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An appeals court has ruled that two Douglas County, Colorado, sheriff's deputies do not have immunity in a lawsuit over their decision to sic a police canine on a defenseless suspect.

"It is clearly established under Tenth Circuit law that it violates the Fourth Amendment to use force without warning against a non-violent, non-resisting suspect who is given no chance to comply," explained the opinion from Judge Carolyn McHugh of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "It was clearly established under our case law in February 2022 that using a canine to restrain a non-violent, non-fleeing suspect could constitute excessive force."

The case developed when a deputy and a dog handler were sued for blindly sending a police dog into a home with a broken window that they were investigating in Highlands Ranch.

According to a report from Courthouse News, it happened on Feb. 22, 2022, when someone called 911 to say a man was breaking a window to climb into a home.

Deputy Scott Kelly and canine handler Tyler Kyle responded.

They heard a voice inside, and claiming they feared a "hostage" was being held, sent the dog, Sig, in through the window. The dog promptly found – and bit – the sleeping homeowner, Tyler Luethje.

Luethje said he broke the window because he couldn't find his key.

The officers handcuffed him, shoved him into a patrol car wearing only his sweatpants, and called for an ambulance, the report said.

Then deputies searched his home but failed to find evidence of a crime.

Luethje sued in 2023, charging excessive force and unlawful search and arrest, violations of the Fourth Amendment.

A trial judge refused to give the deputies immunity because they had no justification for using force and lacked probable cause for an arrest.

The deputies then insisted the appeals court protect them, which it refused to do.

The court concluded that the deputies had no reason to enter the home without permission.

McHugh found the deputies' claims stretched "the facts alleged beyond recognition."

An official for the sheriff's office said it is "clear" that the deputies "acted legally and properly."

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There could be a new problem for a judge hearing a lawsuit brought by LGBT activists against President Donald Trump's decision that the United States recognizes two sexes, male and female, and being transgender and requiring various treatments and accommodations disqualifies someone from the military's requirement for combat readiness.

Trump's move reversed an agenda point for multiple Democrats to install transgenderism inside the U.S. military.

It's because the judge, Ana Reyes, has been a prominent financial supporter of Democrat political candidates and causes.

The Federalist explains its investigation of the judge uncovered a complaint that the Department of Justice has filed against the Joe Biden appointee, accusing her of "hostile and egregious misconduct" during a hearing in the case.

The DOJ said Reyes, "who is reportedly a member of the LGBT community," challenged Trump's order by claiming his assertion there are two sexes is 'not biologically correct."

She claimed, "There are anywhere near about 30 different intersex examples. So, someone who does not have just an XX or XY chromosome is not just male or female; they're intersex. And there are over 30 potential different intersex examples."

The complaint also cites Reyes' behavior in "questioning a Department of Justice attorney regarding his religious beliefs and then using him unwillingly as a physical prop in her courtroom theatrics."

The Federalist reported, "While unbecoming of a judge, Reyes' reported behavior is unsurprising given her fealty to leftist causes. From donating to Democrat campaigns to working alongside left-wing organizations, the Biden appointee's track record calls into question her ability to remain impartial on political matters brought before her."

The report said the Federal Election Commission records shows Reyes has adopted a political stance in favor of Democrats and has "given thousands of dollars to various Democrat candidates and causes."

For instance, she financially supported Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, in addition to congressional candidates Jon Ossoff and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

And she gave money to support leftist political action committees.

She even contributed to Democrat fundraiser ActBlue, which now is under investigation for allegedly allowing foreign entities to try to illegally corrupt American elections.

Reyes already has issued an injunction regarding Trump's executive order for the military, as the case just is getting started.

She is trying to overturn Trump's directive that explained the "medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria" is "inconsistent" with the "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity."

The Pentagon already has halted taxpayer funding for various treatments for those with "gender dysphoria."

The report noted her court biography also reveals her work before becoming a judge focused on various topics at a law firm that was devoted "to leftist orthodoxy," and included litigating against President Trump during his first term.

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Is the Statue of Liberty headed back to France?

A French member of the European Parliament, Raphael Glucksmann of the Socialists and Democrats group, believes the U.S. no longer represents the values that led France to offer Lady Liberty to America.

