#Federal Charge For impersonating a person

[rauthschild]

We have described for you the deplorable criminality which has gained access to our world through the British Government(s) and their collusion with the Holy Roman Empire -- the impersonation of people as different kinds of corporations, the illegal and unlawful direct taxation of civilians by private banks, the use of commercial corporations to usurp national governments, and we have touched upon the corruption of the courts, especially Admiralty Courts and the so-called King's Bench (Maritime Commerce) courts.

We have plainly stated that the courts are bonding court cases and presenting them as investment opportunities. The bond numbers are case numbers, and the odds of conviction and "commission returns" on these bonds run at 96% on average, so the Hired Jurists running these courts are highly motivated to secure convictions by any means possible ---- the courts and the court's officers share in the booty they collect.

Government "Investors" are also highly motivated to keep this gravy train running. Where else can you guarantee yourself a 96% rate of return on a short term bond investment?

When first confronted about this "Court Registry Investment System" court officials stonewalled and denied the existence of any such bond investment (and ultimately, payola) system by which they receive commissions, aka, "pension" payments from all the loot rolling in from the illegal confiscation of privately-held American assets and equally illegal betting on the rigged outcome of court cases controlled by Hired Jurists in the King's Service.

The Guilty Parties observe that there is no law against murdering corporations, stealing from corporations, impounding corporations, etc., but then, in the same token, corporations should have no ability to make unlimited political campaign contributions, should they?

Those responsible for the unconscionable contracts allowing them to create all these Puerto Rican shelf corporations, and the Roman Inferior Cestui Que Vie Trusts that result when the shelf corporations are bankrupted, should be paying all the charges and expenses of maintaining these corporations and should also be paying all taxes owed by these imaginary corporate franchises, too.

The living victims of this personage scheme should be held absolutely harmless from all charges and harm, but as everyone can see and attest, the Parent Corporations and Administrators have been evading their Usufructuary Duty and foisting their responsibility off onto the victims of their inland piracy.

The Admiralty Courts have been busy collecting booty belonging purportedly to "rebels" engaged in illegal commercial mercenary "wars", and salvage fees owed by foreign sovereigns, and managing the Estates of imaginary British Merchant Mariners, who all just happen to be "Taxpayers" --- Warrant Officers who are responsible for collecting tariffs for the King, who are all based out of Puerto Rico and all declared "missing, lost at sea".

The Maritime Commercial Courts operated by the British Crown have been fraudulently confusing themselves -- the so-called United States District Courts -- with district courts of the United States authorized under Article V of the Federal Constitutions. Under this guise of borrowed rectitude, they have been operated as "concessions" to take advantage of the Cestui Que Vie ESTATES purportedly belonging to Municipal "citizens of the United States".

Are we all beginning to get the drift of just how crooked all these operations are and the nature of the "courts" that have been foisted off on the people of this country, who have all suffered crimes of impersonation and identity theft and human trafficking, at the hands of men employed by them to protect their "persons" and who are obligated by contract and treaty to do so?

As mentioned in our International Public Notice: Impersonation, the British Territorial Rump Congress created by Abraham Lincoln changed the meaning of the word "person" to mean "corporation".

See 37th Congress, Second Session, Chapter 49, Section 68.

This was followed up on February 2nd 1871, when the 41st British Territorial U.S. Congress declared itself to be the Successor of all United States Corporations.

The "United States" being referenced is the American Federal Republic and its corporations.

This takeover was done with no Notice to the Public, no listing in the Congressional Record, and, most importantly, no Notice to the Federation of States. It failed all requirements of Due Process.

How is that even possible?

By February 2nd 1871, all the State Governments had been confused with State of State Governments, and the Brits had illegally included State assets as if they were American State of State assets, and rolled everything into "State" Trusts.

They had also demanded that the people of each State write new Constitutions allowing their own British Territorial State-of-State operations to take over.

The American States of States, such as The State of New York, were replaced by British Territorial counterparts calling themselves, for example, "the State of New York". The name change was so slight, a change from "The" to "the", that nobody but British Collaborators knew there had been any change at all.

The new "State" Constitutions enacted between 1863 and 1871 were equally vague and deceitful, appearing very similar to prior service contracts and calculated to hide what was actually going on from the American Public.

By February 2nd 1871, the assets of the actual Autochthonous Nation States had been illegally and illogically misidentified as assets of the Federal Republic and had been cashiered in covert State Trusts, like the Michigan State (Trust).

This is what gives rise to the grammatical nightmare of "the Michigan State Capitol" and "California State University".

As an analogy, if the company hired to mow your lawn went bankrupt, or for any reason failed to perform, would this justify an assumption that your property was part of their bankruptcy or incompetence? Would this scenario justify an assumption that your home was an asset of their bankrupt business? Or an unclaimed chattel of theirs?

Certainly not, yet this is precisely the "reasoning" employed to secretly latch upon the assets of the American States and cashier them in State Trusts controlled by the Perpetrators of this gigantic fraud scheme.

With the State assets illegally cashiered in trusts controlled by the Perpetrators under False Pretenses, the original American State of State organizations inoperable, and British Territorial States of States operating as franchises of the British Territorial corporation calling itself "the United States of America" --- Incorporated, there was nothing to stop the Perpetrators from bypassing Due Process owed to the actual States and People.

According to them and what they told the rest of the world, we had ceased to exist. Our lawful American Government was reportedly "in interregnum" and in the meantime, our British Territorial and Holy Roman Empire Federal Subcontractors were "assuming" a "custodial interest" in our assets.

In this way, the British Territorial Government under contract to our States, contrived to unlawfully convert our State assets into Public Trust assets controlled by their Agents, and to mothball and substitute their own "services" for both our Autochthonous American States-of-State organizations and our lawful State Governments.

This is all premeditated, malicious, self-interested legal chicanery and constructive fraud, by which our foreign employees have attempted to erase our national sovereignty, use our assets as collateral backing their debts, and ultimately, bring False Claims on Abandonment against our assets for their benefit.

We never abandoned anything, just like we never volunteered to act as "Taxpayers" and never knowingly adopted U.S. Citizenship, and were told nothing about the Roman Inferior Trust ESTATES established for us under the resoundingly False Presumption that we were ever "citizens of the United States", either.

These False Friends and False Representatives impersonated the American States and seized upon their assets, and have controlled our State assets by dint of secrecy, False Legal Presumptions, and False Claims dependent on similar names deceits.

Our original state-of-state entities doing business as, for example, The State of New York, were members of the failed Confederation.

Likewise, the stricken State Republics and Republics of State, such as the Texas Republic and Republic of Texas, were members of the failed Federal Republic.

Their assets might, arguably, be salvaged and secured by the British Territorial Federal Subcontractors doing business as the United States of America, Incorporated ---- but not the assets of our Autochthonous Nation-States.

Our Autochthonous unincorporated States of the Union are members of the unincorporated Federation of States.

There are no "United States Corporations" present for British Interests to seize upon or assume any custodial interest in.

In the same way, there is no excuse for them impersonating our States as State Trusts, substituting their state-of-state organizations for ours, nor any of the criminal impersonations and undisclosed registrations of individual Americans that have taken place.

There is no plausible excuse for them bringing their Admiralty and Maritime courts ashore and misaddressing American civilians as corporate franchises and foreign persons in their own country.

All of this is in direct violation of both The Constitution of the United States of America and The Constitution of the United States, Article IV, in its entirety.

These men and women are present in our country to provide us with essential government services in "good faith", not to practice crimes of personage against us and pretend that they are our "representatives", custodians, guardians, and trustees.

For those who cannot believe that the Admiralty and Maritime courts presently operating in this country have been used to promote illegal and immoral confiscation of Autochthonous American assets, to commit personage against average Americans, to create a rigged bond market and to provide commissions masked as "pension payments" to the men and women engaged in this criminal activity, we are attaching a 66 page pdf file that adequately explains the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS) and documents its receipts.

[beardedmrbean]

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Santos, a Republican from New York, is expected to enter the plea at a court hearing planned for Monday on Long Island, the person said.

The person could not publicly discuss details of the plea and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Messages were left seeking comment from Santos and three lawyers representing the former congressman.

The court hearing was scheduled for Monday afternoon after prosecutors and Santos’ lawyers jointly requested one on Friday. They also sought and received a delay in certain pre-trial deadlines.

The news comes just weeks before jury selection was set to begin on Sept. 9. Santos has previously pleaded not guilty to a range of financial crimes, including lying to Congress about his wealth, collecting unemployment benefits while actually working and using campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses such as designer clothing.

