It begins. The federal government is issuing warrants from compliant Google to turn over anyone typing in certain search terms.
But they assure the American public that they can be trusted. Just like the federal government assured Americans they would not abuse the secret FISA courts to spy on innocent Americans!
We now know that crooked feds were spying on Donald Trump, his family, his campaign and his presidency using the secret courts to obtain warrants.
The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial.
“Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
“This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added.
The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it’s not publicly disclosed how many users’ data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.
Government restrictions on religious groups and churches showed to be on an all-time high before and during the pandemic.
The Christian Headlines said government restrictions on religion actually remained at high levels even before the pandemic began based on a report released last Thursday from the Pew Research Center. The said report involves a study of 198 countries whose governments imposed restrictions on religion, as well as, social hostilities.
According to the Pew Research report, 29% or 57 countries have a “high” or “very high” level of government restrictions on religion as of 2019 that matched to that of 2012 data and increased by one country in 2018. These countries belong to the “Asia-Pacific region” that registered 50 countries with high government restrictions and in the Middle East-North Africa region that registered 19 of 20 countries for 2019.
A decline was experienced in terms of “high” or “very high” social hostilities from private individuals and groups on religion in 2019, involving 43 countries or 22%. This is down from the 53 countries or 27% recorded a year earlier and from the 65 or 33% recorded in 2012.
An interesting part of the report involves the 35 countries that registered “high” levels of social hostilities on religion in 2009 is now with the least of it in record.
In terms of religion related to terrorism, a record low of 49 countries was reported in 2019. The said countries showed “at least one” type of terrorist act that involved “deaths, physical abuse, displacement, detentions, destruction of property, and fundraising and recruitment by terrorist groups.” This data was significantly lower than the 64 countries recorded in 2018 and from the 82 countries recorded in 2019.
Pew Research Lead Researcher Samirah Majumdar explained in an interview with Christianity Today that the decline in social hostilities in 2019 was “partly due to a decrease in reports of terrorism, mob violence, and hostilities against proselytizing.”
All in all, there are a total of 75 countries or 38% who reported a “high” or “very high” level of overall government restrictions and social hostilities on religion in 2019. This data actually reflects a decline from 80 countries or 40% the previous year. Accordingly, the most recent data available on such incidents is 2019 as per Pew Research.
Last November, Pew Research released its report on government restrictions as of 2017 data. The said report is part of its annual study for the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project that aims to document harassment and violence experienced on the basis of religion. The said study actually revealed that there is an all time high on government restrictions on religion mostly in China and Russia and 50 other countries.
The 2017 Pew Research report similarly showed higher incidents of government restrictions in Asia and Pacific countries than in the rest of the world. Christians and Muslims are said to be the most prone to such government restrictions involving 143 and 140 countries, respectively.
However, unlike the 2019 report, the Pew Research report released last November showed a spike in government restrictions as compared to 2007 data involving 56 countries versus the 39 regions a decade earlier.
“US Freedom Flyers is a group of transportation industry employees who have come together to fight federal and state mandates which aim to strip Citizens of their right to medical freedom.”
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US Freedom Flyers has partnered with Health Freedom Defense Fund and The Davillier Law Group in order to “preserve Informed Consent and defend Constitutional rights.”
US Freedom Flyers promotes individual and religious liberty and bodily autonomy.
“We will put our very livelihoods on the line to resist being coerced into taking a vaccine to which we object, by requesting genuine religious and/or medical exemptions as guaranteed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” reads a statement from the US Freedom Flyers website.
US Freedom Flyers is comprised of “anyone who cherishes the freedom to move about the country and the world,” including passengers, crewmembers, and anyone who travels by plane, ship, train, taxi, and personal vehicle.
The mission of US Freedom Flyers is “to protect your inalienable freedom to move freely without government hindrance based on your vaccination status.”
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The US Freedom Flyers website states, “We are a group of transportation professionals representing the air, rail, and trucking industries who are spearheading efforts to protect medical health freedom.”
“Our goal is to push back against the US government’s threats of vaccine mandates for private businesses. We know this effort is not simply a matter of employees versus companies, but citizens opposing illegal and tyrannical mandates by the US government.”
“The Biden Administration vaccine mandate announcement on September 9, 2021 made it abundantly clear that its focus is not on maintaining our rights and freedoms as outlined in our Constitution, but on its totalitarian rule. Our freedoms and lives have been upended because of a virus with a 99.8% recovery rate. We will not allow this fear-mongering campaign to continue on the American people.”
