“Should asylum be extended to the adherents of religions that do not recognize the free exercise rights of other religions?”

“Should those religions whose adherents refuse to pledge or give evidence that they would support free exercise be ineligible for asylum?”

~ Edward J. Erler, professor emeritus of political science at California State University, San Bernardino.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-we-are-as-a-people-the-syrian-refugee-question/

The money of citizens that is spent on intelligence today, instead, should be spent examining and investigating the records of public servants, both elected and unelected. Nothing malicious. But, rather than examining and investigating the records of citizens, instead, intel agencies and governments should be and are in fact duty bound to diligently investigate public servants and their activities with regard to citizens’ money.

Citizens pay for NSA, FBI, CIA et al to protect the citizens, which includes protecting the privacy of citizens, but not to protect the government, even when the government is their employer, and not to protect their fellow employees and contractors or any other entity or persons. It should be needless to say that any and all government employees must be citizens.  Citizens do not pay agencies and government to spy on citizens.  Citizens pay to know what their public servants are doing with citizens’ money and good will.

Can you blame them?  It is seldom wise to put a target on one’s forehead unless you control the game.  Do you really trust the government to control the whole game?

Drain this swamp. Then dig up the dirt beneath it to build a wall so that it can never happen again. The intel people implementing this paranoid madness must go and the leaders must be punished. This is no different than Hitler’s henchmen claiming that they were following orders. The working judicial presumption must be that a President is duty bound and responsible for all actions of his or her government. “Plausible deniability” must be outlawed. The buck does stop there.

A Watergate-style Threat to the Democratic Process

A special report from the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism;
Cliff Kincaid, Director.

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This 3 minute video is worth watching and sharing.  It provides perspective and actual facts on the number of illegal immigrants who have been CONVICTED of crimes in the US and then released back into America without being put in prison or deported.  The numbers are staggering.

In view of the statistics reported in this video, how can the federal government justify letting these people go and how can a city or a state justify becoming or remaining a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants?  Doing so puts the lives and property of American citizens at significant risk and clearly violates the rule of law on which our society is based.

On what basis can federal, state and city governments who have engaged in these practices justify their actions?  Do you know?  If so, help me understand.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2QOwAJ2ez6U?rel=0

Hillary Clinton says she is “out of the woods.”  I guess that means that she thinks no one is willing to prosecute her and the Clinton Foundation for illegally accepting certain campaign finance funds in the run up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  Pathologically self-righteous Dianne Feinstein and similar elitist politicians in both parties as well as mass media are very interested in Trump’s tax returns on the PROSPECT that they MIGHT find evidence they could use to try to impeach Trump, but they don’t give a damn about the campaign finance corruption ALREADY PERPETRATED in presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s connection to millions of dollars of foreign money in a private Clinton family fund, apparently legally configured as a tax free charity, but it gives less than 5% to charity.  Hillary thinks the powers that be have let her out of jail.

In similar news, a drug cartel leader escaped from Mexican prison rather than face extradition to the U.S.

“The brazen escape took place on Thursday at the Aguaruto State Prison in Culiacan, Sinaloa, when authorities received a 911 call alerting them about an escape by Juan Jose “El Azulito” Esparragoza and some other key members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The fugitive cartel members are tied to the group led by Sinaloa top boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, said Cristobal Castañeda Camarillo, the Sub-secretary for Public Safety in Sinaloa. Mexican authorities would not go into details about the escape since the case remains under investigation and prison officials and guards are under investigation.” (1)

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/03/18/facing-extradition-sinaloa-cartel-top-lt-four-bosses-escape-mexican-prison/

So near, yet…

“We know that matter remains mysterious just as mind remains mysterious, and we don’t know what the connections between those mysteries should be. Classifying consciousness as a material problem is tantamount to saying that consciousness, too, remains fundamentally unexplained.”

…

“Consciousness might, for example, be an example of the emergence of a new entity in the Universe not contained in the laws of particles. There is also the more radical possibility that some rudimentary form of consciousness must be added to the list of things, such as mass or electric charge, that the world is built of.”

…

“[Following work by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel, Chalmers pointed to the]…the vividness – the intrinsic presence – of the perceiving subject’s experience as a problem no explanatory account of consciousness seems capable of embracing.”

So far.

And here’s the rest of it.

https://aeon.co/essays/materialism-alone-cannot-explain-the-riddle-of-consciousness?utm_content=buffer9ed9a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

See, mess around with your neurons before you have the math right, you could end up in another star system.

Sports doping is caused by global warming. (Just joking.) Globalists are serious people; there is always a cause for them to get behind. And then there is the rest of us in the here and now.  Perhaps they need to grow a tomato or something.  And then distribute their tomato to the rest of us.

Right now the European Union is falling apart. Poland did not go along with the EU’s plan. And, the big members of the EU are refusing to pay their share of their common defense, an unsustainable situation which Trump campaigned as unsustainable. Poland wants no part of the Brussels hypocrisy. Brexit is formally approved. Italy and Spain want to continue their caste-based systems. France, Germany and Poland are in a twit. Oh my. How does one have a union if it is based on class?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/777651/European-Union-Poland-vows-veto-multi-speed-Europe-favoured-Germany-France

An example of the danger when there is no moral compass except the law, using the law as a means to an amoral end is the same sociopathy as Bill Clinton’s infamous comment about his sordid affair with an employee, “I did it because I could.” Justice is not blind; lawyers take cases which they believe they can win…regardless the cause is good or bad.

On the other hand, if a lawyer is to make a moral judgment, which moral code do they use when they have already allowed the Ten Commandments to be torn down?

The brilliant Neal Katyal, as former acting solicitor general of the United States during the Obama administration he successfully argued cases before the Supreme Court, and he successfully sued the United States on behalf of Al Qaida terrorists, has filed suit with questionable standing on behalf of the state of Hawaii against the Trump administration, seeking to block the president’s latest executive order on immigration. Hawaii has received only a handful of refugees. Also, Katyal wrote a NYT op-ed supporting Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It is wonderful to be able to think with an open mind, to be able to consider all of the possibilities, but gravity cannot be suspended by a court. A purely secular state and legal system is not practical.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/hawaii-hires-al-qaedas-best-lawyer-lead-suit-trump/