Among the charges Santos faces are wire fraud, theft of public funds, money laundering and aggravated identify theft.

Prosecutors recently told the judge that the trial could last three weeks because they expected to call at least three dozen witnesses, including some victims of Santos’ alleged crimes.

Santos has previously maintained his innocence and called the investigation a “witch hunt,” claims that prosecutors called “baseless” in a recent court filing. But in December, when prosecutors said plea negotiations were ongoing, Santos said in an interview at that time that a deal was “not off the table.”

Asked if he was afraid of going to prison, he said: “I think everybody should be afraid of going to jail, it’s not a pretty place and uh, I definitely want to work very hard to avoid that as best as possible.”

Earlier this week, Judge Joanna Seybert rejected Santos’ request that potential jurors fill out a written questionnaire gauging their opinions of him. His lawyers argued in court filings it was necessary because “for all intents and purposes, Santos has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion.”

Lawyers for the government had also been seeking to admit as evidence some of the lies Santos made during his campaign. Before he was elected in 2022 to represent parts of Queens and Long Island, he falsely claimed to have graduated from both New York University and Baruch College and that he had worked at top Wall Street firms.

Two campaign aides to Santos have already pleaded guilty to crimes related to the former congressman’s campaign. Last October, his ex-treasurer, Nancy Marks, pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge and implicated Santos in a scheme to embellish his campaign finance reports with a fake loan and fake donors. A lawyer for Marks said at the time his client would be willing to testify against Santos if asked, saying she had been “mentally seduced” by Santos.

A month later, Sam Miele, a former fundraiser for Santos, pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge, admitting he impersonated a high-ranking congressional aide while raising campaign cash for Santos.

The New York Republican was expelled from Congress in December after an ethics investigation found “overwhelming evidence” he had broken the law and exploited his public position for his own profit.

[ausetkmt]

Topline

A Georgia judge on Friday denied bond for Harrison Floyd, the only one of 18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Fulton County to stay in jail, and the former Black Voices for Trump leader has a history of politics and legal trouble.

Key Facts

Floyd, a 39-year-old U.S. Marine veteran, served as the director of the political group Black Voices for Trump during the 2020 election cycle, and was charged last week in the Fulton County case with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, for influencing a witness and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements.

According to the indictment, Floyd pressured Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County, after she refused to change the results of the county’s vote in the 2020 election for Trump, with Freeman testifying before the House January 6 Committee last year that she was forced to leave her home for two months and quit her job after receiving threats after the election.

Floyd, a graduate of George Washington University, had become a prominent Republican in Georgia in recent years, running in 2019 for a Congressional seat.

Floyd dropped out of the race just over a month after announcing his candidacy, saying he “might be the guy doing this in the future,” while expressing his support for a GOP state representative in his place (Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux won the district in 2020).

In 2020, Floyd led the organization Black Voices for Trump, and also served as executive producer of right-wing outlet Bright News and as a partner at Washington D.C.-based Commonwealth International, according to his LinkedIn page.

Floyd had been charged in a separate case in May with second-degree assault and arrested for allegedly attacking an FBI agent who had served him a grand jury subpoena in the Department of Justice’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

According to a complaint in federal District Court in Maryland, Floyd refused to accept the subpoena, putting his finger to the face of one of two FBI agents who arrived at his residence, yelling: “You haven’t given me anything; I don’t know who the f**k you are.”

Later that night, Floyed called 911, accusing the agents of accosting him and saying: “They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would have shot his fucking ass,” the Huffington Post reported.

Forbes has reached out to Floyd’s court-listed attorney in Maryland, Carlos Salvado—Floyd does not have an attorney listed in the Georgia case.

On Friday, Fulton County Judge Emily Richardson denied bond for Floyd after he determined he posed a flight risk and a risk to commit further criminal felonies if released on bail (Georgia state law requires defendants to be determined to pose no “significant risk of fleeing” and pose no “threat or danger to any person” or of committing a felony to be released on bail).

What To Watch For

Richardson said in her determination on Friday that the terms of Floyd’s bond “will be addressed,” but that the full terms fall on Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case. Floyd, however, has contested his bond denial, telling Richardson on Friday: “There is no way I’m a flight risk. I showed up here before the president was here.”

Tangent

Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County last week on 13 felony counts, including racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery, false statements and conspiracy to impersonate a public officer.. After just over a week, Trump surrendered to authorities in a brief procedure on Thursday, posting a $200,000 bond after giving a mug shot and his fingerprints before promptly leaving Georgia. All 18 of his co-defendants also turned themselves in by Friday, with Pastor Stephen Lee becoming the last to do so before the 12 p.m. deadline, following a group of former Trump aides and attorneys, as well as so-called fake electors in Trump’s legal team’s dubious plot to overturn the results of his election loss to President Joe Biden.

Further Reading

Trump Co-Defendant Harrison Floyd Denied Bond: Why He’s Still In Jail (Forbes)

[icemftmm]

An old video, but I have only recently cared to comment as a reaction to somebody asking in the comments if it did seem illegal to raid someone's home without warrants and without the homeowner being present. My comment:

The raid was also performed during Manson's honeymoon abroad. But the US authorities have failed the US citizen Marilyn Manson in more than one way.

A federal agent played coy when informed that actress Evan Rachel Wood and her intimate friend Ilma Gore had forged her signature and used her name on a fake FBI letter, which main purpose was to help recruit a number of women to file false accusations against Marilyn Manson. Note that despite the fact that she was first to attack Marilyn Manson with unproven accusations, Rachel Wood never bothered to file any charges officially. Even after the statute of limitations in California was lifted. She simply organized a group of people to do the dirty work for her.

Rachel Wood also used the fake FBI letter in order to obtain full custody of her son and take him away from the father. An atempt which after a 2-year long legal battle recently ended tragically for her since she completely lost the custody rights over the child herself.

In any way, upon one of Manson's lawyers informing aforementioned FBI agent of the fake letter, no reaction followed by her or the bureau despite the obvious impersonation of a federal agent comitted by the actress and her friend Ilma Gore which is a crime usually punished by prison time if proven.

Manson also received a series of subjective unfavorable judge rulings in his own civil case against the actress and her fellow forger in which he is trying to do the job of the FBI and get a sentence for the two insolent cons. The lawsuit was finally gutted and reduced to almost nothing after the judge refused Manson the right to limited discovery concerning the fake FBI letter and the deposition of Wood herself to be taken, as well as refusing to accept as evidence the sworn declaration of one of the main Manson's accusers who admitted to have placed false accusations after having been systmatically manipulated by Wood. The judge also ruled that the fake FBI letter is to be considered protected speech under the first amendment and not taken in consideration for the lawsuit. The reason: it was already submitted by Wood in the child custody court as evidence, so it was priviledged. The judge intentionally did not consider the fact that the other court had disregarded the letter after noticing it was fake.

The video said that Manson could not have Esme Bianco's case dismissed, but it did not mention the reason why although it is in direct relation to the raid mentioned in the title. Well, here it is: Bianco was outside statute of limitations for sex crime charges, so her lawyer played another card. He placed on her behalf charges for human trafficking! And in order to prove that there is base for such charges, the actress went to testify in front of the sheriff's department. Hence the raid. Police officers didn't even find drugs for personal use during the raid, nor any trace of criminal activity of any sosrts. So they took all the electronic devises they managed to find in the house in order to search for any piece of information on them which could point to any criminal activity whatsoever. Two years later, no results from this investigation. It has obviously been raised by Bianco in order to justify the charges she filed. Her lawsuit persisted enough so that Manson's insurance company would offer a small amount to the actress in order to settle her claims. She took the money and no word from her was heard ever again.

Strictly following the bidding of actress Rachel Wood however, the district attorney of LA still hasn't cleared Manson's name and closed the investigation.

So yes, a lot of "illegal" is going on when it comes to the Marilyn Manson situation.Показване на по-малко

[thebiggerbear]

WIP Wednesday - Dean Winchester x Cassie Dewell - 12/20/23

A/N: A preview of one of the Dean/Cassie one shots I'm working on. All unbeta'd. Takes place during season 15 of Supernatural and post season 3 of Big Sky.

