Project Veritas; Another Facebook Insider Details Political Censorship

Project Veritas  "More than 10 years ago, Project Veritas started as a dream to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society." . . .

James O'Keefe  . . . "James O’Keefe founded Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action after he had pulled off some of the most consequential undercover journalism coups in a generation, so he could have an organization dedicated to reviving the craft of undercover journalism. These two organizations are non-profits dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste and fraud in public institutions and the private sector." . . .

Insults to Black History

...Self-destructive behavior that has become acceptable, particularly that in predominantly black schools, is nothing less than a gross betrayal of a struggle, paid with blood, sweat and tears by previous generations, to make possible today's educational opportunities that are being routinely squandered. I guarantee that blacks who lived through that struggle and are no longer with us would not have believed such a betrayal possible.  ... WEW

Walter E. Williams  "Many whites are ashamed, saddened and feel guilty about our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. Many black people remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
"Often overlooked or ignored is the fact that, as a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.
"For example, if one totaled up the earnings and spending of black Americans and considered us as a separate nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank well within the top 20 richest nations. A black American, Gen. Colin Powell, once headed the world's mightiest military. Black Americans are among the world's most famous personalities, and a few black Americans are among the world's richest people such as investor Robert F. Smith, IT service provider David Steward, Oprah Winfrey, and basketball star Michael Jordan. Plus, there was a black U.S. president.*
"The significance of these achievements cannot be overstated. When the Civil War ended, neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in less than a century and a half -- if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people. Just as important, it speaks to the greatness of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on earth could such progress been achieved except in the United States of America." . . .

*Whose bitter First Lady preached her message of resentment and anger on each campus she visited for a commencement address. Comments on this topic at the right sidebar of the Tunnel Wall. TD

Great Moments in Racism: The Dash Cam Tapes

Imani Perry

Ann Coulter  "If you were watching MSNBC last Sunday, you may have seen Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, and wondered, as I did, Why do I know that name?
"Professor Perry’s delightfully original point was that we need to “think in serious contemplative ways about the depth of American inequality.”
"So perhaps we know her from her incisive commentary! I certainly haven’t heard anyone talk about American inequality. It really made me think.
"But then I suddenly realized it’s that Imani Perry! The one who nearly destroyed a policeman’s life by falsely accusing him of racism!
"Back in February 2016, Perry launched a series of tweets, alleging the following:
— She was “arrested in Princeton Township for a single parking ticket three years ago.”
— She was cuffed — FOR A PARKING TICKET — and not allowed to make a phone call so that someone would know where I was.”
— “I was afraid,” she wrote. “Many women who look like me have a much more frightening end to such arrests.”
"Oh my gosh, she could have been killed!
— She was “working to move from being shaken to renewing my commitment to the struggle against racism & carcerality.”
"Naturally, her story became instant international news. The president of Princeton leapt to her defense, firing off a letter to the chief of police, demanding an investigation. (I know Perry is a professor, but you’d think that, by now, more people would say, Let’s wait for the facts.)
"Perry attributed the universal acceptance of her story to her “small build” and her association with “elite universities” such as Princeton.
"Just a thought, but it might also be because she’s black." . . .

Dash cam audio released after professor charged with falsely claiming racial profiling during traffic stop

. . . "The Internal Affairs investigation reviewed that audio, and concluded the officer never asked Roychoudhuri if she spoke English and that he clearly explained to Roychoudhuri why she was pulled over, to the point that she offers an explanation as to why she made the improper turn." . . .

Helping this latest generation become what they now have become. TD

The left's war on police

The leftist war on America's police is intended to oust Trump  "One of the byproducts of anarchy is totalitarianism.  People cannot sustain living in a wholly destabilized society, and they will invariably seek a strong man to create order.  Order, after all, was Hitler's promise following the utter chaos of the 1920s.

