POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH

The Man Behind the Curtain

By: Judd Garrett

I don't entirely agree with this article. It is painfully obvious that Biden is gaga but who is writing his speeches? Garret is drawing a long bow in identfying Obama but I am inclined to think it is simpler than that. I think that some of Biden's closest advisers are very Leftist and it is they who are putting the words into Biden's mouth. Just who is the closest adviser we do not know as yet, There have been various suggestions so we may just have to wait and see

In the 1939 classic movie, the Wizard of Oz, in the climactic scene at the end of the movie, when Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, finally meet with the all-powerful Wizard of Oz whom they all hope will solve their problems, they stand before a gigantic screen, with the Wizard’s enormously round face projected on it, speaking to them in a loud ominous voice with fire and smoke flashing all around. As the Wizard is rejecting their requests, Dorothy’s dog, Toto, jumps out of her arms, runs off to the side of the big screen, and pulls back a curtain revealing a little man, pushing and pulling different levers. The voice from the big screen, tells the group, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” The little man behind the curtain was, in fact, projecting onto the screen, the image of himself as the all-powerful Wizard of Oz that they were all terrified of. It was all a fraud.

In an article released this week by historians, David Samuel and David Garrow, it was revealed that Barack Obama is currently “serving as a third-term president in all but name, running the government from his iPhone.” This aligns with his wishes that he revealed to Stephen Colbert in a 2015 interview when he mused, “I used to say if I can make an arrangement where I had a stand-in or front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and I could sort of deliver the lines while someone was doing all the talking and ceremony… I’d be fine with that because I found the work fascinating.” Most people who observe the political landscape with their eyes and ears open, and are not blinded by their partisanship, realized over two years ago that this is what the Biden presidency actually was – Biden is the avatar for Obama’s third term. There are many so-called journalists who work in the mainstream media who have collectively decided to ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pulling the levers of our government.’

Joe Biden is the perfect politician to play the figurehead for Barack Obama. Any politician worth their salt – and Joe Biden is clearly not worth his salt – would refuse to play the fraudulent role that Joe Biden is willingly playing right now. Gavin Newsom wouldn’t do it. If he were elected President, he would want to be the President. He would have the job and the title of the most powerful man in the free world, so he wouldn’t sit idly by taking orders from someone who isn’t the President of the United States. That’s why the Democrat party has hesitated in replacing Joe Biden when it is clear to everyone, he is a bad candidate, an unpopular President, and will most likely be completely catatonic by the year 2028. Joe obliges because he knows that there is no other way that he would have become President other than this charade. So, Obama needs to do anything possible to push Biden across the finish line one more time so he can serve his fourth term.

This is another reason why I believe that the 2020 election was stolen. Any politician who campaigned legitimately and won the Presidential election legally would never allow a former President to call the shots in his administration. Biden is allowing that to happen because he knows that his entire election is fraudulent. It was Barack Obama’s voter fraud apparatus that ushered Biden into the White House, which in turn, makes Joe beholden to Barack, causing him to allow Obama to call all the shots. Joe knows that if he doesn’t do as he’s told, Obama will pull the rug out from under him. If Biden had actually won legitimately, he would turn to Obama and tell him, “I’m the President now, you sit off to the side and be quiet.” Ronald Reagan was not calling the shots in the George HW Bush White House. If he were, Bush probably would’ve been reelected in 1992.

Everything about Joe Biden is fraudulent. Joe Biden‘s entire political career has been mired in dishonesty. Biden has been selling influence from his political office to enrich himself and his family for the last 40 years. We all know that Joe Biden could not possibly get 81,000,000 legitimate votes. We all know that Joe Biden is not running our country. He couldn’t run a lemonade stand. He doesn’t know that he’s President half the time. He can barely spit out a coherent sentence. He’s been caught on camera, shaking hands with people who aren’t even there. His face is frozen in a deer-in-the-headlights look. Barack Obama is the puppet master, and Joe Biden is the willing puppet.

