#the heritage foundation is a terrorist group

[vintageseawitch]

this is the original title of the Project 2025 book featuring a foreword written by JD Vance. they have since changed the title to "Taking Back Washington to Save America."

the contents are the same. they want to rip away our government. they want to forsake the Constitution. veterans & active duty military: how the hell would anyone NOT consider this an act of sedition? of treason? how is the Heritage Foundation not considered a terrorist group? they want to hurt us all. please take this seriously. DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PROJECT 2025

[scottguy]

The Heritage Foundation keeps threatening violence if they can't push the Bible on us all while simultaneously destroying all our laws.

That sounds very much like terrorism to me.

[secular-jew]

I’m a Palestinian American. Here’s Why I Can’t Support the Anti-Israel Protesters. By Elizabeth Gillanders. August 16, 2024

Walking past Union Station in the nation’s capital, I recently was met with a heartbreaking sight. Vandals had defaced the Columbus Memorial Fountain with spray paint, writing the words “Hamas is coming” in big red letters.

Trash and signs discarded by anti-Israel protesters littered the ground. A burnt shopping cart stood off to one side with piles of ash beneath it.

Most depressing, however, were the three bare flag poles that had been robbed of their American flags. Protesters had burned the flags, the only remnant a charred piece of fabric atop another pile of ash.

This was the aftermath of the July 24 “pro-Palestinian” protests in Washington, D.C., organized in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address that day to a joint meeting of Congress.

As an American of Palestinian heritage, some expect me to cheer on these people. They expect me to condemn the U.S., hate Israel, and support Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to wiping out the Jewish state.

But these expectations don’t represent me, nor my family.

I inherit my Palestinian background from my mother’s side of the family; her parents emigrated to America from the Middle East. My grandma was born in Israel and later moved to Ramallah in the West Bank and eventually to Jordan.

After arriving in America in her 20s, my grandma worked hard to become a U.S. citizen. She learned the English language while raising my mother and uncle. She opened a restaurant with my grandpa, lovingly named the Chicken Pantry, in Hamtramck, Michigan. When that business closed, my grandma worked as a real estate agent before eventually retiring in the land of prosperity.

America brought my family prosperity. My grandparents taught my mother to “kiss the ground you walk on” because they knew what a blessing America is.

They passed this lesson on to me.

Although many seem to think that my Palestinian heritage should cause me to align with protests that supposedly are “pro-Palestinian,” it’s precisely because of my heritage that I cannot do that.

Israel went to war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip only after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 and kidnapped about 250 in a rampage of rape, torture, and murder Oct. 7 in southern Israel.

About 10 months later, as pro-Hamas protesters march in this country to “free Palestine,” they call for the death of America. As they burn the American flag, they burn all that my family has worked to achieve.

As the protesters pledge their allegiance to Hamas, they encourage a group that my grandmother wouldn’t hesitate to call a terrorist organization that operates with a strategy of human sacrifice.

Think about it. Why are there no Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip adjoining Israel? Because the terrorists hide behind their own people.

They dress like noncombatants in Gaza. They establish bunkers in hospitals. They commandeer ambulances for transportation.

These actions are all in direct violation of Article 18 of the Geneva Conventions, the international pacts that set minimum standards during armed conflict for the treatment of civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war.

One example is Hamas’ use of Gaza’s most important hospital, Al-Shifa. According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Hamas uses a bunker under the hospital as a base for military operations. This not only makes the hospital a target, but takes medical resources needed for the sick.

In contrast, the Israel Defense Forces have given civilians in Gaza opportunities to evacuate and warned of impending attacks. No other nation goes this far to protect enemy civilians.

How can I support pro-Hamas demonstrators who wish to end the nation that brought my family so much? How can I back a terrorist group that uses its own people as human shields? How can I hate Israel, when the IDF has worked to keep Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way?

