Reader’s Links for Aug. 9, 2024

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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

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  1. Minnesota Governor and Vice-Presidential hopeful Tim Walz has an abnormal relationship with China.

    “No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again…it was an excellent experience,” Walz said upon his return from the first of many trips there. Walz claims that his Chinese hosts lavished him with “more gifts than I could bring home.”

    Walz and his supporters would like us to believe that his cozy ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are not unusual. In fact, he is “hawkish” and staunch critic of the CCP’s human rights abuses, his media allies say. The Chinese have an expression for the practice of providing cover for the communist regime while issuing the occasional muted critiques: it’s called “big help with a little bad mouth.”

    As Breitbart News reported, Walz first visited China in 1989 under the auspices of a now-shuttered Harvard program called WorldTeach. Walz and became so enamored with the country that he and his wife honeymooned there after their marriage on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Walz “wanted to have a [wedding anniversary] date he’ll always remember,” according to his wife.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/08/exclusive-seamus-bruner-seven-troubling-tim-walz-connections-to-communist-china/

  4. Minnesota Gov. Tom Walz has been repeating the line “mind your own damn business” on the campaign trail, referring to abortion. But Walz, who believes that socialism is another word for “neighborliness,” set up a “snitch” line during the coronavirus pandemic, encouraging people to inform on their neighbors if they were violating his draconian stay-at-home orders, as he abused his “emergency” powers.

    Samples of the audio have been preserved:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/09/listen-tim-mind-your-own-damn-business-walz-ran-covid-snitch-line/

  5. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) appeared several times with a local Muslim leader who has justified Hamas terrorist violence against Israel and once shared a pro-Hitler film on social media, according to the Washington Examiner.

    The Examiner‘s Gabe Kaminsky reported on Friday that Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota was a frequent Walz guest and gave an invocation in 2019 before Walz gave his annual “state of the state” speech.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/09/report-tim-walz-met-with-muslim-cleric-who-promoted-pro-hitler-film/

  6. The Attorney General and Justice Minister of Canada, Arif Virani’s appointment to Canada’s new “Human-Rights Commission” has been “delayed” (not fired), after an independent review, Arif Virani announced Wednesday.

    Birju Dattani, the first Muslim appointed to the Human-Rights Commission has agreed not to begin his appointment as chief commissioner of the Human -Rights Commission on Thursday as planned. Mr. Dattani has agreed to take a leave.

    Surely Mr. Virani and Mr. Dattani, both Muslim, must understand the concerns of Jewish groups and Canadian citizens. Why does Canada even need a Human-Rights Commission?

    How much money is this latest debacle costing Canadian tax payers?

    What Human RIGHTS do people living in the 57 Islamic countries, that came up with the word “Islamophobia” have?

    When will Canadians DEMAND a stop to all this madness?

  7. Kamala Harris Ordered Raid on Undercover Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Sale of Baby Parts, Seized Videos to Block Their Release to the Public
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-ordered-raid-undercover-journalist-who-exposed/
    Aug. 9, 2024 9:15 am
    Kamala Harris and David Daleiden (Credit: Getty Images)

    Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris ordered a raid on David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, who exposed Planned Parenthood’s heinous practice of selling aborted baby parts.

    The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Planned Parenthood was caught admitting to this barbaric activity, and Kamala Harris, instead of investigating the illegal trafficking of fetal organs, went after the journalist who brought the truth to light.

    The controversy began in 2015 when Daleiden, posing as a laboratory wholesaler, secretly recorded conversations with top officials at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, including Dr. Ann Schutt-Ainé, the chief medical officer, and Tram Nguyen, RN, the branch’s vice president of abortion access.

    In this video, Planned Parenthood staffers can be seen discussing the sale of body parts from late-term fetuses in a disturbingly casual manner.

    According to The Center for Medical Progress, which did the undercover video, the organization in the Houston, TX branch described “delivering late-term fetuses intact and alive and mutilating the bodies afterward to cover up violations of the federal partial-birth abortion law, in conversations about selling fetal body parts.”

