This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
No conservative in America will be surprised by word that the ideological leftists at Google were electioneering for Kamala Harris on this 2024 Election Day.
Nor will they be surprised that the corporation was caught, as Republicans have a heightened sense of election fraud this time around. and are watching situations like this.
But they might be surprised that the company, long known for its Democrat and leftist advocacy, is trying to return to neutrality.
It is a report in the Federalist that revealed Google's pick to promote one political party.
It happened when people asked where they could vote for President Donald Trump, Google would send them to "top stories" and eventually to the Trump campaign website.
"But users who searched 'Where can I vote for Harris?' were immediately shown a link provided by Democracy Works and Voting Information Project that allows voters to enter an address and be directed to their nearest polling location," the Federalist report said.
Google admitted that it was a problem, and claimed to have fixed it.
The company said the "blatant election interference" actually happened because of an "oopsie," the report said.
It explained that its programming was corrupted because Harris is not just the name of the Democrat nominee this year, it's also the name of a Texas county.
"Google users were previously directed to Democracy Works when seeking information on how to register to vote," the report said. "Democracy Works bills itself as 'non-partisan' but is funded by 'prominent left-of-center private foundations, such as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.'"
It's not the first time Google's anti-Trump agenda has appeared. Shortly after an assassin shot at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nicking his ear, typing into Google "assassination attempt on t…" produced results for "assassination attempt on Truman."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The 2024 election is the most significant and consequential in decades, and perhaps in America's history.
The presidential contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris has sparked unprecedented interest as the Republican candidate is looking to "Make America Great Again," and the Democrat is looking to "Turn the Page" and lead America into the future.
WorldNetDaily.com is Ground Zero for the best, most comprehensive coverage of the race for the White House, highlighted by an Election Night Livestream show with WND's news team and numerous guests, whuch can be seen here.
Beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern, join hosts Matt Edwards, Josh Turnbow, and WorldNetDaily co-founder Elizabeth Farah for unfiltered, no-nonsense election coverage all through the night.
Forget the mainstream spin – WorldNetDaily brings you real-time updates, raw insights, and live results without the bias. With special guests joining throughout the night, we'll cover battleground states to key races that will shape the nation. Tune in here to get the whole story, the true story, as it unfolds.
WorldNetDaily is also providing LIVE UPDATES all day long, with continuous postings of the most important and interesting developments as Americans cast ballots across the nation.
And, of course, WorldNetDaily's full news team is manning the helm, posting superlative stories, videos, and commentaries on voting results, including problems such as voter fraud that often accompany elections.
Stay with WND.com and all its social media channels including X and Rumble.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Critical infrastructure in the U.S. is being threatened by the Communist Chinese government and many Americans are both oblivious and underprepared.
Check Points Software Technologies recently reported "a 75 percent increase in global cyber-attacks during the third quarter [of 2024], with a 15 percent rise from the previous quarter." And in the U.S., Industrial Cyber points out alarmingly that "cyberattacks have risen by 56 percent year-over-year, with a weekly average of 1,300 attacks per organization, 10 percent higher than the previous quarter." The area with the most attacks was the education and research sector.
While this is important, a surge in cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure has garnered the attention of many, including Craig Huey, an AI expert, political commentor and author of "The Great Deception," which highlights various AI dangers. Huey spoke to WorldNetDaily about the threat to critical infrastructure, including the reported 30 percent increase in cyber attacks the last year. The primary target, Huey affirms, is the United States of America. According to Huey, the nation's electric grid, oil pipelines and its water, transportation and banking systems, as well as its telecommunications network, are all at extreme risk.
Although countless "bad players" are involved, communist China tops the list, says Huey. FBI Director Christopher Wray agrees, expressing in April that the Chinese government is a "broad and unrelenting" threat to the U.S.
One of Huey's primary concerns is China's artificial intelligence advancement for military purposes. Without a need for human intervention, the People's Liberation Army now uses AI for target recognition and guidance systems of weapons, as well as in its cyber-attack and cyber-defense software.