Biden made himself a puppet 35 years ago when he stole the speeches of accomplished politicians like British politician, Neil Kinnick, and also the speeches of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. By doing that, he made the statement that ‘I cannot speak for myself, I need the words of other, smarter people to speak for me.’ He was plagiarizing – pawning off the words of others as his own – all the way back in law school. And that is what Biden continues to do being Obama’s puppet. How ironic is it that the one Democratic challenger that Biden is facing in this primary season is Robert Kennedy Jr, the son of the politician from whom Biden stole the speeches in 1988 which forced him to drop out of the Presidential primaries back then.

So, we hear a lot about threats to our democracy (which we are not) and threats to our elections, but what is playing itself out right now at Pennsylvania Avenue where the person who has the title of President, actually, isn’t the President, and another politician, who wasn’t elected to be President is working behind the scenes, as President, is the real threat to our political system. The most important part of our political system is the people’s ability to hold our politicians accountable. So, when the person who is calling all the shots is hiding behind a curtain, and never asked a question about any decision that he makes, his feet are never held to the fire for any of the problems that his decisions have created, we no longer have a democratic system, we no longer have a Constitutional Republic. We have a banana republic.

And that is what we have become over the last three years. This administration, run by Obama, is actually indicting, arresting, and trying to throw political opponents into prison for the rest of their lives for their political speech. Last week, Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump was charged with defrauding the federal government and defrauding our election system. As always, the Democrats will accuse the Republicans of doing what they themselves are doing. Barack Obama calling the shots in the White House behind the scenes, and Joe Biden, simply being a figurehead, is defrauding the United States federal government, and defrauding our election system. Like Joe Biden, everything about Barack Obama is fraudulent.

His policies which are run through the Biden administration, have caused over 5 million illegal immigrants to walk into our country over the last 2 ½ years with the sole purpose of changing the racial dynamic in our country under the guise of that “diversity is our strength“. But diversity is not our strength, unity is our strength. We are the United States of America, with the emphasis on “United”. As the saying goes, “United we stand, divided we fall.” And the man behind the curtain, pulling the levers of our government is hell-bent on dividing our country, so he can destroy our country because he hates our country. In 2008, his wife, Michelle said, that the first time she was ever proud of our country was when her husband won the presidency. Does that mean that only 45 wives should be proud of their country? Obama is determined to bring in millions and millions more illegal immigrants into the country because he knows that very few of those illegal immigrants have the love and respect for our country that citizens need to have for America to remain united and strong. They will eventually cause our country to implode because their loyalties are elsewhere.

At the end of the movie, it was revealed that each of the characters looking to the Wizard of Oz to solve their problems had the power to solve their own problems themselves. The Scarecrow was in fact smart; the Tin Man did indeed have a heart; the Cowardly Lion was actually very courageous; and Dorothy had the power to go home all along. The problems that each of them looked to the Wizard to solve were either not problems at all or could be solved by themselves without any help from the all-powerful Wizard. And that is true in our country as well. Most of the problems that we turn to the government to solve are either not problems – fictions created by the government to scare the people into giving them more power – or are problems that are best addressed and solved by the people themselves without the damaging help of the all-powerful government. But the leftist politicians must maintain the fiction of the all-powerful government who can fix all problems in order to cling to the power over us that they so desperately crave. When in reality, the government is just a group of elected and non-elected citizens who are no smarter and no more moral than the average citizen walking the streets. When we remove the pomp, the circumstance, the smoke and mirrors of the government, each politician and each government official look as small and as powerless as the man behind the curtain in the land of Oz.

https://juddgarrett.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-the-curtains

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So much for an ‘insurrection’. The real story behind January 6 is slowly emerging

A never-aired Fox News interview with the former Capitol Police chief, leaked last week, puts the lie to much of the January 6 ‘Insurrection’ (J6) narrative, still playing centre stage in US politics as a handy weapon against GOP contender Donald Trump. Chief Stephen Sund asserts in the Tucker Carlson interview that the J6 crowd included an unprecedented number of federal agents, that he was inexcusably denied threat intelligence and military support, and that ‘everything appears to be a cover-up’. Sund also notes Tucker was stood down as he was about to air the interview and asks, ‘Coincidence?’

