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An organization that promotes the LGBT ideology in Scotland is being sued for refusing to protect an abuse victim.

A report from the Christian Institute explains the case has been brought against an organization called LGBT Youth Scotland on behalf of a man who alleges the trans activist group failed to protect him from harm.

The case has been confirmed, but the plaintiff is being kept anonymous in court documents. Details of the claims, also, are not being released.

The institute pointed out that the organization has a history of failures: In 2009, its former chief executive, James Rennie, was sentenced to life in prison for child sex offenses, and more recently, just months ago, "a co-author of one of the group's publications for gender-confused children was convicted of grooming and sharing indecent images."

It was Andrew Easton who had contributed to "coming out" propaganda for children as young as 13, in which it was claimed, "Transgender people are people whose gender identity – who they are internally or their 'innate' gender – is different to their physical body or the gender they were assigned at birth."

At that time Scottish Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher said, "This is a deeply disturbing situation. It is long overdue that we audit just how much public money this organization receives and seek assurances over what safeguarding assessments are in place."

The activists during 2022-23 got more than $500,000 in grants from the Scottish government, and about the same from local authorities and National Health Service groups.

The Daily Mail confirmed a spokesman for the group declined to comment, explaining that would be "inappropriate."

Because of the multiple controversies, governments and other funding organizations have been under pressure to cut off money from the organization.

The Daily Mail, itself, reported on an investigation of the group that revealed failures by the group, including Rennie's case, which it described as involving "horrific child sex assaults."

Then the Easton case arose, the report said.

"He was snared by officers over internet chats with someone he believed to be a vulnerable 13-year-old he called 'baby boy,'" the report said.

The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $100,000.

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A judge in Florida has ruled that statements about a proposed abortion scheme, even if wrong, cannot arbitrarily be censored by government officials who don't want that misinformation, or disinformation, or malinformation, from spreading.

And the ruling, which right now is only at the level of a judge in Florida, if affirmed up the chain of appellate review, could spell disaster for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime's demand for widespread censorship of what they and their party say is wrong.

A report from Fox News explains the Florida district judge has released a temporary restraining order preventing the state government from pursuing action against television stations that have been running ads promoting a vast expansion of the lucrative abortion industry in the state.

"While Defendant Ladapo refuses to even agree with this simple fact, Plaintiff's political advertisement is political speech—speech at the core of the First Amendment," District Judge Mark E. Walker stated. "The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false.' 'The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech, and religion,'" Walker quoted from the U.S. Supreme Court.

At issue were promotions for the abortion industry that were being aired by stations being paid by Floridians Protecting Freedom, which is pushing a huge expansion of the abortion industry in the state.

The group sued Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and former general counsel to the Florida Department of Health John Wilson when they warned stations not to air the false information in the ads.

The pro-abortion activists said such a move violated their First Amendment right to run political ads.

The ads were condemned by Jae Williams, of the state health department, for being "unequivocally false and detrimental to public health in Florida."

A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis said, "Surprise, surprise, the most overturned judge on the district court issued another order that excites the press, but these current stories all look past the core issue – the ads are unequivocally false and put the lives and health of pregnant women at risk. Florida's heartbeat protection law always protects the life of a mother and includes exceptions for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking."

The issue that could unsettled the Biden-Harris censorship is the fact the use of the ads apparently is not dependent on their truthfulness.

Leftists long have insisted that whatever they do not accept as true obviously is misinformation or disinformation and must be suppressed. Democrats long have worked with social and other media outlets to suppress all information they dislike.

It's appeared most often during election seasons.

A primary example of that censorship and suppression came during the 2020 presidential election. In that case the information actually was true, but was suppressed widely across the nation by a long list of activist media outlets.

That was the claim, false, that the Biden family scandal details in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer were Russian disinformation.

In fact, all the scandal details were true, but the information was suppressed during the election season, especially after the FBI interfered in the election results and told media outlets to censor that information.

In fact, it was true, and a subsequent polling showed that had those details been reported ordinarily, Joe Biden probably would have lost the election.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute recently commented on the issue, which has been brought up over and over even in this election by Hillary Clinton, who has insisted that Democrats must control the media and its messages.

