California Introduces Stop Nick Shirley Act

Nick Shirley is a genuine journalist, in stark contrast to the incurious propagandists comprising the liberal establishment media. To learn what would happen to genuine journalists were Democrats to consolidate power, look to places where leftism has prevailed, like China, Cuba — or California.

California State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio sounds the alarm:

DeMaio is slamming state Democrats for voting to advance a controversial new law (AB 2624) to silence citizen journalists and shield taxpayer-funded organizations from public scrutiny.

What DeMaio calls the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” Democrats bleat is all about protecting the put-upon colonists they have imported from the Third World to displace American voters:

AB 2624 claims to be about protecting immigrant organizations from “threats of violence,” when in fact the legislation would apply to any left-wing group that claims to provide any services to legal or illegal immigrants. For example, under AB 2624 entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would all be covered if they operated inside California.

These phony daycare centers set up to facilitate the massive fraud permitted by Democrats like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were famously exposed by Shirley.

AB 2624 would allow activists and taxpayer-funded organizations to demand the removal of video evidence — even if it captures misconduct in plain view — and threatens journalists with massive financial penalties.

Again we see that the Democratic Party is the party of crime. As DeMaio puts it,

“If this bill becomes law, the message is clear to every journalist in California: expose corruption and you will be punished.”

It is no surprise that the Democrats who dominate California want to shut Shirley down. If he is as successful unmasking fraud there as he has been in Minnesota, it will make clinging to power more difficult.

On tips from seaoh and abcanc.

Canada Moves Toward Criminalizing Bible

For an idea of what awaits Americans if Democrats consolidate power, look to the north, where Canada is moving toward criminalization of the Holy Bible as “hate speech.”

Via Fox News:

Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, introduced by Canadian Liberal Justice Minister Sean Fraser, passed the House of Commons on March 25 and now heads to the Senate. The measure would expand Canada’s hate speech laws, create a new hate-crime offense and add penalties for intimidating or blocking people from accessing houses of worship, cultural spaces, schools, senior residences and cemeteries.

The last part is probably not meant to be enforced. Similar window dressing was applied to a US law intended to criminalize opposition to abortion. The FACE Act was for justifying SWAT raids against people like Mark Houck, even if it was turned around and applied against Don Lemon’s gang of leftist thugs after they stormed and terrorized a church.

The sharpest criticism of the bill focuses on its repeal of a long-standing defense for religious speech in some criminal hate speech cases.

Conservative MP Andrew Lawton observes that it is…

“…incredibly concerning when a Liberal cabinet minister says that certain verses of Scripture are so inherently hateful that prosecutors should be able to press charges against those who quote them.”

On the other side of the aisle,

During a House justice committee hearing last October, Liberal Party MP Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, suggested certain passages from the Bible were inherently hateful toward homosexuals and questioned the Criminal Code’s initial carve out for religious statements made in “good faith.”

The sin of homosexual behavior is condemned in the strongest terms throughout the Bible.

Although the bill is anti-Christian, it is not anti-religious. In the liberal religion, homosexual depravity is sacred. The bill serves to uphold it.

On tips from abcanc and Franco.

Spain Cracks Down on Free Speech as Migrants Run Riot

Countries that are hostile to the USA tend also to be hostile free speech. Spain as it succumbs to leftism is a case in point.

Via Modernity:

Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld prison sentences for seven individuals over Facebook comments criticizing unaccompanied foreign minors in the border enclave of Melilla, marking a chilling escalation in the far-left government’s war on free speech amid skyrocketing migrant-related crime.

Sentences for supposedly promoting hostility toward mostly North African colonists range from 8 months to 1 year 10 months.

This fits with socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s campaign to undo the Reconquista so that Spain can be reabsorbed into the Muslim world in the name of moonbattery.

Just months ago, Alex Soros heaped praise on Sánchez for granting amnesty to up to 500,000 illegal migrants via royal decree, bypassing parliament entirely. …

Meanwhile, the regime has threatened to “limit and likely ban” X entirely, joining the EU’s broader crackdown on platforms that allow unfiltered discourse.

Also meanwhile,

A new study shows foreigners commit five times more rapes and four times more murders per capita than Spaniards, with penetrative rape cases exploding 143% in five years to over 5,200 in 2024.

Consider a colonist from Senegal who raped a 14-year-old girl.

He received a two-year suspended sentence, 60 days of community service, and a €7,500 fine—far lighter than the prison terms handed to these Facebook commenters for mere words.

It’s not as if there is no freedom left in Spain. In addition to the liberty of migrants to rape the native population with virtual impunity, the regime offers freedom to have sex with animals. Catholics may be forbidden to pray the rosary in public, but pedophiles are allowed to hold parades featuring children in adult erotic clothing.

On a tip from abcanc.

Bad Penny James Boasberg Turns Up Yet Again

When irresponsible activist judges abuse their power, they need to be removed from the bench. Otherwise, they will continue to inflict damage on the country.

