tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13793484597996347682024-03-27T16:34:12.394-07:00The State of the UnionArthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.comBlogger10426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-78599537645903008442024-03-27T16:33:00.000-07:002024-03-27T16:33:29.689-07:00MassResistance Started the Fight Against Transgenderism!<p> </p><h1 style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">What people have forgotten about the “transgender” battle: How the big push began in Massachusetts in 2007 – and how MassResistance successfully held it off for years.</h1><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">A history lesson from MassResistance – which was in this battle from the beginning.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">The “T” in LGBT is nothing new. It was just held back until the time was ripe.</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 27, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/State-House-bill_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">In 2007 the Massachusetts Legislature had never dealt with any bill as radical as this. But we exposed it and stopped it for years.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Most pro-family people who are confronting the “transgender” (including “gender” ideology) surge in schools, libraries, health care, public accommodations, and other institutions are unaware of how it all came about. A surprising number of conservatives think that it was separate from the “gay” movement – which gives them an excuse for avoiding criticism of homosexuality in their schools and society. But what really happened?</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Slowly introducing transgenderism – starting with children</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Starting in the 1990s, Massachusetts led the nation in pushing the homosexual movement into its institutions – with California and New York not far behind. Not surprisingly, it started with that movement’s obsession with children.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">During that decade, homosexual groups like GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) and the state-funded Mass. Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth would reference transgenderism, and they would include teens dressed as the opposite sex at their “Youth Pride” events. One of the LGBT leaders was a “male-to-female” transsexual who headed the groomer organization BAGLY (Boston Alliance of Gay & Lesbian Youth).</p><div class="resp-photo noborder" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/Flyers_800.jpg" style="border: none; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">As far back as 1996 and 1998, the Massachusetts homosexual movement's "Youth Pride" events included transgender youth.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Discussion of “gender” began to creep into a few classrooms in the more “progressive” towns – thanks to GLSEN trainings and Mass. Dept. of Education pilot programs in the schools. But in general there was a strategic silence, and transgenderism was kept on the back burner.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">In 2007 - A very shocking bill is filed</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">At the beginning of the Massachusetts Legislature’s 2007-2008 session, one of our staff noticed that a shocking bill had been filed. It was a wide-ranging “transgender rights and hate crimes bill.”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Although some states had passed modest transgender non-discrimination laws, this was the first giant, comprehensive “transgender” legal salvo that we knew of in the United States (or anywhere else). It was frighteningly aggressive. It rewrote a range of statutes covering public accommodations, school policies, housing, employment, business, family law, government IDs, hate crimes, etc. to mandate the acceptance of “transgenderism.” Offenders would be criminalized.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">LGBT movement announces “full court press” to pass it</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The key Massachusetts homosexual lobbying group MassEquality <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/shns_tranbill_0111.html"><strong>announced in the press</strong></a> that it considered “gender identity” the next step after having achieved “gay marriage,” and was preparing a “full-court press” in the legislature to get the transgender rights bill passed. They noted that they were bringing transgender groups as well as other LGBT groups into the fight.</p><div class="resp-photo noborder" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/shns_tranbill_0111.html"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/State-House-News_700.jpg" style="border: none; width: 679px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The LGBT movement bragged that they were prepared to ram this bill right through the Legislature that year. But that didn't happen.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">(Interestingly, the article also quoted Brian Camenker of MassResistance saying, “If the Legislature even thinks about passing this, they’re going to see an outrage like they’ve never seen in a long time. It is, in our opinion, one of the most dangerous bills ever filed.”)</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">MassResistance’s 125-page document exposing everything (and predicting the fallout)!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">After studying the bill, MassResistance got right to work educating the people in Massachusetts exactly what was in it and how it would reorder society.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Over several months, our research director, Amy Contrada, put together <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt08/tran_law_study/index.html"><strong>a 125-page compendium</strong></a> titled, “The Coming Nightmare of a ‘Transsexual Rights and Hate Crimes’ Law in Massachusetts: Why Bill H1722 Must be Defeated.”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>It began</strong> with <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt08/tran_law_study/1722_text.html"><strong>a detailed analysis of the entire text of the bill</strong></a> showing how the current laws would be changed. <strong>The main body of the document</strong> included chapters on the seven major areas of society that the bill would affect – lengthy descriptions of how the homosexual and transgender movements had already infiltrated them, and where this bill would move that agenda forward. It’s still considered the most thorough analysis of the LGBT movement in Massachusetts of that period.</p><div class="resp-photo width85" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 595px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt08/tran_law_study/1722_text.html"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/AC-document_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 595px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">It took months to prepare and was extremely throrough. It educated alot of people both in and out of the State House.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The Massachusetts LGBT movement reacted angrily to the document. The homosexual newspaper <em>Bay Windows</em> (now online as <em>Edge Media</em>) published an article titled, “Contrada warns of trans apocalypse.” They railed about her prediction that protections for undefined “gender identity” would lead to not only cross-dressing, but inability of venues to refuse trans-related events, public nudity, BDSM, and demands for legalization of polyamory (all of which have since happened).</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/trans-apocalypse_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">LGBT newspaper accuses MassResistance and Amy Contrada of making outrageous predictions - which became true!</span></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Massive sham public hearing on transgender bill</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">On March 8, 2008, the bill’s public hearing before the Judiciary Committee took place. It was basically a massive propaganda march, well-orchestrated by the LGBT lobby.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">It was a sham. The leftist leaders of the Judiciary Committee had clearly colluded with the LGBT activist organizations. The hearing began at 1:00 pm. Throughout the entire day and into the evening, it was panel after panel of pro-transgender people. They were not given a time limit for speaking.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/Testify-start_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">When the public hearing got going at 1:00 pm that day, the room was so packed that people could hardly move.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The LGBT movement pulled out all the stops for that hearing. <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/tran_hearing_030408/panels.html"><strong>The endless “panels” of pro-transgender speakers</strong></a> included: the numerous legislative co-sponsors of the bill, the Suffolk County Sheriff, members of the Massachusetts Bar Association, medical “authorities” including the infamous Dr. Spack (founder of Boston Children’s Hospital “gender” clinic); various politicians; law school students; labor union representatives; ACLU attorney Harvey Silverglate; a panel focused on “hate crimes”; leftist clergy; a parents panel; numerous panels of women with beards and men in dresses; and many more.</p><div class="resp-photo width85" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 595px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/Women-with-beards_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 595px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Three women with facial hair, posing as males. Woman at left began by announcing: "I am a female with a beard," and said she is a Unitarian Universalist minister. All three complained that they were treated badly by others at work or school, and that a law was needed to rectify that.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>It wasn’t until 10:30 pm that any pro-family people</strong> were finally allowed to testify – and most of them (and most of the Judiciary Committee) had already gone home. The pro-family people were held to three minutes for their testimonies.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/Testify-end_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">This is what the room looked like at 10:25 pm, when the first pro-family citizen was finally called up. The majority of the people you see here are pro-family people still waiting to testify, though most had already left. Committee staff acknowledged that they made pro-family people wait until the end.</span></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">MassResistance fought back!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As huge as the LGBT push at the public hearing was, it was only witnessed by the people who were in the room at the time. After the hearing, our lobbying effort geared up.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance gave a printed copy of our 125-page report on the bill to every Judiciary Committee member. We also included medical documentation (that the politicians clearly didn’t want to see). Links to the report were sent through the State House and across Massachusetts. The pressure from our side became intense. We made sure that people across the state vented their outrage to their own legislators and the leadership about how this bill would push a perverted agenda on everyone under threat of legal action.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The bill is stopped in committee!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">March 19, 2008, two weeks after the public hearing, was the deadline for deciding whether bills in the Legislature would move forward or be killed. <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/08a/bills_stopped_032008.html"><strong>It was announced that day</strong></a> that the transgender “rights” bill (as well as other bad bills on the docket) <strong>were stopped! </strong>It was a great pro-family victory and an embarrassing setback for the LGBT movement.<strong></strong></p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>It took the LGBT movement four more years</strong> – until 2012 – to finally get a weaker version of that bill passed (without the “public accommodations” section, which took an additional four years for them to get). It was still a hard fight for them. MassResistance led opposition to it. But they were able to do it because the governor and the entire State House leadership was completely in the tank and had promised the LGBT movement it would happen. And after Massachusetts passed its transgender rights law, similar far-reaching bills were passed in several other states.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/images/Gov-signing_600.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 600px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;"><strong>Signing of Trans Rights bill in 2012:</strong> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/12a/tran-bill-signing_011912/index.html">The weirdness continued. </a>Posing for photos with Governor Deval Patrick (center front) and Attorney General Martha Coakley (right front) are a woman with the butch cut (left front) and four men dressed as women behind them. Directly behind governor with white shirt and blond hair is transgender activist man, "Ashley Bottoms," who <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10b/capones/index.html">targeted a Peabody, Mass. restaurant</a> with his gang of men dressed as women.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Transgenderism and “gender identity” have always been part of the “LGBT” homosexual movement. (The <a href="http://www.qrd.org/qrd/events/mow/mow-full.platform">platform</a> from the 1993 “gay rights” march on Washington confirms that early alliance.) “Transgender rights” was simply their next step after achieving “sexual orientation” non-discrimination laws and “gay marriage” in Massachusetts.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The “T” was just kept quiet. That incrementalist strategy worked. One example: Schools started with GSA school clubs that were “<strong><em>gay</em></strong>/straight alliances” – which later transformed into “<strong><em>gender</em></strong> and <strong><em>sexuality</em></strong> alliances.”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But today, most conservatives see gender ideology and transgenderism as a distinct and new battle, particularly in the schools. We’ve even seen national parent groups that rail vehemently over “pronouns” and transgender counseling for children – but have no problem with homosexual propaganda in their schools.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">If you’ve been in the battle since the beginning – as MassResistance has been – you understand the truth: <strong>It’s all one movement.</strong> And it’s all obsessed with other people’s children. Conservatives must confront it with that understanding, and not shy away from the homosexuality issues.</p><div share-buttons="" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/facebook.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/twitter.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Email" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/email.png" width="36" /></a> <a><img alt="Print" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/print.png" width="36" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p style="color: maroon; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our successes depend on people like you.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.us/cc_donations.html"><strong>Donate to MassResistance</strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Your support will make the difference!</p></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-2586655729114276962024-03-27T08:53:00.000-07:002024-03-27T08:53:54.736-07:00Spider Karen Still Obsessed with Arthur Schaper (Not "Shopper") -- Why?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ReNkUKpychNTPZNzj29nRyOhp0fUxrW7hyuo_uq-I898RPpkpDyOw2Z8J8Bn_9mYwtjh5iM5fqN3PIKZSEDJzH3F919ezr4rLZKnP5kKL7eebdXQ04dMtB_O3lLdtOYn1YUpAJIwDBmgVDyFhvll1fmaRiNHvi9xeuOrEj_zhLv5rpAlbcjiAGSbRerB/s888/Kelly%20Stuart%20Groomer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="888" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ReNkUKpychNTPZNzj29nRyOhp0fUxrW7hyuo_uq-I898RPpkpDyOw2Z8J8Bn_9mYwtjh5iM5fqN3PIKZSEDJzH3F919ezr4rLZKnP5kKL7eebdXQ04dMtB_O3lLdtOYn1YUpAJIwDBmgVDyFhvll1fmaRiNHvi9xeuOrEj_zhLv5rpAlbcjiAGSbRerB/s320/Kelly%20Stuart%20Groomer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Kelly Stuart, aka Sky Spider, really aka Spider Kaern is at it again.</div><div><br /></div>Why is Spider Karen obsessed with me?<div><br /></div><div>Check out what she tweeted just yesterday:<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The first time I ever photographed far right individuals in the LA area, they came to my town along with Arthur shopper. That was in 2020. After they harass teenagers, I started following different far right protest. I saw the same people everywhere.</p>— Sky Spider (@SkySpider_) <a href="https://twitter.com/SkySpider_/status/1772778129653997863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Somehow, she thinks she's special because she takes photos of people. Really?</div><div><br /></div><div>A large group of patriots and concerned citizens took a stand against Black Lives Matter in El Segundo four years ago.</div><div><br /></div><div>Instead of just allowing people to have their peace, she wanted to dox people. That is really shameful. On top of that, she wants to demonize and defame anyone and everyone who takes a stand for truth, justice, and the American Way (with apologies to Superman).</div><div><br /></div><div>What is the matter with this creepy cat (cat--yes, she cares more about cats than people) lady?</div><div><br /></div><div>Why is she obsessed with me. And why can she not spell my last name right?
There is something seriously wrong with this lady, for sure. Maybe she should stop pushing for the systemic abuse of children?
