tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54316260759707166502024-03-15T20:11:51.198-05:00MAL Contends — Legal, political, campaign news, and analysisMALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.comBlogger5197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-19622177592340103562024-03-10T18:09:00.004-05:002024-03-10T18:09:56.667-05:00Israel Is Sadistic State-Movement Committing Genocide — Time to Detach America from Annilation Machine<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmm8ELpywOvQuh7rNCkmvQNp1N6SMuZixSbkZxgh0th0Gfx0BnpVO4q2kWlzeJDOYonCVp-9WFFzUoDxJ0kQ_Gn_eBiqFnKeeZCenPkbM9MBHIekA2TyZUCw0z1AFSizGGVKMwUMw6Le8zK-w8vyxdI4To7D4anWpKqNg-gkmBXIsgprrmdG98Axn8mo/s584/Piet%C3%A0%20Sculpture%20en%20bronze%20-%20K%C3%A4the%20Kollwitz%20Museum%20K%C3%B6ln.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="475" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmm8ELpywOvQuh7rNCkmvQNp1N6SMuZixSbkZxgh0th0Gfx0BnpVO4q2kWlzeJDOYonCVp-9WFFzUoDxJ0kQ_Gn_eBiqFnKeeZCenPkbM9MBHIekA2TyZUCw0z1AFSizGGVKMwUMw6Le8zK-w8vyxdI4To7D4anWpKqNg-gkmBXIsgprrmdG98Axn8mo/s320/Piet%C3%A0%20Sculpture%20en%20bronze%20-%20K%C3%A4the%20Kollwitz%20Museum%20K%C3%B6ln.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pietà </b>(Mother with dead Son), 1937-1939<br />In 1937, on the anniversary of her son <br />Peter’s death in WW I, the anti-fascist <br />artist Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary:<br />"The mother is seated, her dead son lying <br />on her lap between her knees.<br />-- Käthe Kollwitz, Diaries, 22 October 1937<br /><a href="https://www.kollwitz.de/en/pieta-sculpture-en-bronze" target="_blank">Käthe Kollwitz Museum</a> Kollwitz was<br />adored by the German people; even the<br />Nazis minimized their harassment.<br />---<br />Notes Käthe Kollwitz Museum: <br />"In 1993, a version of the Pietà <br />sculpture, executed by Harald Haake <br />four times its original size, was installed <br />on the initiative of Helmut Kohl, <br />the German Chancellor at that<br /> time, at the Neue Wache in Berlin, which<br /> is the central memorial site of the <br />Federal Republic of Germany for the victims <br />of war and dictatorship."<br />--<br />In the brilliant 2017 anti-war movie, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/80068327?trackId=255824129&tctx=0%2C4%2Cbd368d97-4aab-4c32-a95b-b5ecd0be84a7-219247604%2Cbd368d97-4aab-4c32-a95b-b5ecd0be84a7-219247604%7C2%2Cunknown%2C%2C%2CtitlesResults%2C80068327%2CVideo%3A80068327%2CminiDpPlayButton" target="_blank">War<br />Machine (David Michôd</a>), United States Army <br />General Stanley McChrystal, is played by Brad <br />Pitt, and memorably featured in a powerful <br />scene saluting the Pietà sculpture in Berlin. <br />Artist Käthe Kollwitz never recovered from<br />the death on her son in WW I.<br />See Brad Pitt below.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xOFNJ-CBrmWUG2zrZpdxOEXll1qLgMMjFiTq25tslzhdI6JhvvzkRPXnQ4Zzw0ykT2zJIm8sfSaDcuyuFQBARhNjrhPLTkyJmTu4pO1m67OAueOrJ6QLqmQ8eVhBhIsDActt9QO8mlyRrzC_eICRBLUytX-mPOKQtZ7eWrPByldatxfb8AfkV7Pwfa8/s720/war%20machine.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="720" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xOFNJ-CBrmWUG2zrZpdxOEXll1qLgMMjFiTq25tslzhdI6JhvvzkRPXnQ4Zzw0ykT2zJIm8sfSaDcuyuFQBARhNjrhPLTkyJmTu4pO1m67OAueOrJ6QLqmQ8eVhBhIsDActt9QO8mlyRrzC_eICRBLUytX-mPOKQtZ7eWrPByldatxfb8AfkV7Pwfa8/s320/war%20machine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Joe Biden, Democrats Lead U.S. into Moral Oblivion</span></h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Commentary</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like any sentient, post-World War II American, at an early age, I developed an ethic to oppose totalitarianism, fascism, anti-Semitism, creeping authoritarianism where it slithered its way onto our liberties. <br /><br />No more. Israel is a <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/the-biden-doctrine-in-gaza-bomb-starve?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=100118&post_id=142435082&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDEwMjAzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDI0MzUwODIsImlhdCI6MTcwOTkzNDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNzEyNTI2NjI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTAwMTE4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.G1TOH-sIKTAQ3l7tYb0rvi2pa1W6rN1PBKqmXNoqT6k&r=1732z&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">sick</a>, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/28/israels-cruelty-is-by-design-an-interview-with-joshua-frank/" target="_blank">fiest pack</a> slaughtering 10,000s, with sights on 100,000 more.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the United States, a moral person must abandon the Democrats, all the Democrats.<br /><br />How many more mothers must endure the gruesome deaths of their children?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From susan abulhawa in <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/history-will-record-israel-committed-holocaust/45006" target="_blank">The Electronic Intifada</a>:<br /><br />It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect.<br /><br />I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment is too big for a notepad or my struggling memory. Nothing prepared me for what I would witness.<br /><br />Before I made it across the Rafah-Egypt border, I read every bit of news coming out of Gaza or about Gaza. I did not look away from any video or image posted from the ground, no matter how gruesome, shocking or traumatizing.<br /><br />I kept in touch with friends who reported on their situations in the north, middle and south of Gaza – each area suffering in different ways. I stayed current on the latest statistics, the latest political, military and economic maneuverings of Israel, the US and the rest of the world.<br /><br />I thought I understood the situation on the ground. But I didn’t.<br /><br />Nothing can truly prepare you for this dystopia. What reaches the rest of the world is a fraction of what I’ve seen so far, which is only a fraction of this horror’s totality.<br /><br />Gaza is hell. It is an inferno teeming with innocents gasping for air.<br /><br />But even the air here is scorched. Every breath scratches and sticks to the throat and lungs.<br /><br />What was once vibrant, colorful, full of beauty, potential and hope against all odds, is draped in gray-colored misery and grime.<br />#</span></div><br />MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-29535060895047438612024-02-12T15:40:00.002-06:002024-02-12T15:40:57.941-06:00Impact of Toxic Drinking Water Is Clear; DoD Is Perpetual Offender<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-7VOQErtdVnLklisXKdcBLRUGDExxGKhEpn91LhI8kmDwUXfm-S6XJYu8hhBnGJNu0tyLhOOVkaXNsuaUdRUcLxhv0DzXZJluQjA3ngpuW3V4ZmZX7Hlbg4Cu13LE7BqutqCV8_faIvzI7IwvUQbRldQuQqN4t3GurN0s6SmGUXM7_YyuZvQW1Jz0vk/s176/Water.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="176" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-7VOQErtdVnLklisXKdcBLRUGDExxGKhEpn91LhI8kmDwUXfm-S6XJYu8hhBnGJNu0tyLhOOVkaXNsuaUdRUcLxhv0DzXZJluQjA3ngpuW3V4ZmZX7Hlbg4Cu13LE7BqutqCV8_faIvzI7IwvUQbRldQuQqN4t3GurN0s6SmGUXM7_YyuZvQW1Jz0vk/s1600/Water.jpg" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clean, safe water - Worth protection</td></tr></tbody></table>The corporate movement to privatize water departments in many communities is a sought-after policy displacement of poisoning water with efforts to monetize and control water, and water systems.<br /><br />Water is life. Clean water is the hallmark of civilizations, as the world sees in <a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/failing-gaza-undrinkable-water-no-access-toilets-and-little-hope-horizon" target="_blank">Gaza where safe water</a> is under attack as a means of destroying Gazan society. <br /><br /><a href="https://apnews.com/article/flint-water-settlement-engineers-lead-children-374879027660211f2a1d6c83a0071c24" target="_blank">Flint, Michigan,</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/us/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis.html" target="_blank">Jackson, Mississippi</a>, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=big+ag+water" target="_blank">Big Ag</a> and 100s of <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/report-reveals-major-problem-more-193000413.html" target="_blank">U.S. military facilities</a> bring into focus why we should not privatize water, and why we should pay rapt attention to protecting water.<br /><br />"The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector is vulnerable to a variety of
attacks, including contamination with deadly agents, physical attacks
such as the release of toxic gaseous chemicals and cyber attacks. If
these attacks were realized, the result could be large numbers of
illnesses or casualties and/or a denial of service that would also
impact public health and economic vitality. Critical services such as
firefighting and healthcare (hospitals), and other dependent and
interdependent sectors, such as Energy, Food and Agriculture, and
Transportation Systems, would suffer negative impacts from a denial of
service in the Water and Wastewater Systems Sector,"<br />
<span class="st">warns the <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/water-and-wastewater-systems-sector" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Homeland Security</a>.<br /><br />Who knew water systems were vulnerable to organized, domestic enemies? Everyone.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/landmark-cancer-study-shows-impact" target="_blank">Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby report</a>:<br /></span><p></p><blockquote><p>Once again, the science is in, confirming what advocates have been saying for years. </p><p><span>One of the largest cancer incidence cohort </span><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.27.24301873v1?ct=" rel="">studies</a><span>
in the U.S. just came out, and it shows alarming rates of cancer for
civilian and military personnel who lived and worked at North Carolina’s
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, considered one of the worst toxic sites
in the United States. <br /><br /></span>I hope all who have suffered feel a sense of validation. For those who
have lost loved ones due to this terrible pollution, my heart goes out
to you. No words can replace what you have lost. </p></blockquote><p>What a betrayal. Democrats will not help.<br /></p><p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-41979007264717258152023-12-29T16:29:00.002-06:002023-12-29T16:34:09.826-06:00Never Again and Again and Again, by Mr. Fish; On Destruction of Gaza<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc7hS_9uPZ6X01K1cQbMX1AbcpsqY1w-815ZHUTAIySNL0cGFiADj7mYJktYkFWeh2I4wKyRIwZ5nQZs6OXGC1BsPgdAdaNBk2mjjLKj1XQodteyUTMM0VIhCs5lKbgef2GGf2f6UdM15Za-0huJb4QRj3T2Q2PtlCW_Krnu0xHRyGLwJmFieOjNNoro/s1456/Gaza.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1456" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc7hS_9uPZ6X01K1cQbMX1AbcpsqY1w-815ZHUTAIySNL0cGFiADj7mYJktYkFWeh2I4wKyRIwZ5nQZs6OXGC1BsPgdAdaNBk2mjjLKj1XQodteyUTMM0VIhCs5lKbgef2GGf2f6UdM15Za-0huJb4QRj3T2Q2PtlCW_Krnu0xHRyGLwJmFieOjNNoro/w400-h305/Gaza.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Never Again and Again and Again - by Mr. Fish. From Chris Hedges,<br /> <a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-genocide-betrays-the-holocaust?r=1732z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR1QVAAKd-ODDSVK_1JOsM0pt4gnnVZ6I5hrGCP4EPQVermCpvCse9quSxQ" target="_blank">Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust</a>. By obscuring <br />and falsifying the lessons of the Holocaust we perpetuate the evil that defined it.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-58285992769305850192023-12-19T16:41:00.003-06:002023-12-20T07:15:47.700-06:00FOIA Docs: Bio Researchers Lied to Pentagon in Scheme to Direct Money to Wuhan Lab<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvG5rOqNQauJgELSPHPbPJ41OancstKBAyRtIrd1aOs_xP-w8r1PJvZol9ImAHIwbwcp_w16_Pw86cB3M2e17y_M-AeOOV4AwTzPuD-jB7eXhDJnfCE2YFhG2HRIpow40KcyB0P12ShEDrc9u-GT1i4TCSp2WBmnEUTPDW_08zK0SxzhUD4sMlpap_AYE/s1536/horseshoe-bat-unsplsh-1-1536x1152.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvG5rOqNQauJgELSPHPbPJ41OancstKBAyRtIrd1aOs_xP-w8r1PJvZol9ImAHIwbwcp_w16_Pw86cB3M2e17y_M-AeOOV4AwTzPuD-jB7eXhDJnfCE2YFhG2HRIpow40KcyB0P12ShEDrc9u-GT1i4TCSp2WBmnEUTPDW_08zK0SxzhUD4sMlpap_AYE/s320/horseshoe-bat-unsplsh-1-1536x1152.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 2018 research proposal called DEFUSE called for synthesizing <br />spike
proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that <br />supercharged
SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic <br />pathogen in a century. (Photo credit: <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-bat-hanging-upside-down-on-a-rock-AWxnE6GqjgM" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>A new <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/" target="_blank">report</a> chronicles a scheme by U.S. bio-researchers to mislead the Pentagon's <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/" target="_blank">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)</a> office in a 2018 grant proposal, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Project DEFUSE</a>, to direct American monies to a secret Chinese lab conducting unsafe coronavirus research in Wuhan. <br /><br />The report which is being blacked-out by American corporate media, is authored by <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyakopp" target="_blank">Emily Kopp</a>, a reporter at <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/" target="_blank">U.S. Right to Know</a>.<p></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1736848388350459913" target="_blank">Ms. Kopp</a> analyzed <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2021-006245-Combined-Records_Redacted-1-235.pdf">documents obtained</a> by U.S. Right to Know, via a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read all of the <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2021-006245-Combined-Records_Redacted-1-235.pdf">documents here</a>.<br /><br />Writes <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/" target="_blank">Kopp</a>:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote><p>American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk
coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards from the
Pentagon the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2021-006245-Combined-Records_Redacted-1-235.pdf">documents obtained</a> by U.S. Right to Know. </p><p>A 2018 grant proposal called <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Project DEFUSE</a>,
coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists,
has stoked concern that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident. </p><p>It
proposed engineering high-risk coronaviruses of the same species as
SARS and SARS-CoV-2. Most worrying to some scientists: The proposal
involved synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the
same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious
pandemic pathogen in a century. Indeed, some scientists have <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1539746640659202048?lang=en" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">likened DEFUSE</a> to <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://x.com/WashburneAlex/status/1733976799296586061?s=20" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a blueprint</a> for generating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.</p></blockquote><p><br />The <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/" target="_blank">report</a> can be read as politically shielding the Pentagon from much blame in supporting bio-research gone bad, as <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/" target="_blank">DARPA</a> turned down the 2018 grant proposal, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Project DEFUSE</a>; and the two American bio researchers appear to conspire to mislead DARPA, the <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/" target="_blank">documents show</a>.<br /></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">EcoHealth Alliance currently is receiving $25 million in Department of Defense grants and contracts, despite having conspired to defraud the Department of Defense and likely having caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.<a href="https://t.co/IcFctdd3ZG">pic.twitter.com/IcFctdd3ZG</a></p>— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1737247197043867773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-82807852624476292802023-11-09T18:26:00.003-06:002023-11-15T22:11:34.546-06:00Veterans Day 2023 — VA Is Lying; Veterans Are Dying<h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NL_WWe1iIwlKeaa3rbwgAwwcSysrUWarWqmfniMHesGq_Kv2ql7LIYCpQjXZQJzXygGVXnGZW_NMfH_rPtYpxH86fLWq9FEadM4Zlyemm2U2ZfDyTRxO7HaRPWIoNtzTZZHjayqmL0yKZSuwFkJ_CdglPRKqYyGxOAp8crxtGstSeDQarsXWxRrCTew/s320/american.flag_.courtesy-1-800x445.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="320" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NL_WWe1iIwlKeaa3rbwgAwwcSysrUWarWqmfniMHesGq_Kv2ql7LIYCpQjXZQJzXygGVXnGZW_NMfH_rPtYpxH86fLWq9FEadM4Zlyemm2U2ZfDyTRxO7HaRPWIoNtzTZZHjayqmL0yKZSuwFkJ_CdglPRKqYyGxOAp8crxtGstSeDQarsXWxRrCTew/s1600/american.flag_.courtesy-1-800x445.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Betrayal of Our Veterans Seems American Way</h3><div style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Commentary</b><br /><br />Madison, Wisconsin — Americans veterans are our guys; our men and women who served our country.</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Like most Americans, I love these people. This long Veterans Days weekend, we honor veterans as a country.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm8QEGIS3Y4EkLlnVNqFS23Bhf5jZ-OGrkispQLmgN9vywt_b8TKPAL1DUVwrSyNydD_Gy3csCfpmVCfd03GvHnv-Cadp59-l1V5GBPugA0o37u5gfJQHqMhyphenhyphenRYMVN3Y5SfP8FPX09RM8OPMWzK16H0dEsz_mfCtB0wkeaCHbJtL4mobiPgX2F-nj2ic/s631/Patriick%20Newberry.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="631" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm8QEGIS3Y4EkLlnVNqFS23Bhf5jZ-OGrkispQLmgN9vywt_b8TKPAL1DUVwrSyNydD_Gy3csCfpmVCfd03GvHnv-Cadp59-l1V5GBPugA0o37u5gfJQHqMhyphenhyphenRYMVN3Y5SfP8FPX09RM8OPMWzK16H0dEsz_mfCtB0wkeaCHbJtL4mobiPgX2F-nj2ic/s320/Patriick%20Newberry.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vietnam veteran Patrick Newberry of Fitchburg, Wisconsin <br />was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in <br />April 2023. The veterans were honored during the <br />46th Badger Honor Flight. Patrick was in-country. Vietnam, 1967.<br />(<a href="https://www.nbc15.com/2023/04/08/80-wisconsin-area-veterans-honored-during-46th-badger-honor-flight/?fbclid=IwAR3OQY1El6hMYn9SyyDCZVP92d6zxmhPFeSvLnJFlfgXC6OUBR2elAfo7k8" target="_blank">WMTV-Madison</a>) Patrick Newberry is a man of honor.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The plain truth is we also routinely dishonor and betray our veterans to such a degree that November 11, <a href="https://department.va.gov/veterans-day/" target="_blank">Veterans Day</a>, seems a day of irony.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://robertpwalsh.com/" target="_blank">Bob Walsh of Battle creek, Michigan</a>, served as a combat infantryman in Vietnam with the <a href="https://home.army.mil/campbell/101st" target="_blank">101<sup>st</sup> Airborne Division</a>, (RVN 1971-72).<br /><br /><a href="https://lessenberryink.com/2021/04/27/does-the-va-really-treat-veterans-fairly/" target="_blank">Walsh came home</a>; went to law school; worked as an attorney for the Veterans Administration, U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs, and found out Veterans Administration bureaucrats often could not care less about veterans, much less honoring their service. <br /><br />Bob Walsh is a man of honor. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Robert+Walsh&max-results=20&by-date=true" target="_blank">Walsh represented many other men of honor</a> the last several decades.<br /><br />But in facing bureaucrats at the VA, <a href="https://madison.com/news/opinion/column/guest/michael-leon-veterans-aren-t-lying-about-ptsd/article_d9bdb152-69e7-11df-948d-001cc4c03286.html" target="_blank">Walsh and a growing number of veterans face these people with no honor, no respect</a>. <br /><p><b>Dirty Cop Raymond Vasil </b><br /><br />Raymond Vasil is a rogue agent with the <a href="https://www.va.gov/oig/" target="_blank">Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General</a>, living on the public dole for screwing over our veterans, the type of nothing Walsh and veterans have to contend with when they get home.<br /></p><p>Vasil was a dirty cop chased out of the <a href="https://www.villageoflombard.org/199/Police" target="_blank">Lombard, Illinois Police Dept</a> where Vasil, aka Raymond Vasilopulos, worked between 1990 and 2000, and was cited in multiple misconduct cases in <a href="https://www.dupagecounty.gov/" target="_blank">DuPage County</a>, legal filings note. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126" target="_blank">Vasil</a> no longer lists his past employment with <a href="https://www.villageoflombard.org/199/Police" target="_blank">Lombard, Illinois Police Dept</a> in his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126" target="_blank">Linked-in page</a>.<br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG661_M1pJjcDLrdcGLpAdokcUAXlAlVGn4dLyrij0UvPDZA-FCtAwUAgUVpvFP9PZMF716Y6h5s1wf4C4vqWlykF7w7Sqjz2MnBxMbqLyA3Tj950r2BQlHqPek9QHrDd9Z65mL6KLTZfAYjff7hfhIPGDdBJixGdsfsO64XFgMEoA8_k-n0jJZnYv0Ds/s744/Vasil%20facebook.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="665" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG661_M1pJjcDLrdcGLpAdokcUAXlAlVGn4dLyrij0UvPDZA-FCtAwUAgUVpvFP9PZMF716Y6h5s1wf4C4vqWlykF7w7Sqjz2MnBxMbqLyA3Tj950r2BQlHqPek9QHrDd9Z65mL6KLTZfAYjff7hfhIPGDdBJixGdsfsO64XFgMEoA8_k-n0jJZnYv0Ds/s320/Vasil%20facebook.jpeg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rogue VA agent Raymond Vasil has persecuted and<br />lied about dozens of veterans after being fired from the <br />Lombard, Illinois Police Dept in 2000. The lunatic Vasil <br />sports a the Gadsden Flag, trolling veterans.<br />Don't Tread on Me symbol in his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page. <br />Screenshot image is above.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>So, naturally <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126/" target="_blank">Vasil joined the Department of Veterans Affairs</a>,
Office of Inspector General where this objectively dopey, inadequate
personality can have freer reign against innocent human beings.<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Raymond Vasil</a> is a veteran-hating, psychopathic jerk working unimpeded, and unsupervised, taking it out in out veterans.To many veterans' advocates, Vasil is known as, "the <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2023/07/wisconsin-navy-veteran-dies-keith.html" target="_blank">idiot with a badge</a>," who lies and defames innocent veterans over the last 30 years.</div><div style="text-align: left;">---<br /><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/560/586/" target="_blank"><b><i>Astrue v. Ratliff,</i> 560 U.S. 586 (2010)</b></a><br /><br />At the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts questioned
Assistant to the Solicitor General Anthony Yang during oral argument in
a major federal benefits-related case, <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/560/586/" target="_blank">Astrue v. Ratliff, 560 U.S. 586 (2010)</a>.<br /><br />Asked
Justice Roberts of Assistant to the Solicitor General Anthony Yang, "In
litigating with veterans, the government more often than not takes a
position that is substantially unjustified?"<br /><br />Yes, Justice Roberts was informed.<br /><br />Roberts found this "really startling."<br /><p></p>Yeah, startling.<br /><br />Justin Perez-Gorda is a man of honor.<br /><p><b>Justin Perez-Gorda</b><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZPnneDvbiuXRjiQwfiabmM83PIRFqvNnbVC5-h36GwmLzqoSQGMn92idYPOuS1EqdNtsz4sYSNqmGhs9I5MqMKF_NB1ghO1lzkHDIAvkpvcHQ-Mcq4bOTKBH_Vl2BwkPEuzykuGPLz3arVQ-cPfG9-3nyuP6gtRZBNRi9IHay3SRnMG9lfPyivmAV3M/s346/don%20kosterman.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="346" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZPnneDvbiuXRjiQwfiabmM83PIRFqvNnbVC5-h36GwmLzqoSQGMn92idYPOuS1EqdNtsz4sYSNqmGhs9I5MqMKF_NB1ghO1lzkHDIAvkpvcHQ-Mcq4bOTKBH_Vl2BwkPEuzykuGPLz3arVQ-cPfG9-3nyuP6gtRZBNRi9IHay3SRnMG9lfPyivmAV3M/w320-h314/don%20kosterman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vietnam veteran Don Kosterman of Fitchburg, Wisconsin<br />was welcomed home with other Wisconsin-area veterans in<br />May 2023. Veterans were honored during the<br />46th Badger Honor Flight. Don was in-country. Vietnam, <br />1965-66. Don Kosterman is a man of honor.</td></tr></tbody></table>Justin Perez-Gorda died in federal custody <a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/02/15/wounded-veteran-awaiting-trial-in-health-care-fraud-case-dies-in-federal-custody/" target="_blank">pending trial in Feb 2022.</a>
Perez-Gorda is a combat veteran wounded in the Afghanistan War. He suffered a debilitating spinal injury, diagnosed and treated by numerous medical professionals, after being blown up by an IED in Afghanistan on January 5, 2011. <p></p>Perez-Gorda lived 33 years.<br /><br />When he arrived at a federal facility after ridiculous fraud charges, his wheel chair was taken from him and thrown in a dumpster. He was denied clean catheters associated with his spinal condition.<br /><br /> Perez-Gorda died of Sepsis after 108 days in pretrial custody, having been denied any meaningful and competent medical care.<br /><br />Folks, we kill people whom we should honor.<br /><br />This Veterans Day, this long weekend, please consider what the VA does: The V<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/secret-war-strange-wounds-silence-160656913.html" target="_blank">A lies, and veterans die</a>.<br /><br />There are people at the VA in administrative positions, who actively
oppose or act to block efforts to fix these problems that cost our guys their lives and liberty.</div><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal">Funds unspent, programs unfunded. Contract examiners trained and encouraged to deny PTSD claims.<br /><br />Plenty of blame to go around in our government, but it is the VA that deserves a lion’s share of the criticism.</p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal">God bless Bob Walsh; God bless all our veterans, men and women of honor. </p><p aria-hidden="true" class="x_MsoNormal">But the hell with the VA.<br /></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-63970866902009841822023-09-22T09:19:00.002-05:002023-09-22T09:30:29.308-05:00BioSafety Group Launches Search Engine on COVID-19 Origins FOIA Documents<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQE9w2yqgpzq34t0C42PAcizHtUy5CdiVPEV67nLxT9SpSVsI1kKSqCY23SKRJMBk4Ist8qf-2h5TEvFMP_lp_ZxRsAQN4YW2W926Yl8yVv41AbzbrmJM8vF4r5GhhBDNU4y-afSVNetS7rNYlVUmFkwewSqd3rqa8Ulj9gN57DsmQLAUPavoD6DirYw/s679/OriginSearch.io%20open-search%20engine.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="679" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQE9w2yqgpzq34t0C42PAcizHtUy5CdiVPEV67nLxT9SpSVsI1kKSqCY23SKRJMBk4Ist8qf-2h5TEvFMP_lp_ZxRsAQN4YW2W926Yl8yVv41AbzbrmJM8vF4r5GhhBDNU4y-afSVNetS7rNYlVUmFkwewSqd3rqa8Ulj9gN57DsmQLAUPavoD6DirYw/s320/OriginSearch.io%20open-search%20engine.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h4><a href="http://OriginSearch.io" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">OriginSearch.io</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is an open-search engine on FOIA-ed</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">collection of documents
relevant to investigating origins of</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">COVID-19, notes the </span><a href="http://originsearch.io/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">search engine webpage</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></h4></td></tr></tbody></table>The BioSafety Now research group has <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span>launched a <a href="http://originsearch.io/" target="_blank">search engine</a> that uses keywords to comb through some 75,000 pages of often censored documents the U.S. government has allowed the public to view after FOIA requests.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://OriginSearch.io" target="_blank">OriginSearch.io</a> is a "simple (open-search) search engine on the collection of documents relevant to investigating the origin of COVID-19," notes the <a href="http://originsearch.io/" target="_blank">search engine webpage</a>.<br /><br />Many of these heretofore government-held
documents were obtained through FOIA requests filed by organizations such as <a href="https://usrtk.org/" target="_blank">USRTK</a> (U.S. Right to Know), <a href="https://theintercept.com/" target="_blank">The Intercept</a><b>, </b>and <a href="https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/" target="_blank">White Coa</a><b><a href="https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/" target="_blank">t </a></b><a href="https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/" target="_blank">Waste Project</a>.<br /><br />The Biden administration has consistently worked to keep COVID-19 origins information secret, and government-funded researchers have systemically <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/covid/" target="_blank">mislead the public on COVID 19 origins</a> questions.<br /> <br />This secrecy commitment comes over public-interest groups' and Republican Party objections, as the administration <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/the-supreme-court-will-rule-on-censorship" target="_blank">censored and banned Covid 19</a> information the government and its political allies falsely branded as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.<br /><p></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW RESOURCE - <a href="https://t.co/McDASz6rCS">https://t.co/McDASz6rCS</a>, a search engine on documents relevant to the origin of COVID-19.<br /><br />Search for an exact word or phrase in >75,000 pages of documents obtained through FOIA by <a href="https://twitter.com/USRightToKnow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USRightToKnow</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theintercept</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteCoatWaste?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteCoatWaste</a>, and others<a href="https://t.co/bmCMLJPwdV">https://t.co/bmCMLJPwdV</a></p>— Biosafety Now! (@BiosafetyNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/BiosafetyNow/status/1705047603744801047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-49776083082696881202023-09-05T10:09:00.002-05:002023-09-05T10:59:02.672-05:00Wisconsin Bill Would Ban Pandemic-level Pathogen Enhancements — Narrow Scope Tailored to Augment UW BioMed Work<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhVeALI2OlvvvOwEq06RHS-Q_Ip61iz33rikAfjVldCM1aIYPIU8ERjoD4_6dopScMN0Uizm1qLWeCV3a52iFGz3T8LhfdNuEVUkb9JZ9BYhRQF5w3ljXtthW33f9RtkM_LKyU3o8AAXVstyt1qZKdHkDVX5cPGD8BV5ELch5L1ZKrHtAxByx6XjL1YE/s875/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2009-35-21%20Wisconsin%20Legislature%20SB401%202%206.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="875" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhVeALI2OlvvvOwEq06RHS-Q_Ip61iz33rikAfjVldCM1aIYPIU8ERjoD4_6dopScMN0Uizm1qLWeCV3a52iFGz3T8LhfdNuEVUkb9JZ9BYhRQF5w3ljXtthW33f9RtkM_LKyU3o8AAXVstyt1qZKdHkDVX5cPGD8BV5ELch5L1ZKrHtAxByx6XjL1YE/s320/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2009-35-21%20Wisconsin%20Legislature%20SB401%202%206.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is conceivable that Wisconsin's politically eclectic
population <br />may drive the two major political parties together to enact
<br />policy that defines University research as irretrievably connected <br />to
popular sentiment, in the best tradition of the <a href="https://www.wisc.edu/wisconsin-idea/" target="_blank">Wisconsin Idea</a>.<br />Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401</a>
bans Gain of function research, research<br /> that "may reasonably be
anticipated to enhance the transmissibility <br />or virulence (harmfulness)
of a potentially pandemic pathogen."</td></tr></tbody></table>Madison, Wisconsin — A state bill that would ban a narrow band of research on dangerous pathogens is proceeding through the Wisconsin Legislature.<p></p><p>Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401's (SB401)</a> introduction comes as the <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus" target="_blank">SARS-CoV-2 virus</a> enters its fourth year among the human population. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf" target="_blank">SARS-CoV-2 virus</a> is widely suspected by independent experts to have been bio-engineered in a research laboratory, with <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-nih-wuhan-coronaviruses/" target="_blank">ties to the United States</a>, and inadvertently released in Wuhan, China in Fall 2019. <br /><br />Yet, this recognition remains <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf" target="_blank">politically toxic</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-nih-wuhan-coronaviruses/" target="_blank">inhibiting academic and federal policymakers</a> from banning this type of research, Gain of Function, that independent experts think caused the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of-phe.html" target="_blank">Covid 19 Pandemic</a>. <br /><br />The Biden administration has still failed to institute a 911-type commission on SARS-COV2 origins, though the <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus" target="_blank">World Health Organization has convened</a> a team of sorts for the <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus" target="_blank">Global Study of the Origins of SARS-COV2</a>, that produced work that has drawn criticism.<br /><br />Independent experts see the states, exemplified by Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401,</a> as friendly terrain on which to codify research-safety measures, transparency, reporting requirements and community right-to-know mandates.<br /><br />Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401</a> bans Gain of Function research, research that "may reasonably be anticipated to enhance the transmissibility or virulence (harmfulness) of a potentially pandemic pathogen."</p><p>Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401</a> indicates potentially pandemic pathogen as defined below.<br /><br /></p><blockquote><p>"Potentially pandemic pathogen means a virus, bacteria, fungus, or <br /><span class="lineNumber">2</span>eukaryotic parasite, or any strain or variant of a virus, bacteria, fungus, or <br /><span class="lineNumber">3</span>eukaryotic parasite, that is any of the following:
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1. Likely, moderately, or highly transmissible and likely capable of wide and <br /><span class="lineNumber">5</span>uncontrollable spread in human populations.
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2. Likely, moderately, or highly virulent and likely to cause significant <br /><span class="lineNumber">7</span>mortality and morbidity in human beings.
</div><div class="qs_text_treat_" data-cites="["proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,10","proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,9","proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,8"]" data-page="(page 4)" data-path="/2023/related/proposals/sb401/2/_6"><span class="lineNumber">8</span>
3. Likely to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, the capacity of <br /><span class="lineNumber">9</span> public health systems, or the security of this state if allowed to spread within the <br /><span class="lineNumber">10</span> general population.
</div></blockquote><div class="qs_text_treat_" data-cites="["proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,10","proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,9","proposaltext/2023/REG/SB401,4,8"]" data-page="(page 4)" data-path="/2023/related/proposals/sb401/2/_6"></div><p>The United States has seen <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195" target="_blank">government censorship</a> and <a href="https://www.heritage.org/technology/commentary/big-techs-conservative-censorship-inescapable-and-irrefutable" target="_blank">propaganda</a> of media, medical fields and the universities rise to a level resembling wartime government control the last four years, as acknowledged experts have seen chilling impacts.<br /> <br /><span>"A vocal minority within [</span><span>Virology]</span><span> field
has been knowingly, willfully, and brazenly lying on the subjects of
COVID-19 origins, biosafety, biosecurity, and biorisk management.
