Day: April 26, 2018

Officials In Two Cases Rule Conservatives Don’t Have First Amendment Rights

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In two separate cases, it has been decided that it is fine to discriminate against supporters of President Donald Trump and supporters of the police. In other words, it has been decided by the liberals in power that conservatives are not protected by the First Amendment.

In the first case, a New York judge decided that a bar which kicked out a man who was wearing a Make America Great Again hat did not break the law. The judge said that the law does not protect people against discrimination based on politics.

It started when Greg Piatek and his friends went to The Happiest Hour in New York in January 2017, and he wore his Make America Great Again hat. Piatek and his friends got their first drinks with no issue, but when they wanted to order again, they were ignored.
They eventually got their next round of drinks from an angry bartender, but then, another bartender addressed the hat, allegedly saying, “I can’t believe you would support someone so terrible and you must be as terrible a person!”

A manager also reportedly said to Piatek, “Anyone who supports Trump or believes what you believe is not welcome here. And, you need to leave right now because we won’t serve you!”

The bar’s attorney, Elizabeth Conway, argued in court that politics is not a protected form of discrimination and that the law only applies to religion. “Supporting Trump is not a religion,” she said, according to Fox News.

Piatek’s attorney, Paul Liggieri, said that his client wore the hat as a tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11. “The purpose of the hat is that he wore it because he was visiting the 9/11 Memorial,” he said. “He was paying spiritual tribute to the victims of 9/11. The Make America Great Again hat was part of his spiritual belief. Rather than remove his hat, instead he held true to his spiritual belief and was forced from the bar.”
Justice David Cohen was not moved. “Plaintiff does not state any faith-based principle to which the hat relates,” the judge said. “Here the claim that plaintiff was not served and eventually escorted out of the bar because of his perceived support for President Trump is not outrageous conduct.”

As for The Happiest Hour, it said this was irrelevant because Piatek is not telling the truth. It said that he was treated fine, and he gave a $36 tip on a $186 bar tab. They further claimed that they believe he sued them as a publicity stunt.

In another case in Michigan, a city zoning board ruled that a restaurant could be forced to not show its support for the police. Johnny Brann, the owner of Brann’s Steakhouse in Grand Rapids, was told by a letter from the city that he had to remove flags he hung outside of his restaurant to honor fallen police officers and soldiers.
Brann told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that he has filed an application to appeal the decision with the City of Grand Rapids Zoning Appeals Board. But, even if his application is denied, he said that the flags are staying where they are.

“The people of the United States got to understand the importance of law enforcement. They protect us. They protect and serve. If you call them, it doesn’t matter who you are, what time it is. If your life’s threatened, they’re coming to help. And they risk their lives every day they walk out to do their job,” he said.

“Law enforcement and our military are vital,” he added. “So it’s not even complicated to me, and the banners and the signs are staying up.”

The audacity of this judge and this city zoning board to strip these Americans of their right to free speech is unconscionable. These cases are both matters of the protection of free speech. If you do not have to serve supporters of President Donald Trump and only religion is protected, what stops a bar from not serving customers based on any random bias they decide?
If that’s their right, then why are Christian bakers forced to bake wedding cakes for gay couples against their religion? And, what stops a city from saying that a company can not have a sign supporting a politician outside of its business? What stops the free speech rights of any group from being destroyed by people in power with a bias? The prospect is terrifying.

BREAKING Rapid Intervention Squads Just DEPLOYED

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Anbar, IRAQ – Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered to form multiple rapid intervention squads in the western province of Anbar as confrontations with militants seem to recur over the recent period, Iraqi News reports.

IkhNews website quoted Qatari al-Obaidi, a senior commander of the tribal mobilization forces in Anbar, saying Wednesday that Abadi, the supreme commander of the armed forces, made directives to form four rapid intervention regiments of the force to assist in security work alongside government troops.
According to Obaidi, the regiments will consist of 600 fighters each, will receive training by government forces and will be supplied with modern arms and combat vehicles. He noted that “the new squads will answer to the prime minister and subordinate security officials, and will be tasked with preserving security against Islamic State militants”.

Meanwhile, Iraq is carrying out massive air raids inside the Syrian territories to eliminate chief of the Islamic State (ISIS) group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi lawmaker announced to reporters.

MP Abdel Aziz Hassan, the rapporteur of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, told SNG agency that the federal government in Baghdad received intelligence reports about the presence of a number of ISIS leaders at a border area between Iraq and Syria, Iraqi News reports.

According to Hassan, “Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is expected to be at one of ISIS sites inside Syria,” adding that the Iraqi government will seek Syria’s approval first before launching the raid.

Also, as many as 36 Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed after US-led coalition Iraqi warplanes targeted their terrorist hotbed located in Syria, a spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council was quoted as saying.

Alghdad Press quoted Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying in a statement that Iraqi Air Forces launched a series of airstrikes on Syrian territories using F-16 jets to eliminate Islamic State terrorists, who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Iraq.

According to the statement, the air raids left 36 IS militants dead, including six senior leaders who were gathering at one of their hotbeds inside Syria.

The Islamic State group appeared on the international scene in 2014 when it seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, declaring the establishment of an Islamic “caliphate” from Mosul city.

Later on, the group has become notorious for its brutality, including mass killings, abductions and beheadings, prompting the U.S. to lead an international coalition to destroy it.

Despite the group’s crushing defeat at its main havens across Iraq last December, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks against troops with security reports warning that the militant group still poses a threat against stability in the country.

BREAKING Look Who Just Threatened To BOMB RUSSIA! WW3 ALERT!!!

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Ukraine has threatened Russia with a full-scale conflict if there are cuts to Kiev’s Gazprom gas transits through the territory of Ukraine. “The likelihood of a full-scale conflict between Russian and Ukraine,” is increasing, and European nations should be aware of the geopolitical consequences for the whole world, said the commercial director at Ukraine’s main gas company.

Kiev has warned Moscow of “geopolitical consequences” if the gas ceases. “If there is no transit through the territory of Ukraine, then the likelihood of a full-scale conflict between Russia and Ukraine is also increasing. European politicians need to understand not only the economic consequences for Ukraine but also geopolitical consequences for the whole world,” the commercial director at Ukraine’s main gas company Naftogaz Yuri Vitrenko told the 112 Ukraine TV channel.

According to RT, the gas-transit contract between Kiev and Moscow expires in 2019 and Gazprom said on Tuesday that the contract will not be extended under any circumstances. The company added that the gas transit may remain, but only if Ukraine provides the necessary conditions for it. “Now the ball is on the Ukrainian side. It should justify the economic attractiveness and the possibility of transit through Ukraine,” said Gazprom Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee Aleksandr Medvedev.
Russia wants to significantly cut its gas transit through Ukraine and re-direct it through the extension of the existing Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Moscow has alleged that Kiev has proved itself an unreliable partner in gas transits over the years. Moscow has repeatedly said Ukraine will lose its status as a key transit hub to Europe once the gas-transit contract expires. Russia wants to bypass Ukraine by doubling the capacity of the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

Some of the gas to Europe could also come through the Turkish Stream pipeline, currently under construction. When the two pipelines mentioned are completed, transit through Ukraine is expected to fall by more than 80 percent, according to Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller. He added that Gazprom does not intend to help neighboring countries restore their economies at its own expense.

Kiev’s threats for a full-scale conflict with Russia do not appear to be affecting how Gazprom is altering the gas-transits.