The Brew: Cartels Use Kids as Pawns While Biden Naps and Bishops Cash the Checks
Al Perrotta is still drinking Shirley Temples and reading detective novels by the pool.
The Stream has reported frequently on how religious charities, especially those controlled by Catholic bishops, profit from each illegal immigrant they help coyotes and human traffickers smuggle into our country. They do this while moralistically preening about how they βwelcome the stranger.β Maybe such Christian leaders ought to read this heartbreaking essay from The Federalist about how little brown kids are used as cheap, disposable pawns in the immigration game, objectified as βgolden ticketsβ into the States. Many of those kids end up as victims in the sick underground sex trade depicted in Sound of Freedom β whose star, Eduardo Verastegui, wrote a piece here begging America to build the wall to protect those kids from our deviants.
From the piece:
The cartels worship their evil gods, and they put guns in the hands of children often enough that we leave them by when we find them on the water. They operate slave markets β we should call them what they are β in which children are bought and sold to increase the chances that the norteamericanos will admit a supposed family unit, and also to provide supply to the vile and ravenous market in sex.
They do this often enough that we find documentary evidence in the dirt.
We the People, In Order to Convict Donald Trump …
The irreplaceable Roger Kimball argues at The Spectator that New York State’s prosecution of Donald Trump is one of the few things explicitly forbidden by the text of the U.S. Constitution β a βbill of attainderβ which lets the State declare somebody guilty, and frame him retroactively in order to punish him. Kimball writes:
What is a βbill of attainderβ? We get the term from English law. A person or persons whom the people in charge donβt like is βattainted.β Forget about due process, presumption of innocence, or any such quaint ideas. Bills of attainder worked through the untrammeled deployment of state power. To be accused was tantamount to being found guilty; common penalties included the abrogation of the right to own property, and, not infrequently, the right to life itself.
The American colonists had plenty of experience of bills of attainder, which is why the Founders made sure to include in Article I of the Constitution the instruction that βNo Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.β
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The New York attorney general ran for office promising to βgetβ Donald Trump. And via the absurd claims of E. Jean Carroll, she did exactly that. If we let it stand, it will happen again and again and again. Kimball further points out that
the conviction rate for people charged in connection with January 6 is 100 percent. True, some people were exonerated on some charges. But no one, not one grandmother or tourist from Terre Haute, has been fully exonerated. It is a record even Stalin would have been proud of.
The Second Catholic President and the First Atheist Pope
Three years ago I wrote that our second Catholic president was welcomed by our first atheist pope. Catholic scholar William Kilpatrick comments on the creepy, ominous parallels between Pope Francis and Joe Biden. One of the worst is this one (which The Stream noted in its article on the Vatican/China alliance):
both men are enablers of tyrannical ideologies. Biden has shown himself to be a good friend to China and Iran, and so has Francis. Indeed, Francis has become a defender not only of Iran, but of Islam itself, and he has frequently drawn a moral equivalence between Catholicism and Islam.
Escape From New York
I periodically email friends back in my lost, beloved native New York City news items whose not-so-subtle subtext is βGet OUT!β When the toilets start whispering that to the people in the first scene of a horror film, we all know what they should do. Hereβs the latest Iβve sent in my effort to lure those whom I love down to the relative safety of Texas:
NYC homeowner is arrested and forced to hand over her home to a squatter.
Realize where we are. pic.twitter.com/Ggzhlxz9i7
β End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2024
But this is not just a blue-state problem. The post below shows an immigrant teaching illegals how to weaponize our goofy laws to seize the homes of citizens β¦ perfectly legally:
🚨🇺🇸 Immigrant TikToker with over 300k followers advising illegal immigrants on how to take over homes of Americans via squatter’s rights laws.
He says his friends have already taken over 7 homes.
“If you see an empty house in America you can squat in it- there is a law thatβ¦ pic.twitter.com/3EitGkwjkl
β Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) March 20, 2024
A Plan for Single-Party Rule
What is the game plan the Democrats have for enabling all this lawlessness and chaos via Bidenβs open borders? Elon Musk calls it a plan for βsingle-party ruleβ in this powerful ad he shared:
This is actually happening!
pic.twitter.com/qeNBu3S1mFβ Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2024
I for One Welcome Monsieur Barbecue
Among the migrants pouring into the U.S. are βrefugeesβ from Haiti. After years of the benevolence spilled out upon it by the Clinton Foundation and the Obama/Biden administrations, Haiti is now dominated by cannibal gangs led by a guy who calls himself βBarbecue.β Whatever could have gone amiss? Tucker Carlson asks someone who ought to know β a former prime minister of Haiti:
Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have in effect been running domestic politics in Haiti for the past few years. The result is chaos and cannibalism. Pretty soon a big portion of the Haitian population will be living in Florida. Haitiβs former prime minister explains. pic.twitter.com/3gPtfhiMpi
β Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 18, 2024
Indelible in the Hippocampus Is the Perjury
Christine βI can lie before Congress and you canβt sue me for slanderβ Blasey Ford has a new book out. Stream contributor Mark Judge was the drive-by victim of her effort to keep Kavanaugh off the court and Roe v. Wade on the books. That makes sense, since she was a highly paid employee at a company making the abortion pill. Judge dismantles Fordβs latest house of cards in his comments at Breitbart.
And Mollie Hemingway does a fun listicle of the top 20 ways in which we know that Ford was lying and ought to be prosecuted for perjury:
1. There Is No Evidence that Ford and Kavanaugh Ever Met
2. Leland Keyser Said She Did Not Have βAny Confidenceβ in Her Friendβs Story
3. Friends Pressured Keyser to Change Her Story
4. All Alleged Witnesses Strongly Dispute the Claim
5. Fordβs Father Supported Kavanaughβsβ¦ https://t.co/tEJxIbkhuE
β Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 20, 2024
Along The Stream
Don’t miss scholar Jules Gomes’ surgical dissection of false readings of Scripture designed to justify sins against nature, coming up later today.
Why is God’s country, Israel, being treated as a “pariah among the nations”? Dennis Prager offers his thoughts, also up later today.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His upcoming book is No Second Amendment, No First.