The Inquisition has returned

Assange's speech is what stirs Inquisitors
who use medieval torments against him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aSJCI-ik7Q

Liberals warn: anti-Trumpism goes too far

Deplore hysteria-driven damage to careers,
attacks by P.C. crowd on freedom of discourse

Among some 150 signers of an open letter warning against excesses of anti-Trump tactics are the well-known leftist Noam Chomsky; the feminist Gloria Steinem; the the CNN newsman Fareed Zakaria; the writers J.K. Rowling and Salman Rushdie; David Frum, an anti-Trump neocon; Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion; and Roger Cohen, a newsman at the New York Times, where the op-ed editor was ousted after running an opinion piece by a U.S. senator calling for the use of troops to put down the recent riots.

The letter is to appear in the October issue of the liberal magazine Harper's. Careers are being damaged by rash actions of superiors panicking over what is purportedly public outrage, the liberals point out. It is troubling, they say, that

institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.

The letter was released by the liberal magazine Harper's:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200707232554/https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Also,

"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty."

Also,

Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.

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'Seattle mayor protected riotersfrom being curbed by cops, Guard'

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The following is an excerpt from a blog report posted by a National Guard member, on duty to protect the citizenry in Seattle, Washington. The writer complains that Mayor Jenny Durkan issued police and Guard stand-down orders despite the violence. Durkan is a Democrat.
Reprint of entire post
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/truth-seattle-riot/
The essay appears to have been written by Toby Cowern, who teaches wilderness survival skills, though that implication is ambiguous.

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SPD must have had some really good intelligence, or they were anticipating Antifa’s response from Durkan’s concessions. They installed permanent metal barriers at the intersection of 11th St and Pine St. A second line of barriers was also in place in between us and the initial barriers at the intersection. Everything kicked off per usual, with the “protesters” trying to provoke us with their words, umbrellas, and signs. This time, though, we didn’t give them an audience. We all stayed inside the East Precinct, as they did their normal agitation methods at the first barrier.

Suddenly, we were told the “protesters” began jumping the first barrier, heading towards us. We rushed out to the road and staged roughly 1/3 of the way up the block from the intersection of 11th St and Pine St, creating a large safety buffer between us and the “protesters” who had jumped the fencing. They were warned to return over the barrier, which they didn’t. They then began disassembling the barrier. They were warned not to disassemble the barrier, but they continued. They then walked towards us. They were warned to stop, but they didn’t. They continued walking towards us. They were warned again, but they continued. They reached the second barrier.

We later found out they brought a plasma cutter (blow torch) to cut through the barriers… (not that they are the provocateurs, or are planning to escalate, right?!)

They began cutting barriers so they could be used as weapons against us. They were warned about cutting the barriers, but they continued. They then picked up the second barriers and began walking towards us. They were warned again not to move the barriers, but they continued. They then jumped the last barrier. They were warned again to turn back, but they continued towards us. As they continued to approach, they were continuously warned. HOW MANY WARNINGS DOES IT TAKE?!

It started to get dark… The portable lights were turned on. The “protesters” then produced foil covered signs and were trying to blind the Officers and Guardsman. They were warned again, but they continued. They then threw a glass bottle at a Guardsman, the glass bottle shattering on a riot shield. They were warned again, but they just booed at us. They continued to walk slowly towards the Officers until they were within 2-3 feet. They then started using their umbrella’s and other objects, putting them in the face of the Officers. They were warned again to not do that.

As expected, objects were then thrown at us. They amplified things, this time. Instead of throwing glass bottles containing urine and other bodily fluids, they began throwing glass bottles full of gasoline. They then lit and threw fireworks at us, trying to light us on fire.

FINALLY the SPD Administration gave the green light and LESS LETHAL forms of riot control were deployed. As objects were continued to be thrown at us, SWAT finally deployed CS gas. The “protesters” proceeded to start vandalizing everything in the area. They smashed business windows, burned U.S. flags, lit dumpsters and other items on fire, and threw things on fire at us. We pushed them back in all directions about half a block but for some reason, we stopped pushing them back. They then regrouped and continued to vandalize the area with spray paint, breaking windows, and lighting things on fire. Around that time, the Guard was pulled back and we left East Precinct.

I returned the very next day at East Precinct, ready to continue the daily fight with these anarchists and communists. When I arrived, they were boarding up East Precinct. City employees were removing all the barriers and taking everything they could out of the precinct. We were ordered to about-face and leave. We went to a different precinct where it was announced that Durkan had decided to abandon East Precinct and to give it to the “protesters.” As we watched, Antifa took over the East Precinct and they erected walls at the adjacent intersections with the barricades we had used. They armed themselves, proceeded to vandalize the East Precinct with spray paint, and they declared Capitol Hill a Cop-Free, Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). It was hard enough for me to watch, but I saw Officers that were assigned to the East Precinct for decades, shield their faces, and walk out of the room in tears. The Capitol Hill area of the City of Seattle, to include East Precinct, was surrendered by its elected officials to the terrorists.

GUARDIAN'S NEMESIS

A very sharp woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-aWZJfqVX8
OAN's Liz Wheeler brings you up to date on what
the mainstream media did not tell you.


Liz Wheeler

NEWS WAR

Guardian blames its ideological enemy, Fox News,
for Deep State's loss of face in FBI counsel's ouster

And someone at another network sneakily tossed
a leftwing curve ball around the boss...

Trump-Twitter war worsens

Twitter posted a notice on a Tweet of President Trump and forbade its circulation yesterday as a Trump ally called on the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation of Twitter for bypassing sanctions and providing Iranian leaders with Twitter accounts.

The President early yesterday posted tweets on the Minneapolis rioting, in which he referred to protesters as "THUGS" and said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Twitter placed a warning on the tweet, saying that in its view Trump was "glorifying violence."

Trump's message on Twitter came during a night of protests and looting in Minneapolis and were almost surely meant as a warning to the rioters. That riot has been quelled by state authorities.

Trump's ally, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., sharply questions Twitter's claim that it need not heed the sanctions. The company has announced that it is under no obligation to observe the sanctions against Iran, citing the coronavirus pandemic as a reason for ignoring the federal controls.

After Twitter "fact-checked" him, Trump signed an order stripping Twitter and other editorializing social media platforms of their liability shields, meaning they can no longer block lawsuits stemming from message content by claiming to be neutral forums.

http://tiny.cc/kasypz

Hawley blasts Twitter as pal of Reds
http://tiny.cc/ldyypz

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Trump launches war on social media

Open fire: Prez strips tech giants of liability shield,
urges states to prosecute deceptive advertising

http://tiny.cc/ve6vpz

• Executive order follows Twitter
  'fact-checking' him but not China Reds
• Prez blasts tech giants for curbing American free speech
  while bolstering Communist repression
• White House readies legislation to assure firms
  cannot claim to be both editorial media and neutral forums

http://tiny.cc/r47vpz

Thank you, Twitter, for provoking Trump to do what I have been calling for. Thank you, Facebook, for booting me off -- after only a few days after I renewed my registration -- for posting unwanted (by your censors) opinions and news. Thank you also for making clear on Fox News that you have every intention of NOT being a neutral forum, and of regulating even Trump's speech.

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