Final Thoughts on the USS Liberty Incident

 

On October 30th, 2024, I debated Nick Taurus of Laguna Hills, CA about the Arab-Israeli conflict:

Here's the entire video of the debate:

I brought up one of the key points of contention of anti-Zionists: The USS Liberty Incident on June 8th, 1967 during the 6-Day War. I knew that anti-Zionists in the debate would bring up this event, as if one military tragedy justifies demonizing an entire country, and making the United States government somehow complicit in killing our veterans.

The more that I have heard anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, and yes anti-Semitic types spout off about the USS Liberty, the more that I wanted to learn about the matter myself.

I reviewed the matter on the Jewish Virtual Library.

The research and evidence all point to the whole affair coming down to a massive clusterfark of miscommunications is unmistakable.

For the record, the anti-Israeli types all believe that Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Israeli government colluded together to sink the ship in order to blame the Egyptians and other Arab states in order to further a larger hot war against the Arab states in the region.

This motivation makes no sense, since the Israelis had decimated the Arabs, especially Egypt, before June 8th! Also, there were Israeli pilots who flew over, but we are talking about 8,000 feet about the water! It's not like anyone could have seen definitively that it was an American ship. Also, the United States government had announced prior to the incidentn that they had no presence in the region.

But more on that later.

Despite all the logical and evidentiary problems with the anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, that has not stopped them from complaining about the incident and accusing Israel of war crimes.

So, let's establish the fact that the US Government did not set up the USS Liberty to be destroyed.

James Scott, who wrote The Attack on the Liberty, documents that the United States Navy and NSA tried to contact the USS Liberty five times to get away from the Egyptian coastline, at least by 100 miles. The ship did not get the message. Most people don't understand that even the advanced technology possessed by the United States government at that time was still quite rudimentary compared to what everyday Americans possess today via email, smartphones, etc.

The fact is that the federal government tried to contact the USS Liberty to abandon its spy operations in the region and get away from the coastline. Commander McGonagle didn't get the message. In my view, one reason for all the logistics and communications issues was that two agencies were supervising this ship: the US Navy and the NSA. Right away, there are going to be problems. One direct authority should have been supervising and directing the ship the entire time.

Bear in mind that James Scott, a son of one of the veterans, is especially critical of Israel, and repeatedly asks the question "How could they mistake the American ship for an Egyptian ship?" We will address the confusion issue shortly, but for now, I just want to assert that the United States government did not set up the USS Liberty for destruction.

Not only do we have evidence that the United States tried to contact the ship, after the event the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Avraham Harman, furiously wrote to the Israeli prime minister, Levi Eshkol, telling him that Israel needed to:

1. Apologize for the event

2. Pay reparations to the United States and the veterans

3. Jail any of the Israeli leaders responsible for this huge mistake

Reckless endangerment is a criminal offense in common law. Harman's assertions clearly show that the Israeli government was not involved in some plot to take down an American ship.

There was no deliberate effort from American or Israeli forces, including the leaders, for the Israeli military to destroy an American ship.

Now, let's talk about "How could the Israelis have mistaken an American ship for an Egyptian ship?"

Let's start with Cam Higby's research on the incident:

The United States government announced to the UN General Assembly that they had no presence in the region during the Six Day War. Why? They believed that the USS Liberty had gotten the message! 

So, when Israelis spot a ship in the region, even if there was an American flag on the ship, the Israeli military brass understandably concluded that it was an enemy ship posing as an American ship. This kind of deception happens all the time in war. On top of that, we have listened to radio communications from the Israeli fighter planes, and they mistook the identification GTR on the side of the ship to read CTR.

They misread the ship, and then they went along with the official statement of the United States. Keep in mind that they were in the midst of a hot war with five Arab states, including Egypt!

In early 2024, one of the members of the New Hampshire General Court reminded his colleagues, when they were debating a bill to host their own investigation into the USS Liberty incident, that the American flag actually fell off during the strafing!

Here's that entire hearing from last year:

It's also important to point out that the Israelis did not sink the ship. Cam Higby makes a mistake in his analysis when he claimed that the Israelis actually sunk the ship. He also got the number of dead wrong--it was 34 sailors, not 24, but the rest of Higby's analysis still withstands scrutiny.

Let me repeat: Israel did not sink the ship. If the goal was to maliciously destroy an American vessel, why not just finish the job? Because the Israelis realized, as the lifeboats came into their view, that it was an AMERICAN ship!

Here's another video affirming this account:

They realized that they made a mistake, a horrible mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

Also, anyone can look at the transcripts of the inquiry into the incident, which took place on the island of Malta a week later. McGonagle asserts that was an attack of mistaken identity. 

Here's some of the documentation, provided on X:

You mentioned McGonagle. Have you ever read his sworn testimony to the US Navy Inquiry? pic.twitter.com/kTUrs0HwRO

— Alfred Solomons (@FalconApoda) September 4, 2024

Of course, Joe Meadors, one of the most discredited members of the USS Liberty Veterans Association, and someone who commented on another one of my earlier blog posts, shared a video with me that McGonagle changed his story. I find this change of mind more improbable to believe. Why didn't he come forward five years after the event? Why wait thirty years?

Because McGonagle didn't change his story:

The makers of this video made a jump-cut at 0:21. Ask yourself why they cut out this very key and integral portion of McGonagle's Arlington speech...https://t.co/OEQnAaLKEE pic.twitter.com/KI0uxVHmWY

— Alfred Solomons (@FalconApoda) September 4, 2024

To me clear, McGonagle attributes the attack to "gross incompetence" on the part of the IDF (a sentiment with which I agree), but the makers of the video intentionally leave cut at "not a pure case of mistaken identity" so as to manipulate the audience.