Maybe she should stop promoting cultural marxist degradation in Los Angeles County?</div><div><br /></div><div>And she needs to move out of her mother's basement, for sure!</div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-64232935564600033442024-03-20T13:41:00.000-07:002024-03-20T13:41:44.321-07:00MassResistance Stands with Canadian Pro-Family Activist Bill Whatcott<p> </p><h1 style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">Canadian government continues to pummel pro-family activist Bill Whatcott for “anti-gay” flyer he passed out in 2016! Facing trial again for the same “hate speech” charge - after acquittal.</h1><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Judge ruled “not guilty” in 2021. But government appealed for 2nd trial, and Canadian Supreme Court agreed. “Double jeopardy” is legal in Canada.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Whatcott continues to stand strong – a principled inspiration for all of us.</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 20, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/images/Outside-police_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Bill Whatcott has been persecuted and tormented by the Canadian government for simply telling the truth about a politically protected subject - but stands by his principles.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Bill Whatcott is one of those people who ultimately helps change the world for the better. Many people talk about fighting back against the radical agendas degrading society – but back off when the government (or the Left) threatens them. Bill Whatcott takes his Christian faith seriously and refuses to back down!</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/images/whatcott-speaking2-MR_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Bill Whatcott speaks at Pastor Artur Pawlowski's church in Alberta in Dec. 2018 about the LGBT movement's assault on rights in Canada.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The details of this outrageous situation are <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/info2/Bill-Whatcott-free-speech/Toronto-Pride-Flier.html">documented by MassResistance here</a>.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The “crime”</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In 2016, Bill and his friends registered to march in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade as members of the “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.” Marching in the parade wearing masks and green body suits, they <strong>passed out flyers</strong> to the crowds of onlookers. The <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/18b/Bill-Whatcott-arrest-warrant/images/Gay-Zombies-flier.pdf">flyers</a> warned of the horrible medical consequences of homosexual behavior and contained Bible verses. (Publication of the flyer has been banned in Canada by the courts. MassResistance has made it available.)</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-begins/images/Gay-zombies_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The "Gay Zombies" marching in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade. Note the contingent of naked men right behind them.</span></div><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-closing-arguments/images/Handing-out1_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The "Gay Zombies" handing out flyer packets.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>The “gay pride” parade itself was incredibly disgusting and revolting.</strong> Among other things, there were contingents of completely naked men marching in front of and behind Bill’s group, in full view of children and everyone else. (This was a clear violation of Toronto’s nudity laws, but that was ignored by the police and authorities.) The parade also included bigoted anti-Catholic and anti-Christian imagery. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had no problem with any of this and marched in the parade.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/images/Naked-men_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Also in front of them this group of completely naked men was marching. The authorities ignored them. <a href="https://rumble.com/vp4ph7-bill-whatcotts-so-called-hate-crime-at-toronto-pride-parade-in-2016.html">See a 39-second video clip here.</a></span></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">After the parade – attempted LGBT civil lawsuit against Bill</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">A month after the parade, a group of prominent Canadian homosexual activists filed an absurd <strong>$104 million civil lawsuit</strong> against Bill – and anyone who financially supported him. They were seeking damages for “defamation” and “hate speech” against the parade participants and the Toronto LGBT community. To make their point, they announced the lawsuit in the press room of the Canadian National Parliament in Ottawa.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAosD7J7cuw&t=51s"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/Bill-Whatcott-vs-Crown-appeal/images/Press-conference_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">LGBT activists hold press conference in the press room of the Canadian Parliament building on August 12, 2016 to announce their $104 million lawsuit against Bill Whatcott.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But the lawsuit was dropped the by plaintiffs in 2018 when they learned Whatcott had neither personal funds nor wealthy donors.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Bill’s arrest for “hate speech”</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">There was clearly an obsession that Bill must be severely punished.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In 2018 (two years after the parade incident), when it was clear the multi-million-dollar lawsuit was failing, the Ontario government stepped in. The Ontario Attorney General formally charged Bill with “willful promotion of hatred.” Because Bill was living in Alberta, they put out an over-the-top “nationwide warrant” for his arrest (a procedure usually reserved for dangerous criminals and fugitives).</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">When Bill heard about it, he simply turned himself in at the Calgary police station. At the station, a group of Bill’s supporters, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQaeH9hbc7A">including noted Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski</a>, gathered to show support.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 660px; width: 660px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-verdict/images/Whatcott-Art-Amy_660.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 660px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Bill Whatcott (center) with well-known Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski and Amy Contrada of MassResistance on the day he turned himself in to the Toronto police. (Amy was the lone American reporter to cover Bill's arrest.)</span></div><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 660px; width: 660px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/18b/Bill-Whatcott-arrest-warrant/images3/Protesters-at-station_660.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 660px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Some of the two dozen Christian protesters outside of the Calgary Police Station supporting Bill Whatcott as he comes to turn himself in.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Around the time of his trial (2021), overwhelming numbers of <em>actual</em> crimes were simply being dismissed (due to Covid confusion), including approximately 80% of the drug offenses in Ontario and 43% of the DWI offenses, as well as assaults, theft, and others. But the government insisted on spending upwards of a million dollars prosecuting Bill Whatcott for passing out a flyer.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The trial – and the verdict</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Attorney John Rosen was considered the best criminal defense lawyer in Canada. In an incredible stroke of luck, he agreed to take Bill’s case. Rosen was also able to get public funding for his fee, since Bill had no money.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-begins/images/Courthouse-2_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Ontario Superior Court, the scene of an absurd criminal trial - over the text of a flyer passed out several years earlier!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>The trial began on Oct. 4, 2021.</strong> During <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/info2/Bill-Whatcott-parade-trial.html"><strong>the 8-day trial</strong></a> the government threw everything they had at Bill. They even brought in a <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-medical-expert-witness/index.html">prominent medical expert</a> to “debunk” the facts on his flyer. But Attorney Rosen was absolutely brilliant in his defense. He even proved how the medical expert was wrong in her assessment! And he brought in a university theologian who testified that Bill’s flier reflected Christian belief.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>On Dec. 10, 2021, the judge <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/Whatcott-trial-verdict/index.html">announced his verdict</a></strong>: <strong><em>Not Guilty</em>!</strong> He wrote that the flyer was “obnoxious” and “offensive,” but did not legally constitute “hate speech.” He added the obvious: that if Bill had truly intended to promote “hatred toward gays,” he would not have picked a gay pride event to do so!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Even with Canada’s absurd “hate speech” laws (and lacking our First Amendment), the Crown could not make a convincing argument against John Rosen’s rock-solid defense.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">One would have thought that all this nonsense over a flyer that was handed out in 2016 would finally be over. But no.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The Crown successfully appeals to have a second trial</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In the U.S., “double jeopardy” is unconstitutional. But in Canada, the government can appeal a “not guilty” verdict and force a second criminal trial. Even so, everyone was shocked when <strong>two weeks after Bill’s</strong> acquittal the government filed a “<a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22a/Whatcott-trial-Crown-appeals-ruling/images/Notice-of-Appeal.pdf">notice of appeal.</a>”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Several months later, in October 2022, the Crown submitted a formal <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/docs/ProsecutorFactum.PDF">45-page appeal</a> describing its reasons why the judge “erred” in his verdict. On May 16, 2023, Attorney Rosen submitted <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/docs/RosenFactum.pdf">a 37-page rebuttal</a> to the appeal.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">One of the reasons given for the appeal was that the Judge declined to allow “expert testimony” from a homosexual activist college professor on the subject of “tropes of anti-gay discrimination” allegedly contained in Bill’s flyer. (These are simply the professor's opinions and not grounded in Canadian law. This professor is also a self-declared authority on “expert kink” and “queering social networks.”)</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>On August 11, 2023</strong>, the three-judge Appellate Court (not surprisingly, all leftists) released <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/docs/2023-08-11_R-v-Whatcott-Appeal.pdf">a 34-page ruling</a> unanimously accepting the appeal and ordering a new trial for Bill!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Attorney Rosen then filed a further appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. But on February 15, 2024, the Supreme Court announced (also not surprisingly) <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/docs/Supreme-Court-rejection.pdf">that it declined to take the case</a>. So Bill must go through a second criminal trial.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The current situation</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">It’s looking very tough for Bill, but he's standing as strong as he can.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">He has been forced to quit his job in Alberta and move to Toronto to begin preparing for his new trial, which will likely commence in June or July. He hopes to find a place to live in Toronto with friends.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Attorney John Rosen has retired. His law firm may or may not represent Bill this time, since there is no public funding for him at this point. The Ontario Attorney General’s office has virtually unlimited funds and intends to do whatever it can to send Bill to prison. All this over a flyer that was passed out eight years ago.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">This whole bizarre situation is very serious. Bill’s persecution is intended as a warning to all Canadians to keep silent on LGBTQ issues. It is raw government censorship.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">A society under siege <em>must</em> have people like Bill Whatcott willing to fearlessly stand up for free speech and push back on the government’s stranglehold on its citizens.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But people like Bill also <em>must not</em> be left to dangle in the wind. They need strong support from the national pro-family community. Sadly, that is not happening in Canada. Not a single major Canadian pro-family group is coming to Bill’s aid and confronting the Ottawa Attorney General (and other officials). They are apparently “embarrassed” that Bill is taking on the LGBT issue so directly. And only one major Canadian conservative news organization, <em><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-christian-forced-to-undergo-second-hate-crime-trial-after-already-being-acquitted/">LifeSiteNews</a></em>, has even written about Bill’s appeal and double-jeopardy second trial.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But MassResistance is behind Bill 100%! We will keep you informed and do our best to keep up the pressure.</p><div share-buttons="" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/facebook.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/twitter.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Email" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/email.png" width="36" /></a> <a><img alt="Print" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/print.png" width="36" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p style="color: maroon; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our successes depend on people like you.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.us/cc_donations.html"><strong>Donate to MassResistance</strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Your support will make the difference!</p></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-77873901918579190892024-03-15T10:15:00.000-07:002024-03-15T10:15:50.991-07:00Liberty is the New Punk: "Javier Miler, El Ultimo Punk" (2018)<p> Check this out!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lCgBxxSOtJ8vSmhbyr0ivM-JMxRY206Jtsap4b_jB6xjB-by2rjAwJEYj_d3LUYKp5fYEdxAxPQB_C3HzlgYG2eefIaKu9vEWD2t_C0ufdlPZUm3SAzR0d5zkqvNL2yKmxN-li3sO16vZVLtr0bNjO79SHXwop7OnFEozZQ3lD_-kAKQ6dVk4e5HdtK5/s300/Javier%20Milei%20El%20Ultimo%20Punk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lCgBxxSOtJ8vSmhbyr0ivM-JMxRY206Jtsap4b_jB6xjB-by2rjAwJEYj_d3LUYKp5fYEdxAxPQB_C3HzlgYG2eefIaKu9vEWD2t_C0ufdlPZUm3SAzR0d5zkqvNL2yKmxN-li3sO16vZVLtr0bNjO79SHXwop7OnFEozZQ3lD_-kAKQ6dVk4e5HdtK5/w337-h189/Javier%20Milei%20El%20Ultimo%20Punk.jpg" width="337" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>A punk rock band put together a strong ballad supporting Javier Milei and his pro-liberty policies:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="de">Javier Milei "the last punk" (2018) <a href="https://t.co/5ycrqmTmx2">pic.twitter.com/5ycrqmTmx2</a></p>— DutchLibertarian (@LibertarianDuty) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertarianDuty/status/1768389351753257420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></blockquote><p>I have been waiting for this day!</p><p>Supporting liberty is the New Punk!</p><p>It's happening!</p><p>The younger people are waking up1</p><p>They are rejecting socialism, they are rejecting perversion, they are rejecting the moral corruption of communism.</p><p>This punk rock band called out sodomites, too.</p><p>I want to see this movement on the rise against the LGBT agenda, too.</p><p>LGBT is one of the most pernicious extensions of Communist out there. The 45 Planks of the Communist Manifesto made it very clear that they wanted to normalize all kinds of sexual degeneracy and shove it in everyone's faces.</p><p>They have wanted to undermine the family fromt the very beginning, and normalize the lie that people are "born that way."</p><p>It's time to get more young people to rise up against all of this crass, evil garbage.</p><p>Socialism is evil.</p><p>Homosexuality is evil.</p><p>Transgenderism is evil.</p><p>I want to see a punk rock band sing against the LGBT agenda next! </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-66050892088651000872024-03-15T09:35:00.000-07:002024-03-15T09:35:51.920-07:00Texas Scorecard: Making a Choice<p> </p><div class="x_layout x_one-col x_fixed-width x_stack" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 320px; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x_layout__inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 320px;"><div class="x_column" style="color: black; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; max-width: 400px !important; width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><h3 class="x_size-24" lang="x-size-24" style="color: #1f3c58; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="x_font-open-sans" style="font-family: "open sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Friday Reflection:<br style="line-height: inherit;" /><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://blast.texasscorecard.com/t/d-l-eauiht-tdkuykjtht-n/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0511fa; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Making A </a></strong><a href="https://blast.texasscorecard.com/t/d-l-eauiht-tdkuykjtht-p/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0511fa; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="line-height: inherit;">Choice</strong></a></span></h3></div></div></div></div></div><div class="x_layout x_two-col x_fixed-width x_stack" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 320px; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x_layout__inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 320px;"><div class="x_column" style="color: black; float: left; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; max-width: 320px; min-width: 300px; width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><p class="x_size-10" lang="x-size-10" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="line-height: inherit;">by Michael Quinn Sullivan</em></p></div></div></div><div class="x_column" style="color: black; float: left; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; max-width: 320px; min-width: 300px; width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><p class="x_size-8" lang="x-size-8" style="font-size: 8px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;">Listen to the <a href="https://blast.texasscorecard.com/t/d-l-eauiht-tdkuykjtht-x/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0511fa; line-height: inherit;" target="_blank">Reflections Podcast</a></p></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"> </div><div class="x_layout x_one-col x_fixed-width x_stack" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 320px; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x_layout__inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 320px;"><div class="x_column" style="color: black; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; max-width: 400px !important; width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As a kid, I loved the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books. Maybe you remember them?</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">As the story progressed, you made decisions for the characters that affected the outcome. In life's daily adventure, we have an even more important choice: <em style="line-height: inherit;">choosing our attitude toward the events around us</em>.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">In the Gospel of St. John, right before being betrayed, Jesus tells His disciples, “Let not your hearts be troubled.” This comes shortly after telling them they’d always have the poor among them, that they would be persecuted for Him, and the like. Sounds like trouble, right?</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;"><em style="line-height: inherit;">“Let not your hearts be troubled.”</em></p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">He could tell them that because He gave them something better to focus on. Jesus went on to say he was going to prepare a place for them in heaven – that God the Father loves them and that He is with them.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;">They had a choice</strong>. They could let their hearts be troubled by the grind of life in a fallen world, <em style="line-height: inherit;">or</em> they could joyfully embrace the future He had prepared for them.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">This wasn’t just a choice for those disciples. It applies to each of us.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">There is a lot we cannot control in life, and there is a lot of trouble around us. We get to choose our reaction to it. We get to choose our perspective.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">In the Book of Joshua, two simple phrases are repeated over and over: “Choose for yourself this day whom you will serve” and “be strong and courageous.” There is a choice implicit in that second phrase: we can choose to be weak and fearful, thereby revealing who we serve.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Will we focus on the ills around us or look for solutions? Will we dwell on our present troubles or press on joyfully toward eternity?</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Today and every day in the glorious adventure through life and liberty, we get to choose if we will be strong and courageous. We get to choose if we will serve the God of Creation.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">So let your heart not be troubled—be strong and courageous, for we serve a mighty God who loves us!</p></div></div></div></div></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-372114941170179022024-03-11T14:35:00.000-07:002024-03-11T14:35:47.660-07:00Libs of TikTok Shares Texas MassResistance Post about Antifa Teacher in Tarrant County<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Meet Stacy Forte. A middle school teacher in <a href="https://twitter.com/NorthwestISD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NorthwestISD</a>.<br /><br />She says she's proudly part of Antifa, is anti-school choice, promoted reading "banned books" aka p*rn, and hosts a weekly LGBTQ club for LGBTQ middle-schoolers to "feel safe."<br /><br />Would you want her teaching your kids? <a href="https://t.co/bBsN7oviEb">pic.twitter.com/bBsN7oviEb</a></p>— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1766824830391689347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://madmommabear.com/2024/02/11/texas-massresistance-exposes-antifa-teacher/" target="_blank">Check out the full report here. </a></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-87071865039102718092024-03-09T12:56:00.000-08:002024-03-10T08:18:03.590-07:00Idaho MassResistance: Leftist Library Staff Quitting After New Library Board Takes Action<p><b> <span style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem;">Leftist library managers & staff quitting – after new Library Board in Idaho is elected & takes bold action.