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“Black Lives Matter Exposed” – tied to international Communism, Palestinian terrorists, founded by Lesbian Marxists Posted on October 8, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple H/t to Fr. John Zuhlsdorf What is “Black Lives Matter”?
“Seek and You Will Find Truth and Facts Prevail” Evil Destroys Itself! by Lawrence Morra I read this blog and watched the video very early today, but had to get back to it now due to circumstances. Beautifully done presentation of what the crux of the matter is with regard to all of the trouble in our cities and societies at large. Now we know that the inner sanctum of the Church is violated also, which coincides with the horrible condition of the US government that to me looks like chaos and on the verge of collapsing if the corruption continues. We know that Hillary Clinton, Soros, Obama and many other highly influential players have provided a glide slope into hell for this Nation “Of the People By the People and For the People” like nothing that’s ever been witnessed in its entire history! I knew we were looking at a much bigger problem when the radial “Squad” appeared on the scene and were wielding political influence in our National Government via Congress and being propped up by our evil MSM Democrat Party Machine that are working against, “We the People,” which is allowing some of the most vile and destructive forces to gain a foothold in our Republic, with one goal in mind; to destroy America the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, these “United States as One Nation under “God” the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible!” This has all been work of the antichrist movement and implemented by means of the many minions running rampant on earth! As we look around in the world we can plainly see how the leftist agenda has defiled and desecrated so many wholesome chaste or normal values of everyday life that have been tried and tested over the ages; let alone Holy Scriptures and their sacred teachings from God Himself! I see before me a world of carnage and decadent sin; full of hate and evil atrocities toward what is good, stacking up to the clouds; perhaps now an amplified version of what Moses observed when he came back down to the people from Mount Zion (Sinai) with the Ten Commandments; as they worshiped the gilded or Golden Calf sinning like heathen banshees during the time Moses was away speaking with God! Exodus 24:16 “And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.” Isaiah 4:5 “Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy.”
I’ve been inspired to reblog this excellent article presented by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf via this wonderful blog site, Catholicism Pure & Simple! God bless and keep you. Amen. Brother in Christ Jesus, Lawrence Morra
“The Prelude to the Extinction of a Political Party”
President Trump announced something on Tuesday that could completely shake up the 2020 election – and expose the Democrats for committing “the single greatest political crime in American history.”
Trump said he has “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents” related to the Russia investigation and the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” The president tweeted Tuesday night.
He later followed it up with another tweet saying he “can’t believe these con men are not yet being PROSECUTED.”
The announcement by the president follows the declassification of documents by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe that revealed that former President Barrack Obama was briefed by then CIA Director John Brennan about a plan concocted by Hillary Clinton to tie Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
“Today, at the direction of President Trump, I declassified additional documents relevant to ongoing Congressional oversight and investigative activities,” Ratcliffe said in a statement Tuesday.
The declassification of handwritten notes by Brennan taken after he briefed Obama was first reported, along with a CIA memo that revealed the Clinton scheme was referred to the FBI for potential investigative action.
A source familiar with the documents explained that Brennan’s handwritten notes were taken after briefing Obama on the matter.
“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED],” Brennan notes read. “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” Brennan’s notes read.
The notes state “on 28 of July.” In the margin, Brennan writes “POTUS,” but that section of the notes is redacted.
“Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign + Russia,” the notes read.
The remainder of the notes are redacted, except in the margins, which reads: “JC,” “Denis,” and “Susan,” likely referring to then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough and National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
Ratcliffe informed the committee last week that the Obama administration obtained Russian intelligence in July 2016 with allegations against Clinton, but cautioned that the intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the text to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”
According to Ratcliffe’s letter, the intelligence included the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”
Nick Merrill, Clinton’s spokesperson, called the allegations “baseless b———t” last week.
Ratcliffe, meanwhile, released a statement pushing back on attempts by Clinton’s team and the media to suggest that he was advancing “Russian disinformation.”
“To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community,” Ratcliffe said in his statement. “I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”
According to Fox News, a source familiar with the documents said on Tuesday that allegation was “not disinformation,” or it wouldn’t have resulted in a direct briefing for then President Obama.
“This is not Russian disinformation. Even Brennan knew, or he wouldn’t be briefing the president of the United States on it,” the source said. “There is a high threshold to orally brief the president of the United States and he clearly felt this met that threshold.”
Another source familiar with the documents told Fox News that “this information has been sought by hundreds of congressional requests for legitimate oversight purposes and was withheld for political spite—and the belief that they’d never get caught.”
The source added that the Brennan notes are significant because it is “their own words, written and memorialized in real time.”
Former FBI Director Comey, sitting before a Senate Judiciary Committee played dumb last week when asked about the referral to investigate Clinton based on the information received.
Comey stated that it didn’t “ring any bells.”
“You don’t remember getting an investigatory lead from the intelligence community? Sept. 7, 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to James Comey and Strzok regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan [about] Trump…as a means of distraction?” Senator Lindsey Graham asked Comey.
“That doesn’t ring any bells with me,” Comey said.
The Democrats corruption is worse than we could imagine and the cover-ups implicate some of our most powerful government institutions.
Time appears to be up for the Democrats, however, as – thanks to President Trump – the information exposing their heinous acts will finally be revealed and the American people will see everything the evil left wing party has done over the past few years in an attempt to reverse the results of a 2016 presidential election which they never thought they would lose.
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I’d like to add a link here to a blog I posted July 4th that specified my interest and belief albeit in a comical way, that the other shoe as they say was going to drop and that this sort of action was fast approaching! Thank God That He isn’t only hearing our prayers but is answering them to bring justice to all the guilty traitors before they get the opportunity to destroy America! Amen.
“Make No Mistake About It”
I just mentioned this situation to a family member the other day and this truth you point out here is to me like the old adage, “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” as final confirmation that the Pope who isn’t really a true Pope is derelict and completely out of control; now blaspheming God Almighty. The same Pope that just months ago said “Never try to convert non-believers!” Yet this false Pope makes an example of washing the feet of Muslims! “Make no mistake about it CCP serves Satan and the antichrist,” with now Francis being in bed with that brutal communist regime, is a surefire sign of the times along with being a precursor of Pope Francis’s standing out as the false prophet empowering the diabolical movement of ushering in the antichrist along with Islam the non-religion political man-made ideology for conquest of mankind, propelled by Satan initially via Muhammad which culminated in 632 A.D. just before his death with his supposed final talk with god who told him Islam is the only acceptable religion to God, and that all others who worship outside of Islam must convert or be put to death; which began the all-out war against Christendom! This is all now in unison, fitting to a “T” with the CCP objective of global dominance totalitarian control.
