Be Not Dismayed

I had a relatively brief hour of pain on Friday when the top of the hour news announced that the Supreme Court had dismissed the Texas lawsuit as not having standing. But despair just didn’t kick in. If disappointment comes later, it comes. But not yet.

Yesterday was the Electoral College vote, which went as expected. However, the Republican electors from each of the contested states also cast their votes. On January 6, when the votes are counted in Congress, those are there as an alternative—in case things have changed in the meantime.

This is not a first. One example is the 1960 election, when Democrat electors in Hawaii added their alternate votes for John F. Kennedy, just in case.   And they ended up being counted, after contested votes and recounts. People to this day believe that was a stolen election. It may have been. Anyway, the alternate votes are not unprecedented. And they provide a remedy if court cases prove fruitful.

Sidney Powell did an interview with The Epoch Times, on their American Thought Leaders program. When asked about the dismissal of the Texas case, she said, 

Sidney Powell, interviewed on American Thought Leaders
screenshot from here

It has no effect on our cases, because our plaintiffs are electors, who have constitutional standing in the Electors and Elections clause of the Constitution. So we will not have standing issues in the four cases that I brought. The Court really must address the merits.

Another case is also Lin Wood’s case out of Georgia, which is still before the Court. And another case out of Pennsylvania is also before the Court. There might be a standing issue in one of those, but between the multiple cases that are there right now, someone has to have standing. So one or more of those cases is going to have to be addressed on their merits, or we don’t have a Supreme Court.

Jan Jekielek, the host, asked her to explain standing—because every case that has been dismissed so far has been based on standing, or some other technicality, and not on the merits of the case. Courts have so far refused to view the evidence. She explained:

To bring a case you have to be a party that suffered an actual injury as a result of the conduct that is being complained of. So, for example, the Court was saying that Texas as a state doesn’t have a particular interest, particularly in how other states run their elections.

Attorney Robert Barnes has spoken out against the “standing” argument. It isn’t in the Constitution. It is simply a practice of the judicial system since around 1922. It prevents the courts from being tied up in frivolous suits by weeding out a lot of complaints. But it is being used as an excuse to avoid cases that are unpleasant or politically divisive.

a tweet from the President,
with a "helpful" note from Facebook

As a Texan, I do feel injured by voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and anywhere else that brought about an unlawful result. Everyone in my state—and the whole country—is injured by that fraud.

I think it was in the Sidney Powell interview where she said it’s like someone broke into your house, and the police, instead of investigating, say, “You bring us the evidence of who did it, and maybe then we’ll do something about it.” That’s not how the justice system is supposed to work. The victim should not be required to do all the investigations; they should just have to show evidence that a crime was committed. The machines should have been impounded and forensically examined immediately after the election, as soon as fraud was suspected.

Nevertheless, do we have evidence that a crime was committed? Absolutely. Powell said,

[In Georgia’s recount] They often ran the same ballot through the same fraudulent counting machines, which did absolutely no good whatsoever. They did not look at each ballot and compare the signatures. If we could even get 100,000 ballots—of the last 100,000 ballots run in Georgia, for example—we could show by instant mechanical analysis the difference in the ballots and the ink.

We know that there were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots imported into the country, likely from China. We have video of some coming across the border from Mexico. There’s other information of ballots being shipped from one state to another. In fact, there was a postal service drive, I think who was sent from New York to Pennsylvania in the middle of the night with a truckload of ballots that was then used to “backfill” the vote count. It’s absolutely absurd. We have more evidence coming in today of a massive load of ballots, I think from Arizona to Georgia.

So they had these warehouses of counterfeit ballots in different parts of the country, apparently, and then shipped them in the middle of the night as needed to backfill in the states where President Trump’s voters poured out in such great number that they broke the algorithm they had pre-programmed in the computers for Dominion to create the fraud. That’s why they had to stop counting in five states.

And that’s why it’s absolutely absurd to say that there wasn’t voter fraud here. We have counterfeit ballots. We have dead people voting—and by the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. There was something someone called “phantom voters.” There were just more manner and means of fraud than any law-abiding American citizen could possibly imagine. It’s stunning. It’s absolutely stunning. They were so in our face with it. And then to deny it is purely Machiavellian.

More manner and means of fraud than we can imagine. Apparently the other side does not lack imagination; they’ve thrown everything at this election.

