What heavier fate is it than to bear the weight of a people upon your back?

It’s tough enough being a soldier in war … your death could come at any time, and painfully.

But just imagine the added burden of knowing your soldiers depended upon your leadership, and your people depended upon your courage and your decision-making to throw off their chains and become free.

This is why every liberator is a hero to his people … those who appreciate the burdens they had to carry to make it possible for them to live free rightly give them this honor. George Washington, Michael Collins, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Jomo Kenyatta all have earned such adulation.

So have men like Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. Poles and Czechs may question the day-to-day decisions they make in running their nations, but they appreciate the sacrifices these men made. Even Boris Yeltsin has won many admirers for his courage in preventing the Communists from regripping the throats of the Russian people.

Irish patriot Wolfe Tone said it so well in court, as he awaited execution at the hands of British tyrants, “In a case like this, success is everything. Success, in the eyes of the vulgar, fixes its merits. Washington succeeded, and Kosciusko (who fought in vain to prevent the murder of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and the Hapsburg Empire) failed. Tone tried to escape the public ritual torture murder that the British used on rebels by committing suicide in his cell. He died in agony of his self-inflicted wounds.

However, people who are more substantial do appreciate the sacrifices people like Wolfe Tone made. Joan of Arc has special meaning to the French, even though she was captured, treated immorally, and burned publicly. Kosciusko, Imre Nagy, Alexander Dubcek, Toussaint L’Overture, Francisco Miranda, and the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Polish National Uprising a year later, the Hungarian Uprising, and the Irish Troubles all receive today the respect of those who appreciate what they tried to do for their people. And Ireland and Poland are free, many years after Tone and Kosciusko bled for them.

This is why the Maccabees are so special to the Jews . This whole FAMILY — several generations of it — took upon themselves the burdens of war, courage, and decision-making. They kept the Jews free from foreign enslavement so they could worship God and live freely.

The predicament of the Jews that led to the Maccabees’ emergence had its roots in the empire of Alexander the Great. He divided his empire among his key officers before he died. But then they and their successors fought among themselves to be rulers of all the others. So the Jews, whose land of Israel was between Syria and Egypt, was a battleground for rulers from these two areas. Thanks to these pagan egotists, the Jews became prisoners, and their homeland became a plundered and scavenged wasteland.

The persecution of the Jews for resisting pagan oppression was intolerable. People who kept the Jewish faith were starved to death, or were tortured fiendishly and executed. Men who had scrolls of the Law were stabbed to death. Mothers who had their babies circumcised were put to death, and their murdered babies were hung from their necks. The pagan rulers defiled the Temple and used it for orgies and drunken revelry. Under such pressure, many Jews gave up their faith.

Mattathias the priest decided to fight the pagans. He and his sons defied the ruler’s command to sacrifice to pagan idols, then one day in the streets of his hometown, he and his sons publicly killed the ruler’s officer who demanded them to submit, and challenged the other Jews to join them in a war to liberate their nation.

From the hill country of Israel, Mattathias and his sons waged guerrilla warfare against the pagan invaders and the Jews who had sold out. His son Judas was such a good leader in combat that he earned the nickname “Maccabeus” (Hebrew for “hammerer) … and the people soon started calling the whole family “The Maccabees.”

Rubens’ Painting of Judas Maccabee 

When Mattathias was about to die, he gathered his sons around him and said, “Arrogance and scorn have now grown strong … My sons, be zealous for the Law and give your lives for the covenant of our fathers … Gather about you all who observe the Law, and you shall avenge the wrongs of your people. Pay back the pagans what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the Law.” He blessed them all and then died.

Judas and his brothers led the Jews to victory against the pagans. In 164 BC, they liberated Jerusalem, and purified the Temple that the pagans had defiled. For eight days Judas and his men celebrated the purification of the Temple and the dedication of its altar … and the small cruet of oil that was supposed to keep the holy lamps lit for only one day kept the Temple illuminated for eight. (Even today, the Jews commemorate this miracle with the holy week of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights.)

Judas also led prayers for his dead soldiers, to ensure their souls would be pure so they could eventually reach Heaven. The author of the Second Book of Maccabees (2 Macc, 12: 43-46) noted, “In doing this (praying for the dead and taking up a collection for their widows and orphans), he (Judas) acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view… For if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useful and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid award that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin.”

(The books of Maccabees are in the Catholic Bible. Luther opposed them, in part because the above text supports the Catholic and Orthodox belief in Purgatory for the deceased who avoid Hell, but are not saintly enough yet to merit instant entry into Heaven.)

Judas would live only four years more. The pagan armies from Israel’s hostile neighbors never quit trying to invade Israel. Judas and his men would spend the rest of their lives in almost constant warfare against these would-be oppressors.

Even in death Judas was unconquered. His little army was approached by so many invaders that most of his men fled. His captains tried to talk him into retreating, but he replied, “If our time has come, let us die bravely for our kinsmen and not leave a stain on our glory!”

Judas rallied his men, restored their discipline, and formed them into fighting formations. He died in hand-to-hand combat even as his little group was pushing back a force ten times its size.

The Books of Maccabees chronicle how the family members kept taking upon themselves the responsibility of keeping the Jews free. When a Maccabee died, there was another one as brave and as talented to take his place. Judas’ brothers, and the succeeding generations of Maccabees kept the Jews free until almost the time of Christ, when they fell under the power of Rome. Herod the Great (traitor) gave up his faith, betrayed his fellow Jews, and served as the Romans’ puppet princeling. Herod’s men killed John Hyrcanus, the last of the Maccabees.