These are not strange bedfellows but are in fact like-minded agents of the same agenda and inspired by the same source of diabolical evil on earth. The facts and truth are plain to see in this evolving heretical disaster the likes of which has never been witnessed on earth, but, was prophesied in the Holy Scriptures, and, indeed the Book of Revelations which clearly describes this very time we are in now as being the Latter Days just before Christ’s Second Coming. Some might say I could be wrong, but, the facts and truth are self-evident now, and, there was never a time in man’s history where the type of technology needed was yet available to implement the diabolical forces of hell, to set up a totalitarian counterfeit One World Order Kingdom on earth until now, which is precisely what Prophecy tells us would be needed for the antichrist to make his appearance to mankind and claim that he is god.
This is a time were wanton lust; for money, power, sex, and materialism run rampant throughout the planet while intolerance and hatred increase exponentially along with sheer madness or stupidity. I was also talking with a family member about how not so many decades ago in general there were more people living with a kinder or gentler mindset toward each other, and, how most people we knew or met wouldn’t think of hurting or damaging another person’s life and reputation, especially for selfish material gain; behavior that decent human beings no doubt would certainty want to avoid such controversy and shameful attacks like the plague; but now a person will join with others conspiring to destroy an innocent person if given the opportunity, almost like a blood sport if there is money, political favor and attention to be had, and even doing such a thing just to spite another person because of sheer jealousy or contempt; in a law suit crazy culture. I see how the human race of course has always had some of this underlying sickness and horror, but, never to the levels or fever pitch it’s reaching now with the advent of global digital communication and mass media manipulation, by some of the most nefarious evil minded humans on earth, in league with people like George Soros, Xi Jinping or Bill Gates to name a few, who are without any doubt direct agents of hell; which is where they get their marching orders from.
I’ll stop here, but, could go on probably too long; and I’ll only say in closing I hope more of you who are aware will remain vigilant in our earthy battle to the end, along with passing your own insights along to others as you carry on in the name of Jesus Christ; always seeking to do “the will of our Father” in heaven. I’m leaving a slew of links to previously published blog postings in hope that contained in perhaps at least one; there will be a spark of inspiration for anyone who needs it to remain faithful while doing his or her best in seeking truth in order to do God’s will. God bless you. Amen.
Lawrence Morra
At a time when much of the rest of the world is starting to wake up to the repression, mendacity, and dangers of the Chinese Communist Party regime, the Vatican is getting even deeper in bed with it. And at a time when that regime is intensifying repression of religion—including Catholics—in China, Pope Francis is renewing an accord with Beijing that has yielded no benefits yet save for President Xi Jinping and only disunity and suffering for the Catholic Church.
Two years ago, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement with Beijing, valid for two years. It had been a long time coming, and I and others tried to warn of the dangers before the deal was done. When it was announced, I expressed concerns—but also tried to give a pope whom I admire the benefit of the doubt.
Here is what I had said back on March 10th regarding the developing global plan of totalitarianism.
This COVID-19 is less of a problem than the common influenza viruses or others that wreak havoc on populations every year, but, this is all a dress rehearsal of what is to come as the noose will be tightened around all of our necks moving forward. Strategies are being developed and implemented to bring us all to our knees as servants to the all-powerful and knowing State.(Antichrist) To me all of the pandemic aspects from its initiation through all the many mandates and dire consequences that have resulted has been a targeted plan to usher in totalitarian control upon global populations by a nefarious group of NWO strategists, all of which are Marxist to the core!
Jeremiah 17:5-13 English Standard Version (ESV)
5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 He is like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
8 He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart
and test the mind,[b]
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Professor Jihad Bishara, director of the Infectious Disease Unit at Petah Tikva’s Beilinson Hospital, has stated that this Wuhan Virus or COVID-19 is not as bad as the common flu which is much more highly adaptable and intelligent than this current one that has the world going into lockdown mode, which is way over the top as a preventative measure. Remember, the Dems live and act like heathen self-serving godless people so with hardly any conscience to speak of they have no qualms with generating panic or hysteria if it will enhance their own bottom line which is always a corrupted one! People who become pathological liars do so because they have told so many lies they must continue to lie in order to cover the fact of their previous lies and not be found out.
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).
“People can die from the coronavirus just like people die every year from the flu and other respiratory illnesses but that doesn’t mean everyone who gets it will die. As a matter of fact, most people will recover and move on with their lives just fine.”
“The mass panic and shutting down of society is truly way over done. It boggles the mind.” Jihad Bishara
Yet another highly renowned expert Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi with a proven track record over many decades said it well too. The virus expert who is one of the most cited research scientists in German history asserts that self-isolating the whole population is “grotesque, absurd and very dangerous”.
“All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide caused by fear.”
“This is the incredible tragedy, because all these adopted measures are actually senseless and meaningless.”
“The life expectancy of millions is now being shortened because of this. The horrifying impact on world economy threatens the existence of countless people.”
“The consequences on medical care are profound. Already services to patients who are in need are reduced, operations cancelled, medical practices empty, hospital personnel dwindling. All this will impact profoundly on our whole society.”
“Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history.”
The Globalist agenda is what these men are referring to along with the activated mob or street terrorists now impaling our nation or attempting to dismantle it bit by bit! We can make no mistake about it; this is all Marxist in nature and intent; solely atheist and diabolical!
These activated mobs hell-bent and out of control fools don’t give an ounce of truthful thinking to what they are saying or doing and obviously don’t consider the facts. If the free world followed their prescription for some dreamed Utopia as for example; back during WWII it all would have gone to the devils and most of Europe would have been living under the mad man Hitler as their Führer! And the communist regimes in South East Asia fueled by “the world’s largest communist powers, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, both lent material and support to North Vietnam. In doing so, they hoped to consolidate and expand communism in the Asian hemisphere, bog the United States down in a long, expensive conflict abroad and thus gain an advantage in the Cold War.” Leading to nuclear weapons proliferation and supremacy then world dominance as the master evil plan!
But now these maligned individuals would rather have had people ruled under the Marxist leader Pol Pot,” the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.” Under his brutal regime the bodies stacked up to the tops of trees!!! Under that monster and the many others like him fueled by the communists of the USSR and China he crushed the people and freedom was nonexistent; only total control and death prevailed!
Pol Pot led one of the most brutal regimes that have ever existed in the human history. “He killed over a quarter the total of Cambodian’s population. If Vietnam had not helped us to overthrow Pol Pot, then many things could happen to Cambodia”.
So now we see these free Americas bashing the United States, which saved many a nation from monsters like Hitler and the SS who had France and Italy in its clutches during WWII, and no US Military ever did what the communists and Nazis did slaughtering their own people or who they deemed undesirables by the millions like Josef Stalin did in Russia and Pol Pot in Cambodia!
People like the brutal Chinese Commie leader Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot would have played right into the game plan for an entire Asian Continent to be ruled by brutal atheist Communism!