While no one could or should excuse any of the violence that occurred that day, the notion that the chaos was anything like an armed insurrection has crumbled over time, Russia’s recent Wagner revolt with tanks and bombs showing what the real thing looks like. More than two years later, the relentless grind of a thousand emerging small points of evidence has built a persuasive case that J6 was a false flag event, driven by a weaponised Washington elite. Much as the Russia collusion hoax fell apart over time, so a steady accumulation of facts has undone much of the official narrative, the made-for-TV performance of the January 6 House Committee inquiry notwithstanding. The constant drip of evidence has been such that an April 2023 Rasmussen poll found 65 per cent believed intel agencies helped provoke the J6 riot, a view strongly echoed recently by popular, politically unaligned podcaster Joe Rogan. Nonetheless, the day itself must stand as one of then-speaker Nancy Pelosi’s and the Democrats’ greatest triumphs, allowing them both to mount an historic smear campaign against Trump and his followers, and also avoid confronting the 2020 election fraud evidence, as had been organised for Congress that day.

The enduring question is how much of it was a staged event, and how involved federal agencies were that day. This is where the Sund interview becomes important. Sund, who resigned the day after J6 under pressure from his boss Pelosi, complains that the House Committee never asked him to publicly testify, despite his leading the police response. He’s now written a best-seller, out last January, to tell his story.

Sund’s main contention is that he was deliberately handicapped in his efforts to defend the Capitol: key intelligence threat assessments were not shared with him; extra security resources were denied as was his request for thousands of National Guardsmen, although Trump had requested between 10 to 20,000 troops, according to Defense official Kash Patel. The Capitol was lightly defended by design; Sund was set up to fail.

On the question of federal provocateurs in the J6 crowd, Sund says he initially didn’t believe the FBI had agents there that day, because they hadn’t told him about it, per normal practice. Now wiser, he cites a government inquiry that there were 18 FBI operatives in the crowd, plus around 20 from a Department of Homeland Security agency. The 30-year police veteran says he’d never known of that many at a single event before.

Undercutting the official story of organised domestic terrorists planning to overthrow the election is the extraordinary saga of ex-marine Ray Epps, who is now suing Fox News over the characterisation of him as a federal agent provoking violence – which he denies. Epps is famously caught on video the day before the riot, urging protesters to enter the Capitol; men in the crowd start chanting: ‘Fed! Fed! Fed!’ Epps appears on the initial FBI Most Wanted lists for the riot but his photo later vanishes. A big man in red Trump cap and camel shirt, he turns up in later videos at critical junctures, such as the first breach of the Capitol barricades, where Epps confers with another red-capped protester who then helps break through the barricades. Yet Epps, unlike many others who did much less, has still never been charged.

The Arizonan claims he went to Washington to support Trump, but he leaves the White House area where Trump is about to speak, to take a half-hour walk down to the Capitol. He arrives there by 12.50pm, where he mingles with protesters before the first barricade breach. Between 12.45pm and 1.07pm two pipe bombs are found, one each at Republican and Democrat National Headquarters. Sund later describes the pipe bombs as a diversionary tactic, which redirects police resources. At 12.50pm the attack on the Capitol perimeter barricades begins. Sund cites the timing of the pipe bombs discovery and the breach of the barricades as evidence that the attack was coordinated. With the barricades gone, protesters who stayed to hear Trump arrived at the Capitol unaware that they were now trespassing on Capitol grounds.

At 2.12pm that day Epps texts his nephew, who has asked if he is safe, saying: ‘I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.’

Subsequent investigations into the pipe bombs lead nowhere, although both buildings are surrounded by CCTV cameras. Shades of Epstein, the footage turns out to be grainy and partial. And although a likely bomber is seen speaking on a phone, at a precise location the night before, his phone location data, wouldn’t you know it, just can’t be found.