What the Books of Maccabees do not say is the hardships the Maccabee women endured. We’ll dwell a little on that here.

You ladies out there … imagine being the wife or sweetheart of a Maccabee – a man who had pledged his life to the freedom of your people. Undoubtedly you would be proud … but always fearful for his safety, for he could fall in battle at almost any time. And when your man did die in combat, you had to be prepared to raise your children without him, and carry on as best you could.

But think of how the women in the Maccabees’ lives helped their husbands in their work by being mistresses on the home front … raising children, organizing alms for those whose men who died in battle, bringing charm and love and commitment to their men’s lives , making their men’s lives that much more worth living.

Think also of how well the Maccabee women raised successive generations of Maccabee children. The sons and grandsons and great-grandsons and great-great-grandsons of Judas Maccabee and his brothers did their part to preserve the Jews’ liberty and their freedom to worship God … and they wouldn’t have had the morality to make this choice nor the character to stick with it if their mothers weren’t there day after day teaching them right from wrong and encouraging them to do what was right. The Maccabee women made sure the children would grow into decent adults who would do what their people needed them to do.

The Maccabees should be special not only to the Jews, but to us all, because we as Christians owe them so much. They kept the faith of the Jews alive so they could fulfill their destiny as the only people who worshiped and spread the word of the True God, the people from whom Christ would come into the world, and the people who would provide Him with the apostles and disciples He would need to establish Christianity and make it spread. Even today, they are shining examples of righteous anger and resistance to unjust power, and are examples of wise leaders who liberated their people and tried to lead them according to basic God-given morality instead of the latest silly and sinful tread of the day.

My own Dad, a tough man who served his country in World War II, told me when he was a boy, he got to meet relatives who fought in Ireland’s wars of liberation against the British. He said it was an honor to meet men who had volunteered to carry the cause and the fate of a people on their backs.

This is what the Maccabees mean to the Jews … and should mean to all of us who choose to follow the faith of the Messiah for Whom they prayed and fought so zealously.

SHERLOCK JUSTICE

WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.

Last week’s news provided another lesson on the use of the public record, and why forcing info out of the shadows and into public record is a threat to those who do wrong.

Most communications between government officials and others are public record, with some exceptions. Most exceptions relate to national security, a person’s privacy if not being prosecuted by government officials, ongoing criminal investigations to protect witnesses or informants and avoid alerting the suspects or slandering them by releasing info that is not true, trade secrets companies may have to disclose in applying for licenses or government contracts, and the like.

However, hookup text messages between adulterous government agents using taxpayer-provided phones don’t merit privacy or protection under the Freedom of Information Act. In other words, if enquiring minds want to know, they can find out if they file FOIA requests, and have some patience and some high-priced legal backup to fight off government stonewalling.

Fox News reported Justice Department Inspector General agents got ahold of the content of numerous text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

Peter Strzok was the FBI’s “Deputy Head of Counterintelligence.”

But his other head got in the way. Strzok was in the briefs of FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Literally. They were cheating with each other on their respective spouses.

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The results of the doomed Roy Moore campaign proves Republican officeholders and candidates will stand accused of spurious sexual charges because the tactic works.

Roy Moore was not a good candidate. But he would have won if the accusations he molested underage girls had not sunk him.

Moore’s people proved most of the allegations were laughably false and most of the women who accused him of illegal conduct had reputations as liars. But Moore admitted as a 30-something guy coming out of the military he dated young women just out of high school. (A lot of men who served in the military while others stayed home and snapped up all the eligible females in their age bracket pursued younger women if they wanted to raise families.) Although what Moore did is perfectly legal, it didn’t sit well with enough people, so they believed it could be true he went after underage girls.

Leading Democrats and Hollywood people, most of whom are okay with Roman Polanski raping 13-year-old girls in jacuzzis, and almost all of whom are okay with Bill Clinton visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s “Island of Underage Girls” multiple times with taxpayer-provided Secret Service protection, called Moore a pervert. So did many in his own party. Enough people voted write-in or didn’t vote that it cost the controversial Moore the election.

So Republican candidates should expect the sex card to be played against them.

If I was a politician, I wouldn’t wait to be falsely accused of anything. Or if I was a political consultant, I wouldn’t let my candidates wait to be falsely accused of anything. (I would have vetted them first.)

As a politician or as a consultant, I would fight back in a way that will help the nation’s children and young women. I would start a comprehensive push for protection of children and young women from sexual predators. The elements of my plan are as follows:

1. FIGHT AGAINST “RAPERATIONS.”

IMMEDIATELY DIRECT FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS TO FILE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEFS AGAINST THOSE WHO GOT A RULING DECLARING COLORADO’S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” AND SETTING UP TAXPAYERS TO HAVE TO PAY “RAPERATIONS” TO CONVICTED RAPISTS.

The case in question is the Millard, Knight, and Vega vs. Michael Rankin and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation case. In this case, federal judge Richard Matsch ruled Colorado’s sex offender registry is unconstitutional. If allowed to stand, this crazy or corrupt ruling will be the ACLU’s next gold rush. They will sue for the hundreds of thousands of convicted sexual predators and seize billions of dollars from taxpayers for lawyer fees. They want to remove the protection from women and children further by killing the registries that alert the public to stay away from these perverted convicts.

