Fed Judge Ordered Racist Suspect Georgia [s]Election Authorities to Stop Tossing Absentee Ballots Over Mismatched Signatures w/o Telling Voters Their Votes Won't Be Counted

From [HERE] The Post reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Georgia election officials to stop summarily tossing absentee ballots because of mismatched signatures, delivering a crucial win to voting-rights advocates — and to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — less than two weeks before Election Day.

The ruling resulted from two lawsuits filed earlier this month after election officials in a single Atlanta suburb, Gwinnett County, rejected hundreds of absentee ballots with signature discrepancies, missing addresses or incorrect birth years.

Yes, you read that right: Officials were tossing out ballots without advising voters that their ballots wouldn’t be counted. Who in the real world thinks this is remotely acceptable? Not the federal judge, to be sure. “U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May agreed, and she ordered Secretary of State Brian Kemp to instruct all local election officials to stop rejecting absentee ballots over the mismatched signatures. Instead, such ballots will be marked ‘provisional,’ and the voter will be given the right to appeal the decision or confirm his or her identity. Kemp and the Gwinnett County election board were named as defendants in the suit,” The Post reported. (Kemp — who is also the Republican nominee for governor — has also instituted a massive purge of voting rolls and an “exact match rule,” resulting in 53,000 voter applications being rejected for minor discrepancies.)

The American Civil Liberties Union brought the litigation. Sophia Lakin, staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said in a written statement: “This ruling protects the people of Georgia from those who seek to undermine their right to vote. It’s a huge victory, especially with the midterms just days away.”

Kemp defended his actions in the lawsuit,  arguing that you don’t have a right to an absentee ballot. The court was having none of it. “While Defendants correctly assert that the right to apply for and vote via absentee ballot is not constitutionally on par with the fundamental right to vote, once the state creates an absentee voting regime, they ‘must administer it in accordance with the Constitution.’ ” (One is reminded of the Jim Crow segregationists who claimed that the state had no obligation to provide schools so it could exclude African Americans.)

The judge also agreed with the plaintiffs, who argued that “the risk of a voter’s absentee ballot application or ballot being erroneously rejected is substantial, given that a single election official—who is not trained in handwriting analysis—has unchecked discretion to determine whether two signatures match.” Once more, aside from the legal standard, basic fairness and common sense would dictate that this entirely subjective process is unacceptable. But in Kemp’s Georgia, you have to go to court to stop it. The court remarked, “Defendants fail to explain why it would impose a severe hardship to afford absentee voters a similar process for curing mismatched signature ballots as for curing qualification challenges or casting a provisional ballot.” The answer: There is none.

The lack of good faith on Kemp’s part is breathtaking. Unless you wanted to disqualify thousands of voters, you’d never set up such a system. But we now have Kemp on tape saying if everyone who has a right to vote actually votes, he’s in trouble. At least he acknowledges he cannot win in a fair and open election. Now that at least one of his malicious practices has been halted perhaps we will find out just how jealously Georgians guard their right to vote. [MORE]

“I can’t keep up with the number of people that we’re offending just by being normal [neuropean] people" - Racist Megyn Kelly after Being Cancelled over Blackface Comments

"Most white people hate black people. The reason that most white people hate Black people is because whites are not Black people. If you know this about white people, you need know little else. If you don’t know this about white people, virtually all else that you know about them will only confuse you." Nelly Fuller quoted by Dr. Francis Cress Welsing.

From [HERE] When Megyn Kelly was a child, according to Megyn Kelly, it was okay to wear blackface “as long as you were dressing up like a character.”

Then again, when Megyn Kelly was a child, it was still legal to use lead paint in your house. In this and all paint-based matters, our society has evolved. And whether or not it was in fact “okay” to follow Mischief Night with a DIY minstrel show during Kelly’s tender years in the 1970s is an opinion that Kelly’s contemporaries of color do not share.

The most surprising thing about Kelly’s blackface remarks — which she punctuated with a frustrated tear about how “I can’t keep up with the number of people that we’re offending just by being normal people” — is that anyone is surprised by them at all.

Telling highlights of Kelly’s storied tenure at Fox include, but are not limited to: dismissing of a Department of Justice report finding “rampant racial discrimination” in the Missouri police department that patrolled the neighborhood where Michael Brown was killed; calling a 15-year-old black girl who was pinned down by a police officer at a pool party “no saint”; siding with “All Lives Matter” against Black Lives Matter; insisting that both Santa Claus and Jesus Christ are/were white. [MORE]

ICE Sued for 1st Amendment Violations after Targeting Non-White Immigrant Activists for Deportation

From [HERE] Four immigrant rights organizations filed suit in federal court in the Pacific Northwest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tuesday alleging that ICE has been singling out immigrant activists in particular for deportation.

Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDC), Detention Watch Network, The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites allege ICE has been “systematically surveil[ed], detain[ed], and deport[ed] immigrant activists who speak out about immigration policies and practices.” The suit argues this is a First Amendment-protected conduct.

“ICE has investigated, surveilled, harassed, raided, arrested, detained, and deported those activists immediately following press appearances and news conferences. It has detained spokespeople and directors of immigration advocacy organizations. It has surveilled the organizations’ headquarters and targeted their members,” the complaint states.

“[ICE’s] targeting of activists is anti-democratic and it threatens the free speech rights of anyone engaged in protest of ICE, an agency that sits at the forefront of the President’s anti-immigrant agenda,” said Detention Watch Network in a press release.

ACLU Asks Homeland Security to Disclose Facial Recognition Tech Details - Congress Never Authorized its Use for Immigration or Law Enforcement.

From [HERE] and [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union today called again for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology for immigration enforcement and law enforcement purposes until Congress and the public debate what, if any, uses of this technology should be permitted. The organization also filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the Department of Homeland Security disclose to the public if and how the agency is using or plans to use the technology.

These latest actions come on the heels of a new report revealing that Amazon has been pushing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to purchase the company’s facial recognition technology, Rekognition.

ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani issued the following statement:

“ICE should not be using face recognition for immigration or law enforcement. Congress has never authorized such use and should immediately take steps to ensure that federal agencies put the brakes on the use of face recognition for immigration or law enforcement purposes.

“Amazon and ICE cannot continue to bury their heads in the sand and treat this as ‘business as usual’. Both have deliberately ignored warnings from members of Congress, the public, employees, and civil rights advocates regarding the dangers of this technology. In ICE’s case, we have every reason to be worried that this technology will be used to support the agency’s ongoing efforts aimed at terrorizing immigrant communities.”

The ACLU’s FOIA request seeks records relating to the purchase of face recognition technology and related software and services, as well as records related to meetings with vendors, companies or other private entities marketing face recognition to DHS for immigration, intelligence, or law enforcement use.

“DHS should immediately disclose to the public whether and how the agency is deploying or planning to deploy this technology,” added Guliani. “History tells us that surveillance technology is often wrongly used to target immigrants, communities of color, and political protesters, and there is a danger that this time will be no different.”

On May 22, the ACLU released emails and other documents revealing how the company has been actively marketing its dangerous face surveillance to law enforcement and helping them deploy it. On July 26, the ACLU of Northern California also released results of a test showing that Rekognition falsely matched 28 current members of Congress with images in an arrest photo database. Congressional members of color were disproportionately identified incorrectly, including six members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The release of the documents and test results spurred a nationwide movement in protest of government use of face surveillance and resulted in over 150,000 petition signatures, a coalition letter signed by nearly 70 organizations representing communities nationwide, and a letter from the Amazon’s shareholders and employees demanding the company stop providing face surveillance technology to governments. Members of Congress also wrote to Amazon with civil rights concerns and questions about the sale of Rekognition to law enforcement.

During Small Audience Tour, Trump Messages that He is also a Racist ["a nationalist"] & Tricks Minority into Believing & Representing Itself as a Majority in Unrepresentative Dumbocracy

Racists & Numerical Inadequacy & Rule by the [Small] Mob in Dumbocracy (unrepresentative democracy.) Doc Blynd tells us that ‘democracy is dictatorship camouflaged as freedom. Democracy, next to "monetized debt," and direct taxation (on labor) is the biggest con-game perpetrated on a population. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain and sustain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that lie, they make wonderfully submissive and self-maintained slaves. "There are those who maintain that at bottom what is called democracy, (whenever and wherever it is supposed to have existed), is merely the mask for the rule of capitalist and/or bureaucratic minorities over an ignorant and deceived majority whose franchise signifies only the right to choose or to change its masters." -Max Nomad. [MORE]

Racists love words - so they can create confusion and deceive. What exactly is "nationalism?" Always endeavoring to undeceive, Dr. Blynd explains in FUNKTIONARY

Nationalism - the natural collective commitment on the part of the members of a society and/or culture to its economic and political defense, its survival and its perpetuation, not limited by the concept of non-geographical or non-territorial "nation-state" (commercial religious monopolies erroneously known as "governments.") Michael Bakunin aptly and rightly claimed that "the "negative component' of nationalism is just as essential as the 'positive component' and inseparable from it." Class collaboration and cultural identity cannot be readily decoupled in reality—maybe as a goal—but not in reality. Racism/white supremacy must be addressed and dismantled before any class-unification or cross-collaboration can be successful in bringing about more economic equality or even liberation for the people (dwellers upon the land) in the absence of any politically institutionalized hierarchy of imperialist white male domination and dehumanizing subjugation of humans through the trickery of statutes and by-laws that enforce compelled performance to same. [MORE]

From [HERE] As Dummy Trump held midterm rallies this week in front of thousands in very small venues, his one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon made his own, rather more low-key return to the campaign trail.

Bannon appeared in front of 200 people at a firehouse outside Buffalo, New York, ostensibly to campaign for Republicans based in the area. But in a visceral demonstration of just how far Bannon’s stock has fallen since leaving the White House 14 months ago, none of those Republicans running for office turned up.

Instead – in a move unlikely to please his former boss – Bannon spent the first part of his speech at the Jamison Road volunteer firehouse in Elma talking up his own importance in Trump’s 2016 victory, in an apparent attempt to thrust himself back into the national spotlight.

“Let’s go back in time,” Bannon said, in a potentially revealing turn of phrase. [MORE]

A Study [in "you will not replace us"] Shows Caravan coverage has taken over the news cycle. That’s exactly what Fox News & President Trash Wanted

From [HERE] With midterm elections just 14 days away, you might not think that a group of migrants more than 1,000 miles away from the nearest U.S. border would be a leading story across all three cable news networks. You would be wrong.

What started out as one of Fox News’ pet issues has become a major media narrative thanks to the feedback loop between the network and President Donald Trump. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC spent a combined 15 hours covering the migrant caravan between Monday, October 15, and Sunday, October 21. Fox News led the charge, covering the story both first and the most -- for nearly eight hours. In the same week-long period, CNN covered the issue for four and a half hours, while MSNBC devoted two and a half hours to the migrant caravan. While the tone of the coverage varied among the networks, one thing is clear across all three: Their priorities just two weeks out from midterms elections are skewed.

Fox had spent 20 minutes over the mornings of October 15 and 16 talking about the migrant caravan before Trump first tweeted a threat to take aid away from Honduras if the caravan wasn’t stopped. He tweeted a similar message Tuesday night. Trump’s tweets -- which were undoubtedly spurred by Fox News’ coverage of the caravan -- are what first gave this issue life on CNN and MSNBC. CNN’s and MSNBC’s first mentions of the migrants occurred Tuesday night, when a host on each network reacted to Trump’s tweets about cutting aid.

