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Michigan ‘Antifa’ Group Vows to ‘Shut Down’ Catholic Group’s Conference

Posted on | August 4, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

The Church Militant is an independent Catholic online media group led by Michael Voris, and since 2015, they have sponsored an annual conference for Catholic men called “Strength and Honor.” Last week, an “antifa” (anti-fascist) group calling itself Michigan Peoples Defense Network (MPDN) announced their plans to “shut down” the conference at a hotel in the Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights:

A local “antifascist” group is trying to crush free speech and silence dissent by protesting Church Militant’s upcoming men’s conference. The group is also smearing Church Militant as “anti-woman” and “hateful.” . . .
“As the radical Christian right rises in America, having supported Donald Trump’s campaign of hatred against the most marginalized,” MPDN’s announcement reads, “it is more vital than ever that the community stands against hate draped in a cross.”
MPDN falsely characterizes Church Militant’s Strength and Honor Conference as a “men’s rights” event, condemning the alleged “hateful messages” spread at this “anti-woman” event.
“[T]he claim that the conference is about ‘men’s rights’ is a deliberate distortion,” stated Church Militant’s official press release Monday. “The conference is about men’s obligations, not ‘rights.'” . . .
MPDN, only formed in December, employs a logo that includes two crossed baseball bats, as well as fists raised in defiance, and claims it’s necessary “to respond with more than messages of unity and solidarity” to what it calls the rise of the far right. MPDN goes on to state it is “prepared to physically defend” victims of alleged racist attacks.

MPDN calls The Church Militant “a radical religious hate group working to suppress women’s rights and promote a theocratic Christian agenda.” It would be more accurate to describe MPDN as a radical anti-religious hate group promoting an anarchist anti-Christian agenda. And the possibility of “antifa” violence cannot be ignored:

Christine Niles, a Vietnamese immigrant who helps run a parachurch organization in Michigan that promotes Roman Catholic teaching, expected to spend this week preparing theological materials and getting ready for the group’s annual conference for men.
Instead, Niles, who is editor-in-chief of Church Militant, has been in consultations with local law enforcement after learning that a left-wing group is drumming up support to shut down the conference, which will take place on Aug. 4-6 at locations in Ferndale and Sterling Heights, Mich.
“Police have reached out to both sides and will have patrol cars observing,” Niles told Fox News. “But we don’t know who the activists are associated with and we don’t know what will happen.” . . .
Niles, who has degrees from Notre Dame University and Oxford University, and her colleagues at Church Militant contend that this could not be further from the truth.
“The real bone of contention that MPDN has with Church Militant is not the spurious claims and lies it’s telling, but the positions we take on morality and decency,” the Catholic group said in a statement. “Church Militant is not a hate group; MPDN is the real hate group, trying to intimidate religious organizations into silence and shut down a conference meant to help men by fostering the virtues of humility, charity and sacrifice.” . . .
Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center, concurred that the religious outfit is hardly the “radical” one in this matter.
“The radical left is following the lead of the liberal media and attacking Church Militant. Now, even having a men’s conference on how to be good husbands and fathers generates liberal protests,” he said.

The Left is against marriage, against fatherhood, against Christianity. Everything good and decent in life, the Left is determined to destroy.

 

 

 

Category: Catholics

In The Mailbox: 08.03.17

Posted on | August 3, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.03.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Celebrate National Watermelon Day
Twitchy: Lena Dunham Overhears “Transphobic” Talk At Airport, Helps Track Down Attendants Who Aren’t Woke
Louder With Crowder: Sanctuary Cities Flipped The Bird To ICE – Now Jeff Sessions Is Blocking Their Funds
Sarah Hoyt: Mr. Acosta, Can You Hear Me Now?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The False Dawn of The Australian Conservatives
American Power: America’s Car Culture Will Never Die, also, Bruce Catton, The Civil War
American Thinker: Cooler Heads And Chaos
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Overthrow News
BattleSwarm: White Working Class To Democrats – Die In A Fire
Da Tech Guy: How Great Was Austin Jackson’s Catch At Fenway?, also, The Message Missing From Last Week’s Short Form Gospel
Don Surber: I Don’t Want Jim Justice In Our Party, Mr. President
Dustbury: Can’t Read My Pony Face
Fred On Everything: Milk Bar Clausewitzes, Bean Curd Napoleons – In The Reign Of Kaiser Don
The Geller Report: McMaster Fires Another Top Counter-Jihad Official At NSC
Hogewash: LOLSuit VIII News, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump Finally Getting His White House In Order
Joe For America: Ravens Owner Makes Desperate Plea To Angry Fans About Hiring Kaepernick
JustOneMinute: Always In The News – We’re Dieting Again
Power Line: The AP Leaves Venezuela, also, McMaster Purges Pro-Israel/Anti-Iran Deal Trump Loyalists
Shark Tank: Trump Looks To Cut Both Illegal And Legal Immigration
Shot In The Dark: Slip
STUMP: Public Pension Assets – It’s Not Your Money To Play With, Trustees
The Political Hat: Sexist Penitents, Sexist Athletes & Veterans, Sexist Robots
This Ain’t Hell: New GI Bill Goes To President Trump, also, Brian Hawkins Canned At VA
Weasel Zippers: WV Governor Switches From Democrats To GOP At Trump Rally, also, Abedin Emails Reveal Transmission Of Classified Info With Clinton Foundation Donors Getting Special Treatment From State Dept
Megan McArdle: Defining Success Or Failure For Obamacare
Mark Steyn: Press One To Sixty For English, also, Bad Poems Make Verse Law