</span></b></p><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Board votes to leave the ALA, is now crafting strong new book collections policy to protect children.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Ousted Library Board members and local leftists attempting to fight back, but can’t stop this train!</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 9, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/ID-library-staff-quitting/images/Branch-Lib2_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Branch of the Kootenai County Library system that's losing leftist managers & staff over pro-family improvements by the new Board.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Yes, local activists <em>can</em> make a difference!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Back in July 2022, the Kootenai County, Idaho Library Board <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22c/ID-parents-confront-library-bd/index.html">made news when our local activists finally had enough</a> of the obscenity and pornography on the children’s shelves. The majority of the five Library Board members were hard leftists. The Library Director was a smarmy pro-LGBT social-justice warrior.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The Library Director had just finished defending a library book about 15-year-old girls who were molested by their fathers and became prostitutes. She said that parents’ complaints were “out of context” – a talking point frequently used by pornographers and LGBT activists.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">One of the mothers stood up and lit into the Library Director. Among other things, she called her a pervert and a purveyor of smut and pornography to innocent children, and said she was “complicit in the degeneracy and degradation of society.”</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22c/ID-parents-confront-library-bd/images/Second-mother2_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">During the Library Board meeting this mother (standing at left) yells at the Library Director (seated at right).</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">At the next meeting the Library Director <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22d/ID-Library-Director-resigns/index.html">announced her resignation</a>. The following month, the Library Board <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22d/ID-library-revises-policy/index.html">approved a new collection policy</a> that banned some “obscene” children’s books <strong>while continuing to approve books promoting homosexual and transgender-themed sexual behaviors.</strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But the Board then replaced the exiting Library Director with an <strong>even more aggressively leftist and pro-LGBT director</strong>. This was clearly meant as a reprimand to the parents.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance continued working with them. We provided them advice and strategy, connected them with people in other states, and helped them work through ideas.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Electing a new conservative Library Board …</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">So in 2023, following a months-long education campaign across the county by the activists, the two leftist Library Board incumbents were voted out. They were replaced by people who had campaigned on dealing with the explicit materials.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Conservatives now had the majority, and the new Library Board Chairman was outspoken about removing <em>all</em> the obscenity that taxpayers were paying for.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">… And changes take place!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The new Library Board got right to work:</p><ul class="ul_disc" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/system/images/disk2.GIF");"><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Within months, the new Library Board followed the lead of other libraries across the country and <strong>cut ties with the horrible pro-LGBT American Library Association</strong>.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">They are now drafting <strong>a very strong collections policy</strong> – modeled after the one in Campbell County, WY – that will keep taxpayers from having to pay for <em>any</em> harmful sexual material for children and teenagers.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">They have also started working on policies which allow them <strong>to evaluate, document, and discipline the Library Director</strong> if she defies the Board or does not comply with the policies.</li></ul><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">The Left gets fried over pro-family changes</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Not surprisingly, these changes have faced considerable pushback from local leftists. The local newspaper has repeatedly attacked the new Library Board majority as “far right.” Both of the former leftist Board members who lost the 2023 election have continued attending Board meetings along with other local leftists to complain. One has even threatened litigation against the new board.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/ID-library-staff-quitting/images/Former-LB-member_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Leftist former Library Board member testifies before new Board complaining about pro-family changes and threatening litigation. [PHOTO: Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press]</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But the new Library Board’s conservative members have stood tall. And local activists also attend every meeting to vocally support them.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The local grassroots group has continued to review what the Library Director and staff are bringing into the library to promote to minors – and report at the Board meetings. This has rattled both the library staff and upset the leftists.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">More resignations!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The boldness of the new conservative Library Board and the relentless pressure by the local activists to have a “normal” library is having an effect.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Over the last month, <strong>two branch library directors and the library system’s communication specialist have resigned</strong>. And we suspect more will follow them. In addition, when the new policies are implemented, most people believe that it’s only a matter of time before the leftist pro-LGBT Library Director will be on her way out!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The road to having a “normal” library now is clear!</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Just a few years ago all of this would have seemed impossible in the Kootenai County library system. The leftists outnumbered conservatives on the Board 4-1. They were entrenched, arrogant, condescending, and unwavering. But focused activism can accomplish great things!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">And it’s just as important not to allow the attacks from the Left (whether in person, online, or through the local media) to affect your resolve. These people are paper tigers. 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color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br aria-hidden="true" /></div></div><p><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1975, President Ford was left to manage the difficult ending of the Vietnam War. President Ford went to Congress for a relief package to allow American personnel</span></strong><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and our allies to evacuate.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, there was </span></strong><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #9d1811; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ONE US SENATOR </span></strong><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who opposed any such support. The result was the embarrassing and hurried evacuation from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon</span></strong></p><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br aria-hidden="true" /></div></div><p><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This senator reveled in the embarrassment and did everything he could to leverage it politically against Ford. Despite the efforts of this U.S. Senator--President Ford managed to rescue 1,500 South Vietnamese allies prior to the country's fall. Had President Ford not acted quickly, these people would have been targeted and slaughtered for their support for America . When they arrived in America , President Ford asked Congress for a package to assist these refugees to integrate into American society.</span></strong></p><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br aria-hidden="true" /></div></div><p><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That SAME troublesome SENATOR TORPEDOED ANY SUPPORT for these shell shocked, anti-communist, Americans and our helpers, the refugees.</span></strong></p><div style="border: 0px; 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, President Ford had to recruit Christian organizations to offer assistance on a voluntary basis. </span></strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><strong><span style="border: 0px; color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></strong><span style="border: 0px; 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font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-1455606279895544372024-03-04T14:22:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:22:18.171-08:00 In Australia: MassResistance helps bold activist take on nation’s library system over graphic books<p><b> <span style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem;">In Australia: MassResistance helps bold activist take on nation’s library system over graphic books</span></b></p><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Despite growing LGBT tyranny across Australia, local police get involved on pro-family side.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Victories come, but still pressing for larger wins.</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 4, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><a href="https://www.rebelnews.com/gender_queer_book_referred_to_classification_board_by_queensland_police"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/images/News_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">It shocked the establishment that the police agreed with the bold pro-family activist!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance continues to work with pro-family activists around the world as they reach out to us for help. These people are usually organized and dedicated, but are lacking the strategy, tactics, talking points, and other materials necessary to take on these battles.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Back in 2012, MassResistance had a vigorous chapter in Australia with activists across the country. That year <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/12c/Australia_ssm/defeat_092512.html">the Australian Parliament rejected “gay marriage”</a> – despite intense LGBT pressure – after pressure from our activists who lobbied hard and mailed copies of our booklet <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm_2012/intro.html">“What Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Has Done to Massachusetts”</a> to every member. Three days later, the Tasmanian Parliament <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/12c/Australia_ssm/update_092812.html">also rejected “gay marriage”</a> and the LGBT groups were livid.</p><div class="resp-photo width75 noborder" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 425px; width: 425px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/logos/mr/Australia-logo_800.png" style="border: none; width: 425px;" /></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But eventually the powerful international LGBT movement prevailed there. And since then Australia has become (along with Canada) one of the most tyrannical pro-LGBT and anti-family places in the world. By 2015, for example, a Catholic Archbishop in Australia <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/15d/Australia-bishop-letter/index.html">faced fines and punishment</a> over a marriage pamphlet that LGBT activists claimed was “insulting.”</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">MassResistance gets back into the fight</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In late 2022, an Australian activist named Bernard Gaynor, a fervent Christian and pro-family activist, contacted MassResistance for help. Gaynor is an Iraq war veteran who faced court martial from the Australian military reserve for saying on social media that he did not want homosexuals teaching his children. He has since faced harsh persecution for discussing the truth about homosexual and transgender behaviors.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Australia is also a very litigious society, so offended groups often sue others who are critical of their beliefs or behaviors. Aggressive homosexual activists have sued Bernard Gaynor a number of times for his views. But he has not backed down, and has succeeded so far in fighting off these unfair lawsuits.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 679px;"><a href="https://www.bernardgaynor.com.au/"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/images/Gaynor-logo_700.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Bernard is not afraid to stand up and fight on these issues!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Gaynor was shocked and outraged at the sickening pornography available for children and teenagers at his local library in Logan, a suburb of Brisbane (in the state of Queensland) where he lives – as well as other libraries in the region.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Among those were <em>Gender Queer</em>, a transgender-themed book for teenagers featuring masturbation, sex toys, oral sex, and a person being impaled by a spear. There was also an illustrated series of books with pornographic homosexual scenes, and a Japanese cartoon-style book depicting naked people engaging in explicit sexual and homosexual acts.</p><div class="resp-photo width85" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 595px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/images/Negima-books_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 595px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The set of explicit sex books for children that Bernard targeted - successfully!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Bernard wanted to get these removed from the local libraries in Queensland – and hopefully all of Australia – but didn’t know where to start. He knew he needed advice and direction.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">So Arthur Schaper, our MassResistance Field Director, advised him. Arthur gave him actions to take, and things got moving.</p><ol class="ul_disc" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Bernard asked to meet with the Library Director of the Logan Library to discuss the books. But she refused to meet with him. Instead, she directed him to submit “book challenges” through their bureaucratic process. He submitted the challenges.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Bernard filed the Australia version of a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) public records request for information regarding the books in the local library systems. He found out when the books in question were purchased and which libraries they were in. He learned that <em>Gender Queer</em> had been purchased by the Library Director.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Bernard contacted local conservative churches and other venues where families gather. He created a petition that got over 1,000 signatures. People picketed the Logan library demanding that the pornography be removed.<br /><br /><div class="resp-photo" style="margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 640.2px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/images/Logan-lib-protest_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 640.2px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The group that Bernard got together made sure that the public officials get the message!</span></div></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Bernard met with his City Councilor in Logan. She was important to this effort because she was in charge of the committee that oversees the libraries. According to Bernard, she and other Councilors wanted those books gone, particularly <em>Gender Queer</em>. But she did not have any plans to act. However, the fact that Councilors supported Bernard was significant for what was to come.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Arthur told Bernard to research the statutes for a legal line of action. Bernard found <a href="http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cc189994/s228.html">a statute in Queensland law</a> which could be used to prosecute regarding child exploitation and exposing children to sexually explicit material.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">When confronted with that statute, the Logan Library officials agreed to remove the Japanese cartoon-style book and the illustrated porn book series from the collection. This was a victory. <strong>But the Logan Library officials refused to remove <em>Gender Queer</em>.</strong> Instead, they moved it from the shelves, but people could still go to the circulation desk and get it if they wanted to borrow it.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Bernard contacted the Logan Police Department and filed complaints about <em>Gender Queer</em>, referencing that statute.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">The Logan Police agreed with Bernard. And knowing that they had they had the support of the City Council, they determined that <em>Gender Queer</em> is likely a violation of the statute. The police officially referred the book to the Australia Classification Board (ACB), which has the power to remove books from libraries nationwide. <em>This made the news in Australia</em> - see <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-a-memoir-book-under-review-classification-board-faces-potential-ban/13afc8b4-5e78-4989-857b-38ffb8fee9da">here</a> and <a href="https://www.rebelnews.com/gender_queer_book_referred_to_classification_board_by_queensland_police">here</a>.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Shockingly, after several weeks of deliberation, the ACB decided <em>not</em> to restrict <em>Gender Queer</em>. But they placed an “advisory” on the book saying that it was “not recommended for young readers.” It wasn’t a total victory, but in Australia it was an important start.</li></ol><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Bernard and his group of pro-family activists are continuing this fight. They have filed an appeal and will continue to push to have that book removed throughout the country. They are building momentum to fight back on a nationwide level!</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Making progress in countries like Australia that have become tyrannical on the LGBT issue isn’t easy, but is necessary. MassResistance is thrilled to be able to give pro-family activists around the world the tools, experience, and knowledge to take on these fights.</p><div share-buttons="" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/facebook.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/twitter.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Australia-activist-fighting-back/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Email" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/email.png" width="36" /></a> <a><img alt="Print" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/print.png" width="36" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p style="color: maroon; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our successes depend on people like you.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.us/cc_donations.html"><strong>Donate to MassResistance</strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Your support will make the difference!</p></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-52829222454041494142024-03-03T23:00:00.000-08:002024-03-03T23:00:12.670-08:00Take Back Torrance from "Take Back Torrance"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzU0C_OdPX2utGk_rbHup1yEf-CazSFI63nZU0eJY9g3ajlTKUFQnlZzZiuX4HkKJiPmJ1E4BoZ-YNhyphenhyphenFpdQon-1ULxVf5imTahKFmLWomDx2WFhdhRxebh2lk1W5niwmZ48bE5Gcd3h8WC6XxEoPmLHTMpvzNuYfTSPh0aEdbDqg0nBBjEBJm-PQGd2AJ/s1033/Take%20Back%20Torrance.