I believe it’s important to point out that, contrary to popular belief, not all Arabs think the same. Some of us do see this conflict differently. And our thoughts and beliefs should not be snuffed out because they go against the “narrative.”

To some, perhaps our stance makes us walking oxymorons. But we are proud ones, nonetheless.

[wildissylupus]

You know what I think is wasted potential? The Junkers and Junkertown. Specifically in the fact of them being the foil group to Vishkar. Cause in my opinion the way Australia and Junkertown were implemented into Overwatch's story is the weakest to me, especially since I myself am Australian and actually know how Australians act.

The biggest thing to me is the wishy washy attitude the writers have with Roadhog being Maori, he has a skin and his name, that's it. The thing is though, I have never met a Maori or Aboriginal person that didn't show a significant amount of pride in their heritage. Now this also comes into my favorite part of Junkertown and the Junkers implementation, and that is the history.

Part of the reason why Junkertown exists is because of the fact that the Australian government did consult the Aboriginal people in the area about giving the Omnium to the Omnics. Inherently Junkertowns formation was partially because people had pride in their indigenous heritage, so there being basically nothing for Roadhog other then his name and a skin name genuinely makes me mad.

The voice acting would also make me mad in this wasn't just a thing that happened to Australians and New Zealanders in general, I have hardly ever seen an Australian character be played by an Australian, the same goes for New Zealand characters. Hell even Junker Queens voice actor feels like she's being told to play up her accent, and she's actually Australian.

Not only that but to me the Junkers fail at being a foil to Vishkar. The thing about Vishkar is that they pose as a benevolent organization when what they're really doing is gentrifying poor neighborhoods, practicing child labor, and are literally working with a terrorist organization. Junker town is supposed to be the opposite to that, but they're not, not in the way that makes them a foil to Vishkar. To be a foil to Vishkar Junkertown and the Junkers would need to be treated as the complete opposite, basically being this place of complete freedom and chaos, a place of equal intelligence but opposite morals to Vishkar. It has the foundations of that don't get me wrong, but it's not enough to make me see them as foils.

Story wise there also isn't an obvious conflict between the two groups. Overwatch and Talon have a rich history together, Null Sector and the Shambali monks have Ramattra and Zenyatta to represent both groups, there is basically nothing for Vishkar and the Junkers. Hell if there was history for those groups it would give the Junker characters more of a reason to join the fight and leave Australia other then "there's a fight". Cause right now the only Junker character to actually have stakes in the current lore is Hammond because of his connection to Winston.

Environmentally I would have loved to see more vibrant colors and Aboriginal art in Junkertown, I would love it to be more the "Mad Max but Overwatch", I would love for the Junkers to feel like complete opposite of Viskar cause so far we have the other two group rivalries be explored, Talon and Overwatch are mirror foils, there are a lot of similarities between the two groups but their goals are polar opposites, Null Sector and the Shambali monks are philosophical foils they have the same end goal but opposite methods to get to that goal. Vishkar and Junkertown are very obviously supposed to be complete opposites, yet they have none of the nuance that the other groups do have. Vishkar erases the culture of places they go, yet Junkertown isn't that culturally rich, Vishkar pretends to do good but is very much bad, Junkertown is just bad, Vishkar is control and order, Junkertown runs on chaos and freedom yet also has rules that got Junkrat exiled, taxes and harasses it's citizens and is just as elitist as Vishkar? This would make sense if this is how Junkertown worked before JQ's rule but fundamentally, nothing is different from Junker Queen and Howl's rule. They could have still done this plot line, just with Vishkar trying to take over and tax Junkertown rather then JQ.

Basically, Junkertown would be much more interesting to me if they had gone fully into Vishkar and Junkertown being complete opposites. Instead they get a faction that doesn't have any depth and characters who hold little to no stakes of the plot.

[meret118]

Among the proposals in Project 2025 relating to racial policy include stripping workforce protections from disproportionately Black federal workers; eliminating programs like minority business loans, and abolishing federal data collection on Black employment and discrimination.