Warnings: mentions of people going missing; one moment of possible implied sex

Taglist: @avada-kedavra-bitch-187; @rieleatiel

Dean Taglist: @deans-spinster-witch; @birdiellie; @heartlessdelusions; @nancymcl; @brightlilith

@muhahaha303; @mariahoedt

Jensen Taglist: @samanddeaninatrenchcoat

Dean was here in Helena following up on a case that sounded suspiciously Wendigo-like. This was a bit too far west for that type of thing, like Sam had insisted, but it couldn’t be ruled out. Three campers had gone missing in the span of two weeks. The media chalked it up to a possible serial killer in the area; the locals chalked it up to anything ranging from the natural wildlife, to California tourists not knowing what they were doing and stepping somewhere they shouldn’t, to Bigfoot going on a killing spree. There were even a few who floated the theory of possible alien abductions. As for law enforcement, well, Dean would love to know what theory they had if only they had taken on the case. Since the media was paying close attention and coming up with their own plausible explanation for the disappearances, local law enforcement at least made a good show of intending to investigate the matter further. But one visit to the city’s precinct informed Dean that they had a huge caseload that they were struggling to handle. And they were already citing this as a missing person’s case after performing a search in the area where these people were last seen (it made Dean’s ears perk up when he heard it was all in the same location) that nothing came of so now it was being processed as such. Which meant the case was about to be dead in the water as the sergeant had told him. And did Dean know how many people went missing in Montana a year? A huge-ass amount.

His jaw had tightened at the older man’s attitude which had been present since he walked in the door but he kept himself in check, intent on getting the information he needed. How many times had he and Sam said the same thing, especially in their line of work? Just because people go missing didn’t mean you stopped looking for them. They went missing for a reason. Reminding himself that this more than likely overpaid idiot who shot him a glare over the rim of his station-issued coffee mug had no idea of the real dangers that lay out there in the dark, Dean continued his line of questioning. By the end of the conversation, Sergeant Dick (as Dean had decided to call him) had told him that most likely these three tourists did something they shouldn’t have and they paid for their mistake, which meant no bodies would be found. And if they somehow were, they would just be a pile of bones, the cause of death unable to be determined. Serial killer? A bunch of bullshit floated by the liberal media for views. More like a grizzly’s territory got encroached on. That’s what happens when you poke the bear. Dean heard the underlying threat in the words, gritted his teeth, and decided to let it go for now. If he pushed too hard, he had a feeling this guy would absolutely enjoy putting him in cuffs and would make sure the charges of impersonating a Federal agent would stick. He didn’t need that kind of hassle. Instead, he played ball and asked to see the files of the cases, just to rule out any need for the FBI to get involved. The sergeant glowered at him but acquiesced, ensuring Dean had access but still insisting that his boys were handling things just fine. Dean gave him his most charming smile and assured the man that he was certain they were, but he had to tell his superior he at least glanced at the paperwork if he knew what he meant. Grumbling under his breath about real officers of the law who did all the dirty work versus suits who sat on their asses in their offices, the sergeant picked up his phone and requested the files be brought to his office. 

Dean expected a box to be brought up since there were three people so far (and there were most likely others that had disappeared before them), but instead, he just got one file folder. Glancing up at the older man in question, the latter gave him a shark-like smile and insisted that was everything. Before Dean could ask, Sergeant Dick then told him that one of the families had hired a local PI who might have more info. Maybe Dean could go bother her with any further questions he had. He wrote down the name on a slip of paper he pushed Dean’s way and gave him a cursory nod before putting his phone to his ear and barking out orders to whoever was on the other end of the line, effectively dismissing Dean.

The hunter ground his teeth together but left the office, intent on looking over the meager files before heading out in search of this PI. Dean hated private investigators most of the time. They were actually more probing than law enforcement could be and they could become a problem a lot quicker than any officer or detective. They didn’t have the caseloads that local precincts had, they had a lot of similar resources, and they had the focus and determination to get the job done as well as the incentive to get paid. In his line of work, they were a lot harder to throw off the scent. But in this particular case, he just hoped whoever this person was had a hell of a lot more information than Helena PD’s finest did.

Dean glanced in his rearview mirror, adjusting his tie and checking his teeth. Giving himself a nod when all appeared as it should be, he got out of his beloved Baby and shut the door. He pulled a familiar slip of paper out of his pocket and stared down at Sergeant Dick’s messy scrawl from earlier: Cassie Dewell. After a quick search on his phone earlier, he had found that she had an office right here in town. He balled up the paper and threw it out as he approached the building her office sat in. Here goes nothing.

He pulled the door open and stepped inside, not seeing anyone right away but hearing music coming from somewhere in the back. If he had to guess, it sounded like someone was rocking out to the Rolling Stones. Interesting choice. His brows furrowed as he moved deeper inside, mildly impressed at his surroundings. It was obvious this had been a bank at one point and it had been repurposed to host a private investigator’s office. Huh, not bad. Walking through an archway, his eyes settled on an older woman behind a desk to his right, smiling pleasantly. 

“Hello there. Welcome to Dewell and Hoyt. How can I help you?”

The lady looked familiar and Dean really hoped it was from somewhere in passing when he and Sam had been at Rufus’ cabin in Whitefish years ago, and not because of anything else. For now, though, he plastered on an amiable smile and a professional demeanor. “I sure hope so.” He pulled his badge from the pocket in his suit jacket and held it out for the woman to see. “Agent Page, FBI. I’m here to see Cassie Dewell regarding the missing persons case of Alexandra Martin.” He slipped his badge back into his pocket before she could really focus on it. “I was told by Sergeant Hansen at Helena PD that she was hired by the family to locate their daughter.”

Movement out of the corner of his eye caught his attention. He glanced up to see a young attractive woman in an office behind a glass window, dancing and singing along to the song playing as she moved around, shuffling papers and opening folders. He nearly smirked at the sight. Someone was sure enjoying themselves. He watched as she tossed a folder into a box beside her and opened another, smoothly moving her hips to the beat. Dean didn’t know if this was the woman he was here to speak to but man he sure hoped she was. He decided right then and there that even if she wasn’t, he’d be talking to her before he left. She looked like a woman who knew how to have fun, to enjoy herself, and damn if that didn’t spark his interest. After his experience at the precinct, it might be nice to associate with a local that was a little more…friendly. 

“Oh, sure.” The other woman got to her feet, pulling him out of his thoughts. “I’ll go get her.”

Dean nodded. “Thanks.”

“Just a moment.” He watched as she made her way into the very room that had captured his interest and started speaking with the woman inside. He smiled to himself when he realized that the younger woman was indeed the private investigator he would be dealing with, and turned to see a massive board mapping out the details of all three missing persons. “Now that’s what I’m talking about,” he muttered as he moved closer to take a better look.

The music had been turned off and he glanced back at the office to see both women still in conversation. He quickly pulled out his phone, took some pictures that he intended to study further a little later, and slipped it back into his pocket. From the looks of things, the PI already had everything traced out as far as the location went. This was encouraging; this would save him some time on putting everything together.

“So my assistant tells me you’re here to talk about Alexandra Martin.”

He spun around to see the younger woman from before, standing a few feet away, sharply eyeing him in proximity to her case board. And her…well, Dean liked everything that he saw. From her curly hair to her dark brown eyes to her soft-looking lips to her well-fitted blue turtleneck to her even more well-fitting jeans. She was gorgeous. So gorgeous that he nearly forgot how to speak for a moment. This woman was the one helmed as one of the top PI’s in the county?

She was giving him an expectant look and that jolted him out of his momentary shock. “I am. Agent Page, FBI.” He held out a hand and she tentatively shook it. Dean did his best to ignore the feeling of the soft skin against his fingers and remain professional.

“Cassie Dewell. Page, was it?”

He nodded and slipped his hands into his pockets once she released him. “Yeah.”

She crossed her arms. “Got a number for your home office so we can make sure you are who you say you are, Agent Page?”

Her forwardness caught him a little off guard. She arched a brow over at him expectantly and he chuckled, realizing he should have expected this. Typical PI; always more nosy than the cops and with the time to back it up. “Sure. Can’t be too careful, right?” He handed her the card from inside his wallet which she then handed to her assistant. Dean hoped to hell that Sam would answer the phone and not be too busy sucking face with Eileen all around the bunker or…other things. He nearly smirked at the thought; he just hoped they’d stay out of his room.  

While the older woman made the call, Cassie tilted her head and studied him. “I’m surprised this case caught Federal interest. Last I heard, local law enforcement wasn’t jumping at the chance to continue investigating it and they relegated it to a missing persons case.”

Dean cleared his throat quietly. “Three people go missing inside of two weeks? That’s cause enough to take a look into it.”

