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Tucker Carlson is a commentator whose monologues draw millions of people regularly. Actually, tens of millions and more.
He comments on ethics, politics, the world situation, Democrats, Republicans, school, and much, much.
Including the "unseen."
Specifically, aliens.
During a recent panel discussion, on the topic, he said:
It's my personal belief, based on a fair amount of evidence, that they're not aliens. They've always been here, and I do think it's spiritual. That's my view, and it's not provable but based on the evidence I think.
If the U.S. government has, in fact, had contact, direct contact with these beings, whatever they are, I've already told you what I think they are, and has entered into some sort of agreement with them, which is the claim of informed people, I would say, whether they're right or wrong, I can't say … if that is true, it's a very, very, very heavy thing.
Another panelist then suggests, "Angels and demons"?
Carlson explains, "I'm getting into the realm of conjecture, so I just want to say that flat out. But one thing I know for a dead certain fact, having seen it, is that there is good and evil. We're being acted upon at all times, and I think every person can feel that in himself. I mean, there are moments when you are moved to do things that are much better than you actually are, and there also are [things] more evil and destructive than you actually are.
"You are subject to forces outside yourself. That is absolutely true. Now we can argue about what they are but every person in the room, if he's reflective, will tell you 'Yes I know what you're talking about.'
"And so there are forces that are not human that do exist in a spiritual realm of some kind that we cannot see and that when you think about it it sort of makes you think we live in an ant farm, right?"
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A lawyer for President Donald Trump says she's "not even concerned" about a radical leftist ruling from Democrat judges on the Colorado Supreme Court, who want Trump banned from the state's GOP primary.
The stunning decision that ignored the Constitution's requirement for due process court precedent and congressional intent was announced yesterday to the delight of those weaponizing the court system against Trump, and guffaws from those with a more constitutional perspective.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba was asked about the situation, and she predicted the Supreme Court will address the state court's political activism quickly, and the result "could be" 9-0 for Trump.
"This is the problem that I face every day … judges want to make a name for themselves. They think they're pioneers for the liberal radical left. You're not a pioneer, you're going to look ridiculous," she said.
"You do not understand due process, you do not understand the Constitution. You are literally a state-level court that is going to look ridiculous when the Supreme Court … overturns you that's not a good look."
She added, "There is no question in my mind, that due process exists for a reason. There has to be some America left… I'm not even concerned."
She said her client is not particularly surprised given the years-long war leftists and Democrats have staged against him, using everything from the FBI and the DOJ to legacy media.
"I would love to tell you he's shaken, but he's not. It's another day," she said. "This is the way they've been treating him since 2015 … it just shows you how much he loves the country. He's willing to sacrifice, including his family, and his businesses for the sake of the country.
"He's strong, he's stronger than ever. He's still on the campaign trail, he's clearly leading."
Longtime commentator and legal expert Alan Dershowitz, a Democrat himself, warned of the massive damage being done to the nation by the Colorado Democrats.
"This will throw the entire system of electing presidents … into disarray. It's a scandal," he said. "The justices who wrote this decision ought to be ashamed."
An opinion piece by Charles Hurt at the Washington Times went even one step further, explaining that the move by Colorado leftists and Democrats "ensures" Trump will win in 2024.
"Democrats will stop at nothing to destroy Mr. Trump’s electoral future," he said, "You know, sometimes you have to destroy democracy in order to save democracy. Preserve an election by forbidding people from voting for their favored candidate in the election."
He said the "judicial fiat" in Colorado still leaves Democrats with a problem: "It’s the problem they have had all along. His supporters do not care what they do to him. Strike that. They care very much. Every cartoonish, unconstitutional weapon they use against Mr. Trump only makes his supporters support him more.
"And independents. Apparently, even some Democrats."
He explained, "This junta court just gave Mr. Trump another 10-point bump in the polls. Americans love a fighter. They love an underdog. They even love an outlaw, if the outlaw is relatable or on the run from a common enemy. Mr. Trump checks all those boxes, and it is driving Democratic politicians even more insane than they already were."
He said the voters are moving toward Trump.
