[UPDATE, found this quote regarding Krebs' testimony supporting HB 1072: “As South Dakotans, we value our Second Amendment rights,” Krebs said, “I support our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and to further individual South Dakotan’s Second Amendment rights.”]
Yesterday I received an email at 3:13PM from a reader pointing out that Shantel Krebs supported Constitutional Carry. I checked the House State Affairs minutes and confirmed that:
HB 1072: repeal and revise certain provisions relating to permits to carry a concealed pistol.
Presented by: Representative DiSanto (Handouts: #1) Proponents: Daniel Hall, National Rifle Association of America Dudley Brown, Windsor, Colorado, self Shantel Krebs, Secretary of State Opponents: Matt Konenkamp, Governor's Office Paul Bachand, SD States Attorneys Association Tim Doyle, South Dakota Fraternal Order of Police Mike Leidtholt, Pierre, self Staci Ackerman, South Dakota Sheriff's Association Lori Martinec, SD Police Chiefs' Association (Handouts: #2)
So where does Dusty Johnson stand on the issue? Does he support the governor, who has over a million dollars in campaign funds that would come in handy? The Mitchell paper reported on the governor's endorsement of Johnson, but did not mention that the governor was retiring from politics, and therefore has no need to use his campaign funds for his own campaign. (And did the legislature ever do something about campaign funds being used for personal reasons?)
After winning re-election in 2010, I prepared to serve another six-year term on the Commission. Governor Daugaard had other plans, however. The week after the election, facing a $127 million deficit, he asked me to serve as his chief of staff, overseeing much of state government.
I have known for awhile that Dusty is a faux conservative. Here is more detail on why the $127 million deficit is a huge piece of liberal propaganda:
Sad that the Argus Leader, the Mitchell Daily Republic, and the Aberdeen News continue to repeat the Daugaard propaganda that there is a $127 million budget deficitdue to the supposedly ongoing recession. If you look at page 19 of the Governor's budget summary who will see that General fund revenue projections for FY2012 are going up from FY2010. Sales tax receipts were $652,115,527 in 2010, and are expected to increases nearly 9% to $709,340,328. That is a $57 million increases in sales tax revenues, which means the recession is over. National GDP numbers confirm that point.
The FY2010 revenue from continuing receipts (excludes one-time receipts) was $1,109,795,746 for the General Fund. Actual FY2010 General Fund spending was $1,121,828,785. So the structural deficit in FY2010 was only $12 million, not even close to the $127 million figure everyone (politicians and their media cohorrs) is repeating to South Dakotans. Those same ongoing revenues are expected to be $1,165,243,298 for FY2012, up $60 million from 2010. As noted before, spending is going down $2 million in the FY2012 budget versus actual FY2010 spending at $1,119.988.080. So the FY2012 budget has a $45 million surplus (1.165 billion less 1.120 billion) Therefore, we can increase the FY2012 budget $45 million before we begin to create a structural deficit.
Q. What caused the $127 million structural deficit?
A. State government ran deficits most of the eight years that the previous governor, Mike Rounds, was in office. These were covered at first by budgeting maneuvers. Legislators repeatedly succumbed to pressure by public school lobbyists for extra money in various forms while Rounds was governor.
The deficit problem's roots can be found in several circumstances. There was the repeal of the inheritance tax by voters in 2000, the post 9/11 recession and the loss of much of the gold-mining industry in the Black Hills. The structural deficit then mushroomed as the recession took grip in 2009. State sales tax revenue, for example, actually went backward in 2010.
But as the numbers show, the 2012 estimates on sales tax shows a huge 9% rebound, there is no $127 million structural deficit (in fact we have a huge surplus), and the federal government continues to poor 100s of millions of extra dollars we never had before the recession (a recession that is now over and has been for a while). Not sure why Bob Mercer continues to carry water for the tax and spend liberals of the SDGOP.
We now know that the recession was over, and the tax and spends liberals increased the state General Fund by nearly $400 million. And they are currently whining about how that is still not enough money to hand out to special interests.
And I also suspect Dusty Johnson is also carrying water for the tax and spend liberals of the SDGOP. I gave Dusty Johnson's office a copy of my budget analysis back in 2011, and I never got a response. I guess he may have been still upset for being called a faux conservative. But Dusty is a polished politician who can fool people into believing he is something that he is not. That is why the wealthy special interests will give him money.
