Republicans should refuse to participate in Democrat hit job

Fairfax, Va. – House Democrats are demanding Republicans strip freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her two committee assignments unless she denounces QAnon and apologizes publicly for backing conspiracy theories and supporting calls for violence against Democrats.

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in response:

“Americans for Limited Government denounces all calls for political violence, whether from the left or the right. When Rep. Maxine Waters and other Democrats called for physical violence against Trump supporters, Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave them a pass. But of course there is always a double standard when it comes to Republicans. Pelosi, who famously praised union radicals who occupied and took over the Wisconsin Capitol for more than a week, now has the audacity to try to intimidate GOP leaders into agreeing to strip freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.

“GOP leaders need to be strong on this and not heel to the Nazi-like demands of the left. For GOP leadership to scramble in fear of Pelosi is a sign that they learned nothing from Donald Trump. When the swamp tries to take you down, you stand and fight.”

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Will compliant press go along with White House scheme to limit free press?

Fairfax, Va. – The Biden White House communications team has requested that reporters submit their questions in writing prior to the daily White House briefings. This is an authoritarian attempt to control the press. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to the development:

“The only surprising thing about the Biden press team requesting that reporters share their questions in advance of briefings is that Biden staffers are not pre-writing the questions for reporters!  The stunning inability of the White House talking head to answer simple questions in the early part of the administration, while things are relatively less complicated, is matched only by the audacity of Joe Biden’s virtually invisible presidential campaign.

“I am confident that once the White House Press office has their scripts in the hands of the compliant press corps that things will go much more smoothly in briefings.”

“While it’s a relief to see briefings return…the press can't really do its job in the briefing room if the White House is picking and choosing the questions they want,” one White House correspondent said. “That's not really a free press at all.” https://t.co/wmssZcJQuZ

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 2, 2021

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This is about defending liberty and stopping an unconstitutional impeachment that lacks due process, evidence and threatens the freedom of speech of all Americans!

If the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was pre-planned then it couldn’t have been incited by former President Donald Trump’s speech, who on Jan. 6 called for protesters to be peaceful: “We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

The more we learn about the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 following the Save America Rally that coincided with objections being raised in Congress to the results of the Electoral College and the certification of President-elect Joe Biden, the more evidence emerges it was pre-planned by multiple groups on the who targeted the rally, the Capitol and even the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters.

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Specifically, Steven D’Antuono, the head of the FBI field office in Washington, D.C. told reporters on Jan. 12 that “We developed some intelligence that a number of individuals were planning to travel to the D.C. area with intentions to cause violence,” including a post on a message board that stated “Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in…” In addition, in Washington, D.C. pipe bombs were planted at both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). According to D’Antuono, “those two pipe bombs that were found, were found both outside the RNC and the DNC offices near the Capitol grounds and look to begin, they were real devices. They had explosive igniters. They had timers.”

So, right off the bat, the FBI had intelligence ahead of time that violence was pre-planned targeting the rally, including bombs being planted. Meaning, no matter what former President Trump said at the rally, there would have been violence at the Capitol. Whoever attacked police that day and pre-planned this attack should be the ones who are held accountable — not Trump and not the 74 million Americans who voted for him!

You know what to do! Urge the U.S. Senate to immediately dismiss this impeachment against former President Donald Trump! It’s not even constitutional to have a trial against a former president, and Congress cannot falsely turn a speech calling for peaceful protest protected by the First Amendment into a crime.

There is no question this was a planned attack. Journalist Glenn Greenwald on Twitter reported that planning was not isolated to a single website, noting in a tweet on Jan. 11, “Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook.”

In his own report on Substack.com, criticizing the deplatforming of Parler by Amazon, Apple and Google, Greenwald noted, “It is true that one can find postings on Parler that explicitly advocate violence or are otherwise grotesque. But that is even more true of Facebook, Google-owned YouTube, and Twitter. And contrary to what many have been led to believe, Parler’s Terms of Service includes a ban on explicit advocacy of violence, and they employ a team of paid, trained moderators who delete such postings. Those deletions do not happen perfectly or instantaneously — which is why one can find postings that violate those rules — but the same is true of every major Silicon Valley platform. Indeed, a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler. The Capitol breach was planned far more on Facebook and YouTube.”

Subsequent Justice Department filings bear this out, with violent members of the crowd planning the Capitol breach as early as Jan. 1 on Facebook.

This is about defending liberty and stopping an unconstitutional impeachment that lacks due process, evidence and threatens the freedom of speech of all Americans! Tell the U.S. Senate you’ve had enough. The voices of the many must not be silenced because of the actions of the few.

This slap on the wrist for doctoring evidence is outrageous.

Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting a sentencing deal of merely one year probation for ex-FBI official Kevin Clinesmith for doctoring an email to make it appear Carter Page was a Russian agent when he was actually cooperating with the U.S. government in an investigation of Russian intelligence officials. This was done to keep the false Trump-Russia probe going in 2017:

“This slap on the wrist for doctoring evidence is outrageous. It sends a clear message to Justice Department employees that they can fundamentally alter documents in an attempt to destroy a presidency with a prolonged investigation based on a false pretenses with almost zero repercussions.

