US Attorney Rachael Rollins to Resign in Wake of Damning Ethics Reports. Black Rolebot Didn’t Do Much for Blacks but Went All Out for White Liberals, maintaining her Token Power/Status by Serving Them

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The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts is set to resign after watchdog reports released on Wednesday found she violated longstanding Justice Department rules and possibly the law by trying to sway a local election, attending a Democratic fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden, and taking other politically motivated actions.

The ethical imbroglio surrounding Rachael Rollins, the U.S. attorney in Boston, is a blow to the White House, which fought to secure her confirmation over concerns from Republicans about what they described as Rollins’s lenient, soft-on-crime policies as a local district attorney. 

In a pair of searing reports, the Justice Department’s inspector general and another federal watchdog, the Office of Special Counsel, characterized Rollins’s 16-month tenure as a top federal prosecutor as roiled by unprofessionalism and misconduct. 

Rollins’s conduct “fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney,” wrote Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office, in a 161-page report.

Investigators said Rollins leaked nonpublic information to Boston newspapers to damage a candidate for the Suffolk County district attorney election, her former post, and buoy her preferred successor. Rollins then lied about that activity when questioned by investigators, the inspector general said. The office referred the false-statement allegations to the Justice Department in December, but prosecutors declined to pursue charges. Suffolk County’s territory includes Boston.

The watchdogs also said Rollins continued to accept contributions into the account she used to campaign for Suffolk County district attorney well after she was sworn in as Boston’s top federal prosecutor in January 2022, possibly violating the Hatch Act, which puts restraints on political activity by federal officials.

The inspector general referred its findings to the Office of Special Counsel, which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate suspected Hatch Act violations. In a blistering report, that office said Rollins’s conduct amounted to an “extraordinary abuse of her power” and described her violations as “among the most egregious transgressions” of the Hatch Act that it had ever investigated.

Rollins, the first Black woman to serve as Boston’s U.S. attorney, will submit her resignation letter to President Biden by close of business on Friday, her attorney Michael R. Bromwich said, adding that she was proud of her office’s work on gun violence and civil rights during her 16 months of leadership. [MORE]

95% of All Prosecutors are White and Only 5% of All Attorneys are Black in Lilly-White Legal Profession. Yet in The Spectacle Black DA's are Ever present to Create the Appearance of inclusion/fairness

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According to a recent study only 1% of all elected prosecutors are Black women. According to the same study only 2% of all elected prosecutors are Black men while 95% of all prosecutors are white.

Most people have little understanding of the awesome power of prosecutors (aka district attorneys or attorney generals) or the term "prosecutorial discretion." Media misinformation and lack of information about prosecutors and what they are up to is an intentional part of our conditioning or mind shampoo process. Prosecutors have the power to decide; whether to charge a person with a crime (police make arrests and refer matters to prosecutors who determine whether to prosecute), what charges to paper (charge) and present to the court, whether to seek pre-trial confinement or release and what, if any, release conditions to seek, what kind of plea offer to make, what level of resources to expend to prosecute, what information to disclose to the defense, what kind of sentence to seek & recommend to the court (such as confinement, probation or to defer the imposition of a sentence), whether the death penalty will be sought and whether probation should be revoked or extended. They also have a say in whether to seal arrest records or expunge criminal convictions. Further, prosecutors set broad policies, deciding the aggressiveness with which different laws will be enforced, and other law enforcement officials often follow their lead. Additionally, the power of the prosecutor (or the executive) even in the face of egregious misconduct is basically unchecked by judges or state bar organizations, whom are also overwhelmingly white. [MORE]

Said decisions made by prosecutors are overwhelmingly made by white people about non-white people because the vast majority of prosecutors are white and criminal defendants are disproportionately non-white.  Specifically, 95% of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country are white, and 79 percent are white men (by comparison, white men make up 31 percent of the population of the United States). Also, most States have no Black prosecutors. [MORE]. On the federal level 87% of all US Attorneys are white - as 8% of assistant U.S. Attorneys are African American and 5% are Latino. [MORE] and [MORE].

In the context of all attorneys, according to the ABA only 5% of all attorneys are Black. Said number has remained steady since 2009. The legal profession is overwhelmingly white: specifically, it is 85% white, 5% Black, 5% Latino, 2% Asian American and 1% Native American. [MORE] and [MORE]

The low numbers of Black attorneys may sound surprising because elite racists in The Spectacle go through so much effort to give us the misleading impression that Black prosecutors and lawyers are plentiful. Neely Fuller explained that the operating system of white supremacy is carried out through deception and/or indirect or direct violence. [MORE] On a regular basis television, movies, news shows and other media programming Black attorneys, particularly black female attorneys are paraded before our eyes. As stated, the legal profession is lily white. In fact only 1% of all prosecutors are Black women. This illusion is necessary to maintain the belief of progress, inclusion and the appearance of justice in a participatory legal system based on consent.

Alternatively, as with other things in the system of racism white supremacy, where elite racists cannot conceal reality then they make the subordinate position of Blacks appear to be natural, inevitable (systematically occurring by unidentified persons) or merely coincidental and never the result of intentional purposeful activity by elite whites.

The role of Black prosecutors is simply to help make the prosecution of Black defendants appear fair to Black people and also to do anything else their white liberal bosses tell them to do. Racism is the dominant feature of the criminal justice in the United States and a major goal of the white supremacy system is the greater confinement of substantial numbers of non-white people, particularly Blacks. Not dissimilar to professional Blacks in other areas of people activity, the Black attorney primarily functions to help solve elite white people’s problems in some legal capacity - not solve his own peoples problems, as he has not been trained or been given the means to change his subordinate social situation or acquire power to do so - the black prosecutor is in the courtroom to play a complementary role in the system of racism white supremacy. As explained by Kenneth Montgomery, a former Black prosecutor for the Brooklyn, New York district attorney’s office, “prosecution is about locking black people up.” “I thought that because of who I was, because of the street and academic smarts I had, I was able to do some things that were more in line with justice. But, it was like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. In the long run, I didn’t think it was worth it, so that’s why I left.” [MORE].