But that's just the beginning, wrote Harriot: the criminal justice policy in Project 2025 can be best summed up as "Get tough on Black crime, go easy on white cops. They plan to end EVERY CONSENT DECREE filed against corrupt police agencies, undo bail reform, bring back 'stop and frisk' & use the death penalty 'when possible' — ESPECIALLY for drug dealers; Can you hear the dog whistles?

"Additionally, he wrote, Project 2025 calls for delisting white supremacist groups as terrorist organizations for the sake of protecting "free speech," and enshrining a very specific version of Christian nationalism in law that caters to predominantly white evangelical churches on a broad range of policies, giving preference to these beliefs over the beliefs of Black churches as well as the nonreligious.

"If Project 2025 became law ... not only would it repeal FDA approval for abortion drugs & sue states that require employers to cover abortions, they would rescind federal funds from any company, contractor or healthcare institution that provides LEGAL abortions," he added.

And to top it all off, Project 2025 also calls for expanding school vouchers, which were originally devised as a tool to get around school integration mandates and to this day predominantly flow to white families; as well as eliminating programs for minority renters and homebuyers, ending oversight of racial bias in real estate appraisals, which are a key obstacle to Black families building generational wealth; defunding underperforming schools, which often underperform because of ongoing segregation; and eliminating any mention of "equity" or similar terms from federal regulations.

What makes all of this particularly frightening, Harriot concluded, is that Project 2025 "is NOT a Trump Plan; it is a CONSERVATIVE plan. Many of the Project 2025 appointees can be installed by a GOP Senate. The House controls the country's purse strings, and A GOP-majority in the House enact the program in these plans WITHOUT Trump. And because it embeds MAGA workers in the gov't, it could be GENERATIONS before" we can get rid of the "MAGA infestation of the federal government."

[collapsedsquid]

Reboot 2024 was supposed to shed light on the so-called “New Reality.” In promotional materials, its organizers prominently touted how this paradigm shift would lay waste to institutions and incumbents, all in the name of a revolution against the “elite.”  [...] Over and over, Roberts pitched Project 2025 and Heritage’s agenda as being aligned with the tech industry, suggesting that tech evangelists and e/acc futurists are “kindred spirits” with conservatives due to their love of capital (both human and financial) and liberty to do what they wish.  “There are still people who are wired for freedom,” Roberts declared. “And that, I think, we can revitalize the Republic around.”  [...] There was Jessica Anderson, the president of the Republican-boosting super PAC Sentinel Action Fund and the former executive director of Heritage Action, an advocacy group related to the Heritage Foundation. Reihan Salam, president of the Manhattan Institute and a defender of some of the most vile propagandists on the right, was a featured guest. Katie Biber, chief legal officer for crypto investment fund Paradigm, repeatedly attacked Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and championed the need to “abolish liberal nonprofits.”  At times, the conversation on stage flirted with extreme visions about how to correct America’s course as a global leader. National Security Institute head Jamil Jaffer, for example, declared that “we are days and weeks away from a mass-scale terrorist attack,” noting that a rapid increase in defense spending is necessary. 

[tomorrowusa]

« Either one upholds the equal worth of all human lives, opposes war crimes, and despises far-right ethno-nationalist political projects or one doesn't. What's more, cheering (or publicly announcing your refusal to condemn) the murder of children isn’t just morally grotesque but also politically self-defeating.

[ … ]

What we actually witnessed was not "the Palestinians" mounting a violent struggle for justice but a far-right theocratic organization committing mass murder in the name of blood-and-soil nationalism. Hamas’s project is antithetical to the left’s foundational values of secularism, universalism, and egalitarianism. And it is also completely at odds with the progressive vision for Palestinian liberation.

