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    I wonder if this has got something do any of this?

    Just thought I'd drop it in here in case there is any relevance.




    Edited to add:

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ca...cv02407/660353
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    It is unfortunate that some people think violence will end violence. Never in the history of mankind has this happened effectively. Martin Luther King handed the world the perfect template for change. His roadmap for revolution is failsafe, but people mistakenly believe that violence is a faster route to transformation. Effective, long-lasting and/or permanent change can only happen through peace.

    BLM Activist: ‘I’m Ready To Put These Police In The F***ing Ground,’ ‘Burn The White House Down’



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    Added to that, this:



    Portland Black Lives Matter Monsters Cheer and Celebrate Murder of Patriot Prayer Member
    Published August 30, 2020 at 2:04am

    The rioters in Portland let their true colors shine on Saturday night as they cheered and celebrated the murder of a member of Patriot Front by one of their peers.

    For a while, rumors were circulating online that a rioter had been killed by a supporter of President Donald Trump, but there was a big celebration when they found out it was actually the other way around.

    “Everybody, I just got word. The person who died was a Patriot Prayer person,” the Black Lives Matter leader tells the excited crowd. “He was a f***ing Nazi. Our community held its own and took out the trash. I’m not going to shed any tears over a Nazi dying!”


    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...-member-video/

    That go-to slur, Nazi, for anyone who does not conform to the ideology.

    Black lives matter (small case) is an obvious truism. BLM the group are, I think it's safe to say, militant anarchists. How can they be fighting for lives when they do not believe in the sanctity of lives, and indeed take lives to further their cause?

    This is out of control, it's gone to far, and yet, those who prop up and support their movement - the progressive left - are silent. These thugs are looting, burning, assaulting, and now killing people. Just the other day, a group of Gays for Trump were attacked and verbally abused by BLM members in Washington DC. The LGBT community were silent.

    Of course they were. Gays for Trump/Blacks for Trump is an absolute contradiction to the infinite fallacy that is identity politics. The ultimate contradiction that makes their brains go fffrrrrraaaarrrrggggghhhh!

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    I was tempted to start a new thread about Martin Luther King. He was such a well-grounded intelligent man that was taken out (in my opinion) because he was making a difference.

    I honestly believe that Martin Luther King was a conduit of a higher power who was given the perfect template for racial and world peace. We should revere MLK and use what has been open-sourced to mankind. Contrasting the difference between MLK and the beliefs and strategies of BLM really puts things into perspective.

    I was reading through his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. There is so much to think about and understand that all of us would do well to read it. Here is a link if you would like to read the full speech.



    Here are only a few of his most poignant remarks.

    This evening I would like to use this lofty and historic platform to discuss what appears to me to be the most pressing problem confronting mankind today. Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress.

    Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

    This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man’s chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man’s ethical infantilism. Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other. I refer to racial injustice, poverty, and war.

    Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

    We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly, cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to truth as we see it.


    You can read the entire speech here: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/pe.../king/lecture/
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    Hi rgray222, I think MLK would be regarded as "problematic" by the BLM social justice crowd if he were around today (*Mike wanly smiles*). I think Muhammad Ali would too, sadly.

    I hope you do start that MLK thread.

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    Myron Fagon recorded this expose around the time of the Vietnam war. Even though it was recorded in 1967, it is completely relevant today.

    Myron Fagon shines a light on how the BLM movement has its origins with the illuminati. It may provide us with insight into what we are seeing today.

    I've also shared this on the Cancel Culture thread because it touches upon why it was so important for the illuminati to do away with Christianity.


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    Christian Walker, whose dad football legend Herschel Walker spoke at the RNC convention last week, calls Black Lives Matter a domestic terrorist organization and personally sees it as the KKK in black face.

    (Click on the Twitter link below to watch the short but hard-hitting video)


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    Way to say it Christian Waker !! And your dad Herschel is great!

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    On 18 August, a bunch of black men shouting "Black Lives Matter" beat to death a baby raccoon. It was videoed.

    At first I thought this was a bad-taste satirical fake news report, but this really did happen. The story on https://lawenforcementtoday.com can easily be found.

    We live in a society that is very sick.

    Don't watch the video if you know that All Lives Matter.


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    now that says something very disturbing. these are cruel and hate filled people who did this.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    On 18 August, a bunch of black men shouting "Black Lives Matter" beat to death a baby raccoon. It was videoed.

    At first I thought this was a bad-taste satirical fake news report, but this really did happen. The story on https://lawenforcementtoday.com can easily be found.

    We live in a society that is very sick.

    Don't watch the video if you know that All Lives Matter.

    The racial equality movement is in desperate need of an intelligent adult leadership with wisdom and thoughtful ideas. You could write these protesters off as a few bad apples but that would be a complete disservice to honesty. There are so many videos calling for the death of police officers, politicians and simply white people that it is not an anomaly, it truly is a disgrace.

    I go back to what Martin Luther King said:
    Quote Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself.

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    I go back to what Martin Luther King said:
    Quote Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
    Here's what bothers me about much touted quotes like this, much as I love what MLK and others like him stood for: The US government was born of violence, and has been at one with violence ever since, as a matter of regular practice in matters of not only foreign policy, but domestic policy as well (when it suits the need).

    Yet "we" tend to consider ourselves, and present ourselves on the world stage, as the most moral people ever to live.

    Then "we" turn right around and hang wreathes on Martin Luther King Day. After "we" shot him through the head for his services...

    Who are "we" really?