This ruling and ACLU lawyers and others who support it for mercenary reasons must be destroyed. Sex offender registries must be protected because they spotlight sex offenders, and warn the public to stay away from rapists.

2. ALL STATES, LOCALITIES, COLLEGES, TRIBES, AND THE MILITARY MUST PROVIDE ACCURATE INFORMATION ON SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHER CRIMINALS TO THE FBI ON PAIN OF PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION.

Mandate criminal prosecution and punishment of bureaucratic violators if these laws are not already on the books. Devin Kelley was able to obtain guns and murder Texas churchgoers due to failures of military, local law enforcement and prosecutor, and public school officials to punish him for sex offenses and/or report same to the FBI. Government dereliction-abetted crimes must cease.

3. ALL STATE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES OFFICIALS MUST ENSURE SCREENING OUT OF SEX OFFENDERS FOR FOSTER PARENT ROLES ON PAIN OF PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION.

I have uncovered such cases in Virginia and Illinois. California officials recently admitted 1000 or so children were placed in foster homes with sex offenders. An aide to Illinois governor Bruce Rauner admitted the same was true in his state when he talked with me in 2016. This must end; penalties to government violators and foster home sex offenders must be very severe.

4. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MUST MAKE A NATIONAL DATABASE OF TEACHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ACCUSED OF SEXUAL OFFENSES AND OTHER CRIMES AND WHAT THE OUTCOMES OF THE CASES WERE. EACH STATE MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL EFFORT WITH THEIR OWN STATE DATABASE.

These databases would enable school districts to avoid hiring offenders, and allows parents to force school districts to purge their sex offenders and stop hiring new ones. I made such a proposal to the U.S. Department of Education in 2002, and can provide it for any elected official’s perusal and for any candidate’s perusal. Likewise, there should be background checks done on school employees at their expense every year, with criminal penalties for school employees and administrators who don’t undergo the checks or fail to ensure the checks are done 100%.

(Jeff Dobrozsi, a staffer for Ohio congressman John Boehner, whined I was proposing a national blacklist for teachers. I cheerfully and profanely confirmed his suspicions. Keep scumbags away from kids, I said. Bush 43’s people spent a million dollars to get a flawed study on sexual assault in schools instead of spending that money to set up a database to protect children.)

5. EACH STATE SHOULD ENACT A LAW MAKING SEX OFFENDERS PAY FOR THEIR MONITORING AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 1/40 THE COST OF HIRING AND MAINTAINING A MID-LEVEL STATE TROOPER IN THEIR STATES.

This will allow each trooper to check on 40 sex offenders multiple times each year and give him or her the time and resources to make the sex offender registries as error-free as possible. This is like requiring people to have car insurance, and DUI convicts have to pay much more due to the elevated risks they pose. I have done the analysis on such a database and can provide it for any elected official’s or candidate’s perusal.

6. EACH STATE SHOULD MAKE A LAW REQUIRING REALTORS TO DISCLOSE TO PEOPLE IF THEY INTEND TO SELL PROPERTY TO A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER WITHIN STATUTORY REPORTING DISTANCE OF THEIR HOMES AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE CLOSING.

This would give people time to outbid or organize to protect their children and young women. We have gotten such a measure approved by the Ohio legislature’s constitutionality lawyers. We can provide it for any elected official’s or candidate’s perusal. No realtor whore should be able to dump rapists near children for profit.

Likewise, each legislature and Congress should expand anti-blockbusting laws to keep dishonest speculators from dropping sex offenders into neighborhoods to depress property values and trigger short sales.

7. MAKE IT ILLEGAL ON PENALTY OF INCARCERATION TO DESTROY RECORDS OF GOVERNMENT SEXUAL ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS. L.A. Unified School District lawyers destroyed 20 years of their district’s sex offender records to cheat abused children out of settlements. Washington school officials have been caught doing likewise. This must cease everywhere.

8. KILL THE CONGRESSIONAL SEX ABUSER SLUSH FUND, OUT THOSE WHO USED IT TO PAY OFF VICTIMS, RECOUP THE MONEY FROM THOSE WHO USED IT, AND HAVE THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL OR STATE PROSECUTORS LOOK AT PROSECUTING THOSE STILL PROSECUTABLE WITHIN THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

If there are any similar funds to protect state or local officials, do likewise with these.

9. MAKE A NATIONAL DATABASE, REQUIRING INPUT FROM ALL STATES’ JURISDICTIONS, OF CRIMINAL ARRESTS AND CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EACH STATE MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL EFFORT WITH THEIR OWN STATE DATABASE.

It might be easier to take some confidential info out of the NCIC database police use now to make a “little brother” database that is legal for public viewing. This will help parents, young women, and even gun dealers, as they all can screen those who come in contact with children and themselves, and those who want to buy firearms. This way, the public can backstop the government and independently protect themselves.

10. CONGRESS SHOULD LOOK AT RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION FROM ALL NATIONS WHERE CULTURAL AND LEGAL PRACTICES OF PROTECTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL ABUSE ARE ABSENT OR IGNORED.

CONGRESS SHOULD END THE SHAMEFUL PRACTICE OF ALLOWING GROUPS TO GAIN LUCRATIVE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS TO DUMP ALIENS FROM NATIONS WITH CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS THAT CLASH WITH AMERICAN VALUES INTO AREAS WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE RESIDENTS.