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" Glucksmann said Sunday.

"We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home."

The comments caught the attention of Peter Doocy of Fox News, who asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday:

"There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think the U.S. represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?"

Leavitt gave a firm reply, saying, "Absolutely not, and my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.

"So they should be very grateful to our great country."

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WASHINGTON – For the hundreds of January 6 prisoners pardoned by President Donald Trump – surveilled, hunted down and terrorized by the FBI and designated as insurrectionists and criminals under the Biden administration, incarcerated for years in pretrial detention alongside murderers and terrorists, sentenced to decades in prison by federal judges for crimes that would normally amount to misdemeanor offenses if anything – many are not going "silently into the night" after being released.

In fact, many pardoned political prisoners are now working tirelessly to seek justice and expose to the American people exactly how the U.S. government operated as a criminal organization, conspiring to entrap good Americans at the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Upon his release from prison, Chris Quaglin, 39, who spent two of his four years in pretrial detention in solitary confinement, has nothing left.

His son was 2 months old on April 7, 2021, when Chris walked outside his New Jersey home to an FBI SWAT team deploying flashbang grenades and hauling him off to jail for what turned out to be four years.

If not for Trump's pardon, he would still be serving a 12-year prison sentence.

As an electrician, Quaglin earned a good living. However, returning to the life he once knew after enduring hell on earth is not an option for him.

For the foreseeable future, Quaglin is on a mission to raise awareness about what goes on behind the cinderblock walls of correctional facilities nationwide and exposing how "the government unprecedentedly entrapped Americans on January 6" – and to ensure that it "never happens again."

Within days of walking out of the Wisconsin prison FCI Oxford as a free man, and with just a truck and an American flag to his name, Quaglin joined forces with Veterans for Trump and the Stop Hate Awareness Program, an organization that led forensic investigations of the Capitol riot to launch the J6 Freedom Tour.

"I am so hell-bent on prison reform. I can't just go back to work and be an electrician," Quaglin told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview. "This has been going on for 50 years. January 6 just exposed it. J6ers have a voice that other inmates don't have. This is not just a January 6 problem."

The "persecution for wrongthink" has taken a mental and physical toll on him, the pardoned Quaglin explained.

"I absolutely have PTSD," he confided. "There's always something hanging over you. I feel nervous. I feel upset. I am upset at the government. I'm upset at what they did to me for four years," he told WND. "I have night terrors, nightmares. I don't sleep anymore. I maybe get four or five hours of sleep. That's it. I can forget about getting eight hours. And there's a lot of demons running around my head."

"This sort of government overreach – this persecution of Americans," he said, "can never be done again. We are demanding prison reform because what they're doing in these prisons is absolutely disgusting, and it's un-American."

"People don't understand that the Capitol building was stormed twice after January 6 by all the pro-Hamas protesters. They all got $50 fines. As a first-time offender, I got 12 years in prison. It's absolutely insane. The goal of this tour is to usher in prison reform across the country, actually doing something about it, and showcase to the world how J6 was the biggest setup in American history."

Quaglin kicked off the tour with a trip to Northern Neck Regional Jail, the Warsaw, Virginia, correctional facility notorious for beating prisoners unconscious, where he almost starved to death.

In a speech to the NNJR board, Quaglin recounted his harrowing experience at the jail – being denied soap, water and proper medical care, getting punished for lawyer calls and being locked down in solitary confinement 24/7 for nearly the entire year he was incarcerated there.

"From rats and mice to roaches and food, to guards beating on inmates, to a superintendent and a captain who think they make up their own rules and there are no such things as prisoner rights or human rights," he told the board Feb. 14, "I have been treated like a guinea pig by medical personnel who don't know what they're doing."

By the time Quaglin was transferred from NNRJ to the Washington, D.C. Central Detention Facility, widely referred to in recent years as the "D.C. gulag," he was skin and bones and hadn't seen sunlight or eaten a real meal for months.

Days following his speech at NNRJ, a bill mandating that sheriffs investigate abuse among correctional officers in Virginia and hold the government employees accountable for subjecting inmates to torture, was expedited by the state lawmakers to Gov. Glenn Youngkin's desk.