There are also concerns about the invasion of individual Americans' privacy, Huey told WND, pointing out that "they're accessing our texts, emails and voicemails, [as well as] our online and social media accounts." Oftentimes, he added, "they're also trying to create dissent and disruption in the United States."
"Imagine losing your phone service through a major outage like a Verizon customer, or being a Bank America [customer] and waking up with a major outage in your account," he said. "Imagine waking up and not having access to your phone service or internet, and not knowing when it can be restored, because these things can and will happen through cyber-attacks," he warned.
There are endless examples of disruption and danger that can be caused through a cyber-attack, he shared. "People are not prepared physically, psychologically or emotionally for what could happen," he said. Trying not to sound extreme, he added, people should have ample water, food and fuel "just in case."
"But most people don't recognize the threat," Huey admitted. "It's not something they want to talk about, so they often choose to ignore the issue." Considering this, he pointed to the biblical Book of Colossians, chapters 1 and 2, warning of being deceived. "Don't get your news from Facebook or TikTok like a huge segment of the population, thinking this will never affect you, because there are actually others in the world that are dedicated to destroying us, and cyber-attacks are one of the many ways it could happen," he explained.
"And right now, watching the messaging from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI," he argued, "we are clearly under attack".
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
JERUSALEM – Reports have emerged over the last 24 hours or so about the possibility of a ceasefire between the warring parties in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. This is partly due to Israeli officials intimating this week it might be possible to draw down the fighting and attempt to reach a diplomatic settlement. Residents of Israel's north, still displaced by incessant daily rocket and drone strikes, likely would beg to differ with this assessment.
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk, along with Special Envoy Amos Hochstein, arrived in Israel Thursday, ostensibly to attempt to broker some kind of truce to end the fighting in Lebanon and to provide a means for some 80,000 or so residents of Israel's north – who have been internally displaced since Oct. 8, 2023 – to return to their homes and attempt to reestablish some sense of normalcy in their daily lives.
There have been suggestions both from the military and political echelons that Israel could consider a reality beyond the war. The IDF Northern Command has intimated it is nearing the completion of its mission to raze Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure both around and on the border with Israel – and there certainly seems to be significant evidence for this. Indeed, it appears the IDF uncovered several staging areas, and weapons stores – some of them a mere stone's throw away from UNIFIL "peacekeeper" bases – which were to be used in a Hezbollah attack – "Conquering the Galilee" – which would likely have dwarfed the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
On Wednesday evening, a draft of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was by Israeli state broadcaster KAN. Israel is thought to have approached the U.S. and suggested a cease fire deal be based on U.N. Resolution 1701, which brought the Second Lebanon War to an end in 2006. The document, which Hochstein allegedly drafted, has reportedly been presented to Israel's political establishment. The main items include:
In addition to any deal between Israel and Lebanon, there is also an outline for a verification mechanism, which includes the following:
Israel is understandably a bit twitchy at the prospect of trusting enforcement of the resolution – particularly as it has been so obviously ignored for the last 18 years, as Hezbollah had built up the largest arsenal of missiles in the Middle East, certainly of any non-state actor. In addition to U.S. involvement there is speculation Jerusalem might turn to Moscow to ensure arms cannot be smuggled into Lebanon over the Syrian border or by air or sea.
Despite the proposal, and the seeming encouragement of the Biden administration – especially so close to the U.S. presidential election – there is a good deal of skepticism both in Israel and among U.S.-based Middle East analysts. One of the key issues, clearly, is the role Hezbollah still plays in the Lebanese political scene. None of the other sectarian groups, as well as the official Lebanese army, has felt emboldened to stand up against it; is there any evidence things will be different now?
This also does not take into account Iran, which despite the obvious setback of its now being largely defenseless against Israel's air force following the strikes over the weekend, is still heavily invested in Hezbollah. There are perhaps too many variables to in any way predict a lessening of the intensity of the war. While Israel's military strategists have proved the soundness of their plans as the war has pivoted away from Gaza toward the northern arena, it seems far too early to embark on any kind of victory lap.
