RNC Statement on House Democrats Voting to Defund Law Enforcement
Washington, D.C. – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters released the following statement after 211 House Democrats voted against critical funding for federal law enforcement:
“House Democrats’ main constituency is illegal immigrants and criminals,” said Chairman Gruters. “Democrats have now voted dozens of times against funding ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS, repeatedly siding with open borders over law and order. While President Trump and Republicans secure the border and enforce our laws, Democrats continue to obstruct the very agencies who protect Americans.”
Background:
House Democrats voted against legislation providing critical funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
More than $38 billion for ICE
More than $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection
Senate and House Democrats have now voted 37 times against border security.
Well, a major takeover has taken the Torrance City Council.
Sellout Sharon Kalani is besting Mayor George Chen. David Kartsontis pushed out John Kaji in a blowout, and Asam Sheikh has held on to his seat without any problems. Betty Lieu, the wife of Lying (pun intended) Congressman Ted Lieu, won her seat outright, as well. Many Republicans were frustrated with the two Republican candidates i that race, hoping that Harry Ward would drop out, since he was the weaker of the two, with less money and less support. Ultimately, it didn't matter. Michelle Brooks was my preferred candidate, but even if she had gotten Harry's votes, Lyin' Betty still would have won.
This is quite a turnaround. Unprecedented, to put it mildly. If my history is correct, this is the third time in the history of Torrance that an incumbent mayor lost his seat. First, there was the famous controversial Albert Isen ("There are no negroes in Torrance". Then there is Dan Walker, who recently passed away.
And now George Chen has joined that list.
Clearly, there was a lot more anger in the city than I was aware of. For me, I didn't think there was enough outrage, because I didn't see "Recall George Chen" signs throughout the city, the way I had seen them 20 years ago when Frank Scotto challenged and replaced Dan Walker.
But here we are today.
Every major interest on the left and right, if you can call Frank Scotto and his Republican ilk right, wanted to get rid of George.
But I have to say that some unforced errors in the George Chen camp could have been fixed if he had tried.
I think it was noteworthy and noble of George to reject the pride resolution. A lot of residents didn't want it, and the city council chambers were filled with people opposing the resolution in 2024.
It's another pride resolution that was the problem. George Chen became very proud, arrogant, and unapproachable.
I remember speaking to two very well-connected conservative activists in the city, and they both shared deep frustrations with George Chen. And I have to say that I share them.
George took away our public comment! Initially, any member of the public would have 3 minutes to address the city council during general public comment, and then they would have 3 minutes to speak on each agenda item as they saw fit. Initially, I had tolerated the limit on public comment because the Black Lives Matter hate group was still disrupting City Council meetings. When they would start screaming and yelling and shouting "Say his name!" the city council would move into closed session and wait for the BLM activists to burn out and go home.
Finally, they quit. But George didn't give us our time back! I complained about this issue many times. Sharon Kalani made this a campaign issue, and she even contacted me about it during the campaign season. I contacted one of George Chen's campaign managers, and I told him that George needed to fix this. It would be a real shame for him to have done all the work he did, only to lose his seat.
He didn't listen to me.
Something else that was particularly disturbing was George's insistence on installing automatic ticketing cameras. Red light cameras, speeding cameras, automated ticketing programs for parking violations. All of this was sprung on us at the Coast Christian Center campaign event in February 2026.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Chen was open to this proposal, and he was supposed to be a conservative! Not only that, but over the last few weeks, as I've been making noise about this issue, even liberal Torrance residents are just as outraged. This would have been an easy win if George had shut the whole thing down.
Last of all, it was very painful to reflect that he and John Kaji threw me under the bus when I applied for the Open City council seat in 2022. Yes, I had a prior conviction, and I had submitted all the information about it when I applied for the city council seat in 2021. When I got my record expunged, the lawyers told me I didn't have to declare it. They gave me bad legal advice, but vile interests in the city and on the city council took advantage of this unintended mistake.
On the day in question, I was disqualified in front of everybody. It was very painful at the time. It was particularly painful because I had worked very hard to help George and John get elected to City Council, and the way they repaid me was to throw me under the bus. And to do it publicly. And that shows no courage in standing up to the city council members or to the city staff, because I presume that the city attorney had been leading them along to just get rid of me.
