FOIA Docs: Bio Researchers Lied to Pentagon in Scheme to Direct Money to Wuhan Lab

A 2018 research proposal called DEFUSE called for synthesizing
spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that
supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic
pathogen in a century. (Photo credit: Unsplash)

A new report chronicles a scheme by U.S. bio-researchers to mislead the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) office in a 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE, to direct American monies to a secret Chinese lab conducting unsafe coronavirus research in Wuhan.

The report which is being blacked-out by American corporate media, is authored by Emily Kopp, a reporter at U.S. Right to Know.

Ms. Kopp analyzed documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know, via a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read all of the documents here.

Writes Kopp:

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 documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know. 

A 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists, has stoked concern that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident. 

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 likened DEFUSE to a blueprint for generating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.

The report can be read as politically shielding the Pentagon from much blame in supporting bio-research gone bad, as DARPA turned down the 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE; and the two American bio researchers appear to conspire to mislead DARPA, the documents show.

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.pic.twitter.com/IcFctdd3ZG

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) December 19, 2023

Biden Adminstration Denies RFK, Jr Secret Service Protection; Says "Not Warranted"

Supporters of the son of Bobby Kennedy are worried
about the safety of RFK, Jr. Today, the Biden administration
denied Secret Service protection of the presidential
candidate, saying protection is "not warranted."

Update: Democrats caught with their pants down, attempting to blow smoke. DHS

Sec. Mayorkas and POTUS 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.

The son of Robert Frances Kennedy has requested Secret Service protection, but the Biden administration denied the request today, saying protection is "not warranted at this time."

Robert Frances Kennedy, Jr. is a candidate for the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency of the United States.

Kennedy broke the news this morning: Writes Kennedy:

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.

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…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 28, 2023

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..

Biden, who faces lingering questions over his cognitive ability, has offered no comment on this development.

We Need COVID 19-Origins Hearings, ala Kastenmeier Vietnam War Hearings

Madison, Wisconsin — March 8, 2023, a House Committee held an anticipated hearing on investigating the COVID-19 origins.

But House Democrats performed shamefully, exemplified by Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Maryland), a lightweight non-entity, who launched pathetic ad homium attacks again science writer and hearing witness, Nicholas Wade. 

Wade penned a brilliant piece on COVID-19 origins, reason and thought control, The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?, at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists some two years earlier.

But Wade's COVID-19 origins work never came up under questioning by Mfume.

Instead, Mfume spent his time trying to vilify Wade for writing A Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History (Penguin Random House, 2015) that has absolutely nothing to do with COVID-19 origins, the mission behind the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Mfume's ad homium offered no clarity beyond the fact Mfume did not read and is not equipped to understand Wade's thoughtful work.

Mfume and congressional Democrats wanted to subvert the hearing, and clearly millions dead did not weigh on this Party of liars and sheep.

Mfume does exemplify Democrat refusal among Congress and Joe Biden to probe what is almost certainly a lab leak origin of COVID 19 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.

In the face of U.S. government lying led by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, (NIAID), U.S. intelligence, censorship across the media,  (see Cleveland. Washburne. Leon. Hibbett and Grim. Taibbi. Greenwald,), it is time for citizens to bypass the media, Congress, Democrats and Biden and hold grassroots hearings on COVID-19 origin.

Robert W. Kastenmeier Vietnam War hearings

This COVID-19 origins hearing can be modeled on the Robert W. Kastenmeier Vietnam War hearings in 1966 when citizens replaced so-called leaders who refused to face facts in the midst of lies and death, and massive government duplicity.

Today, congressional Democrats and @POTUS will never accede to honest probes of #COVID19 origins. This is why we need the #COVID19 origins akin to Kastenmeier's.

Honest scientists, intellectuals and victims could testify. Citizens can offer statements on what lying about Covid 19 means to them.

Concerned folks such as @Ayjchan @JamieMetzl , Nicholas Wade, DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19), among those burdened only by a commitment to truth, can offer candid summaries of evidence, reason and facts.

Kweisi Mfume and his dependable Party of liars need not attend.

Even as Biden promises to release Covid 19 origins information, these is absolutely no reason to trust this president and his party to begin telling the truth now.

We citizens of the United States and world must lead against Democrats.

Democrat Party Must Be Beaten by Allied Forces

Ben Shahn’s
The Passion of Sacco and Vansetti
"Sacco and Vanzetti lie in coffins; in
foreground in front of a colonnaded
neoclassical courthouse (image left).
On the porch behind them hangs a
portrait of the infamous trial judge,
Webster Thayer. Towering over
Sacco and Vanzetti are members of
 the committee that reviewed
convictions: Samuel Stratton, MIT
pres; Lawrence Lowell, Harvard
pres and Robert Grant, retired
judge," (Kuykendall)

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, equality and all that is rational and good. 