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="1033" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzU0C_OdPX2utGk_rbHup1yEf-CazSFI63nZU0eJY9g3ajlTKUFQnlZzZiuX4HkKJiPmJ1E4BoZ-YNhyphenhyphenFpdQon-1ULxVf5imTahKFmLWomDx2WFhdhRxebh2lk1W5niwmZ48bE5Gcd3h8WC6XxEoPmLHTMpvzNuYfTSPh0aEdbDqg0nBBjEBJm-PQGd2AJ/w513-h401/Take%20Back%20Torrance.png" width="513" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Sore loser Jean Adelsman started a newsletter/blog called "Take Back Torrance" to air her ongoing grievances with the current city council, chiefly the new slate of councilmembers who pushed away from the status quo and want to make the city more efficient and responsive to the residents: Jon Kaji, Aurelio Mattucci, and Mayor George Chen.</p><p>Adelsman has a history of exaggerating statements people make, dropping lies about people, and even misleading voters when she launched the recall against Aurelio Mattucci.</p><p>For all of her focus and keeping Torrance "Free from Extremism and Hate," she is sure determined to add more of it.</p><p>It's really disturbing how obsessed she is with the whole "PRIDE" resolution which Mayor Chen decided not to do in June 2023. I say "Good for Mayor Chen!" Why is any city celebrating people's private sexual preferences? Why do we need to know any of this? In fact, the whole LGBT movement has been a cult based on lies for the longest time, and it's harmful effects can no longer be ignored: from the bedroom to the boardroom to the classroom.</p><p>The fact is that the whole LGBT cause is bound up with extremism and hate. Why do children need to learn about gay anal sex in school? Why does the general public need to see the gawdy, bawdy, disgusting displays of sexual deviance and destruction in so-called PRIDE parades? None of this has any value or important for Torrance, or for families throughout Los Angeles County.</p><p>Jean is obsessed with PRIDE. What she needs is humility. She lost her race fair and square in 2022. The more that she rants about Aurelio, the more she convinces the voters that they did the right thing in rejecting her.</p><p>She even recently claimed that Mayor George Chen lost his temper at campaign rally last month and -- oh my goodness, clutch your pearls! -- used the F-word!</p><p>I was at that event. He did not use the F-word. He shared that he was really pissed off about the identity politics polluting the city. He even contended that he wanted to avoid giving out endorsements because he wanted to work with every city councilmember as peaceably as possible. But the LA County Democratic Party's racial pandering was too much to ignore.</p><p>If there's extremism, just look at Jean Adelsman and her ongoing machinations with machine politician Pat Furey, and their dirty attacks against candidates.</p><p>And speaking of extremism and hate ...</p><p>Look at the graffiti targeting and defacing Torrance City Council candidate Tony Yeh's signs!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioP-b7BULWKrZtYRy9BfUsut8KqTQ8xDwQKtij1yA2Wyjjby1aNZ2KkGS9T2FgXWROW6okaemOqxuLqV1uz9_46qceLrStR1yX3lq5dL2Jfe0Uccs4UF7iHS3oU1ZxI-ucKzKiy8zNL42gG34o0acDN0YwpfcCewWZ7nPe7d5MF6wcdFr3qGJQ0BYLVHKA/s1920/Yeh%20%20Deface.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioP-b7BULWKrZtYRy9BfUsut8KqTQ8xDwQKtij1yA2Wyjjby1aNZ2KkGS9T2FgXWROW6okaemOqxuLqV1uz9_46qceLrStR1yX3lq5dL2Jfe0Uccs4UF7iHS3oU1ZxI-ucKzKiy8zNL42gG34o0acDN0YwpfcCewWZ7nPe7d5MF6wcdFr3qGJQ0BYLVHKA/s320/Yeh%20%20Deface.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Tony Yeh is running against former appointed city councilman Jack Walser (who doesn't answer questions), and Jeremy Gerson, who was endorsed on the same slate with corrupt, pro-criminal District Attorney George Gascon.</p><p>Tony Yeh's signs are getting vandalized all over the city. Who is responsible for this? I have never seen politics get this dirty here in the South Bay. This is really sad.</p><p>There is deep bitterness in the city of Torrance with a growing number of independent candidates running to turn things around in the city. No doubt this graffiti/vandalism is from Jean Adelsman and her crew of hateful extremists.</p><p>We need to take back Torrance from "Take Back Torrance"!</p>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-68496847515157949592024-03-03T22:40:00.000-08:002024-03-03T22:40:00.586-08:00Playing the Race Card: LA County Dems Woo Torrance Voters With Identity Politics<p>This is really disturbing, and I will share my thoughts on all sides of the issue. We need to walk away from this pandering as much as possible when we vote. Who cares if the candidate looks like you, if he does not care about you or the issues you care about?!</p><p>Identity politics is harming our country. We have local and even state officials that make broad pronouncements of racking up a whole host of "Asian-American" endorsements.</p><p>Check out the latest set of identity-political vote-pandering from Bridget Lewis:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLiUxak2aPI7TfcjcJZsFXvFoHG8TwfmCXpJDjIsCCRoQFOjMQwgHy_-AHMeG2b9CRnfcm4kWpF6TJYex56wvppDB_ZuPZ2wKKhxXHLM33fD6QsSsQfLF07L77cTd5H5DEP8oYgcwt45lwOxaaGG7qQoETiq9olYt3gaGt3QHtvH9mNRKXvqS1m8O3FMlh/s1280/IMG_0920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLiUxak2aPI7TfcjcJZsFXvFoHG8TwfmCXpJDjIsCCRoQFOjMQwgHy_-AHMeG2b9CRnfcm4kWpF6TJYex56wvppDB_ZuPZ2wKKhxXHLM33fD6QsSsQfLF07L77cTd5H5DEP8oYgcwt45lwOxaaGG7qQoETiq9olYt3gaGt3QHtvH9mNRKXvqS1m8O3FMlh/w478-h359/IMG_0920.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><p>The racialism has been dialed up another notch in Torrance politics.</p><p>Yes, Torrance has the second largest Japanese-American population in the United States, after Los Angeles.</p><p>Yes, there is a considerable Chinese and Korean community in Torrance, as well.</p><p>There are a number of active churches and community groups with large Asian populations, too. The LA County Democratic Party has often referred to the Assembly seat nestled here in the South Bay as "The Asian seat."</p><p>And yet ...</p><p>The LA County Democratic Party and their corrupt allies played this race-card crap in 2022 ... and it failed miserably.</p><p>Every Asian-American Democratic politician lined up behind Cliff Numark ... and he lost! Torrance Mayor George Chen ran on a clear platform of reaching out to voters and presenting a more responsive city government to the public.</p><p>The list of incumbent Asian-American Democratic politicians are not an impressive bunch, either.</p><p>George Nakano is a has-been. The only reason he gives out his endorsement is so that he can feel relevant again. Sure, they named one of the theaters after him in the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, but George needs to know when to quit. He is the "Richard Riordan" of Torrance politics.</p><p>Then you have Lyin' Ted Lieu and his abrasive wife Betty Lieu. They are way too liberal in their leanings for the city of Torrance, yet they manage to hide their extreme, progressive views from the general public. Congressman Lyin' Ted Lieu is one of the most abusive, arrogant members of Congress, as well, walking out of prayer sessions on the House floor and yelling at witnesses when they testify before key congressional committees.</p><p>Both Lyin' Ted and his wife have embarrassed themselves and the city by attending offensive "PRIDE" parades in Los Angeles:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowvNIu8QabrquQRVMHutf_vRUTcdkEIDqGAghriwOixYjEhyEyDN5FjnIeDktpaE-DrLatFz2ZytXoMpsG3XIyIiOTl2dxkhO7tBvqTYDnf1xUSw71b5TVgibplBDvZG92em_IS1Ka7gkFP-GlvrVJqOLie8GnK3CX8vTgZPf3UUTd-Ddencjzho3jk-_/s975/Arthur%20Schaper%20Post%20Betty%20Lieu%20for%20School%20Board.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="975" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowvNIu8QabrquQRVMHutf_vRUTcdkEIDqGAghriwOixYjEhyEyDN5FjnIeDktpaE-DrLatFz2ZytXoMpsG3XIyIiOTl2dxkhO7tBvqTYDnf1xUSw71b5TVgibplBDvZG92em_IS1Ka7gkFP-GlvrVJqOLie8GnK3CX8vTgZPf3UUTd-Ddencjzho3jk-_/s320/Arthur%20Schaper%20Post%20Betty%20Lieu%20for%20School%20Board.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Here they are with serial rapist and convicted murderer Ed Buck. To this day, we have no record whether the Lieu's returned any campaign donations from Ed Buck and his campaign.</p><p>Then you have Asm. Al Muratsuchi, who pretends to be moderate when visiting with voters in the district, but votes hard-left back in the legislature. He voted for zero bail, to allow sex offenders to avoid the sex offender registry, and he wanted to force people of faith to give up their core convictions. He also refuses to take a stance against corrupt, pro-criminal district attorney George Gascon.</p><p>These Asian-American Democrats are out of touch with the general community. They are not fighting for the issues that people care about, and they spend a great deal of their time pandering to wild progressives and crazy communist elements in Los Angeles County.</p><p>Torrance voters want better, and they are expecting better.</p><p>The local and county Democratic Party apparatus still have not learned their lesson. Torrance voters are tired of business as usual from the Scotto-Furey phalanx, which benefited a local elite, a small club of political cronies and their friends who slap each other on the back and have no regard for the needs of others.</p><p>Those days are over, and trying to change all of that with a brazen outreach to "The Asian Vote" will likely not get the job done for them this year, either.</p>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-55779835173645647752024-03-02T07:09:00.000-08:002024-03-02T16:51:52.771-08:00Ending Conflict of Interest, Torrance City Councilwoman Bridget Lewis Returns Donation from Sling Flight Air Academy<p>March 2, 2024 4:46pm UPDATE:</p><p>Bridget Lewis returned the money from Sling Flight Academy.</p><p>See form below:</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU7xj2AYeCkgH8k_Gmr535zX8Hf_CK3bUylw9LaMTAT9u_FHkfrF6aozAli-ELOwUXL-Wuf_1GuRkXL_l4Fxwmnuq1cU8NLwQLjIKBnnOPycEuIm5Eo0ll5eQTF8EhZtRRl_8VqxpTJmxharh3_OP72vhA3os8hj-G7O0xWW4nP5FFjNPtXjWKj0_iBcZB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="526" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU7xj2AYeCkgH8k_Gmr535zX8Hf_CK3bUylw9LaMTAT9u_FHkfrF6aozAli-ELOwUXL-Wuf_1GuRkXL_l4Fxwmnuq1cU8NLwQLjIKBnnOPycEuIm5Eo0ll5eQTF8EhZtRRl_8VqxpTJmxharh3_OP72vhA3os8hj-G7O0xWW4nP5FFjNPtXjWKj0_iBcZB=w563-h457" width="563" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EkVvGt93peQX0XlJw4UCmh48Wda4omrxoo47JzzPyq9zt0MQUwm-2Fy1Q74liHEWrrHjYeafIwjUFjP6mIWnAXLFjoDNBR6bx-lKhh7JhcLQAS0PhlA-YNwRmhB9Kikeph7BF6kTQQ_nMl61TP_L8-7AaJ_ZASkaJM3dXjl4DJrk3Gp5hGTD6G3l_84Z/s991/Bridgett%20Lewis%20contribution%20from%20Sling%20Flight%20Academy.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="991" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EkVvGt93peQX0XlJw4UCmh48Wda4omrxoo47JzzPyq9zt0MQUwm-2Fy1Q74liHEWrrHjYeafIwjUFjP6mIWnAXLFjoDNBR6bx-lKhh7JhcLQAS0PhlA-YNwRmhB9Kikeph7BF6kTQQ_nMl61TP_L8-7AaJ_ZASkaJM3dXjl4DJrk3Gp5hGTD6G3l_84Z/w787-h300/Bridgett%20Lewis%20contribution%20from%20Sling%20Flight%20Academy.PNG" width="787" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>There has been a great deal of commotion and contention over the Torrance Airport.</p><p>Residents want quiet. If there are repeated flight patterns over the airport, people wouldn't be able to live in their homes, because of the constant noise overhead.</p><p>On the other hand, there are a number of uses with the airport. I have have residents stress its crucial role in emergency services, as well as providing necessary training for pilots. This country is facing an unprecedented shortage of airline pilots, and we need more professionals who can run the planes!</p><p>Now, why is this donation to 2024 Torrance City Council candidate Bridget Lewis so concerning?</p><p>One resident in the community sent me this information, and shared:</p><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Hi Arthur,</i></b></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>I decided to snip Bridgett's financial disclosure for the $1000 contribution she received from Sling Pilot Academy. This is a conflict interest because Sling was granted a temporary restraining order on Torrance. You can find this information in the Daily Breeze.</i></b></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yikes!</span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">She was voting on an issue before the city council, which affected this business, AND she received a donation from them!</span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">That is really sketchy!</span></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-66923958198215980882024-02-27T08:02:00.000-08:002024-02-27T08:02:17.475-08:00Them Before Us Statement on Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling<p>Them Before Us is an excellent ministry/non-profit which is fighting to put Them Before Us, i.e. fight for the NEEDS of children ahead of the desires of adults.</p><p>Their research and advocacy turned me into an opponent of in-vitro fertilization and surrogacy. Their compiled research and evidence helped solidfy the intuitive truth, that children need their Dad and Mom, not just "two parents," a revelation which correctly undermines the fraud that is same-sex "marriage."</p><p>Check out their official statement on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling which rules that embryos are life, living beings as well:</p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_column x_column--1 x_scale x_stack" style="width: 675.8px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_image x_image--padding-vertical x_image--mobile-scale x_image--mobile-center" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_image_container x_content-padding-horizontal" style="padding: 10px 40px;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="x_image_content" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/a4307302901/2be75ff9-cc8b-40f8-8b69-783051eb7da4.jpg" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="416" /></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_text x_text--padding-vertical" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="x_text_content-cell x_content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #3e3e3e; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 40px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">We applaud the Alabama Supreme Court‘s pro-child decision which recognizes and protects life in all circumstances, inside or outside of the womb.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">This decision is an important step forward in holding the fertility industry accountable, including their processes which lead to the demise of around 93% of lab-created babies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">Recognizing the humanity of children at every age and stage of development is foundational to justice.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">No matter how challenging our personal circumstances, the solution must never be to strip children of their fundamental rights and needs. A just society never insists that the weak sacrifice for the strong. It is adults who must sacrifice on behalf of children.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">We must put Them before Us.</span></p><p align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px;">~ Katy Faust</span></p><p align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Founder & President</span></p><p align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;">Them Before Us</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; 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font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Former Wyoming GOP House Speaker pushes the compromised mentality in newspaper column.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">But Wyoming MassResistance parents respond with common sense!</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 26, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><a href="ttps://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/13/tom-lubnau-legislating-private-parts-is-popular-this-legislative-session/"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/images/Lubnau-NP_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /></a> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">He's still using his influence to push the RINO leftist agenda in conservative Wyoming. But MassResistance lashed back!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Conservatives in nearly a dozen Western “red” states are fuming about this: Even when there’s a super-majority of Republicans in their state legislature, it’s difficult to pass common-sense pro-family bills that the Left opposes. It seems a lot of Republican legislators, especially in leadership, are covert liberals – and the voters have not paid sufficient attention. This phenomenon has even gotten <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals">national press</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">It’s <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/22/wyoming-is-the-epicenter-of-americas-fake-red-state-problem/">a particular problem in Wyoming</a>, where the Legislature has only 8 Democrats out of 93 members. Wyoming voters recently booted RINO Liz Cheney from Congress, but the State House is still full of traitors to the GOP.</p><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 592px; width: 525px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/images/Wyoming-Legislature_592.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 525px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">This is how bad it is in Wyoming. They might as well just elect a Democrat legislature! [Sounce: Wyoming Freedom Caucus]</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">What’s going on in the minds of these phony Republicans? Too many of them started out ideologically muddle-headed, and then bought into the leftist talking points. Unfortunately, not enough citizens confront that rubbish. But Wyoming MassResistance decided to step up!</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Former GOP House Speaker attacks pro-family bills</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Tom Lubnau is the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives in Wyoming. He was also the State Rep from Gillette, which is a solidly conservative area. Lubnau now occasionally writes columns for <em>Cowboy State Daily</em>, a popular right-leaning statewide news and commentary site.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Lubnau was (and still is, given his continued influence) part of the problem. Earlier this month, he wrote an absurd column attacking the efforts by actual conservatives in the legislature to protect children from the lunatic LGBT agenda that is engulfing society.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Titled, “<a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/13/tom-lubnau-legislating-private-parts-is-popular-this-legislative-session/"><strong>Legislating Private Parts Is Popular This Legislative Session</strong></a>,” it reflects the odious mentality of the RINO establishment. Lubnau bashed three much-needed pro-family bills that were before the legislature at that time (but unfortunately did not pass):</p><ul class="ul_disc" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/system/images/disk2.GIF");"><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;"><a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/HB0050">Bill HB 50</a> defined a man and a woman by their actual biology, not their so-called “gender identity.” It also defined “father” and “mother” and would have restricted use of women’s public restrooms and locker rooms to actual women. These clear definitions are necessary because the Left has forced its radical “gender” ideology into public spaces (and even public documents).</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;"><a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/HB0068">Bill HB 68</a> would have repealed the obscenity exemption for schools, libraries, etc. As everyone knows, depraved school and library officials are using this exemption to freely distribute horrible pornography to vulnerable children without the legal penalty that the rest of the general public faces.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;"><a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/HB0088">And Bill 88</a> would have made it illegal to publicly display, exhibit, or post, etc. obscene material where others can easily see it. The text of the bill referred to physical spaces, not electronic communication.</li></ul><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Ridiculous leftist arguments</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Lubnau made the preposterous claim that these bills are about “regulating private parts” and “people’s bedrooms.” He equated these bills to the anti-sodomy laws (which outlawed certain perverted private sexual acts) – even though all three bills were about obvious <em>public</em> issues.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Lubnau claimed that legally defining “mother” to be a “parent of the female sex” and “father” to be a parent of the male sex “seems strangely reminiscent of an Orwell novel.” He stupidly had it exactly backwards. Orwell wrote about government changing the language to support lies, not reinforcing our language to tell the truth!