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American Patriot Reality Check

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Welcome to today’s installment of APRC: Delivering Truth, Justice and the American Way to each American Patriot who chooses to listen.

Currently, the Big Tech companies are working diligently to remove ANY Right Wing voices. (We expect this blog to be removed soon so are looking at a new platform as well).

Democrat governors (and some republicans) are working diligently to STOP meetings of people in Churches, Pubs and local, small businesses.

Why is this happening? Because they believe us to be “Ring Wing Nut Case Conspiracy Theorists”?

HELL NO.

Where do Revolutions begin?

Pubs, Bars, Restaurants and local, small businesses where you meet your friends, your neighbors and you DISCUSS things, and you figure out what is going wrong with the world. The American Revolution began, and was planned in pubs. Why? Because it’s where men met and discussed the problems with the King, Taxation without Representation. It’s where the Forefathers put together plans to resist.

Why do you think they want those CLOSED? And not Walmart any big box stores? BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS

Patriots, What I am about to say is very important.

Covid has NEVER been about a virus. In the beginning, we saw “mass casualties” “in China”. That has proven to be false. There have never been mass causalities in the US on the streets, falling down at bus stops and dying in trains. Instead this has been about CONTROLLING the population specifically the Patriots.

If you go back over all the things closed and the reasoning, there was never any logical reasoning. I’ve been saying all along Governors don’t have the authority to do so. I was right. Cooper in North Carolina went on the air yesterday I believe and basically begged local “authorities to pass laws to back him up for enforcement”. THIS MEANS HE HAS NO ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY. PERIOD. Police need to chose the people (they are sworn to protect) over a governor who has ties to China.

FURTHER MORE, the VIRUS ITSELF is completely survivable for almost all of us, and in fact has a LOWER mortality rate than even flu and some other things. Now the most important part…. WHY are the closures so irregular?

Closures of small businesses that serve local communities and limiting people was necessary. Bars, pubs, and certain type of restaurants, AND CHURCHES were closed. WHY? Because THESE PLACES ARE WHERE REVOLUTIONS ARE FORMED, PLANNED AND BEGUN. Democrat governors KNOW this (its in the commie play books folks) so they are STRIVING TO CONTROL US. Facebook, Twitter, Google and Youtube are trying to control your “outside voice” while Marxists try to prevent you from using your INSIDE VOICES.

IT IS TIME to stop being a SHEEP. Take back your places of businesses. Band TOGETHER AND DEFY these Criminals in political positions. Take BACK your RIGHTS NOW, TODAY. Refuse to close. Refuse curfew. Refuse to play their game any longer. Are you willing to wear that damned mask for good? How about a Star of David sewn to your uniform as you board the train for the “reeducation camp”??? START FIGHTING BACK.

Each small business is an entity unto itself. Each of these individuals, alone are easily raked over the coals by illegal behavior of governors and mayors. Together hundreds of you forming a co-op or a “Business Group” can stave off the illegal activities. They may “close a city down” but they can’t close down the hearts and minds of Americans. YOU PERSONALLY are the leader we need. Step up, contact the other businesses. Five or six people, then each of you become a leader, contacting five or six more. Form that private, even secret organization, to post signs, organize reopening of your stores.

BEGIN TODAY. DO NOT WAIT. OUR DEMISE IS UPON US. DEFY THE MARXIST GOVERNORS’ SHUTDOWNS!!!!!!

EBT To Shut Down Nationwide Starting November

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Full on  Zombie Apocalypse will start in November… just in case you wanted to know.

 

 

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‘Gestapo’ tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone

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Folks, it’s time to put a stop to this crap.  Get on the phone and start letting the White House know you’re not happy, your family isn’t happy, your grand dad and father who fought in wars for this country isn’t happy, and “We’re Not Gonna Take This Any More!”

October 8, 2013

By John Macone Staff writer

NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America’s greatest treasures.

Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.

Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.

The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest.

When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route.

“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.

– See more at: http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1442580353/Gestapo-tactics-meet-senior-citizens-at-Yellowstone#sthash.OO6eJJoE.dpuf

VA Furloughs 9,000 Staff, Regional Offices Close

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But they are paying people to block monuments and parks?  They brought back most of the people to the military bases around me – especially the DOD Civilians…. They keep closing things, and opening others…

 

Oct 08, 2013

Military.com| by Bryant Jordan

VA building

Nearly 10,000  Department of Veterans Affairs’ employees are staying home Tuesday after they were temporarily furloughed Monday because of the federal government shutdown that is now in its second week.