Restricting immigration and relocation in such fashion will prevent the rapes and assaults such people commit against women and children in this nation.

11. CONGRESS SHOULD WORK WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP TO CLEAR ALL SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE WRONGFULLY PUNISHED FOR DEFENDING RAPE VICTIMS WHILE IN THE SERVICE.

Some of our fighting men in Afghanistan received punishment for smashing Afghan officials who raped boys. Of course, this happened when Barack Obama was president and the gutless in his military chains of command kowtowed to Barack’s civilian appointees instead of doing the right thing and protecting their fighting men.

12. EACH STATE SHOULD CLEAR ITS SEX OFFENDER DATA BASES OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT BE THERE. This includes those who bureaucratic errors put there, and those who were guilty of acts such as public urination or 19-year-olds being with 17-year-olds who were overcharged by prosecutors. Concentrate on putting the mark of Cain on those who chose to prey upon victims.

Now why would this help Republican candidates more than Democrat candidates?

Most predators who have political protection are Democrats. The groups who most protect sex offenders, like teacher unions, the ACLU, trial lawyers, and immigrant frontists, are leftists. The Democrats could do the right thing too, and push for these policies, but their pressure groups and big money donors would have tantrums.

Candidates and office holders who support the above agenda can legitimately accuse anyone who opposes the majority of the above agenda as being soft on child molesters and other rapists. Most of the opposers will be Democrats …. and there will be some guilty GOPers in this group too. The goofs will out themselves so the public can purge them.

Homeland security begins when women and children are protected. These proposals will help people in each state protect their women and children. Feel free to push these with your own elected officials and candidates.

UPDATE – The Hill, a left-of-center publication, on Friday (12/15) published a story saying Gloria Allred’s daughter Lisa Bloom got a woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual harassment in 1997 (and dropped her suit without getting a settlement) $30,000 or so from Democrat donors to rehash her unproven charges. The Hill’s writers also said Lisa Bloom offered another woman about $750,000 to accuse Trump of making unwanted sexual advances to her in the early 1990s.

(Bear in mind Gloria Allred produced a forged signature and message on a high school yearbook to try to slime Roy Moore. The poisoned fruit doesn’t fall far from the rotten tree.)

The woman apparently thought Trump would make a better president than Hillary. When Lisa Bloom mentioned money, she may have decided to play the radical feminist lawyer to see how high she would go. The woman said Ms. Bloom offered $750,000 two days before the 2016 presidential election for her to publicly accuse Mr. Trump of sexual improprieties. The woman turned Ms. Bloom down.

The Hill’s reporters said this woman said she talked to the Hill because she was angry Lisa Bloom would defend (for money, of course) sexual abuser movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and try to slime his many accusers.

The Hill’s reporters also noted Lisa Bloom said some women who were willing to accuse Mr. Trump publicly wanted smaller amounts of money. Ms. Bloom said other women who were willing to accuse Mr. Trump publicly wanted larger amounts of money. Why sell yourself cheap?

The Hill’s reporters said they saw messages and documents to validate the woman’s story. Lisa Bloom hasn’t denied it.

Actually it is good advertising on Lisa’s part, because she gets a cut of any moneys the donors would pay to have a woman come out against President Trump or any other public official the Left or the Deep State or the Establishment Republicans want to target. The truth is there is plenty of money available for those women who are willing to lie if it will hurt President Trump or any other target of the Left or the Deep State or the GOP Establishment.

SHERLOCK JUSTICE

WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.

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The info about Gloria Allred and the yearbook comes from a 12/8/2017 New York Post article. Fortunately the Daily News photographer cut off Gloria’s head in the pic he took of her standing next to her sitting forging (allegedly) client.

Info on the Washington teacher sex offenders and the stonewalling teachers and officials did comes from 12/14/2003 and 12/15/2003 articles by Maureen O’Hagan and Christine Willmsen in the Seattle Times.

Info on the Los Angeles Unified School district lawyers who destroyed the sex abuse records of the district comes from a 5/1/2014 NBC-TV (Los Angeles) article.

Illinois governor Bruce Rauner (RINO) raised eyebrows and emboldened his political enemies last week when he said he is “trying to get to be” in charge of Illinois but has been blocked by Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Rauner drew instant criticism for telling the truth. Chicagoland Democrats run the state legislature. More than 60% of state senators and almost 60% of state representatives sport the donkey brand. Madigan’s stepdaughter Lisa (D) is the state’s Attorney General. Rauner defended his record on things he could do that didn’t go thru the state legislature.

Here’s something Rauner damn well better control – he needs to stop his state’s loony and corrupt social workers from placing foster children in homes with sex offenders. And he should look at canning key officials of that corrupt agency.

We were contacted by a Chicagoland woman in 2014, who has been trying to gain custody of her grandson and adopt him. Her daughter and the natural father are both druggies, so she wanted to protect the little boy.

Instead, child protective services people in an Illinois county placed the boy with a relative of the sperm donor “in the best interests of the child.”

The woman asked us to look into the sperm donor and the foster couple, who state officials consider good enough to be foster parents.

We found the natural father has a string of convictions and lesser punishments for drug offenses, multiple DUIs, theft, car title violations, a concealed weapon incident, and criminal trespass in Illinois and Kentucky. He was also on the wrong end of a child support case. He is probably not father material in the sense of raising the little boy responsibly and setting him a good example.

