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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"241"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4223043091195900530"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-10T04:11:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-10T04:11:39.080-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ADL"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Soros"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ADL Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EObama's career of political activism began in some ways when he met Eileen Hershenov. He graduated from Columbia University, and as David Remnick put it, \"got it into his head to become a community organizer.\" After a brief stint actually working for a living, he answered an ad and joined Ralph Nader's left-wing New York Public Interest Research Group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s1608\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHis supervisor at the time, Eileen Hershenov, describes having \"some really engaged conversations about models of organizing\". After a year, Hershenov pleaded with him to stay, \"I asked him if it would help if I got on my knees and begged--and so I did,\" but Obama moved on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo did Hershenov who went on to become the general counsel for the Open Society Foundations, serving \"as chief legal officer for one of the nation’s largest private foundations and for the global network of 40 foreign affiliates founded by financier\/philanthropist George Soros.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHacked emails from the Open Society Foundations show that it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/hacked-soros-e-mails-reveal-plans-to-fight-israels-racist-policies-464149\"\u003Ebragged\u003C\/a\u003E of its successes in “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums. By then Hershenov was no longer affiliated with the Soros network, but she appears to be unrepentant.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days, she “oversees” the ADL’s  “policy, program and civil rights work” as the former Jewish organization’s Senior Vice President for Democracy Initiatives. Hershenov was a recent hire who was brought on board during the Jonathan Greenblatt era. Greenblatt, the ADL’s new leader, was a veteran of the Obama administration who has been accused of jettisoning its focus on the Jewish community and Israel in favor of playing the identity politics of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo single executive may embody the new ADL better than Hershenov who mentored Obama when he was just starting out and proudly worked for George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I think I never really understood before as well as I do now that the fight for an open society will never ever end. Kudos to my former boss, George Soros,” she recently declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, Hershenov “oversees ADL’s civil rights team, its government relations and community engagement team, the Silicon Valley-based Center for Technology and Society” as well as \"the Civil Society Fellowship (a partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute).\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/organizations\/aspen-institute-ai\"\u003EAspen Institute\u003C\/a\u003E has received significant support from Soros. The Center for Technology and Society \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eis funded by\u003C\/a\u003E Pierre Omidyar, the Franco-Persian eBay founder who also funds The Intercept which regularly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adl-took-175-million-funder-alt-left-anti-semitism-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Egushes defenses for antisemitism\u003C\/a\u003E and terrorism against Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's Center of Technology and Society board of tech experts\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/ngos\/avaaz\/\"\u003E include\u003C\/a\u003E Eli Pariser, the board president of MoveOn and a co-founder of Avaaz. Avaaz, which is also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ngo-monitor.org\/reports\/19\/\"\u003ESoros backed\u003C\/a\u003E, promoted BDS and teamed up with JVP: an anti-Israel hate group that hosted a murderous terrorist, and an anti-Israel activist who claimed that Jews drank Christian blood and republished a bizarre claim that “the Zionists who created Israel and still run it are descended from the Khazars.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the sort of thing that any Jewish organization or any civil rights group concerned with antisemitism ought to be condemning, instead of collaborating with and rewarding. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the old ADL, flawed as it was, is largely defunct. Like so much of the old liberal institutional infrastructure, it's being sucked into the black hole money machines of billionaire activists like Soros and Omidyar who have destroyed liberalism and replaced it with their radical politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s why Eileen Hershenov, who boasts of working for Soros, a lead funder of anti-Israel groups, who has blamed antisemitism on Jews, is now in a key position at a group fighting antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least on paper. The ADL spends more time on everything else, including defending Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If your favorite politician is attacking George Soros,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL boss warned at the former Jewish group’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/01\/adls-soros-hamas-and-hitler-anti-israel-conference-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ENever is Now 2018\u003C\/a\u003E conference, “you must stand up and tell them to stop. And do so even if they profess love for Israel up and down.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only the ADL defended Jews and Israel half as vigorously as it defends George Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce upon a time the ADL had condemned Soros’ antisemitism. When Soros blamed antisemitism on Jews, Abe Foxman, the ADL’s former leader, had denounced Soros' comments as \"absolutely obscene.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut at the new ADL, you are expected to pledge allegiance to Soros and to place him above the Jewish community or the Jewish state. The ADL has more pages defending Soros than it does defending Jewish students facing leftist and Islamist antisemitism on college campuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Hershenov.