“This is not about being for or against the Covid-19 vaccine. This is about the government mandating a medical intervention without the fully informed consent of the individual.”
“We call on each state to decertify its electors where it has been shown the elections were certified prematurely and inaccurately.”
92 state legislators from all across America have issued a demand letter calling for a 50 state-wide 2020 election audit and decertification following the explosive Arizona audit that revealed how “our representative republic suffered a corrupted 2020 election.”
After the comprehensive Arizona audit of Maricopa County was completed, Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers unveiled what she called the “new Declaration of Independence” in which 41 state legislators across America called for a 50-state wide 2020 election audit, and should those audits suggest a flawed election, mass decertification of the original 2020 election results, National File previously reported.
“This is our new Declaration of Independence. This is our manifesto of freedom,” Rogers declared.
This comes after the forensic audit of Arizona’s Maricopa County revealed thousands of discrepancies and issues with EV32 and EV33 ballot forms, along with a number of other serious election integrity problems, as National File reported.
Today, the number of state legislators that have signed on to the letter has more than doubled – with 92 signatories joining in calls for election integrity.
92 Legislators from Multiple States Write a Letter to the American People Calling for a 50-State Audit, Decertification Where Appropriate, and Possible Convening of the US House of Representatives pic.twitter.com/A6EztSR2L1
As National File Senior Reporter Patrick Howley reported on September 28, the number of voters in the 2020 Presidential election in Maricopa County, Arizona “with no record” of their existence far outnumbers the margin of “victory” that Joe Biden supposedly achieved last year, thus putting immense pressure on Arizona Senate President Karen Fann to take action and move to decertify the results of the 2020 election, as the true results of the 2020 political contest appear to be unknown.
“All voters within the Final Voted File, or VM55, was cross-checked against a commercially available data source provided by Melissa called Personator and 86,391 individuals were found with no record in the database for either their name, or anyone with the same last name at the address in the VM55 file,” according to page 56 of the report entitled “Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit: Volume III: Result Details.”
However, constitutional experts across America have indicated that decertification would be sound legal recourse for a corrupted election after-the-fact.
“We are in uncharted territory, but there are a couple of things to point to,” began Eastman. “We can point to the Hawaii Election of 1960, when the Governor subsequently certified another slate of electors after they discovered error in the initial certification.”
“We can point to Section 2 of Title 3 of the United States Code that says when a state has had an election, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, which is, you know, the choice that was made. The assumption was that it was fraudulently given because of illegal votes. The electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such manner as the legislature of such state may direct,” Eastman continued. “So that recognizes the authority of the Legislature to fix a problem.”
“We also have a backdrop of Common Law, which is, when you have a fraud, the actions taken pursuant to the fraud, are unraveled after discovery of the fraud. If the evidence really does come in as definitive, that the election and the electorals cast from Arizona were fraudulently given, and they should have been given in the other direction, then I think there is ample authority to fix this problem,” Eastman said. “We don’t have to live with a fraudulent election.”
The first demand letter to Maricopa County was sent from the Arizona Attorney General’s office asking for multiple documents relating to the election, in what appears to be the start of the investigation from the recently created Elections Integrity Unit following the Arizona audit report being released to the Arizona Senate, National File reported. The evidence included in the AG office’s request includes:
Hard copies of all documents and other electronically stored information.
Electronic communications, including emails and the devices used for messaging.
Electronic data from computers, election systems, spreadsheets and databases, among others.
Telephone logs and network access information.
All the equipment used in the election, such as voting machines.
All physical records, including ballots and voter registration forms.
All video footage from Maricopa County’s election center.
Access records for all buildings maintained by the county during the election.
Pennsylvania Democrat Christopher M. Rabb sent out a memorandum to all House members regarding his legislation that will enforce reproductive responsibility among men. The bill will force men to undergo vasectomies within 6 weeks from having their third child or their 40th birthday, whichever comes first.
This legislation includes a $10,000 reward to whoever snitches to the proper authority on those who have failed to submit to forced sterilization within the allotted time.
This bill will also include legal actions for unwanted pregnancies against inseminators who wrongfully conceive a child with them.
“As long as state legislatures continue to restrict the reproductive rights of cis women, trans men, and non-binary people, there should be laws that address the responsibility of men who impregnate them. Thus, my bill will also codify “wrongful conception” to include when a person has demonstrated negligence toward preventing conception during intercourse,” Rabb stated in his memorandum.
PA State Rep. David Rowe posted on his Facebook account regarding this horrendous bill:If there was any doubt that today’s progressive left have utterly and completely disregarded your personal medical freedom, then let this be the nail in the coffin.