"Democrats, with their simultaneous attacks against both Trump and civil order, are hoping they can herd people into voting for Biden, with the promise that a Biden presidency will bring peace.  And it will — a Roman peace, along the lines of Tacitus's famous statement that the Romans "ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire.  And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."  To that end, the Democrats are busy ravaging, slaughtering, and seizing by false pretenses." . . .

Classic: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Suddenly Wants Law Enforcement to Protect Her From 'Peaceful Protestors'

This notion of doing away with law enforcement in its entirety is nonsense. We live in a society that is based on law and order. There are criminals who – shockingly – break the law because that is the very definition of a criminal. Police officers exist to make sure laws are maintained and those who are the victim of a crime have someone on their side. 

This could be your civil authority from now on:

Racism: the refuge of the unaware

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Blatant official racial discrimination: County orders white people to wear masks in public, exempts 'persons of color'

. . . The Constitution and basic concepts of justice are out the window, and we face a grim new normal in which "getting whitey" becomes acceptable behavior from governments.  . . .

Was Bubba Wallace just looking for corporate sponsors?   . . . "To appreciate what happened here, a short timeline is useful:" . . .

Proved to a Certainty – Is Bubba Wallace “Rope Noose” a Hoax or Misunderstanding? All Talladega Garage Doors Have Nooses – NASCAR Video Evidence…

Bubba Wallace Goes Full Kaepernick – Despite Evidence Doubles Down on False “Noose” Claim…  "Before NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace appeared on CNN with Don Lémon to discuss his now disproven racial “noose” targeting, he had a decision to make.  Wallace could accept the FBI/NASCAR finding and admit an honest mistake was made by an overly sensitive Richard Petty racing team; or he could make racism his new identity in NASCAR as Colin Kaepernick did with football in the NFL.  Bubba Wallace chose the latter." . . .

CNN's propaganda machine will help Wallace.

Antifa and BLM burn a mosque in Seattle  "Events took an unexpected turn yesterday evening when a large crowd of Antifa and BLM activists descended on the "Al Qabal" mosque in downtown Seattle and burnt it to the ground.
"The peaceful protesters were apparently provoked by certain passages in Islamic scripture that endorse slavery.
"A press release from the Grand Inquisitioner of the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" explains: . . ."

Self-righteous vandals; Mara Liasson's attempt to prettify history is ugly

Spectator USA

"Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so much as the Brownshirt thuggery practiced by fascists themselves. This did not stop NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson from likening these hooligans to the heroes of World War Two. On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, while America’s cities still smoldered after days of riots and looting, Liasson took to Twitter to call the Normandy invasion the ‘biggest antifa rally in history’.

Liasson

"Dumb jokes are nothing new on Twitter. For many liberals today, however, it’s no laughing matter. They really do think that America is fascist, at least whenever a Republican is in the White House, and so petty vandalism is actually a heroic act of resistance. Knock the head off a statue of Columbus, smash the glass of every storefront on the street, and you’re defeating Adolf Hitler all over again. Such is the state of historical literacy and what passes for the moral imagination among many with comfortable perches in the national media. You would think that if they had a problem with the establishment, they should throw the first rock at a mirror. Spare the innocent shopkeepers who pay the price for antifa antics. Plenty of them are black or immigrants themselves, if that’s what matters to the worthies of NPR." . . .

Facebook moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts in Project Veritas sting

Washington Times  . . . "The Project Veritas video featured an interview with former content moderator Zach McElroy of Cognizant, a third-party firm used by Facebook to police the platform, who said that about three-quarters of the posts flagged for “civic harassment” tilted to the right.
“ 'I saw a stark contrast between Republican versus Democrats in that queue,” said Mr. McElroy. “I saw upwards of 75% to 80% of the posts in that queue were from Republican pages, politicians, journalists, and pages that supported the president or supported conservatives.”
"He said the content moderators, who lean heavily to the left, “are essentially in charge of what gets said and what gets stifled.”
“ 'And in speaking with a lot of them, I found that they are not at all shy to exercise their political will in deleting or leaving up content, whether or not they’re allowed to or whether or not they’ll get penalized for it, especially when they’ve got nothing to lose, that is to say, they’re getting laid off,” Mr. McElroy said." . . .

