The FBI has been in the news a lot this week. It is as though they've come out of a 30-year thaw and actually begun moving again. It's difficult to imagine that during the middle 20th Century, the FBI was actually an iconic and highly-respected American institution. Their legendary leader, J. Edgar Hoover, was not only effective at fighting threats to public security, but---unlike today's Federal police agencies---actively sought public interaction with the FBI in fulfillment of their duties.
The FBI and the exploits of Federal agents were very popular in the entertainment media in those days. Our weekend's viewing recommendation is the film that started it all. From 1935, G-Men was produced with technical assistance from the FBI and starred James Cagney, Robert Armstrong, and Margaret Lindsay.
G-Men was an innovative film in that Hollywood crime dramas of the day typically focused on the rise and fall of criminal elements rather than the dramatic actions of police in fighting crime. The more typical police dramas were the standard detective-mystery formats. Action films where the police force were the protagonists were uncommon. Cagney's performance as the daring and tough FBI recruit Brick Davis changed all of that for media history.
The plot of the story is that Brick Davis---from a tough, gang-ridden borough of New York, decides at an early age to go straight and become a crusading lawyer. The Great Depression put a lot of young lawyers out of business; but Davis' ex-law partner sees an opportunity in the FBI. Davis is at first reluctant, but after his friend is gunned down by mobsters, he decides to join the FBI and fight for justice there. Field Director Jeff McCord (played by Robert Armstrong) takes the brash young Davis under his wing for training. Davis also finds himself attracted to the lovely Kay (played by Margaret Lindsay) who turns out to be McCord's daughter. Davis goes on to help track down the mobsters who killed his friend.
There is a lot of action in this film, as we'd expect from 1930's Cagney movie. At least two of the shootouts are known to have been based on actual events: the 1933 'Kansas City Massacre' and a 1934 raid against John Dillinger and 'Baby Face' Nelson.
The FBI made a reputation under Hoover for fighting organized crime; breaking up sex and drug trafficking rings; fighting religious cults; and investigating anti-American activities. For these reasons, the postmodern Hollywood Left---which endorses all of these behaviors---despises the FBI under the Hoover years and never portrays it in anything other than a negative light. Many of these effete critics dismiss G-Men as an 'FBI propaganda film' which, of course, is projection from Hollywood propagandists themselves. And a robust, masculine hero who's nicknamed 'Brick' stings the emasculated Hollywood culture to the quick.
Fans of action police dramas will no doubt enjoy G-Men. It was set during a period where the FBI was often hamstrung by limited powers, and agents having to act on their own initiative; and frequently over the objections of the Brass were common in 1935 as now. All of the films of this genre down to 1970s series like Dirty Harry derived from G-Men. One can't help but notice the character similarities between Brick Davis and Harry Callahan.
G-Men is most widely available on DVD. It is occasionally available on free sites, but is not as of this writing.
Federal authorities in St. Louis have arrested a local anti-Trump activist and charged him with making bomb threats against Jewish Americans. The FBI apprehended one Juan Thompson, a former Corporate Media employee, stating that Thompson's vendetta against a former girlfriend was a partial motivation for his crimes.
A critical sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Thompson had been on Federal law enforcement's radar lately for making threats against President Trump. He claimed on Twitter to have been investigated by the US Secret Service---which he also blamed on his former girlfriend's "false reports." More likely, it was because of Thompson's tweet of January 29th; which reads: "42% of Americans are filthy racist appeasers and should be taken out along with Trump." Ironically, in spite of this advocacy for Genocide, he accused Trump of ethnic cleansing on February 23rd: "Make no mistake. Chicago's Southside is about to be ethnically cleansed. It will look radically different in 10 years. Make no mistake. Trump is a developer. This is his and the White Establishment's to remove Black people from Southside Chicago."
