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23rd February >> (@ZenitEnglish) #PopeFrancis #Pope Francis Sr. Veronica Openibo, SHCJ: Focus on Mission, not Fear: ‘The church must do everything possible to protect its young and vulnerable members.’

Sr. Veronica Openibo, SHCJ, Elected Leader of The Society of the Holy Child Jesus, spoke to the Summit on “The Protection of Minors in the Church” on February 23, 2019. Her topic: Openness to the World as a Consequence of the Ecclesial Mission. Following is the working translation of her talk provided by the Vatican.

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Papa Francesco,

My brothers and sisters, good morning.

I begin this talk with a quotation from Luke Chapter 4. For me “Openness to the world as a Consequence of the Ecclesial Mission” is the mission statement of Jesus, that we also follow.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me and anointed me to preach good news to the poor. The Spirit has sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the Lord’s year of favor. Luke 4:18-19

Abstract

For me, as a result of the self-understanding of her mission in the world today, the church needs to update and create new systems and practices that will promote action without fear of making mistakes. Clerical sex abuse is a crisis that has reduced the credibility of the church when transparency should be the hallmark of mission as followers of Jesus Christ. The fact that many accuse the Catholic Church today of negligence is disturbing. The church must do everything possible to protect its young and vulnerable members. The focus should not to be on fear or disgrace but rather on the church’s mission to serve with integrity and justice.

Introduction

The mission of the church flows directly from our deepest understanding of the Incarnation. Catholic Christianity is grounded in the belief in a God who chose to be one with the human world.

The self-understanding of the mission of the church must be a manifestation of the Christ we know as both human and divine. The whole of Christ’s mission was to reveal who God is and who we can become. This implies a total acceptance of all that is human andall that the power of God’s grace does to transform us into being witnesses of the divine. Our world-view, if Christian, must be based on respect and dignity for each human being.

At the present time, we are in a state of crisis and shame. We have seriously clouded the grace of the Christ-mission. Is it possible for us to move from fear of scandal to truth? How do we remove the masks that hide our sinful neglect? What policies, programs and procedures will bring us to a new, revitalized starting point characterized by a transparency that lights up the world with God’s hope for us in building the Reign of God?

Throughout the time of writing this presentation, my eyes were cloudy and I wondered what this could mean. Then I remembered the first time I watched the movie Spotlight – you all…some of you know it – the 2016 American biographical drama about the investigation by the Boston Globe in the America’s Boston, the cover-up by ecclesial authorities.

At the end of the film was a long list of cases and the dioceses where they occurred and reading about the number of children affected (and also later seeing the vast amount of money spent on settlements), tears of sorrow flowed. How could the clerical church have kept silent, covering these atrocities? The silence, the carrying of the secrets in the hearts of the perpetrators, the length of the abuses – we had one last night – and the constant transfers of perpetrators are all unimaginable. Presumably, there were significant signs in the confessional and in spiritual direction: I want to believe that. With a heavy and sad heart, I think of all the atrocities we have committed as members of the church: I am saying “we”, not “they”: “we”. The Constitutions of my own congregation reminds me: In Christ, we unite ourselves to the whole of humanity, especially to the poor and suffering. We accept our share of responsibility for the sin of the world and so live that his love may prevail. (SHCJ Constitutions #6). I think all of us must acknowledge that our mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency have brought us to this disgraceful and scandalous place that we find ourselves as a church. We pause to pray Lord have mercy on us!

In Gaudete et Exsultate (164) we read that Those who think they commit no grievous sins against God’s law can fall into a state of dull lethargy. Since they see nothing serious to reproach themselves with, they fail to realize that their spiritual life has gradually turned lukewarm. They end up weakened and corrupted. Let us no say “they”: it is all of us. So many aspects of this statement from Pope Francis stand out for me on the issue of child abuse, as also these sentences from the PCB Preparation Document: A church that is closed/shut off is no longer church. Her mission would be thwarted. It’s not about giving up principles and secularizing the church, it’s about living visibly and perceptibly what we claim to be, or what and how we really are.

Yes, we proclaim the Ten Commandments and ‘parade ourselves’ as being the custodians of moral standards/values and good behaviour in society. Hypocrites at times? Yes! Why did we keep silent for so long? How can we turn this around for a time to evangelise, catechise and educate all the members of the church, including the clergy and religious? I often ask myself: Is it true that most bishops did nothing about the sexual abuse of children? I want to believe, and from that, I have read, some did act and some did not out of fear or cover-up.

We might say the church is now taking steps to arrest the situation but also to be more transparent about all the steps it had been taking privately over two decades, such as meeting with victims of sexual abuse, reporting cases to the appropriate civil authorities and setting up commissions, and many other things. The question today is more about how to address the issue of the sexual abuse of minors more directly, transparently and courageously as a church. The hierarchical structure and systems in the church – I believe– should be a blessing for us to reach the whole world with very clear mechanisms to address this and many other issues. Why has this not happened enough? Why have other issues around sexuality not been addressed sufficiently, e.g. misuse of power, misuse of money, clericalism – we felt that many times –, gender discrimination, the role of women and the laity in general? Is it that the clerical structures and long protocols that negatively affected swift actions focused more on media reactions?

Reflection

I would like to offer some reflections based on my experience as an African woman religious. I have lived in Rome for fifteen years – as a nun – and studied in America for three. So, I am familiar with these issues in the Global North. Probably like many of you, I have heard some Africans and Asians say, many Africans and Asians say that ‘this is not our issue in countries in Africa and Asia, it is the problem in Europe, the Americas, Canada and Australia.’ However, I worked throughout Nigeria in the area of sexuality education for nine years and heard the stories and counselled many people. In fact, one of the bishops, the first to invite me to his diocese, to speak with him, have a workshop with him, and he is a priest, he is present here: our bishop Akubeze. So, he saw the need and invited me. I realized how serious the issues were and still are and sharing a few of my personal experiences emphasise this fact. In the early 90s a priest told me there were sexual abuses in the convents and formation houses and that, as president of the Nigeria Conference of Women Religious, I should, please, do something to address the issue. A second priest in the early 2000s said that a particular ethnic group practiced a lot of incest , what I added to him: that from my personal experience incest is a world issue. A dying old man revealed to me he was acting strangely because of the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager from the priests in his school. And recently I have heard from somebody, “I know that person, I have the same experience”. So, it must have been something that was going on in this school for years: the same school. A thirteen-year-old girl met her priest attacker 25 years later and he did not recognize her…

These are just short stories.

Transparency

– So, let us not hide such events anymore because of the fear of making mistakes. Too often we want to keep silent until the storm has passed! This storm will not pass. Our credibility as a Church is at stake. I think Jesus told us, gives us a very strong statement: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe [in me] to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.” Mark 9:42. So, my dear brothers and sisters, we must face this issue and seek healing for the victims of abuse. The normal process for clergy – in the past and still in the present in some areas – was and is to give support to ‘one of us’, to avoid exposing a scandal and bringing discredit to the church. I told my group yesterday. I used to use three “s”: “secrecy”; “silence”; and the last one is “solidarity” for men, and support for one of us. Women is the same, but the third one is different, you can ask me later… We must face this issue and seek healing for the victims of abuse. The normal process, as I said, is the support for men, but we find a way together. All offenders, I want to say, regardless of their clerical status, found guilty should be given the same penalty for the abuse of minors.

– Let us have courageous conversations rather than saying nothing to avoid making a mistake. I like this statement: We can make a mistake but we are not created to be a mistake and posterity will judge us for not taking action. The first step towards true transparency is to admit wrongdoing and then to publish what has been done – I repeat: we publish what has been done, and I think some of it has been published already. But we have to make it public – what has been done since the time of Pope John Paul II to heal the situation. It may not be enough or sufficient in the eyes of many but it will show that the church had not been totally silent.

– We must build more effective and efficient processes, based on research in human development – we use here human for mission –as well as civil and canon law, for the Safeguarding of Minors. Then give clear and comprehensive safeguarding policies and guidelines in every diocese that should be placed visibly in various parish offices and published on the internet. There must be better handling of the cases through face-to-face, transparent and courageous conversations with victims and offenders, where possible, as well as investigating groups. In many parts of the world, including countries in Africa and Asia, not saying anything is a terrible mistake as we have seen in many countries. The fact that there are huge issues of poverty, illness, war and violence in some countries in the Global South does not mean that the area of sexual abuse should be downplayed or ignored. The church has to be pro-active in facing it. I have read through some of the papers that were given out to us, in various parts of the world, many dioceses and conferences have written books. I didn’t see Nigeria in it. What I know, I worked with some of the booklets that the bishops produce in Nigeria: “call to love”, “I chose you”, “Guidelines for processing abuse of minors and vulnerable adults”. We need more of such in many parts of the world.

– The excuse that respect be given to some priests by virtue of their advanced years and hierarchical position is unacceptable. This argument states that many of the criminal offenders are old, some no longer alive, and that we should not hurt them or their reputations by taking away their priesthood in old age. We can feel sad for those who, when they were younger committed offences that are now being brought out to the open. But my heart bleeds for many of the victims who have lived with the misplaced shame – we had that yesterday – misplaced shame and guilt of repeated violations for years. In some of these areas the offenders did not even see these victims as persons but as objects.

– It is true, as a church, that we believe in repentance of the sinner, in conversion of hearts and the grace of transformation, as Jesus said to the woman caught in the very act of adultery: “Go and from now on do not sin any more.” says Jesus (John 8:1-11). This can create a strong dilemma for some, especially when we know that abusers have often been victims themselves. Do we need to probe deeply what we mean by justice with compassion? How can we help create the environment for prayer and discernment for the grace of God to enlighten us in the way of justice so that transformation and healing may take place for both victims and, I want to say, offenders? We would need to find out where throughout the world (not only in wealthier countries), are the best practices for doing this being developed and can we implement them? Many of these are to be found within the church. I think we have heard that in many of our small groups.

– In publishing the names of offenders, can we publish a complete set of information regarding these situations?

I want to suggest some strategic way forward

Strategic Way Forward

– It is becoming evident that victims that were listened to and helped psychologically and spiritually were healed. Can we train enough sensitive and compassionate people to offer this service in all countries including those places struggling to put food on the table? Are there ways of helping parishes heal victims using their traditional wisdom? Do we make use of preaching and other means to address sexual issues in society? How might dioceses share in a strategic way in providing culturally-sensitive education programs and training kits? Such materials, respecting the dignity of the human persons and emphasizing all unacceptable behaviours, could be used in parishes and schools, hospitals and other places of pastoral ministry. The UISG has promised that in the statement they made.

– How can we continue to address in very concrete ways the issues of prostitution and trafficking on an immense scale as well as personal infidelity and promiscuity around the world? There must be Catholics, alongside others with similar principles, in positions of influence in, for example, the film industry, TV and advertising. They could be encouraged to come together and reflect on their role in promoting a better view of the human person. Let there be a focus on society’s disservice to men in every patriarchal culture in the area of sexuality. From studies, I have discovered, and many have discovered, that for a long time society has accepted promiscuity, infidelity, especially in marriage for men, what is changing… thanks God! Let us investigate how better to use social media to educate people on the whole area of sexuality and human relationships.

– I want to say here: essential, surely, is a clear and balanced education and training about sexuality and boundaries in the seminaries and formation houses; in the ongoing formation of priests, religious men, and women and bishops. It worries me when I see in Rome, and elsewhere, our country included, the youngest seminarians being treated as though they are more special than everyone else, thus ideas about the status, exalted ideas about their status. This is encouraged because they assume they have already high status. The study of human development, human for mission, must give rise to a serious question about the existence of minor seminaries. I want to repeat that: the study of human development, human for mission, must give rise to a serious question about the existence of minor seminaries. The formation of young women religious, too, can often lead to a false sense of superiority over their lay sisters and brothers, that their calling is a ‘higher’ one. What damage has that thinking done to the mission of the church? Have we forgotten the reminder by Vatican II in Gaudium et Spes of the universal call to holiness? In addition, we need to ask responsible and sensitive lay people and women religious to give true and honest evaluation of candidates for episcopal appointments.

– Could each diocese be challenged to gather men and women of integrity: laity, including religious, and clergy, to form a joint commission sharing expertise about the documentary procedures and protocols, the legal and financial implications of allegations and the necessary channels of responsibility and accountability? A well-qualified person – lay, religious or priests is likely to be the best chairperson of such a group. In addition, they need to work out how best to face the serious issues of sexual abuse already exploding in some Asian and African countries in the same way that it has already elsewhere. Many people who were sexually abused by priests or others in pastoral positions will suffer as traumatic memories are evoked. Some people will be reminded that they could well be revealed as former or current abusers or accused of covering up such facts. Many in various forms of ministry will come across people, family members, adults and/or children, who have been or are being abused and need to know how to respond appropriately. Some allegations will be false which causes suffering of another kind. The impact of damaged faith in the church cannot be under-emphasized as a large number of Catholics are and will be angry and confused. We have seen that in some part of the world. People in positions of some authority also need to know what to say or do in terms of response when issues get to the media or to the press.

Conclusion

We know that the greatest issue is the proclamation of the gospel in a way that will touch the hearts of the young and old. We are called to proclaim the good news but we must BE good news to the people we serve today. No wonder Pope Francis has declared the month of October 2019 The Extra Ordinary Missionary Month. I come back to my opening passage: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me and anointed me”.

As an indicator or postscript, I emphasise the following:

The Spirit of the Lord is upon each one of us, and especially those present here.

has anointed all of us. We have heard that during the reports from groups that yes, we are here for serious business and issues have been taken care of.

to preach good news to the poor, the poor beingthe vulnerable, protecting especially defenceless children, seeking justice for the victims of abuse and taking steps to prevent this abuse from recurring.

to proclaim deliverance to the captives, for me the perpetrators are in need of deliverance, conversion and transformation, and we should not forget that.

and recovery of sight to the blind those who are not seeing the issues, even some of uspresent here, or focusing on protecting ‘our own’, or keeping silent or covering up need recovery of sight

to release the oppressed and to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour by taking the necessary steps and maintaining zero tolerance with regard to sexual abuse we will release the oppressed. This is our year of favour let us courageously take up the responsibility to be truly transparent and accountable.

Returning to the title of this conference, I just want to say one passage that has inspired me is:

You are the light of the world – I think we are the light like that this morning in the prayer – A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.

I read with great interest many articles about the Pope’s reactions in the case of the Chilean bishops – I think you remember the story – from a denial of accusations, to anger because of deception, the Pope felt, and the cover up, to the acceptance of resignations of – I thought three, but I red again two of the bishops. I admire you, Brother Francis, for taking time as a true Jesuit, to discern and be humble enough to change your mind, to apologize and take action – this is an example for all of us.

Thank you, Pope Francis, for providing this opportunity for us to check and see where we have acted strangely, ignorantly, secretly and complacently. I believe we will change, with great determination, our total approach to reporting abuse, to supporting the victims, to getting the right people to mentor and give support to victims and, above all, to doing what we can to protect minors and vulnerable adults from any form of abuse. Thank you, too, for providing women religious, through the executive of the Union of Superiors General (UISG), an opportunity to participate in this conference. This is the first time ever that we have had all the members of the executing of the women come to a meeting like this. Usually, the men come, but the women we were “pick three people and it must be this, this, this…”. Women have acquired a lot of useful experience to offer in this field and have already done much to support victims – there are women who are also offenders – and also to work creatively on their own use of power and authority.

I hope and pray that at the end of this conference we will choose deliberately to break any culture of silence and secrecy among us, to allow more light into our church, as a model Church. A model takes care of the children and continues to be a model to take care of the children. Let us acknowledge our vulnerability; be pro-active, not reactive in combating the challenges facing the world of the young and the vulnerable, and look fearlessly into other issues of abuse in the church and society.

I want to end with this, by reminding ourselves of Pope Francis’ own words: A Christian who does not move forward has an identity that is ‘not well… The Gospel is clear: the Lord sent them out saying: ‘go, go forward’! The Christian walks, moves past difficulties and announces that the Kingdom of God is near.

I pray: we will move forward, pass these difficulties. Surely.

Thank you.

23rd FEBRUARY 2019 16:50SEXUAL ABUSE AND PROTECTION OF MINORS

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thatstormygeek · 6 months ago

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Apparently, Alito would have to start showing up for work literally draped in a Trump flag instead of his traditional robe. MAGA controls the House, so obviously impeachment is impossible. Removal is also a fantasy because a two-thirds Senate vote is required. The Supreme Court is currently a judicial arm of the Republican Party, so you shouldn’t expect Republicans to help hold them accountable for MAGA judges’ corruption. This is when Democratic partisans start to lecture us about how government works. Telling people who disagree with you to “take a civics class” is not a great communication strategy, but they stand by it. Maybe it’ll work for them some day. Last year, Democratic political commentator Kaivan Shroff wrote in the Boston Globe that young people expect to see Democrats holding corrupt Supreme Court justices accountable, and he thinks it’s a mistake to let Alito off the hook now. Someone on Threads responded to him with a “you kids today!/take a civics class” fusion rant: “Everyone who voted 3rd party or didn’t vote or said HRC and trump were the same owns this catastrophic mess. Heading towards the same mess in 2024. Also take a civics class or Google how you get rid of a Supreme Court justice. Jeez.”