The “haven” to where local social workers sent the little boy was the house in which the sperm donor’s uncle and uncle’s current honey live. The uncle/foster dude had financial problems, as evidenced by his conviction related to a bad check, and his eviction, as well as a divorce which showed his first ex-wife was the breadwinner. He also had assault and DUI related convictions, and matching ex-wives. The first one sued him for adultery after she was supporting him. The second sued him for cruelty, and had married him even after he beat her when she was his live-in girlfriend. The woman currently keeping his bed warm had an older son (now moved out), a paternity suit against this son’s natural father, who she later married as her first husband, a divorce, and a daughter (now moved out) who had a baby and a restraining order against a boyfriend before she was 20.

All these wonderful people, and the current (for now) wife’s younger son, who turned 18 in 2014, were living in the house the current wife got from her ex-husband when she divorced him. (It’s a rental; the first hubby moved out.) Related to the three divorces (and mentioned in the divorce files) were three restraining order petitions that had the truly bizarre info.

The current wife/foster gal filed a restraining order against her first husband, who had committed the politically incorrect crime of growing chubby. She claimed he became suspicious she was cheating on him, checked her cell phone for evidence of hookups, and called her a slut and a whore. In the divorce, she got the rented house and the fridge.

The uncle/foster dude, who fathered four daughters by his first two wives, was the target of two restraining order requests. Ex-Wife No. 1 filed on him when he refused to return their two daughters from a parental visitation. She had to have the police retrieve her little girls. Ex-Wife No. 2 also filed her restraining order due to a visitation problem. She said her older girl (who was 8) said the 16-year-old boy who was in her dad’s house – the younger son of his current wife – had molested her several times. Ex-Wife No. 2 sought to cut off his visitation rights because she didn’t want the pervert son (allegedly) of his current female raping her little girls.

When I found these cases in 2014, I immediately shot them to the woman’s lawyer. I also contacted the state police and the state inspector general. Putting a little boy in the home with a known or suspected child molester is corrupt or incompetent or both.

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On this day, in 1941, a Jap carrier fleet’s airmen sneak-attacked our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They sunk five battleships and several other ships. They destroyed 188 aircraft and damaged 159 others on the ground. (There were 402 military aircraft on Oahu.) They murdered 2335 military people and scores of civilians.

We declared war on the Japs quickly, then Hitler the bisexual leather freak who ran Germany foolishly declared war upon us.

World War Two would cost us about 400,000 men and some women military dead, and many hundreds of thousands more wounded, diseased, and blinded or crippled for life. It cost about 15 million men and some women some of the best years of their lives. The war also shortened the lives of many Americans who had to fight it.

These included my Dad, my Uncle Chuck, and my Uncle Rusty, and virtually all their friends. And my Aunt Billie, who was an Army nurse. It also set up the Korean War, in which my Uncle Don suffered enough wounds to earn the Purple Heart five times – as a medic! The Red Chinese used his medic cross as a target. My Aunt Olive also served in that war as a nurse.

The Japanese are strategic thinkers. In 1920, right after World War One, a young Japanese named Isoroku Yamamoto was a student at Harvard. In his free time, he “quietly surveyed U.S. oil fields and refineries,” wrote Nathan Miller, on page 303 of his book “The U.S. Navy: An Illustrated History.” Yamamoto was also a junior officer in the Japanese navy; two decades later, he would be the evil genius behind the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Our airmen shot his plane out of the sky and killed him in 1943.

The Japanese demonstrated their savage bestiality in Asia in World War Two every bit as thoroughly as the Nazis showed theirs in Europe. The Bataan Death March was typical of the Japs’ subhuman treatment of captured American soldiers. They also raped, burned, shot, and beheaded millions of Chinese civilians in World War Two. They turned Korea into a sex slave colony. They raped and beheaded many European, Australian, and American women and children they captured in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

They even shot the radio man on Attu in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands while his terrified wife watched, then chopped off his head in front of her and the children on the little island. The Japs took them to Japan and worked them as slaves. Half of the enslaved islanders died in Japan.

The militant savagery of the Japanese earned them the hatred of the Chinese and Koreans, the peoples of Southeast Asia, and the Americans. Roughly one-third of Americans in Japanese captivity died or were murdered; fewer than 10% of Americans in German captivity met the same fate. The Germans have apologized for their savagery and have paid billions of dollars in reparations. The Japanese are still largely in denial, still refuse to apologize or pay reparations in most cases, and portray themselves as victims of the Americans who justifiably nuked them.

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Last week’s news provided more lessons on the use of the public record, and why the existence of the public record is a threat to those who do wrong.

A person’s lawsuits are public record and a good way to get a handle on a person’s background and character.

Over the years, I have found victims or their survivors have filed more than a thousand lawsuits against abortion providers for being hamfisted bunglers or worse. Statistics don’t lie – the average abortion provider gets sued a lot more often than the average OB-GYN. They are lousier doctors, and they sink to doing abortions because the surgery is not hard and they have healthy clients who are vulnerable. Very few females want to disclose they were fooling around, got pregnant, and underwent an abortion. A girl has to tell her parents about malpractice, which may land her in hot water over the pregnancy and the abortion. Abortionists’ defense lawyers essentially play the slut card against women and girls in court. And yet abortionists harm so many girls and young women that they get sued often.