Dismayingly, the vast majority of the field has chosen to remain silent," said Richard Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, and co-founder of <a href="http://BiosafetyNow.">BiosafetyNow.</a></span></p><p><span>Post-WW II, UW-Madison has grown into a major public research institution, that in Wisconsin's popular mind remains a source of pride for multi-generational commitments to benefit society and advance science. <br /><br />Asked if Wisconsin, should be concerned that </span>Wisconsin <a href="https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb401/1/_2" target="_blank">Senate Bill 401</a> <span> can harm this <a href="https://pathogenresearch.wisc.edu/" target="_blank">commitment, and betray a legacy</a>, Dr. Ebright responded in an email explicitly: "The bill covers only gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens. The covered research has no--zero--civilian applications and represents less than one tenth of one percent of biomedical research at the University of Wisconsin (basically just a part of the research of one faculty member)."</span></p><p>Conduct by the University of Wisconsin-Madison high-security <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://international.wisc.edu/uw-madison-to-launch-new-influenza-research-institute/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Influenza Research Institute</a> operating in <a href="https://news.wisc.edu/uws-important-influenza-research-conducted-safely-2/" target="_blank">Research Park</a> has come under criticism in a new book, excerpts of which were published in<i> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/04/11/lab-leak-accident-h-5-n-1-virus-avian-flu-experiment/11354399002/" target="_blank">USA Today</a></i> last Spring.<br /><br />The book is Alison Young’s <a href="https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/pandoras-gamble-lab-leaks-pandemics-and-a-world-at-risk/alison-young/hardback/9781546002932.html" target="_blank">Pandora’s Gamble Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk</a>, (April 2023, <a href="https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/pandoras-gamble-lab-leaks-pandemics-and-a-world-at-risk/alison-young/hardback/9781546002932.html" target="_blank">WHSmith</a>). </p><p>Much of the focus of Young's book is on Gain of Function (GOF) research.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDA6mCVn6wIfbp1RmVDHYKNbcj63sEMMMnLpyLYJqyqQ6uHma49jXCjkViuvI4LepxDVqcvIH-pkHlo-qyN8Lro_MmtvJX1GE88dGdZGi7wS8ENcOZEZjJ8rnONBTkG7TpweOAF9k49zjZceakRhDf4X07ydjtouDVRsI1r2HScMDFxhrbrC_Kp_K/s500/Pandora%E2%80%99s%20Gamble%20Lab%20Leaks,%20Pandemics,%20and%20a%20World%20at%20Risk.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDA6mCVn6wIfbp1RmVDHYKNbcj63sEMMMnLpyLYJqyqQ6uHma49jXCjkViuvI4LepxDVqcvIH-pkHlo-qyN8Lro_MmtvJX1GE88dGdZGi7wS8ENcOZEZjJ8rnONBTkG7TpweOAF9k49zjZceakRhDf4X07ydjtouDVRsI1r2HScMDFxhrbrC_Kp_K/s320/Pandora%E2%80%99s%20Gamble%20Lab%20Leaks,%20Pandemics,%20and%20a%20World%20at%20Risk.jpg" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pandora’s Gamble Lab Leaks, Pandemics, <br />and a World at Risk, (2023, <a href="https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/pandoras-gamble-lab-leaks-pandemics-and-a-world-at-risk/alison-young/hardback/9781546002932.html" target="_blank">WHSmith</a>)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span>The United States House of Representatives <a href="https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1697650481005285391" target="_blank">Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic</a> has singled out and criticized UW-Madison's bio research recently.<br /><br />As Wisconsin progressives and community activists eye suspected military-intelligence duel use of </span>Gain of Function (GOF) research, late Summer reaction of Wisconsin to the proposed Gain of Function ban has been muted and unpredictable.<br /><span>---<br />One thing is certain: Conducting high-risk, </span>Gain of Function <span> research has exasperated many independent scientists such as <a href="https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels" target="_blank">Bryce Nickels</a>, Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University; co-founder of </span><span><a href="http://BiosafetyNow.">BiosafetyNow</a></span><span>.<br /><br />Arrogance, careerism and even sociopathy appear to drive some research such as </span>Gain of Function.<br /><span><br />Writes Nickels on Twitter in mid-August: "</span>They knew the
risks, and yet they decided to play god anyway. Only thing you could
have done would have been to pay them to stop doing the work. They could
not be trusted then and can not be trusted now. <br />We need to ban GOFROC yesterday."<br /><span><br /></span><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">They knew the
risks, and yet they decided to play god anyway. Only thing you could
have done would have been to pay them to stop doing the work. They could
not be trusted then and can not be trusted now. <br />We need to ban GOFROC yesterday. <a href="https://t.co/bdvDdP4svW">https://t.co/bdvDdP4svW</a></p>— Bryce Nickels (@Bryce_Nickels) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1690567769295593472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
It is conceivable, even likely, that Wisconsin's politically eclectic population may drive the two major U.S. political parties together to enact policy banning Gain of Function research as an acknowledgement that the University of Wisconsin System is irretrievably connected to popular sentiment and safety, in the best exercise of the <a href="https://www.wisc.edu/wisconsin-idea/" target="_blank">Wisconsin Idea</a> and <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2009/06/wisconsins-18-of-us-h1n1-result-of.html" target="_blank">UW-Madison's premier public research tradition</a>.<br /><br /><b>Update</b>: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It was recently reported that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency had collected evidence of a lab origin of COVID-19, but that intel had been left out of public reports.<br /><br />Just now, U.S. Right to Know obtained a heavily redacted report from the Defense Intelligence Agency… <a href="https://t.co/5zniwxT6Q2">pic.twitter.com/5zniwxT6Q2</a></p>— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1699073893951291462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-75883018288805091482023-08-20T13:58:00.004-05:002023-08-21T17:20:33.960-05:00Covid 19 — 2024 Campaign Looms amid Calls to Shut Down Risky Gain of Function Research That Caused Pandemic<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Gy_xttEG1jaSaTkch2unKa1MoWzNO9VZiTyZ9SpdfDba7SUwM2t4st_59OGlrWVVX1yond1F8zsvhB-QVVNBawkx3ukTeGcFECF0ZB2BBQjhh6zivTKel8fm0R0iJI5xueMg4bxFZGhK5MkVguZlf1-IeBVwa2jt-ov-E1MbXYl3LJvT4ilcNJQ1PCg/s464/Inconsistent%20with%20Evolution.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="464" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Gy_xttEG1jaSaTkch2unKa1MoWzNO9VZiTyZ9SpdfDba7SUwM2t4st_59OGlrWVVX1yond1F8zsvhB-QVVNBawkx3ukTeGcFECF0ZB2BBQjhh6zivTKel8fm0R0iJI5xueMg4bxFZGhK5MkVguZlf1-IeBVwa2jt-ov-E1MbXYl3LJvT4ilcNJQ1PCg/s320/Inconsistent%20with%20Evolution.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A leading non-profit working for safety in high-risk research <br />on dangerous pathogens, <a href="https://biosafetynowshop.org/" target="_blank">BioSafety Now</a>, in image above, offers <br />products it calls The <a href="https://biosafetynowshop.org/inconsistent-with-evolution-collection/" target="_blank">Inconsistent with Evolution collection</a>. <br />The items mock a comment by Kristian Andersen, professor of <br />Immunology, who in a leaked communication with Anthony Fauci<br />stated SARS-CoV-2 genome is "<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Letter-to-Dr-Andersen.pdf" target="_blank">inconsistent with expectations from<br />evolutionary theory</a>," suggesting a bio-engineered cause of the <br />Covid 19 Pandemic, the opposite of what Fauci and Andersen said in <br />public. After the leak, corporate media leaped to Andersen and Fauci's <br />defense.<br />In the above image, "a graphic compar(es) the amino acid sequences <br />of spike proteins from viruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. <br />The graphic highlights the unique presence of the furin cleavage <br />site (FCS) in SARS-CoV-2," (<a href="https://biosafetynowshop.org/" target="_blank">BioSafety Now</a>). The furin <br />cleavage site (FCS) was <b>not</b> found in Sars-like viruses <br />before the Pandemic, and has been concluded by independent <br />scientists to point to human bio-engineering.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h1 style="text-align: left;">Lab Leak Blundering; Covid 19 Coverup; Americans Reject Biden Covid Lies</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br />Biden Cannot Afford to Come Clean</h3><p><b>Commentary</b><br /><br />Madison, Wisconsin — If you believe 20 million dead; untold health devastation; and $Trillions in economic costs will make Joe Biden reverse course and acknowledge a U.S.-supported Chinese Wuhan lab caused the Pandemic, you likely have not spent much time analyzing American politics, now dominated by corporatist Democrats busily attempting to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/06/29/american-politics-government-survive-trump-prison/70349922007/" target="_blank">imprison their leading political opponent</a>.</p><p>Even as facts leaked this year show the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/1/fbi-director-says-china-lab-leak-likely-source-of-covid-pandemic" target="_blank">FBI</a> and <a href="https://abc11.com/us-energy-department-covid-19-likely-lab-leak-intel-divide/12884747/" target="_blank">U.S. Dept. of Energy</a> confirm a lab leak of a bio-engineered Sars-like Coronavirus [designed to be more transmissible and virulent (destructive) to human beings] caused the Pandemic, these facts are marginalized, mostly hidden by corporate network news and major newspapers that function as state-media <a href="https://chomsky.info/consent01/" target="_blank">propaganda organs to a degree today that may surprise even Noam Chomsky</a>.</p><p>Can anyone imagine Joe Biden addressing our country in prime time, admitting he has blocked a 911-style investigation of Covid 19 origins; perpetrated deliberate and massive government lies, all because Biden made the decision that gaslighting-level deception of Americans is in the interests of national security? 'Sure I lied, but it's for your own good?' Won't happen.<br /><br />Instead, to this day, the Biden administration keeps repeating its colossal Covid 19 origins lie; classifying <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/02/28/fbi-director-says-covid-likely-spread-from-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank">intelligence demonstrating a lab leak</a>; and mounting against hope the Biden <a href="https://substack.com/search/censorship?focusedPublicationId=1042" target="_blank">clandestine State effort</a> to control social media through <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/f-bomb-this-the-biden-administrations?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fcensorship&utm_medium=reader2" target="_blank">censorship</a>, banning and extortion, now being <a href="https://substack.com/search/censorship?focusedPublicationId=1042" target="_blank">adjudicated in federal court</a>; likely leading to a spectacular <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/in-landmark-censorship-case-judges?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fcensorship&utm_medium=reader2" target="_blank">legal defeat next year as the 2024 campaign</a> heats up.<br /><br />Joe Biden has become the Baghdad Bob of Covid 19 origins; and there is very little our ailing president can do about it at this point, as some <a href="https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/03/10/americans-believe-covid-origin-lab" target="_blank">two-thirds of American believe a lab leak</a> — a victory, and demonstration of the capacity of most people to see through governments' smokescreens. <br /><br />Only Biden and elected Democrats, aided by media stooges, maintain against reason their colossal Covid lie, with unanimous Congressional Democrat collusion. Not the squad, Bernie Sanders, any Democrat dares issue even a press release recognizing the Emperor has no clothes.<br /> <br />Meanwhile, a Genetics professor at Rutgers University, Bryce Nickels, has called for the controversial non-profit <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory" target="_blank">EcoHealth Alliance</a> to be shut down by federal authorities.
<br /></p><p>EcoHealth Alliance was implicated by a report <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> (<a href="https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf" target="_blank">DRASTIC</a>) </span>in 2021 after a report chronicled how EcoHealth sought a $14 Million grant in 2018 from the United States Dept of Defense to <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">bio-engineer SARS-like viruses to make a Coronavirus more transmissible and virulent (harmful), (<a href="https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf" target="_blank">DRASTIC report</a>), in a manner that nearly replicates the capability and idiosyncratic structure, (</span>a novel cleavage site proposed by scientists, and then discovered some two years later in the<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span> SARS-CoV-2 virus causing <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/about-covid-19.html" target="_blank">COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019</a>)). </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I urge Dr. Daszak to shut down EcoHealth Alliance - it’s involved in generating a long line of lab made viruses, one of which may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, & that’s just not healthy. I’m sure that’s not what he intended.
</p><blockquote></blockquote><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I urge Dr. Daszak to shut down EcoHealth Alliance - it’s involved in generating a long line of lab made viruses, one of which may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, & that’s just not healthy. I’m sure that’s not what he intended. <a href="https://t.co/lZJSkl8YZQ">pic.twitter.com/lZJSkl8YZQ</a></p>— Bryce Nickels (@Bryce_Nickels) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1691041067800338432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <p></p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div class="chariti-body-outer-wrapper mm-page mm-slideout" id="mm-0"><div class="chariti-body-wrapper clearfix chariti-with-frame"><div class="chariti-page-wrapper" id="chariti-page-wrapper"><div class="chariti-blog-title-wrap chariti-style-custom"><div class="chariti-header-transparent-substitute"></div><div class="chariti-blog-title-top-overlay"></div><div class="chariti-blog-title-overlay"></div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;"><b>Wisconsin move to ban gain of function research</b><br /><br />The ultimate campaign swing state, Wisconsin, was visited by the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in mid-August, 2023, as Dr. Mandy Cohen made Madison her first stop on a multi-state trip to urge and discuss vaccinations (Wahlberg, <a href="https://madison.com/news/local/business/health-care/vaccines-cdc-wisconsin-measles/article_422c06dc-3c69-11ee-bc53-73b398993c16.html" target="_blank">Wisconsin State Journal</a>).<br /></div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;">No public reporting on whether Dr. Cohen touched on COVID-19 and the "existential threat of scientific hubris" that has wrought destruction and tragedy (Butler, Lambrinidou, <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/covid-19-and-the-existential-threat-of-scientific-hubris/" target="_blank">BioSafety Now</a>). <br /><br />Fortunately, Wisconsin Republicans, with no public Democratic Party support, plan to introduce <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/23-2947_1.pdf" target="_blank">state legislation that would ban gain of function research</a>.<br /> <br />Gain of function is a high-risk research program on dangerous pathogens — such as Sars-like viruses, Avian influenza virus and Ebola virus — that is conducted, as <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/gain-of-function-research-legislation-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank">BioSafety Now</a> notes, "with the expressed purpose of making these viruses more transmissible between humans and thus more likely to cause devastating disease outbreaks," (<a href="https://biosafetynow.org/gain-of-function-research-legislation-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank">Bryce E. Nickels, Justin B. Kinney, Richard H. Ebright; BioSafety Now</a>).<br /><br />Comments on the proposed <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/23-2947_1.pdf" target="_blank">state legislation</a>, now in the Memo phase gathering sponsors, are reproduced below from an article at <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/gain-of-function-research-legislation-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank">BioSafety Now</a>, a non-profit with the mission to "draw attention to the constant threat of research-generated pandemics, through education as well as local, state, national, and international advocacy in partnership with communities who have mobilized or want to mobilize to protect themselves and the future of humanity."<br /><br />Mark my words, deceit from government is not popular with the Americans people, perhaps even less so in Wisconsin. A presidential <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr" target="_blank">candidate vowing to tell Americans the truth</a> has broad appeal in this age of unreason that some call the era of post-truth. <br /><br /></div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://biosafetynow.org/gain-of-function-research-legislation-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank"><b>Comments on the proposed legislation that would prohibit institutions of higher education from conducting gain of function experimentation in Wisconsin (LRB-2947)</b></a><br /><br />by <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/gain-of-function-research-legislation-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank">Bryce E. Nickels, Justin B. Kinney, Richard H. Ebright</a></div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="chariti-single-article-title" style="text-align: left;"><b>AUGUST 16, 2023</b><br /><br />The core mission of Biosafety Now is to help protect the public from the dangers posed by high-risk research on dangerous pathogens. Biosafety Now believes that the public is a crucial stakeholder in high-risk research, and therefore must have a seat at the table in assessing whether the benefits of research projects outweigh risks. If passed, the bill LRB-2947 would establish a role for the public in regulating risky research, would provide critical protections for the citizens of Wisconsin, and would advance environmental justice both in the state of Wisconsin and world-wide.<br /><br /><b>What would the bill do?</b><br /><br />The bill prohibits “gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens” in the state of Wisconsin. Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is scientific research that makes pathogens (such as viruses) more likely to cause devastating global pandemics. <br /><br />Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is a very small part (less than 0.01%) of biomedical research.<br /><br />Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is exceedingly risky: one lab accident by a single researcher has the potential to cause a catastrophic epidemic within the local community, which in turn has the potential to seed a devastating world-wide pandemic. <br /><br />The bill also includes key transparency provisions that require researchers (1) to disclose the location, scope, purpose, and funding source for research on potentially pandemic pathogens, (2) to describe the impact the pathogen will have on the public if there is an accidental or deliberate release, and (3) to describe the measures the lab will take to ensure the pathogen is not released. In addition, currently, most state and local governments have no information on the pathogens research in their jurisdictions, and thus are unable to prepare, equip, and train first responders to deal with laboratory accidents involving pathogens in their jurisdictions.<br /><br />Taken together, the provisions of this bill safeguard the citizens of Wisconsin (as well as members of the global community) against an existential threat to their safety and provide members of the public with information about what research is being performed in their communities.<br /><br /><b>What would the bill NOT do</b>?<br /><br />The bill would NOT impede the development of vaccines or disease treatments. Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens plays no role and makes no contribution to the development of vaccines or other disease treatments. <br /><br />The bill would NOT harm the biotechnology sector, either in Wisconsin or elsewhere in the US. Indeed, there are no civilian companies in the biotechnology sector that are pursuing this type of research, or that build on the results of this type of research.<br /><br />The bill would NOT have a substantial negative impact on the University of Wisconsin. The bill would primarily affect the research of only a single virology laboratory run by a single faculty member.<br /><br /><b>Why Wisconsin?</b><br /><br />The University of Wisconsin has a specific virology laboratory engaged in gain of function research on potential pandemic pathogens. This laboratory, run by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, is well-known in the research community to be conducting some of the highest-risk gain-of-function research in the entire world. <br /><br />As part of its research activities, the Kawaoka Laboratory genetically engineers avian influenza virus and Ebola virus (both of which have a fatality rate of 60-70%) with the expressed purpose of making these viruses more transmissible between humans and thus more likely to cause devastating disease outbreaks.<br /><br />The Kawaoka Laboratory has a track record of repeated violations of biosafety standards, repeated biosafety accidents, and repeated failures to inform local, state and federal authorities in a timely fashion.<br /> <br />#<br /></div></div></div></div></div>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-41745352271131789792023-08-09T10:31:00.003-05:002023-08-16T07:44:04.930-05:00Veteran Affairs Rogue Agent Raymond Vasil Is Pariah Among Veterans<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pMFacHscWP9nNngVYR01T087-XFXIT13lLKV3T29Mad7LlMO887elxDBN3NvJ6oh28Ii2CsYrI4EPwupvsXUQT1ej5RQleAWhe-XeQYH-RD4fvh-tyuAZM9DHx6zrqvlh0oDFXyQ7v-dGXPRydl1BflTxN_Gbc4wTOV2231x0SKo5GJcBS-Q-rWFY_k/s525/Dont%20tread%20on%20me.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="525" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pMFacHscWP9nNngVYR01T087-XFXIT13lLKV3T29Mad7LlMO887elxDBN3NvJ6oh28Ii2CsYrI4EPwupvsXUQT1ej5RQleAWhe-XeQYH-RD4fvh-tyuAZM9DHx6zrqvlh0oDFXyQ7v-dGXPRydl1BflTxN_Gbc4wTOV2231x0SKo5GJcBS-Q-rWFY_k/s320/Dont%20tread%20on%20me.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The anti-veteran Raymond Vasil, agent for VA Office<br />of Inspector General sports a 'Don't tread on me" flag in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.<br />Vasil, a dirty cop chased out of service, taunts veterans <br />on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">VA Agent Says, Don't Tread on Me, to Innocent Veterans</h3><p><br />Raymond Vasil is a rogue agent with the <a href="https://www.va.gov/oig/" target="_blank">Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General</a>, living on the public dole for screwing over our veterans.<br /></p><p>To many veterans' advocates, Vasil is known as, "the <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2023/07/wisconsin-navy-veteran-dies-keith.html" target="_blank">idiot with a badge</a>," who lies and defames innocent veterans over the last 30 years.<br /></p><p>Vasil was a dirty cop chased out of the <a href="https://www.villageoflombard.org/199/Police" target="_blank">Lombard, Illinois Police Dept</a> where Vasil, aka Raymond Vasilopulos, worked between 1990 and 2000, and was cited in multiple misconduct cases in <a href="https://www.dupagecounty.gov/" target="_blank">DuPage County</a>, legal filings note. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126" target="_blank">Vasil</a> no longer lists his past employment with <a href="https://www.villageoflombard.org/199/Police" target="_blank">Lombard, Illinois Police Dept</a> in his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126" target="_blank">Linked-in page</a>.<br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG661_M1pJjcDLrdcGLpAdokcUAXlAlVGn4dLyrij0UvPDZA-FCtAwUAgUVpvFP9PZMF716Y6h5s1wf4C4vqWlykF7w7Sqjz2MnBxMbqLyA3Tj950r2BQlHqPek9QHrDd9Z65mL6KLTZfAYjff7hfhIPGDdBJixGdsfsO64XFgMEoA8_k-n0jJZnYv0Ds/s744/Vasil%20facebook.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="665" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG661_M1pJjcDLrdcGLpAdokcUAXlAlVGn4dLyrij0UvPDZA-FCtAwUAgUVpvFP9PZMF716Y6h5s1wf4C4vqWlykF7w7Sqjz2MnBxMbqLyA3Tj950r2BQlHqPek9QHrDd9Z65mL6KLTZfAYjff7hfhIPGDdBJixGdsfsO64XFgMEoA8_k-n0jJZnYv0Ds/s320/Vasil%20facebook.jpeg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rogue VA agent Raymond Vasil has persecuted and<br />lied about dozens of veterans after being fired from the <br />Lombard, Illinois Police Dept in 2000. The lunatic Vasil <br />sports a the Gadsden Flag,<br />Don't Tread on Me symbol in his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page. <br />Screenshot image is above.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>So, naturally <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-vasil-b5a740126/" target="_blank">Vasil joined the Department of Veterans Affairs</a>, Office of Inspector General where this objectively dopey, inadequate personality can have freer reign against innocent human beings.<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ray.vasil" target="_blank">Raymond Vasil</a> is a veteran-hating, psychopathic jerk working unimpeded, and unsupervised, taking it out in out veterans.<br /><br />Vasil infamously targeted and persecuted the innocent Navy veteran <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Keith+Roberts" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a> of Wisconsin in an investigation in which Roberts was unjustly accused of fraud in 2007.<br /><br />In one exchange from Vasil’s Grand Jury testimony indicating his
knowledge of the VA benefits process, upon which the indictment is
predicated, Vasil appears clueless on his familiarity with VA benefit procedures:<br />
<br />
<b>Question</b>: “Is that part of your training that you have to know the basics of how these programs work?”<br />
<br />
<b>Vasil’s Answer</b>: "Yeah. I was briefly kind of instructed
when I was hired, and then just while working for them, you have to
learn it to investigate the cases." <p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-77437102608226888952023-08-03T12:25:00.000-05:002023-08-03T12:25:52.465-05:00Trump Indictment Serves Dual Purpose for Democrats<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBaQZG5-M1QbDS3mjna0mnl9CNMIh9nPiUAF-3PQPtW6nyZc-4c62mS-ZQFl-vh28I4Yx1TxejKEkwyeLfvXnQ0XMqZFLCn-yH9uAIGFTGmVBFJ9ceOAmWiSxSecUESM_FD0pnHRrT6knYzWmr-cpyj2ygbrBkHZuMi_nCmqwacRrD0bbHSbMMkF8zV44/s721/United%20States%20v.%20Donald%20J.%20Trump%20-%20US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="721" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBaQZG5-M1QbDS3mjna0mnl9CNMIh9nPiUAF-3PQPtW6nyZc-4c62mS-ZQFl-vh28I4Yx1TxejKEkwyeLfvXnQ0XMqZFLCn-yH9uAIGFTGmVBFJ9ceOAmWiSxSecUESM_FD0pnHRrT6knYzWmr-cpyj2ygbrBkHZuMi_nCmqwacRrD0bbHSbMMkF8zV44/s320/United%20States%20v.%20Donald%20J.%20Trump%20-%20US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" target="_blank">United States v. Trump</a> is part of Democrat scheme to establish <br />and enforce authoritative State voice on public affairs; and <br />criminalize wrongthink, thought deemed incorrect.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>In modern American history no political Party has targeted free speech as systemically as Joe Biden and the Democrats.<br /><br /><a href="https://chomsky.info/199909__/" target="_blank">Richard Nixon</a>; 1960s <a href="https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999974251202121" target="_blank">Milwaukee police attempted banning <i>wrong</i> kind of newspaper</a>; 1960s-70s wannabe state totalitarians are trivial next to today's Democrats' intricate <a href="https://substack.com/search/Censorship%20Taibbi" target="_blank">censorship-industrial complex</a>.<br /><br />It is through this lens of <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FCensorship%2520Taibbi&utm_medium=reader2" target="_blank">audacious thought-control</a> that we should consider the<a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" target="_blank"> indictment, <i>United States v.Donald J. Trump</i></a>, (August 1, 2023). <br /><br />The politcal compound of <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FCensorship%2520Taibbi&utm_medium=reader2" target="_blank">thought-control</a> and political hatred is explosive in a democracy, with shattered civil liberties as primary objective, not remnant waste.<br /><br />Anticipating the Aug. 1<a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" target="_blank"> indictment</a>, American civil libertarians mused that powerful First Amendment free speech protections from the 1960-70s would likely doom Justice Dept attempts to join Trump's Jan 6 speech and the Capitol violence. <br /> <br />Noted <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1686079699611500552" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald</a>: <br /><br /></p><blockquote>Any prosecution of Trump on the ground his Jan 6 speech "inspired" violence at the Capitol - even though he told them to act "peacefully" - would be a grave assault on seminal 1st Am protections of Brandenburg and Claiborne.<br /><br />But, to them, anything is justified to stop Trump.</blockquote><br />See also, <a href="https://rumble.com/v2wh0gc-system-update-show-106.html" target="_blank">The Insidious and Unreported Legal Assault on Landmark Free Speech Rulings, From BLM Leaders to Donald Trump</a>; Greenwald.<br /><br />Greenwald was right. The DoJ backed down, and instead contrived a bizarre indictment where speech and politcal activity are recognize in one paragraph and criminalized in the next.<br /><p></p><p>The indictment accuses Donald Trump of falsity in his expressed beliefs and statements made prior to Jan. 6, 2021; but backed down from criminalizing <a href="https://vimeo.com/497719926" target="_blank">Trump's rally and address on the Ellipses on Jan 6, 2021</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-2020-election-jan-6-not-legally-sound/70509753007/" target="_blank">Writes Jonathan Turley</a>:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>[Special Counsel Jack] Smith and his team have made history in the worst
way by attempting to fully criminalize disinformation by seeking the
incarceration for a politician on <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" data-t-l=":b|e|k|${u}" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-stress-test-2024-campaign/70456978007/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">false claims made during and after an election</a>.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">The
hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the
political left have ignored the chilling implications of this
indictment. This complaint is based largely on statements that are
protected under the First Amendment. It would eviscerate free speech and
could allow the government to arrest those who are accused of spreading
disinformation in elections.</p></blockquote><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Whatever Democrats may believe, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" target="_blank">indictment critically relies on criminalizing protected speech</a>, and the U.S. government's determination that speech is "false" or true, to chronicle Trump's alleged criminal scheme.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">If a guilty verdict is reached at trial, no way U.S. Supreme Court lets this indictment prevail against Trump and American citizens who are the beneficiaries, call them Americans, of value we place on political speech.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">The <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-on-trump-indictment-in-january-6-probe" target="_blank">ACLU refused a comment on the merits of the indictment</a>. ACLU is a shell of its former self.<br /></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">But free speech, one can predict, lives on.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">As Justice William Brennan writes in <i><a href="http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep376/usrep376254/usrep376254.pdf" target="_blank">New York Times v. Sullivan</a> (1964):</i><br />
<br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
The First Amendment, said Judge Learned Hand,<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of
a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative
selection. To many, this is, and always will be, folly, but we have
staked upon it our all. <i>United States v. Associated Press</i>, 52 F.Supp.
362, 372 (D.C.S.D.N.Y. 1943). </blockquote>
Mr. Justice Brandeis, in his concurring opinion in <i>Whitney v.
California</i>, 274 U.S. 357, 375-376, gave the principle its classic
formulation:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Those who won our independence believed . . . that public discussion is a
political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the
American government. ... Believing in the power of reason
as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by
law -- the argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the
occasional tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the
Constitution so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed.</blockquote>
Thus, we consider this case <i>[<a href="http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep376/usrep376254/usrep376254.pdf" target="_blank">New York Times v. Sullivan</a></i>]
against the background of a profound national commitment to the
principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust,
and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and
sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
(<i><a href="http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep376/usrep376254/usrep376254.pdf" target="_blank">New York Times v. Sullivan</a></i>).</blockquote>
Trump is wrong-headed in most of his statements he made after the 2020 Nov presidential elections. <br /><br />Speech and analyses are called for, not a criminal indictment.<br /><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"> </p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-19549520777538219242023-07-28T08:24:00.002-05:002023-07-28T13:03:11.769-05:00Biden Adminstration Denies RFK, Jr Secret Service Protection; Says "Not Warranted"<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVEJLtrQzAviUlzMdsZsw9oqrMAeMKDRXH4hbXOuc-Wudzgfcr-qgVWERIlYQdipqHL6yZdsx_VttDw-q-Sl1FAVWwybV82Y-n7_lE23xJUbpDsQpQg4lzG1426Wvw9HmZvWq8VdzZ_aKVuwIeVRq4yKXFt5DH0iDFKCtk9aGR99iSfLFTE0anc6fzw0/s619/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="619" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVEJLtrQzAviUlzMdsZsw9oqrMAeMKDRXH4hbXOuc-Wudzgfcr-qgVWERIlYQdipqHL6yZdsx_VttDw-q-Sl1FAVWwybV82Y-n7_lE23xJUbpDsQpQg4lzG1426Wvw9HmZvWq8VdzZ_aKVuwIeVRq4yKXFt5DH0iDFKCtk9aGR99iSfLFTE0anc6fzw0/s320/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supporters of the son of Bobby Kennedy are worried<br />about the safety of RFK, Jr. Today, the <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1684909385376575488" target="_blank">Biden administration<br />denied Secret Service protection</a> of the presidential <br />candidate, saying protection is "not warranted."<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Update</b>: Democrats caught with their pants down, attempting to blow smoke. DHS<br /><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="7pvvd" data-offset-key="783d7-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="783d7-0-0"><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="783d7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sec. Mayorkas</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="783d7-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="783d7-2-0"><span data-text="true">POTUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="783d7-3-0"><span data-text="true"> have sole authority to provide Secret Service protection for any reason before120-day mark; as was done for Obama (07), Trump (2016) Biden (2020) and Bernie (16, 20). Only president to play politics with protection, ever, is Joe Biden.<br /></span></span></div></div></div><br />The son of Robert Frances Kennedy has requested Secret Service protection, but the Biden administration denied the request today, saying protection is "not <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">warranted at this time."<br /><br /></span><a href="https://linktr.ee/kennedy24.com" target="_blank">Robert Frances Kennedy, Jr. is a candidate</a> for the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency of the United States.<br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br />Kennedy broke the news this morning: Writes Kennedy:<br /><br /></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><p></p><blockquote><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me. Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time."
Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.</span></blockquote><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /></span><p></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.<br /> <br />Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several…</p>— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1684909385376575488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> Admirers and campaign supporters have long expressed private concern that the son of Bobby Kennedy faces unique and grave threats, earning the enmity of much of corporate America, the military-industrial-intel complex and Democrat Party officialdom which has politicized virtually every arm of federal government..