Again, ask yourself why.

— Alfred Solomons (@FalconApoda) September 4, 2024

Now, I want to share other outrages about this incident.

Some of the veterans keep insisting that there has been no investigation into the USS Liberty. That is simply not true. The Jewish Virtual Library documents ten American investigations, and the Israeli government conducted three investigations.

There was a more recent investigation afterward, following a 2003 lawsuit against the NSA, in which that agency released more classified information on the incident. What more do the veterans want at this point?

Perhaps some of them have more sinister motives.

Last month, USS Liberty veteran Phil Tourney gave a big presentation on Candace Owens' program:

She hyped it up as a big disclosure, a "major announcement" first without listing the USS Liberty. In reality, it was cheap marketing to gin up engagement on YouTube. In this video, Phil Tourney trots out all the talking points blasting the Israeli government for "deliberately" attacking an American ship.

Like progressive USS Liberty veteran Joe Meadors, though, Tourney has an ax to grind.

You can see it all over his X account.

He doesn't just blast Israel, but he blasts all Jews. He peddles all the anti-Semitic tropes one could imagine, and then some. If he wants justice and answers, why does he attack every Jew, and not reserve his criticism for the Israeli government in 1967?

The USS Liberty incident was a tragic war-time error due to miscommunications. These fog of war tragedies happen more often than people realize. (More on that shortly).

Anti-Zionists love to leave out the fact that the Israeli government apologized and paid considerable reparations to the families of the veterans who were killed and to the veterans who were wounded. Also, a period of diplomatic stasis emerged between the United States and Israel, which remained until 1987.

Frankly, I am disturbed and outraged that one group of veterans thinks they have a monopoly on tragedy and pain, and they expect us to ignore other veterans who were harmed by friendly fire or who were harmed because of American governmental ineptitude.

Let's consider other incidents.

Six months after the USS Liberty incident, another American spy ship, the USS Pueblo, was captured by the North Koreans. Why was the ship there in the first place? What benefit did the Johnson Administration think they would gain by spying on North Korea? This was another directive of terrible judgment. While almost the entire crew was returned safely to the United States that same year, the ship remains in North Korea as a humiliation trophy of triumph against the United States.

Now, anti-Zionists will counter that no lives were lost. Wrong. One American navy man died.

How about the USS Stark incident?

May 17, 1987 (almost twenty years after the USS Liberty incident), another American ship was attacked by friendly forces, this time Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Yes, there was a time when Hussein was an ally of the United States, and our government was supporting him during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

Here's a summary from Wikipedia:

The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War on 17 May 1987 in the Persian Gulf, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A total of 37 United States Navy personnel were killed or later died as a result of the attack, and 21 were injured.

More American soldiers were killed in this friendly fire incident, and Hussein apologized because his fighters thought that the American ship was an Iranian ship (but no reparations). Why doesn't the USS Liberty crowd cry out about this?

How about the USS Cole?

October 12, 2000, Al-Qaeda sailed a boat loaded with explosives near this ship and detonated their bombs. Why don't the anti-Zionists care about this attack?

Just last month, an American ship shot down two navy pilots in another friendly-fire gaffe:

The F/A-18 shot down had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, Centcom said. On 15 December Centcom acknowledged the Truman had entered the Middle East, but hadn’t specified that the carrier and its battle group was in the Red Sea.

“The guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S Truman carrier strike group, mistakenly fired on and hit the F/A-18,” Centcom said in a statement. The incident was being investigated.

Why don't the people who complain about Israel raise hell about this gross incompetence?

Putting aside all of these terrible or tragic events, I find it unconscionable that the USS Liberty advocates bellow about what happened to them, when they ought to consider the example of their peers who were attacked--without warning--at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

2,403 Americans died under Japanese airfighter assaults. This was a horrific attack, which included the actual sinking of the USS Arizona. Why don't the anti-Zionists care about this? There is even some speculation that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew about the attack and allowed it to happen without preparing the US Navy. One would think that the Woke Dissident Right would be up in arms about what Japan did to our veterans.

Let's consider what Japan has done, compared to Israel:

1. They launched a deliberate attack.

2. They killed two thousand plus American servicemen.

3. To this day, Japan has not apologized for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

4. To this day, Japan has not paid a dime to any of the veterans or their families.

Why don't the anti-Israeli factions care about these veterans? 

What's more, Pearl Harbor veterans, what few still remain, don't complain about it every year demanding that the American government or the Japanese government pay big money. You don't see anti-Japanese rallies among their descendants, either. 

Why are certain veterans obsessed with demonizing Israel, when other countries deserve much greate opprobrium for what they did?

The answer is simple: like Phil Tourney, Joe Meadors, and other anti-Zionist obsessives who complain about the USS Liberty, they simply hate Jews and they hate Israel. It's shameful.

What's really disgusting about all of this? The USS Liberty fanatics play the "veteran" card to shut down anyone who challenges or criticize stheir take on the whole incident.

"Well, I believe the veterans!" 

This is more wokeness, where the focus is on feelings, identity politics, and conspiracy theories, all at the expense of the truth.

Deceased US Senator John McCain was a veteran, and he betrayed this country and his constituents repeatedly, when he campaigned to build a border wall, but then repeatedly fought for amnesty, and killed the repeal of Obamacare.

Congressman Seth Moulton is a veteran, and he is a regressive leftist who thinks that men can become women.

Former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham was a veteran, and he took millions of dollars in bribes. He literally played the veteran card at his sentencing hearing, and the judge dismissed those pleas. Just because he was a veteran did not excuse his criminal conduct and his betrayal of the truth of his constituents and his country.