Joshua Philipp came out with a documentary yesterday that I highly recommend. They have it on YouTube. But, even though it is a documentary, which is supposed to be allowed by YouTube, it is likely to get censored there. So it is also available at The Epoch Times website, and on a new platform they have created so they can make sure it isn’t censored, now open for others to use as well, called YouMaker.com. I'm unable to embed it, so please use a link.

The documentary takes an hour and a half to lay out the known evidence of election fraud, and traces ties to China, Soros, and others. If we can’t get evidence before a court, then we ought to be sharing it among the American people and the world. 

Matt Braynard explains some of the evidence in Who's Stealing America?
screenshot from here

What happens when we know the fraud happened, but the news media and their followers go along as if there was no such thing? What happens now? Is there a path forward?

Joshua Philipp, on his Sunday night Q&A, said, 

These different lawsuits are going to delay the outcome of the election. And, as long as there are lawsuits in play, the election is still contested.

The only constitutional deadline is the actual inauguration, January 20th. And challenges in past elections have gone on beyond that. Time is still short, but there are things that can happen. Electoral votes can be challenged during the usually ceremonial reading on January 6^th, before the new Congress. A protest was attempted just four years ago, but without effect, because it requires both a House and Senate member to protest in writing. So go ahead and urge your Congressman and Senator to prepare to protest. If a protest is successful, I’m uncertain whether the alternative Electoral votes would be used instead, or if those votes would be removed from the count.

If they are removed from the count and neither candidate gets 270 votes, then the constitutional alternative is that each state gets one vote, based on its majority delegation’s vote, which gives Trump a likely win in that scenario.

Another wild card is that 2018 Executive Order President Trump signed, concerning foreign interference in our election. This requires a report from intelligence organizations by 45 days after the election, which will be Friday, December 18^th. Sidney Powell was asked about this:

If that report is an honest report, it’s going to blow the mind of every citizen in the country who’s willing to look at the truth and the facts, because we’ve never witnessed anything like this in the history of this country. And it’s got to be stopped right now, or there will never be a free and fair election.

Joshua Philipp, Sunday night, talked about the 2018 Executive Order as well. Would Trump declare marshal law based on it?

Frankly, given the evidence, maybe if he’s presented— Again, within 45 days of November 3^rd, the director of National Intelligence, because of that 2018 Executive Order Trump signed, they’re going to be giving Trump a report based on, that’s going to outline whether there was any instance of foreign influence in this election. Not just directly, but even indirectly through people who were carrying out actions.

At the very least, we can say Dominion has people who are indirectly tied to foreign governments. Based on their structure. Based on their ties to China. Based on its $400 million purchase. Based on several other factors. And Smartmatic, again, ties to Venezuela. That alone would be enough, very likely, for him to enact some of the powers within that.

some of the Dominion audit, discussed by Robert F. Gruler
screenshot from here

Someone commented in that Q&A that they thought President Trump would use whatever power was available to him to make sure the results of this election are honest. “It’s now or never. Trump knows the USA is in his hands.” Philipp had said earlier that he thought Trump found the corruption much greater than he had imagined he would face. And here he said:

This is true. Now, imagine you’re in Trump’s shoes, right? I can tell you—again, I work for, Crossroads is a show of The Epoch Times. We’ve been hit by multiple fake news reports. You can see these stories from the outside. You can know that—“Oh, they did this hit piece on this guy, and it was unfair; it was dishonest.” Until it happens to you, and you know your own story, and you know your own background, and you know the facts. And then you see how media twist all that around, and how they lie about it. And how they even fabricate information.

Until you see how they lie to people, until you see it happen to you, it doesn’t have as much power. When you have that clarity, and you see how they are willing to lie for their own political or business interests—

Trump has seen this now. He’s seen it with just about every institution in this country, public or private. He’s seen it in government. He’s seen it in the courts. He has seen it with these different nonprofit organizations. He’s seen it with business. He’s seen it with tech. He’s seen it with the media.

Would he hand this country over to those people? Because those are the people—these same ones doing these things—those are the same people who’ve been telling those lies. These same people who’ve been doing that are the ones who are doing this right now. Would Trump, having that wide view, would he hand over the United States of America to these people, based on what they did?

Look at his character over the past year, and you can tell me your assessment on that. Seeing Trump, and knowing how he works, I cannot see him doing that. I cannot see him handing over this country to those people, when he sees these things from that perspective.