Under §53.1-116.2:1 of HB 2105, sheriffs and jail superintendents must "designate local law-enforcement agency to investigate acts of violence occurring within local correctional facilities."

"The legislation is awaiting signature from the governor as we speak. HB 2105 states, in a nutshell, if there's any abuses that happen inside of the jail, whether it's inmate-on-inmate or staff-on-inmate, the sheriffs must investigate," Quaglin said. "After I gave that speech, the bill immediately got put in front of the House and Senate of Virginia on hyper drive."

Shockingly, according to Quaglin, multiple times daily inmates are nearly beaten to death by guards at Northern Neck.

"It happens all the time and falls under the radar. Countless times, I've seen guards beat inmates after they were handcuffed," he said. "I've seen someone who was handcuffed and shackled kicked in the back. He fell forward, bit a metal window ledge. Every single one of his teeth was shattered.

"The guards specifically targeted me because I documented every illegal thing they did by filing grievances. I have 4,000 pages of daily notes that explain everything that happened over a four-year period. The worst part was not eating for weeks at a time. I have Celiac disease; I need a special diet. At one point, while I was incarcerated in that jail, we had about 300 people call up the sheriff's office saying, 'This guy is going to die in Northern Neck.' The sheriffs turned around and said, 'This isn't our jurisdiction.'

"This bill makes it their jurisdiction and holds the prison responsible. Now, a guard who beats inmates can get arrested themselves. The point of this is to hold these guards responsible, and not just give them free rein."

Quaglin intends to make 150 stops on the Freedom Tour over the next six months to educate the public about what January 6ers were subjected to and pressure lawmakers to institute prison reform, as he did in Northern Neck, Va.

"We are going to be going cross country because the prison system must change in America. We are better than what we do here in this country in the prison system. We have more incarcerations than anywhere else in the world. We have to save our country," he said. "We have meetings with the local Republican clubs and next we are steamrolling into college campuses."

Quaglin was among protesters who demonstrated on the restricted grounds on the Capitol during the first breach on Jan. 6, 2021, when police began indiscriminately shooting demonstrators in the face with rubber bullets and throwing flashbang grenades into the crowd.

As Quaglin confronted the cops for using excessive force against the moderately peaceful crowd, Landon Copeland, a known member of Antifa, is seen in footage repeatedly shoving Quaglin into the police line.

Quaglin was convicted of 12 felonies and two misdemeanors related to his actions at the Capitol riot.
The battle for his freedom has destroyed his family and his life.

"I walked outside to my work truck, and I heard a flash bang go off behind me. Three FBI agents ran up my sidewalk. A fourth FBI agent was beelining from across the street with a firearm pointed at my head. His finger was on the trigger, and if he had pulled it, it would have been game over. That was the last time I saw my wife and son.

"Then I laid on the ground in the middle of the street. They had barricaded my whole block with multiple vehicles, and it was absolutely insane. I mean, I'm an electrician from New Jersey with no criminal record.

"They told me they were outside my house since midnight the day before. I told them, they could have just knocked on my door and said, 'Hey, you got to come with me."

Hours after he was arrested, FBI Special Agent Benjamin Fulps made clear to Quaglin during interrogation that the Justice Department was willing to mitigate his prison sentence and potentially drop all of the charges if he agreed to cooperate and corroborate the government's conspiracy narratives about the riot.

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"You're not the only person [we're] arresting today. We are arresting more people, Thursday, Friday, over the weekend, you're like number 350," agent Fulp told him. "A lot of those people are talking and giving us information, which will be used to arrest other people. I tell you that so that you know that this is kind of a time-sensitive proposal that I'm offering you right now.

"So, I'm here to kind of throw you that raft right now to help you from drowning … because I don't want you to go away for 40 years and not see your [child] grow up and, of course, your wife."

Quaglin refused to cooperate.

"Eventually my son is going to be old enough to hear about all of this. I wasn't going to teach my son that it's OK to lie if you get in trouble. I wouldn't take another man away from his family."

A day before his trial began, Quaglin received divorce papers from his wife. She has since issued a restraining order against him. After doling out approximately $200,000 in attorneys for his criminal case, he must now muster up thousands of dollars more to cover impending legal fees in a custody battle.