Being a veteran does not make anyone immune to criticism. Being a veteran does not mean that anyone of them can lie to the public with impunity and demonize entire countries or people groups. Truth is still truth, and fighting for the truth must remain the highest value.

Conclusion

The more that I have studied the USS Liberty incident, the more I am convinced that the event was a conflux of miscommunications and mistaken identities. At the worse, it was an act of gross negligence, but it no wise can one state that the Israeli government deliberately attacked an American ship, or that the American government was under the thumb of the Israelis to do whatever they wanted.

What has also come to light in this investigation is the more critical eye I have to take when it comes to veterans and their testimonies on any matter. Yes, we should be thankful for the veterans and their service to our country, but that does not give them carte blanche to say whatever they want and we have to believe everything they say.

It's time to end the lies about the USS Liberty, and it's time to take another weapon out of the Anti-Zionists' arsenal of lies against the United States and Israel.

Gov. Ron DeSantis warns militant Islamic terrorism 'still very real'

                         

I still would have preferred DeSantis as our next president.

Hope he runs, and I hope he wins, in 2028.

Florida My America!

Sassy Massie Takes on MAGA Meltdown Mike Johnson

A lot of pundits and establishment (or American First-lite) talking heads are grousing and condemning fiscal hawks in the House of Representatives for not going along with Speaker Johnson's re-election bid for Speaker of the House.

I agree with them.

There is no way that the current conference is prepared to deliver on the promises that Trump outlined in his 2024 campaign.

It's bad enough that Trump has a mixed record from his first term. Will he double down on half measures, or will he get the job done?

At any rate, there are typical talking points abounding that the whole effort to prolong the Speakership battle is a waste of time, will embarrass the GOP conference, could lead to a more liberal Speaker, and could even delay President Trump's inauguration because if the House is not organized, they cannot tally the Electoral Votes to award President-elect Trump and VP-Elect Vance their offices.

I am skeptical of all this fearmongering, of course.

The Speakership race is essential for the true conservatives, America First in Word and Deed, to make their case and put their mark on the House.

Rep. Thomas Massie provided a sound set of arguments to push back on the MAGA-Establishment fearmongering and shame-blaming:

Challenge accepted.

First let me note that the “vote for Mike” camp is not trying to make the case that Mike Johnson is endowed with the qualities necessary to lead our conference. Even you have limited yourself here to procedural justifications for his speakership rather than…

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 31, 2024

As I provide his above statement in full, I will add my commentary:

First, let me note that the “vote for Mike” camp is not trying to make the case that Mike Johnson is endowed with the qualities necessary to lead our conference. Even you have limited yourself here to procedural justifications for his speakership rather than telling us why he is a good or capable leader.

I appreciate this angle of the criticism. Johnson is kind of a MAGA-Yes Man when everyone sees him on social media. When it comes to actually governing, figuring out what can be done, making every effort to reconcile the different factions within the caucus, he doesn't even try.

Apparently, shortly after becoming Speaker, the intelligence apparatus confronted him about key issues, like extending the abusive surveillance state, ongoing funding for Ukraine, and maintaining the rest of the bureaucracy.

And he went along with it. Part of strong leadership is knowing how to push back on the lobbyists, the corporatists, and the bureaucrats who clamor for more funding ... or else! Most politicians just don't know how to say "No" once they have the power to say "Yes."

Johnson has shown himself not to be an effective leader, and Massie explains why.

Even if Mike’s entire goal is to do everything Trump wants without debate or question (which I would argue is not healthy for the institution of Congress), he’s not going to be good at it. He already demonstrated this month that he won’t tell the President what is achievable and what is not achievable in the House, and he lacks the situational awareness himself to know what can pass and what cannot.

Politics is the Art of the Possible, not just the probable or the desirable. Leadership means having to tell some of your most ardent supporters that "We just don't have the votes." At the same time, leadership finds a way to get the necessary votes for key goals. Sadly, Democrats have been much better power players when it comes to twisting arms to get their way. I have read stories about Nancy Pelosi aggressively confronting members of her caucus who were wavering on a vote, and confronting them in the bathroom!

Rahm Emmanuel harrassed one of the Democrats from New York in the Congressional shower over votes. While I don't want anyone's natural rights violated, political leadership needs to find means for strong leverage to get the entire caucus in line.

1. “What do we hope to gain?”

A competent Speaker who has the will and the ability to capitalize on this once-in-a-decade opportunity. Johnson is not up for this task. Also, we want a Speaker who inspires the public and who can make our case in the media, so we can keep the majority for the second half of Trump’s term. Johnson nearly led us to the minority in what was a banner year for Trump. He is certain to lose us the majority in 2026.

The Speaker of the House is the chief fundraiser and promoter for the caucus. He not only wants to ensure that the entire conference keeps their seats in the next cycle, but he must work to expand the conference. Massie is right on here: Johnson failed. Republicans lost seats in California and New York, although the GOP did an incredible job in Pennsylvania and Michigan. What happened to the fifty-state strategy?

Johnson has already flubbed on national television, too, such as when he talked about the need for 'immigration reform' on Laura Ingraham's show. That was a red flag remark right away, and Ingraham pounced on it, since that phrase conjures up past betrayals for amnesty.

Also, he has little experience as a floor leader. Aside from chairing one small committee, Johnson has not worked all the angles of the conference the way that a leader needs to work.

2. “No one can get more votes.”

It’s somewhat ridiculous to assert that Mike Johnson is the only member of Congress electable to Speaker. He was only electable the first time because he hadn’t held any type of leadership position, nor had he ever fought for anything, so no one disliked him and everyone was tired of voting. He won by being the least objectionable candidate, and he no longer possesses that title.