Years of stonewalling and bad faith behaviour by the powers-that-be add to the sense of hidden guilt. Many thousands of hours of Capitol CCTV footage have never been released. It took the FBI nearly a year to admit no guns were recovered from the Capitol grounds – meaning no protesters were armed. While FBI leadership has consistently stymied congressional quizzing about federal agents, using ‘ongoing investigations’ or ‘protecting sources and methods’ to block sunlight, trials of J6 defendants have exposed informants. For example, a court filing for charged Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola details at least 40 informants or agents from bodies such as DC Metro Police, the FBI and Homeland Security. Conservative site Gateway Pundit estimates around 100 operatives were involved on the day, and last month ran a story entitled ‘20+ documented reports of Feds in the J6 crowds’. The New York Times reported during the trial of five Proud boys that the FBI had up to eight informants in the group.

Another former senior Capitol police officer, ex-Lieutenant Tarik Johnson, is speaking out on Twitter for ‘J6 Justice’ in the wake of Sund going public. He believes that both officers and protesters were set up, and that intelligence was withheld. This story has a way to run.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/so-much-for-an-insurrection/

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The left careens down the road toward totalitarianism

The Democrat Party is intent on destroying our nation from the inside out. And while the leftists might not come bearing physical weapons, they do have a more insidious kind of attack: ideas.

“It’s the battle of ideas. People are persuaded by socialism and Marxism. Why? Because they never produce what they say they’re going to produce. They produce horror, they produce death, they produce impoverishment. But the promises are endless,” Mark Levin explains.

Because Americans have historically enjoyed the greatest freedoms, they are also at the highest risk for giving them away. “Liberty takes some explanation. Not to those who don’t have it, but to those who do,” Levin says.

If we’re incapable of even understanding the liberty we have, it becomes much harder to stop it from being taken away — and Levin believes that’s what’s happening right now.

“We are definitely on the road to totalitarianism,” he warns.

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But he has a solution.

“We have no control over the culture, and so we need to push back. We have to claw our way back. We have to fight our way back.”

“It is important that we are successful, when it comes to the debate over ideas. It is important that we are successful in passing the word along from our family to our friends to our neighbors to our co-workers. It is important that we quietly in our churches and synagogues and mosques or anywhere else explain to the people who may not understand or even engage in debate,” Levin adds.

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/levintv/marxism-2662969639

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Radicals vs. Atlanta: The Global Left's Violent Rage Over a Police Academy Meant to Prevent Killings

Leftist hate floweth over

Municipalities have recently turned to the Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics standard of police training. The ICAT approach, focused on communication tools to calm volatile situations, is credited with lowering use-of-force incidents by nearly one-third, reducing injuries to officers and civilians. As part of a reform agenda, city leaders in Atlanta announced a police academy focused on adopting the most modern de-escalation tactics, including the ICAT method.

Despite the clear need for more and better police training, opposition to the planned Atlanta Public Safety Training Center – derisively dubbed “Cop City” – is now among the most popular protest causes of self-styled radicals. Viral social media posts have claimed that the academy is focused on advancing “white supremacy” and that it is designed for “militarization” tactics. Some claim, ominously, that Israeli special forces will be brought to the training center to teach the Atlanta Police Department to terrorize minority groups.

The conspiratorial allegations have frustrated local officials, who say that planning meetings, which have been open to the public, made it clear that the academy is doing nothing of the sort. Instead, it will feature modern facilities to train police, firefighters, and other emergency responders in professional best practices.

Protest organizers carefully ignore any of the publicly debated training curriculum and have instead made the center into a target for an abstract smorgasbord of left-wing causes. In one recent podcast from a local organizer and several national left-wing influencers, activists called the “Cop City” protest an attempt to “link intensive policing, undemocratic land use processes with the issue of climate change,” and “a global struggle against fascism” to “disrupt the machinery of capitalism.”