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Category: Linkagery

Snitch Culture: @LenaDunham Auditions for PC Thought Police Commissar

Posted on | August 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Snitch Culture: @LenaDunham Auditions for PC Thought Police Commissar

 

Progressivism (noun) — A political ideology typified by a desire to destroy other people’s lives and call the result “progress.”

If you’re a show-business multimillionaire, what do you do for fun? In the case of feminist TV performer Lena Dunham, you try to ruin the lives of people who have to actually work for a living:

Lena Dunham is calling out American Airlines after the actress claimed to have overheard two apparent employees engaged in “transphobic talk.”
The “Girls” creator said her flight on another airline was delayed for hours Wednesday at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Dunham, 31, wrote that the “worst part of this night” waiting at the airport came when she overheard two American Airlines’ “attendants having a transphobic talk.”
“At this moment in history we should be teaching our employees about love and inclusivity @AmericanAir,” she added in a subsequent tweet. “That was worst part of this night.”
Dunham then seemingly posted a screenshot of a direct message conversation she said she’d had with the airline.
n the message, the actress goes into further detail about what she claims to have overheard, writing that they were “talking about how trans kids are a trend they’d never accept a trans child and transness is gross.”
“I think it reflects badly on uniformed employees of your company to have that kind of dialogue going on,” Dunham continued. “What if a trans teen was walking behind them? Awareness starts at home but jobs can set standards of practice. Thanks for your consideration!”

Dunham claimed she overheard this conversation “in the arrivals hall coming from gate B30 to baggage … By the Hudson news across from the wine bar.” In other words, wherever she goes nowadays, Dunham is ready to snitch out anyone expressing an opinion she dislikes.

The social justice warrior (SJW) mentality is that of a third-grade tattletale, running to tell the teacher that the other kids aren’t playing nice. We all hated those spiteful brats when we were kids, and we don’t like them any better as grownups. Whatever happened to “mind your own business”? What sort of Stalinist impulse leads to this snitch culture, with self-appointed commissars acting as informers against those suspected of deviation from correct thought? Who does Lena Dunham think she’s “helping” by trying to get a couple of otherwise anonymous airline employees fired for the crime of having a private conversation near the Hudson News stand at JFK airport? But we know Lena Dunham is a liar, and perhaps she just made up this “transphobic” incident.

 

Category: Celebrities

PURGE? The Firing of Rich Higgins Is a Dangerous Omen at the White House

Posted on | August 3, 2017 | 1 Comment

Rich Higgins is an experienced national-security specialist.

For months, I’ve been deliberately ignoring the “White House chaos” stories about the Trump administration, which I discounted as (a) the usual shakedown-cruise stuff of a new team in office, (b) typical staff infighting, and (c) hyped-up scandal-bait produced by the anti-Trump Beltway media. However, I cannot ignore the ill omens surrounding today’s news about the ouster of Rich Higgins:

A top official on the National Security Council was fired last month by National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster reportedly after he argued in a memo that President Trump’s administration is under sustained attack from globalists and Islamists.
Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning was fired on July 21, The Atlantic first reported.
The memo, written in late May, described threats to the administration by globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” it said.
Higgins was called into the White House counsel’s office two weeks ago and asked about the memo. Later that week, he was told by McMaster’s deputy that he was losing his job.

Now, I don’t know Rich Higgins personally, but he’s a friend of several of my friends, and a guy with solid national-security credentials. While his “deep state” memo was widely ridiculed, many of the main points Higgins made are actually more mainstream in the conservative movement than his Republican critics are willing to admit, e.g.:

Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed. … Islamists ally with cultural Marxists because, as far back as the 1980s, they properly assessed that the left has a strong chance of reducing Western civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical points, Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety at some future point.