As such, black attorneys function as court room props to create the appearance of justice in the criminal justice system. A system that is rigged and about as real as the plastic emblems above the judge. Like a lego-land courtroom set everything is accounted for to create the product of the appearance of justice; this includes Black defense attorneys, Black prosecutors, probation officers and black courtroom staff -all these folks are essential, without them it wouldn't look right. Such deception is necessary in order to maintain Black people’s belief in the system of democracy and in its concepts of “fairness,” “equality” and “justice.” Our belief in it, is its only real power. Without such belief the system would collapse - that is, the system of RWS, which concerns a “power group dynamic” or a consensual master/servant relationship between whites and Blacks would cease to be cooperative. Said white over Black relationship is predicated upon false consciousness programming from birth, relentless propaganda and many, many lies consumed by gullible Black sheeple.

UNDERSTANDING HER SERVANT ROLE IN CORRUPT SYSTEM [ALL GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT]. IN 2017, WHITE ORLANDO COPS PULLED STATE ATTORNEY ARAMIS AYALA OVER B/C SHE WAS BLACK

FUNKTIONARY explains:

The Spectacle - a constructed reality; the concrete inversion of life; via the autonomous movement of the apparently non-living. 2) the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality. The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images. The Spectacle is a theoretical construct—a tool for explaining many things about society; how people live vicariously through the dominant images of production, consumption and power relations. It is the thoughtfofms in which people create, contemplate and consume mediated by images of what-life-is, so that they will forget how to live radically for themselves. It is the totality of images and illusions that alienate people from living, its the primary production of modern societies. It is ideology materialized. It is the social relations that are mediated by the mass media; it is what makes people apathetic and reduces them to inactivity. It is what prevents people from realizing what their collective problems are and dissolving them. It is what perpetually absorbs people into activities that prolong their misery. [MORE]

“injustice” - the by-product of authority and its enforcement through legal fictions: the Corporate Police State and their tribunals. 2) forced obligations. injustice is the systematic means by which the greedy keep in check the needy. Injustice pervades; justice is incidental, accidental and random. “The paradox of injustice emerging out of justice has only occurred because the different standards of what is just have both been called justice.” JD Unwin. (See Holodeck Court, Greed, Control, Vices, Involuntary Servitude, Positive Law, Volunteered Slavery, War on Drugs, Master’s Rent, Lawful , Legal & Judicial Victimization).

According to the National Association of Realtors Only 3% of US Homebuyers are Black. Less than 10% of Black Renters Can Afford to Buy the Typical Home in White Over Black System of Vast Unequal Power

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Across the U.S., the share of first-time homebuyers dropped to a record low, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), making up 26% of all buyers in 2022, down from 34% last year.

But it’s even harder for Black homebuyers. In 2022, the typical first-time buyer getting keys to a starter home was 36 years old, an all-time high, and white (88%). About 16% of U.S. adults identify as non-Hispanic Black or African American, but just 3% of buyers are Black — down from 6%. And while the U.S. homeownership rate increased to roughly 66% in 2021, the rate among Black Americans lags significantly (44%), only increasing 0.4% in the last 10 years, NAR reported in another study. That’s nearly 29 percentage points less than white Americans (72.7%), representing the largest Black-white homeownership rate gap in a decade. Less than 10% of Black renters can afford to buy the typical home. [MORE]

2nd and 4th Amendment Rights Exist in Books But Not in Reality for Blacks: Video Shows a Baltimore Cop Unlawfully Stop a Teen, Chase Him for an Unknown Crime and then Shoot Him in the Back 4X

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ABOVE IS THE MOMENT BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICER SHOT TEEN IN THE BACK 4X - HE WAS RUNNING AS FAST AS HE COULD AND POSED NO THREAT TO POLICE

From [HERE] and [HERE] Baltimore police released edited body camera footage on Tuesday showing an officer shooting a Black teenager in the back as he fled. The teenager was badly wounded and lost several organs, and police said they discovered a gun with him following the shooting on Thursday.

Witnesses said that police officer Cedric Elleby was sitting on a stoop talking to Mekhi Franklin, 17. In the video another cop is seen standing. Franklin stands and casually and slowly walks away; Elleby followed him.

It is unclear what the officer said to Franklin and the other individual when he approached them because the audio is not on the first part of the video. The cop is walking in the street following the two young men as they slowly walk on the sidewalk.

After one minute and 16 seconds the audio starts: “Come here,” Officer Elleby says to Franklin, to which the teenager replies: “What bro?” Officer Elleby then lunges at Franklin, trying to grab him, but Franklin pulls away and begins to sprint in the opposite direction.

At this point, when the police officer ordered him to stop and he stopped, Franklin had not committed any crime. Nor did police claim he committed a crime or have reasonable suspicion that he did. In order for the police to stop you the Supreme Court has ruled that police must have reasonable articulable suspicion that there is criminal activity afoot and that you are involved in the activity. Police may not act on on the basis of an inchoate or unclear and unparticularized suspicion or a hunch - there must be some specific articulable facts along with reasonable inferences from those facts to justify the intrusion.

Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Worley said Elleby was on patrol in the area and saw Franklin “displaying characteristics of an armed person.” Characteristics of an armed person? No facts were offered to support this assertion; the cop did not see a gun prior to the stop. As such, the cop’s mere unparticularized belief is not a sufficient basis to justify the initial stop, which was therefore unlawful.