Pat Powers criticizes the South Dakota Gun Owners' for holding an elected official accountable to his constituents for not upholding his oath of office regarding constitutional carry:
The Gun Owners group is going after long-time Sheriff Mike Leidholt, and leafletting homes in the Pierre area with a message that they call his office, and demand that he apologize for his position.
It’s a dumb move, as I don’t think Mike has been challenged for the last few elections, so they’re not going to pressure him that way. And when I was in the Secretary of State’s office way back when, Leidholt was actually at the forefront of working to improve South Dakota’s archaic pistol permitting system as part of the Sheriff’s group.
For every 10 people in Hughes County who support Constitutional Carry:
3 people will call Sheriff Mike. 7 people will change their mind because they trust Sheriff Mike’s judgement.
So we should not be surprised the a liberal Republicans would use a tactic from their corrupt crony capitalism that prevents those elected officials that are "popular" from any kind of accountability for their actions during the legislative process in Pierre.
Here is Cory Heidelberger's reaction:
The SDGOP spin blog and I agree that the gun radicals who lobby under the banner “South Dakota Gun Owners” go too far with their propaganda flyers against any and all perceived enemies of their guns-everywhere policies. Spinster Powers features SDGO’s latest leaflet littering Pierre homes telling citizens that Sheriff Mike Leidholt is anti-gun, just because he testified against House Bill 1072, the plan on the Governor’s desk to repeal the requirement to get a permit to carry a concealed pistol.
The Orange flyer also suggests that Sheriff Leidholt slaps women:
Excerpt from SDGO flyer, anonymous photographer, posted on Dakota War College 2017.03.10.
Never mind that, as a law-enforcement expert, Sheriff Leidholt understands better than anyone the implications of deregulating concealed weapons. Never mind that there’s a good argument that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to sneak around with a firearm hidden in your pants. Oppose gun absolutism (remember, SDGO calls itself “South Dakota’s only no-compromise gun rights organization,” which means they can justify any tactics in the cause they imagine to be inviolable), andSDGO will craft its words to tell your neighbors that you “want to slap a woman….”
First has not standing to go after the SDGO how it "will craft its words" after his post last week that said Representative Noem got naked during a committee hearing. Second, he joins in with Pat Powers' cronyism by calling the sheriff "a law-enforcement expert". And third, his link regarding the Constitution is from the most liberal court in the United States:
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that people do not have a Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons in public, in a sweeping decision likely to be challenged by gun-rights advocates.
An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the 7-4 ruling, upholding a state law requiring applicants to show "good cause," such as a fear of personal safety, to carry a concealed firearm.
And Cory's link also said:
Critics have long charged that the 9th Circuit has a history of liberal-leaning decisions. Thursday's ruling overturns a 2014 ruling by a smaller panel, and resulted from a case in which a sheriff in San Diego County required applicants to show supporting documents, such as restraining orders against attackers, in order to get a permit.
Celebrities who fear for their safety and those who routinely carry large amounts of cash were often given permits.
Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, dissenting in Thursday's ruling, said the restrictions were tantamount to an infringement of the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
“In the context of present-day California law, the Defendant counties’ limited licensing of the right to carry concealed firearms is tantamount to a total ban on the right of an ordinary citizen to carry a firearm in public for self-defense,” Callahan wrote.
“Because the majority eviscerates the Second Amendment right of individuals to keep and bear arms as defined by Heller and reaffirmed in McDonald, I respectfully dissent,” Callahan said.
Gun rights groups blasted the decision.
So Cory's position is based on liberal California, but this is what elected officials in South Dakota is suppose to support if they are serious about upholding their oath of office:
Article VI, Section 24 of the Constitution of South Dakota provides that “[t]he right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be denied.”
Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he will again reject permitless carry legislation if it reaches his desk as a House bill to bring constitutional carry to the state is set for hearings this week.
Daugaard, who shot down similar legislation before, feels HB 1072 is bad legislation that is not needed due to the what he describes as the state’s minimal and effective permitting system.
“House Bill 1072 would eliminate the permit requirement in order to carry a concealed weapon,” wrote Daugaard in an op-ed published by the Rapid City Journal. “Under this bill, the vetting process would be removed. Individuals with a proven history of violence or substance abuse and those who have been identified as a danger to the public or to themselves could not be restricted from carrying a firearm.”