"In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need 'total control' in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us from harm. Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated, free speech online," Whitehead said.

He said the fight is over "where censorship (corporate and government) begins and free speech ends."

He said the pertinent point is that "government will use any excuse to suppress dissent and control the narrative."

In recent years, it's been the power brokers behind media, publishing, the web's social programs and more, that have insisted that conservative thought be suppressed.

"On the internet, falsehoods and lies abound, misdirection and misinformation dominate, and conspiracy theories go viral," he said. "This is to be expected, and the response should be more speech, not less."

However, to America's government, "these forms of 'disinformation' rank right up there with terrorism, drugs, violence, and disease: societal evils so threatening that 'we the people' should be willing to relinquish a little of our freedoms for the sake of national security."

Now there's a court ruling that even if information is said by the government to be false, it cannot be targeted with censorship, outside of the accept standards that one cannot make threats or injure another person.

He said, "Disinformation isn't the problem. Government coverups and censorship are the problem. Unfortunately, the government has become increasingly intolerant of speech that challenges its power, reveals its corruption, exposes its lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government's many injustices. Every day in this country, those who dare to speak their truth to the powers-that-be find themselves censored, silenced or fired."

He said the "control" demanded by Clinton already is far too close.

"In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry 'firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas,' exhibit a 'willingness to engage in meaningful discussion,' have 'excessive fears of specific stimuli,' or refuse 'voluntary treatment recommendations," he wrote.

Slate explained that DeSantis wanted the pro-abortion promotions to end because while pro-abortion advocates claimed their ads were true the state health department disagreed, creating the conflict.

The judge, appointed by Barack Obama, essentially concluded that the government cannot censor messages because it believes the information is wrong.

The ruling, in fact, cited a Supreme Court decision that said the government can't coerce third parties into censoring speech it doesn't like.

The judge, in a statement that easily could hit hard at the Biden-Harris censorship agenda, stated, "The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false.'"

Meanwhile, an investigation is under way whether the signatures putting the amendment on the ballot were obtained fraudulently.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has officially cut off sections of roads leading to South Korea, including vital rail links, by blowing them up.

According to the Associated Press, rising tensions between the two nations escalated to threats of destruction after South Korea allegedly flew drones over North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, to distribute anti-regime pamphlets.

The AP further reported in response to the demolition, South Korean soldiers fired warning shots toward the country's border zone, however, there was no reported damage on the South Korea side from the explosions.

Koo Byoung Sam, spokesperson for South Korea's unification ministry, called the incident a violation of past agreements and "highly abnormal," according to GB News.

"It is deplorable that North Korea is repeatedly conducting such regressive behavior," Koo said.

According to a report from Bloomberg, North Korea has designated South Korea as a "hostile state" within its constitution on Thursday which was reported by state media.

"This is an inevitable and legitimate measure taken in keeping with the requirement of the DPRK [Democratic People;s Republic of Korea] Constitution which clearly defines the ROK [Republic of Korea] as a hostile state," the official Korean Central News Agency said.

Both sides have technically still been at war since the Korean war reached an armistice in 1953, rather than a peace treaty. After years of hostility, in 2018 the two sides declared there would be a new era of peace between them. These peaceful relations have quickly eroded since then – with both sides accusing each other of undermining the other.

North Korea has sent hundreds of hot air balloons across the border filled with human excrement and trash over the past few months. This was allegedly in response to South Korean activists sending posters into North Korea which criticized Kim, his family, and the regime.

South Korean officials have said since May, there have been approximately 5,500 of these balloons sent over the border, which has interrupted airline flights, and forced the closure of runways.

North Korea has recently been sending troops to Russia to fight against Ukraine, a move that has now caused Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to declare war on North Korea, and Russia's other close ally, Iran.

"North Korea, the Kim family, which holds 20 millionths of the Korean people in slavery, our intelligence records not only the transfer of weapons from North Korea to Russia, but also the transfer of people. These are workers for the Russian factories, instead of Russian citizens killed in the war and personnel for the Russian army, and this is already a fact. In fact, this is the participation of the second state in the war against Ukraine on the side of Russia," Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy hinted that China – which was recently attempting to play peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine – was not doing anything effective to end the war.