This is the Democrat Party 2023, and it is fetid, nonsensical and corrupt.

Democrats want censorship across the media, for our own good of course, and any argument or airing of facts must be shut down. (See Cleveland. Washburne. Leon. Hibbett and Grim. Taibbi. Greenwald.)

As Covid 19 lab-leak case approaches beyond a reasonable doubt, corporate media and the Democrat Party only grudgingly acknowledge why agnosticism and provisional conclusions on Covid 19 origins are consonant with science. 

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.

Laughs Alex Washburne:

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.

Even liberals are asking, can media and Democrat stooges be this dumb?

For some three years, Americans raising questions about Covid 19 origins and asserting need for objective probes were branded racists, conspiracy mongers or allied with Russia.

For liberal-Democrat domestic forces, dishonesty is the best communications policy.

Time to ditch the Democrats. Democrats are protecting lies and are getting more ludicrous by the moment.

This is something media outlets should be aware of when reporting on the origins of COVID-19. https://t.co/HdeY7fkuPA

— Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) March 21, 2023

For a compelling knockdown of liberal response to reality, see Bio Safety press release below.

MEDIA OUTLETS SHOULD CORRECT MISLEADING ARTICLES ABOUT RACCOON DOGS STARTING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

 

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:

• New York Times: “New data links pandemic’s origins to racoon dogs at Wuhan market” [2],
• Washington Post: “New covid origin data links raccoon dogs to the pandemic” [3],
• Associated Press: “New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market” [4],
• Scientific American: “New evidence supports animal origin of COVID virus through raccoon dogs” [5].
• Science: “Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19” [6].

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.

 

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.

 

First, the data on which these claims are based have not been made available for other researchers to confirm and independently interpret. 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.

 

Second, the data provide no substantive new information about the origins of COVID-19, 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].

 

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. 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]). 

 

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. 

 

The public deserves real answers, not false certainty.

 

 

Signed,

Amir Attaran

Colin D. Butler

Richard H. Ebright

David N. Fisman

Andre M. Goffinet

Elisa D. Harris

Laura H. Kahn

Justin B. Kinney

Yanna Lambrinidou

Milton Leitenberg

Helen E. Mundler

Bryce E. Nickels

Sabrina Packman

Dana Parish

Steven E. Phillips

Eric S. Starbuck

Tyler Stepke

Susan Wright

 

 

About Biosafety Now

Biosafety Now 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. 

 

References

[1] The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic (The Atlantic; March 16, 2023)

[2] New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market (The New York Times; March 16, 2023)

[3] Genetic data links raccoon dogs to covid origin; WHO seeks China cooperation (Washington Post; March 17, 2023)

[4] New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market (AP News; March 17, 2023)

[5] New Evidence Supports Animal Origin of COVID Virus through Raccoon Dogs (Scientific American; March 17, 2023)

[6] Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19 (Science; March 16, 2023)

[7] SAGO statement on newly released SARS-CoV-2 metagenomics data from China CDC on GISAID (March 18, 2023)

[8] Worobey, M. et al. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Science 377, abp8715 (2022).

[9] Pekar, J. E. et al. The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2. Science 377, eabp8337 (2022).

[10] Worobey et al.. The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence. [preprint] Zenodo (2022).

[11] Andersen, K. G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W. I., Holmes, E. C. & Garry, R. F. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nat Med 26, 450–452 (2020).

[12] Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 (US Right to Know; November 29, 2022)

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Wisconsin Attorney General Candidate, Eric Toney, Wages Abuse of Power Against Innocents

Eric Toney, candidate for Wisconsin attorney general, is so
"tough," he prosecutes innocent people.

Madison, Wisconsin — Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney (R) is on a mission.

Toney is using his office of public trust to propel his political candidacy, another in a line of Wisconsin prosecutors acting on whims, lies or political calculations to destroy innocent victims as means of achieving a political perch.

Eric Toney is a Republican Party candidate for attorney general.

Absentee and overseas voting has begun for the Aug. 9 Primary.

When political prosecutors like Toney strike, legal venom is delivered under color of law with the power of the state behind personal malice, absent moral considerations that guide most people.

Matt Mencarini reports in Wisconsin Watch that politician Eric Toney has now prosecuted five people for felony election fraud for making honest mistakes in listing their P.O. Box as a residential address.

In ‘A hammer in search of a nail’: Wisconsin AG candidate prosecutes eligible voters for address snafus, five innocents put down the wrong address.