Such rhetoric has made meaningful discussion nearly impossible. In June, as the Atlanta city council debated the future of the training center, demonstrators from as far as Los Angeles mobbed the hearing. Outside the government chamber, protesters chanted, “If you build it, we will burn it.”

The slogans were far from an idle threat. Demonstrators have thrown fireworks and incendiary devices at law enforcement and set fires at the proposed police academy site in the forest.

"Atlanta has an opportunity to create the prototype of what real training should look like, a model for the rest of the country," said Rev. Timothy McDonald III, senior pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta. But he added that the role of anarchists has prevented substantive debate about the proposed center.

"Antifa, they don't want any kind of training, they don’t want any police. No policing is no answer. We got to have police and you got to have trained police," said McDonald.

McDonald runs a community center designed to reduce gun violence and serves as a board member of People for the American Way. He’s one of many local progressives frustrated by the escalating violence and opposition to the training center.

"Training is everything. You don't go to the doctor unless the doctor is trained," said McDonald, who has advised police reform efforts around the country.

But such arguments are lost on radicals singularly dedicated to destroying anything with “police” in the name.

Leftists from around the world have come to Atlanta to protest the training center. During violent confrontations with law enforcement earlier this year, only two of the 23 arrested at the site were from Georgia. The rest were from as far as Canada and France. Last year, at another protest over the proposed Atlanta police academy, every single arrested demonstrator was from outside the state. Construction crews have been attacked and local legislators followed to their homes in a bid to intimidate them.

In January, the dangerous protest tactics led to deadly violence. During an attempt to clear an encampment of protesters at the proposed training center site, an armed protester and Georgia state troopers exchanged gunfire. The activist, 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, graduated in 2021 from Florida State University with a degree in environmental science. Known as “Tortuguita” (Little Turtle), he had moved from Tallahassee to join the protesters. Georgia investigators say that on Jan. 18, Teran refused to clear the area and fired a shot that injured a state trooper. In response, law enforcement returned fire and killed him.

The death of Teran at the “Cop City” site, one local Atlanta columnist worried, would likely only fuel even more of an “activist Lollapalooza” environment, attracting a festival-like atmosphere of roving leftists seeking the latest, most fashionable outrage, further polarizing the issue. Online leftists have incorporated the slogan, “Trees give life, police take it. Viva, viva, Tortuguita!”

And indeed, the protest has gone global. “Stop Cop City” signs can be spotted in Paris, Brooklyn and San Francisco, while the movement has spread. The official activist coalition includes three groups from Santa Cruz, Calif. Anarchists are now targeting a new program proposed this year by liberal New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy that trains police to work alongside mental health professionals. That program, one local anarchist group claims, shows that the “white power establishment wants to build cop city everywhere.”

The anti-police training movement is well-funded and receives glowing, uncritical coverage in many prestige media outlets. James “Fergie” Chambers, the anarchist heir to a billionaire media fortune, recently promised $600,000 for the anti-training center campaign. Another liberal foundation called Solidaire, funded by Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg among other wealthy California donors, is offering tips to activists on how to derail the police training center.

Why is better police training now the focus of progressive left ire? Not long ago, President Barack Obama convened a commission on police reform, addressing the inadequate training of officers as the top priority.

The episode highlights the divergent views around policing that formed in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement. Many saw the moment as an opportunity for substantive reform, such as requirements for body cameras, enhanced training, and legal accountability. Others, especially upper-class activists, have used the movement as fuel for theatric protest violence with no tangible goals and no serious concern for public safety.

The “Stop Cop City” momentum has shifted the norms of the criminal justice movement. In 2015, the NAACP, for instance, strongly backed Obama’s calls for greater investments in police training and de-escalation tactics, calling such reforms “absolutely critical” in testimony before Congress. Those days appear to be long gone. In June, Gary Spencer of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund described the proposed Atlanta training center as a project for "perpetuating militarized policing that will endanger the lives of our residents, our visitors, and put the Black people and Brown people in Atlanta at a heightened risk of police violence."