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">To attempt to bolster his “private parts” argument, Lubnau brought up a “right to abortion” bill, <a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/HB0076">HB76</a>, which was sponsored by Democrats but had little chance of passage and had nothing to do with the others.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Wyoming MassResistance strikes back with a rebuttal</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">When this column came out, it certainly became a topic of conversation in Gillette!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Lubnau is a well-known GOP leadership figure writing in a major statewide conservative publication. The column was an embarrassment to the people in his district.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">So our two Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders in Gillette, Ed and Susan Sisti, wrote a rebuttal. Titled, “<a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/20/letter-to-the-editor-legislating-public-consequences-is-essential-to-civil-society/"><strong>Legislating Public Consequences is Essential to Civil Society</strong></a><strong>,</strong>” it was published in <em>Cowboy State Daily</em> last week. (For some reason it’s labeled a “Letter to the Editor” even though it’s the length of a normal op-ed article.)</p><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/20/letter-to-the-editor-legislating-public-consequences-is-essential-to-civil-society/"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/ID-parents-confront-state-rep/images/MR_NP_500.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 500px;" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders didn’t pull any punches. They excoriated Lubnau for trafficking in “the weak arguments of corporate lobbyists and libertarian accommodationists.” In particular, they directly took on his absurd “private parts” reasoning:</p><div class="block1" style="background-color: #feffe9; border-color: rgb(254, 255, 233) maroon; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px 15px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">People’s private lives used to be private, but now LGBT activists insist on making their private lives—and private parts—very public.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">From the obscene books in public libraries, to the explicit curricula in public schools, to the very public displays of obscenity, depravity, and debauchery in PRIDE parades and festivals, Wyomingites (especially their children) cannot escape other people’s pushing their privates in public spaces.</p></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">And they concluded with:</p><div class="block1" style="background-color: #feffe9; border-color: rgb(254, 255, 233) maroon; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px 15px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The whole LGBT agenda has gone from the bedroom to the boardroom and is now invading the classroom.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">If homosexuals and transgenders would have kept their privates private, there would have never been a need for the legislature to engage public debates to seek public consequences to stem the health, moral, and cultural collapse which has ensued.</p></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Needless to say, the reaction from local conservatives has been overwhelmingly positive. People are thanking the Sistis and Wyoming MassResistance for stepping up and confronting the RINO mentality that has taken over their Legislature – and telling the truth!</p><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 400px; width: 400px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/logos/mr/Wyoming-logo_800.png" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 400px;" /></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Readers may recall <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/ID-parents-confront-state-rep/index.html">our report several months ago</a> on Idaho MassResistance parents confronting their RINO State Rep who voted against a bill to protect children in libraries. His “No” vote kept the bill from becoming law in Idaho! He tried to defend his vote using some leftist talking points he likely picked up in the State House, but the parents aren’t buying it at all. These legislators need to be directly challenged.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/ID-parents-confront-state-rep/images/Holding-picture_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Idaho MassResistance mother confronts her RINO State Rep with the porn being pushed in libraries.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">This needs to happen across the Western states. Legislators must be directly held accountable for their actions and their statements. MassResistance is committed to helping local pro-family people turn this terrible problem around!</p><div share-buttons="" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/facebook.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/twitter.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Email" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/email.png" width="36" /></a> <a><img alt="Print" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/print.png" width="36" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p style="color: maroon; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our successes depend on people like you.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.us/cc_donations.html"><strong>Donate to MassResistance</strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Your support will make the difference!</p></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-64104736250232430462024-02-23T15:23:00.000-08:002024-02-23T15:23:07.398-08:00In Ghana: MassResistance helping pro-family group set up anti-LGBT clubs in every secondary school!<p> </p><h1 style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic;">To counter the spread of LGBT propaganda from Western countries to African youth</span></h1><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 20, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/images/Ghana-6a_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Meeting of the Bueman SHS Anti-LGBTQ Youth Club in Jasikan, Ghana.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance is continuing to help countries around the world fight the international culture war!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Across America, high schools (and even middle schools) have LGBT clubs for children and teenagers. These “clubs” promote homosexuality, transgenderism, and other LGBT behaviors to the kids they attract, and spread it through the entire school. The clubs go by names like “Gay-Straight Alliance,” “Rainbow,” or “Gender Sexuality Alliance” club. They’re every parent’s nightmare.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>In Ghana, pro-family people have seen this and they don’t want it happening there.</strong> So far, Ghana has stood tall against it. But recently there’s been intense pressure from wealthy Western countries to make Ghana (and the rest of Africa) succumb to the radical LGBT agenda being swept into their society.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/images/Ghana-map_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Ghana was a British Crown colony until 1957, so English is spoken there.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">A few months ago, the head of Ghana’s leading pro-family organization, <a href="https://freedominternationalgh.org/">Freedom International</a>, contacted MassResistance. He told us:</p><div class="block1" style="background-color: #feffe9; border-color: rgb(254, 255, 233) maroon; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px 15px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In Ghana the appetite for LGBT practice is insignificant because majority of our people and institutions are boldly against homosexuality.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The good news is that the Parliament of Ghana is determined to pass a bill against LGBT, having read it the 2nd time. This has angered the Western countries and their agents. Sadly, the United Nations and the World Bank are uncomfortable with Ghana's stance against LGBT thereby making all sorts of ugly noises!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As a country we are prepared to resist the hypocrisy of the wealthy nations. But we need MassResistance to partner with us in ensuring that the wealthy nations of the world don't use their financial strength to bully us into submission. Therefore, we are ready to forge a partnership with MassResistance against LGBT activities in Ghana.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">We are encouraged by <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23c/Sri-Lanka-vs-repeal-of-LGBT-laws/index.html">your timely intervention in Sri Lanka</a> and we are confident that you will not disappoint us in resisting those disobeying God who Himself condemns homosexuality as a SIN.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Finally, we are seeking your permission to post some of the materials in the Issues column of your newsletter on our website.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Frank Mackay Anim-Appiah<br />Executive Director<br />Freedom International</p></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Since then we’ve worked with Freedom International to move forward! One of the first things that foreign-funded groups do in an African country is attempt to indoctrinate youth with LGBT ideology. So the most important project would be to make sure that children are well prepared to reject it and proclaim the truth. Frank and his group decided that the best way to do this would be to form “anti-LGBT clubs” in every secondary school – just the opposite of what the West does!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Frank and his team have been working with teachers across the country. They have already set up clubs in a few schools – and more are on the way!</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/images/Ghana-3_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Another meeting of the Bueman SHS Anti-LGBTQ Youth Club</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As Frank has reported back, they are going strong. The clubs meet for two hours per week. They use resources by MassResistance, Freedom International, and other pro-family groups. Students often are divided into smaller groups for effective teaching and learning. <em>Healthy relationships</em> are a key part of the learning. The other key goals are to expose, confront, and stop the LGBT propaganda coming from the multinational corporations and foreign embassies.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Parts of the curriculum is devoted to training in both writing and public speaking skills. Selected works will be published in the Freedom International quarterly publication <em>The Resistor Newsletter</em>. They will also organize inter-school youth club debates at the district, regional and national levels. Outstanding students will be awarded token prizes to be sponsored by potential sponsors.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/images/Ghana-1_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The Executive Members of the Bueman Club</span></div><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/images/Ghana-2_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 500px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Faculty advisors of the Bueman club</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Frank has big plans beyond that. Each year, he told us, Freedom International will arrange with the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to co-host a forum for students to tell their stories and showcase the progress made in the prevention of homosexuality in our schools, as well as the truth about the causes and effects of homosexuality and transgenderism.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance is thrilled to be helping Frank Mackay Anim-Appiah and Freedom International with this important project in Ghana.</p><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 425px; width: 425px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/logos/mr/Ghana-logo_800.png" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 425px;" /></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Note that the government in Ghana is supportive of this effort, not opposed to it!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">This groundbreaking effort is also the right direction for the rest of Africa – and beyond. In fact, with this example, MassResistance is brainstorming on setting up similar clubs in schools in the United States.</p><div share-buttons="" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/facebook.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/twitter.png" width="36" /></a> <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/index.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Email" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/email.png" width="36" /></a> <a><img alt="Print" height="36" src="https://www.massresistance.org/images/ShareButtons/print.png" width="36" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><p style="color: maroon; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Our successes depend on people like you.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.massresistance.us/cc_donations.html"><strong>Donate to MassResistance</strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Your support will make the difference!</p></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-56308840813564054362024-02-23T09:29:00.000-08:002024-02-23T09:29:25.847-08:00BREAKING: A vote for Bridget Lewis, Jeremy Gerson is a Vote for George Gascon<p> I just found this political flyer yesterday morning in West Torrance:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTdRxS38KpokWNnvo6IlFjcfO3KXECi7vt6leKqVTxwE_vyExt5fXHsBLUZ9b4Okc-_ndYjjaCSH43_v2BM1XkqM1SPbaVoUa97N_yZedQS3Fofy1a7AyYAJKFWql0ipBkigkjd4ZqYgCobsE9zkP-RikVr1KMZWCASzIi8WFEV-MS_CGRDLJSHZ26qlW/s4032/20240222_082401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTdRxS38KpokWNnvo6IlFjcfO3KXECi7vt6leKqVTxwE_vyExt5fXHsBLUZ9b4Okc-_ndYjjaCSH43_v2BM1XkqM1SPbaVoUa97N_yZedQS3Fofy1a7AyYAJKFWql0ipBkigkjd4ZqYgCobsE9zkP-RikVr1KMZWCASzIi8WFEV-MS_CGRDLJSHZ26qlW/w386-h515/20240222_082401.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party is taking the time to tell voters how to destroy their county even more.</p><p>The LA County Democratic Party has been <a href="https://www.westsidecurrent.com/opinion/column-moderate-democrats-not-welcomed-in-la-county-dems-party-vote-confirms/article_049416f6-9ebc-11ee-9c3b-b70e4188dd71.html" target="_blank">taken over by wild socialists and communists</a>, creepy SJWs more intent on destroying the last remnants of this once great country, state, and country.</p><p>And they really think voters are lining up to hurt themselves more.</p><p>But who is the LA County Democratic Party endorsing in Torrance elections for this year's primary?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUIo6T8DjqntI6smjbsK65TgPSIgEzURYNnGuyaHKCUoj04hPljIpoflocSdJNuf1ZGrlAvyPNpfUSUj4jnZ9TLujRTlHB78b2mOz6ld2TwtL2J1YJ2kfLFi2A55sW3t1em-3gKGSA_n3BuqTvhCT87HQfNuS3uCJzrvSC6Eu928QZWa2mRc-o4fE6Vb_/s4032/20240222_082411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUIo6T8DjqntI6smjbsK65TgPSIgEzURYNnGuyaHKCUoj04hPljIpoflocSdJNuf1ZGrlAvyPNpfUSUj4jnZ9TLujRTlHB78b2mOz6ld2TwtL2J1YJ2kfLFi2A55sW3t1em-3gKGSA_n3BuqTvhCT87HQfNuS3uCJzrvSC6Eu928QZWa2mRc-o4fE6Vb_/w397-h298/20240222_082411.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><br /><p>Of course they are endorsing Janice Hahn and Al Muratsuchi. They have been in perfect lock-step for the regressive leftist agenda throughout the county, the same regressive, leftist agenda which gives more rights to criminals and privileges to the homeless at the expense of the law-abiding taxpayers.</p><p>But I was surprised, dismayed, and quite disappointed with the other two endorsements.</p><p>Jeremy Gerson was a Republican when he was elected to the Torrance school board in 2018. He even met with me directly when I was complaining about the <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/20c/CA-middle-school-BLM-fight/index.html" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter propaganda</a> at Madrona <span> Middle School four years ago.</span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghQi4pcBvGfIu6SE4o1JVQPdpj65oak-o0u6Z-h9G8HPRgQ98pM5c73K_PKMycDS_WzbbHQITx8YXThDtOI8lgcSQOQnj5O_xR28k4BQeercz-bdVsczXfbaAArBLMm7E9qcJ51kVYKvsP5_Y0rQmg-qGl9IhbpChJZTDxtBUWCrx4zq4SYtBXM-FRSf2e" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="800" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghQi4pcBvGfIu6SE4o1JVQPdpj65oak-o0u6Z-h9G8HPRgQ98pM5c73K_PKMycDS_WzbbHQITx8YXThDtOI8lgcSQOQnj5O_xR28k4BQeercz-bdVsczXfbaAArBLMm7E9qcJ51kVYKvsP5_Y0rQmg-qGl9IhbpChJZTDxtBUWCrx4zq4SYtBXM-FRSf2e=w375-h203" width="375" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>And now he's a registered Democrat? This is really disturbing.</p><p>And then there's Bridget Lewis.</p><p>I had high hopes for her. She answered a number of my email correspondence last year, and she greeted me warmly when I went to the city council meeting in early February 2023.</p><p>But now this? She's endorsed by the LA Democratic Party? She flip-flopped, too. She was a registered Republican when she was appointed in 2022. She sold out so she could get more money to run for city council. Haven't they learned from the failures of Torrance Democratic Club president Jimmy Gow? He has run openly as a partisan Democrat in two city council elections, with all the backing of the LA Democratic establishment ... and he still loses!</p><p>Torrance voters want principles and results, not all of this political pandering. This is really outrageous. I am so disgusted, especially by the complicit double-dealing of these two, having registered as one party then moving to the opposite extreme. There is no integrity here, not commitment to any value consensus.</p><p>But that's not the worst of it.</p><p>Look at the other list of endorsements on the same exact flyer:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunDd7jNG3DRnYYSeBAA3bBsDwAFgkf0SxIFDHlAvuQdHb7brpS4Xv_UEcG07N9ZqXfMF4rNQrRriiqhFPA4Ci8DfVxI6TbPv9mbtZfVTpp-QKkaOeAihtDSJl1mR4N1owhDGytwKeSwhKDkm1UCBLyvpOi2QRuUu0shWY_1yWfLvn-3HxyQgRWJ2AAPeG/s4032/20240222_082421.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunDd7jNG3DRnYYSeBAA3bBsDwAFgkf0SxIFDHlAvuQdHb7brpS4Xv_UEcG07N9ZqXfMF4rNQrRriiqhFPA4Ci8DfVxI6TbPv9mbtZfVTpp-QKkaOeAihtDSJl1mR4N1owhDGytwKeSwhKDkm1UCBLyvpOi2QRuUu0shWY_1yWfLvn-3HxyQgRWJ2AAPeG/w417-h313/20240222_082421.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><br /><p>This is beyond insane. This is just evil. What political party in its right mind would still support pro-criminal, pro-lawlessness, anti-law enforcement LA County District Attorney George Gascon?</p><p><a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/10/los-angeles-george-gascon-progressive/" target="_blank">Even progressives are turning on Gascon</a>, since they had voted for a reform-minded DA, not a regressive who would destroy the county, make the streets less safe, and even endanger the so-called targeted groups like "people of color." What they got is a great breakdown in law and order. Of course, law enforcement should uphold and the rights and safety of all LA County residents, but you get the point.</p><p>If you vote the LA County Dem ticket, you are voting for George Gascon.</p><p>Torrance residents, if you vote for Bridget Lewis and Jeremy Gerson, you are voting for George Gascon. You are validating the same corrupt political machine that puts woke political posturing ahead of the people. It's your choice, but I hope that Torrance is better than that.</p><p>I recognize that there are registered Democrats who are not crazy. They want a secure border, they want proper law enforcement. There are even registered Democratic lawmakers across the country who oppose abortion and the sex mutilation of minors.</p><p>But those Democrats do not exist in the LA County Democratic Party. The whole hateful ensemble is controlled by spoiled brat college students who want to ignore public safety and push their demand for a socialist dystopia at all costs. <a href="https://www.westsidecurrent.com/opinion/column-moderate-democrats-not-welcomed-in-la-county-dems-party-vote-confirms/article_049416f6-9ebc-11ee-9c3b-b70e4188dd71.html" target="_blank">Common-sense voters are no longer welcome</a>. By the way, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-affiliated-democratic-socialists-of-america-faces-dire-financial-crisis-that-could-lead-to-layoffs#:~:text=%22DSA%20is%20in%20a%20financial,make%207%2Dfigure%20budget%20cuts." target="_blank">the Democratic Socialists of America, who now run the LA County Democrats, are going bankrupt</a>, so there's that.