“John Dillinger robbed here first.”

A few days ago, 99 and I were on the road for a project. We drove into a little town in Ohio named New Carlisle. It is near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base northeast of Dayton, and is about an hour’s drive west of Columbus.

The sharp-eyed 99 saw a little plaque on a building that housed a curio shop. The plaque noted the building once housed a bank, and the bank was the first bank John Dillinger ever robbed.

Photo by Author. Where John Dillinger Robbed First?

So I looked into the claim.

John Dillinger, a native of Indianapolis, grew up in Mooresville, Indiana. He was bright and hard-working, but bored. He stole a car, then enlisted in the Navy to avoid capture. He jumped ship, married a 16-year-old girl in 1924 when he was 21, and moved her from Mooresville, Indiana to Indianapolis.

He and a hood with a criminal record named Ed Singleton tried to rob a store in Mooresville, but the police caught them. Singleton hired a lawyer, lied, and pleaded innocent. Singleton was found guilty, and got a two-year sentence. Dillinger, on the advice of his father, owned up to the crime, showed up without a lawyer after the local prosecutor promised an easy sentence, and drew a 2 to 14 year sentence and another 10 to 20 year sentence for his honesty. Dillinger did 8-1/2 years in an Indiana prison; state officials paroled him in 1933. His wife divorced him before his parole.

THE  FBI’S LINE ON DILLINGER

According to the FBI website, this is what followed:

“His (Dillinger’s) period of infamy began on May 10, 1933, when he was paroled from prison after serving eight-and-a-half years of his sentence. Almost immediately, Dillinger robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Dayton (Ohio) police arrested him on September 22, and he was lodged in the county jail in Lima, Ohio to await trial.

(The government employee who wrote this forgot to note Bluffton and Lima are both in Allen County, Ohio. This would explain why cops jailed him there because it is the county seat, and the location of the county jail.)

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Memorial Day is a sad day on the nation’s calendar, as it is supposed to be a day of honoring those military people who died fighting to protect our nation and our way of life.

General John Logan, the leader of the Grand Army of the Republic, picked May 30 as the day Union war veterans and the public would honor the dead in the Civil War. The first Memorial Day in the Union states was May 30, 1868.

Robert E. Lee had to surrender what was left of the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox. He did so April 9, 1865. General Joseph Johnston, who had tried in vain to link up with Lee’s men near the North Carolina/Virginia border, surrendered his army and Rebels still under arms in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina to General William Tecumseh Sherman on April 26, 1865.

Rugged William Sherman (L) and crafty Joseph Johnston (R).

They became friends after the Civil War. 

Many Southerners viewed April 26 as the effective end of the Civil War. So families of Southern dead started decorating Rebel soldiers’ graves on that day. Other Southerners chose June 3, which was Jefferson Davis’ birthday, as a Decoration Day.

After World War One, when millions of Southerners and Northerners fought together under the American flag again, most Southerners started using May 30 to honor America’s war dead. They retained April 26 or June 3 for specifically honoring Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Those who attack Southern memorials today (except those for Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jeff Davis) are almost all scum. They are also conveniently ignorant of the truth that it was a war that drew almost full participation of the men of the South. Of the six million white people in the South, three million were males. Of these, 1.5 million mustered into the Confederacy’s armed services. This means virtually able bodied man from 16 to 40 served in the war. So Silent Sam is Everyman to Southerners whose ancestors were in the South during the Civil War.

The Rebels served a bad cause, but were courageous in the attempt. It took two of my relatives and 2.8 million other men who mustered for the Union to beat the Southerners. One had hard time in the Army of the Potomac. The other served under General Sherman.

By comparison, Americans suffered fewer deaths and beat the Germans and the Japanese in less time in World War Two. United Americans can do damn near anything.

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson and the Congress decided to make Memorial Day a Monday holiday for a three day weekend. LBJ, who helped in the murder of war hero John Kennedy, did more to demoralize the military of this nation than any other president. His inept and dishonest leadership of the military led to needless losses of American lives and failure in a winnable war.