[ … ]

If we posit that some ethnic groups have a unique claim to specific stretches of land, and that they also have the right to commit war crimes so as to secure this heritage, then we will do the Israeli far-right’s ideological work for it. When supposed leftists embrace calls for the expulsion of all Jewish "settlers" from "the river to the sea," they pit one group’s account of why its historical victimization gives it carte blanche to commit ethnic cleansing against another group's account of the same. In a contest between competing visions of ethno-nationalist domination, the Palestinians cannot win. Their primary strength is the moral force of egalitarian universalism; in other words, of the idea that all people are entitled to security, self-government, and equality under the law. »

— Eric Levitz at New York Magazine on how people on the left lose political credibility and the moral high ground by acting as cheerleaders for terrorists.

A relatively long excerpt from a long article.

People who brandish swastikas are Nazis – not progressives.

The bothsiderism about last weekend's murder spree outside Gaza reminds me of Trump's "very fine people on both sides" quip about the Charlottesville Nazi march in 2017.

Hamas is an ethno-fascist group of religious extremists who use the population of Gaza as human shields. There are no elections in Gaza and little freedom to speak of. It's no wonder why fascists like Putin and Iran like Hamas so much.

It is easily possible to show support for the Palestinian people without associating yourself with terrorists committing mass murder.

Yes, You Can Be Pro-Palestine and Anti-Hamas

[qqueenofhades]

I've been hearing some deeply worrying things about 4 surveillance/censorship bills: https:// www.badinternetbills .com/

From what I've been able to gather online, these bills (the Kids Online Safety Act, EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act and RESTRICT Act) all proclaims to be about protecting children online, but the evidence I've seen from various articles highlights that they all share the same serious flaws of being too overly broad and vague, with various stipulations and elements that would actually not only fail to protect children, but also outright lead to incredibly invasive censorship.

There's even been an explicit admission from far right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council that they actively plan to use the first bill (and likely the others) to silence LGBT media online.

They outright stated as such here:

https:// www.heritage.org /gender/commentary/how-big-tech-turns-kids-trans

https:// twitter.com /ButNotTheCity/status/1661560827164471296

The first two are supported by a religious fundamentalist group who used to go by Morality in Media.

And the first three bills have massive bipartisan support, with EARN IT and STOP CSAM already on the calendar to be heard in the Senate, and significant celebrity support for the first bill.

IIRC, SESTA/FOSTA also had similar results akin to KOSA, and that turned out to be a disaster.

...I can't help but be extremely worried, because any reaction to these bills has been lukewarm and lacking, with barely any significant pushback.

Basically yeah, this is what I mean when I say that regulating social media is currently almost impossible in a useful and productive way. Both left and right will talk about "protecting children online," which in my opinion is a bullshit metric anyway because it's a) so wildly unspecific and b) usually means OH NO A CHILD MIGHT SEE TITTIES moral panic, rather than actually addressing the violent extremist/far right/Nazi/other types of terrorist content that is far more of a threat. The right wing wants to use it to demonize LGBTQ content, because that's their goal with literally everything right now. The left is caught between a rock and a hard place where they want to regulate and/or punish Big Tech for all that casual democracy-destroying-for-profit that they've been doing, but haven't figured out how to apply that effectively, get it passed, or otherwise achieve the desired results. So they end up signing onto these vague "Protect The Children" acts which are extremely vulnerable to being manipulated by bad actors (and are often deliberately designed by said bad actors in the first place) to look like they're addressing the problem. Which they're not. They're not getting at the tech oligarchs who actually control these platforms, they're not putting in meaningful safeguards, they're just thinking that requiring individuals to submit age verification for porn sites or whatever is somehow going to fix this. Which. It will not.

