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The Patriot Post Digest 2-25-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Feb. 25, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/61388-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” —James Madison (1792)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/61386-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
U.S. increases support of Venezuela’s interim President Juan Guaido as Maduro digs in.1
SPLC’s hate hoax: The latest report on “extremism” leaves a lot to be desired.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Blocks Humanitarian Aid10
Thomas Gallatin
Violence erupted11 over the weekend at several Venezuelan border crossings as the country’s socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro, ordered that humanitarian food and medical aid be blocked from entering the country. One of the more dramatic incidents took place on the Simon Bolivar bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, where Maduro-backed troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of protesting Venezuelans and set several aid trucks on fire. Thus far the violence has claimed the lives of two Venezuelans, with 29 others suffering bullet wounds and a total of 285 people injured.
Reacting to the violence, interim President Juan Guaido, who has been recognized by the U.S.12 and at least 50 other democratic nations as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, stated13, “Today’s events force me to make a decision: to formally propose to the international community that we must have all options open to secure the freedom of our country that is fighting and will continue to fight. Hope was born not to die, Venezuela!”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his disgust with Maduro’s actions and reiterated America’s commitment to stand with the people of Venezuela: “We denounce Maduro’s refusal to let humanitarian assistance reach Venezuela. What kind of a sick tyrant stops food from getting to hungry people? The images of burning trucks filled with aid are sickening.” He added, “While Guaido leads the effort to get the aid to the people, Maduro sends armed gangs to attack innocent civilians.”
Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to meet today with Guiado and the regional Lima Group of nations to offer further support and help decide what actions should be taken to increase the pressure on Maduro to step down. President Donald Trump has not ruled out military intervention, although it appears that the immediate response will be increased sanctions.
What is truly interesting — and almost comical if the situation weren’t so dire — is the attempt of leftists such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to distance themselves and their socialist ideology from the socialist-created disaster that is Venezuela. On Saturday, Sanders, who has long praised the socialist takeover of Venezuela, stated, “The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters.” There would have been no need for the once-wealthy Venezuela to need humanitarian aid today had it not embraced the economy- and freedom-destroying ideology of socialism, but Sanders can’t admit that fact.
For the sake of the Venezuelan people, we hope for an end to the Maduro dictatorship and the socialism that precipitated his rise to power in the first place.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61383-venezuelan-dictator-maduro-blocks-humanitarian-aid
SPLC’s Hate Hoax: A New Report on ‘Extremism’14
Nate Jackson
In the midst of the endless news cycle surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, our own Louis DeBroux highlighted just how prevalent such hoaxes are15. Ask yourself a simple question: Do we really live in a nation filled with hate groups committing rampant hate crimes when the hip new thing is to perpetrate fake hate crimes to get attention?
The nation’s premier hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center16, laughably insists the answer is yes and that it’s getting worse under President Donald Trump. In its newest Intelligence Report17 (try not to laugh), the SPLC calculates that the number of “hate” groups in the U.S. supposedly increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2018. Citing the report, The New York Times warns18, “The law center said the number of hate groups rose by 7 percent last year to 1,020, a 30 percent jump from 2014. That broadly echoes other worrying developments, including a 30 percent increase in the number of hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. from 2015 through 2017 and a surge of right-wing violence that the Anti-Defamation League said had killed at least 50 people in 2018.”
U.S. News & World Report laid bare the blame game with the headline “Trump ‘Fear-Mongering’ Fuels Rise of U.S. Hate Groups to Record19.” Clearly, this SPLC report is political, not an honest assessment.
Two points about reports from the FBI and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). First, as we observed20 in November, the reason “hate” crimes are supposedly on the rise is because hundreds more law-enforcement agencies have begun reporting such a category. So if that category is to be taken seriously instead of dismissed as political and subjective, all it means is that we’re now keeping count. Second, assume for a moment that the leftist ADL’s numbers are even remotely accurate (they’re not). Fifty murders is 50 too many for any reason, but blacks kill 50 other blacks in American inner cities every week. Is it a worse crime when the race of the perpetrator is white?
That brings us back to the SPLC. The organization is a tax-exempt, charitable organization with an endowment of $432.7 million21. This war chest is used to tabulate a few actually hateful groups, but much of the organization’s very uncharitable efforts are spent serving as a bludgeoning tool for the Leftmedia and the Democrat Party. Why else would the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom be listed as “hate” groups? Or why would the SPLC warn about “members of Congress who traffic in hate and extremism” but only include Republicans and not, for example, actual anti-Semite Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar22? A qualification for this political hate? Opposing same-sex marriage, just as Barack Obama did until 2012.
Despite — or rather because of — all this political chicanery, the SPLC is routinely cited by Leftmedia outlets as a “nonpartisan” and “objective” source for tracking hate in America. That is the essence of fake news.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61374-splcs-hate-hoax-a-new-report-on-extremism
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Most Americans Would Fail a Citizenship Test23 — When Americans don’t know what it means to be American, we will lose Liberty.
China Exposes Globalist Bankruptcy24 — Beijing is making a serious play to supplant the U.S. as the world’s foremost superpower.
Chicago PD Superintendent’s Pivot From ‘Hate Crime’ to ‘Gun Violence’25 — If Eddie Johnson was sincere, he’d not that leftist policies are the problem with inner cities.
Video: Bernie Sanders on Division Politics26 — “The federal government, with him running it, should have control over pretty much everything.”
TOP HEADLINE SUMMARY
CNBC reports28, “The United States is planning to delay a menu of additional Chinese tariffs that were scheduled to begin on March 1 … as both sides hash out a definitive end to a wide ranging trade dispute. In a series of posts on Twitter, Trump cited ‘substantial progress’ in bilateral talks between the U.S. and China.”
Making the economy great again: “The Dow posted its ninth consecutive week of advances, its longest weekly winning streak in nearly 24 years, as investors continued to digest commentary surrounding progress toward a U.S.-China trade deal. The Dow closed at 26,031.81 points … by the end of Friday’s session. This was the first time the index crossed 26,000 points since November 9, and its nine straight weeks gains marked the longest streak since a 10-week run between March and May 1995.” (Yahoo Finance29) |
