Constitutional Freedom denied to AZ teams owner Robert Sarver

The United States is unique among nations in that our constitution guarantees freedom of speech via the First Amendment, which specifically states:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Nowhere do those words, drafted in 1789 — fundamental to the Bill of Rights by James Madison — a Virginia representative who later became the fourth U.S. president, specify that the speech must be agreeable to a specific percentage of the populace. They are guaranteed to the speaker, not to a specific audience.

Yet Arizona native, University of Arizona graduate and philanthropist Robert Sarver, the 18-year majority owner of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury, previously uttered words currently deemed sexist and racist, initially resulting in a one year suspension by the NBA and a hefty $10 million fine. Now he is being forced to sell the teams, though he has contritely stated, “As a man of faith, I believe in atonement and the path to forgiveness. I expected that the commissioner’s one-year suspension would provide the time for me to focus, make amends and remove my personal controversy from the teams that I, and so many fans, love.”

The speech police have ruled otherwise. Though Sarver is unique in owning major teams, we the hoi polloi, (Greek for “the masses“), have less to lose but can also suffer from not falling in line with the latest edicts of the authoritative language masters. Speaking to work associates about anything other than business is risky these days, giving enhanced meaning to the words, “Silence is golden.” The lesson is, saying nothing is preferable to speaking, which could cost you your job or more. There is no path of redemption.

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Education or indoctrination? Educrats push LGBTQ agenda, teacher sues

Kansas School District demands respect of child’s “chosen pronoun”

Here’s one “for the books.” Math teacher Pamela Ricard is suing the Fort Riley school district superintendent, board members and her principal after being suspended for “discrimination and harassment”  for not using “transgender and non-binary” student’s preferred name and pronouns.

Ricard, a middle school teacher since 2005, refuses to use the preferred names and plural pronouns of the newly “woke” transgender and nonbinary students because doing so violates her religious beliefs. In today’s skewed world, they have no validity. She was previously reprimanded for addressing a student as “miss” to avoid using the student’s preferred first name after being told the student used he/him pronouns. Ricard has now been suspended for violating the district’s bullying and diversity and inclusion policies.

She was denied a religious exemption to the district’s required practice.

The federal lawsuit was filed against USD 475 Geary County School District and the principal of Fort Riley Middle School in Fort Riley. It is filed on behalf of Pamela Ricard, a “decades-long” teacher assigned to the school since 2005.

This in-depth article, ”Kansas Teacher Sues After Being Punished for Refusing to Use Student’s Preferred Pronouns,” posted on Real Clear Politics was written by Michael Ryan. It is definitely worth your time.

For an excellent overview of how today’s colleges and universities face a choice between two opposing worldviews: the traditional, spiritually embedded one upon which most were founded, or the secular, hedonistic, materialistic worldview that now dominates them and the mindset of those who control the teaching profession, we direct our readers to “A Tragic Abandonment of Identity: The Secularization of America’s Religious Colleges and Universities.” It was written by Arthur Goldberg in 2018, but is increasingly relevant today.

Radical author claims “trash” US Constitution must be replaced

Haitian immigrant benefiting from First Amendment’s freedom of speech opines, “Wealthy slavers and racist misogynists” founded USA

Americans rightly esteem our U.S. Constitution, which sets us apart from other forms of government. The document which was ratified June 21, 1789, has been amended 27 times. Our Founders were brilliant patriots with an eye to the future, who labored at putting together a document that would grow with the then-young country. America is known as a nation of laws — a founding principle. It remains the core of what defines who we are as Americans.

John Hanson, writing for the Political Insider, introduces us to Constitution hater and leftist journalist Elie Mystal, who recently authored a book titled, “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution.”  Mystal claims the Constitution should be replaced with something “more inclusive.”

Mystal calls the Constitution “trash” that was written by wealthy slavers and racist misogynists. He goes on to denigrate our laws saying they have since “been mostly interpreted by wealthy white legislators to take away the rights of minorities, women and the LGBTQ community.”

If this raging Haitian-born opportunist followed his roots back to his African homeland, he wouldn’t be a Harvard-educated author, with a law degree, making televised guest appearances to push a book or vilify the Constitution-based nation that has provided him limitless opportunities.

Dem’s masking hypocrisy exposed

Masks for thee but not for me

To roust us out of our dreary pandemic doldrums and ever increasing Bidenflation, we take our readers to Not the Bee (The Bee is a satirical site) which runs a compilation of hypocrite dems in the unmasked, dare we say, “naked,” condition in which they were born.

Brace yourself for a major dose of dem deception. Note the underlings, children and wait staff are required to be masked, while the dem elites, who freely inhale the rarified air they desire to deny us, don’t abide by such restrictions themselves

H/T Jesse James

Associated Press gives official pass to criminals

News agency will no longer cover “not newsworthy” crimes

Associated Press is back to its old tricks, determining what is now too offensive for general consumption while attempting to manipulate American’s attitudes via language. It has become the self-appointed arbiter of communication, with no one to challenge its leftist perspective. SRAZ has written about the agency’s overreaches intended to cunningly alter the vantage point of readers, now utilizing loaded language techniques while ignoring minority perpetrated criminality.