I know that a lot of people didn't want me on the city council, and I accept that. I've made a choice that I just will stand for what I believe in, and recognize that I'm just not going to be to everyone's liking. But to have two of the three people on that dais throw me under the bus was just sad.
George made excuses about it when I confronted him 2 years later. John Kaji strung me along, claimed that he was working on fixing the problem, but he never did. In fact, he just hid behind the city attorney, who put all the blame on me.
Finally, in January this year, I confronted the city council for their abusive practice.
It was shameful what they did to me, and I put them to shame for what they did to me. I called them out by name, but abstain from mentioning Jeremy gerson, Bridget Lewis, and certainly Aurelio Mattucci, because Aurelio was the only one who had voted against disqualifying me.
I was surprised at the amount of support I received for that speech. I didn't know if anyone even cared!
And now I fast forward back to that Coast Christian Center debate event. I have not shared this story, because I didn't know if it would have been appropriate, but now I think is a good time. As always, leaving the event, I saw David Kartsonia, the candidate running against John Kaji. Out of nowhere, unprompted by me, David said to me: "Arthur, you gave a great speech at the last city council meeting. And you're right. You were badly treated, and that shouldn't have happened to you."
That meant the world to me. David wasn't going to get anything out of me, so he had no reason to say that to me unless he chose to. And he did. He showed real character that evening.
And with that said, I'm happy to say that I'm glad he got elected. I'm glad that John Kaji lost. He deserved to lose. All the stuff that I've recently learned about him, including real estate dealings and the fact that he pretty much carpetbagged into the district, all hurt him. I support him then, but when I saw how little a connection he had to the district, I can see why voters gave him the heave-ho.
The Team Torrance PAC made unforced errors, as well. I received a flyer promoting George Chen, and it said Team Torrance as the sender. But their address was located in Santa Ana, California! Why would someone in Orange County be sending out mailers for a Torrance City Council race? It makes no sense! The pack could have purchased a dummy office, set up a Torrance mailing address, and sent out the flyers that way!
Betty Lieu was guaranteed to win, since she was the highest vote-getter in the 2018 school board election. She has gathered a lot of support (I don't know how or why, but there it is). With that fact, I presumed that the pride resolution would probably get shoved down our throats. Now I guess it's pretty much a done deal. Then again, I see that a lot of corporate interests and a lot of cities are dialing down on the pride nonsense and taking down the flags. Perhaps the same kind of worn-out lack of interest will pervade Torrance as well.
All in all, I'm not all that sad about the city council elections.
If Aurelio holds on and becomes the next city treasurer, that will be the ultimate vindication. I think it's important that people who actually respect the needs of others, serve the city, get things done, our rewarded with election to higher office. We'll see what happens!
You can have the right resume, an excellent pedigree, a
great record of accomplishment, and you still don’t get elected. Politics isn’t
fair. Oftentimes, it isn’t moral. The outcomes come and go depending on the
place, time, candidate, or the other opponent making one more mistake than the
winner.
Sometimes, though, a candidate doesn’t make any mistakes.
Public sentiment drifts in a different direction.
I still remember the student council election for my senior
year. A young lady, beautiful in spirit and form, let’s call her Patty, had
served on the student council for our class for three years in a row. She did
the hard work when no one was looking. She fundraised for the class programs.
She attended the high school sports events. She was a good student, too.
When the race for senior class president rolled out, she was
the lead contender. Then stepped in a relative nobody named Jenny. She was a
nice girl, someone I had known from elementary school. She was quiet and
unassuming, and she had never done anything major on campus. Never participated
in extracurricular activities. Never worked for any school cause. Come student
council election day, Jenny won the Senior Class President. Patty quietly
rushed to the student library (where I was studying at the time), and she just
sobbed: “It’s not fair!” and crashed into her friend’s arms.
All her work meant nothing to the rest of the student body. Her
pain still sticks out in my memory, and it underscores clearly how politics
isn’t fair.