Great point! Former Congressman Matt Gaetz pointed out that deposed Speaker Kevin McCarthy was frequently whipping votes against replacement speaker candidates every time another name was brought forward as another consensus candidate. Then Congressman Mike Molinaro said "Well, since Emmer failed, who was next in line? Let's just advance him!" That was Mike Johnson, and Gaetz jumped on that proposal to help rush Johnson to a floor vote, by which time there was no chance for McCarthy to whip against Johnson.

That's how we got MAGA Meltdown Mike.

3. “Risk crippling Trump’s win.”

This is argument is a scare tactic, meant to stampede the masses, plain and simple. There is no legal or parliamentary argument for nullifying the national election if a speaker is not in place on January 6th.

I agree. This is an empty scare tactic. The GOP Conference elected McCarthy after about a week of balloting. They will get this done before January 20th, 2025. Just like McCarthy, Johnson has not been meeting with key leaders in the GOP Conference about their concerns. Victoria Spartz declared on national television that Johnson has not put forward any plan to move forward Trump's agenda, for example.

Will he keep any promises? He didn't keep the ones he had made when first elevated as Speaker of the House. Why should anyone trust him now?

4. “They are allies of the democrats”

Actually, it is Mike Johnson who routinely passes major legislation (Ukraine, Omnibus, FISA spying) with only a minority of Republicans, and relying on most Democrats. He also owes his current speakership to the Democrats. Here’s the roll call for the motion to table the motion to vacate last summer. Pelosi and Jeffries teamed up to save Johnson:

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll188.xml 

The Democrats are basically running the show, once again. Why? Because Republicans are divided between those who actually want to drain the swamp, cut the spending, and get the country's fiscal house in order, and those Congressmen who owe their elections to big business, big military, and big labor donors who want their handouts.

Of course, the problem goes deeper when one considers that too many voters are not making larger, louder demands on their representatives to stop the spending, to put the needs of Americans first, and to honor and fulfill their oath of office to the United States Constitution! If you don't like what you see in Congress, take a look in the mirror and ask yourself: "Am I contributing to this mess? Am I still voting for the same people who promise me one thing, then go to Congress and break their promises again and again, only then to come back during election season and scold me with 'If you don't vote for me, the other guy will win, and he will be worse!'?"

In closing, the emperor has no clothes and the entire conference knows it but few will say it. The general public knows it too. Please don’t shoot the messengers.

Final Thoughts

Thomas Sowell, and by extension Ben Shapiro, have talked about all the perverse incentive structures at work in Congress. In order to get elected, Congressmen need lots of money, lots of positive media support. Their commitment, their dependence on donor classes is so strong, that they cannot back away from sending more money to Ukraine, or they cannot say No to continuing the reckless which keeps the bloated bureaucracy affloat.

Also, many Congressmen are launching into social media profiles and joining the broad Con Inc. commentariat. They are not interested in governing, as much as they want to make videos, create podcasts, generate a lot of heat to themselves when they prepare for their next career outside of Congress.

Some institutional reforms are essential for Congress to become more responsive to the people, and more importantly to the United States Constitution. For now, the best mechanism possessed by individual members to keep the Speaker in line is to frustrate any member's ascent to the gavel at the beginning of the term. This step does not maintain the power in the hands of the membership, however, once he gets the gavel. The motion to vacate will get rid of one bad Speaker, but who will take his place? This question needs more thought, more consideration. Congressmen Massie and his other dissatisfied colleagues have supposedly discussed this matter. Supposedly.

We will see what they come up with come January 3rd, 2025.

ICYMI: Gov. DeSantis Denounced Mass Legal Immigration and Illegal Immigration

Just so you know:

The irony is that DeSantis, it turns out, was and is the America First candidate that MAGA was looking for all along; and not that orange, liberal m, H-B1 loving, billionaire they have been blindly following.
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— Dr. Pepper Texan (@DrPepperTexan) December 28, 2024

(TOLD YOU SO!)

🔥Ron DeSantis had it right on H1-B visas:

“I don’t support undercutting American wages, and the H1-B program has been used for that.”@VivekGRamaswamy, Musk, and Trump should take note.

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— Cryptid Politics (pro-DeSantis) 🇺🇸🐊 (@CryptidPolitics) December 28, 2024

Pastor Scott Lively: The Way Forward in 2025

 The Way Forward in 2025

The November presidential election of 2024 changed the entire world overnight, so dramatically and in so many ways that confident predictions of what comes next are next to impossible. Many critical and pivotal factors are actively in flux, plus the malign elites from whose hands the levers of power have supposedly just been ripped are actually still largely in control for a few more weeks. Will they surrender? Or will they sabotage the ship of state and then slink away in the ensuing chaos to regroup and re-strategize? Either way, God is still on His throne overseeing it all and we who belong to Him can make our own plans in total confidence of that ultimate truth. Thus, my News Year’s Resolution for 2025 is to embrace and model the power of a redemptive lifestyle, positively and pro-actively. 

These are my plans and aspirations:    

In 2025 I want to promote a movement within MAGA and the Church to get back to nature as the antidote to the artificial world and the rise of transhumanism – and to do so in a mostly positive, proactive manner that encourages political de-polarization and unity on universal values as they are understood from a naturalist viewpoint. I have been developing this “natural life” theme for twenty years as a side-line to my culture war adventures,   but now, in “retirement,” I will reverse that order and make it my primary emphasis. 

The culture war will necessarily rage on as the pendulum swings strongly back to the right, and I will participate in that as an “elder statesman” and advisor through the promotion of my culture-war books, and through some of my future columns on WND and other venues. However, increasingly as time goes on I want to use honey rather than vinegar to flavor my message and to keep my main focus on the good things we want to restore/create rather than the bad things we want to remove/destroy.  