By Wednesday, October 17, Trump was already trying to use the caravan to try to benefit Republicans. In a tweet that morning, the president called the caravan a “Great Midterm issue for Republicans!” Wednesday night, Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox News and stated, “I think two words are going to define the night of the 2018 election in the next three weeks. One is Kavanaugh and the other is caravan,” referring to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Trump picked right up on that talking point, echoing it at a rally the next day in Montana, after falsely tweeting that there are “MANY CRIMINALS” in the group of migrants and threatening to use the military to “CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” As the days passed, Trump continued to tweet misspelled lies about the caravan creating “a National Emergy” and somehow blamed Democrats for the issue even though Republicans have control of all three branches of the federal government.

As Trump’s focus on the caravan ramped up, so did the networks’ coverage:

Not only did Fox News successfully spur coverage of the caravan across the other networks by getting Trump to tweet about it, but it also managed to frame the conversation around the midterms. MSNBC repeatedly aired clips of Gingrich’s “Kavanaugh” and “caravan” comments to drive conversation about immigration and the midterms.

While all the networks overplayed coverage of the caravan, their tones varied. CNN and MSNBC were more likely to highlight Trump’s lies and fear tactics, as well as the plight of the migrants, while more often than not Fox’s coverage was aimed at stoking fear. Nonetheless, the sheer amount of time devoted to the topic across all three networks is disproportionate, creating the false impression of a real crisis.

The wall-to-wall coverage is reminiscent of the networks’ treatment of the federal government response to Ebola in 2014. Shortly before that year’s midterm elections, Republicans settled on a strategy of using the diagnosis of Ebola in a handful of U.S. patients to inflame fears about the Obama administration’s management of the disease. Television media played into the GOP’s hands, running nearly 1,000 frequently alarmist segments about the virus in the four weeks before the election. [MORE]

Federal Judge Mulling Action Over Rejected Georgia Absentee Ballots in Racist Plan to Exclude Blacks from Voting in illusory Election

Elite Racists Have Abandoned Efforts to Propagandize 'the Appearance of Fairness in Elections' to Exclusively Promote the illusion of 'Participation in Democracy.’ Jim crow trickery is now just part of the deal, overwhelm the steal - fight harder for THE freedumb to choose your masters. In photo. GREG PALAST ASKS RACIST BRIAN KEMP ABOUT HIS CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN COUNTING HIS OWN VOTES & PURGING HIS OPPONENT’S VOTES.

From [HERE] An overly stringent review of absentee ballots in Gwinnett County and the state of Georgia has the potential to disenfranchise thousands of people, attorneys for multiple voting and civil rights groups argued in federal court Tuesday.

A judge will decide soon if she agrees.

U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May heard arguments Tuesday afternoon in two different lawsuits filed last week against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and the Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections. Both suits — one led by the American Civil Liberties Union, the other by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Coalition for Good Governance — asked for immediate protections for absentee voters in the Nov. 6 election.

Kemp has remained in place as secretary of state while also running for governor. That has drawn the ire of some Democrats and other advocates, who have raised questions about his ability to impartially supervise an election that he’s involved in. He faces Stacey Abrams, who would be the first African-American woman in the nation elected to a gubernatorial seat.

The ACLU-led suit seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting elections officials from rejecting absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications due to signatures not matching other government documents unless would-be voters are given “pre-rejection notice” and an opportunity to resolve the issue.

The Lawyers’ Committee suit argues that “signature committees” should be created to review possible mismatches and that procedures for notifying residents about rejected ballots should be improved.

“The risk increases every day that an absentee voter will not receive a rejection letter until it’s too late,” ACLU legal director Sean Young argued Tuesday.

But Gwinnett County officials say new requirements introduced before next month’s election would be a burden.

“Requiring another review or further new procedures at this point in the process will require taking workers who are stretched to the limit with required election-related tasks to repeat their review of absentee ballot applications and absentee ballots,” the county argued in its written response.

May asked many questions during the hearing but did not rule from the bench. The judge said she would issue an order in the coming days.

She raised questions about whether there is “adequate procedural due process” for residents whose absentee ballots are rejected because of their signatures.

May asked attorneys multiple times for their thoughts on allowing hearings for those potential absentee voters. Such mechanisms already exist for voters whose ballots are rejected due to other eligibility questions.

“The system is already in place,” May said.

Rolebotic Latino Judge Bends Over Backwards to Reduce Jury's Award of Punitive Damages Against Monsanto for Causing Cancer of Dying Black Man

From [HERE] A judge for the Superior Court of California County of San Francisco on Monday upheld a jury verdict finding Monsanto liable in the case of a groundskeeper who claims to have developed cancer as a result of prolonged use of Monsanto products, but reduced the amount of damages from $298 million to $78 million.

The plaintiff, Dwayne Johnson, a former pest control manager for the California public school system, brought suit against Monsanto alleging the company failed to warn him of cancerous side effects from a possible carcinogen, glyphosate, in their products. At the age of 42 he developed a rash that led to a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a terminal cancer of the lymphatic system. Johnson’s case was fast-tracked due to the severity of his illness.

Johnson's victory could set a massive precedent for thousands of other cases claiming Monsato's famous herbicide causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Johnson's case was the first to go to trial because doctors said he was near death. And in California, dying plaintiffs can be granted expedited trials.

CNN reported last year that more than 800 patients were suing Monsanto, claiming Roundup gave them cancer.

In August a jury found in favor of Johnson and awarded him damages totaling $298 million, $250 million of which were punitive. Writing for the court, Judge Suzanne Bolanos denied Monsanto’s Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (JNOV), finding no evidence to disturb the jury’s verdict. However, Bolanos determined that the punitive damages awarded here were inappropriate.

Under California law, Johnson was required “to prove by clear and convincing evidence that an officer, director, or managing agent of Monsanto acted with malice or opposition in the conduct that gave rise to liability.” Although finding that this standard had been met, Bolanos determined that the putative damages in this matter violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as observed by the US Supreme Court in State Farm v. Campbell. Relying on California precedent, Bolanos ordered the punitive damages to be reduced to the maximum allowed under law, equal to that of compensatory damages which is just over $39.25 million.

