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The Flathead Warming Center, a facility in Kalispell, Montana, intended to provide lifesaving warmth to homeless and needy, has been ordered shut down by city officials.
It's because they got complaints from residents, sometimes not even in the neighborhood of the center, about the presence of homeless.
But center officials, who opened with the full permission of the town after meeting all requirements, now are challenging that order as unconstitutional.
Kalispell, in fact, experiences cold weather, especially during the December-February time frame. Below zero readings are not at all unusual, and during those winter months the mercury sometimes hits as low as minus-30, extremely dangerous for those without protection. Frostbite can hit within minutes.
It is the Institute for Justice that has come alongside the Center to go to court, with a federal lawsuit against the town.
"Across 106 pages, the lawsuit spells out how the city violated the Center's constitutional rights by revoking its conditional use permit. With freezing temperatures just days away, the lawsuit asks the court for an emergency order to keep the Center open while the legal battle unfolds, ensuring that those most vulnerable are not left out in the cold," the institute explained.
"Kalispell's decision to shut down the Flathead Warming Center without citing it for breaking any law is not just heartless – it's unconstitutional," said Jeff Rowes, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice.
"The Center has a vested property right to continue serving the homeless, and the city is scapegoating the Center because it doesn't want to deal with the realities of homelessness. Shutting down the Warming Center is needlessly cruel and illegal, especially when the city is resorting to baseless accusations to try to justify its unconstitutional actions."
The permit was revoked "following complaints from residents about the presence of homeless individuals in the area. However, the Warming Center has never been cited for violating any laws, and its permit to operate was granted in full compliance with the city's zoning rules. Many of the complaints occurred miles from the Center. The lawsuit argues that the city has trumped up accusations that the Center lied on its 2020 permit application – accusations that are baseless and only brought up because the city had no legal justification to shut the Center down," the IJ explained.
"Winter is coming fast, and for many people in our community, the warming center is the only thing standing between them and the deadly cold," said Tonya Horn, executive director of the Flathead Warming Center. "The city is treating us like we're the problem, but we're part of the solution. We provide a safe, warm place for people to stay in an emergency. Without us, they have nowhere else to go. It's inhumane to shut us down just as temperatures are about to plummet."
The lawsuit charges the city with violations of both the state and U.S. Constitutions.
"The government can't act as judge, jury, and prosecutor to strip the Center of its property rights, just because it doesn't like what an owner is doing," added IJ Attorney Christie Hebert. "Kalispell is scapegoating the Warming Center for serving the homeless when it should be supporting its mission. Shutting down the Center won't make the homeless disappear—it will only make the problem worse."
At issue immediately is a request for an emergency temporary restraining order to keep the Center open while the lawsuit progresses.
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A major scandal that enveloped Colorado's social services industry for years already – Robin Niceta's criminal actions – had not even fully died down when another hit – this time a social worker who handled cases for years but was indicted for fraudulently claiming she was qualified for the work.
The Niceta case still is reverberating, as she recently was sentenced to prison for four years for her guilty pleas to faking cancer to try to get out of her case, as she was found guilty of felony attempt to influence a public service and false reporting of child abuse.
Her case got its start when she reported, falsely, a city councilwoman for child abuse. The councilwoman's offense had been to criticize Niceta's then-lesbian partner, a police officer, publicly.
Now a report at a CBS affiliate has outlined the latest scandal.
That would be the indictment of Shannon McShane on charges of forgery, perjury, attempt to influence a public servant and retaliation against a witness – all felonies.
The case alleges that McShane, who worked as a child and family investigator and parental evaluator in child-custody cases, apparently used false credentials to obtain her state license.
The state attorney general recently filed a 15-count indictment against her, and the report confirms the state may never have discovered the problems except for the diligent detective work of an anonymous parent who ran up against her agenda in a divorce dispute.
The report confirmed, "McShane testified under oath in Colorado court cases that she earned PhD in Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. She stated the same on employment applications for employment with the Colorado Department of Corrections and the Colorado Department of Human Services."
The father then contacted state officials, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.
He pointed out she actually was involved in a Texas school at that same time. the report said.