The vetting process doesn't stop criminals from including guns with their criminal activities. South Dakota's current concealed carry laws has not prevented law enforcement from being more at risk today than they ever had in the past, because the current conceal carry law is not keeping guns out of the hands of "[i]ndividuals with a proven history of violence or substance abuse :
The 'war on drugs' is a phrase coined back in the early 1970's. Unfortunately, that battle continues today and it's become an even a bigger and more violent fight.
Meth, opiods and heroin; three drugs which law enforcement officials say have seen a dramatic increase in use over the last few years.
Governor Dennis Daugaard even went so far as to call it an "epidemic" in South Dakota.
Yet Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead says the pictures of drug busts like these, which are provided to the media, don't tell the whole story.
"I've never been more concerned for the safety of my deputies and the officers on the drug task force than I am today," Milstead said.
He's referring to a growing number of people involved in the drug scene who are carrying guns. In all of his years in law enforcement, Milstead has never seen it this bad.
How many of those people have concealed carry permits? Those who trust Sherrif Liedholt's judgment, including Cory Heidelberger, need to think again. Law enforcement are more at risk because the criminals know who they are as they openly carry their firearms. Law abiding citizens have constitutional rights to defend themselves from these criminals, and they don't need barriers such as concealed carry permits laws. Due to Daugaard's prison reform agenda, a convicted drug felon was out on parole, forced his girlfriend out on her balcony naked, and dry fired a shotgun at her head just to teach her a lesson. Daugaard's liberal policies are causing more problems than they are solving, and now he wants to say to the citizens that they need to ask their Sherriff for the right to defend themselves from those problems? Sounds like something we would hear coming out of liberal California.
Early in the 18-hour hearing, South Dakota’s lone Congresswoman, Kristi Noem, tweeted a picture of her fancy cowboy boots beneath her Ways and Means desk. I retweeted, asking what percentage of a monthly health insurance premium those boots could pay for. I received no reply, and Noem subsequently took her boots off Twitter.
As I showed yesterday, it was the New York Times who made the wiretapping allegation back in January. I tried to add that comment to his web site, but I am still banned. So much for his claim of being a function of "free press". His main priority is drawing attention to himself, as evidenced by this attempt to go south in order to attract attention.
So Cory's approach for Democrats to get ahead is to personally trash those Republicans who are currently in office with accusations that are half baked at best. Very sad that he resorted to using his perverted misogynist side, but what should you expect from an atheist.
To fabricate wild claims and then demand investigations of those wild claims is a gross abuse of Presidential power. It also demonstrates Donald Trump’s failure to recognize his obligation to protect American credibility around the world by adhering to strict rules of evidence and fact-checking before opening his mouth.
So did Obama pull a Watergate? We don't know, and if the wiretap was illegal he would use the tactic of "plausible deniability" that President Reagan used on Iran-Contra. But to call Trumps claims baseless is premature at this point in time. Like the establishment media, Heidelberger wants to find fault with Trump. And Cory will never admit when he is wrong, because that would mean his credibility would be in question. Perhaps that is reason number one he has banned me from his web site.
When this story first broke I thought it only makes sense for Obama to have had wiretapped Trump's campaign, unless Obama's allegations that the Trump campaign collaborated with the Russians is a false. So far they have not produced the smoking gun. The only reason people believe it to be true is because the establishment media keeps repeating it as if it was fact. Time to do a little critical thinking.
Mr. Manafort is among at least three Trump campaign advisers whose possible links to Russia are under scrutiny. Two others are Carter Page, a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the campaign, and Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative.
The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.
So it was the New York Times that started the wiretapping allegations, not Trump. Trump only repeated what was reported. The NYT even used the "W" word back in January:
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Page expressed bewilderment about why he might be under investigation. He blamed a smear campaign — that he said was orchestrated by Mrs. Clinton — for media speculation about the nature of his ties to Russia.
“I did nothing wrong, for the 5,000th time,” he said. His adversaries, he added, are “pulling a page out of the Watergate playbook.”
Only I do not believe there are any recorded conversations from Obama ordering the wiretaps. As I said yesterday, "plausible deniability" will be the tactic. But, the wiretap allegations are not fantasies of Trump, but what was reported by the NYT several weeks ago.
So now the Cory Heidelberger and the establishment press has egg on their face, will there be any apologies to the President and the American people. As I said before, I doubt Cory will admit being because his hatred for the President is very strong. He said this today in celebrating the Republican lead South Senate to reject SJR 15 that commemorated the President with this statement:
Celebrate freedom, but try to limit the exercise of freedom of speech and press—such is the understanding of freedom of Trumpists like Tapio.