"Sure, some of it is because people are suffering misery under the Biden administration. Some people are realizing that Mr. Trump was right on every issue while Democrats are wrong on every issue. And some of it is that people are finally seeing through the endless conspiracy of lies about him (and President Biden) spun by the media-government-intelligence complex. And people are changing their minds in polls today because of what they see Democratic politicians and partisan prosecutors in places like Washington, Atlanta, New York, and now the state of Colorado are doing to him. They know it is wrong. It is unfair. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.
"So, the Colorado Supreme Court has just sealed the 2024 election — by ensuring Donald Trump gets reelected."
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It is a weaponized, Democrat-run state Supreme Court in Colorado that has banned President Donald Trump from the Republican primary heading into the 2024 presidential election.
But what if that ban applies to a primary that doesn't exist?
A report from the Independent Sentinel notes the GOP responded right away when four Democrat-appointed judges on the state Supreme Court issued that ruling regarding Trump's candidacy.
They decided he was guilty of being an "insurrectionist" for the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the Capitol, even though the experts point out the events were a riot, but not an insurrection.
Further, the justices, Richard L. Gabriel, Melissa Hart, Monica Marquez, and William W. Hood, decided Trump was guilty without having evidence of insurrection, without any conviction for insurrection, and without even any charges for insurrection.
The new report said, "The Colorado GOP won’t tolerate Donald Trump being taken off the ballot by the Democrat Supreme Court. What the Supreme Court does doesn’t matter. The GOP has decided to withdraw and move to a caucus system if this is allowed to stand."
The report accused Democrats of using "lawfare" against Trump because they are "very desperate."
The report also cited Vivek Ramaswamy for "doing the right thing."
The four judges, without any charges of insurrection against Trump, decided those Jan. 6 events were an insurrection and Trump was guilty.
The case was before the court in a case brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics on behalf of voters.
"In the career-defining decision, the justices claimed that they did 'not reach these conclusions lightly' and said they were 'mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions' before them," the report explained.
Trump accused the four Democrats of election interference and legal expert Jonathan Turley accused the four of "throwing matches" at a country that already is "a powder keg."
Trump, of course, is far and away the leading Republican candidate for the office, and has consistently shown in polling that he likely would defeat Biden.
The Colorado judiciary also has unleashed some stunningly incorrect decisions in recent years, including one involving the state's unconstitutional attacks on baker Jack Phillips, who refused to violate his Christian faith in order to promote LGBT lifestyles. The U.S. Supreme Court actually scolded the state for its "hostility" to Christianity.
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WASHINGTON – FBI agent Kyle Seraphin couldn’t take it anymore.
Between 2016 to 2023, he had lived through working at a once-revered agency that now interfered with elections and worked to jail everyday Americans whom the bureau surveilled and schemed to entrap for what were essentially “thought crimes.”
He refused to comply with the autocratic Executive Order 14043 mandating federal employees to take at least three shots of experimental COVID-19 vaccines. But beyond that, the federal agency was severely violating everything he stood for as an American citizen, Air Force veteran, and father of four.
Realizing he was situated at the epicenter of rapidly evolving evil, Seraphin blew the whistle.
As expected, the FBI retaliated against him.
"I spent one year on an unpaid suspension because I refused to get the vaccine," Seraphin told WND in an exclusive interview. "Then I brought forward a number of whistleblower allegations that should have been protected, but ended up becoming very retaliatory, and I was forced out of the FBI in April of 2022, without pay for a full year."
As has become increasingly apparent, the FBI actually engaged in election interference leading up to the 2020 election, while reprioritizing an agenda to outlaw political dissidence. Suddenly, FBI agents were being notified that individuals or groups who champion traditional, patriotic American values were domestic threats.
"The FBI was investigating parents at school-board meetings underneath the counterterrorism guise, which I believe represented perjury by the attorney general," he said.
"The FBI was using what they call the 'Domestic Violent Extremist symbols guide,' using the Betsy Ross flag, the Gadsden flag and various other patriotic symbols – as indicators of what they call the 'anti-government anti-authority violent extremist' and 'militia violent extremism,'" he continued. "That was truly offensive, as a vet and as someone who's been around cops and vets my whole life."