This is basically the point that David Horowitz made in his 2004 book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left. This is not any kind of “alt-right” or “white nationalist” argument, but rather a geopolitical explanation for why the Left, which claims to stand for “progressive values,” including feminism and gay rights, so often functions as a de facto ally of Islamic fundamentalism, an ideology antithetical to progressivism. If making such an argument it now grounds for termination within a Republican administration, what hope is there that Trump can win his political fight against the Left? And the firing of Rich Higgins isn’t an isolated event. Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon:

An ongoing staffing purge being conducted by White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has thrown the West Wing into chaos, according to more than half a dozen Trump administration insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon that McMaster has been targeting long-time Trump loyalists who were clashing with career government staffers and holdovers from the Obama administration. . . .
More purges are said to be on the way, according to multiple insiders who described a list of at least four other senior NSC officials McMaster intends to target. Other sources confirmed the likelihood of more purges, but disputed some details on that list. . . .
The latest victim of this purge is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior NSC official originally hired by ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The White House acknowledged in a statement late Wednesday evening on Cohen-Watnick’s departure that McMaster viewed him as in conflict with his vision for the NSC.
A second senior official, Rich Higgins, who worked in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was fired last month. The president was not informed of the move until after Higgins was fired, according to one source who is in regular contact with senior NSC figures.
Published reports described Higgins’ firing as a “lasting victory” for McMaster over longtime Trump officials who helped get the president into office.

Michael Warren at the Weekly Standard analyzes the firing of Higgins as part of a White House purge whose ultimate target is Steve Bannon.

This is serious enough that I have broken my long silence about the “White House chaos” narrative. It is certainly time to take alarm when an experienced staffer like Higgins is fired for speaking the truth.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Everybody’s ‘Far Right’ Now

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

Jake Tapper is Hitler, because everybody’s Hitler now.

As a notorious right-wing extremist banned from Twitter, I’d like to welcome the latecomers to our (alleged) fascist movement. Frankly, it’s getting overcrowded. There’s hardly enough room here for a guy to goose-step and sieg-heil without bumping into another crypto-Nazi.

CNN’s Jake Tapper, for example.

You probably didn’t realize Jake was a fascist, and neither did he, until he had the temerity to take issue with the Women’s March celebrating fugitive murderer JoAnne Chesimard a/k/a “Assata Shakur.”

 

This is not a matter of allegation, it’s a fact: JoAnne Chesimard was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper, escaped prison and fled to Cuba. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army, “a splinter group comprised of the most radical members of the Black Panthers,” and “was the leader of a notorious New York City BLA cell that hunted down police officers for brutal assassinations.” She was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List at the time she killed state trooper Werner Foerster:

At about 12:45 a.m. on the morning of May 2, 1973, the fugitive Shakur was being driven to a new hideout in Philadelphia by BPP Information Minister Zayd Malik Shakur (Assata’s brother-in-law) and BLA member Sundiata Acoli, when their car was pulled over by state trooper James Harper for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. Fellow trooper Werner Foerster provided backup for Harper. While the lawmen conducted routine questioning of the vehicle’s occupants, Shakur (who was in the front passenger’s seat) and her companions suddenly fired upon them with semi-automatic pistols. As Foerster grappled with the driver, Shakur shot the trooper twice before her gun apparently jammed. With Foerster on the ground wounded and helpless, Shakur grabbed the trooper’s own firearm and blasted two fatal shots into his head, execution-style. (Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed in the melee.)
Assata Shakur fled the scene but was apprehended by police a short time later, about five miles away. . . . Shakur was found guilty of first-degree murder and seven additional felonies, resulting in a prison sentence of life plus 33 years.
Shakur escaped from prison on November 2, 1979 — probably with the help of Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists posing as visitors.

Anyone wishing “happy birthday” to this terrorist is, in effect, endorsing murder. As Vox Day says, however, “SJWs Always Double Down,” and the Women’s March blamed their critics as “the far right”:

 

So (a) the Women’s March invoked “solidarity” as justification for praising the “revolutionary” murderer, (b) it is an “attack” to tell the truth about who Assata Shakur actually is, and (c) Jake Tapper is “far right” for wondering whether progressives should be celebrating cop-killers.

Women’s March founder Linda Sarsour accused Tapper of “joining the ranks of the alt-right to target me online” despite the fact that, as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, Tapper “was named one of the Jewish journalists most frequently harassed by the alt-right online during the 2016 election campaign.” Even feminists like Bari Weiss rejected the rhetoric of the Women’s March: “Since when did criticizing a domestic terrorist become a signal issue of the far right? Last I checked, that position was a matter of basic decency and patriotism.”