A legislator from Philadelphia has just introduced legislation that would limit how many children your family could have, dictate what age you could have a family, and would issue a TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE for refusing to submit to forced sterilization after having three children. As a fourth-born child myself, I would have never existed under this law and neither would so many others.This bill will never see the light of day as long as Republicans control the House, but I wanted you all to be aware how quickly policies that belong in Communist China would become the norm here if Democrats seized total control of State Government.The left is pushing to make America a godless, communist country like their big boss China. This is utterly sickening population control and they do this while illegal immigrants and refugees are flooding across the open borders.You can read the memorandum here:
The only hope for suffering people is the witness of the church — the people who believe truth is still worth dying for.
Christians in the United States and around the world are experiencing intensified challenges to the free exercise of our Christian faith. Communities of believers from Kentucky to Minnesota and Virginia to California have faced open and unapologetic hostility from state and local government leaders for the past year and a half.
Radical anti-Christian, anti-family ideology is crammed down children’s throats in elementary school. Christians are targeted in court for refusing to celebrate transgender disfigurement, and Catholic churches over the summer sustained vandalism and arson.
Meanwhile, we’ve watched in anger and disgust at the consequences of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, where up to 12,000 Afghan Christians are now hiding from an army of Taliban warriors. There, women and children are living a hellish deja vu.
In July, the Taliban reportedly orderedimams and mullahs in captured areas to “provide a list of girls over 15 and widows under 45” to become forced wives for their Taliban fighters. Weeks before that, a bombing at a girls’ school in Kabul killed 85 children.
Around the globe, we are witnessing persecution we should have seen coming. As Jesus warned his early followers, Christians should expect to be hated by the world. Even when that persecution doesn’t begin with imprisonment, torture, and death, it can start subtly, such as with government telling believers when, where, and how they can worship.
We’ve witnessed in recent months an escalation of political harassment, confusing and irrational government action, and threats of violence. Christians have been mocked, ridiculed, lied about, and harassed. Yet, just as he promised, God has repeatedly opened doors for his disciples that no man can close — no mayor or city council, no governor or state legislature, no president or Congress of the United States.
When the state of California and the city of Los Angeles tried to shut down Grace Community Church last year, they failed. Just a month ago, the church won a major legal battle and a settlement from the civic authorities. In the District of Columbia, Capitol Hill Baptist Church won a settlement in a lawsuit to preserve their constitutional right to gather and worship.
Parents are stepping up to fight school-sanctioned attacks on their children’s beliefs. Brave artisans like Jack Phillips are refusing to be cowed by repeated threats and attacks. And many believers are holding on tighter than ever to the tenets of traditional Christianity to forge a path forward.
Believers are resisting new regimes of anti-Christian ordinances how and where they can. And in places like Afghanistan where they have been forced to flee or hide, Christians are already hoping and preparing to resume their ministries.
Why? Because persecution has never been a call for the church to retreat. Instead, persecution is a call to remain faithful and shine the light of the truth in the darkest parts of the earth. That’s why people of faith, in every profession and walk of life, are giving themselves to the cause of life, truth, and peace around the world.
Why are they willing to put everything on the line? It is because the only hope for suffering people is the witness of the church — the people who believe truth is still worth dying for.
Over the past 18 months, I’ve had many occasions to explain why I’ve chosen to defy civil authorities and lead hundreds of thousands of believers in public worship amid lockdowns. We’ve held “worship protests” around the country, pushing back against government restrictions on Christian fellowship.
There have been those who’ve told us we are being “un-Christian” by insisting on our right to worship God in public. Some have even suggested we are endangering lives, or that we are somehow morally culpable for COVID infection rates.
But we have a choice every day. We can either live by faith, or die by fear.
That choice becomes very easy when I put my life in the broader context of the global Christian church. How can I surrender my faith here when they refuse to surrender it there? When our brothers and sisters around the world are facing a martyr’s death just for walking out of their homes, how can we just sit at home and watch it happen on TV?
We cannot remain silent. That option is not viable for God’s people because we know that a living faith requires moving feet. It requires action, determination, and resolve.
We do not wait for the permission of earthly rulers before we obey our Heavenly King. By our steadfast love for Christ and his church, we say to our brothers and sisters around the globe, in Afghanistan and everywhere else: we are one in solidarity with you.
In that unity of purpose and calling, we fulfill the final prayers of our Lord, when he prayed that his disciples — that we here and now and everywhere on the earth — might be one. And in that oneness, we truly find what it means to be “blessed” amid the harshest persecution, just as Jesus promised.