Self satisfied college punks and their worthless profs fomented hatred against soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines. Leftist politicians like the Clintons and the vast majority of Democrats since the Carter Administration fed the hatred for the military.

LBJ died in 1973. The eternal flames marking his resting place are the fires of Hell.

My Memorial Day is still May 30. I’ll explain why a little later.

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Harvey Weinstein faces rape and other sex offense charges in New York City.  A Manhattan judge a few days ago arraigned Weinstein to inform him of charges against him. Weinstein posted $1 million in bail, surrendered his passport, and waddled out of court.

Earlier this year social justice bedwetters whined because the New York Police Department Special Victims’ Unit boss Michael Osgood, who went after Weinstein, donated more than $2000 to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Many of them want Osgood fired.

While Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, and other prominent leftists were committing rape, Trump as a businessman donated thousands of dollars to the NYPD so they could pay for posters identifying wanted rapists.

Sex offender Harvey Weinstein and woman beating sexual predator Eric Schneiderman

It’s up to you, New York, New York.

Osgood is an innovator in the policing of sex offense cases, and is responsible for the convictions of thousands of rapists, despite having to work with prosecutors in New York City who are leftist vermin.

Osgood’s men brought Harvey Weinstein in for questioning in 2015 after he tried to rape an Italian model named Ambra Battilana. Weinstein threatened the officers like the entitled pig that he is. Then his lawyer got ahold of the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (the son of Cyrus Vance the failed Secretary of State for the failed Jimmy Carter) and his minions in the Manhattan (New York County) District Attorney’s Office.

Per New York Magazine 3/19/2018, this:

“He (Weinstein) retained two lawyers with ties to the district attorney’s office, including Elkan Abramowitz, Vance’s former law partner and a donor to his campaign. To cement their access to Vance’s office, the lawyers hired Linda Fairstein, the former head of the DA’s Sex Crimes Unit and a close friend of Bashford’s.” (Martha Bashford is a chief sex crimes prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney.)

(How to be Your Own Detective teaching point: The writer looked up the backgrounds of the lawyers in the DA’s Office and their fellow obstructors of justice on Team Weinstein. Then the writer checked databases for donations Weinstein and his shysters made to the DA shysters and their political allies. The writer found out any relationships between Team Weinstein and the prosecutors. This is what you and I should do, and can. Especially follow the money and relationships trails when there are odd government official actions that fly in the face of justice.)

The DA’s people were so hateful to Miss Battilana (they essentially spied on her and asked her roommates if she was a prostitute) that Osgood and his men had to hide her out for several days from the leftist punks of the highly politicized Manhattan DA’s Office.

“Five days after he and his team sequestered Ambra Battilana in a hotel room to protect her from Vance’s office, she agreed to meet with Martha Bashford, the head of the DA’s sex crimes unit. Bashford didn’t inform the SVD, but Battilana’s lawyer did, and Osgood’s investigative team showed up at the attorney’s office before Bashford arrived.”

“During the meeting, according to Bock (a NYPD officer), Bashford grilled Battilana about her personal life — including one of the infamous sex parties thrown by Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi that she had attended. Battilana told Bashford that she and her friends had left as soon as the sex started. “The questioning was aggressive and accusatory,” Bock recalls. “Again, the victim was upset. She felt like she was under attack.”

Days later, Dem DA Vance and his pussy hat wearing prosecutor shysters decided not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein.

Osgood did not fold. Before and after actress Rose McGowan came forward against Harvey Weinstein late last year, he continued the investigation against the movie mogul perv. Since Ms. McGowan came forward, Osgood has investigated the cases of more than a dozen women who have come forward against Weinstein. (New York Magazine, 3/19/2018)

The social justice bedwetters remain silent about their leftist politicians. Vance and Ms. Bashford still have jobs, which the taxpayers of New York pay for. The social justice bedwetters, to include cop hater New York mayor De Blasio, are too busy attacking Donald Trump.