Even though Thompson's political positions appear perfectly aligned with most of the US Corporate Media, he must have said something at some point too extreme even for them. He was fired by The Intercept for "engaging in a pattern of deception involving fabricating quotes and creating fake e-mail accounts."
It should be noted however that Thompson is not an Anarchist, he visited Africa recently and was so impressed that he converted to Islam. In November 2016, he wrote: "I just returned from Senegal after spending weeks in that beautiful country. Plus, I'm reverting back to Islam."
As a side note, Amnesty International wrote this about Senegal at the same time as Thompson's visit: "The authorities in October banned peaceful demonstrations and arrested protesters. The police fired tear gas to disperse an assembly of the opposition. The Dakar Police Chief based his decision...on a 2011 Decree banning all assemblies in the City Center...at least two people were detained in Dakar for insulting religion...Prisons remain overcrowded. Some 2,090 people are held in Rebeuss Prison, which has a capacity for 1,600. At least six people have died in police custody including a prison guard who was shot during a mutiny at Rebeuss Prison in September. 41 others were wounded, including 14 prison guards."
So much for the Liberal Utopia that the 'Resistance' envisions. The FBI report also notes that Thompson will be indicted for Cyberstalking in connection of ongoing harassment of his former girlfriend, whom Thompson describes as a "nasty racist White woman."
After spending the last few weeks of desperate attempts to connect the anti-Semitic threats to Trump, the Corporate Media will---if it runs true-to-form---quietly slink away from looking at Thompson too closely. But at least Trump's FBI is on the job and taking dirtbags like these off the streets.
A scandal of sorts has broken out in the city of Baltimore after it was announced yesterday that seven police detectives involved in enforcing Maryland's tough new anti-gun laws were themselves indicted on federal racketeering charges. According to The Baltimore Sun, the six detectives and one officer were part of an 'elite unit tasked with getting guns off the streets'. Among the charges against the seven are extortion, perjury, weapons trafficking, robbery, fraudulent overtime claims; and in one case, participating in an illegal narcotics ring.
Maryland has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. The Maryland Firearms Safety Act of 2013---which was praised by Obama---has been challenged repeatedly in Federal Courts. According to the Herbst Law Firm's website:
"The police continue to enforce Maryland's strict gun laws and arrest anyone they think may be in violation. One of the most common gun charges in the State is wearing, carrying, or transporting a concealed or open handgun. The law does not consider openly carrying a handgun or carrying a concealed handgun as different crimes. Without a difficult-to-obtain permit, both are illegal."
Baltimore Police Chief Kevin Davis is a staunch gun-control proponent. His 'elite unit' to which these indicted officers belonged has seen over 700 firearm-related deaths in Baltimore during the last two years. Baltimore's crime rate is so bad that European Tourist Agencies warn potential visitors to avoid the city if possible.
The Maryland State Attorney General's Office has been forced to throw out four convictions based on these officers' malfeasance and states that others are under review. However, Federal Prosecutors have stated to the press that the State AG's office is itself under investigation for possible Obstruction of Justice in this case.
The officers' crimes were uncovered during a Federal investigation into narcotics and weapons trafficking in the DC Metro Area. One of the allegations against these officers is that they confiscated firearms and sold them themselves on the Black Market.
Where have we heard of such things happening before? Oh yes: here.
Maybe the Trump Administration ought to have the FBI and ATF look a little more closely at those advocating for---and zealously enforcing---gun control laws. It appears that Liberals not only want to take your guns and leave you defenseless before criminals: they want to take your guns and sell them to the criminals first.
Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) has opened a Congressional Inquiry into long-standing allegations that Federal bureaucrats have been wasting time and tax dollars viewing pornography at work. So far, his investigations are revealing more of the character of The Swamp that President Trump has vowed to drain. And bear in mind that this is what the Left-Wing Whackos and their RINO confederates hope to protect.
"This behavior is being exposed in almost every agency." Meadows told NBC-4 Washington, "The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department appear to be the worst offenders."