What exactly President Trump will do, I am not certain. Possibly military tribunals? Is that what marshal law entails? I’m not sure. But, whatever he does will require the support of the American people.

We saw the support in droves on Saturday, as people gathered in Washington to “Stop the Steal.” Numbers were hard to determine, because there were four such groups around the capital, and elsewhere around the country.

Numbers tell us that at least 70% of Trump voters believe the election was stolen by fraud. I don’t know how many Biden voters now believe that, because news about it has been censored. 

Earlier today I caught the end of a Stop the Steal press conference with electors. A man named Ed Martin talked about the Chinese interference: 

Ed Martin, at Stop the Steal press conference
screenshot from here

If there was ever a presidency, now we know where the Chinese regime would want to get rid of one president and get another one in, it’s Donald Trump standing up to them and Joe Biden compromised by the Chinese regime. That’s the facts. Unrefuted. Not Ed Martin’s evidence. Unrefuted facts. It’s what we call proof. And we haven’t seen any response. And now were supposed to just look the other way and it’ll all work out? We’ll have ways to check on it? No we can’t do that. So, the Communist regime, they know this. And we won’t stop. Because we win; they lose. That’s what we know.

He was quoting Reagan there: “We win; they lose.” If we don’t think that way, the only alternative is to succumb to evil.

Sidney Powell gave this parting thought:

This is not about President Trump. He’s just a symbol of “We the People.” It’s about the future of the Republic. We have to fix this. We have to fix it right now.

In the final segment of the Crossroads documentary, Joshua Philipp refers to the principles in our founding and says,

These truths have spread worldwide, inspiring patriots and becoming universal values. The year 2020: the 233rd year since the creation of the Constitution of the United States, establishing fundamental laws and guaranteeing basic rights of citizens, including the rights to life, liberty, and private property.

Yet, if the 2020 presidential election is stolen by communist forces within and outside of America, then the separation of power among the three branches of government in a fair legal system would cease to exist. The freedom to elect would cease to exist. The freedom and equality of the American people would cease to exist. It would be an attempted coup to subvert the foundations upon which the United States of America was built. Communism would slam into the United States like a tsunami. America, the beacon of democracy, would be extinguished, and the world would enter a dark age.

This is bigger than one president. It’s bigger than one nation. It’s also personal for each of us. We must not succumb to evil, no matter how loudly that voice insists, “Resistance is futile.” We must keep fighting evil, however God directs us to do that.

Sources:

·         “Live Q&A: Powell Says Trump Could Trigger 2018 Executive Order” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, December 13, 2020. 

·         “Exclusive: Sidney Powell on 2020 Election Lawsuits, Supreme Court Decision & Gen. Michael Flynn Case” American Thought Leaders—The Epoch Times, December 13, 2020. 

·         “Live: Stop the Steal, Trump Electors Challenge Botched Electoral College” Crossroads, December 15, 2020.

·         “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election” Sept. 12, 2018. 

·         “BREAKING: Technology Expert Can Determine if Ballots Are Legitimate or Fake in Seconds” Economic War Room with Kevin Freeman, at EveryLegalVote.com, Dec. 11, 2020, interview with Jovan Hutton, on. 

·         “Dominion Software Intentionally Designed to Influence Election Results: Forensics Report” by Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         Stop the Steal website 

·         “Texas GOP Chair Floats Forming Union of ‘Law-Abiding’ States After SCOTUS Election Ruling” by Ivan Pentchoukov for The Epoch Times, Dec. 11 (updated Dec. 12), 2020. 

·         “Texas Electors Condemn Supreme Court, Call on Battleground States to Name Alternate Electors” by Asher Price for The Austin American-Statesman, Dec. 14, 2020.

·         “Live from America” Here We Go, The Hip-Hop Patriot, Jeremy Herrell, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         “Michigan State Police Arrest Celebrated Democratic Official on Six Felony Charges of Election Fraud” Law Officer, Dec. 12, 2020. 