Insisting that the 2020 election was stolen could land you on a terror watch list, Seraphin told WND, detailing the FBI’s mechanism for systematically interfering with election integrity.
"We found that there was some election interference going on – that they were calling things like 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' federal crimes, when in fact they were not that. That was guidance coming out of that Hoover Building."
At the same time, shockingly, the FBI organization also began the hunt for Christians.
This misuse of the government agency's intelligence resources in First Amendment-protected spaces "has a significant overlap with what happened on January 6," the FBI insider explained. "I've called out the FBI for going after what they called 'Radical Traditionalist Catholics,' which are simply Catholics that are interested in the Latin Mass. The surveillance program was started and the intelligence products were being drafted out of the Richmond field office."
In February, Seraphin exposed the FBI’s internal memo on "Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology."
It presented a list of "hate groups" – published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization infamous for smearing mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits as "hate groups" – as a place to start this work.
The bureau publicly rescinded the guidance a day after a whistleblower published it.
The government planned and premeditated the J6 "fedsurrection," as some now call it, by strategically disregarding traditional annual protocols reserved for National Special Security Events, Seraphin says.
"We can look at the past as an indicator of what should happen in the future and it's very common for protests, both spontaneous and planned, to happen in Washington, D.C.," he said. "It's probably the most protested city in the United States of America.
"There are annual NSSE protocols that go into effect for the State of the Union, the presidential inaugurations, national celebrations like the Fourth of July, and other major holidays that take place within the National Capital Region.
"NSSE are protocols of joint command posts. These are standard and are codified by law and executive order to be run by the Secret Service under the Department of Homeland Security. This is a protocol to handle enormous crowds coming in, and they include command posts for federal and local resources from the District of Columbia and Metro Police Department to the ATF, the FBI and the Department of Energy, and of course, Capitol Police is always involved.
"They all get together and have a common joint command post and they all have their own command posts to manage their own individual responsibilities during these days. The fact that that did not happen on January 6 is a dead giveaway that something different was afoot …
"There is no reason why a protest should have gotten out of hand in a city that handles professional protests on the regular, multiple times a year with crowds as big or bigger than what happened on January 6."
While the government conspicuously neglected to adhere to traditional NSSE protocols on January 6, 2021, weeks later during Joe Biden’s inauguration, the government employees were intact. But this was not a coincidence, contends the fed-up former fed who worked in an uncover, low-visibility role for the FBI during Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
NSSE protocol "happens on a frequent basis and the fact that it did not on January 6 is incredibly suspect and substantiates what people are saying when they believe that something was afoot," he told WND. "It was nefarious. These people were set up."
He added: "How they were being set up and why and what specific actors were involved? That's something that must be investigated properly. The problem is, is that the federal government is thwarting this at every single turn, which only makes people more special suspect."
Following the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the FBI developed a task force to combat "Homegrown Violent Extremists," individuals in the U.S. motivated by a foreign ideology – for example, one American citizen in Minneapolis with allegiance to Al-Qaida.
But the bureau "ran out of threats of international terrorism and HVEs, despite the huge budgets" they were allocated to thwart those crimes.
So, with no radical Islamic jihadists to investigate, the FBI "moved into a third category, 'Domestic Terrorism,'" and ramped up investigations of so-called "white supremacism" and individuals who hold conservative mainstream positions, leading up to January 6.
Seraphin detailed how the bureau is incentivized to target specific demographics:
"The DHS and the FBI, as part of the internal intelligence community, will forecast a problem, and then they will realize that threat because that's what they're incentivized to find. A problem with looking for white supremacists in the United States is the supply of these white supremacists is nowhere near what the demand is," he said. "The Bureau is requesting a significant quantity of these people and so bending backward to be able to put people in these boxes.
"I recall getting briefings in 2017 about people under the 'right-wing, violent extremist' umbrella – everybody from Richard Spencer, who at that time was avowing a white nationalist position, to Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes with the Proud Boys. Jordan Peterson was lumped in on the slide show as well.
"Imagine the distance between someone with a neo-Nazi ideology and a Canadian professor that was simply telling men that they should take care of their burdens in life and live in a traditional, Western value. That is a wide spread of things to qualify as 'danger.' They have to cast the net so wide to just get the few fish that would fit into the crazy narrative that is being marched out."
