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Our first article today is from Jack Gleason, who offers an article titled, “Naming the Enemy.” It is a hard look at the reality facing our nation today because there are enemies within and enemies on the outside looking in. Gleason offers a sobering review of what America and We the People face as we get ready to cross over into the new year. Gleason offers some practical suggestions for patriots that can help them focus on truth as opposed to the media’s hocus pocus. The time for people to take action is now, and Gleason’s article would concur.
The second article is from Jim Bratten and he focuses upon the FBI corruption, which is a disgrace to the ideals of the nation as it was founded. Bratten drills down and examines some specific instances of practices of the corrupt FBI, and he also shows how their recent actions undermines our constitutional rights as well as the Constitution itself.
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Naming the Enemy
By Jack Gleason ——Bio and Archives--December 17, 2022
If you can’t name your enemies you can’t defeat them.
It is clear that there are those who have systematically set out to destroy the United States of America. Some despise our country or want to control it for their own benefit. Others want to weaken us in order to further their expansionist goals.
Our enemy is not a single entity. Instead, there is a confederation of enemies who tacitly or explicitly have agreed to weaken the United States because it is the only power in the world strong enough to stop their quest for ultimate control.
Clearly China is an enemy of the United States. Xi is doing everything possible to expand his military power while stealing our technology. He is working very successfully to co-opt every country in Africa, South America and Europe through bribery, espionage, blackmail, and economic blackmail using initiatives such as dam and power plant construction and communications platforms. In the U.S., he is working to undermine and control all levels of our government, through bribery, blackmail and intimidation. Why go to war when you can manipulate your enemy into weakening themselves so severely that their only option is to capitulate?
And, of course, there’s the virus they knowingly unleashed on the world.
The Globalists of the World Economic Forum callously use the “Green” agenda as their excuse to weaken the West and control every aspect of our lives. “Global warming” is a new religion that dominates well-meaning, but naive, people. They tolerate no opposition to their dogma, and despise God-centered thinking. But their “love for the planet” is merely love for complete control. Their “climate policies” do nothing for the climate, but are simply excuses for wealth transfer and destruction of capitalism, so they can remake the planet—with them in control.
Whether the Chinese control the Globalists, or the Globalists control the Chinese, both have agreed to destroy the United States and decide who’s in charge later.
If we try to name our domestic enemy we have been tricked into thinking they are “Democrats“ with their alliance of victims of “systemic racism,” illegal immigrants, and gender-confused wokists.
Almost every American with a functioning brain realizes that the majority of Republicans are our enemies as well
We are told “Just vote against the Democrats and the Republicans will fix everything.” Almost every American with a functioning brain realizes that the majority of Republicans are our enemies as well. Their hatred of “the Orange Man” shows the last thing they want is to make America great again. Their acceptance of electoral fraud to attempt to defeat Trump in 2016, his defeat in 2020, and their almost-successful plan to keep the House in Democrat hands in 2022 is recognized by over 70% of likely voters.
Republicans in the House and Senate are only interested in acquiring power and prestige and will destroy the country to do so.
In a recent article, I called for firing the entire leadership of the GOP - McConnel, McCarthy, and
RNC chair McDaniel, who have opposed MAGA candidates in primaries and general elections, even when it meant Democrats would win. In another article, I explained how voting machines can be programmed to “weight” conservative votes so that totals are switched or deleted according to a formula. But this is done by BOTH parties. The candidates affected are only MAGA Republicans! The video below shows how it was done.
Bureaucracies and government agencies are forever
The name for this alliance of political corruption is the “UniParty.”
But politicians are temporary—-they can lose elections (occasionally) or simply retire once they’ve made enough money or want to become lobbyists. Bureaucracies and government agencies are forever. Once a government program is created, it lasts forever. Those in charge hide in the shadows and promulgate liberal rules and regulations that are more far-reaching and long-lasting than any law enacted by Congress.
The media, dominated by leftist/communist/environmentalist actors, is another enemy on our list. Individual writers and reporters seek fame in their own circles by altering the truth to further their own agenda.