“And with the media theorizing it might be a serial killer situation, it certainly helps to cover all the bases, doesn’t it?”

He couldn’t help but smile a little; he liked her. “We’re just dotting all our I’s and crossing our T’s. It doesn’t hurt to be thorough.” 

“Uh huh.” Cassie didn’t seem too impressed and he didn’t blame her one bit.

dividers by @firefly-graphics

[kaninchen-reblogs]

My hand is being forced to make this post that I'm going to pin.

I have been consistently harassed for several weeks now by an unknown individual. Their harassment has included: flooding my inbox with asks; telling me to commit suicide; stalking my posts; reblogging/commenting on my posts with hate speech, or otherwise directing hate speech (particularly transphobia) towards me; and messaging/sending asks to other people's accounts that are linked to me in some way (such as artists I have commissioned in the past).

Today I found out that they have now created an account with the intention of impersonating me, messaging/sending asks to people with harassing and/or sexually suggestive content, and posting/reblogging content with the intent of pretending to be me.

They have also been actively attempting to accuse me of several heinous things, implying or outright saying that I am a pedophile/MAP, rapist, stalker, sexual harasser, homophobe/lesbophobe (and various other -phobes), and even implying that I am a mass/school shooter.

They have also, on several occasions, attempted to doxx me and have sent emails to my employer.

None of their allegations are true in the slightest. They have no evidence of their accusations because there is none. They are using anonymous messages, burner accounts (default avatar/theme/URL, only posts are harassing comments), and this new impersonating account (that I will not namedrop, so as to not give them a platform).

If you have come to my blog because of an inflammatory, harassing, or suspicious ask/message that someone has sent you, please:

Report the ask/message in question for harassment.

Delete the ask/message.

Block the person.

Do not allow them to have a platform to continue spreading their hate speech and lies.

I am already in contact with tumblr support staff about this. I have also filed reports with the local police and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and I have found a civil attorney who is willing to assist me. The harasser is not only violating tumblr TOS, but several federal and state laws as well. I have been compiling as much evidence as possible against this individual, to the point that the authorities I have been in contact with believe that I can and should find out who this individual is, press charges, and file a restraining order.

Please stay safe.

[masterofd1saster]

CJ current events 4apr24

Who knew homeless, mentally ill drug addicts were a little unstable?

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Was his screen name a 4th Amendment waiver?

St. Louis firefighter charged with possessing child sex abuse material after IP address tracked to firehouse

Prosecutors charged Jarret Morton, 50, with two counts of possessing child sex abuse material.

***According to a probable cause statement, investigators received a tip on Jan. 30 referring to two files constituting child sexual abuse material.  The files were stored on Dropbox, and were accessed twice on Jan. 11. The screen name used with the Dropbox was Jarret Morton, and his email address contained "stlfd," the acronym for St. Louis Fire Department. Police identified Morton as the owner of the Dropbox account, and the IP address used to access the files was traced to Engine House No. 5 in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. Police said the files were accessed during times Morton was working at the firehouse and that he had access to the station's secured WiFi. Police executed a search warrant on Morton's phone and found 221 video files of child sex abuse, court documents said.*** https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-firefighter-accused-possessing-child-sex-abuse-material/63-a1a67008-c9b2-4efc-b4ab-eb2aedf71977

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Breaking the law by computer is still breaking the law

The Justice Department joined by the Federal Trade Commission (collectively the “Agencies”), filed a statement of interest with the District of New Jersey in the case of Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars Entertainment, which explains that hotels cannot collude on room pricing and cannot use an algorithm to engage in practices that would be illegal if done by a real person. Companies across the economy are increasingly using algorithms to determine their prices. When a small group of algorithm providers can influence a major segment of a market, competitors are better able to use the algorithm provider to facilitate collusion. This risk is even greater as markets have become more concentrated across a wide range of industries. Algorithms that recommend prices to numerous competing hotels make it harder for travelers to comparison-shop for the best rate. In their statement, the Agencies highlight two key aspects of competition law. First, plaintiffs do not need to identify direct communications between competitors to allege an agreement under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, particularly when they allege that an algorithm provider that works with the competitors is acting in concert with them. Competitors cannot lawfully cooperate to set their prices, whether via their staff or an algorithm, even if the competitors never communicate with each other directly. Second, an agreement to use shared pricing recommendations, list prices or pricing algorithms is still unlawful even when co-conspirators retain some pricing discretion. Setting or recommending initial starting prices can still violate the antitrust laws even if those are not the prices that consumers ultimately pay.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-federal-trade-commission-file-statement-interest-hotel-room

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Impersonating FBI is asking for serious trouble. Odd that FBI would send three people to interview a woman about social media.

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It's 7/11's fault? Really?

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Tell us how you really feel.

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In real Texas, there would be a smoking hole where he once stood.

PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member. According to his indictment, Robinson sexually abused an underage family member between July 11, 2015 and June 27, 2022. The arrest affidavit states the sexual contact with the child began when she was nine.*** On March 22, Robinson appeared in the 319th District Court where he accepted a plea deal that would avoid any jail time. He pleaded guilty to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, one count of sexual assault of a child, and three counts of indecency with a child. In exchange for his plea, Robinson received 10 years deferred adjudication. If he complies with the terms of his probation, once he serves his sentence, Robinson can have the charges removed from his record. The judge also ordered Robinson to serve 120 hours of community service, stay away from the victim, and take parenting classes. He will have a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Plus, his internet access will be monitored. https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/pastor-plea-deal-pastor-who-sexually-abused-child-for-nearly-7-years-receives-probation

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Middle of No-freakin'-where

A Chinese national was arrested after driving onto the Marine base in Twentynine Palms and then ignoring orders to leave, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed to News Channel 3. The arrest happened on March 27. According to CBP, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents were called out to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Agents determined that the man was a Chinese national illegally present in the U.S. Agents took the man into custody. He was transported to a nearby station for further processing.*** https://kesq.com/news/2024/03/29/chinese-national-arrested-after-driving-onto-twentynine-palms-marine-base/

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All the cops and all the tech in the world won't keep you safe if you don't lock up criminals

New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) on Thursday announced the city will start using gun scanners in its subway stations amid a surge in violent crime in recent months. Adams [said] that the weapon detection system would not record any commuter’s face or identification.  Adams noted the new technology would allow NYPD officers to monitor on a screen as commuters walk through the scanners. A weapon’s location would show up as orange on the screen, enabling officers to conduct an immediate search.  The gun detectors, however, will not be put into use until late June due to the city’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act passed in 2020, which requires the NYPD to wait at least 90 days before rolling out a surveillance system at a new location. The same scanners have already been installed at some venues in the Big Apple, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CitiField stadium, and One Vanderbilt.*** https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/nyc-mayor-unveils-gun-scanners-in-subway-amid-violent-crime-surge

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Exhibit 1

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The manhunt continues Monday morning for an alleged gunman who entered a Nashville restaurant during Sunday brunch on Easter and opened fire, killing a man and injuring four others. The Metro Nashville Police Department says 46-year-old felon Anton Rucker remains on the run after the shooting that terrified customers inside Roasted on Garfield Street in Salemtown, a neighborhood located northwest of downtown Nashville. Rucker is wanted for homicide in connection to the deadly shooting, in which 33-year-old Allen Beachem was killed and four others were shot. Police pointed out in social media posts that Rucker has a lengthy criminal record. Police said he was arrested in Murfreesboro on felony drug charges in October and aggravated assault charges last August. Court records show Rucker was convicted of the lesser charge of assault in November 2014, after pleading no contest to a charge of aggravated assault on an officer. In 2009, Rucker faced more than a dozen counts of aggravated assault but was convicted on three counts, according to court records. A year earlier, Rucker was convicted on two felony counts of aggravated assault in October 2008, court records show. While keeping violent offenders off the street has been a purported priority for Nashville lawmakers and authorities, substantial legislation to combat this has only been directed at those who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial. That legislation came after the shooting and killing of Belmont student Jillian Ludwig. Months before the 18-year-old was killed, her suspected killer was released from custody after three doctors deemed him incompetent to stand trial.*** https://www.wsmv.com/2024/04/01/gunman-who-allegedly-opened-fire-inside-nashville-restaurant-easter-has-criminal-past/

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Ever watch a youtube video?