Hundreds of "confidential human sources," or CHSs – undercover federal agents – were deployed by the government to infiltrate the crowd during the Capitol riot and among patriot groups leading up to the riot in a sweeping probe to investigate "white supremacy," Seraphin told WND.
For example, defense attorneys representing the Proud Boys, who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, have warned that dozens of CHSs were embedded within the group for weeks, months, and even years prior to the Capitol riot.
"During the Proud Boys trial, Judge Kelly held sealed hearings to conceal the number of CHSs that were embedded within the group.
One of the defendants, Enrique Tarrio, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy, even though he did not attend the J6 protest and was not in Washington, D.C. at all during the riot.
Instigating their subjects to commit the crime
The FBI's "playbook involves pushing a group along to do the act that will allow for a counterterrorism charge," Seraphin said. "That's how the FBI gets its 'statistical accomplishment bonuses' and how the senior executives that run the field offices are incentivized. When they hit their numbers, like a traffic quota for national security, they make $25-$35,000 in an annual bonus for achieving the metrics of what they predicted.
"The FBI predicted in 2022 that it would disrupt 600 terrorist operations, but they fell short of their goal. They only had 397, which means you have to believe that the FBI involved themselves in disrupting a terrorist plot every single day of the year and twice on Sundays to accomplish that number. It's absurd on its face.
"Whereas police are looking for lower crime rates, the FBI is actually [trying] to boost its numbers and reporting of white supremacist interactions and anti-government, anti-authority or militia violent extremist interactions and disruptions of those types of 'plots.'"
American citizens targeted by the DOJ in an AGAAVE investigation, a new sub-classification of Domestic Violent Extremism that the department began using in fiscal year 2023, are literally being investigated for speech crimes.
Crimes that warrant an AGGAVE investigation are "always morally equivalent to a traffic case," Seraphin said. "An AGAAVE investigation does not require there to be actual violence or crime committed for you to be labeled under that category. Being labeled AGAAVE is just the allegation that you could have an ideology that leans towards violence or the things you're saying that have been said by people who were violent in the past – that's enough for them to justify this."
"Once they have unlocked that toolbox under counterterrorism resources, they can use all kinds of national security tools to come after you – secret subpoenas. They can deploy confidential human sources, undercover federal informants, to investigate you and obtain significant amounts of funding."
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A new document that Fox News Digital has obtained, a tax lien, shows that Ashley Biden, Joe Biden's daughter, owes $5,000 in income taxes for the period starting in 2015.
It comes on top of a multitude of tax issues still plaguing Hunter Biden, who recently was hit with a long list of new charges for failing to pay.
That list, in an indictment in federal court in California, included nine counts of failing to pay taxes and filing false tax returns and charged him with failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.
Those counts were released just as reports documented how he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on women, strip clubs, a sex club membership, and pornographic websites, instead of paying his taxes.
His payments to "various women" alone totaled nearly $700,000.
Further, there could be tax issues still pending on the estimated $20 million that multiple Biden family members took in from various foreign, and sometimes hostile, sources like Russia and China over recent years in what investigators in Congress suggest is a massive influence-peddling operation, selling Joe Biden as vice president, then president.
The report explained liens are legal claims "imposed by the government on a property or assets to secure unpaid taxes after repeated attempts to collect."
The report said this month, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified Biden the "amount of such unpaid tax, interest, additions or penalties is a lien in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon the taxpayer's property – real, personal, or both – as the case may be."
"The scale is not anything like Hunter, but… Joe is constantly talking about how wealthy and connected people do not pay their fair share ... and it just so happens that both of his living children did not pay their taxes," charged Garrett Ziegler, founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo.
"This is just another example of the Bidens being careless. … You'd think that they would show a little bit more prudence when you're the first when you're the American first family to make sure you don't have any tax liens on you, especially going into an election year."
He reported to Fox that his team found the lien while doing routine searches in Philadelphia.
Ashley Biden works for the Delaware Center for Justice, according to LinkedIn, and her career has focused on "social work, activism and philanthropy," the report said.