</p><p>If you want George Gascon as your DA, you will vote for Bridget Lewis and Jeremy Gerson. They have no problem identifying with the same corrupt, destructive political enterprise that is undermining Los Angeles County. A vote for Bridget and Jeremy is a vote for George Gascon.</p><p>I want law and order, safe streets, better governance, efficiency, and a real attention to the needs of Torrance residents. I don't trust either of these two Torrance City Council candidates to get the job done. The Torrance City Council already issued a <a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://torrance.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=8&event_id=7363&meta_id=327957" target="_blank">Resolution of No Confidence in George Gascon three years ago</a>. We should have no confidence that Gerson and Lewis will do what is best for the city of Torrance.</p>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-18472316350605625722024-02-22T16:21:00.000-08:002024-02-22T16:21:02.885-08:00Idaho GOP: America's Existential Crisis is Illegal Immigration<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--heading x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_column x_column--1 x_scale x_stack" style="width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_text x_text--padding-vertical" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_text_content-cell x_content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><p align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">America's Existential Crisis: Illegal Immigration Threatens Our Nation's Foundation and Future</span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">By Dorothy Moon, IDGOP Chairwoman</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_column x_column--1 x_scale x_stack" style="width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_text x_text--padding-vertical" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="x_text_content-cell x_content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">What on Earth is going on?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">Recent </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018KX0gNkevHbyBOtPJU6um-4oe3n5q0hWi-r3S6vp8G1f95EvM2L1AFLs5jJzrSaLN_OwsvmGzDZNZ3OEnLD4-KjoOHvimJ0OEW8e1JKj55Nb_VU42oAbdr7igWaTwOyoH6xUic84nDrEYFBwtp9pfBNRH8U3ZA_DmGWGZcEWeJsJSRkrsnL8QtcYUnvvSxm9A-4Tr3HO7GI=&c=UCLTD0vTwzTKQ7Uq8TXyyKnvVKkGEf6cmr1_2xksYU1poDecKxZkKA==&ch=sCujuWvLcSzWDYTtRN5WEcMO51opLVImjtNNQwNLzjW--D_nGSlkLQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">videos</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;"> show military aged young men from Africa crossing our southern border unimpeded.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">More than 37,000 Chinese nationals </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018KX0gNkevHbyBOtPJU6um-4oe3n5q0hWi-r3S6vp8G1f95EvM2L1AFLs5jJzrSaLG2ypTj3bhQfSh0pI_Iscvsznl6xnXMwWHJOmdB1iFyPG3OD9oPurZgh-POgV86_t2blzrEqf5s7xSFsWbqmIGnvOiyu-3irDVSirk983F6hdwGR_ly2oLw==&c=UCLTD0vTwzTKQ7Uq8TXyyKnvVKkGEf6cmr1_2xksYU1poDecKxZkKA==&ch=sCujuWvLcSzWDYTtRN5WEcMO51opLVImjtNNQwNLzjW--D_nGSlkLQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">crossed our southern border</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;"> illegally in 2023 alone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">Debit cards of $10,000 apiece are being </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018KX0gNkevHbyBOtPJU6um-4oe3n5q0hWi-r3S6vp8G1f95EvM2L1AFLs5jJzrSaLhoEkSrNlGcRcN1ARvl2w2MOz_SMuIl-UnVv-KjWzdV1GmQNQ05DhikMSxzAaY3bY91km5K_uNIjaQbL-3ciqQXJz5P9gYXMKFwA_Cxu9C6ZmIfgzC90ec9CwRnt2tYi64e-U_fwFShGKsNEFXiFRnq1Ux6-eRd9DOu2mM50lWTYQ9aLSPXeKg9I67og_5D4NFQwLeOH2sVV0ysGoLKdqxG2FWN9zVzUWt87WkNomKSTeHuHl07LpbQ==&c=UCLTD0vTwzTKQ7Uq8TXyyKnvVKkGEf6cmr1_2xksYU1poDecKxZkKA==&ch=sCujuWvLcSzWDYTtRN5WEcMO51opLVImjtNNQwNLzjW--D_nGSlkLQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">handed out to illegal immigrants</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;"> in New York City.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">This week in San Francisco a foreign national was </span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018KX0gNkevHbyBOtPJU6um-4oe3n5q0hWi-r3S6vp8G1f95EvM2L1AFLs5jJzrSaLtm_yFD1LAGPsfEp3gr0IPko3ajnNaM6KBCiW5tmjlzlIWzVeJOc3eyDWL7QfQB1pSXvGXQFlzHZ_c8HoMQRz34eUkwaYxBEDmZGbASLArhx9JLNrS0X04JtzO7-7PWRH-hy1AZxxVNsmRLUwZFzz9KxCTvCfWR9Nao7dkZzoqqQZzF2kzjrUiSLiEC0GamAwUZznqkOClIn4CJPM31Ow5sWk4nVGMOiCutbazbiAhHRP3i6cAFAmUXnAbbM0QgQR_IJlsQvZ18poxvfVc_eph-vY_oEW1RZKjdtbDVHkOgAaOf8yvNpzwKth2QpmLQsSbHkC3yclVBGcfQEd9wRLWODgGyYQtKK4rT5HQ0Bw68NbHPuHW49_qA89T3IPQO8ORPPf74tOG1Y=&c=UCLTD0vTwzTKQ7Uq8TXyyKnvVKkGEf6cmr1_2xksYU1poDecKxZkKA==&ch=sCujuWvLcSzWDYTtRN5WEcMO51opLVImjtNNQwNLzjW--D_nGSlkLQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">sworn in </a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">as an official on the elections commission.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">What the hell is going on?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">This is not merely a frustration, not a minor political problem to worry about, this is an absolute outrage, an existential crisis for our nation!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">America is in danger like never before. Why is this happening? Who is responsible? We are sick to death of hearing platitudes like “secure our border”. Our leaders have no intention of securing our border, and it’s time we ask ourselves why?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s expensive. Yet it gives Washington elites and the Biden administration — or whoever is running the White House — more power.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">How?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">Illegal immigration takes power away from law abiding citizens. It makes a mockery of the rule of law, giving power to those who intentionally break our laws. If you value freedom, law and order, and our cultural heritage, you should be outraged. If you respect our nation, the greatest ever to exist in human history, then it’s time to ask what the hell is going on?!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">Illegal immigration takes jobs away from law-abiding Americans. It threatens the safety of our communities. It dilutes our voter base, taking away the sanctity of your vote.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">You might think the problem is far away from here. Let Texas deal with it, let the federal government worry about enforcing the law. But it affects Idaho too, that’s the plain truth of the matter. Millions of illegal immigrants pouring into our country year after year affects all of us. Illegal immigration brings crime, drugs, sex trafficking, terrorism, and more. When we stop enforcing our laws, we’re telling all the bad actors in the world that we are defenseless, that they can come here and do whatever they want.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px;">It doesn’t have to be this way. There are enough laws on the books now to take care of this problem, and House Republicans passed a strong border bill last year. National leaders can solve this crisis today if they wanted to, which means they want it to continue. It’s time to say enough is enough. It’s time for patriotic Americans to stand up and say </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-7563073479278776822024-02-21T06:33:00.000-08:002024-02-21T06:33:43.925-08:00David Arthur of "I Belong Amen" Ministries: His Testimony<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;">Hello, You are all receiving this important & vital information because too many are using the excuse, "I just didn't know.";</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br />My name is David Arthur Kendall. I am the Founder of <a href="http://www.ibelongamen.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IBA Ministries</a>. I'm also an <u>EX-gay man</u> that spent 30+ years as a member/advocate of/for the lgbTQia TransQueer Rainbow Cult. Please do not let my bold choice of words deter you, I know this movement from the inside out and can assure you, it <u>is</u> a cult. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I was a transgender "woman" for over 20 years. </span></div><img alt="David Arthur Collage Past Photos.jpg" class="x_gmail-CToWUd x_gmail-a6T" data-custom="AAMkADlmZjBkNjE4LWUxMGMtNGM1Yy1hZTJkLWRkMDU4N2E5OTgxOQBGAAAAAAB31iUqr9s2Rrs1O7R1rZ%2FeBwBPUamXZ2V1S5bthCwK7d1XAAAAAAEMAABPUamXZ2V1S5bthCwK7d1XAAUxC804AAABEgAQAC7wjab2EXRGqvwQjHIQu0o%3D" height="248" naturalheight="291" naturalwidth="388" originalsrc="cid:ii_lj2tzksb0" src="https://download.massresistance.org/owa/Arthur@massresistance.org/service.svc/s/GetFileAttachment?id=AAMkADlmZjBkNjE4LWUxMGMtNGM1Yy1hZTJkLWRkMDU4N2E5OTgxOQBGAAAAAAB31iUqr9s2Rrs1O7R1rZ%2FeBwBPUamXZ2V1S5bthCwK7d1XAAAAAAEMAABPUamXZ2V1S5bthCwK7d1XAAUxC804AAABEgAQAC7wjab2EXRGqvwQjHIQu0o%3D&X-OWA-CANARY=VY_WFDmPTEigA__FWB7GlrBK3nTpMtwITdXvrPwb9Zil-p2QhTfx3eig0bAfTLvF_v-I3ytem_c.&token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIng1dCI6IkhhVW5WeG1XN3dZODgzZ185aDBRTWR5ZkFDOCJ9.eyJ2ZXIiOiJFeGNoYW5nZS5DYWxsYmFjay5WMSIsImFwcGN0eHNlbmRlciI6Ik93YURvd25sb2FkQG1hc3NyZXNpc3RhbmNlLm9yZyIsImFwcGN0eCI6IntcIm1zZXhjaHByb3RcIjpcIm93YVwiLFwicHJpbWFyeXNpZFwiOlwiUy0xLTUtMjEtNDA0MDMzODY4OC00ODc5MjkzODYtMzE1NTkyMjEyNi0xMTc4XCIsXCJwdWlkXCI6bnVsbCxcIm9pZFwiOlwiXCIsXCJzY29wZVwiOlwiT3dhRG93bmxvYWRcIn0iLCJpc3MiOiIwMDAwMDAwMi0wMDAwLTBmZjEtY2UwMC0wMDAwMDAwMDAwMDBAbWFzc3Jlc2lzdGFuY2Uub3JnIiwiYXVkIjoiMDAwMDAwMDItMDAwMC0wZmYxLWNlMDAtMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwL2Rvd25sb2FkLm1hc3NyZXNpc3RhbmNlLm9yZ0BtYXNzcmVzaXN0YW5jZS5vcmciLCJleHAiOjE3MDg1MjYyODQsIm5iZiI6MTcwODUyNTY4NH0.lF_k90Jp6w5JRuATp6-NQZWGxBTZXa17cUSUNXqskd2OZnCQsUbLvEilJB3wWUaz0LZ34bGAbMV1_M9U5Oq7PacVugb1ShsnlLdgHQWLggOLCdtbNKzwUMO7FY9z7_QSZI8strQ7QaT2cDyivFYaX7bX-R8UBpL6QN46CPRCP3wrF3sF0ZI1r-Ed01yd426rbqbnu7NMq9hAjP8JP6H-lrGbWqbyDLtlMEpYLA_7lm6PAf9H4wDYD7qoMEQ_X2aeL_7JlXIACXTvAtwFn681eKqoiJprXb0EFOuc0nIGrlkUxSVk2FW2TZtMuNksRFzItuYh13qQyV3a1un6dn8vdQ&owa=mail.massresistance.org&isImagePreview=True" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="331" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I was the suicidal transkid always exploited by those trying to push a TransQueer agenda, but what they don't tell is that I was also a suicidal trans-adult because affirmation, acceptance & transition does not remove the confusion, depression, angst or suicidal tendencies. What removes suicidal ideation is removing the confusion and indoctrination of the lgbTQia TransQueer agenda as well as those "therapists" or "social workers" that push the agenda. THAT is the ONLY way to stop the confusion, angst, depression & hurt that these children are experiencing. And the ONLY way to stop their suicidal ideation.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">My story is exactly what is happening in your town & schools. I was targeted, desensitized, groomed, indoctrinated, sexualized, victimized, criminalized, sex-trafficked and conditioned by the lgbTQia TransQueer Rainbow cult. Just like your youth are being targeted now. That rainbow flag that is flying high all around your town and schools? It represents perversion and chaos! An actual cult is being promoted and encouraged to continue it's assault on children and families everywhere.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I have proof that this movement is composed of groomers, pedophiles and pedo-apologists. My proof? My past! I am a registered sex-offender due to being sex-trafficked and groomed/conditioned to become an agent for my handlers. Not an excuse for my past choices, just truth/facts.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Pushing for "gender-affirmation" (mutilation & sterilization) opens pandora's box and promotes/endorses dangerous affirmation that WILL cause irreversible damage. <span style="background-color: cyan;"><u><i>When I was a member of this cult I was "happy, content & secure" according to anyyone who knew me. Nobody had a clue I was miserable, depressed and very suicidal.</i></u></span> Just remember that very important fact whether you agree with me or not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Many therapists, gender clinics, and misled money hungry doctors are already experimenting on children. They are already giving puberty blockers & wrong-sex hormones to children WITHOUT parental consent. They are already providing wrong-sex hormones (HRT) to children. They are already either referring surgeries or conducting them depending on which clinic you go to. The combination of wrong-sex hormones and puberty blockers ALWAYS results in sterility and are NOT REVERSIBLE. But either can sterilize a child without the other. These drugs are NOT safe, NOT reversible and <u>DO</u> cause serious lifelong irreversible damage, creating lifelong medical patients. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I was on wrong-sex hormones ONLY (not puberty blockers) at age 14 and by the time I was 20 years old I was sterile and had Osteopenia, by the time I was 30 years old I suffered from Osteoporosis. By age 15 my mental deterioration (from the wrong-sex hormones) was out of control. Age 16 I attempted suicide for the 2nd time (age 13 was the 1st). I was an emotional, physical & mental wreck from wrong-sex hormones and from the confusion of this debilitating mental illness. I now have the bones of an 80 year old woman as a 51 year old man. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Youth are being subjected to social contagions through gaming, internet and surroundings (peers, curriculum, etc) while also suffering from underlying issues that are not being addressed. These comorbidities make them even more susceptible to this contagion; this cult. PLEASE heed my words. I know this cult better than most and have endured, survived & overcame!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Adults prey on these mentally disabled youth that suffer from gender dysphoria, which literally is defined as "an abnormal condition of mental confusion." They do this online, in apps, at gender clinics, pediatricians offices, in the public government school system and especially in "therapy" sessions. These predators lure children, that suffer from a mental disorder, away from their parents/family (keeping secrets from parents lets the children know that mommy & daddy are the enemy) and "advocate" for that child to get trans-affirming "care" and that child would then be used, abused, profited off of, passed around and then tossed out like common garbage when of no more use, OR be conditioned to be an agent of his/her handlers. This IS what WILL come if this lgbTQia TransQueer Rainbow Cult AGENDA is allowed to continue.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I am telling you all, to please please please know that there are thousands of detransitioners out there. Of course the peddlers of this agenda and trans-organizations (which happen to be funded by Big Pharma Companies) tell you that the number of detransitioners is low with biased statistics, but detrans people NEVER return to the same doctors, therapists or clinics they hold responsible for destroying them mind, body & soul! Many detransitioners are still marked down as "happily transitioned" for statistical purposes. I believe there are more detransitioners & desisters out there than actual "happily transitioned" individuals.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">10 years ago I was yelling from the rooftops that children were the target. That children were being desensitized and sexualized with obscene, explicit materials and now you all see that very clearly. 10 years later these materials are now available in the schools and fulfill their purpose to desensitize and indoctrinate children, while furthering a pederast/pedophile agenda.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">In 2017 I warned everyone within the sound of my voice that the lgbTQia TransQueer Rainbow Cult has infiltrated the schools as well as the minds of the youth and there would be a WAVE of trans-identified children. NOW we have a <u>4000%</u> increase in youth that identify as trans. Social Workers are NOT using evidence-based materials. They are using research done by pederasts/pedophiles, pedophile-apologists and pederast organizations THAT ARE FUNDED BY BIG PHARMA to manipulate the system which gives them more access to children as well as the personal thoughts & secrets of these vulnerable children!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Not here to say I told ya so to anyone! But... can we afford to take a chance that I may be right this time as well? I am begging you all to give heed to my words because these gender-affirming policies WILL destroy any hope left to rescue these children from this cult that has lured, bamboozled and confused them. Tell the children NOT to run into the rainbow and join a cult. That cult WILL destroy them mind, body & soul.<br /><br />What about medical & mental health facts? There is <u>NO</u> consensus </span><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">among all medical providers on how to treat gender identity disorders in youth. Without differential diagnoses or treatment of their mental co-morbidities, vulnerable children are being ushered mindlessly by their doctors & therapists towards puberty blockers, synthetic wrong-sex hormones, procedures and surgeries that will cause IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE. The evidence proves that these methods sterilize youth and destroy their sexual function, physical bodies, and mental health.</span></div><br style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Progressive European countries that pioneered these trans-affirming medical treatments recently conducted a <u>Systematic Evidence Review</u> and discovered that these treatments are ineffective and harmful because they lead to severe medical & mental health issues as well as social ones. Consequently, since 2021 a number of European countries began abolishing pediatric transgender medicalization.</span><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">In actuality, ALL medical affirming procedures must be stopped! For now, I will settle for stopping the barbaric sterilization, mutilation and experimentation of CHILDREN. We must stop medicalizing and destroying children; mind, body & soul!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><u>Regret Is Common</u>. Please remember that. There is a tidal wave of depression, suicide, and law suits coming. Can your towns, cities or school departments afford to pay out millions, maybe billions, in settlements because of biased information provided by tainted therapists and board members? These "therapists" have no integrity, they have a responsibility to the lgbTQia TransQueer Rainbow Cult! That is where their devotion lies.</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Here is a reference of medical facts/information for you to take into consideration ~ </span><b><a href="https://www.ibelongamen.com/research2023.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibelongamen.com/research2023.html </a></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">It is okay to stand up against a movement that is clearly and boldly targeting children. Do not allow the ignorance of guilt or shame stop you from making the right decisions. You have now been informed. You no longer have an excuse.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px;"><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">PLEASE consider my own life knowledge & experience in making ANY decisions on Policies or Rules that involve this cult and this destructive agenda. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I am always open & available for questions, comments & concerns. I welcome any meeting or gathering where my physical presence would be beneficial in slowing the rapid onset of this delusional and dangerous cult. I would also love the opportunity to provide info on homosexuality being an addiction to anyone that may be dealing with that or someone who is. ♥</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">I am located in Hancock, Maine.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Thank you</span><span style="font-family: "arial black", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">, David</span></div></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-16765804635463566312024-02-20T07:47:00.000-08:002024-02-20T07:47:48.884-08:00Presidents Day: Recognizing the courage and commitment of our Founding Fathers<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; 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height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="560" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_layout x_layout--1-column" style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_column x_column--1 x_scale x_stack" style="width: 600px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_text x_text--padding-vertical" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="x_text_content-cell x_content-padding-horizontal" style="color: #403f42; display: block; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 20px;" valign="top"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Today, on Presidents’ Day, we commemorate the legacy of America's founding fathers, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #e22400; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Efforts from the radical left seek to erase the memory of Washington and Lincoln from our national consciousness.