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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

A federal lawsuit accuses Virginia police of covering up a sex-trafficking ring in exchange for sexual services from the victims

The lawsuit accused five high-ranking police officers of being complicit in protecting a sex-trafficking ring.

A federal lawsuit accuses police officers in Virginia of shielding a sex-trafficking ring for years.
The suit says high-ranking officers worked against a lone detective looking into the operation.
It says the detective resigned after agreeing not to pursue his investigation under threat.

A federal lawsuit alleges that several high-ranking police officers in Virginia's Fairfax County shielded a sex-trafficking ring from justice for years in exchange for sex from the victims.

The civil-rights attorney Victor Glasberg filed the lawsuit on behalf of a Costa Rican woman identified as "Jane Doe."

The lawsuit, seen by Insider, said five defendants who were on the force at that time — two supervisory officers, a police captain, a police lieutenant, and a chief of police — conspired to protect the traffickers.

The complaint said at least some of them "secured sexual services from trafficked women, and may also have extorted money from the ring's leadership."

It goes on to say they worked to undermine an investigation into the trafficking ring by a lone detective, William Woolf, and became hostile to him as he homed in on the illicit operation.

The lawsuit said Woolf's direct superior, a then-supervisory officer identified as Michael Barbazette, would disparagingly call Woolf a "social worker" and introduced strict restrictions on Woolf, such as requiring daily reports from him and denying overtime work.

"Police officials regularly derided the notion that trafficked women were victims, insisting instead that they were simply prostitutes willingly engaged in unlawful commercial activity," the lawsuit said.

The suit alleges that Barbazette and another supervisory officer, Jason Mardocco, would tip off the traffickers of impending police activity by telling them to take down online advertisements for commercial sex ahead of sting operations. Neither officer is still on the force.

The lawsuit says police superiors ignored Woolf's reports

The lawsuit alleges that when Woolf reported Barbazette's actions to his next immediate superior, a police captain named James Baumstark, he was told to stay quiet. Baumstark is also accused of...

Against the wind

We were runnin' against the wind

We were young and strong, we were runnin'

Against the wind

And the years rolled slowly past

And I found myself alone

Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends

I found myself further and further from my home

And I guess I lost my way

There were oh so many roads

I was living to run and running to live

Never worried about paying or even how much I owed

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Is the Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Case About to be Tossed?

At this point, perhaps the Justice Department should pray that the judge rules in favor of the defense and dismisses the case before the FBI is further embarrassed—and exposed.

The U.S. Department of Justice received an unwelcome Christmas gift from defense attorneys representing five men charged with conspiring to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020: a motion to dismiss the case.

The Christmas Day filing is the latest blow to the government’s scandal-ridden prosecution; defense counsel is building a convincing argument that the FBI used undercover agents and informants to entrap their clients in a wide-ranging scheme that resulted in bad press for Donald Trump as early voting was underway in the key swing state last year. What began as random social media chatter to oppose lockdown policies quickly morphed into a dangerous plan to abduct Whitmer as soon as the FBI took over.

A Michigan judge delayed the trial, now set for March 8, so defense attorneys could investigate the misconduct of FBI special agents handling at least a dozen government informants involved in the caper.

As I reported last week, the lead prosecutor recently informed the judge that three of the FBI’s top agents involved in the case will not take the stand as government witnesses. Richard Trask, the FBI special agent who signed the initial criminal complaint against six men facing federal charges—one man pleaded guilty and is cooperating with authorities—was removed from the case and fired by the FBI after he physically assaulted his wife last summer in a drunken rage following a swingers party at a hotel near their home.

The agents who managed the day-to-day activity of the case’s lead informant also will not testify. FBI agent Jayson Chambers ran a security consulting business on the side; an anonymous Twitter account claiming to represent his firm, Exeintel, dropped hints of pending arrests in the Whitmer case, calling into question his motives as a lead investigator. His partner, FBI agent Henrik Impola, has been accused of committing perjury in a separate case.

“The government does not plan to call Impola, Chambers, or Trask as witnesses,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge notified the court on December 17. “[The] government requests the Court exclude evidence relating to Exeintel, the unfounded allegations against SA Impola, and Richard Trask’s domestic assault charges or alleged social media posts.”