Officer Elleby chases Franklin through a grassy area, a back alley, and then nearby the sidewalk in broad daylight. The chase lasted for about 30 seconds.

Officer Elleby shouts at Franklin to stop and put the gun down, after he pulls what appears to be a firearm out of his pants. The gun appears to still be in Franklin’s hand, but the footage does not show Franklin turning toward Elleby or pointing the gun at him during the foot chase. The teen appears to be running as fast as he can away from the cop. Officer Elleby then fires four shots as the teen turned a corner, and Franklin collapses in an alley in front of a rowhome. The gun can be seen laying on the ground away from his body.

An emotional and chaotic scene followed the shooting, with residents arriving at the shooting scene as Elleby and another officer attempted to render aid to Franklin. Voices are heard shouting in the background.

“You just shot him for nothing,” one civilian is heard saying in the background.

Police said Officer Elleby is part of the department’s district action team, which are plainclothes units tasked with “proactive” policing that focus on armed people, making traffic stops and foot chases.

However, the Supreme Court has clearly explained the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in public in case of public confrontation. The Court “further confirmed that the right to “bear arms” refers to the right to “wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.” As such, Baltimore’s policy of surveilling, stopping and searching otherwise law abiding Black people for gun possession, a so-called “inalienable right,” is unconstitutional.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office said they are not investigating the shooting at this time, but Mayor Brandon Scott has promised a thorough investigation. Keira Franklin, the mother of the teenager, said this is not the first time police harassed her son.

“This happened previously with the same police officer,” she said.

Legal truths must give way to reality. Police officers so frequently abuse their power that no rational person could make a compelling argument that so-called constitutional rights provide black people any protection from cops or the government in general. Law abiding Black people’s so-called 4th Amendment rights are turned on and off like a light switch in cities controlled by white liberals; Chicago, Milwaukee, NYC, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Washington D.C. etc. Black people’s “freedom of movement” is restricted by cops who stop, search, frisk, detain and arrest them at will. The only thing upholding the 4th Amendment is your belief in it.

Similarly, white liberals have worked tirelessly to make the so-called inalienable 2nd Amendment right to self defense remains illusory especially to Black people living in crime ridden cities such as Baltimore. In fact, liberals in Chicago, DC, NYC, Baltimore, etc are filling the jails with Blacks charged with mere gun possession while simultaneously making very few arrests of persons who used guns in violent crimes. [MORE] When authorities prevent individuals from being able to defend themselves the government becomes accomplices to crime and partly responsible (in addition to the criminals themselves) for victimization. [MORE]

Recent research shows that most people convicted for felony gun possession don’t go on to commit a violent crime, and the majority of those sentenced to prison for gun possession don’t have past convictions for violence. Instead, people who already committed violent crimes are more likely to do so again.

In Chicago for instance, according to the Marshal Project, ‘The racial disparities in this enforcement are glaring. Although Black people comprise less than a third of the city’s population, they were more than 8 in 10 of those arrested for unlawful possession in the timeframe we reviewed. The number of Black people arrested could fill every seat at a Chicago Bulls game and then some; the majority are men in their 20s and 30s.

The consequences of these arrests are long-lasting. If convicted, people face a year or more in prison, depending on the charges. Even without time behind bars, those we interviewed faced damning criminal records, time on probation, job loss, legal fees and car impoundments.

Officials justify the focus on confiscating guns — even if they are not being fired at anybody — as a way of curtailing violence. But these tactics have not substantially reduced shootings in Chicago. In fact, as possession arrests skyrocketed, shootings increased, but the percentage of shooting victims where someone was arrested in their case declined. [MORE]

Your possession of "rights” given to you by a magical government, which functions as your master, is cult belief. Rights are myths. As stated by Dr. Blynd, “There is no freedom in the presence of so-called authority.” The belief in “authority,” which includes all belief in “government,” is irrational and self-contradictory; it is contrary to civilization and morality, and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed. Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in “authority” is the arch-enemy of humanity.” [MORE]

Video Shows 3 White Asheville Cops Attack a Black Man w/a Broken Arm, Pin Him by Holding His Neck Down in the Street, Searching for a Gun He Didn't Have. Liar Cops Then Claim He Assaulted Them

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From [HERE] White police officers pinned a Black man by the neck, searching for a gun he did not have, according to video by the man's fiancé.

Members of a May 13 crowd gathered in the Erskine-Walton neighborhood sounded alarmed and shouted for the three or more Asheville Police Department officers to stop as they struggled with Devon Lewis Rayshawn Whitmire on the ground.

One bystander can be heard in the video shouting, "He can't breathe," drawing comparisons by local community activists to high-profile fatal police encounters with other Black men, including George Floyd.

Whitmire, 27, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of assault, including assault on a government official inflicting serious injury. On May 17 he remained in the Buncombe County Detention Facility under an $85,000 bond. His next court date is June 2. [MORE]

White Indianapolis Cop Pleads Guilty to "Deprivation of Rights" for Stomping a Homeless Black Man's Head While he was Handcuffed and Held Down on Sidewalk. 

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From [HERE] A white Indianapolis police sergeant pleaded guilty this week to violating the civil rights of a homeless man, whom he kicked in the face during an arrest in 2021, federal authorities said.

The officer, Eric Huxley, is currently suspended from his role at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the Indianapolis Star reported. He entered a guilty plea in federal court on Monday of violating the civil rights of an arrestee by using excessive force, a felony charge that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Huxley was indicted last October on one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law. The charge came just over a year after the illegal arrest, on Sept. 24, 2021, of a man identified in court documents by the initials J.V., the Justice Department said. 