And as the negotiators meet, the fighting does not seem to be letting up any. Israel used hundreds of tons of explosives to destroy Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels, as well as command centers. The IAF has continued to target the Iranian proxy's high-ranking field commanders, as well as weapons depots. Crucially, however, the fate of Hezbollah's 1,500 or so precision-guided missiles, which can cause such accurate destruction and take out or certainly take off-line crucial Israeli civil and defense infrastructure are assessed to have remained unscathed in the IDF's southern Lebanon campaign.
Meanwhile, on the Israeli side, the fighting has taken a toll over the last two weeks or so. Several reservists have been killed recently, leaving more than 70 Israeli children without a father. Two reservists in their 40s had 18 children between them. And Thursday also saw one of the deadliest days since the tragic killing of 12 school children playing soccer in Majdal Shams in July – when a Hezbollah rocket killed five – four foreign workers and one Israeli – working in an apple orchard in the northern town of Metula. One other person was seriously wounded.
Despite the talk of ceasefires – and Hamas declined to agree to another proposal Thursday – the fighting goes on, with the likelihood there will be more mayhem, death and destruction to come.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The horrific situation happened a few years ago, but the tale about a man who was being prepped for organ donation while alive has gotten much attention lately because of an investigation into the situation.
And it's caused many people to drop out of the organ donation plans to which they had subscribed.
It was legacy wire service reports at the AP that warned of a "spike" in people revoking organ donor plans.
It's because, the report said, their confidence was "shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead."
The report noted that it happened in 2021 and the man remains alive today. It was exposed during a recent congressional hearing on the topic.
"The federal agency that regulates the U.S. transplant system is investigating, and the Kentucky attorney general's office said it is 'reviewing the facts to identify an appropriate response,'" the report said.
It is at PJMedia where there is an explanation of why people are running scared from the idea.
That report identified the man as Anthony Hoover, 33, who "woke up in a Kentucky hospital with medical personnel shaving his chest, bathing his body, and talking about harvesting his organs."
He had been hospitalized with an overdose and doctors apparently claimed he was unresponsive, "lacked reflexes" "had "emptiness in his eyes" and was "brain dead."
He was two hours into a five-hour procedure to remove organs when a staff member came out to talk to the family with what has to be the stunner of the year: "He's not ready. He woke up."
The report noted that those who formerly worked at the "organ procurement organization" said someone who was making eye contact and shaking his head "no" never should have been near the operating room.
But Dorrie Dils, president of thte Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, pointed out that the process is based on the trust of the public. And once lost, it can take "years" to restore, she said.
The case came to the public's attention through an investigation in Congress, and the result has been "thousands" of people leaving the programs.
Donate Life America, for example, has had 170 people per day leaving the registry.
The report noted that while doing a heart catheterization, the patient had "purposeful movement to pain" and he was "thrashing around."
A cardiologist suggested, "I would most certainly call this purposeful movement, and they should not have said that patient was not going to have a meaningful recovery with these reflexes."
In fact, the report said, he was given a paralytic and sedated further.
What appears to be at issue is how doctors make a determination that a patient is dead.
Daniel Sulmasy, of Georgetown Hospital, said the key is that they do "the right tests and doing them well."
The case has had long shadows. In France, the government presumes donation consent, but recently up to 1,000 people per day have joined a registry of those objecting.
The trend could have "catastrophic consequences" for those needing transplants, said Regis Bronchard, of the French Biomedicine Agency.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The U.S. Supreme Court now has been asked to decide whether noncitizens should be on the voter rolls in the state of Virginia.
It's illegal, of course, for them to vote. But a lower court judge ruled just days ago the state must restore 1,600 names of people who self-identify as noncitizens to voter rolls.
At issue is the National Voter Registration Act that forbids "systemic" removals of names within 90 days of an election.