YouTube ordered to reveal the identities of video viewers

Posted: March 26, 2024 by Pieter Arntz Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen. Of those users that weren’t logged in when they watched those videos between January 1 and 8, 2023, the authorities asked for the IP addresses.*** https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/youtube-ordered-to-reveal-the-identities-of-video-viewers

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U of Maryland thinks writing on a sidewalk is violent terrorism

***Created by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, the project purportedly tracks “ideologically motivated criminal activity” and known “extremists” through 2021. The Fix previously reported how two Students for Life of America members who were arrested for writing “black pre-born lives matter” on a sidewalk in 2020 are recorded in PIRUS. This puts them among white supremacists, jihadist groups, and other threats. Moreover, SFLA appears under a “Terrorist_Group” label in the raw dataset. When asked if START’s labeling was appropriate, national security expert Elizabeth Neumann flatly replied, “No.” “They made an error and they should correct it,” Neumann said in a phone interview with The Fix.*** https://www.thecollegefix.com/former-terrorism-officials-question-radicalization-study-that-lists-peaceful-pro-lifers/

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Videotaping crimes, not just for rappers anymore

The 32-year-old YouTuber who filmed himself driving from Colorado Springs to Denver in 20 minutes while reaching speeds over 150 mph on Interstate 25 pleaded guilty to speed exhibition in a deal with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Rendon Dietzmann, who posts on YouTube under the username Gixxer Brah, was arrested in Texas on Feb. 7 on a Colorado State Patrol warrant from December. Dietzmann was charged with seven misdemeanor and traffic crimes, including menacing and reckless endangerment, after he posted a since-deleted video driving over 150 mph on I-25 starting at Garden of the Gods Road, squeezing through small gaps between vehicles and weaving between lanes and the highway shoulder. Dietzmann pleaded guilty to speed exhibition and will pay a fine of up to $300, the $1,996 cost of his extradition to Colorado and court costs under the plea deal, according to the district attorney’s office.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2024/04/01/rendon-dietzmann-gixxer-brah-colorado-texas-motorcycle-speed/

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Lot of time on their hands

NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event. The plaintiffs are six men with varying religious backgrounds who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne. They include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist and two practitioners of Santeria, as well as an atheist. “A solar eclipse is a rare, natural phenomenon with great religious significance to many,” the complaint reads, noting that Bible passages describe an eclipse-like phenomenon during Jesus’ crucifixion while sacred Islamic works describes a similar event when the Prophet Muhammad’s son died.*** https://apnews.com/article/solar-eclipse-prison-lawsuit-new-york-3b6af5a2f1f8f320a1ed4918a560b525

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When you don't have effective law enforcement

A Fairfax County, Virginia, female police officer was recently surrounded in her vehicle and attacked by a street takeover gang. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis shared the details of the attack that took place early Easter Sunday morning on the officer’s vehicle as she called in for help. The unidentified officer spotted the group doing donuts in an industrial area parking lot in Springfield, Virginia. When she approached the crowd in her vehicle, the large crowd surrounded her, shaking the police cruiser and attempting to break into the doors. “A huge crowd is hitting my car. I need units to expedite,” the police officer is heard saying in a video recording played at a Fairfax County police press conference on Wednesday.

One of the videos showed an individual waving a gun in the air. When more officers arrived, the crowd fled the scene. “The police exist to address crime and disorder. This is both crime and disorder. I don’t know anyone who has an appetite for this to continue,” Davis said Wednesday. The police chief shared several arrests of suspects they believe may be connected to Sunday’s incident. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano was called out on social media following the street takeover. “You see what @FairfaxCountyCA policies have created in Fairfax County?” social media influencer Marky Mark posted on X. He added in another post, “But will @SteveDescano @FairfaxCountyCA charge them to the fullest extent of the law or plea them out?”

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702 should be reauthorized, but violating FISA should be punished

The FBI is attempting to rehabilitate the public image of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Congress has until April 19 to reauthorize it. The bureau recently posted a video to X that features FBI Director Christopher Wray attempting to put a gloss on Section 702 as part of this monthslong campaign. The bureau's timely propaganda did not escape the attention of critics on X, where the post received a community note that read, "The FBI violated American citizens' 4A rights 278,000 times with illegal, unauthorized FISA 702 searches." Among the critics was Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who wrote, "FBI just got called out in a community note on X. Congress — take note. FISA 702 has been used for warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of times. Yet FBI demands 702 be reauthorized by April 19 WITHOUT a warrant requirement for searches of U.S. citizens." "Many in Congress will want to reauthorize FISA 702 — which is set to expire April 19th — either without modification or (more likely) with fake reforms that fail to impose a warrant requirement for searches directed at Americans," added the senator.*** https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-blasted-over-attempt-to-put-gloss-on-section-702

Recall that the Obama administration released a white paper that admitted it routinely violated FISA and spied on you but told everyone it's ok b/c they had the very best people violate your rights.

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The difference is that Utah will probably fight effectively

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is suing Utah for allegedly discriminating against an incarcerated transgender woman on the basis of her gender dysphoria. The suit was filed in the United States District Court, District of Utah and names the state of Utah, the Utah Department of Corrections and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. The Utah Department of Corrections referred back to an earlier statement from March made by Executive Director Brian Redd, which said they were working to “address this complex issue.” “We have also taken steps on our own, and as a state, to address the needs of inmates while maintaining the highest safety standards. We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on key issues, and are disappointed with their approach,” Redd said.*** https://www.deseret.com/utah/2024/04/02/justice-department-sues-utah-prisons/

DoJ has sued other states. California litigated like a possum or a fainting goat.

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[boaringoldguy]

Trump Co-Defendant Wins 3-Month Delay in Georgia Case

A Georgia judge on Thursday granted a co-defendant in the Georgia election case that also ensnared former President Donald Trump a three-month delay in his proceedings.

“All aspects of the case” will be halted for Sen. Shawn Still, a Republican, until April 18 because he’s a member of the Georgia General Assembly, the judge wrote on Thursday. But “provisions, including initial reciprocal discovery obligations, remain in place” for the meantime, the brief order said.

“Additional extensions will only be considered upon filing of a particularized motion containing a detailed, fact-based explanation of the need for the extension including the amount of time needed,” wrote Judge Scott McAfee.

In the case, Mr. Still was charged in Fulton County, Georgia, for stating that President Trump had won the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Mr. Still was the secretary of that meeting and is one of only three members of that group who was indicted. He faces seven counts, including the main racketeering charge as well as felony counts of impersonating a public officer, forgery, and attempting to file false documents and false statements and writings, all stemming from the elector meeting.

In arguing that his case should be delayed, Mr. Still wrote to the judge that he needs to perform his duties as a member of the state Legislature.

“All other provisions, including initial reciprocal discovery obligations, remain in place,” his filing said. “Additional extensions will only be considered upon filing of a particularized motion containing a detailed, fact-based explanation of the need for the extension, including the amount of time needed.”

He was not in public office in December 2020 when the Republican electors met. He was elected in 2022 and is serving his first term.

Previously, Mr. Still and two other electors who were charged in the case alongside the former president attempted to move their charges to a federal court but were denied in September 2023. A district judge wrote in several rulings that Mr. Still, Cathy Latham, and David Shafer could not assert that they were acting as federal officials during the time that the electors document in late 2020.

Also in September, a three-person Georgia panel didn’t recommend that Mr. Still be temporarily removed from office while the case is pending, Garrison Douglas, a spokesman for Gov. Brian Kemp, said at the time.

As is required by state law, Mr. Kemp appointed Attorney General Chris Carr, as well as Republican state Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch and Republican state House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration. That group held a closed hearing several months ago to consider whether Mr. Still should be suspended, issuing a confidential recommendation to the Republican governor.

The state constitution requires that the commission recommend and the governor suspend an official if the panel “determines that the indictment relates to and adversely affects the administration of the office of the indicted public official and that the rights and interests of the public are adversely affected thereby.”

Case Derailed?

Mr. Still’s court victory comes as Michael Roman, another co-defendant in the Trump case in Georgia, alleged in bombshell court filings that the chief prosecutor, District Attorney Fani Willis, allegedly engaged in an “improper” relationship with a top prosecutor in the case, Nathan Wade. The filings also accuse Ms. Willis of potentially violating the law when her office allegedly provided more than $650,000 to Mr. Wade’s private law firm and took Ms. Willis on vacations.

The court filing provided few details about the alleged relationship, although neither Mr. Wade nor Ms. Willis have publicly denied the claims. The Epoch Times has contacted both parties for comment.