Startlingly, the report confirmed, "During this time, McShane allegedly contacted the father's employer – despite the anonymously filed complaint. The indictment does not elaborate on how McShane obtained the father's personal information. But it does describe how McShane complained to the father's employer about the father 'cyberstalking' her on company time."
She already had been under review by the state because of a complaint filed by a judge in Morgan County, who subsequently removed her from the list of eligible family investigators in the district over her "one-sided report" in a family dispute.
State officials now confirm McShane has relinquished, permanently, all her state licenses.
She was jailed on the indictment, but released on bond, the report said.
The McShane case follows even as the Niceta case reached its culmination, her sentencing to prison. She formerly was a social worker in Arapahoe County, but pleaded guilty to multiple charges.
She had accused Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky of child abuse after Jurinsky criticized Niceta's former partner — ex-Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson — on the radio in January of 2022, the report said.
She falsely claimed she had "personally observed" incidents of Jurinsky committing child abuse, before an investigation confirmed there was no evidence of that.
Niceta, besides being jailed on the criminal counts, was ordered to pay $3 million in damages to Jurinsky.
As Vice President Kamala Harris battles through the final weeks of the lead-up to Election Day, her husband, Doug Emhoff, is battling an onslaught of negative media attention regarding accusations against him.
Emhoff, among many accusations, allegedly slapped a former girlfriend at a film festival. That revelation came on the heels of Emhoff reportedly impregnating his nanny.
According to Breitbart, liberal late-night host Bill Maher commented on the brewing controversy regarding the accusations faced by Emhoff.
The "Real Time" host said the allegations against Emhoff are backed up by "the standard, very often in these cases."
Although Maher admitted that the allegations seem to meet the initial standard, he explained why he believes it's not being widely reported as of yet.
"I wouldn’t go after anybody for not reporting it yet, because these things have to be checked out.” And the charges haven’t hit the credibility level of the accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh," Maher said.
He added, "There’s a lot of scuttlebutt this week about Doug. … Of course, we don’t know if that’s true."
Bill Maher and the panel covers Doug Emhoff impregnating the nanny and allegedly abusing her:
Bill Maher: "There's a lot of scuttlebutt in the news this week about Doug."
Buck Sexton: "Believe all women, except when it comes to one who says that someone hit her across the face."… pic.twitter.com/zebc8QFnCl— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) October 12, 2024
Maher then went into some of the background regarding the accusation that Emhoff slapped his ex-girlfriend.
"[T]he Daily Mail is reporting that three women that she talked to contemporaneously, which has been the standard, very often in these cases, that she said back in, I think, 201[2], or something, they were at the Cannes Film Festival, he slapped her, he thought she was flirting with the valet," the HBO host said.
Maher, who often takes viewpoints opposite of the Democratic Party, admitted that if the allegations are proven true and if the liberal media ignores it, it'll look even worse.
"If this becomes more credible — and we don’t know yet — a lot of the conservative outlets still aren’t reporting it. So, I wouldn’t go after anybody for not reporting it yet, because these things have to be checked out," Maher said.
He added, "But, if it becomes more credible, certainly on the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was — that kind of thing was reported by everybody pretty quickly, does the liberal media keep ignoring it, and wouldn’t that make it look worse?"
Only time will tell if the allegations against Emhoff are accurate, but either way, it's definitely not something Kamala wants to have to deal with at this time, that's for sure.
Now that Barron Trump is 18 and in college, more media outlets are interested in his future, especially given the fact that his father could once again become the president of the United States.
But Barron Trump also has a past, and it was no surprise to learn that the young, handsome son of a president had a girlfriend while he attended school in New York.
Reports indicated that Barron Trump's "first girlfriend" has gone public with the information through her TikTok channel, telling her followers that Barron Trump was "the nicest" and had nothing but positive things to say about him.
The two reportedly only went their separate ways because Barron Trump ultimately chose to spend his summers in Florida, where he ultimately enrolled in school.
Maddie, who goes by the TikTok name "Maddatitude" released a bombshell video revealing that she was Barron Trump's first girlfriend and also revealed that he had taken his whole class to the White House to meet his father.