In fact, the social justice bedwetters were OK with former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman aka Eric Shysterman. According to a 5/7/2018 New Yorker article, one of his several victims was told to swallow it by other women she thought were her friends because they liked it that Schneiderman was also abusing his prosecutor powers to orchestrate multi-state lawsuits by crooked Democrat state attorneys-general against President Trump. Another of his victims kept quiet about the abuse because she also liked what he did as a politician.

How much is being said about Shysterman now? Crickets.

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Those who know history can profit by it … so today we are talking about military tribunals.

Some people know military men tried the conspirators behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Some people know military men tried the Nazi and Japanese war criminals of World War Two.

It might be time to re-introduce military tribunals to America to protect the public from government criminals.

It turns out Obama’s former CIA chief John Brennan, a Moslem with Communist Party sympathies, was almost certainly the “mastermind” behind all the anti-Trump spying. He reportedly directed an “inter-agency task force” comprising of key people in the CIA, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, top people in the FBI and elsewhere in the Justice Department, and figures from other government agencies, the Hillary campaign, and the Obama White House.

Clapper has defended the spying as beneficial.

President Trump calls it “SpyGate.”

The Deep State spy effort against Mr. Trump was as beneficial to him as the New England Patriots’ spying on other teams was to the other teams’ success against the Patriots.

British and Australian officials worked with the Obama Administration conspirators and the Hillary campaign conspirators against Mr. Trump and his people. The CIA evidently ran a spy operation against Mr. Trump on American soil, which is clearly illegal. Top officials in the FBI broke many laws in giving Hillary a pass for her illegal server, and giving her a pass for essentially selling 20% of our uranium reserves to the Putin regime in exchange for about $150 million for her foundation.

In fact, anti-Trump special prosecutor Robert Gestapo Mueller and DOJ No. 2 Rod Rosenstein, who hired Mueller to take down Trump by conducting illegal and unethical prosecutions against his associates, were key FBI and Justice Dept. officials who let Hillary sell the Russians access to our uranium, which is used in making nuclear bombs. Andrew McCabe, the former No. 2 in the FBI, and James Comey, the former FBI chief after Gestapo Mueller, were also involved in the radioactive Putin uranium grab that had Hillary’s approval.

There is some reporting that Rosenstein was blackmailed into picking Gestapo Mueller.

There is some reporting there were multiple spies assigned to infiltrate or otherwise check on Mr. Trump and his people … and these spies drew government paychecks your taxes paid for.

There is an air of defiance on the part of the criminals. They believe they or their lawyers or their judge friends or their friends still in government, and their friends in the media, and Soros money, street criminals and leftist lawyers will help them escape punishment for their crimes.

There are a lot of FBI people and CIA people and DOJ people with weapons and explosives and the ability to press criminal and civil charges against whistleblowers and other opponents of the Deep State who are sympathetic to the lawbreakers.

There are a lot of corrupt lawyers who are friends of the lawbreakers in prosecutor and judge positions throughout the federal court system. They also have the ability to bring charges against whistleblowers and other opponents of the Deep State.

Civil service laws protect these enemies of the Republic even when they are blatant lawbreakers. IRS harpy Lois Lerner escaped with her pension despite her spying on Americans and breaking tax laws. Veterans Administration officials who let our veterans die untreated kept their jobs and got bonuses. Obama’s BATFags gave guns to Mexican drug gangs, who then used them to kill Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. And the Department of Homeland Security has too many quislings and obstructionists in its management.

The government official class protect each other and exploit We the People for budgets, salaries, and pensions.

Clapper lied about the extent of snooping the Obama Administration did on Americans in the wake of the Edward Snowden fiasco. Many people in the government and the media are blackmail targets.

Those who are not blackmail targets have loved ones they would like to see live free from harm.