Obama appointee James Boasberg demanded the immediate return of illegal alien gang members who had been deported. He released a maniac who threatened to kill the president. More recently, he has explicitly demanded that taxpayers be forced to finance the return of illegal alien Tren de Aragua thugs to the USA.

Now we read this, via Reclaim the Net:

On February 4th, Chief Judge James Boasberg ruled that the [FBI] can keep secret the precise amounts it paid Twitter between 2016 and 2023 for complying with legal process requests.

Transparency is not on the agenda.

The payments totaled at least $3.4 million between October 2019 and February 2021 alone. That figure emerged from the Twitter Files released in December 2022.

Officially, the payments were reimbursements for the cost of complying with subpoenas, search warrants, et cetera. Looks like some reimbursements were for helping to suppress countermoonbattery and tip the election to Biden.

During the period leading up to the 2020 election, the FBI’s Elvis Chan and colleagues were holding weekly meetings with Twitter staff about “misinformation.” They were flagging accounts. They were flagging content. And they were being reimbursed for the legal paperwork that accompanied all of it.

The Deep State has deep pockets.

The FBI was not simply investigating criminals during this period. It was meeting weekly with a private company’s content moderation team, flagging accounts of vaccine skeptics, lab-leak researchers, people who questioned the 2020 election, and journalists covering Hunter Biden.

If vengeful Democrats regain power, expect the FBI to be weaponized against us as never before. Apparatchiks like Boasberg will help snuff out pushback.

On a tip from RoCar.

Canada School Bans Classic Books in Name of Inclusion

To learn which books liberals will suppress first if they consolidate power, look to the books they have already banned in the schools they control.

Juno News reports from Canada:

A London, Ontario, secondary school binned more than 10,000 library books between January and March this year under the Thames Valley District School Board’s “inclusive libraries revitalization project,” eliminating more than half of the school’s 18,000-book collection.

Calling the exclusion of books liberals find ideologically threatening “inclusive” is classically Orwellian. So it figures that 1984 and Animal Farm are among the banned books.

Other “deselected” works include…

…Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Literary classics such as Hamlet, Macbeth and To Kill a Mockingbird were also removed, along with Wuthering Heights and multiple Harry Potter novels.

Harry Potter books are thoughtcrime because their author does not believe that men can be women.

Removed titles included Canadian political biographies, such as those of John A. Macdonald, Cold War history books, and social commentary on residential schools, religion, family violence and sexuality.

Macdonald was Canada’s first Prime Minister — or at least, he was until he gets erased.

Also banned are “titles on book bans.”

Purges like this have happened before in Ontario:

In 2023, the Peel District School Board was exposed for removing all books published before 2008 as part of its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

It is not hard to imagine liberals banning all books published before 2008 for everyone. Authors may have been racist and transphobic in the benighted past.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Pope Leo Defends Free Speech From Thought Police

Pope Leo has raised red flags regarding Marxist moonbattery and LGBTism, but he shows encouraging support for free speech.

The Blaze reports:

“It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking,” the pope said. “At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.”

The Thought Police aren’t going to like his failure to embrace the Newspeak Dictionary.

The 70-year-old explained that the inclusivity paradox leads to other consequences, such as the restriction of human rights, including “freedom of conscience.”

Suppressing freedom of conscience via control of language is the point of postmodern moonbattery.

On a tip from Varla.

Speaking Well of ICE in Minnesota High School Could Result in Suspension

In moonbat-ruled Minnesota, speaking positively about the heroes who defend our country from foreign invasion is not just frowned upon — it is forbidden.

Via Post Millennial:

Edina High School principal Paul Paetzel informed parents in an email that the school would impose discipline for language in support of ICE.

Edina is a suburb of the Somalian colony Minneapolis.

The email proclaims that “referencing ICE in ways that cause fear or humiliation is a serious offense.” To cause “fear or humiliation” is to be viewed as offensive by foreign invaders who are championed by Democrats for demographic reasons.

Proclaims Paetzel:

“If this type of behavior occurs, we will honor the discipline policy and move forward with consequences up to and including suspension.”

Good thing they don’t have gulags yet in Minnesota or students who have anything nice to say about ICE would really be in trouble.

Imagine what these kids are being taught in class regarding their nation’s right to preserve itself.

For context:

On Friday, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin announced that ICE had carried out more than 400 arrests since the start of Operation Metro Surge, which included “pedophiles, rapists, and violent thugs.”

No one needs to wonder whose side liberal authorities are on.

As McLaughlin observes,

“Tim Walz and Jacob Frey failed to protect the people of Minnesota. They let these monsters and child predators roam free. Thanks to our brave law enforcement, Minnesota is safer with these thugs off their streets. Instead of thanking our law enforcement for removing criminals from their communities, Tim Walz and Jacob Frey continue to demonize our brave law enforcement.”

To dispute this demonization is thoughtcrime.

On a tip from RoCar.