The order requires Johnson to accept the reduced amount before December 7 or a new trial will be granted as to the punitive damages only.

Lesions on much of his body

Johnson, 46, applied Roundup weedkiller 20 to 30 times per year while working as a groundskeeper for a school district near San Francisco, his attorneys said.

He testified that during his work, he had two accidents in which he was soaked with the product. The first accident happened in 2012.

Two years later, in 2014, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

On bad days, Johnson is too crippled to speak. Lesions cover as much as 80% of his body.

Johnson had lesions on most of his body, a doctor said.

Litzenburg said the most heartbreaking part of Johnson's testimony was when the father of two described telling his sons that he had terminal cancer. Johnson's wife now works two 40-hour-per-week jobs to support the family, Litzenburg said.

Report Shows Tech and Data Companies are Profiting Off Trump's Deportation Machine of Non-White Immigrants

From [HERE] Tech and data companies are building—and profiting from—the Trump administration’s deportation machine, providing local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies with the data analysis and tracking software necessary for a massive web of surveillance, a new report shows.

The “ICE Tech Contracting for Person-centric Immigration Enforcement” report, prepared by Empower LLC and commissioned by the Latino and immigration rights organizations Mijente, the National Immigration Project, and the Immigrant Defense Project, details an expansive network, and shows that key tech companies—including Amazon, Palantir Technologies, and Forensic Logic—are profiting from it.

Earlier this year, NBC News reported based on a public records search that Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, and Palantir all have active contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But the Department of Homeland Security’s expansive network of person-centric data systems, built for an information-sharing initiative between various levels of law enforcement, poses not only a threat to immigrant communities, but to marginalized communities, activists say.

ICE collects data, which it uses to build profiles of undocumented persons, with the intent to arrest, detain, and deport them. Information Technology (IT) spending accounts for nearly 10% of DHS’s budget, or $6.8 billion, making it the largest IT budget in the federal government, according to data from the DHS Congressional Budget Justification FY 2019. This level of mass surveillance and data collection and sharing opens the door to a much wider net that could broadly target people of color, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people, and leftist activists, including Black Lives Matter, environmental activists, and antifascists, activists say.

“The Trump administration is pushing an incredibly racist and xenophobic policing agenda. Tech and data companies’ involvement is part of this expansion,” Jacinta Gonzalez, Mijente’s field director tells Fortune. “The government could be contracting tech companies for environmental reasons, but instead it’s targeting communities of color, specifically people organizing for their rights.”

Mijente has pressured Palantir to drop its $51 million contract with ICE to build a web case management system that helps the agency surveil, track, and deport immigrants across the country. The group targeted Palantir and Amazon over the summer at Burning Man, where activists brought a giant cage labeled with “ICE” to the Nevada music festival known to attract the tech leaders of Silicon Valley.

The database created by Palantir uses information pulled from the DHS, FBI and other sources to build profiles of people who have crossed the border, including “schooling, family relationships, employment information, phone records, immigration history, foreign exchange program status, personal connections, biometric traits, criminal records, and home and work addresses,” the Intercept reported last year.

Meanwhile, Amazon receives millions of dollars to host Palantir, as well as backups of DHS’s vast database of biometric information on its web servers, according to the report. The two companies are dominating the market to meet the federal government’s data storage needs, building an increasingly effective deportation and incarceration infrastructure for the Trump administration, activists say.

Amazon, which is now the wealthiest corporation in the world, has more federal authorizations to store government data than any other corporation, with 204 authorizations compared to Google’s 27, according to data from the FedRAMP Marketplace.

Amazon faced backlash from employees earlier this year for selling its facial recognition technology, Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Florida, and for its partnerships with companies providing technical and data support to ICE. In an open letter, employees criticized CEO Jeff Bezos for the move, arguing that these technologies help further militarize the police, and fuel the detention and deportation of immigrants. [MORE]

‘In the service of whim’ & to promote illusions: Authorities Scramble to Make Yurugu Trump’s False Assertions Real

From [HERE] The great election-eve middle-class tax cut began not as a factual proposal, but as a false promise.

When President Trump abruptly told reporters over the weekend that middle-income Americans would receive a 10 percent tax cut before the midterm elections, neither officials on Capitol Hill nor in his administration knew anything about such a tax cut. The White House released no substantive information. And although cutting taxes requires legislation, Congress is not scheduled to be back in session until after the Nov. 6 elections.

Yet Washington’s bureaucratic machinery whirred into action nonetheless — working to produce a policy that could be seen as supporting Trump’s whim.

One such option now under discussion by administration officials is a symbolic nonbinding “resolution” designed to signal to voters ahead of the elections that if Republicans hold their congressional majorities they might pass a future 10 percent tax cut for the middle class. And House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) said Tuesday that he would work with the White House and the Treasury Department to develop a plan “over the coming weeks.”

The mystery tax cut is only the latest instance of the federal government scrambling to reverse-engineer policies to meet Trump’s sudden public promises — or to search for evidence buttressing his conspiracy theories and falsehoods.

The Pentagon leaped into action to both hold a military parade and launch a “Space Force” on the president’s whims. The Commerce Department moved to create a plan for auto tariffs after Trump angrily threatened to impose them. And just this week, Vice President Pence, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House all rushed to try to back up Trump’s unsupported claim that “unknown Middle Easterners” were part of a migrant caravan in Central America — only to have the president admit late Tuesday that there was no proof at all.

“Virtually no one on the planet has the kind of power that a president of the United States has to scramble bureaucracies in the service of whim,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “Whatever Donald Trump wakes up and thinks about, or whatever comes to mind in the middle of a speech, actually has the reality in that it is actionable in some odd sense.”

Consider Trump’s ongoing commentary this week about the caravan of Central American migrants traveling toward the U.S. border with Mexico.

The president tweeted an unsubstantiated warning Monday morning that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in,” and later repeated it. His claim received extensive news coverage, but administration agencies did not immediately provide information supporting it.