There are foreign governments in England and Australia and Russia sympathetic to the lawbreakers, and whose agents and officials assisted them in their lawbreaking. Two of the nations have atomic bombs. The British have a history of duplicity against America more than 200 years old. The Russians haven’t stopped making trouble for America since the Communists overthrew the democratic Kerensky Government in November 1917.

Despite their ugliness and demented looks, these are not Hillary supporters. But they were kindred spirits. These were female Nazi prison camp guards who would answer for their crimes.

The Deep Staters have also evidently acted illegally against the will of the voters of most of the states of the Union in spying on Mr. Trump, lying about him, targeting him and his associates for criminal or civil prosecution illegally, and conspiring with foreign powers to do so. Their acts of sedition have been aimed at overthrowing the civilian order in this nation, which is like a military threat in that they used spies and force and foreign government agents to attempt the putsch against the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, and the Trump Administration.

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Every day of President Donald Trump’s administration is a civics lesson in just how corrupt the established order in this nation really is.

The report of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is days away from release. It promises to be an excrement fest for the top crooks in the FBI, the Justice Department, and other agencies full of Democrat operatives and other corrupt payrollers.

In advance of the report, some interesting things are coming out in the news.

The New York Times and other sources are admitting the FBI placed a spy in the Trump presidential campaign, even before they faked a dossier to get FISA warrants to spy on President Trump by spying on his people. (Breitbart 5/18/2018, 5/19/2018)

“The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena — officials said. And at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos (peripheral Trump campaign people),” the Times reported, citing “current and former officials.”

According to the Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberley Strassel, the source meant “the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.”

“This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting,” she wrote in a piece last Thursday.” (Breitbart 5/16/2018)

And this:

“Both the (New York) Times and The (Washington) Post reported that agents sent an informant — an American academic who teaches in Britain — to meet with advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, seeking to probe their alleged Russia ties. He paid Papadopoulos $3,000 for a paper on a gas dispute in the Mediterranean and for a trip to London for them to speak.

The Post also reported that he met with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis, offering to provide foreign policy expertise to the Trump campaign.” (Fox News, 5/20/2018)

Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who lied before Congress, says the FBI’s illegal spying on the Trump campaign was a good idea.

Clapper got Comey to tell President-elect Trump about the totally false Clinton-Steele “pee” dossier, so he could tip his soon-to-be employers at CNN, so they could talk about the “pee” dossier in an attempt to smear Mr. Trump so forces in the government could think about removing him from office. Clapper lied about leaking the “pee” dossier, but later admitted to doing so. (The Hill, 4/27/2018)

John Brennan, the former Communist and current Moslem CIA director under Obama, reportedly had a secret group trying to break down Michael Flynn, who was slated to be Donald Trump’s national security adviser. He, instead of Clapper and Comey, actually launched the illegal investigations against Mr. Trump in 2016, and got them to do their own lawbreaking with illegal probes and leaks of their own. (Real Clear Politics, 5/17/2018, Big League Politics, 5/17/2018)

Supposedly blackmailers forced Justice Department No. 2 Rod Rosenstein into appointing Robert (Gestapo) Mueller the Nazi as the Special Counsel in charge of the Trump/Russia/everything else snipe hunt. (Big League Politics, 5/17/2018)

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Before we get started, let me wish all of you moms, starting with my lovely wife 99, a Happy Mother’s Day.

Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, Elisabeth the mother of John the Baptist, Hannah the mother of Samuel, the mother who died a martyr with her seven sons per the Second Book of Maccabees, Helena the mother of Constantine, Monica the mother of Augustine, and so many other women throughout history made it possible for the world to improve by being great mothers to children.

Your sons and daughters might not be remembered in history books, but the good they do in their communities is a tribute to the sound example you gave them, moms.

The selfless love of mothers holds the fabric of civilization together.