    Addendum.

    So long as we're quoting MLK's peace and non violence philosophy (of which I agree), let's not forget all he said there. This is important!
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    Quote Posted by Gracy May (here)

    So long as we're quoting MLK's peace and non violence philosophy (of which I agree), let's not forget all he said there. This is important!
    "A Riot is the Language of the Unheard," MLK

    I have no doubt if he were around today to witness this insanity he would refine his words to better reflect the reality:

    A Riot is the "Programed" Language of the Unheard.

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    Sasha Johnson, a leader of the Oxford branch of Black Lives Matter, announced on Sunday the formation of what she termed "the first black-led political party in the UK".

    Source

    Excerpts from the article:
    “This isn’t just a party for black people though, it’s a party for the working class.”

    “We are tired of being let down by Labour, Conservatives, and Lib-Dem and all of them. We want our own political party, one that reflects the multicultural nation that we have become,” she said.

    The black radical activist then led a chant with her supporters, shouting “Power, power… by any means necessary.”

    (...)

    In July, Sasha Johnson was captured in a viral Breitbart London exclusive video calling for “revolution” and proclaiming that the police in Britain are no “different from the KKK“.

    The Black Lives Matter activist went on to call for a creation of a “black militia”, saying: “I’m not saying it because I want people to fear and think we’re coming violent. What we’re saying is: you push we push, you fight we fight. Peace is not peace until you recognise our life, and we’re not gonna lay down anymore.”
    ______________________________________________


    If some of her sentiments and some of her political pronouncements come from the pursuit of a noble cause, it must be noted that Sasha Johnson also holds some very radical views. In her now suspended Twitter account (@SashaJohnsonBLM), she had a pinned tweet in which she had stated the following:
    The white man will not be our equal but our slave
    History is changing
    No justice no Peace

    #BLM #Brixton #BLMUK
    Source (with screen capture of the tweet)

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    Quote Posted by Constance (here)
    Myron Fagon recorded this expose around the time of the Vietnam war. Even though it was recorded in 1967, it is completely relevant today.

    Myron Fagon shines a light on how the BLM movement has its origins with the illuminati. It may provide us with insight into what we are seeing today.

    I've also shared this on the Cancel Culture thread because it touches upon why it was so important for the illuminati to do away with Christianity.


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    Thanks Constance

    ALL three of these recordings have been in the Avalon Library for the last 11 months or so and are of course downloadable as mp3s - Myron Fagan folder.

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    Quote Posted by Gracy May (here)
    The US government was born of violence, and has been at one with violence ever since, as a matter of regular practice in matters of not only foreign policy, but domestic policy as well (when it suits the need).

    Yet "we" tend to consider ourselves, and present ourselves on the world stage, as the most moral people ever to live.

    Then "we" turn right around and hang wreathes on Martin Luther King Day. After "we" shot him through the head for his services...

    Who are "we" really?
    It wasn't "we" who shot him through the head. MLK, JFK, RFK, John Lennon, Diana, and numerous other Messengers of Peace were all slain by "they".
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    Quote Posted by Star Mariner (here)
    Quote Posted by Gracy May (here)
    The US government was born of violence, and has been at one with violence ever since, as a matter of regular practice in matters of not only foreign policy, but domestic policy as well (when it suits the need).

    Yet "we" tend to consider ourselves, and present ourselves on the world stage, as the most moral people ever to live.

    Then "we" turn right around and hang wreathes on Martin Luther King Day. After "we" shot him through the head for his services...

    Who are "we" really?
    It wasn't "we" who shot him through the head. MLK, JFK, RFK, John Lennon, Diana, and numerous other Messengers of Peace were all slain by "they".
    "We", meaning the US federal government who supposedly represents we the people on the national and international stage, right up to present day.

    That's why I don't vote for any of these clowns presented to us in endless cycles, like the shadows on the wall of Plato's Cave for us either cheer, or jeer.

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    Indeed, and the very same "they" responsible for killing our heroes lined their parade routes, attended their funerals, touched their coffins, and recited prayers for them.

    When I think of "we", I do mean "we the people" - separate from the governments and powers that be. Whenever I hear our PM or some random statesman say "we", in reference to constituents or the country, I say "you don't speak for me, mate."
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    Quote Posted by Gracy May (here)
    Here's what bothers me about much touted quotes like this,
    MLK was a man centuries ahead of his time. When you stop and think about his primary message and all the sub-messages he left behind it is truly astounding.

    Change through peace is the only way to achieve lasting and permanent change. Just look at our history. World War 1 resulted in World War ll. Wars, battles, regional conflicts perpetuate themselves in an endless cycle of violence and death. The side that sustains the most damage may fall back and regroup but they will return to fight another day.

    Yes, riots are the voice of the unheard but that does not give cause or reason for violence and destruction. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in ruination for all. Seeking to humiliate or annihilate rather than win understanding and lasting peace is not a blueprint for life. Hate destroys community, violence ends up defeating itself in bitterness and brutality.

    People today think that MLK was from another time but what they fail to recognize was that MLK was speaking to the future. Many people today do not have the wisdom to read or listen to MLK and comprehend that he left us the protocols and instruction for change that can only lead to lasting peace. It makes no difference why he is gone or how he left this world, what matters is that he lived long enough to leave the world an absolutely perfect template for peace.

    I believe mankind will one-day will be faced with a choice, to embrace MLK's change through peace message or face annihilation and extinction.
    Last edited by rgray222; 3rd September 2020 at 21:46.

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