There is no "intent" which would satify election fraud, as the state statute clearly lays out as the crucial element for a criminal offense. [See 12.13 "Election fraud. ... (b) Falsely procures registration or makes false statements to the municipal clerk, board of election commissioners or any other election official whether or not under oath."]

But Eric Toney gets to score some political points for the Aug. 9 Primary.

Wisconsin voters should reject Eric Toney, this guy is a piece of human garbage.

Anthony Fauci Lied about COVID 19 Orgins, U.S. House E-mails Reveal

"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed," wrote the great journalist, I.F. Stone.

I first encountered I.F. Stone's admonition on a large wall poster in a hall some feet away from Erwin Knoll's office at The Progressive Magazine in 1985.

Stone's statement seemed both inspiring and obvious.

This week, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, (NIAID), is revealed as having self-consciously lied about how the Pandemic began. 

Emails released by members of a U.S. House committee reveal Anthony Fauci worked with virologists  and U.S. government officials in early 2020, musing on formulating strategy to examine COVID 19 origins, and the efficacy of ways of countering "voices of conspiracy" asserting the possibility of an accidental Chinese lab leak of the COVID 19 virus.

"Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy, with what seems to be growing momentum," read a Feb. 4, 2020 email from former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins to Fauci and other NIH officials.

The conspiracy theory is the contention that Chinese government scientists secretly bio-engineered a Coronavirus that subsequently was unintentionally released into the world to catastrophic consequences.

Help put down is the not the same as explain what the science says.

Currently, there are 312,173,462 confirmed cases and 5,501,000 deaths and climbing, according to the World Health Organization.

This is not to assert that public health advice and measures advocated by United States public health officials are not valid. We should, roughly: Get vaccinated and boosted, wear a mask, and get tested.

The emails do reveal Fauci and public health officials disregarding the fact the Chinese government is a hyper-secret State that routinely acts destructively, brokering no dissent as it veers into totalitarianism, emitting routine lies. 

Further, the obvious plausibility of the lab leak hypothesis was acknowledged in the same emails in which Fauci and his colleagues decided to publicly dismiss what likely occurred in China.

Reports Maia Hibbett and Ryan Grim in The Intercept:

The [U.S. House Members] letter, signed by James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was followed by pages of notes on emails that were first obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post, but were heavily redacted when published in June 2021. The redacted emails included the agenda for a February 1, 2020, telephone conference between National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci; his then-boss, former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins; and several of the world’s leading virologists. The communications contained extensive notes summarizing what was said during the call, but their substance was hidden at the time.

Oversight Committee staff were able to view the full emails 'in camera,' which means they could physically look at them and take notes but couldn’t take copies with them. The information released Tuesday for the first time reveals the content of notes taken on the February 1 call.

On that call, virologists Michael Farzan and Robert Garry told Fauci and Collins the virus might have leaked from the Wuhan lab. It might have been genetically engineered, the transcription of Garry’s notes suggests, but this now seems unlikely. Another possibility, put forward by Farzan, was that it could have been evolved in the lab through a process known as serial passage.

Work since Feb. 2020 by independent intellectuals and scientists around the globe on COIVD 19 origins devastates the Chinese-American government public consensus that natural, non-man-made explanations must account for the emergence of the Pandemic. (Vanity Fair; Origins of SARS-CoV-2; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).

To disagree with the consensus is to engage in "conspiracy" talk, an elite U.S. research community now led by Fauci assures us in well-publicized statements in The Lancet (Feb 2020) and Nature (March 2020), an effort referenced in the emails released this week.

A May 5, 2021 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists feature, The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade, suggests looking closer and considering the evidence, without apology to the moment's consensus, and Fauci's dismissal.

Writes Wade:

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.

Now, even Fauci tacitly admits publicly that dismissal and dishonest ridicule of the lab leak hypothesis is no longer a sustainable position, as Jack Brewster details in a chronology of Fauci statement in Forbes, published June 16, 2021.

See also Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti in Breaking Points below:

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The work of DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19), an independent group of itinerant intellectuals and scientists, instructs as an example of promoting rational examination of hypotheses on the origins of COIVD 19.