The state has explained its removal of those names was not "systemic" but based on the noncitizens themselves who identified as ineligible to vote.
Now the Center Square reports Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has confirmed the state is going to the Supreme Court, on an emergency basis, to block the addition of those names to the voter rolls.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which leans far left in its political ideology, affirmed the district judge's order just hours earlier.
Miyares defended the efforts by the commonwealth to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, claiming the ruling was "politically motivated."
"It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter," he said. "The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006."
The move by the Biden DOJ has been criticized as another move in its campaign to "weaponize" the federal government.
"Now their truly Weaponized Department of 'Injustice,' and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS. This is a totally unacceptable travesty," President Donald Trump said.
It is uncertain if the Supreme Court would take the dispute, or rule, before the Nov. 5 election.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
If picking a despicable name for your political opponent were a competition, Democrats and other leftists across America may have thought they had the winner as, for years, they have called President Donald Trump a "Hitler."
It was their attempt to find the most horrific, reprehensible descriptive for him.
But they lost, according to a controversial former Roman Catholic archbishop.
That church leader, Carlo Maria Vigano, who was the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. from 2011 until 2016, described Kamala Harris as "an infernal monster who obeys Satan."
The election this year is, in fact, described by many as a spiritual fight, what with the likelihood Harris would push harder for the Biden-Harris administration's top agenda items of abortion for all and transgenderism, including body mutilations, for children, both industries opposed by most Christians.
That's besides the inflation, open southern border and more that the administration has inflicted on Americans.
Vigano, in an open letter to Catholics, explained there's no question that they should vote for Trump.
He said voters in just days must decide "between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation."
Vigano, excommunicated this year, said, "The choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan.
"For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy."
Vigano ran into trouble inside the politics of the Catholic community for his criticisms of Pope Francis, a liberal whose leftist pronouncements often have stunned the community, and the "modern" reforms in the church.
The New York Post explained, "His letter contains numerous references to numerous conspiracy theories, including references to the 'deep state,' calling the 2020 presidential election 'the fraud of 2020' and suggesting that the world governments engineered climate change to 'to make the global warming fraud credible.'"
He also condemned America's "woke" ideologies, abortion and transgenderism, and the "dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards" that American schools have become.
He explained voting is a moral duty, but the 2024 vote choice is more than that, as it is "between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery."
He said, "On one side we have candidate Donald J. Trump, who, despite serious problems in his positions – especially in the matter of abortion and assisted procreation – has as his objective the common good and the protection of the fundamental freedoms of citizens. In Donald Trump's America, every Catholic can practice their Faith and educate their children in it without interference from the State. On the other side we have a candidate and a party that promotes everything that directly opposes the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. In Kamala Harris' America, Catholics – but also Protestants – are considered fundamentalists to be marginalized and eliminated, and their children are considered the property of the State, which arrogates to itself the right to lead them astray from an early age in both body and soul.
"Trump's America can become great and prosperous again. Harris' America is destined for invasion and for moral, social, and economic destruction: the most ferocious dictatorship," he warned.
Democrat-run cities, for example, now are "dumps filled with derelicts and criminals, drug dealers and addicts, prostitutes and robbers. Your schools are dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards. In your courts, criminals are acquitted and innocents are imprisoned: new ideological crimes are prosecuted, while illegality is tolerated and encouraged. In your hospitals, multinational corporations rule, and you are their guinea pigs to be exterminated or made chronically ill so that you will be their perpetual clients," he wrote.
He described the green ideology, promoted by Biden and Harris, "lies without any scientific proof."
America now, he said, has "a puppet in the White House and a corrupt and incompetent Vice President who has never stopped lying and deceiving voters about her past and her future. Power is managed by the criminal deep state – whose names and faces we now know – that is responsible for the destruction of your great Nation.":
Under Harris, he said, American would be destined to be "manipulated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton."
"Do not think that these are remote hypotheses: wherever the woke Left takes power, it establishes the most vicious, anti-human, and anti-Christian dictatorship that humanity has ever known. And we know that every time the Left has come to power, it has never left through democratic means," he warned.