For Cory, freedom of speech and press means blocking those comments that point out that he is making false allegations on a public web site, so he doesn't have to admit to being wrong. And that freedom of press means they can trash a President by saying one thing in January, and then call it a lie in March when the President repeats it.
Suppose I posted, without any corroborating documents or testimony, the following accusation to Dakota Free Press:
Dan Lederman and the South Dakota Republican Party have sabotaged my blog with denial-of-service attacks. Sick and sad!
Suppose I let that accusation percolate for a day, then followed up thus:
With all the unanswered questions about Lederman’s sabotage of my blog, the South Dakota Legislature owes the people of our state an investigation of the SDGOP and its sick and sad leaders!
I would never make such a baseless charge, because I know that such behavior would gravely damage my credibility.
To fabricate wild claims and then demand investigations of those wild claims is a gross abuse of Presidential power. It also demonstrates Donald Trump’s failure to recognize his obligation to protect American credibility around the world by adhering to strict rules of evidence and fact-checking before opening his mouth.
President Trump has caught plenty of flak from the establishment media and members of Congress for his weekend statement that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had Trump Tower wiretapped while Trump was still a candidate.
Some believe Trump is lying, while others think he may have pressured the FBI to tell him about an investigation against him.
But Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, says there’s a third possibility no one is considering.
He shared his thoughts in a video posted to his Facebook page over the weekend.
“The Secret Service does ECM sweeps, electronic counter-measures, where they go in frequently and look for listening devices, radio frequencies, all kinds of things to make sure the president or president-elect is not being, in fact, wiretapped or listened in on on specific phone lines,” Bongino revealed.
The former agent, noting Trump had Secret Service protection as a candidate, thinks it’s much more likely the Secret Service discovered something while performing one of their ECM sweeps of Trump Tower and later found out it was the DOJ that had ordered the surveillance.
“That makes total sense, but of course the media’s not really interested in the story, because they want to find fault with Trump. So their story’s gonna be, ‘Did Trump force the FBI to tell him he was being monitored in some kind of an investigation?'” Bongino said.
“They’ve never considered the third option, that he had Secret Service protection and there was likely an ECM sweep done to check for bugs. The FBI’s not going to tell the Secret Service if they’re monitoring the president-elect, and if Obama or his DOJ officials wanted Trump monitored, the Secret Service probably didn’t know at all.”
So did Obama pull a Watergate? We don't know, and if the wiretap was illegal he would use the tactic of "plausible deniability" that President Reagan used on Iran-Contra. But to call Trumps claims baseless is premature at this point in time. Like the establishment media, Heidelberger wants to find fault with Trump. And Cory will never admit when he is wrong, because that would mean his credibility would be in question. Perhaps that is reason number one he has banned me from his web site.
When this story first broke I thought it only makes sense for Obama to have had wiretapped Trump's campaign, unless Obama's allegations that the Trump campaign collaborated with the Russians is a false. So far they have not produced the smoking gun. The only reason people believe it to be true is because the establishment media keeps repeating it as if it was fact. Time to do a little critical thinking.
You hit it out of the park with your blog post about the Muslims being shipped into Aberdeen and other SD towns to provide low cost and unskilled labor for the EB-5 projects.
One would think that Cory is working for Joop Bollen and the Aberdeen Development Corp because it seems Cory wants to help them fill their slum lord housing and turn Aberdeen into a town nobody wants to live in.
If you do not know anything about ADC a simple google search will expose who they are and what their motives would be based on their connection to the EB-5 projects.
I know of people that want to sell their houses and move out of Aberdeen because of the injection of the Somlians into their neighborhoods, but because they are located in the drive by shooting areas their houses are worthless.]
“Words hurt. They marginalize. They make us the other,” said Taneeza Islam, a Sioux Falls lawyer and community activist. “We are beautiful Americans, and we will no longer stand by to allow for inflammatory rhetoric by our state leaders.”
Members of other faiths appeared, as well, including Father Larry Ort of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brookings. “Radical Islamic terrorism” disparages all Muslims, Ort said.
“It’s somewhat like our using the term ‘the drunken Irish, the Mexican wetback, the Chinese laundryman,” Ort said [John Hult, “Muslims Reject Radical Label from Senate Resolution,” that Sioux Falls paper, 2017.03.03].