Atlanta in particular began the process of creating this academy as part of a series of reforms to reduce police brutality while addressing crime. In the aftermath of 2020, following violent protests after the police killing of Rayshard Brooks – a young man who grabbed an officer’s taser, leading to a violent confrontation and the police officer killing him – then-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms faced a crisis.

Bottoms promised better training of officers and greater police oversight, but she also faced a crime wave and low morale among officers. Homicide in her city was up by 58% while over 200 police officers had either resigned or retired in the wake of the Brooks riots. Bottoms needed to navigate calls for criminal justice reform from the protest movement the year prior while responding to rising crime.

In April 2021, the mayor announced the creation of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, a new complex to be built on an 85-acre plot of land owned by the city. The idea married the problems into one solution. Bottoms said the facility would help overhaul the force to recruit new officers and train them with modern policing techniques, focused on tactics to avoid officer-involved shootings.

The new academy would train officers, emergency medical staff, and firefighters with input from community leaders and civil rights experts. Both Atlanta firefighters and police currently train at decrepit old buildings, and the unions representing both workforces have long called for new facilities.

“People say we need to abolish police or defund the police, well I don't know how you do that, unless somebody is going to abolish crime,” said Bottoms at a press conference defending the center. “What I've said repeatedly over the last year is that holding the men and women who serve us in a public safety capacity accountable is not mutually exclusive from supporting them.”

The mayoral proposal for reform made clear that every Atlanta police officer will receive ICAT de-escalation training.

The notion that the training center is a stalking horse for white supremacy strains credulity. Bottoms and her successor, Andre Dickens, are black, as are the majority of city council members backing the project.

If anything, the “Stop Cop City” movement has rippled with identity-based rage. Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond, the son of the civil rights icon Julian Bond and an outspoken proponent of the training center, has said that his office has been deluged with death threats and racist messages from protesters. "There’s been gratuitous use of the ‘N-word’ against me," Bond told reporters earlier this summer. "They wish I was dead like my father.”

But the proposal instantly faced opposition from leftist groups who saw the investment in a new training center as a bitter rebuke of the “defund the police” movement.

Before the first city council hearing, demonstrators swarmed the home of Atlanta Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd, gathering on her lawn and porch to bang pans and chant. There was no interest in discussing the proposal. "No cop city," the protesters yelled.

Not long after, environmentalists joined the protests, claiming the forest for the proposed site is a habitat worthy of special protection. Encampments sprouted on the proposed site, and activists began funneling Molotov cocktails and weapons, preparing for clashes with law enforcement and construction workers.

The city has in turn promised plans to build one of the largest public city parks on the 300-acre site, and will plant 100 hardwood trees for every tree removed to build the 85-acre training center. The academy shooting range will be indoors, muffled from noise. Atlanta has passed special additions to the training center plan, forbidding the use of helicopters and explosives, and requiring special training for police on protecting speech rights.

But no attempted engagement has pacified the movement. The opposition has only intensified, with activists viewing the center as an existential threat.

"This project is based upon genocide," implored one activist at the most recent city council meeting. A man covered in tattoos claimed that he had dedicated his life to "fighting fascism," and was anguished that the U.S. had gone from "putting bullets in Nazi's heads” to now “reward[ing] them with pay raises and playgrounds," a reference to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. "If this facility is built, queer trans people, black people, indigenous people are going to be killed," claimed another activist at the hearing.

Despite such talk, ordinary Atlanta residents remain supportive of the project. A poll conducted earlier this year at the direction of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, found 61% of residents in favor of moving forward with the center. The council hearing in June on the project ended with a 10-4 vote in favor.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/08/03/well-off_radicals_vs_atlanta_the_global_left_focuses_its_outrage_on_a_center_to_train_cops_not_to_kill_969911.html?mc_cid=1a1a5fcdd2&mc_eid=012a6b3e32