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ADL's partnership with the Aspen Society has produced the Civil Society Fellowship whose fellows include Julie McCarthy, a leader in the Open Society Foundations’ Economic Justice Program, the Open Society Foundation’s Fiscal Governance Program, and the Open Society Foundations’ Revenue Watch Program. Another Soros network retread, Danielle Keats Citron, who serves as a board member for the Center on Technology and Society and on the ADL's Task Force on Hate Speech \u0026amp; Journalism had reviewed grants for the Open Society Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreenblatt, the head of the ADL, had come through the Aspen Institute where he founded the Impact Economy Initiative. Soros is an\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/publication\/george-soross-two-left-hands\/\"\u003E Aspen backer\u003C\/a\u003E, but the specific initiative was backed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Greenblatt’s wife, Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute which used to be a centerpiece of the Arab Lobby’s anti-Israel push. (Due to the Abraham Accords, the MEI is still hostile, but somewhat less so.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unsurprising that Greenblatt and his allies are remaking the ADL into just another of the interchangeable leftist groups looking for handouts from Soros, Omidyar, the Rockefellers, Buffets, Gates and others that have hijacked and are controlling American politics and society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitutional capture is an ongoing process. Greenblatt joined the ADL in 2014. Hershenov came on board in 2018. The recent \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/01\/adl-hires-director-jewish-outreach-who-hates-jews-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Econtroversial hiring of Tema Smith\u003C\/a\u003E as Director of Jewish Outreach, despite tweeting, \"Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism\", and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/adl-definition-of-racism-that-specifies-discrimination-by-white-people-comes-under-fire-3Ejg3YgPZLLmZsjGKlCeTV\"\u003Eredefinition of racism \u003C\/a\u003Eto exclude Jews are just the latest in a series of ADL betrayals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the ADL bemoans conspiracy theories about Soros (much more so than conspiracy theories about Israel or Jews) there is no denying the fact that what used to be an open society is closing in no small part due to his Open Society networks. Soros is not alone in this regard, he is one of a number of wealthy men of various ethnicities and backgrounds who have managed to centralize public policy through chains of non-profits in much the same way that tech industry monopolies like Amazon and Google have centralized our culture and economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s happening to the ADL is what has happened to countless Jewish, Christian and non-sectarian organizations that were once liberal and are now just leftist fronts. What the Soviet Union failed to accomplish in its infiltrations, two generations of activists backed by powerful and wealthy men have done by turning every liberal group into the same front.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ACLU no longer believes in free speech, the Sierra Club no longer favors limiting immigration to protect the environment, Planned Parenthood casually tosses aside its founder, and the ADL no longer defends Jewish civil rights. Indeed Hershenov condemned the Supreme Court for intervening in Gov. Cuomo’s persecution of Jews and Christians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe vast majority of former liberal groups all say the same things and have interlinked leaderships. The only difference between them is which side of the street they’re working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same convoluted road that saw Hershenov and Obama briefly intersect before going through Soros, that saw the top ADL executive work for Soros and then for an Obama administration member is no coincidence. The Left looks big, but it’s actually very small. The massive numbers of organizations with their own letterheads, sites, and petitions belie how much money is spent manufacturing these organizational illusions of political scale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is a massive political potemkin village. The ADL is now just another false front staffed by radicals, detached from its original purpose, and existing only to serve a common agenda of manufacturing the myth that a small leftist elite should be able to speak for all Americans.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4223043091195900530\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4223043091195900530"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/adl-senior-vp-kudos-to-my-former-boss.html","title":"ADL Senior VP: 'Kudos To My Former Boss, George Soros'"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgHIzSRwDoKJcP6S2FzTn3JIj1am1k_W7AfnUqSZw2E6v8YaKS6jYL7561WhsW2_htsnljrTB7qINl9HQDPRa31-XOiYLBrOipVOgjtVML7anKU8tTVi-lg-WkWSGx8GETG53T99hllOf2H2KSa45lw-VKjoNtHTbfUoPvXq4Nw4VhQLv2JRM8=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4206399654658612158"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-09T01:18:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-09T01:18:05.629-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Minnesota"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Somali"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"$200 Million in Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EFeeding Our Future, the Minnesota food charity sponsor whose offices have been raided by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud that some estimates have placed in the hundreds of millions of dollars, claimed that it wants to make \"the world a better place for all\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s653\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"424\" data-original-width=\"653\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E10 members of FOF's staff boast of speaking Somali, others of Arabic and related languages often spoken by Muslim minorities, but only 3 speak Spanish and only 1 knows Chinese. The organization's Manager of Operations, Food Program Coordinators Manager, Food Program Support Manager, and multiple administrators, all appear to be Somali.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe contact page is decorated with a photo of a woman in a hijab chowing down on a burger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic destroyed lives, hundreds of thousands died, millions lost their businesses and jobs, but a great river of government money flowed to those who knew how to play the game.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs The Counter \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/fbi-investigate-alleged-fraud-federal-child-nutrition-dollars-feeding-our-future-minnesota\/\"\u003Enotes\u003C\/a\u003E, “In the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the spread of Covid-19.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/fbi-investigate-alleged-fraud-federal-child-nutrition-dollars-feeding-our-future-minnesota\/\"\u003E$3.4 million\u003C\/a\u003E in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile there may be some hungry Somali Muslim kids in the Gopher State, $197 million would buy them all meals at five-star steakhouses before jetting them away from the snow to Vegas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to a lawyer for Aimee Bock, FOF's founder, who isn't Somali, but whose lawyer previously represented a Somali ISIS recruit, \"all Ms. Bock did was feed children.