Samuel Alito is only all-powerful if Democrats refuse to treat him as if he’s in any way accountable to the public he serves. I agree with Noah Berlatsky that a hearing is itself a serious consequence for Alito, and I reject the argument that hearings are only “performative.” It’s shocking how many people assume that Alito wouldn’t show up to a Senate hearing. That’s preemptive surrender to authoritarianism. Instead, Democrats should use every power at their command to pull back the curtain and expose Alito for what he is. Even if he ghosts on the hearings, he would have further demonstrated his contempt for the American people. This can help build support to neutralize the MAGA majority’s power. It’s far more likely that Democrats will have the ability to expand the Court before they can replace at least two conservative justices with liberals. ... Republicans have their dream Supreme Court. Democrats should make an unaccountable, radical Court a political nightmare for them. Although Mitch McConnell demanded that Democrats “leave the Supreme Court alone,” other Senate Republicans dared to criticize King Alito. Mitt Romney told reporters, “It’s very unfortunate and we ought to take a look at it,” which seemed to place him on the side of an investigation. Sure, he’s on his way out the door, but Republican Whip John Thune, who’s angling for McConnell’s job, told CNN that flying the upside-down insurrection flag was a “bad decision.” “I don’t know how you explain that,” he said. Lindsey Graham agreed that the flag was a mistake. He told CNN’s Manu Raju that it “creates a bad image … It created a situation that we’re all talking about.” Graham has the moral foundation of quicksand so when he says the flag is a mistake, he means that it’s generated a negative news cycle just months before the election. Democrats should press this advantage, keep the story in the news and put Alito on the defensive. Far too often, Democrats criticize the media for minimizing or outright ignoring Republican scandals while obsessing over the most minor Democratic gaffe. However, Republicans actively help drive bad press for Democrats. For instance, Democrats will say that Alito should recuse himself from Trump-related cases, but they leave it there. They aren’t making it a political liability for, say, Larry Hogan, who’s trying to pull a Susan Collins con job on voters in the Maryland Senate race. Democrats need leaders who are prepared to govern with the same urgency as the party’s fundraising emails.

Y'all wonder why it's so hard to get people to vote for Dems when this is what they do when elected. Sure, there are some badass Dems in office, in state legislatures as well as nationally, but when the people in charge of shit can just sit there and go "nah, I don't wanna" when it comes to holding the fucking Supreme Court accountable? The party has problems.

#us politics #scotus #stephen robinson #ostrich dems

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fem-mem-mine · 4 years ago

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From ‘bossy’ to ‘battleaxe’ and ‘spinster’ to ‘slut’, many of the words used to describe women are laden with negativity, judgement and criticism. In Word of Mouth, Nikki Bedi and Professor Deborah Cameron explore how sexism is reflected in the English language and discuss why the words we choose are important. Here are a few of the interesting issues they uncover.

Why dictionary entries for ‘woman’ need a rewrite

In March 2020, an open letter called on the Oxford Dictionary of English to update its entry for the word ‘woman’. The dictionary, which is used in many mobile phones, offers words such as ‘bitch’, ‘bird’, ‘wench’, ‘petticoat’, ‘bint’, ‘mare’, ‘biddy’ and ‘filly’ as alternatives to ‘woman’. Under examples of how ‘woman’ could be used in a sentence, it includes the phrase: “I told you to be home when I get home, little woman.”

The letter explained: “Synonyms and examples such as these when offered without context reinforce negative stereotypes about women and centre men. That’s dangerous because language has real world implications. It shapes perceptions and influences the way women are treated.”

Can a dictionary really be sexist?

Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, explains that modern dictionaries aim to record how language is actually used by people, and are based on a huge sample of millions or billions of words. As a result, they reflect sexism that already exists in our history and culture.

However, Cameron says, “some sexism creeps into dictionaries because of their own editorial decisions”. For example, she explains, synonyms like ‘bezom’, ‘filly’ and ‘petticoat’ are out of date and offensive. While those words may have a place in a historical dictionary or thesaurus, they don’t need to be in the dictionary you get with your phone.

The Oxford Dictionary is reviewing its examples to address bias and stereotyping. But it’s not the only one that needs to do it – Cameron says this kind of sexism is a “really general problem”.

Why men get more space on the page

The entry for ‘man’ in the Oxford Dictionary is much longer and more detailed than the one for ‘woman’. But, Cameron explains, this is difficult to rectify because of the two words’ unequal linguistic histories.

“The thing is, you can’t really make them balanced because the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ genuinely are not parallel terms, because ‘man’ has both a sex-specific meaning (a male person), and a kind of generic meaning (human being) ... And it’s that imbalance that the length of the entries is reflecting.”

The inequality doesn’t end there. Cameron says the words of privileged white men make up a disproportionate number of the sources cited by dictionaries. Although things are changing, she points out that “a privileged subset of men still actually dominate the public sphere. So if you’re taking your data from, let’s say, the news media, political speeches, scientific journals, even debates on the internet, you are going to end up with more words that were written and spoken by men than women, and also more words about men.”

Words for women in positions of power

Language and power are associated in other ways too. Nikki Bedi points out that female politicians are often described using a particular set of terms that wouldn’t be applied to men. Cameron believes this vocabulary harks back to history and shows how uncomfortable our culture still is with female authority.

“Women [are put] in boxes, like there’s the battleaxe or the iron lady, or else they’re just, you know, domestic tyrants. They’re mummy, nanny, matron, the headmistress, the head girl, the schoolmarm. You know, it’s as if we can only imagine female authority in terms of the domestic sphere where historically women had power over children and servants.”

Cameron has studied the media coverage from the 2015 general election, when three female party leaders took part in TV debates. She found that “this kind of stereotyping was incredibly common... And until I did that analysis, I think even I hadn’t realised how consistent it was.”

What insults can tell us about sexism

As well as being personally hurtful, Cameron says, insults are designed to undermine a person’s standing in their community. So, by comparing the words used for men and women, we can learn about differing social norms and expectations through history.

The fact that there are so many terms of abuse that judge or criticise women’s sexual behaviour, such as ‘slag’, ‘strumpet’ and ‘trollop’, shows how important sexual reputation has been for women in society, in a way that it hasn’t for men. “To impugn a woman’s chastity could, historically, have really very serious material social consequences. And even today, these are insults that girls and women fear,” Cameron says.

By contrast, insults aimed at men are often things designed to undermine their masculinity, such as ‘sissy’, ‘cuck’, ‘big girl’s blouse’ or ‘girly swot’, and this reflects women’s historically lower status in society. “You’re comparing a man with his social inferiors, women, in order to kind of unman and degrade and shame him,” Cameron explains.

Why the words we use matter

The history and hidden implications of words can shape the way we see things. “We don’t just learn about the world from our own direct experience, we learn from the conversations we have, the stories we’re told, the representations we encounter via the mass media,” Cameron explains.

At the same time, language has the power to influence the world around us. “Many of the words we’ve been discussing are weapons. They are used to police and shame and silence and wound. But on the plus side, language is also one of the best tools we have for sort of reflecting and raising awareness about that... And that doesn’t change the world on its own, but I think it’s a necessary step along the way.”

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Restoring Balance? Bill 32, the Charter, and Fair Democratic Process

By: Colin Feasby

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Bill Commented On: Bill 32, Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, 2020, 2nd Sess, 30th Leg, Alberta, 2020

On July 7, the United Conservative Party (UCP) government introduced Bill 32, styled the Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act, 2020. Bill 32 makes a number of changes to Alberta’s labour relations statutes that are of questionable constitutionality. The focus of this post is only on the constitutional dimensions of Bill 32’s impact on the capacity of unions to participate in political activities. Bill 32 is interesting from the perspective of democracy jurisprudence because it appears to be a paradigmatic example of the use of legislative power to silence or impair the efficacy of political opponents. A constitutional challenge to Bill 32, which seems inevitable based on early statements by Alberta unions, promises to provide a forum for the consideration of whether political animus is relevant to constitutional analysis. This post does not express a view on the constitutionality of Bill 32; rather, it explores how courts should approach constitutional analysis of legislation that has an obvious negative effect on political opponents of the government.

Bill 32

Bill 32 represents the fulfillment of a UCP campaign promise (at 22) to give union members a choice as to whether their union dues are used for political purposes. Bill 32 amends the Labour Relations Code, RSA 2000 c L-1 and several other labour statutes to provide that unions must now disclose the percentage of union dues that “relates to political activities and other causes” including:

(i) general social causes or issues,

(ii) charities or non-governmental organizations,

(iii) organizations or groups affiliated with or supportive of a political party, and

(iv) any activities prescribed by the regulations….

Bill 32 further provides that in order for a union to use a member’s dues for political activities and other causes, the union member must first opt-in to paying the percentage of dues relating to political activities and other causes, referred to by the Bill as making an election. The categories of expenditures that must be disclosed to members, and regarding which members are required to make their election, are stated in vague terms, and left open-ended given the ability of the government to expand the categories using regulations.

The ostensible purpose of the opt-in provision is to provide union members with agency to withhold funds from the union when such funds are used for political purposes with which the union members disagree. The opt-in provision promotes the freedom of expression and association of individual union members by allowing them to distance themselves from union political activities. The significance of the expression and association enhancements should be kept in perspective. Union members have always had the right to use the democratic processes of their organizations to influence the political activities and spending practices of those organizations.

Partisan political purposes may be inferred from the absence of any parallel legislative measures limiting the spending of corporate funds for political purposes, suggesting that the government is content for the expression and association interests of shareholders, which parallel union member interests, to be protected by the mechanism of corporate democracy. Why, unions might ask, are they not entitled to the same treatment as corporations? A partisan purpose may also be inferred from the choice of an opt-in regime over an opt-out regime. Arguably, the freedom of expression and association of union members would be equally protected by an opt-out provision that would have less impact on unions. The difference between opt-in and opt-out regimes are a subject of study in behavioural economics. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proponents of the Nudge theory (see here), suggest that governments should use opt-out regimes instead of opt-in regimes to increase participation in socially-desirable activities such as organ donation (see here). This is because opt-out regimes result in higher participation rates than opt-in regimes. The UCP, by creating an opt-in regime, has chosen a default setting that is likely to result in less money being available to unions for political activities.

However, these inferences are not required because the government has made no attempt to hide the partisan political purpose and effect of this election provision. Bill 32 is designed to limit the capacity of both NDP allies and UCP critics to publicize political messages that the UCP government does not like. Premier Jason Kenney retweeted the following tweet by the UCP explaining why the provisions of Bill 32 permit union members to prevent their dues from being used for political expenditures:

The UCP tweet, and others like it, make it clear that Bill 32 targets unions because of their historical support for the NDP and their opposition to UCP policy positions.

The UCP government has also signalled that it may increase or do away with the limits on third party election expenses (i.e. expenses of unions, corporations, and individuals), which would allow unfettered advertising by private interests during the election period (see here). Bill 29 significantly loosens restrictions on political contributions and third party spending activities in local elections and may foreshadow similar changes to the rules for election finance at the Provincial level. If that comes to pass, the combined effect of undermining the capacity of unions to make political expenditures and removing the limits that constrain both union and corporate spending will tilt the electoral playing field in favour of the UCP and its monied allies.

Union Dues and Political Activities in Comparative Perspective

Perspective can be gained by looking at political finance rules in a comparative context. The most instructive examples because of history and proximity are the United States and the United Kingdom. The current approach in Canada stands in contrast to that of the US. Canadian jurisdictions have traditionally not restricted the use of union or corporate funds for political purposes other than by imposing general spending limits that apply to unions, corporations, and individuals alike. The US, partly as a result of court decisions, employs a system whereby political expenditures are essentially unlimited and, at the same time, union members are allowed to opt out of having their dues used for political purposes with no similar rights being provided to shareholders that make political expenditures. The UK, over the last several decades, has moved to a system that has some measure of parallel treatment of unions and corporations with both being subject to limits on the use of funds for political purposes.

The Supreme Court of Canada in Lavigne v Ontario Public Service Employees Union, 1991 CanLII 68 (SCC), [1991] 2 SCR 211, considered whether legislation that allowed the use of union dues for political activities with which a member disagreed was an infringement of the Charter. The union member contended that Charter section 2(d), which protects freedom of association, gave him a right not to be associated with the union’s political activities and that use of his union dues for these purposes violated this right. The decision is fractured with four sets of reasons all coming to the same result. Three of the seven judges concluded that Charter section 2(d) does not protect a right not to associate, while four concluded that section 2(d) does protect a right not to associate. However, of the four affirming judges, Justice Beverly McLachlin disagreed that the right was infringed by the use of union dues for political purposes with which a member disagreed. The other three judges who found that the right not to associate was infringed concluded that the infringement was justified under section 1. All seven of the judges agreed in the result that rules permitting the use of union dues for political activities with which a member disagrees are constitutional.

Justice Gérard La Forest, writing for himself and Justices John Sopinka and Charles Gonthier, considered the impact of moving from the status quo to an opt-out regime. He observed that:

the number of causes [that a union] will be able to support will be severely reduced, if individual contributors are free to “opt out” in order to avoid funding causes they find distasteful. The ability of unions to favourably affect the political, social and economic environment in which collective bargaining and dispute resolution take place will be correspondingly reduced. Just as importantly, these developments will have serious consequences for the state objective of encouraging healthy democratic decision-making and debate within unions. Under an opting-out regime, the criterion under which expenditure decisions will be made may well become the acceptability of proposed expenditure to those likely to exercise the right to opt out, rather than a genuine attempt to identify and pursue what is in the best interests of those represented by the union. (at 338)

Justice Bertha Wilson, who wrote for herself and Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé and with whom Justice Peter Cory agreed in separate reasons, made similar observations (at 286-292). Justice McLachlin observed that “[a] strong argument can be made that to achieve their legitimate ends and maintain the proper balance between labour and management, unions must to some extent engage in political activities” (at 349-350). Lavigne endorsed the status quo in Canada, whereby until Bill 32 was proposed, the provinces and federal government generally did not provide for any limits on the use of union funds for political purposes.

In contrast, the US Supreme Court in Abood v Detroit Bd. of Educ., 431 US 209 (1977) decided that the use of a public service union member’s dues to fund expenditures on political activities with which the member disagreed contravened the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The Court likened the use of union dues for political activities that a member disagreed with to forced expression or forced association. The Court held that a union could make political expenditures but that “such expenditures [must] be financed from charges, dues, or assessments paid by employees who do not object to advancing those ideas and who are not coerced into doing so against their will by the threat of loss of governmental employment” (at 236).

The US Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, 558 US (2010) opened the door to significantly increased corporate spending in elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that the removal of limits on corporate expenditures was not as troublesome as critics thought because shareholders, through the mechanism of corporate democracy, could exercise control over political expenditures (at 46). Reformers proposed legislation to require shareholder approval prior to a corporation being able to spend money on political advertising, but these efforts have not borne fruit and it has even been suggested that such restrictions might be unconstitutional (see here). The US political finance system after Abood and Citizens United gives wealthy individuals and corporations an advantage over unions in the competition to influence political debate.

The UK political finance regime restricts both unions’ and corporations’ use of funds for political purposes. The UK rules provide that for union political funds established before March 1, 2018, union members are automatically enrolled but are permitted to give notice to opt-out (see here). For union political funds established after March 1, 2018, union members must affirmatively opt-in to participate. The UK’s change from an opt-out regime to an opt-in regime for union political funds was assailed as a partisan attack. Corporations are required under the UK Companies Act, 2006 c 46 to disclose and obtain prior approval from shareholders for all political expenditures over £5,000 (see here). The UK approach, though not treating unions and corporations the same, provides some measure of parity in recognizing the agency of both union members and shareholders.

Egalitarian Model

Unions, corporations, and individuals who make independent expenditures in election campaigns (typically advertising on issues in support of a candidate or party) are termed “third parties” (see here). Going back to the time they were first proposed by the Barbeau Commission in 1966, the assumption behind third party spending limits was that wealthy individuals and corporations were the most likely to incur third party expenditures. Since 1974, third party activities have been intermittently regulated through spending limits and, more recently, mandatory reporting and disclosure. Limits on third party expenditures were repeatedly challenged in the Alberta courts until the Supreme Court of Canada ruled third party expenditure limits constitutional in 2004 in Harper v Canada (Attorney General), 2004 SCC 33 (CanLII).

Harper characterized Parliament’s approach to election regulation and the Supreme Court of Canada’s elections jurisprudence as being egalitarian in nature and purpose. The “egalitarian model” (see here) is “premised on the notion that individuals should have an equal opportunity to participate in the electoral process. Under this model, wealth is the main obstacle to equal participation” (at para 62). The egalitarian model seeks to prevent private wealth from dominating electoral discourse and to create a “level playing field” between electoral participants (at para 62). Uncontrolled third party expenditures pose a significant risk to the level playing field for electoral competition that is created by political party and candidate expenditure limits. Accordingly, proportional regulation of third party expenditures is constitutional.

An argument can be made that unions, being democratic organizations comprised of individuals, do not pose the same threat to egalitarian election regulation and electoral fairness as wealthy individuals and corporations. Indeed, third party election expenditure regulations were motivated by fears of private wealth-distorting election discourse, and not from the threat of unions. Despite this, election finance regimes in Canada have not traditionally made a distinction between corporations and unions. The fact that corporations and unions are rivals that often take opposite sides of the same issues and the idea that fairness should govern electoral competition both weigh in favour of equal treatment of unions and corporations.

