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Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times been scrapped from Ocasio-Cortez’s ing that communism is taking over website, but continues to fuel ridi- America under the guise of Demo- cule of the radical proposal. cratic socialism. Speakers at “With this Green New Deal, The danger of socialism and com- they’re trying to get rid of all the munism is personal to Gorka, whose cows,” Meadows said, referring to the father was tortured by the secret po- conservative-owned fast food chain. lice in Soviet Russia. Biggest Conservative “But I’ve got good news. Chik-fil-A Like the other speakers, Gorka ridi- stock will go way up because we’re culed the Green New Deal. going to eat more chicken.” “It’s a watermelon. Green on the “We can laugh a little bit about it, outside, deep, deep communist red but this is a serious thing,” Meadows on the inside,” Gorka said. Gathering Warn of added. “They’re trying to take away “They want to take your pickup everything that is foundational to truck, they want to rebuild your who we are.” home, they want to take away your Conservative television host De- hamburgers,” Gorka said, referring neen Borelli said that Democrats to the Green New Deal’s call to get are openly embracing socialism, rid of all combustion-engine cars with 2020 presidential candidates and rebuild all homes. “This is what “trying to ‘out-left’ “ each other. Stalin dreamed about but never Borelli criticized the socialist poli- achieved.” cies backed by the 2020 Democratic According to an estimate by candidates, including the “Green the American Action Forum, the Rise of Socialism New Deal” and “Medicare for All,” Green New Deal could cost up to $93 as horrible. trillion over the course of 10 years, “America will never be a social- $33 trillion more than the entire pro- Ivan Pentchoukov gers and failures of socialism. The ist country,” Borelli said, quoting jected spending of the U.S. govern- montage featured footage of socialist President Donald Trump’s State of ment in the same timeframe. Key figures in the conservative Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) stating But you know the Union speech. Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist movement called out the Democratic that breadlines are a good thing, Trump’s former deputy assistant, and president of Turning Point USA, Party’s surging affinity for socialism socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- what the biggest Sebastian Gorka, said that socialism positioned the fight against social- on Feb. 28, criticizing the ideology as Cortez (D-N.Y.) admitting that she threat to America endangers the world and warned ism as the defining issue in what he a failure and a threat to the United is a radical, and images of hunger and that socialism’s encroachment on called a “culture war” leading up to States in remarks at the Conserva- violence in socialist regimes. is? Not socialism the United States is an even bigger the 2020 presidential election. tive Political Action Conference in A theme-setting opening panel in Moscow. threat. “There is a culture war brewing Maryland. featuring Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) “But you know what the biggest right now and it’s a culture war dif- In speech after speech, the biggest and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) targeted Socialism here in threat to America is? Not socialism in ferent from the ‘80s and ‘90s. It is names among conservative activ- the “Green New Deal” proposal by America. Moscow,” Gorka said, transitioning one fundamental question. What is ists, pundits, and officials pointed Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez, from remarks about Russia’s malign America? Is America a place for vic- out the hard swing left toward so- suggesting that the policy is em- Sebastian Gorka, former activity around the globe. “[It’s] so- tims or victors? Is America a place cialism within the Democratic Party blematic of the Democrats’ embrace deputy assistant to President cialism here in America.” where you can achieve your dreams and positioned the fight against the of socialism. Donald Trump Gorka pointed out that 52 percent or dwell in mediocrity? Is Ameri- ideology as one of the defining issues Meadows, taking a humorous ap- of millennials would like to live in ca a socialist place or is America in American politics and the 2020 proach, ridiculed one of the more a socialist or communist America, a place that embraces freedom?” presidential election. bizarre proposals of the Green citing statistics from the Victims of Kirk said. The annual conference, the big- New Deal, which suggested that Communism Memorial Foundation. “That will be the question of the gest gathering of conservatives in the United States would eventually Some 40 Democrats ran on an openly 2020 election. It will be the most the United States, opened with a need to get rid of “farting cows and socialist platform during the 2018 important culture war in American video montage depicting the dan- airplanes.” The language has since midterm election, Gorka said, add- Charlie Kirk, president of Turning Point USA, at CPAC in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 28, 2019. history. And we will win.”

Facebook Engineers Share US Government Extends Contract Strategies to Suppress Right-Wing for Mice ‘Humanized’ release. Abortion Survivors “In addition, HHS has initiated a Since the 2003 federal ban on par- the authors consider “coordinated than 500 dislikes as of Feb. 28. comprehensive review of all research tial-birth abortion, abortionists have trolling” and how to counter it. involving fetal tissue ... in light of the adjusted their techniques to kill the Arguments, Leaked With Aborted HHS has initiated Trolling is a broad term that de- Punishments serious regulatory, moral, and ethi- unborn child before it even partially scribes intentionally eliciting a Yamamoto and de la Rubia recom- a comprehensive cal considerations involved.” exits the birth canal during an abor- negative response from someone, mended developing a program that The HHS also said it would look tion. That is sometimes achieved most commonly online. could “predict” whether a user is a review of all into potential alternatives to using with an injection of digoxin, a poi- Documents Indicate The authors identified trolls with troll by, among other things, scour- Organ Tissue research involving fetal tissue. The review is still in son, into the woman’s belly. The poi- a variety of forms of conduct com- ing the user’s language for words progress, HHS told The Epoch Times son, however, spoils the tissue for monly deemed unacceptable on- like “cuck, zucced, REEE, normie, fetal tissue ... in via email. researchers. Some abortionists kill Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images line, such as harassment, doxxing IRL, lulz, Shadilay, etc.”—some of light of the serious HHS plans to spend $95 million on the baby by cutting the umbilical (revealing somebody’s personal which are common slang terms Petr Svab implanted with human fetal thymus fetal tissue research in fiscal 2019, cord inside the womb, which starves information), and falsely reporting used by some online communities. and liver tissue. The mice are used regulatory, moral, down from $103 million the year the baby of oxygen and nutrients. Yet content violations. They also proposed targeting troll A contract for a steady supply of mice for testing HIV drugs. and ethical before. that method can induce labor and Yet one of the “destructive behav- accounts with “drastically limited implanted with tissue from aborted HHS launched its review in Sep- Critics of such research, including the baby can survive, but have a slim iors” described by the authors was bandwidth for a few hours,” which babies was extended by 90 more days tember in response to media scrutiny considerations anti-abortion advocates, point out chance of survival unless at least 22 also “red-pilling normies to convert would slow down Facebook’s func- in February by the Department of of the Food and Drug Administra- involved. that it creates a demand for late-term weeks old and given intensive care. them to their worldview.” tioning for the user, as well as log- Health and Human Services (HHS). tion’s contract with Advanced Bio- abortions of healthy babies. “I literally have had women come “Red-pilling,” a colloquialism ging the user out or redirecting the It was the second time in a row science Resources (ABR), a nonprofit Department of Health and in and they’ll go in the [operating commonly associated with the po- user to their Facebook home page that the HHS opted for only a 90-day referred by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R- Human Services Humanized Mouse room] and they’re back out in three litical right, originated as a refer- every few minutes. extension instead of a full-year one Iowa) to the FBI in 2016 (pdf) for al- Scientists have crafted “humanized” minutes,” said Perrin Larton, head ence to the 1999 movie “The Matrix” They also proposed to make it for the contract as the department legedly selling body parts of aborted mice for well over a decade using of ABR’s procurement services, in and describes a confrontation with so that “comments and posts that reviews all research involving fetal babies. pieces of fetal organs, including the a 2014 undercover video by the Live shocking, hard-to-accept facts that [the users] spend time crafting will tissue for moral, ethical, and other HHS terminated the ABR contract liver, gut, and thymus—two small Action anti-abortion organization. force one to reevaluate one’s beliefs. magically fail to upload.” concerns. and committed to an audit of “all lobes in front of the heart which are “And I’m going, ‘what’s going on?’ “Normie” is a term used on some The contract with the University acquisitions involving human fetal a crucial part of the immune system. [And they say:] ‘Oh yea, the fetus was online discussion platforms like ‘Action Deboost’ of California–San Francisco (UCSF), tissue to ensure conformity with The mice are implanted with pieces already in the vaginal canal, when- 4chan to describe “an individual Other photographs from the insid- dates back to 2013 and pays over $2 procurement and human fetal tis- of tissue each about the size of a ses- ever we put her in the stirrups it just who is deemed to be boringly con- er show that some Facebook pages million a year for a supply of about sue research laws and regulations,” ame seed as well as stem cells. The fell out.’” ventional or mainstream by those were marked with the code “SI 100 mice a month, 90 of which are the department stated in a Sept. 24 mice then develop bodily functions, The Republican-controlled Sen- who identify themselves as noncon- (Sigma): !ActionDeboostLiveDistri- such as an immune system, more ate has repeatedly tried to pass a bill formists,” according to KnowYour- bution,” which the insider believed Nogwater/Flickr/CC BY-SA-2.0 similar to the human ones, helping this year requiring abortionists to Meme.com. was to suppresses the distribution of scientists to predict how new treat- provide such survivors of abortion As an example of such “red-pill- live stream videos posted by those ments would work in humans. the same care expected from “a rea- ing,” the authors posted a link to the pages. The code was seen on pages Abortion providers must get wom- sonably diligent and conscientious YouTube video “Why Social Justice belonging to right-leaning author en to consent if their fetuses are to health care practitioner” for any oth- is CANCER | Identity Politics, Equal- and filmmaker Mike Cernovich, be used in such research. It’s not er baby born at that stage. Upon such ity & Marxism” by Lauren Chen, also conservative comedian and com- clear, however, whether the women care, the abortionists would have to known as “Roaming Millennial.” mentator Steven Crowder, and know that the fetal tissue would be ensure the newborn is transported In a video response to the docu- right-leaning news site The Daily implanted into mice. to a hospital. The logo of social network Facebook on a smartphone in Nantes, France, on Jan. 15, 2019. ment’s release, Chen said she was Caller. The insider said she checked Nearly all Democrats in the Senate confused by the authors’ choice to several pages belonging to left-lean- Late-Term Connection voted against the bill, preventing the Petr Svab company has maintained that per- single out her video, which she de- ing figures and entities, such as the One 2015 research article (pdf) on minimum seven votes needed by the sonal biases do not seep into its con- scribed as “super, super tame.” Young Turks and Colin Kaepernick, experiments involving humanized GOP to overcome a filibuster. Facebook engineers have proposed tent policing, the documents show Facebook has “Essentially, I’m arguing that so- and found that they didn’t include mice specified