Also here, and here.

Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan to Dismiss Michael Flynn Criminal Prosecution

It took some searching to find a political cartoon sympathetic to General Flynn; cartoonists and the general press were almost universally on the side of Democrats.  See for yourself.  TD

Legal Insurrection   "The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to grand the government’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges against Michael Flynn.
"The appeals court ruled after Sullivan appointed an “amicus” counsel to argue against the motion."

Background is available in these prior posts.

• Michael Flynn Asks Appeals Court to Order District Court to Grant DOJ Motion to Dismiss
• Judge considering holding Michael Flynn in criminal contempt for perjury in connection with guilty plea
• Judge in Michael Flynn case may allow ‘amicus’ briefs on whether to drop case – is there reason for freak out?
• DOJ Drops Case Against Michael Flynn After Considering ‘Newly Discovered and Undisclosed Information’
• Judge Emmet Sullivan to Appeals Ct in Flynn Case: It’s Premature To Order Me To Dismiss The Case

"You can read the Order here. Here are excerpts from the majority (2-1) decision:

The justifications the district court offers in support of further inquiry—for instance, that only the U.S. Attorney signed the motion, without any line prosecutors, and that the motion is longer than most Rule 48(a) motions—are insufficient to rebut the presumption of regularity to which the government is entitled….

A hearing may sometimes be appropriate before granting leave of court under Rule 48; however, a hearing cannot be used as an occasion to superintend the prosecution’s charging decisions, because “authority over criminal charging decisions resides fundamentally with the Executive, without the involvement of—and without oversight power in—the Judiciary.” Fokker Servs., 818 F.3d at 741. The district court’s orders appointing an amicus, see infra 8–10, and scheduling the proposed hearing therefore constitute clear legal error….

Full article here.

So, It Was Joe Biden Who Suggested Using Shoddy Logan Act Angle to Attack Michael Flynn?  . . . "Mr. Flynn was President Trump’s national security adviser who spoke with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in run-of-the-mill conversations that occurs whenever there’s a new administration about to take over. There was nothing irregular about the calls. The media obsessed about it. It was a nothingburger. The Obama administration knew about the calls. In January of 2017, days prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump, Obama and his top security officials met to discuss the game plan for protecting the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion. On Inauguration Day, Flynn’s predecessor, Susan Rice, sent an email to herself which appears to show that the January 5 meeting was one where top Obama officials planned to target and destroy Flynn. Obama’s goal was to protect this probe, with the rosiest of scenarios being that the incoming Trump administration nit find out about it. And it’s been revealed that notes from January 4, 2017, from Peter Strzok, the other disgraced FBI agent who reportedly signed off on this entire collusion fiasco, noted that Joe Biden was the one who brought up the Logan Act angle of this atrocity to American justice. Yeah, Joe Biden, Mr. ‘I didn’t know anything about Flynn,’ except for that part of mentioning how to weaponize simple phone calls against a man to fulfill a deranged liberal fantasy about the results of the 2016 election: . . .

FBI determines Bubba Wallace was not victim of hate crime

There is no joy at CNN, but there is still an issue.

Youtube   "Michael Wilbon joins SportsCenter to react to the FBI determining that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime, and that the pull rope fashioned like a noose that was found in his team's garage at Talladega Superspeedway had been there since 2019." . . .

Facebook Content Moderator: If Someone is Wearing a MAGA Hat, I’m Going to Delete Them for Terrorism

Project Veritas via Whatfinger

Project Veritas Wall of Shame   "Welcome to the Project Veritas 'Wall of Shame', a place where blue checkmark mainstream media "journalists" reputations go to die. The 'Wall of Shame' is the place where we post retractions that these "journalists" have had to print over the years about James O'Keefe or Project Veritas. To date, over 300 "journalists" just couldn't stick to the facts in their reporting and were forced to print the glorious retractions you see here. Enjoy."