<br /><br />Biden, who faces lingering questions over his cognitive ability, has offered no comment on this development.<br />MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-61086674334865182202023-07-27T09:30:00.002-05:002023-07-27T09:30:59.662-05:00Scientists Want Retraction, Bio-Reserch Fraud Revealed amid Democrat Thought Control Failure<h1 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7iInlUogNH_mrvuEX8AIzqwiB6uwxFzW6rMTCGmgYGdXYYejoMbCMsquaS9lMOAFRA1RcRWvJ3yGCQJrThyo7wTJSKuVpS3mQFA4W-vCPAn5i_ebVzxLhyUfAK-bjlnmIIUrgY6a4n4Xx1R0Kp-1EB24eiaYijjvdTc0nWgV1Yws2eL9jVTX2hAvtJ8/s240/Lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="240" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7iInlUogNH_mrvuEX8AIzqwiB6uwxFzW6rMTCGmgYGdXYYejoMbCMsquaS9lMOAFRA1RcRWvJ3yGCQJrThyo7wTJSKuVpS3mQFA4W-vCPAn5i_ebVzxLhyUfAK-bjlnmIIUrgY6a4n4Xx1R0Kp-1EB24eiaYijjvdTc0nWgV1Yws2eL9jVTX2hAvtJ8/s1600/Lies.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Democrats' Big Lie Draws Wide Ridicule Now<br /></h1><p>Democrat Party-U.S. government work to <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/covids-origins-and-the-death-of-trust?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=135309998&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">promote discredited Wuhan animal-market explanations of Covid 19 origins</a> demonstrates anew America is an indoctrinated society, to a degree that might astonish Orwell and <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/52/526D2E781AC9EBBB13346BDF7693E1BB_CHOMSKY_Noam_-_Necessary_Illusions.pdf" target="_blank">Chomsky</a>.<br /></p><p>The Democrat Party-led censorship regime rises as this political party (with no dissent) works with public health, bio-research and an array of military-intel agencies to brand media airing of lab-engineered <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html" target="_blank">SARS-CoV-2</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span>hypotheses <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">as conspiracy theory, malinformation, misinformation, and disinformation. </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Lab leak became forbidden thought in 2020, and the Biden Administration formally launched its <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/publication/disinformation-governance-board" target="_blank">Disinformation Governance Board</a> using current assets in 2022, then quickly backed down after widespread mockery deriding a governmental <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/there-is-no-ministry-of-truth-minister-of-truth-confirms/" target="_blank">Ministry of Truth made the administration look ridiculous</a>. <br /><br />Biden and the Democrats became so isolated and removed from everyday America, they were convinced they could get away with this disinformation charade, though thought control persists.<br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">As corporate media remains well under control; social media banning, censorship, and character assassination exploded as prominent mention of Chinese lab-engineered SARS-like virus explanations — <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origins-lab-china/index.html" target="_blank">adopted by the FBI</a> and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/02/27/covid-lab-leak-energy-department-theory-explained/11357354002/" target="_blank">U.S. Dept of Energy</a>, leaked documents show — drew government-corporate censure on a par with thought crimes.<br /><br />The Covid 19 thought control project has failed.<br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Most <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=polls+show+most+americans+believe+lab+leak&hl=en&ei=aWXCZISxAcXAkPIPptuTkAo&ved=0ahUKEwjEiZf_866AAxVFIEQIHabtBKIQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=polls+show+most+americans+believe+lab+leak&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiKnBvbGxzIHNob3cgbW9zdCBhbWVyaWNhbnMgYmVsaWV2ZSBsYWIgbGVha0jcG1CaB1iaB3AAeACQAQCYAd8HoAHsCqoBCTAuMS4xLjYtMbgBA8gBAPgBAeIDBBgAIEGIBgE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank">Americans believe, at least provisionally, that an engineered virus</a> that inadvertently leaked from a Wuhan lab caused the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">But it required <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/covids-origins-and-the-death-of-trust?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=135309998&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">much work, much fraud</a>, to launch and sustain the huge lie that is <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/covids-origins-and-the-death-of-trust?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=135309998&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">gas-lighting Americans</a>.<br /><br />Accountability is being pursued now. <br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Comes an open letter this week from <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/open-letter-to-nature-medicine/" target="_blank">BioSafety</a>, a non-profit dedicated to "a future free of lab-generated pandemics, a future where reckless research on pathogens is ended, and a future where public trust in science is restored."<br /><br />"Our Mission is to demand national- and international-level restrictions, regulations, and oversight to reduce the risks to the public posed by enhanced potential pandemic pathogens research."<br /><br />Recent <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/anthony-fauci-behind-covid-origins" target="_blank">reporting</a> and <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about" target="_blank">leaks</a> show the prominent <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9">Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2</a> paper published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank">Nature Medicine</a> in early 2020, was intended to <a href="https://radio.foxnews.com/2023/07/26/matt-taibbi-operation-covid-origins/" target="_blank">black out origins questions</a>, and launch the <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/covids-origins-and-the-death-of-trust?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=135309998&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">branding of any question as conspiracy theory fare</a>.<br /><br />
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">There you have it, folks.<br /><br />Virologists most likely created SARS-CoV-2, and this was evident in January 2020.<br /><br />The Three Stooges of modern science were stooges (ht <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@R_H_Ebright</a>). They lied to reporters and misled the world.<br /><br />20 million died. <a href="https://t.co/kfeiP7S804">https://t.co/kfeiP7S804</a></span></p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) <a href="https://twitter.com/WashburneAlex/status/1682224402556129280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank">Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2</a> published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank">Nature Medicine</a> is a carefully crafted, if hastily written, fraud; </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank">Andersen, K.G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W.I. <i>et al.</i> The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.
<i>Nat Med</i> <b>26</b>, 450–452 (2020)</a>. <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span><p></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Honest scientists are calling for retraction and withdrawal proceedings. <br /><br /></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://biosafetynow.org/open-letter-to-nature-medicine/" target="_blank">Biosafety Now's Open Letter To Nature Medicine</a> is one such statement.</span><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br /><a href="https://biosafetynow.org/open-letter-to-nature-medicine/" target="_blank">Biosafety Now's Open Letter To Nature Medicine</a> is reproduced below:</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">July 26, 2023<br /><br />Dear Editors:<br /><br />On March 17, 2020, Nature Medicine published a Correspondence entitled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” (1). The paper assessed the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and concluded, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus” and “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”<br /><br />The paper played an influential role—indeed, the central role—in communicating the false narrative that science established that SARS-CoV-2 entered humans through natural spillover, and not through research-related spillover (2-7). The paper was promoted by Joao Monteiro the chief editor of Nature Medicine, as an exceptionally important and definitive research study (“great work”; “will put conspiracy theories about the origin of #SARSCoV2 to rest “; 8). The paper has been cited more than 5,800 times, making it the 68th most cited publication in all fields in 2020, the 16th most cited publication in biology in 2020, and the 8th most cited publication on the subject of COVID-19 in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br /><br />Email messages and Slack direct messages among authors of the paper obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process or by the U.S. Congress and publicly released in full in or before July 2023 (2-7), show that the authors did not believe the core conclusions of the paper at the time it was written, at the time it was submitted for publication, and at the time it was published. The authors’ statements show that the paper was, and is, a product of scientific misconduct. <br /><br />It is imperative that this misleading and damaging product of scientific misconduct be removed from the scientific literature.<br /><br />We, as STEM and STEM-policy professionals, call upon Nature Medicine to publish an expression of editorial concern for the paper and to begin a process of withdrawal or retraction of the paper.<br /><br />Signers (in alphabetical order)<br /><br />Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa<br />Paul Babitzke, Pennsylvania State University<br />Alina Chan, Broad Institute<br />Richard H. Ebright, Rutgers University<br />Mohamed E. El Zowalaty, Higher Colleges of Technology<br />David Fisman, University of Toronto<br />Andrew Goffinet, University of Louvain<br />Richard N. Goldstein, Harvard University<br />Elisa D. Harris, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland<br />Neil L. Harrison, Columbia University<br />Laura Kahn, One Health Initiative<br />Hideki Kakeya, University of Tsukuba<br />Justin B. Kinney, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<br />Tatsu Kobayakawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology<br />Yanna Lambrinidou,Virginia Tech<br />Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland<br />Allen A. Lenoir, Bioterrorism/Pediatrics Infectious Disease Center<br />Jamie Metzl, Atlantic Council<br />David L. Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine<br />Bryce E. Nickels, Rutgers University<br />Takeshi Nitta, University of Tokyo<br />Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine<br />Roger Pielke Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder<br />Harish Seshadri, Indian Institute of Science<br />Rick Sheridan, Emske Phytochem<br />Eric S. Starbuck, Save the Children<br />Tyler Stepke, Johns Hopkins University<br />Atsushi Tanaka, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University<br />Hiroshi Tauchi, Ibaraki University<br />Anton van Der Merwe, University of Oxford<br />Alex Washburne, Selva Analytics<br />Andre Watson, Ligandal<br />Roland Wiesendanger, University of Hamburg<br />Susan Wright, University of Michigan<br /></span></p><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-wrapper-content gdlr-core-js"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-wrapper-container clearfix gdlr-core-container"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column gdlr-core-column-60 gdlr-core-column-first"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column-content-margin gdlr-core-js"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column-content clearfix gdlr-core-js"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-element"><div class="gdlr-core-text-box-item gdlr-core-item-pdlr gdlr-core-item-pdb gdlr-core-left-align" style="padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="gdlr-core-text-box-item-content" style="text-transform: none;"><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>References</b></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(1) <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9"><b>Kristian
G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes &
Robert F. Garry, The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2, Nature Medicine,
volume 26, pages 450–452 (2020)</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(2) <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/report/interim-staff-report-the-proximal-origin-of-a-cover-up-did-the-bethesda-boys-downplay-a-lab-leak/"><b>Interim Majority Staff Report – The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up: Did the “Bethesda Boys” Downplay a Lab Leak?, July 12, 2023</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(3) <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-origins-congress-hearing/"><b>Amid Partisan Politicking, Revelations on a Covid Origins Article, The Nation, July 12, 2023</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(4) <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/"><b>House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents, The Intercept, July 12, 2023</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(5) <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about"><b>Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show, Public, July 18, 2023</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(6) <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/so-friggin-likely-new-covid-documents"><b>“So Friggin’ Likely”: New Covid Documents Reveal Unparalleled Media Deception, Racket News, July 18, 2023</b></a></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(7) <b><a href="https://public.substack.com/p/covid-origins-scientist-denounces">Covid Origins Scientist Denounces Reporting On His Messages As A “Conspiracy Theory, Public, July 20, 2023</a></b></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">(8) <b><a href="https://twitter.com/JMinImmunoland/status/1239966983279366145">https://twitter.com/JMinImmunoland/status/1239966983279366145</a></b></span></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-background-wrap" style="background-color: #e8e8e8;"></div><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-element"><div class="gdlr-core-divider-item gdlr-core-divider-item-center-circle gdlr-core-item-pdlr"><div class="gdlr-core-divider-line gdlr-core-skin-divider"><div class="gdlr-core-divider-line-bold gdlr-core-skin-divider"><br /></div></div></div></div>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-33155414617587832842023-07-19T10:59:00.003-05:002023-07-20T14:58:03.476-05:00Wisconsin Navy Veteran Dies; Keith Roberts — A Good Man Betrayed<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRE1npKNlVRn8rV2hvji_Fy29TQlgLic17leETN5TfjNHs6jgpnEkPJdRVcLDB-e3E9sYyzPMBrwDpFv5Qr7diyAKxz7s0lGKTXtjKkG_erhAcUraUx3MBe6wsMehzrjH-76sZnEfHAZ1ZHZ2IKpAiYb4i1RjAZ0p2wO7BNgVy53JBaMUOCQ6X7KBvs0/s804/Keith%20Roberts.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="804" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRE1npKNlVRn8rV2hvji_Fy29TQlgLic17leETN5TfjNHs6jgpnEkPJdRVcLDB-e3E9sYyzPMBrwDpFv5Qr7diyAKxz7s0lGKTXtjKkG_erhAcUraUx3MBe6wsMehzrjH-76sZnEfHAZ1ZHZ2IKpAiYb4i1RjAZ0p2wO7BNgVy53JBaMUOCQ6X7KBvs0/s320/Keith%20Roberts.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Keith+Roberts" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a> was hounded by the U.S. Department of Justice <br />and Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) because Roberts blew the <br />whistle on the VA for altering his Claim Files; and <br />spoke impolitely in seeking a retroactive date <br />for PTSD benefits, on the advice of his local Veterans <br />Service Officer. We dishonored and killed this good man.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Keith Roberts Was Betrayed, Defamed, by the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Dept of Justice</h4><p><b>Commentary on an American tragedy</b><br /><br />Madison, Wisconsin — <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a href="https://www.swedbergfuneralhome.com/obituary/keith-roberts" target="_blank">Keith Albert Roberts</a> (April 13, 1948 - July 11, 2023) of <a href="https://cityofgillett.com/" target="_blank">Gillett, Wisconsin</a>, passed away last week in hospice at home, at </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">age 75.<br /></span><br />A teenager who enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s during a combat era, a patriotic <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Keith+Roberts&max-results=20&by-date=true" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a> was a typical northern Wisconsin guy. Keith loved fishing, beer, straight talk, fixing stuff yourself, his family, country, women, the Packers, God and humor.<br /><br />So, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Keith+Roberts" target="_blank">Keith joined the U.S. Navy</a> — serve your country, see the world; great idea for a young man, right?</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrZcDmaumaFwZYNpJKm2L1A6IRJWkHXSlbx5LgbwYsww8_gvXVPvP1u3DtfnWZtmlHsPH4UK2HtDbB6hcbgR7cc4NXgxdKAfFdryqcqUysWWW5ydwWnIJGo6Yt9P0LDuW3UbbLDuEHabhDn3SaX_4y4BXtRYNgCugC_P5va_vh_v8fMGJUmrxizYTWLo/s175/airmanrobertsin1970x.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nGPBoVxxqaFkdOaiBohf401LkmeQg0qH2E70FIcie9sx-uwJq5Ep3ksnXHhpe0YJSA_MR_WaW07b7cnUjAd_oJk4HDsZK0B5gr4Ce5P0NetECBBzsc8lQVmrqldVs7qe5cG59Ar5wj-AzkiUYqVQSU6LcPo66oZL1cki22hks-5NKcq5bI_Ojxs08Cg/s175/airmanrobertsin1970x.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="142" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nGPBoVxxqaFkdOaiBohf401LkmeQg0qH2E70FIcie9sx-uwJq5Ep3ksnXHhpe0YJSA_MR_WaW07b7cnUjAd_oJk4HDsZK0B5gr4Ce5P0NetECBBzsc8lQVmrqldVs7qe5cG59Ar5wj-AzkiUYqVQSU6LcPo66oZL1cki22hks-5NKcq5bI_Ojxs08Cg/s1600/airmanrobertsin1970x.jpg" width="142" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wisconsin's <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Keith+Roberts&max-results=20&by-date=true" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a><br />is a veteran at age 19 — whom <br />we then betrayed, a man<br />who will never be made<br />whole by what baleful<br />U.S. officials acting from<br />base motives inflicted<br />onto an innocent man<br />from northern Wisconsin</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Wrong.<br /><b><br />Naval Base Accident</b><br /><br />While stationed at a Naval air base
in Naples, Italy in 1969, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/05/vet-imprisoned-for-seeking-benefits_02.html" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a> was serving on line duty, when a safety screw-up, [someone stuck a screwdriver in place of a safety pin on a <a href="https://amcmuseum.org/at-the-museum/aircraft/c-54m-skymaster/" target="_blank">C-54 military transport</a>, before removing the supporting jacks of the plane that made the airplane unstable and dangerous with faulty front, main landing gear], resulted in Roberts' friend and fellow Airman, Florida native <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2008/06/death-of-1960s-navy-airman-focus-of.html" target="_blank">Airman Gary Holland</a>, being
crushed to death by the C-54 as Holland lay trapped. <br /><br />I would challenge my fellow Americans to contemplate how you might feel losing a friend with whom you work and live in close quarters at several bases for years as the weight of a military jet crushes your friend, after fractures and other bodily trauma are cruelly inflicted under 1,000s of pounds of weight. Speaking to people who were there, and reading reports of interviews with people who were there, I can assure you on the memory of my Mother and the health of my wife, this is <b>not</b> how you want to die.<br /><br />After doing everything he could to save <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2008/06/death-of-1960s-navy-airman-focus-of.html" target="_blank">Gary Holland</a> during base equivalent of general quarters, including trying to get a forklift to hoist the plane, Roberts received a "<a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/05/military-document-corroborates-jailed.html" target="_blank">Special Enlisted Personnel Performance Evaluation</a>"
(the military equivalent of a pat on the back for the then-young
airman) two days after the death of Airman Holland for Roberts' role in the
chaotic event.<br /><br />Later that same year, Keith was assaulted by the Navy Shore Patrol (assholes back then) and forcefully hospitalized in this unrelated event.</p><p>One man, Gary, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">needlessly dies</a>, his friend, Keith, lives in pain. <br /><br />Roberts believed that negligence caused Holland’s death and that the
Navy covered it up, blaming the dead and young Holland who could not
defend himself.<br /><br />So, the United State government decided, let's get the guy alive; he's asking for help. That's what happened to <a href="https://www.wis.community/search/node/Keith%20Roberts" target="_blank">Keith Roberts</a>. <br /><b><br />PTSD</b><br /><br />Vietnam War vetrean Keith Roberts did not later deal well with his few years in the Navy.<br /><br />And although Keith was an exceptionally intelligent man, he didn't know much about <a href="https://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/vba-21-0781-are.pdf" target="_blank">PTSD or what a veteran</a> was supposed to do years after his service.<br /></p><p>After his honorable discharge in 1971, Keith Roberts sought help from the mental health field from which he received several diagnosis and treatments for PTSD.</p><p>Keith filed for disability benefits in 1999 for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was forced to relate his <a href="https://madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/michael-leon-veterans-aren-t-lying-about-ptsd/article_d9bdb152-69e7-11df-948d-001cc4c03286.html" target="_blank">claim to specific stressors</a>, from the assault by the Navy
Shore Patrol in 1969, and the gruesome aircraft accident, also in 1969 at Naples, Italy where Roberts
was stationed.<br /><br />Like 100,000s of veterans, Roberts engaged the convoluted processes of the <a href="http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/8355">U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucracy</a> seeking disability benefits in what is supposed to be a <a href="http://www.mofo.com/docs/pdf/PTSD070723.pdf">non-adversarial process</a>, per the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-bill/5288" target="_blank">Veterans' Judicial Review Act (1988)</a>
that also empowers veterans with the right to judicial review of decisions
involving their benefits under the exclusive authority of legislatively created VA adjudication procedures (<a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/09/law-firms-rushing-to-veterans-aid.html" target="_blank">Mal Contends</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://www.wis.community/search/node/Keith%20Roberts" target="_blank">Roberts </a>was granted disability benefits. Then in 2002, on the advice of<a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/05/va-document-contradicts-us-atty-in.html" target="_blank"> Jim Henning, (now deceased) Shawano County (Wisconsin) Veteran's Service
Officer</a>, he sought an earlier effective date of PTSD disability payments. <br /><br />The VA didn't like it. Roberts gets disability benefits, pretty soon <a href="about:blank" target="_blank">100,000s of Vietnam veterans</a> are asking for disability benefits, is their thinking, according to virtually every Vietnam veteran whom I have spoken to on these matters.<br /><br />As Gil Halsted of <a href="https://www.wpr.org/vietnam-vet-calls-fraud-charges-va-illegal" target="_blank">Wisconsin Public Radio</a> reported: "Some veterans advocates say the case is part of a broader effort by
the Bush Administration to discourage veterans from seeking retroactive
benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder." <br /><br />WPR's Halsted also reported in 2008 on <a href="https://www.wis.community/vets-go-to-mattresses-for-jailed-vet" target="_blank">Wisconsin Public Radio, via WisCommunity</a>: "Timothy Funnel, U.S. Attorney's office, who prosecuted Roberts for fraud, says [Roberts asking for an earlier retroactive date] was a mistake. Funnel says trying to get more benefits triggered an investigation that refuted Roberts’ PTSD claims and resulted in his fraud conviction. He says Roberts would in all likelihood be 'sitting in Oconto County receiving his monthly compensation benefit check' if he had not because of 'his own greed' sought this large retroactive payment."<br /></p><p>Henning and Roberts were not involved in some scheme; were not motivated by "greed." They were filling paperwork and doing what these two were supposed to be doing in reciting requested facts, what we as a country should be supporting.<br /><br />But after being diagnosed with PTSD, and granted disability benefits, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2008/12/pardon-jailed-wisconsin-veteran.html" target="_blank">Roberts</a> had no idea that <a href="http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20060206PTSD_intro.html">political
and bureaucratic forces allied with the VA had adopted policies of the rightwing think
tank, American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI), ultimately <a href="https://www.wis.community/death-1960s-navy-airman-focus-jailed-vets-plight" target="_blank">resulting in Roberts’ prosecution</a> for wire fraud after Roberts phoned the VA and the VA Inspector General's Office and complained that
the VA is engaging in fraud — (they were, and Roberts is also an early whistleblower in what came to be known as <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/2/11/836349/-" target="_blank">ShredderGate</a>, (destruction and altering of veterans' Claim (C) Files to subvert claims)) — in processing his PTSD disability claim.<br />
<br />
Roberts's phone call and accusation of VA fraud sounded alarm bells at the VA — but not to help veterans; rather, to get <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2008/12/pardon-jailed-wisconsin-veteran.html" target="_blank">Roberts</a>.<br /><br />So, the VA, in violation of regulations (see Motion below by Roberts' attorney, Bob Walsh), the United States Dept of Justice retaliated, and worked to charge and convict Roberts in 2006, after stopping his PTSD benefits. <br /><br />Accuse a government agency of misconduct, and often they will retaliate.<br /><br />Reads a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070821121838/https://www.justice.gov/usao/wie/press_releases/2007/pr030507_roberts_sent.pdf" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin press release</a> (via Mal Contends) from March 5, 2007:<br />
</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br />
Roberts was an airman stationed at the Naval Air Facility in Naples,
Italy, in 1969. The indictment alleged,and the government proved at
trial, that Roberts fabricated his role in the attempted rescue of an
airman who was killed at the Naval Air Facility on February 4, 1969.
Roberts also fabricated his relationship with that airman.</blockquote>
The DoJ indictment is <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/05/va-document-contradicts-us-atty-in.html" target="_blank">demonstrably false</a>, but even granted its silly and false assertions and premises, is absurd grounds for a federal criminal indictment for fraud.<br /><p>The persecution and miscarriage of justice inflicted on Keith Roberts by the U.S. government was not ignored, and Roberts' family asked me to note this work here: Veterans' press across the country in Florida, Iowa, all over; <a href="https://harpers.org/2007/09/us-attorneys-scandal-milwaukee-2/" target="_blank">Scott Horton in <i>Harper's Magazine</i></a>; Lee Rayburn, journalist and radio host, who advanced the story after a background source from the VA Milwaukee Regional Office came forward and confirmed major facts and elements of Keith's story; <a href="https://www.wpr.org/vietnam-vet-calls-fraud-charges-va-illegal" target="_blank">Gil Halsted of Wisconsin Public Radio ran several pieces</a>, (<a href="https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-veteran-jailed-fraud-charges" target="_blank">Wisconsin Public Radio</a>, 2008); <i><a href="https://madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/michael-leon-veterans-aren-t-lying-about-ptsd/article_d9bdb152-69e7-11df-948d-001cc4c03286.html" target="_blank">Wisconsin State Journal</a></i> ran an op-ed piece; <a href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070604_new_evidence_in_jail.htm" target="_blank">Op-ed News</a>; Josh Coffman in the daily <i><a href="https://www.thenewsenterprise.com/" target="_blank">News-Enterprise</a></i> (Kentucky); <a href="https://www.angelfire.com/il2/VeteranIssues/" target="_blank">Dan Cedusky</a> and many others. <br /><br />Rayburn's series on Roberts bore fruit, and one hopes the VA Medical Center source comes public, to not win Roberts' freedom or his life, but his honor.<br /><br />"[T]he only reason Airman Roberts was ever prosecuted was because he was
a ‘belligerent ass’ who kept insisting that he get paid back to
discharge. He was demanding an appeal in Washington," said a background
source at the <a href="http://www.visn12.med.va.gov/Milwaukee/" target="_blank">Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee</a> who e-mailed the Lee Rayburn radio show in Madison
in early June 2007 after a program about the Roberts case, and asked to
remain anonymous out of fear of losing his job. "I'd have to say that
you guys are TOTALLY (uppercase in the original) right about Roberts'
conviction being bullshit," is the email quote Rayburn featured on his show.<br /><br />Truth is Keith Roberts suffered in prison, 2007-2010, was sent into solidarity confinement, had a heart attack and never regained his full health.<br /><br /><b><a href="https://robertpwalsh.com/" target="_blank">Bob Walsh</a></b><br /><br />Even the passionate and brilliant advocacy of veterans' attorney Bob Walsh could not save and exonerate Keith Roberts from the dishonest work of the VA and the United States Department of Justice.<br /><br />As recounted by <a href="https://www.toledoblade.com/columnists/2021/04/26/Investigate-VA-mistreatment-of-veterans" target="_blank">Jack Lessenberry, Bob Walsh</a> who represented and helped Keith Roberts for some 18 years, never gave up. Writes Lessenberry:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>Robert Walsh isn’t just another attorney. His practice is largely centered on veterans, especially those he thinks have gotten a rotten deal from the government.<br /><br />He knows something about this. Mr. Walsh, now 72, was a combat infantryman in Vietnam with the fabled 101st Airborne Division. Later, as a civilian, he worked in telecommunications for the U.S. Army during the first Gulf War. He didn’t graduate from law school until he was 40, and then he worked as a staff attorney for the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs.<br /><br />Now, he tries to help those who he feels have been mistreated by the V.A. — especially victims of PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. After George W. Bush was elected president and started the Iraq War, Mr. Walsh said, 'Karl Rove and Dick Cheney declared war on PTSD. They wanted to deny there was any such thing.'</blockquote>But neo-liberals and the Obama and Biden administrations offered no assistance to Keith Roberts and other veterans targeted by the VA and assorted bureaucrats.<br /><br />Walsh had already seen a lot misconduct from the VA when the VA Office of Inspector General's flunky cop, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Vasil" target="_blank">Raymond Vasil</a>, was chased out of the Lombard, Illinois Police Department under a cloud of misconduct allegations and quickly joined the VA to make victims of veterans.<br /> <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Vasil" target="_blank"><br />Vasil</a> rapidly established himself as "an idiot with a badge," as termed by many veterans' advocates.<br /><br />In one exchange from Vasil’s Grand Jury testimony indicating his
knowledge of the VA benefits process, upon which the indictment is
predicated, Vasil appears clueless on his familiarity with VA benefit procedures:<br />
<br />
<b>Question</b>: “Is that part of your training that you have to know the basics of how these programs work?”<br />
<br />
<b>Vasil’s Answer</b>: “Yeah. I was briefly kind of instructed
when I was hired, and then just while working for them, you have to
learn it to investigate the cases.” <br /><br />At the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts questioned Assistant to the Solicitor General Anthony Yang during oral argument in a major federal benefits-related case, <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/560/586/" target="_blank">Astrue v. Ratliff, 560 U.S. 586 (2010)</a>.<br /><br />Asked Justice Roberts of Assistant to the Solicitor General Anthony Yang, "In litigating with veterans, the government more often than not takes a position that is substantially unjustified?"<br /><br />Yes, Justice Roberts was informed.<br /><br />Roberts found this "really startling."<br /><p></p><p>Yeah, startling.<br /><br />Bob Walsh blew up the bogus criminal case against Roberts again in 2019, after Roberts' family and Walsh tracked down Roberts' officer-in-charge, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">Robert Don Hathaway,</a> who was stationed at the Naples air base.<br /> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PivsfkJ6GraBVnEp1PlEO4IAnWf1cTgf3dpPyavfb0eYkHTfFSUG0OvH7k_x-QnS2O_2H6EyQc-E6b6owNYohuLOzSf2X8JP4RvjKj8lhxFqPPTBBfMwDl3oyd88Ek5vsP7qb8WRkALvRexKjX7iLS_UwfNjSIuZAXBTUlnmaqULlvSb1l1oWWTvJr0/s320/Commander%20Robert%20Don%20Hathaway.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PivsfkJ6GraBVnEp1PlEO4IAnWf1cTgf3dpPyavfb0eYkHTfFSUG0OvH7k_x-QnS2O_2H6EyQc-E6b6owNYohuLOzSf2X8JP4RvjKj8lhxFqPPTBBfMwDl3oyd88Ek5vsP7qb8WRkALvRexKjX7iLS_UwfNjSIuZAXBTUlnmaqULlvSb1l1oWWTvJr0/s1600/Commander%20Robert%20Don%20Hathaway.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Men of honor have come forward to speak the truth<br />
about the 2005-06 prosecution of <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">Wisconsin's Keith <br />
Roberts</a> for fraud, a crusade that has netted the <br />
lives of many military veterans in other cases. <br />Commander, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">United States Navy (ret), Robert <br />Don Hathaway</a> set the record straight in 2019, as <br />bureaucrats crawl back under the rocks where they live <br />and work.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Hathaway conducted a
four-hour deposition. See <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">Mal Contends</a>.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2019/11/keith-roberts-wrongful-prosecution-is.html" target="_blank">Hathaway, Commander, United States Navy (ret)</a>, is described as a
no-nonsense Navy officer who reacted with surprise at news of the
Roberts affair.<br />
<br />
Hathaway's April 12, 2019 affidavit in sum corroborates Roberts'
recollection of the death scene and utterly disconfirms the United
States Dept of Justice's ridiculous indictment that Roberts misled the
VA about his actions.<br /><br />Hathaway was not interviewed by the VA Office of Inspector General's idiot with a badge, Raymond Vasil, whose fraudulant testimony is the sole basis for the criminal indictment of Keith Roberts.<br /><br />Keith Roberts told me late in life, that were he able to redo his life, he would have moved his family to Canada.<br /><br />I don't blame Keith, not a bit.<br /><br />Walsh's latest legal filing, below (unformatted), is dated in late June 2023, some three weeks before Keith Roberts died; not legally exonerated; not made whole; and not given back his good name and honor.<br /><br />Bob Walsh and Keith Roberts are still looking for honor.<br /><br />Decency and duty drove a Wisconsin Navy veteran to act in an
unsuccessful attempt to save a fellow airman from being crushed to death