A few days ago, a group of Chinese businesspeople filed suit against Hillary Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe, the outgoing governor of Virginia, and Hillary Clinton’s kid brother Anthony Rodham for a scheme in which they got more than 30 rich Chinese to invest $500,000 apiece into their company that was supposedly going to make electric cars. In exchange, according to the lawsuit filed in Fairfax County, Virginia, McAuliffe and Rodham told the investors as they traveled through China looking for money, they would use their political connections to get the Chinese EB-5 foreign investor visas to come to America with their families.

The firm, GreenTech, made a few crappy low-powered cars, the Chinese charged, and supposedly is about to go bankrupt. Meanwhile, McAuliffe and Rodham didn’t get the Chinese “investor” visas to come into America.

It is not illegal in China for someone to bribe a foreigner. It is illegal for an American to accept bribes. This is something the Justice Department, once they get rid of their Hillary moles, may be interested in. Terry McAuliffe should be happy he let the felons vote when he was governor of Virginia. He might need that courtesy if this lawsuit against him leads to a criminal conviction.

Public expenditure equals (in almost all cases) public record.

It is illegal for a government body to spend money above a certain amount in secret. It is also illegal for them to disguise the full truth from the public about such spending. This is a point any citizen should remember.

Town officials of Bernards Township in northern New Jersey found this out the hard way a few days ago, when residents sued them for deciding to pay $3.5 million to a Moslem group who wants to put a mosque in one of their neighborhoods.

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Ronald Reagan said it is easy to complain about problems but an adult provides solutions.

I sent the following letter to a number of members of Congress and political operatives with ties to President Trump today. It is my hope that it is shown to him and he gets a chance to press for these reforms that will protect more women and children from sexual predators.

My guests, feel free to push these with your own elected officials.

In the wake of the Al Franken and John Conyers fiascos, and the Hollywood fiascos, I have an idea that might help President Trump help the public and expose his opponents yet again.

He can push for the following set of actions to protect women and children from sex offenders.

1. He needs to have the Justice Department file an amicus curiae brief in the Millard, Knight, and Vega vs. Michael Rankin and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation case. In this case, federal judge Richard Matsch ruled Colorado’s sex offender registry is unconstitutional. If allowed to stand, this crazy or corrupt ruling will be the ACLU’s next gold rush. They will sue for the hundreds of thousands of convicted sexual predators and seize billions of dollars from taxpayers for lawyer fees. They will remove the protection from women and children further by killing the registries that alert the public to stay away from these perverted convicts. This ruling must be destroyed.

2. He should look at making states, localities, tribal governments, colleges, and the military provide accurate information on sex offenders and other criminals to the FBI and mandate prosecution of bureaucratic violators if these laws are not already on the books.

3. He should look at making a national database, requiring input from all states’ courts, of criminal arrests and criminal convictions open to the public. It might be easier to take some confidential info out of the NCIC database police use now to make a “little brother” database that is legal for public viewing. This will help parents, young women, and even gun dealers, as they all can screen those who come in contact with children, and themselves, and those who want to buy firearms.

4. He should look at having the U.S. Department of Education put together a national database of teachers and other school employees accused of sexual offenses and other misconduct toward students and what the outcomes of the cases were. This enables school districts to avoid hiring offenders, and allows parents to force school districts to purge their sex offenders and stop hiring new ones. We made such a proposal to the U.S. Department of Education in 2002, and can provide it for the President’s perusal. Likewise, there should be background checks done on school employees at their expense every year.

5. He should look at a law making sex offenders pay for their monitoring an amount equal to the cost of hiring and maintaining a mid-level state trooper in their states of residence. This will allow each trooper to check on 40 sex offenders multiple times each year and give him or her the time and resources to make the sex offender registries as error-free as possible. This is like requiring people to have car insurance, and DUI convicts have to pay much more due to the elevated risks they pose. We have done the analysis on such a database and can provide it for the President’s perusal.

6. He should look at pushing laws requiring realtors to disclose to people if they intend to sell property to a registered sex offender within statutory reporting distance of their homes at least 30 days before closing. This would give people time to outbid or organize to protect their children and young women. We have gotten such a measure approved by the Ohio legislature’s constitutionality lawyers. We can provide it for the President’s perusal.

Likewise, he should look at expanding anti-blockbusting laws to keep dishonest speculators from dropping sex offenders into neighborhoods to depress property values and trigger short sales.

7. He should look at killing the congressional sex abuser slush fund, outing those who used it to pay off victims, recoup the money from those who used it, and have the US Attorney General or state prosecutors look at prosecuting those still prosecutable within the statute of limitations.

8. He should look at clearing all service men and women who were wrongfully punished for defending rape victims while in the Service.

Homeland security begins when women and children are protected. President Trump is known by those in the know to have privately donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for police wanted posters of rapists. He has undeniably helped sexual assault victims in other ways. These proposals, if enacted, will help President Trump further protect the most vulnerable of our people.

My guests, feel free to push these with your own elected officials.

God bless all of you, every day, for as long as you shall live.

SHERLOCK JUSTICE

WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.

Since the start of 2016, Donald Trump and his opponents have been giving the people a large number of civics lessons. I’ll list a few today.

Ted Cruz’s people beat Mr. Trump in Iowa by falsely claiming Ben Carson was dropping out to get some of Dr. Carson’s base.