    Read more:

    PURE EVIL: Newly Released Undercover Video Exposes Planned Parenthood Employees Joking and Laughing While Allegedly Admitting to Selling Aborted Baby Organs and Dismembered Parts

    In 2015, the National Abortion Federation—representing Planned Parenthood—sought a federal injunction to prevent further dissemination of the footage.

    In March 2016, just two weeks after meeting with top Planned Parenthood officials implicated in the videos, Harris ordered agents from the California Department of Justice to raid Daleiden’s apartment and seize the videos, effectively blocking their release to the public.

    The raid involved 11 state Department of Justice agents armed with rifles and K-9 dog, according to the New York Post.

    Instead of investigating Planned Parenthood’s illegal activities, Harris launched a criminal investigation against Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which has continued for nearly nine years.

    This was not just an attack on a journalist but an attack on the First Amendment and the right of the public to know the truth about what goes on behind the closed doors of abortion clinics. Harris’s actions were a clear attempt to protect her political allies at Planned Parenthood, even as evidence of illegal activity mounted.

    David Daleiden then filed a lawsuit against Kamala Harris, alleging that she conspired to violate his civil rights through a purportedly bogus prosecution when she was California’s Attorney General. The lawsuit also names Xavier Becerra, the former California Attorney General, and Planned Parenthood as defendants.

    “This complaint seeks justice for a brazen, unprecedented, and ongoing conspiracy to selectively use California’s video recording laws as a political weapon to silence disfavored speech,” according to the lawsuit per Fox News.

    “David Daleiden became the first journalist ever to be criminally prosecuted under California’s recording law, not because of the method of video recording he utilized in his investigation—which is common in investigative journalism in this state—but because his investigation revealed and he published ‘shock[ing]’ content that California’s Attorney General and the private party co-conspirators wanted to cover up,” it added.

    According to the press release in 2020:

    California’s recording law bans secret videotaping of “confidential” conversations where third parties cannot be expected to overhear the conversation. The lawsuit documents many recent examples of undercover video recording by California news outlets, even recording conversations that could not be overheard by others, that the Attorney General never prosecuted.

    The California Attorney General admitted in a filing that Daleiden alone among other undercover recorders was being charged for his videos because “those recordings were edited to enhance their shock value” and thus Daleiden was “culpable to a greater extent” than other journalists.

    And then during questioning about the elements of the video recording law used for prosecution at the preliminary hearing last year, the California Attorney General declared in open court, “There is no definition of ‘confidential’ in the statute” on video recording. The California recording law in fact defines “confidential communication” at 632(c).

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    “The California Attorney General first admitted that they are enforcing the video recording law solely based on how they feel about the message being published, and then further admitted they are not even trying to follow the text of the law as written,” Daleiden notes. “CMP’s undercover reporting has been corroborated by the successful prosecution of fetal body parts sales we reported in southern California, multiple Congressional investigations, and forensic video analysis. It is every reporter’s First Amendment right to underscore the gravity of their findings, especially when the politically powerful disagree with them.”

    Harmeet K. Dhillon, lead counsel on the complaint, states: “Our federal civil rights statutes were enacted in the wake of the darkest periods in our nation’s history. They are well-suited for the current civil rights crisis we face, a time when powerful politicians allow their special interest patrons to custom-order prosecutions that violate fundamental constitutional rights, and do so even with the knowledge that their actions are ultra vires.”

    Beginning under the leadership of now-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, the California Attorney General’s office targeted Daleiden’s speech under the video recording law at the urging of Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation, and StemExpress, a fetal tissue procurement company with deep ties to the professional abortion industry.

    While running for U.S. Senate, Harris had a secret in-person meeting with Planned Parenthood executives in Los Angeles, including witnesses in her investigation, to discuss issues in the investigation as part of Planned Parenthood’s political agenda in California. Two weeks later, Daleiden’s home was raided by the California Department of Justice.