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/02\/in-free-lunch-food-fraud-the-case-laid-out.php\"\u003Eover 200 FBI agents\u003C\/a\u003E converged on the offices of various non-profits, their search warrants \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/crime\/feeding-our-future-under-federal-investigation-for-alleged-misuse-of-funds\/89-2ff1a8b4-1535-4031-8a26-faf21e151fce\"\u003Eclaimed that\u003C\/a\u003E the Somali aid groups received \"tens of millions of dollars\" but that \"almost none of this money was used to feed children.\" The FOF’s Minneapolis offices were near the Somali Abu Huraira mosque and not far from a multitude of Somali community organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the money allegedly went to Bock and her boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson Jr., apparently a bail bondsman tracking wanted fugitives, who had previously been arrested for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.co.wright.mn.us\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=607\u0026amp;ARC=1084\"\u003Edomestic violence\u003C\/a\u003E, and whose construction company received $600,000 from her non-profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only client listed on its site has the first name, “Aimee”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\"\u003EBill Glahn\u003C\/a\u003E, a reporter for American Experiment who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/tracking-the-alleged-feeding-our-future-scandal\/\"\u003Ehas been investigating\u003C\/a\u003E the case, noted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1485034552519241729\"\u003Ethat \u003C\/a\u003EEmpress Malcolm Watson, Jr. \"has an impressively long list of encounters with local law enforcement. 4 felony convictions, one for theft by swindle and one for domestic assault\" which is even bigger than the rap sheet of his revered father, Empress Malcolm Watson, Sr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom there it gets quite complicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, according to the FBI documents, controlled multiple target premises, opened over 20 bank accounts in the name of his various entities, and \"solicited and received kickbacks\" from the groups receiving child nutrition cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to Feeding Our Future, the organization's \"extensive knowledge of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program\" helped \"child and adult care programs maximize their reimbursement\". These were the groups on whose behalf it acted as a sponsor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeeding Our Future was getting a 10% administrative fee off the top. But that wasn’t enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESafari Restaurant, which boasts \"traditional Somali cuisine\" like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/omar-paid-thousands-by-restaurant-accused-of-stealing-money-intended-to-feed-starving-children\/\"\u003ERep. Ilhan Omar\u003C\/a\u003E had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/history-between-ilhan-omar-and-safari-restaurant-goes-back-years\/\"\u003Ecelebrated her victory party\u003C\/a\u003E, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that \"minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color\" were being denied the right to serve \"culturally relevant foods\" to \"youth\" during a \"national emergency\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECrying racism worked and at its peak Safari \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/tales-from-the-free-lunch-fraud-search-warrants\/\"\u003Eclaimed\u003C\/a\u003E to be feeding\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/556425503\/22-mj-040#fullscreen\u0026amp;from_embed\"\u003E 6,000 children\u003C\/a\u003E a day. That's a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to \"the entire St. Paul public school district.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESafari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlahn in American Experiment found\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesota-moves-to-shut-down-a-2nd-free-food-network\/\"\u003E that\u003C\/a\u003E, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOliver Twist, eat your heart out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/behind-the-numbers-in-the-alleged-feeding-our-future-scandal\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E that, “Five of the sites are religious centers.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn't used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2022\/01\/21\/fbi-raids-twin-cities-businesses-suspected-of-massive-fraud-in-child-food-programs\/\"\u003E to the\u003C\/a\u003E Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S\u0026amp;S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/02\/in-free-lunch-fraud-before-the-raids.php\"\u003Enote that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S\u0026amp;S Catering bank accounts... to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHaji is the Islamic obligation for every Muslim to visit their holy city of Mecca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmax offers trips to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, that non-Muslims are banned from entering, five-star hotels, and tours led by Imams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the non-profits associated with FOF, Stigma-Free International, was incorporated by Minneapolis City Council Member \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/news\/feeding-our-future-fraud-allegations-minnesota-search-warrants-investigation-faq\/\"\u003EJamal Osman\u003C\/a\u003E. The Somali politician is a political ally of Rep. Ilhan Omar and has been photographed with her. He had previously been featured in a Project Veritas undercover investigation which appeared \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/27\/project-veritas-uncovers-ballot-harvesting-fraud-in-minnesota\/\"\u003Eto show his brother \u003C\/a\u003E\"rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard\" and declaring, “just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe man in question had also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/nation-world\/conservative-group-says-voter-fraud-is-taking-place-in-minnesota\"\u003Eallegedly worked\u003C\/a\u003E on Omar’s political campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe scale and scope of the alleged fraud is as vast as the network that perpetrated it. The FBI warrants list numerous people, the vast majority of them Somali Muslims, a dizzying variety of non-profits that received the money, and a wide variety of destinations for the cash. The fraud was lubricated by false accusations of racism and discrimination by FOF and its recepients. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the initial controversy, a video in support of Feeding Our Future at the Safari resteurant featured numerous local politicians, including Senator Omar Fateh, the first Somali Muslim in the state senate, who had been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Deputy District Director for Rep. Ilhan Omar \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2022\/01\/21\/political-fallout-from-charity-raid-begins-to-unfold\/\"\u003Egave\u003C\/a\u003E what was described as an \"impassioned speech\" declaring, “This community is tired. It’s tired of the bulls—\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s Americans who have every right to be tried.