While on patrol in downtown Indianapolis, authorities allege that Huxley received a call from another officer requesting assistance to confront "a disorderly person" on Monument Circle. Huxley responded to that request, and the officers placed the man under arrest for disorderly conduct before searching his property. 

When officers tried to remove his belt, the man "became confrontational with the officers," leading one to use "a department-approved takedown maneuver to bring J.V., who had already been handcuffed, to the ground," the Justice Department said. As the arresting officer held the man down with one hand, another restrained his legs. 

Although these tactics meant the man could not move, Huxley then used his foot to stomp on the man's head while he was handcuffed. The incident was recorded by police body cameras and can be seen in the footage.

"Despite knowing that J.V. had been effectively restrained and posed no further danger to officers or the public, Huxley then intentionally raised his right foot and drove it down onto J.V.'s head and face," the Justice Department said in a news release announcing Huxley's guilty plea.

In a statement included in the release, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, of the Justice Department's civil rights division, emphasized the brutal nature of Huxley's crime. 

"This police officer violently and callously assaulted a homeless man who posed no threat," said Clarke. "The Justice Department will continue to investigate and prosecute law enforcement officers for violating federal civil rights laws."

U.S. Attorney Zachary Myers, of Indiana's southern district, added that, in addition to traumatizing victims, "police officers who break the law and use excessive force damage the community's trust in the law enforcement profession" and called for those who commit crimes to be "identified and prosecuted."

A sentencing hearing for Huxley has not yet been scheduled. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment followed by supervised release, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors will ask for a reduced sentence in exchange for Huxley's guilty plea, but a federal judge will determine the final sentence using federal guidelines and other statutory factors.

Huxley also faces official misconduct and battery charges in Marion County, Indiana, CBS 4 reported.

Bignorant McNegro DA Upholds Murder of Black Shoplifter for Master: Posed No Threat Exiting Store, Shot to Death by Security Guard. Deadly Force Can't Be Used in Defense of Property or NonDeadly Force

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The Black security guard who shot and killed a suspected Black shoplifter at a Walgreens in downtown San Francisco last month will not face criminal charges, the Black district attorney’s office announced Monday, saying the shooter acted in self-defense.

The district attorney’s office under Brooke Jenkins released surveillance video and a written report Monday regarding Michael Anthony’s fatal shooting of Banko Brown on April 27. [MORE]

AN OBVIOUS MURDER. The bignorant McNegro DA is woefully incompetent and/or a golden retriever desperate to please her white liberal masters. This along with other step-and-fetchit moves recently may help her obtain more trinkets and prestige from her masters along the coin-operated career path.

Here, the McNegro DA is not sustaining the death of the black shoplifter on behalf of the system of authority because the incident involved a security guard not a police officer. Unlike cops, the security guard has no special power to initiate unprovoked acts of violence and functions no differently than a regular citizen (absent a specific statute or deputization). Rather, said McNegro is upholding the right to murder Black people with impunity in support of the system of racism/white supremacy on behalf of her masters. [MORE]

While self-defense is a justification for use of deadly force, mere threat is not sufficient justification to use deadly force. It is axiomatic that deadly force is never permissible in defense against non-deadly force. Additonally, deadly force is not permitted to stop a fleeing suspect for a misdemeanor charge. It is also axiomatic that deadly force is never sanctioned for the defense of property because the value of property could never surmount that of life (insofar as white life is concerned).

Here, when the security guard pulled out his gun Banko stepped backwards before he was shot to death. Although the guard claimed he believed Banko had a knife, he never saw a knife and there actually was no knife. Banko was shot while holding a shopping bag. Thus, his belief was not reasonable under the circumstances. Although deadly force is permitted to repel an attack reasonably believed to include the risk of death or serious bodily harm, Banko, the smaller person, clearly does not pose a threat of serious bodily harm to the security guard at any time. Furthermore, after their “fight” Banko was attempting to flee and stepped outside the store to get away. Thus, the video appears to show an obvious factual basis for a murder charge and a clear question of fact for a jury to decide.

Like most BOHICANS, Jenkins has bent over backwards for her white masters. Electing or appointing Black rolebots like Jenkins is the opposite of Black power- here she has devalued Black life on behalf of elite white liberals who control and own all major resources of San Francisco. Dr. Martin Luther King explained that elite racists often support, appoint or promote unqualified negros into high positions so that important matters to Black life may be handled frivolously. Such a tactic in all areas of people activity is what Neely Fuller would call the refinement of racism white supremacy. In the context of criminal justice, MLK stated, “There is another injustice in the courts which is equally as bad. Cases in which only Negroes are involved are handled frivolously, without regard to justice or proper correction. We deplore this type of injustice as much as we do the injustice which the Negro confronts in his court relations with whites.” [MORE]

IRS Authorities Admit Black People Face More Audit Scrutiny. Powerless Black Taxpayers are 3 to 5 times more likely than Taxpayers who are not Black to be Audited

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From [HERE] The Internal Revenue Service said on Monday that Black taxpayers have been far more likely to be audited than others and that it is considering changes to its case selection process to address discrimination in how the tax code is enforced.

The acknowledgment came after the publication of research this year showing that Black taxpayers were disproportionately audited, prompting calls from members of Congress for a review into the methodology and algorithms that help determine who is selected. The tax collection agency, which received an $80 billion infusion in funding last year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, has said it would work to make the system more equitable.

“While there is a need for further research, our initial findings support the conclusion that Black taxpayers may be audited at higher rates than would be expected given their share of the population,” Daniel Werfel, the I.R.S. commissioner, wrote in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Mr. Werfel said the I.R.S. had dedicated “significant resources” to determine the reasons for the disparity and evaluating the data that is available to the agency when deciding who to audit and its automated processes. He suggested that the I.R.S. could consider basing audits on “broader tax issues” rather than focusing on people who might be improperly claiming earned-income tax credits.