The VA announced the furloughs late Monday, the same day as hundreds of thousands of Department of Defense civilian employees began returning to work after receiving furlough notices last week. The DoD workers were called back after Congress passed legislation to pay them for the time they missed.

The VA furloughs that began Tuesday morning include 7,000 employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration and 2,754 with the VA’s Office of Information Technology, VA spokeswoman Victoria Dillon said.

In a statement on Monday announcing the furloughs, the VA underscored that the actions, including ending overtime for claims processors, is reversing its successes in bringing down the disability claims backlog.

“Overtime that has helped VA significantly reduce the disability claims backlog by more than 190,000 claims over the last six months,” the statement read. “Clear progress for veterans and their families is at risk without immediate action by Congress to make fiscal year 2014 funding available by passing a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.”

The government is in the second week of the federal shutdown since Congress was unable to pass a budget or a continuing resolution before the start of the 2014 fiscal year. While many DoD civilians returned to work on Monday, many others remain home.

The VA said in its statement that all development of VA computer software will cease because of the IT furloughs, including work on the Veterans Benefits Management System the agency says is critical to reducing the claims backlog.

The furloughs were announced as the House Veterans Affairs Committee prepares to receive testimony on Wednesday from VA Secretary Eric Shinseki on the impact of the shutdown on the agency. Committee chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said in his Oct. 4 letter to Shinseki, he wants to discuss effects of lapsed mandatory and discretionary funding on VA benefit programs and disability claims processing, including decisions about overtime for processors.

Before the government went into shutdown mode at midnight, Oct. 1, mandatory overtime for claims processors was slated to continue until Nov. 16, according to the VA, followed by voluntary overtime through Dec. 31.

VA claims processors have been working a minimum of 20 hours overtime per month since May 15 as part of the department’s aggressive assault on the backlog. VA also began fully fielding its paperless claims processing system.

The initiatives and mandatory overtime reduced the backlog about 30 percent since from a peak of 611,000 in mid-March, to about 418,500 as of Sept. 30, according to the VA. That’s the lowest it has been in two years, VA officials say.

At the same time, the VBA increased overall claims accuracy to 90 percent while producing an additional 1,000 claims per day on average. VA says the benefits administration has been processing more than 100,000 claims on average each month and nearly 1.2 million claims in fiscal year 2013, achieving historic highs.

Since mandatory overtime halted Oct. 1 with the shutdown, the backlog nudged up from 418,500 to 418,700, according to the VA. But in the one week before the shutdown the number had dropped by 18,000, it said.

Park Service OKs immigration reform rally on ‘closed’ National Mall

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A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.

Organizers for the “Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform” were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/07/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-on-closed-national-mall/

 

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Military Priests Face Arrest for Celebrating Mass in Defiance of Shutdown

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Our government is out of control.

First, it was the World War II veterans who had to break down barriers to see the open air, un-attended memorial erected in their honor.  A memorial which is on public land but is supported – including the National Park Service fee – with private funds. This week there was more security surrounding this memorial — just to keep elderly veterans out — than there was at our embassy in Benghazi the night it was attacked.

And for what? To inflict as much pain as possible through this government shutdown. It’s called Washington Monument Syndrome, and it’s pure political theater.

But now there’s a story just coming to light that takes things even further. According the Archdiocese for Military Services, GS and contract priests (who are paid by the federal government as independent contractors in places where there aren’t enough active-duty priests to meet the needs of Catholics in military service) are being forbidden from celebrating Mass, even on a volunteer basis.

If they violate this restriction, they face possible arrest. FOR CELEBRATING MASS. 

From John Schlageter, General Counsel for the Archdiocese:

There is a chronic shortage of active duty Catholic chaplains. While roughly 25% of the military is Catholic, Catholic priests make up only about 8% of the chaplain corps. That means approximately 275,000 men and women in uniform, and their families, are served by only 234 active-duty priests.  The temporary solution to this shortage is to provide GS and contract priests.   These men are employed by the government to ensure that a priest is available when an active duty Catholic Chaplain is not present.  With the government shutdown, GS and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer.  During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.

As an example, if a Catholic family has a Baptism scheduled at the base chapel at Langley AFB this weekend, unless they can locate a priest who is not a GS or contract priest, they should consider it cancelled.   Likewise, a Marine who attends Sunday Mass at the Quantico Chapel will have to go elsewhere this weekend.  If you are a Catholic stationed in Japan or Korea and are served by a Contract or GS priest, unless you speak Korean or Japanese and can find a church nearby, then you have no choice but to go without Mass this weekend.  Until the Federal Government resumes normal operations, or an exemption is granted to contract or GS priests, Catholic services are indefinitely suspended at those worldwide installations served by contract and GS priests.