"Again, I lost everything. So, I don't have a house. I don't have a family right now. I'm going through custody battles. I have to start completely over at 39 years old."

The most important thing to Chris Quaglin right now is getting his story out. "We can do some good," he told WND. "Democrats have been talking about fixing the prison system for decades. It's time we actually do something about it. Just wait, the j6ers' arrest will be the best thing to happen for jail reform in the past 50 years."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The future of the world order is hanging by a thread — and you need to know what's coming next!

Wake up! Putin isn't stopping at Ukraine—he wants to rebuild the Russian Empire, and if he succeeds, NATO could collapse, China could take Taiwan, and Iran could dominate the Middle East. Clifford May exposes the terrifying truth: America's weakness is fueling global chaos, and the Biden administration's half-measures are playing right into Putin's hands. Could Trump's hard-hitting economic warfare be the only way to force Putin into a ceasefire? Or will the West keep sleepwalking into disaster? The future of the world order is hanging by a thread—and you need to know what's coming next!

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A New Jersey hospital is raising eyebrows over a form it asks parents of newborns to complete that includes questions about the baby's "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" – a requirement of state law.

The law was passed in 2022 as a means to collect information about patients in hospitals around the state – and newborns are officially "patients" in health care facilities.

As reported at New Jersey 101.5, last week, the "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questionnaire" distributed at an Inspira Health hospital caught the attention of state Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, a Republican.

The form asks parents if their newborn baby is lesbian or gay, straight, bisexual, or questioning, and also if their offspring is male, female, transgender, genderqueer, or another gender not on the list.

"Medical providers, laboratories and hospitals are being forced to provide the questionnaire below to NEWBORN patients," Schepisi said on Facebook. "While completely and utterly insane, these facilities are doing so to comply with another nonsensical law."

The law (A4385/S2933) requires hospitals "to collect race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a culturally competent and sensitive manner" – yet makes no exemption for age.

In a statement to NJ.com, Inspira spokesman Paul Simon said the hospital was following the law.

"Inspira Health, along with every other acute care hospital in New Jersey, is required by New Jersey law and the State of New Jersey Department of Health to request their patients provide their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity," Simon said.

"You may not want to believe it's real but it is, and on the upside at least you deep down now understand how absurd things have become in New Jersey," Schepisi told New Jersey 101.5.

The Republican vowed to introduce a bill to rescind the requirement.

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Democrats in Congress hate it.

"It's bananas. It's insane," U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D.-Conn., told CNN. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D.-Fla., agrees: "It is utterly preposterous to suggest that we are going to send our military into Panama to, quote, 'take back the Panama Canal.'" House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks for virtually all his congressional peers when he insists, "House Democrats believe that we are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force!"

But as President Donald Trump stated explicitly during his March 4 speech to Congress, the nation and the world: "My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal – and we've already started doing it. Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals."

The Panama Canal, Trump pointed out, "was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure. 38,000 workers died building the Panama Canal. They died of malaria, they died of snakebites and mosquitoes. Not a nice place to work. They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die – the most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history."

Trump's inaugural address: 'China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.'

Concluded the 47th president: "It was given away by the Carter administration for $1. But that agreement has been violated very severely. We didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back."

'Going to a battlefield'

The astonishingly gruesome process of constructing the Panama Canal – commenced by America in 1904 and completed a decade later – was undertaken to fulfill the centuries-old dream of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, thereby saving ships from 21-23 extra days at sea by being able to cross through what would become a 51-mile-long waterway.

However, "the Panamanian isthmus proved to be one of the most difficult – and deadly – spots in the world in which to construct a channel," explains History.com:

Death could strike in the form of an 18-ton boulder or miniscule, malaria-carrying mosquitoes that bred by the millions in festering swamps and puddles. … "The working condition in those days were so horrible it would stagger your imagination," recalled laborer Alfred Dottin. "Death was our constant companion. I shall never forget the train loads of dead men being carted away daily, as if they were just so much lumber."

The most dangerous work took place as laborers carved a ditch 45 feet deep and at least 300 feet wide through an eight-mile mountainous stretch known as the Culebra Cut."