In 2019 AP reporters were instructed on retooling language in an effort to reconfigure opinions. In 2021 deceitful word manipulation has become even more emboldened. We noted at the time that what was once heralded as the free press, has grotesquely transmogrified to purveyors of mind control. This is an important link which is worth your time.

Claiming its mission is to “inform the world,” and “setting the industry standard for ethics in journalism,” AP boasts it’s been on the scene since 1846. Its former rival United Press International (UPI) has all but dried up and bitten the dust.

AP’s latest gambit is deeming certain names too objectionable to be seen in print. Naming crime suspects or showing mug shots of minority criminal perpetrators is now considered racist, although their presumably loving mothers bestowed the monikers on them.

John Daniszewski, AP’s Vice President for Standards, ignores the fact that crime stats are highest among minority perpetrators, since that doesn’t fit into the leftist perspective as it skews the news. He writes, “The names of suspects are generally not newsworthy beyond their local communities. We will not link from these stories to others that do name the person, and we will not move mug shots in these cases, since the accused would be identifiable by that photo as well. We also will stop publishing stories driven mainly by a particularly embarrassing mug shot, nor will we publish such mug shots solely because of the appearance of the accused.”

In a world inhabited by leftists even those calling themselves “journalists,“ charged with delivering the news, showing or naming the perpetrator is now racist or too embarrassing.

It’s worth considering if John Daniszewski would be so generous if either he, his wife or children were brutally victimized by those whose violent crimes he is intent on ignoring.

Chicago’s racist black lesbian mayor confirms her bigotry

When Chicago’s black Mayor Lori Lightfoot marked the two year anniversary of her election by announcing she would no longer give interviews to white journalists, the media clones went noticeably silent. How could those who have been pushing the fallacy of “institutionalized racism” balk if they were suddenly denied access to news based on their gene pool, over which they had no influence?

Their whiteness renders them incapable of writing honest reports or interviewing city leaders. Their lips are too thin to speak the truth, their hair too straight or light to give them brain power.

Students majoring in journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Leftism, have already been warned if they are thinking of a career at the seriously declining Arizona Republic newspaper. Here’s the explanation of the diversity policy and the numbers that they are striving for from Greg Burton, executive editor. Notice their goals have nothing to do with honest coverage or dropping its biased skew:

“Our goal is to match a community that is 44% people of color. We’re not there yet, but we’re making progress, and doing so while hiring the most skilled and promising journalists on the job market

In 2016, journalists of color made up 20% of The Republic’s staff. Next month, they’ll be 37% of the staff, up from 34% just nine months ago. Among managers, that number is 39%, up from 28% last August.”

According to Statista tracking, in 2020 only 29% of Americans “trust the news media most of the time.” It’s a good bet the numbers have plummeted from that low point.

National Review reports that Lightfoot used these words to describe the reporters she is now banishing: “Many of them are smart and hard-working, savvy and skilled. But mostly white, nonetheless.”

The National Association of Black Journalists calls her policy a “bold move,” while engaging in slick doublespeak.

Imagine if a white mayor used those same words to describe black or brown reporters. The cries of “racism” would reverberate throughout every niche of the city and far behind.

As Lightfoot urged the city’s media leadership to evolve and diversify, Gregory Pratt, a Latino reporter for the Chicago Tribune covering City Hall responded to the new policy by pulling out of an interview he had been granted with Lightfoot.

“I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled,” he wrote in a tweet. “Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.”

At last, some sanity.

GoDaddy eerily morphs into Big Brother

The Federalist reports AR15.com, the largest gun forum in the world, was deplatformed on Monday by web hosting company GoDaddy without explanation. When asked by The Federalist about the decision to remove AR15.com, GoDaddy later claimed that the site “both promotes and encourages violence,” but did not offer any specific examples. Instead, they gave AR15.com 24 hours to relocate its business.

The decision by Scottsdale-based GoDaddy follows a series of bans and contract terminations by big tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook targeting conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump.

Big Brother was described in George Orwell’s eerily prophetic novel, “1984,” illustrating the consequences of individuals actions and intentions being monitored by the government as a means of controlling and suppressing the will of the populace. The Orwell analogy becomes more fitting as political conservative are further repressed as emboldened leftists gain control, bringing to mind the post-World War II confessional prose by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller:

“First they came . . .”

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out…

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out…

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out…

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me…and there was no one left to speak for me.

Left’s crackdown on civil liberties didn’t take long

The erosion of liberty and free speech under dictatorial democrats should strike fear in the hearts of all Americans

On Friday the big tech companies decided free speech was no longer an American right as Twitter permanently suspended the account of President Donald Trump — a direct slap in the face of the more than 74 million people who voted for him. NBC refers to us as “dejected and paranoid.”