The Tech Giants of Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc., censor or ban all opposing speech, and manipulate the truth for their own bottom line or social goals.
Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex, which requires regular wars in order to use up old inventory and generate new business. They spend billions annually to lobby Congress to manipulate foreign policy. They benefit from the war in Ukraine between two equally corrupt regimes.
It’s our silence that gives them consent to continue their corruption
So lobbyists are on our enemies list as well. They don’t care about the health and safety of the United States, just their companies’ bottom lines. This is why the utility companies have avoided any modernization and hardening of our electric grid—putting us at risk of nationwide, long-term failures. The recent attack on two North Carolina substations turns out to be a nationwide trend, not an isolated incident.
At the beginning of the great American experiment, our Founders warned us that—over time—if the power of the Federal government was allowed to surpass that of the States, the politicians and their bureaucracies would gain complete control of our lives. This is what has come to pass and the greed and excesses of the political class have left us vulnerable to enemies intent on the destruction of our country. The checks and balances of our Constitution have been whittled away along with our Bill of Rights, leaving our citizens muzzled and defenseless.
The Declaration of Independence set forth the proposition that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…”
Armed rebellion is not the answer. But we must act quickly in order to avoid a situation where Americans are so angry at the abuses they have suffered, and are threatened by outside forces because of our weakness, that they feel there is no choice but to fight for their freedom.
Right now we still hold tremendous political power. We can demand that our politicians start representing us in Washington. It’s our silence that gives them consent to continue their corruption. Ongoing peaceful protests at every congressman’s door would show them their betrayals have been noticed.
Turn off Google, close your Facebook account. Support local businesses and products even if they cost a little bit more. Homeschool your kids and send them to a conservative college
Peaceful demonstrations at courthouses where judges are ruling on cases of electoral fraud will get their attention as well, but we need to be aware that there are infiltrators (or “infil-traitors”) who will try to stir us to violence. Pointing them out and videotaping their attempts to foment violent action is the surest way to thwart their plans. Thankfully there are uncensored video websites like BitChute and Rumble. Perhaps Twitter will be freed from censorship and Musk’s revelations about government ties to Big Tech censorship will open communications.
But the best social media is person to person—whether it’s an email sharing an article on this website, frank talk with Uncle Fred at a holiday gathering, or just a comment about high food prices while checking out at the grocery store. We need to know we’re not alone.
The other way to fight back is through economic power. Americans spend trillions of dollars supporting the various companies and Big Tech that are destroying us. Turn off Google, close your Facebook account. Support local businesses and products even if they cost a little bit more. Homeschool your kids and send them to a conservative college.
But we also need a name for our fellow countrymen who believe as we do. Whether we call ourselves “conservatives,” “patriots,” or simply “Americans,” we recognize each other immediately as we thank a police officer or soldier for their service or roll our eyes when we see someone wearing a mask in an open park.
Let’s get to work and save our country.
Jack Gleason is a conservative political writer. Comments can be sent to jackgleason9@protonmail.com
Searching for Crimes
The Biden FBI Lies, Cheats and Steals
By Jim Bratten – 12/19/22
It’s no wonder that nobody trusts the FBI anymore. The once-respected federal law investigation agency should now be known as the Federal Bureau of Incarceration. Ask the January 6 political prisoners. As in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, the suspect is deemed guilty, then a crime is applied. This has been the whole plan for the attacks on Donald Trump since Hillary paid for the infamous “dossier.”
Under the Marxist-Democrats’ complete politicization and weaponization of the agency, it now takes its orders from the White House DOJ according to the narrative it is given and told to comply. Following the law as written doesn’t matter. Due process, what our justice system is built upon, has been turned on its head. A suspect is presumed to be guilty instead of innocent.
The narrative becomes the law, malleable at the will of the executive or, as the case in the Biden Regime, his controllers. Just as in the Trump-Russia hoax and the Mar-a-Lago raid, the FBI in March of 2021 lied to a judicial magistrate (judge) so they could rob “1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills,” as reported at deepstaterabbithole.com. “With a complete lack of evidence that any crime had been committed, the bureau ‘presumed’ hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets, somehow tied to unknown crimes. That was their excuse for snatching up more than $86 million in booty for the U.S. Treasury.”