“Willis and Wade have engaged in a personal relationship both before and after Willis appointed Wade as the special prosecutor in the instant case,” Mr. Roman’s motion stated. “Willis and Wade were romantically involved prior to Willis awarding a contract for legal services with Wade. It is not entirely clear when the relationship began, but it began while Wade was married.”

Pallavi Bailey, a spokeswoman for Ms. Willis, said her office will respond to the claims “through appropriate court filings” in the coming days.

Mr. Wade, meanwhile, was seen at his law office near Atlanta on Thursday and answered at least one question from a New York Post reporter. He was photographed allegedly carrying a pistol in his hand.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) this week filed a criminal misconduct complaint against Ms. Willis, a Democrat, after the allegation was made against her and Mr. Wade. The new allegations suggest there is an “unlawful partisan pattern” on behalf of Ms. Willis that may “illegally politicize and weaponize her public office” against the former president and the other co-defendants, Ms. Greene wrote.

As of Friday, Ms. Willis has not publicly responded to the Republican congresswoman’s referral.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

From The Epoch Times

[sunder-the-gold]

A person may come from a farm, but becoming a Marxist means leaving the farm and becoming a manager. Mao managed the Great Leap Forward that forced all of the farmers of his nation to destroy themselves.

Maybe the people who wanted to continue the hard labor of farming for a living understood their craft better than someone who wanted to leave hard labor behind for a life of authority and luxury.

No manager can ever know better than the master of one trade, let alone all trades. That is the weakness of centralized planning and command economies.

Rather than completely decentralized mold or the completely centralized chameleon, we should strive to strike the balance of the octopus. The name of the game is "Subsidiarity".

You say that you want the power to place obstacles in the way of the people you do not like, to make life hard for them, to take resources from them. That is consistent with what I said Marxists, communists, and socialists are like.

You say that you want to give resources to the builders for free, which means that someone else must provide those resources without compensation. Who is enslaved?

True, you can feed them with "the flesh" of the rich, but the rich are a finite meal to eat.

I support "eating the rich", where the courts find that the rich have caused harm through lies and poisons, or where they find that the rich have directly stolen from the people. Such as those politicians that raided Social Security for a slush fund, or who sent our men to die in wars for personal material gain.

But not only are the criminal rich a finite resource to plunder, but the manager who redistributes the wealth is going to demand their share of the pie. Even if the manager's labor produces nothing, even they don't deserve to work without pay.

The manager who has the authority over so much wealth almost always has an anonymous and unelected position within a bureau, no accountability or fear of being fired, a home in a gated and guarded community, the armed protection of the government, and has never seen the faces of the people to whom they are responsible.

To such a removed and distant manager, the names of the people are scrawls on a spreadsheet. Social security numbers. An impersonal, subhuman mob of rivals for resources.

How easily the manager can decide who deserves the redistributed resources 'more' than others. Obviously, the people who vote the same way as the manager are wiser, more virtuous, more righteous people who deserve it wealth more and who would put it to better use.

And the corruption only metastasizes like a cancer if the manager is not placed in charge of a finite project, like redistributing the wealth taken from the criminal rich as compensation.

If the manager is placed in charge of a bureau that indefinitely steals from the rich, criminal and honest alike, the manager will do ANYTHING to ensure the bureau not only survives, but grows in power. Growth is another method of survival, to prevent future cuts from putting the bureau behind where it started.

This is why local charity, within a community where everyone knows someone else and accountability is baked in, is vastly superior to federal, bureaucratic redistribution.

Marxists are not found in farms or factories; they are found in colleges or government bureaucracy

Or, like Marx himself, the Marxists are found freeloading on trust-funds, or wealthy family and friends.

People who work for a living to produce tangible goods do not dream of a world in which some nebulous "other" is forced to provide them tangible goods for free.

Laborers dream only of a world in which no one makes their labor harder than it needs to be, and no one takes the fruits of their labor away from them without adequate compensation.

But people who only know how to place obstacles in other people's way and to take resources from others, will necessarily dream only of a world in which they have unlimited power to make life harder for the people they do not like, and to take as many resources as they want from people they do not like.

Marxists want to believe they can "manage" humanity into paradise because they are managers, not builders.

Marxists cannot understand the concept of "building" humanity into paradise. Building things is "beneath" a Marxist; anyone who builds things for a living is an enemy, and all enemies must be forced to build things that the Marxist gets for free.

Because the Marxist always wants for free something that cost someone else to make, they have no reason to ever achieve "true communism" because that would mean they have to get down in the dirt with the hideous factory workers and farmers they hate so much.

And then when their totalitarian state crumbles and falls around them, they dismiss their failure as "not true communism".

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[transparenttriumphzombie]

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886–1954) was an African-American socialite and chef best known for her time spent in Oxnard, California, from 1920 to 1946. She was assigned male at birth but adamant from an early age that she was a girl, and supportive parents and doctors reaffirmed her in living as one. She established a boarding house in Oxnard, where she became a popular hostess. In 1945, a year after she married her second husband, she was arrested and tried and convicted of perjury, as the government said she had lied about her sex on her marriage license. After release from prison, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles.

Lucy Hicks Anderson was born in Waddy, Kentucky, in 1886. From a very early age, Anderson was adamant that she was not male, identifying as female in a time period before the term transgender existed, and naming herself Lucy. Doctors told Lucy's parents to let her live as a young woman, so they did, and she began wearing dresses to school and being known as Lucy.

At the age of 15, Lucy left school and did domestic work as a means to support herself. At age 20, she headed west to Pecos, Texas, where she worked in a hotel, and then to New Mexico, where she married her first husband, Clarence Hicks, in Silver City, New Mexico in 1920. She later moved to Oxnard, California at the age of 34. A skilled chef, she won some baking contests. Her marriage to Clarence lasted only nine years, but during the course of the union, she saved up enough money to buy property that was a boarding house front for a brothel; it also sold illegal liquor in Prohibition America. Outside of her time as a Madame, she was a well-known socialite and hostess in Oxnard, and would later use her connections to avoid serious jail time. According to scholar C. Riley Snorton, "When the sheriff arrested her one night, her double-barreled reputation paid off—Charles Donlon, the town’s leading banker, promptly bailed her out [because] he had scheduled a huge dinner party which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy in jail." In 1944, Hicks remarried Reuben Anderson, a soldier stationed in Long Island, New York.

In 1945, a sailor claimed that he caught a venereal disease from one of the women in Anderson's brothel, so all of the women, including Anderson, were required to undergo medical examination. When the Ventura County district attorney learned from this examination that Anderson had been assigned male at birth, he chose to try her for perjury, arguing that she lied about her sex on her marriage license and impersonated a woman. During the trial, she stated “I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman,” and “I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman.” However, the court convicted her of perjury on her marriage license and sentenced her to 10 years of probation. At the time, marriage was only valid between a man and a woman, and she was not deemed a woman, so the marriage was declared invalid. As a result, the federal government charged her with fraud for receiving the financial allotments wives of soldiers got under the GI Bill, and initially also with failing to register for the draft, until she proved she had been too old to register. In this trial, she and Reuben were found guilty and sentenced to a men's prison, where Lucy was forbidden by court order to wear women's clothes.

After being released from prison, Anderson was barred from returning to Oxnard by the police chief, who threatened further prosecution. She and Reuben relocated to Los Angeles, where they resided quietly until her death in 1954, at 68.

The Handbook of LGBT Elders calls Anderson "one of the earliest documented cases of an African-American transgender person".

[rauthschild]

In the aftermath of the so-called American Civil War, which was actually a Mercenary Conflict and not classed as an actual war, the Generals of the U.S. Army took over under False Pretenses.

They presumed to be our Custodians and Caretakers and Occupied the entire country using the idea that our legitimate civilian government had "disappeared" in the aftermath of this commercial conflict.

The British Territorial Usurpers settled in, seized upon our assets, placed everything in public trusts, and used our assets, including the value of our labor (peonage and enslavement), as collateral to generate credit for their own benefit and the benefit of the foreign Principals directing their actions.

Meanwhile, our lawful government was forced underground, it's leaders were burned out, murdered, financially ruined, slandered, ambushed, robbed, and otherwise defamed by these treasonous officers; the very existence of the American Government was obscured with the apparent intention that it be forgotten.

As part of their effort to seize upon us and our property as assets, the Perpetrators promoted a "birth registration" program beginning with the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921 passed by the British Territorial Congress.