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen borders migration is not feeding our future. It’s stealing our future away.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4206399654658612158\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/200-million-in-minnesota-somali-welfare.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4206399654658612158"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4206399654658612158"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/200-million-in-minnesota-somali-welfare.html","title":"$200 Million in Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiNn_MyPbcCZdoxw9-bquLQptJacrbsiq3-DiuAdkLzuuB3uFfQFECmL0BGTn1nDb1WMQA2SSMxHI7ZwcjDZg7Mi9S5S6FW8QGzvjqm_yITopi4_0O3VeHqJASNBaXlx9JwAsPMl8kMVrZ4MbIP3pE5oVWvC9KoqB6HR-Vty8Al77edZr7Vn_U=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6212465048559023355"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-07T23:57:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-08T01:04:56.214-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"universities"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Ilya Shapiro Case Exposes Georgetown's Racism Double Standards"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EGeorgetown University professor C. Christine Fair tweeted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/01\/georgetown-professor-white-republicans-castrated\/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller\u0026amp;utm_source=Twitter\u0026amp;utm_medium=Social\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E \"white men\" who defend Justice Kavanaugh, “deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps” and then “we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRkDzyWbEV-HM6Iyg-Lb6YaCP1FRJxMzeDEoshQSmJJbMOZuJEH_uZCvQYjiU1rJxWcymSaA9waMcbJc0ZBhZm8XLuGNyQFvQ9D8uV3VrjCOx3oGC0FyJfRHVAPdr2mdzXpUVl0aAdSoTs5I9XXb1E9KikDfEHMDYnv1PKmCsx3e-_IFjcPao\/s615\/image_2022-02-07_205727.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"382\" data-original-width=\"615\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRkDzyWbEV-HM6Iyg-Lb6YaCP1FRJxMzeDEoshQSmJJbMOZuJEH_uZCvQYjiU1rJxWcymSaA9waMcbJc0ZBhZm8XLuGNyQFvQ9D8uV3VrjCOx3oGC0FyJfRHVAPdr2mdzXpUVl0aAdSoTs5I9XXb1E9KikDfEHMDYnv1PKmCsx3e-_IFjcPao\/s320\/image_2022-02-07_205727.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn response, Georgetown helpfully clarified that Fair's belief that white men who support due process should be killed and castrated were “not the views of the University\", but pointed out that, “our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown’s law school took a very different position after law professor Ilya Shapiro tweeted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/majority-dems-and-nonwhites-want-biden-consider-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecriticism\u003C\/a\u003E of Biden’s decision, one opposed by 76% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats and non-whites, to only consider black women for the Supreme Court.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShapiro correctly pointed out that choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on race would lead to a lesser choice. As the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and minorities, agree. But Georgetown, which did not suspend a professor calling for the murder and castration of white men, decided that the constitutional professor’s speech had to be condemned and prohibited.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShapiro, who was to lead the law school's Constitutional Law Center, got a lesson in how Georgetown views free speech and academic freedom, when it placed him on administrative leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean William Treanor described Shapiro’s tweets as “appalling” and insisted that they, “are at odds with everything we stand for at Georgetown Law and are damaging to the culture of equity and inclusion that Georgetown Law is building every day.” Here’s what that culture looks like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreston Mitchum, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/889165691529637888\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E,  “Yes, ALL white people are racist. Yes, ALL men are sexist. Yes, ALL cis people are transphobic.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was no condemnation, let alone a suspension of Mitchum from Georgetown Law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean William Treanor had no thoughts on Mitchum \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/1134996946635165697?lang=en\"\u003Etweeting\u003C\/a\u003E, “White men are violent. Period” or, lest there be any ambiguity about his racism, also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonmitchum\/status\/1282811645455216641\"\u003Etweet\u003C\/a\u003Eing, “White people are evil.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHelpfully, Mitchum also tweeted, “White people don’t determine what’s racist.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI reached out to Dean Treanor and Georgetown’s press office to ask whether they would be taking any action against Mitchum, but there has been no response. Apparently declaring that  “white people are evil”, “all white people are racist” and “white men are violent” is wholly in accord with Georgetown’s culture of equity and inclusion. And its academic interests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn, \"The Dangers of White Spaces\", Bryce Huebner, a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown, inveighs against everything from \"Google's white background\" to \"white spaces, spaces constructed around white bodies” not to mention “white values”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If white people are not a ‘real’ group, then there is nothing to work to preserve,\" he argues, and nothing that makes white people \"all white aside from an oppressive ideology.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgetown Library promotes, \"Decentering Whiteness in the Classroom\", while the Reading Race Book Club at the university offers, \"The Whiteness of Wealth\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne day Georgetown will save time by putting up a sign, “No Whites Allowed.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat brand of racist academic discourse isn’t unusual at Georgetown University or throughout academia where papers and talks now routinely read and sound like Hitler speeches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe existence of white people explains every ill from obesity to global warming to inequality. The only rational conclusion to be drawn from this sort of academic discourse is that if white people were to vanish tomorrow, or be eliminated, the world would immediately become a utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch like Mitchum and Fair’s rants, none of this is at all out of step with Georgetown’s values.