Indeed, every “thankless task” I’ve taken on and every battle scar I’ve earned over the past thirty years on the front lines of this war has helped to force “the worm’s turn” finally, making it at least possible for those evil things to be defeated and destroyed in this new political season. But, for my own part, I am inclined to continue to scout ahead to where we go next rather than join the clearing operation now in its nascent, pre-inauguration stage. I literally created the Swamp Rangers sub-division of my ministry in 2020 to take a leadership role in that clearing operation, believing Trump would remain in the White House in 2021.

Frankly, he could have used that help against the deep state and the RINOs then, but today he’s the most powerful leader in the world, by far, served by a stunning team of populist super-heroes and backed by a massive army of MAGA foot-soldiers. My contribution as a small fish in that big pond would be minimal and redundant.

It has always been in my nature to seek out the potentially highest-impact tasks not being handled by others (like exposing the homosexual roots of the Nazi Party and taking the arrows for doing so) and so I will press on with what I think will be most beneficial effort in the months and years ahead. In this case it means fighting “conservatism” by laying out a pro-active vision for a better future and proposing the means to achieve it. We will NEVER overcome the fatal flaw of conservatism (which is to always react to today’s “progressive” initiatives and then always settle for preserving yesterday’s status quo of baked-in leftist policies) unless we learn to define our own detailed vision for a better future than we ever had in the past, and to pursue it pro-actively and persistently as a lifestyle. 

I want to become a model of living that lifestyle personally and professionally. I want to remind everyone of the best things we had in the past, and to hypothesize/demonstrate how we can use those things as stepping stones to something even better in the future. I don’t want us to regress to what we were (an impossibility) but to progress toward what God wants us to be, to the best we can discern and implement it as a society of diverse interests and perspectives. That’s a huge challenge that will never be fully achieved until Christ rules this world in His Millennial Kingdom, but we can at least use the snap-shots He has given us in the Word (such as Isaiah 11) about what life will be like then.  

I’m obviously a futurist regarding the MK, but regardless of what eschatological camp we’ve chosen to inhabit in the present, those biblical snap-shots should be recognized as the gold standard for civilization in our future. They provide a glimpse of what God perceives as the ideal society, whether He’s going to impose it Himself from the Throne of David in an earthly Jerusalem (the pre-Millennial view), or whether He intends us, as the church, to subdue the world and impose it ourselves (the a-Millennial and post-Millennial views).  

The clear picture He lays before us is human civilization in harmony with nature as recognized best in the “universal” family and community values of the vast majority of human beings alive today on this planet. And importantly, that healing truth is the bridge to common ground between the Christian right, the Environmentalist left, and the Populist center on both sides of the divide. That island of common ground is the only place in the modern world where the satanic elites’ divide and conquer polarization strategy loses much of its power. 

Many MAGA people, fresh from victory over our Marxist polar opposites, might not and probably should not be receptive to the idea of de-polarizing our society in the short term, but in the mid-to-long term that’s the only way to de-fang the upper elites who keep us divided as a tool of social engineering. Identifying and socially prioritizing the universal values of the natural order we all were born into is the only way to effectively neutralize efforts to pit us against each other. That means first breaking the anti-family, anti-patriarchal stranglehold the Marxists have gained over our children and culture – so there’s still a civil war to be fought – but when/if we get back to cherishing normalcy as a society we can then build in safeguards to prevent the Marxist cancer from growing back.

That restoration is only possible if we actually have a clear, detailed vision for what it will look like when we’re done – something we don’t yet have. THAT is the task I want to pursue for the rest of my life: crafting and popularizing the vision of a truly family centered society in harmony with “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.” That was the cornerstone promise of our Founders when they first declared our independence: a promise which has never yet been kept in full measure. THAT must be the aspiration to which we hold tightly and teach our children to embrace. Pursuing that goal is what I will aspire to do in 2025 and beyond, along with any other persons of good will who care to join me.

Kenya MassResistance Hosts Successful Three Day Training!

 

Kenya MassResistance three-day training for youth to “resist the LGBT agenda” a big success!

Held at a church and a high school in Nairobi. Included 163 high school and college students.

Powerful information enables youth to fight back against the LGBT assault on Kenya.

December 21, 2024

 Senior Pastor Benard Bezalel began the first day’s session by teaching about MassResistance and its work around the world – and the role of Kenya MassResistance.

As we reported in our previous post, MassResistance is helping Christians in Kenya fight the well-funded LGBT assault on their country that’s targeting young children and teenagers.

A dynamic Kenya MassResistance chapter was formed by a group of pastors, schoolteachers, a school headmaster, a school coach, mental health professionals, and others. The new MassResistance chapter has now begun training high school and college students to resist and counter the LGBT agenda –  and to help their friends and neighbors do it. (See photos below.)

Powerful  - and critical – training for Kenyan youth

MassResistance designed a comprehensive multi-day course for them to teach high school and college students. It includes a critical information, facts, reasoning, and counter arguments about the LGBT behaviors and lifestyle and how it operates in Kenya – presented as intertwined in a solid Biblical framework. There were also discussion topics, role-playing, and other student interactions to reinforce the material. Several excellent instructors from Kenya MassResistance took part in teaching and helping to run the training.

The LGBT targeting of youth in Kenya has alarmed parents across the country. Word of the Kenya MassResistance effort quickly spread among Christians!

To reach as many students as possible, this first training took place at two separate venues. On December 17 and 18, it was held as a two-day session at a Nairobi church and included 50 high school and college students. On December 20, it was consolidated into a one-day event and took place at a local high school and included 63 students.