    California DOJ reports reveal that they were instructed by Planned Parenthood’s attorney Beth Parker, a defendant in the lawsuit, to seize “the computers used to produce the videos.” Last year, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation attempted to intervene in the Attorney General’s prosecution of Daleiden to dictate how he would be allowed to present his defense. The California recording law includes an absolute protection for recordings made for the purpose of gathering evidence of violent crimes, and Planned Parenthood and NAF wanted to block off any evidence or testimony that would reveal criminality in their fetal tissue programs.

    The publication of CMP’s undercover videos led to two comprehensive Congressional investigations, one in the Senate Judiciary Committee and one in the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel. The two investigations issued dozens of criminal referrals for Planned Parenthood and its business partners for transferring aborted fetal organs and tissues for valuable consideration against the law.

    In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had opened a federal investigation of Planned Parenthood, StemExpress, and others based on the referrals from Congress. Two of Planned Parenthood’s business partners in Orange County, CA then admitted guilt for selling aborted fetal organs and tissues from Planned Parenthood against the law in a $7.8 million settlement, and the Orange County District Attorney credited CMP’s undercover reporting with prompting the successful case.

    Fortunately, in May 2024, a San Francisco District Court ruled that CMP cannot be prevented from republishing any footage subpoenaed by Congress.

    You can watch the full 21-minute video below:

    https://youtu.be/27sI2bt3BJQ

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-ordered-raid-undercover-journalist-who-exposed/

  8. Kamala Harris Personally Files FEC Form Using Biden’s ID Number in Shady Scheme to Displace Him: Report
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-personally-files-fec-form-using-bidens/
    Aug. 9, 2024 10:30 am
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    An unusual filing by Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be an attempt to further take over the campaign of Democrats’ former 2024 ballot header, President Joe Biden. In another twist, the unprecedented move seems to have resulted in the FEC recognizing two presidential candidates named “Kamala Harris.”

    Whoops?

    The incident exploded into the public eye after Harris filed a Statement of Candidacy, a Federal Election Commission document qualifying candidates running for any federal office except the position of vice president must submit.

    The document, known as Form 2 by the FEC, is one all candidates must file within 15 days of entering an election. Candidates are then assigned a unique ID that follows them for life.

    Although a senator at the time, Biden was given a number, P80000722, that stuck with his presidential campaigns. The FEC used it to track him from his doomed 1988 shot at the White House all the way to his 2024 resignation.

    Harris’ number, P00009423, was granted when she entered the 2020 election as one of the Democratic candidates.

    Lawyer and activist Laura Powell noticed the unusual behavior and reported her findings in a July 25 post on the social media platform X.

    “On Sunday, July 21, Kamala Harris announced she was no longer a candidate for Vice President and was now a candidate for President,” Powell wrote. “Accordingly, she filed a Statement of Candidacy.

    “However, instead of using her own identification number, she put Joe Biden’s identification number on the form. Or, to look at it another way, Kamala Harris amended Joe Biden’s Statement of Candidacy to change his name to hers, signing her own name on the form.”

    Harris’ scramble was likely due to the over $90 million then sitting in the Biden-Harris war chest, a princely sum to which she had the first claim.

    Three days after the filing, conservative group Citizens United and Republican party officials from 16 states filed a complaint with the FEC over Harris’ attempt to take over Biden’s place in the campaign before the candidate’s dropping out announcement.

    “Here, the FEC accepted the Form 2 as belonging to Kamala Harris —- even though it bears Joe Biden’s identification number, not Kamala Harris’s,” Powell wrote. “Remember, candidate identification numbers stick with the individual for life. If Joe Biden were, theoretically, to run for President again, he would use the same identification number he has always had, which Kamala Harris is currently also using.

    “There is no precedent for two candidates sharing a single candidate identification number.”

    Powell noted the unusual filing appeared to cause some serious issues with how the FEC displayed the data.

    According to her, after Harris submitted the Form 2 using the president’s ID, “the FEC’s website basically erased Biden’s records,” and records associated with his identification number instead listed Harris’ name. Problems with the election agency’s database continued as Tim Walz entered the campaign.