Although ostensibly aimed at registering their own citizenry, and promoted as something allowed because the British Territorial U.S. Citizens have only Human Rights to begin with, the Perpetrators targeted unaffiliated Americans and used undisclosed and unconscionable contracts to entrap Americans and to register them as U.S. Citizens without their knowledge or sentient agreement.

Our parents were never given full disclosure when they registered their newborn babies, and the babies were too young to have any memory that such paperwork ever existed.

The Americans thus impersonated as U.S. Citizens were via this means denigrated to the political status of Human Persons, trafficked into the foreign jurisdiction of the sea, and subjected to foreign Admiralty Law and Maritime Commercial Law.

Special "District" -- as in District of Columbia courts -- were set up extraterritorially to benefit from this identity theft and impersonation scheme.

Later, the Municipal United States Government followed suit and set up its own version of this same scheme, so that Americans owed good faith service from both of these villains were deliberately mischaracterized as Federal Dual Citizens, having both a British Territorial U.S. Citizen and a Municipal CORPORATION franchise named after them, all operating in the background without their knowing agreement.

These substituted foreign "persons" were used as whipping boys, so that the Americans these things were named after were hounded and pursued as if the victims were responsible for the debts and obligations of these poppets, and subject to the foreign laws and obligations attached to them.

The corporations responsible for the existence of these incorporated doppelganger "persons" acted under color of law as Public Usufructs, and have always owed it to their American victims to hold them harmless from any obligation, charge, or expense coming to them as a result of the existence of these foreign corporate franchises merely named after them.

Both the parent corporations and their State-of-State franchises have abundantly failed to meet their Usufructuary obligations.

The Perpetrators simply didn't tell the Americans a word about anything, left them confused, failed to provide them the remedies used to legalize these crimes, including the crimes related to the use of the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE as legal tender ---and skated on.

Both the USA and the US incorporated entities engaged in this National-Level Identity Theft and Impersonation Scheme; both are conspiring against and evading their obligations under their respective constitutional contracts, both are acting in an illegal extraterritorial capacity and are occupying this country illegally.

We, the Americans, have been abused, pillaged, plundered, racketeered against, and defrauded by our very own Public Employees secretly being misdirected and used and weaponized in this manner by undisclosed foreign interests.

Far from successfully preventing "war" and economic upheavals the United Nations represented by the UN CORPORATION, and the Central Banks supporting this entire corrupt system, have stood by and watched--- and profited from--- innumerable illegal Mercenary Conflicts.

Using the same logic that requires these miscreant Municipal and Commercial corporations to be dissolved under Ecclesiastical Law, and which was applied to the League of Nations, the UN CORPORATION needs to be liquidated for failure to perform upon its purported mission of world peace.

Claiming to be or to do one thing, while being and doing exactly the opposite, is fraud, and fraud taints everything that it touches --- requiring the most determined action to correct, to provide remedy, and to expedite cooperation.

[noitsbecky127]

rebecca watches tos: whom gods destroy

I’ve read that Elaan of Troyius is sexist so I’m skipping it

why does the federation do literally anything on a poisonous planet

one medicine will eliminate all of mental illness? permanently? I don’t think that’s how it works

jim I don’t think this guy is the way he was when you read about him

ooh green lady

she COULD just be insane but lbr here there’s more to it than that

yep there was more to it

garth and his gang of aliens are in charge now

LORD garth???

I’m guessing getting out of this will somehow involve kirk seducing the green lady

oh he wants the fucking enterprise

and he’s gonna shapeshift his way into it

is queen to queen’s level 3 some kind of code

william shatner is really hamming it up here lmao

ah yep it was a code

making a code was a smart move, given how often people impersonate kirk

you are definitely lacking in hospitality

this entertainment sucks

everyone here is so ridiculous

ma’am you didn’t write that poem

her dancing reminds me of twi’leks in star wars, guess they fill the same role of “sexy alien lady”

she isn’t even trying to seduce spock, guess she can tell it’s a lost cause

so garth tried to do a genocide for no clear reason

sir you are not master of the universe, you’re a terrible person with delusions of godhood

kirk just brotherzoned spock

even garth can see it

he’s still awful though

oh shit torture time

ohhh torturing cory for it

that’s admittedly a brilliant idea, kirk will be more responsive to that than to his own suffering

nope nvm they’re putting kirk in now

what’s marta planning for him

oh she’s going for it

nvm she just wants to kill him

deus ex spockina

spock surely you know the countersign

wait shit

GARTH YOU FUCKHEAD

garth is seriously doing a “rip to them but i’m different” here

what kind of coronation has a human sacrifice anyway

kirk is still trying to talk his way out of this

nope just trying to disable the forcefield

you should probably not vaporize the planet garth

can I get an F for marta

meanwhile on the enterprise they’re still trying to get through the forcefield

oh yeah where IS the real spock anyway

here he is!

he is coming! with a phaser!

ah the classic “which one is real and which is the shapeshifter” dilemma

spock is straight up just gonna wait them out

battle of the kirks!

ah yes, the real kirk would never pass up an opportunity to be self-sacrificing

but if knocking him out makes him revert why not just start with stunning them both?

ok good the medicine has been reacquired, for the improbable elimination of mental illness

yeah don’t have much to say about this ep, but it was alright

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Ian R. Diaz, 43, of Brea, Calif., allegedly hatched the elaborate stalker scheme with his now-former wife because he was in a property dispute with the ex-girlfriend involving a condominium they purchased before breaking up, the federal grand jury indictment states.

According to the new indictment, Ian Diaz wanted to “interfere” with Hadley’s claim on the property, so he and his wife impersonated her online to send themselves a barrage of threatening emails.

They created a fake email account based on Hadley’s identity and used it to solicit men on Craigslist interested in engaging in a “rape fantasy” with Angela Diaz, the unsealed indictment alleges.

The couple wanted to lure the men to the property so they could stage a non-consensual sexual assault and claim Hadley actually orchestrated it, the paperwork states.

At one point, Ian Diaz allegedly used his personal cellphone to “approve one of the ‘rape fantasy’ advertisements” set up with the fake email and then, apparently realizing his slip-up, canceled the cellphone account a day later “in an effort to conceal his connection,” the indictment says.

On July 13, 2016, Ian Diaz and his former wife succeeded in luring a Craigslist poster to the condo with the promise of a consensual “rape fantasy” encounter and called police when the stranger arrived, the paperwork alleges.

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MY Top 10 Most Despicable Characters from TOS

Let’s face it, not all TOS antagonists can be as badass as Khan or entertaining as Mudd. Some of them you’ll forget by the next episode but when you go back and watch them you say “oh it’s that asshole.”

So here’s my list (from worst to absolute worst) of somewhat forgettable yet awful villains from Star Trek the Original Series.

1. Captain Tracy 

Look, I get it: losing your entire crew to a mysterious disease and getting marooned on a post-apocalyptic parallel Earth probably sucks. However, none of that justifies going rogue and breaking the prime directive by giving out phasers like candy to the local villagers. Not to mention the weird obsession with a “fountain of youth” that turns out to be a dead end. Oh, and he killed a redshirt. 

2. Dr Adams  

Sure, why not let the Mad Scientist/Therapist run a Penal Colony full of vulnerable people? That seems smart, right? We’re not given any motive for this guy to tear people’s minds apart with the neural neutralizer, other than the fact it gives him some sick sense of pleasure. Luckily he gets a taste of his own medicine. 

3. Anan 7 

It’s hard to find someone who’s more dramatic than Kirk but Anan 7 might just take the title. As the leader of Eminiar 7, he is responsible for the continuation of war with Vendikar and the enforcement of “casualties” and mass suicides by use of disintegration machines. He almost destroys the Enterprise and attempts to impersonate Kirk to lure the crew down, and if not for Scotty’s ability to see through his bullshit he would have succeeded. He is a yet another leader who dislikes the system but, despite being in charge, has no intention of changing it out of fear of change. 

4. Gary Mitchell

I didn’t like this guy even before he turned to the dark side. He gives me the creeps, he’s rude to the female crew-members. And you have to wonder, was becoming evil an inevitable part of his transformation, or could he have chosen to use his powers for good? We don’t know for sure but I’m inclined to the latter. 

5. Henoch 

Possessed Spock’s body and acted like a total creep while he was using it. Almost killed his rival, who was possessing Kirk’s body, thus almost committing double murder. And Kirk has to literally kill Spock in order to expel him. (Luckily Sargon survived the murder attempt and brought Spock back.) 

6. Melakan

Space Nazi. Literal Space Nazi. 