"Everyone sees help of the Iranian regime for Putin, as well as cooperation of China with Russia. Beijing is abstaining from taking really serious effective steps to stop Putin, stop the aggression and Russia's violation of the UN charter … Ukrainians and all our partners, if we do not strengthen ourselves significantly now, Putin will have time to significantly strengthen himself next year, strengthen so he will reject diplomacy forever. Russia must lose the war against Ukraine," Zelenskyy said.

ABC News Australia reported there have been over 1.4 million North Koreans signing up to join or have returned to the nation's army, allegedly spurred on by the recent drone pamphlet drop. Currently, North Korea has over 1.28 million active soldiers, and approximately 600,000 in reserves.

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There may have been a lot of criminal activity in the scheme to put a pro-abortion amendment on Florida's election ballot this year.

A report from Liberty Counsel, which is opposing the amendment that would allow just about any abortion at any time anywhere by anyone, confirms the state Office of Election Crimes & Security has opened more than 100 investigations into potential fraud.

"According to a recent 348-page interim report released by the OECS, state officials are investigating complaints that point to at least 35 paid signature gatherers who submitted nearly 37,000 petitions with suspected voter signature forgeries" pushing for Amendment 4 to be on the ballot.

The report said the paid signature gatherers are associated with "Floridians Protecting Freedom," a pro-abortion industry organization pushing for special benefits for the lucrative industry.

Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver explained, "Amendment 4 was already extreme and deceptive, but now it even appears tainted with allegations of fraud. Voters should understand that Amendment 4 will allow abortion up to and during birth when the baby can feel pain, remove all health and safety regulations that protect women and girls during abortion procedures, override parental consent laws, and require Floridians to fund abortions. There is no place for fraud or deception when amending a constitution."

Liberty Counsel explained the state report informs that the allegations may impact voters across 35 counties.

A cover letter, from Florida Deputy Secretary of State for Legal Affairs & Election Integrity Brad McVay, shares details of how state officials were ":inundated with complaints involving FPF and its agents" between late 2023 and early 2024.

Claims included that paid FPF petitioners used signatures from dead people, used non-matching signatures, forged voter signatures, and used personal identifying information without consent, the state confirmed.

McVay also notes that two of FPF's paid associates have already been arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced for felonies involving election fraud, such as forging voter signatures and submitting invalid petitions.

"Given the credibility of the allegations, OECS has referred over a hundred individual FPF cases to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), which is actively pursuing dozens of criminal investigations together with the office of statewide prosecution," the letter said.

Authorities were alerted when they saw "known fraudsters" submitting petitions in support of the abortion agenda.

"Each of these petitions could correspond to a Floridian who (unbeknownst to him or her) is a victim of felony election fraud," wrote McVay. "This illegal scheme is likely driving the petition fraud outlined above. If a circulator is paid per signature, circulators are incentivized to forge as many signatures as possible to make a quick and easy buck."

McVay also noted that FPF recently was fined $328,000 for election law violations.

Liberty Counsel said, "FPF needed a minimum of 891,523 signatures to get Amendment 4 on the ballot. The group collected 997,035, meaning that more than 105,000 signatures would need to be found as fraudulent in order to disqualify Amendment 4 from the ballot or later void it from taking effect if voters were to approve it."

Florida is not the only state where the abortion industry is pushing for a business-benefiting constitutional change, and where crimes have been alleged.

In a similar dispute in South Dakota, a trial had been scheduled, but now is delayed until after the election.

The trial will determine whether there were illegal actions in obtaining ballot access there for a pro-abortion agenda. While the amendment is on the ballot, if it is confirmed that there were crimes committed, a ruling could say that the results will not be counted, or that the results will not count.

Meanwhile, Life Defense Fund, which is opposing the abortion industry in that state, has requested that the judge rule in its favor without a trial, given the video and witness testimony confirming illegal behavior on the part of the pro-abortion advocates.

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A state has taken upon itself to determine whether colleges, and college programs, are too "religious," and if so, prevent students there from participating in a statewide program that offers financial help.

And it's now the subject of a court case.

It is the ADF that gone to court with a civil rights complaint challenging the practice in the state of Georgia for officials to determine the religiosity of a school, and then ban its students from a statewide financial aid plan.