Mitt Romney’s operatives stood credibly accused of dropping naughty pictures of Melania Trump to get the people of Utah to vote against Mr. Trump.

Cruz and John Kasich colluded to try to deny Mr. Trump the Indiana primary victory. They failed. Meanwhile, a judge ruled Cruz, who was born in Canada to a Cuban national and an American woman who renounced her citizenship, was not ineligible to run for president, despite what the Constitution says. Of course, if Cruz won the GOP nomination, the same judge or others like him would issue rulings weeks before the general election that they read the Constitution and decided he was not eligible after all.

Trump won a majority of delegates to the GOP convention. Then the professional Republicans in the state committees and the national committee looked for ways to deny Mr. Trump the nomination before and during the convention.

The public got a civics lesson on political chicanery in the nominating process because the GOPers were dumb enough to plot openly.

Opponents of Mr. Trump pumped up the Libertarian Party and ran a CIA/big banks creature of the Mormon faith named Mc Mullin (who Mr. Trump called “McMuffin) in an attempt to split the anti-Hillary vote in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and some other states with large numbers of Mormons to deliver their electoral votes to her.

Many GOP senators, representatives, governors, and other bigwigs denounced Mr. Trump for some locker-room talk he made with Billy Bush a decade earlier. (In 2017 it would come out these same members of Congress were running a sex offense slush fund; more later.) They also denounced him for wanting to build a wall, vet Moslems, and bring manufacturing jobs home. Media people openly lied about Mr. Trump and belittled him because there was no penalty for them for lying.

But the GOP insiders, the media, and the Democrats lost. Enough people voted for Mr. Trump to help him win the election November 8, 2016.

The Ronald and The Donald

What went unnoticed by the non-professionals was that the GOP leaders in a couple of counties withheld reporting their vote count until after the thieves in Philadelphia brought home the Democratic vote. This meant the Dems in Philly didn’t know how many votes they had to fake to get a good enough tally to win. This is a good lesson for future GOPers who run boards of elections.

Then there were the recounts demanded by Hillary’s people in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin using Jill Stein as a sock puppet.

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In the days before the ACLU, it was not unusual for the leaders of the nation to ask for prayer or to declare the need for giving thanks.

George Washington proclaimed a day of thanks giving on October 3, 1789, his first year as president.

French Ursuline nuns in New Orleans prayed for the success of General Andrew Jackson and his men before the Battle of New Orleans. They won it in a rout on January 8, 1815.

Ursuline Nuns and Old Hickory. Courtesy of WLW-TV, New Orleans.

Zachary Taylor in 1849 called for a day of prayer and fasting due to a horrible cholera epidemic.

People in different parts of the nation celebrated a giving thanks day on different days.

One woman, ladies’ magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, petitioned several presidents to make a national holiday of giving thanks.

Abraham Lincoln thought her idea was a good one.

On October 3, 1863, three months after the Battle of Gettysburg, and a couple of weeks after the Battle of Chickamauga (a Rebel victory in northern Georgia that was almost as bloody a battle as Gettysburg), and 74 years to the day after George Washington’s act, Lincoln made Ms. Hale’s idea his policy.

Here’s Honest Abe’s order.

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

Honest Abe, 1858. Photo by Byers.

Last Thanksgiving, 99 and I paid a visit to the boyhood home of Zachary Taylor and to the little monument where he and Peggy Taylor are buried, in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Why on Thanksgiving? Last year, it fell on November 24, which was also Taylor’s birthday. His mother Sarah gave birth to him in a cabin on a relative’s farm on the Virginia frontier; her husband Col. Richard Taylor and his hired men and slaves had crossed over the Appalachians and spent the winter building cabins in the Louisville area for all of them.

In the spring of 1785, Col. Taylor came back to Virginia for his wife and their children. They crossed the Appalachians and took a flatboat down the Ohio River to Louisville, then a frontier town armed and awaiting American Indian attacks.

Zachary Taylor was Lincoln’s superior officer in the Black Hawk War. Lincoln didn’t serve under Taylor, but met him several times in the course of the conflict. The towering militia captain admired the stocky and rough colonel, who shared the discomforts of his men.

Zachary Taylor, a victorious general in the Mexican War and a slave holder, would come to see slavery was tearing the country apart, so during his brief presidency, he looked for ways to end slavery peaceably.

Ironically, Honest Abe and another younger man, Senator William Seward, had hit on a possible solution. Use federal money to buy the slaves free and set them up as sharecroppers or pioneers or industrial workers. It was an adult solution. Taylor was already trying to add free states to the Union to outvote the South, and he was dead-set against a fugitive slave law being pushed by Democrats and lesser men like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster in his own Whig party. Taylor had already threatened members of Congress with hanging if they were caught in secession and rebellion. He had to send soldiers to New Mexico to keep Texans away, and he had to scuttle two attempts by Southerners to seize Cuba from Spain to make it a slave state. So Lincoln’s and Seward’s ideas looked like a way to avoid civil war.

Sadly it was not to be. Taylor died in office, only 16 months into his tumultuous term. Some say he was poisoned. Democrats and establishment members of his own Whig party celebrated. And they gave secessionists 10 years to organize, something that Taylor would have suppressed.