that the fetal liver cells Democrats have called the bill an measures to suppress content on the the engineers repeatedly conflating cial justice is toxic because it pro- the coding. were obtained from babies aborted attack on women and health care, platform that attempts to convince right-leaning arguments, some per- long faced motes tribalism over individuality The insider’s photos “seem legiti- at 20-24 weeks of pregnancy. while Republicans accused Demo- people to shift their viewpoints haps crudely presented, with “hate and because it chips away at the mate,” former senior Facebook engi- Another article (pdf), published crats of supporting infanticide. away from the left, as revealed by speech” or “trolling.” accusations of concept of equality of opportunity neer Brian Amerige told The Epoch in 2017, described implanting mice Companies like ABR that, some- photographs of internal documents left-leaning bias, for individuals,” she said. Times via the Facebook Messenger with fetal gut tissues from babies times for a small fee, collect fetuses and messages obtained by Project ‘Red-pilling’ or Trolling? Chen acknowledged she picked a app. He was hesitant to trust Project aborted at 18-24 weeks “obtained after abortions, appear to increase Veritas. The photos show that sev- The photos were obtained by a underscored provocative title, yet she also started Veritas, a right-leaning nonprofit, as from women with normal pregnan- the incentive for abortionists to leave eral prominent right-leaning Face- Facebook contractor fired about the video by explaining she doesn’t a source, and said he hadn’t seen the cies before elective termination for babies accidentally born alive to die. book pages were marked with code year ago, according to Project Veri- by the literally equate “social justice” with “deboosting” technology with his nonmedical reasons.” Larton said ABR staffers would that appears to have handicapped tas, and include a September 2017 cancer. “It is frustrating that I would own eyes. He opined, though, that At 18 weeks, unborn babies begin wait right by the door to the operat- the pages. presentation by the company’s Data overwhelmingly even need to explain things like hy- “‘deboosting’ is probably happening to hear and can roll and flip, exhib- ing room to collect the fetus as soon Facebook has long faced accu- Science Manager Seiji Yamamoto leftist leanings perbole and metaphor,” she said. one way or another (for both good iting coordinated limb movement, as possible—before it’s damaged by sations of left-leaning bias, un- and Chief Data Scientist Eduardo It doesn’t appear Chen’s viewers and bad reasons).” according to the Mayo Clinic. mortal decay. derscored by the overwhelmingly Arino de la Rubia. of its staff. have felt “trolled” either—the video Facebook didn’t respond to a re- At 24 weeks, babies already have “We get the tissue, the doctor leftist leanings of its staff. While the The presentation documents what had some 11,000 likes versus fewer quest for comment. more than a 50 percent chance of makes sure the termination is com- survival if they receive hospital care plete ... we have it immediately after,” An ultrasound image of a baby in the 18th week of pregnancy. upon birth. she said. 4 | AMERICA WEEKLY Week 10, 2019 Week 10, 2019 AMERICA WEEKLY | 5

standard had not been met—as op- FBI Used Gross Negligence Statute was not the intent of my statement.” Ms. Anderson: “It was legally irrel- posed to not pursued—in the Clinton to Obtain Search Warrant evant because the Department of case. As Priestap noted, “If I under- Interestingly, despite the DOJ’s un- FBI Ignored Both Volume and Justice would not have brought a stood from the department that they willingness to pursue a charge under Sensitivity of Clinton’s Email prosecution in a circumstance would never charge a particular stat- the gross negligence statute, the FBI Violations in which there was simply ute, I would want to know that before utilized it while obtaining a search Included within Clinton’s negligence.” I’m going to dedicate resources to a warrant in the Clinton email case: emails was “classified The issue at the heart of particular topic. I didn’t know that.” information up to the the Clinton email investi- But Lisa Page, a lawyer by train- Mr. Breitenbach: “You don’t remem- Special Access Program gation was summarized by ing, seemed to have a very different ber whether there were search war- level.” SAPs, as they are Breitenbach, who said that understanding of what would be rants obtained in the case, other than known, are established “the Department of Jus- allowed by the DOJ. Page appeared the Weiner laptop?” to “control access, dis- tice made a decision that DOJ Prevented FBI to indicate during her testimony tribution, and provide intent was required, even that because of the DOJ’s position, Mr. Priestap: “There certainly could protection for sensitive though we have a statute there was no reason for the FBI to have been, but I don’t remember.” classified information on the books that does not even pursue evidence related to the beyond that normally re- require intent that [only] re- From Pursuing Gross Negligence specific statute of gross negligence. Mr. Breitenbach: “I can stipulate quired” on a need-to-know quires gross negligence.” “Let’s assume things are going that we have seen drafts of search basis with only a small num- Gross negligence is different swimmingly and, in fact, all 17 of warrants submitted to the Eastern ber of individuals cleared to than willfulness and intentional those witnesses admit, ‘We did it, it District of Virginia to obtain material view the information. conduct. But with the decision to re- was on purpose, we totally wanted in the Hillary Clinton case.” The classification level of SAPs is so quire evidence of intent on the part to mishandle classified information,’ high that Anderson actually refused of Clinton in order to prosecute, the Charges Against Clinton gross negligence would still have Mr. Priestap: “Okay.” to define her understanding of an DOJ managed to circumvent and in been off the table because of the de- SAP in the unclassified interview effect neutralize the entire FBI in- partment’s assessment that it was Mr. Breitenbach: “Based on those setting before congressional inves- Then-Attorney General Loretta vestigation from the outset. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images from an unknown individual in the vague. We would have other crimes search warrants, the predication in tigators, which led to an obvious Lynch at the Justice Depart- This could have been why Comey FBI general counsel’s office to Prie- to now charge, but gross negligence the search warrants were listed the question: In addition to considering ment on May 8, 2015. and the hierarchy of the FBI felt stap’s former boss, Michael Stein- would not have been among them,” statute of 18 U.S.C. 793(f).” the frequency of violation, would not Mark Wilson/Getty Images comfortable in drawing up an ex- bach, which contained a chart of Page said in her testimony. Anderson also was questioned re- the sensitivity of the emails also be a “available statutes for prosecuting FBI General Counsel James Bak- garding the search warrant and ap- factor? Anderson’s answer was eye- the former Secretary of State.” Gross er, who called Clinton’s behavior peared to struggle when asked why opening: cise difference is between extremely negligence was specifically excluded “alarming, appalling,” told congres- the FBI was requesting search war- careless and gross negligence.” from the chargeable statutes avail- sional lawmakers, “I thought these rants based on “a particular statute Mr. Breitenbach: “[I] proposed that In her testimony, she was forced Priestap was shown able to the FBI. Priestap, who had folks should know that this stuff is that has real potential legal prob- frequency of emails could be consid- to admit that the team working on not previously seen the document, classified, that it was alarming what lems, according to the DOJ analysis.” ered an element of the offense. And the case should have tried to better an email sent expressed concerns that this might they were talking about, especially “In this particular case, had we had now what I’m proposing is, and I’m understand the difference between have hindered the work of FBI in- some of the most highly classified evidence of intent, it’s theoretically asking you, could the sensitivity of the two: from an unknown vestigators. stuff.” possible that we could have brought emails also be considered an element “Obviously, the use of the phrase individual in the FBI a prosecution, might have brought a of an offense when considering in- ‘extremely careless’ has been open Mr. Breitenbach: “We see in this prosecution under that statute. I’m tent, or even gross negligence?” to interpretation and confusion af- general counsel’s chart that DOJ is not willing to not saying that’s, you know, what ter the fact. So, perhaps, that issue charge this, meaning 18 U.S.C. 793(f). would have happened necessarily, Ms. Anderson: “I don’t know. In this is something we should have more office to Priestap’s My question is going back to those but the statute is not — it is not the particular circumstance, our — the carefully considered, we as a group. former boss, Michael draft affidavits. If DOJ is not willing In order for Clinton Department’s view, as I understand testimony of these witnesses was I’m not saying, you know, there was to charge this statute, why would the it, the statute is invalid for consti- that they believed that there was anything that I did incorrectly here, Steinbach, which FBI in an affidavit use this statute as to be prosecuted, tutional reasons in every circum- — they did not believe the informa- but — so I don’t know that there is a predication to obtain a search war- stance,” Anderson said. tion to be classified. They believed single meaning of extremely care- contained a chart the DOJ required rant if this statute is never going to themselves to be talking around the less.” of ‘available statutes be prosecuted?” the FBI to establish Congress Makes the Laws classified information and, therefore, Which begs the question of why Page, Baker, and Anderson all testi- not to actually be transmitting any Anderson, among others, felt com- for prosecuting the Mr. Priestap: “So I—I don’t know who evidence of intent— fied that the gross negligence stat- classified information. So the facts pelled to push Comey to change the put this together and used this lan- ute was rarely if ever used, as part that you’re presenting were simply language within his statement from former Secretary of even though the guage.” of their explanation for the DOJ’s not present in this particular case.” the legal term of gross negligence State.’ gross negligence unwillingness to pursue it, but this In other words, under Anderson’s to the non-legal term of extremely Mr. Breitenbach: “Well, someone in logic was repeatedly challenged by understanding of the DOJ’s stan- careless. the FBI general counsel’s office.” statute explicitly then-majority House counsel Bre- dard, the extreme volume of emails Anderson, who told congressio- itenbach: was not a factor, nor was the clas- nal investigators that the phrase Mr. Priestap: “Yeah. No. No. I trust does not require this. “If part of that rationale was that sification level of the emails, as long “extremely careless” had been the oneration statement in advance of you. But I don’t know why they, it had never been used, then, by as those being investigated were able subject of competing interpretations, Clinton’s actual interview. No actual again, put it together. I don’t know extension, one might presume that to say they simply didn’t know any was quickly countered by Breiten- evidence of intent, such as an email why they used this language, ‘DOJ other statutes that are on the books, documents were actually classified— bach, who noted, “It’s competing, in which Clinton overtly admit- not willing to charge this.’ if they aren’t being used, should not even if the primary subject of the because it has no legal effect, where- ted she established her knowingly “My attitude is that if there is a Baker said that he “argued with be ever considered as predication for investigation, the secretary of state, as gross negligence does.” unsecure server for the purpose of Former FBI Director James Comey after testifying to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill on Dec. 7, 2018. Federal criminal statute still on others about why they thought she a prosecution.” should have been qualified to discern “I think you would agree with me sending classified information for the books, then, you know—and we shouldn’t be charged.” However, Breitenbach was providing a less- between classified and unclassified that negligence is different than in- convenience, had been found. Clin- think there may or might be a viola- Baker said he was eventually per- than-subtle reminder