The research found that Black taxpayers were three to five times more likely than taxpayers who are not Black to be audited. It noted that the I.R.S. disproportionately flagged tax returns with potential errors in the claiming of certain credits, like the earned-income tax credit, which supplements low-income workers’ incomes in an effort to alleviate poverty.

The I.R.S. does not collect information about race as part of the tax-filing process, and Mr. Werfel did not say whether he believed that should change.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said last month that the I.R.S. should collect racial data in a way that allows the agency to guard against racial bias.

Mr. Wyden said on Monday that it was “shameful” that racial bias in algorithms used by the I.R.S. had been guiding the audit selection process. He urged Mr. Werfel to correct that with the next filing system.

“You cannot have equality in society if algorithms and other automated systems that affect people’s lives treat them differently based on the color of their skin,” Mr. Wyden said. [MORE]

H&R Block and Turbotax Spending Millions Lobbying Puppeticians to Prevent Government from Starting a Free Tax Filing Service and to Maintain Complicated Filing Process

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From [HERE] Commercial tax preparation companies like H&R Block and Intuit, the company that owns TurboTax, have poured tens of millions of dollars into lobbying as part of a multiyear push against a government-run filing service that would enable taxpayers to submit tax returns directly to the IRS at no cost. 

A free tax filing service could diminish the need for services provided by commercial tax prep companies, which profit from complicated tax filing processes that require many Americans to pay for help. 

TurboTax owner Intuit spent more on federal lobbying in the first three months of 2023 than any prior first quarter . The surge in spending comes on the heels of heated debate over whether the government should provide its own free tax filing service that was reignited by an $80 billion funding increase to overhaul the IRS as part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022.

The tax prep company — which also owns ​​QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma and Mailchimp — spent a record sum of $980,000 on lobbying during the first quarter of 2023, more than any prior first quarter. [MORE]

Milwaukee Judge Blocks New City Policy Requiring the Expedited Release of Body Camera Video after Police [acting on behalf of themselves] Invoked ‘Their Power’ to Conceal Video to Avoid Accountability

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FUNKTIONARY EXPLAINS THAT ‘Cops (patrolling predators) SHOULD wear body-cameras AND be under surveillance 24/7.  “If one million cobras were set loose on our city streets, wouldn’t you think it proper to know where each one was and what it was doing all the time?” ~Fred Woodworth.’

INSTEAD POLICE DEPARTMENTS USE BODYCAM AGAINST CITIZENS WHO IN REALITY FUNCTION AS THEIR SERVANTS AND ENEMIES. THAT IS, SOMEHOW POLICE DEPARTMENTS INDEPENDENTLY OWN ALL THE PUBLIC’S BODYCAM VIDEO -AS IF THEY ARE A SEPARATE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT ACTING ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES. ‘where fatal, encounters are recorded, time and again, police have resisted disclosing these videos, often in cases where doing so also helps them avoid accountability.

Also, The numbers reveal an uncomfortable truth: body camera videos are used far more often against ordinary citizens than the police. According to a recent survey of lead prosecutors, 92.6% report their office has used them against private citizens and only 8.3% against police officers.’ [MORE]

 THE GREAT POWER TO CONCEAL. From [HERE] A recently enacted city policy expediting the release of body camera footage from officer-involved critical incidents was temporarily put on hold by a Milwaukee judge on Friday.

On April 20, Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission – a civilian police oversight board whose members are appointed by the mayor and approved by the Milwaukee Common Council – enacted a new standard operating procedure holding that, among other things, body camera footage from officer-involved deaths or other critical incidents must be publicly released within 15 days of the incident, and victims' next of kin must be allowed to review the footage within 48 hours, with some exceptions.

The same day, the union representing around 1,400 sworn Milwaukee Police Department officers sued the city in Milwaukee County Circuit Court to enjoin the policy, arguing city officials failed to negotiate as required by the union’s collective bargaining agreement, instead blindsiding its members with a policy containing much tighter time constraints than a different version of the policy previously discussed.

The union wants a permanent injunction against the policy to preserve the status quo, honor union members’ due process rights and shield officers under formal investigation for critical incidents from having their reputations damaged in the court of public opinion before those investigations bring all the facts to light.

An injunction hearing was originally scheduled for June 28 before Judge Frederick Rosa (who is Black), but on May 8 the Milwaukee Police Association’s lawyer wrote a letter informing Rosa that pressing circumstances—specifically, two non-fatal critical incidents involving Milwaukee cops that took place days prior—necessitated a hearing for an emergency temporary restraining order.

In court on Friday, Brendan Matthews, the union's lawyer, reiterated that the rights of rank-and-file officers could be violated by the policy, including under the Wisconsin Constitution’s Marsy’s Law provision enhancing rights for victims of crimes, which he said can include police who have shot people.

Matthews cautioned that “video alone without explanation is dangerous,” as body camera footage removed from context doesn’t actually portray what an officer is seeing or perceiving. “Really bad things can happen” when false or incomplete narratives circulate before all the facts are known about a police shooting, he said.

Because the new policy affects conditions of employment for officers, whether the rule is coming from Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman or the FPC, the union needs to be given a full opportunity at the bargaining table regarding such a “monumental landscape change," Matthews said.

Assistant City Attorney James Lewis argued that, for one thing, the union needs to file a grievance over the policy with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission before filing a lawsuit. In any case, there are protections in the policy directly dealing with the union’s concerns about officer safety and privacy, such as giving the police chief the option to withhold release of video or redact video presenting a particularized threat to individuals involved, officers included.