When Taylor died in office, Honest Abe summed up Old Zack when he gave his eulogy. Lincoln said, “Along our frontier, in summer and winter, in sunshine and storm, like a sleepless sentinel, Zachary Taylor has watched while we have slept for 40 years. The fruits of his labor, his name, his memory and example, have verified the great truth that he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

Would that all or at least the majority of our public officials could merit such a eulogy.

Margaret and Zachary Taylor

No one could give Abraham Lincoln the eulogy he deserved.

My brother Bryan died a few Februaries ago. At his Requiem Mass, I said the following:

“Bryan loved America and the great patriots. In a way, it is sadly fitting that Bry’s requiem Mass is on Lincoln’s Birthday. When I took Bryan to Gettysburg, he couldn’t get over the fact he was standing on the site of the Gettysburg Address.

Like Lincoln, Bry was a “malice toward none, charity toward all” guy. But few people know Lincoln also was a man of justice as well as mercy. In that same speech, which he gave only six weeks before he was murdered, Lincoln said words like, “We pray that this bloody civil war will end. But if every drop of blood drawn by the slaver’s lash has to be paid for with a drop of blood drawn by bullets or sabers, then we must prostrate ourselves before God and admit His judgment is just.”

No politician comes anywhere near that value system today. In fact, Bry used to say the Ten Commandments were banned from government buildings because the provisos against lying, adultery, perversion, stealing, atheism, and coveting created a hostile work environment for the lawyers, politicians, and bureaucrats.”

Thinking back on Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation, how many of us will give thanks for what we have, and pray for the unfortunates this day? Or give them corporal works of mercy?

I have many things to be thankful for. My life, my faculties, having two wonderful parents who have gone on to their reward. Growing up in a circle of my parents’ families and friends where the adults were good examples and were tough but kind and encouraging. Having good brothers and sisters. Bryan and Lizzie have gone on to their reward. God rest all or their souls.

I have a wonderful wife and a happy home life.

I live in the best nation on Earth.

And I and everyone else who is a worshiper of God have the consolation of Faith, the Church, and much more importantly, the love of God Who is the Creator of all that is good.

For a Thanksgiving prayer, I recommend the 104th Psalm, which follows.

God bless you all, every day, for as long as you shall live.

SHERLOCK JUSTICE

WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.

Courtesy of the U.S. National Council of Catholic Bishops

When we farmed, I used to say animals would test how good my fences were. Mine were good. They kept our livestock in and wild dogs and coyotes out.

Murderer and Hell resident Devin Kelley tested a number of government fences and beat them all. Federal, state, and local fences were broken.

I speculated the Air Force, in convicting him for breaking the skull of an infant on purpose, and for beating his then-wife, should have put him on the National Criminal Information Center data base as someone who should not have access to firearms. His related bad conduct discharge should also have kept him from buying firearms.

(And he only got a year for nearly killing an infant? That vicious attack would have bought Kelley several years in a state prison in most states. The Air Force must be politically correct, like California and New York.)

But the Air Force stooged. One of their officers didn’t do his or her job in failing to register Kelley as a hateful felon and a bad conduct discharge loser.

What the Air Force brass are not saying is that they are likely derelict in their duty in such matters routinely.

The Air Force admitted they put Kelley in a mental institution in New Mexico. Evidently security wasn’t a priority for this place, because Kelley escaped the loony bin.

Wipe the smiles off your faces, other military services. I’m betting you all have the same problems.

The mental facility’s officials told El Paso police, who bagged Kelley, that he got caught trying to smuggle weapons onto Holloman AFB in New Mexico, where he was stationed, to carry out threats against officers he had made. (I got punished for time to time for disrespect to superior officers, but I never considered killing any of them.)

This doesn’t sound like the act of an insane person. It sounds like the act of an evil person. Kelley didn’t belong in a nuthouse; he belonged in Leavenworth. Instead, the Air Force commanders and lawyers dumped him back on society instead of protecting the public. The Air Force never saw fit to punish Kelley for this offense. Or tell anyone in civilian law enforcement about it either.

The operators of the nuthouse didn’t report his criminal escape or his suspected mental unfitness to the National Criminal Information Center either. Guys with mental problems like Kelley supposedly had are also forbidden by law to own firearms.

Sadly, the military derelicts and mental facility derelicts don’t stand alone as government payroller derelicts.

It turns out a girl reported Kelley to officials in Comal County, Texas for rape in 2013. Sheriff Mark Reynolds said his deputies investigated the case, but didn’t arrest Kelley, and dropped the case when he reportedly moved to Colorado, according to a reporter. The local prosecutor at the time, a female, claimed she didn’t get the case.

I’m not buying either the sheriff’s excuse or the female prosecutor’s excuse. Dropping a felony case because you claim someone left the area puts people at risk in the criminal’s new location. And as for never hearing about Kelley’s rape case, prosecutors should be reviewing their law enforcement agencies’ crime logs and reports to see if they should be filing charges. Maybe she stooged, or another prosecutor stooged.

I exposed an Ohio county prosecutor for negligence on WLW radio (Cincinnati) and in the Cincinnati Enquirer in letting a meat cutter who beheaded his wife on Valentines Day walk free on a temporary insanity charge. The murderer, Raymond Tanner, faked insanity, in the opinion of two shrinks who examined him days after he beheaded his pretty young wife Maria Barker. He had been abusing his wife, and she decided to leave him. So he took a large knife to her and with two strokes cut off her head. Tanner beheaded Maria in front of a neighbor girl, who understandably quaked in her boots.

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