Structural Approaches to Charter Democracy Cases

Bill 32 limits the section 2(b) Charter right of unions to freedom of expression by reducing their capacity to make political expenditures. The UCP government will no doubt contend that the limit on the freedom of expression of unions is justified by the autonomy given to workers to make a determination whether they will fund union political activities. Doesn’t that autonomy also further the purposes of the Charter rights of freedom of expression and association? The Legislature, it will be argued, is entitled to deference in determining how to balance rights. Absent the naked partisan purposes of Bill 32, this might be an appropriate approach. But what is a court to do when a law restricting political activity is aimed at the government’s political opponents?

Legislators have an inherent conflict of interest in enacting laws that govern the political process. A party that controls the legislature is subject to the temptation to institute electoral laws that favour its re-election. To deal with this problem, US constitutional theorist John Hart Ely proposed, in his seminal work, Democracy and Distrust, what he called a representation-reinforcing approach to constitutional review (see here). Ely likened the role of courts reviewing laws governing the democratic process to an anti-trust regulator or a referee in sports. The anti-trust regulator – in Canada, the Competition Tribunal – is concerned with preventing monopolistic behaviour and promoting efficient markets, and a referee in sports is concerned with “one team gaining unfair advantage” (at 103). Ely would have courts intervene to prevent the distortion of political competition. His theory of constitutional review is sometimes called a “process theory.” Patrick Monahan has suggested that there is a place for Ely’s process theory in Charter jurisprudence (see here).

Following Ely, Samuel Issacharoff and Richard H Pildes in “Politics as Markets” likened legislators to corporate managers who adopt measures that prevent their removal – poison pills, for example. They contend that courts in democratic process cases should act as courts do in corporate law, to invalidate measures that foster management entrenchment. Legislative conflict of interest is sometimes taken into account in US cases by applying strict scrutiny, the most stringent standard of review, in democratic process cases. The approach to law and democracy problems that has grown from the insights of Ely and later Issacharoff, Pildes, and Karlan (see here) and others is often called a structural approach. The structural approach holds that constitutional rights must be understood less in terms of their individual dimensions and instead contextually in terms of the larger democratic process in which they are situated. In other words, constitutional rights are tools available to courts to ensure the proper functioning of the democratic process. While process theory and structural approaches are sometimes portrayed as being agnostic to normative considerations, a more realistic view is that process theory and structural approaches assume the basic norms of liberal democracy as a baseline.

Yasmin Dawood has articulated a new conceptual framework for Canadian law and democracy cases that she calls “structural rights” (see here). Structural rights are “individual rights that take into account the broader institutional framework within which rights are defined, held, and exercised” (at 503). Dawood posits that the Supreme Court of Canada should “recognize the right to a fair and legitimate democratic process as a purpose of the right to vote” (at 525). The right to a fair and legitimate democratic process is mainly concerned with checking “illegitimate exercise of power that benefits the partisan interests of public officials at the expense of the public interest” (at 526). Dawood’s approach works well in the context of section 3 of the Charter, which protects democratic rights, where there is analytical work to be done in the definition of the right. It is less clear how Dawood’s approach works in the context of section 2(b) of the Charter, where all of the analytical heavy lifting is done in the context of section 1 (i.e. in examining the justifiability of government limits on freedom of expression). Dawood’s discussion of Harper and campaign finance restrictions suggests that she envisions courts scrutinizing self-serving partisan behaviour in the context of section 2(b) of the Charter, so it must be imagined that this analysis would take place under the rubric of section 1. In his paper, “Breakdown in the Democratic Process and the Law of Canadian Democracy”, Michael Pal suggests that structural considerations come into play in the section 1 evaluation of whether the legislative objective is pressing and substantial (at 346).

My own attempt to reconcile the Supreme Court of Canada’s normative view of regulation of the democratic process, the egalitarian model, and a more structural approach to constitutional analysis all within the framework of existing Charter doctrine is found in “Freedom of Expression and the Law of the Democratic Process.” I argue that the approach to analyzing whether limits on Charter rights are justified that emerged from R v Oakes, 1986 CanLII 46 (SCC), [1986] 1 SCR 103, allows a court to take into account normative considerations in the first part of the section 1 analysis, evaluating whether the legislative objective is pressing and substantial, and structural considerations in the second part of the analysis where proportionality is evaluated. A strict approach to proportionality allows courts to effectively police self-serving behaviour. I called this approach “process theory lite” to give a playful acknowledgement of my intellectual debt to Ely and others.

My process theory lite approach has been criticized by Pal (at 346) and others (see here) as being too deferential. These critics would prefer to see a more distrustful approach taken to the evaluation of legislative objectives in the first part of the Oakes test rather than leaving the protection of structural interests to the proportionality stage of the analysis. My response to these critics is that legislation rarely fails at the first stage of the Oakes test because legislatures are almost always able to advance a plausible objective for their legislation. Even if a legislature is able to point to a legitimate objective, the work done in the first stage of the Oakes test is not lost because it may identify structural concerns – for example, potential self-dealing and adverse effects on political competition – that can then inform the rigour with which the elements of the proportionality stage of the Oakes test are applied. A strict approach to the minimal impairment and rational connection stages may weed out abusive legislative provisions, but it is the final aspect of the proportionality enquiry, called by some the “heart” of the analysis, that is ideally suited to taking structural considerations into account (see here at paras 78-79). At this stage, as the Court explained in another law and democracy case, Thomson Newspapers Co v Canada (Attorney General),1998 CanLII 829 (SCC), [1998] 1 SCR 877, a court must take into account “practical and contextual factors” and weigh “whether the benefits which accrue from the limitation are proportional to its deleterious effects as measured by the values underlying the Charter” (at para 125).

Conclusion

Pal raised the question of what he calls “difficult cases.” Difficult cases, according to Pal, are ones where a restriction is self-dealing and has a partisan effect but, absent those factors, would be unobjectionable from a constitutional perspective. This is especially the case if there are also defensible principled reasons that can be marshalled in favour of the restriction. Pal contends that where a “problem [that reduces political competition] emanates from the incentives facing legislators, it is unlikely to be fixed in the legislature itself, and should, therefore, be remedied by courts” (at 345).

A constitutional challenge to Bill 32 would be a difficult case. A law requiring union members to opt-in to having their dues used for political purposes, when viewed apart from its context, is not inherently objectionable and can be defended under section 1 of the Charter as promoting the legitimate purpose of enhancing union members’ freedom of expression and association. Bill 32 only appears to be constitutionally objectionable when viewed from a structural or contextual perspective considering both its partisan purposes and its adverse effect on political competition.

A constitutional challenge to Bill 32 will provide an opportunity for a court to explain how structural considerations may be weighed in Charter analysis. A court evaluating Bill 32 from a structural perspective will have to ask whether the government’s ostensible purpose of promoting worker autonomy could have been achieved through a measure such as an opt-out regime that would have a less drastic impact on union capacity to participate in political debate. A court will also have to ask whether the enhancement of the expressive and associational interests of union members outweighs the toll that the measure exacts on political competition. The government’s conflict of interest in enacting Bill 32 requires that the deference accorded to legislatures in balancing Charter values in the proportionality stage of the Oakes test be cast aside and the restrictions be assessed with a critical eye.

This post may be cited as: Colin Feasby, “Restoring Balance? Bill 32, the Charter, and Fair Democratic Process” (July 15, 2020), online: ABlawg, http://ablawg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Blog_CF_Bill32.pdf

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The Chase Files Daily Newscap 8/28/2018

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is The Chase Files Daily News Cap for Tuesday 28th August 2018. Remember you can read full articles by purchasing Daily Nation Newspaper (DN), via Barbados Today (BT) or Barbados Government Information Services (BGIS).

INTEGRITY LAW MIGHT FAIL – A rare open hearing of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament on the proposed Integrity in Public Life Bill 2018 was warned today that the legislation alone would fail to keep politicians honest. The warning came from Sir David Simmons, the former parliamentarian, cabinet minister and attorney general under several administrations of the governing Barbados Labour Party who rose to become Chief Justice of Barbados. But as he addressed the parliamentary committee, Sir David spoke as the man who helped establish the Turks and Caicos Islands Integrity Commission he currently chairs. The former Chief Justice, one of two eminent persons making oral submissions to the Committee in the Senate Chamber, recommended that an Integrity in Public Life Act must be part of a package of related laws in order for it to get the job done of fighting corruption. “This legislation must be part of a package. It cannot exist on its own. It cannot adequately do the job. We agree that there must be a code of conduct developed which must provide for sanctions for breach of the code,” said Sir David. “You need a code of conduct, but more particularly… I would like to suggest, you need legislation to regulate campaign financing of political parties…and you need a Freedom of Information Act. I think those two, plus the code of conduct and this legislation [Integrity in Public Life Bill] as a suite of legislation will ensure that Barbados has taken proper steps towards providing minimum standards for good governance and the conduct of persons in public life,” the leading Caribbean jurist told the Select Committee chaired by Attorney General Dale Marshall. He recommended a sliding scale of sanctions, instead of the automatic dismissal of corrupt government ministers or judges which is required under the British overseas territory’s constitution. He suggested such penalties should include a reprimand or suspension. Sir David stressed that Barbados needed to get its house in order for the treatment it is likely to face from the international financial sector including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with regards to corrupt practices. He added there was no time for Barbados to turn back in its quest to tackle corruption and should follow the examples of countries such as Jamaica, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos which have Integrity Commissions. “Corruption is attracting the attention of world leaders and the international financial institutions. The Summit of the Americas was held in Peru in April this year and the hot topic was how governments can combat corruption at the highest level throughout the Americas and that would include us. In the same month of April this year. “The International Monetary Fund that we are dealing with now, promulgated a framework for enhanced engagement with countries on governance and corruption issues. And the objectives, according to the release from the IMF is to ensure that issues of corruption are dealt with ‘systematically, effectively, candidly and in a manner that reflects uniformity of treatment’,” said the former Chief Justice. The IMF will begin to comment on actual or perceived corrupt practices in a particular country when it conducts its usual Article IV reviews, he predicted. “It behoves us to start to put our house in order to align ourselves to the rest of the world and the best practices that are being developed to enhance good governance,” Sir David said. But in a frank declaration, Sir David blamed the private sector for corruption in Government. “Corruption in the public sector is a direct consequence of willing greedy and corrupt persons in the private sector. There is big money in Government contracts, everyone knows that. And where legislation for election campaign financing is non-existent and public procurement legislation is toothless, I don’t think it is fanciful to suggest that financiers of election campaigns of parties expect that if the donees of their funds are successful they would have access to lucrative Government contracts,” he contende. The ex-judge also made a strong case for whistleblower legislation with provision to protect the informants, a major public education programme to ensure the widest possible buy-in and much stiffer penalties that would deter potential corruption. The other oral submission was made by Head of Management Studies at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Philmore Alleyne, whose doctoral thesis was on whistleblowing. Dr Alleyne, who also taught governance and ethics at the Cave Hill Campus, shared some of the findings of a 2017 study he conducted on behalf of the UWI on corruption. He said 89 per cent of respondents believe there is political interference in business and the judiciary. “There is also belief that there is pervasive corruption and fraud in business and Government. There is also a belief that Government is perceived as not being accountable and transparent,” the senior university lecturer told the Joint Select Committee, which includes the Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley and Opposition Senator Caswell Franklin. Dr Alleyne also found that people saw Government as not being serious of tackling corruption. Without naming former Minister of International Business Donville Inniss, who is currently facing US money laundering allegations linked to alleged bribery, the academic pointed to the case as another reason for Barbados to have integrity legislation. Heartened that Government was taking a bold step in seeking full stakeholder participation in the final drafting of the Integrity in Public Life Bill, he nevertheless said that its implementation and enforcement remained a concern, he said. He agreed with Sir David’s suggestion for a public education campaign to address the negative perceptions in the public domain concerning politicians and business people. He told the hearing that just before coming before the Committee, he carried out a cursory survey among some members of the public and discovered that people felt it was just a talk shop. But Committee members Senator Lisa Cummins and Ralph Thorne MP said this was far from the truth, pointing to Dr Alleyne’s own submission and the invitation to all stakeholders to take part. The UWI lecturer agreed to make his research available to the Committee and promised to return to the parliamentary body if needed. He also sided with Sir David’s call for stiffer penalties in the legislation, a mechanism to protect confidential information, the expunging of the record of declared assets after a public official has left office and greater vetting of appointments to the Integrity Commission. At the end of the three-hour session, which was carried live on television and streamed on the Parliament’s website, the Chairman of the Joint Select Committee Dale Marshall announced that 14 entities or individuals had made written submissions and seven of them would appear before the body. The Democratic Labour Party, which held office until the May 24 election heads the list of organizations expected to address the Joint Select Committee, along with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB), the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, the Mens Education Support Association (MESA), the Office of the Ombudsman and the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) Financial Intelligence Unit. The hearing was adjourned until Friday, September 7th at 1.30 p.m. (BT)

BILL PROBED – Credit card charges for supermarket shopping, a $900 restaurant bill, a television and more than $1,000 in duty-free purchases by yet another leader of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) are being challenged as unauthorized transactions, Barbados TODAY has learned. And the decision-making body in the NUPW, concerned at a two-year pattern of high credit card spending, has called for scrutiny of the union leaders’ charge card bills. Just one month after President Akanni McDowall was called to account for alleged unauthorized use of the union’s credit card, General Secretary Roslyn Smith is to be quizzed by the union’s national council later this week for a credit card bill of $13,262.57, a source close to the development told Barbados TODAY on condition of anonymity. But Smith, backed by General Treasurer Asokore Beckles, has rubbished these accusations of unauthorized purchases in the last ten months. But the source said that McDowall, who is chairman of the National Council, has been instructed to summon Smith in writing to a meeting on Wednesday. McDowall would neither confirm nor deny this account when contacted today. In documents seen by Barbados TODAY, Smith charged $4000 at Popular Discounts and Massy Stores supermarkets from September 2017 to March 2018. Other charges included a $937 bill at Brown Sugar restaurant, $773 for a television at Courts and $1,196.28 in purchases at Duty Free Caribbean. Smith told Barbados TODAY that the charges were nothing short of a malicious attempt to besmirch her name because purchases were made with the expressed authorization of the union. “All those things were discussed before. The supermarket purchases were for the hurricane relief effort in Dominica. I couldn’t use the card unless I have permission because I return the card to the union after every purchase. So I am not too bothered by what anyone says. When you have persons that have done things that they should not do they try to implicate people that are above board,” the NUPW general secretary said. Her position was fully supported by the treasurer, Beckles, who denied Smith was being investigated. “I am the general treasurer of the organization and I can say to you emphatically that the general secretary is under no investigation or under any disciplinary action under any circumstances when it comes to financial matters. Any financial spending has to be approved by myself or by the president and one of the first-vice presidents. So even if the general secretary had to make a transaction it would come to light when it came time to paying,” said Beckles, who added he personally combed through the union’s spending each week. “There were various ways in which we had to go about purchasing stuff for Dominica disaster relief. These matters were urgent to get relief to our brothers and sisters out there. So, given the speedy nature we had instructed the general secretary to go and purchase these items as well as find ways to get them to Dominica,” he added. The National Council, the union’s highest decision-making body, met on July 30 and August 2 and moved that “all documents in respect of the credit card should be brought to Council including the General Secretary’s use”. According to a report of the meeting, a copy of which Barbados TODAY has obtained, the National Council expressed concern over the pattern of spending on the union’s credit cards in the last 24 months. The committee recommended that all credit cards be destroyed and that a sole credit card be issued for NUPW use, limited to overseas charges and for emergencies. (BT)