    “The current 2023-2024 FEC record for ‘Biden for President’ (aka ‘Harris for President,’ ID number C00703975) is linked to two Presidential candidates,” Powell posted on August 7. “Both are both named ‘Kamala Harris.’ One of these candidates is associated with Harris’s candidate ID number (P00009423), and the other ‘Kamala Harris’ is associated with Biden’s candidate ID number (P80000722).”

    It seems the FEC’s recognition of two candidates named Kamala Harris was eventually rectified or removed from public view.

    As of Thursday, the hiccups in the FEC’s candidate listings appear to be mostly gone, although on Biden’s page, a raw electronic filing of Harris’ most recent Form 2 is listed.

    As I predicted, the FEC changed the way the filings appear on their website, so it doesn’t look quite as strange. Yesterday, there were two separate pages for Presidential candidates with the name Kamala Harris—one with Biden’s ID number and one with Harris’s. Today, Harris is… pic.twitter.com/SzYKJalLjM

    — Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) August 8, 2024

    The Democrats’ shuffling of Biden to the wayside is suspicious enough as it is, but shady filings to the FEC cast a potentially sinister new light on Kamala Harris’ ascension to head her party’s ticket.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-personally-files-fec-form-using-bidens/

  9. Katchelman, Jr: Framing the 2024 “Free” Election in the USA
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/katchelman-jr-framing-2024-free-election-usa/
    Aug. 9, 2024 8:15 am
    Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, who lied about his military service, at a Philadelphia rally this week.

    Guest post by John L. Katchelman, Jr.

    A recent news report states that the Harris nomination was secured with 99% approval by the Democratic delegations. At first glance, that’s a “WOW!” A longer consideration stokes memories of historical facts that highlight the worst in humanity—savagery, brutality, inhumanity, depravations, power lust, assassinations, etc. Think with me on the following indicators of our current national body politic.

    A first idiom…

    “None are so blind as those who will not see.” This idiom is used when people refuse to accept facts presented to them. The origin of the idiom is traced to the Middle Ages (1546). It is attributed to John Heywood.

    It stresses that blindness extends beyond the physical realm. It encompasses a willful ignorance or a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the truth. This is more detrimental than physical blindness, as it can lead individuals to make unwise decisions and cause harm to themselves or others.

    The idiom urges us to be cautious so our personal biases or prejudices will not hinder our ability to perceive the truth.

    A second idiom…

    In today’s media comments, the timeless idiom “The King has no clothes” is echoed. The idiom applies to the absurdity of politicians foolishly pushing policies to further their own vanities. Inevitably, it announces that the corrupt agendas of self-serving politicians are blindly accepted by ignorant supporters.

    “The Emperor’s New Clothes” describes a vain emperor totally exposed before his subjects. The emperor is obsessed with satisfying personal desires at the expense of State matters.

    The courtiers and townsfolk go along with the pretense, not wanting to appear stupid. But then a child blurts out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all. The people realize that everyone has been fooled.

    Although startled, the emperor continues the procession, walking “more proudly” than ever. Andersen’s tale is similar to other such morality stories, some as early as 1052.

    Even after the Emperor realizes he has been duped by the evil con artists, “he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at all.” Such fittingly comments upon the typical politician’s behavior when exposed.

    Truer words could not describe the timeless depravations of politicians who bow to the Deep State Bureaucrats! It is blind ignorance supported by those with an insatiable greed for riches and power. Those seeking acclaim and power “carry water” for those in actual control. And, those in control (the Deep State) will never relent that control.

    History is redundant in chronicling the vanity of politicians, the tyrants of bureaucracy and the gullibility of the ruled that affirms the POLS security.

    History furnishes illustrations from many nations and civilizations, but one stands out… Stalin’s 90%+ election landslide.

    In 1936 the first election under the new Soviet Constitution was held. Of course, Stalin, as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and then later elevated to the Supreme Leader of the USSR, choreographed the entire event. The results were later published that Stalin’s election was almost unanimous and a celebration of a “free election” was announced.
    Joseph Stalin

    In the 1946 election, Stalin’s winning percentage increased! Stalin’s victory speech emphasized the importance of having a strong and successful social system.