At the end of it all, campaigning is an amoral quest to get
the most votes. Sadly, sometimes the contenders lie, cheat, and steal to win.
Even setting aside outright fraud, elections can turn up winners who don’t
deserve the win on many levels.
That’s a lesson I wasn’t happy to relearn following last
week’s California primary.
From the moment he announced, I supported Riverside County
Sheriff Chad Bianco for governor.
He was already an effective elected executive. He had served
thirty-three years in law enforcement, having defeated a corrupt incumbent to lead
one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country.
He made national news when he revolted against California
Governor Gavin Newsom’s lockdown orders and mask mandates in 2020. Most elected
officials were biding their time, wondering when the worst of the lockdown
madness would blow over.
Bianco didn’t wait. He told the Riverside County Board of
Supervisors plainly that he would not enforce those mandates. No one was going
to jail for refusing to wear a mask or choosing to keep his business open.
In early January 2021, I attended a “Stop the Steal” rally
in Murietta, and I enjoyed visiting the department stores and eating at the
local restaurants—and without having to wear a mask or show proof of
vaccination. I live in Los Angeles County, and the most I could get away with
was not wearing a mask outside. Businesses and government buildings insisted on
the mask, even when I voted in the recall to get rid of Newsom in August 2021
(which crashed and burned, by a worse margin than expected).
Sheriff Bianco set the standard for resistance to medical
tyranny. He set the standard that other sheriffs would follow, even the
Democratic Sheriff of Los Angeles County Alex Villanueva, who announced in
July, 2021 his refusal to enforce the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’
reinstatement of the indoor mask mandate.
For years, I have been fighting illegal immigration at the
local and state levels in California. Many of the city council and county
supervisor meetings I attended had to do with immigration: partner with ICE,
work with the federal government, reject California’s sanctuary state policies.
The health freedom fight replaced my activism against illegal
immigration. Rallies and protests erupted across Los Angeles and Orange
Counties. More Californians found out that they can—they must—reject COVID-19
tyranny.
And Bianco represented that courage, a red-blooded American
sheriff in a blue state standing strong for the United States Constitution.
And not just for health freedom.
Bianco bucked the gun-control trends of the Golden State,
setting up a one-stop shop for concealed carry weapons permitting. While most
sheriffs rarely issued CCWs to law-abiding citizens, Riverside County boasted
60,000 permits. That’s a tsunami of Second Amendment support compared to other
more conservative counties like Orange, Placer, or San Bernardino counties!
That’s leadership, and you cannot manufacture that.
Bianco worked with federal law enforcement to deport as many
illegals as possible from county jails. He didn’t send deputies to accompany
ICE raids (that is illegal under SB 54), but Bianco did everything he could
within the law to ensure a safer county.
I have many friends in Riverside County, and they love their
sheriff. They came out in droves to support him in two elections for the top
law enforcement job. Democrats, Independents, and Republicans supported him,
too.
Sheriff Bianco didn’t sit on the sidelines when it came to
parents' rights in education. He endorsed conservative candidates, including
outspoken mama bear Sonja Shaw—who is in the running for the State
Superintendent of Schools this fall.
Bianco is pro-life, pro-family, unafraid to share his
Christian faith in public. He also openly endorsed President Trump in 2024,
declaring half-jokingly: “It’s time to elect a felon for the White House.”
February 2025, Bianco announced his bid for governor. I
thought he was a shoo-in for the general election.
Then Steve Hilton launched for governor two months later.
Hilton had never been elected to office. He served as a
campaign strategist for the UK Conservative Party under David Cameron for two
years. He dragged the center-right party to the left on abortion, LGBT issues,
climate change, and guns.
He was a Fox News anchor who advocated for lockdowns during
the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak. He talked about asset reparations
for black Americans. On “The Young Turks,” he openly admitted that he was to
the left of socialist US Senator Bernie Sanders on economic issues.
This guy was no conservative, and he had admitted that he
was not a Republican at one time, too!
Conservative activists in California were not impressed. We
gathered at the California Republican Assembly convention in February 2026, and
during the endorsement process, Bianco was far ahead of the other Republican
challengers. In the end, Bianco received the endorsement with 71% of the vote
compared to 29% for Hilton.