The good news here is that every few years there's a lot of alarm about some bill that's going to Break The Internet As We Know It, and while we obviously need to pay attention to those and keep abreast of what's going on, that has not actually happened yet and even fucking nightmare-city SCOTUS recently declined to dismantle or otherwise significantly overhaul Section 230, which would have opened the door to all kinds of micromanaging/policing/bad-faith lawsuits from people who scream about "Free Speech!!!" and then want to destroy it for everyone who is not them. So yes, obviously, continue to exercise your rights, contact your representatives, make sure people know what is at stake etc -- but there are good people working on this, such as the Wikipedia foundation and others, who have been battling literal DECADES of attacks on the open web and have been in this fight for the long haul. They'll be in it for this one too, so if you're exceptionally worried, I would advise you to look into foundations/organizations working on this. They have a whole lot of structure and experience, I'm sure they would welcome volunteers, and you can join the effort that's already underway, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel and build an opposition movement from scratch. So yeah.

[suzilight]

Proving again - MAGA IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP

Kevin Roberts threatens violence from the safety of a conference room and a press release.

The Heritage Foundation founded in 1973 by businessman Joseph Coors, who contributed $250,000 to establish the Heritage Foundation and continued to fund it through the Adolph Coors Foundation.

The Heritage Foundation Financial Report December 31, 2022

“Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who has hauled the venerable think tank deep into MAGA land, hailed the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision using language that is barely veiled authoritarianism: “[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Don’t make us hurt you, remains a recurring theme of Trumpism’s cycle of abuse.”

— The American Experiment Has Gone Off The Rails

[chiladelphia]

**Project 2025** is a comprehensive plan prepared by conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation, to guide a potential second Trump administration. It has been criticized for its authoritarian elements:

- **Expanding Executive Power**: The plan aims to significantly increase the authority of the executive branch, potentially undermining democratic checks and balances (Media Matters, Wikipedia).

- **Suppressing Reproductive Rights**: Project 2025 outlines aggressive steps to restrict abortion access and reproductive healthcare, including reviving the Comstock Act to ban mailing abortion-related materials and penalizing providers (Media Matters).

- **Christian Nationalism**: There are efforts to infuse Christian nationalist ideas into government policies, potentially marginalizing non-Christian and secular perspectives (Politico).

### Rhetoric and Actions

- **January 6th Capitol Riot**: Trump's speech on January 6, 2021, encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol, which resulted in violence, deaths, and significant disruption. This event is often cited as an example of incitement to violence.

- **Persistent Election Fraud Claims**: Trump's unfounded claims about the 2020 election being stolen undermined public trust in the electoral process and contributed to significant unrest and violence.

- **Targeting Specific Groups**: Trump's policies and rhetoric often targeted specific groups, such as immigrants and minorities, fostering a climate of fear and division.

### Expert Opinions and Comparisons

- **Authoritarian Takeover**: Scholars like Ruth Ben-Ghiat describe Project 2025 as a blueprint for an authoritarian takeover, aimed at dismantling liberal democratic institutions and replacing them with structures supporting autocratic rule (Wikipedia).

- **Christian Nationalism**: The alignment with Christian nationalist principles is seen as an effort to redefine American identity and governance in a way that could marginalize non-Christian communities (Politico).

### Legal and Ethical Considerations

- **State Terrorism Framework**: While traditionally state terrorism involves systematic and unlawful use of violence by state actors, the term can be applied to actions that create fear and coercion through state policies and rhetoric.

- **Historical Comparisons**: Comparing Trump's actions to other leaders accused of state terrorism can help contextualize his impact. For instance, using state machinery to suppress dissent and promote specific ideological goals aligns with broader definitions of state terrorism.

### Conclusion

While calling Trump a "state terrorist" is provocative and contentious, the argument can be supported by pointing to specific actions, rhetoric, and policy plans that use fear and intimidation to achieve political ends. The evidence from Project 2025, his role in the January 6th riot, and his divisive rhetoric all contribute to a narrative that aligns with elements of state terrorism.

These points highlight the significant concerns about his potential return to power and the impact of his policies on American democracy and societal cohesion.