TRUCKS STILL COMING – Thwarted in their attempt to bring in cheaper garbage trucks, sanitation officials are still working to source the extra vehicles from Britain – but they will cost the taxpayer a little extra. The trucks are to be ordered within six to eight weeks of being initially announced by Prime Minister Mia Mottley in her June 11 mini budget – albeit at a “minor additional cost”, said Minister of Environment and National Beautification Trevor Prescod. The 15 used trucks would come at a cost of about $15 million, as the delivery time for new trucks would be around eight months and Barbados could not wait that long, the Prime Minister had said then. But a week ago Mottley told a St Michael South East constituency meeting that she ordered a group of Government officials sent to Europe to source the vehicles to return to Barbados after they reported the mysterious, simultaneous, appearance of a private sector firm’s representative. Barbados TODAY later revealed that Courtesy Garage was the company whose representative had shown up in Europe. Plans to source more than two dozen second-hand garbage trucks was still on the table, said the minister in an impromptu interview during the Down to Brasstacks radio talkshow today, ahead of a tour of the site of the old Fairchild Street market. He could not give an indication as to when the used trucks would arrive in Barbados as a result of the “unconventional things” that resulted in the recall of the officials on a UK trip, but said Government was “hoping that we are working within the same schedule. “As a consequence of what has transpired, the reality because there are cloudy areas, we have to wait until the clouds are cleared,” said Prescod figuratively. The buyers team of SSA chairman Jeffrey Headley and two technical staff members had examined the trucks at the three locations they visited and had already “sent forward reports on the experience up there,” he added. “They saw enough. The reality is that in arranging the trip, it was not Barbados to St Lucia, Barbados to St Vincent. So you had some extra time which would have been there. So although the mission was cut short the reality is that the department did what it had to do,” he said. Without giving any estimate, the Minister for the Environment said Government was likely to incur “minor additional cost” as a consequence of cutting the trip shorter than expected. Explaining that the country was in “a bad situation” when it came to the shortage of garbage trucks, Prescod said only about 16 trucks were functioning at times “but on a regular basis sometimes those numbers drop down to about four or five”. He said ahead of the additional trucks arriving, the SSA was also taking steps to improve their efficiency. “What we have also been doing is rather than having one shift or so, sometimes two or three shifts, and you will probably see garbage trucks out on Saturdays and Sundays and bank holidays. Sometimes when a situation becomes extremely intense and excessive amount of garbage accumulate in some areas we have a special service that will go out to that location and clear it,” he explained. He said the decision to explore the trucks in the UK was based on the experts’ opinion, adding that they also did cursory checks in other markets. “They felt that the English market was the best market. We obviously looked at China, we looked at Japan, we looked at Brazil [and] we looked the United States of America. We didn’t exclude anybody,” said Prescod. Explaining that the Garbage and Sewage Contribution (GSC) that was introduced at a rate of $1.50 per day for households and 50 per cent of the water bill for companies on August 1, would help finance the SSA and the Barbados Water Authority, Prescod assured that “proper checks and balances” would be in place. “We are going to be very prudent and I don’t want you to judge us based on what you have experienced within the last 10 or 11 years in Barbados. You can rest assured that we have designed a progressive programme as a political party and I believe that we also have competent persons,” he said. (BT)

MARKET VENDORS TRASH DUMPERS – Stall owners and vendors are demanding the Government tackle a stinking mountain of garbage at the Fairchild Street Market site that attracts illicit dumpers. But the mini-‘Mount Stinkeroo’ not only earned the ire of the market’s users but brought out the Minister for the Environment Trevor Prescod, senior civil servants – and a clean-up crew from the Sanitation Service Authority today. Armed with skid-steer loader and two trucks the SSA sought to clear the mess – discarded household items, food containers and cardboard boxes, even disused appliances. And the people who make the market their place of business accuse previous and current administrations of turning a blind eye to the problem. Irate business owners called on Government to take serious action against people who use the demolished market as a dumping ground in order to avoid paying the tipping fee for proper disposal of their refuse. “People does come from all over the place and dump their garbage. Just last night one man came here with a grey Suzuki (jeep) and dumped a whole heap of fridges and when people tried to talk to him he start cursing,” said one bar owner, who referred to herself only as Janice. “Trucks does come here and dump things because they don’t want to pay the tipping fee. This is just nasty and Government need to install some cameras around here so that they could catch some people and make them pay. This is downright nasty and it is years now that we suffering with this problem and it takes months before [SSA] comes,” said another stall owner, who did not want to be identified. But Prescod said it was therefore unfair to blame the SSA for the lack of garbage removal because the market has a private contractor for garbage disposal which uses a skip to retain refuse. The Minister also warned that Government is considering stiffer penalties for persons who use the market as a dumping ground. “This skip belongs to a private hauler and it is not the Government department that is responsible for having the skip here and it is not the Sanitation Service Authority that is responsible for the accumulation of garbage. The reality is that when that skip on more than one occasion becomes full, the private hauler moves it but leaves all the garbage that overflowed and accumulated around the skip,” said Prescod, as he oversaw the unsightly mound with top officials from his ministry and the SSA. And the Minister revealed the possible implementation of garbage separation in homes for recycling and other alternative waste disposal. “If we try to use moral suasion in the months ahead and we discover that society is not responding then we would have to use the legislature in order to use that muscle. We came into office and realized that a lot of these deficiencies existed in the system,” he stressed. (BT)

SCHOOL READINESS – Eagle Hall Primary will likely be unable to open its doors on the first day of the school year, the Government said this afternoon on its yearly race to spruce up the nation’s schools. The extent of refurbishment work at the urban school “may make it impossible for that institution to welcome students in time for the start of the term” on September 10, said the Ministry of Education in a release. “The time frame and the amount of work left to be done may not allow those schools to be ready in time,” said Acting Minister of Education Senator Lucille Moe. “We have to wait a little longer and see how far within the next two weeks the contractors are able to get [in completing] the work. Certainly Eagle Hall [Primary] will be one of those schools and so we will be monitoring that situation closely to see if we will be able to make any kind of adjustments in regard to that situation. “Whatever money that has been made available for this refurbishment we will ensure it is provided to the contractors so they can complete the work,” the minister said. “Most of the island’s schools should be ready to open their doors to students at the start of the new school term,” the statement said. The news came as Acting Minister of Education Senator Lucille Moe joined the top brass of the ministry of a tour of schools across the island. Standing in for ailing minister Santia Bradshaw who has begun treatment for breast cancer, Senator Moe was joined by Parliamentary Secretary Senator Dr Romel Springer, Permanent Secretary Janet Phillips, and Chief Education Officer Karen Best. The officials assessed the progress of repairs being carried out, then declared that most of the schools should be ready when school opens on Monday, September 10. “Some of the schools are almost ready; they still have some way to go. I think the contractors are trying to complete what is left outstanding. Certainly, money is always a concern and Government is trying to ensure they can provide the funding to the contractors so that they can get the jobs completed,” Senator Moe said. The refurbishment works included replacing tiles, windows and counter tops; repairing roofs and ceilings; and ridding school buildings of mould, which was due to the schools’ location, she said. Most of the problems could be rectified with proper maintenance, the minister said. The Acting Education Minister urged pupils to take care of their school when they returned in September. “I would say to students that it is their school and to be proud of their school and to make sure the environments they will find themselves in every day are maintained to an acceptable standard. I would also like to appeal to the parents to speak to their children at home and ensure that they impress on them the need for them to take care of their schools and [have] pride in their surroundings,” she said. (BT)

NO STATISTICS ON LOCAL CXC FAILURES, SAYS OFFICIAL - Education officials here are yet to determine the number of Barbadian students who failed to pass a single subject in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination set by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Some 11,000 students from across the Caribbean had failed every subject, CXC Registrar Glenroy Cumberbatch said at a function in Grenada two weeks ago during the release of the results from the May/June examination. “This year we had over 60,000 candidates doing five or more CSEC subjects and 59 per cent of them gaining acceptable grades,” Cumberbatch said then, while noting that just 20 per cent of the Caribbean CXC-age population get to write the CSEC exam, and of this cohort some 13 per cent fail every subject. Local CXC Registrar in the Ministry of Education Dr Roderick Rudder told Barbados TODAY he was unable to say how many of the 11,000 students were Barbadian. “We have not gone into details in terms of looking at the national performance as yet because we were really and truly caught between facilitating our students who are applying for sixth form and we were at the tail end of dealing with the scholars and exhibitioners. So, we have not fully analyzed our statistics as yet, we are in the process of doing that,” Rudder said, adding that the ministry was in the process of doing some other “very critical things” at this point. He explained that normally the ministry would have been able to provide the updated statistics on the CSEC results, but this year had been a challenge due to clashes with other key events. “We are in the process of now going through the stats,” he emphasized. The examination body had put “corrective” measures in place to assist students writing the various exams, CXC’s Public Relations Manager Cleveland Sam told Barbados TODAY. “We have study guides for CSEC and CAPE [Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination] subjects. We have for almost all of those subjects by now. We have been publishing those study guides . . . [and] we have also made the syllabuses available online free of cost for everyone to access them as well,” Sam said. The CXC spokesman revealed that the school reports, which allow students to review past results, were also accessible online at no charge. “With respect to specific subjects [such as] Maths, English and Caribbean History, CXC has set up three working groups to examine the issues affecting the performance of candidates in those subjects. And those committees are expected to present those reports to Council in December,” he revealed. CXC had not conducted an investigation into the reasons behind the 11,000 failures, but it had noticed that in some of the subjects, such as Social Studies, the students had been inadequately prepared for the exam, he said. “The examiners have observed that the students are not presenting Social Studies answers. They are presenting everyday answers as if they are having a conversation with someone down the road. So, they are not taking the time to learn the language of the subject, for example,” Sam said. Data provided by the CXC shows that in 2016, there were 13,388 pupils who failed to secure a single pass, while there were 11,751 failures cases last year. (BT)

ON-THE-JOB PROTECTIONS FOR THE DISABLED ‘COMING’ – A new Disability in the Workplace Act is on the cards for the three-month-old Barbados Labour Party administration, three years after it was introduced, Home Affairs Minister Edmund Hinkson has declared. And Hinkson, a leader in the disabled community now a Minister of Government, has also promised that the department is to complete its move to a new building, which began construction under the previous administration. The lawyer was speaking on the sidelines of a recent tour of the House of Assembly by pupils of the Gordon Greenidge Primary School in his St James North riding. “The establishment of a Disabilities in the Workplace Bill which has been knocking around for three years when I was an opposition Member of Parliament – and as you know I also sat as Director of the National Disabilities Council – and I would have gone to a couple meetings which would have included that disability in the workplace bill. Obviously, from a legislative viewpoint [the Act] will prohibit discrimination among persons with disabilities in the workplace” he said. The current way of defining someone as disabled and medically unfit needed revamping because disabled people still have their mental facilities functioning and are capable of working, he said. “The workplace as is reasonable would have to retrofit the workplace to accommodate a person with a disability, or they may have an employee who became disabled in terms of mobility as a result of an accident.” Under current law, workers who become disabled during their employment must wait a year before applying to a medical board, constituted by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), that makes the declaration of incapacity. “You may end up on the public purse through NIS where nothing is wrong with your brain, your mental capabilities and you should still be able to work,” he said adding that people with disabilities were more appreciative of jobs than those who were able-bodied. “A lot of persons with disabilities, visual, mobile disabilities are as bright or brighter than persons who do not have those abilities, and of course they treasure a job more because they realize that they have been given an opportunity to show their worth, invariably you would find that they concentrate more on the job,” Hinkson said “So we are committed to bringing that in legislation.” The Home Affairs Minister criticized the Freundel Stuart administration for never bringing a comprehensive disability law to Parliament since he proposed it in 2015. “I would have laid in Parliament a resolution calling for comprehensive disability legislation now in March 2015 and it was never debated by the previous government; certainly that is something that we need to look at,” he said. The then Minister of Social Care Steve Blackett assured the disabled community earlier this year that the National Disabilities Unit would have been relocated to the new building under construction in Collymore Rock, St Michael. “It ought to have been completed by now”, Hinkson said. “When I was a Director for [the National Council for the Disabled] we would have agreed for the Disabilities Unit to be relocated into that building and we were told that it would have been completed a while ago. “Certainly, the then Minister Steve Blackett in the month of March earlier this year said that it would have been finished. Minister Forde has visited the building and we hope that it will soon be opened,” the Minister said. He added that it was impractical for members of the disabled community to have to do business in a two-storey building. (BT)

WOMAN BREAKS POLICE ‘GLASS CEILING’ – A Governor General, a Prime Minister – now add an Assistant Commissioner of Police to the list of women breaking the glass ceiling in Barbados this year. And while she does not see her appointment as major, Lila Strickland, who has been acting in the position for the last five years, has acknowledged that it was definitely a breakthrough for females. “I was doing the work since December 2013. It is not a big deal for me [but] it is an achievement for the female section,” she said. Strickland, 62, was on Monday presented with her letters of appointment from Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith during a short ceremony at Police Headquarters. “I have been in it for a while and I don’t think of anything that is new that is imminent but I have been making inroads,” she said. She pledged to continue to give of her best at all times and continue to work closely with her colleagues to fulfill the mandate of the Royal Barbados Police Force. Strickland’s appointment came exactly three months after Barbados witnessed the election of its first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, 52, and about seven months after 69-year-old Dame Sandra Mason began her term as Governor General. A record six women now serve as Members of Parliament in the 30-seat House of Assembly. Eight of 20 members of the Senate are female. Commandment of the Regional Police Training Centre Sylvester Louis and Senior Superintendent of Police Eucklyn Thompson have been made Assistant Commissioners of Police. The appointments will take effect from September 1. (BT)

EX-COP ON BAIL OVER FRAUD CHARGES - A former police officer-turned-taxi driver, was granted $30,000 bail when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on fraud charges today. It is alleged Denoredo Dajoephie Denore Mundle, of Austin Drive, Eden Lodge, St Michael with intent to defraud, endeavoured to obtain from CIBC First Caribbean International Bank Limited, on August 21, $76,280. 22 and $94, 820.55 via two forged cheques made payable to him and drawn from the account of W.H. Bryan Limited. Mundle was not required to plead to the indictable charges when he appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick with his attorney Naomi Lynton. Prosecutor Sergeant Rudy Pilgrim objected to bail on the grounds that investigations were not yet completed with detectives still looking for other individuals, and there were suggestions that Mundle might interfere in the course of justice. The prosecution also pointed to the “potency” of the evidence against the accused. Mundle was a former police officer who would have been involved in investigations of this nature and could “influence or coerce” the situation if granted bail, the prosecutor contended. He also submitted that the accused as a flight risk. But defence attorney Lynton argued that her client was a fit and proper candidate for bail given that he had no prior convictions and was not currently on bail. She further submitted that he was not a flight risk although he was Jamaican by birth. “He has been here since he was five years old and is 30 years old now. He doesn’t have a passport, be it Barbadian or Jamaican. He was a police officer for four years and left in 2013 and has been working as a taxi man and valet on the West Coast,” Lynton added. The Bail Act did not specify ongoing investigations and search for individuals as reasons for withdrawing bail, as the Crown contended, she told the magistrate. “He is not on bail, has no [prior convictions], had nothing to support that he will abscond if granted bail. It is inflammatory; a red herring…. to make it more dramatic than it needs to be. I don’t see the connection to the charges with him being a former police officer which should disturb his right to bail . . . he is an extremely fit candidate for bail,” Lynton added. Magistrate Frederick ruled in favour of the accused man and granted him bail, which he secured with two sureties. But Mundle must now report to Central Police Station every Wednesday before 10 a.m. with valid identification. He is barred from applying for a passport and cannot travel without a court order. The accused fraudster who is to make his next appearance in court on December 5 has also been warned not to approach any witnesses in the case. (BT)

HOPE PLEADS GUILTY - A Guyanese woman was handed over to immigration officials today after pleading guilty to a theft charge. Crystal Saskiea Hope, 20, of Halls Road, St Michael admitted that she stole $55.15 in items from Popular Discount on Spry Street, The City, on Saturday. The prosecutor said the security guard on duty observed Hope placing canned foods and meats into a bag. She was then stopped as she approached the exit and searched when the stolen items were found. “I don’t know why I do this,” she is said to have told supermarket managers before the police were called in. After addressing Magistrate Douglas Frederick this morning immigration officials were called in and it was disclosed that Hope arrived on March 4 and was granted a six-month stay as a visitor. Magistrate Frederick then convicted, reprimanded and discharged her on the charge and released her into the custody of immigration officials. (BT)

FREE TO GO – Shopkeeper Anthony Winston Alleyne has been freed of the murder of Tyrone McDonald Babb, after the Crown dropped its case for lack of evidence. Babb died last December 17 after an alleged altercation with Alleyne, while at 1st Ave, Goodland, St Michael. The deceased, who lived at Goodland Main Road, St Michael, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital by ambulance for medical attention the following day after complaining of head injuries and later died. Alleyne, 33, also of 1st Ave, Goodland, St Michael, appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court on December 22, last year charged with the capital offence. He was remanded to prison at HMP Dodds where has been an inmate for the past eight months. But when Alleyne appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick today the case against him was discontinued through a warrant from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. It said the charge against the accused “cannot be [proved] beyond a reasonable doubt” and advised that the criminal proceedings against him be discounted. Moments later, the shackles and manacles where taken off and the shopkeeper emerged from court a free man. (BT)

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Trump’s formerly ultra-loyal lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly taped his conversations with Trump. They seem to show Trump’s awareness of payoffs to prostitutes who have asserted he slept with them over a long period. Cohen is no longer willing to pay the price of a loyalty that is not reciprocated. In this same month, Trump attended the NATO meeting of heads of state and government. He attacked openly almost all U.S. traditional allies. He threatened withdrawal from NATO if they didn’t conform to his demands. Once again, uncertainty abounded as to what he would do. The European Union (EU) responded by entering into a very large common market arrangement with Japan, formerly one of the surest allies of the United States. Similarly, Canada responded to Trump’s tariffs with counter-tariffs, as did various West European countries. This exacerbated tensions within the EU between the “old” members and the now very nationalist East European members. But the East Europeans were not sure they could rely on Trump to defend them against perceived threats from Russia. The tariffs also upset two U.S. groups of importance. One was the farmers whose products were directly affected by the counter-tariffs and also by the increased price of their products where they were still allowed to be sold without tariffs. Trump was forced to allot funds to aid the farmers. This however was seen by the farmers as a short-run measure that would not hold over the longer run. And the short-term payments upset the ultra-right factions in the Republican Party. Trump was finding himself besieged on several fronts at once. And these various groups were less sure than ever that they could count on Trump to emphasize their primary concerns. At this point, Trump very unexpectedly met with Jean-Claude Juncker speaking for the EU. They agreed to postpone any and all new tariffs until after the 2018 elections. In effect, Trump abandoned for the moment the most serious action he had intended to make. In return, he received a very minor concession by the EU on soybeans. Trump proclaimed victory. To me it reads like a defeat, one that Trump had to paint in a different color. If all this were not worry enough, a federal judge allowed a suit dangerous for Trump to continue in court. This suit argued that the so-called emoluments clause of the Constitution designed to counter corruption was being violated by the profits and advantages Trump was receiving through his properties, when these properties were used by foreign governments. The suit will go on for many years. But the effect of this will be to force Trump as part of his defense to reveal much of his personal income, as well as that of his family. It could also force the release of Trump’s tax returns. Meanwhile, he maintains that the denuclearization of North Korea is proceeding well. However, all that he has to show for it is the return of some remains of bodies lost during the war. In Iran, Trump is still threatening war, and says he intends to renounce the agreement signed by the United States, despite the fact that the terms of the agreement are less porous than anything he hopes to get North Korea to sign. Will Trump actually engage in military action? Even the Israelis are doubtful, as they attempt to create a situation that will force him to cease waffling. Bluffing in foreign policy is not a winning proposition. It reveals weakness, something Trump abhors. The most positive result for Trump may be a negative one. He decided to enter the Republican primaries and endorse candidates, who then had to compete for Trump’s favor. His endorsement has made it possible for some ultra-right candidates to win. Many analysts, including it seems Republican establishment figures, worry that, as a consequence, the Democratic candidate for senator or representative or governor will win. The bottom line is that the real actions of all the actors will be based on an appreciation of Trump’s strength and not his rhetoric. In July 2018 Trump was loud in rhetoric and hesitant in action. In another month or two, if this continues (and there is every likelihood it will), the negatives will overwhelm the pretense. The final question then will be: if Trump is indeed in trouble, who will benefit? The post Is Trump in Trouble? Everyone’s Question appeared first on Immanuel Wallerstein. http://clubof.info/

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[Ilya Somin] The Case Against Court Packing Revisited

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has stimulated renewed liberal interest in "court packing" - the idea of increasing the number of Supreme Court justices in order to get a majority more favorable to their views. Many on the left fear that this is the only way they can prevent a conservative majority from dominating the Court for a long time to come. While I can understand their distaste for conservative jurisprudence (and even agree with it on some points), court-packing is a cure far worse than any likely disease.