“It is almost impossible for the incoming Biden administration to not receive the message that anything and everything goes when it comes to investigating their political opponents, and then if exposed, no one will be held accountable. If President Biden wants unity and to prove to America that we don’t have a two-tiered justice system, then he must allow Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation to move ahead unfettered regardless of who ends up in jail.”

Attachments:

“Will Joe Biden allow Special Counsel John Durham to finish his job and get to the bottom of Spygate?” By Robert Romano, Jan. 19, 2021 at https://dailytorch.com/2021/01/will-joe-biden-allow-special-counsel-john-durham-to-finish-his-job-and-get-to-the-bottom-of-spygate/

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Biden longs for good ole days when region was on fire

Fairfax, Va. – The Biden administration has imposed a temporary freeze on U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it reviews billions of dollars in weapons transactions approved by former President Donald Trump. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to the development:

“Joe Biden’s antiquated view of Middle East foreign policy is not only wrong, but it is now dangerous.  His decision to freeze arms sales to both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia shows a profound disrespect for President Trump’s historic peace deals between Israel and four Muslim countries with historic animosity towards the Jewish state. It may even lead to an unraveling of the current peace.

“The actions of the current occupant of the Oval Office are evidence that he has zero grasp of the current situation on the ground and longs for the bad ole days when the region was on fire and the U.S. government funded terrorism through the pallets of cash his administration sent to Iran in exchange for a deal which guaranteed the Ayatollah a pathway to nuclear weapons.

“I pray that someone wakes up to this gigantic mistake and corrects it before the region devolves into the chaos that existed when Biden was last entrusted with power.”

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Within days of Biden Inauguration, Coronavirus seems less threatening

Fairfax, Va. -Within days of President Joe Biden taking office, mainstream media outlets and Democrat politicians are singing a different tune about the Coronavirus. National Public Radio headlined a dire story on January 19, “As Death Rate Accelerates, U.S. records 400,000 lives lost to Coronavirus.” Two days later, they headlined a story,“Current Deadly Coronavirus Surge has Peaked, Researchers Say.”

In a similar change in attitude, politicians on the Left are now eager to reopen the economy and end the lockdowns. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to the turnaround.

“Wow.  Amazing, it is a miracle. What could have happened on January 20^th to change the media perspective on the Coronavirus so completely?  It is a mystery, but it clearly was miraculous.  But not nearly as miraculous as the decisions by New York Andrew Cuomo, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and now California Governor Gavin Newsom’s declaration that we have ‘turned a corner’ on the virus. All are either opening or encouraging the opening of their respective jurisdictions.  Clearly, reopening their economies will boost GDP and lower unemployment as people get back to work.

“What is stunning is the callousness of these Democrat politicians. It appears they were more concerned with crippling the Trump economy than they were with public safety.  Here is the truth.  Texas and California have roughly the same outcomes as each other, even as one has had a relatively open policy and the other has been engaged in draconian shutdowns.  Also, New York’s outcomes are significantly worse than Florida’s in spite of the Sunshine state being virtually entirely open with an emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable, while New York shut everything down making it so you practically needed a VISA to visit loved ones in the Empire state.

“Even a World Health Organization official urged that lockdowns only be used to regroup and reorganize rather than as a primary tool against the virus. Yet, Newsom and Cuomo continued punishing the people of their respective states with ill-advised, anti-science lockdowns until President Trump was clearly out of the way.  After all, ‘Orange Man Bad and must be demonized’ is the doctrine that the left worships at. The governors did everything they could to kill jobs while The Donald was in the White House with no thought whatsoever to the havoc they wreaked on the people in their states.

“Now these ‘leaders’ will want Congress to give them billions to make up for lost revenues due to their imprudent and unscientific lockdowns, and the Senate must tell them not only no, but Heck NO!”

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Jan. 21, 2021, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest Covid vaccine distribution figures:

“The Biden administration would be better suited to making official statements, holding public press briefings and providing real data to the American people rather than speaking through anonymous sources to CNN to score political points, which is beneath the White House when thousands of people are still dying every day.  With 17.5 million total doses have already been administered according to the CDC all the current occupants of the Oval Office need to do to get to their proclaimed 100 million Covid vaccine doses in 100 days goal is maintain the same pace of roughly 850,000 vaccinations a day that were already occurring daily when President Trump left office on Jan. 20.

“We support efforts to get the vaccine to as many Americans who want it as possible so the nation can finally put the Covid pandemic behind us, which, thanks to Operation Warp Speed by the Trump administration and innovative pharmaceutical companies, in 2021 we are in a position to do precisely that no matter who sits in the White House. The federal plan was always to purchase and manufacture millions of doses before final approval by the FDA occurred, and that is exactly what has occurred with distribution ramping up daily and millions of doses already administered. The Biden administration should build on that and credit the Trump administration for making reaching their meager goal a slam dunk.”

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