Nicknamed "Hell's Gorge," the Culebra Cut was a cauldron of noise with roaring locomotives and belching steam shovels where risks of death ranged from drowning to electrocution. Workers blasted away at the mountains with upwards of 60 million pounds of dynamite, which could ignite prematurely in the tropical Panamanian climate. …

Flooding regularly submerged equipment, and the unstable ground could give way at any instant. "The work of months or even years might be blotted out by an avalanche of earth," lamented a senior U.S. administrator.

Particularly for workers partially deafened as a side effect of drinking quinine to ward off malaria, the inability to hear made deadly railroad accidents a regular occurrence. In an oral history, George Hodges remembered a fellow worker who fell trying to hop on a train and the wheel of another train "cut his body right in two…as if he had been chopped with a machete."

As one laborer, Antonio Sanchez, explained, working in "the cut" was just like "going to a battlefield."

Fast-forward six decades. In 1976, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, campaigning against Gerald Ford, publicly promised – as did Ford – that he would not support transferring the canal from U.S. ownership to Panama, an idea that was then popular with the elites, but not the American people. Yet when he won the presidency, Carter changed his mind and, in 1977, signed the Carter-Torrijos Treaties, transferring total control of the canal to Panama, to take effect on Dec. 31, 1999.

Interestingly, during the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan expressed his firm opposition to turning the canal over to Panama … and then defeated Carter in a historic landslide, with a staggering 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49.

"When it comes to the [Panama] Canal," Reagan said, "we built it, we paid for it, it's ours, and … we are going to keep it!"

China's plans for world domination

Today, the big issue cited by Trump and other administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is what has long amounted to the de facto control of the Panama Canal by the nation widely regarded as America's most dangerous geopolitical adversary.

How can that be, many wonder? What happened to the Monroe Doctrine, that revered 200-year-old foreign policy stance established by the fifth U.S. president, James Monroe, holding that any major intervention in the Western Hemisphere – i.e., North, Central or South America – by a foreign power constitutes a potentially hostile act against the U.S.?

U.S.-based China expert Gordon Chang – author of several books about China's barely disguised plans to dominate the world, including his 2024 bestseller, "Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America" – says the Panama Canal has long been a "chokepoint" that Beijing wants to control.

And as Secretary of State Marco Rubio told SiriusXM's Megyn Kelly on Jan. 30: "If the government in China in a conflict tells them to shut down the Panama Canal, they will have to. And in fact, I have zero doubt that they have contingency planning to do so. That is a direct threat."

Indeed, as WorldNetDaily reported in February, shortly after Rubio expressed to Panama's leadership President Trump's concerns over Chinese influence over the canal, Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulina stated that he would not renew a 2017 "memorandum of understanding" by which Panama joined China's "Belt and Road Initiative."

"Under that program, China funds the construction and development of infrastructure, such as ports, and then takes control of them for its own profit and empire building," WND reported, adding: "In the case of the canal, [China] has worked on ports at both ends, creating the possibility that it could shut down the canal if it seemed in the best interests of the Chinese Communist Party. It also has been building bridges over the canal, which would offer the same option."

Rubio explained to Panamanian officials that "the United States cannot, and will not, allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area." And in Congress, a bill has been introduced directing the U.S. to negotiate the repurchase of the canal from Panama.

Meanwhile, Trump's March 4 prime-time announcement that "a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal" referred to BlackRock, the huge U.S.-based investment and asset-management firm. BlackRock purchased the critical ports from CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, officially described as a "Hong Kong-based and Cayman Islands-registered multinational conglomerate corporation" formed in 2015 by a merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and its main associate company Hutchison Whampoa.

However, just as with most things concerning Communist China, massive subterfuge and deception are involved. For Hutchinson Whampoa – as a few reality-based media organizations have noted, including this RealClearHistory analysis from January – has been identified as "a front Chinese company that was owned by Chinese military intelligence." In the report, author Miguel A. Faria succinctly demystifies China's longtime control of the Panama Canal:

The United States built the Panama Canal early in the 20th century with American sweat, toil and money, only to give it away to a leftwing Panamanian dictator via a dubious treaty. The Panamanians, in turn, ceded the Canal to Hutchison Whampoa, a front Chinese company that was owned by Chinese military intelligence. At about the same time, another Chinese front organization, the Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Port Holdings, obtained a 50-year lease to operate the two strategic ports at either end of the Panama Canal. Thus, in case of hostilities, U.S. shipping routes would be cut off and bottled up in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, encircled by the Chinese and their allies Cuba, Venezuela and Panama. To this day, the Chinese deny that they control the Panama Canal, and the American media seem to believe them. President-elect Donald Trump does not.