What Happens When the Madness Ends?

"Today’s corporate revolutionary enthusiasts had better prepare for the inevitable turn."

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Victor Davis Hanson  "When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when? 
"There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.
"When Normal People Grow Weary 
"One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots. 
"Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience. At some point, tonight’s hero on YouTube torching Wendy’s or kicking a downed policeman on CNN, becomes tomorrow’s commonplace, unnoticed felon—with a new warrant issued out on his head, and about whose fate and lengthy CV no one other than his parents much cares.
"Governors and mayors can demand masks and all sorts of social distancing measures. But once they declared that only those not demonstrating—the non-looting and nonviolent—were subject to their rules, while millions both peacefully protesting and violently looting were exempt, then their words meant nothing. It will be impossible for them ever to be seen as credible again. Virus or no virus, crowded freeways, and busy malls will soon be referenda on the bond of governors like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer. 
"In a few weeks, we are promised that multimillionaire NFL players and coaches in unison will not deign to stand up for the National Anthem. Promises, promises. 
"TV play-by-play announcers will praise them—or else likely lose their jobs. But millions of Americans simply will decouple from the NFL. Their silent disappearance will make the prior Kaepernick drop-off in attendance and viewership seem like child’s play. The same will be true perhaps of the more canny NBA, if they foolishly emulate the NFL. Millions will surmise that billionaire basketball players can far better make their billions in China and should—an NBA deity whose dictatorship players and coaches fear and worship while criticizing their own democracy." . . .

Today’s opportunist virtue-signaler will be tomorrow’s gullible fool. Tonight’s brave looter and edgy arsonist will be tomorrow’s matter-of-fact felon.

Assuming there are wisdom and courage left in this country

Appetite for Destruction: Lincoln, Grant, Churchill statues coming down, Lenin going up

Are there original thoughts in the heads of these millennials?

Will O'Toole of Otoons;  O'Toons

Appetite for Destruction: Lincoln, Grant, Churchill statues coming down, Lenin going up  "Statues and monuments to some of the most important Western historical figures of all time have been summarily defaced and destroyed in recent weeks, including those of Columbus, Washington, Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Winston Churchill.  None of these figures had a damn thing to do with the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but that shouldn't surprise anyone because the wanton destruction of symbols of the West's past has nothing to do with the killing of Floyd, either.

"Columbus "discovered" the New World and died well over 100 years before the first slave ship came from Africa to America.  Washington was one of the most principled men who ever lived and was "The Father" of the country that has done more to advance human freedom than any other.  Lincoln saved that country while freeing the slaves.  He directed a war effort that saw nearly 350,000 Union troops die...in part to put an end to slavery — and died a martyr himself.  Grant defeated the Confederacy, trashed the Ku Klux Klan, and fought to protect the newly won rights of black people in the years after the war.  Churchill stood alone in the West against the Third Reich and its Nazis for over 17 consecutive months.

"So what is the orgy of anarchy and destruction about?  It is nothing short of a planned assault on the West and the values it used to hold so dear.  It is a Marxist insurrection hoping to bring about the end of the U.S. — and the West — as we knew it.  It is anti-capitalist, anti–rule of law, anti-Christian, and anti-freedom.  The leaders of Antifa and BLM have openly admitted this.  Even if they hadn't, it is abundantly clear to see for any sentient being connecting the dots.  It is also utterly racist, classist, and intolerant." . . .

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The Daily Gouge

How Long Will the Vandals Run Amok?   . . . "We erect statues to remember, revere and honor those whom we memorialize. And what is the motivation of the people who tear them down and desecrate them?
"In a word, it is hate. A goodly slice of America's young hates this country's history and the men who made it. It hates the discoverers and explorers like Columbus, the conquistadores and colonists. It hates the Founding Fathers and the first 15 presidents, all of whom either had slaves or coexisted with the injustice of slavery. But hating history and denying history and tearing down the statues of the men who made that history does not change history." . . .