Singled out for condemnation are Obama, Clinton, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Jeffrey Epstein, Sean Combs, the World Economic Forum, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Vanguard, BlackRock and StateStreet.
"Behind these people – by now we should know this – are people devoted to evil, united by the satanic hatred against Our Lord Jesus Christ and those who believe in Him, mainly against the Catholic faithful. We want Christ to reign, and we proclaim it with pride: Christ is King! They want the Antichrist to reign, whose tyranny is made of chaos, war, disease, famine, and death."
He pointed out while Trump holds some positions with which Catholics do not agree, he represents the "only possible choice to counter the globalist coup that the woke Left is about to implement definitively, irreparably, and with incalculable damage for future generations."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Dick Lamm was the governor of the leftist state of Colorado for 12 years. He likely worked hard on building up his version of the Rocky Mountain state.
But he's remember for one comment, during his campaign to push physician-assisted suicide.
That was that elderly people who are terminally ill have a "duty to die and get out of the way" instead of trying to prolong their lives through medical innovations.
Online resources reveal Lamm, who died in 2021, made his comment in 1984, and it generated a lot of controversy, even after he tried to explain he was "raising a general statement about the human condition, not beating up on the elderly."
His comment was, "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life."
But Lamm's influence was just talk. The Christian Institute in the United Kingdom is warning that government action there could make a "duty to die" more than rhetoric.
It is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who said legalizing assisted suicide "could open the door to yet more pain and suffering for those we are trying to help."
He said, "Even where there is no abuse, the pressure to end one's life early could be intense and inescapable if the law were changed" and that "the right to end your life could all too easily – and accidentally – turn into a duty to do so."
He continued, "I don't want the people I love – or anyone, for that matter – to be made to feel a burden in their final months on earth. Dying in pain is not inevitable. Good palliative care can provide us with the dignity and compassion we are all searching for. My mum's last days were eased by advice and medication from a hospice. She died peacefully, heavily sedated and deeply loved. That, to me, is dignity in dying."
The UK's most senior Roman Catholic, the Archbishop of Westminster, has urged churches to contact their MP on the issue, the report said.
"In a letter, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said assisted suicide pressures 'those who are nearing death, from others or even from themselves, to end their life in order to take away a perceived burden of care from their family, for the avoidance of pain, or for the sake of an inheritance,'" the report noted.
He explained, "What is now proposed will not be the end of the story. It is a story better not begun."
The institute's reporting also documented how doctors have warned that such a plan could kill people who actually have years left to live.
Professor Katherine Sleeman, Laing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care, pointed out that the Department for Work and Pensions reviews its benefits for terminally patients every three years — even though they must be expected to die within twelve months to qualify for support."
She said a six or twelve-month prognosis ":is an arbitrary line in the sand," as it is "not possible to accurately determine someone's prognosis as a number of months."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Officials in the town of Surprise, Arizona, have been humiliated by a public scolding from a judge in Maricopa County in a case in which they ordered a woman at a public meeting arrested because they didn't like what she was saying.
The Constitution's First Amendment, of course, was written in order to protect speech that someone doesn't like, and in this case the comments were about the ability – or ineptitude – of a tax-paid city official.
Rebekah Anne Massie came to the public meeting to express her displeasure, and got arrested for her words.
Judge Gerald Williams now has dismissed the charges fabricated against Massie, with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled, ever.
The issue pending before him was whether the charges would be dismissed without prejudice, meaning the city could pursue the case again, or not.
His conclusion was definitive: "IT IS ORDERED THAT this case is dismissed with prejudice, in the interests of justice," he wrote. "The defendant should not have faced criminal prosecution once for expressing her political views. The court agrees that she should never face criminal prosecution, for expressing her political views on that date, at that time, again. Nor should she be forced to encounter additional attorney feeds should this matter be re-filed…"
He continued, explaining the city's actions "regulated not just speech; but political speech. It regulated not just the time, place, and manner of the speech. It regulated the content of political speech… No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech … In this case, the government did so in a manner that was objectively outrageous."