Indeed, the American media have rarely if ever sounded the alarm over this serious threat to U.S. security located right in "America's backyard" (as Central and South America are commonly referred to in the U.S. global security context). Legacy media stories today instead obsess over Trump's supposed "expansionist agenda," his "land grab" obsession and his dangerous vision of "a new U.S. imperialism."

There are a few exceptions, however, including WorldNetDaily, one of the only American media organizations that has sounded the alarm not just recently – but for decades. More than 25 years ago – before the canal was even turned over to the left-wing Panamanian government – WND founder Joseph Farah was passionately making virtually the same arguments Trump has been making during his second term as president.

In "Clinton's Panama Canal admission," published Dec. 1, 1999, just weeks before Carter's "gift" of the canal to Panama would take effect (one of many articles Farah wrote during the late '90s warning about Chinese control of the vital waterway), he focused on then-President Bill Clinton's public admission that, indeed, China was running the Panama Canal!

Was it a Freudian slip? Was it a gaffe? Or was it President Clinton finally being honest about something for the first time in his life?

I refer to the statement he made yesterday with regard to the Panama Canal transfer to a group of reporters in the Oval Office before leaving for the West Coast. …

Here it is, folks. Hold on to your hats – especially all of you people who scoffed when I began telling you three years ago that the Communist Chinese were taking over the Panama Canal.

"I think the Chinese will in fact be bending over backwards to make sure that they run it in a competent and able and fair manner," Clinton said. That's verbatim. Those are his words, not mine. Clinton, who has until now denied that the Chinese were to take control of the strategic canal, admitted it publicly.

And, as if to underline his admission and seemingly to ensure there could be no misunderstanding of his words, Clinton elaborated. … He compared the operation of the canal to China's campaign to win admission to the World Trade Organization, which sets the rules for global trade.

"They'll want to demonstrate to a distant part of the world that they can be a responsible partner," the president said. "And I would be very surprised if any adverse consequences flowed from the Chinese running the canal."

Oh, absolutely. Responsible. Partner. Competent. Fair. Those are all words I readily associate in my mind with the totalitarian government in Beijing. Don't you?

Well, there you have it, folks. Goodbye Panama Canal. The Bamboo Curtain just moved into the Western Hemisphere – officially, that is.

After all, I gave you this history long ago. I told you about the fact that a Chinese government company – a front for the military – Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., was to begin operation of the ports on both ends of the strategic waterway Jan. 1. It has been the Clinton administration and its many apologists in Congress and the press who have laughed, ridiculed the idea. Chinese military shill Alexander Haig suggested I should be jailed for making such accusations.

And now the truth has finally come out through an unusually candid admission by Clinton. He is telling us now what has been obvious to anyone familiar with the transfer of the canal. He is admitting what former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer stated in our pages some time back.

Clinton says we can rely on the good intentions of the Chinese to maintain access to the canal. Doesn't that reassure you? The Chinese, who, as we speak, are rounding up tens of thousands of religious dissidents and interning them, threatening to attack Taiwan and working overtime on developing military technology that could only be used to attack the United States, should be trusted on this Panama Canal deal because it's a chance for them to show how responsible they really are.

This is nuts!

When are the American people going to wake up? Clinton is so embarrassed by this deal on the canal that he is not even going to attend the transfer ceremonies. Why? If he doesn't have any second thoughts and believes giving away the Panama Canal to a hostile foreign power is still a good idea, why not go wave the flag next month at the ceremony?

… If ever there was a time – an opportunity – to pressure the politicians to reverse what will someday be judged a historic blunder, it is now. If you really have the guts to stop this thing, America, wake up and take action now. You won't have to risk your life to write a letter to your senators and representatives in Washington or fill out a simple online petition today.