by a 73,000-pound <a href="https://sacmuseum.org/what-to-see/aircraft/c-54d-skymaster/" target="_blank">C-54 transport aircraft</a> at a Naval airbase in Naples, Italy on Feb 4, 1969. <br /><br />We owe this veteran and his family his good name.<br />---<br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4DTY9YsoYbK2hWuu1T55AkG_bTob1ypnGIk0fLVonRW3xFTSN9yY_Ph3RyaVK7gtsIKnRg8gdju_ZjKm72Ckqi_PBVcfREmeDHuvYqxDvbOpXCSmxNAuDFHd9AvUOYzYiGrfhO4vY84-iclevzMzqsIOk6M2zDZyF9c6B3xfjjDI1noFNSqAaJhT-Qg/s319/walshlogo.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="319" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW4DTY9YsoYbK2hWuu1T55AkG_bTob1ypnGIk0fLVonRW3xFTSN9yY_Ph3RyaVK7gtsIKnRg8gdju_ZjKm72Ckqi_PBVcfREmeDHuvYqxDvbOpXCSmxNAuDFHd9AvUOYzYiGrfhO4vY84-iclevzMzqsIOk6M2zDZyF9c6B3xfjjDI1noFNSqAaJhT-Qg/s1600/walshlogo.jpg" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Walsh: Attorney, veteran, and combat infantryman <br />in Vietnam with fabled 101st Airborne Division, <br />fights for veterans, and Keith Roberts, <i><a href="https://www.toledoblade.com/columnists/2021/04/26/Investigate-VA-mistreatment-of-veterans" target="_blank">Toledo Blade</a></i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><b>UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS<br />BOARD OF VETERANS’ APPEALS<br />425 I STREET N.W.<br />WASHINGTON, DC 20038<br />Docket No. 03-04 265<br />KEITH ALBERT ROBERTS</b><br />C 28 353 461<br />Claimant-Appellant<br />MOTION OF CLAIMANT-APPELLANT FOR VACATURE<br />OF THE DECISION OF THE BOARD DATED<br />AUGUST 26, 2005, DOCKET NUMBER 03-04 265<br />AND<br />REVISION OF ALL SUBSEQUENT DECISIONS WHICH HAVE DENIED RESTORATION OF BENEFITS SEVERED IN THAT DECISION<br />IN ACCORDANCE WITH 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000<br />AND FOR RESTORATION OF SERVICE<br />CONNECTED DISABILITY BENEFITS<br />AT THE 100 PERCENT LEVEL<br />NUNC PRO TUNC TO NOVEMBER 14, 1990<br />AND<br />MOTION TO ADVANCE ON THE DOCKET IN ACCORDANCE WITH<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.902 ( c ).<br />BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF MOTIONS TO VACATE AND ADVANCE<br />ON THE DOCKET<br />WAIVER OF ORIGINAL JURISDICTION<br />CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE<br />APPENDIX<br />ROBERT P. WALSH, Esq.<br />2 Michigan Avenue West<br />Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9693<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />1. TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />1.TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................i<br />2.TABLE OF AUTHORITIES....................................iv<br />3. MOTION OF CLAIMANT-APPELLANT FOR VACATURE<br />OF THE DECISION OF THE BOARD DATED AUGUST 26, 2005,<br />IN ACCORDANCE WITH 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 AND FOR<br />RESTORATION OF SERVICE CONNECTED DISABILITY<br />BENEFITS AT THE 100 PERCENT LEVEL AND ALL OTHER<br />ASSOCIATED BENEFITS NUNC PRO TUNC TO<br />NOVEMBER 14, 1990..........................................1<br />4. MOTION OF CLAIMANT-APPELLANT TO ADVANCE ON THE DOCKET HIS MOTION FOR VACATURE OF THE DECISION<br />OF THE BOARD DATED AUGUST 26, 2005, IN ACCORDANCE<br />WITH 38 C.F.R. § 20.902 ( c )....................................7<br />5. BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF MOTIONS TO VACATE AND ADVANCE<br />ON THE DOCKET............................................9<br />A. Facts relevant to the issues..................................9<br />B.Argument and authorities..................................20<br />i.The position of the VA Office of General Counsel, Office of Inspector General, and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regarding the adjudication of benefits fraud allegations........................................43<br />6.JURISDICTIONAL STATEMENT.................................<br />A.The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for vacature in accordance with 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 ( a ).....................50<br />i<br />B.The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for<br />vacature when fraud has occurred. As demonstrated below,<br />the severance of the disability benefits of the veteran was<br />based upon materially false statements by employees of the<br />U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as well as the withholding<br />of material and exculpatory evidence from the Veterans Benefits<br />Administration, the Board, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans<br />Claims, and other Federal Courts. The Board may vacate a<br />decision based upon fraud under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000(b).........51<br />7.STANDARD FOR REVIEW....................................52<br />A.The Board reviews motions for vacature under 38 C.F.R. §20.1000. Congress has chosen the preponderance standard<br />for fraud cases. See Grogan v. Garner, 498 U.S. 279 (1991)<br />at 286, 288........................................52<br />8. CONCLUSION.................................................54<br />9. WAIVER OF AOJ CONSIDERATION..............................56<br />10. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE....................................57<br />11. APPENDIX...................................................58<br />ii<br />2. TABLE OF AUTHORITIES<br />CASES<br />Page<br />Abbott Labs. v. United States, 573 F.3d 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2009)...............40<br />Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954)...........................38<br />Almeida-Sanchez, 413 U.S. at 273-74, 37 L. Ed. 2d at 603, 93 S. Ct. at 2540....6<br />American Signature Inc., v. United States, 598 F.3d 816 (Fed. Cir. 2010).....28<br />Atkins v. Parker, 472 U.S. 115, 128 (1985)..............................39<br />Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997)...............................28, 40<br />Baltzer v. Lombard, 1:94-cv-01587...................................2, 5<br />Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 55 S.Ct. 629, 79 L.Ed. 1314 (1935)...41, 43<br />Bivins v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388; 91 S. Ct. 1999; 29 L. Ed.619 (1971)........................................................48<br />Bowen v. Georgetown Univ. Hosp., 488 U.S. 204 (1988)...................40<br />Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945)................28<br />Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)..............................3, 42<br />Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 180, 93 L. Ed. 1879, 69 S. Ct. 1302(Jackson, J., dissenting)..............................................6<br />Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115, 115 S. Ct. 552 (1994)..............17, 28, 38<br />Bulloch v. United States, 763 F.2d 1115 (10th Cir. 1985)...................41<br />iii<br />CASES<br />Page<br />Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886 (1961)......................38<br />Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470 (1917)......................32, 40<br />Caribbean Ispat Ltd. v. United States, 450 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2006)........40<br />Cathedral Candle Co. v. U.S. Int'l Trade Comm'n, 400 F.3d 1352<br />(Fed. Cir. 2005)....................................................28<br />City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32, 148 L. Ed. 2d 333, 121 S. Ct. 447(2000)............................................................6<br />Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.,<br />467 U.S. 837, 104 S. Ct. 2778 (1984)...................................24<br />Christensen v. Harris County, 529 U.S. 576 (2000).......................28<br />Conroy v. Aniskoff, 507 U.S. 511, 514 (1993)...........................19<br />Cook v. Principi, 318 F. 3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2002)...................21, 37, 38<br />Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)............................21<br />Cushman v. Shinseki, 576 F.3d 1290 (Fed . Cir. 2009).................21, 38<br />Duncan v. Walker, 533 U.S. 167 (2001) at 174 “reluctant to treat statutory termsas surplusage in any setting”..........................................27<br />Ellis v. Dep’t of Veterans’ Affairs, No. CV-05-257-RHW, 2006 WL 224041<br />(E. D. Wash. 01/27/2006) (reverse Ellis doctrine).........................33<br />Federal Crop Insurance Corp. v. Merrill et al, 332 U.S. 380,<br />68 S.Ct. 1 (1947)...................................................38<br />Gallegos v. Principi, 283 F.3d 1309 (Fed. Cir. 2002)......................24<br />Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1963).....54<br />Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972).............................42<br />iv<br />CASES<br />Page<br />Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243, 126 S.Ct. 904, 163 L.Ed. 748 (2006)......28<br />Gose v. United States Postal Serv., 451 F.3d 831(Fed. Cir. 2006)............28<br />Grogan v. Garner, 498 U.S. 279 (1991) Congress has chosen the preponderance standard for fraud..................................................52<br />Hayburn's Case, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 409, 410 n., 1 L. Ed. 436 (1792)............18<br />Henderson v. Shinseki, 562 U.S. 428, 440, 131 S. Ct. 1197, 1205 (2011)......19<br />Hodge v. West, 155 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 1998)...........................34<br />In re R. Greg Bailey, 182 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 1999).......................21<br />King v. St. Vincent's Hospital, 502 U.S. 215, 116 L. Ed. 2d 578,<br />112 S. Ct. 570 (1991)............................................28, 38<br />Kisor v. Wilkie 588 U.S. ____ June 29, 2019............................33<br />Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 115 S.Ct. 1555, 131 L.Ed.2d 490 (1995).......42<br />Lamar v. United States, 241 U.S. 103 (1916) (113) plain meaning in<br />dictionaries....................................................32, 40<br />Littlejohn v. United States, 321 F.3d 915 (9th Cir. 2003)....................34<br />Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 96 S. Ct. 893,<br />47 L. Ed. 2d 18 (1976)..............................................38<br />Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602,<br />16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966).............................................49<br />Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972)...............................38<br />Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950)......37, 50<br />v<br />CASES<br />Page<br />Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56 (1980)...................................21<br />Orfanos v. HHS, 896 F. Supp. 23 (D.D.C. 1995)......................27, 31<br />Passaic Cty. Bar Ass'n v. Hughes, 401 U.S. 1003 (1971)...................19<br />Penhallow v. Doane's Adm'r, 3 U.S. 54, 79 (1795).......................19<br />People v. Lidster, 779 NE 2d 855 (IL Sup Ct 2002)....................2, 5, 6<br />Pierre v. West, 211 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2000)...........................21<br />Reizenstein v. Shinseki, 583 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. 2009)....................28<br />Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389 (1971).............................20<br />Roberts v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 416 (2010) (en banc).................................<br />4, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 29, 31, 32, 44, 49<br />Roberts v. Shinseki, 643 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (Cert. Den.).............49<br />Roberts v. Wilkie, 16-1219 (August 15, 2018)............................49<br />Roberts v. the United States of America, No. 08-788 Cert. Den. (U.S. Dec. 15,2008)............................................................49<br />Service v. Dulles, 354 U.S. 363 (1957).................................38<br />Shinseki v. Sanders, 556 U.S. 396, 416, 129 S. Ct. 1696, 1709 (2009)........19<br />Snyder v. Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97, 54 S.Ct. 330, 78 L.Ed. 674 (1934)......21<br />Solesbee v. Balkcom, 339 U.S. 9, 70 S. Ct. 457, 94 L. Ed. 604 (1950).........22<br />Strickler v. Greene, 527 U.S. 263, 119 S.Ct. 1936, 144 L.Ed.2d 286 (1999)....43<br />Suozzi v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 307 (CAVC 1997)......................11, 36<br />vi<br />CASES<br />Page<br />Thurber v. Brown, 5 Vet. App. 119 (1993)..............................50<br />Thrasher v. McDonough, 22-0134 (Mar. 31, 2023).......................17<br />Trilles v. West, 13 Vet. App. 314 (2000) (en banc)........................32<br />Turner v. United States, 396 U.S. 398 (1970)............................21<br />Tutun v. United States, 270 U.S. 568 (1926).............................18<br />United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97, 96 S.Ct. 2392, 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976)....42<br />United States v. Georgia Thompson, 484 F.3d 877 (7th Cir. 2007)............37<br />United States v. Kienenberger, 168 F.3d 496 (8th Cir. 1998).................23<br />United States v. Mead Corp., 533 U.S. 218, 121 S. Ct. 2164 (2001)...........25<br />United States v. Public Utilities Commission of California,<br />345 U.S. 544 (1979)................................................33<br />United States v. Roberts, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin,<br />docket 05-CR-115.........................................15, 29, 47, 50<br />United States v. Roberts, 534 F.3d 560 (7th Cir. July 7 2008) (Cert. Denied<br />08-788, December 15, 2008) ...............................15, 29, 47, 50<br />United States v. Rutherford, 442 U.S. 544 (1979).........................33<br />United States v. Vaughn, 797 F2.d 1485 (9th Cir. 1986)....................22<br />United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 101 (1951).........................1<br />Vitarelli v. Seaton, 359 U.S. 535 (1959)................................38<br />Walters v. Nat’l Ass’n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305 (1985)..........20<br />West Virginia Univ. Hosps., Inc. v. Casey, 499 U.S. 83 (1991)..............32<br />Wolfe v. Wilkie, 32 Vet.App. 1 (2019) (order), rev'd sub nom. Wolfe v.McDonough, 28 F.4th 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2022)............................19<br />vii<br />STATUTES AND OTHER MATERIAL<br />Page<br />United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment......................2, 46, 49<br />United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment.....................2, 21, 38, 46<br />United States Constitution, Sixth Amendment........................2, 21, 46<br />United States Constitution, Eighth Amendment........................21, 46<br />Act of July 3, 1930, ch. 863, 46 Stat. 1016, established the VeteransAdministration. Congress consolidated the Bureau of Pensions,<br />the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the<br />U.S. Veterans' Bureau into one agency..................................17<br />Invalid Pensions Act of 1792, Act of Mar. 23, 1792, ch. 11, 1 U.S. Stat 243 (1792)(repealed in part and amended by Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17,<br />1 Stat. 324 (1793)).................................................17<br />Veterans' Judicial Review Act (VJRA) in 1988. See Pub. L. No. 100-687, § 402,102 Stat. 4105, 4122 (1988)..........................................17<br />5 U.S.C. App., Public Law 95-452, As Amended Through P.L. 114-317, enacted<br />December 16, 2016, the Inspector General Act of 1978.....................48<br />5 U.S.C. §§ 551-559, 701-706, 1305, 3105, 3344, 4301(2)(E), 5335(a)(B), 5372,<br />and 7521; the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).................19, 45, 50<br />5 U.S.C. § 552a The Privacy Act......................................49<br />18 U. S.C. § 1001 Statements ......................................4, 30<br />18 U. S.C. § 1341 Mail Fraud......................................30, 47<br />18 U. S.C. § 1343 Wire Fraud.....................................30, 37<br />18 U. S.C. § 2071 concealment, removal, or mutilation of documents..........5<br />31 U.S.C. §§ 3801-3812 Program fraud civil remedies Act..............Passim viii<br />STATUTES AND OTHER MATERIAL<br />Page<br />38 U. S.C. § 1110..................................................20<br />38 U.S.C. § 6102 Fraudulent acceptance of payments......................13<br />38 U.S.C. § 6103 Forfeiture for Fraud..................................13<br />38 U.S.C. § 6104 Forfeiture for treason .................................13<br />38 U.S.C. § 1151...................................................34<br />38 U.S.C. § 7254...................................................19<br />38 U.S.C. § 7261...................................................19<br />38 U.S.C. § 7292 ( d ) (1)............................................21<br />42 U.S.C. §§ 408 ( a )(1)-(8)..........................................23<br />42 U.S.C. §§ 1383a ( a )(1)-(4)........................................23<br />ix<br />REGULATIONS<br />Page<br />5 C.F.R. § 185 Program Fraud Civil Remedies...........................22<br />28 C.F.R. § 71 Implementation of the Provisions of the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986...............................................22<br />31 C.F.R. § 16 Regulations Implementing the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986..........................................................22<br />38 C.F.R. § 3.103(a) (2012) non-adversarial proceedings before VBA.........23<br />38 C.F.R. § 3.105(d)........................................................23<br />38 C.F.R. §§ 3.901-3.905....................................................13<br />38 C.F.R. § 3.957 (2004).........................................23, 24<br />38 C.F.R. § 14.561..................................10, 20, 25, 39, 40, 44<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.902 ( c ) ..............................................8<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.908 Thurber notice rule .................................50<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 vacature.........................................52<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 (a) vacature due process............................50<br />38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 (b) vacature fraud.................................51<br />38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47 (1988) Standards Implementing the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act.................................................Passim<br />45 C.F.R. §§ 79.1-79.47 (April 8, 1988) Program Fraud Civil Remedies .......22<br />45 C.F.R. § 681 Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act Regulations.............22<br />45 C.F.R. § 2554 Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act Regulations............22<br />x<br />MISCELLANEOUS<br />Page<br />Adams, John, letter to Elbridge Gerry, December 5, 1777...................55<br />Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed. 1990, p 1406..........................35<br />RICHARD H. FALLON, JR., ET AL., HART AND WECHSLER'S THE FEDERAL COURTS AND THE FEDERAL SYSTEM (7th ed. 2015)........18<br />Maeva Marcus & Robert Teir, Hayburn's Case: A Misinterpretation of Precedent,1988 WIS. L. REV. 527.............................................18<br />United States Attorneys’ Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 6,<br />November 2004, Social Security Fraud, 45 pages......................23, 45<br />United States House of Representatives, Committee on Veteran’s Affairs,<br />Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, June 30, 2010,<br />testimony of Matthew B. Tully, Esq....................................41<br />United States. Cong. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Overview of FalseClaims and Fraud Legislation. Hearing, Jun. 17, 1986. 99th Cong. 2nd sess.Washington: GPO, 1987. (pages 46-47, 46-50)............................44<br />SAVAGE, II DAVID G. ,GUIDE TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT 872 (4th ed.2004)............................................................18<br />Sutherland Statutory Construction 46.01-.04 (5th ed. 1992) 2A Norman J. Singer,(plain-meaning rule).............................................32, 40<br />xi<br />11. APPENDIX<br />Page<br />Keith A. Roberts, VA Claim Number C 28 353 461<br />Index to Exhibits<br />Exhibit 1.Email from S. Kulevich to J. Imboden, continued VA OIG<br />interference with the adjudication of the Roberts benefits claims,<br />09-16-2015, 1 page..................................... 001<br />Exhibit 2.FOIA response VA OIG to Robert P. Walsh, 08-10-2018,<br />2 pages. ............................................. 004<br />Exhibit 3.Email from Renee Szybala to Debi Bevins re: Roberts case,<br />01-27-2005, 1 page......................................007<br />Exhibit 4.Letter, American Legion, Philip B. Wilkerson, to Renee Szybala,<br />Director of Compensation and Pension Service, 10-15-2004,<br />5 pages................................................009<br />Exhibit 5.Affidavit of Mr. Keith A. Roberts, 03-09-2007, 12 pages........015<br />Exhibit 6.Transcript, Federal Grand Jury testimony, Raymond P. Vasil, VAOIG, 09-13-2005, 8 pages.................................028<br />Exhibit 7.Transcript, Federal Grand Jury testimony, Raymond P. Vasil, VAOIG, 04-26-2005, 75 pages................................037<br />Exhibit 8.Sworn Affidavit of Commander Robert D. Hathaway, U.S. Navy,<br />Retired, with exhibits, 04-12-2019, 113 pages.................113<br />Exhibit 9.Motion and Brief Amicus Curia of Phillip Cushman, Roberts v.Wilkie, CAVC 16-1219, motion to intervene denied by order dated10-27-2017,57 pages.....................................225<br />Exhibit 10.38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47, 05-11-1988, 34 pages................282<br />xii<br />. . . Law has reached its finest moments when it has freed man from the unlimited discretion of some ruler, some civil or military official, some bureaucrat. Where discretion is absolute, man has always suffered. At times it has been his property that has been invaded; at times, his privacy; at times, his liberty of movement; at times, his freedom of thought; at times, his life. Absolute discretion is a<br />ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.<br />Justice William O. Douglas in United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 101 (1951).<br />3.MOTION OF CLAIMANT-APPELLANT FOR VACATURE<br />OF THE DECISION OF THE BOARD DATED AUGUST 26,2005, IN ACCORDANCE WITH 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 AND FOR<br />RESTORATION OF SERVICE CONNECTED DISABILITY<br />BENEFITS AT THE 100 PERCENT LEVEL AND ALL<br />OTHER ASSOCIATED BENEFITS NUNC PRO TUNC TO<br />NOVEMBER 14, 1990.<br />The Claimant-Appellant, Keith Albert Roberts, moves the Board to vacate the Board’s decision in docket 03-04 265 dated August 26, 2005. That decision affirmed the severance of his 100 percent rating for service connected disability benefits for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) based upon fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations against Mr. Roberts made by employees of the Va Office of Inspector General. Those same fraudulent statements were then repeated on two occasions to a Federal Grand Jury. Using the overpayment amount created by the unlawful severance/reduction of compensation benefits by the VA Regional Office (VARO) as damages an indictment was procured which resulted in the wrongful criminal prosecution and conviction of Mr. Roberts for federal wire fraud. As a result he was incarcerated for 1,200 days.<br />This motion implicates the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments to the United States Constitution.<br />1<br />The affidavit of Commander Robert Don Hathaway, U.S. Navy, Retired,which is available in the benefits claims file and is also submitted with this motion demonstrates that the severance of the service connected disability benefits of Keith A. Roberts was procured by fraud on the part of employees of the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs.<br />The “fraud” alleged in the severance of the disability benefits for PTSD was based on the false narrative developed by Raymond Vasil and other VAemployees1. Vasil alleged that Mr. Roberts was not on duty on February 4, 1969,when Gary Holland was injured and died in an aircraft maintenance incident at Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy. Vasil issued a report in which he misquoted Navy eye witnesses. He also “cherry picked” documents and witnesses. It appears that Vasil contacted several Navy veterans that knew Mr. Roberts and that confirmed that he was on duty that day. Vasil appears to have intimidated those individuals and silenced them.<br />The record suggests that Mr. Vasil did obtain a copy of the final U.S. Navy Safety Report on the fatal February 4, 1969, incident. Mr. Roberts provided an affidavit for that report. Vasil incorporated documents from the less comprehensive preliminary Navy report as part of his VA fraud investigation. Mr.<br />1 Raymond P. Vasil was employed by the VA Office of Inspector General, Hines,<br />IL., office. He was tasked with investigation the complaint of Mr. Roberts that<br />documents to include hearing transcripts were being alter by VARO employees.<br />Vasil had been involved in misconduct at the Lombard, IL, police department. See<br />People v. Lidster, 779 NE 2d 855 (IL Sup Ct 2002); and Baltzer v. Lombard, 1:94-<br />cv-01587.<br />2<br />Roberts requested that Mr. Vasil contact Chief Hill, the non-commissioned officer in charge of the transient line unit, and Commander Paul Solomon, one of the officers in charge to verify his participation in the events of February 4, 1969. Both of those men were alive and well 20 years ago. The record does not reflect that Mr. Vasil ever did that. This conduct is a violation under Brady v. Maryland,373 U.S. 83 (1963).<br />During his deposition Commander Robert D. Hathaway, U.S.N., Retired,was emphatic that he had never been contacted by any government official regarding the Keith A. Roberts case. He explained that as aviators several officers shared additional duties such as supervising the transient line operation as they were often away flying. At the time of the fatal incident Solomon and Hathaway shared in the duty of officer in charge of the transient line at Naples. Paul Solomon also made a career of the Navy and retired with the rank of commander. Mr. Vasil could have easily contacted him. Mr. Roberts spoke with the son of Commander Solomon who stated that to his knowledge his late father had never been contacted about the VA investigation and allegation. In his deposition Commander Hathaway was emphatic that Mr. Roberts was on duty on February 4,1969. Commander Hathaway also explained the technical and factual aspects of the negligence and unlawful conduct of some of the Navy retirees that testified against Mr. Roberts in his criminal trial.<br />The severance of the service connected disability benefits of Keith A.Roberts, his criminal indictment and conviction were all obtained through perjury,<br />3<br />secreting evidence and blatant misrepresentations of fact and law by Mr. Raymond P. Vasil, and other employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).<br />A disgraced law enforcement officer, Vasil made material misrepresentations of fact to employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration(VBA) and to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in order to obtain a negative mental health compensation and pension examination report. A report based on the assumption that Mr. Vasil was correct when he informed VBA and VHA employees that Mr. Roberts was not on duty in Naples on February 4, 1969. Seethe dissent of Judge Hagel in Roberts v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 416 (2010) (enbanc). Mr. Vasil perjured himself twice before federal grand juries when he stated that the VA adjudication of the severance of PTSD benefits was completed when he knew or should have known that the appeal was pending before the Board in docket 03-04 265. Those statements are unlawful. See Title 18 U.S.C. § 1001.<br />Mr. Vasil had also unlawfully seized the original paper VA benefits claims file from the RO at the earliest stages of his investigation. At that time he had noprobable cause to believe that Mr. Roberts had committed a crime. And no criminal case had been opened so there was not competent order of a judge or magistrate authorizing him to seize the claims file.<br />At the hearing before the Board on June 13, 2005, Veterans Law Judge(VLJ) Barry F. Bohan refused to permit the American Legion representatives or Mr. Roberts to examine the claims file. That is because VLJ Bohan was aware that the claims file transferred from the Milwaukee Regional Office (RO) to the Board<br />4<br />for the hearing was a very incomplete and legally incompetent photo copy. Only one side of the pages had been copied, such that hundreds of critical pages were missing. When the case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims the record of appeal was supplemented with over three hundred pages of critical documents and hundreds of pages were still missing. The spoilation of the benefits claims file was contrary to Title 18 U.S.C. § 2071. During the first oral argument in the case at the CAVC then Chief Judge Greene made note of the problem with the record from the bench.<br />Mr. Vasil was criticized by the Illinois Supreme Court in relation to his misconduct as an officer for the Lombard, Illinois, police department. See Peoplev. Lidster, 779 NE 2d 855 (IL Sup Ct 2002); and Baltzer v. Lombard, 1:94-cv-01587. Mr. Vasil was employed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General shortly after his separation from the Lombard Police Department. Mr. Keith A. Roberts and his family appear to be some of his earliest victims as a VA employee.<br />The Illinois Supreme Court noted in Lidster that:<br />“ ”As the Supreme Court observed in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S.266, 37 L. Ed. 2d 596, 93 S. Ct. 2535 (1973):<br />"The needs of law enforcement stand in constant tension with the Constitution's<br />protections of the individual against certain exercises of official power. It is<br />precisely the predictability of these pressures that counsels a resolute loyalty to<br />constitutional safeguards. It is well to recall the words of Mr. Justice Jackson,soon after his return from the Nuremberg Trials:<br />5<br />'These [fourth amendment rights], I protest, are not mere second-class rights but<br />belong in the catalog of indispensable freedoms. Among deprivations of rights,none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart. Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government.' Brinegarv. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 180, 93 L. Ed. 1879, 69 S. Ct. 1302 (Jackson, J.,dissenting)." Almeida-Sanchez, 413 U.S. at 273-74, 37 L. Ed. 2d at 603, 93 S. Ct.at 2540.<br />The right of an individual to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures is an<br />indispensable freedom, not a mere luxury. It cannot give way in the face of a<br />temporary need for the police to obtain information regarding the identity of the<br />motorist at issue. As the protector of the constitutional rights of all citizens of this<br />state, this court is commanded to draw a "line at roadblocks designed primarily to<br />serve the general interest in crime control." City of Indianapolis v.<br />Edmond, 531 U.S. 32, 148 L. Ed. 2d 333, 121 S. Ct. 447 (2000). Without such a line, the fourth amendment will do little to prevent intrusive searches and seizures from becoming a routine part of American life. Edmond, 531 U.S. at 42, 148 L.Ed. 2d at 344, 121 S. Ct. at 454. The judgment of the appellate court is affirmed.”“<br />Mr. Roberts moves the Board to restore his service connected disability benefits nunc pro tunc to November 14, 1990, forthwith.<br />In support of this motion Mr. Roberts files the attached appendix. He also incorporates by reference all evidence currently contained in his benefits claims file.<br />/s/ Robert P. Walsh Dated: June 25, 2023<br />Robert P. Walsh-Michigan Bar P-42833<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />Keith A. Roberts<br />Law Office of Robert P. Walsh<br />2 Michigan Avenue West, Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9592<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />6<br />4. MOTION OF CLAIMANT-APPELLANT TO ADVANCE ON THEDOCKET HIS MOTION FOR VACATURE OF THE DECISION<br />OF THE BOARD DATED AUGUST 26, 2005, IN ACCORDANCE<br />WITH 38 C.F.R. § 20.902 ( c ).<br />Keith A. Roberts moves the Board to advance this motion to vacate on the docket. The motion to vacate should be advanced on the docket as it involves Interpretation of law of general application which effects other pending and future adjudications of allegations of benefits claims fraud.<br />In addition this motion should be advanced on the docket as Mr. Roberts has serious health issues to include a recent stroke and heart attack which are documented by medical records associated with his claims file.<br />Further, this dispute has evaded resolution for 20 years and the Board should move forward expeditiously in this matter in the interest of justice.<br />/s/ Robert P. Walsh Dated: June 25, 2023<br />Robert P. Walsh-Michigan Bar P-42833<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />Keith A. Roberts<br />Law Office of Robert P. Walsh<br />2 Michigan Avenue West, Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9592<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />7<br />5.BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF MOTIONS TO VACATE AND<br />ADVANCE ON THE DOCKET<br />A.FACTS RELEVANT TO THE ISSUES<br />In November of 2003 Mr. Roberts had contacted the VA OIG in Washington, D.C. and alleged that documents were not being placed in his claims file or that documents were being removed. He also complained about the failure of the transcripts of his decision review officer hearings to accurately reflect his testimony. The Milwaukee Regional Office would later be named as one of the participants in the VA “Shredder Gate” scandal.<br />After years of adjudication Mr. Roberts had been awarded service connection for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and was granted total disability based upon Individual unemployability (TDIU).<br />On July 8, 2004, the Chicago office of the VA Office of Inspector General issued an incomplete and misleading report of investigation alleging that Mr.Roberts was not on duty at Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy, on February 4, 1969. 2<br />2 The Vasil report does not contain sworn affidavits of witnesses interviewed by<br />VA OIG for the report. It contains memoranda of contact prepared by Mr. Vasil.<br />The report was rejected by the federal district court when offered as an exhibit in<br />the criminal trial. The witnesses interviewed by VA OIG did not testify that Mr.<br />Roberts was not present on February 4, 1969. They testified under oath that they<br />did not know Roberts, or that there were too many people present at the scene, or<br />that they were in offices or in the aircraft and had no line of sight to where Roberts<br />was located. Mr. Vasil did not contact any of the sailors that actually worked with<br />Roberts on the transient line unit, to include the officer in charge, Commander<br />Hathaway. Because no hearing was ever conducted under 38 C.F.R. § 42.1 Mr.<br />Vasil and his report have never been subjected to the rigors of voire dire or direct<br />and cross examination. There has never been a meaningful opportunity to present<br />facts and documents which contradict the VA false narrative of the death of Gary<br />Holland.<br />8<br />The report concluded that since Mr. Roberts was not on duty one of the stressors he claimed in support of his claim for service connection for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which was the death of Gary Holland was fraudulent<br />Commander Robert D. Hathaway, USN, Retired, was one of the officers in charge of the Transient Line operation in Naples in February of 1969 as confirmed by his sworn affidavit dated April 12, 2019.<br />Mr. Roberts was on duty. Roberts did participate in the efforts to rescue Gary Holland when he was trapped and died due to the collapse of an aircraft front main landing gear. Commander Hathaway provides his direct and personal knowledge of the events of February 4, 1969. He also describes the events leading up to the fatal incident as well as the actions to deflect responsibility and cover up the true nature of the fatal incident. Commander Hathaway is a graduate of theU.S. Navy Safety Officer course and a highly qualified U.S. Navy aviator that flew both rotary and fixed wing aircraft.<br />The IG report provided the false narrative which formed the basis of the actions by the VA Regional Office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to sever the service connected disability and Chapter 35 benefits of Mr. Roberts based on fraud.<br />The Milwaukee Regional Office issued a Compensation and Pension examinquiry on October 5, 2004. This was a request for an examination to determine if Mr. Roberts had any mental illness related to military service, and to review his PTSD. It instructed the examiner to assume that Mr. Roberts was not present when Gary Holland was killed.<br />9<br />A report of examination was issued dated November 5, 2004. Bertrand Berger, Ph.D., was the author and Jon Lehrmann, M.D., was the cosigner. The report was based upon a records review only. The report may be based upon anactual review of the IG report which had been placed in the claims file. Mr.Roberts was not seen personally and was not contacted telephonically during the preparation of this C and P report. This is the only report during the period relevant to this request for vacature that did not diagnose Mr. Roberts with severe PTSD related to his military service. See the dissent of Judge Hagel in Roberts v.Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 416 (2010) (en banc). Chief Judge Greene, along with Judges Hagel and Schoelen made up the three judge panel in the first oral argument at the CAVC.<br />The IG report along with the flawed C and P report form the only basis for the severance now under review. These reports were not obtained by Mr. Roberts until after the Board had issued the 2005 decision which is the subject of this motion. They were first obtained in criminal discovery and then later in the Record on Appeal (ROA) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims(CAVC) in 05-2545, Roberts v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 416 (2010).<br />Mr. Roberts requested a complete copy of his benefits claims file. He also requested copies of the IG report and the C and P report that it spawned. Those requests were denied or delayed until after his criminal conviction.<br />During the adjudication of this case at the Board in 2005 the original benefits claims file was in the possession of the VA IG where it had been since<br />10<br />December 12, 2003. The Board was working from a grossly incomplete photocopy. The Record on Appeal (ROA) in 05-2545 (Roberts v. Shinseki) was supplemented three times under CAVC Rule 10. The copy of the benefits claims file first obtained by Mr. Roberts had over one thousand pages of documents missing. Some documents were incomplete. Two sided documents were only copied on one side. Some critical VA letters and decisions were totally missing from the file and had to be resubmitted by Mr. Roberts from the copies he had received in the mail when the letters or decisions were originally sent to him.<br />The Regional Office issued a proposal to sever on August 18, 2004. Ar ating decision severing service connection and Chapter 35 benefits was issued on November 16, 2004. That decision provided in pertinent part that:<br />“In your statement to Congressman Mark Green, received at our office on10/15/04, you noted, in essence, that the proposal to sever service connection for PTSD was a violation of VA regulations. You provided an excerpt from an unidentified BVA or CAVC decision, which referred to Suoz[z]i v. Brown, 10Vet.App. 307 (1997) (sic) stating that “an appellant only needs to offer independent evidence of a stressful event that is sufficient to imply his or her personal<br />exposure. " Your statement and the accompanying excerpt fail to provide any evidence of probative value regarding the proposal to sever service<br />connection based on fraud. While evidence need not completely verify that<br />11<br />a stressful event occurred, other evidence showing that the event did not occur cannot be ignored.<br />As the due process period on the proposal to sever service connection has expired, a final decision is being made.<br />38 CFR 3.9013 defines fraud as "An act committed when a person knowingly makes or causes to be made or conspires, combines, aids, or assists in, agrees to,arranges for, or in any way procures the making or presentation of a false or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, statement, voucher or paper,concerning any claim for benefits under any of the laws administered by the<br />Department of Veterans Affairs ( except laws related to insurance benefits)." '<br />Your testimony, given at VA Medical Centers and to the Special Agent of the Inspector General (OIG) Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General Office of Investigations is found to be fraudulent. As detailed in the Rating Decision dated 08/16/04, you provided testimony regarding the witnessing of the death of a''buddy'' during military service, and regarding your involvement in the rescue operations. The investigation conducted by the OIG provides evidence that your testimony was fraudulent. Although you were stationed at the same facility as the<br />3 38 C.F.R. § 3.901 and the related regulations §§ 3.900-3.905 are not for<br />application in this case. They are for forfeiture cases, and this is a severance case.<br />See 38 U.S.C. §§ 6103, 6104. Forfeiture may not be imposed on a U.S. citizen<br />residing in the United States or U.S. Territories. Because of the long arm<br />jurisdiction of the United States Federal Courts it may be concluded that forfeiture<br />of benefits can never be imposed on a U.S. citizen under these statutes and<br />regulations.<br />12<br />deceased airman, you are not found to have been present at the site or time of the accidental injury, nor are you found to have been involved in the rescue operations.