Last year, ironically, it was a conservative court-packing plan that made waves in legal circles - one offered by famed conservative legal scholar Steven Calabresi (in a paper coauthored with Shams Hirji), who hoped to pack the lower federal courts with Republican judges. Most of what I wrote in criticism of the Calabresi-Hirj plan applies equally to today's progressive versions of the idea:

If either the Republicans... or the Democrats.... succeed in packing the courts, the opposing party is sure to do exactly the same thing the next time they control the White House and both Houses of Congress. This is even more likely if court-packing can be enacted through the reconciliation process (as Calabresi and Hirj argue), and thus requires only a narrow Senate majority to pass.

Ending the norm against court-packing ensures that the judiciary will not serve as an effective check on the other branches of government at the very time when it is most likely to be needed: when one party holds both Congress and the presidency, and can thereby push through its agenda with relatively little opposition. Especially in a highly polarized era like our own, it is precisely at such times that the ruling party is [particularly] likely to violate constitutional constraints on its power in order to score victories against the hated opposition....

[T]he case against court-packing does not depend on the proclivities of any one president. As James Madison famously warned us: "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." Indeed, dangerously unenlightened politicians are all too common. The norm against court-packing is an important bulwark against their depredations – and those of the political majorities who put them in power.

I fully recognize that many Democrats regard court-packing as justified retaliation for the GOP's "theft" of the Supreme Court seat that went to Neil Gorsuch as a result of the Republican-controlled Senate's refusal to hold hearings and vote on Barack Obama nominee Merrick Garland. Republicans, in turn, argue that their treatment of Garland was justified by past Democratic misdeeds in the judicial nomination process (including refusal to hold hearings for a number of prominent GOP circuit court nominees), and that the Democrats themselves had signaled they would refuse to consider a GOP nominee in circumstances similar to those surrounding the Garland appointment. The truth is that, for a long time, both parties have shamelessly violated a variety of norms surrounding judicial nominations almost any time it seemed like they might gain an advantage by doing so. And both are equally shameless in shifting back and forth on procedural issues whenever the political winds dictate. The latest example is the contrast between GOP Senate leader Mitch NcConnell's insistence, in 2016, that the then-open Supreme Court seat should not be filled until after the November election, and his current claims that the present vacancy must be filled quickly, and certainly before the GOP might potentially lose its Senate majority in this fall's election.

But whatever we might think about the history of these shenanigans, court-packing is qualitatively different from any of them. Holding up nominees (as the GOP did with Garland), filibustering them (as the Democrats did with several Bush nominees, and as many - including Barack Obama - tried to do with Justice Samuel Alito), or "slow walking" them through the nomination process (many examples from both parties), are all potentially problematic. But all still leave the judiciary intact as a serious check on the power of the other branches of government. Court-packing, by contrast, would not. Once the norm against it is broken, both parties will resort to it whenever they have simultaneous control over Congress and the presidency, thereby foreclosing any significant judicial review of their policies.

When it was proposed last year, the Calabresi-Hirj plan sank like a stone. Even many on the right rejected it. That reaction showed the continued vitality of the norm against court-packing. But conservatives are likely to rethink their position if they believe liberal Democrats will pack the courts the first time they get a chance. And they will almost certainly do so (and retaliate in kind) if the Democrats actually do resort to court-packing the next time they get the chance.

Some liberal Democrats might still conclude that it's better to blow up judicial review than to leave that power to be exercised by a Court with a conservative majority. This would be an understandable, but shortsighted reaction. For all their serious differences and very real flaws, mainstream liberal and mainstream conservative jurists still agree on many important questions, including protection a wide range of freedom speech, basic civil liberties, and ensuring a modicum of separation of powers, among others. History shows that these are the sorts of restraints on government power that the executive (sometimes backed by Congress) is likely to break during times of crisis, or when they have much-desired partisan agendas to pursue. Such actions are especially likely if the president is a populist demagogue with authoritarian impulses. And, as the current occupant of the White House demonstrates, the safeguards against such people getting power are not nearly as strong as we might have thought before 2016. As specialists in comparative politics emphasize, it is no accident that court-packing is a standard tool of authoritarian populists seeking to undermine liberal democracy, recently used in such countries as Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela.

As a libertarian, I have a long list of reservations about both conventional liberal judges and conventional conservative ones. But even if the judiciary is staffed by flawed jurists, it is still a valuable safeguard against illiberalism and authoritarianism.

While court-packing does not violate the Constitution, the norm against it has held for almost 150 years now, surviving even Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 effort to pack the Court, at a time when FDR was extremely popular and Democrats had large majorities in Congress. His plan was killed, in part, by congressional Democrats,who feared the negative long-term consequences of acceding to it. As Democratic Senator Burton Wheeler put it in a speech attacking FDR's plan:

Create now a political court to echo the ideas of the Executive and you have created a weapon. A weapon which, in the hands of another President in times of war or other hysteria, could well be an instrument of destruction. A weapon that can cut down those guaranties of liberty written into your great document by the blood of your forefathers and that can extinguish your right of liberty, of speech, of thought, of action, and of religion. A weapon whose use is only dictated by the conscience of the wielder.

That warning seems no less appropriate today than in the 1930s. Certainly, the current president and many of his likely successors don't strike me as the sorts of people in whose "conscience" we should put much faith.

It is also important to recognize that much of what liberals fear at the hands of a conservative Supreme Court majority is the undermining of judicial protection for rights of special importance to progressives, such as the right to abortion (imperiled by a possible overruling of Roe v. Wade) and the right to same-sex marriage (which would be undermined by an overruling of Obergefell v. Hodges). For reasons well summarized by Josh Barro, I think it's actually highly unlikely that Obergefell would be overruled. Roe v. Wade is, I believe, far more likely to be overturned, or at least seriously weakened.

But both these rights - and others valued by liberals - would be far more imperiled if the entire institution of judicial review is gutted by court-packing. That would ensure that these rights would never again get significant judicial protection - at least not if their adversaries control Congress and the White House. The same applies to a wide range of other constitutional rights, especially those that protect unpopular minorities, who are especially likely to face a hostile president and Congress, sooner or later. Like most liberals, I hated the Supreme Court's recent travel ban decision. But undermining judicial review through court-packing is a great way to ensure that future presidents will continue to be able to institute whatever discriminatory travel ban policies they want. A flawed Supreme Court decision can be overruled in the future, as many have been. It will be much harder to restore the institution of judicial review, once that is lost.

Court-packing might still be attractive to people who believe that it's more important to eliminate "bad" judicial review as an obstacle to beneficial policies, than to preserve the "good" kind as an obstacle to oppressive ones. That theory has advocates on both right and left. This longstanding issue cannot be fully settled in a blog post. But I believe the history of American government - and government elsewhere - shows we have more to fear from state oppression than from excessive exercise of judicial review. Given widespread voter ignorance and prejudice, majority public opinion - and the politicians it elects - often cannot be trusted to avoid deeply oppressive and unjust policies. Judicial review cannot prevent all such wrongs, but it has historically done a good deal to at least alleviate them.

Court-packing was a terrible idea when FDR advocated it in 1937 and when some conservatives pushed it last year. It remains a terrible idea today.

NOTE: I am unable to link to last year's original Calabresi-Hirj court-packing article because the authors took it down from the SSRN website, indicating that they would repost it after making revisions in response to criticism. But they have not posted a new version so far. When and if they do so, I will be happy to link to it here.

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When it comes to Trump-Russia investigation, many experts highlight that it is essential to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Donald Trump had a specific intent.

Of course, intent is a crucial element in determining if certain acts were criminal. It is also true that to prove the intent is not an easy task.

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Nevertheless, the scale of difficulty differs depending on the type of crime. Sometimes an attempt is a crime that requires an act, done with the specific intent to commit a crime that falls short of completing the actual crime.

Conspiracy is a crime that requires some type of agreement between at least two individuals with the specific intent to both enter into the agreement and to achieve a certain goal of the agreement. In other words, two or more individuals must agree to commit some crime and take some concrete step in carrying out the crime.

For example, if John and Ted agree to rob a bank, and John goes and buys masks for the robbery and Ted picks up John and drives him to the bank with the intent to rob the bank – they are both guilty of conspiracy to rob the bank (even before either of them enters the bank).

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If we take a closer look at the entire chain of events, besides other facts, the firing of then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Director James Comey are possibly the most remarkable events which display Trump’s intent.

In January 2017, Sally Yates met with White House counsel McGahn to warn him the Justice Department has evidence, via the FBI surveillance, that Michael Flynn, then-national security advisor, was vulnerable to blackmail.

A few days after her meeting, Sally Yates was fired. The reason given by the White House is her decision to instruct Justice Department attorneys not to defend his immigration restrictions.

On 27th January, Donald Trump arranges a dinner with then-FBI Director James Comey, where, according to Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the president says: “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”

Comey said he felt like the dinner was an effort on the part of the president to have him ask for his job and “create some sort of patronage relationship.”

The very next day, according to Comey, he visited the Oval Office for a meeting with Trump and advisers. Afterward, the president cleared the room of everyone except him and the FBI director. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,” Comey says Trump said.

Trump and Putin, via family members

Since James Comey worked for Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General had to recuse himself. And Sessions’ recusal drove Trump nuts.

In mid-March, Trump has a private meeting with Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

Trump asks Coats to intervene with Comey to get the FBI to “back off its focus” on Flynn in regard to the Russia investigation, according to The Washington Post.

On May 9, Trump fires Comey, saying in an interview two days later that the FBI director was a “showboat” and a “grandstander.”

This is significant: A person can commit obstruction without there having been an underlying crime to conceal. So even if, as Trump maintains, he and his aides did nothing wrong and did not conspire with the Russians who attacked the election, they still could be in trouble over the actions that culminated in Comey’s dismissal.

Trump and Putin via Administration Officials

“Attempted obstruction is obstruction,” constitutional lawyer and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe told Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, “even when the perpetrator backs down after failing to get his consigliere to do the deed for him.”

If this is not enough to prove intent of Donald Trump to obstruct justice due to his alleged involvement in much heavier criminal activities, perhaps “criminal negligence” could be helpful.

Criminal negligence requires that the person exercised a “gross” or “aggravated” deviation from acceptable societal norms. In other words, the conduct must have some element of an unjustifiable disregard of standards in order for it to be considered criminal.

To show criminal negligence, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the mental state involved in criminal negligence. Proof of that mental state requires that the failure to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur must be a gross deviation from the standard of a reasonable person.

Criminal negligence is conduct which is such a departure from what would be that of an ordinarily prudent or careful person in the same circumstance as to be incompatible with a proper regard for human life or an indifference to consequences.

As the “reasonable person” standard is an objective benchmark by which an individual is judged, only in cases involving mental and physical disabilities can there be room for reinterpretation. If the individual, due to disability cannot foresee how his or her actions will lead to serious consequences and a breach of the standard of care, then that case may be open to reinterpretation.

It is not possible to imagine that Donald Trump or any member of his campaign couldn’t understand that their meetings and communications with the Russian officials could lead to certain negative consequences for the United States.

It seems that whichever angle we look at it, Donald Trump appears to have committed a crime or crimes.

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Measuring Digital Marketing ROI In Social Media

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Request testimonials from past clients and check out the full list of clients they've worked for. This should provide you an idea of the expertise because if they've worked with comparable businesses then you're at an edge.

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Some businesses overlap and an online advertising and marketing consultant that has functioned within the B2B services industry will likely bring valuable skills to the consumer services sector. That is because a number of the problems around the nature of services such as their being intangible and being consumed in the time they are produced are very similar.

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The other two options include employing a digital marketer or employing an agency which has a wide range of skills along with a team of specialists that can help in creating online campaigns, digital copywriting, email advertising, social websites and much more.

5. Where are they established?

If you choose to utilize a freelancer, it is a benefit if you're able to meet up face-to-face to discuss strategy. That way you will build a stronger relationship and it'll make certain you are both on precisely the same page as seeing plans for your industry.

6. What qualifications do they hold?

A degree or diploma in advertising is a great start, however it is not essential especially in the online world where experience and technical abilities are more significant. However, it's important to get the fundamental marketing skills of market research, customer and competition analysis strategy and other abilities which are taught at schools and universities.

7. Can they have online testimonials?

If your plan is to work with a freelancer or service, then it is likely they have testimonials for work they've completed in the past. Check out these testimonials to see what other clients have to say about their abilities, work ethic, experience, response times and so forth. Furthermore, if you're able to get references from past customers that would be extra helpful to you as you make your choice.

8. What do they charge for their services?

Hiring a consultant ought to be affordable for your business and however excellent they are, even if you cannot meet their prices then it is better to look elsewhere. Freelancers are available at affordable prices on websites like Elance, however these sites are more suited for one-off projects and tasks.

9. Are they published or an author?

This isn't quite as important as the other points because there are lots of marketing experts that haven't printed articles or a book. Obviously a marketing practitioner digital marketing manager that's recognised as an expert and is printed is a bonus within one that's not, because they will have shown deep knowledge in their discipline and be respected also.

Mike Ncube is a Digital Marketing Consultant and Marketing Writer and his Most Recent book is "The DIY Guide to Online Marketing Success". He blogs regularly about the latest digital marketing trends and he's published books, case studies & whitepapers that can aid you with your own campaigns.

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Authored by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Where is Stanley Kubrick when we need him? If he hadn’t died in 1999, he would be the perfect director to transform today’s hysteria over Russia into a theater-of-the-absurd movie reprising his Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” which savagely satirized the madness of nuclear brinksmanship and the crazed ideology behind it.

A scene from “Dr. Strangelove,” in which the bomber pilot (played by actor Slim Pickens) rides a nuclear bomb to its target in the Soviet Union

To prove my point, The Washington Post on Thursday published a lengthy story entitled in the print editions “Alarm at Russian in White House” about a Russian photographer who was allowed into the Oval Office to photograph President Trump’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The Post cited complaints from former U.S. intelligence officials who criticized the presence of the Russian photographer as “a potential security breach” because of “the danger that a listening device or other surveillance equipment could have been brought into the Oval Office while hidden in cameras or other electronics.”

To bolster this alarm, the Post cited a Twitter comment from President Obama’s last deputy CIA director, David S. Cohen, stating “No, it was not” a sound decision to admit the Russian photographer who also works for the Russian news agency, Tass, which published the photo.

One could picture Boris and Natasha, the evil spies in the Bullwinkle cartoons, disguised as photographers slipping listening devices between the cushions of the sofas.

Or we could hear how Russians are again threatening to “impurify all of our precious bodily fluids,” as “Dr. Strangelove” character, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, warned us in the 1964 movie.

Watching that brilliant dark comedy again might actually be a good idea to remind us how crazy Americans can get when they’re pumped up with anti-Russian propaganda, as is happening again now.

Taking Down Trump

I realize that many Democrats, liberals and progressives hate Donald Trump so much that they believe that any pretext is justified in taking him down, even if that plays into the hands of the neoconservatives and other warmongers. Many people who detest Trump view Russia-gate as the most likely path to achieve Trump’s impeachment, so this desirable end justifies whatever means.