    “Our victory signifies, first of all, that our Soviet social system was victorious, that the Soviet social system successfully passed the test of fire in the war and proved that it is fully viable. […] The war proved that the Soviet social system is a genuinely people’s system, which grew up from the ranks of the people and enjoys their powerful support; that the Soviet social system is fully viable and stable form of organization of society.” (Stalin 1945).

    Joseph Stalin had been reelected as Premier, and propaganda voices heralded the large increase of votes from the previous election, thus validating voter support for him.

    But it was all show. The citizens were so blind they could not see the emperor had no clothes! Opponents to Stalin were intimidated, threatened, assassinated, investigated, and imprisoned with false accusations and their names were removed from the ballot.

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    The “justice system” was subservient to Stalin’s dictates. Ultimately, all offices on the ballot had a person’s name but there was only one name because all others had been removed by evil actions.

    So, it could be said there was a “free” election, all got to vote, BUT it was totally contrived. The “large increase and voter support” were propagandized to legitimize totalitarian tyranny!

    True, elections were allowed to be competitive, in theory, with candidates of different organizations, although persecution of any opposition during the campaign intimidated the electorate.

    Elections ever since in the former USSR and in the current Russian Federation have followed Stalin’s playbook. The UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, said in a statement that: “Putin removes his political opponents, controls the media, and then crowns himself the winner. This is not democracy.”

    Framing the 2024 “free” election in the USA

    There is a deliberate and contrived historical playbook governing the November election. This assertion is validated by a number of anecdotes revealing how the Democratic Party is pushing lies, intimidating, encouraging assassinations’, slandering, fabricating military service, lying about the “success” of our nation’s borders, threatening the highest Court of Justice in the USA, and even imprisoning those perceived to be threats to their power.

    Some are even suggesting they will not allow President Trump to be installed and have had meetings discussing the mechanics of such a coup. Others are saying they are now “radicalized” in angry opposition. And, amazingly such hate-speech is applauded and not prosecuted! Even the nationally elected leaders are either silent or supportive of such behavior.

    How can such behavior be explained? Three psychological terms seem to define such behavior. These are termed antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Such people are characterized by a controlling disregard for and violation of the rights of others.

    This behavior is persistent and inflexible even when presented with concrete facts that show they are wrong. The three terms are sociopaths, psychopaths, and narcissists. Psychopaths lack empathy, conscience, and respect for authority. Sociopaths use manipulation and deceit. Narcissists are selfish and cruel, thinking everything good depends on them.

    Stalin well qualifies as ASPD. His political savagery is well documented, even though he claimed unanimous election percentage. Politicians identified with the “D” embrace these three ASPD behaviors and some “R” eagerly join the “D.”

    An unbelievable action

    In spite of the historical records, the playbook of Marxism that Lenin tweaked to urge a central command and control and which Stalin wrested to validate his brutality, is being used in the “D” election campaign leading to November 5, 2024. There is pell-mell rush toward national disaster.

    The “D” (Democrats) have…

    …Purged the anointed nominee and inserted one professing total disdain and recorded illegalities.
    …Stolen FOURTEEN MILLION votes from the one garnering the votes and in backroom Chicago shenanigans “gave” them to one who could never have even made the final draw.
    …Accused opponents of radicalization while applauding their “own” of an even more heinous action.
    …Developed a campaign platform that is contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
    …Obfuscated inquiries into assassination attempts.
    …Prostituted federal agencies to achieve evil ends.

    So, how can such happen? How can the polls claim that the revised-Marx-Lenin-Stalin party even be close in an election to a party whose platform urges an originalist Rule of Law interpretation?

    Perhaps an explanation is found in the term “willful blindness” which is also known as “conscious avoidance.” This is a judicially-made doctrine that expands the definition of knowledge to include closing one’s eyes to the high probability a fact exists.