Hult reports that “several lawmakers were on hand,” but alas, the one who gets the ink is Senate Majority Leader R. Blake Curd, who apparently came to poop on the party (the Muslims’ gathering, not his political party):
Senator Blake Curd said, “What we can see is a meaningful look at the immigration system. The reforms that are necessary. Making sure that we understand who comes to the United States. That they are coming here to become a part of that intricate fabric that is the United States to make it a stronger community and a stronger country. Those are the people that we want here.”
Senator Curd told us, he believes the intention of the resolution is not to discriminate towards any religion [Kole Fehling, “Community Comes Together for Muslims,” KDLT, 2017.03.04].
It takes some pretty strong partisan blinders—or maybe just the smug majoritarianism of a rich white male Christian in South Dakota whose never really experienced an attack on his faith by his community leaders—to not see the ill will toward Islam embodied in the original text of SCR 15 and the current language that brackets one specific religion with negative terms
His last paragraph not only is missing a period, it is also missing the truth. Trump and those supporting SCR15 are not attacking all muslims. They have narrowed their attention to the radicalized members that promote violence, which is an act of hatred. Here is more propaganda coming out of Taneeza Isam:
A controversial resolution is making its way through Pierre. Opponents say the recently amended "Senate Concurrent Resolution 15" discriminates against people who practice the Islamic faith.
On Wednesday, The Senate State Affairs Committee voted 6-to-3 to amend SCR 15.
A part of the legislation now reads "A Concurrent resolution, commending President Donald J. Trump in his commitment to keeping the country safe from radical Islamic terrorism." It's that very wording that's not sitting well with some people.
"Associating Islam with terrorism is an outright racist attack on Muslims worldwide," Taneeza Islam, community activist, said.
More than 50 community members crowd the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls. Most are standing in solidarity against Senate Concurrent Resolution 15.
The Law Office of Taneeza Islam provides family and employment based immigration and naturalization legal services throughout the region.
Taneeza's entire law practice is based on immigration law related issues. With this focus, she has an in-depth understanding of the legal intricacies of the field. With this understanding and her ability to relate to immigrant community fears and concerns she is dedicated to providing effective legal representation for your immigration law related needs.
Taneeza specializes in working with clients who speak English as a second language.
So there may be financial and business reasons for Taneeza position on this issue.
Abdirhman Ahmed Noor came to the U.S. as a young boy from Somalia as a refugee. He is now 24.
A Somali man who came to America as a child refugee has jumped bail and remains at large after being charged with attempted murder in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Abdirhman Ahmad Noor, 24, is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly shooting at two men on July 8 in or near the parking lot of the Foxridge Apartments in Aberdeen. Noor was said to have chased the two men down, firing at them. One man, Dar’na Tansmore, was hit and laid wounded on the ground when Noor allegedly walked up, stood over his victim and shot him again.
Tansmore was taken to a hospital in Sioux Falls and survived. Police have not given a motive for the shooting.
About half of the residents at the Foxridge Apartments are Somalis, according to Aberdeen residents. The July shooting was followed by another incident involving a drive-by shooting in early September in which no arrests have been made. On Aug. 14, another incident took place just south of the apartments when a man identified as Ehkhu Poe allegedly charged a police officer with a knife and was shot twice but survived to face charges.
Some residents told the local paper they want to move, while others said they live in fear and keep their doors locked all the time.
Noor was scheduled to appear in circuit court in Aberdeen Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing, but he failed to appear. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
Just before 6 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, the Brown County Jail confirmed to WND that Noor was still not incarcerated there.
His attorneys had also filed a motion to suppress information Noor gave to local police, arguing that English was his second language, according to court documents.
Lutheran Social Services South Dakota has been paid by the federal government to resettle 947 Somali refugees in South Dakota since 2002. Most are sent to the cities of Sioux Falls and Huron, but some make secondary migration to Aberdeen to work in the meatpacking and molded fiberglass plants there.
The FBI has confirmed that more than 40 Somali refugees in Minnesota have left the state to join foreign terrorist organizations including al-Shabab in Somalia and ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
More than 132,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in more than 200 U.S. cities and towns since civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991. Somali refugees have recently been implicated in terrorist knife attacks on the campus of Ohio State University on Nov. 28 and at the Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Sept. 17 last year. Eleven were wounded at Ohio State and 10 were wounded in the St. Cloud attack.