The Washington political arena is no better with so many of its wealthy swamp creatures having their way for decades!Biden has been the epitome of the crooked, career liar politician his whole adult life, what we call in these parts a real greaser and dirt bag snake, that has all the wealth he possesses from back door deals and nefarious Burisma or other such kickback money laundering deals where he used his elected office to enrich himself and family members. Then he says he has no problem with same sex marriage or full and late term abortion but calls himself a Catholic! The man is a walking lie and minion of evil or the most corrupt of politicians showing no moral integrity! He goes around kissing his granddaughter like some sex fiend on her lips and sticks his nose in the hair of multiple women over the years right in public, in front of the world like he couldn’t care less what anyone thinks! The man has no conscience; and I have many photos of Biden losing his cool and blowing a head gasket in public screaming at people with veins popping out of his temples or neck demonstrating that he is over the top bonkers; and yet these progressives and the Dem party think he is cool for being a POTUS! Biden was VP for eight long, dark, miserable destructive years! And on the opposite side, Trump a Christian has a man raised a genuine real Catholic VP of moral integrity with sound character Michael Pence. Trump has a beautiful family none of which are lazy dirty dealing snakes like Hunter Biden a chip off the old block.
Criminal traitor terrorists are running rampant trying to destroy the order and decent society we’ve built over the centuries to be replaced by communism. If that happens then the real suffering will begin and those that enabled its creation will then find out how they are so expendable and not going to shout, riot or make any overtures ever again; if they don’t want to be slaughtered!
We now have American universities that rather than being institutions of high esteem and higher learning they have morphed into leftist guerilla indoctrination training camps where young minds are warped, poisoned and led astray to madness and destruction; and one only need examine the likes of an AOC to see what fruit all of this so called progressive thinking will bear within the younger generations and societies at large! What follows is part of a fine article I want to share by the conservative journal.
“This fall at Washington and Lee University (removal of Lee pending), students will learn reading writing, arithmetic — and “How to Overthrow the State.” As antifa riots continue in Portland for almost 100 nights, students at the Virginia university named after George Washington and Robert E. Lee* will study Marxist revolutions in the Global South complete with role-play regime change.”
“Students engage these texts by participating in a variety of writing exercises, such as producing a Manifesto, drafting a white paper that critically analyzes a particular issue, and writing a persuasive essay on rewriting history and confronting memory.”
*Washington and Lee University faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s name from the university’s name, but only a majority of the institution’s trustees has the power to actually change the name, and the trustees have not voted on it, yet. One faculty member, an associate professor of law, Brandon Hasbrouck, suggested that the university should also consider removing Washington’s name.
Conservatives are not exactly thrilled…
Conservatives, who are already rightly worried about academia undermining American patriotism and teaching Marxism, naturally condemned the Washington and Lee course.
“Washington and Lee University’s course on ‘how to overthrow the state’ is one further sign of the insanity taking over higher education,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tweeted. “The alumni should rise up and show how to overthrow a crazy college administration.”
“This is disgraceful,” Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News. “We must stop brushing aside these egregious examples of campus craziness as isolated incidents.”
“The lessons of the past few months prove that these ideas don’t stay on campus, they spill out onto the streets,” Kirk warned. “This is a prime example of the intellectual rot that has infected the academy in America. The Trump administration should investigate and determine if this is the type of scholarship federal funds should be used to subsidize.”
The next generation of 1619 Project
Washington and Lee students will take a crack at “rewriting history,” just like The New York Times‘ “1619 Project.” That effort in Marxist critical theory preaches that various aspects of American society, such as capitalism, are oppressive and racist. Indeed, the Smithsonian briefly taught that even things like science, the nuclear family, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and politeness itself are oppressive aspects of a “whiteness” culture.
Portland activist Lilith Sinclair showed how Marxist critical theory pushes aimless revolution. “There’s still a lot of work to undo the harm of colonized thought that has been pushed onto Black and indigenous communities,” she said. As examples of “colonized thought,” she mentioned Christianity and the “gender binary.” She said she organizes for “the abolition of … the “United States as we know it.”
When vandals toppled a statue of George Washington in Portland, they spray-painted “1619” on the statue. When Claremont’s Charles Kesler wrote in The New York Post “Call them the 1619 riots,” 1619 Project Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones responded (in a since-deleted tweet) that “it would be an honor” to claim responsibility for the destructive riots. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called for the “dismantling” of America’s “economy and political system,” in order to root out supposed racist oppression.
Left-leaning journalists and Democrats have insisted, over and over again, that the riots are “mostly peaceful protests.” Yet the riots have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. At least 22 Americans have died in the riots, most of them black. conservativesjournal
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CP&S comment – We highly recommend the reading of this article from CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT. It should act as a real eye-opener for any Catholic who might be harbouring positive ideas about Karl Marx and his social doctrine.
“Author Paul Kengor’s presentation of Karl Marx as the total slime and deep racist that he was [is sonething that] amused me, given BLM’s attachment to Marxism!” (Father Z)
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“Those who say that Karl Marx,” states Dr. Paul Kengor, author of The Devil and Karl Marx, “was somehow doing Christian social justice or some such nonsense make fools of themselves.”
A 2018 photo of a statue of Karl Marx, created by sculptor Wu Weishan on the occasion of Marx’ 200th birthday, located at Simeonstiftplatz, Trier, Germany. (Image: Yvain2908/Wikipedia)
In 1999, Harvard University Press published The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, revealing a “tragedy of planetary dimensions.” It documented the untold atrocities of communism and all the people whose lives and livelihood were crushed by the dictatorship of the proletariat from Stalin’s gulag, to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, to the dictatorships of the proletariat established all over Eastern-Central Europe. Any serious reader of The Black Book of Communism would never buy into the evil of communism: the oppression, the culture of death, and the class struggle the system generated. One would expect that “the door to Utopia” of socialism and communism would have effectively closed for good.
But this did not happen: the idea of the socialist and communist utopia has made a comeback. In a recent book entitled The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration, Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College and senior director and chief academic fellow at the college’s Institute for Faith and Freedom, provides a sophisticated and well-documented analysis of communism by going to the source: Karl Marx. Dr. Kengor recently corresponded about his book and the demonic forces at work in the life and thought of Marx.
CWR: According to a 2020 Gallup poll, 45% of Americans say they would vote for a socialist for president. This is a considerable number and socialist views have been making a steady comeback after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Did the comeback of socialism urge you to publish the book?
Paul Kengor: It has prompted me to write many books on the subject, and countless articles. This is a pattern I’ve watched develop for 30 years, following the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
For about 20 years I’ve traveled around the country giving talks on campuses with titles like, “Why Communism Is Bad,” sponsored by the likes of the wonderful Young America’s Foundation. I’ve watched and warned that the post-Cold War generation was not learning the lessons of the Cold War and of the destruction of communism and socialism and this latest twaddle that bills itself as “democratic socialism.” I’ve observed the numbers climb yearly in support of these ridiculous philosophies, and I’ve pleaded with people (especially parents, and particularly Catholic-Christian parents) not to send their kids to these awful secular universities. They didn’t listen. Now, we have an entire generation of young people born after the Berlin Wall (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was literally an infant when the Berlin Wall fell) who have been completely miseducated about the horrors of Marxism and socialism.