Andrew Wimer, Institute for Justice, tweeted: “When the FBI asked for a warrant to raid US Private Vaults, it didn't tell the judge of their plans to seize every box with more than $5,000 and try to take them forever through #CivilForfeiture...”
As reported in the Los Angeles Times, in direct opposition to what our Constitution says, the FBI justified “the dragnet forfeiture” with a “presumption that hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes.” Any “presumption” such as this is completely unconstitutional but, as the DOJ and FBI has been instructed by the Biden Regime, the Constitution means nothing today – it can be ignored at will. Only the narrative matters. The Constitution simply doesn’t apply where their methods are concerned.
According to deepstaterabbithole.com, the FBI lied and cheated so they could steal “personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.” The “wholesale privacy invasion was vast.”
Agents “took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will.”
According to court records, the FBI acted like “body-snatchers.” In one box in the Vaults, “agents found cremated human remains,” which were also confiscated.
Since the box owners filed a class-action lawsuit to get their valuable property returned to them, the Bureau had managed to keep a lid on any release of the disclosure documents. That recently changed when a judge “rejected its request to keep them under seal.”
Eighteen months after it went to court, “newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it.” In other words, they lied.
FBI agents “pillaged and plundered for a full five days.” When Garland’s Gestapo had finished, the DOJ had amassed “more than $86 million in cash and a bonanza of gold, silver, rare coins, gem-studded jewelry and enough Rolex and Cartier watches to stock a boutique.”
A senior agent testified that “they omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods.” About 300 of the roughly 800 people whose money and valuables the FBI seized contested the the planned confiscation. The plaintiffs wanted U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner to “declare the raid unconstitutional.” However, in late September, Klausner dismissed the case.
Not only did the FBI plan to “seize and forfeit” everything in the entire U.S. Private Vaults facility, they ignored “the restrictions that U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim set in the warrant.”
They were specifically ordered not to tiptoe through the evidence in search of a crime, but that is exactly what they did. (Mar-a-Lago, anyone?) And the FBI did it because they could.
James Bratten holds a BA from the University of Minnesota in Studio Art, is a veteran of the Vietnam conflict, having served in the United States Navy with Fighter Squadron VF-101, and retired from Chrysler, LLC in 2008.
Since 1980, Jim has belonged to dozens of conservative organizations, joining Tea Party Patriots in 2009. He co-founded Vanderburgh County Tea Party Patriots in 2011 and served as Indiana State Coordinator for TPP from 2010-2015, assisting Tea Party groups and speaking at many events in the state.
He was awarded “National Grassroots Activist of the Year, 2010” and the “2010 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship,” and was featured in the book, TEA PARTY – the Awakening. He accepted a position on the Board of Directors of Hoosier Patriots, Inc. that year. Jim has written weekly commentary since January 2011 as Editorial Director for the Hoosier Patriots Monday Morning Newswire and assumed the role of Director of Hoosier Patriots in March 2014. He continues research and writing weekly commentary in the Newswire, his work appearing in a variety of publications.
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This is an excellent article as before, but I must tell you who let the enemy in! The greedy corporations, this applies to Canada, where I live. The Chinese were given all rights to manufacturing...not EVEN an iron is made in North America. YOu go to any store, and 95% of goods manufactured in China.
Who let the enemy in USA, did they sold out and Canada to, we had a whole area that was dedicated in the 1980's to garment's , I remember buying coats on Spadina, in the 1970's there, because you got made in Canada coats and dresses. We went there to buy my mother's dress for my wedding...EVERYONE went to Spadina... and then poof! GONE, and here is all our problems...SOLD OUT made in China.. I am even shocked about Italy, Ikea is in Italy, Chinese merch in Italy... Why did everyone hand over this power to China?? G.R.E.E.D. so we are reaping what we sowed...we handed the Devil the keys, and he won't give it back! Try finding ANYTHING MADE IN CANADA.