Google has removed Parler from its App stores. Parler is the free speech Twitter alternative gaining a league of conservative users. Apple is also threatening to drop Parler unless the social media platform conforms to Big Tech’s authoritarian censorship practices. Watch Parler CEO John Matze’s response, carried on CNS News.

And if those instances aren’t enough to signal to Americans the degradations of freedoms under the incoming Harris/Biden administration, CNN is said to be working to take Fox News off the air on the pretense the network is directly responsible for the recent siege on the U. S. Capitol after black-clad Antifa thugs infiltrated the massive assemblage of Trump supporters.

Enjoy your weekend, even under the COVID restrictions. Looking back, they’ll seem like a piece of cake compared to the notorious days when the democrats dominated.

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Radical Virginia Gov., AG cancel gun shows

Virginia dems bow to anti-Second Amendment gun restrictions that were fundamental to the Harris/Biden campaign

The state of Virginia stands as a testament to decay. The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant Virginian who served as third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was responsible for doubling the size of the United States by successfully brokering the Louisiana Purchase, land previously owned by France. He also founded the University of Virginia.

Virginia patriots served in the Continental Army and fought against Great Britain, eventually leading to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

The Second Amendment, ensuring the right to bear arms, was ratified in 1791. Virginia is one of 44 states that have the right to “bear arms” embedded in their own constitutions. Virginia’s law reads much like the U.S. Constitution.

Fast forward to 2020, where freedom takes a sharp left turn. Virginia’s democrat governor and attorney general have cancelled ‘The Nation’s Gun Show,’ scheduled for this weekend, November 20, 21 & 22 at the Dulles Expo Center. Read the notice here. The event was expected to draw 25,000 people who intended to exercise not only their First Amendment rights to assemble freely, but also their Second Amendment rights.

Attorney General Mark Herring is a gun restrictionist who repeatedly refers to constitutional firearms proponents as “the gun lobby,” as seen in this earlier press release.

Gov. Ralph Northam, another democrat, was able to get seven of his gun control bills passed in the Virginia House of Delegates as reported by Breitbart News.

Northam, who opposes the death penalty for the most vicious criminals, can’t pretend his opposition to the Second Amendment is to save lives. As SRAZ previously pointed out, Northam, a onetime medical doctor who specialized in pediatric neurology, condones abortions up until birth, more correctly described as infanticide.

Hypocrisy has its home in the democrat party.

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St. Louis homeowners defending property charged with felonies

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says he will pardon the couple

On Sunday evening June 28, several hundred Black Lives Matter protesters broke down the barrier to a private residential street in a St. Louis suburb. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey heard a commotion and saw a large crowd break down their private iron gate, congregating in their yard.

As they watched the demonstrators advancing through their property toward their home, the McCloskey’s grabbed their firearms and headed outside to confront them. Rioters copying other anarchists across the nation are using the death of newly martyred, multi-incarceration criminal George Floyd, to destroy swaths of St. Louis, burning buildings and looting stores.

Mark McCloskey, 63, said he was afraid that his home was going to suffer a similar fate, and felt he needed to act to protect his family and property. He said the protesters were coming toward his house and didn’t stop until he displayed his AR-15, and his wife pulled out her pistol. McCloskey said both safeties were engaged on their guns. The rifle was later seized by police during a search.

“I’m not the face of anything opposing the Black Lives Matter movement,” McCloskey said. “I was a person scared for my life, who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood. I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate. I didn’t care what color they were, I didn’t care what their motivation was. I was frightened, I was assaulted, and I was in imminent fear that they would run me over, kill me, burn my house.”

The couple was not the only ones with firearms. The marchers brandished at least two pistols. The protesters with the guns told them they “were next” as the McCloskey’s demanded that they leave their property. Police did not respond to the couple’s calls for help, nor did the property’s private security. The couple felt they were on their own. The protesters even threatened to kill the couple’s dog.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner’s office has filed felony charges against the couple. Gardner, a radical leftist whose campaign was funded by Socialist billionaire George Soros, is an admitted supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. She’s been critical of police and has excused the rioting and looting in St. Louis as a reaction to police brutality, though prosecuting fewer than 25% of crimes presented to her office by police. She promised swift action against the McCloskey’s.  Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit previously exposed the Gardner/Soros connection.

Monday evening Missouri Gov. Mike Parson told Sean Hannity that “without a doubt,” he will pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey, hours after Kimberly Gardner filed felony charges against them.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said he will seek dismissal of the charges, calling them a case of “political prosecution.”

In an earlier statement Gardner said, “Make no mistake: we will not tolerate the use of force against those exercising their First Amendment rights and will use the full power of Missouri law to hold people accountable.”

She’s mysteriously mute about those exercising their Second Amendment rights. Missouri is a castle doctrine state. A homeowner does not have the duty to retreat when threatened.