Lewis argued in the city’s briefs and before Rosa that the union members' beef is really that they disagree with the policy, so they’re couching that dissatisfaction in a lawsuit about bargaining procedures.

The city’s attorney refuted the union’s claims that the FPC pulled a fast one by changing an earlier version of the policy – one which, for example, gave the MPD more than 15 days to release body camera footage of police shootings – by noting that there were nine public hearings on the matter. Lewis also disputed that the policy affects officers’ conditions of employment and said the city as a municipality, therefore, does not have to bargain over the policy on the union’s terms.

Rosa acknowledged that the policy is of great public concern and noted that “it’s not my job to rewrite [it],” his only charge being to determine if enactment of the policy violated the union’s collective bargaining rights.

The judge paid lip service to the FPC’s delegation of authority to enact these kinds of rules, but he said it was also clear that union members’ collective bargaining agreement may be impacted by the policy and that there are concerns about whether proper procedures were followed.

In the end, Rosa granted the union its injunction, which blocks enforcement of the policy at least until the case’s next hearing in late June, when the issues at play will be more fully fleshed out.

You Don't Live in a Police State? An FBI Contractor Previously Hired to Infiltrate Islamic Terror Groups is Now Paid by Uncle Brother to Focus on/Surveil Groups Organized Against Deadly COVID Mandates

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From [HERE] An FBI surveillance contractor infiltrated the chatrooms of two airline industry groups opposed to vaccine mandates to collect intelligence on the groups’ organizing activities, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.

The contractor, Flashpoint, which in the past infiltrated Islamic terror groups, now focuses on “anti-vaccine” groups and other domestic political organizations, according to Fang.

In a webinar presentation for clients last year, which Fang analyzed on his Substack, Flashpoint analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu demonstrated his company’s methods for identifying and entering encrypted Telegram chat groups.

He explained how the company attempted to join chatrooms of transportation workers resisting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Fang described the presentation:

“‘In this case, we’re searching for a closed channel of U.S. Freedom Flyers,’ said Cuiujuclu. ‘It’s basically a group that opposed vaccination and masks.’

“As he clicked through a database, Cuiujuclu showed a chat group on Telegram sponsored by Airline Professionals For Justice, another group formed by airline industry workers opposed to the mandate. The forum, he added, provided useful insights, including Zoom links for meetings of the grassroots organization.

“‘Private chats,’ said Cuiujuclu, ‘require for you to have an invite link,’ which he noted can often either be found by scrolling through public forums or by ‘engag[ing] the admin of that channel.’”

Flashpoint also offers clients artificial intelligence and internet scraping tools.

According to Fang, the firm is a leader in the “threat intelligence industry,” a growing number of security and surveillance firms that create fake online identities to infiltrate Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums and dark web message boards to gather information for clients, including corporations and the FBI, to monitor potential threats.

Joshua Yoder, president of US Freedom Flyers, said he is aware that Flashpoint infiltrated private chat groups associated with his organization.

Yoder told The Defender:

“Tradecraft and other strategies are often used to gain inside knowledge of conservative organizations with the intent to disrupt, mislead and otherwise thwart effective campaigns.

“Infiltration is a tactic used by the deep state to prevent the truth from being told by attempting to destroy the advancement of the message. The team at US Freedom Flyers has been successful in recognizing these attacks and we have taken decisive actions to protect the organization and our members.”

Aviation industry workers were some of the most vocal and organized against COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

They wrote an open letter to the aviation industry signed by thousands of organizations, physicians and pilots. They also organized research on the risks of vaccines for pilots, spoke publicly about the “culture of fear and intimidation” around the mandates in the industry, and filed multiple lawsuits in Canada, the Netherlands, and the U.S.

US Freedom Flyers brought a lawsuit against Atlas Air, one of the largest air cargo carriers in the aviation industry, in May 2022.

Fang told The Defender the targeting of American citizens resisting the vaccine mandates fits into a long history of surveillance being used to subvert democracy. He said:

“There is a long sordid history of informants and surveillance contractors working to undermine democratic engagement in this country.

“The push against regular citizens opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates has come in many forms: censorship, demonization and in this case, surveillance.”

The growing market for spying on domestic dissent

Flashpoint advertises its surveillance success on its website, providing examples of its work undermining environmental activism, G20 protests and protests against the aviation industry.

The webpages describing these activities were taken down after Fang published his investigation, but they can be found on the Wayback Machine internet archive.

For example, Flashpoint described its capacity to monitor activists organizing against pollution and the aviation industry. The website said:

“By monitoring the situation and assessing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP’s), Flashpoint was able to assess the impact of upcoming protests, and determine that these groups would likely continue to protest and attempt to impede airport construction and expansion projects through direct action. …

“Based on this information, Flashpoint customers were able to take actions to help control the impact to business operations, and to ensure the safety of their employees and facilities as well as the safety of those protesting.”

Flashpoint was founded by Evan Kohlmann, former NBC News contributor who investigated Islamic terror groups and whom The Intercept described as “the U.S. government’s go-to expert witness in terrorism prosecutions.”

Jack Poulson of Tech Inquiry, a group that researches the surveillance industry, told Fang that “Flashpoint has been selling its chatroom infiltration services to companies and governments for years.”

But, he said, it has shifted its focus from “surveilling Muslims after September 11” and “followed the money into both the Pentagon’s information warfare programs and the business of monitoring domestic protest groups.”

Last year, Flashpoint acquired Echosec Systems, another intelligence contractor, and last month it formalized a partnership with Google Cloud.

These acquisitions come in addition to “a steady stream of contracts to Flashpoint in recent years from the FBI, the Department of Defense, Treasury Department, and Department of Homeland Security, among other agencies,” Fang wrote.