·         “Electors Vote & Bill Barr Resigns, Antrim Forensic Audit Report, Supreme Court Rulings” Robert F. Gruler, R&R Law Group, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         “SCOTUS Rejects Texas’ Lawsuit, What Happens Now?” Official ACLJ podcast, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         “#2351B - Marker Revealed, Trump New EO, Durham, GW, Surprise Attack” PINKAudioX 

·         “Trump Wins One of Two Wisconsin Supreme Court Decisions” by Daniel Baldwin for The RF Angle, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         “Lawmakers: Remove Swalwell From Intelligence Committee After Link to Chinese Spy Revealed” by Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, Dec. 9 (updated Dec. 15), 2020.        

Tyranny's Body Count Rises

Sometimes we talk about the overwhelming body count caused by communist regimes in the 20^th Century. But we’re two decades into the next century, and those numbers continue to add up.

We need to add every death from the SARS-COV-2, the COVID-19, also called the novel coronavirus, to the body count for the Chinese Communist Party.

Is it important to determine blame?

Think of it this way, using a simple society: your tribe is at war with a nearby tribe. You would rather not be at war; you are not the aggressor. But every night for a week, homes on the outskirts of your village have been attacked. The people within each home have been murdered. The signs of forced entry and violence are obvious. The aggressor tribe you’re at war with has threatened to do this violence. You set out scouts to watch the village perimeter. They report that intruders who appear to be dressed as your enemy tribesmen sneak in and out. In the morning additional households have been murdered.

Do you say, “Let’s not be hasty. We could have serial murderers among us. We don’t want to falsely blame our enemies and set in motion a need for action”? And then do you spend your time trying to find evidence of an internal serial murderer? Or do you start building a protective wall around the outer settlements—or some other protection against your enemy?

It’s helpful to know what’s actually happening so you can take the most appropriate actions to protect yourselves in the future.

In this case, the warring tribe against us is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It has declared war against us, the US in particular, the West in general, the rest of the world in all practical purposes.

Screenshot from "Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus"

The Crimes of China

China’s claim that the virus was a spontaneous mutation from wild animals—bats—that found its way into the population through a seafood market is now known to be a lie. It turns out, no one bought or sold bats at the Huanan Seafood Market. The bats that carry the coronavirus are specifically horseshoe bats, located in caves 900 km from the market—but captured and brought to the Wuhan Virology Lab where they were studied, just up the road from that market.

The logical assumption is—and the evidence shows—that this was a virus that was manufactured in a lab. The virus in nature does not transfer to humans. But a scientist at this lab, Shi Zhengli, had published as far back as 2010 on the methodology for getting these coronaviruses to infect humans. It was a matter of a lock and key. She replaced the key, the S-protein, in the SARS virus with one found in a bat coronavirus, and had plans to next experiment on primates. This woman has disappeared, but China says, “No, she’s fine,” but won’t show her, or even a new photo of her.

Shi Zhengli, speaking on cross-species infection in 2018
screenshot from here

At this point we don’t know the purpose of this research. It looks like creating a bioweapon is a possibility. But some funding for the research came from the US, which is puzzling if that was the only purpose.

We don’t yet have evidence that the outbreak was on purpose. It seems logical that they might have wanted to develop a vaccine first (which they would control distribution of), or they might have wanted to develop genetic engineering that would avoid affecting their own people. So, at this point I think it was an accidental leak.

But once it was out, the source was almost immediately known, as well as the virus’s ability to move person-to-person, and not just animal-to-human. They had the entire genome sequenced—which they provided to the world in February, months earlier than they would have been able to do in so short a time if this work had not already been essentially complete.

The CCP shut down any information about the virus. They destroyed evidence at the seafood market. They waited a full six weeks—and probably even weeks longer than that, to tell the world it was highly contagious—risking their own people by not closing down travel, and not taking containment measures, until mid-January, a full two months into the spread. Mid-January, before admitting human-to-human spread, they cut off Wuhan from the rest of China, but they did not cut off Wuhan from the rest of the world. 

A University of Southampton study found that the spread of Covid-19 could have been reduced by about 95% if China had been honest just three weeks earlier.

In February, when it was obvious they had long known about the contagion, they started claiming it was a bio-weapon placed in China by the Americans.

The WHO took China's word without question every step of the way. That is unconscionable.

As of today, 2,152,647 people worldwide have been confirmed to have contracted the virus (depending on testing, so that actual number is likely higher). The US has 667,801 cases.  Worldwide deaths are at 143,802. Every single one of these cases is to be laid at the feet of the CCP.