 

The characterization of Tapper as “far right” or “alt-right” is intended to imply that anyone who criticizes a “revolutionary” cop-killer is sympathetic to Nazis and engaged in “hate speech.” This tendency of the Left to label all opposition as “extremist” leads to the problem identified by Mark Steyn: “When Everyone’s Hitler, Nobody’s Hitler.”

What the Left is doing is “working the refs,” trying to make the mainstream media even more liberal than it already is, by making conservative viewpoints politically radioactive. This tactic is why you can’t condemn a cop-killer without being “far right,” and why you cannot defend Christians without being labeled a “hate group.”

“Time and again, I see the SPLC using the reputation it gained decades ago fighting the Klan as a tool to bludgeon mainstream politically conservative opponents. For groups that do not threaten violence, the use of SPLC ‘hate group’ or ‘extremist’ designations frequently are exploited as an excuse to silence speech and speakers.”
— Professor William Jacobson, June 28, 2017

Your right to free speech is being targeted by the same intolerant forces of the Left that got me banned from Twitter. How do totalitarian enemies of the First Amendment dare label others “extremists”?



 

 

Category: Media Bias, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 08.02.2017

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.02.2017

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday, Rush Limbaugh!
Michelle Malkin: Procter & Gamble’s Identity Politics Pandering
Twitchy: To Avoid Reality, Socialist Party Claims Soviet Union Had WHAT System Of Government?
Louder With Crowder: Chesapeake Bay Mayor Smacks Down Al Gore On Global Warming
Kurt Schlichter: The 2018 Military Coup Against Donald Trump, Part I, also, Part II


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Breaking The Boundaries Of Civilization
American Power: Is Germany A Normal Country?, also, Robert Leckie, None Died In Vain
American Thinker: The Identity Crisis Of The American Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Dukes Plea Deal Expires, Case Headed For Trial
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Seven Kill Kraken
Da Tech Guy: Atheists In London Braver Than American Counterparts
Don Surber: Sanders Is The Voice Trump Needs
Dustbury: Report From The Crust Inspector
The Geller Report: Inflatable Mosques Appear On French Beaches
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Clinton Confidant Blumenthal Back Under Microscope Amid Trump Scrutiny
Joe For America: California City Demands Churches Stop Providing Counseling, Teaching Music
JustOneMinute: Is This Really In The Failing NY Times?
Power Line: The Administrative State Declares Independence, also, Stocks Shatter Records, BUT DON’T GIVE TRUMP CREDIT!
Shark Tank: National Republicans Target Curbelo’s Democratic Challenger
Shot In The Dark: The Man Without A Party
STUMP: Public Pension Assets – Our Funds Were In Alternatives, And All We Got Were These Lousy High Fees
The Political Hat: The Othering Of Cis-Normative Unpersons
This Ain’t Hell: Coast Guard Commandant Says He Won’t Break Faith With Trannies, also, Mack Cole Jr. Convicted Of Defrauding VA
Weasel Zippers: Al Gore’s Home Devours 34% More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household, also, Insurers Seek Huge Hikes On Obamacare Plan Premiums
Megan McArdle: How Dodd-Frank Hurts The Poor
Mark Steyn: Question Mark, also, Zip-A-Dee Akbar!


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Kamala Harris: Democrat ‘It Girl’

Posted on | August 2, 2017 | Comments Off on Kamala Harris: Democrat ‘It Girl’

 

Michael Krieger highlights a story about California’s freshman Sen. Kamala Harris, who will spend the weekend in the Hamptons being courted as a 2020 presidential candidate by big-money Democrats:

The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday at the home of MWWPR guru Michael Kempner, a staunch Clinton supporter who was one of her national-finance co-chairs and a led fund-raiser for her 2008 bid for the presidency. He was also listed as one of the top “bundlers” for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, having raised $3 million.
Guests there to greet Harris are expected to include Margo Alexander, a member of Clinton’s inner circle; Dennis Mehiel, a Democratic donor who is the chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, even though he lives between a sprawling Westchester estate and an Upper East Side pad; designer Steven Gambrel and Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman.
Washington lobbyist Liz Robbins is also hosting a separate Hamptons lunch for Harris.

So, the deep-pocket donors, the D.C. lobbyists and the public-relations hacks all agree that this woman from California is their ticket for 2020. Remember when Democrats were the party of “the little guy”?

 

Category: Democrats

When Your Plan To Kill Everyone At The Staff Meeting Has To Cover Aliens

Posted on | August 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Mattis thought bubble

Category: Uncategorized
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