"By unlawfully discriminating against Luther Rice's religious beliefs, Georgia officials are ultimately hurting the state's students," explained lawyer Ryan Tucker, of the ADF.

"Georgia high school students can't receive dual credit by taking classes at Luther Rice; college students who choose Luther Rice are denied much-needed financial aid available to students at other colleges. On behalf of all Georgia's students, we are urging the court to uphold Luther Rice's constitutional protections by guaranteeing that the school can fully participate in student aid programs while still adhering to its religious beliefs, character, and exercise."

The school, in Atlanta, is a private, Christian nonprofit that offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level degree programs. It offers three undergraduate degree programs: an Associate of Arts in General Studies, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion.

But the state excludes those students from a statewide student financial aid program, to their harm.

The state has banned students at a "school or college of theology or divinity" from participating.

The ADF explained, "Georgia offers student financial aid programs to help students cover tuition costs for undergraduate degree programs at Georgia colleges and universities. While the state allows private and religious colleges to participate in such programs, Georgia excludes schools that state officials consider a 'school or college of theology or divinity.'"

The court challenge charges that Luther Rice officials have a choice of maintaining their religious mission and degree programs and teaching all courses from a Christian worldview – or giving that up.

"Putting the school to that choice is unconstitutional," explained ADF lawyer Andrea Dill. "By denying the school participation in Georgia student aid programs because of its religious character, beliefs, and exercise, the state is penalizing the school and its students based on their religion—discrimination that, as the U.S. Supreme Court has found, is 'odious to our Constitution.'"

The filing explains that Georgia lawmakers, in fact, created the program to encourage Georgia students "to attend private colleges and universities because 'the four-year and graduate level institutions of the University System of Georgia are not equally available to citizens in certain areas of the state.'"

The action seeks a declaration that the exclusion of Luther Rice students violates the Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Free Speech Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

It seeks injunctive protection for school students and attorneys' costs and fees as well as nominal damages over the constitutional violations.

Named as defendants are officials of the Georgia Student Finance Commission and the Georgia Student Finance Authority.

While it excludes Luther Rice, the program allows students in other schools "with religious missions" to participate in the program.

The filing explains, "Luther Rice is also placed at a competitive disadvantage by not being able to participate in Georgia student aid programs. Damages in the form of monetary reimbursement for tuition is an inadequate remedy because it fails to alleviate the constitutional harm of depriving the school and its students from participation in Georgia student aid programs altogether due to their religious character and exercise. Nor can monetary damages account for Luther Rice's loss of ministry opportunities caused by Defendants' actions."

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An old man, a Democrat, standing at a McDonald's counter was all the evidence a clerk needed, apparently.

"You Joe?" the clerk asked … of Bill Clinton.

Clinton was making one of his famed stops at a McDonald's when he approached the counter and a couple of workers in the background ignored him. Two clerks standing by the desk glanced at him, continued chatting, and then glanced again.

The clerk's question was "You Joe?"

The clerks were much happier to find it was Clinton, not Joe, stumping for the leftist Kamala Harris campaign this year.

Gateway Pundit commentary pointed out that Clinton suffered "embarrassment" when "NO ONE" in the shop recognized him.

"Former President Bill Clinton suffered an embarrassing blow to his huge ego when a photo-op at an old favorite eatery backfired. As 11 Alive News reported, Wild Bill was campaigning for Kamala Harris in Albany, Georgia on Sunday as part of his desperate attempts to persuade rural voters to support her. During his travels, Clinton stopped by a McDonald's for a photo-op, believing the workers would erupt in cheers upon being 'graced' with his presence. But he gets a surprise when he ventures up to the counter."

The report said: "The female workers briefly turn to each other as if trying to figure out what a 78-year-old man is doing in their establishment. Clinton then moves over and comes face-to-face with one of the women, who looks confused."

It explained, "How humiliating it must have been for Clinton to be compared to the dementia patient residing in the White House."

Identifying himself as Clinton, the workers cheered up and "embraced him."

The report noted McDonald's "has special significance" for Clinton, since he often stopped their earlier in his political career.

So important were those stops that Saturday Night Live created a skit poking jest at Clinton.