She was a social worker in Delaware from 2007 to 2012.
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Police in the United Kingdom have given up on a "hate speech" case that they assembled against a council member who triggered leftists by recognizing and promoting free speech in online statements.
A report from Christian Concern explained all charges that were pending against Anthony Stevens, 51, have been dropped.
He had supported Christian freedom of speech on online social media platforms.
He had been represented by the Christian Legal enter after his arrest at his home – without warning – a few months ago.
The evidence that was assembled for the case included a handful of social media statements "which included support for fellow Conservative Councillor King Lawal," the report said.
Lawal had been suspended by a local political group and canceled from several organizations including a library, and he was forced to step down from his own company after saying on X that "Pride is Sin."
That, of course, is a conclusion drawn directly from the Bible. But "Pride" has been adopted as a slogan for the LGBT community and brandished on flags, posters, and in conversations like a weapon.
Stevens had promoted a petition that called for Lawal to be reinstated. It went to his 76 followers, the report said, and requested, "If you value free speech please sign and share."
The Christian Concern report noted that Stevens also shared a video of Lawal being interviewed by MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, and said, "That is my friend, everyone has a right to their beliefs, people can disagree as is their right but to ruin their standing because of them is wrong."
Unannounced, police descended on Steven's home in August, searched him in front of his wife and children, and arrested him for a "public order offense."
He was in jail for hours before being released.
Police contended at the time that he was "inciting" "racial hatred."
He was grilled on his memberships and beliefs, and it was revealed that members of an opposing political party reported him to the police.
He had explained to police at the time he believed in free speech, and a person's right to their opinion, even if he does not share that opinion.
The report noted that police were "visibly angry" when he told them it didn't matter whether he agreed with the statement, "Pride is sin," because Lawal had the right to say it.
The arrest and attack later were described by Baroness Jacqueline Foster as an "appalling episode and breach of free speech." which prompted Mark Hopkinson, a police detective, to send Stevens a letter "seeking to intimidate him into not speaking to the media."
Stevens' lawyers then told police, "The arrest of our client, a democratically elected office-holder, for social media posts about matters of public interest, is self-evidently a matter for legitimate media attention, public debate, and criticism."
They accused the cops of "an outright attempt to intimidate our client and media organizations and to stifle legitimate criticism of the police. Such behavior is wholly unacceptable for a police officer in a free country."
Following complaints about the officers to the "Independent Office for Police Conduct," the Crown Prosecution Service informed him the case was dropped.
He later issued a statement, "It is deeply concerning that by alleging ‘hate crime’, members of the public, and even labor politicians, can weaponize and use the police to try and take out democratically elected opposition and shut down free speech. I believe my case is a worrying sign of potential things to come."
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Joe Biden, after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and butchered some 1,400 people, expressed America's alliance with Israel, and condemned the horrific results of the violence against civilians.
But things changed, and now commentator Caroline Glick is pointing out that it appears Biden has declared "war" on the Netanyahu government in Israel.
That things have gone off the rails already has been documented in several media outlets, with the Washington Examiner noting Biden has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must "change."
Biden told a partisan fundraiser that the U.S. would keep supporting Israel but "warned Netanyahu about waning public support for Israel's bombing campaigns among voters."
He said, "Bibi's got a tough decision to make. This is the most conservative government in Israel's history." And result? "I think he has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move."
Newsweek's message went a little further, with the report explaining Biden was warning Netanyahu his government was going to "lose support" over its stance against the Hamas terror.
It said, "Netanyahu declared war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas following its October 7 attacks on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage. Death tolls continue to mount, drawing international scrutiny and continued calls for a ceasefire by many—including protests across the United States in defense of civilians."
The report noted Biden also told Israel to support a "two-state solution" in the Middle East, a solution that Palestinians have rejected many times.
Yet another media report from the Los Angeles Times said what previously was a "tight bear hug" between the Allies, now is "entwined with some of the most hellish aspects of this war."
Those issues include Palestinian civilian victims, who often are used by terrorists as shields, the fate of Israeli hostages still held by the terror group, and more.
Glick posted her comments online:
She described Biden's new antagonism as "horrific."