that it is Con- information. tent,” he told Anderson. ton was almost certain not to admit Jeff Carlson volved in the investigation. Ms. Page: “That is correct.” tion of that, we still have to work to suaded by other senior FBI person- gress, not the DOJ or the FBI, that But according to Anderson’s tes- to this during her own FBI interview. “Everybody talks about this as if uncover whether, in fact, there was. nel, including Comey, “that charging creates laws. The DOJ, as part of the FBI Never Looked for Evidence of timony, the FBI never even looked Absent a slip-up on her part, Clin- Early in the Hillary Clinton email this was the FBI investigation, and Let’s assume Rep. Ratcliffe: “— bring a case based “The prosecutive history of a par- her was not appropriate because we executive branch, has an obligation Negligence into negligence due to the DOJ’s legal ton was effectively in the clear from case, the Department of Justice the truth of the matter is there was on that.” ticular statute isn’t going to affect—I could not establish beyond a reason- to enforce the statutes put in place by Anderson was asked about her un- position: the outset of the FBI investigation reached a decision that would have not a single step, other than the July things are going sure hope it does not affect the fact- able doubt that — we, the govern- Congress, not to pass legal judgment derstanding of the difference be- due to the DOJ’s decision to require far-reaching implications for the 5th statement, there was not a single swimmingly and, Trouble Defining Intent finder’s work.” ment, could not establish beyond a on them. tween gross negligence and extreme Mr. Breitenbach: “So there was no intent. FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use investigative step that we did not do The word “intent” drove the entirety Priestap said that it was his under- reasonable doubt that she had the Anderson had no material response carelessness. She answered that she review as to whether there was neg- of a private email server. in consultation with or at the direc- in fact, all 17 of of the FBI’s investigation of the Clin- standing that the gross negligence intent.” to this rebuttal, only noting, “That didn’t “know exactly what the pre- ligence in this case?” DOJ’s National Security Division

The Justice Department (DOJ), un- tion of the Justice Department,” Page those witnesses ton email server. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Required Evidence of Intent der then-Attorney General Loretta told congressional investigators on It appears, however, that there It was Page that testified as to whom Lynch, decided to set an unusually July 13, 2018. admit, ‘We did it, it were differing understandings of was responsible for the decision high threshold for prosecuting Clin- Comey had also hinted at the in- was on purpose, we the word “intent” within the FBI. within the DOJ to require intent as ton, effectively ensuring from the fluence exerted by the DOJ over the Trisha Anderson, the No. 2 lawyer part of a gross negligence charge— outset that she would not be charged. Clinton investigation in his July rec- totally wanted to at the bureau, told investigators that Richard Scott and, secondarily, Da- In order for Clinton to be pros- ommendation, stating that “there mishandle classified what she viewed as intent was “an vid Laufman. ecuted, the DOJ required the FBI to are obvious considerations, like the email that the Secretary sent saying, Scott, the deputy chief of the Coun- establish evidence of intent—even strength of the evidence, especially information,’ gross I set up this server for the purpose terintelligence and Export Control though the gross negligence statute regarding intent.” negligence would of sending unclassified information Section (CES) of the Justice Depart- explicitly does not require this. Intent is a requirement of several for my convenience, even though I ment’s National Security Division This meant that the FBI would statutes the FBI was looking into, but still have been off know it’s not a secure system.” (NSD), was involved in the investi- have needed to find a smoking gun, it is specifically not a factor under the table because Page viewed the situation some- gation into Clinton’s private email such as an email or an admission the charge of gross negligence—con- what differently, agreeing they were server and reported to Laufman. made during FBI questioning, that tained within 18 U.S. Code § 793(f)—a of the department’s looking for “an intent to do an act Laufman, chief of CES and Scott’s revealed Clinton or her aides know- fact that was brought up by Rep. John assessment that it which is in violation of the law’s direct supervisor, was cited by Page ingly set up the private email server Ratcliffe (R-Texas) during Page’s tes- central command.” As she told in- as the individual responsible for to send classified information. timony: was vague. vestigators, the FBI “couldn’t find altering the FBI’s normal policy of Clinton was famously exonerated any indicia of knowledge that she interviews by insisting on being per- by FBI Director James Comey in a Rep. Ratcliffe: “Okay. And that’s — I Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer knew that these [classified emails] sonally present for the interviews of July 5, 2016, press conference, which think, when you talk about intent, shouldn’t be traversing her server.” “not just Mrs. Clinton but also Huma immediately became the subject of that’s certainly true under part of 18 In Anderson’s understanding, Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, controversy. 793(f), but it sounds like you all just she was looking for a prosecutable and her sort of core team.” Notably, Comey had been con- blew over gross negligence.” reason behind the establishment of Both men were overseen by George vinced to remove the term “gross the server itself. Page, however, was Toscas, who was selected by the negligence” to describe Clinton’s ac- Ms. Page: “We did not blow over gross looking at whether Clinton knew DOJ’s head of the NSD, John Carlin, to tions from his prepared statement negligence. We, in fact — and, in which emails should not have trav- oversee the entirety of the Clinton in- by, among others, FBI lawyer Lisa fact, the Director — because on its eled through the private server. vestigation from the DOJ’s perspec- Page, FBI agent Peter Strzok, senior face, it did seem like, well, maybe Meanwhile, Bill Priestap, head of tive. Working alongside Toscas were legal counsel Trisha Anderson, and there’s a potential here for this to be the FBI’s counterintelligence divi- Stu Evans and Adam Hickey—both FBI analyst Jonathan Moffa. the charge. And we had multiple sion and who was officially in charge deputy assistant attorney generals Because of Comey’s statement, conversations, multiple conver- of the Clinton investigation, said like Toscas. According to Toscas, Ev- many have mistakenly concluded sations with the Justice Depart- during testimony that he thought ans, as the DOJ’s point person on the that the FBI acted independently ment about charging gross neg- the “number of instances is abso- FISA application on former Trump from DOJ influence in its investiga- ligence.” lutely a proper consideration” in campaign adviser Carter Page, was tion of Clinton. Congressional testi- Page made clear during her tes- establishing intent. responsible for managing—and read- monies by high-ranking FBI officials timony that the DOJ had decided According to Ryan Breitenbach, ing—not only the original Foreign involved in the investigation reveal, that, due to “constitutional vague- who was the House majority coun- Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) however, that this was not the case. ness,” a charge of gross negligence sel at the time of Priestap’s interview, application on Carter Page, but also The testimonies, which were con- would not be supported without ac- the State Department had identi- the three subsequent renewals. ducted last year behind closed doors, companying proof of intent—a seem- fied 22 top-secret emails and 1,300 Notably, with the exceptions of have not been publicly released, but ingly oxymoronic position: classified emails on Clinton’s email Moffa, Evans, and Hickey, every in- were reviewed for this article. server. As Breitenbach noted to Prie- dividual from the FBI and DOJ men- Rep. Ratcliffe: “Okay. So let me if I stap during testimony, “I think there tioned has either been fired or has DOJ Involvement in Clinton Case can, I know I’m testing your mem- Lisa Page, former legal coun- might be many who would question resigned. Most have been the subject and Requirement of Intent ory, but when you say advice you got sel to former FBI Deputy whether people in this room would of congressional interviews. Director Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who served from the Department, you’re mak- still be in this room if we had hit arrives to speak before the as special counsel to FBI Deputy Di- ing it sound like it was the Depart- 1,300 emails on our personal Gmail Jeff Carlson is a regular contributor House Judiciary and Oversight rector Andrew McCabe during the ment that told you: You’re not going committees on Capitol Hill on service.” to The Epoch Times. He also runs time of the Clinton investigation, to charge gross negligence because July 16, 2018. the website TheMarketsWork.com noted during her testimony in July we’re the prosecutors and we’re tell- ‘DOJ Not Willing to Charge This’ and can be followed on Twitter @ ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty 2018 that the DOJ was intimately in- ing you we’re not going to —“ Images Priestap was shown an email sent Then-President Barack Obama during a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey at the White House on Jan. 4, 2016. themarketswork. 6 | AMERICA WEEKLY Week 10, 2019 Week 10, 2019 AMERICA WEEKLY | 7

Win McNamee/Getty Images OPINION should be used for debate, not meaning- less delay on an empty Senate floor.” Similarly, Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blount (R-Mo.) said: “Sen- ate Democrats have abused the rules to the point where the president can’t put China’s Ploy to Establish a his team in place and the Senate can’t do its work. The degree of obstruction we’ve seen during the first two years of the Trump Administration is totally un- acceptable.” But Republicans have previously used cloture votes on presidential nominees even more effectively than the Democrats. During 2013 and 2014, for example, there were 168 cloture motions on presidential nominees, by far the most since President Global DNA Database Jimmy Carter, according to Senate data examined by The Epoch Times. Thus, cloture motions on Obama’s The first in a 2-part series on the regime’s DNA collection project nominees in 2013 and 2014 represented 77 percent of the total, compared to 68 percent under Trump to date. Cloture is a procedure to end debate on a t9/Shuttersto Steven W. Mosher vide DNA”), the directive also mandated that Ros ck public as an opportunity to collect DNA sam- nominee that until 2013 required 60 votes. samples be collected from all those under ar- ples. Among those required to give a sa- Frustrated by Republican filibustering of he Chinese Communist Party’s three “magic rest, detention, or criminal investigation. liva or blood sample include those who Obama’s nominees, Senate Democrats weapons,” as Chinese leader Xi Jinping remind- This is more or less in line with in- have criticized the Party on Weibo, invoked the so-called “nuclear option” to ed us in a September 2014 speech, are “the PLA ternational practice. But then, the a popular social-media platform require only a simple majority instead of [People’s Liberation Army], propaganda, and directive ordered all policemen similar to Twitter, or who have 60 votes. United Front tactics.” and detectives, and all govern- forgotten to carry their iden- But with narrow majorities in the seven To this, we may now have to add a fourth ment personnel involved in tification card. Also targeted years since, getting simple majorities to in- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 29, 2019. magic weapon: DNA. health and social programs, are members of groups that voke cloture is not always easy, especially Like the other three, this fourth magic weap- to provide DNA samples as the police believe “endan- for Senate Republicans, as many as six of on is deployed not only domestically, but in- well. In other words, the ger social stability,” such whom can’t be assumed to vote with their ternationally, as well. That is to say, China is Party is taking advantage as migrant workers, coal party’s leaders. not only collecting, analyzing, and storing the of its nationwide Y DNA miners, and apartment Dems Throw Key Senate Once cloture is invoked, debate is limited DNA of massive numbers of its own citizens; program to gather genetic renters. Note that none of to no more than 30 hours and a