[vintageseawitch]

the Heritage Foundation needs to be listed as a domestic terrorist group. hey FBI guys, y'all are gonna lose your jobs because your branch will be ripped away! Project 2025 needs to be reported as an act of domestic terrorism & is a massive list of potential crimes against humanity.

i don't have a lot of faith though. fascism has been a long-con in this country (& is already actively happening & jas been all along). a part of me wants it to fail but then so much is even MORE at stake if this gets implemented.

[almaqead]

"The Radiant Source." From Surah 10, Surah Yunus, "The Dove."

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is coming out publicly against this forum, stating we are all forbidden form reading the Quran. This sentiment is echoed across the United States by other terrorist groups like the Republican Party, the Family Research Council, Heritage Foundation, the Friends of Israel, and others who operate illegally on US Soil.

To spread intelligence about the importance of the Quran is what I started writing about it in this forum and have stumbled across some amazing things. Everyone should read the Quran and take advantage of much deeper knowledge found on the web and in person through the resources available through the Muslim community.

We have been led to believe Muslims are undependable, shifty, that they represent a problem or national crisis that is coming our way. This is all false. God trusted Muhammad with this text and nearly 2 billion Muslims are entrusted by Him with its execution. We need the insight and efforts of persons who trust in all of the above to carry out the reunification of Jerusalem, and end to tyranny in the Middle East and Russia and to ensure interstrate trade routes the world depends upon remain viable. They depend on all of us for income, food, medicine, technology, and guuarantors of their human rights.

This forum shall continue as will the prayers of all believers of all faiths for the end of war, violence, oppression, exploitation and suspicion carried about by anyone seeking to disrupt life on this world.

10: 5-8:

He is the One Who made the sun a radiant source and the moon a reflected light, with precisely ordained phases, so that you may know the number of years and calculation ˹of time˺. Allah did not create all this except for a purpose. He makes the signs clear for people of knowledge.

Surely in the alternation of the day and the night, and in all that Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, there are truly signs for those mindful ˹of Him˺.

Indeed, those who do not expect to meet Us, being pleased and content with this worldly life, and who are heedless of Our signs, they will have the Fire as a home because of what they have committed.

Commentary:

God gave the Arabs the Quran just as he gave the Jews the Torah, and the Upanishads to the Indians, and to the Europeans, he gave the Gospels. Every place and every race on this planet has had a chance to become intelligent and prosperous because of the religious writings and teachings of its sages.

In all that Allah has created is something pleasing, this is more so the more deep is our knowledge of it. Knowledge of God is the same way. Every culture has struggled with war and peace, feasts and famines, upswings in wealth and downturns into poverty. Because of Covid, climate change, the Russians and party politics in America, we are struggling with them more than we should.

After the manner of a Buddhist, Muhammad says, "Allah did not create all this except for a purpose, He makes the signs clear for people of knowledge," = "How can you not see you have everything you need?"

Persons like the Mormons, who are all dumber than bullfrogs, who attacked Israel, who don't like anything and are never pleased do not get to criticize the rest. The study of the Quran shall continue till the world stops bleeding and every human has what they need to survive and be happy.

[stillevann]

‘I still need to live’: Christian preacher Hatun Tash on the plot to kill her

Tom Goodenough14 January 2024, 7:00am

Hatun Tash (Credit: YouTube/ Speak Life)

When Hatun Tash went missing before Christmas her friends and family had good reason to be worried. In recent years, Tash has moved house dozens of times and been repeatedly warned by police about threats to her safety. She has been stabbed and wrongly arrested. Tash has been harassed on the street and followed by strange men outside her home.

Tash, who is 41, has been targeted because she is a Christian preacher who used to be a Muslim. Last week, an Islamist terrorist who tried to buy a gun to kill her had his jail sentence increased. Edward Little, a 22-year-old Muslim extremist from Brighton, will now spend at least 24 years behind bars for planning a terrorist attack against Tash. Little, who was initially sentenced to 16 years at the Old Bailey last summer, refused to come to court for sentencing.