<br />The diagnosis of PTSD was based on your testimony of witnessing the accident inquestion, and assisting in rescue operations, which is found to be fraudulent.” Rating decision at page 3.4<br />OIG agent Vasil testified before a federal grand jury on April 26, 2005, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He misstated the contents of the VA C and P report of November 5, 2004. He also misrepresented the statements and testimony of Mr.Roberts and several Navy witnesses in his testimony.<br />Keith A. Roberts was indicted on April 26, 2005, for mail fraud. Apparently the U.S. Postal Inspection Service took exception to this indictment. They were not involved in the investigation. It is important to note that only the VA OIG had any role in the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Roberts for fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and the Postal Inspection Service were never involved in this case contrary to the mandates of the then current U.S.Department of Justice manual.<br />A notice of disagreement was filed and a statement of the Case issued on February 23, 2005. VA form 9 was filed on March 9, 2005. A hearing was held in Washington, D.C. on June 13, 2005. Since Mr. Roberts had already been indicted he required leave of the federal district court to travel outside of Wisconsin.<br />4 As indicated above and in other pleadings, Mr. Roberts was never granted access<br />to the OIG, report, the C and P reports, or his claims file prior to the expiration of<br />the “due process period”.<br />13<br />In the August 25, 2005, decision the Board upheld the action of the Milwaukee Regional Office which severed the service connected disability benefits of Mr. Roberts based upon the fraudulent and adversarial conduct of employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration and Office of Inspector General.<br />The United States Attorney informed the Federal District Court and the criminal jury on numerous occasions that the VA decision regarding benefits fraud was final when there would not be a final agency decision for many years after<br />Mr. Roberts was convicted. See United States v. Roberts, U.S. District Court,Eastern District of Wisconsin, docket 05-CR-115; United States v. Roberts, 534F.3d 560 (7th Cir. July 7, 2008) (Cert. Denied 08-788, December 15, 2008).<br />Mr. Roberts was convicted of wire fraud in federal court and sentenced on March 2, 2007, to 48 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $ 355,000 in restitution.<br />On April 23, 2010, after holding the appeal hostage in chambers for over four years, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims issued a decision in the appeal of the August 25, 2005, Board decision. Roberts v. Shinseki, supra.<br />On December 18, 2018, the Board issued a decision granting an effective date of November 14, 1990, for mental disability.<br />On March 22, 2019, the Board issued an order affirming the decision which withheld benefits for the period of March 2, 2007, until March 18, 2010, due to<br />14<br />incarceration. Upon granting of this motion that Board decision will be rendered void abinitio.<br />On July 13, 2020, VA form 20-0995 was filed along with the affidavit of Commander Robert D. Hathaway alleging fraud and misconduct on the part of agency employees. See (Appx. Exh. 8, pp 113-224).<br />On March 2, 2022, Mr. Roberts filed form 20-0995 along with the affidavit of Commander Robert D. Hathaway which confirms that Mr. Roberts was present and participated in the effort to rescue Gary M. Holland on February 4, 1969, in Naples, Italy.<br />On June 2, 2022, a rating decision was issued which asserted that the Veterans Benefits Administration lacks jurisdiction to review the November 16,2004, rating decision which was based on fraudulent information because of the finality of the August 25, 2005, Board decision. This motion for vacature is in response to that position taken by the Veterans Benefits Administration.<br />Mr. Roberts was wrongfully incarcerated for 1,200 days for VA benefits fraud. He was denied due process in that, inter alia, his claims and appeals were adjudicated using a partial photocopy of his paper benefits claims file.5<br />In accordance with the remand ordered in Roberts v. Shinseki, 23 Vet.App.416 (2010), Mr. Roberts is now receiving TDIU effective December 9, 2018, based<br />5 As creator of the benefits claims file the Veterans Benefits Administration is the<br />custodian of that record under the Administrative Procedures Act. Rather than<br />provide the original documents a certified copy should have been provided to the<br />VA OIG. It is clearly evident that employees of the VA OIG removed hundreds of<br />pages from the record prior to the BVA hearing and decision.<br />15<br />on a 70 percent combined rating. He was granted benefits at the 30 percent levelfrom July 16, 1992 to December 9, 2018.<br />The debt created by the VA Debt Management Center seems to change on aweekly basis. A complete audit of the VA declared debt and offsets must beconducted.<br />Judge Greenberg recently provided some background on the history of the adjudication of veterans benefits claims in Thrasher v. McDonough, 22-0134. Itseems to be appropriate to repeat it here in the context of the adjudication of fraud allegations in disability cases. Judge Greenberg wrote:<br />“ The Veterans Administration was established in 1930 when Congress consolidated the Bureau of Pensions, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the U.S. Veterans' Bureau into one agency. Act of July 3, 1930, ch.863, 46 Stat. 1016. This Court was created with the enactment of the Veterans' Judicial Review Act (VJRA) in 1988. See Pub. L. No. 100-687, § 402, 102 Stat.4105, 4122 (1988). Before the VJRA, for nearly 60 years VA rules, regulations,<br />and decisions lived in "splendid isolation," generally unconstrained by judicial review. See Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115, 122 (1994) (Souter, J.).<br />Yet, the creation of a special court solely for veterans is consistent withcongressional intent as old as the Republic. Congress first sought judicialassistance in affording veterans relief when it adopted the Invalid Pensions Act of1792, which provided "for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans . . .and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions," for those injured during<br />the Revolutionary War. Act of Mar. 23, 1792, ch. 11, 1 U.S. Stat 243 (1792)(repealed in part and amended by Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17, 1 Stat. 324 (1793)).The act, though magnanimous, curtailed the power of the judiciary, by providingthe Secretary of War the ability to withhold favorable determinations to claimantsby circuit courts if the Secretary believed that the circuit court had erred in favor ofthe soldier based on "suspected imposition or mistake." See id.<br />16<br />Chief Justice John Jay62 wrote a letter73 to President George Washington onbehalf of the Circuit Court for the District of New York84 acknowledging that "theobjects of this act are exceedingly benevolent, and do real honor to the humanity and justice of Congress." See Hayburn's Case, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 409, 410 n., 1 L.Ed. 436 (1792). Jay also noted that "judges desire to manifest, on all proper occasions and in every proper manner their high respect for the national legislature." Id.<br />6 2 John Jay served as the first Secretary of State of the United States on an interim<br />basis. II DAVID G. SAVAGE, GUIDE TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT 872<br />(4th ed. 2004). Although a large contributor to early U.S. foreign policy,<br />Jay turned down the opportunity to assume this position full time. Id. at 872, 916.<br />Instead, he accepted a nomination from President Washington to become the first<br />Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the day the position was created by the<br />Judiciary Act of 1789. Id. Jay resigned his position in 1795 to become the second<br />Governor of New York. Id. He was nominated to become Chief Justice of the<br />Supreme Court again in December 1800, but he declined the appointment.<br />73 The Supreme Court never decided Hayburn's Case. See 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 409,<br />409 (1792). The case was held over under advisement until the Court's next<br />session and Congress adopted the Invalid Pensions Act of 1793, which required the<br />Secretary of War, in conjunction with the Attorney General, to "take such measures<br />as may be necessary to obtain an adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United<br />States." Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17, 1 Stat. 324 (1793). Hayburn's Case has often<br />been cited as an example of judicial restraint, see, e.g., Tutun v. United States, 270<br />U.S. 568 (1926), but Supreme Court historian Maeva Marcus has argued<br />persuasively to the contrary. See Maeva Marcus & Robert Teir, Hayburn's Case: A<br />Misinterpretation of Precedent, 1988 WIS. L. REV. 527. After all, Jay's letter<br />included by Dallas, the Court Reporter, in a note accompanying the decision to<br />hold the matter under advisement, is nothing more than an advisory opinion that<br />compelled Congress to change the law in order to make the judiciary the final<br />voice on the review of a Revolutionary War veteran's right to pension benefits. See<br />Hayburn's Case, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 409, 410 n.<br />8 4 At this time, each Justice of the Supreme Court also served on circuit courts, a<br />practice known as circuit riding. See RICHARD H. FALLON, JR., ET AL., HART<br />AND WECHSLER'S THE FEDERAL COURTS AND THE FEDERAL<br />SYSTEM (7th ed. 2015).<br />17<br />This desire to effect congressional intent favorable to veterans has echoed throughout the Supreme Court's decisions on matters that emanated from our Court. See Shinseki v. Sanders, 556 U.S. 396, 416, 129 S. Ct. 1696, 1709 (2009) (Souter, J., dissenting) ("Given Congress's understandable decision to place thumb on the scale in the veteran's favor in the course of administrative and judicial review of VA decisions"); see also Henderson v. Shinseki, 562 U.S.<br />428, 440, 131 S. Ct. 1197, 1205 (2011) (declaring that congressional solicitude for veterans is plainly reflected in "the singular characteristics of the review scheme that Congress created for the adjudication of veterans' benefits claims," and emphasizing that the provision "was enacted as part of the VJRA [because] that legislation was decidedly favorable to the veteran"). In the words of Justice Paterson, "[j]udges may die, and courts be at an end; but justice still lives, and,though she may sleep for a while, will eventually awake, and must be satisfied."Penhallow v. Doane's Adm'r, 3 U.S. 54, 79 (1795).<br />Justice Alito59 observed in Henderson v. Shinseki that our Court's scope of review is "similar to that of an Article III court reviewing agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706." 562 U.S. at 432 n.2 (2011); see 38U.S.C. § 7261. "The Court may hear cases by judges sitting alone or in panels, as determined pursuant to procedures established by the Court." 38 U.S.C. § 7254.The statutory command that a single judge 610 may issue a binding decision is"unambiguous, unequivocal, and unlimited," see Conroy v. Aniskoff, 507 U.S. 511,514 (1993). The Court's practice of treating panel decisions as "precedential" is unnecessary, particularly since the Court's adoption of class action litigation. See Wolfe v. Wilkie, 32 Vet.App. 1 (2019) (order), rev'd sub nom. Wolfe v.<br />9 5 Justice Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey. SUPREME COURT OF THE<br />UNITED STATES, https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx (last<br />visited Mar. 4, 2020). He began his career as a law clerk, then became assistant<br />U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey before assuming multiple positions at<br />the Department of Justice. Id. He then became a U.S. attorney for the district of<br />New Jersey. Id. Before his nomination for the Supreme Court, he spent 16 years<br />as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Id. In 2005,<br />President George W. Bush chose Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice<br />Sandra Day O'Connor. Id.<br />10 6 From 1989 to 1993, West (the publisher of this Court's decisions) published<br />this Court's single-judge decisions in tables in hard-bound volumes of West's<br />Veterans Appeals Reporter. Since 1993, West has published this<br />Court's single-judge decisions electronically only. I believe the Court should<br />publish all its decisions in print form. See, e.g., Passaic Cty. Bar Ass'n v. Hughes,<br />401 U.S. 1003 (1971).<br />18<br />McDonough, 28 F.4th 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2022). We cite these decisions from our Court merely for their guidance and persuasive value.”<br />What is sadly remarkable is that the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (the Court) has been in operation during most of the period in which this systemic abuse of authority and circumvention of the due process procedures mandated by Congress has been conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. While not fully briefed before the en banc Court in Roberts v. Shinseki,Id., the dissent of Judges Hagel and Schoelen makes it clear that the real issue in this case was reasonably raised in the record. Sadly the Court chose to make policy rather than follow the law. In the intervening years this VA administrative reign of terror has continued. The recent death of Justin Perez-Gorda in federal pre-trial detention while falsely accused of veterans benefits fraud only serves tocast an even more unfavorable light on the actions of the Board and Court in thiscase.<br />B.Argument and authorities.<br />Free Standing Constitutional Claims.<br />The Supreme Court has strongly implied that certain due process protections are applicable to the adjudicative administrative proceedings associated with social security disability claim hearings. Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389, 401-02(1971). VA benefits proceedings involve similar interests. Walters v. Nat’l Ass’nof Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 333 ( 1985); 38 U.S.C. § 1110.<br />19<br />Mr. Roberts was denied a full and fair hearing regarding the benefits fraud allegations. He was deprived of his liberty (incarceration) and property (benefits)without due process of law. Veteran’s disability benefits are nondiscretionary,statutorily mandated benefits and Mr. Roberts is entitled to procedural due process. See Cook v. Principi, 318 F.3d 1334, 1350,1352 (Fed. Cir. 2002); Cushman v.Shinseki, 576 F.3d 1290 ( Fed . Cir. 2009); and In re R. Greg Bailey, 182 F.3d860, 869-70 (Fed. Cir. 1999), 38 U.S.C. § 7292 ( d ) (1), id.<br />He was clearly denied procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Cf. Pierre v. West, 211 F.3d 1363, 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2000).<br />The ultra vires fraud adjudications being conducted by the Secretary are express and direct violations of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment and the right to notice and an opportunity to challenge evidence and charges under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. See Turner v. United States,396 U.S. 398 (1970) (notice), and Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56 (1980); Crawfordv. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) (confrontation).<br />In evaluating due process claims, an inquiry must be made as to whether the practice “offends some principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.” Snyder v.Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97, 105, 54 S.Ct. 330, 332, 78 L.Ed. 674 (1934). Asstated by Justice Frankfurter, due process:<br />20<br />embodies a system of rights based on moral principles so deeply imbedded in the traditions and feelings of our people as to be deemed fundamental to a civilized society as conceived by our whole history.Due process is that which comports with the deepest notions of what is fair and right and just.<br />Solesbee v. Balkcom, 339 U.S. 9, 16, 70 S. Ct. 457, 461, 94 L. Ed. 604 (1950).<br />The Secretary has Failed to Comply with the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986.<br />The VA has failed to comply with the PFCRA and 38 C.F.R. § 3.103<br />procedural due process and appellant rights, enacted to ensure due process and uniformity in benefits fraud cases. Mr. Roberts never received adequate notice ora fair opportunity to review and challenge the allegations and evidence against him. The VARO, BVA, and CAVC elevated an incomplete and misleading VAOIG report to the status of unassailable fact. Mr. Roberts was presumed guilty bythe VA OIG and then denied a fair hearing. The trial judge and U.S. Attorney distorted the law of veterans benefits such that even after the favorable testimony by VA employee Barbra Nehls the jury returned a guilty verdict.<br />The Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986.<br />The CAVC en banc opinion in Roberts, supra, gives a cursory nod to the controlling law, the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986 (PFCRA), 31U.S.C. §§ 3801-3812 and 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47 (1988). Roberts Id., at 424.<br />Congress said the PFCRA was “(2) to provide due process protections to all persons who are subject to the administrative adjudication of false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims or statements.” PL 99-509 (HR 5300) October 21, 1986.<br />21<br />The Social Security Benefits Fraud Program.<br />The PFCRA regulations for the VA and Social Security Administration(SSA) are almost identical. See 45 C.F.R. 79.1-79.47, April 8, 1988. The SSA has a vigorous fraud program. In 2008 SSA received 121,020 fraud allegations, 9,468cases were opened, 10,068 were closed, and 1,555 arrests were made. Information or Indictments totaled 1,225. Of 2006 criminal prosecutions, 320 resulted in pre-trial diversions, and 1,686 were sentenced. There were 432 civil cases.<br />The VA has failed to adopt a Title 38 equivalent of 42 U.S.C. §§ 408 ( a)(1)-(8), the felony fraud provisions for Title II (Social Security benefits). See United States v. Kienenberger, 168 F.3d 496 (8th Cir. 1998). Or of 42 U.S.C. §§1383a ( a )(1)-(4), for Title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged,Blind and Disabled). See United States v. Vaughn, 797 F2.d 1485, 1490 (9th Cir.1986) (propensity to influence agency action). See United States Attorney Bulletin,Vol. 52, No. 6, November 2004.<br />The VA responded to a Freedom of Information Act request regarding fiscal years 2004-2008. The VA OIG conducted 2,523 benefits fraud investigations,with 589 convictions while the VA OGC opened no files concerning benefits fraud. (Appx. Exh. 2, pp 004-5).<br />The review by the CAVC of the VA fraud adjudication process in this caseis pointless. The application of 38 C.F.R. § § 3.103, 3.105(d), and 3.957 insevering the benefits of Mr. Roberts was contrary to law. Since the PFCRAbecame law the only valid application of 38 C.F.R. § 3.105(d) in a VA benefits<br />22<br />fraud case is to implement the decision of the ALJ or District Court if it is appealed.<br />For over twenty years the VA has conducted illegal benefits fraud adjudications. The present procedure places VA OIG reports beyond meaningful review, and uses a constitutionally impermissible presumption of guilt. This “Gyro Gearloose” concoction has resulted in this wrongful termination of VA benefits and incarceration of Mr. Roberts and the death of Mr. Perez-Gorda, another innocent veteran.<br />The Board stated: “Moreover, a definition of fraud as applied to § 3.957 is specifically provided in the VA regulations. There is no indication from the regulations or elsewhere that the determination of fraud is somehow beyond the province of VA adjudicators.” In fact VA has yet to promulgate a final fraud definition and does not have a statute in title 38 to address benefits fraud properly. Nowhere except the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986.<br />The Secretary May Not “Opt Out” of the PFCRA.<br />The refusal of the VA to follow the PFCRA is inexplicable. The language in the regulations which were promulgated to implement the PFCRA are unambiguous. See 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47. There is no basis for deference under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837,844, 104 S. Ct. 2778, 2782 (1984). The Secretary has abused his discretion, as did the CAVC in failing to intervene. In Gallegos v. Principi, 283 F.3d 1309 (Fed.<br />23<br />Cir. 2002), the Federal Circuit quoted United States v. Mead Corp., 533 U.S. 218,121 S. Ct. 2164, 2171 (2001):<br />“The Supreme Court chose to emphasize that Chevron deference applies unless the statute speaks ‘directly’ “to the precise question.” Under Chevron deference, “any ensuing agency regulation is binding in the Courts unless procedurally defective, arbitrary or capricious in substance, or manifestly contrary to the statute.” Id. at2171.<br />The PFCRA, 31 U.S.C. § 3801, defines relevant terms as follows:<br />“(3) “claim” means any request, demand, or submission -<br />(A) made to an authority for * * *( money representing * **benefits);<br />* * *<br />(4) “investigating official” * * * is the Inspector General of that authority * **;<br />(7) “presiding officer” means -<br />(A) * * *subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5 apply, an administrative law judge appointed in the authority pursuant to section3105 of such title or detailed to the authority pursuant to section 3344of such title; * * *<br />(8) “reviewing official” means * * * -<br />(A) who is designated by the authority head to make the determination required under section 3803(a)(2) of this title;<br />* * * basic pay is not less than * * *grade GS-16 under the General Schedule;”<br />38 C.F.R. § 42.1 Basis and purpose.<br />(a) Basis. This part implements the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, * * * (October 21, 1986), to be codified at 31U.S.C. 3801-3812. * * *<br />24<br />38 C.F.R. § 42.2 Definitions.<br />* * *<br />ALJ means an Administrative Law Judge in the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3105 or detailed * * * pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3344.<br />Benefit means, * * *anything of value * * *<br />Claim means any request, demand, or submission --<br />(a) Made to the Department of Veterans Affairs for * * *( money representing grants, loans, insurance, or benefits);<br />* * *<br />Investigating official means the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs or an officer or employee * * * not less than * **grade GS-16 under the General Schedule.<br />* * * Reviewing official means the General Counsel of the Department of VeteransAffairs or designee<br />* * *<br />38 C.F.R. § 42.5 Review by the reviewing official.<br />(a) The report of the investigating official will be examined by the reviewing official to determine if there is adequate evidence to believe a person is liable under § 42.3 of this part * * *<br />(b) If * * * the reviewing official determines that there is adequate evidence to believe that a person is liable under § 42.3 of this part, the reviewing official shall transmit to the Attorney General a written notice of the reviewing official's intention to issue a complaint under §42.7 of this part.<br />(c) The notice shall include–<br />* * *<br />(1) A statement of the reviewing official's reasons for issuing acomplaint;<br />(2) A statement specifying the evidence that supports the allegations of liability;<br />* * *<br />25<br />(4) An estimate of the amount of money or the value of * * *services,or other benefits requested or demanded in violation of § 42.3 of this part;<br />* * *<br />(d) If the reviewing official finds that there is not adequate evidence that a person is liable, the reviewing official will inform the department or office of the Department of Veterans Affairs concerned with the claim or statement and the investigating official.<br />* * *<br />38 C.F.R. § 42.6 Prerequisites for issuing a complaint.<br />(a) The reviewing official may issue a complaint under § 42.7 of this part only if–<br />* * *<br />(2) In the case of allegations of liability under § 42.3 of this part with respect to a claim, the reviewing official determines that, with respect to the claim or a group of related claims submitted at the same time such claim is submitted (as defined in paragraph<br />(b) of this section), the amount of money or the value of property or services, or both, demanded or requested in violation of § 42.3(a) [of]sic this part does not exceed<br />$ 150,000. 11<br />(b) For the purposes of this section, a related group of claims submitted at the same time shall include only those claims arising from the same transaction (e.g., grant, loan, application, or contract)that are submitted simultaneously as part of a single request, demand,or submission.<br />(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the reviewing official's authority to join in a single complaint against a person's claims that are unrelated or were not submitted simultaneously,regardless of the amount of money, or the value of property or services, demanded or requested. (Emphasis added).<br />* * *<br />Duncan v. Walker, 533 U.S. 167 (2001) at 174 where the Court indicated<br />that it is “reluctant to treat statutory terms as surplusage in any setting”<br />11 $150,000 in 1986 adjusts to $258,531 in 2004 and $ 416, 232.21 today using the<br />CPI inflation calculator of the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor<br />Statistics. See Orfanos v. HHS, 896 F. Supp. 23 (D.D.C. 1995) where<br />$ 196,800.00 in damages was affirmed by the District Court.<br />26<br />The Secretary must follow the PFCRA in this case. Low level employees conducted the fraud investigation, and no general counsel review occurred.<br />Mr. Roberts was not given a copy of the VA OIG report, not informed of the specific allegations against him, and could not respond in front of a neutral finder of fact.<br />The Federal Circuit Court discussed agency interpretation of regulations in American Signature Inc., v. United States, 598 F.3d 816 (Fed. Cir. 2010):<br />“ In general, “[t]he agency’s construction of its own regulation is ‘of controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.’” Reizenstein v. Shinseki, 583 F.3d 1331, 1335(Fed. Cir. 2009) (citing Cathedral Candle Co. v. U.S. Int'l TradeComm'n, 400 F.3d 1352, 1364 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (quoting Bowles v.Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410, 414 (1945); Christensenv. Harris County, 529 U.S. 576, 588 (2000); Auer v. Robbins, 519U.S. 452, 461 (1997); Gose v. United States Postal Serv., 451 F.3d831, 836 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (“As a general rule, we must defer to an agency's interpretations of the regulations it promulgates, as long asthe regulation is ambiguous and the agency's interpretation is neither plainly erroneous nor inconsistent with the regulation.” (citing Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243, 126 S.Ct. 904, 163 L.Ed. 748(2006))”<br />See Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115 ; 115 S. Ct. 552, 555 (1994) (citing King v. St. Vincent's Hospital, 502 U.S. 215, 220-21, n. 9, 116 L. Ed. 2d 578,112 S. Ct. 570 (1991)) (“interpretive doubt is to be resolved in the veteran's favor”).<br />27<br />The $ 150,000.00 Limit.<br />The CAVC ruled that the $ 150,000.00 limit set forth in the PFCRA and VAregulations denies Mr. Roberts the due process of the Act. “However, under § 42of the implementing regulation, no allegations of liability may be referred to anALJ if the false claims or false statements resulted in a monetary gain of more than<br />$ 150,000.00. 38 C.F.R. § 42.6( a )(2) (2009); see also 31 U.S.C. § 3803( c )(1). Because Mr. Roberts was paid over $ 320,000.0012 in VA benefits as a result of his fraudulent statements, United States v. Roberts, 534 F.3d 560, 563 (7th Cir. 2008)the Board did not err by making its fraud determination without first referring the issue to an ALJ.” Roberts, Id. at 424.<br />But accord paragraph ( c ) of 38 C.F.R. § 42.6, prerequisites for issuing acomplaint, supra.<br />The Court follows the VA circular reasoning.<br />First, the Board decision was prior to trial. The criminal restitution amount was determined on March 2, 2007. Damages in a benefits fraud case is the exclusive province of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Damages (if any) shall be<br />12 Estimate taken from the indictment. The restitution ordered was $ 262,943.52.<br />Roberts was indicted and convicted on wire fraud such that the prosecution never<br />had to prove the falsity of his statements in court. VA took away the benefits, he<br />accepted the electronic fund transfers for years. End of story. Using this litigation<br />approach virtually any recipient of a federal benefit can be easily convicted as<br />almost all federal benefits are paid electronically. Which is why the Social<br />Security Administration charges and proves the actual misrepresentation related to<br />a disability rather than charging wire or mail fraud.<br />28<br />calculated to a sum certain. And the process for that is the adjudication of the case under the 42.1 scheme.<br />Second, the District Court proceeded with the wire fraud trial because theVA OIG and the U.S. Attorney presented the VA benefits determination as finalwhen they knew or should have known that the CAVC appeal was pending. Usingwire fraud, the acceptance of the monthly benefits payments, allows thegovernment to evade the necessity of actually proving any fraudulent statement orconduct on the part of a veteran or family member. There was no charge underTitle 18 U.S.C. § 1001. This same tactic was used to wrongfully accuse andconvict the widow of catastrophically combat disabled veteran Justin S. Perez-Gorda.<br />Third, the restitution calculated by the District Court contains criminal finesand costs extrinsic to the VA total.<br />Fourth, restitution is to be calculated by the VA General Counsel or the ALJunder the PFCRA.13 The CAVC may not serve as fact finder.<br />Mr. Roberts was denied any semblance of meaningful due process. He was not afforded an opportunity to present proofs on damages. The VA Debt Center was sending out modified damage calculations for years after Roberts wasconvicted. There has never been an accurate statement of the monetary damages in<br />13 March 2, 2007, Ms. Barbra Nehls, VARO, Milwaukee, testified at sentencing<br />that Roberts was entitled to a pension offset which VBA had failed to calculate.<br />The government (Assistant U.S. Attorney) sought over $ 1,000,000.00 using a<br />continuing conspiracy theory and a life time estimate. No PFCRA damages<br />determination exists.<br />29<br />the Roberts case. Because they were not charged or convicted as co conspiratorsmembers of the Roberts family were entitled to the benefits they received underChapter 35 or CHAMPVA. The VA OIG and the VA Debt Center actually clawedback payments from at least one private medical care provider rather than transferthe amount of the payment to the debt being allocated to Mr. Roberts. That is theprocedure mandated by VA statute and regulation. But no administrative proofswere taken as to damages and so the Secretary has yet to set forth a lawful figurefor monetary damages to the government in this case. Using the “cart beforehorse” logic of the General Counsel and Inspector General (we accused you ofstealing $ 1,000.000.00, so that is the amount, and we will not need to take proofson the issue) the Roberts Court found that the 42.1 hearing was not warranted andthat the Secretary had not committed error or denied Roberts due process of law.<br />The initial determination of damages is by the VA General Counsel asreviewing official. The Court found a bar to application of the Act prior to issuinga complaint when only the VA OIG and VA OGC are involved. After a complaintthe ALJ determines damages.<br />The $150,000.00 amount is not jurisdictional. See Orfanos v. HHS, 896 F.Supp. 23 (D.D.C. 1995) where $ 196,800.00 in restitution was affirmed by theDistrict Court.<br />In his dissent in the en banc Roberts decision Judge Hagel reviewed VAfraud procedures: “The majority and VA would deny Mr. Roberts, who, by allaccounts, served his country honorably, fair process in the pursuit of the severance<br />30<br />of his VA disability benefits. In essence, the majority today erects a total bar tobenefits, not just for Mr. Roberts, but for any veteran who commits an act of fraudin the pursuit of his benefits. This position ignores the statutory and regulatoryscheme created by Congress to deal with acts of fraud in obtaining or retaining VAbenefits. . . . In dealing with acts of fraud committed by veterans domiciled in theUnited States, however, Congress has elected to use the tools of criminalprosecution and the imposition of civil penalties under the Fraud Civil RemediesAct rather than forfeiture. See 31 U.S.C. §§ 3801- 3812; Trilles v. West, 13 Vet.App. 314, 321-22 (2000) (en banc) (discussing the difference betweenadministrative forfeiture for fraud for claimants who are residents or domiciliariesof localities outside the United States under 38 U.S.C. § 6103 and criminalprosecution for fraud for claimants who reside or are domiciled within the UnitedStates); 38 C.F.R. Part 42.” Roberts, Id. at 449-450.<br />It is a well-settled principle of statutory interpretation that one must firstlook to the literal language of a statute prior to resorting to secondary sources todetermine legislative intent, and, if the statutory terms are plain and do not lead toabsurd or impracticable consequences, then the literal language of the statute is thesole evidence of the ultimate legislative intent. Caminetti v. United States, 242U.S. 470, 485, 490 (1917); see also West Virginia Univ. Hosps., Inc. v. Casey, 499 U.S. 83, 98-99 (1991); 2A Norman J. Singer, Sutherland StatutoryConstruction 46.01-.04 (5th ed. 1992) (plain-meaning rule). See Lamar v. UnitedStates, 241 U.S. 103 (1916) (113) plain meaning in dictionaries applicable.<br />31<br />The Supreme Court has held that if the legislative purpose of a statute isexpressed in plain and unambiguous language, it is the duty of the courts to giveeffect according to its terms unless that interpretation would reach absurd results orconsequences obviously at variance with the policy of the statute. United States v.Rutherford, 442 U.S. 544, 551-52 (1979).<br />It is well settled that where ambiguity exists or where literal interpretationwould work unreasonable results, resort may be had to the legislative history toascertain congressional intent. United States v. Public Utilities Commission ofCalifornia, 345 U.S. 295, 315 (1953). The Secretary does not point to anyambiguity in the PFCRA.<br />For over 20 years the VA has denied veterans accused of benefits fraudaccess to the due process protections Congress established an d mandated. Thereappear to be only two reported cases concerning the PFCRA and Title 38. Ellis v.Dep’t of Veterans’ Affairs, No. CV-05-257-RHW, 2006 WL 224041 (E. D. Wash.01/27/2006), in which a veteran plaintiff attempted to use the PFCRA as a privatecause of action, and this case. Non-compliance resulted in no appeals, hence nocases to review.<br />The fraud allegations against Mr. Roberts have never been subjected to fairchallenge or review under the PFCRA. This case has not been afforded judicial reviewed since Kisor v. Wilkie 588 U.S. ____ June 29, 2019.<br />32<br />VBA Employees Cannot Adjudicate Benefits Fraud Allegations.<br />The VA claims adjudication process is intended to be ex parte, claimant<br />friendly and non-adversarial. Hodge v. West, 155 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 1998).<br />See Littlejohn v. United States, 321 F.3d 915 (9th Cir. 2003), where aveteran was denied summary judgment in District Court after a VA grant ofbenefits under 38 U.S.C.§ 1151. First the administrative allegation of fraud mustbe fully and fairly adjudicated. If not resolved in favor of the accused then theSecretary must determine what action should be taken. The Social SecurityAdministration rarely pursues criminal charges in their cases. The Secretary ofVeterans Affairs fails to adjudicate the benefits fraud allegation, and then almostalways seeks criminal charges.<br />Fraud is quasi criminal in nature. An allegation of fraud is adversarial. Once an allegation of fraud has been made the PFCRA must be followed. Employees of the VBA may not conduct fraud adjudications. See (App. Exh. 9, pp225-281), for an excellent discussion of the quasi criminal nature of anadministrative fraud allegation.<br />On November 14, 2004, Mr. Roberts wrote to then Secretary of VeteransAffairs Principi. He reviewed the facts of his case and indicated that his right ofdue process had been violated. He clearly indicated that his Navy psychiatrichospital stay was an additional stressor for the PTSD claim. He argued then, andmaintains now that he has a firm diagnosis of PTSD, and that he has at least three<br />33<br />stressors. So, his logic goes, if I need one, and you attack one and remove it, then Istill have two others and am still qualified for the PTSD disability benefit.<br />That certainly amounts to clearer logic than the post hoc Star-chamber14 inquisitionprocess used by the Secretary in this and thousands of other cases. Mr. Robertsblew the whistle on the shredding in the mail room at VARO Milwaukee. Director Jon Baker used the VA OIG as his private enforcer to silence Roberts and send himto prison.<br />On November 29, 2004, a VARO FOIA officer advised Roberts that his filewas with the OIG in Hines, Illinois, and he must obtain the report of investigationthere.<br />Mr. Wilkerson, the American Legion Service Officer, sent a memo to theService Center Manager, VARO, Milwaukee, on December 13, 2004. Herequested that benefits be reinstated, and that the VA OIG report be provided as theU.S. Attorney was involved.<br />Renee Szybala responded to the November 22, 2004, letter on January 4,2005, and called it a valid Notice of Disagreement.<br />14 Star-chamber. A court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the<br />ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs,<br />combination of maintenance, or overawing influence that no inferior court would<br />find its process obeyed. The court consisted of the privy council, the common-law<br />judges, and (it seems) all peers of parliament. In the reign of Henry VIII and his<br />successors, the jurisdiction of he court was illegally extended to such a degree<br />(especially in punishing disobedience to the king’s arbitrary proclamations) that it<br />became odious to the nation, and was abolished. Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth<br />Ed. 1990, pg 1406.<br />34<br />Thursday, January 27, 2005, a series of VA email messages were exchanged. At 11:41 a.m., Debi Bevins, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs,inquires “Have we heard any news on the prosecution of Keith Roberts?”<br />At 1:54 p.m., Mr. Vasil says Roberts had telephoned his supervisor: “. . .Roberts informed him that just knowing about an accident should be enough to getPTSD; It is not required that you be present.15 I think that is most likely false. . . .Because Roberts is litigious, he (AUSA) also wants it not to appear we are<br />railroading him with only partial information. . . .Roberts has called theAUSA and has demanded our report, which of course he did not release.”