The report pointed out President Donald Trump's visits to fast-food eateries often are different from Clintons:

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JERUSALEM – Being one of the only terrorist leaders left standing – or perhaps crawling in his tunnel would be more appropriate imagery – Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has apparently become so metaphorically drunk on his own power – and apparent resistance to airstrikes – he has instructed his minions to resume suicide bombings of Israelis.

Considering Israeli intelligence thought the architect of the so-called "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation on Oct. 7 had been killed – an assessment U.S. intelligence did not happen to share – and prompted by his disappearance from view for a while, when even the notes he passed to underlings seemed to dry up, Sinwar has reportedly reappeared swinging.

The Wall Street Journal ran a report citing Arab and Hamas officials, revealing there were concerns about Sinwar's "megalomania" from top terrorist leaders, which included both Khaled Mashal, and prior to his elimination in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps guesthouse in Tehran, Ismail Haniyeh. Arab intelligence officials say he sent a directive to a senior operative: "Now is the time to revive suicide bombings," according to the Journal.

A few days later, an unassuming, bespectacled Palestinian man walked around Tel Aviv streets with a backpack filled with explosives. His bomb detonated prematurely, killing only himself, but it was a stark reminder of the potential to return to the dark days of the second intifada between Sept. 2000 and Feb. 2005, when Israelis didn't know if they could get on a bus, go to a restaurant or a nightclub for fear of being caught up in another suicide bombing.

There was apparently some unease among the Hamas leaders about a return to tactic of suicide bombing, and they preferred to eschew it, thinking it might make the organization a political pariah. Despite the catastrophic implications – both moral and physical – of what a widespread campaign of suicide bombings would mean, it is possible to see some logic in it. Israelis' opinion of Hamas is already subterranean, such was the barbarity and viciousness of the Oct. 7 massacre. And the IDF is clearly doing all it can to take Sinwar out, like it has Haniyeh and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah before him. From a wider, more Western perspective, it isn't clear how much of a pariah Hamas will become for reinstituting such a tactic. Israel and Israelis are already seen as fair game, evidenced by the denials of the atrocities of a year ago.

As with most groups there are individuals within it who view the overall strategy and the tactics needed to realize it in disparate ways. Sinwar is, and always has been, a hardliner, an uncompromising, soulless and extremely violent man, who sees maximal civilian casualties as a way to get Israel to first bend, and ultimately break. He seems to have won out against less radical elements, who wish to retain a patina of political legitimacy in the hopes of one day establishing a Palestinian state.

"Under Sinwar, Hamas can be expected to be a much clearer-cut, hard-line fundamentalist organization," said Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute think tank, who wrote a book on the group, and was quoted in the Journal article.

The communications between Sinwar in Gaza and Meshal and Haniyeh in Doha, the latter two dismissively known as the "hotel guys," reveals a fascinating portrait of a fundamental difference of approach to the pursuit of Palestinian statehood. Sinwar, the tough, grizzled, and uncompromising former prisoner, living among his people in Gaza vs. the political leaders with tailored suits, gilded hotel rooms, and a comfortable life. While both Sinwar and Haniyeh drew Hamas closer to Iran – not an obvious or easy move – the latter was concerned that the former would be too extreme to win the backing of more moderate Arab states.

As for Oct. 7, Haniyeh and his coterie in Qatar were not fully aware of what Sinwar and Hamas' commando units had in store for southern Israel and Israelis on that black Sabbath. While they publicly praised the attack – famously bowing down in their expensive suits on the plush carpet in Haniyeh's hotel room – privately, there were serious misgivings about Sinwar. Haniyeh was supposedly warmer to the potential of a ceasefire deal to release hostages and end the war; Sinwar, in a position he still holds today, is uninterested in that prospect.

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A new polling reveals that it was not the "Hamas" atrocities inflicted on Israel's innocent civilians, some 1,200 of whom were massacred often in horrific ways, just one year ago on Oct. 7, 2023.

It was the "Palestinian massacre."

"Every poll of Palestinians since October 7, 2023, by both AWRAD – Arab World for Research and Development, and PSR – Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians supported and continue to support the rapes, torture, beheadings, and murder of more than 1,100 people in southern Israel led by Hamas, and their kidnapping of 250 hostages," explained a report from Palestinian Media Watch.