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe racist double standard here is glaringly obvious. Even the mildest criticism of the racist idea that candidates for the highest court in the land should be selected based on their race meets with furious condemnation and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/fire-statement-on-georgetowns-suspension-and-investigation-of-ilya-shapiro\/\"\u003Ean unlawful suspension\u003C\/a\u003E of a respected constitutional expert.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile, even the most vicious rhetoric from faculty members about how much they hate white people, men, Republicans, and everyone who is different than they are, is fine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown University's Faculty handbook claims that it \"is committed to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate in all matters” and the “untrammeled verbal and nonverbal expression of ideas” and insists that it gives all \"members of the University community, including faculty, students, and staff, the broadest possible latitude to speak.\" Except on affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s understandable that Georgetown Law is sensitive on the issue of affirmative action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, the law school purged two adjunct professors, Sandra Sellers and David Batson, after the former complained that black students were lagging in her classes and the latter for not objecting, and noting that, \"What drives me crazy is...the concept of how that plays out in whether that is my own perceptions playing in here with certain people' or 'my own unconscious biases playing out in the scheme of things.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETreanor declared himself to be “appalled” and their heads rolled while the issue of affirmative action elevating students who weren’t ready went unaddressed to everyone’s detriment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgetown has an Office of Affirmative Action Programs, and an Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action, but awkwardly, black graduate rates continue to lag behind white graduation rates. And no amount of critical race theory racism seems to help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdmitting students who are less likely to succeed doesn’t help them, it hurts them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirtue signaling doesn’t actually help black people. Police defunding and support for the racist nationalism of Black Lives Matter led to the deaths of thousands of more black people. Affirmative action pushes black students into colleges where they are more likely to fail. That’s not because black students are intellectually inferior, but because they’re not selected for merit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same is true, to some degree, of legacy admissions. It’s why the USC fraud cases did not produce stellar students. When you use a criteria other than academics for an academic setting, the results, whether it’s hiring politicians as professors or picking students based on race, will always be worse than they would have been in an honest system that rewards merit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd no amount of censorship, suspensions, firings, or critical race theory will change that truth.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6212465048559023355\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ilya-shapiros-case-exposes-georgetown.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6212465048559023355"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6212465048559023355"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ilya-shapiros-case-exposes-georgetown.html","title":"The Ilya Shapiro Case Exposes Georgetown's Racism Double Standards"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5758263491434689627"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-05T23:00:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-05T23:00:46.210-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"censorship"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Only Ones Banning Books are Critical Race Theorists"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003EAfter spending the last few years banning Dr. Seuss and literally\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/jk-rowling-books-burned-tiktok-transgender-issues-1532330#:~:text=A%20new%20TikTok%20trend%20has,placed%20on%20a%20burning%20pyre.\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eburning\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Ecopies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires, and\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-44604844\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003Edenouncing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eclassic children’s literature like\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003ELittle House on the Prairie\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eand\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/02\/why-left-cant-tell-honest-working-class-dirt-daniel-greenfield\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMary Poppins\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003Eas racist, leftists are now accusing conservatives of “banning books”.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s2560\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2560\" data-original-width=\"1952\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s320\" width=\"244\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen a Minnesota school district\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/373260-minnesota-school-district-drops-huckleberry-finn-to-kill-a\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717;\"\u003Eremoved\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ETo Kill A Mockingbird\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;from its curriculum because it made students \"uncomfortable\", the NAACP, which has been trying to ban Huck since at least\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/banned-adventures-huckleberry-finn\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #801717;\"\u003Ethe 50s\u003C\/a\u003E, cheered. So did the media which celebrated the effort to remove \"racist language\" that “triggered students of color” from the classroom.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe removal of Mark Twain's authentically anti-racist masterpiece was carried out by anti-racists in school districts from Burbank, California to Lawrence, Kansas. In 2016, a Virginia school district, now at the center of media fear mongering about book bans after parents succeeded in reclaiming schools from CRT bosses, banned both books because of all the \"racial slurs\".