final vote it’s collecting the DNA of many other peoples material from those men those targeted have been on the nomination must then be sched- from around the world, including millions of who enforce its policies on accused of having com- uled. Confirmation requires only 51 votes. T Americans (this will be explored further in the the wider population. mitted a crime, and that Roadblock at Trump Nominees The ability of Senate leaders to overcome forthcoming second part of this series). Is that a sign that the Party none of these pretexts for cloture obstacles has varied greatly from The China program alone is breathtaking in and its core leadership are DNA collection would be al- one Congress to another in recent years. its scope and seems designed to encompass the worried about the loyalty of lowed in the United States. McConnell has won 90 percent of the 186 country’s entire population—currently some 1.4 those who enforce their poli- As China’s social credit sys- cloture vote total since Trump took office. billion people—over time. There are a number cies on the wider population? Or tem is implemented, I predict that There were 52 Republicans in the Senate of DNA collection projects that have already is the inclusion of communist cadres the next group to be forced to turn at the outset of the 115th Congress (2017- been completed, while others are currently at this point just a natural step in the over their DNA will be those with a low 2018), but vacancies often reduced the underway. For example, there is a national DNA direction of the ultimate goal of collecting social credit score. majority to only one. There are 53 Senate collection project focused exclusively on men, everyone’s DNA? At the end of the day, as Min- As a result of these ongoing DNA collection Republicans in 2019. another regional project targeted on “trouble- ister of Public Security and Politburo member efforts, an estimated 100 million DNA samples 10 Times as Often But during the 114th Congress (2015- some” minorities like the Uyghurs and Ka- Zhao Kezhi said on Jan. 24, it’s all about the A 3-D illustration of the Y have been collected, analyzed, and added to the 2016), McConnell won only 60 of 123, or zakhs, and still others focused on the general “prevention and control of social [upheavals].” chromosome. government’s huge database. Millions more 49 percent. Only two of those cloture votes population. China’s master DNA database, which in- are being added each month. By way of com- as GOPers Did Obama concerned Obama nominees. We know a lot about the DNA project target- cludes not just Y DNA, but male and female parison, the FBI currently has DNA data for 13 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- ing men, because The Epoch Times recently “autosomal” DNA as well, is also being rapidly million convicted persons and DNA data for 3 Mark Tapscott who caucus with them, under Trump. ported by both Democrats and Republi- Nev.) saw cloture invoked 187 of the 218 obtained a copy of the Ministry of Public Se- expanded. The first Chinese province to de- million arrested persons. The comparison is even starker when cans. ... And he rejected it,” McConnell told occasions the motion was voted on by the curity directive that established it. Issued on mand DNA not just from criminals or cadres As U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) recently ASHINGTON—Senate Democrats have Trump’s first two years are compared with a Feb. 13 Senate Rules Committee meeting Senate, or 85 percent of the time, during Nov. 7, 2017, the internal document announced but from everyone was Xinjiang, with its large warned, “the Chinese government is spending forced cloture votes 128 times on President those of presidents George W. Bush, Bill Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) intro- the 113th Congress (2013-2014). the establishment of a “National Y-STR DNA minority population of Muslim Uyghurs and tens of billions on facial recognition software, Donald Trump nominees to the federal Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Rea- duced a proposal earlier this month, with During the 112th Congress, covering the Criminal Investigation and Information Data- Kazakhs. The program, known as “Physicals electronic spying, and coercive DNA collec- courts and executive branch positions, 10 gan, and Jimmy Carter. McConnell’s blessing, to reduce sharply years 2011-2012, 33 of the 73 cloture votes base.” STR stands for “short tandem repeat,” or for All,” was not optional. Anyone who resisted tion to create a database capable of tracking a times as many times as Republicans did There were no such cloture votes on the time for debate on most nominees after concerned Obama nominees. Reid won 41 small units of repeated DNA sequences, on the received an unfriendly visit from the police. person’s every move. This is the definition of during his predecessor’s first two years in nominees by Carter, Reagan, or the first cloture is invoked. of the 73 cloture votes for a 56 percent rate. Y-chromosome. The directive also described, Once at the clinic, they were not given a “physi- The DNA a totalitarian system—one that exercises to- the Oval Office. Bush, while Clinton faced a total of only “In the past, every president was essen- There were 51 Democrats and two inde- in great detail, how to collect, analyze, and cal” at all, but something more akin to the in- database tal control of your person, down to the very By comparison, during the first half of eight and the second Bush a mere four. tially able to select their staff and begin pendents who caucused with them, and store Y-chromosome DNA data from millions processing that criminals undergo. Their blood strands of your DNA.” President Barack Obama’s initial term, McConnell and other Republican leaders serving the American people right after 47 Republicans in the Senate during the of men. was drawn, their fingerprints were taken, and that is being The iron curtain that is descending upon the there were only a dozen cloture votes on have been vociferously blasting Demo- inauguration, until President Trump,” 112th and the 113th Congress. Because the Y chromosome—found only in they were given a retinal scan. Chinese people is chilling enough, but what the president’s nominees, according to cratic delaying tactics against Trump Lankford said at the time. Obama’s first two years included a Sen- men—is passed down from father to son vir- According to state-run media Xinhua, such constructed should make every American sit up and take data compiled by Senate Majority Leader nominees in recent days. “In the past two years, Democrats have ate with 56 Democrats and two indepen- tually unchanged, the Y chromosome in any “physicals” were given to nearly 36 million notice is that American companies have been— Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “I offered the Democratic Leader [Sen. slowed the confirmation of more than 100 dents who caucused with them, plus the group of closely related men is nearly identical. people from 2016 to 2017. Since Xinjiang has a in China is largely unwittingly—enabling China’s rise as a There were only 42 Senate Republicans Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)] a package of 150 nominees, which has created a new low 42 Republicans. There were 91 cloture That’s why the first step in the DNA collection population of only 24.5 million, I suspect this conceived of digital totalitarian state. And that China is as- W during Obama’s first two years, compared non-judicial executive branch appoint- standard for how all future presidents will votes, with 63 being won by the Reid-led process of the program at the village and town means that millions of Muslim and other mi- sembling a huge DNA database for people out- to 45 Democrats, plus two independents ments that came out of committee sup- be treated. ... Post-cloture debate time Democrats, for a 70 percent rate. level is the creation of a genealogy. Officials are norities in neighboring provinces were also as a tool for side of China as well, a database that includes instructed to draw up a family tree for every required to provide samples of their DNA, fin- the private DNA code of millions of Americans. family in the community they survey. Once gerprints, and retinal scans. controlling every independent male line has been identi- China’s master DNA database is being ex- dissent. This is To be continued in Part Two: Does China fied, one or more of the men in it are required panded among the general Han Chinese popu- Have Your DNA? to give a blood sample for analysis. lation, as well. For example, the Wall Street openly stated in The (evil) genius of the Y DNA database thus Journal reported on Dec. 26, 2017, that hun- Steven W. Mosher is the president of the created is this: Any male DNA gathered in the dreds of male students from kindergarten to the directive. Population Research Institute and the author course of an investigation can immediately be high school in Qianwei County, Sichuan Prov- of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the Tornado Kills 23 in Alabama as traced back to a small group of related men. At ince, were ordered to provide saliva specimens. New Threat to World Order.” He studied that point, it will be relatively easy for Ministry Like blood, saliva can be used to extract DNA human biology at Stanford University under of Public Security investigators to identify the for analysis. There is a significant Yi minor- famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. exact man that the state wants to question, ity living in the area, which may have been Severe Storm Ravages Southeast arrest, imprison, or execute. Given the enor- another reason why the region was targeted. Views expressed in this article are the opin- Kara Coleman Fields/Opelika-Auburn News via AP mous utility of the database from the point of The Journal report revealed that the PRC ions of the author and do not necessarily Ivan Pentchoukov Twitter to those affected by the storm: “To the view of the state, it’s perhaps no surprise that police use almost every encounter with the reflect the views of The Epoch Times. great people of Alabama and surrounding ar- it has been fast-tracked. The directive called A tornado killed at least 23 people in south- eas: Please be careful and safe. ... To the families for it to be completed and in operation by the GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images east Alabama on March 3, as a powerful storm and friends of the victims, and to the injured, end of 2019. system ravaged the Southeast and unleashed God bless you all!” It is important to understand that the focus of several other tornadoes. Some 150 first responders joined the efforts to China’s Y DNA program—or any one of its other “Unfortunately our toll, as far as fatalities, search the debris after the storm hit in Beaure- DNA collection programs, for that matter—is does stand at 23 at the current time,” Lee Coun- gard, according to Rita Smith, spokeswoman not merely crime solving. In the United States, ty Sheriff Jay Jones told WRBL-TV, adding that for the Lee County Emergency Management because the DNA database is used exclusively two people were in intensive care. Agency. for fighting crime, DNA is gathered only from Rescue personnel flew drones with heat- criminals and those suspected of a crime. Not seeking sensors to scan the area for survivors Numerous Warnings so in China, where DNA is gathered from tens but the operation was cut short as conditions No deaths had been reported on March 3 from of millions of people who are innocent of any grew more perilous. A ground search was to other storm-damaged Alabama counties, ac- wrongdoing, and where the DNA database that resume March 4, according to Jones. cording to Gregory Robinson, spokesman for is being constructed is conceived of as a tool for “The devastation is incredible,” Jones said. the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. controlling dissent. The tornado tore down a country road in the Crews were still surveying damage in several This is openly stated in the directive’s “guid- rural community of Beauregard, destroying counties in the southwestern part of the state, ing ideology” section; there, we learn that the Y single-family and mobile homes along a path Robinson said. DNA database has two purposes. It’s intended half a mile wide, Jones said, adding that some Numerous tornado warnings were posted to be used not only to “fight against crime” homes were reduced to slabs. across parts of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and but also to “control society.” Of course, in the Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said he had to South Carolina on March 3 as the powerful view of the Party-state apparatus that cur- call in help from the state after his four-person storm system raced across the region. Weather A vehicle is caught under downed trees along Lee Road 11 in Beauregard, Ala., after