So we have a major Somali refugee problem in Cory's home town that he refuses to address.
Perhaps Taneeza's and Heidelbeger's agenda is to turn South Dakota into Shariahville:
Just a few weeks after an Atlanta-area school superintendent issued a statement warning school employees not to say anything about immigrants that might be deemed discriminatory, a Detroit-area school system has branded itself a “safe haven” for refugees and immigrants.
Hamtramck Public Schools will provide “community resources” and “access to legal services” for any families negatively impacted by President Trump’s policies, according to a statement published in a Detroit newspaper.
“All Hamtramck schools are safe havens with a commitment to help all immigrant families connect with the needed resources to avoid deportation,” Superintendent Thomas Niczay told the Detroit News.
Hamtramck passed a resolution with the “safe haven” designation in January, before Trump even took office.
“As a board and a school district, we thought ahead and wanted to have a resolution in place to make our community know that whatever happens after January, Hamtramck Public Schools will be home away from home for their children,” Hamtramck school board secretary Salah Hadwan, whose family emigrated from Yemen, told the News.
Hamtramck achieved notoriety in November 2015 when it elected the nation’s first Muslim-majority city council, after which it took on the name of “Shariahville” among some Michiganians who saw the town as an example of what they didn’t want their cities to become.
Hamtramck also became one of the first cities to allow a mosque to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers in 2004, leading many ethnic Polish residents to move out of the city and head for the suburbs.
Cory's agenda is based on his cultural Neo-Marxist based hatred of the rich, the white man, and Christians...who are the majority. So bring in more Muslims so that eventually they out number white male Christian, and Cory and his gang of revolutionaries can have their way.
What Cory refuses to accept is his propaganda is helping the rich obtain cheap labor for the Aberdeen Beef plant and other businesses. I wonder if behind the scenes the liberals running the SDGOP are thankful for Cory's work.
During the last six years, we’ve seen the executive branch involved in accusing a conservative legislator of threatening to kill other legislators to ruin his reputation for complaining about corruption; conservative legislators being taken off committees to grease passage of illegal omnibus bills that have caused our crime rates to skyrocket; former Secretary of Economic Development dead in the middle of EB5 corruption; the six-member Westerhuis family dead in the middle of corruption; and a concerted cover-up of an establishment legislator sexually preying on pages and interns for two years. All the while, our governor claims our state government is good stewards, that there is no corruption and voters were duped into passing anti-corruption IM 22.
Last year, the con was pushed that South Dakota did not yet again have enough money in our $4.5 billion budget to cover our core infrastructure items. We all pay our taxes for education. The year before, they pushed to raise taxes, claiming there wasn’t enough money for roads. Even as these cons were being pushed, tens of millions of dollars were directed out of the budget into “economic development” accounts. As of recently, the REDI Fund alone has roughly $78 million that is being accumulated for some future unknown projects, but couldn’t be used for the new Animal Lab. Mind you, the voters previously overwhelmingly rejected the governor’s tax revenue “economic development” diversion in a referred law.
These tax increases weren’t about roads or teachers. It was about millions more of your dollars that can be spent on more government projects that special interests LOVE.
I tell you this so you fully understand the following:
Last year, a young legislator came out publicly against the tax increase. He voted against the governor’s sale’s tax increase in HB 1182 twice on the House floor. The tax increase was failing. The governor called the young man into his office, pounded a threatening message home to the young man — and the rest of the Legislature — that if the young man and other Republicans didn’t vote for the governor’s tax increase, the governor was going to use his million dollars in his campaign account to go after them. BUT, if they supported his tax increase, the governor would support their election campaigns. The meeting was so coercive, the young man came out crying and had to be consoled for hours.
What made this so notoriously known is the young man recorded the conversation and played the threatening message to other legislators. The young man and others changed their votes, the tax increase passed, and the governor was true to his word. The young man and most of those who supported the tax increase received large donations from the governor, and for many who didn’t, opponents were supported by the governor in the GOP primary.
Interestingly also, those “Republicans” who supported the tax increases received the highest rates of special interest campaign donations.
Things are so bad, the governor doesn’t even have to publicly oppose a bill. He just gives GOP “leadership” a list and tells his legislators to kill your bills.
South Dakota government appears to be as corrupt as notorious Chicago, not surprising knowing our governor made his professional start as a Chicago lawyer. If I wanted to live in corrupt Chicago, I wouldn’t have retired home to my beloved South Dakota.