\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ENow the censors want to reclaim the mantle of free speech. The media, which described school districts “removing” or “replacing” books on reading lists when leftists were doing it, now calls the removal of books, whether they’re racist critical race theory texts or\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMaus\u003C\/em\u003E, as “bans”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EMuch like erstwhile liberals went from celebrating Jefferson and Lincoln to toppling their statues, their educational counterparts who had once vocally championed Huck and Mockingbird, and shouted down any effort to keep them out of the classroom, now just as vocally want them out and replaced with the deranged hateful ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhQ2tHjST8K9xhcjeUbdc7RlmfIwyzktk6i1ziuXu5TYB9RkXPmdm8KmmLRcItGrSC3E7L9s88Sul1f2yNl5llYjJ_0YVp78EwgrLH-yu579aTymzPfmsaDcjCreZYXam9J-DHJHd7eTZgdCmctty--8kNodq4yf_KkwzCvVGUL7mR9P-JNMlI=s1653\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1481\" data-original-width=\"1653\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhQ2tHjST8K9xhcjeUbdc7RlmfIwyzktk6i1ziuXu5TYB9RkXPmdm8KmmLRcItGrSC3E7L9s88Sul1f2yNl5llYjJ_0YVp78EwgrLH-yu579aTymzPfmsaDcjCreZYXam9J-DHJHd7eTZgdCmctty--8kNodq4yf_KkwzCvVGUL7mR9P-JNMlI=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EYet instead of being honest about that (or anything else), they duck into a phone booth, doff their censor togs and dress up as free speech crusaders, and then rush back and throw off their free speech tights to go back to burning books. Even by the standards of a movement that is so pathologically Orwellian that it describes protests against vaccine mandates as “authoritarian”, this is a bit much. But the only books they believe should be in school are those whose politics they like, at any given moment, before deciding that they’re hate speech and purging them.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ERemoving books from a school curriculum isn’t a ban. If it is, then lefties have been banning books forever. It’s not just Huck Finn, there’s hardly a single classic book that hasn’t been denounced for thoughtcrimes.\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Wind in the Willows\u003C\/em\u003E? Rarcist. Narnia? Islamophobic.\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Lord of the Rings\u003C\/em\u003E? Also racist. Any book written by a white man? Systemically racist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ERecently, a university added a trigger warning to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003E1984\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby George Orwell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe worst offenders are the proponents of critical race theory, now suddenly crying about censorship, when they had been urging schools, publishers, and readers to stop buying, publishing, and displaying books by white men in the name of racial and gender equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EA few years ago they were touting a proposal that every racist illiterate stop reading books by white men for a year. You can still find headlines like, \"I Read Books by Only Minority Authors for a Year\" from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/em\u003E, and more explicit posts at book sites like, \"Why I'm No Longer Reading Books by White Men\", \"A Year of No White Men\", \"The Year I Stopped Reading White People\". The crybullies at Goodreads, which is to young adult books what TikTok is to videos of crying teens changing gender on camera, bullied publishers into canceling books and forced writers to unpublish their own books to the wild applause of the media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ENow lefties are subjecting us to their self-righteous pearl clutching about censoring books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EParents have a right to determine what their children are reading in school. They have an absolute right to reject the real racism of Ta-Nehisi Coates or Ibram X. Kendi, who dehumanize white people as a group, or, for that matter,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003C\/em\u003E, if they don’t want their children reading racial slurs, or\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EMaus\u003C\/em\u003E, if they don’t want them exposed to curse words. Parents don’t need a ‘good reason’ to keep a book off the reading list. Being the parents of their children is good enough to give them veto power over what their children are taught.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBut there is a world of difference between taking a book out of a school and banning it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EWhen you harass publishers and authors into removing a book from sale, you’re banning the book. When you pull classic books from sale and then ban their resale, as the Seuss Foundation did, under pressure, and eBay chose to do on its own, that is an actual book ban.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EPeople who believe that men can become women by wishing hard enough have the right to burn their own copies of Harry Potter, but there’s no mistaking the message of hate and intimidation that sends. There’s a reason the Nazis loved burning books. It’s an act of violence that serves as a temporary substitute for destroying the authors and readers behind them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAnyone can and should be able to read any book they want. The proponents of critical race theory are the biggest opponents of that idea. They don’t just want books they dislike out of schools, but they want them removed entirely from existence. That’s why they don’t just refuse to read them, or even just burn them, they pressure publishers into eliminating them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThey don’t just do this because they hate the books themselves, but as a show of power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBooks have been banned for a whole lot less than racial slurs or accurately describing the world as it was at the time. Beloved classic children’s books like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EWind in the Willows\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;had messages read into them. Racial lenses have been placed over classics like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ELord of the Rings\u003C\/em\u003E. And contemporary teen books were forced out of existence for the mere crime of having ‘black’ or ‘slave’ in the title even when they were set in fantasy kingdoms and had nothing to do with race.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThis Salem Witch Trial of literature isn’t even about the context of the text, but the hateful power of the social justice censors who are getting high on the fumes from the burning paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAfter all this, the book burners, statue topplers, and crowdsourced censors suddenly want to act like they’re the champions of free speech because parents don’t want critical racist texts, underage pornography, and the other garbage that the Left currently champions (before deciding a decade from now that it also needs to be banned) taught to their children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe old liberals of the ACLU had some personal credibility when attacking censorship, the postmodern identity politics leftists who live and breathe censorship have less than none.