Authoritarian and Totalitarian Democracies

[rmgill]

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/authors/julie_kelly/

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/02/28/the_inexplicable_mysteries_of_the_pipe_bombs_planted_near_the_capitol_just_before_the_jan_6_riot_1014512.html

Edited August 16, 2024 by rmgill

[Mr King]

2 hours ago, rmgill said:

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/authors/julie_kelly/

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/02/28/the_inexplicable_mysteries_of_the_pipe_bombs_planted_near_the_capitol_just_before_the_jan_6_riot_1014512.html

Thanks Ryan.

[lucklucky]

 

[lucklucky]

In UK some votes already strangely disappear.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mystery-of-andrew-bridgens-vanishing-votes/

[lucklucky]

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/11/scotland-criminalizes-prayer-at-home-to-protect-abortionists-n4933252

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Scotland has reportedly enacted new abortion laws that could land religious people in trouble with authorities if they pray in their homes — if the homes are in designated abortion “safe access zones.” 

 

[R011]

44 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/11/scotland-criminalizes-prayer-at-home-to-protect-abortionists-n4933252

 

This assumes PJMedia has read and understood the law correctly, is accurately citing it, and isn't just throwing this out for maximum outrage before.

[R011]

OK.  From the article:

"activities in a private place (such as a house) within the area between the protected premises and the boundary of a zone could be an offense if they can be seen or heard within the zone and are done intentionally or recklessly"

Which is pretty much the normal standard for any public nuisance legislation like public nudity or excessive noise.  It's possible, I suppose, that an especially zealous cop or PCSO could lurk with his ear against a window waiting for a speechcrime, but that would get thrown out of court even in Scotland.

 

 

 

[lucklucky]

5 minutes ago, R011 said:

This assumes PJMedia has read and understood the law correctly, is accurately citing it, and isn't just throwing this out for maximum outrage before.

The outrage already exists when an abortion clinic can't be protested.

[R011]

2 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

The outrage already exists when an abortion clinic can't be protested.

So it's OK to further harass, traumatize, and publicize the women using the clinic and to harass the staff?

There are lots of other public spaces to protest abortion up to and including government offices and legislature grounds. even random street corners.

[lucklucky]

If it is harassment use the laws against harassment. 

A law that is valid for anyone.

That is the sign of a non authoritarian country.   But the left wants the privilege of a domineering religion, wants to build a state within the state.

 

[Ivanhoe]

I won't be surprised when the pro-abortion folks realize they can do lawfare by siting an abortion clinic near every church. One phone call about public prayer within range and the church gets shut down.

 

[R011]

3 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

I won't be surprised when the pro-abortion folks realize they can do lawfare by siting an abortion clinic near every church. One phone call about public prayer within range and the church gets shut down.

 

Hard to believe though it may be, most abortion providers are more interested in providing their services than making political statements.

[rmgill]

Its about business.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The Republican party is about business. Which makes it hard to understand how they fastened themselves onto an issue that is clearly antibusiness, and creating more one parent families, increasing urban poverty, and hence more tax dollars supporting them.

Frankly, Im surprised they didnt leave it to the Prohibition party, it has their kind of doomed monoethic mentality about it.

 

[Mr King]

4 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

and creating more one parent families, increasing urban poverty, and hence more tax dollars supporting them.

There is irony here as that is basically why the far right supports abortion

[lucklucky]

It is not about business. It is about ethics and civlization.

[lucklucky]

Public University

[Stuart Galbraith]

On 10/17/2024 at 8:30 PM, lucklucky said:

It is not about business. It is about ethics and civlization.

As usual, money python say it far more eloquently than anything I could say.

 

[lucklucky]

That is like saying a bottle of paint is same as Mona Lisa.

[Ivanhoe]

https://aflegal.org/explosive-censorship-documents-america-first-legal-releases-complete-internal-facebook-onboarding-documents-used-to-train-cdc-employees-on-how-to-censor-the-american-public/

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal released additional documents from its litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), exposing the complete onboarding documents Facebook used to train CDC employees on their government censorship portal to block free speech on “Covid & Vaccine Misinformation.” 

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These documents reveal how Facebook, on the heels of extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House (including from Rob Flaherty, a current senior Harris Campaign staffer) to remove specific posts, responded:

Facebook created a new “end-to-end workflow” so that government officials could submit links for removal from Facebook;

• Facebook only gave access to the portal to approved government and law enforcement personnel;
• The new portal dramatically increased the efficiency of the censorship machine by allowing up to twenty links at a time to be referred for censoring;
• By moving from email chains to a Facebook-hosted portal, the new system also made it harder for organizations like AFL to provide oversight to individual censorship requests;
• Each censorship request automatically generated a ticket number so that the government could track if Facebook complied with its censorship demands;  
• The documents further show how Facebook explained precisely what content it would remove and what it needed from the CDC in order to censor certain narratives within the bounds of its “community standards.” 

This release comes on the heels of recently released documents from that lawsuit, which exposed the United Kingdom’s influence on the Biden-Harris Administration’s censorship policy, and Zuckerberg’s admission that Facebook only engaged in censorship after extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House. 

 

Il Duce would be pleased.

[Rick]

8 hours ago, lucklucky said:

That is like saying a bottle of paint is same as Mona Lisa.

Well played good sir.

[Stuart Galbraith]

9 hours ago, lucklucky said:

That is like saying a bottle of paint is same as Mona Lisa.

And so it was, but the context of the man and the composition make it all it is.

What makes poverty? Large families. So why is that going to be any different if its a large family in Africa or Atlanta?

 

[Rick]

2 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

And so it was, but the context of the man and the composition make it all it is.

What makes poverty? Large families. So why is that going to be any different if its a large family in Africa or Atlanta?

 

Large families do not make poverty. In the U.S. it is single parenthood. One of the best economic statements there is to avoid poverty is do not have children out of wedlock, complete high school, and get a job. 

[rmgill]

18 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

As usual, money python say it far more eloquently than anything I could say.

 

So if a bottle of sperm is a person, you’re ok with killing random people because people jerk off? 
 

 

[rmgill]

4 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

 

What makes poverty? Large families. So why is that going to be any different if its a large family in Africa or Atlanta?

 

Bad decisions and crime make poverty.