a powerful rently rules China, a “crime” can be virtually team was overwhelmed. officials said they confirmed other tornadoes storm system passed through the area March 3, 2019. anything, including questioning the current The National Weather Service (NWS) con- around the region by radar alone and would Party line, while a “criminal” can be anyone, firmed late March 3 that the deadly Alabama send teams out early on March 4 to assess those eight injuries,” Erenheim said in a phone in- injuries. from a human rights attorney to a religious tornado was rated F3, a category with wind and other storms. terview. Authorities said a tornado was confirmed practitioner. The so-called “five new black speeds of 158–206 mph. The tornado crossed In rural Talbotton, Georgia, about 80 miles Henry Wilson of the Peach County Emer- by radar in the Florida Panhandle in the late categories” (“xin heiwulei” in Chinese) are, in the area near Beauregard shortly after 2 p.m., south of Atlanta, a handful of people were in- gency Management Agency near Macon in afternoon on March 3. fact, defined as human rights attorneys, un- according to NWS. jured by either powerful straight-line winds or central Georgia said a barn had been de- The threat of severe weather continued into derground churchgoers, dissidents, leading “It appears it stayed on the ground for at least a tornado that destroyed several mobile homes stroyed and trees and power poles had been the late-night hours. A tornado watch was in commentators on the internet, and members a mile and maybe longer,” Jones said. and damaged other buildings, said Leigh Ann snapped, leaving many in the area without effect for much of eastern Georgia, including of disadvantaged sectors in society. These five The powerful storm system also roared across Erenheim, director of the Talbot County Emer- power. Athens, Augusta, and Savannah. The tornado categories have been a particular obsession of parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. gency Management Agency. Authorities in southwest Georgia are search- watch also covered a large area of South Car- Party leadership since 2012. The rain stopped after nightfall on March 3. Televised broadcast news footage showed ing door-to-door in darkened neighborhoods olina, including the cities of Charleston and One final point about those whose Y DNA In Beauregard, metal debris and tree branches smashed buildings with rooftops blown away, after a possible tornado touched down in the Columbia. will be collected for the database. Aside from littered the roadways. Power appeared to be cars overturned, and debris everywhere. Trees rural city of Cairo, about 33 miles north of Tal- the general male population (who are euphe- out in many places. all around had been snapped bare of branches. lahassee, Florida, on the evening of March 3. The Associated Press contributed to this mistically called “people who voluntarily pro- A technician works at a DNA tech lab in Beijing on Aug. 22, 2018. President Donald Trump offered support on “The last check I had was between six and There were no immediate reports of serious report. 8 | AMERICA WEEKLY Week 10, 2019 Week 10, 2019 AMERICA WEEKLY | 9 Smugglers Force Oral Arguments to Begin on Unsealing Epstein’s Court Documents

William Patrick Giuffre and another women, Sarah Ransom- me, have accused Dershowitz of abusing ral arguments about whether to unseal docu- them in association with Epstein and ments from a past court case involving accused Maxwell, which he vehemently Thousands of Child Migrants sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein will begin March denies. 6 at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the The Herald lost its initial Second Circuit in New York City. attempt to unseal the docu- The case, Giuffre v. Maxwell, was a defama- ments, but has since gar- Into Prostitution tion lawsuit brought by one of Epstein’s al- nered the support of 32 leged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. The media organizations for

Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times suit was settled in May 2017, but unsealing re- its appeal on March 6, Charlotte Cuthbertson lated court records could introduce volumes of including The New York Jeffrey Epstein. new information regarding Epstein’s alleged Times, Washington Post,

WASHINGTON—Hundreds of thousands of activities, and those of his powerful alleged Fox News, and the Associ- Public Domain people head to the United States every year co-participants. ated Press. in search of a better life, many by paying a Epstein, a wealthy financier, has been ac- The district court ruled smuggler thousands of dollars to get them O cused of molesting dozens of underage girls that discovery records and in the back door—across the southwest bor- at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion and his other sought items weren’t der illegally. Others, as in the recent bust of 72-acre private island estate in the Caribbean. covered by First Amend- a sex-trafficking ring in Florida, are lured The Department of Justice is currently inves- ment presumptions of ac- accusers, has admitted in pri- by temporary work visas and then forced tigating a 2007 plea deal that allowed him to cess. But according to a media vate that his client has falsely into servitude. only serve 13 months in a private area of a Palm coalition’s amici brief, the court accused me: ”Your belief”— re- A smuggler often promises a better life Beach County jail, and work unsupervised at “severely undervalued the powerful ferring to his client— “is wrong”. in the United States, a job, or maybe even his downtown West Palm Beach office 12 hours public interest in this case and vastly “Your conclusion is simply wrong”. a love interest, said Greg Nevano, assistant a day, six days a week, during that period. overstated the asserted countervailing I challenge Boies to deny this admission director of ICE Homeland Security Inves- In 2015, Giuffre sued Epstein’s partner, Ghis- interests in favor of secrecy.” under oath,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that tigations’ investigative programs. laine Maxwell, after Maxwell publicly chal- “It further argues that the district court “They made up their false stories about me “Many times, you’ll see parents [who] lenged her claims of abuse. should have done an individualized right of only after being ‘pressured’ by their lawyers.” want their children to have a better life According to an August 2017 lower court rul- access analysis on each judicial record, rather On March 3, Brown weighed in again: “To be ... send their child along with a friend, a ing, Giuffre alleged that she was a “victim of than authorizing blanket sealing and redac- clear: Mr. Dershowitz’s motion pertains to se- cousin,” he said. sexual trafficking and abuse while she was a tion,” the Reporters Committee for Freedom lect documents in the Epstein-related case that “And along the route—which is a long minor child,” and that Maxwell helped facili- of the Press said in a statement. pertain to him. The Miami Herald’s motion is to journey to the United States—the smug- tate the abuse, which allegedly occurred over Dershowitz asked the appeals court last week unseal EVERYTHING w the exception of social glers will then exploit the children. They’ll a decade at numerous locations “around the if the media should be prohibited from hearing sec nos, medical info & other personal info.” say, if you don’t pay us additional money, world,” and “with prominent and politically his attorney’s arguments about the case, since A separate court case unfolded Feb. 21, when or if you do not perform these types of ac- powerful men.” it could reveal sealed information. a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the tivities—some of which are sexual activity, The lawsuit asserted that Giuffre was subject- The letter prompted an article from Julie K. Southern District of Florida ruled that pros- some of them could be forced labor—we ed to “public ridicule, contempt, and disgrace” Brown, an award-winning investigative jour- ecutors broke the law when devising Epstein’s will kill your family back home.” when Maxwell publicly denied her allegations. nalist for The Miami Herald, whose ground- controversial plea deal. The scope of the problem is mind-bog- The two-year dispute involved what Judge breaking three-part series “Perversions of Jus- Two of Epstein’s alleged underage victims, gling, going by a recent estimate by expert Robert Sweet of the U.S. District Court for the tice” spurred national interest in the Epstein known as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, filed a Timothy Ballard. Southern District of New York called “a lengthy affair more than a decade after his guilty plea. lawsuit after the 2008 surprise sentencing, Ballard, founder of the anti-trafficking and tumultuous discovery process” with “ex- Dershowitz took exception, and defended on the grounds that they were never given an organization Operation Underground treme sensitivities and privacy interests.” As a himself through a series of tweets. opportunity to express their opposition to the Railroad, said that as many as 10,000 chil- result, he placed a protective order on discovery “Let me be crystal clear, I want the hearing to lenient plea. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled in dren are trafficked into the United States documents and other items spanning 18 hear- be open to the press. But I also want my lawyer I want the their favor, albeit 11 years later. every year to be used as sex slaves. Nevano Illegal border crossers get stuck halfway across the Rio Grande from Mexico to Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2019. ings and 15 related decisions. to be able to tell the court what’s in the sealed hearing to be Should documents ultimately be unsealed concurs with Ballard’s estimate. Famed Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, emails that prove I was framed for $. Its the open to the press. in the defamation case and reveal details Previously, Ballard spent more than 12 victims of sex-trafficking endure. She is the Greg Nevano, assistant director of ICE has received reports of 45,308 human- who co-represented Epstein during the con- other side that’s sealed the material. Let them about prominent individuals who have thus years working as a special agent for Home- founder and president of International Net- Homeland Security Investigations’ trafficking cases since 2007. California, troversial 2007 plea agreement, unsuccess- unseal it so the world can see the truth,” he But I also want far gone unnamed, the implications could land Security Investigations in its child work of Hearts, an organization dedicated Investigative Programs, in Washington Texas, and Florida are identified as the fully attempted to have three case documents wrote on March 2. be staggering. trafficking unit. to helping children recover from human on Feb. 5, 2019. worst three states for human trafficking. unsealed in August 2016. Prominent blogger, He also accused Brown of deliberately dis- my lawyer to be According to Marra’s 33-page opinion, Ep- He recounted a story of a 13-year-old girl trafficking. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times ICE made 1,588 human-trafficking ar- journalist, author, and filmmaker Mike Cer- torting the truth, to which she responded, able to tell the stein and his co-conspirators “knowingly from Central America who was kidnapped But it was while she worked as the Mexi- rests in fiscal year 2018—almost all for sex novich filed a motion to unseal case materials “Why not ask for everything to be unsealed traveled in interstate and international com- from her village, then trafficked into the can consul general in San Diego that her trafficking—and saved 308 victims who in Jan. 2017, but was denied. then? And why are your motions so redacted?” court what’s in merce” to commit sexual abuse and other United States across an unpatrolled part life was impacted forever. were trafficked to the United States. Giuffre and Maxwell settled four months “We want everything unsealed,” Dershowitz the sealed emails “violations of not only Florida law, but also of the southwest border. “[The girl] was only 14 years old, and the Nevano said traffickers use all means later, and on April 9, 2018, The Miami Herald tweeted back. “Why didn’t you try to reach me federal law.” She was taken to New York City. “This smuggler—the parents paid the smuggler to of coercion and false promises to control filed a motion to unseal all case documents before publishing your error-filled screed?” that prove I was “In addition to his own sexual abuse of the little girl—and this is very typical—was bring her undocumented to the moun- their victims. on First Amendment grounds. The Herald’s Dershowitz also said Democratic super-law- framed for $. victims, Epstein directed other persons to raped for money every day, 30 to 40 times tains, to this country. But the smug- “They beat the children, the wom- court filing was then joined by Dershowitz, yer David Boies was representing both of his abuse the girls sexually,” and he “worked in a day,” Ballard said during a White House gler told her that her parents didn’t en, if they don’t continue to per- who requested to be advised of any unsealed sexual abuse accusers and that Boies admitted concert with others to obtain minors not only Alan Dershowitz, attorney, roundtable on Feb. 1. pay a full amount for her transpor- form, if they don’t earn money, records, so he could seek additional documents in private that Dershowitz was falsely accused. for his own sexual gratification but also for the in a tweet Last year, the number of Border Patrol tation, and she had to pay,” Tucker if they try to flee,” he said. “If to be unsealed if needed. “David Boies, the lawyer for both of my false sexual gratification of others.” apprehensions along the southwest border said at the White House on Feb. 1. they’re here undocumented, almost hit 400,000. This year, it’s on track “She had to pay with her own they take their documenta- to pass 600,000 illegal crossers. The vast body, and have sex with all the tion. They basically will ex- majority hail from Central America. people in the group. Then go tort them by saying that if you through this journey. And they don’t perform these acts, we forced her to have sex 20, 30 will call ICE, and ICE will come times until Border Patrol res- and arrest you.” cued her, and they transferred Nevano said despite sex traf- Trump Calls her our way to the hospital. And I ficking being so pervasive in She had to pay with her was there; they called me.” American society, finding and Tucker said she stayed with the investigating cases is challenging. New House Probe a own body, and have sex girl through everything: the medical But a community approach would with all the people in examinations, the interviews, and the make a bigger impact. search for her parents. Dr. Jordan Greenbaum, medical di- the group. ... They forced rector of the Child Protection Center at her to have sex 20, 30 Close Call Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, said the The problem isn’t new, and it happens medical community is on the front line. times until Border Patrol many different ways. Nevano shared a Greenbaum said in one study of adults rescued her. story from two decades ago, when he was and adolescent girls who were sex-traf- an airport customs inspection agent. He ficking survivors, 88 percent said they encountered an 18-year-old attempting to had seen a health care provider while Alma Tucker, founder and president, enter from China on someone else’s pass- CHASTEEN THE EPO they were being exploited, yet none of AMIN CH T International Network of Hearts ENJ IME ‘Political Hoax’ port. B S them had been identified in the health “At the time, we had more challenges care setting. with technology. There wasn’t biomet- “What does that say to us? It says that rics,” Nevano said. “He finally admit- victims are coming to get health care, Ivan Pentchoukov said in a statement. “We will act quickly to More than 48,000 unaccompanied mi- ted to me the truth—his family paid but we’re not recognizing them,” she gather this information, assess the evidence, nors were apprehended by Border Patrol $40,000 for that U.S. passport in said last year. “We have yet to see President Donald Trump called a new inves- and follow the facts where they lead with full in fiscal year 2018. Almost half were from 1996, and they sold everything that a victim come in and say, ‘My tigation into his conduct by Democrats on the transparency with the American people.” Guatemala, and the rest were from Hon- they had to have their child come chief complaint, my concern, is House Judiciary Committee a “political hoax” Shedding light on how partial the investiga- President Donald Trump at the White House Democrats to use investigative powers duras, Mexico, and El Salvador. to the United States for a better human trafficking.’ They don’t on March 4, while saying he will cooperate tion would be, Nadler told ABC News before House on March 4, 2019. to hamstring Trump and his 2020 campaign,

Marlene Castro, a former supervisory life. The challenge was, they only self-disclose spontaneously.” with a document request from committee he issued the document requests that he’s Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA a tactic the president calls “presidential ha- Border Patrol agent in the Rio Grande Val- made a down payment of like Nevano said that deportation Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). convinced that Trump has obstructed justice. rassment.” ley sector in Texas, said no one crosses the $10,000, so this individual owed protection is available for those “I cooperate all the time with everybody. You Large-scale investigations led by the FBI, “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Demo- Rio Grande into the United States without $30,000. victims who are in the United know the beautiful thing—no collusion. It’s all Congress, and special counsel Robert Mueller crats at the highest level in the history of our paying something. “We know what would have States illegally. a hoax,” Trump said at the White House, while haven’t yielded any evidence of wrongdoing Country. Likewise, the most vicious and cor- “It could be cash, it could be jewelry, happened to that individual. ... “We need to make the victims hosting the 2018 Division I Football Champion- by Trump. The House and Senate intelligence rupt Mainstream Media that any president has some possession of yours, or whatever, He would have been trafficked, aware that we’re here to help ship Subdivision champion North Dakota State committees found no evidence of collusion ever had to endure, yet the most successful first but you’re going to pay,” Castro said in a prostitution; he could have been them. We also have to be able to University Bison. between the Trump campaign and Russia. two years for any President,” Trump wrote on 2017 interview. involved in gangs; he could have help them, getting them the ser- “You’re going to learn about that as you grow Meanwhile, Mueller, who took over the FBI I cooperate all the time Twitter. “They hire this smuggler, someone they been involved in the sale of narcot- vices that they need: the NGO as- older,” Trump said as several football players investigation in 2017, isn’t expected to charge with everybody. You “We are WINNING big, the envy of the don’t even know, and they trust him on ics—all to repay his smuggling debt.” sistance, clothing, food, shelter,” he chuckled. “It’s a political hoax. There’s no col- Trump with any misconduct in a forthcom- WORLD, but just think what it could be?” this 800-, 1,000-mile journey. Even if Instead, Nevano said the man claimed said. “At the same token, we also want to lusion.” ing report. know the beautiful A committee lawyer told reporters the imme- they’re paid with cash upfront or what- political asylum and still lives in the United prosecute the traffickers who are involved The House Judiciary Committee is looking “The House Judiciary Committee’s letter has thing—no collusion. It’s diate aim is to amass a large trove of evidence to ever, lots of times these people risk being States. in this heinous act.” into “alleged obstruction of justice, public cor- been received by the White House,” White guide the investigation and help decide which assaulted, beaten, robbed by these people. “We have seen cases where children have ruption, and other abuses of power” by the House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a all a hoax. witnesses to approach. The panel is prepared “There are cases where the women—with been posed as family members coming in a For Help president. The committee’s press release of- statement. “The Counsel’s Office and relevant to use its subpoena power if needed, the law- There are cases where the the expectation of getting raped—prepare familial relationship,” he said. “And it turns women—with the expectation of The National Human Trafficking Hotline fered no evidence for any of the allegations. The White House officials will review it and -re President Donald Trump yer said. themselves by getting on birth control, or out that person is trafficking that child to getting raped—prepare themselves is confidential, toll-free, and available 24/7 panel sent document requests to 81 people and spond at the appropriate time.” Republicans in Congress said that Democrats taking birth control, for the purpose of the United States and bringing them for by getting on birth control, or tak- in more than 200 languages. entities, including Trump’s family, campaign Democrats secured the majority in the House are pursuing an impeachment agenda against the journey.” the illicit purposes of human trafficking.” ing birth control, for the purpose of staff, current and former White House officials, of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elec- Trump as part of a political strategy to reclaim the journey. Call: 1-888-3737-888 and government agencies. tion, and with it, the power to launch investi- the White House in the 2020 election. Young Victims Community Approach Text: “Help” or “Info” to 233733 “We have sent these document requests in or- gations. Republicans see the probe by the ju- Marlene Castro, former supervisory Border Alma Tucker has seen the devastation that The National Human Trafficking hotline Patrol agent, Rio Grande Valley Chat: humantraffickinghotline.org der to begin building the public record,” Nadler diciary committee is part of a larger effort by Reuters contributed to this report. 10 | AMERICA WEEKLY Week 10, 2019 Week 10, 2019 AMERICA WEEKLY | 11

Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images similar to that seen in the days of Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, and Nikita Khrushchev. opinion In Russia, the evolution was from Jewish philosophical leaders at the forefront of the new Soviet state—like Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky—to institutionalized anti-Semi- tism. Witness the victimization of Anatoly Shcharansky and his long prison term before Sen. Booker Hides Behind being released to immigrate to Israel. Now, the left wing of the Democratic Party has commenced its evolution toward a new anti-Semitism, informed as well by radical Islamic ideology combined with classical Pot’s Smoke Screen Marxist philosophy. Chris Hondros/Getty Images Anti-Semitic leaders have co-opted the Christopher C. Hull women’s movement, with leaders such as Tamika Mallory openly supporting Nation of See through the smoke screen. Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. In the House In September 2018, Daniel Lopez, of Representatives, Omar does little to hide who had been diagnosed with schizo- her beliefs, as seen in her well-publicized phrenia and was “self-medicating” tweets: “Israel has hypnotized the world,” with marijuana, stabbed his brother “It’s all about the Benjamins,” and more. As Thomas to death. reported in The Times of Israel on Jan. 19, the On Feb. 28, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced both Democratic candidate for president of the United Omar and fellow newly elected Rep. Rashida States, rolled out the Marijuana Justice Act, which Tlaib (D-Mich.) for repeated “anti-Israel and would legalize pot nationwide. anti-Semitic statements.” No matter where you stand on this issue, this Tolerance toward anti-Jewish violence is is a bad idea. on the rise. The Jerusalem Post on Jan. 29 Here’s why. documented several assaults on identifiably Specifically, the bill would remove marijua- Jewish victims—violent assaults and unpro- na from the U.S. list of controlled substances, voked beatings that received virtually no legalizing it on the federal level. It also would domestic media coverage. However, on the retroactively expunge criminal records of those date of a most violent anti-Semitic attack, charged with marijuana possession. Finally, it an allegedly self-orchestrated “homophobic would allow those serving time for possession Signs placed by the Job Creators Network on Times Square on Feb. 23, 2019, calling out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for the role they say and racist” assault on actor Jussie Smollett to petition for re-sentencing and provide them she played in the recent termination of Amazon’s second headquarters. received nationwide media coverage, and im- with resources like job training. mediate tweets from Hollywood celebrities This is not the first time Booker has experi- and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemn- mented with drug legalization. Two years ago, ing the “attack.” when he introduced a so-called “racial justice” Presidential aspirants Sen. Kamala Har- bill, he put marijuana legalization at its center. OPINION ris of California and Sen. Corey Booker of Booker’s prior measure would have penalized New Jersey—both