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EMuch of lefty politics is built on wearing liberal skins and echoing liberal ideas in between illiberal bouts of destroying everything they don’t approve of and demanding that everyone swear allegiance to their politics. Sometimes it fools the declining population of Boomer liberals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EJust ask Obama.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThe very last people who should ever don the mantle of free speech are critical race theorists who believe that everything is racist and should be banned unless it was made by them. They are obsessed with “whiteness” in architecture, art, and literature the way the Nazis were obsessed with finding trace elements of Jewishness in Einstein’s theories and Strauss waltzes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EBanning books isn’t just something you do: it’s central to how you think of the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EParents trying to determine what books their children are exposed to aren’t trying to control the world, but critical race theory is concerned not with individuals, but all of society. Leftists believe that they should control not just what they read, but what everyone reads and believes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EThis is the authoritarian totalitarian impulse that moves them to both ban and compel books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EReading to them is not an individual choice, but a collective one. The mass production of books and the transformation of reading from a public activity to a private one made individualism possible. Even in totalitarian societies, people smuggled books and read them secretly. In those stolen hours, seeing words by candle light, they won the freedom of the soul.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EToday, Big Tech and their Big Publisher allies want people reading on Kindles and on digital platforms where books are not truly owned, but allocated by digital rights management lurking in the cloud which can delete any book at any time, making its words and the ones and zeros behind them disappear. Turning a private act into a public one, controlled by monopolies, and policed by the politically correct is a technosocial ecosystem that destroys individual reading.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003ECritical race theory proponents are coming for our books, they’re coming for our culture, and our souls, and even as they burn and loot our intellectual heritage, they claim to be the victims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EIn a perversity that would have stunned even Orwell and Swift, the book burners claim that they’re fighting censorship, the censors insist that they’re defending themselves against painful words, and the racists declare that they’re imposing racism in the name of anti-racism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003EAnd if you doubt that they’re the victims, they’ll burn you too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5758263491434689627\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/the-only-ones-banning-books-are.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5758263491434689627"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5758263491434689627"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/the-only-ones-banning-books-are.html","title":"The Only Ones Banning Books are Critical Race Theorists"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEifo5cIdiP_UqOyE6si0nq4AXjhbWm0bYv38Ke59pLmjIDI3iSv-v4tlqSvxbDg2nxY0aVsFHRCMpOh-Dr1QeFV1nTiZYTEZMyhwXJli9QA1tfEBUer7VyippqW4ILafwfv3vqdYY_5R68mSVtmChkReoEv5H8ZjyUWyS-I_VrICp_XWqF8nOg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7907974012429122490"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-03T16:20:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-03T16:20:22.334-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"military"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Soros"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Soros General Demands Purge of Military"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The United States has Soros prosecutors who have turned our cities into violent hellholes where criminals run loose, Soros politicians who wage war on this nation from the ramparts of their offices, and Soros generals who advocate for political purges of the nation’s military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s1437\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"945\" data-original-width=\"1437\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ERecently the Washington Post ran an op-ed from three retired generals, Antonio Taguba, an immigrant who had accused America of war crimes during the fight against Islamic terrorists in Iraq, Steven Anderson, a board member of the left-wing VoteVets, and Paul Eaton, a senior VoteVets adviser, urging that the military prepare for a \"2024 insurrection\" in proper Soviet style.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe three left-wing ex-generals called for \"intensive intelligence work\" to \"identify, isolate and remove potential mutineers\" and \"guard against efforts by propagandists.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Commie commissar couldn’t have said it any better than Taguba, Anderson, and Eaton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese “propagandists” and “mutineers” are not the members of the pro-Hillary “Resistance” who pledged to undermine and sabotage the Trump administration in 2016. Nor are they the Democrats who insisted that President George W. Bush was illegitimately elected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly conservatives are up for the purge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as Eaton had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulDEaton52\/status\/1277351988058087424\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E before the election, “The empty shirt in the White House deserves your contempt. Aiding and abetting is treason. What American could vote for such a person? I know: a traitor.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s rich coming from the board member of a Hungarian Nazi collaborator’s pet project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly thereafter Eaton spoke to NPR which, like the Washington Post, did not bother identifying VoteVets as a left-wing group or explaining to readers that his hatred for Republicans knows no bounds. Nor did it inform readers or listeners that Eaton is a board member of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft which was co-funded by George Soros and the remaining Koch brother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton told NPR \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/31\/1068930675\/us-election-coup-january-6-military-constitution\"\u003Ethat\u003C\/a\u003E military leaders needed to \"war-game the possibility of a problem and what we are going to do\" while warning that the United States is \"compromised... as far as 39% of the Republican Party refusing to accept President Biden as president.\" He suggested that a scenario in which the military is \"compromised\" needs to be \"addressed in a future war game held well in advance of 2024.