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The liberal Democrat agenda aims to rewrite history, removing historical figures and promoting progressive ideologies like critical race theory to interpret historical events solely through a racial lens, redefining the founding of our nation. These movements seek to discredit the contributions of figures like Washington and Lincoln. Politicians in D.C., such as Joe Biden, and others even right here in Idaho, are determined to erase our shared history at any cost.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Let's honor the wisdom and humility of George Washington, who rejected the offer of kingship to uphold the principles of our republic.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Let's also recognize the courage and commitment of Abraham Lincoln, who championed equality for all men before God, regardless of race, as the foundation of our nation.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As we commemorate the generations of the Founding Fathers and Civil War era, let's ensure that our children are taught the true history of our nation, so they can defend the principles upon which our free republic stands.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-87590300635205801542024-02-17T18:41:00.000-08:002024-02-17T18:41:27.651-08:00Where Are You, Dishonest Jean?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6X_vzjtPZA6iuNolzt1EjcuJQCKIcCW3-Fp7yRIcYcM0BMKuBkhuO_cFqU5O6mTs0adZPPbKcTeX_chW8zW5mmqqT1dpk2mtW7hajOQdpSvCjVLLXCIiypVVt7FOi5XmCeJvZmgDB6-H-k1mfaI8oxKstGIIqPsuAmJJeKJYImmxM2uktlenabyWYIuef/s220/Jean%20Adelsman%20Ugly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="220" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6X_vzjtPZA6iuNolzt1EjcuJQCKIcCW3-Fp7yRIcYcM0BMKuBkhuO_cFqU5O6mTs0adZPPbKcTeX_chW8zW5mmqqT1dpk2mtW7hajOQdpSvCjVLLXCIiypVVt7FOi5XmCeJvZmgDB6-H-k1mfaI8oxKstGIIqPsuAmJJeKJYImmxM2uktlenabyWYIuef/s1600/Jean%20Adelsman%20Ugly.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Recall Mattucci ... PLEASE!<br />Is anyone out there?"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.takebacktorrance.com/post/the-reasons-to-recall-mattucci" target="_blank">The Recall against Aurelio Mattucci started January 17th, 2024.</a></p><p>That's what Jean told us.</p><p>And ... what?</p><p>Did she lie again, as he has a habit of lying about other things?</p><p>There have been no canvassers so far in District Five.</p><p>There have been no door-knockers asking residents to sign the recall effort.</p><p>A number of Torrance residents have shared with me that they have not seen anyone standing in front of the local grocery stores to sign up people to recall Mattucci, either.</p><p>Where are you, Jean?</p><p>Did you realize that this was a bad idea the moment that you launched this failed effort?</p><p>Did you get cold feet once the public, including yours truly, exposed you for lying to District Five residents?</p><p>Did residents get cold feet about getting signatures for a a very controversial recall when people realized that you had nothing true to say about the current city council?</p><p>Was it the fact that people don't like brazen hypocrisy, since you sent your entire campaign during Election 2022 against recalling George Gascon, then turned around and announced your support for recalling Aurelio Mattucci?</p><p>Seriously, Jean?</p><p>Aren't you embarrassed at this point?</p><p>You have lied enough, and people have had enough of your lies.</p><p>You lost, lose gracefully, and just move on.</p>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-24071361786343881732024-02-14T15:51:00.000-08:002024-02-14T15:51:44.913-08:00Wisconsin MassResistance team stops “cancel culture” attempt by local school officials against activist’s job<p><b> <span style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem;">Wisconsin MassResistance team stops “cancel culture” attempt by local school officials against activist’s job</span></b></p><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Not only did he keep his job, but company president apologized to him!</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Pro-family people aren’t standing for this anymore!</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 14, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WI-MR-stops-cancel-culture/images/Testifying_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Caleb, one of our great MassResistance activists in Kenosha, Wisconsin testifies before the School Board about how the school's obscene books hurt children terribly. He got targeted by officials!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Across the country, leftists try to punish pro-family people for speaking out by threatening and harassing their employers to get them fired from their jobs.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As a result, conservatives often silence themselves in fear. <em>But not our Wisconsin MassResistance team!</em></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">For the past eight months, our Kenosha, Wisconsin group has been speaking forthrightly and protesting at School Board meetings. They’ve been pushing for parental notification and parental rights policies. They are demanding that all the LGBT programs and indoctrination be removed from the schools – including the obscene and sexually graphic books in the school libraries.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WI-MR-stops-cancel-culture/images/Crowd_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">The local Wisconsin MassResistance people were relentless - and the school officials hated that!</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The parents were able to get the district to remove some books from the school libraries. But then, near the end of 2023, the School Board doubled down and set up an ad hoc committee to review one of the most egregious books, <em><a href="https://booklooks.org/data/files/Book%20Looks%20Reports/A/All%20Boys%20Arent%20Blue.pdf">All Boys Aren’t Blue</a></em>. Among other depravities, the book describes in sexually explicit detail a ten-year-old boy being raped by his older male cousin. People across the country are sickened by this book.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The five-person committee to review this pornographic book was made up of three school staff members, a homosexual parent “married” to another man, and one conservative parent. The committee voted 4-1 to keep the book in the school.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Attempt to cause an activist to lose his job</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But that wasn’t the end of it. One of our activists, Caleb, had been particularly vocal at School Board meetings about the obscene materials. He also filed book challenges with the school district. After they decided to keep <em>All Boys Aren’t Blue</em>, two prominent school employees who were on the ad hoc committee – <strong>the principal of the high school and a school district library director</strong> – decided to punish Caleb and get him fired from his job at a local restaurant.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">After hearing rumors about this, Caleb approached his manager, concerned that his job was in jeopardy. She told him that the president of the group that owns the restaurant had been approached by the principal and library director. They told the restaurant group president that if Caleb continued to work there, the school district would likely stop using the restaurant for its catering, events, and other business. They accused Caleb of publicizing their personal phone numbers. (Caleb had never done so and was able to prove that.)</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">MassResistance activists were outraged when they heard this! Dozens of them let the restaurant know in very strong terms that if they fired Caleb, they would make sure that the entire community would know never to eat there. They were relentless with this messaging through social media and other venues.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Two days later the president of the group that runs the restaurant called Caleb and the restaurant manager into a private meeting. He apologized to Caleb for what he had been through and assured him that his job was secure!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Afterwards, the restaurant manager – who is also a Wisconsin MassResistance member – told Caleb that if he had been unfairly terminated, she would have given two weeks’ notice and quit.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">But this story isn’t finished</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The high school principal and the district library director acted abominably and inexcusably. They had no authority to make those threats to the restaurant – that the school district would cease doing business with the restaurant unless Caleb was fired. <strong>Both of <em>them</em> need to be fired.</strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">That will likely be the subject of the next School Board meeting. Public employees must not be allowed to intimidate community members. They cannot deviously act to cause people to lose their livelihoods. The Wisconsin MassResistance team is not backing down one inch.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">First, this incident shows how important it is for pro-family people to take on the Left without fear – and not simply back down in the face of harassment.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">And secondly, it reinforced how many of the people running our schools are personally depraved and emotionally deviant sociopaths. No normal person would want that pornographic book anywhere near school students. But these people are <em>aggressive</em> about wanting children exposed to it. And they believe they have the right to interfere in other people’s lives.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The whole corrupt education system needs to be confronted.</p><div class="resp-photo width75" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 425px; width: 425px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/logos/mr/Wisconsin-logo_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 425px;" /></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-36137516575791288882024-02-14T09:21:00.000-08:002024-02-14T09:21:27.149-08:00Milton Friedman: Communists Hate the Family<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Milton Friedman | communists hate families <a href="https://t.co/YJIWz3xdKh">pic.twitter.com/YJIWz3xdKh</a></p>— DutchLibertarian (@LibertarianDuty) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertarianDuty/status/1757302100520808497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-74600525348853833462024-02-07T18:05:00.000-08:002024-02-07T18:05:26.365-08:00MassResistance: UPS Driver Takes on Corporate and Union LGBT Extremism!<p> </p><h1 style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">Christian UPS driver takes on the corporation over extreme LGBT and anti-Christian work environment.</h1><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Confronted pro-LGBT Teamsters Union that was supposed to help him.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Filed multiple grievances with UPS, the union, and federal agencies EEOC & NLRB.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">We need more like him across America.</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 7, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/PRIDE-moniter_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">When employees are at work in UPS facilities during Pride month, this is what is broadcast up above them.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As we all have seen, corporate America has become militantly pro-LGBT and anti-Christian over the past few decades. Unfortunately, most pro-family people who work for these companies have become too frightened (or compromised) to complain, much less fight for their rights.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">This is the story of one man who decided he wouldn’t take it anymore, and fought back all the way to the top.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He has received some of UPS’s highest awards for safety and loyalty. He is a driver of a large UPS “feeder truck.” He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. He recently brought the details of his efforts to MassResistance.</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/James-award_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">James with his awards from UPS for loyalty and safety.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">When most people think of anti-Christian and pro-LGBT companies, they think of Target, Amazon, Bank of America, the NFL, Delta Airlines, etc. But UPS is right up there with them. If you work there, you’re bombarded by the “woke” propaganda. However, since UPS is mostly not a “retail” operation, its huge support for anti-family causes is mostly hidden from view, so the public rarely sees that side of the company.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">“Pride Month” at UPS</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">During the celebration of Gay Pride Month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGBT movement by broadcasting images on all its large hanging TV monitors in various workstations, on its social media sites, and on the employee training computers throughout the building. If employees wanted to check on their benefits, paycheck, retirement funds, and other HR related information, they had no choice but to navigate through the images promoting LGBT pride.</p><div class="resp-photo width85" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 595px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/UPS-Pride-month_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 595px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">When employees log into their UPS portal, they get the constant propaganda.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In addition:</p><ul class="ul_disc" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/system/images/disk2.GIF");"><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">The UPS website featured several stories about “transgender” UPS employees who had undergone their “transition” procedures, and the company was actively promoting that agenda.<br /><div class="resp-photo" style="margin: 20px auto; max-width: 774px; width: 640.2px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/Trans-leader_774.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 640.2px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">"Transgenders" get celebrated at UPS for "authenticity."</span></div></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">UPS runs an in-house <a href="https://www.jobs-ups.com/brg-lgbtq">Pride Alliance Business Resource Group</a> to elevate LGBT employees within the company and fund their participation in LGBT events across the country.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Over the past two years the <a href="https://about.ups.com/us/en/our-impact/community.html">UPS Foundation</a> has donated $1.2 million to advance the LGBT movement globally, including huge donations to the staunchly anti-Christian LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and <a href="https://startout.org/">StartOut</a>. UPS proudly brags that HRC names UPS as one of the “<a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/best-places-to-work-for-lgbtq-equality-2022">best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality</a>.”</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">In 2022, UPSers volunteered nearly 10,000 hours to support the LGBTQ+ community.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">UPS partners with the <a href="https://nglcc.org/">National LGBT Chamber of Commerce</a> to fund and support “certified LGBTQ+ businesses” across America</li></ul><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But most disturbing, James told us, “I discovered a link to a company that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220531233126/https:/about.ups.com/us/en/social-impact/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/ups-celebrate-pride-month.html">UPS had partnered with</a> and was promoting called <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220523132638/https:/www.gaypridecalendar.com/june">GayPrideCalender.com</a>. That site sold homosexual merchandise from a print-on-demand business site, Zazzle.com. On their website, they sold sickening, blasphemous items, including shirts that depicted Jesus Christ as a radical homosexual who seeks sex with men.”</p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 320px; width: 320px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/Power-bottom2_400.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 320px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Shirt for sale to UPS employees.</span></div><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/Jesus-magnets_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">... and these magnets.</span></div><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 713px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/Fetish-flasg_713.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Various fetish flags for UPS employees to order.</span></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">UPS support for other horrible causes</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">James started looking closely at UPS’s other activities, and things looked even worse.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">UPS is heavily invested in “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” (DEI) throughout the company. It has created an internal <a href="https://about.ups.com/us/en/our-impact/values/inclusion-belonging/ups-eja-task-force-anniversary.html">Equity, Justice & Action Task Force</a> to deal with “unconscious bias” among employees. The company president commissioned an enterprise-wide salary review to support “pay equity” based on race and other factors.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">UPS’s charitable arm has funded Planned Parenthood in several states, numerous far-left churches (including a “gay” Catholic group), Black Lives Matter, the ACLU, SIECUS (which pushes radical sex ed in public schools), and other anti-Christian and anti-American causes.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">UPS is also a partner of the World Economic Forum and agrees with its “climate crisis” outlook.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">All of this reveals UPS management’s orchestration of a frighteningly hostile climate of discrimination against Christians, conservative Americans, and white males in general that everyone (except James) was afraid to address.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">UPS claims to support its employees’ civil rights</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Interestingly, UPS has numerous company-wide policies that purport to protect its employees’ civil rights. But they’re basically just a smokescreen for doing the opposite.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">For example, the company states that it supports the United Nations’ “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” which strictly guarantee “social and cultural freedom,” and the right to be treated “with dignity and without discrimination” regarding religion and sex.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">There are also “Zero Tolerance” postings in UPS buildings which state:<em> “Don’t display offensive language, symbols or images on your personal belongings or on company property ... If you experience discrimination, sexual or racial misconduct, use our Open Door Policy to raise issues with your management team.”</em></p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">So James fights back!</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The company was clearly breaking its own rules, particularly during “Pride Month.” Someone needed the guts to test UPS’s obvious hypocrisy. James had had enough. And he <em>wasn’t </em>afraid. He decided to formally complain and demand UPS follow its own rules – through whatever manner he could find.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>1. Contacting officials.</strong> As James told us, “To bring resolution to this with no further unpleasantries, I first tried to use UPS’s Open Door Policy and contacted UPS’s CEO, Carol Tomé, along with local Teamsters 402 General President Sean O’Brien about these issues.” But nothing came of that.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>2. Filing grievances through the union.</strong> Since he was represented by the Teamsters Union Local 402, he filed four separate grievances through them, as laid out in the company’s collective bargaining agreement, directly addressing various aspects of the problem.