"For those asking, I went to school with Barron Trump, and he was my first bf. When Trump was elected he brought the entire class to the White House. We gotta save my bae!"
MSN noted:
In an explosive clip, the young teenager showed pictures of her and Barron posing together as children in what appears to be a school photo at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York's Upper West Side.
Maddie doubled down on what appears to be solid proof of her claims, uploading a picture that shows her with several of her classmates posing next to the former president and Melania Trump at the White House.
The trip to the White House, which reportedly took place in 2017, was described as a "secret trip," presumably due to security concerns for Barron Trump's class.
The outlet added:
After followers asked what kind of person Barron is, Maddie gushed over her former beau, saying that he was 'the best' and 'the nicest'.
In another video, Maddie also featured a selfie she shared with the 78-year-old GOP presidential nominee at her fifth-grade graduation and revealed that both of her parents discouraged her to do so.
Donald Trump confirmed in recent days that Barron just started at the Stern School of Business.
Many of his classmates at NYU seemed open, if not eager, to befriend the youngest Trump.
Some admitted that political ideologies would get in the way of that possibility.
So far, Barron Trump is killing it in college and undoubtedly he'll go on to do great things.
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Gretchen Whitmer, the far-left governor of Michigan, worked for that reputation by micromanaging the lives of state residents during COVID.
She's also worked on an agenda that provides a pathway in the state for her ideologies.
She even was the target of an apparent "kidnap" attempt where federal agents seemed to outnumber suspects, and while some were convicted, others were acquitted, leaving the entire episode a question mark.
Catholic vote pointed out, "How else can this be interpreted other than mockery of Catholics and the sacrament of Holy Communion, not to mention the distasteful pornographic innuendo? Gretchen Whitmer is only the latest example of the gross anti-Catholic bigotry festering inside the Democratic Party."
The video shows Whitmer feeding a chip to social influencer Liz Plank, who is kneeling on the floor.
The Washington Examiner explained Catholic groups are accusing Whitmer of mocking them.
Catholic Vote demanded an apology: "Any slight mockery of another faith would be met with outrage, and an immediate apology would be issued. Why hasn't she done that yet?"
"What Whitmer did was to deride Holy Communion," charged Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. "There is no wiggle room for her to deny the obvious. … What Whitmer did is political suicide."
The report explained the "issue" was CHIPS, the CHIPS Act, affecting tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers.
Plank claimed that President Donald Trump would put that at risk.
Whitmer and Plank also joked that there's no such thing as post-birth abortion when multiple states, in fact, have abortion laws that appear to allow exactly that. In fact, Kamala Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, as Minnesota governor eliminated a requirement that doctors provide medical care to babies that survive abortion – and then he eliminated the reporting requirement so that no one will know what cases occur.
Ethel Kennedy, a transformative presence in the Kennedy family and an ardent advocate for social justice, has died at the age of 96, ABC News reported.
Her passing marks the end of an era for the Kennedy legacy, following complications from a stroke she suffered on October 8, 2024.
Born into a wealthy Catholic family that moved from Chicago to Greenwich, Connecticut during her childhood, Ethel Kennedy was thrust into the national spotlight through her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy in 1950. The couple met courtesy of their mutual connection through Robert’s sister, Jean Kennedy, and their union marked the beginning of a significant chapter in American politics and civil rights advocacy.
Ethel's life was defined by both extraordinary highs and unimaginable lows. In 1955, she experienced personal loss with the tragic death of her parents in a plane crash. Despite this devastating event, Ethel would go on to become an embodiment of courage and determination.
Her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968, making her a widow at the age of 40. At that time, she was a mother of ten children and expecting her eleventh. Her life after Robert's death was marked by her campaign against the parole of his assassin and a dedication to raising her large family.
Further personal tragedy struck with the untimely deaths of two of her children, David in 1984 and Michael in 1997. Through the years, Ethel maintained a public presence while intensely guarding her private life, choosing not to grant interviews for extended periods.