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when we held war games to fight our enemies rather than to purge our own people?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton, a Hillary Clinton adviser, isn't however worried about the 33% of Clinton supporters who claimed that Trump was not the legitimate winner right after the election, or the 56% of Democrats who viewed him as illegitimate a year later. Polls \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/01\/democrat-poll-shows-democrats-are-threat-democracy-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eactually show \u003C\/a\u003Ethat much higher numbers thought that Bush and Trump were illegitimately elected than the number that thought Obama and Biden were illegitimately elected. Should the military be purging Dems or holding “war games” to determine what will happen if Democrats try to live out their coup fantasies?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDems would be the first to denounce that as McCarthyism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton keeps trying to pass off the dangerous idea that military personnel, active or retired, being skeptical about the legitimacy of an election is an existential threat. That’s un-American.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Eaton doled out fearmongering about the role of the military during a contested election, the only tangible example he managed to offer was the Flag Officers 4 America letter which was signed by retired officers and raised serious questions about the election and other issues, but at no point in time urged active duty military personnel to do anything to interfere in the process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response to an apparent NPR question about how a coup could play out, Eaton referred to a lack of the  \"clear-cut understanding, that can infect the rank and file or at any level in the U.S. military\" using as his example the \"124 retired generals and admirals signed a letter contesting the 2020 election.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a difference of opinion among retired officers is defined as a threat, that is a threat against all Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton has spent his retirement taking all sorts of radical political stands, including actually suggesting that military leaders undermine President Trump, yet insists on trying to smear patriotic retired military leaders because they have expressed criticisms of Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Will the Air Force Chief of Staff comply or do what generals know how to do. Slow roll for a few weeks to allow sanity to kick in?\" Eaton had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulDEaton52\/status\/1331424919863824384\"\u003E tweeted\u003C\/a\u003E, suggesting that Air Force leaders sabotage President Trump's decisions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrump “must be stopped in his aggression against Iran,” the board member of a pro-Iran group had tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“How many Americans died with blood on Trump’s hands? What does Putin have on you Trump?” he tweeted another time. He described all Trump supporters as, “sedition in pure form”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a small sampling of unhinged tweets by the board member of a seditious Soros group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEaton would like the privilege to engage in these rants while going after patriotic officers for even expressing the least bit of concern about the abuses of his extremist political party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe constant references to Flag Officers 4 America makes it abundantly clear that this is about using a manufactured crisis to intimidate officers, retired or active, threatening the former and purging the latter. After a Washington Post op-ed, an NPR interview, and a Newsweek article, Eaton and the media hacks writing about him have come up with no meaningful examples.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If there is any doubt in the loyalty and the willingness to follow the oath of the United States, the support and defend part of the U.S. Constitution, then those folks need to be identified and addressed in some capacity,” Eaton told NPR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid he mean the West Point cadet displaying \"Communism Will Win\" written on his cap?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only widespread effort by supporters of a political party to sabotage a sitting president by forming covert organizations within the government was directed by Dems at President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut any effort to root out the members of the so-called “resistance”, let alone any active duty member who did not believe that Bush or Trump were legitimately elected, would have led to cries of McCarthyism. And yet the lefties who are quickest to cry McCarthyism are also the loudest voices demanding a purge of conservatives from the military for questioning Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Soros general amps up paranoia about a civil war and urges having military leaders “war game” election outcomes, there have been plenty of contested elections, much more seriously so in the nineteenth century, without any proposed purges of the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf General \"Fighting Joe\" Wheeler could serve as a general for the Confederacy and then command the cavalry in the Spanish–American War, overseeing, among others, Teddy Roosevelt, then the military is big enough to survive political differences of opinion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd still fight on the same team against our foreign enemies: whether it’s China, Iran, or Soros.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trouble is that the Left has manufactured a threat from the military in order to conduct a political purge of political dissent. There has never been any question about the loyalty of the rank and file, but there ought to be grave questions about the loyalty of those doing the purging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what they intend to do with the military that requires them to purge patriots from its ranks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Democrats go after dead Confederate generals, we ought to look at living Soros generals.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7907974012429122490\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/soros-general-demands-purge-of-military.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7907974012429122490"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7907974012429122490"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/soros-general-demands-purge-of-military.html","title":"Soros General Demands Purge of Military"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjBb5HfVFPEoF3bTfZA5GY0CKjo8kGLlB0h8a4RPcUJdzfsnw1pvZ1sGRlPggljOFaHE9Q2ElkT4dnAdWD1LQjtPuiALAXHi5G58Eu_crYOWPzeGoJzGTvc7erRgnqbopxCBpJvHlXutiVhjHQroVpoi4MDM3Gvf3jFXt_Ui2cja9upxuqB-fg=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});