In addition to course materials, the speakers and (and some student leaders) were given colorful “Kenya MassResistance” T-shirts to wear during the sessions.

Both events were very well received. Most of the students had never heard the other side of the LGBT arguments, and certainly had not been presented with such a range of facts and critical information. More people want to get involved, the pastors told us, and this could make a big difference in the country.

Here are some highlights:

Two-day session at the church

This pastor gave an excellent talk on “identity, gender, and sexuality.” He went right to work debunking the LGBT talking points: What is our identity? We are made in God’s image. God made you who you are: man and woman. You are only one or the other. You can choose self-acceptance or self-loathing. This is about Godliness versus idolatry. Same-sex physical relations are a sin, and the LGBT movement is trying to steal your identity. It is their way of promoting immorality versus morality.

This woman, a health care professional, outlined the numerous health problems and emotional issues of associated with homosexuality, transgenderism, and related behaviors. “The truth is the Word of God,” she told the students, “but they want to subvert it.”

This man described various LGBT groups in Kenya, how they got there, and what each one is doing to push the larger agenda. He also discussed reasons why there are so many LGBTQ organizations in their country.

This speaker talked in Swahili (Kenya’s native language) about students who have been molested in school by fellow students who have been lured into homosexuality. There was also discussion about teachers who are ringleaders pushing acceptance and normalization of LGBT behaviors to students.

Near the end of the second day, Pastor Benard Bazelel spoke again and went over the lies of the LGBT movement and how to counter them. He debunked the arguments that LGBT groups use to persuade students to accept those behaviors. He broke down the terms “sexual identity” and “sexual orientation.” He also discussed how the LGBT movement uses “feelings” to confuse people, and persuade them that it’s about “love.”  The conflict pits Biblical marriage versus the idea that “anyone can have sex with anyone.” You are not a servant of your feelings, he told them.

 Students broke up into groups, for role-playing, question & answer, and discussion.

 A few of the students (wearing their Kenya MassResistance T-shirts) came up to the stage for a photo.

 The back sides of the Kenya MassResistance T-shirts say: “Resist the devil”!

One-day training session at a high school in Nairobi

The one-day December 20 session at a local Nairobi high school, even more students (63) participated. It was largely the same curriculum from the other training session, consolidated into one day. As at the church, the students seemed genuinely pleased to learn the truth about the propaganda that most of them had been hearing.

Even though the LGBT agenda has infiltrated most Kenyan schools through money and influence, many school principals disapprove and are willing to let Kenya MassResistance come in to present the other side.

 A Kenya MassResistance speaker addressing the students at the high school.

 They were definitely interested in hearing the truth after all the LGBT propaganda that's been spread.

 Students were energized and ready for action!

Moving forward

Both sessions ended with discussion of continued support and engagement with the students. Kenya MassResistance is already planning is to hold more youth training sessions across the country.

The Kenya LGBT groups have figured out what’s happening and will likely try to stop those sessions. Well-known Kenyan LGBT activists have begun following Kenya MassResistance on social media. But these Christians will not be backing down at all! The pastors said, “Let’s take it to them!”

Momentum is gathering. Over the past week, another town in Kenya and another African country has asked to be part of the training.

Final thoughts

It was a very exciting and inspiring three days! As noted, the students seemed grateful they received this training. Many, if not all, had been subjected to LGBT propaganda (or worse) and needed spiritual and factual ammunition to fight back.

Embarrassingly for us, these Kenyans are more eager to take on the predatory LGBT forces than most American parents and church people these days. It’s both refreshing and saddening.

There definitely will be more to report from Africa on this battle!

   

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CA MassResistance: Exposing Norwalk-La Mirada "Karens" Marie and Rudy Miranda

Rudy and Marie Miranda, the NLMUSD "Karens"

[Arthur Schaper's speech to the December 16, 2024 Norwalk-La Mirada School Board meeting]:

Today is a really exciting day for Norwalk La Mirada School District.

Congratulations to Espie Free and Becky Langenwalter.

It's also an exciting day for MassResistance. 

Since the middle of 2023, I have been privileged to work with a number of wonderful parents in this community, men and women who did not want their children subjected to getting directions on obtaining abortions or sex change procedures from a so-called well-being center at one of the high schools. 

What has been really exciting about working with the parents in this community is that they have stayed active despite a major victory last June, when we received word from the principal and then from other staff that the well-being Center was going to be shut down for good. 

The work is not done however, because there are still obscene books in the school libraries, and there are LGBT clubs that have no business being available to kids, and there is still the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns. There is also grave danger with the upcoming ethnic studies program, which seeks to divide rather than unite students. We should not allow that to happen.

There are also ongoing concerns about this upcoming superintendent Natasha Baker. Will she treat teachers and staff with respect? Will she listen to the needs of students and the concerns of parents? You need to keep a close on her and make sure that she has learned the lessons from her failures at Banning and Fresno Unified.

MassResistance parents are still committed to fighting the good fight and ensuring that the school district continues to put the needs of children and the rights of parents first and shows a commitment to getting rid of all of this woke DEI LGBT garbage in the school district once and for all. 

Last of all, I am compelled to speak out against a hateful Karen named Marie Miranda and her shameful husband Rudy Miranda. These despicable people have routinely defamed parents in this community, calling them terrorists and extremists simply because they don't want perversion being pushed on their children. 

Their kind of bigotry reminds me of the Nazi movement that sought to label, libel, and then eliminate people they disagreed with. The only difference between them and the Ku Klux Klan is that they don't have the dignity to put white shawls to hide their faces, and their anti-religious bigotry is so great that they wouldn’t burn crosses on people’s lawns.