Massie, in a statement released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Express, which is representing her in a lawsuit against the town, said, "For more than two months I've been living with the threat of punishment and jail time — being taken away from my kids, even — for doing nothing more than criticizing the government. Free speech still matters in America, and I can't tell you what a relief it is to have people on my side standing up for our rights with me."
Conor Fitzpatrick, of FIRE, said, "This is an incredible win for Rebekah and an important message to government bureaucrats around the country that the First Amendment bows to no one. The fight goes on in Rebekah's lawsuit against the city of Surprise, Mayor Hall, and Officer Schernicoff. We want to make it crystal clear to governments across the United States that brazenly censoring people and betraying the First Amendment comes with a cost."
WND reported weeks ago when FIRE officials brought an action against the town on behalf of Massie.
And the report was posted when Mayor Skip Hall ordered resident Massie arrested for her speech during a portion of a government meeting set aside for residents' concerns.
She was opposed to a city decision to give its lawyer even more money.
"I have concerns with allocating the more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons," she explained. Her public records requests are under "review" regarding the actions of lawyer Robert Wingo, already one of the highest paid city officials in the Phoenix region at $265,000.
The FIRE case challenges the city's decision to overrule the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at council meetings.
Hall threatened her for making comments, and Massie responded, "You are violating my First Amendment rights."
Hall rebuked her with, "That's your opinion."
And he threatened, "Do you want to be escorted out, Ms. Massie? Because that's what's gonna happen. And it's gonna happen in the future also," he responded.
Ultimately, she was arrested, cuffed and accused of trespass, as she shouted: "Are you kidding me?" and "Do not put your hands on me!"
The dispute arose because of city officials' own insistence that an anti-First Amendment rule be imposed on residents. It states, "Oral communications during the City Council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by name or by any other reference that tends to identify him/her."
The complaint, filed in federal court in Arizona, lists Rebekah Massie and Quintus Schulzke as plaintiffs and the city and officials Skip Hall and Steven Shernicoff as defendants.
It states, "The Supreme Court has made clear that 'one of the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights' is the sacred promise to every American, enshrined in the First Amendment, that citizens enjoy the freedom to complain about their leaders. … But Defendants Surprise, Arizona and its mayor, Skip Hall, broke that promise, arresting Plaintiff Rebekah Massie in front of her 10-year-old daughter for criticizing a public official at a city council meeting.
"Video of the arrest speaks for itself. On August 20, 2024, during the public comment portion of the Surprise City Council meeting, Massie spoke in opposition to a planned pay increase for Surprise's city attorney. But Mayor Hall interrupted her remarks, scolding her for violating a City Council policy prohibiting 'complain[ing]' about public officials. Massie insisted—correctly—that the First Amendment protected her comments. Mayor Hall didn't care…"
Hall then ordered a police officer, Shernicoff, to detain and eject Massie, and he did.
The complaint charges, "When Massie exercised her constitutional right to criticize officials at a city council meeting, a right 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,' Lozman, 585 U.S. at 101, the Council Criticism Policy and Mayor Hall ensured she left the meeting in handcuffs. That might be how repressive regimes treat government critics, but it's an affront to our Constitution. Surprise's sudden move to arrest dissidents and enforce the Council Criticism Policy is casting a cloud of fear over the city. Plaintiff Quintus Schulzke, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, now fears criticizing Surprise officials, knowing he, like Massie, now risks arrest when he exercises his constitutional rights."
The complaint charges the city is in violation of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
And, in fact, state law allows the public "to criticize members of a public body during a public comment period."
Massie opposed paying the city lawyer more money, expressing her opinion that he had failed to comply with the Constitution, state law, and his duties of professional conduct.
"Defendants injured Massie by silencing, detaining and arresting her because she criticized government officials – an exercise of rights 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,'" the case charges.
