Unconstitutional US Grand Jury System

by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)

Remanding Chelsea Manning into federal custody for contempt on Friday, jailing her for invoking her constitutional rights, refusing to answer prosecutorial and grand juror questions, is one of countless examples of grand jury abuses of power – symptomatic of police state rule, how things work in the US.

Manning was constitutionally justified saying: “I will not comply with this, or any grand jury. Imprisoning me for my refusal to answer questions only subjects me to additional punishment for my repeatedly-stated ethical objections to the grand jury system,” adding:

“The grand jury’s questions pertained to disclosures from nine years ago, and took place six years after an in-depth computer forensics case in which I testified for almost a full day about these events. I stand by my previous public testimony.”

“I will not participate in a secret process that I morally (and legally) object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech.”

“…I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this predatory practice.” In response to each question asked, she said:

“I object to the question and refuse to answer on the grounds that the question is in violation of my First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, and other statutory rights.”

Her response was and remains constitutionally protected. That’s not good enough in America, the rule of law long ago abandoned. Congressionally and judicially supported executive diktat power replaced it…. Read More

By Laurence M. Vance
March 5, 2019

Do we call a member of the Mafia or other criminal gang a hero if he gives his life in the course of saving his fellow gang members from an attack by rival gang members? No, we call him a dupe, a fool, or an idiot.

I was reminded of this truth when I received an e-mail promotion from Outback Steakhouse on Sunday, February 17. Why was the e-mail sent on the 17th? Because Presidents’ Day was the next day: Monday, February 18. Here is the text of what I received:

HERE’S WHAT’S GRILLIN’ AT OUTBACK THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 18, 2019

HONORING HEROES WITH 20% OFF

PROUD TO SERVE THOSE WHO SERVE

We are partnering with Operation Homefront to help make life a little easier for our military, veterans and families in their communities. We are honoring all HEROES February 18-21 with 20% off.* (with valid state or federal ID).

The * refers to the fine print at the bottom of the e-mail stating that the offer is valid from February 18-21, and is open to servicemen and women, police officers and firefighters, with corresponding state or federal service ID, plus Military Personnel and their immediate family members who have a proper form of identification.

I have pointed out many times over the years how that the holidays of Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Veterans Day should just be called Military Appreciation Day 1, Military Appreciation Day 2, and Military Appreciation Day 3.

Now it seems as though every holiday has been turned into a military appreciation day.

But it gets worse. When you look at the Outback Steakhouse website, you will see a box containing text that reads: “Serving Those Who Serve.” Clicking inside the boxbrings you to a page that reads:

Help Us Serve Those Who Serve

At Outback Steakhouse, we are partnering with Operation Homefront to help make life a little easier for our military, veterans and families in their communities.

On this page you can read about the “Heroes Discount.” Outback Steakhouse celebrates “all servicemen and women, police officers, firefighters, and all first responders with 10% off* their entire check all day, every day (with valid state or federal service ID).”

Once again, the * refers to the fine print at the bottom of the page stating that the offer is valid through March 26, and is open to servicemen and women, police officers and firefighters, with corresponding state or federal service ID, plus Military Personnel and their immediate family members who have a proper form of identification.

The Outback Steakhouse e-mail and website that call military personnel heroes raises two important questions that I don’t hear anyone asking.

First of all, why is it that all U.S. soldiers (and police, firemen, and first responders) are heroes? It doesn’t matter where soldiers go, why they go, how long they stay, whether they should go, or what they do when they are there—the soldiers are all heroes. It doesn’t matter how many widows and orphans soldiers make, how many bombs they drop, how many civilians they kill, how much infrastructure they destroy, how many bullets they fire, how many missiles they launch, or how many of “the enemy” they injure, maim, or kill—the soldiers are all heroes.

What is so heroic about just joining the military? What is so heroic about wearing a military uniform? What is so heroic about getting up in the morning when you are told to? What is so heroic about making widows and orphans? What is so heroic about fighting “over there” when there was no chance that you would have to fight “over here”? What is so heroic about dropping bombs from 40,000 feet? What is so heroic about dying for a mistake?

Second, and most importantly: Can U.S. soldiers be heroes? If soldiers go where they have no business going, engage in offensive military actions, fight unnecessary foreign wars, bomb, maim, and kill for the U.S. government, fight unjust wars, obey immoral orders, make war against people that were no threat to Americans, and then die for their country or lay down their life for one of their fellow soldiers—how could they possibly be considered heroes? Some other words do come to mind: mercenaries, pawns, dupes, myrmidons, killers, murderers, destroyers, invaders, occupiers.

U.S. soldiers are not all heroes. U.S. soldiers are not heroes at all.

Enjoy your meal at Outback Steakhouse. I always do. If you are in the military or are a veteran, get your heroes discount. Just don’t think for a minute that anyone is a hero because he is, or was, in the U.S. military…. Original  Story

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

The majority of children recruited into the child sex-trafficking slave trade come through foster care, where state “Child Protection” child welfare agencies place children who have been removed from their homes.

It is estimated that the revenue generated through illegal child sex trafficking far exceeds revenue from illegal drugs and guns.

The problems of foster care being used to traffick children into the sex trade have been well documented. A recent report out of WJAC in Pennsylvania, for example, reports that 60% of sex, human trafficking victims were once involved in the foster care system.

Attorney Michael Dolce,  who speaks from experience from representing children abused in foster care, wrote an opinion piece published by Newsweek last year (2018) stating that the nation’s foster care system is set up to sexually traffic children. See:

Attorney Reporting in Newsweek: Foster Care is a System Set Up to Sex Traffic American Children

We reported with horror last year that a Virginia man, Nathan Larson, was running for political office in the U.S. Congress in spite of the fact that he publicly admitted he was a pedophile. In online forums with other pedophiles, he encouraged pedophiles to adopt children out of foster care as their “sex toys.” See:

Publicly Open Pedophile Running for Office in Virginia Reveals How Foster Care is a Pipeline to Adopt Children as “Sex Toys”

A simple search of recent news stories for a search term like “sex abuse foster care” will return many thousands of stories verifying that this is not a small problem with a minority of foster care children, but widespread and actually the norm.

Here are a few stories making local headlines in February of 2019:….Read More

Smollett’s False Flag Was to be the First of Series of Many Manufactured Race Riots Designed to Usher In a “Peacekeeping” Coup Against Trump

Before this article gets started publishing new information regarding the Smollett attempted false flag designed to start race riots, I have a couple of announcements that will set the stage for the information reported here and this will be more information which will serve to validate the claims here.

1. The scope of the Smollett case has sufficiently expanded to where I can release more information regarding the case without compromising my confidential informant (CI).
2. In a seemingly unrelated reported that was previously filed on the CSS, the end game of the Smollett attempted and failed false flag incident involves the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations peacekeepers in a sovereign country under a 29 nation agreement called the Kigali Principles. This agreement allows the UN, under their own authority for the signatories, to militarily enter into a country, in force, and re-establish the order as they see fit. As previously published in the CSS,  the impacted nation(s) must submit their military to the authority of the UN. In part, this was rehearsed, but not formally published in Jade Helm 16. Former President Obama and then Secretary of State, John Kerry signed the agreement the same year. On August 19, 2018, I published an article in which I asked the question: Isn’t this a sign of things to come? The article further went on to say… “that In December of 2017 the Cook County Commissioners openly planned to bring in UN troops ostensibly designed to curb gang violence in the Windy City. Now, Chicago has just had a weekend where 75 people were shot. This kind of situation will the gateway to allow foreign peacekeepers on our soil”. I followed this up with a Youtube video with more information….. Read More