Others who seek to do Tash harm continue to roam the streets of Britain

But while Little is now safely locked up, Tash – who has since been found safe and well – feels little relief. There are, after all, plenty of others who would seek to do her harm. The man who slashed her in the face in July 2021 at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner, where she regularly used to go to read from the Bible and critique the Islamic religion she used to follow, has never been caught. As a result, Tash must keep her whereabouts a secret: the Met, who launched a missing person’s investigation into her disappearance, have since confirmed that Tash is OK but won’t say how they know, or where she is.

‘I don’t feel safe at all,’ she tells me over the phone when we spoke before Little’s sentencing. ‘There are lots of other individuals (who might be) planning or thinking the same thing. Recently, I got followed…by a couple of individuals. I don’t get scared that much. But sometimes, if you are in a quiet road and if your phone is about to die, and there are men behind you, you’re just like: no one is going to find my body.’

Life is hard for Tash, who nowadays tries to make ends meet with research work, in between her evangelism. The fallout from the plot against her life led her to stop preaching at Speakers’ Corner, where Little had planned to attack her. She says she did so mostly out of concern over the safety of others who might gather there. The plot against her was also believed to have been aimed at those who might have come to her assistance. It seems hard to believe that she might one day risk a return but she is adamant that she wants to do so. For now, though, she knows she must stay away: ‘If someone turns up to Speakers’ Corner with chemicals, there is a possibility that they will miss you. They might harm someone else. So it just don’t want to be responsible for someone’s life or someone’s safety,’ she says.

‘I’m not brave,’ she says, ‘But…you’ve got to make a choice. Do you want to deal with it or you just want to just keep quiet. And shut down? Once they know they have (silenced you), they can stop you. Then it’s a win for them. But they’ve been winning quite a long time. I don’t have much to lose’

Tash grew up in Turkey as a Muslim and became a Christian after moving to England. The name of her organisation reflects her heritage: Tash is director of the ‘Defend Christ Critique Islam’ group. Tash’s willingness to talk about Islam has made her plenty of enemies. She insists that she focuses on what Islam teaches, rather than an individual’s faith. But she is no doubt that being an ex-Muslim who has turned against her childhood faith makes her a target: ‘When the foundation of Islam is being shaken, lots of people (have) never heard those things. So it is it is not easy for them to deal with it, especially if they were never taught to think critically or have proper debates and discussions.’

A remarkable detail emerged during Little’s trial last year: when he was shown a video of Tash preaching, he erupted from his chair inside the police station. He assaulted an officer and had to be restrained. Tash is baffled that she can generate such hatred among a man she has never met: ‘I don’t even know what his favourite colour is. I don’t know anything about this gentleman’.

Tash insists that, as a Christian, she is compelled to talk about her religion – as well as the religion she left behind. For those who aren’t religious, her logic can be difficult to follow: why put yourself at such risk? But Tash’s argument, that she lives in a democracy where free speech is a guiding principle, is hard to fault.

Little is in prison, but others who seek to do Tash harm continue to roam the streets of Britain. Tash, however, is determined not to let them win. ‘You can’t stop going to Marks and Spencer because someone is going to harm you. I still need to live my life. If I don’t – If I can’t live freely under the law – that’s just not life at all.’

A note from the author: some of Hatun Tash’s friends and family have been in touch and remain worried about Tash’s whereabouts. For clarification, my conversation with Tash took place prior to Little’s sentencing and I have no new information about where she might be.

[ladynightowlsblog]

America is being invaded.

Ten thousand illegal immigrants cross our southern border every day, including violent criminals and drug traffickers.

Since the Biden administration began, at least 7.6 million illegal immigrants have entered the country illegally, and that doesn’t include at least 1.6 million known “gotaways” who have successfully evaded authorities.