No surprises, here really. What better place for a sexual predator to hide than the Justice Department? We all know what crooked cops do: it's no different here. NBC-4 cited the case of a Dallas DOJ Official caught viewing pornography 4-6 hours per day "including some of which may been child pornography." An FBI agent in Virginia pled guilty to receiving child pornography on a government computer.
"There were over 100 egregious cases revealed over the last five years." NBC-4 reported, "that federal employees watched porn for hours a day and required an internal investigation into their porn habits at work. The most notorious case was an employee in the Office of Air and Radiation who, while earning a $120,000 salary with bonuses, watched porn between 2 and 6 hours every day."
This same employee was actually banned from the EPA after being caught performing lewd acts, but was placed on paid administrative leave as punishment. That's a specimen of the personality type who's been responsible for policies like these. It's also the kind of federal employees who get hired during three decades of Liberal/Neocon Administrations.
What people do in the privacy of their own homes is their own business: but people who spend multiple hours at work doing this are psychologically questionable by any reasonable standard. And Trump was correct, too, in banning such people from drifting into lobbying after they're caught doing things like this.
How serious is the problem? Apparently, more serious than we realize. NBC-4 only covered the cases that were discovered and investigated internally. It's certainly time for draining of this kind of swamp.
While the US Corporate Media has been busy all week fuming about a White House spokeswoman taking selfies on a couch and applauding the snide anti-Trump innuendoes at the Academy Awards, Sputnik News reported that President Trump's promise to crack down on sex-trafficking and child-abuse rings has taken more criminals off the streets in one month than Obama did in all of 2014 combined.
At a press conference on Thursday, the President said of sex trafficking: "Dedicated men and women across the federal government have focused on this for some time---it's been much more focused during the last four weeks."
Liz Crokin, a sex-crimes advocate and writer, estimated that the FBI and local law enforcement have been rounding up about 400 suspects per week; and lists seven sex-trafficking rings which have been broken up:
January 27th: 42 suspects in Tennessee
January 29th: 474 suspects in California
January 31st: 16 in Michigan
February 5th: 108 in Illinois
February 5th: 178 in Texas
February 8th: 11 in Virginia
February 14th: 42 in Florida
Tim Wiley of the Detroit FBI Office told WWJ-NEWS following the Michigan arrests that sex trafficking of the type targeted nationwide is part of larger organized crime syndicates. "Opioid use plays a big part in sex trafficking today. In the past, these pimps used a lot of force and coercion---now not so much, It's often a case of drug addiction."
Crokin told Sputnik News that she is appalled by the Corporate Media blackout of this story. "This should be one of the biggest stories in the national news...the mainstream media has barely, if at all, covered any of these mass paedophile arrests."
The recent controversy over Milo Yiannapolous' remarks have shown that there are unresolved legal issues relative to sexual consent, and we should have an informed national dialogue about this. But in most of these cases, consensual sex is not really an issue. The pimps and traffickers involved are criminals who employ force and addiction to traffic human beings for their own profit.
So why has the Corporate Media ignored these stories? And even more to the point, why are international crooks like George Soros and John Podesta organizing against Trump? I think that we can all draw our own conclusions about that.
One of the characteristics of cults is they way they continually employ confirmation bias to undermine faith. Two of the ringleaders of the Red Pill Cult, Dalrock and Vox Day have published a pair of complimentary articles 'proving' that Feminism---and by extension 'feminized' churches (i.e. everyone outside of their belief system)---has succumbed to the idolatry of the Feminine Imperative.
The 'Feminine Imperative' is one of the Game/Red Pill mythologies, based on Evolutionary Psychology and some of their own heresies related to the Garden of Eden story. Imperiousness would actually be a better word for what they are describing; but they're too discreet to use that term. Their doctrine alleges that women are this way by nature, unless controlled by Man or the State.
So, what do Dalrock and Vox offer as evidence for all this? That the British version of the Girl Scouts mentioned 'duty to God' in their creed 117 years ago, but don't today.