"Significantly, the polls found that the support in the West Bank was higher than that in the Gaza Strip. Asked if they supported the attack on Oct 7, the first poll in November 2023 found West Bank support at 83%. Half a year later, in June 2024, after the destruction in Gaza, 73% still said that the decision to attack Israel was correct. In the Gaza Strip, two months into the war support had already dropped to 63% and continued to fall to only 31% in March 2024, saying it was correct to attack. Astonishingly, the joy over the rape, torture, beheadings, and murder of Israelis was so great that even after much of Gaza was in rubble following Israel's counter attack, for West Bank Arabs that one day of horror inflicted on Israelis, made the destruction of Gaza an acceptable price to pay."

AWRAD, in November 2023, had asked, "Considering the ongoing events do you feel a sense of pride as a Palestinian?"

The report pointed out, "Incredibly, 98% of Palestinians felt 'pride as Palestinians.'"

The report noted, "Another very significant question asked which political parties Palestinians supported. In the West Bank in the poll prior to the October 7 massacre, Fatah … was more than twice as popular as Hamas in the West Bank. Since the massacre, all three polls show Hamas … 2 ½ to 3 times more popular than Fatah."

Hamas, in fact, just before last year's terrorism, was chosen by 12% of respondents. That exploded to 44% immediately after the massacre, and has remained about that level, the report said.

The report explained the horrific implications:

"Israelis must accept the reality that the murder of Israelis and atrocities committed against Israelis is what creates popularity among Palestinians. Another astonishing finding is that even though most of Hamas' terror army is destroyed, and most of the infrastructures in the Gaza Strip either destroyed or damaged, still 79% of West Bank Palestinians believe that Hamas will win the war."

The report said, "To understand this, we must recognize what victory means both for Israel and Palestinians. For Israel, victory means destroying Hamas both militarily and politically so that it can never rebuild and launch missiles into Israel or be a threat to commit another October 7. For Palestinians, if Hamas avoids destruction and the members who survive continue to impose their military and political rule on the Gazan population that will be a complete victory for Hamas."

The report pointed out that the world, and Israelis, should stop calling the October 7 horrors as the "Hamas" massacre, and it should fall under the reputation of "Palestinians."

"The atrocities made 98% of Palestinians proud."

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Homeschool moms in Arizona are suing the state over pencils, and books, and flashcards, and erasers.

They are just some of the standard classroom materials needed – that the state suddenly and arbitrarily banned them from purchasing with their state-allotted Empowerment Scholarship Account funds.

It is the Goldwater Institute that is helping them.

"ESAs allow parents to use a portion of their children's allotted state funding to purchase books, school supplies, and other curriculum materials that they can use to educate their children. Under the law, parents can then submit their expenses to the state for reimbursement. But over the summer, AG [Kris] Mayes conjured up an illegal new rule requiring that to qualify for reimbursement, each of those purchases must be explicitly called for in a curriculum," the legal team said.

For homeschool moms Velia Aguirre and Rosemary McAfee "that meant no pencils, no erasers, no poster of the periodic table of elements, no flashcards, and no classic educational books like 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?'—unless they could sink hours into tracking down or coming up with various 'curricula' that explicitly call for each and every book title or material's use."

The charges include that Mayes "twisted the law to change the rules of the program, imposing an absurd new burden on ESA parents blocking their purchases of everything from kids' books to the Constitution," the institute reported.

"The law is clear: ESA families have the right to use these educational materials without being forced to justify to the attorney general or state bureaucrats why they're buying pencils or picking individual books for their children," explained Goldwater Institute lawyer John Thorpe.

Aguirre noted, "The government is changing the rules and putting impossible burdens on me." She said she is "individualizing" her children's school days, meaning her curriculum is constantly changing.

"All of a sudden, we have a government telling us, 'Here's one more thing for the list,'" said McAfee.

She has nine children, seven in the program.

"I feel like the AG clearly doesn't have any interest in what an education looks like for a homeschool child."

The legal team pointed out that public and private schools don't list "pencils" or "erasers" in their curriculum, either.