They’ve learned little to nothing about how bad Marxism and Marx were. And now we’re paying the price.
CWR: There are philosophers (Umberto Galimberti, for example) who still maintain that Marx was a great Christian because for him the past was social injustice, the present made the contradictions of capitalism explode, and justice will be established only in the future. Is this the case, according to your findings?
Paul Kengor: Those who make that claim exhibit profound ignorance. Frankly, it is shocking, truly hard to believe. It is flatly and factually incorrect and utterly and wholly indefensible. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, and the founders of the American Communist Party would disagree with them. And obviously, the Roman Catholic Church would disagree with them. If they’d like, they can grab a highlighter and start highlighting passage after passage and quote after quote in my book underlining examples.
Here’s one:
“Communism begins where atheism begins,” said Karl Marx. Of Christianity, Marx added: “The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility. The social principles of Christianity are hypocritical…. So much for the social principles of Christianity.”
The Roman Catholic Church condemned communism as a “satanic scourge” conceived by “the sons of darkness.” Of socialism, in 1931 Pope Pius XI issued his seminal Quadragesimo Anno, where he stated: “Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
Even Dorothy Day’s The Catholic Worker insisted: “no true Catholic can be a member of the Communist Party.”
I could go on and on. Those who say that Karl Marx was somehow doing Christian social justice or some such nonsense make fools of themselves.
One of the worst articles I’ve ever seen in the Catholic press was a piece published by the Jesuit America Magazine in the summer of 2019, titled “The Catholic Case for Communism.” I was aghast. Marx and Engels and Lenin would have been aghast as well.
CWR: Why do you think we hear so little about the atrocities of communism?
Paul Kengor: Very simple: Because the political left, which dominates education and especially our universities, does not focus on it. It’s not that typical liberal professors are pro-communist, but, as the late Richard Pipes liked to note, they are anti-anti-communist. They would prefer to condemn anti-communists rather than condemn pro-communists. Communism just doesn’t register very loudly on their outrage meter.
They will scream until they’re blue in the face about gender theory, queer theory, critical theory, “intersectionality,” you name it. But they simply don’t get worked up about the crimes of communism. Besides, in their view, the communists had many “good” intentions.
CWR: For Marx and Marxists, nothing matters but the material world as revealed in the present. Religion is to be eradicated, because it debilitates and opiates the proletariat. Why was Marx so against religion?
Paul Kengor: Marx understood that to initiate the revolution, the Judeo-Christian foundation needed to be razed. The house needed to be burnt to the ground.
In their really important work, The German Ideology, Marx and Engels said that in order to achieve “the success of the cause … it is necessary that man himself should suffer a massive change.” This change must come through “a revolution,” a process of “overthrowing” the old “filthy yoke.” His “generation,” like the Jews whom Moses led out of the wilderness, must “conquer a new world” and “must also perish in order to make room for the people who are fit for a new world.”
But to get there, they had to take down the Judeo-Christian foundation: not just Christianity, but Judaism. “The Israelite faith is repulsive to me,” said Marx. It’s quite telling that in his essay declaring religion “the opium of the people,” Marx said that “the criticism of religion is the beginning of all criticism.” Marx had a favorite quote from Goethe’s Faust: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.” In a letter to Arnold Ruge he called for the “ruthless criticism of all that exists.”
Beyond ruthless criticism, there was ruthless abolition. The word “abolition” is omnipresent throughout Marx’s writings. As his biographer Robert Payne noted, the word almost seems to jump off every page of the Manifesto.
Marx wanted to burn down the house.
CWR: There is an even darker side of Marx: he was obsessed with the demonic, as expressed in his early poetry. Some scholars have suggested that Marx was possessed by demons. The man who wrote about the specter of communism that was haunting Europe wrote about the specters and monsters haunting him. Can you explain why the demonic side of Marx has been kept secret?
Paul Kengor: I deal with that very carefully, and why Marx’s hagiographers have studiously avoided it. I do not hazard to assess whether Marx was, say, possessed, though others have. “There were times when Marx seemed to be possessed by demons,” recorded Robert Payne in his seminal 1968 biography of Marx—probably the best and most insightful biography of Marx. Payne, a man of arts and literature, not a right-winger, and a respected academic not expected to level such a shocking charge lightly, asserted of Marx: “He had the devil’s view of the world, and the devil’s malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil.” Read my book and you’ll get an exhaustive walk through all of that ugliness. It isn’t pretty.
CWR: The situation in Marx’s household was desperate, to say the least. His wife wished that she and her children were safely in their graves, as their lives on earth were hell. Why? Marx’s sexual relationship with the nursemaid, whom he exploited ruthlessly and never paid for her services, included fulfilling his sexual appetite when his wife was ill. This nursemaid was Marx’s contact with the working class, providing free labor and free sex. Was Marx showcasing what socialism had in store for the working class?
Paul Kengor: I believe so. Karl had a sexual relationship with the young nursemaid, Helene Demuth, known as “Lenchen.” Actually, it isn’t quite right to say that Lenchen worked for the Marx family, given that she toiled without pay, almost as Karl’s chattel. The champion of the proletariat never paid Lenchen a penny.
Karl, who refused to bathe, groom, and suffered from boils all over his body (including his penis), bedded Lenchen behind his wife Jenny’s back. Some biographers have pondered whether this was consensual. Either way, in June 1851, Lenchen gave birth. Marx, being the kind of man he was, never acknowledged the little boy, nor paid a penny of child support. He left all of that to Engels, his chief sap, subsidizer, and sugar-daddy.
Karl’s long-suffering wife was crushed. He already put the poor woman through hell via his refusal to work.
CWR: Marx denied his daughters an education and careers. He looked down upon women. The situation in Marx’s household was so toxic that two of his daughters committed suicide. Was Marx showcasing what socialism had in store for women?
Paul Kengor: I find this so ironic. And feminist Marxists totally ignore it. He lamented to Engels: “My wife, alas, delivered a girl and not a boy.” He later lamented to one of his daughters, who likewise gave birth to a girl: “I congratulate you on the happy delivery…. I prefer the ‘male’ sex among children who will be born at this turning point in history.”
Marx’s daughters lived lives of hopelessness and despair. In fact, four of Marx’s six children died before he did. Marx’s two surviving daughters committed suicide in joint suicide pacts with their husbands. Imagine that. Oh, and Marx wrote about suicide pacts in his devilish poetry.
CWR: Marx is considered to be a racist and anti-Semite. His ugly statements against blacks and Jews are notorious. He denigrated his son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, of Cuban origin, as “Negrillo” and called him a “Gorilla.” Why did Marx despise blacks and Jews when, in fact, he and his family were of Jewish origin converted to Christianity? Why the self-hate?
Paul Kengor: Here’s a quick pop quiz for you: Who said this? “This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid.” Or this: “[He] has the blemish customarily found in the negro tribe—no sense of shame, by which I mean shame about making a fool of oneself.” Answer: No, not the grand wizard of the KKK, but Karl Marx. He was wickedly racist.