    One thus “knows” that actions are criminal but that one is willfully blind to the reality. Is this where the electorate of the USA finds itself today? Do these polling FOR the “D” think that somehow the leopard is going to instantly change its spots? (See The Bible, Jeremiah 13:3). In downhome farm boy terms, “It ain’t gonna happen!”

    Here is the shocking report that spurred this article: According to AP, “Harris’ nomination became official after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic National Convention delegates ended Monday night, with the party saying in a statement released just before midnight that 99% of delegates casting ballots had done so for Harris.”

    Indeed! There are none who are so blind that they cannot see the Emperor has no clothes! How tragic is the ignorance shrouding the general population.

    Are YOU a part of this ignorance? Do you “see” and accept the facts that are so clearly

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/katchelman-jr-framing-2024-free-election-usa/

  11. Joe Rogan Turns on Trump with Unbelievable Endorsement of
    Mark Dice – August 9, 2024

  12. BREAKING: U.S. Secret Service Breaks into Massachusetts Hair Salon and Tapes Over Security Camera, Allegedly to Let People Use the Bathroom During Kamala Harris Fundraiser
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-u-s-secret-service-breaks-massachusetts-hair/
    Aug. 9, 2024 2:00 pm
    Source: Business Insider

    Secret Service agents reportedly invaded a Massachusetts hair salon without permission, violated the business owner’s privacy, and taped over security cameras while securing the area for Kamala Harris’s recent fundraiser.

    On July 27, the Four One Three Salon in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was forcefully entered by Secret Service agents ahead of Kamala Harris’s first in-person fundraiser since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, the Business Insider first reported.

    The salon’s owner, Alicia Powers, had already complied with the Secret Service’s requests by closing her business for the day to accommodate the security needs of the event, which was being held at the nearby Colonial Theatre.

    “They had a bunch of people in and out of here doing a couple of bomb sweeps again — totally understand what they have to do, due to the nature of the situation,” Powers told Business Insider. “And at that point, my team felt like it was a little bit chaotic, and we just made the decision to close for Saturday.”

    However, what transpired next left Powers feeling violated and betrayed. According to Powers, Secret Service agents took it upon themselves to enter her locked salon, use her bathroom, and tamper with her security cameras—all without her consent.

    Security footage obtained by Business Insider showed a female Secret Service agent taping over the lens of a Ring security camera located at the salon’s entrance.

    The agents then proceeded to break into the salon, triggering the security alarm and using the facilities for nearly two hours before leaving the building completely unsecured.

    “When I got back to my phone, it was actually closer to 2:30 before I caught that. When I saw that people were in here I literally got in my car I raced here they had already essentially cleaned up and left,” Powers told iBerkshire.

    “When I got back here, my front door was left unlocked. I don’t know how long it was unlocked for and that’s essentially the the gist of what happened. They were walking around in here for a good hour and a half, my alarm was going off the entire time, that should have alarmed somebody that maybe you shouldn’t be in the building.”

    WATCH:

    As Powers explained, multiple people—including emergency medical personnel and law enforcement— were inside to use the bathroom without permission.

    “There were several people in and out for about an hour-and-a-half — just using my bathroom, the alarms going off, using my counter, with no permission,” Powers said.

    “And then when they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my building completely unlocked, and did not take the tape off the camera,” she added.

    Powers informed BI that an EMS worker later revealed the Secret Service agent in charge of security that day “was inviting people to come in and use the bathroom.”

    “Whoever was visiting, whether it was a celebrity or not, I probably would’ve opened the door and made them coffee and brought in donuts to make it a great afternoon for them. But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask for permission. They just helped themselves,” Powell said.

    Brian Smith, the building’s landlord, echoed Powers’s sentiments, stating that neither he nor his father had given permission for the Secret Service to enter their property, adding, “they had no permission to go in there whatsoever.”

    Powers, who was not present at the time, only discovered the full extent of the intrusion when she reviewed the security footage.

    To her dismay, the Secret Service agents had not only violated her property but had also left it vulnerable by failing to relock the door or remove the tape from the security camera.