It was a shut-out!
Then came Easter 2026—and President Trump issued his
endorsement for Steve Hilton.
Despite an incredible resume and record of accomplishment,
Bianco lost traction. Hilton surged ahead and backed Bianco into fourth place.
His supporters believed that the polls were wrong and that Trump’s endorsement
wouldn’t matter come election day. We were wrong, and Hilton won.
The sheriff had leadership experience, skill, and an
enviable record. Yet the news commentator had the anti-establishment (?) Trump
endorsement, and voters went along.
It’s not fair. I don’t think it’s right, and I think it
jeopardizes an otherwise winnable governor’s race for November. Will some
Democrats and Independent voters look past Hilton’s Trump endorsement and his
tenure on Fox News to elect him governor? I doubt it.
Kansas MassResistance activist takes over pro-LGBT Library Board meeting with poster of obscene page from LGBT book for teens.
Forced arrogant officials to face the truth.
Triggers big change: No “Pride Month” displays this year in that leftist library!
How one activist can make a difference!
(Caution: Obscene image below.)
June 8, 2026
A library employee addresses the Library Board while standing next to our MassResistance activist's blow-up of a page from "Gender Queer."
This is another story of what one fearless and principled activist can do!
Kathy is a MassResistance activist in Topeka, Kansas. She’s also an attorney who has done First Amendment work. She was an English major in college and reads widely. And she’s interested in where her tax money goes.
Clearly, the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library has been using taxpayer funds to push radicalism and obscenity. The library’s close tie to the far-left American Library Association (ALA) helps support that extremism. (The library CEO, who attends Library Board meetings, “is recognized as a leader, spokesperson and presenter within the American Library Association” according to her bio.)
But Kathy has had enough of that radicalism and is confronting it – and forcing changes!
Last year: The library’s “Racial Justice Book Club”
As we reported a year ago, last June Kathy single-handedly forced the library to dismantle its ALA-inspired “Racial Justice Book Club.” Kathy joined the book club, and she soon discovered it was really a front for promoting radical anti-American propaganda and blatant racism. So she took matters into her own hands! She forced the organizers to face their lies and inconsistencies – and the club stopped meeting.
This year: The obscene books need to go!
Many Topeka citizens are upset with the library’s collection of obscene and pornographic LGBT books for children and teenagers. But Kathy has been willing to publicly and persistently confront that problem.
The ten members of the Board are not elected by the people. They are all appointed – seven by the city and three by the county. As a result, they have been arrogant and unresponsive to the public. They don’t post videos of their meetings (or even their public Zoom meetings).
The ten-member Topeka and Shawnee County Library Board.
But that hasn’t stopped Kathy!
The Library Board meets once a month. Kathy has been attending between seven to nine meetings a year, and consistently speaks up about the bad books and what’s in them. Her involvement clearly bothered the Board, but they’ve tried their best to ignore her.
At one point Kathy met briefly with one of the board members who said that she was upset that Kathy had held up some pictures from a book. “There were kids there who shouldn’t have seen that,” she told Kathy. She didn’t explain why the books are in the library for kids to check out.
On May 21, 2026, Kathy attended the monthly library board meeting with a blow-up poster of one of the more disgusting pages from one of the library’s offerings, Gender Queer. When the was called on to speak, she brought it up to the front and placed it near the podium.
This is a page from the book that Kathy decided the Library Board and their friends needed to see as clearly as possible!
Two employees of the library (left) and the president of the Friends of the Library (right) try to ignore the obvious while they're speaking.
The board chairman asked Kathy to turn the poster toward the wall, then got upset that she refused to do so. After Kathy was done speaking, she left the poster near the podium and stayed nearby to keep it there. The chairman backed down, and the poster remained there through the rest of the meeting.
This certainly got their attention. It appeared that all Board members were perturbed at the big poster displaying their library’s choice of a perverted LGBT book.
That book is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s on the shelves, as Kathy has been telling them – and which they should already know.
And now a big change: No Pride Month displays this year in the library!
On June 6, Kathy contacted us again. It certainly appears her efforts helped cause a big change!