Another pop quiz. Who said this? “The emancipation of the Jews, in the final analysis, is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.” No, not Hitler. Karl Marx.
In his seminal edited volume on Karl Marx and religion, Saul Padover said that Marx represented “what the Germans call Selbsthass(self-hate), a trait which Karl Marx displayed throughout his whole life.”
I recently wrote an article asking why our wondrous progressives in the cancel culture haven’t canceled Karl Marx. He was a bigot, a racist, an anti-Semite, and a sexist. Why does Marx get a pass? Answer: because the left likes him.
CWR: Why was the Roman Catholic Church so vehemently against communism, opposing this lethal ideology, even before the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848? How did communist ideology infiltrate into Roman Catholic seminaries?
Paul Kengor: This is a major part of the book, and perhaps one of the most halting sections of the book for churchgoing Christians. Part 4 is called “Infiltration and Manipulation.” It includes six chapters on the very deliberate and cynical infiltration of churches by communists in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union. Communists had striking success with the penetration of the mainline Protestant denominations, particularly the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and what became Presbyterian Church USA.
Emboldened by those successes, communists then went after the Roman Catholic Church in the 1930s, specifically via Communist Party USA’s so-called “outstretched hand” effort. I publish a 1937 secret memo from Communist Party USA (it was held in the Soviet Comintern Archives on CPUSA) in which the comrades in New York City salivated like Pavlov’s dogs over the numbers before them: 18 million Catholics in America, and 80,000 simply between New York’s 110thStreet and 59th Street. At the height of its membership, the Party never had more than (at best) 100,000 members. American communists figured that if they could pick up even one percent of American Catholics, they would explode their membership rolls and could dramatically undermine parishes from within.
Most troubling, there was an attempt to infiltrate Catholic seminaries. This has been reported over the years (very sloppily so) regarding the organizing efforts of ex-communist and Catholic convert Bella Dodd, who, it has been claimed, attempted to place “over a thousand communist men” in Catholic seminaries. I walk through those claims very carefully. Did she really say that? How might that have been accomplished? Was she capable? Was that even feasible? And, if so, what has been the impact?
Alas, for those answers, you’ll have to get the book!
by Lawrence Morra (non profit informational purposes only)
I see it clearly; Francis is not the Pope, Satan has worked through that fraud just as he does through Biden and Harris! I wrote a long letter of great importance to Bergoglio about political evil at work in my locale and never got any acknowledgement from him or the Vatican but instead was attacked further by these nefarious monsters! All this wishy-washy talk is bogus and people should have been ready to fight like I’ve been doing alone against these criminals; God rejects LUKEWARM! Biden is one of the most corrupt evil men to have ever been in American politics if not the worst! I have written short blogs and found much data along with photos that reveal a despicable, evil soul at work in that rotting flesh! Anyone that doesn’t see what I see so plainly be they a priest, a bishop or any religious leader is already signed up with Satan to rule in hell.
Francis is the ugliest hideous human being that I’ve ever witnessed on earth with his lies and sinister diabolical designs supposedly representing God in the largest and oldest Christian Church, he is nothing but a complete fraud and devil, an antichrist supporter; he is in the league with Adolf Hitler! The fact that the entire clergy is not already up in arms long before now to stop him and the evil that’s destroying from within is sickening and, you must all be cowards to not fight back and stop this sacrilege! Satan is in the Catholic Church and many others! END TIME!
n 2016, the Vatican was pulling for Hillary Clinton. Just days before the presidential election, Pope Francis renewed his criticism of politicians who speak about erecting “walls.” This led Slate and other publications to run such headlines as “It Sure Sounds Like Pope Francis Doesn’t Think Americans Should Vote for Trump.” Several Francis-friendly prelates ran interference for Hillary Clinton. San Jose’s bishop, Patrick McGrath, wrote a letter to his flock in which he said that Donald Trump’s complaint of a rigged system “borders on the seditious.” According to the Italian press, many of Pope Francis’s aides viewed Trump’s victory as a “bitter defeat.”
In 2020, the Vatican is once again running interference for a pro-abortion Democrat. Joe Biden fashions himself as a Pope Francis Catholic. He brags about his cozy relationship with Pope Francis. In 2016, the Vatican invited Joe Biden to a conference about medicine, a scandalous invite given that Biden supports making scientific use of aborted embryos. Biden gushed about the anti-capitalism of Pope Francis: “We need to create a culture which, as Pope Francis reminds us, cannot just be based on the worship of money. We cannot accept a nation in which billionaires compete as to size of their super-yachts.”
So it is no surprise that such Vatican officials as Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia are helping Biden by downplaying his abortion stance. Last week Paglia served up some mush about the dangers of abortion politics, according to Crux: “As US presidential elections heat up and ‘life issues’ are expected to figure prominently in the campaign, the Vatican’s top official in the area has cautioned against turning the pro-life cause into an ideological weapon, saying making the protection of life a political football risks doing ‘great harm.’”
How convenient for Biden. He must have been similarly pleased to see Pope Francis acolytes at Notre Dame ride to his rescue after former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz told the truth about him at the Republican convention. Holtz had said: “The Biden-Harris ticket is the most radically pro-abortion campaign in history. They and other politicians are Catholics in name only and abandon innocent lives.” In yet another profile in cowardice, Notre Dame immediately distanced itself from the remarks. Its president, Father John Jenkins, rushed out the pitiful sophistical statement:
While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name at the Republican National Convention must not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party. Moreover, we Catholics should remind ourselves that while we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious working of grace in that person’s heart. In this fractious time, let us remember that our highest calling is to love.
Nor could FrancisChurch abide Sister Deirdre Byrne’s remarks at the Republican convention. Byrne said:
Donald Trump is the most pro-life president this nation has ever had, defending life at all stages. His belief in the sanctity of life transcends politics. President Trump will stand up against Biden/Harris, who are the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide. Because of his courage and conviction, President Trump has earned the support of America’s pro-life community. Moreover, he has a nationwide of religious standing behind him. You’ll find us here with our weapon of choice, the rosary.
This prompted Francis-friendly priests, such as Fr. James Martin, who gave an invocation at the Democratic convention, to pontificate about the dangers of “partisan” religious. Martin wrote on Facebook: “First of all, no one candidate or party fully encompasses the totality of church teaching on all the issues. No one candidate or party ever could. There is no ‘Catholic Party.’ Yes, there are many important matters to consider, like abortion and the death penalty, but Catholics are not ‘one-issue voters.’”
Again, how convenient for Biden. Of course, all these priests tut-tutting Byrne about participating in politics are up to their eyeballs in it themselves and would never dream of lecturing Pope Francis on the perils of partisan politics, whose immersion in them is notorious. Their shilling for Biden is disgraceful, given what Biden and his radical cohorts plan to do to the Church should they win. “Catholic” Biden would preside over the most fiercely anti-Catholic presidency ever.