An outline follows.
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SARS-COV-2 Laboratory Leak Hypothesis

Laboratory Hypothesis Leak Overview

Guest Post by Andrew Tuntable, Ph. D. atuntable@gmail.com @atuntable

DRASTIC and other groups have uncovered substantial evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic was caused by the leak of the virus from a laboratory in Wuhan.  This evidence together with many references is described in this paper:

SARS-COV-2 Laboratory Leak Hypothesis

In summary, the evidence is:-

    The bat coronavirus outbreak occurred in Wuhan, home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the world’s leading bat coronaviruses laboratory.  (Not proof, but certainly of interest.)
    Wuhan is over 1000 km from the relevant bats.  The bats were not traded in the Wuhan wet markets.
    The virus arose suddenly, fully functional, with no known human or animal precursors.  This is unlike SARS-1 and MERS.
    The virus is a chimera (a mixture) of two different viruses.  Chimera’s can arise naturally, but are also often engineered in laboratories.
    The virus also contains two different powerful adaptations at the same time, an effective spike protein and a furin cleavage site.  This is why it is the most infectious coronavirus in 100 years.
    The WIV and the Eco Health Alliance proudly published their earlier results on genetically engineering chimeras based on coronaviruses.  They have also submitted grant proposals to add furin cleavage sites to coronaviruses.
    It was discovered that in 2013 six bat guano miners became ill with a SARS-like virus, samples of which were sent to the WIV.  This could have been the precursor to SARS-COV-2.  The WIV had said the miners had a fungal infection.
    The WIV conducted coronavirus research at biosecurity levels 2 and 3, not high security BSL-4.  A US government report had raised concerns about their biosecurity practices in 2017.
    Lab leaks are not uncommon and have happened in many laboratories around the world.
    There is some evidence that workers at the WIV became ill in late 2019.
    More importantly, the Chinese government has removed data and has angrily thwarted any proper investigation.  They refuse to disclose whether the WIV was studying a SARS-COV-2 like virus.
    There does not appear to have been any attempt to trace the contacts of the earliest cases by looking for long lived antibodies.
    The Chinese government has still not found any natural precursor after an extensive search testing over 80,000 samples.
    There are no credible rebuttals.

The weight of this evidence shows that the virus escaped from the WIV beyond reasonable doubt.

This is important because this technology has become much more accessible to laboratories around the world, often with minimal oversight.  Advances in technology could enable future genetically engineered viruses to be far more infectious and virulent than SARS-COV-2.

(Permission to use this cartoon is granted with attribution.)

This is what must not be allowed to happen.  Students from existing laboratories setting up their own laboratories around the world and conducting dangerous Gain of Function research with inadequate safety precautions.

The next engineered virus could be even more infectious, have a longer incubation period, a higher mortality rate and, like HIV, attack the immune system.  It could be far more dangerous than SARS-COV-2.

Full Paper here.

Kenosha Killer Impacts in All Directions

Madison, Wisconsin — As Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard champion Kyle Rittenhouse, two bodies, one grievously wounded man and several videos are constant reminders of the horror that one lunatic inflicted on an August night in Kenosha last year. 

Gabbard appears to be positioning herself as veep nominee with Donald Trump, using the Kenosha Killer to launch her new career. Anyway.

As overwhelming a case as was presented over the last two weeks by the prosecution, the visceral image of the child-Rittenhouse firing off an AR-15 in the city street like he was a video-game character will likely carry the day.

Jury is now watching this video of the Huber & Grosskreutz shooting.
Binger: this is someone who has no regard for human life #KyleRittenhouse pic.twitter.com/9OEkm30216

— Kristen Barbaresi (@KristenBarbar) November 15, 2021

The world has bore witness to the narcissistic, dictator-wanna-be world of Judge Bruce Schroeder, stupid, stupid cops, and the racist world of Kenosha Democrats that is the terrain where police and violence are the norm.

But when you fire off bullets, you are responsible for the trajectory of those bullets, unless you are a cop, (then fire away). You own the bullets. We learn it in hunter safety class in junior high school.

The school of Kyle Rittenhouse is altogether different. 

One learns to stop people by firing bullets into their bodies. Can't do that here, the world will soon see. 

And fleeing someone who needs help because you shot him is not a good look, especially for someone pretending to be a medic.

And hey, not to be cruel, but noone likes a crybaby.

Even fewer people like a killer. 

Anthony Huber, 26, (killed by Rittenhouse); and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, (killed by Rittenhouse); and  Gaige Grosskreutz, survivor of Rittenhouse.

Tulsi Gabbard, Kyle Rittenshouse Defenders Go off Deep End

Rittenhouse posted bail, and then met with Proud Boys members
in a Kenosha County bar where he posed, flashing white power signs.

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — After the Kyle Rittenhouse testimony last week, most everyone agrees this killer is dim, reckless and puerile.

But defenders of Rittenhouse's self-defense claim are proffering new justifications on the eve of closing arguments and jury deliberation this coming week.

One line of killing-justification proliferating on social media is the claim Rittenhouse's victims may have criminal records, so Rittenhouse's killings can be adduced as retroactively praiseworthy. Critics of the killings are similarly off-base in their condemnations under this justification, it is asserted. 