It’s already a week into “Gay Pride Month,” she said, and there are no Pride displays in the library, and not even a hint of Drag Queen shows! The library’s events calendar for June shows no LGBT-related events at all.
“This is the first year with no Pride garbage. It’s an achievement!” she said.
Kathy plans to make good use of this momentum. There should be no pornography targeting children and teenagers there. She will continue to push hard on the Library Board and the city and county officials who appointed them. She’s also working with state legislators on a bill to ban public funding for ALA dues and curtail funding to libraries with pornographic books.
Final thoughts
Just one activist who’s unafraid (very important!), principled, and persistent can do great things! Imagine what a dozen could do. Or fifty.
There’s another important lesson here. In today’s politicized atmosphere, the Left is adept at using intimidation to cultivate fear among conservatives. If you act afraid of those people, it plays right into their hands and they’ll take full advantage. But as Kathy and so many others have found out, if you stand up to them, they become paper tigers.
Let’s join together and take back our libraries, schools, and other public spaces!
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
Women need to get some courage, and men need to assist them in this effort.
‘Young women are the biggest cheerleaders for trans ideology – and we’re also at the sharp end of it. It is an entirely self-destructive trend.’ @MaeveHalligan on why young women are so likely to be trans ‘allies’: pic.twitter.com/49UYL87q2O
Irrelevant, failed social scientist Francis Fukuyama took to social media recently
to do what irrelevant failed social scientists do when they are desperate to
re-establish a modicum of renewed relevance: He bashed President Trump.
All the goodie-goodie talking heads who want a seat at the
diminishing corporate media table do this. It’s like virtue-signaling,
especially for Never-Trumpers and globalist-leaning political architects who
were content to see the United States diminished into a mere “one among many”,
ignoring its citizens, opening the borders, pushing a neutralized politics that
turned profit into the only nominative value a citizen could have.
Fukuyama’s specific gripe focused on President Trump’s
meeting with Xi Jinping. He claimed that President Trump got rolled in the
trade talks, and that his treatment at the Beijing summit was lined with subtle
insults, disparaging the President and forcing his entourage to submit to quiet
indignities.
But first, let’s reflect on why Fukuyama is irrelevant.
In 1989, euphoric like many policy wonks and pundits who
witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of a strong (although
globalist-aligned) United States, Fukuyama declared “The End of
History” had come, even though he added a question mark to the title for
respectability (Just asking questions, perhaps?). Liberal democracy overcame
autocracy and dictatorship. No political apparatus could conjure up a better
system for governing a country and its people. All the other formulas:
corporatism, fascism, communism, had clearly failed.
It’s important to recall that Fukuyama served in the Bush 41
administration, the same President who presided over the denouement of
Soviet Communism. He would then announce the launching of a “New World Order,”
one which countered the importance—even necessity—of different borders,
languages, and cultures.
War in Iraq, the rise of radical Islam, and the resurgence
of communist yearnings in Western countries all signaled that intellectuals’
heralding a world with free markets and democratic governments as the cure was
premature.
In truth, like many intellectual second-hand dealers in
other people’s ideas, Fukuyama was riding the coattails of inscrutable
philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, the German Enlightenment thinker who did more to
occlude philosophical discourse than enlighten. Hegel’s major claim to fame was
expanding Immanuel Kant’s theory of mind (we perceive reality and cause as a
fusion of analytic and synthetic propositions) to the cosmic order. All of
history, religion, culture, everything could be understood via the Dialectic of
thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
Of course, such musings eviscerated distinctions of right
and wrong. Historians trafficking in outlining large themes and systems to
explain a supposed Weltgeist working throughout History (note the capital
letter!) have come up short, too.
Hegel announced The End of History with the Battle of Jena
in 1806, in which the liberalizing forces of Napoleon and the French Empire
crushed the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, defined by its sclerotic autocracy and
tradition. Liberalism was the worldwide winner, and no system of thought would
improve on this victory.
Fukuyama expanded on Hegel’s argument to suggest that the
collapse of the Soviet Union affirmed this “End of History” theorizing.