After I turned 50, some younger people asked me what I was thinking. I said I was thinking of my Mom, struggling to give birth to me in the wee hours of the night 50 years earlier, and all the work she did to raise my brothers and sisters and me. (Libby, aka Elizabeth Liberty, one of my sisters, died as a very little girl …. but I count her too.) I said I was also thinking of my Dad, who worked so hard to support all of us and who was tough and honorable.

DEM POLITICIANS AND RAPIST CAMPAIGN BIG WHEEL

Now to the learning topic for today — checking on workers and volunteers. We have a page on the website for doing background checks. But people refuse to check and get rudely surprised.

Alabama judge Sue Bell Cobb, a Democrat candidate for governor of that state, is wetting herself today because one of her campaign workers is a convicted rapist who was caught violating sex offender address notification and keeping distance from children laws.

I copied this article from the 5/12/2018 AL.com website so you can read for yourself how leftist judges and other leftist politicians cover for vicious rapists.

“A paid staffer working on former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb’s gubernatorial campaign resigned on Friday, one day after he was charged by authorities for violating the state’s sex offender registration and notification act.

Cobb, on Saturday following a Democratic governor’s forum in Mobile, told AL.com that she “accepted” the resignation of Paul Littlejohn III, who was released from prison in 2014 after serving 30 years for a rape and sodomy offense in 1984.

But Cobb continued to defend Littlejohn’s character, while criticizing his arrest as “politically motivated.” Littlejohn had been serving as Cobb campaign’s Jefferson County field director.

(Jefferson County is the keyest county in Alabama. It is where Birmingham and its suburbs are.)

“It’s as politically motivated of a charge as I’ve seen,” Cobb said, noting that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is headed up by a Republican Sheriff Mike Hale. “Why? The Republicans don’t want to run against Sue Bell Cobb. Governor Ivey doesn’t want to run against Sue Bell Cobb. They found that as an opportunity to take advantage of information that had been sent out into the public forum.”

Sue Bell Cobb is a sow who refers to herself in the third person.

She said an arrest warrant was issued after she held a news conference defending Littlejohn’s character after news reports surfaced about his background.

Cobb also said that the Littlejohn first learned about the charges by a TV news reporter.

“A reporter called him,” she said. “Does that sound right to you? No that doesn’t sound right.”

(Comment: Cobb is a lying pig. Her solid man Littlejohn knew he was breaking the law by not registering his address properly and by being around children at a church daycare center.)

Cobb added, “I know there are people who are concerned. But it’s based on false information that was put into the public forum by people wanting to make sure that I’m not elected.”

Randy Christian, chief deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, said Littlejohn was arrested for “breaking the law” by a sheriff’s investigator.

“He (the investigator) was doing his job, plain and simple, and doing it well,” Christian said in a statement to AL.com. “How sad that a candidate for governor supports a convicted sex offender over sexual assault victims.”

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Here’s some stories you may have missed recently if you depend upon the Trump haters in the media — the  lunatic mainstream news organizations — for your info:

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FBI THWARTED BY DRONE-USING HOSTAGE GANG

The corruptocrats of the FBI admit a criminal gang used drones to spy on them while they were involved in a hostage situation. This meant the criminal gang kept the hostage. The FBI would not say where the event took place, or if they were later able to rescue the victim. So we must conclude they were unprepared and the hostage is either still a captive or is dead.

Why didn’t they use shotguns to shoot down the drones? Or lasers to scramble them?

The FBI has spent too much time spying on Donald Trump and other patriots, and not enough time on basic crime fighting. They have crapped their drawers on 9/11, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the San Bernardino Shooting, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the Fort Hood Shooter, for starters.

The FBI is viciously suppressing the truth about the Las Vegas shooters. Yes, shooters. As in more than one, in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, operated by Moslem-friendly management. Was it yet another FBI/BATF sting gone wrong, like the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Are you aware the FBI was kept out of the Al Capone case?