7. Kodos the Executioner/Anton Karidian

Do I even need to explain this one? He slaughtered 4,000 people according to his own eugenic ideas. The only reason why I don’t rank this higher is because he dies in the episode at the hands of his own daughter. 

8. The Providers

Picture yourself as an alien. A really really old alien that has over eons of spacey-sci-if evolution, become a super advanced disembodied brain. What do you do? Explore the ancient mysteries of the cosmos like no other race has before? Invent a new philosophy or form of mathematics? Or you could just capture aliens, train them to fight over generations and make them fight in gladiatorial games and wager on the winner with your pals! The Providers were so bored and unoriginal they just came up with their own nasty space hybrid of Pokémon and the Hunger Games. The should’ve just gone to Vegas.

9. Ambassador Hodin

Uhura put it best, “he’s infuriating.” Hodin is the worst kind of politician.  He outsteps and doges every attempt Spock makes to find his missing captain. (He also manages to insult Scotty in the process.) Meanwhile, Hodin had Kirk abducted to an exact replica of the Enterprise, deserted with the exemption of a mysterious woman (Hodin’s daughter, Odona). This stupidly extravagant plan was to manipulate Kirk into staying with Odona on the planet, and using his blood to infect (and kill) her and millions of others in order to lower their overwhelming global population. When Kirk tries to suggest other better humane methods of population control (like birth control, etc) Hodin shoots it down because “life is sacred.” Yeah it’s sacred and you’ll kill your own daughter to prove it.

10. Claudius Marcus.

Asshole Extraordinaire. The true villain of Bread and Circuses embodies every aspect of Roman life and values nostalgic historians would prefer to forget: slavery, racism, sexism, elitism, all wrapped into an ancient institution completely intolerant of change or outside ideas. Claudius Marcus is a crafty politician type whose weapon of choice is manipulation of words and law, but is not afraid of quite literally stabbing a colleague in the back. He knows the Federation Prime Directive just as well as any officer and argues it to force Kirk and his crew to abandon ship and remain on the planet. (So they couldn’t leave and report it’s existence to the Federation.) instead of threatening Kirk personally he forces Kirk to watch both of his friends fight to the death in a televised bastardization of gladiatorial games. And before Kirk’s later execution, he offers his slave Drusilla to Kirk the night before, so he could “have his last hours as a man.” Ick.

[darkarfs]

single moments from the Trump presidency that would have defined/ended any other politician’s career

- saying he could “buy Greenland” - suggesting it was a good idea to nuke hurricanes - saying there would be fewer forest fires if we just got rid of all the leaves - asking Trudeau if Canada had tried to burn down the White House - autographing pictures of shooting victims - when he kept talking about how they drop bowling balls on cars to test them in japan and no one could figure out where he could have even gotten the idea - when he suggested Seoul should just move away from the North Korean border - introducing West Virginia’s governor as ‘the largest, most beautiful man’ - when he tweeted SEE YOU IN COURT! right after an appeals court ruled against him. like. yeah man. they just did. - the time he didn't know how to close an umbrella so he just dropped it and walked away - fighting with the Vietnam vets over whether napalm or agent orange is used in the Ride of the Valkyries scene in Apocalypse Now and then when they insisted it was napalm, Trump said they disagreed with him because they didn't like the movie (The line is famously, literally “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”) - using his position as the single most powerful person in the world to promote Goya canned beans - when he bragged about the crowd size at the hurricane shelter in coastal Texas (”what a turnout”) - signing Bibles. What. - thinking the F-22 is invisible to the naked eye - smiling and giving a thumbs up during a photo op with a baby orphaned by a mass shooting - putting a candy bar on a Minion’s head because he’s never interacted with a child before -  when he interpreted some stray comment about transparency in the process to mean his border wall should literally be transparent, so passersby are not beaned by bundles of drugs and cans being thrown over the wall - the time he talked about having to flush his massive dumps 10 times and then immediately tried to blame the dumps on his supporters - the fake Sharpee’d hurricane map, which he did solely to not appear wrong on television - suggesting that federal employees working unpaid during the gov shutdown should just “do a work around” at the grocery store if they can’t pay for groceries - the fucking eclipse thing - the fucking three-pointers with paper towels to Puerto Rican hurricane victims - when he told thousands of Boy Scouts a story about his rich friend's fuckboat and then complained about Hilary for the remainder of the speech - when the called the CEO of Lockheed Martin “Marilyn Lockheed” (her last name is Hewson) which was objectively funnier than “Tim Apple” - when he picked an argument with Baltic world leaders because he thought the Baltics were the Balkans - the first time his team had a meeting in the cabinet room they couldn’t figure out how to turn on the lights and ended up just having the meeting in the dark -  The time he said Andrew Jackson was "really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said 'There's no reason for this.'" (Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War, and he owned 150 slaves.) - told a 7-year-old boy there was no Santa Claus on Christmas - the team of staffers whose only job was to tape back together documents he had torn up because he’s just THAT used to destroying evidence, because they couldn’t get him to stop ripping them up, but legally, the documents had to be archived - when he said the Continental Army took over the British airports during the Revolution - no sanctions on Russian soldiers killing American soldiers - “I take no responsibility for this pandemic.” - when touring the damage the Louisiana gulf coast after Hurricane Laura (just a few months ago!), he started giving first responders autographed pieces of paper, which he told them to sell on eBay for $10,000 - when he thought "clean coal" meant that the miners dug it out of the ground and physically cleaned it - the goddamn fast food catering - trying to trick the family of a teen killed by a US diplomat's wife who fled justice into meeting her, Ellen-style - pushing the Prime Minister of Montenegro out of the way to preen - that time he called into Fox & Friends and ranted for so long that they politely but firmly kicked him off - hiring an Obama impersonator solely to berate him - having a button installed on his desk that let him order Diet Coke on a whim. And sometimes using that button upwards of 13 times a day. - that time when a kid handed him a hat to sign, and he signed the hat, but instead of handing it back, he just threw it into the middle of the crowd - autographing the guestbook at the Holocaust memorial, with an added “had such a great time!” - when he zoned out and wondered where a woman's dead relatives were DIRECTLY after she had said her mother six brothers were killed. (Actual exchange: “They killed my mother, my six brothers...” “Where are they now?”) - sending 2,000 soldiers to the border to stop “the caravan,” having their pictures taken, and then recalling them all. - consoling a dead soldier’s family by saying “he knew what he was getting into.” - when he said no one could climb over the border wall because there would be no way down, and then belatedly remembered rope - when he congratulated the Great Lakes on their "record deepness" - calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” at an event meant to honor Navajo code talkers  - “Shithole countries” - calling Baltimore “rat-infested” - tweeting “too bad!” right after Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into - calling the White House “a dump” a month into moving in, which led to first both him and Melania, and then just Melania by herself, staying in Trump Tower for almost 5 months, costing taxpayers around $100,000 a day - an entire quarter of his presidency spent on his own golf courses, costing taxpayers around $141,000,000, NOT counting the Secret Service detail (they were charged for rooms and golf carts, since these were Trump’s OWN golf courses) - using “Pocahontas” again to slur Elizabeth Warren while talking down to a Native American journalist - holding a rally in Pittsburgh and trying to woo the locals by ranting about how the statue of Joe Paterno, the accused pedophilia enabler who was coach of a rival sports team, should go back up - confusingly having bigger salt and pepper shakers than everyone else in his administration, because everything to him is a dick-measuring contest - when he said he would “run in and take care of” school shooters, to school shooting victims - appointing fucking DeVos, Miller, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Nunes - inciting a seditious white supremacist mob to make sure he’s president until he’s 85, resulting in 5 dead (for which I am constantly wondering...”really? FOR THIS GUY?”) - drafted a proposal to open 94% of previously protected American shorelines to offshore drilling - when he walked up the stairs to Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe -  at least 44 times in March, April and early May in which he downplayed the threat of the virus calling it “very well under control” again and again - when somebody asked him his favorite book and he pointed at a bookshelf and said “there are some over there” - meeting with the goddamn MyPillow guy to discuss overturning election results and declaring martial law - impeached twice, was golfing both times the vote went through - 70 pardons for known criminals (including Bannon), 70 sentences commuted, just to be a spiteful little toad - when he blathered on about how much he loved the queen, the totally hacked her off - when Hope Hicks steamed his pants as he was wearing them - getting mad-pissed at White House kitchen staff because they couldn’t recreate McDonald’s and it was too late to order  and I wonder how much I missed. I bet there’s a McSweeney’s article listing all of it.