A second line of killing-justification is the claim that all of the people on the street protesting the maiming of Jacob Blake are arsonists, (no matter the lack of criminal records or even arrests in this argument), so all Black Lives Matter protesters present in Kenosha deserve to be killed, including the victims of Rittenhouse.

That these lines of argument are insane does not stop a lot of Rittenhouse supporters from advancing their defense of this homicidal racist.

But this weekend former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard weighed in on the side of Kyle Rittenhouse, omitting mention of his Proud Boys connections, and his stated wish to fire off his AR-15 on people whom he adjudged as guilty of crimes. 

This is the kind of militarism that seems to pass muster in Gabbard's new book.

Gabbard claims Rittenhouse's motive are pure, and he just wanted to protect Kenosha.

Gabbard is off the deep end. Facile and sophomoric, her dangerous mainstreaming of vigilantism gives the green light to kill, as long as increasingly narcissistic Americans deem it necessary.

Writes Gabbard: "With no evidence, MSM & antifa-loving politicians immediately labeled Rittenhouse a white supremacist terrorist. It’s obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people & the community from rioters & arsonists because the government failed to do so."

With no evidence, MSM & antifa-loving politicians immediately labeled Rittenhouse a white supremacist terrorist. It’s obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people & the community from rioters & arsonists because the government failed to do so. pic.twitter.com/uhjGQtM4y4

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) November 11, 2021

Really?

Everyone on the streets of Kenosha on Aug 25, 2020, felt individually that he or she was present out of principle, but only one person fired off his AR-15 at people, killed two people, maimed another, and traumatized families and communities for decades.

Don't believe what people say about a murdered relative. No one is ever the same. Everyone on the streets of Kenosha that night could be suffering from PTSD over Rittenhouse's horror.

Gabbard argues that since in his own mind, Rittenhouse was there to protect the City, this gives him the  right to kill.

Not even Rittenhouse's attorneys pursue this absurd line of argument, but this is good enough for Tulsi.

No sympathy from Gabbard about the Rittenhouse victims, or Jacob Blake. But Gabbard did post subsequent ruminations about World Kindness Day.

This is Wisconsin. 

People here celebrate wrongful convictions, police misconduct, but I do feel optimistic that open vigilantism won't fly, no matter the effort to superimpose reasonableness onto vicious killings, and stamp deserve-to-be-killed onto victims.

In the meantime, Tulsi Gabbard is reaching out politically to the lowest of low lives who live behind anonymous accounts, threats, calumny and bile. 

See:

You support pedophiles, I am above you. You are a trash human that lies when they feel their beliefs are threatened. Keep doing you, who knows who might find out your deepest secret. I would never be violent with someone unless in self defense.

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 15, 2021

If so, be a shame if certain people found out you support kid diddlers and wife beaters...

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 14, 2021

The new logic of the right is to accuse those criticizing killing as being "pedophiles." These are the people Tulsi Gabbard is courting.

Twitter will not take down the posts.

Michael Leon is a pedophile that is upset he got called out. He can't even define fascism and makes up lies about people threatening him. His wife finds out he likes children today, he's flailing. Hard.

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 15, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Mixed-up Vigilante Facing Hostile Headwinds

Madison, Wisconsin —  An anti-vigilante, anti-crime ethos predominates in Kenosha County, the site of the Kyle Rittenhouse vigilante trial.

Kenosha is steeped in racism and stupidity, but put that aside. 

The same sometimes mad-dog, don't-upset-the-herd fear that views black folks with suspicion, that abhors Black Lives Matter, [in Wisconsin, black lives most certainly do not matter], will see the jury return guilty verdicts. 

Rittenhouse deserves it.

Rittenhouse is guilty, this affair is a slam-dunk, and not even the corrupt Judge Bruce Schroeder can save Rittenhouse, though he is trying.

Prosecutor Thomas Binger has successfully portrayed the killer, Kyle Rittenhouse, as unreasonable, pathetic, a tragic child whose cognitive failings, myriad lies, absurd judgments and lack of character led him to become an active shooter and killer. 

On the witness stand this week, Rittenhouse said he "didn’t do anything wrong," and was not trying to "kill," rather only to "stop" those in the streets whom he judged worthy of shooting, in self-defense.

You see among a certain class of self-defense nuts, stopping, as in firing a bullet into another human being, is the same as killing, but one doesn't say that.

Binger asked Rittenhouse if, "[he] knew that when you pulled that trigger, that bullet was going to go right into his chest."

Replied Rittenhouse, "I can’t say — I don’t know where the bullet would have went exactly."

Fool. Liar.

Rittenhouse was not reasonably acting out of fear of great bodily harm or killing. He can rationally be seen as the person who was injecting reasonable fear on the Kenosha streets on August 25, 2020.