By the day’s end, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Trump “absolutely” has evidence that there are Middle Easterners in the caravan — but she cited only a statistic that each day 10 suspected or known terrorists try to enter the United States illegally.

Though Trump’s claim was not about suspected terrorists specifically, he and his administration seemed to imply — again with no evidence — that his hypothetical “Middle Easterners” may have intentions to commit terrorism.

Pence sought to back up his boss’s claim, saying Tuesday morning in a Washington Post Live interview that it is “inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border.”

But just hours later, Trump admitted to reporters during an Oval Office event that he has no evidence to support the claim about the caravan.

“There’s no proof of anything,” Trump said, “but there could very well be.” [MORE]

Fed Appeals Ct Reminds Us: Police Actions that Violate the Constitution Don’t Necessarily Lead to Liability [b/c Relations between Cops & Blacks are Governed by the Law of the Jungle = immunity]

From [MassPrivatel] For those of you that claim we don't live in a police state, I give you this recent Michigan Appeals Court ruling.

In 2015, Deputy James Dawson went to Joshua Brennan's home and knocked on his door trying to obtain a breath sample. When Brennan did not answer, Dawson spent an hour and a half knocking at his doors and windows.

Officer Dawson also put crime-scene tape over Brennan's security cameras to conceal his actions and used his siren and cruiser lights in an attempt to rouse him.

When Brennan finally opened his door, officer Dawson forced him to take a breathalyzer and arrested him for a probation violation even though he blew a 0.000.

All of this was done without a warrant. (Warrantless breathalyzer tests was not a condition of Brennan's probation.)

If you think, it is obvious to any reasonable person that his rights were violated. Then you don't know how the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals interprets the Constitution.

The fact that this even went to an Appeals Court, speaks volumes about our justice system but I digress.

Let's get back to the ruling;  judge John Nalabandian said that officer Dawson did violate Brennan's Fourth Amendment rights by searching him without a warrant. All is good so far, right?

Not quite, Nalabandian went on to say "police actions that violate the Constitution do not lead to liability."

The court also ruled that since officer "Dawson's implied license was not clearly established" and because of that old police standby, "deficient training" he cannot be sued.

To say that the court's reasoning is frustrating is an understatement. The court said that because "Wilson and Clare County were not on actual or constructive notice that the deputy training was deficient they could not be liable."

Does anyone really think police are held to a higher standard when they constantly use the "deficient training" excuse?

If you are upset by the court's ruling that police are not liable for violating the Constitution I warn you - it only gets worse.

Citizens must prove to judges that violating out rights is unlawful

According to the Sixth Circuit and this speaks volumes about our justice system "the plaintiff bears the burden of proving that the right was so well settled that every reasonable official would understand that what he is doing is unlawful."

In other words, citizens must prove to a "reasonable official" [judge] that a police officer violating the Constitution is unlawful.

The Sixth Circuit claimed that since the Hardesty v. Hamburg Twp. ruling did not set a limit on how long a police officer can harass people at their homes Brennan cannot sue the police.  Even though they admitted that "absent a warrant a police officer has no greater license to remain on the property than a Girl Scout or trick-or-treater."

The ruling repeatedly admits that "Dawson arguably violated the Constitution." but states for a second time that "even if a government official violated a constitutional right, that official is entitled to qualified immunity."

The Sixth Circuit refused to view the "constitutionality of the officer's conduct or the continuing viability of Hardest and Turk."

Not only did the Appeals court rule that Brennan cannot sue the police for violating his rights but they dismissed his unlawful arrest claim as well.

The good doods at MassPrivatel misunderstand; this is a corporate state. It’s not coming. Its here now, a free range prison. Dr. Blynd states the “Corporate State is created by criminals who use deadly force if you don't comply with their dictates of compelled conformance and you have no other choice than to leave and become domiciled in another similar Rogue State. "The more corrupt the State, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus (55-117 A.D.) "The State is basically a protection racket. The fact that it incidentally provides a few beneficial services merely camouflages its essential role as enforcer of the money-commodity (sic) economy, without which most of the artificially maintained conflicts of interest that now provide a pretext for the State would lose their rationale." -Ken Knabb.” 

FUNKTIONARY makes it plain:

Corporate Police State - the enforcer of the commodification of life within the Spectacle Surveillance Society. Anyone who thinks that he or she is immune to the baseless destruction of his or her life (including immediate family members) by a "government" or corporation does live in a happy menagerie—enjoy your illusions. (See: GUPI & Judicial Victimization) 

Sovereign immunity  - ''government" so-called, applying the law of the jungle to its relationship to the people. We are bound by the written law but those who wrote the law are bound by the law of the jungle. Makes you feel like a fool, doesn't it? Minority rule majority fooled? Surely, on earth as it is in heaven. Why would we ever allow "government" to assert the position that it is not bound by the same law that binds us? The answer is that we are fools sweet-talked by judges into believing that the "natural state of affairs" is to bind the people by law, and the "'government" by fiat. "Government" has replaced religion as the opiate of the masses using the Media as its subduing gasses (fumes of subterfuge). (See: CHAOS, Overrulers, Judicial System, Constitution, Law, Domestication, Justice, Economics, Civilization, Weitiko Disease & "Government") 

Euclid Arbitrator Re-instates Unwanted, Unaccountable White Cop to Resume his “Service" of Surveilling & Controlling Blacks through Acts of Force as Enemies & Slaves of Government

From [HERE] The white Euclid police officer fired after video showing him assaulting a Black man went viral, has been reinstated by the department.

An arbitrator on Monday ruled that Michael Amiott be rehired by the Euclid Police Department nearly a year after he was terminated.

Amiott was involved in a traffic stop that turned violent on August 12, 2017. 25-year-old Richard Hubbard III was pulled over on E 228th St. just before 10:30 a.m. for "a moving/traffic violation." Hubbard was ordered to exit the car and face away so he could be taken into custody.