However, Hegel conveniently ignored Napoleon’s aristocratic
and dictatorial tendencies, plus his insistence on imposing French rule and
custom on the continent.So too,
Fukuyama did not consider the overarching concerns that trouble heads of state
and their people. Human beings are not just citizens of a polis. They
have familial ties, ethnic backgrounds, cultural heritages that define them.
These larger measures of meaning determine the values and vision of countries
far more than how they buy and sell goods and services, and whom they elect to
serve as their leaders.
Civilizational states have become the guiding factor in post-Cold
War politics, not a globalist assent to turn every tongue, tribe, and nation
into a composite of consumers and companions.
Fukuyama was wrong, and he was naively wrong. Fukuyama was
wrong, and President Trump is the Grand American repudiation of his wrong
beliefs.
Now, let us explore key errors in his latest critique of
President Trump:
It was both painful and
humiliating to watch the media coverage of Donald Trump's recent visit to
Beijing because it amply demonstrated America's decline as a great power
relative to China. Prior to the summit, expectations were very low. Trump was
in a weakened position, beset by inflation and declining popularity, while
seeking Chinese help in getting out of the Iran trap that he had created for
himself.
Granted, Trump is in a tough spot.
He took on Iran. He fulfilled a pledge that previous Presidents had discussed
but never accomplished. Rationing and lack of exploration defined American
energy policy in the 1970s and 1980s. President Trump’s drive for energy
production and independence has placed the country on better footing for a
protracted war with Iran.
The worst part of the visit was
Trump's constant sycophancy, exclaiming that Xi was a great leader, really a
friend, someone from central casting. He effused again and again about how
beautiful and impressive China was.
President Trump is a deal maker.
He says nice things about people (even Putin!), but then turns the screws on
them afterwards. Trump took down Maduro. He’s squeezing Cuba of its communist
tendencies. He has forced NATO to pay up, and he’s withdrawing American troops
from Europe since they refused to assist his war efforts in Iran.
His failure to say anything about
Taiwan's security stood in sharp contrast to Joe Biden's clear assertion that
the United States would act in the defense of that country.
This comment is particularly
egregious. How can Fukuyama foist any praise on the Biden Administration? The
same Joe Biden who forced American armed forces to flee Afghanistan, with their
tail between their legs? The same Joe Biden who communicated nothing but
weakness during his failed tenure, which enticed Russia to invade Ukraine and
encouraged Hamas to terrorize Israel? This is an unserious critique.
Donald Trump is a politician
who is unable to see the world in anything other than personal and
self-interested terms.
Fukuyama faulted Trump’s
aggressive negotiations with Europe regarding NATO. He complains about Trump’s
intent on acquiring Greenland. He suggests that “the United States has become
something of a rogue state that is contributing to global instability and
disorder as well as something of a laughingstock.”
This is Fukuyama’s festering
bitterness, nothing more. Has the former Bush bureaucrat visited Washington DC
in the last week, a city once mired in graffiti, trash, waste, rampant
homelessness, and crime? In the last year and a half, Trump has restored our
capital to greatness. He has presided over a secure border, higher wages for
American workers, complemented by increased remigration of illegal migrants to
their home countries. He has decommissioned entire federal departments and
slashed the federal workforce to LBJ levels. Murders are at historic lows in
this country. He cares about America, and he is making America great again.
Not Trump, but rather Fukuyama is
projecting his own failed worldview on the President and the United States.
Throughout his latest diatribe, “The End of History” pontificator goes on and
on about decline, decline, decline. President Trump has demonstrated that
American decline is a choice, one which has not only avoided by reverted for
the betterment of the country.
The commission listened to our concerns about privacy and the costs associated with these scams.
They will tell the city council to provide the commission with information on OTHER means for creating safer streets as well as more information about the effectiveness of these camera enforcement mechanisms.
Before the meeting, I spoke with a resident from the New Horizons HOA, and she was grateful for all the information that I shared with her—and she will pass it on to her fellow HOA members!
This is a big win for us.
But the fight is not over.
PLEASE contact the Torrance City Council and tell them:
NO ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS FOR TRAFFIC ISSUES!