Reads the Wisconsin Self Defense statute: "The actor may not intentionally use force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless the actor reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself." (Wisconsin Statute 939.48(1))

But reason was nowhere to be found in the mixed-up and deadly Kyle Rittenhouse.

"If I would have let Mr. Rosenbaum take my firearm from me, he would have used it and killed me with it and probably killed more people if I would have let him get my gun," Rittenhouse testified.

Not reasonable. Harm was not imminent.

A death warrant is not granted onto anyone just because he has armed himself.

Rittenhouse feared for his life when Rosenbaum tried to touch the barrel of his AR-15-style gun, and now still trembles with terror and tears 15 months later, but imagine the fear instilled in the witnesses of the slaughter of Mr.  Rosenbaum, when Rittenhouse fired point-blank into his face. 

And Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz. Their families. the Communities.

I don't believe Kenosha County lets this killer off.

The jury is expected to soon enter into deliberation in the coming days, after Monday, Nov 15, on which closing arguments and jury instructions are expected.

Dead Veterans and Chickenhawks

Robert Walsh: Attorney, veteran, and "combat infantryman
in Vietnam with the fabled 101st Airborne Division," 
fights, for veterans, reports the Toledo Blade.

Joe Biden budget for the War Dept is larger than Trump's.

Chickenhawk Joe is selling out hard.

Veterans and all of us will get the shaft.

"After George W. Bush was elected president and started the Iraq War, (attorney) Robert Walsh said, 'Karl Rove and Dick Cheney declared war on PTSD. They wanted to deny there was any such thing," reports Jack Lessenberry in the Toledo Blade and Lessenberry Link.

The war against veterans who filed for PTSD disability generated a lot of casualties, notes Walsh elsewhere, guys who froze "to death on the streets or blow their brains out in the garage."

Reading journalist Lessenberry's work on Robert Walsh, veterans and the VA bureaucrats who hate them is needed tonic as the DoD budget keeps rising, and veterans keep dying.

Happy Memorial Day.

Toledo Blade Column Recalls Story of Wrongfully Convicted Wisconsin Vietnam Veteran — Keith Roberts

Robert Walsh: Attorney, veteran, and "combat infantryman
in Vietnam with the fabled 101st Airborne Division," 
fights, for veterans, reports the Toledo Blade.

"After George W. Bush was elected president and started the Iraq War, (attorney) Robert Walsh said, 'Karl Rove and Dick Cheney declared war on PTSD. They wanted to deny there was any such thing," reports Jack Lessenberry in the Toledo Blade and Lessenberry Link.

The war against veterans who filed for PTSD disability generated a lot of casualties, notes Walsh elsewhere, guys who froze "to death on the streets or blow their brains out in the garage."

Reading journalist Lessenberry's work on Robert Walsh, veterans and the VA bureaucrats who hate them is needed tonic as the DoD budget keeps rising, and veterans keep dying.

Steven Avery Attorney: '100 Percent Sure Who Killer Is, What Happened'

Madison, Wisconsin — The exonerated Steven Avery made internationally famous in the Emmy-winning documentary, Making a Murderer, is facing his most grave challenge yet.

Mr. Avery is fighting for his freedom again after being framed by Wisconsin law enforcement a second time in 2007 after he sued Manitowoc County for $36-million for his first wrongful conviction in 1985.

Post-conviction litigation is being pursued by Avery's attorneys, Kathleen T. Zellner and Steven G. Richards, in the Wisconsin court system (State of Wisconsin v. Steven A. Avery, Appeal Number 2017AP002288). The case is awaiting decision in state appellate court (Work with KZ).

This week, Avery's attorney, Kathleen T. Zellner, spoke with Edward Michael Johnston, a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England Bristol.

In the interview conducted via Zoom March 12 with Dr. Johnston for his YouTube channel, Criminal Justice Natters, Ms. Zellner offered that she knows who the actual killer of Teresa Halbach is, and what the circumstances are.

"I'm absolutely, 100 percent sure that he's [Steven Avery] innocent. I'm 100 percent sure I know who the killer is and exactly how this happened," said Zellner at the 32-minute mark.

Viewers of the docu-series would love to hear Zellner's theories on the murder but will have to wait until the time is right procedurally for this to be revealed.

Experts believe naming the killer outright publicly in an ongoing post-litigation case could infringe the presumption of innocence, and potentially could lead to destruction of evidence, or perhaps goad the killer into fleeing, among other developments.

Zellner, a veteran of many wrongful conviction cases, said killers almost always confide in other people, and suggested it is just a matter of time before the killer is brought to justice.

Meanwhile, Brandan Dassey, also convicted of helping to kill Ms. Halbach, and his supporters are pressuring Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers for a full pardon, in light of the lack of a case against Dassey.