President Hoover snubbed his namesake J. Edgar Hoover and instead tapped the Treasury Department to take out the evil mob boss. Using a ledger seized in a raid on one of Capone’s businesses, tax agent Frank Wilson put together a tax evasion case against Scarface. Meanwhile T-man Eliot Ness and his Untouchables raided Capone distilleries. They smashed or seized alcohol making equipment and alcohol, cutting down on the crime boss’ income and diverting his attention away from Wilson. Eventually they brought Capone to trial in front of Judge James Wilkerson, who switched out a tampered jury to stop Capone’s crooked plan to beat the prosecution.

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“Greedy Abortionist Slices and Dices Young Woman’s Organs”

How many of you heard about a New York City abortionist who is going to prison for killing a woman with an abortion?

Almost none of you. Admit it.

In fact, there was only one writer covering the case when it started.

Her name? Lauren Handy.

She was a volunteer for Operation Rescue, a pro-life outfit whose people specialize in getting abortion providers’ licenses revoked because they are bad doctors who not only kill the unborn, but all too often hurt or kill women and girls in the process.

Here is one such story stemming from her coverage.

“The criminal manslaughter case goes to the jury today after often emotional and sometimes shocking closing arguments were presented by the prosecution and the defense against abortionist Robert Rho, who is accused of causing the death of Jaime Lee Morales, 30 during a fatally botched in the 26th week of her pregnancy.

If convicted of Second Degree Manslaughter, Rho could face up to 15 years in prison.

Closing arguments began late-morning when Rho’s nervous and visibly sweating Lichtman rose to address the jury.

Lichtman’s spoke for over an hour. His presentation was extemporaneous and racially manipulative. He asked the jury to view the evidence with an open eye and an open heart.

“America is a great country and everyone deserves a fair trial,” he said. “History has shown there have been ties of unfairness, like slavery.”

The jury was comprised of four women and eleven men. Out of those 15 jurors, four were white and the rest were people of color. It was obvious that Lichtman was making an emotional appeal to the non-white jurors for sympathy for Rho, who is of Asian descent.

Lichtman described how most of the prosecution’s witnesses had lied or purposely left out key facts. He attacked the honesty of a Queens homicide detective and implied that the damaging testimony from Morales’ sister earlier in the trial could not be trusted.

He warned the jury that the prosecutor would present to them sensational facts about how they found a fetus in a garbage bag “to sway your emotion.”

“It’s a modern-day lynching!” Lichtman cried, appealing once again to the jurors of color.

Lichtman’s primary argument seemed to be that Morales had failed to give her full medical history at the time of her abortion, including the fact she suffered from lupus, an autoimmune disease that could result in bruising and excess bleeding. He opined that the blood found pooled in her skull and the bruises found on her legs was evidence she was having a lupus episode at the time of her fatal abortion.

However, earlier testimony indicated that Morales had passed out in the bathroom – most likely from blood loss – and bumped her head as she fell. Bruising to her legs occurred when Rho’s female staff struggled to lift Morales, who was unconscious, into a wheelchair.

Lichtman attempted to persuade the jury that there was some sort of conspiracy of lies to hide the facts about the lupus, and that the family was just trying to make money through a civil lawsuit against Rho.

“Don’t let these lies be buried forever,” Lichtman begged the jury in conclusion of his closing arguments.

Next, prosecutor Brad Leventhal addressed the jury for the final time.

“Jaime Morales isn’t dead because she had lupus,” he began. “She’s dead because the defendant ripped a 7 ½ – inch hole the size of a fist in her uterus.”

Leventhal then replayed the security video from inside Rho’s abortion facility on the day of Morales’ abortion. It showed her limp head falling back as she sat unconscious in a wheelchair just prior to being discharged.

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President Trump’s term of office has been an ongoing civics lesson.

Mr. Trump’s foes in the Democrat and Republican parties and in the federal government and in state governments and in academia and the entertainment businesses, and in corporate America have attacked him without letup since the day he declared he was running for president in 2015.