<br />Renee Szybala, a licensed attorney serving as the Director, Compensationand Pension Service, responded at 2:28 p.m. She indicated that Roberts’ letter wasa valid notice of disagreement regarding the fraud charges. She informed JonBaker, Director, VARO Milwaukee, of the December 1969, assault andhospitalization. “In the interest of full disclosure, I also have a letter on this casefrom the American Legion, dated October 15, 2004, to which I have not yetresponded. The fraud for which Mr. Roberts’ service connection was severed wasuncovered, investigated and reported by the VA OIG. To respond to the Legion’sletter, we need to confer with the OIG and have had trouble connecting. When wedo, we’ll ask them the question about prosecution, too. My guess is, however, that<br />15 Suozzi v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 307 (CAVC 1997).<br />35<br />this case would not interest a U.S. Attorney. Those offices have monetary andother thresholds that a case like this likely doesn’t meet.” 16<br />On April 26, 2005, Mr. Vasil provided the only testimony to the FederalGrand Jury. (The prosecution was predicated on the finality of the VA benefitsseverance). Mr. Vasil made a number of material misrepresentations to the GrandJury. He failed to indicate that Dr. Harms referred Roberts to Dr. Kliese, whobased his diagnosis on the December, 1969 Navy psychiatric hospitalization, notthe Holland death. The portion of the military records Mr. Vasil included in hisreport document that stressful event. When examined by Dr. Hastings of the VAMr. Roberts reported the aircraft accident along with the December 1969,psychiatric hospitalization. See the Hastings report.<br />In his dissent in Cook v. Principi, 318 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2002), JudgeGajarsa discussed due process and said that “Because breaches in these casescannot merely be overlooked, I turn to the central constitutional inquiry: whatprocess was due in light of “the practicalities and particularities of the case” Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306, 314 (1950). Indetermining what process is due, the court must employ a flexible balancing testthat takes into account the particular facts and circumstances, as the need forprocedural safeguards varies with the situation: “due process, unlike some legal<br />16 A properly run U.S. Attorney’s Office may have turned away the Roberts’ case.<br />But Mr. Biskupic was working to gain favor with the executive branch to extricate<br />himself from the Karl Rove “hit list”. See United States v. Georgia Thompson,<br />484 F.3d 877 (7th Cir. 2007), another politically motivated prosecution.<br />36<br />rules, is not a technical conception with a fixed content unrelated to time, place andcircumstances.” Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886, 895 (1961). “Dueprocess is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particularsituation demands.” Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 481 (1972).” Cook,Supra, at 1354.<br />Mr. Roberts has raised a constitutional claim which meets the requirementsset forth in Cook, supra., based on the “particularities and peculiarities of thecase”. Accord Cushman v. Shinseki, 576 F.3d 1290 ( Fed . Cir. 2009).<br />See Vitarelli v. Seaton, 359 U.S. 535, 545 (1959). The Supreme Court haslong recognized that a federal agency is obliged to abide by the regulations itpromulgates. See also Service v. Dulles, 354 U.S. 363, 372 (1957); Accardi v.Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260, 267 (1954); and See Brown v. Gardner, supra, citing King v. St. Vincent's Hospital, Id.<br />Mr. Justice Jackson in his dissent in Federal Crop Insurance Corp. v.Merrill et al, 332 U.S. 380; 68 S. Ct. 1 (1947), could have been writing of this casewhen he observed:<br />“ It is very well to say that those who deal with the Government should turn squarecorners. But there is no reason why the square corners should constitute a one waystreet.”<br />The deprivation of liberty and financial loss suffered by Mr. Roberts due tothe conduct of the Secretary is a Constitutionally impermissible denial of benefitsunder the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. See Mathews v. Eldridge,<br />37<br />424 U.S. 319, 332, 96 S. Ct. 893, 47 L. Ed. 2d 18 (1976): “The interest of anindividual in continued receipt of [Social Security disability] benefits is astatutorily created property interest protected by the Fifth Amendment.” (Citationsomitted); Atkins v. Parker, 472 U.S. 115, 128 (1985). Mr. Roberts deserves hisCongressionally mandated due process.<br />The Agency Office of General Counsel Failed to Meet TheirObligations to the Appellant as the Reviewing Official under 31U.S.C. §§ 3801-3812, 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47 and § 14.561.<br />As reviewing officials attorneys of the VA Office of General Counsel haveexpress obligations to veterans and other beneficiaries accused of benefits fraud.<br />38 C.F.R. § 14.561 Administrative action prior to submission.<br />Before a submission is made to the U.S. Attorney in cases involvingpersonnel or claims, the General Counsel, if the file is in CentralOffice, or the Regional Counsel at the regional office, hospital orcenter, if the file is in the regional office or other field facility, willfirst ascertain that necessary administrative or adjudicatory (forfeiture(see Pub. L. 86-222; 73 Stat. 452), etc.), action has been taken; exceptthat in urgent cases such as breaches of the peace, disorderly conduct,trespass, robbery, or where the evidence may be lost by delay, orprosecution barred by the statute of limitations, submission to the U.S.Attorney will be made immediately.<br />In the Appellee’s response to the Appellant’s supplemental brief prior to theen banc Roberts oral argument the Secretary adopted the position that the VAOGC has no role to play in VA benefits fraud cases.<br />(Supp. Br. of Appellee 4-6).<br />The obligation of the VA OGC to refer all fraud allegations to the OIG forinvestigation does not conflict with the PFCRA. It has no bearing on theobligation of the VA OGC to conduct a review of benefits fraud investigations.<br />38<br />The Secretary maintains that the word “claims” in 38 C.F.R. § 14.561 refersto contractor claims. The VBA has a backlog of over 1 million benefits claims. They probably adjudicate several hundred contractor claims a year. When §14.561 is read in the context of the PFCRA benefits claims disputes receive specialreview. Benefits fraud allegations must be processed under the PFCRA. Even if adecision is made to expedite the referral of a benefits fraud case to the DOJ, it mustbe made by a VA reviewing officer. The failure of the VA OGC to provideoversight of OIG regarding benefits fraud since 1988 is inexplicable. And nowthat failure has had catastrophic consequences as it has resulted in the death ofJustin S. Perez-Gorda and the wrongful incarceration of his widow.<br />Whether an agency's interpretation of its regulations announced for the firsttime in a brief is entitled to deference has generated considerable authority both inthe Supreme Court and in the Federal Circuit Court. See Auer, 519 U.S. at 462-63;Reizenstein, 583 F.3d at 1335; Abbott Labs. v. United States, 573 F.3d 1327,1332-33 (Fed. Cir. 2009); Caribbean Ispat Ltd. v. United States, 450 F.3d 1336,1340 (Fed. Cir. 2006). Where the agency's interpretation seeks to advance itslitigating position, deference is typically not afforded to the agency's positionannounced in a brief. See Bowen v. Georgetown Univ. Hosp., 488 U.S. 204, 213(1988). See Lamar v. United States, 241 U.S. 103 (1916) (113) plain meaning in<br />dictionaries is adequate. Accord Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470, 485,490 (1917). See also 2A Norman J. Singer, Sutherland Statutory Construction46.01-.04 (5th ed. 1992) (plain-meaning rule), discussed supra.<br />39<br />The PFCRA and 38 C.F.R. § 42.1 et seq define an essential role for VAGeneral Counsel in benefits fraud cases.<br />An agency interpretation that eviscerates regulatory language is per seinconsistent with the regulation and may be accorded no deference.<br />A hearing was held in the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee onOversight and Investigations to review the VA Office of General Counsel on June30, 2010.In his testimony Matthew B. Tully, Esquire, pointed out that governmentattorneys are held to a higher standard of ethics than those in private practice. Agovernment attorney must look at the broad public interest, not just a narrowlitigation position. Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935); Bulloch v.United States, 763 F.2d 1115, 1125 (10th Cir. 1985) in which Judge McKay notedin his dissent that concealment of information by the government during discoverywas “made even more egregious” by the government lawyers responsibility to seekjustice and to develop a full and fair record.<br />Mr. Roberts was wrongfully incarcerated. Government attorneys withheldboth the allegations against him as well as exculpatory Navy evidence,misrepresented the finality of this VA appeal, and failed to provide a completerecord in this case and in the criminal prosecution.<br />40<br />Withholding of Information.<br />The VA refused to disclose the VA OIG report of investigation to Mr.Roberts or the American Legion prior to the 2005 Board decision.<br />There were over 400 photographs taken of the Holland incident and re-enactment. Roberts appears in some of those photographs. The government refused to produce them in either the VA or criminal proceedings.<br />The duty to disclose is constitutionally required even absent a request by theaccused. See United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97, 96 S. Ct. 2392, 49 L. Ed.2d 342(1976). An individual prosecutor has the obligation to learn of any favorableevidence known to others acting on the government's behalf and provide suchevidence to the defendant. Kyles v.Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 115 S.Ct. 1555, 131L.Ed.2d 490 (1995).<br />The government’s withholding of information constitutes a violation of dueprocess. Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The government must discloseto the defense evidence that is both favorable to the accused and “material either toguilt or to punishment.” Id. at 87. In Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972),the Court clarified that the Brady rule extends to impeachment and exculpatoryevidence. See Id. at 154-55.<br />The Supreme Court has stated that the United States Attorney (VA GeneralCounsel) is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of asovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as itsobligation to govern at all and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution<br />41<br />is not that it shall win a case but that justice shall be done. Strickler v. Greene,527 U.S. 263, 281, 119 S.Ct. 1936, 1948, 144 L.Ed.2d 286(1999)(citing Berger v.United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88, 55 S.Ct. 629, 79 L.Ed. 1314 (1935).<br />i.The position of the VA Office of General Counsel,<br />Office of Inspector General, and Secretary of the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs regarding the adjudicationof benefits fraud allegations.<br />The Roberts case has been in fairly continuous adjudication orlitigation for over 20 years. Sadly it only took a few years for the VA OIG andVBA employees to sever the benefits of catastrophically combat wounded veteranJustin S. Perez-Gorda and obtain an indictment against him for benefits fraud. Mr.Perez-Gorda died after 108 days of “pre-trial detention” in the custody of theFederal Bureau of Prisons. Not only was he denied due process of law, his life wasended by the same abuses Mr. Roberts has suffered.<br />In 1986 Congress mandated a standard set of regulations to be used by alldepartments of the federal government in the adjudication of allegations of benefitsfraud. The then Veterans Administration promulgated those regulations. Theywere amended in 1988 to reflect the creation of the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs. 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47 (1988) Standards Implementing the ProgramFraud Civil Remedies Act. See 45 C.F.R. §§ 79.1-79.47 (April 8, 1988) ProgramFraud Civil Remedies. These regulations are the same for all agencies. Theending of the “Balkanization” of policies and procedures across government<br />42<br />programs was the main objective of the 1986 legislation. See United States. Cong.Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Overview of False Claims and FraudLegislation. Hearing, Jun. 17, 1986. 99th Cong. 2nd sess. Washington: GPO, 1987.(pages 46-47, 46-50). Then Senator Joseph R. Biden was a member of thecommittee which completed this legislative effort.<br />As discussed above, the position of the VA General Counsel is that VA isnot obligated to make use of the benefits fraud regulations in VA benefits fraudadjudications, and they (VA OGC) have no role to play in benefits fraud matters.<br />38 C.F.R. § 14.561 Administrative action prior to submission.<br />Before a submission is made to the U.S. Attorney in cases involvingpersonnel or claims, the General Counsel, if the file is in CentralOffice, or the Regional Counsel at the regional office, hospital orcenter, if the file is in the regional office or other field facility, willfirst ascertain that necessary administrative or adjudicatory (forfeiture(see Pub. L. 86-222; 73 Stat. 452), etc.), action has been taken; exceptthat in urgent cases such as breaches of the peace, disorderly conduct,trespass, robbery, or where the evidence may be lost by delay, orprosecution barred by the statute of limitations, submission to the U.S.Attorney will be made immediately.<br />In the Appellee’s response to the Appellant’s supplemental brief prior to theen banc Roberts oral argument the Secretary adopted the position that the VAOGC has no role to play in VA benefits fraud cases. And a plain reading of theword claims in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that processes millions ofbenefits claims must be read as referring to contractor claims. (Supp. Br. ofAppellee 4-6).<br />43<br />There was also an excellent set of articles in the United States AttorneyBulletin. See United States Attorneys’ Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 6, November 2004,Social Security Fraud, 45 pages.<br />To our knowledge the VA Office of General Counsel has never conducted aprobable cause review of a benefits fraud allegation since 1986. To our knowledgethere has never been a hearing before an ALJ in accordance with 38 C.F.R. §§42.1-42.47 (1988).<br />In 2021 the undersigned participated in a video teleconference was with thenVA General Counsel the Hon. Richard A. Sauber. A written presentation wassubmitted which is provided with this motion.<br />Formal demands for a hearing under 42.1 have been filed for at least 4veterans by the undersigned. No responses have ever been received from either theOffice of General Counsel or the Office of the Secretary. When a freedom ofinformation act request was submitted to the Office of General Counsel they couldnot even find copies of these demand letters. During the past 20 years Mr. Robertswas accused, subjected to a criminal trial in federal court, convicted and released.<br />Mr. Roberts is still waiting for an answer to his demand for a hearing whichcomplies with 42.1 and the APA.17<br />17 5 U.S.C. §§ 551-559, 701-706, 1305, 3105, 3344, 4301(2)(E), 5335(a)(B), 5372,<br />and 7521; the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). Since being elevated to<br />department status the VA has been under an obligation to fully comply with the<br />APA. Not only have they failed to conduct APA compliant benefits fraud<br />adjudications, but because the Board does not use administrative law judges we<br />argue that none of the Board adjudications are APA compliant.<br />44<br />As stated above, Justin S. Perez-Gorda never received a response to his letterto the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the General Counsel. The denial of hisrequest resulted in his untimely death. His widow was then subjected to a criminaltrial and was convicted and is now incarcerated. Karl Monkemeyer demanded andwas never afforded a 42.1 hearing. He was indicted, acquitted after a four day jurytrial, and after five years of semi-homelessness and poverty he was recentlygranted full restoration of his benefits.<br />Had these individuals had access to the due process protections incorporatedin 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47 (1988) all of these cases would have been easilyresolved administratively. And with a great savings of time and money for the taxpayers and all concerned.<br />Mr. Roberts and his American Legion representative demanded a hearing inaccordance with 42.1. This is the first instance of such a demand that I am awareof.<br />The position of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office ofInspector General and the Office of General Counsel appears to easily summarizedas follows.<br />First, Veterans and their dependents are third class citizens. They are notentitled to the protections of the United States Constitution, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,and Eighth Amendments, which are suspended for them.<br />Second, they are not entitled to actual written notice of the fraud allegationsagainst them. The federal and state law standards mandating that fraud be set forth<br />45<br />with particularity are not needed when accusing a veteran or veterans beneficiaryof fraud. However, those allegations that are not shared with them will be placedin their electronic VA benefits file in excruciating detail where hundreds if notthousands of VBA employees have access to them. Veterans can have a copy ofthe allegations against them at the conclusion of the VA benefits and criminalproceedings, after their benefits and liberties have been stripped away.<br />Third, they will have to defend themselves in the Veterans BenefitsAdministration (VBA), the Board, and later the CAVC. That means that they willnever have a hearing on the record which complies with the APA, they will nothave any meaningful discovery, and they will not be afforded an opportunity tohave witnesses called on their behalf or call those making the allegations againstthem such that they can be examined under oath. This also means they will nothave beeen afforded a review of the administrative decision of the ALJ by a federaldistrict court judge as provided in 42.1 and the statutes.<br />Fourth, they will have to defend themselves in the several forumssimultaneously after their benefits have been terminated or severely reduced. Inthe VA benefits system; in a federal criminal action (white collar crime, where a<br />$ 50,000.00 retainer for a defense attorney is not remarkable); in the SocialSecurity Administration because the VA OIG pushed their allegations to thatagency; and even in state and local court because payments made under VAChapter 35 or CHAMPVA have been clawed back by VA absent any notice orstate or federal legal process to the beneficiary or the provider of the services.<br />46<br />This has been going on since 1986. The VA OIG admits that there havebeen over 5,000 of these cases. They also admit that a majority of the cases havenot resulted in convictions. But the documents related to the allegations are stillpresent in the benefits claims file for all to see. See (App. Exh. 4, p 004).<br />So if you are Keith A. Roberts you get 1,200 days of confinement. Eightynine days of which were pre-trail detention. But if you are Justin S. Perez-Gordayou get an administrative death sentence from the employees of the VBA, VHA,OGC and OIG.18 One hundred and eight days of pre-trial confinement with littleto no medical care during a pandemic until you die. And your widow is then triedand gets 4 years in prison. Thanks for your service.<br />That appears to be the position of the VA Office of General Counsel and the<br />Office of the Inspector General. And from that I may infer that it is the position ofthe Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the President of the United States.<br />We note that the purpose of inspectors general is to detect fraud, waste andabuse. See 5 U.S.C. App., Public Law 95-452, As Amended Through P.L. 114-317, enacted December 16, 2016, the Inspector General Act of 1978. So VA OIGagents are not police officers. However, in the Roberts case Mr. Vasil, a disgracedpolice officer, conducted warrantless searches of his VA files containing hisservice, benefits, VA medical, and private medical records. The files of most<br />18 Those involved in these unlawful benefits fraud adjudications are exposed to<br />personal liability in accordance with Bivins v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403<br />U.S. 388; 91 S. Ct. 1999; 29 L. Ed. 619 (1971).<br />47<br />veterans contain mental health records which have a higher level of protection thanother types of records.<br />These reviews were all conducted absent any probable cause review oroversight on the part of the VA OGC and were contrary to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, ThePrivacy Act and the Fourth Amendment. Mr. Vasil Conducted at least oneinterrogation of Mr. Roberts in which he failed to advise him of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966).Roberts received his first Miranda notice when he was arrested when hesurrendered at the time of his arraignment. Justin S. Perez-Gorda was interrogatedfor over 8 hours by two VA OIG agents while in custody in a local county jail. Karl Monkemeyer was placed in an interview room at a VA facility andbrowbeaten by a VA OIG agent for over 30 minutes in an effort to have himconfess to something he did not do. Mr. Monkemeyer had arrived at the facility toparticipate in a pre-determination hearing regarding an allegation of benefits fraud.He had no prior knowledge of what fraud he was alleged to have committed.<br />Mr. Roberts has had an inordinate amount of process. It has not beenmeaningful due process. Nor has it been fair or lawful in most instances.<br />See Roberts v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 416 (2010) (en banc); Roberts v. Shinseki,643 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (Cert. Den.); Roberts v. Wilkie, 16-1219<br />(August 15, 2018); Roberts v. the United States of America, No. 08-788 Cert.<br />48<br />Den. (U.S. Dec. 15, 2008); United States v. Roberts, U.S. District Court, EasternDistrict of Wisconsin, docket 05-CR-115, and United States v. Roberts, 534 F.3d560 (7th Cir. July 7 2008) (Cert. Denied 08-788, December 15, 2008).<br />6. JURISDICTIONAL STATEMENT<br />A.The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for vacaturein accordance with 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 (a).<br />The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for vacature inaccordance with 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000. These reviews are within the discretion ofthe Board. The denial of due process is grounds for vacature. See 38 C.F.R. §20.1000 (a). Here there have been numerous due process violations. 1.) Failure toprovide adequate notice in accordance with 38 C.F.R. § 20.908, accord Thurber v.Brown, 5 Vet. App. 119, 126 (1993), accord Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank &Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950). The BVA and Board fraud adjudication reliedupon the falsified investigative report of the VA OIG which was withheld from theAppellant and his VSO until after the Board decision was issued; 2.) Failure toprovide a copy of the complete claims file to the appellant prior to rendering thedecision of the Board; 3.) Failure to adjudicate the appeal on the entire record. Asdemonstrated below, the record was grossly incomplete and was never available tothe Board prior to the August 2005 decision. The original benefits claims file wasgiven to the VA OIG contrary to the provisions of the Administrative ProceduresAct (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 551-559, 701-706, 1305, 3105, 3344, 4301(2)(E),<br />49<br />5335(a)(B), 5372, and 7521; and, 4.) Failure to comply with the Congressionallymandated due process provisions of 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47, 05-11-1988.<br />Since the fraud adjudication regulations were first promulgated in 1986 theBoard should have been limited to a review of the action by the RO inimplementing the order of the ALJ to ensure compliance. The Board has nolawful jurisdiction to adjudicate fraud cases. Congress has occupied the field.<br />B.The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for<br />vacature when fraud has occurred. As demonstrated below,<br />the severance of the disability benefits of the veteran was<br />based upon materially false statements by employees of the<br />U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as well as the withholding<br />of material and exculpatory evidence from the Veterans Benefits<br />Administration, the Board, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans<br />Claims and other Federal Courts. The Board may vacate a<br />decision based upon fraud under 38 C.F.R. § 20.1000 (b).<br />The Board takes jurisdiction of and reviews motions for vacature when fraud has occurred. As discussed above and further demonstratedbelow, the severance of the disability benefits of the veteran was based uponmaterially false statements by employees of the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs. The record supports the conclusion that VA employees withheld materialand exculpatory evidence from the Veterans Benefits Administration, the Board,the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and other Federal Courts.<br />The Board may vacate a decision based upon fraud under 38 C.F.R. §20.1000 ( b ). Here the fraud was committed by employees of the agency and not<br />50<br />the veteran, but the Board still has jurisdiction over the matter as the fraudcommitted by the employees is a clear denial of due process.<br />7. STANDARD FOR REVIEW<br />A.The Board reviews motions for vacature under 38 C.F.R. §20.1000. Congress has chosen the preponderance standard<br />for fraud cases. See Grogan v. Garner, 498 U.S. 279 (1991)<br />at 286, 288.<br />The Board reviews motions for vacature under 38 C.F.R. §20.1000. Congress has chosen the preponderance standard for fraud cases. SeeGrogan v. Garner, 498 U.S. 279 (1991) at 286, 288.<br />Findings of the Board as to the degree of disability and service connectionare both factual and legal. This case presents both factual and legal issues.<br />This is an unusual case. Because VA benefits fraud cases should not beadjudicated by the Veterans Benefits Administration they should not require areview by the Board. See 38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47, 05-11-1988. If thecongressionally mandated due process procedures are followed in a benefits fraudcase benefits would only be reduced or severed after the final findings of fact andrulings of law by the Administrative Law Judge conducting the hearing as well asthe appeal, if any, to a federal district court. To our knowledge the Secretary hasfailed to hold a single hearing or make a single probable cause determination inany of the over five thousand benefits fraud cases that have been adjudicated since1986.<br />51<br />This is a hypothetical discussion based upon the existing VA regulations aswell as the practices and procedures of other agencies that actually comply with thelaw. It appears that in VA benefits cases any appeal of the decision of the ALJwould proceed to a Federal District Court. Any appeal of that ruling wouldproceed through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and then on tothe Supreme Court of the United States. See the discussion, supra, of the positionof the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regarding the adjudication of benefitsfraud allegations.<br />At this point the procedure in M-21 would actually work. Since the ALJ hadissued a final agency decision and all appeals had been exhausted the RegionalOffice would only need to implement the order of the ALJ. If unfavorable to thebeneficiary the order would include monetary damages to a sum certain along withinstructions for reduction or severance of any benefits.<br />The RO would simply place the order in the benefits claims file, create adebt if needed, and issue a rating decision as to the benefits. There would be noneed to discuss the underlying facts and allegations as the benefits fraudadjudication would have occurred before the ALJ. That record and evidence would be kept in a separate system of records. Unproven allegations anddocuments which could be prejudicial to the veteran or other beneficiary would notbe in the benefits claims file. The claims file of Mr. Roberts and hundreds of otherveterans and dependents accused of benefits fraud but later exonerated now containthe original allegations which are difficult if not impossible to expunge.<br />52<br />In the event the Board received an appeal of one of these RO ratingdecisions the only review available would be to ensure that the RO had fully andfairly complied with the final order of the ALJ.<br />53<br />8. CONCLUSION<br />The decision of the Board dated August 26, 2005, must be vacated and the100 percent rating for service connected disability benefits of Mr. Roberts must berestored nunc pro tunc to November 14, 1990, the new effective date establishedby the Board in the order dated December 18, 2018, forthwith.<br />This case does not require remand to the VA Regional Office for any furtherproceedings.<br />The systemic failures on the part of the Inspector General and the GeneralCounsel of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has resulted in the wrongfulincarceration of an innocent veteran for 1,200 days. The Board does not have theauthority or the means to restore the reputation or the days lost in a wrongfulincarceration for Mr. Roberts. The Board does have the authority to restore hiswrongfully severed disability benefits. And that they should proceed to do.<br />The Board should not permit any interference with this action from the<br />VA IG, nor should the VA IG be requested to review this vacature action.<br />The systemic abuse of due process detailed in this case is on the scale of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1963). Mr.Roberts was wrongfully incarcerated for 1,200 days due to the willful andintentional efforts of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to circumvent thelaw, misrepresent the facts of this case, and deprive him of the due process of law mandated by Congress for veterans accused of benefits fraud since 1986.<br />54<br />“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.”<br />-John Adams, letter to Elbridge Gerry, December 5, 1777<br />/s/ Robert P. Walsh Dated: June 25, 2023<br />Robert P. Walsh-Michigan Bar P-42833<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />Keith A. Roberts<br />Law Office of Robert P. Walsh<br />2 Michigan Avenue West, Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9592<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />55<br />9. WAIVER OF ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CONSIDERATION<br />KEITH ALBERT ROBERTS, C 28 353 461, waives his right to aSupplemental Statement of the Case or any other review from the agency oforiginal jurisdiction, VARO St. Paul, Minnesota, or VARO Milwaukee,Wisconsin, considering any new evidence, issues, or testimony submitted to theBoard in this motion.<br />/s/ Robert P. Walsh Date: June 25, 2023<br />ROBERT P. WALSH, Esq.<br />2 Michigan Avenue West<br />Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9693<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />56<br />10. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE<br />On the date affixed below I personally uploaded the documents listed belowto the VA Direct Upload Centralized Mail Quick Submit Web Portal.<br />U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs<br />Evidence Intake Center<br />P. O. Box 4444<br />Janesville, WI 53547-4444<br />Telecopier (844) 531-7818 VBMS Web Portal<br />APPELLANT<br />Mr. Keith A. Roberts<br />13269 Morgan Road<br />Gillett, Wisconsin, 54124<br />Telephone (920) 855-6328<br />E-Mail: blackfalcon1982@centurylink.net<br />DOCUMENTS<br />(a)<br />Certificate of Service.<br />(b)<br />BVA Motion with supporting brief to vacate thedecision dated August 26, 2005.<br />(c)<br />Appendix in support of the motion and brief, 316pages.<br />June 25, 2023/S/ Robert P. Walsh, Esq.<br />Date:<br />Robert P. Walsh (P42833)<br />Attorney for Claimant-Appellant<br />2 Michigan Avenue West<br />Suite 301<br />Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-7002<br />Telephone (269) 962-9693<br />Telecopier (269) 962-9592<br />E-mail: robert@robertpwalsh.com<br />57<br />11. APPENDIX<br />Page<br />Keith A. Roberts, VA Claim Number C 28 353 461<br />Index to Exhibits<br />Exhibit 1.Email from S. Kulevich to J. Imboden, continued VA OIG<br />interference with the adjudication of the Roberts benefits claims,<br />09-16-2015, 1 page..................................... 001<br />Exhibit 2.FOIA response VA OIG to Robert P. Walsh, 08-10-2018,<br />2 pages. ............................................. 004<br />Exhibit 3.Email from Renee Szybala to Debi Bevins re: Roberts case,<br />01-27-2005, 1 page......................................007<br />Exhibit 4.Letter, American Legion, Philip B. Wilkerson, to Renee Szybala,<br />Director of Compensation and Pension Service, 10-15-2004,<br />5 pages................................................009<br />Exhibit 5.Affidavit of Mr. Keith A. Roberts, 03-09-2007, 12 pages........015<br />Exhibit 6.Transcript, Federal Grand Jury testimony, Raymond P. Vasil, VAOIG, 09-13-2005, 8 pages.................................028<br />Exhibit 7.Transcript, Federal Grand Jury testimony, Raymond P. Vasil, VAOIG, 04-26-2005, 75 pages................................037<br />Exhibit 8.Sworn Affidavit of Commander Robert D. Hathaway, U.S. Navy,<br />Retired, with exhibits, 04-12-2019, 113 pages.................113<br />Exhibit 9.Motion and Brief Amicus Curia of Phillip Cushman, Roberts v.Wilkie, CAVC 16-1219, motion to intervene denied by order dated10-27-2017,57 pages.....................................225<br />Exhibit 10.38 C.F.R. §§ 42.1-42.47, 05-11-1988, 34 pages................282<br />58<br /></span><p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-86885157039303449962023-07-06T09:37:00.003-05:002023-07-06T11:42:50.041-05:00Read Unauthorized Reporting, Analyses — You Endanger Democracy, Liberals Warn<h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WJaODsWkPn-XbZgU4z2557tv2pTLmnUdQICBYSh0w-MXzqtOxusyQIWIXcvTYwd1CG49HEiRlmCU3eQdEjBbzFewDLl4bKWf_-uoDvvi9OpN1kI0JLQOyPu8mPJmTS_YgyYC83zHbY3Y53qdG0_ZMd8wbtO10Fzl98Dnjm-zhpgjSfkXv-gxHYhimkI/s2974/Censorship%20industrial%20complex.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1934" data-original-width="2974" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WJaODsWkPn-XbZgU4z2557tv2pTLmnUdQICBYSh0w-MXzqtOxusyQIWIXcvTYwd1CG49HEiRlmCU3eQdEjBbzFewDLl4bKWf_-uoDvvi9OpN1kI0JLQOyPu8mPJmTS_YgyYC83zHbY3Y53qdG0_ZMd8wbtO10Fzl98Dnjm-zhpgjSfkXv-gxHYhimkI/s320/Censorship%20industrial%20complex.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>State Battles Against Enemy Within, Rampant Wrong Reads Subverts Effort<br /></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Commentary</b></div><p>The grave and gathering threat imperiling American democracy, and our fellow citizens persists like a mutated virus reproducing itself, looking to infect others: Misinformation, or <i>bad thought</i>.<br /><br />After years of warning by American liberals, led by Joe Biden and his <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2022/04/biden-begin-disinformation-governance.html" target="_blank">Disinformation Governance Board</a>, (status unknown), a federal judge disagreed this week, and ruled agencies of U.S. government can no longer coerce major social media outlets into banning writers and censoring works because the U.S. government and liberal establishment do not like the information being read or written.</p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In a federal case, <i><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">STATE OF MISSOURI </a></i></span><i><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">V JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR</span></a></i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> (CASE NO. 3:22-CV-01213) brought by two governors against the Biden administration, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Terry Doughty's ruling</a>
grants an injunction that forbids the Biden administration from contacting social media companies
for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any
manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content
containing protected free speech." (<a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">MEMORANDUM RULING ON REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION</a>; July 4, 2023)<br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The reaction from Democratic Party press is outrage.<br /><br />Leah Litman and Laurence H. Tribe conclude in <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/87155/restricting-the-government-from-speaking-to-tech-companies-will-spread-disinformation-and-harm-democracy/" target="_blank">Just Security</a> that this "decision, if left standing, will make us less secure as a nation and will endanger us all every day the injunction remains in force."</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Wow.<br /><br />It's not government goading Big Tech into censorship that is the concern, liberals assure. <br /><br />It's people writing thought deemed wrong, and people reading these thoughts, that's the problem. Because those readers of misinformation, having contracted this malinformation, will transmit the misinformation to other unsuspecting Americans, not trained in liberal defense of democracy or possessing of individual minds vaccinated against bad thought.<br /><br />Writes <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi</a>, author of the Twitter Files, in reply:</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></p><p><span></span></p><blockquote><p><span>The </span><i>Missouri v. Biden </i><span>investigators found
the same fact patterns found by Twitter Files reporters like me,
Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, David Zweig, and Paul
Thacker, and then later </span><a href="https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b" rel="">Andrew Lowenthal, Aaron Mate, Sue Schmidt, Matt Orfalea, Tom Wyatt, Matt Farwell, @Techno_Fog, and many others</a><span>. They also echoed descriptions by like </span><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation" rel="">Jacob Siegel</a><span> at </span><i>Tablet, </i><span>or Robby Soave at </span><i>Reason, </i><span>who </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HillTVLive/videos/565965488742041/" rel="">wrote about similar issues at Facebook</a><span>. </span></p><p><span>Those of us who worked on the Twitter Files story initially experienced the same problem investigators and plaintiffs in the </span><i>Missouri v. Biden </i><span>case
apparently did, being unsure of what to make of the sheer quantity of
agencies and companies involved in what looked like organized censorship
schemes. I know I wasn’t alone among Twitter Files reporters in being
nervous to report that content moderation “requests” were coming from “</span><a href="https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/twitter-and-other-government-agencies" rel="">agencies across the federal government — from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA</a><span>.”