Tell them to stop wasting the Torrance Traffic Commission's time on automated ticketing schemes:
Canadian LGBT lawfare: Bill Whatcott on trial again in Toronto for the same “hate speech” charge he was acquitted of in 2021.
His crime? Ten years ago he passed out a Christian flyer on “gay” health risks!
A judge ruled him “not guilty” in 2021. But the Ontario government appealed – claiming that expert testimony from a radical LGBT “professor” was wrongly excluded.
A new judge agreed to put Bill on trial again! Canadian law allows this.
Could such an abuse of justice come to the U.S.?
June 1, 2026
At the "evidentiary hearing" prior to the second trial. From left: Bill Whatcott, the judge (wearing COVID mask!), the Crown prosecutor (standing), and one of Bill's attorneys.
Bill Whatcott is an extraordinary and completely fearless Canadian pro-family activist. Too many conservatives (and even conservative media) wither away or tone themselves down as their “progressive” government becomes increasingly oppressive. But Bill understands that those are the times when standing on principle counts most!
In 2018, Bill rallied activists for Canada MassResistance at a pro-family conference in Alberta.
Last week Bill was brought into court and put on trial a second time for an absurd “crime” charge that he’d already been acquitted of. Such “double jeopardy” is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, but in Canada it is allowed.
What was the government’s “appeal” that allowed this? This article recounts how the pro-LGBT Canadian government – having already spent millions of dollars in its over-the-top “lawfare” against Bill – used that process to bring him back to trial, despite the efforts of his top-notch defense lawyers. (Upcoming posts will cover the trial itself and the judge’s verdict when it is announced.)
Background
Bill’s so-called “hate crime” consists of a flyer that was passed out ten years ago. Below is the basic timeline of events. (See our full MassResistance coverage of this.)
June 2016. Bill passed out flyers at a gay pride parade. Bill and some unidentified friends registered to march in the 2016 Toronto Gay Pride Parade as masked “gay zombies.” The parade was a spectacle of depravity, including contingents of completely naked men, anti-Christian imagery, and allusions to sexual perversions. As Bill and his group walked in the parade, they handed out to onlookers thousands of “safe sex” flyers. The flyer included strong warnings on the negative health effects of homosexual behaviors along with Christian gospel messages.
The "Gay Zombies" handing out flyer packets as their group marches in the 2016 Toronto Gay Pride parade.
The "safe sex" packet with the flyer inside that they passed out. Ten years and millions of dollars later, the government won't let it go!
August 2016 – Attempted LGBT lawsuit against Bill. A prominent government-supported LGBT group attempted to sue Bill for $104 million. But they gave up after two years when they realized that Bill had no money.
June 2018 – Government decides to prosecute Bill, issues nationwide arrest warrant. A full two years after the incident, the Canadian government (known as the “Crown”) decided to prosecute Bill for “hate speech” and issued a bizarre nationwide warrant for his arrest. When Bill heard about it, he simply turned himself in. Of course, in the U.S. and most of the world, this wouldn’t be an actual “crime” at all.
Bill Whatcott (center) turns himself in at Calgary police station after hearing about his nationwide arrest warrant.
December 2021. Eight-day trial, and acquittal. After various preliminary hearings, the Ontario Attorney General finally put Bill on trial, which lasted a grueling eight days. However, Bill’s lawyer was John Rosen, arguably the top criminal defense attorney in Canada. Rosen did a brilliant job. As a result, the judge (surprisingly) ruled that Bill was innocent. He determined the flyers included factual information and sincere Christian messages, not “hate” speech. The Crown was shocked at the ruling!
The Ontario government appeals the judge's “not guilty” verdict
Most Americans are unfamiliar with the “double jeopardy” concept or its use. The U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment prohibits a person being “put in jeopardy” twice for the same crime. In the U.S., a person can appeal his conviction, but the state cannot appeal a “not guilty” verdict.
Canada allows the prosecution to appeal acquittals. But it only happens rarely – in less than one percent of cases. The Crown must show there was a significant error of law in the trial - for example, if important evidence had been wrongly excluded.
However, the fact that the government would continue to pursue a case where no actual “crime” took place, and where there were overwhelming facts for acquittal, is extremely disturbing. It is “lawfare” at its very worst.