Additionally, many foreign terrorist groups use our porous border to smuggle combatants into the U.S. Just this year, the Border Patrol captured over 150 people from the FBI terror watch list crossing our border...and those are just the ones they caught!

Our American communities cannot sustain this rapid influx of illegal immigration. Even the leftist mayor of New York City said that this border crisis “will destroy New York City.”

The Biden administration has done nothing to fix this problem. In fact, they want to use more taxpayer funds to process illegal immigrants and traffic them across the country.

Something must be done to close our borders and stop the endless waves of illegal immigration.

The Heritage Foundation is working to end our border crisis. And you can join us in this effort today.

Our team of experts are developing public policy solutions that will close our borders for good and restore law and order to our immigration system.

Our policy solutions don’t collect dust on a shelf. Policymakers in D.C. and in states across the country turn to Heritage for our powerful research on this crucial issue.

These solutions to our border crisis will improve American lives.

And through our Project 2025 initiative, we’re training thousands of patriots to staff the next presidential administration and implement these much-needed policy solutions. They will close our border and keep our country safe.

Will you support these efforts with your donation today?

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[reynard61]

Project 2025 is led by the Heritage Foundation, once considered a conservative think tank, that helped to lead the Reagan revolution.

Well, it's damn sure a Terrorist/Seditionist/Insurrectionist group now... 😒

[whatisonthemoon]

The U.S. Global Strategy Council

Excerpted from The "Terrorism” Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan

The council was incorporated in 1981 as a "tax-exempt educational research foundation." Former deputy director of the CIA Ray S. Cline is currently its chair (with the aid of co-chairs Jeane Kirkpatrick, Morris Leibman, J. William Middendorf, Donald Rumsfeld, and retired Lieutenant General Robert L. Schweitzer). Cline also serves as co-director, with Yonah Alexander, of their program on the topic "Low-Intensity Conflict and Terrorism."

Among those who have served on the council's board of directors and "strategy board" are Arnaud de Borchgrave and retired General E. David Woellner. Woellner became president of the Moon organization, CAUSA World Services, in January 1985 (to be succeeded in that post by Philip Sanchez, Nixon's ambassador to Honduras and Ford's ambassador to Colombia). The Unification Church's input into USGSC is impressive, and the organization is regarded by investigative journalists Louis Wolf and Fred Clarkson as "yet another CAUSA operation."  Current board members include L. Francis Bouchey;" Robert Pfaltzgraaf of the IFPA; Lawrence Sulz, affiliated with the Hale Foundation (see below); Richard Pipes of Harvard University and the Heritage Foundation; and a large set of retired military officers also affiliated with ASC (Moorer, Graham, Lemnitzer, Stilwell, Wedemeyer, etc.).

The aims of the Global Strategy Council are to promote "global strategic planning" and "to act as a catalyst to help define national strategy" along the lines desired by its hard-line-right board and officers. In accord with these aims it sponsors strategy formulation and outreach programs, as well as research and conferences on various international issues. Its Caribbean and Latin American studies director is Roger W. Fontaine, former Latin America specialist for the Reagan National Security Council, also affiliated elsewhere with the Moon system and Bouchey's Council for Inter-American Security.  We mentioned earlier the program on low-intensity conflict and terrorism co-directed by Cline and Alexander. Most revealing, perhaps is the program on Geopolitics of Southern Africa, directed by Stephen A. Halper, a former operative in the Nixon White House and Ray Cline's son-in-law, who was involved in the Debategate scandal, brought to light during House hearings in 1984. The featured political subdivision of the program is "African Insurgencies Supported by the Soviet Union."

The council links together individuals connected with the Unification Church and other far-right operations (ASC, CIAS, and IFPA), to CSIS and the omnipresent Yonah Alexander. It has former officials Cline, Kirkpatrick, and Rumsfeld to lend respectability-to its terrorism studies. With this political cast, that South African viewpoints would be put in the frame of Soviet support and insurgent "terrorism" is a foregone conclusion.

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