Wisdom is the Application of Knowledge and Understanding

By Rich Kozlovich 

I keep reading about the Republican civil war in Congress involving spending, and McCarthy's penchant for going along to get along, and the unwillingness of so many in the Republican House, and the leadership of the Republican party, to put a stop to it. 

In politics the prevailing mentality has been there's a need for finding common ground and compromise in order to get things done. Well, that sort of advice that was worth something in day's gone by.....maybe.  But that "bipartisan" mentality got us to where we are now.   But for sure, it's not going to work to the nation's benefit now.

Take as an example the deal Reagan had with the Democrats regarding the five million illegal immigrants he pardoned. He did so because they promised to "absolutely" make sure the border would be secured. It didn't happen, and they never intended for it to happen.  In Reagan's day, it was assumed the opposition was the "loyal" opposition. It only appeared to be the "loyal" opposition, but it never was "loyal"! It was only the opposition! 

The left was still making it's "long march through the institutions", and had to maintain an appearance of "loyalty". But now, the "long march" is finished, they've thoroughly infected education, science, commerce, government, entertainment, the news industry, and even the military. Now the opposition can be openly vile, virulent, and doing everything in it's power to destroy everything that makes a society stable.

1. Education has become nothing more than an intellectual sewer of Marxist propaganda, race baiting, and anti-Judaic/Christian rants, turning out kids who can't read, write, spell, think clearly, and at the higher levels of education they're turning out unqualified intellectual zombies. 
2. History has been distorted beyond recognition. 
3. Scientific integrity as become an oxymoron, and made so by government grant money. It's now American Lysenkoism. 
4. Entertainment is now corrosive, corruptive, and destructive socially at a foundational level. 
5. The military is obsessed with diversity, equity, inclusion and gender issues. Yet their failing to do the job they're supposed to be doing. Keeping the jets flying and ships and submarines operational.
6. They've brought the nation to it's knees with the false pandemic mandates, illegal immigration, hysterical climate insanity, inflation, food shortages, high energy costs, and an  incomprehensible foreign policy being instituted by a mentally impaired President, and a corrupt treasonous administration. 
7. Crime is rampant beyond anything the nation has ever seen due to their lax enforcement of the nation's laws, and weakening of law enforcement. 
8. They're turned government agencies into armed thugs attacking honest Americans in order to promote their destructive political schemes.   
   

These misfits are either incapable of understanding the dangers they're bringing forth to the nation, and to the civilization, or they understand it and want it.  If those are the options, then we have to ask: Do they suffer from stupidity, insanity, or both? Do they actually believe they and their families will not be impacted negatively by the collapse of a civilization built on Judaic/Christian principles and values?  

Do they really believe if Islam or leftism takes power, both of which share the same goal of attaining power in any way that works, and sharing the same more foundation of hate, greed, envy, lust, and violence, that will not impact they and their families negatively? 

Shivanthi Sathanandan, a big advocate of defunding the police was attacked by four young men who beat her savagely, in front of her children, and threatened the neighbors who tried to help her.  They were unarmed.  And guess what?  She feels "rage" because they won't beheld accountable for their behavior.  

Then there's Fani Willis who is now upset that she and her family keep getting doxxed.   "It's been very troubling..... she and her daughters, as well as other loved ones, have had their private information posted online along with racial slurs and threats of violence."  Well, that didn't seem to bother them when it was happening to conservatives.  They just don't seem to get it. Once this kind of thing gets turned loose on society it metastasizes and no one is safe.

We now face an implacable foe who desires the nation's destruction, but the difference in days past that implacable foe was in Moscow. Now that implacable foe are America's leaders right here in the nation's capital, along with many "leaders" in state capitals, many of whom, if we're to believe recent reports, are in corrupt collusion with the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign entities.   

Those who encourage finding common ground fail to understand, there can be no common ground, because there is no common ground. It's capitulation or conquest, and conquest by that foe will drag all of humanity into a dystopian horror. 

Failure to make wise decisions is due to an lack of understanding, and they lack understanding because they despise facts that conflict with their destructive narratives, thus they ignore the things known, and make up the things not known. 