One of the most prescient observers of violence I’ve ever read, James Gilligan, wrote a book called Violence. He argued that shame and humiliation underlie basically all violence: “Because I feel small, I will make you feel smaller.”
In my interviews with extremists, both “actives” and “formers”, I have found time and time again that they have experienced that sense of humiliation and shame.
In his famous statement, Osama bin Laden talked about how the west had humiliated the Muslim world … that conservative Muslims have been humiliated by hyper-modern society and the cosmopolitan McDonaldization of the world. For them, restoring the seventh-century caliphate is their way of reinstating traditional masculinity.
I call this “aggrieved entitlement”. If you feel entitled and you have not gotten what you expected, that is a recipe for humiliation.
It is the liberal left who suffer from “aggrieved entitlement”, which helps explains this:
Black-clad activists among hundreds of demonstrators protesting Donald Trump's swearing-in on Friday clashed with police a few blocks from the White House, in an outburst of violence rare for an inauguration.
At least 217 people were arrested in the melees, police said.
It he Cory Heidelberger and his fellow Neo-Marxist Trump haters who are guilty of being small, while they try to make whites, males, Christians, and conservatives look small. And you saw it on the Democratic side of the isle last hinght during Trumps address to Congress.
And Cory must believe that ISIS is a ban of Caucasians, or he has taken his level of false propaganda to a higher level. He must still be having trouble processing what happened during the last election, as his ability to think rationally has almost totally disappeared.
Also note his source falsely labeled bin Laden and his "radicalized" followers to be "conservative Muslims". Here is the truth:
The radical faction of Islam, known as the Salafi, are a movement created through British intrigue and coordination with occult secret societies, toward fomenting a “Clash of Civilizations”. And though the West is largely unaware of them, they are almost entirely responsible for the extremism that Islam is mistakenly perceived for.
Zarqawi, in his letter to bin Laden, described the Mujahideen, those who have been duped by the CIA to believe they are fighting a “holy war”, as follows: “These are the quintessence of the Sunnis and the good sap of this country. In general, they belong to the Sunni doctrine and naturally to the Salafi creed.”
And...
That is, until the 19th century, and the advent of colonialism, and the common British strategy of “Divide and Rule”, which evidently exercised its hand in disrupting this situation. According to the Wikipedia article on Shariah:
During the 19th century the history of Islamic law took a sharp turn due to new challenges the Muslim world faced: the West had risen to a global power and colonized a large part of the world, including Muslim territories. Societies changed from the agricultural to the industrial stage. New social and political ideas emerged and social models slowly shifted from hierarchical towards egalitarian. The Ottoman Empire and the rest of the Muslim world were in decline, and calls for reform became louder. In Muslim countries, codified state law started replacing the role of scholarly legal opinion. Western countries sometimes inspired, sometimes pressured, and sometimes forced Muslim states to change their laws. Secularist movements pushed for laws deviating from the opinions of the Islamic legal scholars. Islamic legal scholarship remained the sole authority for guidance in matters of rituals, worship, and spirituality, while they lost authority to the state in other areas. The Muslim community became divided into groups reacting differently to the change. This division persists until the present day (Brown 1996, Hallaq 2001, Ramadan 2005, Aslan 2006, Safi 2003).
* Secularists believe the law of the state should be based on secular principles, not on Islamic legal theory. * Traditionalists believe that the law of the state should be based on the traditional legal schools. However, traditional legal views are considered unacceptable by most modern Muslims, especially in areas like women’s rights or slavery..[6] * Reformers believe that new Islamic legal theories can produce modernized Islamic law [7] and lead to acceptable opinions in areas such as women’s rights.[8] * Salafis strive to follow Muhammad and his companions, tabiin (followers of the Companions), tabiut tabiin (followers of the tabiin) and those who follow these 3 generations.
An excellent article has now been posted, however, at Salafi Publications, which not only admits, but thoroughly exposes, the Masonic and deviant origins of the founders of the Salafi movement, and their successors, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a far cry from white male Trump supporters. Instead the Muslim Brotherhood have been working with the global oligarchy that Trump is challenging, who want cheap labor via illegal immigration. Sad that Cory sides with the crony capitalists' "Divide and Rule" agenda that oppresses the working class.
The Democratic versus Republican feud is just another example of the oligarchy's methods of "Divide and Rule". Sad that Cory refuses to see that, instead of feeling small and throwing stones at Republicans.
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