"If Israel doesn't eradicate Hamas and Gaza today then we're going to face further aggression from additional enemies in the region that are controlled today largely by Iran," she said.
And allies will be second-guessing what they should do.
"President Biden first and foremost is ignoring the strategic imperative of what Israel is doing and that I think is one of the big problems," she said, citing its intention to eliminate the Hamas terror threat.
She pointed out the dangerous element that "three quarters of Palestinians support what happened on October 7th."
Further, many of those also now "support the genocide of Jews right the United States…"
She warned Biden now "is now taking aim at the stability of the elected Israeli government and delegitimizing and demonizing its senior ministers as well as the prime minister…"
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A Turkish legislator who threatened Israel with the "wrath of Allah" and then, seconds later, suffered a heart attack and collapsed, has died.
The U.K. Daily Mail reports Hasan Bitmez, 54, died two days after collapsing to the floor of Turkey's parliament building after saying Israel would "suffer" for invading Gaza.
Israel's defensive military actions in Gaza in recent weeks were prompted by the decision by Hamas terrorists to invade Israel from Gaza and butcher some 1,400 civilians on October 7.
Bitmez, of the Saadet Party, died in Ankara City Hospital, according to remarks from Health Minister Fahrettin Koca.
WND reported that Bitmez was threatening Israel, and ended his remarks, then stood at the parliamentary podium for a few seconds before falling to the floor.
He had said, "We can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history." Then he warned, "Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah," and within a few seconds, collapsed to the floor.
Reports from Turkey explained he underwent CPR and was rushed to a hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition initially.
Reports revealed, "At that moment, he stumbled and dropped to his knees before lying flat on his back. The Saadet Party Kocaeli deputy had to be stretchered out of the hall after receiving chest compressions 'for a long time.'"
The incident happened in the nation's General Assembly Hall in Ankara.
Bitmez was a graduate of Cairo's Al Azhar University and chairman of the Centre for Islamic Union Research.
Shortly before the collapse, Bitmez had criticized Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan for engaging in trade with Israel.
"You allow ships to go to Israel and you shamelessly call it trade... You are Israel's accomplice," he charged. "You have the blood of Palestinians on your hands, you are collaborators. You contribute to every bomb Israel drops on Gaza."
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Calling it a "sweeping victory for free speech and religious liberty," the ADF has announced that the Virginia Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit by a former teacher for the West Point School Board charging officials there with violating his rights.
The fight erupted several years ago when the school demanded that the teacher use male pronouns for a female student, and he declined.
The ADF reported its lawyers represent Peter Vlaming, who taught French in the district for nearly seven years.
But he was fired when he explained he could not in good conscience call a girl a boy.
"Vlaming tried to accommodate the student by consistently using the student’s new preferred name and by avoiding the use of pronouns altogether. But school officials ordered him to stop avoiding the use of pronouns to refer to the student, even when the student wasn’t present, and to start using pronouns inconsistent with the student’s sex," the ADF reported.
In essence, the school was ordering the teacher to join their promotion of the transgender ideology and lie.
"Peter wasn’t fired for something he said; he was fired for something he couldn’t say. The Virginia Supreme Court rightly agreed that Peter’s case against the school board for violating his rights under the Virginia Constitution and state law should proceed," said ADF lawyer Chris Schandevel.
"As a teacher, Peter was passionate about the subject he taught, was well-liked by his students, and did his best to accommodate their needs and requests. But he couldn’t in good conscience speak messages that he doesn’t believe to be true, and no school board or government official can punish someone for that reason."
The court ruling found that the state constitution "seeks to protect diversity of thought, diversity of speech, diversity of religion, and diversity of opinion."
And, the court said, "Absent a truly compelling reason for doing so, no government committed to these principles can lawfully coerce its citizens into pledging verbal allegiance to ideological views that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs."
WND reported last year when the state's highest court accepted the case that the issue was that the teacher refused school orders to lie.
Vlaming was fired for "avoiding the use of personal pronouns" regarding one student, and sued after he was dismissed.
When the case erupted, other students organized a protest against the school's decision to dismiss Vlaming.