Police claim Hubbard refused, and a violent struggle ensued. The video showed the white cop repeatedly punching the black man and hitting his head on pavement appears to show a different sequence of events than police had originally described.

The initial statement from police in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid said Richard Hubbard III, who was pulled over on suspicion of having a suspended driver's license, had refused Officer Michael Amiott's orders to "face away" after getting out of his car Aug. 12 and then began resisting. But the video obtained in a public records request appears to show Amiott not giving Hubbard a chance to comply.

Hubbard, who says he's still afraid to drive in Euclid, on Monday, along with his attorney called the decision to put Amiott back on the job, "dumbfounding".

"You really going to fire someone then put another race soldier back on the street. That's how I feel. He really beat me. Everybody saw me get out of the car and within 2 seconds I was getting beat up. It's crazy," said Hubbard.

Hubbard's attorney, Christopher McNeal reacted to the decision, saying, "The mayor of Euclid took decisive action and expelled this rogueish, unfit police officer and yet here we are with these unelected officials, these sycophant bootlickers, who are the enemies of justice."

Initially, Amiott was suspended for 15 days without pay, then 30 additional days were tacked on. On October 13, 2017, he was fired after Euclid Mayor Kirsten Gail said her office had received "further complaints regarding Amiott's professional conduct" and found that he had violated additional department rules, leading to his termination.

According to Euclid Law Director Kelley Sweeney, Amiott gets his job back with the following conditions:

• 80 hours in-class training

• 60 to 90 days of additional field training

• No side jobs during probation

• Removal from the police department's SWAT team

Hubbard, who has filed a civil rights suit against Euclid Police on Monday said, "I just want justice. A charge, jail time or something for real because this aint gonna work," Hubbard said.

On Monday, Mayor Gail released a statement about the arbitrator's decision to reinstate Amiott, saying she is 'disappointed by the decision,' but respects the arbitration process and accepts the ruling.

The white cop has a history of assaulting Black people. In December 2017 another black man, Emirius Spencer says in a lawsuit that he was kicked in the face, kneed in the groin and seriously hurt by Amiot during an arrest for possession of marijuana. Spencer's lawsuit said Amiott and Rivera were moonlighting as security guards at his apartment building last December when they confronted him in a hallway, asking him if he had any warrants and whether he was armed.

Although there was no probable cause to arrest, detain or search Spencer and no crime had been reported, Amiott reached into Spencer's pocket and found less than a gram of marijuana.

According to the lawsuit: "Amiott immediately grabbed Spencer arm and began twisting it. Officer Amiott's response was sudden and unnecessarily aggressive. Spencer was pushed against the hallway wall and grabbed by both Officers Amiott and [Shane] Rivera. Spencer tried to be calm and asked the Officers why they were doing this, but he was ignored. Rather, Officer Amiott was shouting at Spencer to 'Stop Resisting!' despite the fact that Spencer was being compliant. Amiott then kneed Spencer in the groin and forcefully pushed Spencer to the ground." he lawsuit says Amiott kicked Spencer in the face when he called out for help and that both officers shocked him with stun guns before placing him in handcuffs. Amiott's partner, Shane Rivera, is also a named defendant.

Amiott then kneed him in the groin and shoved him to the floor while Rivera jumped on his back and restrained his arms and legs, according to Spencer's suit. Spencer was treated for broken bones in his face. [MORE]

Amiott was hired by the Euclid Police Department in September 2014. He was reprimanded for hitting a driver with a handgun, mishandling evidence, losing his temper in front of his commanding officer and being involved in two crashes in police vehicles, according to personnel files released Friday.

Before Euclid, Amiott was an officer in Mentor, east of Cleveland. Amiott resigned in April 2014 after an internal investigation concluded he had lied to other officers when explaining why he stopped a man for a suspended driver's license.

Mentor personnel files show that Amiott was cited for two vehicle accidents, eight speeding violations and one motorcycle violation while he was on a learner's permit before he was hired as an officer. In his application, Amiott indicated that the "danger" aspect of being an officer was one reason he was drawn to the job. [MORE]

DNA Evidence Exonerates Another Black Man of Murder After 20 Yrs in Prison: Blacks Make Up Nearly Two-Thirds of All DNA Exonerees Wrongfully Convicted of Murder in Racist System

From [HERE] In the system of racism white supremacy the headlines are disturbingly familiar: A person, usually male and often black, who has spent a substantial stretch of his life behind bars is freed after DNA evidence shows that he is innocent.

That was the case for Horace Roberts, 60, who was released from a California prison on Oct. 3 after DNA evidence exonerated him in the 1998 killing of his former girlfriend and co-worker.

“I could not believe it was me walking out of prison,” Mr. Roberts said in an interview on Tuesday. “When you are in prison, you do not know if you will ever get out.”

Mike Hestrin, the Riverside County district attorney, said in a statement: “What happened to Mr. Roberts is tragic.” He added, “Once I learned of the new DNA findings, I immediately directed that all charges be dismissed.”

In 1999, Mr. Roberts was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in the killing of Terry Cheek, a co-worker he had supervised at Quest Diagnostics and with whom he had been having an affair.

He initially lied about that relationship to investigators after she was found strangled near a deserted stretch of Interstate 15 near Lake Corona, Calif., according to Michael Semanchik, the lead lawyer on Mr. Roberts’s case and the managing lawyer at the California Innocence Project. Her body was discovered about a mile away from Mr. Roberts’s truck, which she had often borrowed.

In the summer of 1997, Ms. Cheek was still married to Googie Harris Sr. when she began her affair with Mr. Roberts, Mr. Semanchik said. By December she had filed for divorce and was living between an apartment in Temecula, Calif., with Mr. Roberts and a house in Riverside with Mr. Harris.

The divorce had become contentious, Mr. Semanchik said. Mr. Harris filed a restraining order against Ms. Cheek and requested full custody of her two daughters.

One afternoon, Mr. Roberts was waiting for Ms. Cheek to pick him up with his truck to go to work. She never showed up. A few days later, her body was found.

When he was questioned by the police soon afterward, Mr. Roberts denied the affair. The authorities showed him a photo of a watch found at the scene that they believed belonged to him. He agreed that it appeared to be his. Later, his wife came forward to say that she had found his watch at home.

He was convicted by a jury “based on his truck, lies he told at the police interview about their affair and the watch,” Mr. Semanchik said.

After Mr. Roberts had spent four years in prison, and after several denied appeals, a fellow inmate told him about the California Innocence Project. In 2003, Mr. Roberts filled out and mailed a 75-page questionnaire to have his case reviewed. The nonprofit group accepted the case.

The goal was to add Mr. Roberts to the list of 362 people who have been exonerated by DNA evidence since Gary Dotson, the first such exoneree, was freed in 1989, according to data from the Innocence Project, a nonprofit based in New York that is separate from the California Innocence Project. Of those 362 cases, 130 exonerees were wrongfully convicted of murder. African-Americans make up nearly two-thirds of those exonerated by DNA, or 222 of the 362 former inmates.

DNA testing of the watch and some rope found at the crime scene, as well as of debris found under Ms. Cheek’s fingernails, turned up a DNA profile for an unidentified man and the DNA of Mr. Harris’s son Googie Harris Jr., who was 19 at the time of the killing, according to Mr. Semanchik.

Lawyers with the California Innocence Project presented their case to the district attorney’s office in 2012, but were unsuccessful at getting Mr. Roberts exonerated.

The new DNA results connected the watch to Googie Harris Jr., but the unidentified man’s DNA was not sufficient to upload to the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS — the F.B.I.’s program that allows forensic laboratories to create and search databases of DNA profiles. [MORE]

Mind Blocked, Neurotic Racists [Neuropeans] Neglected to Put Date, Time & Place on Court Notices to Non-White Immigrants: 9,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed

(Reuters) - Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news.

The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined later. Her lawyer was calling to say that the U.S. Supreme Court had just issued a ruling that might open the door for her case, along with thousands of others, to be dismissed.

The Supreme Court case involved Wescley Fonseca Pereira, a Brazilian immigrant who overstayed his visa and was put into deportation proceedings in 2006. The initial paperwork he was sent did not state a date and time of appearance, however, and Pereira said he did not receive a subsequent notice telling him where and when to appear. When he failed to show up in court, he was ordered deported.

The Supreme Court ruled that paperwork failing to designate a time and place didn’t constitute a legal notice to appear in court.

The ruling sparked a frenzy of immigration court filings. Over ten weeks this summer, a record 9,000 deportation cases, including Barrios’, were terminated as immigration attorneys raced to court with challenges to the paperwork their clients had received, a Reuters analysis of data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review shows. The number represents a 160 percent increase from the same time period a year earlier and the highest number of terminations per month ever.

For a graph of the trend, click here: tmsnrt.rs/2QCbeJZ

Then, just as suddenly as they began, the wave of case terminations stopped. On August 31, in a different case, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled that charging documents issued without a date and time were valid so long as the immigrant received a subsequent hearing notice filling in the details, as is the usual procedure.

A Department of Justice official said that as a result of the BIA decision, the issues “have been solved.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to requests for comment, but the agency laid out its thoughts on the terminations in court documents opposing the motions to terminate. In a San Diego case, DHS wrote that the motions were based on a “misreading” of the Supreme Court decision. “If read in a manner most favorable to the respondent, the practical impact would be to terminate virtually all immigration proceedings.” The Supreme Court decision “nowhere purports to invalidate the underlying removal proceedings,” DHS wrote.

The dueling interpretations will now be weighed by a federal appeals court, which could uphold or overturn the BIA decision in coming months. The case could ultimately end up before the Supreme Court. [MORE]

ICE Rewarded $185 Million Deal to Racist Suspect Defense Contractor Under Investigation for Housing Non-White Children in Vacant Office Buildings

From [HERE] A private company in charge of transporting families separated at the U.S. border earned a lucrative new contract from ICE while it was under investigation for housing immigrant children in vacant office buildings.

Records show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave MVM Inc. a new contract worth nearly $200 million on July 20, just days after Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that the defense contractor held children overnight in two vacant office buildings in Phoenix.

Some children held overnight in the buildings – which had no kitchens, showers or yards – were among those separated from their families under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy.

On July 11, ICE said its contract with MVM “does not allow for children to be in these facilities more than 24 hours.” The agency said it would be reviewing MVM.

But nine days later, it awarded MVM a new five-year contract worth $185 million for translation and interpretation services, records show.

ICE previously had given the contract to MVM two other times, but both times the contract was voided because of problems. In August 2017, when the company was first awarded, three other contractors protested, saying MVM could not fulfill the needed interpretation services. ICE modified the contract and awarded it to MVM again in June 2018. However, after another protest from competitors, ICE soon rescinded the contract because it gave MVM $10 million more than was called for in the bid.

The third time MVM received the contract came after ICE had launched its investigation into MVM’s office buildings. That bid is also under protest from another vendor that lost out.

In early July, Reveal discovered that MVM detained immigrant children in two office buildings in Phoenix, in possible violation of the company’s own policies. Neither office building was listed among shelters that are licensed to operate through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on Arizona’s child care licensing website.

According to ICE, its transportation contract with MVM did not allow the private company to hold children overnight but allowed MVM to use its offices as “waiting areas” for children awaiting same-day transport.

Following Reveal’s investigation, MVM admitted to holding children overnight in at least one of the vacant offices.

In an email dated July 16, Jennifer Elzea, a spokeswoman for ICE, said the agency was “looking into whether anything occurred that was outside the realm of our contract” with MVM. Neither she nor the contractor would provide copies of the contract. ICE has denied Reveal’s Freedom of Information Act request to view the contracts.

In a follow-up email July 26, Elzea did not respond to questions regarding the most recent translation and interpretation contract with MVM, stating, “You are welcome to FOIA for any contract documents.” She did not respond to subsequent emails.

The Arizona Department of Health Services actively regulates other facilities in the state that are currently licensed. However, a July 12 letter from the department said it “does not have the authority or influence to compel the federal government to change their practices or initiate an investigation.”

In a Sept. 17 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen and ICE Acting Director Ron Vitiello, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., requested “a thorough investigation of the treatment of unaccompanied children in MVM custody and suspend their contract pending the outcome of the investigation.”

MVM, founded by three former U.S. Secret Service agents in the late 1970s, has supplied guards to CIA facilities in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay Migrant Operations Center and provided protection to former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. One of its vice presidents is a former CIA special agent and former acting director of the U.S. Marshals Service.

Records indicate that since 2014, the Virginia-based company has received contracts with ICE worth up to $248 million to transport children. Most recently, MVM has become the main transportation contractor under the federal government’s zero-tolerance border policy.

Arizona state Sen. Steve Farley, a Democrat, questioned the state’s lack of action in clamping down on MVM’s continuing business with ICE.

“Why aren’t you shutting them down? Children are at risk,” he said.

Dallas City Councilman Discusses the Many Irregularities [cover-up] in the Investigation, Arrest & Prosecution of White Dallas Cop's Murder of Botham Jean

New Lawsuit says Racist Suspect Vote Counter Running for Governor Purged 340,000 from Georgia voter rolls to Exclude Blacks from Participating in Election [illusion]

On Friday Greg Palast filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Palast says “our experts found Georgia wrongly purged 340,134 voters. Palast and rights groups filed National Voter Registration Act suit against Kemp to open voter purge files to the public.”

From [HERE] Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state’s registration rolls, an investigation charges.

Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved – but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.

“Their registration is cancelled. Not pending, not inactive – cancelled. If they show up to vote on 6 November, they will not be allowed to vote. That’s wrong,” Palast told reporters on a call on Friday. “We can prove they’re still there. They should be allowed to vote.”

Palast and the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda filed a lawsuit against Kemp on Friday to force him to release additional records related to the state’s removal of voters.

Under Georgia procedures, registered voters who have not cast ballots for three years are sent a notice asking them to confirm they still live at their address. If they don’t return it, they are marked inactive. If they don’t vote for two more general elections after that, they are removed from the rolls.

Georgia removed more than 534,000 voters that way in 2016 and 2017. Using databases employed by commercial mailing firms, analysts commissioned by Palast’s group found that 334,134 of those citizens actually still live at the address they registered.

Of the rest, 41,797 had in fact moved out of state, and 8,990 moved from one county to another within Georgia. More than 19,000 had died. Others could not be determined.

It’s the latest voting rights controversy to crop up in the Georgia governor’s race, which pits Republican Kemp against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who if elected would become the first African American woman governor of any state.

Lawsuits have also charged that Kemp blocked the registrations of 50,000 would-be voters, 80% of them black, Latino or Asian, because of minor discrepancies in the spelling or spacing of their name. Another suit targeted the state’s most diverse county after it rejected an unusually large number of absentee ballots.

“Brian Kemp has abused his power as secretary of state of Georgia to purge the voting rolls of Georgia primarily of black and brown people,” said Joe Beasley, an Atlanta civil rights activist. “If he had one ounce of integrity, he would have stepped aside as secretary of state, because you can’t referee an election in which you stand to be a winner.”

In Radio Ad Targeting the Non-Suppressed Black Vote, the GOP [the 'Can You Prove It?' Party] Warns: 'If You Vote for Dems Black Men will Face Rape Accusations from White Women’

WHITE PARTY [GOP] MESSAGE: ‘CAN YOU PROVE IT?’

• voter suppression

• rigged trump election

• raping ladies

• murdering kashogi

• puppet trump collusion

• being racist

• excluding immigrants based on skin color, religion

• promoting hate crimes

• supporting police brutality

• and much more

From [HERE] and [MORE] A political action committee said Friday that it won’t pull radio ads in hotly contested races in Arkansas and Missouri that suggest African American men will face rape accusations if Democrats win midterm elections.

An ad from Black Americans for the President’s Agenda in an Arkansas congressional race features a woman saying “white Democrats will be lynching Black folk again.”

In Missouri, the radio ad favoring Republican challenger Josh Hawley and attacking Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, does not mention lynching. Instead, the woman says that if Democrats prevail in mid-term elections, “Black folk will be catching hell again” and that Black men could face allegations of rape. Hill and Tucker are both White. The 2nd District is about 23 percent Black, according to U.S. Census estimates.

About 12 percent of Missouri’s residents are Black. [MORE] Among those in the Black votary who are allowed to participate in the agreed upon illusion [election], as always they will choose between a nicer master [Dems] or a mean cracker master [GOP]? [MORE]

WHITE PLUS BLACK = “YOU WILL NOT REPLACE US.” The above ad also parrots Yurugu’s fears of non-white men intermixing with white women. As stated by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, white people are vulnerable to their sense of numerical inadequacy. Most white people consciously or subconsciously understand the following;

• White plus Black equals Colored.

• White plus Brown equals Colored.

• White plus Yellow equals Colored.

The declining white population is not a new or reversible trend - the decline has only quickened. Although rarely discussed, white people are genetic recessive. It is scientific fact that Black is a genetically dominant trait. Whenever Black mixes with White, which is a recessive genetic trait, Black will dominate. In general, this means "whites" cannot reproduce a white child when they have sexual relations with non-whites. The so-called white "race" can and eventually will be replaced or "genetically annihilated" through such assimilation or social intermixing with non-whites. As white populations have been consistently declining, Black and Brown populations are surging. And this causes racists to practice racism or act genocidally by engaging in such activities as rigging elections and much more as recent events reveal on a daily basis.

The above formula is also the meaning of what "you will not replace us" and "‘Europe Will Be White." It also is what "Clean Blood’ is referring to - clean white blood. [MORE]