Further, the institute noted, "the AG's new mandate simply ignores state law and violates the Department of Education's own handbook, which safeguards the ESA program by requiring documentation for unusual purchases, but not for common-sense purchases of items that are 'generally known to be educational.'"

The lawsuit challenges the "wrong-headed" demands and seeks a court order to allow parents to run homeschool classes without undue paperwork.

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In a revealing 5,400-word report dubbed "The Remdesivir Papers" just published today, a military whistleblower has come forward to offer evidence that 64% of service members and veterans whose deaths were attributed to COVID-19 were also administered remdesivir – a drug with a known lethal past.

According to the report, first published by the Gateway Pundit, "the data clearly depict the liberal usage of remdesivir in military treatment facilities (MTF) and other civilian facilities, as well as its potential contribution to, at minimum, hundreds of untimely deaths" between 2020 and 2024.

WorldNetDaily spoke to Bradley Miller, a former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, about the stunning news. In October 2021, Miller was relieved of his battalion command within the 101st Airborne Division for refusing the COVID "vaccine" under the unlawful direction of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's now-rescinded August 2021 shot mandate.

 

Knowing the number of deaths, Miller said he continues to be "appalled by the behavior of the government, and more specifically, the behavior of the DOD." For Miller, a disconcerting question looms large: "Did the government, to include DOD, knowingly administer a pharmaceutical to people that they knew was clearly more lethal than other available therapeutics?" Drawing from data included in the report, including the Ebola trial which showed the highest mortality rate among participants in a trial of four investigational therapies resulted from the use of remdesivir, he answered, "It appears so."

"The added dimension to this, which is particularly scary, is that 'The Remdesivir Papers' has revealed a significant number of deaths within the military that appear to be attributed to the use of remdesivir," Miller said. "Were service members put at risk of death, because they were being unnecessarily offered this therapeutic?"

With what he acknowledges is an "anecdotal" example, Miller noted that he had lost a civilian friend who was unvaccinated and died in the hospital after being administered remdesivir for treatment. Knowing what he's learned about the lethality of remdesivir, he said, "I think it's a legitimate question to ask whether he was targeted with remdesivir to make his death look like an unvaccinated individual was particularly susceptible to COVID?" While he hopes the answer would be "no," he admitted, "some of the evidence points in that direction."

"We've seen behavior like this from the government before, a government administering a therapeutic they know can be quite harmful and perhaps unnecessary," Miller pointed out, referring to the unlawfully administered and harmful anthrax vaccine, and more recently, the so-called COVID-19 vaccine which has resulted in death, myocarditis and other serious adverse effects.

To no avail, the author made multiple email inquiries to the military treatment facilities involved, as well as a FOIA request to the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, or USAMRDC, on Sept. 24. Coincidently, on the same day, the Joint Trauma Service System was inaccessible to the whistleblower.

On Sept. 27, a congressional inquiry from Rep. Clay Higgins, R.-Louisiana, was also sent to Defense Secretary Austin, copying the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, USAMRDC Commanding General Maj. Gen. Paula C. Lodi and others.

Miller remarked, "What we see is that the Department of Defense seems to be untouchable, and this is a scary phenomenon," as questions surrounding the use of remdesivir to treat service members and veterans remain unanswered. "It seems to go above and beyond the military officer ranks, knowing that the military is supposed to answer to the civilian authorities, to include the service secretaries and secretary of Defense," he told WND, suggesting, "they all seem to be involved in ensuring that the DOD remains untouchable."

According to Miller, "They can violate the law with impunity, because we've seen that happen over the last couple of years, over and over again." With that, he added, "Whether they're military officers, or the civilian authorities within the Department of Defense, they have all taken oaths to support and defend the Constitution, yet we see them operating in ways that appear to be in wanton violation of that very oath."

"To clean up the government and the military, the American people have to become comfortable asking the uncomfortable questions," Miller argues. "While there are obvious exceptions, we have largely become hesitant to do that because we're afraid of what the answers might be, or we fear the backlash," he offered. Citing "The Remdesivir Papers" as an example, he concluded, "I think we're getting to the point where more people are starting to realize we have to be bold and ask these questions exactly because of what the answers might be."

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