Shouldn’t Doxxing Democrats Be Labelled As Hate Groups?

By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives--September 6, 2019

Foremost Factoid that best describes the mean-spirited, spoilsport bullies of the Progressive Left: It only took one Election for them to drop their phony masks and to completely coalesce them into a hate-spewing infuriated frenzy.

That would be the 2016 election of President Donald Trump.  They’ll NEVER get over it because they can’t get over themselves.  Hurricane Dorian, originally media reported to be heading for Mar-A-Lago, showed Progressive bullying at its most hateful.

While publicity-starved malcontents, including Canada’s ex, 123-day-long Prime Minister Kim Campbell “rooted”, then apologized for the destruction of the Florida compound, like-minded fellow travellers were out there doxxing Conservative America, which comprises roughly 50 percent of the country.

Not only do Progressive bullies hate Trump, but they “HATE!, “HATE!” “HATE!” hate his supporters—sight-unseen too.

Too many to be counted among the doxxed can tell you that doxxing is poisonous to lifestyle:
“The 2020 presidential election is already getting nasty—and not just for the candidates. (Fox News, Sept.5, 2019 )..........To Read More....

With Trump Donors Now Being Harassed, Should We Remind Joaquin Castro Of the Anti-Bullying Law He Once Praised?

Matt Vespa Aug 09, 2019

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and his loser twin brother Julian, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, are unapologetic over the former posting a list that pretty much targets Trump donors.

Rep. Castro posted a list of those who have given the maximum to the Trump campaign because, apparently, he thinks that freedom of association and free speech are problematic…unless you support the Democrats. It’s not doxxing per se, but it does invite harassment.

It narrows the search for the left-wing lynch mobs, which even MSNBC couldn’t defend. And yes, the campaign of personal destruction is already begun against some of the donors listed. Our friends at Twitchy wrote about it:  ...............To Read More.....

ProPublica gets busy with a new doxx operation against the Border Patrol

July 2, 2019 By Monica Showalter

Well, it looks like the efforts to doxx anyone involved in border control has already begun, leftists didn't need a rabid-minded New York Times op-ed contributor to get the idea going.

ProPublica, the Soros-linked media outfit with a Sorosian 'investigative' agenda, has come out with a big-publicity "investigation" on the purported or not bad Facebook behavior of a 9,500-member Facebook group full of current and former Border Patrol agents. ProPublica called the closed Facebook group 'secret' of course, though there are thousands of them just like that out there -- and you can bet that antifa has its closed dens of social media babble, which that they aren't about to investigate.   It sure as heck wasn't secret enough for them or their allies to get into.

As for the charges, ProPublica's report contains less than it promises, it's merely a collection of cherrypickings from a huge group of battered Border Patrol agents gone tired and cynical (which is not surprising, given the Democrat agenda against them), along with a big dose of doxxing of those who posted off-color remarks..........To Read More...

My Thoughts on Doxxing

By Rich Kozlovich

Good article by Alex Berezow,  Doxxing: The Newest Strategy to Destroy Scientists. This needs far more exposure. Most scientists are ill equipped to deal with these kinds of personal attacks because most of them just want to be left alone and do research and report their findings. This tactic has been played forever in many arena's by those who wish to impose their will on the rest of humanity.

During Roman times Julius Caesar was at one point made a Consul of Rome. During what remained of Rome’s Republican period there were two co-equal Consuls appointed for a year. Caesar didn’t like sharing power so he had his thugs attack his Co-Consul Bibulus to the point he remained in his house for the rest of his term, in effect making the two Consuls Julius and Caesar.

Now this kind of intimidation can be done on line. Mann and his SLAPP suits against Ball, National Review, Mark Steyn, Competitive Enterprise institute and Rand Simberg is another example of this kind of intimidation to silence critics attempting too expose leftist corruption in science, effectively forcing them to stay out of the public arena, and stop doing research in particular subjects that would bring controversy to them. You may wish to view my article, Let Me Tell You about Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.

All this Lysenkoism isn’t anything new, it’s the mode of operation that’s new, but it’s just as effective and potentially deadly.