Mr. Trump has gotten big business people like the Koch Brothers and the Chamber of Commerce to admit they want to break the wage scale by flooding the country with lesser foreigners. This includes those in the tech fields.

Mr. Trump has gotten the entire Democrat Party to admit they prefer illegal aliens to Americans in jobs and in civil liberties. The Dems don’t care many of the illegals are also robbers, rapists, and murderers. As long as they take welfare and vote Democrat, the Dems are on their side.

Mr. Trump has gotten the entire Democrat Party and many Republicans to admit they consider his sexual playboy past far worse than selling one-fifth of our uranium reserves to the Russians.

Hillary bagged about $150 million for this act of treason, which FBI chiefs Robert Mueller and James Comey and Justice Department honchos Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein let her get away with. If any one of them had blown the whistle, she would have been in hot water. Instead, by being bribed with money or tenure, or by being blackmailed, these four men were complicit in the coverup.

PROSECUTORS HAVE TO NOTIFY DEFENDANTS OF CHARGES

Russian operatives, or more properly, American lawyers they hired, understand except in very unusual circumstances, a defendant in a civil or a criminal case has to be served (notified of charges) before a case can proceed.

The Dem logo is false. Instead of a cracked bell, it needs to show a cracked pot.

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I have been very busy in two ongoing investigations and have not had any spare time to post up to the standards you as my readers deserve. So pardon for the delay.

I’m not a moviegoer for the same reason I don’t watch much TV except for classics like “Perry Mason,” “The Untouchables,” “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” and “The Avengers.”

Most movies suck. Just like most TV sucks. They aren’t making pictures like “On the Waterfront” or “Judgment at Nuremberg” anymore.

But my wife and I did take some time recently to see “Paul, Apostle of Christ.”

ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE

I’ve never been a big fan of Saint Paul. I admire him as a man of God and a martyr for the Faith. But his Epistles are not my favorite parts of the New Testament. He wrote more like a lawyer than an instructor, and he seemed prouder than the other Epistle writers. Luke is my favorite New Testament author, and I prefer the simpler epistles of Peter, John, and James to Paul’s works.

But the people who made this movie understood what made Paul tick, and what made him the Apostle to the Gentiles. They also displayed a lot of understanding about courage, revenge, and the purpose of Christianity.

The story line is as follows:

Paul is in prison in Rome, in the aftermath of the great fire Emperor Nero started to burn out the poor so he could build a larger palace in the burned-out area. The fire happened in 64 AD; it is now 67 AD.

(Note to the politically correct: I don’t use CE like we’re supposed to now. AD means “Year of Our Lord.” CE means “Clinton excuses” or “consume excrement.”)

The Romans were angry about the fire, so Nero blamed it on the Christians. This led to a savage persecution that saw Roman soldiers murder Christians on the streets, and round them up for torture and death in the Coliseum. Nero even had Christians rubbed with tar and lit afire to serve as human torches.

The Apostle Paul, who has come to Rome to appeal a conviction the authorities in the Holy Land slapped on him, is caught up in the persecution. He is not sentenced to death by being fed to wild animals in the Coliseum, but by beheading because he is a Roman citizen.

Luke (Jim Caviezel) arrives in Rome during this terrible time. He is writing the Book of Acts and wants Paul’s insights. Even though Luke knows Paul well and has worked with him, he wants to get Paul to tell his story from the beginning.

Paul and Luke. A still from “Paul, Apostle of Christ”

Luke makes his way to the shut-in and guarded Christian quarter of Rome. Aquila and Priscilla, the “first couple” of the Christian community, tell him about Paul’s predicament. They are worried sick. Aquila is thinking of spiriting the Christians out of Rome until the persecution dies down. Priscilla argues only by staying in Rome can they show the example of Christian love to the other Romans so they can become Christians and stop their wanton cruelty and licentiousness.

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