The cases remain a stain on the Wisconsin legal system and the state Dept of Justice. 

The District Attorney, Ken Kratz, who prosecuted both the Avery and Dassey cases resigned in disgrace in 2010 after sexual assault and harassment allegations against him came to light and Gov Jim Doyle began removal proceedings.

Kratz has retired from the practice of law following a complaint with the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation by Wisconsin resident Michael Leon for misrepresentation of his ability to practice law and his license status. 

Kratz has reportedly moved from Wisconsin.

Still, the Wisconsin Dept of Justice stubbornly defends the case against Dassey brought by a disgraced district attorney in a severely biased jurisdiction.

The Zellner-Johnston interview is below:

Democrat Pols Work to Block George Floyd Trial from Public View, Want No TV Broadcast

A Dead Black Man

Madison, Wisconsin — The George Floyd murder video gives the world a look at the Minneapolis Police Dept — vicious, racist, a black man suffocated to death by the sadistic Derek Chauvin, brandishing a smirk for onlookers pleading for Mr Floyd's life: Nothing can touch me.

Behind the scenes in May, Democrats worried.

Most larger cities are run by Democrat administrations, so how is it that militarized and openly racist municipal police feel free to perpetrate a slow-motion holocaust of black and brown people? Folks might be asking.

Black folks dying is the way it is and the way it should be, is the Democrat consensus. This is an outlook shared by Biden, Obama, from Kenosha, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison and Minneapolis. That's just around here.

Look, Democrats don't like niggers any more than Republicans, that's the truth. You see their black hair, their dark skin — they get what they deserve. And Floyd, that boy sure talked a lot for someone who couldn't breathe, ha ha.

In my state, Wisconsin, we know how to handle Black Lives Matter and their friends who object to George Floyd and other folks getting murdered. 

Throw their black asses in prison, pass laws to protect statues, harass uppity black candidates and then pontificate how protesters need to learn about proper challenge to black people getting iced. 

For example, Wisconsin State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwuakee), ever more outlandish to Wisconsin Democrat Party silence, remains engaged in his crusade against two Black Lives Matter protestors, Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, who are wrongfully accused of a violent felony by Carpenter for their work in solidarity with black folks at June protest. Carpenter knows they're wrongfully accused.

So, it comes as no surprise Democrat Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison and Democrat  former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal are calling for the criminal trials of Minneapolis police to be shielded from broadcast, blocked from public view.

This is because homicidal police are Democrat creations, and what is bad for police is bad for Democrats.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ordered the proceedings broadcast on video last month so the world can see and understand.

The Democrat Party since mid-November has been working feverishly to stop the 2021 trial broadcast, asking Cahill to reconsider.

Now, jurists are objecting to the ridiculous position of the Democrat Party censoring the trial of murderous human garbage.

Writes Elura Nanos in Law and Crime:

Whatever the limitations required by the Minnesota General Rules of Practice, Ellison and his team have gotten the issue all wrong. They should not only consent, but rather enthusiastically invite cameras into this courtroom. As prosecutors, their client is the public – and few cases demand public scrutiny and access more than this one does. ...

Without losing sight of the heartbreakingly needless loss of the man himself, the death of George Floyd has become about much more than Floyd the individual. The case sparked a national awakening, tipping public consciousness toward a new level of recognition of some unacceptable deficits woven into the fabric of our society. Sure, Black Lives Matter existed before Floyd’s death, but the BLM protests that ensued during the COVID-19 pandemic may have constituted the largest movement in U.S. history.

Not the time for more censorship, not the time to look away.

Decorated Army Combat Veteran, Jim Rudisill v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Day 2020 

 

Why the bureaucratic lust to screw our veterans over?

 

Doesn't everyone love veterans? No.

Veterans Day 2020 sees the veterans rights community rallying around another veteran, identified as "Bo" in administrative court litigation at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Watch this veterans rights case, BO v Wilkie, next month, it will signal a lot about how we really care about our veterans.

It's a fight for veterans' benefits guaranteed by Congress.

Until them Happy Veterans Day 2020

By Christie Garella

BO v Wilkie Overview

Two veterans were introduced at church. One veteran was unexpectedly denied Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to attend Yale divinity school because of a “misinterpretation”, following a multi-year process to gain his church’s endorsement to attend seminary and admission to Yale Divinity School. Hunton Andrews Kurth attorney Tim McHugh, who coincidentally used the Post-9/11 GI Bill to attend college and law school after serving in the Army, took on the case along with a Dominion Energy’s Pro Bono attorney and fellow veteran.