Ethel Kennedy will be remembered not just as part of a storied political family but also for her steadfast dedication to social causes. Her commitment to civil justice, human rights, and issues like gun control was unwavering.
In recognition of her contributions, President Barack Obama bestowed upon her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. He lauded her as an "emblem of enduring faith and enduring hope even in the face of unimaginable loss and unimaginable grief."
Her advocacy work continued throughout her life, with involvement in numerous causes worldwide. In 2021, she penned a letter to a parole board echoing her late husband’s call for mankind to "tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world."
As the family matriarch, Ethel leaves behind a sprawling family tree, including nine surviving children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren. Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III spoke of the family’s loss, expressing, "Along with a lifetime's work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind a large and loving family."
National figures were quick to share their admiration and condolences upon her passing. President Biden paid tribute to Ethel Kennedy’s legacy, calling her "an American icon" whose "spine of steel and a heart of gold" inspired many.
Biden further commented on her indomitable spirit, noting how Ethel "traveled, marched, boycotted, and stood up for human rights around the world." Her enduring friendship with the Bidens was a testament to her influence and personal connections.
In her own words, Ethel once observed, "For anyone to achieve something, he must have to show a little courage." This sentiment encapsulates the tenacity with which she approached life’s challenges.
The culmination of her life's journey saw her leave an indelible mark on both her family and the nation. Rory Kennedy, one of her children, highlighted her mother's exceptional character, remarking on how she lived intensely throughout both her ups and downs.
With her passing, Ethel Kennedy's profound influence as a family figure and social justice advocate will remain deeply etched in the history she helped shape. Her legacy of service, courage, and commitment to others will continue to inspire future generations.
As Vice President Kamala Harris continues to hit the campaign trail with her husband, Second Gentleman Dough Emhoff, bombshell news reports regarding his past are undoubtedly becoming a painful thorn in the side of her campaign.
According to the Daily Caller, Emhoff has been accused of being routinely "inappropriate" and "misogynistic" by some of his former colleagues, adding to past allegations that he might have some skeletons in his closet.
He had also been accused of sexual misconduct, and former colleagues claimed that Emhoff only hired young, attractive women for certain positions.
Other colleagues said Emhoff routinely yelled at some of the younger women and staffers, only to later brag about it to some of the other men at Venable's Los Angeles offices.
One of the former female staffers at the law firm said Emhoff was very "flirty," adding that the women who didn't flirt back were essentially blacklisted by Emhoff and treated poorly.
"If you weren’t flirty back or didn’t respond positively then you were on his s**t list," the former female staffer told the Daily Mail.
NEW: Doug Emhoff's former colleagues have come forward, say he refused to promote women who didn't flirt with him & would brag about yelling at women.
Emhoff impregnated his nanny, is accused of assaulting his girlfriend, and now this.
According to the Daily Mail, Emhoff was a… pic.twitter.com/DV9OnqhGMh
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 8, 2024
Another former female staffer said Emhoff would host "men only" drink nights at the office -- a practice she said was stopped after she brought it to the attention of Venable's top brass.
“He had, for many years cocktail parties where only men were invited,” she told the Daily Mail. “In the office, on Friday evening. When my colleague brought that to the attention of Venable [around 2010], that stopped."
Emhoff, according to another former employee, also reportedly demanded a cut from new client fees.
Emhoff is also still getting backlash from some for reports that broke earlier this year about the time he impregnated his nanny, who also happened to be a teacher at his children's school.
Other reports emerged that accused Emhoff of slapping his ex-girlfriend.
The wide range of disgusting allegations tends to paint a shockingly bad picture of who Emhoff is as a person.
The Harris campaign has not commented on the most recent allegations of his past workplace behaviors, though it might have to sooner than later.
Arizona Democrats had quite a scare over the past week after shootings that forced them to close one of their offices and move operations to an undisclosed location.
According to The Hill, Democrats shut down their Tempe, Ariz offices after a series of three shootings caused too much of a security concern for staffers to return.
The offices were reportedly a base for not only Arizona Democratic congressional candidates but also for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Arizona is one of a handful of key swing states that could play a critical role in determining who carves a path in the Electoral College vote to claim the White House next month.