    Despite multiple attempts to address the situation with local law enforcement and the Secret Service, Powers was initially met with indifference.

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    The Pittsfield Police, who were supposed to be coordinating with the Secret Service, claimed they had no knowledge of the incident. It was only after Business Insider contacted the Secret Service for comment that the agency acknowledged the wrongdoing and issued a belated apology.

    “I really felt good about that and that’s all I wanted out of the situation was accountability,” she told iBerkshire. “Because if we do something wrong in the community and we get in trouble, we’re held accountable and we have to make sure that we follow through with that and that’s all that I was asking for.”

    The agency’s response was weak at best. They offered an apology and promised to cover the costs incurred by Powers due to their intrusion.

    Business Insider reported:

    A Secret Service spokesperson told Business Insider that the agency’s employees “would not enter” without the permission of the business owner, but acknowledged an agent taped over the security camera lens.

    […]

    BI asked Secret Service spokesperson Melissa McKenzie whether the agency invited other people to use the bathroom. She told BI that agency employees “would not” tell someone to enter the salon without the owner’s permission.

    […]

    The day after BI initially reached out to the Secret Service for comment for this story — more than a week after it entered the business — an agency spokesperson said it had “since communicated” with Powers.

    “The U.S. Secret Service works closely with our partners in the business community to carry out our protective and investigative missions,” McKenzie wrote in an email to BI. “The Secret Service has since communicated with the affected business owner.”

    “We hold these relationships in the highest regard and our personnel would not enter, or instruct our partners to enter, a business without the owner’s permission,” she added.

    Bill Pickle, a former Secret Service special agent, who previously oversaw training for the agency, told Business Insider that it’s conceivable why a member of the Secret Service would tape over the security camera lens.

    Pickle speculated that someone from the agency’s technical services division — which handles explosives, bugging, wiring, and other physical security risks — may have wanted to limit visibility of Harris’s whereabouts if the vice president were to walk into the camera’s view.

    You can read the rest of the story here.

    In the wake of a recent Secret Service incident, online users are erupting in outrage.

    “Our government at work! They don’t need your permission! They can do what they want! Our government is the threat to our freedoms and rights!Will anyone be held responsible? NO…” one user wrote.
    Screenshot

    Another user wrote, “This is really frustrating. All of the agencies that used to do good are now just a bunch of Democrat henchmen.”
    Screenshot

    Another wrote, “Anyone else getting Nazi vibes from the current situation and this time it isn’t Republicans being blamed?”

    “First, the Secret Service is behind the plot to assassinate President Trump, and now they are attacking American businesses. It’s time to clean out the Marxist administration,” another user said.

    Another wrote, “Well, get ready if Harris is elected. there will be pot parties at the [White House] with rappers stripping and twerking. You think they care about your personal property!!! Harris will encourage the burning and destruction, and Walz will sit back and watch it burn as his wife sniffs the fumes. it’s like a joke.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/breaking-u-s-secret-service-breaks-massachusetts-hair/

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  19. UK Police Commissioner Threatens International Citizens Over Online Posts “We Will Come After You” (Video)
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-international-citizens-online-posts/
    Aug. 9, 2024 6:00 pm
    Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley

    Not content to ruin England with their chilling suppression of free speech, now the U.K. is threatening the international community over online posts.

    The Gateway Pundit reported that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned British citizens that he will arrest them for “participating in violence online.”

    A man was recently arrested for “malicious communications” in Hampshire, England, for a social media post that dared to mock the transgender flag.

    Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley told reporters, “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.”

    When pushed on how to handle “keyboard warriors” that may be located in a different country, Rowley said, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”

    “You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offensives regarding the publishing of material.”

    “All those offenses are in play, if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets. And we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets, the folks and the (indistinguishable) who are causing problems for communities.”

    Watch:

    Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatens to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.

    He does not rule out Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/AUJhEgTTtJ

    — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/uk-police-commissioner-threatens-international-citizens-online-posts/