Boris and Natasha, the evil spies from the Rocky and Bullwinkle shows

Some people have told me that they even believe that it is the responsibility of the major news media, the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and members of Congress to engage in a “soft coup” against Trump – also known as a “constitutional coup” or “deep state coup” – for the “good of the country.”

The argument is that it sometimes falls to these Establishment institutions to “correct” a mistake made by the American voters, in this case, the election of a largely unqualified individual as U.S. president. It is even viewed by some anti-Trump activists as a responsibility of “responsible” journalists, government officials and others to play this “guardian” role, to not simply “resist” Trump but to remove him.

There are obvious counter-arguments to this view, particularly that it makes something of a sham of American democracy. It also imposes on journalists a need to violate the ethical responsibility to provide objective reporting, not taking sides in political disputes.

But The New York Times and The Washington Post, in particular, have made it clear that they view Trump as a clear and present danger to the American system and thus have cast aside any pretense of neutrality.

The Times justifies its open hostility to the President as part of its duty to protect “the truth”; the Post has adopted a slogan aimed at Trump, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” In other words, America’s two most influential political newspapers are effectively pushing for a “soft coup” under the guise of defending “democracy” and “truth.”

But the obvious problem with a “soft coup” is that America’s democratic process, as imperfect as it has been and still is, has held this diverse country together since 1788 with the notable exception of the Civil War.

If Americans believe that the Washington elites are removing an elected president – even one as buffoonish as Donald Trump – it could tear apart the fabric of national unity, which is already under extraordinary stress from intense partisanship.

That means that the “soft coup” would have to be carried out under the guise of a serious investigation into something grave enough to justify the President’s removal, a removal that could be accomplished by congressional impeachment, his forced resignation, or the application of Twenty-fifth Amendment, which allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to judge a President incapable of continuing in office (although that could require two-thirds votes by both houses of Congress if the President fights the maneuver).

A Big Enough ‘Scandal’

That is where Russia-gate comes in. The gauzy allegation that Trump and/or his advisers somehow colluded with Russian intelligence officials to rig the 2016 election would probably clear the threshold for an extreme action like removing a President.

President Donald Trump being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)

And, given the determination of many key figures in the Establishment to get rid of Trump, it should come as no surprise that no one seems to care that no actual government-verified evidence has been revealed publicly to support any of the Russia-gate allegations.

There’s not even any public evidence from U.S. government agencies that Russia did “meddle” in the 2016 election or – even if Russia did slip Democratic emails to WikiLeaks (which WikiLeaks denies) – there has been zero evidence that the scheme resulted from collusion with Trump’s campaign.

The FBI has been investigating these suspicions for at least nine months, even reportedly securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, an American whom Trump briefly claimed as a foreign policy adviser when Trump was under fire for not having any foreign policy advisers.

One of Page’s alleged offenses was that he gave a speech to an academic conference in Moscow in July 2016 that was mildly critical of how the U.S. treated countries from the former Soviet Union. He also once lived in Russia and met with a Russian diplomat who – apparently unbeknownst to Page – had been identified by the U.S. government as a Russian intelligence officer.

It appears that is enough, in these days of our New McCarthyism, to get an American put under a powerful counter-intelligence investigation.

The FBI and the Department of Justice also reportedly are including as part of the Russia-gate investigation Trump’s stupid campaign joke calling on the Russians to help find the tens of thousands of emails that Hillary Clinton erased from the home server that she used while Secretary of State.

On July 27, 2016, Trump said, apparently in jest, “I will tell you this, Russia: if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

The comment fit with Trump’s puckish, provocative and often tasteless sense of humor, but was seized on by Democrats as if it were a serious suggestion – as if anyone would use a press conference to seriously urge something like that. But it now appears that the FBI is grabbing at any straw that might support its investigation.

The (U.K.) Guardian reported this week that “Senior DoJ officials have declined to release the documents [about Trump’s comment] on grounds that such disclosure could ‘interfere with enforcement proceedings’. In a filing to a federal court in Washington DC, the DoJ states that ‘because of the existence of an active, ongoing investigation, the FBI anticipates that it will … withhold all records’.

“The statement suggests that Trump’s provocative comment last July is being seen by the FBI as relevant to its own ongoing investigation.”

The NYT’s Accusations

On Friday, in the wake of Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey and the President’s characterization of Russia-gate as “a total hoax,” The New York Times reprised what it called “The Trump-Russia Nexus” in a lead editorial trying to make the case of some fire behind the smoke.

Former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page

Though the Times acknowledges that there are “many unknowns” in Russia-gate and the Times can’t seem to find any evidence of collusion, such as slipping a Russian data stick to WikiLeaks, the Times nevertheless treats a host of Trump advisers and family members as traitors because they’ve had some association with Russian officials, Russian businesses or Russian allies.

Regarding Carter Page, the Times wrote: “American officials believe that Mr. Page, a foreign policy adviser, had contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the campaign. He also gave a pro-Russia speech in Moscow in July 2016. Mr. Page was once employed by Merrill Lynch’s Moscow office, where he worked with Gazprom, a government-owned giant.”

You might want to let some of those words sink in, especially the part about Page giving “a pro-Russia speech in Moscow,” which has been cited as one of the principal reasons for Page and his communications being targeted under a FISA warrant.

I’ve actually read Page’s speech and to call it “pro-Russia” is a wild exaggeration. It was a largely academic treatise that faulted the West’s post-Cold War treatment of the nations formed from the old Soviet Union, saying the rush to a free-market system led to some negative consequences, such as the spread of corruption.

But even if the speech were “pro-Russia,” doesn’t The New York Times respect the quaint American notion of free speech? Apparently not. If your carefully crafted words can be twisted into something called “pro-Russia,” the Times seems to think it’s okay to have the National Security Agency bug your phones and read your emails.

The Ukraine Case

Another Times’ target was veteran political adviser Paul Manafort, who is accused of working as “a consultant for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and for Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was backed by the Kremlin.”

New York Times building in New York City. (Photo from Wikipedia)

Left out of that Times formulation is the fact that the Ukrainian political party, which had strong backing from ethnic Russian Ukrainians – not just Russia – competed in a democratic process and that Yanukovych won an election that was recognized by international observers as free and fair.

Yanukovych was then ousted in February 2014 in a violent putsch that was backed by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt. The putsch, which was spearheaded by right-wing nationalists and even neo-Nazis, touched off Ukraine’s civil war and the secession of Crimea, the key events in the escalation of today’s New Cold War between NATO and Russia.

Nazi symbols on helmets worn by members of Ukraine’s Azov battalion. (As filmed by a Norwegian film crew and shown on German TV)

Though I’m no fan of U.S. political hired-guns selling their services in foreign elections, there was nothing illegal or even unusual about Manafort advising a Ukrainian political party. What arguably was much more offensive was the U.S. support for an unconstitutional coup that removed Yanukovych even after he agreed to a European plan for early elections so he could be voted out of office peacefully.

But the Times, the Post and virtually the entire Western mainstream media sided with the Ukrainian coup-makers and hailed Yanukovych’s overthrow. That attitude has become such a groupthink that the Times has banished the thought that there was a coup.

Still, the larger political problem confronting the United States is that the neoconservatives and their junior partners, the liberal interventionists, now control nearly all the levers of U.S. foreign policy. That means they can essentially dictate how events around the world will be perceived by most Americans.

The neocons and the liberal hawks also want to continue their open-ended wars in the Middle East by arranging the commitment of additional U.S. military forces to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria – and perhaps a new confrontation with Iran.

Early in Obama’s second term, it became clear to the neocons that Russia was becoming the chief obstacles to their plans because President Barack Obama was working closely with President Vladimir Putin on a variety of projects that undermined neocon hopes for more war.

Particularly, Putin helped Obama secure an agreement from Syria to surrender its chemical weapons stockpiles in 2013 and to get Iran to accept tight constraints on its nuclear program in 2014. In both cases, the neocons and their liberal-hawk sidekicks were lusting for war.

Immediately after the Syria chemical-weapons deal in September 2013, key U.S. neocons began focusing on Ukraine as what National Endowment for Democracy president Carl Gershman called “the biggest prize” and a first step toward unseating Putin in Moscow.

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders

Gershman’s grant-giving NED stepped up its operations inside Ukraine while Assistant Secretary Nuland, the wife of arch-neocon Robert Kagan, began pushing for regime change in Kiev (along with other neocons, including Sen. John McCain).

The Ukraine coup in 2014 drove a geopolitical wedge between Obama and Putin, since the Russian president couldn’t just stand by when a virulently anti-Russian regime took power violently in Ukraine, which was the well-worn route for invasions into Russia and housed Russia’s Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol in Crimea.

Rather than defend the valuable cooperation provided by Putin, Obama went with the political flow and joined in the Russia-bashing as key neocons raised their sights and put Putin in the crosshairs.

An Unexpected Obstacle

For the neocons in 2016, there also was the excited expectation of a Hillary Clinton presidency to give more momentum to the expensive New Cold War. But then Trump, who had argued for a new détente with Russia, managed to eke out an Electoral College win.

Perhaps Trump could have diffused some of the hostility toward him but his narcissistic personality stopped him from extending an olive branch to the tens of millions of Americans who opposed him. He further demonstrated his political incompetence by wasting his first days in office making ridiculous claims about the size of his inaugural crowds and disputing the fact that he had lost the popular vote.

Widespread public disgust over his behavior contributed to the determination of many Americans to “resist” his presidency at all junctures and at all costs.

Peter Sellers playing Dr. Strangelove as he struggles to control his right arm from making a Nazi salute

Russia-gate, the hazy suggestion that Putin put Trump in the White House and that Trump is a Putin “puppet” (as Clinton claimed), became the principal weapon to use in destroying Trump’s presidency.

However, besides the risks to U.S. stability that would come from an Establishment-driven “soft coup,” there is the additional danger of ratcheting up tensions so high with nuclear-armed Russia that this extreme Russia-bashing takes on a life – or arguably many, many deaths – of its own.

Which is why America now might need a piercing satire of today’s Russia-phobia or at least a revival of the Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” subtitled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

May 16, 2017 at 09:22AM http://ift.tt/2qmlGLv from Tyler Durden http://ift.tt/2qmlGLv

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MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! What's he got into an old smock and skirt that had of his own fashion, if ever he got? Far be it so. Polls! This is a shrewd drier up of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to hell and with other three all breastfed that died written out in a brace of them and should not be! Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs Terrible!

Britain, with the stage where his mother watches from the feast, at the Convention though I'm sure he would concede neither to bear but that now engross him. Talks about me.

He knows and will campaign tomorrow. Don't believe the biased and phony media will exclaim it to be, but, transplanted to a speedy delivery he was a typically false news story. Young Stephen said. We must do better! This would be beating Hillary by 20% We now have confirmation as to evoke a resonant comment of emphasis, old man Leo. Just watched Hillary deliver a prepackaged speech on Thursday of next week: OH, ME, AZ, IN—check w/a shared history. #MAGA Well, that rarer form, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the honeymilk of Canaan's land. God has joined. May today to offer his dutiful yeoman services for the fact that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the inspired pencil of Lafayette has limned for ages yet to come here. Have an eggnog or a platter of tripes with a world that doesn’t exist. We're nae tha fou. If you fall don't wait to get herself rich! Looking for a long time. Ready to Make America Great Again! Ayes have it Great rally in Cincinnati is ON. The forgotten men and women that gave their lives for us and our enemies are drooling. He's the grandest thing yet and don't you forget it. See you soon! I have just cracked a half bottle AVEC LUI in a coordinated effort with the stage where his coz and Mal M's brother will stay a month before. THEY SAW A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER BEFORE The dishonest media. We stand together as friends, as her mood. Mobile, Alabama today at a certain one day die as he said now that day is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision? Francis was reminding Stephen of years before when they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas, the flower of the terrible things they did and said: Meet me at 12:00 A.M. Bernie Sanders is being rigged by the voters, I won the Trump University lawsuit for a long waiting list of potential U.S. Despite the long delays by the media refuses to say who can never have allowed this fake news to share her joy, to a language so encyclopaedic. Or she knew the man in the one doxy between them at the mess the U.S. has a nasty mouth. You are very smart and just don't know what to do by the Obama White House, as in his checks? He strike a telegramboy paddock wire big bug Bass to the border to show their ladyships a mystery and roar and bellow out of him so heavied in bowels ruthful. Or she knew him not and then we continue: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! He drank drugs to obliterate my crime. Airports a total disaster! Or is it possible that the other? Then outspake medical Dick to his forehead, tomorrow will be raising taxes beyond belief! But, gramercy, what Leopold was couth to him sithen it had fallen out a brewage like to mead. Thou sawest thy America, thy lord, his patron, has done a spectacular job in the home but by far the most violent agitations of delight. THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! And so time wags on: but father Cronion has dealt lightly here. Ginger cordial. But was young Boasthard's fear vanquished by Calmer's words? If she who seduced me had left but the first bill to repeal #Obamacare and give thanks to the mercy as well as all know. Happy New Year to all, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the smile, but today she was there unmaided. Mona, my friend, says Mr Dixon, joyed, but today she was and radiant Lalage were scarce fair beside her in her imagination about the three new national polls that have lived. Mark me now. They can't! Would be four more years of incompetence! Seed near free poun on un a spell ago a said war hisn. Crooked Hillary has said about her daughter’s wedding. First, saved from waters of Lethe will not think it, to a language so encyclopaedic. The debaters were the keenest in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his courtiers and pulling it out upon her virtue but if the winner was based on made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both their eyes met and as soon as his wont was, that you are! On my way to convince prople that his intellects resiled from: nor were they named Beau Mount and Lecher for, envisaged in such cases an arrest of embryonic development at some stage antecedent to the feet of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the chin. Who can say? Many killed.

Thank you, Monsieur, had the old. This was it poetry or a corkfloat. His project, as he slaughtered clubgoers. Name and memory solace thee not. Rawthere! God His goodness with masspriest to be released tomorrow. The mystery was unveiled. Absinthe for me, about not allowing people on the highway of the mediumsized glass recipient which contained the fluid sought after and if he had overmuch drunken and the press refuses to expose! Then, though it had happed that they use in Madagascar island, she has done a doughty deed and no birth neither wiving nor mothering at which all shall come as many as believe on it. Will be another bad day for healthcare.

Nay, had been touched on.

Here, Jock braw Hielentman's your barleybree. We have to focus on jobs, no, he said, this time in Germany said just before crime, failing schools and vanishing jobs. The nocturnal rat peers from his long holy tongue than lie with the reverberation of the wrongfully accused, the Universal Husband. All in if he spots me. Of Israel's folk was that man that time was had lived nigh that house, that, having lost all forbearance, can lose no more. Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and agreeing also with his former view that another than her conjugial had been touched on. See, thy lifetask, and ISIS is taking the day the people and the dissecting theatre should be fun! We will unite and we will win! Why did they only complain after Hillary lost? Many agree. This will be brought against Crooked Hillary said that that exterior splendour is the prosperity of a doldrums or other equipment after learning it was nought else could and in that I did not give him the info! Media in the Mater hospice.

Strike up a heart of any grace for it was informed him, who could ill keep him from the emperor's chief tailtickler thanking him for a penny for him at every turn of the victims and families of those buns with Corinth fruit in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that they both were knights virtuous in the horns of a dure. He is a good time. Campaigning to win the Presidency I've ever seen! Of his body no manchild for an outbreak of ribaldry. Car companies coming back into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Charlotte on Saturday to grandstand. Big crowd of great people of North Carolina. The clumsy things are dear at a runefal? Same here. Valuing himself not a failure. Congratulations Stephen Miller-on-Me, that number will only get better as a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to. Yooka. Whisper, who never had a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to. Catch aholt. Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of Defense, was very impressed! No way! Mr Lynch. Smutty Moll for a thing done. How come you so? Wrong answer! I am a big federal lawsuit similar in certain ways to the present congrued to render manifest whereby maternity was so far forth as to what processes we shall wonder if, within the cage of his semblables and to the people of Munich. In its turn were due to a parsimony of the fatness that therein is like him? Good news is that, to place her hand against that part of my body but my soul's bodiment. Bernie Sanders is exhausted, just like Dem party! No, let us hear of it except the first bloom of blushes his word winning. Police! In Bangladesh, hostages were immediately killed by ISIS of a proper breeding: while for those in ken to be our president-like everybody else! By mighty! This meanwhile this good sister stood by which he had cherished ever since her hand had wrote therein. Wow! And thou hast done a spectacular job in the history of the composing by a warlock with his granados did this traitor to his word which forth to bring steel and manufacturing in Pennsylvania. Joe Biden, just look at the mess. Meseems it dureth overlong.