At a time when the military is considering alternative sources of funding for sporting events at the service academies, no one seems to be looking for funding to ensure the Free Exercise rights of Catholics in uniform. Why not?

 

http://www.catholicvote.org/military-priests-face-arrest-for-celebrating-mass-in-defiance-of-shutdown/

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Tropical Storm Karen

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This tropical storm couldn’t have come at a better moment in history.

 

Bush had his Katrina.

Obama will blame Bush for Karen.

http://www.weather.gov/ is still open, this one: http://www.noaa.gov/ is down.

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Maximum Pain to the People

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If anyone still thinks the administration isn’t doing everything possible to cause maximum suffering during the shutdown, take a look at this.

The National Park Service WEBSITE has been shut down. That’s right, a static website that can just sit there and be a website.

Take a look… http://www.nps.gov/

 

Folks this is the biggest load of bullshit you’ve ever been fed.  Shutting down the government doesn’t STOP web sites from working, telephones from ringing or people going to work to shut down parks that aren’t even guarded in the first place.

Every time these bastards open their mouths to “Blame” the other side, it’s a lie.  This was set up to make Americans “feel the pain” so they would complain and get the ‘government back online’.

Won’t stop welfare.  Won’t (or shouldn’t) stop Social Security checks.  There are NO cops guarding the WW II Memorial (and it was built with private funds BY THE WAY).

Hell even “Good Will” went home at the Air Force Academy yesterday on “furlough” and they aren’t even government workers.

The Air Force vs Navy game is on (because someone put up the 200k+ funds as a private donor) and Army is playing Saturday as well – and guess what?  The MONEY for the Academies are ALREADY ALLOCATED INCLUDING SPORTS!

This is all the biggest load of bullshit you’ve ever been fed.

 

Unreal: Park workers installing more barricades around WWII Memorial to keep vets out

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Unreal: Park workers installing more barricades around WWII Memorial to keep vets out; Update: Vets enter Memorial; Update: “First Amendment activities”

posted at 10:41 am on October 2, 2013 by Allahpundit

Not just barricades, either. My friends, it’s come to this:

Mounted Police now protecting the World War 2 Memorial from World War 2 veterans. Sanity restored. pic.twitter.com/EzBpV3HhEm

— BuzzFeedBenny (@bennyjohnson) October 1, 2013

I’m rushing this post out because, per Ed’s stellar round-up from earlier this morning, the Honor Flight vets are headed to the Memorial regardless. Members of Congress, among them Michele Bachmann, are already there, as are reporters of all stripes. If you use Twitter, I recommend following the Standard’s John McCormack, National Review’s Betsy Woodruff, and the Examiner’s Charlie Spiering, who took the photo I used for our front-page thumbnail of the feds actually deploying forklifts to set up gates around a memorial that’s open 24 hours a day with little supervision under normal circumstances. As I write this at a few minutes after 10:30 ET, Spiering is tweeting that the vets are scheduled to arrive within the next 15 minutes. Is your government really about to arrest 96-year-olds who fought at Guadalcanal because this bit of sub-moronic shutdown theater is too precious to them to forfeit? Stay tuned. It wouldn’t be the first own-goal they’ve scored because their pettiness overwhelmed their sense of optics.

By the way, the WWII Memorial isn’t the only one with a gate in front of it this morning. When McCormack strolled over to the World War I Memorial, he found this. No joke:

Check out the barricade at the World War One memorial—> pic.twitter.com/lJEYjY3GtR

— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) October 2, 2013

The sign reads, “Because of the federal government shutdown, this National Park Service area is closed, except for First Amendment activities.” So if you want to protest there, you’re good. If you want to quietly remember the dead, get off the damned lawn.

An exit question via Legal Insurrection while we wait for updates: How come the Lincoln Memorial isn’t open now if it was open “>during the 1995 shutdown?

Obama’s America… pic.twitter.com/P38BDsne5d

— Morgen (@morgenr) October 2, 2013

Update: A Park Service spokesman says they were told to close the memorial by the Office of Management and Budget. Paging Darrell Issa: Time to find out who made the decision at OMB. And why.

Update: If you’re near a TV, you might want to turn on CNN. Tapper is there at the Memorial; if there’s some sort of confrontation, I assume they’ll cut to him live.

Update: The vets have arrived.

So many veterans! pic.twitter.com/FrJGxFwxRM

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) October 2, 2013

Dan Foster says, “This is President Obama’s Bonus Army.”

 

Read the rest:  http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/02/unreal-park-workers-installing-more-barricades-around-wwii-memorial-to-keep-vets-out/

 

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