At the time, Paul Nichols, a friend of Vlaming’s who is superintendent of nearby Mecklenburg County Public Schools, told The Daily Signal that the teacher’s situation is a direct reflection of what is happening in society.
“Not only did he lose his job, but I think the whole thing has put other people in a position where they’re scared that they will lose their job if they don’t toe the line of current popular culture, progressive culture,” Nichols said.
The conflict came up because a 14-year-old girl told Vlaming she was transgender and he was required to use a masculine name and pronouns for her.
What triggered school officials to erupt in outrage was the fact that, during a class exercise in which students were wearing virtual headsets, guided by other students, he accidentally shouted, "Don’t let her hit the wall" when the 14-year-old girl was heading out of bounds for the game.
He was taken off his job by the end of that day.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed it will review the case in which the Food and Drug Administration "violated the law" when it lifted regulations on the industry that dispenses abortion-inducing chemicals to American women.
The fight actually involves two cases, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, with Danco being the corporation that makes, sells, and profits from the sale of the chemicals.
In the lower courts, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the FDA likely "violated the law" when it lifted a long list of safety rules and regulations for the chemicals and allowed them to be dispatched to girls and women without the needed warnings.
Katie Daniel, an official for the pro-life Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said, "The Supreme Court and the entire country will hear the facts about Democrats' dangerous mail-order abortion scheme. Working hand-in-glove with the abortion lobby, the FDA has misled the American people with its repeated claims that the abortion pill regimen is 'safe and effective,' all while they removed basic safeguards like in-person doctor supervision."
She continued, "This not only flies in the face of science and common sense, but the 5th Circuit agreed it most likely broke the law. The people aren’t buying it, either – especially when they learn the FDA doesn’t track serious complications other than death."
She accused the FDA, "under multiple Democrat administrations," of putting politics of the pro-abortion political agenda before "its duty to protect health and safety."
The results often have been "tragic," she charged.
"Without oversight, abortion pills easily get into the hands of abusers and jealous exes. Not only have countless babies died, but mothers have also died. The FDA is not above the law, and there must be justice for the harm they cause."
Dr. Ingrid Skop, a board-certified OB-GYN who is vice president of Charlotte Lozier Institute, added, "As a practicing OB-GYN with over 30 years of experience, I have seen first-hand what the abortion pill regimen has done to my patients, both mother and child. As many as one in five women will suffer a complication such as hemorrhage or infection, and I have cared for many of these women in the ER."
She pinpointed the blame for the problem: "The Biden administration’s decision to weaken commonsense safeguards and remove doctors from the process shows they prioritize abortion on demand over the mother’s safety. I hope the Supreme Court realizes that the lives of many babies and women are at risk. The FDA must be held accountable for its callous actions."
The pro-life organizations found polling shows that Americans simply don't believe the FDA's claims that mail-order abortion is a safe procedure.
A report from the ADF explained how the FDA "never studied the safety of the drugs under the labeled conditions of use."
Further, the agency, in "illegally approving" chemical abortion drugs, "ignored the potential impacts of the hormone-blocking regimen on the developing bodies of adolescent girls, disregarded the substantial evidence that chemical abortion drugs cause more complications than surgical abortions, and eliminated necessary safeguards for pregnant girls and women who undergo this dangerous drug regimen," the organization said.
The ADF pointed out it was the Biden administration that is insisting on the chemical abortion free-for-all in America.
ADF lawyer Erin Hawley, said, "Every court so far has agreed that the FDA acted unlawfully in removing common-sense safeguards for women and authorizing dangerous mail-order abortions. We urge the Supreme Court to do the same."
She added, "The FDA has harmed the health of women and undermined the rule of law by illegally removing every meaningful safeguard from the chemical abortion drug regimen. Like any federal agency, the FDA must rationally explain its decisions. Yet its removal of common-sense safeguards—like a doctor’s visit before women are prescribed chemical abortion drugs—does not reflect scientific judgment but rather a politically driven decision to push a dangerous drug regimen."
Abortion actually is one of the key agenda points that Joe Biden has dedicated his presidency to expanding, with his demands for virtually unrestricted and tax-paid abortion accommodations at all levels of government.
His other main agenda point has been promoting the body-mutilating transgender procedures for all, including children.