Biden administration best understood as a junta

August 19, 2023 By Eric Utter

I have come to realize that the Biden administration is nothing but a junta.

Those who comprise it are the opposite of the Founders. They don’t believe in limited government—of, by, and for, the people. They do not believe in objectivity — or freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. They do not believe in “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,” or in their right to be free from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” (Just ask Roger Stone or Donald Trump.) Nor do they believe in equality under the law, the people’s right to a “speedy and public trial” by a jury of one’s peers (just ask Donald Trump), natural law, etc., etc. And they certainly don’t believe that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In fact, in recent years they appear increasingly to disdain all these concepts… because they obviously increasingly disdain those who disagree with them and/or who could stand in the way of the ever-increasing power and control they have over others. Power and control they revel in and believe they richly deserve.

They do believe in a Supreme Ruler. But they believe they are that Supreme Ruler. They believe they have the right—indeed duty—to rule over the “deplorables” in rural areas and flyover country. Preposterously, they purport to believe that their ideas and policies must be implemented, whether the rest of us like it or not… if we are to “save our democracy.” There is nothing less democratic—or more deplorable—than that..................To Read More..

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His Child Made Anti-War Drawings. Now He's On the Run

Aleksei Moskalyov allegedly fled house arrest hours before he was sentenced to penal colony

By Arden Dier Mar 29, 2023

There are both hopes and fears for a Russian dissident sentenced to two years in a penal colony after his daughter drew anti-war drawings at school, as he now appears to have fled house arrest and can't be found. Aleksei Moskalyov, a single father from Yefremov, was separated from his daughter at the start of this month. He was placed under house arrest, while she was moved to a state-run orphanage and "forbidden to communicate with her father," per the New York Times. Moskalyov came to the attention of police last April when Masha, now 13, "refused to participate in a patriotic class at her school," reports the Guardian. She also drew an image of missiles being fired at a Ukrainian family, along with the words "No to war" and "Glory to Ukraine!," per Reuters.

The next day, Moskalyov and Masha were "taken away from the school by police officers," per the Times. "For three and a half hours they told me that I was providing inappropriate parenting for my child," Moskalyov, 54, told OVD-Info. "They said she'd be taken away from me and I'd be put in jail." He was initially fined. He'd allegedly described the Russian regime as "terrorists" and the Russian army as "rapists" on social media, per the Guardian. Months later, however, Moskalyov said authorities raided his home and detained him. "They locked me in a room for two and a half hours, turned on the Russian national anthem [at] full volume, and left," he told OVD-Info.....To Read More.......