COMMENTARY / OPINION
Douglas Macgregor – Cluster Munitions: A War Crime or a Tactical Necessity? [27:45] July 10, 2023
LG(B)T(QIA+) tyrants, 303 creative, and a little Kosher Bakery Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
The US Supreme Court stopped the force-feeding of LGBTQ lifestyle down the throats of everyday people with wholesome family values. Op-ed.
Jul 9, 2023, 5:21 PM (GMT+3) – The United States Supreme Court has slammed a door shut on LG(B)T(QIA+) tyrants, who traverse the country trying to force-feed their lifestyle down the throats of quiet, everyday people who harbor normal wholesome family values that accord with Torah and Nature.
In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the heroic Lorie Smith won an extraordinary right —the right of free speech — which includes freedom of conscience and the freedom to think. Obama’s Sonia Sotomayor raged against that shocking notion. She was joined by Obama’s Elana Kagan and by She Who Cannot Define a Woman. Some day, perhaps, America will not need a divided Supreme Court to affirm the freedom to “speak or not speak” according to one’s conscience. But for now, we have the 303 Creative court and Lorie Smith to thank.
Lorie Smith lives in a Colorado that has gone LG(B)T(QIA+)-crazy, as baker Jack Phillips’s many years of fighting Colorado Ahave demonstrated. Smith is a web designer and proactively wanted to ascertain, as a faithful Christian, that she would not encounter state-imposed financial destruction and forcible government “re-education” (“remedial . . . training”) if she would refuse in the future to design a website celebrating a homosexual or lesbian wedding. The 303 Creative court observed that, in this particular case, Colorado was not merely seeking to ensure the sale of goods or services on equal terms but also to compel an individual to create speech she does not believe.
Smith had made clear she gladly will work for LG(B)T(QIA+) clients, just will not design a web page that “contradicts Biblical truth” and conflicts with the Word of G-d. In Smith’s 2-1 losing 10th Circuit appeal, Judge Mary Beck Briscoe (Clinton judge) and Judge Michael R. Murphy (Clinton judge) voted against her right to free conscience. Uh-huh. By contrast, Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich (George W. Bush judge) supported her appeal. So she brought her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking an injunction: a court order assuring her right to refuse devoting her artistic gifts to design celebratory products violating her conscience.
By a 6-3 margin, the 303 Creative court held Colorado may not force a website designer to create expressive designs that convey messages she opposes. The Court cited a long line of Supreme Court legal precedent that consistently has upheld the freedom to think as one may, to speak as one thinks, and not to be compelled to provide a platform for perspectives repugnant to the speaker’s views.
- Thus, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), the Court held the government may not coerce “J[] Witness” school children into reciting the pledge of allegiance.
- In Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., 515 U. S. 557 (1995), the Court held that Massachusetts could not force veterans organizing a Boston parade to include a group of “gay,” lesbian, and bisexual individuals because requiring the veterans to include voices they wished to exclude would impermissibly require them to “alter the expressive content of their parade.”
- And in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000), where the Boy Scouts sought to exclude an assistant scoutmaster after learning he was homosexual, the Court held the Boy Scouts to be “an expressive association” and upheld its “choice not to propound a point of view contrary to its beliefs.”
Welcome to the Islamic Republic of France – or is it Faraz? Giulio Meotti
There will not be a wave of adherence to Islam, but more simply the religious minority will impose its rules by becoming the majority. Op-ed.
Jul 9, 2023, 8:49 AM (GMT+3) – These are the twenty most popular names among newborns, boys and girls. In Algeria? Tunisia? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Iraq? Yemen? No, in the sixth largest department of France, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Muhammad, Adams, Ibrahim, Isaac, Rayan, Mousse, Imran, Amir, Ismaël, Aylan, Lina, Nour, Inaya, Aya, Fatima, Aicha, Mariam, Maryam, Fateum,ata, Sarah
Already today hundreds of territories are beyond the control of the Republic. The violence of recent days has proved it.
According to the DGSI, the French internal secret service, there are 150 enclaves. The former number two of the DGSI, Alain Chouet, speaks of “1,514 neighborhoods where access to the security forces, emergency, medical and social services is prohibited. They are in 859 cities and 4 million people live there, 6 percent of the total population”. The police can only intervene in force and for limited periods of time. Will the army one day have to occupy the suburbs militarily to restore order?