Such adults who work with children, and then come to a school board meeting and call parents terrorists have no business being around children, and I think that the school district needs to take a stand on this kind of abuse. 

The fact of the matter is that abusive Karens like Marie Miranda can't handle the fact that the parents voted. They voted to get rid of all of the woke nonsense, and they want a school board that will actually listen to them rather than listen to hateful partisans like the Mirandas. Last of all I would like everyone in the audience to raise your hand if you are a resident in the Norwalk La Mirada School District. For some reason, bigots like Marie and Rudy Miranda oppose democracy and here don't think you matter.

That’s the real extremism, and it needs to be opposed with our collective voices.

(Here's the video recording of my comments):

ICYMI: MassResistance on Fox News Denouncing "Drag Queen Story Hour" (2019)

June 2019 was a great time.

MassResistance was fighting for Robert Hoogland.

Our Texas chapter exposed the drag queen sex offenders at the Houston Library.

And I debated this issue with a pro-drag queen liberal "Christian" on Fox News:

“This is not diversity—this is perversity! Why do we advertise perverse lifestyles to our children? Why are adult homosexual men/entertainers going to libraries and dancing in front of children?!” @ArthurCSchaper @IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/92b4LBDQgY

— 🇺🇸California Condor🇺🇸 (@Condor_Law) June 14, 2019

I was the only one who had the courage to call out homosexuality and transgenderism as harmful behaviors. I refused to buy into the "gay conservative" lie.

And Laura Ingraham was so unhappy that I called out all this crap, that she canceled me live on air.

It's a real shame that many pro-family advocates do not have the broad opportunity to speak out against perversion with such direct necessity.

What Happens to Unclaimed Dead in LA County (December 14, 2024)

 

This week we held our annual Burial of the Unclaimed Dead ceremony, where we laid to rest the 1,865 people who passed away in LA County in 2021 without anyone to claim their remains. 

Every year, I make it a point to attend this ceremony. It is one of the more special things we do as a County—upholding our commitment since 1896 that everyone in LA County, no matter their means, is laid to rest with dignity. These people may have been strangers to us, but they are no less worthy of our recognition. May their souls now rest in peace. 

TAC: Ignored History of the Bill of Rights

 