In August 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims issued a major decision in the case - BO v Wilkie - that could restore billions of dollars in Post-9/11 GI Bill and other educational benefits to military service members of the Post-9/11 era. The court rejected the practice of capping the benefits and reversed a decision by the VA’s Board of Veterans’ Appeals, ordering the board to recalculate BO’s entitlement to GI Bill benefits. In January 2020, the court denied the VA’s motion to stay the BO decision. The VA has since filed an appeal which was authorized by the Solicitor General in May 2020. The case is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with the telephonic oral argument scheduled for December 9, 2020.

GI Bill Background

Since World War II, Congress has provided veterans with different GI Bill benefits for different periods of qualifying service. HOWEVER, since 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs began capping most veterans’ combined GI Bill benefits at 36 months if they had more than one period of separately qualifying service.

Wisconsin Democrats Work Against Two Innocent Women; 'Shockingly Thin' Case Against Black Lives Matter Protesters Moves Forward

Black Lives Matter? Not in Wisconsin, and Not in the Democratic Party

Madison, Wisconsin — This is Wisconsin, folks. 

We'll soon let off a white Kenosha cop who shot a black man point-blank seven times in the back, but two innocent Black Lives Matter protesters are violent felons and must be prosecuted without evidence, say a corrupt Democratic Party district attorney and a reactionary Milwaukee Democratic Party state senator.

The cause of truth and simple decency is lost.

Two criminal cases will at some point be tossed out of out court, if Circuit Court Judge Stephen Ehlke (D) grows a spine, or end with a verdict and an exoneration.

It's the way it is in Wisconsin; life is cheap, and the judiciary is corrupt in favor of the police and prosecutors — two institutions irretrievably undeserving of public regard.

Black Lives Matter protesters Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, two socially conscious area women in their 20s with no criminal records, stand accused of the felony crime of Substantial Battery with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm against State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) for not-even-alleged action at a June 23-24 Black Lives Matter protest.

That's right. There is no specific allegation detailing how Mses O’Reilly and Hamer battered Carpenter, a rightwing Dem who calls himself "rash."

There is no video evidence showing Mses O’Reilly and Hamer laying a finger on Carpenter.

Carpenter admitted in a court hearing he cannot identify the defendants as touching him.

Carpenter, who has worked his entire career mobilizing the war on drugs against people of color, admits he has no idea who may have hit him, and you can bet he would implicate the two liberation workers, if he could.

Madison police detective Linda Trevarthen who led the investigation similarly acknowledged that there is no evidence, none, the women specifically touched Carpenter in any way, (Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal).

In fact, according to Carpenter and another witness, the confrontation that Carpenter incited and provoked included some eight to 10 people during a chaotic melee. 

Everyone agrees the scene was chaotic.

Tim Carpenter stayed true to form in using police to take the side of white supremacists as an agent provocateur this time, as the legislator took it to the streets to work to imprison the wrong kind of Wisconsinite.

White supremacis have doxxed and induced the arrest of liberation protesters across the country, so folks were nervous that night, perfect prey for Carpenter.

Tim Carpenter also performed a fall on the Capitol grounds in front of a WKOW-TV crew; went on a public relations spree in the Summer to demonize Black Lives Matter; sponsored a bill to criminalize damaging statutes out of Carpenter's petty spite; and accosted and harassed a black candidate for the State Senate.

Did Carpenter, with a racist past in holding his elected office of public trust and a proven hostility to those working for people of color in Wisconsin, throw a punch first, and others then interceded to defend a victim?

No evidence has been made public that indicts Carpenter or any other single person. Yet, District Atty Ozanne moves the cases forward using his office standard of evidentiary proof that he has concluded charges against Mses O’Reilly and Hamer can be proven to a trial jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

It's absurd.

Not one elected representative of any municipal, County or State office has challenged the prosecutions of these two women, though Carpenter is known around the Capitol for his delusional self-regard and pettiness, qualities acknowledged by Carpenter.

The district attorney, Carpenter and no video evidence tell us when, where, how and by whom Carpenter was allegedly battered after Carpenter managed to incite some eight to 10 people during a chaotic melee.

Consider that.

But a simple parking ticket informs you when, where, how and which vehicle was involved in a parking offense.

But the Democratic Party's district attorney, state senator and judge want to chuck these requirements away for a felony crime that could irretrievably harm two innocent women, who as demanded by their conscience, marched with Black Lives Matter workers in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd.

We have a problem in Wisconsin, and this problem will not go away through inattention.

Both women are scheduled for a pre-trial conference the day after Election Day on Nov. 4.

Folks can contact State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) to ask why he rejects decarceration, decriminalization, police defunding. As we work with our historic movement, Carpenter instead authors bill expanding criminal code to protect statues and works to persecute two innocent Black Lives Matter workers.
(608) 266-8535
Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov