Disproportionate Force: Bodycam Shows a White Aurora Cop Didn't Face Imminent Deadly Harm When Rajon Belt-Stubblefield Squared Up on Him, but He Was Too Weak to Make an Arrest So He Fatally Shot Him

Israeli Terrorcats Shared a Post-Genocide “Business plan” with the Trump administration to turn the Gaza Strip into a “real estate bonanza”

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel has shared a “business plan” with the Trump administration to turn the Gaza Strip into a “real estate bonanza”.

According to several Israeli news outlets, Smotrich said at an urban renewal conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday that Israel had carried out “the first phase of urban renewal” by demolishing Gaza, and it was now working on a plan to start rebuilding it.

“We have paid a lot of money for this war. We have to see how we are dividing up the land in percentages,” Smotrich said, adding that “the demolition, the first stage in the city’s renewal, we have already done. Now we need to build.”

He added, “There is a business plan, put together by the most professional people here, that is on President Trump’s desk.”

The far-right minister said the opportunity “pays for itself,” and he has “already started negotiations with the Americans.” [MORE]

Trump is All Talk About Protecting Human Freedom: The Blight House Misses Key Deadlines for Imposing Restrictions on Gain-of-Function Research

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens are manipulated in laboratories to be more virulent or transmissible in humans.

The administration's picks for top health policy jobs—most notably National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—are both gain-of-function critics who have asserted that this type of research created SARS-COV-2 in Wuhan, China.

In May, the White House issued an executive order creating a broader definition for dangerous gain-of-function research and promising that new restrictions on it would be issued within a few months.

"The conduct of this research does not protect us from pandemics. There's always a danger that in doing this research, it might leak out by accident even and cause a pandemic," said Bhattacharya at the Oval Office press conference when the order was signed. With the order, "the public can say 'no, don't take this risk.'"

But the deadlines for the new restrictions called for in that order have since come and gone without any new policy being released. Meanwhile, there are indications that the NIH is continuing to fund risky virological research.

Gain-of-function critics who were optimistic that this research would finally be put back in the box are now concerned that the Trump administration will fail to implement meaningful restrictions. [MORE]

The Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth: Proposed Law Would Allow Government to Control Speech as Trump-Bush Seeks to a Create Fear-Based Silenced Citizenry Managed by Their “Synchronized Stupidity"

From [HERE] The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.

It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict speech in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act.”

President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on Saturday in which a Trump voter named Elly May blamed the assassination of Republican political operative Charlie Kirk on the press, urging the president to push for legislation which would make “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.”

May frames the idea as a revisitation of the Smith-Mundt Act, but then goes on to describe authoritarian measures which have nothing to do with Smith-Mundt.

“President Trump, as a supporter who voted for you 3 times, I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth,” May says, adding:.

“I think instead of bringing it back as a Smith-Mundt Act, you name it the Charlie Kirk Act, make it a law, and you make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred, division, and anarchy all across this country. Fines out their ass which will damn near bankrupt their companies should they lie to the American people ever again.”

“Because of their constant lies, a man lost his life, because of the constant hateful rhetoric of calling him a fascist, and a Nazi, and a white supremacist, and a bigot. I think this would be a great legacy for him to have a law named after him to force journalists to finally start telling the truth and having the integrity that they have lacked for over a decade.”

“We are on a dangerous path right now with the constant lies and the propaganda,” May says. “And that doesn’t end just at news journalists. It needs to go to content creators who consistently spread lies and propaganda and half-truths across the internet. This needs to end, and people need to start being held accountable for baseless claims over absolute abysmal things.”

“Get this in front of Congress, get this passed as a law, and start holding these news corporations—be they right, left or center—accountable for their behavior,” May concludes.

May has been promoting a Change.org petition to “Enact the Charlie Kirk Act to Restore Media Accountability,” which as of this writing has tens of thousands of signatures.

“This amended act will hold media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators accountable for the false narratives and erroneous information they spread deliberately or irresponsibly,” the petition reads, proposing heavy fines for those deemed to be in violation.

A couple of issues with this.

Firstly, the Smith-Mundt Act had nothing to do with holding “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people;” it was a Cold War-era law which prohibited official U.S. government propaganda created by institutions like the State Department and the USAGM [U.S. Agency for Global Media] from being disseminated domestically.

This law was controversially revised under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 in the name of combatting Al Qaeda propaganda campaigns in the United States.

Returning Smith-Mundt to its original iteration would be a fine idea. American right wingers tend to make a much bigger deal about the changes made under the Obama administration than is actually warranted — anyone who remembers the lead-up to the Iraq invasion knows the U.S. government had no trouble getting immensely consequential propaganda circulating throughout the American press prior to 2013.

But anything that inhibits the U.S. government’s ability to disseminate propaganda to Americans might be somewhat helpful, and couldn’t hurt.

But that isn’t what this “Charlie Kirk Act” push is advocating. Smith-Mundt placed restrictions on what the U.S. government is allowed to do with regard to propaganda, while the proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.

One limits the U.S. government’s ability to manipulate public information, while the other explicitly expands it. Nobody anywhere is claiming that propaganda generated by the U.S. State Department or USAGM projects like Voice of America got Charlie Kirk assassinated by calling him a Nazi; they’re talking about creating a new law to stomp out the free speech of “media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators.”

The other issue is of course that giving the government the authority to penalize propaganda and lies means giving the government the authority to determine what constitutes propaganda and lies.

They could decide it’s a lie to say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, for example, or that it’s propaganda to say the U.S. shouldn’t be waging a proxy war in Ukraine.

The “Charlie Kirk Act” is being pushed in the name of fighting propaganda, but it would actually be giving the U.S. government unprecedented authority over what Americans are permitted to say on any platform. [MORE]

Media Complicit as Trump Bait and Switches Freedom with FreeDumb; ‘The Regime Says one thing while doing the opposite, It Claims to Protect Freedom While Destroying It’ – Ron Paul

From [HERE] What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people.

Call it what it is: political gaslighting—the regime says one thing while doing the opposite, and insists on the citizenry’s trust while dismantling the very checks and balances that make trust possible.

So when the powers-that-be claim to be protecting the Constitution, they’re dismantling it at every turn. In this way, the mechanisms of constitutional government—separation of powers, federalism, due process, and the Bill of Rights—are being hollowed out in plain sight.

Although this dismantling did not start with President Trump, it has accelerated beyond imagining.

What was once a slow bleed is now a hemorrhage—and it is not random. The damage is unfolding on two parallel tracks: a steady, methodical, bureaucratic erosion (rule changes, executive orders, new databases) paired with shock-and-awe surges (National Guard deployments, mass round-ups, headline-grabbing prosecutions).

The words may say “freedom” and “order,” but the deeds smack of tyranny.

Attorney General Pam Bondi vows to punish “hateful” speech even as the administration normalizes hateful rhetoric and violent imagery. Vice President JD Vance promises to “go after” those with a “leftist” ideology while preaching free-speech absolutism for allies.

The Trump administration denounces “hate speech” even as it excuses and downplays the Jan. 6 riots; pledges fiscal restraint while shoveling billions into surveillance, prisons, and domestic deployments; wraps itself in law-and-order while tolerating lawlessness by cronies; sermonizes about faith and morality while normalizing cruelty as governance; and peddles outrage over waste while spending lavishly on the trappings of office.

Rights are framed as absolute for friends and privileges for critics. That is the opposite of constitutional government, which holds everyone—especially those in power—to the same rule of law, applied evenly.

If the government can police ideas, deploy troops at home, run dragnets by algorithm, disappear people into distant prisons, build spectacle cages, and amass power in one office, then no American is safe—including those who cheer these efforts today.

If you believe in limited government, equal justice, and due process—whatever your party—these double standards should alarm you most, because the precedents being cheered today will be wielded against you tomorrow.

What follows is a running ledger of the gaslighting playbook and its constitutional costs. [MORE]

During Trump-Bush’s Unlawful, Involuntary Takeover of DC, Helicopters Hovered Over and Surveilled Law Abiding People Day and Night, Destroying Freedoms to Make Citizens Feel Safer

During President Donald Trump’s month-long anti-crime surge in D.C., U.S. Park Police helicopters circled or hovered over the city seven times as much as they did during the same time last year, and they did so at lower altitudes, according to a Washington Post analysis of flight data.  That activity accounted for about half of nearly 40 hours helicopters from local and federal law enforcement agencies spent flying in those patterns, maneuvers that frustrated and annoyed many residents who opposed Trump’s surge. 

The Post analysis identified helicopters that were hovering or circling in the 30 days after the surge began on Aug. 7., and excluded those flying only from one location to another.  The analysis includes only helicopters that broadcast their locations, known as an “ADS-B signal.” This signal is sometimes turned off for high-level dignitary matters or national security reasons. The Post compared helicopter activity from USPP, D.C. police and Prince George’s County police to the same period last year. [MORE]

Catherine Austin Fitts: The Charlie Kirk Assassination Is A Psyop

Charlie Kirk Assassination Crime Scene Gone: Quickly Cemented Over by Authorities

Psyopsy: A Moving Bullet, Rubber Hands and Fake Blood; The “Charlie Kirk Show” Should be Presumed a False Flag Until Proven Otherwise. Analysis Shows Gov and Media Used CGI, Real People and Actors

Due to the contrived nature of the evidence teh Charlie Kirk Assassination feels synthetic and should be presumed to be as a false flag operation conducted by the government and massa media until proven otherwise. If Crimethinc would create fake vaccines for the purpose of genthanasia and biocide then surely It would have no problem fake shooting this young white man who was well connected to elites. [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY explains:

false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.

cover-stories – headlines that provide cover (hiding and distraction) for the real untold and undiscussed stories behind the one’s they are really (deliberately) not covering, undressing or addressing at all. 2) planted actors and/or provocateurs providing misinformation immediately after a false flag operation—like 9-11, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing. The methodology: Sell the lie with authority, then change the subject to something emotional. For example, the cover stories about whether or not “well-intentioned” public officials (on oxymoronic characterization itself) made “mistakes” in not paying attention to obvious warnings of so-called Al-Qaida operations inside the territorial United States posed by the mock 9-11 Commission mockery. The whole thrust behind the cover-story was to specifically avoid treating the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and the fields in Pennsylvania as actual crime scenes—to avoid the contradictions in the official stories with physical evidence to the contrary, to totally ignore the blatant anomalies regarding the well-planned, orchestrated, and executed sophisticated operations (hoax) that happened and didn’t happen on that fateful day. (See: Underlying, MEDIA, Tyrant-Paradigm, Pixelated People, West-Wingers, Oklahoma City Bombing, Nine- Eleven, MEDIA NSA Position, Bush Family Crime Syndicate, Pentagon Murders, Killer-Jet, CIA, Israelians, NSA, King TUT, RUN—GMC & The OCTOCON)

Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza in Ongoing Holocaust, At Least 83 Palestinians Killed Over 24 Hours

The Israeli military launched heavy strikes against Gaza City on Thursday as its ground forces expanded operations in the area. Israeli bombs hit near two hospitals in the city, killing 19. 

Medical sources reported to Al-Jazeera that 83 people were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. The heaviest bombardment occurred in Gaza City, where the Israeli military was attempting to take full control. 

The Israeli battle plans call for a three-phased operation. Stages one and two of the operation call for the largest ever bombing campaign in Gaza. One Palestinian in Gaza described the Israeli operations as never-ending. “There is artillery fire, airstrikes, quadcopter and drone gunfire. The bombing never stops,” they said. 

Israel has ordered an evacuation of Gaza City, but residents say they have nowhere safe to go and cannot afford transportation out of the city. A Palestinian explained, “The world doesn’t understand what is happening. They (Israel) want us to evacuate south – but where will we live? There are no tents, no transport, no money.”

The armed wing of Hamas says it is prepared to fight the invading Israeli soldiers. “We are ready to send the lives of your soldiers to hell, and we have prepared for you an army of martyrs,” the group said in a statement. “Gaza will be a cemetery for your soldiers.” [MORE]

"US First?" The Blight House Is Preparing a $6 Billion Arms Package for Israel

The White House informed Congress that it is preparing a massive arms sale to Israel, including attack helicopters and military vehicles. The weapons will be paid for with US military aid. 

According to the Wall Street Journal, the total value of the weapons deal is $6 billion. The sale is $3.8 billion for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters and $1.9 billion deal for 3,250 infantry assault vehicles. 

Washington will pay for the arms with foreign military financing. The US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion in military aid annually. Washington boosted assistance to Tel Aviv following the October 7 Hamas attack. In the first year of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, the US sent Israel nearly $18 billion in aid. The weapons will begin arriving in Israel in two to three years. 

The report of the package follows Israel’s attempt to assassinate Hamas leadership in Qatar. The strikes angered Doha, a major non-NATO US ally. Qatar has also committed to investing $1 trillion in the US economy and gifted Trump a luxury aircraft. 

Additionally, the assassination attempt prevented Trump from initiating talks to end the war in Gaza and free the Israeli hostages. The strike occurred as the Hamas leadership was meeting to discuss a proposal sent by Trump. Qatar said the attempted assassination ended any chances of reaching a hostage agreement. 

The White House has pushed Congressional leadership to endorse the sale even after the Israeli strike in Qatar. [MORE]

California bans federal agents from using masks to hide their faces, law takes effect 1/1/26

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Saturday prohibiting federal agents from wearing identity-concealing masks during enforcement operations, a controversial practice that the expected contender for the Democratic nomination in 2028 likened to “a dystopian sci-fi movie.”

The legislation, which appears to be the first of its kind signed into law in the country, seeks to end a common practice among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that critics say erodes transparency, fosters fear and raises concerns that criminals could try to pose as federal officers. The Department of Homeland Security has maintained that using masks to shield ICE agents’ faces protects them against harassment and doxing.

“To ICE — unmask. What are you afraid of?” Newsom said during a news conference in Los Angeles on Saturday. “You’re going to go out. You’re going to do enforcement. Provide an ID. Tell us which agency you represent. Provide us basic information that all local law enforcement is required to provide.” [MORE]

2 NYPD Cops Might Lose Their Jobs after Video Shows them Fatally Shoot Win Rozari as He Posed No Deadly Threat. Still No Charges from Negro Rolebot Tish James, who Awaits Orders from Liberal Masters

Two NYPD officers will face departmental misconduct charges in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario after he had called 911 during what his family said was a mental distress episode, a police department spokesman confirmed to ABC News.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is charging officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco with using excessive force against Rozario when they shot him five times in March 2024.

Although the incident happened over one year ago in front of 2 witnesses and was captured on 2 body worn cameras, New York Attorney General Letitia James's office claims to still be investigating the incident. Said negro-rolebot servant for eltite white liberals has thus far failed to charge the cops with a crime.

Alongi and Cianfrocco were responding to a 911 call from Rozario, who was experiencing what his family said to be a mental distress episode, according to released body camera footage.

The mother and brother of Win Rozario, a Queens teen in mental distress, begged police officers not to shoot before they fired multiple fatal rounds at him, according to video released by state Attorney General Letitia James.  The distressing body camera footage was released less than a day after THE CITY reported the family was frustrated and had called on the police to release the videos and names of the officers.

The released footage shows the situation rapidly escalated, with officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi tasing and then fatally shooting Rozario, all within three minutes of arriving at the home.

The video shows that Rozari posed no imminent threat of deadly harm to the cops while he was in the kitchen and the cops shot him from another room. Certainly, after the first shot Rozari appeared to be immobilized - but the cops kept shooting.

Alongi and Cianfrocco tased Rozario before shooting him five times. [MORE]

An Off Duty White Cop in Philly Shot a Black Man to Death after He Pulled Over to Provide Roadside Assistance to the Cop's Broken Down Car. No Charges Filed by Liberal DA, Lawsuit Filed

From [HERE] The family of a Black man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Philadelphia homicide detective last fall is suing the city and several police officers, claiming the shooting was unjustified and that the detective and his police colleagues have conspired to cover it up.

The detective was cleared of wrongdoing in July by the district attorney’s office, which offered no public explanation for its decision.

At 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 3, Robert Jones, 54, pulled up behind Philadelphia Police Det. Christopher Sweeney, who stopped his car in the turn lane in a residential area of north Philadelphia, according to the lawsuit filed on Aug. 27 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and obtained by Atlanta Black Star.

The family of Robert Jones is suing the city of Philadelphia and six of its police officers alleging he was unjustifiably killed by a homicide detective on Oct. 3, 2024. (Photos: Fox29 Video Screengrab)

Sweeney, a 14-year veteran of the police department, who is white, was off-duty and driving his personal vehicle, a Black Subaru, but was armed with his service gun, the complaint says.

Jones, who was trained to provide roadside assistance, was wearing a bright yellow reflective vest. His brother, Michael Jones, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the family, argues that Jones believed the vehicle in front of him was disabled and got out of his car and approached the driver, whom he believed to be stranded, to offer assistance.

Sweeney, sitting in the driver’s seat, then flashed his badge at Jones and yelled at him through the closed window that he was a police officer, the lawsuit says.

Jones was not armed and did not present any physical threat to Sweeney, the complaint alleges. Before he could respond to Jones, the officer shot him at point blank range through the window, incapacitating him. Then Sweeney continued firing at Jones, striking him multiple times throughout his body. Jones was rushed to a hospital but died soon thereafter.

Sweeney’s actions amounted to a violent, unprovoked assault and battery on Jones, and an unjustified and illegal use of force, the complaint contends.

After the shooting, police who responded to the scene fervently searched for a weapon to tie to Jones, with no success, the lawsuit says. Nearby surveillance cameras did not fully capture the shooting, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Then the officers engaged “in a conspiracy to obfuscate the truth and shield Detective Sweeney from criminal liability while assigning blame to Robert Jones,” the complaint asserts.

Initially police created and supported Sweeney’s “false narrative that the shooting was the result of road rage incident in which Jones was the aggressor,” the lawsuit says, further arguing that police “manipulated the crime scene” so that Sweeney’s story that he was protecting himself would withstand scrutiny. The complaint does not provide any examples of such crime scene manipulation.

“They’re trying to save the officer and at the same time put a stain on my brother’s name,” Michael Jones told Fox 29 shortly after the killing, which provoked public protests against police handling of the investigation, including claims of police brutality.

In January, Tonya McLary, executive director of Philadelphia’s Citizens Police Oversight Commission, complained that four months after the incident police still had not provided the watchdog agency access to information that it needed to assess Sweeney’s shooting of Jones. Such cases can erode the public’s trust in law enforcement, she told The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America.

Kevin O’Brien, one of Jones’ attorneys, acknowledged to the Philadelphia Inquirer that Sweeney may have mistakenly thought that Jones was armed when he opened fire.

“People make mistakes but that doesn’t mean taking someone’s life is justified,” said O’Brien. “And we certainly think the evidence will show that.”

The lawsuit accuses Sweeney of assault and battery, wrongful death and inflicting severe injuries on Jones prior to his death that caused him severe pain, anxiety, and horror. It accuses five unnamed police officers of conspiracy to cover up Sweeney’s alleged crimes, and names the City of Philadelphia as a co-defendant that managed the police department and employed the officers.

Hennepin County (MN) Attorney Mary Moriarty to Stop Prosecuting Cases Stemming from Non-Public Safety Traffic Stops Used Primarily to Control and Dominate Law Abiding Black People

From [HERE] Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has announced her office will halt prosecutions stemming from cases involving non-public safety traffic stops. 

This includes minor violations like a broken tail light or expired tabs, with the policy set to take effect on October 15.

In a statement, Moriarty says non-public safety traffic stops, also known as "pretext stops," do not protect the public and can harm marginalized members of the community.

"Speeding, distracted driving, driving under the influence, and blowing through stop signs threatens public safety and kills Minnesotans. We will continue to prosecute felony cases resulting from dangerous driving behavior,” Moriarty said in a statement.

She also claims pretext traffic stops can be a waste of resources and often fail to recover any meaningful evidence.

Moriarty cited data from the Minneapolis Police Department that shows in equipment and moving violations from 2017 and 2018, a gun was recovered less than 0.5% of the time.

"Why would we spend limited time and money on a tactic that fails 99 times out of a hundred?” she added. 

At a press conference Wednesday, Moriarty told FOX 9 there are exceptions to the police if the case presents a "compelling public safety interest,” citing an example where a gun that was recovered in the suburbs during a traffic stop was linked to a shooting in Minneapolis.

Prosecutors in Ramsey County made a similar policy change in 2021, following the deaths of Philando Castile and Daunte Wright. [MORE]

[2nd Class Citizenship in Liberal Cities] Government Data Shows Peoria Police Routinely Interfere w/Black People's Freedom of Movement; For Every White Driver Stopped, Cops Stop 8.2 Black Drivers

The Peoria Police Department pulled over Black and Latino people at higher rates than White drivers last year, according to data compiled by the Illinois Department of Transportation and provided to the Journal Star by the Peoria chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 2024, 1,678 Black people were subject to traffic stops by Peoria police out of 3,017 total, with 8.2 Black people being stopped for every White person, according to IDOT data. That ratio is an increase from 2023, which saw 5.4 traffic stops involving Black people for every White driver pulled over. [MORE]

Trump/Media Upload Tyrant Paradigm Into Sheeple's Minds: 'The President is Authorized to Do Anything He Wants' w/Regard to War, Tariffs, Deportations, Crime etc, Giving Rise to a More Coercive System

From [HERE] In separate attacks this month, the U.S. military blew up two speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, killing 14 alleged drug smugglers. Although those men could have been intercepted and arrested, President Donald Trump said he decided summary execution was appropriate as a deterrent to drug trafficking.

To justify this unprecedented use of the U.S. military to kill criminal suspects, Trump invoked his “constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive” to protect “national security and foreign policy interests.” That assertion of sweeping presidential power fits an alarming pattern that is also apparent in Trump’s tariffs, his attempt to summarily deport suspected gang members as “alien enemies,” and his planned use of National Guard troops to fight crime in cities across the country.

Although Trump described the boat attacks as acts of “self-defense,” he did not claim the people whose deaths he ordered were engaged in literal attacks on the United States. His framing instead relied on the dubious proposition that drug smuggling is tantamount to violent aggression.

While that assumption is consistent with Trump’s often expressed desire to kill drug dealers, it is not consistent with the way drug laws are ordinarily enforced. In the absence of violent resistance, a police officer who decided to shoot a drug suspect dead rather than take him into custody would be guilty of murder.

That seems like an accurate description of the attacks that Trump ordered. Yet he maintains that his constitutional license to kill, which apparently extends to civilians he views as threats to U.S. “national security and foreign policy interests,” transforms murder into self-defense.

Trump has asserted similarly broad authority to impose stiff, ever-changing tariffs on goods imported from scores of countries. Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected that audacious power grab, saying it was inconsistent with the 1977 statute on which Trump relied.

The Federal Circuit said the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which does not mention import taxes at all and had never before been used to impose them, does not give the president “unlimited authority” to “revise the tariff schedule” approved by Congress. The appeals court added that “the Government’s understanding of the scope of authority granted by IEEPA would render it an unconstitutional delegation.”

Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act against alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua also has run into legal trouble. This month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit concluded that Trump had erroneously relied on a nonexistent “invasion or predatory incursion” to justify his use of that 1798 statute. [MORE]

The Benefit of the Drug War to Trump-Bush

From [HERE] From the standpoint of many US officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and others, all of which would dry up if the drug war were ended and drugs were legalized. Just like the drug lords and drug dealers, the last thing these federal bureaucrats want to do is let go of the source of their largess.

But there is another benefit to the drug war, one that President Trump is now using to expand his militarized police state across America. That’s the violence that necessarily comes with the drug war. Trump is using that violence as a way to complete the destruction of freedom in America.

Here is how the drug-war racket works.

The US government enacts drug laws that make it illegal to possess, ingest, or distribute drugs that have not been approved by the US government. It would be difficult to find a better example of the destruction of a free society than drug laws. With the enactment of such laws, the federal government is declaring to the citizenry: “You are the serfs and we are your masters. We, not you, will decide what you possess, ingest, and distribute. If you disobey our edicts, we will punish you with incarceration and fines.”

But that’s not the end of it. The drug war not only destroys individual liberty and sovereignty, it also produces a black market — that is, an illegal market. Notwithstanding the government’s drug laws, there are still a large number of Americans, for whatever reason, who wish to continue consuming drugs and who are willing to pay large amounts of money for them.

Thus, black-market sellers of drugs enter the illegal market to meet this demand. Angry and chagrined over this phenomenon, federal officials crack down by targeting both distributors and consumers with things like mandatory-minimum jail sentences, asset-forfeiture laws, no-knock raids, racist enforcement, killing of drug lords, burning of drug crops, and more. [MORE]