But FrancisChurch doesn’t care. It shares Biden’s politics and his disdain for traditional teaching. In defending Biden’s “sincerity,” Fr. James Martin, Fr. John Jenkins, and company are defending their own heretical Catholicism.
The Vatican under Francis has become a magnet for anti-Catholic liberals. In 2016, the only presidential candidate who received an invite to the Vatican was Bernie Sanders. In an interview with the leftist Italian newspaper La Repubblica during his visit to Rome, Sanders explained the invite: “Look, I believe that the reason for which I was invited to participate in this conference is that many of the issues which the pope tackles are similar to mine.”
Under a Biden presidency, this unholy alliance between the Vatican and Democrats would only tighten. Vatican officials are already purring about Biden’s “green new deal” and his pledge to rejoin the Paris climate accord. They also like his commitment to open borders and his plans to redistribute wealth.
The revolution underway in America, which would accelerate under Biden, is one that Pope Francis supports. The ideology of Black Lives Matters dovetails with the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a book by Paulo Freire that influenced Pope Francis, who made a point of meeting with Freire’s widow early in his pontificate. “[Pope Francis] considered the meeting with me because of the writings of Paulo, because of the importance of Paulo for the education of oppressed people, poor people, black people, for women, for minorities,” said Ana Freire.
After Texas Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso kneeled at a Black Lives Matter protest, he received a congratulatory phone call from Pope Francis. He was pleased to see a bishop joining in the protests. Is it any wonder the Vatican is providing cover to Biden? In him, the Vatican sees a fellow liberal with whom it can make common cause on the global stage. A grim irony in its rationalizations for Biden is that it was perfectly willing to question Trump’s faith for building a border wall. That is “not Christian,” the pope said. But the pro-abortion apostate before him receives no such condemnation.
Begoglio you devil; are supporting a man of perdition and diabolical evil! Hell awaits you!
by Lawrence Morra (for non-profit informational sharing purposes only)
August 27, 2020
The hypocrisy and lies overflow the Washington Swamp like a Tsunami! This history making event should have been applauded by both Republican and Democrat leaders but was instead flat out rejected by the hideous and I say diabolical leftist Dem party, continuing their pattern of scorched earth plan of attack policy and to hell with the American Citizens and our Nation be damned! I had tears in my eyes watching this beautiful ceremony offered up by the RNC to showcase the greatness that America still can offer and what has always made this the one nation on earth that peoples from all around the planet would and still do fervently seek out the opportunity to make it their new home! Yet the maligned, malicious and diabolically vicious Dem party are looking for blood immediately upon witnessing this ceremony; even while they continue to advocate the mayhem and destruction of many major Dem controlled cities throughout the land! I can only call the Dems and the RINO Republicans in our Nation’s Capital, and, in those destitute cities the worst scum of the earththat has ever existed; even on the same parallel as an Adolph Hitler! They DO NOT care one iota about you or me and only serve themselves along with the special interests they are accountable to, but, we must identify the fact that they all serve the Devil!
Over the months I’ve had much to say about this evil destructive path and course of action that the Dems have perpetrated upon our Nation for many years, but, advanced it exponentially when Trump was elected as our 45th President! They revealed their evil more with each passing daybecause they were blindsided and exposed when the Killery didn’t get elected and Trump did.Then it was all bets are off and anything goes to destroy Trump, and, even all of us if they can’t have their way! Their slower take over agenda of America with communism was on track, but, this threw a wrench into the corrupted Dem political machine, so now they show their true colors of hate, immorality, debauchery and greed as they lust for absolute power! Here are a few of my thoughts over the past year which are quite relevant in my humble opinion.
“We the People” have way too many cut-throat criminals in our Nations Seat of Power that are ruining our Nation and its future for generations and perhaps forever; if this lying and evil isn’t stopped and soon! I actually think this next general election is going to be “make or break” for America, and, that is no stretch of any imagination! This freaking Dem-Wit NUT CASE candidate Warren, instead of speaking Truth and offering plans to reduce our National Debt in time to save this Nation from going bust, is talking about spending hundreds of trillions in a sham nonsense giveaway idea as if money grows on trees, in order to give ALL FREE HEALTH CARE, including all of the illegals, which is totally impossible to afford! If the Nation got out of the RED financially and had surplus money then people could talk about doing some good in these major entitlement program ideas; but, as it is the way things are now Social Security which Citizens have been paying into all of their working careers is going to be unsustainable without pushing the National Debt even much higher, if something isn’t done soon to fix this out of control fiscal mess! This crazy lying hag should be locked up for committing fraud with her Congressional accomplices on “We the People,” besides which she should be removed with Pelosi and others just for their sheer lunacy or incompetence as they are holding high elected public office totally unfit, while they are also anti-capitalism free enterprise economics, but, instead pro-communism which is contrary to the basic tenets of our Constitutional Republic system of governance; and they are doing severe damage to our Nation even talking the way they do! THEY ARE EVIL AND NUTS! These left-wing lunatics are subdued by the Evil Dem Wit party BS and NWO agenda of duping all of the people into SUBMISSION! They want total control of “We the People” which would become “We the Enslaved and Screwed” under Dem-Wit rule which is why no Dem-Wit should ever be elected POTUS, and, as many as can be voted out of office should be in this next general election! Where does it say that “We the People” or Citizen Tax Payers of America are supposed to be the custodians of the indigent and screwed of other suppressive or mismanaged governments; that of course are sending their masses as much as they can to our border to be invaders and free-loaders in America when those same governments in Central America and many other locales get huge billion dollar aid packages each year from “We the People,” for them to use in helping their people and countries to improve, but, instead they use the money to fatten the dictators and cronies of those places just like our Dem-Wits and some Rino Republicans do here trying to pull the wool over our eyes that they are doing the work of the “We the People,” but instead are lining their own pockets and setting themselves up along with their family members like the Biden’s have done along with Pelosi and the rest with their cronies, to be set for life and generations to come as billionaires all off the Tax Payer and the nefarious dealings they pull off in foreign lands using their political office power to barter with other leaders and even criminals! This is a time when we see a most Despicable, Lying Crony Career Politician such as Creepy, Crazy, Hypocrite Joe Biden actually running for president of the greatest country on earth; that is of course until it sank into moral decay and deceit on an unimaginable scale to where there are now countless minions of diabolical evil that are actually cheering on this human devil of a man Biden to be their leader, especially the entire Democrat Party that is a refuge of misfits, the worst sinners, liars, cheats, communists, perverts, murderers, backstabbing human scum of the earth, that to me are worse than what I’ve seen in cesspools over the course of my lifetime! A world where a dirty rotten wicked minion and cohort of hell Nancy Pelosi can lead the Democrat Communist Party toward the destruction of America with impunity, and with a thrill as she does it, wielding totally corrupted human earthy power even as she claims to be a Catholic just like Biden does, while not even living in the slightest way in accordance with the teachings and tenets of the Church that follows strictly through thousands of years of theologian accurate deciphering of the Holy Scriptures; in order to live in the way that Jesus Christ Himself instructed the faithful to live.Everything they do is in complete opposition to any degree or fragment of what Jesus taught; but rather they blaspheme God! And, they are attempting to lead the world through America’s power and influence toward perdition, under a One World Leader within the guise of New World Order, which will usher in the Antichrist who will usurp all the powers and demonic forces of hell into this New World Construct, to enslave the human race in a world of sin and debauchery like the “good old earth” has never witnessed, in order to bring Armageddon upon God’s beautiful creation!