Reports from the Tempe Police Department indicated that an individual or individuals shot at the Tempe-based Democrat offices in the middle of the night, noting that nobody was inside the building at the time.
The police said they were looking for a "silver Toyota Highlander with an unknown plate."
If this app is good for anything, it’s that someone here can narrow down the #Toyota #Highlander model year used to terrorize the Harris Walz campaign field office in Tempe. pic.twitter.com/43QGOY85vY
— Liane Yvkoff (@yvkoff) October 12, 2024
According to other reports, Lauren Kuby, a state Senate candidate in Legislative District 8, confirmed that they moved the office to an undisclosed location out of an abundance of caution.
Notably, the latest shooting incident came just days before First Lady Jill Biden and former President Barack Obama are expected in the state to campaign for VP Harris.
Police said two other shooting incidents -- possibly with a gun or BB gun -- caused damage to the building. Those incidents occurred in late September.
The police department posted a message on X with a poster showing the type of vehicle, indicating that the suspect is wanted for "unlawful discharge of a firearm." Social media users weighed in.
"Probably a Jussie smollet type incident. Look for the one guy with a Kamala sign in their yard, bingo," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Sad this is what has happened in a country that used to be the most highly regarded democracy in the world."
The incidents are still under investigation and as of this writing, police have not announced any leads.
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A new database has revealed the "Dirty Dozen," the 12 "worst-offending" hospitals in America for inflicting transgender agenda injuries on children.
And Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has battled the leftist, and unscientific, ideology that males can be turned into females and vice versa, said, "Mutilating children for profit is criminal. It is biologically impossible to change one's gender.
"The insanity of gender ideology and greed has made a mockery of the medical profession's duty to 'do no harm.' There are only two genders, and the medical profession needs to return to sound science to treat mental health issues with proven psychiatric therapies to heal rather than harm."
Under the science, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level, and it cannot change.
Not surprising, many of the offending hospitals are located in far-left states, where the social agenda has taken over.
So it would be expected that Children's Hospital Colorado, in the leftist Rocky Mountain state, and Children's Minnesota, in that state now run by leftist Gov. Tim Walz, and Seattle Children's, in the leftist Pacific region state, are included.
The full list of those hospitals:
The listing is from a database compiled by Stop the Harm.
"According to the database, the top billing hospitals were Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York billing more than $8.2 million and Boston Children's Hospital billing more than $6.5 million. The database also contains a detailed breakdown of each state and hospital where gender-related interventions were performed on children in the time period analyzed. The top states in both number of children mutilated and in total revenue for hospitals were California, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Specifically for California, with three hospitals on the 'dirty dozen'" list, the state recorded 1,359 mutilating surgeries and 725 minors prescribed puberty blockers and hormones – all at a cost of $28,877,427."
The report cited the nearly 14,000 "gender-confused children" "mutilated" by an industry that inflicts "harmful and irreversible genital surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormones" between 2019 and 2023.
The facilities were paid some $120 million for that, the report said.
Stop the Harm is a coalition of thousands of doctors, nurses, medical students and more "focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice."
Liberty Counsel revealed, "According to recent, peer-reviewed research published by the Heritage Foundation, U.S. states with easy access to puberty blockers and hormones for children actually have increased suicide rates. Additional data shows up to 88 percent of girls and up to 98 percent of boys with gender confusion 'will desist' from gender confusion with age, especially with counseling."
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Like thousands of others, Jessica Sheffield, a former United States Navy lieutenant commander, was forcibly separated from the service in 2022 for refusing the COVID jab.
When Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated the COVID-19 shot in August 2021, Sheffield was concerned not just with the experimental vaccine's safety, but with the legality of such an order. After careful consideration, she decided to take her oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution seriously, telling WorldNetDaily: "I was absolutely going to do the right thing no matter what, and in this situation, it meant that I was not going to follow this unlawful order."
"I was vocal to my commander, chief of staff, and the command doc in private," she said, "about not taking the 'vaccine,' because it was experimental, thereby, it was also unlawful. The command doc, in a one-on-one meeting with me, wouldn't even put his words behind the order, claiming it was 'coming from higher up,' which was especially alarming," she said.