In its appeal, the Crown claimed that three significant “errors of law” took place in Bill’s 2021 trial:
Excluding flyers that Bill had passed out years earlier. The judge had ruled not to admit as evidence flyers that Bill passed out in Saskatchewan in 2000 and 2001, twenty years earlier. He said their “prejudicial effect” was not substantial.
The judge misinterpreted Canada’s “hate speech” law. The Crown claimed that the judge erred in concluding that the statements in Bill’s flyer did not comprise hatred within the meaning of the “willful promotion of hate speech” according to the law. (This is difficult to prove.)
All three of those objections seem ridiculous and a waste of time for any court. But the fact that the Ottawa Attorney General is spending so much money and going to these absurd lengths over a flyer passed out ten years ago reveals how insane the Canadian legal system has become.
Judicial panel rules that appeal can move forward
In June 2023, a three-judge appellate panel held a hearing and unanimously approved the appeal for a re-trial. There would be an upcoming “evidentiary hearing” to determine whether the excluded flyers and excluded testimony would be allowed in the new trial.
News of a second trial shocked Canadian conservatives. John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms said the charges against BillWhatcott should never have been brought in the first trial. “It’s scary to live in a society where you can get prosecuted for spreading ‘hatred’ over a flyer like that,” he said.
At some point after that, Atty. John Rosen retired. However, his firm has continued to represent Bill and has continued to receive criminal defendant funding from the Canadian government to take his case – one lone positive aspect of the Canadian legal system (at least in this situation).
The five-day “evidentiary hearing” on allowing the excluded testimony at the new trial
The October 2025 evidentiary hearing was an intense five-day ordeal – much like a court trial – to determine whether Bill’s flyers from 20 years ago and testimony from the “professor” would be included in Bill’s upcoming “hate speech” re-trial. (See our detailed day-by-day write-up of of the entire hearing.)
Though Zoom links were provided, it was hard to watch. The judge was clearly a very woke woman wearing a COVID mask (years after the COVID scare) and was visibly contemptuous of Bill’s attorneys, and even rude to them.
The attorneys and judge went back and forth at great length over Bill’s earlier flyers regarding whether they showed that he had an internal “hatred” of homosexuals. At one point the judge admitted that she was unclear about some of the medical terms used regarding LGBT behaviors and their health consequences.
However, Bill’s defense attorneys were sharp, well prepared, on their toes, and sufficiently aggressive through all of it. In a normal courtroom they would have easily prevailed.
Bill Whatcott’s re-trial began last week (on May 25) and is expected to end sometime this week. Then the judge’s decision would probably come in about a month.
The good news is that this judge, like the judge in Bill’s first trial (and unlike the woke judge in the "evidentiary hearing"), seems to be surprisingly reasonable. In fact, Bill’s lawyers had originally sought a jury trial, but after seeing the judge, they opted for a bench trial.
Although there are no Zoom links available for the re-trial, we are in close contact with two people who are in the courtroom each day.
We will have a full report when the trial ends, and another when the judge renders the decision.
Marching right in front of Bill and his "gay zombies" in the 2016 Gay Pride parade was this group of naked men. There was another group of naked men behind Bill's group. But no Canadian authorities even objected to them, much less took any steps to prosecute them.
Final thoughts
We suspect that we know a big reason why the government is pushing so hard to convict Bill (which could even include jail time). What he did is an existential threat to Canada’s jack-booted hold being imposed on free speech regarding this hot-button issue. If Bill gets away with publicly telling the medical and religious truths about the consequences of LGBT behavior, anyone else in Canada could also do it. And that’s dangerous for a “progressive” government.
But it’s especially troubling that virtually no Canadian conservative media (including the self-ballyhooed Rebel News) are covering this inflammatory case. (There was one article in 2016 by LifeSiteNews and a MassResistance alert regarding it posted by Action4Canada. Bill actually got more coverage in Canada's leftist media.) Nor is the U.S. conservative media interested in this. Only MassResistance is reporting on it. (In Bill’s first trial, our reporting was even cited by the judge and opposing counsel.)
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