It’s already happening. On July 3, the Ouest-France newspaper published an interview with a soldier who, on condition of anonymity, confirmed his participation in operations against the violent, indicating the presence of about thirty colleagues who intend not to “let the country burn”.
A Constitution -The “excuse du jour” Dr. Martin Sherman
The raising of the issue of a constitution as a potential way out of the political impasse over the future of Israel’s legal system is nothing but a red herring on the part of the opponents of judicial reform. Op-ed.
Jul 10, 2023, 6:00 AM (GMT+3) – I don’t think it is right for the Supreme Court to change fundamental things in accordance with what it refers to as the judgment of ‘the reasonable person.’ That’s an amorphous and completely subjective definition that the Knesset never introduced to the legal code –Yair Lapid, articulating his opposition to the reasonableness clause.
If the reasonableness clause is abolished, all lines will have been crossed. It will demolish the authority of the Supreme Court and our democratic structure—Yair Lapid,articulating his support for the reasonableness clause.
As the obsessive, borderline-maniacal Bibi-phobic opponents of judicial reform continue with their destructive and lawless demonstrations-cum-riots across the streets of Israel, protesting all—and any—government decisions of which they disapprove—whether major changes in the judicial system, minor changes in the judicial system, the dismissal of elected ministers or appointed bureaucrats—a new demand is emerging as a panacea-like balm for the nation’s tribulations. This is the idea of a Constitution for Israel. Usually touted as to be based on Israel’s Declaration of Independence, it is suggested that the formulation of such a constitution would placate the demonstrators opposing the coalition’s legislative initiatives.
Seductive & deceptive
A constitution for Israel is a seductive idea and gives the impression of adopting the example of the USA, the leader of the democratic world. But it is also a highly deceptive notion—being far more declarative than substantive in terms of being an effective template that determines the functioning of the political system.
For, the existence of a constitution is no guarantee of individual rights or civil liberties or any of the enlightened goals that the opponents of judicial reform profess to cherish. Indeed, a brief jaunt through Google would reveal that countries such as the USSR (and later, Russia), North Korea, and Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) all boast constitutions that include(d) an array of lofty human rights. Yet the demonstrators are very unlikely to endorse any of these states as a model democracy for Israel to emulate.
Thus, it should be clear to any serious student of political science that an authentically substantive constitution cannot, in and of itself, create societal values. On the contrary, it can only reflect them. For if it does not, it will remain nothing more than a worthless piece of paper, bearing meaningless words and empty promises.
The Biden-Big Tech Censorship [5:30] Wall Street Journal Opinion
Dr. Robert Malone
7/8/23 – Beyond the point of the video regarding big-tech censorship, the WSJ’s video also shows that 1) the truth is finally emerging in more conservative main-stream media and 2) news sources are finally getting less afraid to criticize the government for their failed COVID public policy responses and draconian censorship operations.
During the COVID crisis, I was repeatedly accused of being a mass murderer.
Now the Wall Street Journal has published an op-ed which puts the blame where it belongs.”Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.” (WSJ Article)
Is What’s Happening in France Coming Here? [17:24] JP Sears
Setting The Record Straight: Part III: “‘From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free’” By Alex Grobman PhD.
20 Tammuz 5783 – July 9, 2023 – *Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in ‘Setting The Record Straight,’ the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” is a mantra often heard on university campuses throughout the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. It is a call for the total destruction of the Jewish state since the borders of Israel are between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.” [1]
Eliminating Israel is exactly what the Hamas Covenant 1988 proclaims in Article Eleven: “The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king nor president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?” [2]
The Politics of Pronouns by Linda Goudsmit
July 9, 2023 – This article is a chapter from my new book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier–Reality Is, scheduled for release by the end of 2023.
CHAPTER 25: The Politics of Pronouns
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite themselves. The globalist war on the nation state cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses psychological, informational warfare to destabilize Americans, and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. The primary target of globalist predators is America’s children.
A child’s ability to test reality is a reference to his ability to identify the world of facts. It is a human psychological survival skill. When little Johnny tells his Mommy he is a bird that can fly, it is his Mommy’s responsibility to keep Johnny in objective reality, and explain to Johnny that he is a child, not a bird, and he cannot fly. If instead of objective reality, Mommy or Daddy encourages Johnny’s subjective reality, and escorts him to the top floor of their apartment building to fly, Johnny will fall to his death. Objective reality always prevails.