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Unfortunately (as many of us know), the Teamsters long ago embraced the LGBT agenda and other leftist, anti-American ideologies. When the formal hearing for James’s grievances took place – with a room full of representatives from the UPS and the union – James was shocked. Not only did the union <em>not advocate for him</em>, but they treated him with hostility, as did the UPS representatives there. One union rep nastily said to James at the hearing, “If working at UPS was so bad, why continue to work there?” James lashed back at him. As he told us:</p><div class="block1" style="background-color: #feffe9; border-color: rgb(254, 255, 233) maroon; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px 15px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">It got ugly real quick. I told him that I had a right to work in a hostile-free environment just as much as their beloved homosexual employees did. I told him that I have a right to work there and that I want to work in a place that is free from this hatred towards Christian employees.</p></div><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/UPS-driver-vs-company-LGBT-push/images/Teamster-causus_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Unfortunately, this is the face of the Teamsters Union these days.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Not surprisingly, James later received a letter from the union telling him that all of his grievances were denied.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">But James really got their attention like no other employee had! He stood up and clearly presented his evidence for all the grievances, describing in detail what UPS was doing to its employees – to the stone faces of the union and company officials.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>3. Formal NLRB complaint <em>against</em> the union. </strong>A few days after receiving the letter from the union denying his grievances, James filed a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the Teamsters Union. He cited the hostility towards him by his union at the hearing, and their inappropriate behavior which clearly showed that he was not being fairly represented. The NLRB acknowledged receiving the complaint but ultimately took no action, though surely the union was made aware of it.<strong></strong></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><strong>4. Formal complaint filed with federal EEOC. </strong>The day after James filed the NLRB complaint, James filed a discrimination complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He cited Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bans religious discrimination in the workplace. He described how UPS is maintaining a hostile workplace by promoting the homosexual culture and images that mock the Christian faith – but denies equal time for Christian culture and imagery anywhere at the company. Similarly, the EEOC acknowledged receiving the complaint but took no action, though surely UPS was made aware of it.<strong></strong></p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Here’s the result …</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Moving a massive worldwide corporation like UPS is too big a task for one man. But James did make a difference. The website link to the disgusting anti-Christian LGBT merchandise and pride event calendar was taken down and has not re-appeared.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">And James has not suffered any retribution from anyone at the company, in any form. They obviously know that he means business and will never back down!</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Final thoughts</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">A big reason why we all suffer from the corporate promotion of perversion is that too many employees are afraid to stand up for what’s right. 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color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 320px; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x_layout__inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 320px;"><div class="x_column" style="color: black; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; max-width: 400px !important; width: 320px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><h3 class="x_size-24" lang="x-size-24" style="color: #1f3c58; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="x_font-open-sans" style="font-family: "open sans", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Friday Reflection<br style="line-height: inherit;" /><strong style="line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://blast.texasscorecard.com/t/d-l-elylkjy-tdkuykjtht-n/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0511fa; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Image of God</a></strong></span></h3></div></div></div></div></div><div class="x_layout x_two-col x_fixed-width x_stack" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 600px; min-width: 320px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 320px; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x_layout__inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: table; line-height: inherit; width: 320px;"><div class="x_column" style="color: black; float: left; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; 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margin-right: 20px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle;"><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I have seen more than my fair share of real-life horror. In my younger days, I became acquainted with the depravity humans can inflict upon each other in the commission of crime, the throes of misplaced passion, or just the stupidity of thoughtless action. Such is the fallen condition of our souls.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Sin blinds us to many things, but perhaps most especially to the truth about who God’s Word says we are.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Earlier this week, I was invited to the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. for a presentation on the October 7 surprise attack launched by Hamas.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">The raw footage—filmed by the Hamas terrorists themselves, captured by CCTV, or recorded in real-time by the victims—is in a category of horror all its own.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Despite the earlier claims from the anti-Semitic left and parroted by academics and media lapdogs, we all know that civilians were attacked on the Jewish Sabbath without provocation simply for being Jewish.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">That is not the horror of which I write today.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Several hundred hostages, including children, were taken that day and dragged into Gaza. Many had unspeakable acts done to them, either while alive or to their remains after death. Many are still being held prisoner.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">That is not the horror of which I write.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">There will be the reflexive “what-about-ism” from those who view Israel’s existence as a horror all its own or are sickened by the nation’s overwhelming response to the attack.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">That is not the horror of which I write.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">I will leave the moral equivocation and rationalizations to others. For me, the atrocities of October 7 cannot be justified by the past or made retroactively moral by the present.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">With each moment of the presentation, I felt my anger and bile rise in righteous fury. As we watched the depravities play out on the screen, I know many of us in the room could only see those Palestinians as “animals,” beheading corpses and harming children.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Frankly, October 7th should be a reminder of the horrible fact that each of us is infected with the same disease that puts us in danger of becoming that same kind of animal. Each and every one of us.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Just as the Hamas terrorists constantly referred to the Israeli civilians they gunned down at the Nova music festival as “dogs,” we must struggle against the sinful urge to see the terrorists as less than what they are.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">The victims were not soulless dogs, but neither were the perpetrators thoughtless animals. The victims had no choice; the perpetrators did.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">That thought should haunt us.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">The Bible’s first description of mankind is a moral one, found in Genesis 1:27, “So God created man in His own image.”</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">This is an inconvenient truth. Whatever else we might want to believe, the most innocent of butchered children and the most depraved of terroristic butchers share this characteristic: both were created in the image of God.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Sin has distorted that image like a fractured mirror, but the image remains. It is up to us to look for it.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Nations and individuals alike have the right to protect themselves and—yes—to conduct war, exact retribution for offenses, and establish a deterrent against future aggression. Property rights and borders must be defended and even defended aggressively. Israel has that right, so does America, so do you and I.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">But even as we stand ready to do rough and unpleasant things, we must do so with the sad knowledge that our enemy is still an image bearer of God. No matter how righteous or justified our actions might be, that truth must exist alongside it.</p><p style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 20px;">Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all consider the Book of Genesis to be Holy Scripture. While our differences in theology and ideology won’t be reconciled with a return to the first chapter of Genesis, perhaps it can at least inform how we choose to deal with those we consider our enemies.</p></div></div></div></div></div>Arthur Christopher Schaperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15447642567461072221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1379348459799634768.post-37109756993917744242024-01-30T13:58:00.000-08:002024-01-30T13:58:33.715-08:00Wyoming MassResistance Family Fighting Frivolous Lawsuit<p><span style="font-family: "Arial narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem;"><b>Wyoming family targeted by fired library director’s lawsuit answers with powerful motion to dismiss.</b></span></p><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Family sued for exposing obscene books in library and complaining.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">Lawsuit revealed as completely frivolous and meant to intimidate community and others.</h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1; margin: 15px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;">MassResistance working to file anti-SLAPP legislation.</h2><h6 style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 22px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">January 30, 2024</h6><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-family-responds-to-lawsuit/images/Bennetts2_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Hugh, Susan, and Kevin Bennett testify before the County Commission and Library Board about the graphic sexual books in the childrens' and teens' sections of the library. Now the former Library Director is using "lawfare" to attempt to destroy the family.</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The family in Campbell County, Wyoming being targeted by the fired library director’s federal lawsuit is not intimidated. The have responded with a strong Motion to Dismiss that debunks everything the lawsuit charges them with.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Outrageous lawsuit against local family</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Former Campbell County Library Director Terri Lesley <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23c/WY-Lib-Dir-FIRED-over-graphic-books/index.html">was fired by the Library Board</a> this past July for refusing to follow the Board’s new policy regarding obscene books. In a bizarre and outrageous move, on September 27, <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23d/WY-Fired-Lib-Dir-suing-parents/index.html">Lesley filed a federal lawsuit</a> against local citizens Hugh and Susan Bennett and their adult son Kevin.</p><div class="resp-photo width85" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 595px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23d/WY-Fired-Lib-Dir-suing-parents/images/Terri-Lesley_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 595px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Terri Lesley poses for a reporter while Campbell County Library Director. (Photo by Nick Reynolds/WyoFile)</span></div><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The Bennetts did what people around the country are doing. They <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22a/WY-Board-shuts-down-citizens-appeal/index.html">spoke up at public meetings</a> about the sexually graphic books in their public library. Hugh wrote about the problem in a paper he publishes. And they <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21d/WY-prosecutor-wont-press-charges/index.html">asked the county prosecutor</a> to decide whether the state obscenity laws are being violated.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Even though the Library Board – not the Bennetts – fired her, Lesley chose to harass that family. Her absurd list of alleged offenses includes violating the so-called Ku Klux Klan Act, unlawful and unconstitutional conduct, civil conspiracy, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and “abuse of process” claims.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The lawsuit is clearly meant not only to punish the Bennetts, but to terrorize other parents into silence. Lesley is being represented by a far-left <a href="https://www.superlawyers.com/articles/colorado/the-bridge/">Colorado-based “attack” lawyer</a> who worked with the LGBT organization Wyoming Equality to get a federal judge to strike down Wyoming’s gay marriage ban. The lawyer has said, “I like to go back there [to Wyoming] and just mess with the state as much as I can.”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The Bennetts are being represented by <a href="https://webercrabb.com/">a solid law firm in Florida</a> that appears to be extremely skilled at dealing with this sort of “lawfare” case.</p><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Fighting back with powerful motion to dismiss</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">The <a href="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-family-responds-to-lawsuit/images/Bennett-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf"><strong>Motion to Dismiss</strong></a> basically debunks everything in Lesley’s lawsuit. It’s a great read! For example:</p><ul class="ul_disc" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/system/images/disk2.GIF");"><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">The text of the lawsuit is largely incendiary rhetoric and descriptions of actions of others in the community, with very few factual allegations of the Bennetts’ actions.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">The Ku Klux Klan Act claim is utterly ridiculous. Nothing in that act remotely connects to anything the Bennetts did.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">The “civil conspiracy” charge does not square with the legal definition. And Lesley fails to identify any “right” that is protected from these so-called conspiracies.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Lesley’s attempt to claim “defamation” is beyond the one-year statute of limitations, so it cannot apply. Even so, it does not square with the legal requirements of defamation liability. And since Lesley is a public figure, that also disqualifies her from making this charge.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Regarding alleged “intentional emotional distress,” Lesley cannot cite any “extreme and outrageous conduct” by the Bennetts or facts to back up the “severe emotional distress” that she supposedly endured.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Lesley is not able to describe any actual “unlawful and unconstitutional conduct.” The Bennetts, like all other citizens, have broad First Amendment rights to criticize public officials. Lesley cannot be permitted to make a claim against them for expressing their opinions.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Lesley’s allegations do not square with the requirements for an “abuse of process” claim. Her charges about the Bennetts contacting the Sheriff concerning the books (that they maliciously filed a false claim) are basically the opposite of what actually happened. The Bennetts simply filed a complaint asking the local authorities to determine if there was a violation of the law. It took the Sheriff and County Attorney considerable time and research to come to a conclusion.</li><li style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: disc; margin: 10px 0px 12px;">Lesley’s lawsuit attempts to blame the Bennetts for the Library Board firing her. Lesley was a public figure and government official who placed herself in the forefront of an incredibly divisive issue being debated throughout our country.</li></ul><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">As the Motion to Dismiss concludes:</p><div class="block1" style="background-color: #feffe9; border-color: rgb(254, 255, 233) maroon; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 30px; padding: 0px 15px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">At its heart, Plaintiff’s Complaint takes issue with the public advocacy performed by Defendants (successfully). That is not a basis for civil liability under the Ku Klux Klan Act, common law civil conspiracy, common law defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, or abuse of process. This Court should dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint with prejudice.</p></div><h3 style="color: #a81f38; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;">Anti-SLAPP laws exist to stop such harassment of citizens</h3><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">In 33 states (though not in Wyoming), citizens are protected from this disgusting sort of “lawfare” harassment by anti-SLAPP laws.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.rcfp.org/anti-slapp-legal-guide/">What is SLAPP?</a> Short for <strong>strategic lawsuits against public participation</strong>, SLAPP lawsuits have become a common tool for intimidating and silencing criticism through expensive, baseless legal proceedings.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation">Wikipedia</a>’s description: “In a typical SLAPP, the plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs, or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. In some cases, repeated frivolous litigation against a defendant may raise the cost of directors and officers liability insurance for that party, interfering with an organization's ability to operate. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate.”</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Anti-SLAPP laws are meant to provide a remedy to SLAPP lawsuits. The intent is to prevent people from using courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate people who are exercising their First Amendment rights.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Anti-SLAPP laws typically include provisions for an expedited process to dismiss meritless lawsuits early in the litigation process. They often provide for the recovery of attorney's fees and other costs incurred by the defendant in defending against the SLAPP lawsuit.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;">Unfortunately, <strong>Wyoming does not have an anti-SLAPP law.</strong> But MassResistance has already begun working with legislators in Wyoming (and other states) to change that!</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px;"><em>We will keep you updated on all of this!</em></p><div class="resp-photo" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 800px; width: 679px;"><img alt="ALT TEXT" src="https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21c/WY-MR-Trans-Library-performer-stopped/images2/Protest-01_800.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 679px;" /> <span class="caption" style="display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2;">Wyoming MassResistance parents hold signs in front of the library. 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