Sheffield brought to the attention of Navy Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher the reality that many members of the command – all holding security clearances – were "lying out of fear," which she considered a violation of their oath. For this, she was called "disgruntled" and accused of "stirring up trouble."
Through the experience, she learned a lot about some of the Navy's current leadership, she told WND: "They basically showed me that they're willing to lie for money, or worse, they don't see a forced experimental injection that was actively injuring sailors as unlawful. They put their own selfish needs ahead of standing up for what was right."
The most concerning issue, Sheffield added, was that "\many in leadership seemed to truly believe the order was lawful, and still do."
After meeting with a Navy chaplain to consider requesting a religious accommodation, she learned, "You had to agree that the order was lawful to get the exemption." For Sheffield, "that defeated the purpose of getting an exemption, considering it was an unlawful, experimental injection that was being offered in the first place."
So rather than being separated on May 25, 2022, for disobeying an unlawful order, Sheffield fought to have her DD-214 discharge papers state "COVID Injection Refusal" as the reason for her separation. "The official separation code still shows 'Unacceptable Behavior,' which I protested, but remain somewhat satisfied I was at least able to get the note including the COVID-injection refusal," she told WND.
After the January 2023 rescission of the shot mandate, Sheffield submitted a request to the Board for Correction of Naval Records, or BCNR, on March 5, 2023 to be reinstated. Her reinstatement request also asked for the Department of Defense to admit to the unlawfulness of the 2021 mandate, acknowledge that retaliatory actions were taken against her, and cleanse any blemishes from her performance record. Unfortunately, her reinstatement would never occur.
After waiting a year, Sheffield said the BCNR altered her official record to state that she had voluntarily resigned, which was untrue. "They had also deleted all COVID-related retaliatory documents from my official record, and claimed that is what I had asked them to do," she said.
"I contacted my congressman and, through him, demanded they stop deleting evidence and return my record to its unaltered state since they refused to reinstate me and acknowledge the unlawfulness of the order."
Confessing she was "terrified" to discover a letter the Navy wrote to U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., Sheffield said "they lied about the nature of my initial BCNR request, claiming I had only asked them to delete COVID-related detrimental FITREPS (fitness reports), and called my assertions of their behavior 'disingenuous.'" She fears "they're quietly doing the same for everyone who was kicked out for COVID jab refusal, under the guise of 'cleansing' records of bad behavior."
Sheffield submitted a second request to the Board for Correction of Naval Records on May 5 of this year: "I asked that my record remain untouched as evidence for an eventual reconciliation of this injustice," she explained. "My re-submitted BCNR states that if they refuse to admit to the unlawfulness of the COVID injection order and restore my commission, my record must remain untampered until things can be reconciled."
"The jab requirement was nothing less than a purge of all those willing to uphold their oath and protect their sailors and others from the unlawful order, and the proof is now bare for all to see," Sheffield told WND. "After almost a year of deliberation, I now have 15 pages on official letterhead of the BCNR doubling down on the assertion that the jab order was lawful and that I was right to be removed." That, in addition to altering her paperwork, told her "they were trying to cover up the entire experience, as if it had never happened."
"With this ongoing BCNR trouble, it feels like the DOD as we used to know it is effectively gone," Sheffield lamented. For her, it's "just a mercenary force now, one whose loyalty lies with keeping their paycheck, rather than upholding the sacred oath undertaken for the protection of the United States of America and its founding Constitution."
Like thousands of other service members and veterans who desire the same, she questions whether there will there ever be accountability for the wrongs committed against her and the countless sailors who were failed by their leaders, with the implementation and enforcement of the COVID-19 shot and its many negative repercussions.
Nearly 38,000 have signed a petition to support 231 service members and veterans who signed on to the Declaration of Military Accountability to "hold accountable military leaders who failed to follow the law when their leadership and moral courage was most desperately needed." What's more, they have pledged "to recall from retirement the military leaders who broke the law and will convene courts-martial for the crimes they committed."