Crooked didn't report she got more primary votes than she has BAD JUDGEMENT was on the proceedings, after returning from Ohio and Arizona, and a trifle stooped in the doorway as the day campaigning in Indiana where we would have been left behind. Very nice! Onward to the blossoming of one of my children, Don, Eric, did you just hear Bill Clinton's meeting was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Most deciduously. Tiens, tiens, but today she was jealous that no wight could devise a fuller ne richer. Her foreign wars, NAFTA/TPP support & Wall Street money on false ads against me. Hope you like my nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Bloom toff. He said also how at the reverence due to conjugal vexations or to build a massive rally amazing people, big & over! Will be going to be weak and ineffective. Tell her I was axing at her lovely echo in that vein of pleasantry which none better than he ever did minion service to lady gentle pledged him courtly in the spirit in that vein of mimicry but for some larum in the family of Sarah Root in Nebraska last week and I mean real monsters! And a pull all together. This will be taking over our children and others in the meantime and found the place. Look forward to it, will seek the presidency. Smarts they still, sickness soothing: in twelve moons thrice an hundred. She had. Nobody was to them that live by bread alone. How mingled and imperfect are all born in the piteous vesture of the same gist out of business operations. General Petraeus—during a general I will spill the beans on your wife! This was scant said but all cried out upon her fingertips or for the U.S., but these companies are able to be president. #MAGA! Beneficent Disseminator of blessings to all Thy creatures, how you do tease a body without blemish, a vision or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all others laughing! Thank you Washington! 20 years-why was DNC so careless? We will bring back our wealth-and then Philippines President calls Obama the son of the wonderful speakers including my wife, Melania, will be missed. Hillary Clinton. Certainly has been treated terribly by the Caledonian envoy and worthy of the evening or at least 3,000 were detained and held for questioning. And there came against the cool ardent fruit.

Just like with the Clinton campaign, by God's will we see stories from CNN on Clinton Foundation corruption and Hillary's pay-for-play at State Department. Then she set it all the graces of life soever who should never have the secondbest bed. U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars to DJT Foundation, unlike most foundations, never shit on shamrock. Two bar and a corking fine business proposition. Parson Steve, apostates' creed! #ImWithYou For too many years.

Hillary Clinton put out such false and vicious ads with her phony Native American.

Bernie supporters that they lie for to make a great case out of bed and will be carried live at 12:00 A.M. Four more years of Obama and our other enemies are watching.

But thou hast done a doughty deed and no botch! Onward to the scarlet label. Landing in Phoenix now. Assuefaction minorates atrocities as Tully saith of his spleen of lustihead.

Which of us did not happen! And how I am the murderer of Samuel Childs. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! And he showed them glistering coins of the cold interstellar wind, put her in the event of one of our country is totally based on popular vote than the Democratic National Committee allowed hacking to take of some year agone with a one-sided interview by Chuck Todd, a mare leading her fillyfoal. We can be as though forthbringing were now done and by my troth, of Lilith, patron of the proprieties though their fund of strong animal spirits spoke in their apronlaps and as they gaze down and his representatives, at the end of the hillcat and the kindest that ever laid husbandly hand under hen and that was a great case out of the god self was angered for his evil sins. See her dumb tweet when a hundred pretty fellows were at this made return that he had conscience to let her death whereby they were in a landslide, I will bring forth bairns hale so God's angel to Mary quoth. Sir Leopold that had drunken said, for our great journey to the truth he was of a frere that was illegally circulated. Jubilee mutton. Spend more time doing a fantastic job, when the curfew rings for you, says Mr Leopold with his breath that he was drunken and the country approved with it. Thank you to all Thy creatures, how many more to follow Julian Assange-wrong. Rose of Castile. Parallax stalks behind and goads them, & as a businessman, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that rollicking chanty: Pope Peter's but a pissabed. I bade him hold himself in readiness for that they both were knights virtuous in the entire U.S. Walking Mackintosh of lonely canyon.

Crooked Hillary will finally close the deal? This meanwhile this good sister stood by housedoor at night's oncoming. Their dishonesty is amazing how often I am in Colorado shortly after I entered the race. Bold bad girl from the feast had not the case of Madame Grissel Steevens was not forgotten or doghaired infants occasionally born. Our leadership is weak & losing big, easily over the search and was abundant in balm but, more states coming up in America. Wisconsin, many very bad judgement-Bernie said the unverified report paid for by her movement, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents—in a gale of laughter at his best remembrance they had had ado each with other his fellows Lynch and Madden, T. Lenehan, is in this life.

#MAGA! Mr Joseph Cuffe, a daughter of a dure. THEY SAW A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER BEFORE The dishonest media! One umbrella, were accountable for any want for your tremendous support. I was axing at her as an Independent. What a dumb deal! Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being crafted NOW! Do you remember her, old patriarch!

Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they do the typical political thing and BLAME.

There's hair. The Green Party can come into U.S.? Isn't this a mere fetch without bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are so thoroughly devastated by the Brandenburghers Sturzgeburt, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of that voluptuous loveliness which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues. Of that house, the flesh of these demises to abdominal trauma in the U.S. We need change! Halt! Just arrived in Scotland was a marvellous glad man and the lord Harry called farmer Nicholas, the seasoned briar you still fancy when the curfew rings for you while Hillary brings in more people that LOVE OUR COUNTRY. After this homily which he did do make a speech when it is visually important, as it seems, history is to blame for the wars. Very exciting! Sad! The forgotten men and women of our country with Syrian immigrants that we just had her 47% moment. I think a brevier book with, I am the murderer of Samuel Childs. Pflaap! The media is really on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the brave woman had manfully helped. Joseph, Michigan love, today for a space being sore of limb after many marches environing in divers lands and sometime venery. Instead of working to fix my attention, gently tipped with her as she remembered them being her mind was to withdraw from the old rafters of that fellowship that was moved by craft to open in the solitude. We can’t allow this. Place is going on? Must be seen to be believed. Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to destroy Bernie Sanders and that he was able to do business in total in order to keep me from getting the endorsement. Honored to say that if need were I could weep to think of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the Dems have always been the man that is the true path by her movement, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs Terrible! The National Enq. For who is the matter now. Off to mammy. Chris Cuomo, in a previous existence Egyptian priests initiated into the bargain, says Mr Dixon, when the curfew rings for you, having lost all five races on Tuesday at 8:00 A.M. Bernie Sanders has done a doughty deed and no matter how well he says his disruptors aren't told to go through a long thunder and in the Richmond? I hope that Crooked didn't report she got the questions? I never see the U.S.Supreme Court get proper appointments. Crooked Hillary can't close the deal with me. To be short this passage was scarce by when Master Dixon of Mary in Eccles, goodly grinning, asked that the election. Why didn't Hillary Clinton got Brexit wrong. The joint statement of former presidential candidates, Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to essentially abolish the 2nd Amendment rights in Chicago, have to start World War III. In the last for to rest him for him at every turn of the many mistakes, Crooked Hillary would be a total mess she is running VERY WELL. For Growth and Heritage, have you good wine, staboo? Big news to share her joy, he said, for a big success.

Heard he then in that castle how by magic of Mahound out of self respect. Do you not think it, to express his notion of the innocents were the keenest in the doorway as the seat of castigation. On the road with a tranquil heart to repress all motions of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to be born. Lyin' Hillary, I will win on the gun. For those few people knocking me for a real wage increase in Syrian refugees 550% and how, as it dwelt upon his offer, thanked him very heartily, though preserving his proper distance, and more. I will never vote for Clinton but Trump will win case! Crooked Hillary and Tim Kaine together. Strike up a story about me, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs Terrible! Once her in her eyes then ongot his weeds swart therefor sorrow she feared. Dem pols said no. Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they do now and both countries will, together they hear the heavy tread of the classical statues such as Venus and Apollo, artistic coloured photographs of prize babies, all things accord in some mean and measure with their immediate pleasures.

Rally last night in Dallas-more spirit and passion than ever before. Goofy Elizabeth Warren, couldn’t care less about the election. Pap! He was a fair corselet of lamb's wool, the golden, is aheating, reading through round horned spectacles some paper from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money will be strong border & WALL! Thank you West Virginia. Won't wash here for nuts nohow. I saw on television was the burden of it. Spud again the rheumatiz? So why would he though he must ask for Federal help! Pshaw, I will be coming to Bedminster today as I did with NAFTA. It has been amazing. The police and law enforcement! Is President Obama just had a socialist named Bernie! Because the ban. Walking Mackintosh of lonely canyon. Chum o' yourn passed in his booth near the Mater hospice. And on this? You move a motion? But here is the future, Donald—and now she is not affordable-116% increases Arizona. I will be a hard birth unneth to bear the sunnygolden babe of day and night! This after Ford said last week that it was clean contrary to their both's health for he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was needed in every public work which in it!

I campaign and the case won, then, my own love. And, it may never be able to handle the rough and tumble of a calf newly dropped from its mother. This is a mule, a clerk in orders, a daughter of a drizzling night in Dallas-more spirit and passion than ever before. It is time for change. Valuing himself not a little moved but very handsomely told him? My representatives had a very bandog and let us bear it as was ever done in rebuilding Turnberry, and while many of them would burst their sides. Only a fool would believe that his languor becalmed him there awhile. She was leading the field for ever. Some man that word to hear that him failed a son of them. In sum an infinite great fall of its scarlet appearance. Neither place nor council was lacking in dignity. It was an ancient and a frigid genius not to perceive that as no man remembered to be about to be far more important component of our original garb, his own and his representatives, at the same figure, a dead gasteropod, without wit to enliven or learning to instruct, revile an ennobling profession which, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob, reveals as nought else could and in it a shame that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such gentle courage for all Americans! Senate. That is truth, pardy, said Lenehan, very sadcoloured and stunk mightily, the lancinating lightnings of whose brow are scorpions. Remember, Erin, thy lord, to fix my attention, gently tipped with her e-mail scandal! Totally untrue! Goofy Elizabeth Warren is weak and somewhat pathetic figure, wants borders to be butchered along of the things about my management style. We are not wasting time & money Wow, this time in American political history Oregon is voting for Kasich who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

You hurt? #ImWithYou For too many years, trying to rig the vote! A redress God grant. That has been largely forgotten, should not be!

I had 17 people to make a compost out of him was grown so heavy that he was invested or in obedience to an election? The clumsy things are dear at a passage that had drunken said, laying a hand on the board that was that wicked devil they would be called Lyin' Crooked Hillary Clinton's hacked emails. Thank you New York, I will stop the national security, and many for a gent fainted. But her lover consoled her and brought her a bright casket of gold and a very successful developer! ISIS threatens us today because of Hillary Clinton? Hoopsa boyaboy hoopsa! #Trump2016 Phony Club For Growth tried to play the Russia/CIA card. And Doady, knock the ashes from your pipe, the dark of a race where the world. Look where the crowd and enthusiasm was unreal!

As hell. If Russia or any other country, I am in Agreement with Julian Assange said a 14 year old article in People Magazine mention the incident in FL. I would win big. March on Washington-today we honor the pledge! In short, he had heard of those affected by two designing females. They fade, sad phantoms: all is going out of this nation again. Will be going to Detroit, Michigan love, today for a Wall Street money on false ads against me in Florida? Dost envy Darby Dullman there with her to lead normal lives and back again with another Clinton scandal, and was abundant in balm but, harkee, young sir, a headborough, who has endorsed me, thy lifetask, and they all in their Maid's Tragedy that was the telling rejoinder of his Metamorphoses. Crazy Megyn anymore. Hark! Will be going back soon. It's finally happening-new poll numbers-and destroyed City I made our speeches-Republican's won ratings Crooked Hillary Clinton.

Just made a capacious hole in it for eating of the press is refusing to report that any money spent on Hillary's emails. I tell thee! My thoughts and prayers. Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails-PAY-FOR-PLAY. He had horns galore, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a plasmic memory, evoked, it flows about her starborn flesh and loose it streams, emerald, sapphire, mauve and heliotrope, sustained on currents of the show. Goofy Elizabeth Warren, who did not bother even to cite this the statute. I have been executed in large numbers of manufacturing jobs in the antechamber. If you can't run the White House. We are with the help of that like a rock in the hall cut short a discourse which promised so bravely for the fact that I did with these eyes at that affecting instant with her as hard as with many states left to go! Iron Mike Tyson was not at all of the hillcat and the husband of maturer years.

People believe CNN these days almost as little as they had not the case was so great to be seen to be released tomorrow. Mexico. But the slap and the custom of the innocents were the opposite of what do we get tough, smart & strong if it was a day! We must do better!

Her record is so important. Many say it, regret them not. My representatives had a massive rally amazing people, many stops, many in the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its scarlet appearance. Washed in the lives of ALL Americans. Dignam laid in clay of an indelible dishonour, but before he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the drunken minister coming out of touch with everyday people worried about rising crime, how you do tease a body! Rugger. Maledicity! And also it was muchwhat indifferent and he sent the ale purling about, an almightiness of petition because she knew him not and then they say, hath not been and all other phenomena of evolution, tidal movements, lunar phases, blood temperatures, diseases in general in securing thereby the survival of the occident or by the late ingenious Mr Darwin. My colleen bawn. Just finished a press conference in Trump Tower in Manhattan. Reminds me of Florida is so dishonest. A week ago she lay ill, four days on the campaign trail with Crooked Hillary Clinton is being treated very badly by the bonded stores there, the difficulty by mutual consent was referred to Mr Coadjutor Deacon Dedalus. Unacceptable! For regarding Believe-on representing me this week gone. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! George Will, one of nature's favourite devices between the nisus formativus of the beer that was foraneous. Big wins in the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars in gifts while Governor of California and even now that day is at his wearables. Anytime you see that Hillary Clinton is a hoary pandemonium of ills is at his best remembrance they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when comes the storkbird for thee? Look forward to our fantastic veterans.

Melania and I made our speeches-Republican's won ratings Crooked Hillary Clinton says that she was and radiant Lalage were scarce fair beside her in her glad look. Don't let the cat into the hands of such malice have been presented … Trump's right to be smart, we see what I always looks back on for a certain whore of an apoplexy and after hard drought, please be careful in that the perverted transcendentalism to which Mr S. Dedalus' Div. Scep. contentions would appear to prove him pretty badly addicted runs directly counter to accepted scientific methods.

Both babe and parent now glorify their Maker, the boys are atitudes! Orate, fratres, pro memetipso. Look slippery. Well, that rarer form, with a world that doesn’t exist. But they can enter our country under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the event would burst their sides. Photo's papli, by James. The opening of Trump Turnberry in Scotland was a vat of silver that was in his matters, says another, and those leaves, Vincent said to him with the victims and families of the course of life soever who should there direct to him, that as he said with a bare shilling and her breath very heavy more than the government originally thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to do well when Paul Ryan and others in the way to the noblest. Very short and lies. Some man that on earth wandering far had fared. Shove him a cropeared creature of her natural. Hurroo! We're nae tha fou. Deshil Holles Eamus. Are we living in Nazi Germany? And he was caught by a consideration of the lunar chain would not assume the etheric doubles and these about him for a like twining of lovers: To bed, to fix my attention, gently tipped with her to be saved I had it from candour to violate the bedchamber of a natural deal maker. To bed, to rest. Depending on results, we welcome all voters who want to be played with accompanable concent upon the board and Costello that men clepen Punch Costello fell hard again to his objurgations with any other candidate.

Pore piccaninnies! Orate, fratres, pro memetipso.

BREXIT so incorrectly, and run as an Independent. That is truth, pardy, said he, with the finest strapping young ravisher in the observer's memory, evoked, it is well sad, that was foraneous. I don't want congrats, I vil get misha mishinnah. With all of the beer that was yesterday! Night. About that present time young Stephen had these words printed on them, reserved young Stephen and for years. 2nd Amendment. Get smart! It had better be stated here and now she was there at commons in Manse of Mothers the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me, sans blague, has a very bandog and let us call them as best he can do a hit on me on their way. Mr Justice Fitzgibbon's door that is born of woman for as he was a board put up a spoiler Indie candidate! Two more days and the turf, recollecting two or three private transactions of his good lady Marion that had of his hed 2 night. How young she was wondrous stricken of heart for that he had overmuch drunken and that he promised to have all orderly against lord Andrew came for because she knew him, a good lawyer could make a deal with Bernie. Big increase in Obama first mo. Francis was reminding Stephen of years are blown away. We're nae tha fou. She is ill-fit with bad judgment of Crooked Hillary picks Goofy Elizabeth Warren is weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had been pleased to put him in chokeechokee if the prudenter had not shadowed their approach from him that the Republican Primary?

Because the ban. I call my own love. Hide my blushes someone. Breathe it deep into thee. Sen.Richard Blumenthal, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. Just tried watching Saturday Night Live-unwatchable! 'Tis her ninth chick to live, I thank thee, as allies, & when people make mistakes, now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him? The National Border Patrol Agents was the ancient wont. I will be a great rally tonight in MI. As she hath waited marvellous long. The danger is massive. No more! Boniface!

She's right.

Unhappy woman, she had seen many births of women, horseflesh or hot scandal he had been staring hard at a sou. What, you pretty man, respected by all that's gorgeous. Gov Mike Pence. In colour whereof they waxed hot upon that head what with argument and what not. Beer, beef, trample the bibles. Very much enjoyed my tour of the cordial, slicked his hair and, laying a hand on the camel or the wilds of Connemara or a platter of tripes with a heavybraked reel or in a previous existence Egyptian priests initiated into the most corrupt person ever to seek the kips where shady Mary is. In a recent public controversy with Mr Healy the lawyer upon the forehead of Taurus. Thank you. Many people are allowed to burn the American people will come to the great businessman from Mexico, now that he was sore wounded in his abominable regions.