After many years of the government of the people being run like a “crime syndicate” with all of the nefarious agendas running rampant so that our elected officials practically lined their pockets with Gold not just lots of hidden money, laundered cash from other countries by means of all of their backdoor deal payoffs or getting their palms greased by Big Pharma and many other highly exploitative corporations or powerful private entities; by doing right for all the many lobbyists, while pissing away “We the Peoples” future and our “beloved America” to a point where they even got in bed with our worst enemy the Chinese Communist Party to allow them to slowly and methodically squeeze the heart and soul out of America with their propaganda machine lined up with our own Political/MSM Machine. This to create the perfect storm or conditions to take away our Constitution bit by bit while metering in more communism in the name of diversity, socialism and political correctness to the point where we now have these basically “diabolical whack jobs” in our government playing us all for fools, while they attack or dismantle much of our heritage and tradition; where even now they sponsor and sanctify BLM or ANTIFA Mobs, Insane Fight Clubs if you will, against We the People! Doing this while stomping on “religious freedom of Christians” which is a “foundational cornerstone of our nation under God;” all to be replaced with this kind of garbage legislation that is useless pandemonium dribble meant to further create confusion and disintegration of the very fabric of our “Constitutional Republic” with division as one of the tools to collapse our government, “divide and conquer!” This being implemented with these whack-a-mole types which eventually are like repeatedly getting rid of something, only to have more of that thing appear, with their spewing gibberish, chaotic and basically insane ideas coming from these worst of the worst human beings, that have no heart nor soul; because they sign them over to Satan. Their “soul mission” is “destruction and accomplishing self-serving gains of wealth and power” at everybody else’s expense; other than the “elitists whom they work for.”
I’ll say it like it is, if “we the people don’t vote out of office as many Dems as possible and make certain “Trump is reelected” in this upcoming election we can basically count on kissing our way of life and our asses’ goodbye!” Please keep praying for us all and seeking the truth; while sharing it with all who will listen. God bless.
Kamala Harris did not mention climate change in her acceptance speech, but she did not have to. She talked a lot about justice and justice is now code for climate. Thanks to Harris and AOC, the strange beast of “climate justice” is now a big part of the Democrat’s agenda.
In fact the team of Harris and AOC has now codified the concept of climate justice. Just before the convention they jointly dropped the Climate Equity Act into the Senate and House hoppers.
The Equity Act does not mean that everyone gets their fair share of climate. The stated goal is for the Federal Government to adjust its investments and regulations to favor those who are supposedly most involved with climate change, or something like that.
The proposed law is so incoherent that it is hard to tell what it is for or what it does. That it would cause an enormous amount of confusion is certain.
The problem is that the central concept in the law is extremely unclear. Harris and AOC have continued the “war on climate” theme that AOC used when proposing the Green New Deal. Thus the Climate Equity Act is about something called “frontline communities.”
Apparently these so-called communities are on the frontline of climate change, or the frontline of stopping climate change, or some such. It is very hard to tell.
Here is how the Kamala Harris press release puts it:
“COVID-19 has laid bare the realities of systemic racial, health, economic, and environmental injustices that persist in our country,” said Sen. Harris. “The environment we live in cannot be disentangled from the rest of our lives, and it is more important than ever that we work toward a more just and equitable future. That is why, as we combat the climate crisis and build a clean economy; we must put justice and equity first. I’m proud to partner with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez on this comprehensive proposal to empower communities that have been neglected by policymakers for far too long.
The Climate Equity Act creates an administrative structure within the federal government to ensure that as we boldly address the climate crisis, our policies are founded in equity and justice for frontline communities. By ensuring that frontline community leaders and allies are playing a fundamental role in shaping and guiding federal policy, the Climate Equity Act helps hold the government accountable for creating a more just and equitable future as we tackle the climate crisis and build a clean economy.
‘Frontline communities’ are those that have experienced systemic socioeconomic disparities, environmental racism, and other forms of injustice, including low-income communities, indigenous peoples, and communities of color. As the climate crisis continues, these communities and others, including deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, vulnerable elderly populations, unhoused populations, and people with disabilities and the women, youth, and future generations belonging to these communities — will be impacted first and hardest by the climate crisis.
The Climate Equity Act holds the government accountable to frontline communities when it considers a policy, regulation, or investment with a climate or environmental nexus which could broadly include direct policies to address the environment and climate change, but also transportation, housing, infrastructure, jobs, workforce development, and more.”
So everything depends on what a frontline community is. It is here that the confusion begins. This central concept, upon which everything turns, is deliberately not defined. That definition is something to be done after the law is passed, by an Advisory Board no less. I am not making this up.
There is however, this wildly over the top guidance in the draft law:
“SEC. 205. DEFINITION OF FRONTLINE COMMUNITY.
(a) IN GENERAL. The Board of Advisors shall establish a definition of ‘‘frontline community’’ for purposes of this Act.
(b) INCLUSIONS. The definition under subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum
(1) a community or population that has experienced systemic socioeconomic disparities, environmental injustice, or another form of injustice, including
(A) a low-income community;
(B) an indigenous community; and (C) a community of color;
(2) a community or population that is the most vulnerable and will be the most adversely impacted by environmental and climate injustice and inequitable climate actions, including
(A) a community or population described in paragraph (1);
(B) a deindustrialized community; (C) a depopulated rural community; (D) a vulnerable elderly population; (E) an unhoused population;
(F) individuals with disabilities; and
(G) a community that is economically dependent on fossil fuel industries; and
(3) the women, the youth, and all of the descendants of women or youth that are part of a community or population described in paragraph (1) or (2) above.”
Note that section (2)(F) says that individuals with disabilities are by themselves frontline communities. One person communities? And the Advisory Board cannot change this inclusion. In fact all they can do is expand the definition to include more people.
I have no idea what section (3) means. It sounds as though if you are a descendent of a woman (but not a man?) in a frontline community you are still in it, or something. Or maybe only the women and youths in a frontline community are actually in it, not the older men? This section is truly incoherent.
Note too that in addition to communities there are also populations. What the difference is I have no idea. Perhaps communities have to be geographically together while populations do not, such as all the elderly people in New Mexico.
There is no way to tell from this incredibly vague and incoherent definition where the frontline communities are or who is in them.