It’s what we were seeing, but seemed too nuts to be true. But as time
went on, even more topics, government offices, and state-partnered
organizations started popping up, leaving little question of what we
were looking at. </span></p><p><span>Eventually, we found the same plot outlined in </span><i>Missouri v. Biden</i><span>:
pressure from government in the form of threatened regulation, followed
by a stream of recommendations about content from multiple agencies
(the investigators in this lawsuit even found meddling by the Census
Bureau). This was capped by the construction of quasi-private
bureaucracies that in some cases appeared to have been conceived as a
way for the government to partner on content moderation without being in
direct violation of the First Amendment. </span></p></blockquote><p><span></span></p><p><span>Concludes </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Terry Doughty</a>:</span><span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></p><blockquote>Although this case is still relatively young, and at this stage the Court is only examining it in terms of Plaintiffs’ likelihood of success on the merits, the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.” [Note 721]<br /><br />The Plaintiffs have presented substantial evidence in support of their claims that they were the victims of a far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign. This court finds that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment free speech claim against the Defendants.<br />Therefore, a preliminary injunction should issue immediately against the Defendants as set out herein.<br /><br />[Note 721] An 'Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth' refers to the concept presented in George Orwell's dystopian novel, '1984.' In the novel, the Ministry of Truth is a governmental institution responsible for altering historical records and disseminating propaganda to manipulate and control public perception.</blockquote>Yes.<br /><br />There is a threat to our democracy, but it comes from Biden ideologues, fervent champions of the surveillance state and the censorship-industrial complex.<br /> <br />In the vital decision <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=407&invol=297"><i>UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT</i>, 407 U.S. 297 (1972)</a>,
Justice Lewis Powell denounced the Nixon administration’s electronic
surveillance, warrantless-wiretapping program not just on Fourth
Amendment grounds, but as a betrayal of the sovereign rights of citizens
in a democracy to criticize their own government.<br /><br />Powell's warning should be sounded today:<br /><br />
<i>History abundantly documents the tendency of Government - however
benevolent and benign its motives - to view with suspicion those who
most fervently dispute its policies. Fourth Amendment protections become
the more necessary when the targets of official surveillance may be
those suspected of unorthodoxy in their political beliefs. The danger to
political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under
so vague a concept as the power to protect ‘domestic security.’ Given
the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of
abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. ... The
price of lawful public dissent must not be a dread of subjection to an
unchecked surveillance power. Nor must the fear of unauthorized official
eavesdropping deter vigorous citizen dissent and discussion of
Government action in private conversation. For private dissent, no less
than open public discourse, is essential to our free society.</i><br />- Justice Lewis Powell (UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, 407 U.S. 297 (1972))<br /><p></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The most bizarre and revealing part of the liberal media script on this court ruling -- that the judge didn't bar *censorship* but merely the US Govt's effort to combat disinformation -- is that the FBI is not only qualified to decree Truth, but it uses censorship to Protect Us: <a href="https://t.co/yz50RO6NMU">https://t.co/yz50RO6NMU</a></p>— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1676957271316910082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-61451300765188630692023-07-05T18:40:00.003-05:002023-07-05T19:32:59.589-05:00RFK, Jr. Hails Freedom of Speech, as Biden Loses State Censorship Ruling<h3 style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBaGNlFCU2bXZwknV6uhetNsVXwNAEiqajQ72kZH0AVSvN79Lh3rKqrUe_dX1nkAmYRkCCHiE5vr3k0ogi_z5daJ4onCsoNWRZ8qFKP1TYvZaj1vYRjy9GIdDU8IsfoQB-AjUVihj-eH3rAZLr-6uztEtsr5JaX4x2YzecfYd_Lxaw_eoQtaVDgJDCdQ/s584/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="584" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBaGNlFCU2bXZwknV6uhetNsVXwNAEiqajQ72kZH0AVSvN79Lh3rKqrUe_dX1nkAmYRkCCHiE5vr3k0ogi_z5daJ4onCsoNWRZ8qFKP1TYvZaj1vYRjy9GIdDU8IsfoQB-AjUVihj-eH3rAZLr-6uztEtsr5JaX4x2YzecfYd_Lxaw_eoQtaVDgJDCdQ/s320/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. blasted Democrats as betraying <br />liberty and free speech. Reacting to a federal judge's<br />injunction stopping the Biden administration from censoring<br />and banning speech on the Internet, RFK excoriated <br />government suppression of information.<br /></span><p>"This ruling has been widely reported as barring the <br />administration from ‘working with,' 'contacting,' or <br />'coordinating with' social media," <b>said <a href="https://www.kennedy24.com/rfk_jr_responds_federal_judge_freedom_of_speech_censorship_ruling" target="_blank">Democratic <br />Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.</a>, </b>who <br />is mentioned in the injunction as one of the people <br />censored on social media. "These are euphemisms. The <br />case is about blatant censorship, in which government <br />agencies colluded with and coerced tech
platforms <br />to censor Constitutionally-protected speech."</p></td></tr></tbody></table>U.S. District Court Hits Joe Biden's Ministry of Truth</h3><p><b>Update</b>: Biden is "appealing a court ruling sharply limiting the ability of federal officials to interact with social media companies about the content contained on their platforms," reports <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/government-appeals-ruling-that-restricts-feds-from-contacting-social-media-firms-00104829" target="_blank">Politico</a>.<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.kennedy24.com/rfk_jr_responds_federal_judge_freedom_of_speech_censorship_ruling" target="_blank">Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., hailed a Louisiana federal judge's ruling</a> to grant an injunction against President Joe Biden, ordering the administration to halt government-induced <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">censorship of the internet, and the administration's myriad contacts with Big Tech,<br /><br />Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for Untied States president.<br /><br /><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Doughty's ruling</a> forbids the Biden administration from contacting social media companies for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech."<br /><br />As the national Democratic Party has become a champion of censorship of speech that the administration says is too dangerous to read or hear, Kennedy has taken the opposite position, blasting Democrats as betraying liberty and free speech.<br /></span></p><p>"This ruling has been widely reported as barring the administration from ‘working with,' 'contacting,' or 'coordinating with' social media," <b>said <a href="https://www.kennedy24.com/rfk_jr_responds_federal_judge_freedom_of_speech_censorship_ruling" target="_blank">Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.</a>,</b> who is mentioned in the injunction as one of the people censored on social media. "These are euphemisms. The case is about blatant censorship, in which government agencies colluded with and coerced tech platforms to censor Constitutionally-protected speech."<br /><br />The Biden administration's work for state censorship has also defined the national Democratic Party, as not one Democratic member of Congress has expressed public objection to what <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Doughty</a> calls <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Biden's "Ministry of Truth.</a>"</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Kennedy is mentioned several times in Judge </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Doughty's</a> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Memorandum Ruling on Request for Preliminary Injunction</a>. <br /><br />Kennedy, a prominent environmental attorney and children's' advocate, has been banned and censored by Big Tech for advocating for patients, consumers and families against what Kennedy has said are sometimes dangerous corporations.<br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Writes </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf" target="_blank">Judge Doughty</a>: </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></p><blockquote><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">(1) On January 23, 2021, three days after President Biden took office, Clarke Humphrey (“Humphrey”), who at the time was the Digital Director for the COVID-19 Response Team, emailed Twitter and requested the removal of an anti-COVID-19 vaccine tweet by RobertF. Kennedy, Jr.21 Humphrey sent a copy of the email to Rob Flaherty (“Flaherty”), former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy, on the email and asked if “we can keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same genre.” The email read, “Hey folks-Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process of having it removed ASAP.”22</span></blockquote><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br />Kennedy's press release in reproduced below:<br /></span><p></p><section>
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<p><b>LOS ANGELES, CA—JULY 5, 2023—</b>A federal judge <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-rules-biden-administration-likely-trampled-on-free-speech-on-social-media-29334362" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="federal judge freedom of speech ruling">issued an injunction</a>
Tuesday prohibiting Biden administration officials and federal agencies
from communicating with social media companies about certain forms of
protected speech.</p><p>The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0_1.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Freedom of speech ruling">155-page ruling</a>
details numerous clear violations of the First Amendment’s free speech
clause. Amply referenced and footnoted, the document describes how Biden
administration officials demanded that social media companies suppress
information and deplatform people who expressed political views they
deemed harmful.</p>
<p>“This ruling has been widely reported as barring the administration
from ‘working with,’ ‘contacting,’ or ‘coordinating with’ social media,”
<b>said Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,</b> who is mentioned in the injunction as one of the people censored on social media.</p>
<p>“These are euphemisms. The case is about blatant censorship, in which
government agencies colluded with and coerced tech platforms to censor
Constitutionally-protected speech.”</p>
<p>As described in the injunction, government censorship demands were
backed with threats to revoke Article 230 of the Communications Decency
Act, which shields social media companies from liability for actions
taken on their websites, as well as the threat of anti-trust action.
Both of these, in the words of Mark Zuckerberg, are “existential
threats” to social media companies’ business.</p>
<p>The injunction describes the formation of a censorship apparatus that
includes public-private partnerships with groups like the Virality
Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and the Election Integrity
Project. They operated not only through direct demands, but also through
creating a tacit consensus about what information is permissible.</p>
<p>Disallowed posts and suppressed information included those:</p>
<ul><li>Questioning the safety of the Covid vaccines</li><li>Claiming the shots did not prevent infection or transmission</li><li>Doubting the utility of masks and lockdowns</li><li>Suggesting the lab leak hypothesis for Covid origins</li><li>Questioning the integrity of the 2020 elections</li><li>Claiming the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop story</li></ul>
<p>“The judge got it exactly right when he wrote, ‘Freedom of speech and
press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of
freedom,’” <b>Kennedy said.</b> “Without freedom of speech, there is no democracy.”</p>
<p>Attorneys for Team Kennedy are considering further legal action to
protect Mr. Kennedy’s rights and those of the campaign to be heard, free
of censorship.</p><b>#</b><br /></div>
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</section>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-33922961600177195372023-06-24T12:00:00.002-05:002023-06-26T07:31:37.244-05:00Biden Admin Flouts Covid 19 Origins Law — Misses Law-imposed Deadline; Censors Info Detailing Links Between Wuhan Institute of Virology and Covid-19 Pandemic<h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5AzAk3jRu3eLiHBMJIrtu3H5FZQgHq0Pij0iWhN-VwlQvcAKi1uRZQlrPaukk37CAqhayFTipKYrLYU9W_mK-3QD2OupqYUNTORq67gbYhicuKgyC2UDOWYK7kxjNjnA06m7d5F7ji56QfQD6yb2RGFUnyKhcGYHDLLwb4soKWg9tbux9BIziZqF7Tg/s320/SARS-CoV-2_without_background-369x370.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="319" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL5AzAk3jRu3eLiHBMJIrtu3H5FZQgHq0Pij0iWhN-VwlQvcAKi1uRZQlrPaukk37CAqhayFTipKYrLYU9W_mK-3QD2OupqYUNTORq67gbYhicuKgyC2UDOWYK7kxjNjnA06m7d5F7ji56QfQD6yb2RGFUnyKhcGYHDLLwb4soKWg9tbux9BIziZqF7Tg/s1600/SARS-CoV-2_without_background-369x370.jpg" width="319" /></a></div>Impeachment is only remedy for willful law-breaking by Joe Biden</h3><p><b>Commentary</b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Update</b>: "The Biden admin has released a summary of US intelligence on the links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19. But by not revealing the names of the WIV scientists who fell ill in November 2019, President Biden is in violation of the law he signed."<br />— <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1672542711394582528" target="_blank">Michael Shellenberger</a><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The Biden presidency shows defining features of its administration this June: Arrogance, and a tendency to deceive.<b><br /><br /></b>Now, Joe Biden has veered into intentional law-breaking, in defiance of an unanimously passed act of Congress enacted to deter this administration's lack of candor and transparency on the most deadly Pandemic in United States history.<b><br /><br /></b>The latest illustration concerns the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619/text" target="_blank">COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023</a>, unanimously passed by <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619/text" target="_blank">Congress</a> last Spring, and signed into <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/20/statement-by-the-president-on-s-619-the-covid-19-origin-act-of-2023/" target="_blank">law by President Biden March 20, 2003</a>, under heavy political pressure.<br /><br />The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619/text" target="_blank">COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023</a> is an exacting law, that demands administration release by deadline, June 19, 2023, of facts pertaining to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), including links to the origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />The Biden administration missed the June 19, 2023 release deadline, with no public comment.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619/text" target="_blank">COVID-19 Act's</a> demands include Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scientists' names, dates of events and even specific symptoms of three WIV researchers who reportedly fell ill with Covid 19 in Nov. 2019 — Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu.<br /> <br />These three WIV researchers were the first three people to contract COVID-19, the long-sought patients zero, a fact kept secret by the administration, but made public by intelligence leaks to <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19" target="_blank">Michael Shellenberger,</a> <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag in the journal, <i>Public</i></a>.<br /><br />On Friday night, June 23, five days after the law mandates, the administration released a summary of what it claims are its finding, consisting of information already in the public domain, clearly violating the letter of the law.<br /><br />The administration claims reasons of "national security" may impact the administration's compliance with the law, stating, Biden will "share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my
constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of
information that would harm national security," in his March 20, 2030 White House signing <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/20/statement-by-the-president-on-s-619-the-covid-19-origin-act-of-2023/" target="_blank">Statement by the President on S. 619, the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023</a>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/item/2393-odni-releases-report-on-the-potential-links-between-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology-and-the-origin-of-covid-19" target="_blank">Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) June 23, 2023 press release</a> is reproduced below:<br /><p></p><blockquote><p>The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today
released “The Potential Links Between the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and the Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic” report.
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<p>The COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 required the Intelligence Community to
declassify information relating to potential links between the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ODNI submitted the report to Congress, and it can be viewed <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></blockquote><p>#<br /><br />As this response by the Biden administration is obviously flouting the law, one hopes House Republicans begin steps towards an impeachment.<br /><br />Michael Shellenberger's immediate response is below:<br /></p></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Biden admin has released a summary of US intelligence on the links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19. But by not revealing the names of the WIV scientists who fell ill in November 2019, President Biden is in violation of the law he signed. <a href="https://t.co/CU4S57PJoM">pic.twitter.com/CU4S57PJoM</a></p>— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1672542711394582528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Biden Is Breaking The Law By Not Releasing Intel On COVID-19 Origins<br /><br />White House releases old material on a Friday night, days after deadline had passed<br /><br />On Friday night, President Joe Biden’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released to Congress a 10-page…</p>— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1672544304458350592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </blockquote>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-69491611932450024222023-06-12T18:41:00.003-05:002023-06-12T18:47:49.591-05:00Time to Rally Around Trump Against Selective Prosecution under Ridiculous Espionage Act<h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfHpgY3t1LVCRVNvmuILL-oJ-x1a_JqRppKlnIqBNsYlvhp6DWBOBYTZTygVvZmkTEpHiaPHGonKDqwmAC9oBqokMvUIr3FXNFfD3OYgtMn9ZBFjR0SBXCmSA7QIlUXZMXn37mciCUo5dbewan0dUsxyb8NdsZ58o5DKPABVsSxv28s_lV2ywkevi/s200/Untitled.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="154" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfHpgY3t1LVCRVNvmuILL-oJ-x1a_JqRppKlnIqBNsYlvhp6DWBOBYTZTygVvZmkTEpHiaPHGonKDqwmAC9oBqokMvUIr3FXNFfD3OYgtMn9ZBFjR0SBXCmSA7QIlUXZMXn37mciCUo5dbewan0dUsxyb8NdsZ58o5DKPABVsSxv28s_lV2ywkevi/s1600/Untitled.jpg" width="154" /></a></div>Trump Prosecution Is Not Credible</h4><p><b>Commentary</b><br /><br />Whether you love Donald Trump or despise him as a fascist lunatic, the selective <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/statement-special-counsel-jack-smith" target="_blank">prosecution of Donald Trump</a> under the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-37" target="_blank">Espionage Act</a> should be opposed. (See <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/statement-special-counsel-jack-smith" target="_blank">Special Counsel Jack Smith, U.S. Department of Justice</a>.) <br /><br />The Espionage Act cannot be enforced impartially, for the the <a href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/emma-goldman-restriction-civil-liberties-1919" target="_blank">Espionage Act is tyrannical caprice</a> meant to punish or silence perceived enemies of the state. </p><p>Since World War I, the Espionage Act was used just twice up to the Obama administration which used the Act with "unprecedented vigor, prosecuting more people under that law for leaking
sensitive information to the public than all previous administrations
combined," (<a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-barack-obama-9d9a76067d5b47e5a290dc9832369c92" target="_blank">AP</a>).</p><p>In modern times, only the Nixon administration in its infamous prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo dared use this despicable device, until Obama, Trump and then Biden used the Act with apparent glee to control information and stop the press from reporting on administration abuses, outside of spying cases.<br /><br /><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/the-hillary-clinton-email-scandal-shows-the-espionage-act-is-outdated.html" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/fashion/david-petraeus-paula-broadwell-scandal-affair.html" target="_blank">David Petraeus</a>, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7351422" target="_blank">Sandy Berger</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/12/yes-joe-biden-may-have-broken-the-espionage-act-but-the-law-is-the-problem" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a> have all all skated despite often acting in spectacular fashion, but liberal establishment wants Trump, no matter the cost. <br /><br />Enough. Deliver massage to Biden administration: You go through with this sick indictment, you lose political support.<br />---<br />I urge folks to read Scott Horton's piece on spotting politcal prosecutions. From <a href="https://harpers.org/2008/02/when-is-a-prosecution-political/" target="_blank">Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine</a>, Feb. 2008; link follows.<br /><br />Several red flags with current indictment.<br /><br />Identity of the Subject. Is the subject an opposition political figure of some sort? <br /><br />Nature of the Charges. Espionage Act, a ridiculous tool of oppression, brought back from life by Democrat administrations.<br /><br />Timing and Circumstances of Criminal Investigations and Charges. Timing coincides with effort to stop Trump from running and winning in 2024.<br /><br />Circumstances of Investigation; Arrest and Detention; Media Dealings. When political figures are involved, has an intrusive investigations been conducted? That is, does the investigation appear geared to disrupting the political figure’s work, for instance, as a parliamentarian or local official?<br /><br />State Secrecy. Was state secrecy invoked in any aspect of the case? Yes.<br /><br />Parallel Public Campaigns. Consider carefully whether the prosecution tracks any political campaign which is being run by the Government or the Government party? Yes.<br /><br />Media Coverage. Particularly where the media is controlled or manipulated by the state (this includes almost every country in the region) or aligns itself with the political party which holds the prosecutorial power, consider carefully the tone and tenor of the media coverage. Ahh, yes.<br />--<br /></p><p></p><p>
See also Glenn Greenwald, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbDAF8jGV4" target="_blank">Political Prosecution: Trump Indictment Upends Decades of Lax Classified Docs Precedent</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fej7G_-i6Q" target="_blank">What Is the Espionage Act? A Brief & Repressive History</a>. <br /><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PDh1QCi4IGM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-34355335586816702392023-05-19T10:47:00.002-05:002023-05-19T11:38:03.085-05:00Progressive Challenge to Joe Biden Takes Shape; But Biden-Clinton Faction Wants Coronation<h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmMFcGf29GXmA1LGQObq7qQu53n29uovPcipiweHHcG09LPwf5eDBAXbkv8DA643j_BX0c68YrebvfNcx-zkmmiwqaZoZT4OAMeOjhWOcNRgvfvn0SH-x3ULZakqcYHwYFfAs8TvIKbgO5_FoRJQFMB1KBZzzWiUW-DpoS2Vk-YN-WOqebOa5m3eJ/s1284/Fwa7_PXWIAEZjJF.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="1284" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmMFcGf29GXmA1LGQObq7qQu53n29uovPcipiweHHcG09LPwf5eDBAXbkv8DA643j_BX0c68YrebvfNcx-zkmmiwqaZoZT4OAMeOjhWOcNRgvfvn0SH-x3ULZakqcYHwYFfAs8TvIKbgO5_FoRJQFMB1KBZzzWiUW-DpoS2Vk-YN-WOqebOa5m3eJ/s320/Fwa7_PXWIAEZjJF.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>RFK-Williamson-Kucinich Allies Right on Issues</h3><h4>Commentary</h4><p>Madison, Wisconsin — Big Pharma, the insurance industry, the military-industrial complex and other gigantic moneyed interests have made their choices for the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. It's Joe Biden.<br /><br />Perceived meddling by little folk such as the American people is in bad political form.<br /></p><p>So say Democrat mouthpieces and stooges in corporate media. </p><p>They assure us there are no Democrat presidential challengers, despite the candidacies of <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr" target="_blank">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/marwilliamson" target="_blank">Marianne Williamson</a>, and even if candidacies exist, well, — Democrats Party bosses know better.<br /></p><p>Democrats despise RFK. Jr., for example, for his heretical statements that Big Pharma misleads, lies and cheats at the expense of American families.</p><p>For most rational people, Big Pharma crimes are axiomatic; for Democrats such criticism amounts to politcal heresy.</p><p>This week, RFK Jr.'s campaign announced the appointment of Dennis Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland and an ex-congressman who knows, roughly speaking, how indescribably full of shit the current Democrat Party really is.<br /></p><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I am delighted to announce <a href="https://twitter.com/Dennis_Kucinich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dennis_Kucinich</a> as the manager of my Presidential campaign. A former 8-term member of Congress, he has been both an icon of progressive politics and an iconoclastic, game-changing force within progressive politics. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kennedy24?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kennedy24</a><a href="https://t.co/UGeSIysVQ7">https://t.co/UGeSIysVQ7</a></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1659272891295309861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2023</a></blockquote><p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
On family and value issues from healthcare to student loans to mass surveillance to galloping fascism of <a href="https://twitter.com/Rfk4POTUS/status/1659570057217732608" target="_blank">government intelligence</a> traitors, Robert F. Kennedy Jr is on the right side of most every major issue, while daily exposing Biden and the Democrats for the liars and schemers most people know Democrats to be.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-rip-dnc-not-holding-2024-primary-debates-robs-voters" target="_blank">Don't look for a series of debates</a> among the Democrats candidates for the nomination of the president of the Untied States.<br /><br />No matter that <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">some "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+who+want+biden+not+to+run+for+presidient&hl=en&source=hp&ei=aplnZMvtEvSr0PEPqqSYyAw&iflsig=AOEireoAAAAAZGeneoIwwafnmGc-GJW1b0rO5fms9p54&ved=0ahUKEwjLyrnl3IH_AhX0FTQIHSoSBskQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=percent+who+want+biden+not+to+run+for+presidient&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz" target="_blank">70 percent of Americans think Biden should not seek a second term — including 51 percent of Democrats</a>." <br /></span></span></p><p>Democrats have issued their orders: Nomination of Joe Biden. Your job is respectful silence or polite applause.<br /></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dissent is patriotic. But under Obama & Clinton, the Democratic Party punished truth-tellers like <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TulsiGabbard</a>. If RFK defeats Joe Biden, that party will be over. If you want to see <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheDemocrats</a> stand up for free speech and peace, speak out for <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertKennedyJr</a>!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kennedy24?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kennedy24</a> <a href="https://t.co/CGigXBQPT9">pic.twitter.com/CGigXBQPT9</a></p>— RFK Jr for President (@Rfk4POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rfk4POTUS/status/1658965317312282625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-17584904981656170412023-04-25T13:55:00.002-05:002023-04-25T13:57:16.878-05:00RFK Hits Biden in Response to Reelection Video; Cites Profound, Fundamental Differences<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpeG8wQLx7T3V7eZbgVxyi91JxVAz6_RMhQ4bXIimH41sHOVoY9s9QjE_Zwt1GB5dJpU5rgn401fXp2EtRFhrUYn24U0Z7hVSw4KIqq6kGSUL0VoMy2Q4FGkEixkzkVD3FnmvzHirjOovcMWHYCvVpCwcEq0xB96ImJg1IWwyv5sO34cwXxBNWMV6/s1400/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1400" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpeG8wQLx7T3V7eZbgVxyi91JxVAz6_RMhQ4bXIimH41sHOVoY9s9QjE_Zwt1GB5dJpU5rgn401fXp2EtRFhrUYn24U0Z7hVSw4KIqq6kGSUL0VoMy2Q4FGkEixkzkVD3FnmvzHirjOovcMWHYCvVpCwcEq0xB96ImJg1IWwyv5sO34cwXxBNWMV6/s320/rfk_jr_about_banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Born to a political family, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the nephew of
<br />America’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy, and the son of his Attorney
<br />General Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy is now a candidate for the <br />presidency, and is <a href="https://www.kennedy24.com/about" target="_blank">seeking the nomination of the Democratic party</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>An ailing Joe Biden announced his reelection bid amid polls showing just 43 percent of Democrats favoring the 80-year-old campaigning for the presidency.<p></p><p>The corporate media is attempting to blackout Biden's announced Democratic Primary opponents, <a href="https://marianne2024.com/statement-from-marianne-williamson-on-joe-bidens-2024-campaign-launch/" target="_blank">Marianne Williamson</a> and <a href="https://www.kennedy24.com/" target="_blank">Robert F. Kennedy Jr</a>, with Biden going to far as to use dirty tricks to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_l2Dr2nkA" target="_blank">block Williamson on social media</a>.<br /></p><p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hit back almost immediately after Biden's reelection video, a medium used because of apparent health problems of the current president.<br /><br />Writes Kennedy:</p><p></p><blockquote>I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog in these times of division.<br /><br />I am a multi-generational Democrat, but I think our party has gone off track. Remember when we upheld the interests of the poor and middle class against big corporations and Wall Street? Remember when we were the party of peace, civil liberties, and people power? I aim to reclaim my party and its traditional values.<br /><br />The Biden administration is riddled with Neocons, war hawks, Wall Street people, and former corporate lobbyists. That's what the party elite has become. But I know the rank-and-file — and the American people as a whole — don't share their priorities. It's time to return our party and our nation to the people. <br /></blockquote><br /><p></p><p></p><blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog in these times of division.</span></p>— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1650847915999461377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I am a multi-generational Democrat, but I think our party has gone off track. Remember when we upheld the interests of the poor and middle class against big corporations and Wall Street? Remember when we were the party of peace, civil liberties, and people power? I aim to reclaim my party and its traditional values.</p>— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1650920041162973184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-32320937093658474312023-04-10T08:43:00.002-05:002023-04-10T08:56:24.558-05:00Wisconsin's Worst DA Chased from Office Is Still Defended by Wisconsin Democrat Attorney General <p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PMlQTOhWmw-ftvyEItgH3anlZCok3GcEztSkwc8bLIBkWybJLJ0l8vzHgk4gPl-_iUt2LAKeMCG4Sw-ZekxfancTzxkjaRbU3-7L_InBftDo9kiCFcBrbWt6FjhCEH6bs-HyyflV5z5CRNUSKAvAgCvBs10MpriKCbtSvzd33IbOZztpTHeIq_ml/s900/skull-from-the-war-otto-dix.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="685" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PMlQTOhWmw-ftvyEItgH3anlZCok3GcEztSkwc8bLIBkWybJLJ0l8vzHgk4gPl-_iUt2LAKeMCG4Sw-ZekxfancTzxkjaRbU3-7L_InBftDo9kiCFcBrbWt6FjhCEH6bs-HyyflV5z5CRNUSKAvAgCvBs10MpriKCbtSvzd33IbOZztpTHeIq_ml/s320/skull-from-the-war-otto-dix.jpg" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Depravity of Wisconsin disgraced DA Ken Kratz,<br />driven from office in 2010, is still defended<br />by <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Kaul" target="_blank">Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul</a> (D)<br />who works to keep innocents in prison.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Calumet County District Attorney <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kratz">Ken Kratz</a>
resigned in disgrace in 2010 following allegations that Kratz sexually
harassed several women, including an assault claim alleging Kratz "had
forcible sex with an emotionally vulnerable woman after previously
prosecuting the woman," (<a href="https://casetext.com/case/office-of-lawyer-regulation-v-kratz-in-re-disciplinary-proceedings-against-kenneth-r-kratz">Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Kratz (In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Kratz</a>)).<br /><br />But <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Ken+Kratz" target="_blank">Kratz</a> wasn't responsible for his conduct, <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Ken+Kratz" target="_blank">Kratz</a> pleaded. <br />
<br />
Kratz' Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Sexually Compulsive Disorder
and addictions to several drugs are the real culprits, <a href="https://casetext.com/case/office-of-lawyer-regulation-v-kratz-in-re-disciplinary-proceedings-against-kenneth-r-kratz" target="_blank">Kratz said</a>.<br />
<br />
Such is the character of the man who perpetrated conflicting frauds upon
two juries in the infamous frame-ups of Steven Avery and Brendan
Dassey, featured in the <a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/80000772?trackId=255824129" target="_blank">Emmy-winning Making a Murderer</a>.<br />
<br />Ken Kratz. This is whom Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul defends today, at all costs against <a href="https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/crime/2023/04/10/making-a-murderer-steven-avery-brendan-dassey-case-status-2023/70011599007/" target="_blank">decency and innocence</a>.<br /><p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-19925440322035562972023-03-28T15:56:00.002-05:002023-03-30T07:56:18.774-05:00Hatred of Jews — It's Here, Real and as Dangerous as Ever<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCXy0M_jPxrrXluO-DF0eIOIuGPiAUpme6ETKXrCmUVvkZ7TIs1aH6LxnJ3T84CA_u8jFyTSN1vg45nsGAzn8FQIoQHn_bmQ9PphL9izA7A0-qeT53BM_XOyvsH2MA_GSjxaCySZvs3JJlTGK6V1_Uw1Huu0SNcGHw9i7PppKBuISS9v34VYWsTyc/s267/Blue%20Flag%20stand%20up%20to%20Jewish%20hate.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="267" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqCXy0M_jPxrrXluO-DF0eIOIuGPiAUpme6ETKXrCmUVvkZ7TIs1aH6LxnJ3T84CA_u8jFyTSN1vg45nsGAzn8FQIoQHn_bmQ9PphL9izA7A0-qeT53BM_XOyvsH2MA_GSjxaCySZvs3JJlTGK6V1_Uw1Huu0SNcGHw9i7PppKBuISS9v34VYWsTyc/s1600/Blue%20Flag%20stand%20up%20to%20Jewish%20hate.jpeg" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="text-align: left;">'Antisemitism is not just the Jewish community’s issue. It’s everybody’s'</h3>Madison, Wisconsin — I was perusing an <a href="https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/from-iraq-into-the-abyss" target="_blank">excellent new Substack website of a progressive</a>, writing about the anniversary of the Iraq War invasion and lies.<p></p><p>Left a 'hello' comment for author from my wife and me, who had picked the gentleman up from the Dane County airport 20 years ago.</p><p>Then I was immediately trolled by this lunatic, one Clarence Wilhelm Spangle, writing in part: "Fuck you and your Jewish god. . . . The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli political Action Committee."<br /></p><p>I had not been trolled like that in a while and not with this vile anti-Semitism.</p><p>I called a friend who has devoted the majority of his life fighting for <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2009/10/ten-minutes-with-demon.html" target="_blank">civil liberties and against anti-Semitism</a>, <a href="https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/" target="_blank">Mikey Weinstein</a>, and received the following profile intel on Clarence Wilhelm Spangle:</p><p></p><blockquote>First, the name ‘Nordic Pagan Solider” was not significant other than being connected to this Clarence Wilhelm Spangle. I found two other websites where this Clarence Spangle posts virulently anti-Semitic Hitler-loving garbage. The first is Bitchute (a site similar to YouTube) and along with anti-Semitic videos such as "FUCK YOU AND YOUR JEWISH GOD RACE MIXING LOSERS," his about section contains the Nazi SS motto, “ϟϟ Meine Ehre heißt Treue ϟϟ”<br /><br /> Ref: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cwspangle/<br /><br />From there, I found a website called Ancient Faces where Spangle posts pictures of Hitler and used the same Nazi SS motto. However, he also posted his interest in the surname Wilman and made a few posts regarding a real person named August E Wilman who died in Carmel, California in the early 2000s. <br /><br />Ref: https://www.ancientfaces.com/user/clarence-spangle/394802 and ref: https://www.spokeo.com/August-Wilman/California/Carmel/p40458225405<br /><br />I’d speculate that he’s related to this August Wilman or a friend but with that nugget of real information he provided, I found a Clarence W Spangle living in Jacksonville, Florida. Of most interest, this Charles Spangle also lived in Carmel, California from 2001-2012 just six miles away from where August Wilman lived. So almost certainly this Charence W Spangle living in Jacksonville, Florida is the one making these hate posts.<br /><br />I’ve attached Spangle’s current address and phone information. </blockquote><p></p><p>The point is anti-Semitism is getting worse, and I urge folks to <a href="https://twitter.com/StandUp2JewHate/status/1640322734088495105" target="_blank">consider lending their voice against it</a>.</p><p>It takes little imagination to contemplate <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/2007/09/anti-militarist-giants-cohn-and-hilberg.html" target="_blank">nonsensical, incoherent myths, contrived races</a>, demonized enemies of the people and lunatics in politics can explosively combine to catastrophic result. <br /></p><p>If we could time-travel to 1930, and speculate on the rise of an anti-Semitic lunatic, we would likely postulate France or Russia.<br /><br />In any event, post-World War II, we carry on an obligation to never forget and never let idiocy go unchallenged.<br /></p><p></p><p>Lend your support to <a href="https://twitter.com/StandUp2JewHate/status/1640322734088495105" target="_blank">Stand Up to Jewish Hate</a>.<br /></p><p></p><p>Retweet:<br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Antisemitism is not just the Jewish community’s issue. It’s everybody’s. Retweet this video with #🟦 to show your support. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandUpToJewishHate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandUpToJewishHate</a> <a href="https://t.co/fJrSRFtguW">pic.twitter.com/fJrSRFtguW</a></p>— Stand Up to Jewish Hate (@StandUp2JewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandUp2JewHate/status/1640322734088495105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2023</a></blockquote><p></p><p>My wife and I have always admired World War II veterans, though we know well U.S. work against anti-Semitism was less than perfect.</p><p>Still, we beat the Nazis, and their project to destroy the European Jews. </p><p>Today and always, I salute fighters against Nazis and standing up to Jewish hate.<br /></p><p>From <a href="https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/" target="_blank">Mikey Wienstein</a> to <a href="http://www.fitchburgwi.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/241" target="_blank">Al Liethen</a>, and millions more, <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance" target="_blank">thank you</a>. <br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQb4jy0DhswnoB1la8nmEgi-z7tpDqJN5rd_YaLAsL3NTh3xDOL6LF52TPE7fuI8oVTVpPA_hHKH0HsQPlKbr1uuhn9kQGbnC1BbEIK-jFizhIZcLIkwRyjG5ihwRmEI6jpGvNrDFvAtpmj-xgxiqhkaHkkSbrNB3rLXtvwFn4qHsetgE1UkQLJjBm/s924/Wisconsin's%20Al%20Liethen%20-%20Stood%20up%20to%20anit-Semitism%20WW%20II.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="924" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQb4jy0DhswnoB1la8nmEgi-z7tpDqJN5rd_YaLAsL3NTh3xDOL6LF52TPE7fuI8oVTVpPA_hHKH0HsQPlKbr1uuhn9kQGbnC1BbEIK-jFizhIZcLIkwRyjG5ihwRmEI6jpGvNrDFvAtpmj-xgxiqhkaHkkSbrNB3rLXtvwFn4qHsetgE1UkQLJjBm/w400-h230/Wisconsin's%20Al%20Liethen%20-%20Stood%20up%20to%20anit-Semitism%20WW%20II.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wisconsin's <a href="http://www.fitchburgwi.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/241" target="_blank">Al Liethen</a> - Stood up to anti-Semitism in WW II</td></tr></tbody></table><br />MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-15798373888149089102023-03-26T13:51:00.010-05:002023-03-27T08:06:45.380-05:00War Against Lab Leak Grinds On, Beyond Laughable Now<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQgYRKl-P9uHH_ETUd7Ceyj_6kbYiBmjvsjdONfxJTYMUBPQGhAdiPmqnG2WVIQ3PRZCsBcSxKRp4Tzyl7Iq4xX6oWQAmsj-PA4rwJ95jDTjIOBylvmdKKFmIFsXK6YYhFgJ6_jvCwA8ma0HW-QeIN_f8yfCRCztoQp41jAkBak6N7n6jrrORaY1T/s773/Coronavirus%20Covid%2019.