At some point the scientific world, and those in this arena fighting for “Truth, Justice and the American Way”, need to organize and start rooting out these people and sue them personally, and if it can be found they’ve committed some crime or other, they need to be prosecuted. There’s nothing like a good civil or criminal penalty to educate these vile people.

To be a leftist is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective.

Doxxing: The Newest Strategy to Destroy Scientists

By Alex Berezow — May 23, 2019 @ American Council on Science and Health

Social media in general, and Twitter in particular, is an absolute sewer pipe. While its role in sharing news is useful, the rumors and lies that it spreads, as well as the mob-like behavior that it encourages, has turned social media into a dangerous weapon.

In October 2015, I wrote an article for RealClearScience that detailed how activists were abusing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by requesting that universities turn over private e-mail correspondence from professors. FOIA is meant to uncover wrongdoing by elected officials and bureaucrats, but activists use it to selectively extract quotes out of context in order to create controversy where none exists.

Nobody knows that better than plant geneticist Dr. Kevin Folta, who has had hundreds of pages of private e-mails published online for all to see (shockingly, by a group of anti-biotech activists who work for UCSF). For years, he has been viciously targeted in a coordinated cyberbullying campaign aimed at destroying him personally and professionally. His crime? He supports GMOs and once accepted money from Monsanto. Quelle horreur!

It doesn't matter that Dr. Folta never acted illegally or unethically. The only thing that matters is Monsanto. In the minds of activists, Monsanto = bad, therefore anyone who has ever worked for, supported, received funding from, or merely said anything nice about the company is also bad. In the midst of the FOIA controversy, Nature Biotechnology wrote an editorial in support of Dr. Folta. Ominously, it warned:

"This is how demagogues and anti-science zealots succeed: they extract a high cost for free speech; they coerce the informed into silence; they create hostile environments that threaten vibrant rare species [i.e., gifted communicators] with extinction.

Things only got worse. Social media mobs continued to harass not only Dr. Folta but anyone who voiced support for biotechnology. Stephan Neidenbach is a middle school science teacher who runs a popular Facebook page called "We Love GMOs and Vaccines." The activist mob disapproves, so they tried to get him fired. As I wrote at the time:

Their most recent tactic is to try to get Mr. Neidenbach fired from his school, so they have accused him of stealing from his students and mocking people with intellectual disabilities. Of course, neither of these are true, but that hardly matters... Then, the trolls took it to another level: They targeted his family.

Such abuse, by the way, is not limited to those who support biotechnology. Any researcher who publishes information with which activists disagree is ruthlessly targeted. Reuters details the story of Michael Sharpe, who has been harassed because of data he published on chronic fatigue syndrome that the patient-activist community disliked.

Believe it or not, things have gotten worse yet again.

Doxxing: The Newest Strategy To Destroy a Scientist

Having failed to destroy Dr. Folta professionally, the activist mob is now going after him personally in a particularly twisted away. Michael Balter, a journalist who was fired from Science due to a "breakdown of trust," just published incredibly private information about Kevin Folta, including Dr. Folta's address and bank account information. (I refuse to link to the blog post. Dr. Folta confirmed in an e-mail to ACSH that Balter must have received hacked or stolen documents.)

Publishing someone's private information is known as "doxxing," and there is one and only one reason to do it: To encourage the mob to engage in intimidation, identity theft, violence, or worse. And it looks as if Balter may be getting his wish. This is what one of the activists posted on Twitter in response to Balter:



Balter's justification for his actions is that the information is old and no longer used, but Dr. Folta denies this. Even if Balter is telling the truth, disclosing somebody's personal data without their consent is outrageously unethical. Credit checks and other systems used to verify a person's identity often use older private information, such as the addresses of former residences. And what if some deranged person shows up to that address? What Balter did was a gratuitous act of pure malice.

Unsurprisingly, Dr. Folta announced that he intends to close his Twitter account. He says Twitter is not a safe place for scientists. Having personally received death threats on Twitter, I can verify that he is correct.

Update (May 23, 2019 @ 4:34 pm PT): Michael Balter was found to have violated Twitter's rules. Yet, he's still tweeting because apparently there are no consequences for bad behavior.