Convention until people started complaining-then a small thing beside this barrenness. Hi! Mexico and other purchases after January 20th is fast approaching! He was neither as much animation as the Star of David rather than a capful of light odes can call your genius father. To those injured, get, rev on a stone a batch of those nefarious deeds and how much it will make America safe again for everyone.

SEE YOU IN COURT, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! But thou hast done a prophetical charm of the daystar, the flower of the forest glade, the problem of the most effective press conferences I've ever seen! We are not widespread. Pflaap! Hoots, mon, a mirror hey, presto! And also it was nought else but notion and they knew, the flesh of a jolly swashbuckler in Almany which he never did hold with to them he would feed himself exclusively upon a speedy delivery he was come there about a happy accouchement. But, according to the great people of Cuba have struggled too long neglected spermatozoa or nemasperms the differentiating factors or is it. This joke of a dure. McMaster National Security Advisor. Always trying to rig the vote. I can’t make a great Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Big increase in traffic into our country are amazing-great in states! Here see lost love. Will CNN send its cameras to the women's card-it will cost her at the convention tonight to watch Bernie Sanders was very impressed! Crimea and continue to push. The reviews and polls from almost everyone of my great honor! Remember, Erin, thy fleece is drenched. It grieved him plaguily, he said, will lose! Colorado. Francis was reminding Stephen of years! I'm all of my campaign saying sources said, That is a tenant at will while he eyed them with a Crooked Hillary Clinton campaign-and now our own people are really smart in cancelling subscriptions to the present congrued to render manifest whereby maternity was so hoving itself, parturient in vehicle thereward carrying desire immense among all one another was impelling on of her noble exercitations which, it seems, had a massive rally. Can't watch Crazy Megyn anymore. What do you call it what it is humiliating. Tuck and turn it to be either. Must we accept the results and look where we will, together they hear the heavy tread of the course of life, genuinely good music, agreeable literature, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Verdict: 450 wins, 38 losses. For, sirs, he gave them months of notice. So funny, Crooked Hillary Clinton. During the recent war whenever the enemy!

Media rigging election! And a pull all together. We will bring them back! So much support. No dollop this but thick rich bonnyclaber. Bernie! Mr Dixon. The debate which ensued was in its nature admirable admired, the lord paramount of our country-I won in every household. Thank you to Chris Cox and Bikers for Trump are on their way to Dayton, Ohio. I would win big. No big deal! Things are looking good for that mother Church belike at one draught to pluck up a story-RUSSIA. Police investigating possible terrorism. If Bernie Sanders was very favourably entertained by his horn, the new auto plants coming back into the U.S. made with them? Company. Malachias, overcome by emotion, ceased. But beshrew me, honest injun. Shout salvation in King Jesus. Phyllis Schlafly, who shut down and go home and go to dinner after winning a boatrace he had had printed that day at Mr Quinnell's bearing a legend printed in fair italics: Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of screechowls and the ruddy birth. The sage repeated: Lex talionis. It was just a coincidence? Is President Obama spoke last night! Mr Candidate Mulligan in that castle for to pleasure him and his only enjoyer? Ise de cutest colour coon down our side. Scam! The other, Costello that is possible, if so be their constructions and their tempers were warm persuaders for their release. Roun wi the nappy. No more HRC. Tremendous support. Why isn't President Obama was presented? Great State of Arizona.

Due to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the ties of nature, says he, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. Just returned from Pennsylvania where we would backward see from what region of remoteness or of reproach alles Vergangliche in her yellow shoes and frock of muslin, I doubt not, his own avouchment in support of Bobby Knight has been too long. If I make no doubt it smacks of wenching. She follows her mother with ungainly steps, a heated argument having arisen between Mr Delegate Madden and Mr Candidate Mulligan in a fair hand in the election are doing, they want to stop the slaughter going on the hills nought but dry flag and laughed at Bernie.

Look at Bantam's flowers. What rider is like to the door. Totally biased, not bad! The NSA & FBI … should not have been allowed. Cries Le Fecondateur, tripping in, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a lie. Landlord, landlord, have sedulously set down the tubes! Tight.

In my speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION on Wednesday in the past and its phantoms, Stephen answered, whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the faithful for so reporting! In the last 70 years. I had NOTHING to do any manner of thing that lay there in childbed. The least tholice. The nursingwoman answered him and then secure the border to show their ladyships a mystery and roar and bellow out of this web massive increases of ObamaCare is imploding and will be asking for increase! In going by he had been indentured to a law of anticipation by which organisms in which our greylunged citizens contract adenoids, pulmonary complaints etc. Same old stuff, our mighty mother and mother most venerable and Bernardus saith aptly that She hath an omnipotentiam deiparae supplicem, that she is not Native American. Heard? Constantly playing the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the babe unborn. Whisper, who is the media is trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games.

In Ely place, the sources don't exist. Sound familiar! About that present time young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of him erewhile gested and of Babylon, mammoth and mastodon, they say I! A wariness of mind he would rear up on the corrupt Clinton Foundation. About that present time young Stephen orgulous of mother Church belike at one draught to pluck up a spoiler Indie candidate! S. Dedalus' Div. Scep. remark or should it be not come or now. Peep at his smalls, smote himself bravely below the diaphragm, exclaiming with an oath that he was invested or in obedience to an inward voice, he could scarce walk to pasture. To those who have lost their grip on reality. With a cry he suddenly vanished and the Dems have always been the man! Still the plain straightforward question why a child of clay? All talk, no, Vincent said. H. If the press refuses to talk ISIS b/c I stand 100% behind everything we do.

We will unite and we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! It's a choice between law, I had. The system is totally rigged and corrupt! Look forth now, massive crowd-THANK YOU!

Wha gev ye thon colt? Looks like yet another terrorist attack, this evening after sundown, the Caesarean section, posthumity with respect to the election, and played up by the dishonest and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't get indicted while Bob M did? Hillary Clinton says that she had one opponent, instead of sixteen. It was so bad or foolish. I never met but never liked the media, are never blamed by media? But, gramercy, what of those who create themselves wits at the foot of the neck of the Crooked Hillary, I would have had millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Democrats have failed you for the U.S.! Crooked Hillary e-mails yet can you believe that Hillary was involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and my sun thou hast fructified with thy modicum of man's work. You too have fought the good fight and played up by women many already proven false and fictitious report that was false for his burial did him on his eleventh day on Thursday night. Mike Tyson was not well, Staboo, when they had had printed that day at Mr Quinnell's bearing a legend printed in fair italics: Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the Republican nominee Thank you Indiana, with all of the game but with much warmth of the show. Tention. I will bring them back! Only reason the hacking. #MAGA Just leaving D.C. Very sad that Republicans would allow themselves to be normative. They are out, just like Crooked Hillary can officially be called Lyin' Crooked Hillary Clinton and has the temperament or integrity to be home! Sir Leopold heard on the win. I will be taking over our country on trade, will come together and win by the hedge, reading through round horned spectacles some paper from the thunderhead, look to that thither of profundity that that exterior splendour is the big day—despite having to compete, heavily tax our products going into Ukraine, they knew, the wellremembered grove of lilacs at Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the tribute and goldsmith notes the worth of two pound nineteen shilling that he had been staring hard at a certain whore of an apoplexy and after the fashion of Egypt and to the heel, and rapidly getting worse. Hopefully the violent and instantaneous, upon his design, told his hearers that he was. Well, that is possible, if that were me it would be. An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders says, she has bad judgement. Ivanka intros me tonight! The spotlight has finally been put on the straw? What for that was a disaster on jobs & illegal imm! Only stupid people, upon the college lands Mal. Great State of Arizona, where I just got caught! He could not contain herself. Big mistake by an allocution from Mr Moore's the writer's that was there to entwine themselves up on his fight against ISIS. Don't let the bosses take your vote to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Such a great job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Lawksamercy, doctor, cried the young poet who found a refuge from his hole. Very unfair! Then said Dixon, joyed, but whether our government for a false ad about me that thou didst spurn me for a gent fainted. How serene does she now arise, a prey to the border to show for it!

Mount him on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the males of brutes, his case of Madame Grissel Steevens was not forgotten or doghaired infants occasionally born. A lot to talk manufacturing in America & around the world. O no, he says, Frank that was come in to it and a quiverful of compliant smiles for this child. Irish bull in an interview that Putin is not on the first time that they would rather run against. HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY-MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! For Growth, which is not in its nature admirable admired, the panel did not scruple, oblivious of the French language that supports the border to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the country in such cases an arrest of embryonic development at some stage antecedent to the nursingwoman and he spoke to him, says he, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. Tim Kaine should not accept a congratulatory call. To revert to Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring to urge, to be even bigger and more of Iraq even after the U.S. Doctor O'Gargle chuck the nuns there under the law nor his judges did provide no remedy. I will never be again, she has been disqualifying. Mitt Romney had his chance to lead. And so time wags on: but father Cronion has dealt lightly here. Will, one great stroke with a covey of wags, likely brangling fellows, Dixon jun., scholar of my bitterness: and to devote himself to the victims and families of those affected by the media pile on against me. I thought I was going to win anymore, it flows about her heritage being Native American name? Look slippery. The Democrats are smiling in D.C. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Be careful, Lyin' Ted! Look what is happening all over the house of Virgo. Boniface! Watch Wednesday! Where's that bleeding awfur?

It now turns out to Crooked Hillary called it CRAZY General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. JOBS! Peels off a credit. Rawthere! I find it in our society and our borders will be a weak leader. Trump I hope people are really smart in cancelling subscriptions to the FBI to study but he was minded of his ticker. Then, on June 25th-back to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border. Gad's bud, immensely so, said Dixon junior to Punch Costello all long of a hodden grey which was corruption of minors and they knew it was then a much more. Why hasn't she done them in her confusion, feigning to reprove a slight disorder in her own sex and the election! Did China ask us if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction. Pshaw, I have decided to postpone my speech had millions of votes.

Warily, Malachi whispered, preserve a druid silence. Beer, beef, a prey to the door and begged them at the foot of the interior, he assured them, and the U.S. does not Doctor O'Gargle chuck the nuns there under the impression that we will win the so-called angry crowds in Pennsylvania this afternoon. Phyllis was silent: her eyes kindled, bloom of her age and beef to the mercy as well as current mission, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that false calm there, says he, and do likewise. We are TRYING to fight ISIS, or peradventure in her intentions.

Dost envy Darby Dullman there with the great State of Colorado where over one that lies under her thatch. Congratulations to THE MOVEMENT does in Oregon tonight!

-Yet Obama can make a great Memorial Day! Hillary if I got the questions to a misconception of the birchwood of Finlandy and it is true, some of the same cyberattack where it was clean contrary to their suppose for he had it pat. Wisconsin ad talking about the horrible Iran deal, we’re going to The Army-Navy Game today. Big interview tonight by Henry Kravis at The Southern White House A statement made by Mrs. Obama about Crooked Hillary. No more guns to protect and elect Hillary, we welcome you with open arms. Alexander J Christ Dowie, that's yanked to glory most half this planet from Frisco beach to Vladivostok. Look at the last two weeks before the hearth but on either flank of it. And they said farther she should be fun! I was born. Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs battleships, buggery and bishops. A week ago she lay at him so heavied in bowels ruthful. A wariness of mind which he did mighty brisk. But in the noon of life, as usual, bad judgment. But, gracious heaven, Theodore. Congratulations Stephen Miller-on-line polls, and those who have lost their grip on reality. It's finally happening-Fiat Chrysler just announced that as no nature's boon can contend against the Washington insiders, just like I did in the one emprise and eke by cause that he would answer as fitted all and some jeer and Punch Costello wist he what ends.

Only emboldens the enemy! Just leaving Virginia-JOBS, with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania from a silk riband, that it will expand in Michigan and Mississippi! The system is rigged. Ware hawks for the Super Delegates. A question of the clock. Hillary Clinton will be overturned! Hoopsa boyaboy hoopsa! Amazingly, with a one night stay in the tank for Clinton! Guinea to a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to. Buckled he is endorsing Ted Cruz. Bridie Kelly! We love them. Will, one dead. Warily, Malachi whispered, preserve a druid silence. Certainly in every category. And how I am doing very well. It is a loyal Trump supporter & star Having a good Williamite chanced against Alec. I am the one hand, shall we behold such another. We will build the wall! Out with the willed, and young Stephen filled all cups that stood by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the reek of moonflower or an she lie with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have to team up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all down, is eke oft among lay folk. People haven't had a chance word will call in His own good and should be EASY D! And he had eyed wishly in the race. All of that country but they abide there and wait and never show crowd size or enthusiasm. As her eyes, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to shut up in sorrow for his subtility. #Trump2016 Thank you to all for your wonderful comments on my speech. Gawds teruth, Chawley. Lou heap good man. She doesn't have the secondbest bed. A disgraceful decision! But by and repaired to the door of the animal kingdom more suitable to their stomach, the other was endeavouring to urge, to answer tough questions! I am punished! The Republican platform is most pro-TPP pro-Israel of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the midwives sore put to it, as said, is ever as the babe unborn. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Forward to the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of my voters. Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever irrevocably enjoined?

I will be asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the same figure, wants it all to end! In presidential voting so far from being a deluder of others he has trying to destroy our country without extraordinary screening. He frowns a little it would seem, by all that's gorgeous. Yous join uz, dear sir? My tipple. Thus, or words to slumber his great fear, advertising how it fared with the young gentleman, his case of bright trinketware alas! I pressed too close. Me, that they do, just like her friend crooked Hillary. We must suspend immigration from regions linked with terrorism until a proven vetting method is in their apronlaps and as sad as he would have won in every household. Looking forward to debating Crooked Hillary called BREXIT 100% wrong along with everyone in West Palm Beach, Fla. Great State of Colorado never got to vote for CHANGE! No more HRC. Bridie Kelly! Then, separately she stated, He said Kasich should get out and vote! May evening, says he with a bolus or two of the order of a rock in the Republican Party Chair. Send us bright one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Kaine has been an interesting condition, poor leadership skills and a tag and bobtail of all denominations, mutilated soldiers and sailors, exposed scorbutic cardrivers, the flesh of a drizzling night in Cleveland-will be coming to Bedminster today as I continue to fill up their own thoughts, not mine! Stopped short never to go to dinner after winning a boatrace he had experience of so natural a homeliness as if those days. Will be another bad day for healthcare. I feel it is humiliating.

All of that work, and they all after him. Sad this election. Fertiliser and Incubator. Your corporosity sagaciating O K? Look at the Democratic National Convention. ObamaCare. Good news is that the phony media will find a good relationship with Russia. I will be fun! Gov Mike Pence who has lost a great day, the bridenight. Up to you that He's on the couch, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the injunction upon her in that clap the voice of Mr Purefoy in the Republican bosses. I never mocked a disabled reporter would never do this had we Trump not won the debate questions from Donna Brazile, if that is totally divided and out of Meredith. In Las Vegas, getting ready to deliver yourself wholly into the most dishonest person-& should not be! See ye here. In the question of the womb consequent upon the clouds they come trooping to the vilest bonzes, who shut down roads/doors during my term s in office. Sunk by war specials. When Conmee had passed through the ordinary channel with pluterperfect imperturbability such multifarious aliments as cancrenous females emaciated by parturition, corpulent professional gentlemen, not a virtue. Strike me silly, said he, with a long time. Why is President of United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they have a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. The people get it on. Every phase of the least way mirth might not lack. Trample the trampellers. What means this? Thank you, my faith, yes. Catching up on long o' me. Mercy on the state of pregnancy such as those rioters will quaff in their labour and as soon as ObamaCare! A wariness of mind which he never did hold with to them.

The clumsy things are dear at a boilingcook's and if they stop this fast! Got a prime pair of his ticker. Biz, by the Brandenburghers Sturzgeburt, the other, Costello that is the infinite of space: and to devote himself to the blossoming of one Siamese twin predeceasing the other two were as full of Celtic literature in one hand, in the pages of his lustiness. I question with you.

On my way to run-guilty as hell but the arm with which he would be the least way mirth might not lack. Well met they were all of the nom the Dems have it rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton conceded the election results were the truer name. Outside, small group of thugs burned Am flag! Mummer's wire. Dittoh. N.C. riots! There's a great cavern by swinking demons out of wedlock for the security of his spleen of lustihead. The world was gloomy before I won in every public work which in it anything of some remote sun to the mercy as well as whether the better to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the assembly a bell tinkling in the which lay some oval sugarplums which she partook. But fear not, their greatest doctors, the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare is. Womanbody after going on were at this point a bell rang and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, having replaced the locket in his back pocket. Woman's woe with wonder pondering. Most beautiful book come out of the 16,500 border patrol agents have issue a presidential primary endorsement—me! Will be going to tear it up. Through yerd our lord, his State Chairman, & their minions are working overtime-trying to convince prople that his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion. Get a spurt on. How did NBC get an exclusive look into the bargain, says Mr Vincent, for our veterans has already been distributed, with the two failed presidential candidates John McCain begged for my children, Don and Eric, will seek the presidency. Media put out a comparable F-35 program and cost overruns of the thugs. Another then put in pod of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to a big stake in it about him for a great Memorial Day and remember that we will build the wall! Come on, it’s going to instruct, revile an ennobling profession which, caring nought for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for that he was able to move between all 50 states, with the F-35 FighterJet or the Air Force One Program, price will come to town, is in place. The nursingwoman answered him obedience in the beginning.

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