"There are no two ways around it. As Dalrock shows, the evidence is clear." Vox authoritatively informs his disciples, quoting his confederate at length, "Feminism isn't merely wrong, or incoherent, or dyscivilizational (sic) it is intrinsically anti-Christian."
It may be so; but not for the reasons the Red Pills state---which are clearly designed to promote the mythologies of their Cult. Otherwise, Dalrock wouldn't have added this non-sequitur:
"We don't get this merely from secular sources or even just from Liberal Christian leaders. Women's feelings are taught by modern Conservative Christians as something holy, divinely inspired."
The Red Pills actually care nothing about women's feelings, so they repeat exaggerations like the above at every opportunity. They have argued that wives have no right to refuse sex under any circumstances. A few even argue that they have no right to refuse it outside of marriage, either. This is the point from which they attack Christians (and others) who actually believe in respecting female feelings as 'feminist'. So Dalrock adds:
"Thus we are taught that wives are light-years closer to God than their husbands, and that they are channeling the Divine Will when they throw Godly tantrums. This is especially true when it comes to women's sexual/romantic feelings."
What a cad. Dalrock and Vox are arguing that female feelings about sex are imperious and essentially, sinful. This is the reasoning of a thug, or a sexual predator, disguised as Christian Doctrine. To underscore the point further, they attack some ministers as 'heretics':
"Pastors Dave Wilson and Dr. Albert Mohler both teach that a wife's sexual attraction (or lack thereof) to her husband is a signal from God as to her husband's righteousness."
Actually, neither teach this. Here's what Dr. Mohler actually did say, as quoted by Dalrock himself:
"I believe that God intends for a man to be civilized, directed, and stimulated towards marital faithfulness by the fact that his wife will freely give herself to him sexually only when he presents himself as worthy of her attention and desire."
What a concept: a woman having voluntary sex with a man because she respects him!
The whole idea of the Feminine Imperative is bogus anyway. In Palmyra, Syria Christian women were martyred by ISIS for refusing to renounce their Faith---even when the Jihadi thugs lined their children up in a trench and shot them in front of their eyes. For every anecdote like the British Girl Scouts that the Gamers adduce to support their hypothesis, there's another that refutes it. This is why reasoning from anecdote is illogical.
The Law of Polarity and sexual complimentarianism is never cheated. The Red Pills aren't the antidote to anti-Christian Feminism; but its polarity and compliment. Both are antagonistic to Christianity and to Civilization, regardless of their superficial appearance as opposites.
Trump Derangement Syndrome struck again shortly before tonight's rather meaningless Oscars-Awards Ceremonies. Some supporters of President Trump were protesting peacefully outside the event when two young women suffered a TDS attack and went on a short but spirited and profanity-laden rampage. Anyone interested in seeing a video clip of these fine specimens of Postmodern American maidenhood in action can watch at Samuel Gonzalez' blog.
These two women are familiar types to anyone who's spent much time in Southern California. This is usually what girls grow up to be like when they have no strong male role models in their childhoods. They both come across as a couple of overgrown brats who've never had a male authority figure in their lives but subconsciously act out because they crave discipline. When the blonde is arrested by the burly male cop, her expression reminds one of those old aftershave commercials where the man gets slapped an says, "Thanks. I needed that."
And really the fracas outside the ceremony was more entertaining than most of what Hollywood produces these days. The Oscars have generally sunk to a point where saying much about them is pointless: like the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Just a bunch of effete Media oligarchs patting themselves on the back and posing for the populace as though they were still a free press.
What Americans---and American Women in particular---can take away from the Oscars' meltdown is what we saw during the Golden Globes when Meryl Streep cracked up. Don't be that girl. Make American Women Great Again (MAWGA). And, as we did after the Golden Globes article, we reached into the Feature Friday archives to find some examples:
That's reason to rebuild America enough!