The case accuses of Hall of using government power to "suit his own whims."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Some of the illegal aliens being allowed into the United States through the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris open borders agenda are criminals.
Some are even worse: gang members.
And multiple complaints have been raised about how members of the criminal Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela have taken over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, beating up and chasing the building managers away, and then demanding the residents either move out, or pay rent to the gang.
The response from Colorado officials, including the leftist governor Jared Polis, has been that there is some gang activity there, but it's not serious, or a major problem.
That story line just got torpedoed by a member of the Aurora city council who has released documents that verify that local police knew about the takeover of the private property by the criminals in the gang more than a year ago.
It is Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky who has posted images of the documents to her personal X profile this week.
A report at Fox News points out the documents posted contain emails from within the Aurora Police Department discussing the extensive gang threat.
"I am done. I am tired of the city lying. I am done with the governor who called the cops on me. I am done with the local media. This is an issue of human suffering. Gang members are extorting and torturing other migrants who came here for a better life and to get away from gangs like this," she told Fox News Digital.
The same gang reportedly also is attacking the constitutional rights of renters and landowners in other cities, including at least one in Texas.
"This is one of the biggest cover-ups I've ever seen and Aurora police officers on the front lines are sick of it as well. They are putting their lives on the line and they are fed up," Jurinsky said.
She confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members are "still very much in control" of the apartment buildings in question.
Her documentation included records from October of 2023 from the Aurora PD's Gang Intervention Unit that show at that time authorities believed from 15-20 TdA members were taking over buildings in the metropolitan area.
"The document notes that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had intelligence indicating that TdA planned to establish a headquarters in Aurora, even going on to list the addresses of two apartment buildings at the center of the controversy," Fox reported.
Those locations reportedly were The Edge at Lowry and the Fitzsimons Place Apartments.
The confirmation comes just a day after the Department of Homeland Security called for more than 100 illegal aliens, all apparently affiliated with the gang, to added to an FBI watchlist.
Fox reported NBC was first to report DHS actually has identified some 600 people with possible TdA gang ties, with recommendations they be put on the FBI's Watchlist for Transnational Criminal Organizations.
The gang already apparently is operating in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and the UI.S.
WND previously reported that the Aurora property management company whose properties were taken by the gang went online with its truth about the situation.
In Colorado the issue got attention when a video showed them apparently taking over an apartment building, collecting rent from tenants for apartments in a building they didn't own."
Management company Cbz Management went on social media after a network anchor minimized the troubles:
WATCH:
Martha Raddatz' comments left Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance challenging, "Martha, do you hear yourself? Only 'a handful of apartment complexes' in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris' open border? Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting, because you seem to be more focused [on] nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs."
Raddatz had claimed, "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns."
Cbz had another story:
The corporation statements continued, explaining illegal tenants and squatters apparently did pay rent, to the gang members.
"To address this entity (gangs) we contacted every city official we could think of for help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. Meanwhile, our CBZ representative continued receiving threatening messages, in which these criminals revealed his home address and his spouse's name. Finally, the APD, FBI and Homeland Security informed us that those sending the messages and controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren De Aragua gang from Venezuela. They also mentioned that our situation was just 'a blip on the radar,' as this gang is causing significant problems nationwide. Two days after our FBI meeting, the gang confronted our on-site manager, asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family. For the safety of our management team and their families, we withdrew them from the properties and focused on seeking help from government agencies."
The company had expected help, "perhaps even from the National Guard."
"That never happened. Instead, we were left helpless, watching as violence, bullets, and destruction overtook our buildings. Many of our legitimate tenants fled out of fear. Despite the obvious crisis, several city officials refused to acknowledge the reality. Instead, they blamed us, citing 'code violations' as the reason for shutting down our property—violations we couldn't resolve for tenants who weren't even ours," the company said.
The company said it was speaking up because "many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. That's why we are no longer staying silent. We will continue to counter falsehoods with simple facts and evidence.
"Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story."