Fang also spoke to Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at Stanford University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Bhattacharya said:

“This kind of domestic spying violates the implicit protection Americans have in these kinds of settings.

“This isn’t terrorism, this doesn’t have anything to do with national security.

“This is a private set of employees, workers who are trying to maintain their jobs in the face of unscientific demands for COVID vaccinations.”

'There’s no such thing as an "mRNA Vaccine." Stop calling it that. It is a gene-editing technology used to invent new species, create autoimmune diseases, cause cancers and to develop bioweapons'

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By Calling mRNA Injections 'COVID-19 Vaccines' Instead of Bioweapons We're Protecting Criminals From [HERE] Millions of innocent adults and children were subject to perverse and cruel experiments and murdered during the WWII Holocaust because local government officials and public servants throughout European communities were willing to assist in the killing of their fellow citizens, while simultaneously defending their heinous actions and the tyrants they obeyed. The other community members who believed that they were safe from the tyrants’ cruelty were too afraid or apathetic to speak out against their government and community leaders. Sound familiar?

The most evil crime in our nation’s history is being committed right now, on our watch. American adults and innocent children are being injured, disabled and killed by being psychologically manipulated and coerced into participating in a heinous global experiment of being injected with mRNA technology bioweapons under the guise of COVID-19 vaccines.

There’s no such thing as an mRNA vaccine. Stop calling it that. mRNA is and always has been part of the category of gene-editing technologies. Gene-editing technologies are used to invent new species (from viruses, to plants, to hybrid parasites and animals), create autoimmune diseases, cause cancers, and to develop military-grade bioweapons.

mRNA gene-editing technologies have been researched and developed for over 40 years, drove companies into bankruptcy many times, and have never been FDA-approved for anything before COVID-19 because they have no useful benefits to human health, and can only cause harm, injury and death. 

Per 18 USC 175, mRNA technologies are the literal, verbatim definition of a biological weapon. 

A biological weapon is any biological agent (mRNA), toxin (WIV spike S-2P), or delivery system (device/LNP/vaccine) that is not reasonably justified by a prophylactic or protective purpose; bona fide research, or other peaceful purposes.

mRNA technology is gene-editing technology. It can be used for purposes of inducing genetic mutations. According to the NIH, the cause of Sudden Unexplained Death in Children can be explained by genetic mutations. Specifically, “The researchers focused on 137 genes associated with heart or seizure disorders, both of which can trigger sudden death.”

Our government healthcare officials and industry leaders in mRNA technology are not surprised that children and young adults are suffering from massive heart inflammation, seizures, and sudden death. These are profoundly horrifying, but well-known effects of mRNA technology. This is why mRNA technology has never been FDA-approved for human use in its over 40 years of history. 

Call the mRNA injections bioweapons or weapons of mass destructions (WMDs), but stop calling them vaccines. The mRNA injections don’t prevent disease and they never did. The COVID-19 vaccines were designed to cause disease, disabilities and death; and Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, HHS, the FDA, CDC, the NIH and all of our government officials and government healthcare experts know it.

Innocent children are dying, pregnant women are having their babies murdered in their wombs, professional athletes are suffering heart attacks on the field, commercial airline pilots are becoming incapacitated during flight and then dying, young adults are becoming disabled or dying suddenly all across America. The injuries, diseases, and deaths caused by the mRNA injections are not side effects. They are intended consequences of an advanced technology bioweapon. 

In order to hold criminals to account, it’s critical that we and our trusted experts are able to clearly articulate and document how the COVID-19 mRNA injections do not meet the definition of a vaccine and that they are weapons of biowarfare.

Intended Consequences is a great place to begin.

German Authorities Charge Dr. Bhakdi with Crimes for Revealing Truths About Experimental COVID Shots that Kill/Injure People. Trial Set for May 23 in Free Range Prison Disguised as a Democracy

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From [HERE] Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi is Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Former Chair, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He has been telling the truth about COVID-19 and the mRNA vaccines since the very beginning of the so-called “COVID-19 Pandemic.” As a result, in order to silence him, he has been vindictively accused of two unfounded charges in connection with two public statements he made in April and September of 2021. He is now facing a hearing at the lower court in Plön, Germany.

Read the timeline of Dr. Bhakdi’s legal case.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/timeline-of-the-events/.

Dr. Bhakdi urgently needs your support.

Dr. Bhakdi has played a leading role in shaping and communicating the Doctors for COVID Ethics message. Doctors for COVID ethics have informed and will continue to inform the general public about COVID-19 and vaccination based on conscientious science. We support the right of Dr. Bhakdi’s freedom of speech, share his concerns, and stand with him.

Information on Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD

https://doctors4covidethics.org/about-sucharit-bhakdi-md/.

Dr Sucharit Bhakdi: COVID is a Plandemic. A Carefully Planned Conspiracy Designed to Kill Us and Our Children; Create Panic Over COVID in Order to Coerce and Induce People to Take Deadly Injections

Black Surgeon General in FLA says Feds Ignored the Risks from mRNA COVID Shots and Manipulated the Public into Believing They were Harmless, Wants Answers. CDC/FDA Liberals Respond w/Personal Insults

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From [HERE] Claiming that a “lack of transparency only harms Americans’ faith in science,” Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D., this week called on the nation’s top public health officials to “publicly” explain 12 key issues related to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

In a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, Ladapo said:

“Your ongoing decision to ignore many of the risks associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines alongside your efforts to manipulate the public into thinking they are harmless, have resulted in a deep distrust in the American health care system.