Your kids, however, may someday pay for our mistakes with their blood if you sit silent through this official treachery.

The same day, Dec. 1, 1999, this writer published a detailed news article on WND, headlined "In 2000, it's China Canal," which included exclusive comments from former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer, who assured WorldNetDaily that China's takeover of the canal "would be catastrophic for the U.S."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review Colorado's censorship of a licensed counselor.

In dispute is the leftist state's demand that only its messaging can be given to patients.

Colorado, which after years of swinging back and forth between Republicans and Democrats, suddenly some years ago took an abrupt left turn and has been an extremist ever since. And it has lost in multiple recent attempts to control residents' speech.

It tried to force a baker, at Masterpiece Cakeshop, to express a pro-LGBT message that violated his religious faith and ended up being scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for its "hostility" to Christianity.

It tried the same scheme against a web designer, at 303 Creative, and took a major loss, again, from the Supreme Court.

The latest campaign by the state, under the leadership of homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, was to censor the information counselors are allowed to provide clients in private consultations, if the topic is sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to the ADF, which has been handling the case involving counselor Kaley Chiles, Colorado's censorship "violates licensed counselor Kaley Chiles' freedom of speech and infringes on her free exercise of religion and that of her clients by censoring and prohibiting certain private client-counselor conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that the government disfavors while allowing – even encouraging – conversations the government favors."

"The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should a counselor be used as a tool to impose the government's biased views on her clients," explained ADF spokeswoman Kristen Waggoner.

"There is a growing consensus around the world that adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria need love and an opportunity to talk through their struggles and feelings. Colorado's law prohibits what's best for these children and sends a clear message: the only option for children struggling with these issues is to give them dangerous and experimental drugs and surgery that will make them lifelong patients. We are eager to defend Kaley's First Amendment rights and ensure that government officials may not impose their ideology on private conversations between counselors and clients."

The high court confirmed Monday in will hear Chiles v. Salazar, where Chiles wants to help clients with various issues, including gender identity.

The ADF explained, "Many of Chiles's clients come to her because they share her Christian worldview and faith-based values. These clients believe their lives will be more fulfilling if they are aligned with the teachings of their faith. Yet Colorado law censors Chiles from speaking words her clients want to hear because the government does not like the view she expresses."

It was the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an often overturned panel, that affirmed the Colorado scheme to censor Christian perspectives.

The ADF explained, Colorado's law violates Chiles's freedom of speech by prohibiting licensed counselors from having any conversation with clients under age 18 that 'attempts or purports to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.'"

The law, however, only prohibits the Christian perspective. It allows counselors to promote the LGBT ideologies.

Punishment for violating the censorship agenda can include suspension or revocation of a license.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Video emerged Sunday of an emotional Mexican man who claims he is leaving the U.S. with his American wife because of his illegal status in country for two decades.

"Today is my last day right here in the United States after 20 years," the crying, unidentified man began.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy, I'm going to my country. I'm going to Mexico. I'm bringing my wife with me."

The man's purported wife is featured in interspersed clips, saying: "The truth is, we basically just reelected Hitler. And I don't feel safe."

"I'm really hopeful that everything goes easily at the airport and that nothing scary happens."

"I think it's truly shocking that the United Sates of America feels like one of the least safe places in the world."

"I'm super annoyed that the things going on in the world are playing on any level in the plans of our future because I do think that it's just putting such a damper on something that we could be very positive and excited about.

"It's so weird I'm not going to be living here anymore."

Some comments online include:

"Had 20 years to get his paperwork squared away … Entirely his fault!"

"After 20 years,why isn't he a citizen? Most get it in 10. This is on them for not doing what should have been done 20 years ago. Are they really married or is it just a cover story?"

"Why didn't they work on making him legal in the last 20 years? She can also move to Mexico if she needs to be with him and loves him so much. I am not trying to be cold but good God. They need to play another card other than victim!"

"Emotions don't determine if a law was broken or should be enforced. I still have empathy, though."

"20 years is more than enough time to pay the fine for illegally entering the country and getting your paperwork in order. They rode the wave too long. Time to wash out."