Bill of Rights Ignored History Forgotten Role of the 10th Amendment

The Bill of Rights was born from intense battles between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over delegated and reserved powers. This clash not only shaped its contested origins but also left its true purpose misunderstood to this day. 1. Initial Efforts Rejected During the Philadelphia Convention on Sept. 12, 1787, George Mason proposed adding a declaration of rights to the Constitution, but his motion was overwhelmingly rejected. Only Massachusetts abstained from voting against it. Just three days later, Edmund Randolph proposed a new approach: allow state conventions to submit amendments for consideration in another general convention. "That amendments to the plan might be offered by the State Conventions, which should be submitted to and finally decided on by another general Convention." Yet this motion was rejected unanimously, signaling the deep reluctance among the framers to entertain such changes. After the Constitution was sent to the Confederation Congress, Anti-Federalists like Richard Henry Lee took up the fight for a Bill of Rights. Lee passionately argued for attaching amendments before sending the document to the states for ratification, saying, "To insist that it should go as it is without amendments is like presenting a hungry man 50 dishes and insisting he should eat all or none." Despite Lee’s fervent efforts, the Constitution was sent to the states without any amendments. 2. The Federalist Argument During the ratification debates, Federalists such as James Wilson, Tench Coxe, and Alexander Hamilton argued that listing specific rights could be redundant - or even dangerous - because it could imply that the government had powers beyond those explicitly granted. Wilson’s State House Yard Speech emphasized that the federal government could only exercise powers expressly delegated to it, making a Bill of Rights "superfluous and absurd." "Every thing which is not given, is reserved. This distinction being recognized, will furnish an answer to those who think the omission of a bill of rights, a defect in the proposed Constitution: for it would have been superfluous and absurd to have stipulated with a federal body of our own creation, that we should enjoy those privileges, of which we are not divested either by the intention or the act, that has brought that body into existence." In other words, the federal government would only be authorized to exercise those powers delegated to it in the constitution. In that structure, why add a declaration, Wilson's argument suggested, that the government is not authorized to do what it's already not delegated a power to do in the first place? Learn more about this essential history they don’t teach in government schools. Podcast - Bill of Rights: 5 Hidden Truths They Never Teach Article - Bill of Rights: Forgotten Role of the 10th Amendment in Its Creation As Tench Coxe explained: "The old federal Constitution contained many of the same things, which from error or disingenuousness are urged against the new one. Neither of them have a bill of rights, nor does either notice the liberty of the press, because they are already provided for by the State Constitutions; and relating only to personal rights, they could not be mentioned in a contract among sovereign states." Coxe provided an example, by pointing out that "there is nothing in the new constitution to prevent a trial by jury." In Federalist 84, Hamilton famously warned that listing rights could imply that any unlisted rights were unprotected, a dangerous precedent. "I go further and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted." He continued, citing a lack of power over the freedom of the press as an example of something not delegated to the federal government in the constitution, and thus, unnecessary to include in a bill of rights. "For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?" Hamilton forcefully argued that under this structure of delegated and reserved powers, "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights." 3. Anti-Federalist Rebuttals However, Anti-Federalists weren't convinced, not even close. In the weeks following the Philadelphia Convention, George Mason’s objections were widely circulated. His first and foremost concern was “There is no Declaration of Rights.” A week after James Wilson’s speech dismissing the need for a Bill of Rights, the Federal Farmer published his fourth essay. In it, he directly challenged the Federalist claim that explicit protections were unnecessary under the Constitution's system of delegated and reserved powers. “It is said, that when the people make a constitution, and delegate powers, that all powers not delegated by them to those who govern, is reserved in the people.” After restating the Federalist argument, Federal Farmer drew attention to how this principle was already implemented under the Articles of Confederation, where Article II explicitly reserved rights and powers to the states. The new Constitution lacked such an express reservation, raising concerns that this safeguard was being deliberately abandoned. “And that the people, in the present case, have reserved in themselves, and in there state governments, every right and power not expressly given by the federal constitution to those who shall administer the national government.” Federal Farmer then argued that Wilson’s explanation of delegated and reserved powers was not an objective truth. Instead, politicians - then and now - tend to adopt whichever view best serves their political goals. This ambiguity makes explicit protections all the more necessary to prevent abuse. “It is said, on the other hand, that the people, when they make a constitution, yield all power not expressly reserved to themselves. The truth is, in either case, it is mere matter of opinion, and men usually take either side of the argument, as will best answer their purposes.” He then closed with the central warning: governments inevitably seek to expand their own power, especially in areas where the limits of authority are unclear. To counteract this tendency, Federal Farmer insisted that wise constitution-makers explicitly define how powers are delegated and reserved. “But the general presumption being, that men who govern, will, in doubtful cases, construe laws and constitutions most favorably for increasing their own powers; all wise and prudent people, in forming constitutions, have drawn the line, and carefully described the powers parted with and the powers reserved.” In the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry argued that this federalist view of delegated and reserved powers was novel - because it had always been the other way around. "I repeat, that all nations have adopted this construction - That all rights not expressly and unequivocally reserved to the people, are impliedly and incidentally relinquished to rulers; as necessarily inseparable from the delegated powers. It is so in Great-Britain: For every possible right which is not reserved to the people by some express provision or compact, is within the King's prerogative." For Patrick Henry and many other Anti-Federalists, this new kind of system - without an express declaration - dangerously left the reservation of rights and powers to implication: "If you intend to reserve your unalienable rights, you must have the most express stipulation. For if implication be allowed, you are ousted of those rights. If the people do not think it necessary to reserve them, they will be supposed to be given up." A stark example from the Articles of Confederation - which was adopted during the fight with Great Britain - emphasized his point: unless the Constitution included a reservation of rights and powers as had been done under the Articles, the federal government would be far more prone to abuse of power. "How were the Congressional rights defined when the people of America united by a confederacy to defend their liberties and rights against the tyrannical attempts of Great-Britain? The States were not then contented with implied reservation. No, Mr. Chairman. It was expressly declared in our Confederation that every right was retained by the States respectively, which was not given up to the Government of the United States." JOIN TAC, SUPPORT LIBERTY! Let’s keep building the foundation! For as little as $2/month, help us take a stand for the Constitution and liberty - whether the government likes it, or not. (they don’t!) details here Responding to the idea that a bill of rights was "superfluous" and unnecessary because the nature of the Constitution was one of delegated and reserved powers, Richard Henry Lee agreed, with an important caveat. He noted that a bill of rights was "not necessary in the Confederation because it is expressly declared that no power should be exercised, but such as is expressly given." Here, Lee was referencing Article II of the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the 10th Amendment. "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled." Clear language about delegated and reserved powers so "no constructive power can be exercised," Lee noted, was the fundamental principle at hand. He said preventing such misconstruction of power "is the great use of a bill of rights." In short, Richard Henry Lee took a position similar to that of Alexander Hamilton. As long as it was expressly declared that the powers delegated were the limit of powers that could be exercised, then the entire document - or just Article II of the Articles of Confederation - could function as a "bill of rights." Thus, a full Bill of Rights wasn’t even needed under the Articles of Confederation because it was spelled out that what wasn’t delegated, was reserved. The 10th For much of the ratification process, Federalists insisted that the Constitution be approved or rejected in its entirety, vehemently rejecting any suggestions for amendments. This stance quickly changed when it became clear that Massachusetts would likely vote against ratification. A loss there – Federalists understood – would send them reeling in states where it was expected to be a very close call at best – like New York and Virginia. In other words, the entire proposal was close to being doomed. That was when Federalists made a deal with two powerful, but mostly silent, likely opponents - John Hancock and Samuel Adams: Support the Constitution if the ratification included a number of recommended amendments. On Feb. 6, they did just that, and the very first recommended amendment was a precursor to the 10th Amendment. “First. That it be explicitly declared, that all powers not expressly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several states, to be by them exercised.” This language was crucial in addressing Anti-Federalist fears that the Constitution would lead to unchecked federal power. South Carolina quickly followed their lead with a similar recommended amendment “This Convention doth also declare that no Section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a Construction that the states do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union.” And on June 21, New Hampshire sealed the deal in favor of ratification by also including as their first recommended amendment the same precursor to the 10th Amendment from Massachusetts. Virginia, and then New York both followed suit, also with precursors to the 10th prominently included in their lists of recommended amendments. In the end, the debate over a bill of rights - and ratification itself - boiled down to an explicit line in the sand between delegated and reserved powers. It’s no wonder that Thomas Jefferson, who repeatedly approved of “the plan of Massachusetts,” later called the 10th Amendment “the foundation of the Constitution.” And it’s no wonder why government-run schools rarely teach these foundational principles  and views - they’re a huge part of the system that has given us the biggest government in history. But TAC has you covered - and nothing helps us reach and teach more and more people with this kind of essential historical information - more than the financial faith and support of our members. JOIN US TODAY! Here’s the link, you know what to do: https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Brick-by-brick. Person-by-person. Building a strong foundation for liberty – whether the government happens to like it, or not. (they definitely do not)