Sources

treating CCP virus patient in Wuhan, March 19
image from here

I expect you not to take my word for it. I am no expert. I just read and listen and try to piece things together. Here are some recommended sources to get you started:

The Epoch Times put out a special edition related to the virus for March/April 2020, which is full of information. Because the Chinese Communist Party has been at fault in endangering the world, they have made the editorial decision to consistently call it the CCP virus. This is a subscription paper, but some articles may be available online singly. I suggest “The Mysterious Origin of the CCP Virus”  and “How China’s Coverup Led to a Global Pandemic.” 

Also provided by The Epoch Times is a documentary on YouTube called “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus,” posted April 7, 2020. Narrating the documentary is investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, who has spent over a decade writing about China’s espionage and unconventional warfare. The 54-minute documentary covers the origins, the forensic case, and the biology in a clear and reasonable way, providing documentation along the way. 

Another good source is a YouTube presentation by philosopher Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain, called “The Case Against China.” This 64-minute presentation lays out the case as you might a murder case. Our “murderer” (the CCP) waited 6 weeks to notify the “police”—the WHO. He lies (saying there is no human transmission). He refuses to allow the “police” (WHO) to question him. When the police bring a search warrant, they find he has destroyed evidence and records (at the Huanan Seafood Market). He attempted to collect “life insurance”—China steals a US patent that was given for free to attempt to treat the virus. He threatens anyone who knows anything—Chinese doctors disappear. He is found with the evidence—the bat studies in the virology lab. He previously declared that he hates his victim and plans to murder—China declared a “people’s war” against the United States in May 2019. The cause of death is found to be as expected—the bat virus being studied in the lab at the epicenter of the infection. How should the jury find the accused? Guilty.

Stefan Molyneux, presenting "The Case Against China"
screenshot from here

On his Friday night special three weeks ago, Glenn Beck went through the case, which he called “China Lied.” This is behind a paywall, but it’s worth it. Add to this his Wednesday night special a week ago, called “Arguing with (Chinese) Socialists,”  a smaller piece of which is available on Youtube. 

Screenshot from Glenn Beck, "Arguing with Chinese Socialists"

I’ve been following Bill Whittle’s daily updates on his video podcast The CoronaSphere Lounge. Episode 21 was titled, “Is theCoronavirus Man-Made?” It was in this one that he recommended “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus.” A few days later, on episode 24, he recommended “The Case Against China.” Most of the time Whittle's daily updates have been optimistic about our coming out of this soon, and rebounding. Anyway, he lays out the information well himself, drawing from other sources.

Outcomes

This CCP-caused pandemic happened while China had a treaty to behave as other civilized nations do.  In Britain, legislators pointed out, “Legally binding international healthcare regulations require states to provide full information on all potential pandemics. It appears likely that in its early response to the outbreak, [China failed to] uphold its obligations.”

So, what can be done to hold them accountable? Every country should pursue the Chinese government through international courts for the billions or trillions of dollars in coronavirus compensation. The G7 should hold China accountable for the trillions in economic impact that would have been avoided if the CCP had been honest about the outbreak immediately.

One lawsuit, by Texas lawyer Larry Klayman, was filed for $20 trillion against the Chinese government—a higher amount than China’s GDP. In the suit he must defend the allegations about it being China’s fault. He believes he can.

What courts can be used? The International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hong Kong courts, resolution of disputes through bilateral investment treaties, or the World Trade Organization.

Another likely way is more organic. Without any orders from above, people will refuse to buy products from China. The money that companies used to save by using cheaper labor in China will no longer be a savings if it causes them to lose buyers of their products.

Let’s be clear about one thing: the Chinese regime is led by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese people did not perpetrate this crime.

Screenshot from Glenn Beck's "China Lied"

We know from our long dealings with Hong Kong and Taiwan—as well as the many many Chinese who have become Americans—that the Chinese people are worth supporting. After so many decades under this murderous tyranny, a best outcome would be that holding the CCP accountable for this pandemic—both in lives lost and in economic costs—might lead to the overthrow of the regime.

The CCP can no longer play on the world stage among civilized nations. They have lost that right. But their people have, over the past couple of decades, seen some small sample of what freedom brings to the rest of the world. Perhaps they will no longer stand for this tyranny when it removes them from the trade that has boosted their standard of living so significantly. It would be sweet justice if this led to freedom for the Chinese people—and freedom from the CCP for the whole world.