of whom have been silent states with racially-disparate arrest or incarcera- on anti-Semitic rhetoric and incidents—is- tion rates for marijuana-related crimes, even if sued near-identical responses, with Booker offenders were in fact racially disparate. tweeting that “[t]he vicious attack on actor At the time, Kevin Sabet of Smart Approaches The haze of marijuana smoke looms over a crowd of thousands at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on April 20, 2010, the “National Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern- to Marijuana, a group opposed to pot legaliza- Weed Day.” The New Face of day lynching. I’m glad he’s safe.” tion, argued, “Given the opioid epidemic, [Book- No accusations of lynching are voiced when er’s] legislative energy would be much better adolescence is associated with an IQ drop of as 1,600 psychiatric patients in southern Italy found the victims are merely Jewish. spent implementing solutions to that crisis. But much as 10 points. marijuana use was associated with a 10-fold in- Not long ago, institutionalized anti-Sem- the Big Marijuana lobbyists are probably very ‘Diagnosable crease in violence. itism in the United States was unimagina- happy.” cannabis Pot Use Exploding Likewise, a 2007 study of defendants who had ble, as was a shift toward the tyranny of the It gets worse. committed homicide during psychotic episodes left. When I graduated from law school as Overdoses use disorder’ According to Alex Berenson, former New York found almost two-thirds reported misusing mar- a young Jewish attorney, I asked my father Last year, the number of Americans who died accounts for 11 Times reporter and author of the new book “Tell ijuana—“more than alcohol and amphetamines if I should have my diploma mounted on a from drug overdoses topped 70,000 for the first percent of all Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Men- combined.” wooden plaque. He advised against it, say- time, a nearly 10 percent increase over the previ- tal Illness, and Violence,” “almost everything There’s more. ing I should be prepared for the day when I ous year, driven by the opioid epidemic. psychosis cases you think you know about the health effects of According to a 2012 study in the Journal of would need to stick it in my back pocket for a In particular, the Center for Disease Control’s in emergency cannabis, almost everything advocates and the Interpersonal Violence of more than 9,000 ado- quick departure. Now, I know just how wise National Center for Health Statistics reported a rooms, reaching media have told you for a generation, is wrong.” lescents, “marijuana use was associated with a his advice was. 45 percent spike in deaths from synthetic opioids 90,000 cases, Berenson reported that marijuana and its ac- doubling of domestic violence.” With the old Soviet-style tyranny, pow- such as fentanyl and tramadol in particular. tive ingredient THC are most commonly pre- One in 2017 found that drug use, nearly always Tyranny er was retained by prohibiting individu- Coupled with a soaring suicide rate—more on about 250 a day. scribed for pain relief, but in July 2018, “a large being marijuana, “translated into a five-fold in- als from crossing borders in an outward that below—such overdoses lowered U.S. life ex- four-year study of patients with chronic pain in crease in violence,” Berenson said. The left’s tack toward traditional redistributive direction. In the new tyranny, unlike the pectancy for the second year in a row. Australia showed cannabis use was associated The deaths are not always deliberate. Mari- Soviet and Cuban practices, power is re- Though pot enthusiasts claim legalization with greater pain over time.” juana is associated with more child deaths from tained by refusing to prevent any individu- is a way to reduce such deaths, Keith Hum- In fact, even Rob Kampia, the co-founder of abuse and neglect than alcohol, and “more than communism recalls 1960s New Left movement als from crossing the borders inward. The phreys wrote in The Washington Post that “stud- the Marijuana Policy Project, acknowledged to cocaine, methamphetamines, and opioids com- more who do manage to enter, the larger the ies of individuals show that using medical can- Berenson he “always viewed medical marijuana bined” according to reports from Texas, one of power base for the socialist elite. But have no nabis is correlated with higher rates of using and laws primarily as a way to protect recreational the rare states that tracks perpetrators’ drug use. doubt, once the left has successfully reduced misusing opioids.” users.” Berenson dug up a 2009 study by an Oxford Marc Ruskin Ocasio-Cortez and other young, recently American people, should find any testimony the standard of living for the masses, the For instance, according to a 2018 study, those Yet, as legalization measures like Booker’s University psychiatrist and epidemiologist elected lawmakers, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar that you give today to be truthful.” barriers to exodus will be raised. Then, to who used marijuana were almost three times as proliferate, and the disinformation campaign finding that schizophrenics in particular “are Young lawmakers are advancing old ideas. (D-Minn.). The ultimate objective is to drag Abrams quickly replied, “If I could respond consolidate their power, they will have to likely to use opiates three years later. in which he participates takes hold, the number five times as likely to commit violent crimes as A shift to an old-style left—tradition- down those who have achieved and earned to that,” at which point, Omar shot back, evolve along traditional communist lines Likewise, a JAMA Internal Medicine study of heavy pot smokers is exploding. healthy people, and almost 20 times as likely to ally Marxist with modern garb— the rewards that are the fruits of initiative “That wasn’t a question.” and prevent free emigration. found that states legalizing marijuana had 55 Berenson reports the number of Americans commit homicide.” has perhaps been in motion for and hard work, as if they were ill-gotten The testy exchange ended after some more For those with lingering doubts about the percent higher overdose rates. Data associated who smoked marijuana at least 300 times a year, Not only are schizophrenics 20 times more decades. Now, the movement has gains. back and forth. “Members of this committee tectonic shift this country is undergoing, the with the study demonstrate that an avalanche of the definition of “daily use,” nearly tripled from likely to kill you, they are also more likely to accelerated. Are there wealthy individuals who have can’t attack a witness who is not permitted Green New Deal is revelatory. That it could be deaths in legalizing states buried early findings 2006 to 2017, approaching the number who drink kill themselves. Freshman Rep. Alexandria exploited others? No doubt. However, the to reply,” Abrams said. taken seriously by lawmakers wouldn’t have that marijuana legalization might slightly help alcohol every day. For instance, a 2006 study found that after the Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has repeat- best tool for righting those wrongs is a scal- As for the Soviet police state? The pre- been a surprise to George Orwell—his only with opioid overdoses. first release for a schizophrenic episode, “not edly demonstrated a Soviet concept pel, not a machete. error was one of timing, because he expected Mental Illness taking any regular antipsychotic medication was of equality. Her successful disruption of the Abuse of the system for truly unfair gain the transformation to have been completed Legalization and Teen Use Contrary to drug dealer deceptions, there is associated with a 12-fold increase in the relative Amazon HQ2 proposal in New York can best should target those who are, in fact, abusers. by 1984. While marijuana advocates tout studies find- such a thing as marijuana abuse or addiction. risk of all-cause death and a worrying 37-fold be interpreted as an attack against prosper- Expropriating the profits of all those who This benignly named Green New Deal ing legalization does not lead to increased Its technical name is “diagnosable canna- increase in death by suicide.” ity as personified by Amazon founder and are successful is indicative not of a is summarized this way by CNN (not teen marijuana use, a 2018 study found a bis use disorder,” and from 2006 to 2014 Another study found schizophrenics’ lifetime CEO Jeff Bezos—a vilification of the successful desire to limit economic exploita- a right-wing media outlet) analyst 26 percent increase in frequency of use it tripled. It accounts for 11 percent of all suicide risk is 4.9 percent, 350 times America’s and a desire to penalize the wealthy at the tion, but rather of an intent to Zachary Wolf: “What was entered for teens who were already marijuana psychosis cases in emergency rooms, overall age-adjusted suicide rate in 2017. expense of the masses. drag all who are successful as official legislative language users. reaching 90,000 cases, about 250 a day. And to reiterate: Teens who smoke pot about down to the lowest com- on Capitol Hill declares the Marijuana legalization leads to a loss One potential reason: The potency tripled their risk of schizophrenia in one study, mon denominator, so government should take a of awareness of its risks, according to of the drug has exploded as well. and 27 percent of schizophrenics had been di- that all may “equally” stronger position on every- one study of perceptions of pot among Between the 1970s and today, as agnosed with cannabis use disorder in another. share the same squa- thing from cutting carbon eighth- and 10th-graders following farming and cloning technologies In sum: More marijuana, more mental illness, lor, to create a class- emissions, to giving every recreational marijuana legalization evolve, marijuana’s THC content has more murder. The new New Left’s less society. Except, American a job, to work- in Washington state. increased about 10-fold. move toward traditional of course, for the ing with family farm- Beginning in the mid-2000s, the per- Which leads to even worse news: Drug Dealers redistributive communism lawmakers, who ers to retrofitting every centage of high schoolers who reported Berenson found “a mountain of peer- Booker claimed, “The war on drugs has not been will require some building in the country.” having smoked marijuana began to in- reviewed research in top medical jour- a war on drugs, it’s been a war on people.” is evidenced by the degree of privilege Supreme Court Jus- crease, accompanied by a sharp decrease nals” shows marijuana can cause or wors- Actually, the war on drugs has been a war on proposed confiscatory tax to create an envi- tice William O. Doug- in the percentage of 10th- and 12th-graders en mental illness. drug dealers. rates proposed by Ocasio- ronment that facili- las warned: “As night- who view regular marijuana use as risky. For example, teens who smoke marijuana And even when states legalize drug dealers, the tates the exercise of fall does not come all In fact, Colorado, an early adopter of legal regularly approximately triple their risk of evidence suggests that drug dealers are not only Cortez. their decision-mak- at once, neither does marijuana, is now the No. 1 state in America for schizophrenia. still drugging people, but statistically speaking, ing on our behalf. oppression. In both in- marijuana use among both pre-teens and those More generally, the National Academy of Medi- still killing them as well. The result: a truly stances, there is a twilight 12 to 17 years old. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) cine in 2017 reported that “cannabis use is likely Now they want to kill many, many more, not classless society. And when everything remains The Colorado Department of Education likewise campaigns in North Las to increase the risk of developing schizophre- to mention ruining lives and burning away in- Who cares about those thousands of jobs just as in Soviet Russia, seemingly unchanged. And it found that “drug-related school suspensions, ex- Vegas on Feb. 24, 2019. nia and other psychoses; the higher the use, the tellect. that Amazon’s presence would have gener- communist China, and is in such twilight that we all pulsions, and law enforcement referrals increased Ethan Miller/Getty Images greater the risk.” Remember Daniel Lopez, and his brother ated—the small businesses, bodegas, barber- “socialist paradise” Cuba, must be most aware of change dramatically from 2008 through 2011.” Likewise, a 2010 study found a towering 27 Thomas, whom they helped kill. shops, dry cleaners, and the like—that now there will be those who are in the air—however slight—lest we It’s not just Colorado. One national addiction percent of schizophrenics had been diagnosed As recently as 2015, Booker declined to support will never come into being? This is apart lower-classless, others who are become unwitting victims of the treatment network reported, “90 percent of ado- with cannabis use disorder. marijuana legalization in a Vox interview. from those who would have been employed middle-classless, and the commis- darkness.” lescents seeking treatment are admitted with He was right then, and he’s wrong now. directly by Amazon, but who will now be sars, who will be upper-classless. It’s time to turn on the light. marijuana being their primary drug of choice.” Violence See through his smoke screen. employed in another congressperson’s dis- A chilling example of the Soviet-style Such adolescent use of marijuana is linked to And on average, along with mental illness comes trict. manner of conducting a public hearing oc- Epoch Times contributor Marc Ruskin is a use of alcohol and cocaine—which together all violence. Christopher C. Hull holds a doctorate in To the Marxist lawmaker, what really mat- curred during the Feb. 13 questioning of 27-year veteran of the FBI, an adjunct pro- help predict opioid addiction—as well as mental In a 2017 speech that called for legalizing pot, government from Georgetown University. He ters is the “greater good,” or in Ocasio-Cor- the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela, Elliott Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fessor at the John Jay College of Criminal health problems, risky sexual behaviors, and poor Booker claimed states that have done so “are see- is president of Issue Management Inc., distin- tez’s case, principles unhampered by a lack Abrams. As reported by Gideon Resnick in (D-N.Y.). Justice, and the author of “The Pretender: school performance. ing decreases in violent crime.” guished senior fellow at the Gatestone Insti- of understanding of the basic economic con- the Daily Beast, Omar stated during the con- Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images My Life Undercover for the FBI.” He served In fact, according to one expert, teen use can Well, actually, no. tute, senior fellow at Americans for Intelligence cepts involved, as exemplified by her state- gressional hearing, reading from notes: on the legislative staff of U.S. Sen. Daniel cause a permanent IQ drop of six points, “similar The first four states to legalize marijuana for Reform, and author of “Grassroots Rules” ments concerning alternate uses for the $3 “In 1991, you pleaded guilty to two counts of dawn knock at the door by the KGB could Patrick Moynihan and as an assistant dis- to the consequences of lead poisoning.” recreational use saw a five-year increase of 37 (Stanford, 2007). billion that Amazon would have received in withholding information from Congress re- never happen here, of course. Just ask Paul trict attorney in Brooklyn, New York. A 2012 study found that “the most persistent percent for murders and 25 percent for aggravat- tax breaks. garding your involvement in the Iran-Contra Manafort and Roger Stone. adolescent-onset cannabis users evidenced an ed assaults, far greater than the national increase. Views expressed in this article are the opinions The new New Left’s move toward tradition- affair, for which you were later pardoned by Views expressed in this article are the average 8-point IQ decline from childhood to This is not a surprise. For instance, Berenson of the author and do not necessarily reflect the al redistributive communism is evidenced President George H.W. Bush. I fail to under- Rise of Anti-Semitism opinions of the author and do not neces- adulthood,” and shows persistent use beyond reported that a 2013 journal article studying views of The Epoch Times. by the confiscatory tax rates proposed by stand why members of this committee, or the The rise of Soviet-style anti-Semitism seems sarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 12 | AMERICA WEEKLY Week 10, 2019

OPINION Egalitarians’ Neurotic Obsession With Comparisons

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Democratic Socialists of America and other activists who opposed Amazon’s plan to move into Queens rally in cel- ebration of Amazon’s decision to pull out of the deal, in Queens, New York, on Feb. 14, 2019.

Mark Hendrickson Only viewing the world through the ideo- an opportunity to help the parts of America Hatred and logical lens of egalitarianism renders wage that are left behind?” Excuse me? Since when One of the most famous mala- differentials objectionable. Some Americans is it the duty of a corporation to pick not the propisms in literature is “com- rejection of the may gripe about the megabucks that profes- location that best serves its stakeholders (share- parisons are odorous,” uttered by natural order of sional athletes, movie stars, and rock bands holders, employees, and customers), but to pick Shakespeare’s character Dogberry things impels command, but nobody wants the government a location that could use an economic shot in in “Much Ado About Nothing.” to reduce that gap. It isn’t unjust that I can’t play the arm? Dogberry was mutilating the well- egalitarians basketball as well as LeBron James, nor be as Even an egalitarian should see the problem known phrase “comparisons are odi- to extol funny as Jerry Seinfeld, nor do—well—whatever with this suggestion, namely, that no matter ous.” governments it is that Mick Jagger does. which of the many less-prosperous cities Ama- Well, some of the comparisons drawn by Nor have Americans rebelled against the zon might pick, it would still be “unfair” to all writers infected with the virus of egalitari- that promise wage structure that pays physicians more than the other cities that it didn’t pick. anism are both odorous and odious—and ob- to ‘fix’ natural high-school gym teachers, engineers more Furthermore, the author lamented that for noxious, too. differences than construction workers, or tax lawyers Amazon to avail itself, as other businesses do, Egalitarianism is the normative notion that more than clerks. So now, high-tech jobs pay of location-specific advantages, such as the individuals should be economically equal—or by wielding more than low-tech. So what? That’s just the availability of a cluster of workers possessing at least much less unequal than we currently enormous power way the world has always worked; indeed, eco- the skills that Amazon is seeking, evinces “the are. Consequently, those under the influence nomically, it’s how the labor market naturally tendency of geography to become economic of egalitarianism obsessively compare the eco- over our lives. works: the individuals who acquire the most destiny.” So? This is another case of reporting nomic fortunes of Americans. Any economic highly valued skills get the most highly com- something that isn’t news, but is as natural as disparities, gaps, differences, etc., that exist be- pensated jobs. Duh. Why envy them? They are the sun coming up in the morning. tween Americans are offensive to egalitarians. simply reaping the rewards of their excellence. Since the beginning of human civilization, Well, that isn’t completely accurate. Some The average American doesn’t resent people geography has been a major determinant of disparities bother egalitarians; others don’t. who are highly skilled and profit from those where human beings settle. All one has to do One disparity that doesn’t bother them in the skills. Such disparities occur naturally, and is look at a map of the United States to see this slightest is that the top-earning 1 percent of we accept them. The real injustice lies with tendency: Most major cities developed on the U.S. taxpayers pay more than 39 percent of the artificial disparities. By “artificial,” I mean shores of oceans and lakes and at the mouths country’s income taxes, while the bottom 90 those that governments create by bestowing and along the banks of major rivers. percent only pay roughly 29 percent. That is a privileges on select special interests, rather Cities arise where it makes the most economic disparity in which the rich get the short end than economic differences that result from the sense, that is, where access to needed resources of the stick, and that kind of disparity is fine natural differences between people. is better. And cities thrive as long as economic with egalitarians. Beyond cronyism, which I denounced in production remains viable in that location. If One startling fact about egalitarians is that A demonstrator, protest- a previous column, the federal government the economic raison d’être of a human settle- ing Illinois’ budget stale- they’re not content with the good news that our has created an economic gap between union- ment ceases to exist, so does the settlement (for

mate, blocks an entrance es society has attained unprecedented affluence, g ized and nonunionized workers, and between example, ghost towns in the Old West, and to to the Chicago Board of a and that the long-term trend has been for every Trade building in Chicago government workers and their private-sector a lesser degree, hollowed-out communities in income quintile to enjoy rising standards of on Nov. 2, 2015. counterparts. the Rust Belt in the past 50 years). living. Indeed, egalitarians view our society Dating back to the Clayton Antitrust Act Writers who fret about economic compari- in which the rich are getting richer and the lson/Getty Im of 1914, labor unions have enjoyed a legisla- sons that arise in the natural order of things poor are getting richer as scandalous and un- tive privilege: They are allowed to operate are unhappy people, and, as the old saying cott O acceptable. S as monopolies. For decades, they used their goes, “Misery loves company.” What makes They aren’t placated by the fact that the monopoly privilege to extract wages from egalitarians miserable is economic inequality average poor American has long enjoyed employers that were higher than those between individuals and areas, even when the a standard of living comparable to the received by other similarly skilled reasons for such disparities are entirely natu- average middle-class standard of workers, becoming a sort of blue- ral (as opposed to being artificially created by living in the 1950s. They ignore blood, blue-collar aristocracy. government). the absolute rise in prosperity (Note: I am not anti-union. I To lament the uniqueness of each human be- across the board, and, instead, simply oppose government- ing and to condemn our differences is a form of obsess about relative stan- created monopolies.) hatred for humankind. It’s a hatred of individu- dards of living; hence, they It amazes me that egali- ality and also a hatred of nature itself, whether constantly draw compari- tarians never seem to com- nature is a product of evolution or the Deity. sons that reflect this bias plain about the enormous Can you imagine going through life believing and end up making them gap between what federal that the creator of the universe totally blew it look silly. employees make versus and needs to be corrected? This hatred and Two examples of rather equally skilled private rejection of the natural order of things impels pointless comparisons in workers. Truly, if there is egalitarians to extol governments that prom- the news recently have an unjust economic class ise to “fix” natural differences by wielding been articles in major difference in the United enormous power over our lives, suppressing publications that lament States today, it was created individual rights, and radically redistribut- the split between high- in Washington, in a phe- ing wealth. paying jobs and low-paying nomenon that I describe as Sound familiar? Egalitarianism is one of the jobs, and the fact that Ama- “the governing elite vs. the ideological underpinnings of socialism. That’s zon chose to add new satellite rest of us.” what makes their obsession with comparisons headquarters in rich areas of the dangerous to us all and not just a sad type of country. Amazon Choice individual neurosis. The egalitarian-influenced article la- Wage Differences menting Amazon’s choice of northern Mark Hendrickson is an adjunct professor The high-wage versus low-wage jobs article Virginia and the since-withdrawn New of economics and sociology at Grove City appeared in The New York Times last month. It York City appeared last fall in The Christian College. He is the author of several books, was entitled, “Tech is splitting U.S. work force Science Monitor. It appeared under the melo- including “The Big Picture: The Science, Poli- in two.” It was well-researched and well-writ- dramatic title, “Amazon and the troubling rise tics, and Economics of Climate Change.” ten. But what was the point? After all, the fact of superstar cities.” that some jobs pay much better than others is Explaining why they wrote it, the Monitor Views expressed in this article are the opin- hardly a stop-the-presses scoop. It’s been going stated, “By picking New York and Washington ions of the author and do not necessarily on for centuries. as its new HQ cities, is the retail giant missing reflect the views of The Epoch Times.