Now the judge will consider defense counsel’s latest motion to drop the kidnapping conspiracy charges against Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Dan Harris, and Brandon Caserta; in the April 2021 superseding indictment, which defense attorneys cite in the motion, the Justice Department described the defendants as domestic terrorists who attempted “to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”

But the real conspiracy—as court documents, testimony, and communications between FBI handlers and their informants show—was concocted by federal operatives working inside and outside the FBI Detroit field office.

“In this Case, the undisputed evidence, as demonstrated in forty-four pages of statements already submitted to the Court, establishes that government agents and informants concocted, hatched, and pushed this ‘kidnapping plan’ from the...

Unleash Havoc Until The Proles Demand Totalitarian Rule.

Support for BLM and BDS is Support for Hate and Violence

Robert A. Heinlein wrote that "The man who eats meat cannot sneer at the butcher." While it's legal to eat meat, it's illegal to attend dog fights. If people who attend dog fights didn't pay admission fees or place bets, the hands-on perpetrators would have no incentive to abuse the dogs.

We contend similarly that any organization that supports the Black Lives Matter Global Network is vicariously (if not legally) complicit in looting, rioting, anti-Semitism, support for Hamas, and incitement of violence against law enforcement professionals and others. Support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is similarly tacit support for synagogue and church shootings similar to those at the Tree of Life Synagogue (Robert Bowers), bombings of pizza shops and Seders, rocket attacks, eradication of Israel "from the river to the sea," and violent abuse of Jews, Christians, and Arabs whom Hamas deems to be the wrong kinds of Muslims, women, and LGBT people.

We Don't Need Nazis for Animal Rights, or BLM for Civil Rights

We know animal abuse is wrong without input from the Nazi Party. We also know that Derek Chauvin should not have knelt on George Floyd's neck, and that three yahoos should not have chased Ahmaud Arbery and then provoked a deadly confrontation, without input from an organization that promotes the following behavior.
BLM has incited looting similar to the Night of the Broken Glass, the only difference being that those on the receiving end come in all colors and religions, as opposed to only Jews. Police in Democrat-run cities have meanwhile been told to stand down the way German police stood aside during the Night of the Broken Glass.
Patrisse Cullors, while speaking in her capacity as a BLM leader, denied the right of Israel to exist. This is anti-Semitic per the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and also supports the agenda of Hamas which includes genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews. BLM rallies have also featured anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic hate speech such as "Israel, we know you, you murder children too."

The BLM website published the libelous accusation that Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people, thus suggesting that it is okay to attempt strong-arm robbery (Joseph Rosenbaum), attempt armed robbery and aggravated assault (Anthony Huber), and chase somebody with a drawn firearm (Gaige Grosskreutz), and that the victims of these actions had better not fight back.
BLM and its associates have also made it clear that they think it is okay to point a gun at a cop's head and menace a teenage girl while armed (or unarmed per Joe Biden) with a knife -- and then they wonder why violent criminals of all races get shot by police and armed citizens of all races.

Advocacy of arson, a felony that can create the same use of deadly force situations the organization protests.

A (Caucasian) woman in a BLM hat gave an online tutorial about how to "remove" drivers from their cars, i.e. how to commit a violent felony good for a very long stay in prison, and of course for the lawful deployment of deadly force by the driver.
Misuse 501(c)(3) tax exempt resources to influence the 2020 election.

"Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," relates to police officers in body bags, as does "Oink your last, pig," and "What do we want? Dead cops." These are the same so-called "pigs" who arrested Dylan Roof who was convicted of shooting up a Black church, and also the three yahoos who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

If we return to Robert Heinlein's original statement, any organization that stands behind BLM -- whether it's Cornell Law School faculty and graduates denouncing a professor for condemning it, Dean Eduardo Peñalver saying on behalf of Cornell's Law School that denunciation of BLM is contrary to the school's values, or Hardin-Simmons University forcing out a student for a video that points out accurately that BLM does not say the names of anybody but Black people who are killed by...

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EVERY "REPUBLICAN" IN CONGRESS SHOULD GO ON A HUNGER STRIKE UNTIL THEY ARE RELEASED.

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School Board Unanimously Approves Plan to Pay Non-White Teachers More

More "Art" From Barack Obama's Portrait Artist: Kehinde Wiley

If you feel like you live in an alternative universe where reductionism replaces logic and superficiality trumps character, here’s more evidence that you may be right. We might just be living in a racist version of The Twilight Zone.