The law requires that every proposed federal regulation, policy and investment (all grants, loans, etc.) that affects any frontline community must be analyzed for its impact. The negative impact must be minimized and the positive impact maximized. In the case of investments the agency is required to favor frontline communities to the extent allowed by law. Whether this includes federal contracts is unclear.
Given that there is no way to tell what a frontline community is, the result can only be chaos. Agencies cannot analyze what they cannot identify. If they try, in big money cases the attempt is certain to wind up in Federal Court, which the proposed law specifically allows for.
This law is modeled after the infamous National Environmental Policy Act, which requires environmental impact analysis of all federal, federally financed, or approved, projects. But in this case it is the economic impact on something undefined that must be analyzed and optimized.
This is the worst proposed law I have ever see. It is both wildly overreaching and deeply incoherent. But then the concept of climate justice is itself incoherent.
That Kamala Harris and AOC have teamed up to produce this complete nonsense is an ominous sign of things to come if the Democrats prevail in November.
David Wojick contributes Posts at the CFACT site. He is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy.
Well now it’s either a comedy of errors or the man who wrote “The Art of The Deal” even knows how to get the bad guys to “get their minds right!” What a joke that our own stupid ass Dem Commie Party can’t admit defeat and like spoiled rotten oversize punk-ass kids with a rotten attitude have tried their best to run the Trump Presidency into the ground, even if that meant taking the entire nation with it, a most contemptuous effort which they began as soon as the people elected Trump as the 45th President; and even now during an election year seizing upon a flu virus and doing what they do best, taking a lie or FALSE accusation, in this case a Corona Virus, then “weaponizing” it against their own citizens and country along with the whole world, so they might destroy the economy and ruin President Trump’s chance of reelection! Even if it was a murderous thing to do as it turns out; killing off so many seniors and compromised fragile health human beings as well as causing people to commit suicide; they were out to get their way by hook or by crook! And, all they proved is that they are just as evil and potentially much more than the “sinister atheist CCP;” being miles ahead in their schemes and plots, beating them in being extremely diabolical and demonic human beings; that have proven they serve one master, Satan. All I can say is Pelosi and crew you can burn in hell you dammed wretched minions of the “pits of hell.”
Thank God that our Great President and the best most gracious First Lady we have ever seen have provided a platform for TRUTH and INTEGRITY for the two most opposing governments in the world to bring forth a needed capitulation by the one destructive side which has worked nefariously day and night the CCP, and assisted the Dem party with their nefarious undertakings; to perhaps awaken and suddenly dump the “Dead Stump” and not the “Trump!” The expression “you’re dead to me” totally applies in this case as China had already indicated at the beginning of the Trump Presidency even if just said in so many words or deeds, and clearly by this example of contrast to the Dem party; that they are “Dead Wood!”
Looks like the rest of us, as in all of the United States citizens, should be on the same page by now and say; “Hasta La Vista Dem Baby Cakes!” And, “don’t let the door hit you in the Ass, or is that your Head; on the way out!”
Lawrence Morra
What a difference a year makes!
China’s leaders snubbed Barack Obama during his last trip to Asia
Chinese officials rolled a large set of stairs to the aircraft’s door on Wednesday, avoiding any appearance of the kind of insult that greeted former president Barack Obama in 2016.
Obama was denied use of an airport staircase when he deplaned Air Force One last September as he arrived in China for the annual Group of 20 summit – a move that was seen globally as a major snub.
By Lawrence Morra (for nonprofit informational sharing purposes only)
“Up in Smoke the Quagmire Empire State” Obviously NYC and the Entire Empire State needs new leadership and if they can ever return to the days when “I LOVE NEW YORK” was an easy thing to do with so much to fall in love with it will require incredible forthright leadership from a larger than life leader like our President Donald J. Trump, who is one of the few people on the planet that I believe is that capable, and really knows the place as well as what it would take to restore the greatness it once possessed, in order to pull it up out from “this quagmire of mayhem and disintegration” that the insane leftist leaders there wreaked upon it! Let’s remember to pray for this great City and State; as well its people. Amen.
Lawrence Morra
The COVID panic and unrestrained lockdowns have turned New York City into a ghost town. The entire state has been reeling from strict measures that are driving away businesses and residents. Some fear the city might never recover, thanks to local Democrats’ terrible measures. Now, Donald Trump makes a startling announcement that nobody expected.
Don’t be fooled. New York has been circling the drain for years. Ever since Andrew Cuomo became governor and Bill de Blasio became mayor of NYC, the state and city started falling apart. The once iconic regions have succumbed to high taxes, surging crime, and policies that are driving people away.
It’s only gotten worse this year. The COVID lockdowns punished millions of New York residents. Because the Democrat leaders weren’t willing to act quickly, the virus spread out of control. Deaths were higher in NY, largely thanks to Gov. Cuomo’s criminal policy of forcing sick patients into nursing homes. As if he wanted the most vulnerable group to catch the disease.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. For years, de Blasio has been forcing policy that has seen crime skyrocket. He eliminated measures that caught criminals before they could hurt someone. He’s targeted the NYPD, making them out to be the enemy. The worst came this year, when he slashed the police department’s budget, closed an anticrime unite, an eliminated cash bail.
The results speak for themselves. New York streets are filled with trash and homeless. Businesses large and small are fleeing in droves. And those who can leave, are leaving. Cuomo is begging the wealth of the state to come back (because they account for a staggering 50% of tax revenue). But he’s unwilling to admit it was his party’s terrible policies that put them in this position.
Now, Donald Trump is looking at New York very differently. In fact, because of the Democrats’ horrible leadership, he might actually win it in November.
Speaking to the New York Post, President Trump confidently predicted that he would make a competitive run in the traditionally Democratic state of New York in the 2020 election…
“I’ll solve the crime problem. I’ll solve their tax problem. I’ll solve all their problems. Who would not vote for me? We’re going to look into SALT; we’re going to look into crime; we’re going to look into all of the things and solve the problems…”
“Over the last six months what’s happened is insane,” Trump told the Post. “It’s insane. So we’re going to try very hard to win New York and that will be the first time — is that since Ronald Reagan, I guess? Since Ronald Reagan… I will bring down taxes and I’ll make sure that New York City is a safe place.” [Source: Daily Wire]
That might sound impossible, but it echoes what we’ve been seeing nationwide. Ever since the COVID lockdowns and riots, Democrat voters are starting to reject their party in favor of Trump. From California to Washington to Chicago to New York, long-time liberals are watching their leaders embrace radical policies, making serious problems worse.
Many have been expressing outrage online at how the Democrats they elected are defunding cops and letting riots run out of control. Once beloved neighborhoods are wastelands. Countless businesses are gone for good. Whatever’s left has been torched or looted by rioters.
Democrats, meanwhile, do nothing to stop it.
What sane American would want more of that? Nobody is benefiting from the Democrats’ policy of aiding and encouraging abusive lockdowns and destructive riots. It’s as if they are helping Trump win.
Nobody knows what will happen in November. But the Trump campaign wouldn’t be wasting effort in New York unless it was possible.
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