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="773" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQgYRKl-P9uHH_ETUd7Ceyj_6kbYiBmjvsjdONfxJTYMUBPQGhAdiPmqnG2WVIQ3PRZCsBcSxKRp4Tzyl7Iq4xX6oWQAmsj-PA4rwJ95jDTjIOBylvmdKKFmIFsXK6YYhFgJ6_jvCwA8ma0HW-QeIN_f8yfCRCztoQp41jAkBak6N7n6jrrORaY1T/s320/Coronavirus%20Covid%2019.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fifty-one percent of Americans favori lab leak origins of<br />SARS-CoV-2 virus, causing Coronavirus disease COVID-19,<br /><a href="https://morningconsult.com/2023/03/07/record-share-of-americans-believe-coronavirus-leaked-from-chinese-lab/" target="_blank">Morning Consult</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The explanation SARS-CoV-2 virus, (causing <a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1" target="_blank">Coronavirus disease COVID-19</a>), originated through accidental release from a research laboratory became the majority view of Americans in February 2023, according to polls in <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2023/03/07/record-share-of-americans-believe-coronavirus-leaked-from-chinese-lab/" target="_blank">Morning Consult</a>.<br /><p></p><p></p><p>Democrats lead the nation in believing Covid 19 <i>naturally occurred</i>, instead of spilling over from a virology research laboratory — with only some 42 percent of Democrats favoring lab leak origins, 51 percent of all Americans favoring lab leak origins, and 72 percent of Republicans favoring lab leak origins. <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2023/03/07/record-share-of-americans-believe-coronavirus-leaked-from-chinese-lab/" target="_blank">Morning Consult</a></p><p>Democrats have been obstinate in their refusal to publicly acknowledge the proposition an engineered lab leak that caused <a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1" target="_blank">Coronavirus disease COVID-19</a> as an origins explanation is not only plausible, but now is clear and convincing and climbing.<br /></p><p>However, as government leaks continue, it is becoming less politically palatable for Joe Biden and the Democrats to continue the Big Lie that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/why-did-the-scientists-deceive-everyone-about-covid-19" target="_blank">Covid 19 must have <b>not</b> have come from a lab</a>. [For a continuing dose of evidence, reason and facts on SARS-CoV-2 origins, see <a href="https://twitter.com/WashburneAlex" target="_blank">Alex Washburn</a>e <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Ayjchan" role="link">@Ayjchan</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl" role="link">@JamieMetzl</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">, </span><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/" target="_blank">Nicholas Wade</a>, <a href="https://drasticresearch.org/the-team/" target="_blank">DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19</a>), and especially all the folks at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40BiosafetyNow&src=typed_query" target="_blank">BiosafetyNow</a> who are embarrassing the deluded and dishonest. <br /></p><p>Virologists, clumsy at politics, to this day often sound like dead-enders in the origins debate. And not just virologists.</p><p>Writes Justin B. Kinney, <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Quantitative Biologist. Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Co-founder, Biosafety Now, </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/As42vBKTmv" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">http://</span>biosafetynow.org</a>, "Not just virologists—public health experts and biosecurity experts too. Really seems like many in this extended science/policy community reflexively circle the wagons at any mention of a 'lab leak.'"<br /></p><p>A recent exchange on social media exemplifies some public pronouncements and an unsettling ideology of many virologists, (noone is sure how many).<br /><br /><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/about.html" target="_blank"><b>Marburg virus of 1967</b></a><br /><br />The exchange concerns the infamous <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/about.html" target="_blank">Marburg virus of 1967</a>, one of the most famous lab leak tragedies, in which a deadly virus causing hemorrhagic fever leaked from lab workers to families and caregivers, resulting in 31 deaths.<br /><br />One Krutika Kuppalli, a reputable bio-health expert, using perverse reasoning, voices her personal view that because a virus can infect human beings from animals, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html" target="_blank">zoonoses,</a> this virus capability disconfirms possibility that researchers in a lab were studying that virus and that the virus subsequently could have leaked from the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497034/" target="_blank">laboratory through lab workers</a>, such as what happened in <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/about.html" target="_blank">Marburg</a>, Germany.<br /><br />Writes <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/KrutikaKuppalli/status/1639350309829976065" target="_blank"> Kuppalli on March 24</a>, "If we can believe that #Marburg and many other infectious diseases (e.g. Ebola, Plague, Mpox etc) is the result of zoonotic transmission why is it so hard for us to believe that it was the same with COVID-19."<br /></p><p>In reply to Kuppalli, <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Justin B. Kinney, </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Quantitative Biologist. Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Co-founder, Biosafety Now (</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/As42vBKTmv" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">http://</span>biosafetynow.org</a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">, </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/BiosafetyNow" role="link">@BiosafetyNow</a>) in muted, apparent disgust, writes, "</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Fun fact: Marburg virus is named after Marburg, Germany—where the virus does not naturally occur—because the first documented outbreak was caused by a lab leak at the Behringwerke industrial plant there. @BiosafetyNow."</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In reply to Kinney's simple and, what one would guess, is an uncontroversial narrative of a historical fact of a lab leak comes the following exchange:</span></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">This is absolutely false and why on earth would you make that up?</span></p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">— Gigi Gronvall (@ggronvall) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggronvall/status/1639935770822598656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </span><p></p><p>
<br /><br />The following exchanges take place that ought merit Kinney be given a Nobel Peace Price for his patience in dealing with utter stupidity.</p><p>
</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">What I wrote is true. I thought you’d know this history.</p>— Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbkinney/status/1639982736348794882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<br /><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I’m astounded by the disdainful reaction of public health and biosecurity experts to my *accurately* calling the 1967 outbreak of Marburg virus a “lab leak”. Their reaction makes me even less inclined to believe what they say about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. <a href="https://t.co/cfC1HdJCgu">https://t.co/cfC1HdJCgu</a></p>— Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbkinney/status/1639996277290090496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Lesson going forward is: If an anti-lab leak stooge speaks, he or she is lying. <br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">These state-sponsored propagandists are so transparent & vile.</p>— Dana Parish (@danaparish) <a href="https://twitter.com/danaparish/status/1639795231515344897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Marburg was not a lab leak? It was lab workers infected by monkeys. That's a lab leak. In 2019, a US biolab was shut down because necropsies were performed on monkeys and the door to the room wasn't closed, exposing lab techs outside who weren't wearing respiratory protection.</p>— Laurence (Larry) Boorstein (@LarryBoorstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryBoorstein/status/1640007565550448642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It’s more than semantics/insults, the scientific community (of which I am a member) is by and large treating the public like they are stupid children that need to be punished for questioning their authority. I feel it’s the scientific community that needs to be held accountable</p>— Bryce Nickels (@Bryce_Nickels) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1639796676155043841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It's troubling how many virologists seem more concerned about the potential for new rules and regulations on their own research than the possibility that the research of their respected colleagues might have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic. <a href="https://t.co/KhuBSYFAiq">https://t.co/KhuBSYFAiq</a></p>— Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbkinney/status/1639758856413749250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2023</a></blockquote><p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Yes, it is troubling that virologists seem more concerned about the potential for new rules and
regulations on their own research than the possibility that the research
of their respected colleagues might have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.<br /><br />Even more troubling are the facts that the Democrat Party is not concerned that bio-research might have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, and that Biden and the Democrats continue to block open investigations into the COVID-19 pandemic origins.</p><p>The attacks and lies will go on for a very long time.<br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It may seem subtle for people outside the field, but for anyone who's been paying attention throughout COVID, Dr. Gonsalves has been one of Dr. Fauci's attack dogs.<br /><br />His attack on Dr. Redfield's far superior virological credentials is a transparently bad-faith defense of Fauci. <a href="https://t.co/WzdpWidaWk">https://t.co/WzdpWidaWk</a></p>— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) <a href="https://twitter.com/WashburneAlex/status/1639996229475250183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Where, dolt, did Kinney suggest gain-of-function research was involved in the laboratory accidents with Marburg virus?<br /><br />Why, dolt, do you limit the definition of "laboratory accident" to include only gain-of-function research?</p>— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1640050404791578624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“In over 1,000 years of evolutionary time, we see no evidence of a furin cleavage site in any SARS CoV, except for the SARS-CoV that emerged in Wuhan 1.5 years after researchers proposed to insert a furin cleavage site in a SARS CoV in Wuhan.” Mmmm… <a href="https://t.co/rz4B1K2JHP">https://t.co/rz4B1K2JHP</a></p>— Frank Visser (@ReusVisser) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReusVisser/status/1640003653451890690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Unsurprisingly, virologists want the public to believe up is down, wet is dry, day is night, and that they care about lab safety. That journalists keep pretending AR and cohorts are experts in anything other than misinformation peddling is a joke. <a href="https://t.co/aXLV3Nw5Ar">https://t.co/aXLV3Nw5Ar</a></p>— Bryce Nickels (@Bryce_Nickels) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bryce_Nickels/status/1640053256066924546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Kuppalli's statement, and similar statements over the last 24 hours by Eckerle, Gronvall, Rasmussen, and Pease are a public declaration of an inability to read, an inability to reason and/or a desire to deceive.</p>— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1640117398345768961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I want everyone to observe how confidently "science journalist" <a href="https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Laurie_Garrett</a> states something as epidemiological fact, pointing to her book<br><br>And then read <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@R_H_Ebright</a>, an actual scientist.<br><br>If you just read Garrett, your understanding of science would be wrong. <a href="https://t.co/4dqu1GfUzs">https://t.co/4dqu1GfUzs</a> <a href="https://t.co/VCoG9RMVQc">pic.twitter.com/VCoG9RMVQc</a></p>— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) <a href="https://twitter.com/WashburneAlex/status/1640323019511054336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-70316051516767507342023-03-25T10:44:00.002-05:002023-03-25T10:44:34.379-05:00Democrats, Liberals Ridicule Waco Survivors, Dishonor the Fallen<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPSZ7ANaVI2z2rID9ZZEP3t94fj4xCx4Eg5Jbv-FSNazwVuVYRSyj0umoJhc7gRUcDEiFn_D613GP-mMwlBvWLlmkXnOdJT_1JNIjYcOxv68km1KqKCRkrkW5VakulCmIDdZ_VXCMP3-jfol8AGiUtFlZbCLb3n80Vn17tlphzLSrte1PftM2nWfT/s2416/HR_WACO1_0418-full-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2416" data-original-width="1860" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPSZ7ANaVI2z2rID9ZZEP3t94fj4xCx4Eg5Jbv-FSNazwVuVYRSyj0umoJhc7gRUcDEiFn_D613GP-mMwlBvWLlmkXnOdJT_1JNIjYcOxv68km1KqKCRkrkW5VakulCmIDdZ_VXCMP3-jfol8AGiUtFlZbCLb3n80Vn17tlphzLSrte1PftM2nWfT/s320/HR_WACO1_0418-full-1.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waco 1993. Democrats: Tough shit.<br />Illustration by David Palumbo<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Gaslighting of history and Americans continues</h3><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Commentary</h4><p>It's nearly the thirtieth anniversary of the 1993 <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/08/clinton-reno-and-waco-the-real-story/" target="_blank">Waco massacre</a>, a perfect time to mock children killed, 82 people burned to death, and those who honor them.</p><p>It's a perfect time to mock, if you're a Democrat.<br /><br />Donald <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ap-waco-alvin-bragg-texas-b2307821.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1679753467" target="_blank">Trump is speaking today at Waco.</a> Trump, lunatic though he remains, has a keen eye cast on patronizing Democrat fare that veers into Democrat depravity, still unpopular with folks who think massacres are odious.<br /></p><p>From Charles Homans in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/donald-trump-waco-branch-davidians.html" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i></a> this weekend:</p><p></p><blockquote>The attention to Mr. Trump’s choice of locale [Waco] highlights the long political afterlife of the Waco standoff. A polarizing episode in its own time, the deadly raid was invoked in the 1990s by right-wing extremists including Timothy McVeigh, often to the dismay of the surviving Branch Davidians. It has remained a cause for contemporary far-right groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.<br /><br />Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theorist broadcaster who helped draw crowds of Trump loyalists to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, rose to prominence promoting wild claims about the Waco standoff. The longtime Trump associate and former campaign adviser Roger Stone dedicated his 2015 book, 'The Clintons’ War on Women," to the Branch Davidians who died at Mount Carmel.</blockquote><p></p><p></p><p> So, you see, expressing sympathy for those killed, or outrage at the killers, and condemnation of Democrat political support of the killers means you're a fellow traveler of the far-right and Alex Jones.<br /><br />It's the way it is now with the Democrat Party, the party of the police, prosecutors and intelligence community.<br /><br />See <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/search-results/?cx=000357264939014560440%3Aicshsy4bfu0&ie=UTF-8&q=Waco#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Waco&gsc.page=1" target="_blank">Waco coverage in Counterpunch</a> for a does of sanity.</p><p></p><p> Continues Homans in the <i><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/donald-trump-waco-branch-davidians.html" target="_blank">Times</a></i>:</p><blockquote>'Waco is a touchstone for the far right,' said Stuart Wright, a professor of sociology at Lamar University in Beaumont, Tex., and an authority on the standoff.<br /><br />He said Mr. Trump’s decision to begin his campaign there, if intentional in its nod to the siege, would echo Ronald Reagan’s August 1980 speech affirming his support of 'states’ rights' at a county fair near Philadelphia, Miss., a town known for the murder of three civil rights activists 16 years earlier.</blockquote><p></p><p>Thirty years after the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Waco%3A+The+Rules+of+Engagement&redirectFromSmile=1&ref=nb_sb_noss" target="_blank">Waco slaughter</a> there is no reaching liberals through appeals to humanity and simple decency. <br /><br />Perpetrators write the history, and it becomes difficult if not impossible to recount simple facts and objective truth.</p><p>Facts and truth, Democrats call this <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/video/2022/03/31/media_refuses_to_retract_russian_disinformation_claim_even_as_nyt_wapo_confirm_hunter_biden_emails_system_update_w_glenn_greenwald_824806.html" target="_blank">misinformation</a> and narrative.<br /> <br />Democrats and their Party press swing their political cudgel branding anyone speaking up for liberties, such as <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195" target="_blank">freedom of expression</a>, freedom of religion to the right to be left alone as far-right denizens drinking in phantasms of killer racists and cultists.<br /><br />This weekend, give a thought to the people slaughtered at Waco.<br /><br />By the way, Joe Biden spoke against the killed, and politically exonerated the killers. Surprise.<br /><br />Said Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware), commenting on Waco, as shown in <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Waco-Rules-Engagement-William-Gazecki/dp/B0741CYTDL" target="_blank">Waco: The Rules of Engagement</a>:</em><br /><br /> The record of Waco incident documents mistakes, but the record of Waco does not evidence however, is any improper motive or intent on the part of law enforcement.<br /><br /> Davis Koresh and the Davidians set fire to themselves.<br /><br /> They committed suicide.<br /><br /> Government did not do that.<br /><br />Bullshit.<br /><br />Innocent people were slaughtered by people who find it easy to slaughter innocent people.<br /><br />From <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/08/clinton-reno-and-waco-the-real-story/" target="_blank">Clinton, Reno and Waco: the Real Story</a>:<br /><br /></p><blockquote>In <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=Dan+Gifford" target="_blank">Dan Gifford’s</a> film <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Waco-Rules-Engagement-William-Gazecki/dp/B0741CYTDL" target="_blank">Waco: The Rules of Engagement,</a></em> a powerful
interview segment presents a sympathetic Sheriff Jack Harwell of
McLennan County, Texas nearly in tears as he speaks of his experience
with the Branch Davidians: 'They were all good people. They had
different beliefs than others, different beliefs than I have, maybe
different beliefs than you have in their way of life, especially in
their religious beliefs. But basically they were good people. I was around
them quite a lot. They were always nice, mannerly, they minded their
own business. They were always clean, and courteous. I liked them.'</blockquote>I liked them too.<br /><br />We all should, by acknowledging their humanity and standing for their liberties.<br /><p></p>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-72377093518213178542023-03-21T19:42:00.003-05:002023-03-21T19:42:55.234-05:00We Need COVID 19-Origins Hearings, ala Kastenmeier Vietnam War Hearings<p><span id="biblio-title"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimp8NB-Ad9ucQGnToj5iwJjm_snQUPdPHSRny270-8Jqqy5q81tHK0ej-hC1ut0wt349dPUs1E5-WZ9rSWQWCnhNvogwG5gGIfzJJeaRDEeyp7MaMb4DidRC_sQ3TPjs0lRpcSsnxl1zMMQvgng7PKbs7-dtxH_ymbhMuJeuVq3WckYABq7Zx9fDxH/s198/IF%20Stone.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="198" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimp8NB-Ad9ucQGnToj5iwJjm_snQUPdPHSRny270-8Jqqy5q81tHK0ej-hC1ut0wt349dPUs1E5-WZ9rSWQWCnhNvogwG5gGIfzJJeaRDEeyp7MaMb4DidRC_sQ3TPjs0lRpcSsnxl1zMMQvgng7PKbs7-dtxH_ymbhMuJeuVq3WckYABq7Zx9fDxH/s1600/IF%20Stone.jpg" width="198" /></a></div>Madison, Wisconsin — March 8, 2023, a House Committee held an anticipated <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/" target="_blank">hearing on investigating the COVID-19 origins</a>.<br /><br />But House Democrats performed shamefully, exemplified by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcIY4S4PBnY" target="_blank">Rep. Kweisi Mfume</a> (D-Maryland), a lightweight non-entity, who launched pathetic<i> </i><a href="https://twitter.com/RepKweisiMfume/status/1633582671371673600" target="_blank"><i>ad homium</i> attacks</a> again science writer and hearing witness, <span class="witness-name"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Nicholas+Wade&hl=en&source=hp&ei=VEAaZKvaJaOA0PEP07OWoAo&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAZBpOZMGDTk2BnCS9w5K_IjnZRURsjx6t&ved=0ahUKEwir1OyAme79AhUjADQIHdOZBaQQ4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=Nicholas+Wade&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyDggAEI8BEOoCEIwDEOUCMg4IABCPARDqAhCMAxDlAjIOCAAQjwEQ6gIQjAMQ5QIyDggAEI8BEOoCEIwDEOUCMg4IABCPARDqAhCMAxDlAjIOCAAQjwEQ6gIQjAMQ5QIyDggAEI8BEOoCEIwDEOUCMg4IABCPARDqAhCMAxDlAjIOCC4QjwEQ6gIQjAMQ5QIyDggAEI8BEOoCEIwDEOUCUKYDWKYDYIIPaAFwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAoAECoAEBsAEK&sclient=gws-wiz" target="_blank">Nicholas Wade</a>. </span><p></p><p><span class="witness-name">Wade penned a brilliant piece on COVID-19 origins, reason and thought control, <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/" target="_blank">The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?</a>, at the <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/" target="_blank">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists</a> some two years earlier.<br /><br />But Wade's </span><span class="witness-name"></span><span class="witness-name">COVID-19 origins work never came up under questioning by </span><span class="witness-name"></span>Mfume.</p><p>Instead, Mfume spent his time trying to vilify Wade for writing <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/308785/a-troublesome-inheritance-by-nicholas-wade/" target="_blank">A Troublesome Inheritance<br />Genes, Race and Human History</a> (Penguin Random House, 2015) that has absolutely nothing to do with <span id="biblio-title"><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/" target="_blank">COVID-19 origins</a></span>, the mission behind the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19/" target="_blank">Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic</a>.<br /><br />Mfume's <i>ad homium</i> offered no clarity beyond the fact Mfume did not read and is not equipped to understand Wade's thoughtful work.<br /><br />Mfume and congressional Democrats wanted to subvert the hearing, and clearly millions dead did not weigh on this Party of liars and sheep.<br /><br />Mfume does exemplify Democrat refusal among Congress and Joe Biden to probe what is almost certainly a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3911225-rand-paul-claims-people-who-write-off-lab-leak-theory-of-covid-origins-are-self-interested/" target="_blank">lab leak origin of COVID 19</a> as the world is over three years into one of the most spectacular mass gas-lighting projects in U.S. history after the most deadly Pandemic in modern history.<br /></p><p>In the face of U.S. government lying led by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D, former <a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director" target="_blank">Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases</a>, (NIAID), U.S. intelligence, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/" target="_blank">censorship</a> across the media, (see <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/" target="_blank">Cleveland</a>. <a href="https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-lab-origin-of-sars" target="_blank">Washburne</a>. <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=hasen+and+sorkin" target="_blank">Leon</a>. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-redacted-emails/" target="_blank">Hibbett and Grim</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195" target="_blank">Taibbi</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1638195786725957636" target="_blank">Greenwald</a>,), it is time for citizens to bypass the media, Congress, Democrats and Biden and hold grassroots hearings on <span class="witness-name"> COVID-19 origin.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Vietnam_Hearings.html?id=UKYExQEACAAJ" target="_blank"><b>Robert W. Kastenmeier Vietnam War hearings</b></a><br /></span><span class="witness-name"><br />This </span><span class="witness-name">COVID-19 origins hearing can be modeled on the </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Vietnam_Hearings.html?id=UKYExQEACAAJ" target="_blank">Robert W. Kastenmeier Vietnam War hearings</a> in 1966 when citizens replaced so-called leaders who refused to face facts in the midst of lies and death, and massive government duplicity. </span><br /><span class="witness-name"></span></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__3hceioxw52t" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Today, congressional Democrats and </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" role="link">@POTUS</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> will never accede to honest probes of </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hashtag_click" role="link">#COVID19</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> origins. This is why we need the </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hashtag_click" role="link">#COVID19</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> origins akin to Kastenmeier's. <br /><br />Honest scientists, intellectuals and victims could testify. Citizens can offer statements on what lying about Covid 19 means to them. <br /><br />Concerned folks such as </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Ayjchan" role="link">@Ayjchan</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl" role="link">@JamieMetzl</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> , </span>Nicholas Wade, <a href="https://drasticresearch.org/the-team/" target="_blank">DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19</a>), among those burdened only by a commitment to truth, can offer candid summaries of evidence, reason and facts.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcIY4S4PBnY" target="_blank"> Kweisi Mfume</a> and his dependable Party of liars need not attend.<br /><br />Even as <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/20/statement-by-the-president-on-s-619-the-covid-19-origin-act-of-2023/" target="_blank">Biden promises to release Covid 19 origins information</a>, these is absolutely no reason to trust this president and his party to begin telling the truth now.<br /><br />We citizens of the United States and world must lead against Democrats.<br /></div></div>MALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503524741573516284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431626075970716650.post-11865988296871058552023-03-21T13:00:00.003-05:002023-03-25T09:40:23.045-05:00Democrat Party Must Be Beaten by Allied Forces<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf3t343fMh2D-nw3RHU6PFV1tBjdTAFgdccEw0slnpNS9DjbsyGpGBNDSqMU_u3JHHFbl2axfnQrwhpMEkHKTN3KnBaOgw7GsDTnpzKeRrGcA2gP3LmwZnQK97Rcl7aNI-yNAejVP-5ZDVz8Nt6DBNoZSVVUJAOqiiLuyBKtDNqw_QY_JhQhdW6l2l/s320/Ben%20Shahn,%20The%20Passion%20of%20Sacco%20and%20Vanzetti,%201931-32.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="175" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf3t343fMh2D-nw3RHU6PFV1tBjdTAFgdccEw0slnpNS9DjbsyGpGBNDSqMU_u3JHHFbl2axfnQrwhpMEkHKTN3KnBaOgw7GsDTnpzKeRrGcA2gP3LmwZnQK97Rcl7aNI-yNAejVP-5ZDVz8Nt6DBNoZSVVUJAOqiiLuyBKtDNqw_QY_JhQhdW6l2l/s1600/Ben%20Shahn,%20The%20Passion%20of%20Sacco%20and%20Vanzetti,%201931-32.jpg" width="175" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Ben Shahn’s <br />
The Passion of Sacco and Vansetti<br />
"Sacco and
Vanzetti lie in coffins; in <br />
foreground in front of a colonnaded
<br />
neoclassical courthouse (image left). <br />
On the porch behind them hangs a
<br />
portrait of the infamous trial judge, <br />
Webster Thayer. Towering over <br />
Sacco and Vanzetti are members of<br />
the committee that reviewed <br />
convictions: Samuel Stratton, MIT<br />
pres; Lawrence Lowell,
Harvard<br />
pres and Robert Grant, retired <br />
judge," (<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/american-art-to-wwii/social-realism/a/shahn-the-passion-of-sacco-and-vanzetti" target="_blank">Kuykendall</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>Madison, Wisconsin — Neo-liberal cultists, corporate media and academia brandish national-security nostrums, wokism taboo-talk, and therapeutic-complex-speak in the name of science, <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/crt-briefing-book/" target="_blank">equality</a> and all that is rational and good. <p></p><p>This is the Democrat Party 2023, and it is fetid, nonsensical and corrupt. <br /><br />Democrats want censorship across the media, for our own good of course, and any argument or airing of facts must be shut down. (See <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/" target="_blank">Cleveland</a>. <a href="https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-lab-origin-of-sars" target="_blank">Washburne</a>. <a href="http://malcontends.blogspot.com/search?q=hasen+and+sorkin" target="_blank">Leon</a>. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-redacted-emails/" target="_blank">Hibbett and Grim</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195" target="_blank">Taibbi</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1638195786725957636" target="_blank">Greenwald</a>.)<br /></p><p>As Covid 19 <a href="https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-lab-origin-of-sars" target="_blank">lab-leak case approaches beyond a reasonable doubt</a>, corporate media and the Democrat Party only grudgingly acknowledge why agnosticism and provisional conclusions on Covid 19 origins are consonant with science. </p><p>This agnosticism didn't last long as liberal media are now hyping a ridiculous new story about racoon dogs being the long-sought origin point in among the wet-market delivering SARS-CoV-2.<br /><br />Laughs <a href="https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/stop-shaming-racoon-dogs" target="_blank">Alex Washburne</a>:<br /><br /></p><blockquote>This [media] episode is the most desperate, farcical episode in a series of increasingly outrageous, farcical episodes. These unjustified scientific media blitzes feel, to any reasoned skeptic, especially a seasoned skeptic with knowledge of what serious scientific discoveries look like, more like propaganda campaigns than diligent truth-digging efforts. These farces have turned The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Guardian into the Three Stooges of SARS-CoV-2 origins reporting.</blockquote>Even liberals are asking, can media and Democrat stooges be this dumb?<br /><br />For some three years, Americans raising questions about <a href="https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1636851489904766976" target="_blank">Covid 19 origins</a> and asserting need for objective probes were branded racists, conspiracy mongers or allied with Russia.<p></p><p>For liberal-Democrat domestic forces, dishonesty is the best communications policy.</p><p>Time to ditch the Democrats. Democrats are protecting lies and are getting more ludicrous by the moment.<br /></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This is something media outlets should be aware of when reporting on the origins of COVID-19. <a href="https://t.co/HdeY7fkuPA">https://t.co/HdeY7fkuPA</a></p>— Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbkinney/status/1638113761952235522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2023</a></blockquote><p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<span style="font-size: small;">For a compelling knockdown of liberal response to reality, see Bio Safety press release below.</span></p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b><span>MEDIA OUTLETS SHOULD CORRECT MISLEADING ARTICLES ABOUT RACCOON DOGS STARTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC</span></b></span><div class="chariti-page-wrapper" id="chariti-page-wrapper"><div class="gdlr-core-page-builder-body"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-wrapper" style="padding: 50px 0px;"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-wrapper-content gdlr-core-js"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-wrapper-container clearfix gdlr-core-container"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column gdlr-core-column-60 gdlr-core-column-first" id="gdlr-core-column-1"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column-content-margin gdlr-core-js" style="padding: 50px;"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-column-content clearfix gdlr-core-js"><div class="gdlr-core-pbf-element"><div class="gdlr-core-text-box-item gdlr-core-item-pdlr gdlr-core-item-pdb gdlr-core-left-align gdlr-core-no-p-space"><div class="gdlr-core-text-box-item-content" style="line-height: -5; text-transform: none;">
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">On
Thursday, March 16, The Atlantic published an article titled “The
strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic” [1]. Similar
stories in other influential publications soon followed:</span></p>
<ul><li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">New York Times: “New data links pandemic’s origins to racoon dogs at Wuhan market” [2],</span></li><li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Washington Post: “New covid origin data links raccoon dogs to the pandemic” [3],</span></li><li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Associated Press: “New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market” [4],</span></li><li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Scientific American: “New evidence supports animal origin of COVID virus through raccoon dogs” [5].</span></li><li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Science: “Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19” [6].</span></li></ul>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">This
is just a small sample of the barrage of news reports strongly hinting
that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic had been solved.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><u>We
believe these news reports are deeply misleading and should be
corrected. We also believe the reports reflect yet another example of a
small group of researchers exaggerating their findings and misleading
the public with false certainty about the origins of COVID-19.</u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><u>First,
the data on which these claims are based have not been made available
for other researchers to confirm and independently interpret.</u>
Rather, they were only presented in a private meeting between the
researchers and the WHO [7]. The media therefore have no independent
confirmation that the data are sound or that the researchers’
conclusions are valid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><u>Second, the data provide no substantive new information about the origins of COVID-19</u>,
even if taken at face value. According to reports, the central piece of
data is a single SARS-CoV-2-positive environmental sample which
contains DNA from a raccoon dog. There is no evidence that this raccoon
dog started the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, there is no evidence that
this raccoon dog was even infected with SARS-CoV-2, as there was also
human DNA in the sample, and the viral material could just as easily
have come from an infected human. The researchers appear to have
cherry-picked this one sample, out of 73 total SARS-CoV-2-positive
samples collected at the Wuhan market [7], because this one sample
furthers the specific narrative they have advocated in previous
publications [8,9].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><u>Third,
the researchers who reported the data have a documented track record of
exaggerating their findings, concealing doubts about their findings,
and hiding major conflicts of interest.</u> In 2022, many of the same
researchers claimed that they had “dispositive evidence” and
“incontrovertible evidence” that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from the wildlife
trade [10]. They later withdrew this claim [8,9]. In 2020, some of the
same researchers co-authored the paper “Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2”,
which expressed scientific certainty that SARS-CoV-2 had not been
altered in a laboratory [11]. Those authors, however, failed to report a
major conflict of interest: that the heads of their funding agencies
played an active role in preparing this paper [12]. The researchers also
failed to openly acknowledge doubts that they had privately expressed
about their conclusions before the funding agency heads became involved
(doubts that have only since become public thanks to Freedom of
Information Act requests [12]). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">We
believe that this latest episode represents an unfortunate example of
influential media outlets spreading a speculative narrative under the
guise of a scientific finding. We also believe that the meagerness of
the data being sold to the public underscores the need for an urgent,
comprehensive, and forensic investigation into the origins of COVID-19,
an investigation that uses not only scientific data, but all the tools
of intelligence gathering and law enforcement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><u>The public deserves real answers, not false certainty</u>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Signed,</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Amir Attaran</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Colin D. Butler</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Richard H. Ebright</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">David N. Fisman</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Andre M. Goffinet</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Elisa D. Harris</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Laura H. Kahn</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Justin B. Kinney</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Yanna Lambrinidou</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Milton Leitenberg</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Helen E. Mundler</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Bryce E. Nickels</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Sabrina Packman</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Dana Parish</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Steven E. Phillips</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Eric S. Starbuck</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Tyler Stepke</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Susan Wright</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b>About Biosafety Now</b></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://biosafetynow.org/">Biosafety Now</a>
is an organization of experts in biomedicine, mathematics, public
health, public policy, law, social science, and public advocacy, all of
whom agree that research that creates potential pandemic pathogens more
dangerous than those in nature poses existential risks to the public and
provides few, if any, benefits for science, medicine, public health, or
national security. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><b>References</b></span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[1] <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/">The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic</a> (The Atlantic; March 16, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[2] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html">New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market</a> (The New York Times; March 16, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[3] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/03/17/covid-origins-raccoon-dog/">Genetic data links raccoon dogs to covid origin; WHO seeks China cooperation</a> (Washington Post; March 17, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[4] <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-virus-origins-coronavirus-lab-leak-wildlife-wuhan-raccoon-dog-4dafbb46a575e14eff9fedf2e705aee2">New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market</a> (AP News; March 17, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[5] <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-evidence-supports-animal-origin-of-covid-virus-through-raccoon-dogs/">New Evidence Supports Animal Origin of COVID Virus through Raccoon Dogs</a> (Scientific American; March 17, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[6] <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-origins-missing-sequences">Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19</a> (Science; March 16, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[7] <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/18-03-2023-sago-statement-on-newly-released-sars-cov-2-metagenomics-data-from-china-cdc-on-gisaid">SAGO statement on newly released SARS-CoV-2 metagenomics data from China CDC on GISAID</a> (March 18, 2023)</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[8] Worobey, M. et al. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715">The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.</a> Science 377, abp8715 (2022).</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[9] Pekar, J. E. et al. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337">The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2.</a> Science 377, eabp8337 (2022).</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[10] Worobey et al.. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6299116">The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence.</a> [preprint] Zenodo (2022).</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[11] Andersen, K. G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W. I., Holmes, E. C. & Garry, R. F. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9">The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2</a>. Nat Med 26, 450–452 (2020).</span></p>
<p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">[12] <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/timeline-the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/">Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2</a> (US Right to Know; November 29, 2022)</span></p>
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