The Mankato School Board in Minnesota voted unanimously to pay non-white teachers “additional stipends” based only on the color of their skin, according to BizPac Review. If you happen to be born black or Native American and teach for the school district, you ostensibly deserve to be paid more than your peers.

You don’t have to earn the raise for going the extra mile to help students or for actually doing anything at all. The pay raise is based upon the accident of skin color and nothing else. Forget the fact that nobody gets to determine the color of skin they’re born with.

The chair of the board, Jodi Sapp, is no stranger to controversy. She raised eyebrows when she required parents to give their name and address before...

‘We have national gov’t for a reason’: Biden’s chief of staff tweet shaming Trump on COVID did not age well

President Joe Biden was already drawing heavy criticism over the shortage of COVID testing kits as panic over the Omicron variant sweeps the nation but his remarks on Monday when he passed the buck to the states set off a raging firestorm that has also scorched White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain.

The prolific tweeter’s words from last year criticizing then-President Donald J. Trump for not fully mobilizing the federal government to fight the virus, but instead allowing the states to manage the unprecedented health crisis as he should have, has not aged well, resulting in a pummeling from critics.

According to Klain, “I’ve been saying since March that we can’t beat COVID with an “Articles of Confederation” response. We have a national government for a reason. If Donald Trump won’t use it to beat this killer disease, I know someone who will, starting on 1/20/21.”

Once again, Klain’s tendency to shoot from the hip on Twitter has come back to bite him with users taking to the platform to drag him down memory lane.

Last summer, Biden also vowed a “coordinated response from the federal government” in one of his attacks on Trump, falsely presenting himself as the man best suited to bring an end to COVID and restore the nation to normalcy, a promise that he has struggled mightily to deliver upon – and that was before he punted the ball during his conference call with state governors.

Republicans took to Twitter to weigh in after Biden pawned off the responsibility for mitigating the virus to the states.

Also slamming Biden’s flip-flopping was the panel on Fox News’ popular show “The Five” who excoriated the administration and its figurehead, particularly on the lack of availability of test kits which flew off of shelves as terrified people scrambled to find out whether they were infected with Omicron during Christmas week, many who likely didn’t have symptoms as the White House-media fear campaign boomeranged politically.

Klain also stepped in it with a Sunday retweet of a column claiming that...

Finding safety among the "fully vaccinated" is a pipe dream: Corona outbreaks on cruise ships provide a good example of how measures such as vaccinations, a QR exclusion system or 2G rules make no sense. Incessant testing and boosters will not prevent Corona outbreaks in fully vaccinated groups.

It has been clearly demonstrated that even in fully boosted isolated groups, Corona outbreaks still occur. Therefore three jabs combined with negative tests provide no security for those who have been fearful of contracting Covid-19. Their ideal “zero Covid” bubble with no “unclean” unvaccinated people around offers them zero protection.

And while they are now trying to claim otherwise, every single major government health official and pharmaceutical executive had previously categorically declared that Covid shots would stop the virus.

On November 30, there was a Covid-19 outbreak on board the Artania even though the passengers and crew had been 100 percent vaccinated. The ship can accommodate up to 1260 passengers and 537 crew. Three fully vaccinated people on the German cruise liner died from the virus.

On December 5, CBS reported on the the Norwegian cruise ship Breakaway. There were 3 200 people on board and the vaccination rate was 100 percent. The shipowner Norwegian Cruise Line required all passengers and crew to be vaccinated. At least ten people tested positive.

At least one crew member tested positive with the Omicron variant, according to Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). The infected crew member was from South Africa and had undergone the ten-day quarantine required of employees who join the ship.

Most cruise lines offer so-called “safe bubble” excursions, where passengers do not come into contact with port residents when they go ashore, and NCL relies on all passengers being 100 percent vaccinated.

On the world’s largest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas, dozens of people have tested positive for the Corona virus during a trip. However, all 6 091 passengers and crew had tested negative before the journey commenced and 95 percent on board had been fully vaccinated. Royal Caribbean, the owner of the ship, told CNN that during the tour in the Caribbean, the virus inexplicably made its appearance.

In an effort to stick to the increasingly ridiculous vaccine narrative, the outbreak was blamed “cruise guests who use fake vaccination cards” and “breakthrough infections” while admitting that “no vaccinations are 100 percent effective in...