“Beginning with Operation Warp Speed, and possibly to be continued with an additional $5 billion investment in Project NextGen, the federal government has relentlessly forced a premature vaccine into the arms of the American people with little to no concern for the serious adverse ramifications.”

Ladapo said the “data are unequivocal: After the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) reporting increased by 1,700%, including a 4,400% increase in life-threatening conditions.”

Ladapo listed 12 points of data and demanded the health officials “publicly” explain their decision-making process around those data.

Commenting on the letter, blogger Igor Chudov said the surgeon general asks “all the right questions” about COVID-19 vaccines — and exposes the FDA and the CDC as “charlatans” engaging in “medical quackery.”

Chudov summarized Ladapo’s questions:

  • Why were randomized clinical trials not conducted for “Covid boosters” (such trials were necessary to establish that they are safe and effective)

  • Why did the FDA ignore many subclinical myocarditis reports and allow Pfizer to postpone its report on subclinical myocarditis?

  • Why were vaccine side effects intentionally ignored in V-Safe?

  • Why did the FDA allow Pfizer to hide the results of its clinical trial of Covid vaccines in pregnant women, that ended in 2022?

  • Why are the FDA and the CDC hiding negative effectiveness of Covid vaccines?

Wednesday’s letter is the latest in an ongoing exchange between Florida’s surgeon general and the agencies’ top officials that began when Ladapo, in a Feb. 15 letter, expressed concern about the adverse effects of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and asked FDA and CDC officials for greater transparency in publicly acknowledging these effects.

The letter corresponded with a health alert Ladapo issued that same day to the Florida healthcare sector and the public warning that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines caused a “substantial increase” in reports of adverse events in Florida.

The letter and health alert summarized the substantial increase in VAERS reports in Florida after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, including for life-threatening conditions. [MORE]

A Review of the Manufacturing Contracts between US DOD and Moderna Provide More Proof COVID mRNA Shots were a Military-Backed Countermeasure

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From [HERE] Here is a high-level review of the manufacturing contracts between US DOD and Moderna. 

Moderna’s injection, mRNA-1273 is co-owned with the US Government, as the company has been funded by the defense research grants for years and also received intellectual property transfers from the US Government, in addition to preclinical and clinical research work conducted for Moderna by the NIH Vaccine Research Center. The NIH and Moderna each have a separate Investigational New Drug number for this product.

Moderna entered 2 types of contracts with the US Government for Spikevax injection:

  • “Vaccine” contract and amendments that specifies R&D projects that the US Government ordered and paid for. Note that in Pfizer’s case no R&D activities were ordered or paid for by the US Government, as these were excluded from the scope of the contract.

  • “Manufacturing” contract(s) that ordered a large-scale manufacturing. This is different from Pfizer manufacturing contracts as the words “demonstration” and “prototype” are not used. I believe this is because OTA contracts must be for prototypes but FAR contracting doesn’t have to be.

Note on redactions. In both Moderna and Pfizer’s contracts many areas are redacted indicating a reason for redaction – the “redaction codes.” Redacted content has been given codes b (4) and b (6), standing for:

(b) (4) Disclosure of information that would affect the application of advanced technology in a U.S. weapons system,

and

(b) (6) Disclosure of information, including information of foreign governments, that would cause serious harm to relations between the United States and a foreign government or to ongoing diplomatic activities of the United States.

There are several versions of the contract available, plus amendments. The first version was signed on August 9, 2020 and the last available version is June 15, 2021. In one of them the name of the signatory on the Moderna side was redacted with (b)(6). In another version it’s unredacted – it was Hamilton Bennett, a senior director of vaccine access and partnerships. [MORE]

DC Doctor Facing Suit for Allegedly Forcing 2 Black Children to Get Vaxxed by Preventing Them from Exiting a Mobile Clinic is from Same Medical Practice that Injected Kids w/o Ever Informing Parents

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From [ATTY AARON SIRI] A recently filed lawsuit alleges that a pediatrician who works at MedStar in Washington, D.C., forcibly vaccinated two minors without parental consent. According to the lawsuit:

two minor children were held in a room by Defendant until she overcame their will and forcibly vaccinated them while physically preventing them from consulting with their mother, who was right outside the room.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the lawsuit further alleges: 

Minor children W.M. and K.M. were additionally provided with false and fraudulent information in order to obtain purported consent to a procedure in the absence of actual or freely given consent. Specifically, Dr. Rethy told the children that they were required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend school and that they had no lawful option to decline such vaccination.

What makes this story even more incredible is that this is the same pediatric practice that sought to vaccinate a minor child in the lawsuit we brought to strike down the“Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020” passed by Washington D.C. in 2020. We succeeded in winning an injunction which resulted in the repeal of that law.

Before being repealed, the law permitted doctors in D.C. to vaccinate a child, 11 years of age or older, without their parent’s consent or knowledge, and created an elaborate and deceitful scheme in which the healthcare provider, insurance company, school, and health department all participated to hide from those parents the fact that their child had been vaccinated. According to the law, a child did not even need to be a resident of the District of Columbia in order to be vaccinated without parental consent!

In this previous case, the minor was subject to intense pressure and coercion to get vaccinated by a doctor and her staff at MedStar in D.C. When she eventually refused the vaccines, the doctor and staff took physical positions in the room that made her feel trapped! Thankfully, she was eventually able to escape without getting vaccinated.

These lawsuits expose a deeply concerning trend that must be stopped dead in its tracks. And these lawsuits should hopefully have that exact effect. 

To any doctor out there who injects a minor without parental consent, you should know this: if that child’s parent contacts our firm, expect to receive an unwanted injection of justice in return. 

For now, I am pleased to celebrate the repeal of the D.C. law that permitted vaccination of minors without parental consent and thank ICAN for making that lawsuit possible!