decent journalists at Axios. Any decent journalist would refuse to be associated with an organization which lies like that. Technically, I guess there could be – but if they don’t quit their jobs within 24 hours, that will be the proof that none of them are decent.

These aren’t mistakes. These are deliberate, malicious lies. The whipping lie also isn’t the first malicious lie out of the MSM. They’ve done it again and again and again. And it isn’t done for ratings. There is no profit motive here. MSM audience figures are a dumpster fire of fail. CNN is paying Anderson Cooper (who is worth $200 million) about a million dollars a month for a show barely a million people bother to watch at any given time. You don’t do that if money is the motivator – but you will do that if your goal is to promote a Narrative and you need a host who looks and sounds good on TV while reading the most monstrous lies off a teleprompter. Don’t think that isn’t a talent! Most of us would look nervous or embarrassed trying to lie like an MSM host. But they pull it off with aplomb: it is what they’re paid to do.

So, what are we going to do about this? What, that is, will be our response to a gigantic Corporate propaganda machine spewing lies against us 24/7?

A few years ago, all of us would say, “nothing”. We were firmly convinced that the First Amendment was sacrosanct and even the most disgusting lies must be endured so that we can at least have the chance to tell the truth. But it isn’t like that any longer, is it?

Over the past 4 years, especially, the corporate media has actively participated in the shutting down of alternate voices. They have lied about and doxxed persons and organizations merely trying to present the news. They have urged action against such people and organizations to dry up their revenue streams and remove them from various platforms: and they have had a lot of success. It started with Yiannopoulos (if you haven’t followed his saga: the latest I’ve heard is that he’s stopped being gay…which may be another advertising gimmick, but who knows?) being banned and pretty much the entire Right went silent about it. He wasn’t the hill to die on! And then hill after hill was passed by. Lots of non-Left voices have been effectively silenced and without any government action: just the corporations obeying the orders of leftwing pressure groups. Some on the right still try to draw a distinction between Corporate and Government action…but I can’t see it. Not any longer. To me, when You Tube bans a non-left account, it is merely the government using Corporations to do things that the government couldn’t get away with. But, however you want to view that particular issue, the bottom line is that Corporations are banning our speech while allowing the most disgusting lies to be broadcast from Corporate sources.

This isn’t, you know, fair.

If we wish to survive – if we wish to be free and fully able to participate in the public square – the corporate media (profit and non-profit) has to go. All they do is lie. All of their lies serve the Democrat party. Their lies are slickly presented and convince millions of Americans to vote not just against their own interests, but against basic common sense. The First Amendment does not apply to Corporations: that is the standard we must adhere to. That no publicly traded corporation has any First Amendment protection. Furthermore, no person or entity has a right to lie – that is, there is no First Amendment protection for ever broadcasting or publishing anything factually untrue. If you lie, you are liable. I know I’ve said this before, but now with this whipping story, I really do believe my assertion has teeth. Pudding Brain has promised to make the border patrol agents pay – for doing nothing. If the President of the United States, urged by lying media, will punish Border Patrol agents for nothing, what can be done to you any time the corporate media decides to target you?

It is time to drop the quiet dogmas of the past. They won’t do. Our opponents dropped them a long time ago. They will oppress us to their maximum ability at any time. Time to start removing the protections they hide behind while trying to club us to death.