Colo. Dem Gov Commutes Tina Peters' Sentence

From Newsmax.com (May 15):

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the prison sentence of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters following months of public pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies, according to an Associated Press report.

Peters, 70, had been serving a nine-year sentence after a 2024 conviction tied to unauthorized copies of election system data from Mesa County, the Associated Press reported.

Polis said in a letter announcing the commutation that Peters “was convicted of serious crimes” and deserved prison time, but argued the punishment was unusually severe for a first-time offender convicted of nonviolent crimes.

“However, this is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first-time offender who committed nonviolent crimes,” Polis wrote, according to the Associated Press.

The Associated Press reported that the governor’s decision came weeks after a Colorado appeals court upheld Peters’ conviction but ordered resentencing, ruling that the trial judge improperly considered Peters’ public comments about election integrity issues when determining her punishment.

Trump had repeatedly called for Peters’ release and praised the commutation Friday in a Truth Social post reading, “FREE TINA!”

According to the Associated Press, Trump also publicly criticized Polis and Mesa County District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein over the case, arguing Peters had been treated unfairly.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold condemned the commutation during a Friday news conference, calling it “a dark day for democracy” and accusing Polis of yielding to political pressure from Trump.

“A clear message is being sent to those willing to break the law and attack democracy for the president — they will likely not face consequences for their actions,” Griswold said, according to the Associated Press.

The Associated Press reported that Peters was convicted by a Mesa County jury in a Republican-leaning county that supported Trump in recent elections.

Because Peters’ convictions were on state charges, Trump could not pardon her directly under federal clemency powers. Still, the president continued publicly advocating for her release throughout the case, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier this year, Trump withdrew an invitation for Polis to attend a White House governors meeting amid the dispute over Peters, the Associated Press reported.

The Associated Press also reported that the administration reduced or redirected some federal support affecting Colorado, including changes involving disaster assistance, scientific research programs and the planned relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama.

Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, criticized the commutation and said it could damage public confidence in election administration.

“Gov. Polis is bending the knee to the same political voices that are undermining belief in our democratic institutions,” Crane said, according to the Associated Press.

Peters’ attorneys have argued her health deteriorated during her incarceration.

According to the Associated Press, Peters’ lawyers said she developed frequent coughing after the prison heating system was turned on during the winter and struggled with chronic pain linked to fibromyalgia.

A spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Corrections told the Associated Press that Peters was involved in an altercation with another inmate in January but was later cleared of assault allegations in a disciplinary hearing.

The Associated Press reported that Polis had publicly floated clemency for Peters months before Friday’s decision, describing her prison term in posts on X as “unusual and harsh” for a first-time nonviolent offender.

“Justice in Colorado and America needs to be applied evenly,” Polis wrote at the time, according to the Associated Press.

After criticism from other Democratic officials in Colorado, Polis later told a Denver television station that Peters would need to demonstrate “appropriate contrition” and apology before receiving clemency consideration, the Associated Press reported. [source]

Good to read! A travesty of justice. She should have never been in jail that long.

Another article on the release:

Tina Peters Drops ‘Statements’ After Far-Left Gov. Polis Grants Clemency

How The CCP Uses Birthplace Citizenship And Surrogacy To Manufacture ‘Americans’

From The Federalist.com (May 18):

The recent guilty plea of Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, should serve as a warning to a nation that has spent 30 years refusing to defend its own sovereignty against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subversion.

Wang, a naturalized citizen after immigrating to the United States around 30 years ago, admitted to acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, using her political platform to disseminate pro-Beijing propaganda through a front website called “U.S. News Center,” which branded itself as a news source catering to Chinese Americans.

While the corporate media headlines focus on the political fallout, Wang represents something much more sinister. Her guilty plea is the latest predictable harvest of a “Pandora’s Box” opened in the 1990s when American leaders traded our national security for economic gain and the fantasy of liberalizing China.

The Clinton Legacy

The groundwork for this crisis was laid by President Bill Clinton, who championed the normalization of trade with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) despite mounting evidence of Beijing’s hostility.

The 1990s provided two clear warnings that should have halted America’s renewed relationship with China: the bipartisan Cox Report, which revealed the theft of classified designs for the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, and the “Chinagate” scandal, which exposed CCP cash being funneled into the Democratic National Committee.

And yet, despite all that was revealed about China’s growing subversion, Clinton still stood at Johns Hopkins University in March 2000 and gave a speech promising that normalizing trade relations with China would “liberate the potential of its people,” and allow America to “export products without exporting jobs.”

Not only was Clinton wrong on both counts, but America also ended up importing a permanent class of potential foreign subversives like Eileen Wang.

Since 1990, around the time Wang came to the U.S., the population of Chinese immigrants in the United States has more than tripled, increasing from around 677,000 to approximately 2.4 million by 2023.

This trend can also be seen within America’s elite Academic institutions. The number of Chinese international students has increased nearly fivefold since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 under the Bush Administration.

During the 2004-2005 academic year, there were only 62,523 Chinese students in the U.S.; by the 2019 peak, that number soared to more than 372,000 — accounting for 35 percent of all international students and providing a massive pool for potential CCP exploitation.

The threat from this influx presented itself most recently when a Chinese national and post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University was sentenced to more than four months in prison, resulting in his immediate deportation back to China after pleading guilty to smuggling biologic materials into the United States.

This is yet another example in an “alarming pattern” of Chinese subversion coming not only from without, but from deep within our borders.

The Birth of the ‘Manchurian Generation‘

Today, the CCP’s strategy has evolved from stealing sensitive state secrets and influencing U.S. politicians like Wang to the literal manufacturing of “American” babies.

As Peter Schweizer details in his book, The Invisible Coup, we are witnessing a form of “civilizational warfare” through the exploitation of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.

This demographic strategy is most visible in the American territory of Saipan. Located just 2,000 miles from Shanghai, the island has been effectively repurposed as a CCP forward-operating base for “maternity tourism.”

Due to a visa-free visitation policy dating back to the Obama era, Saipan’s local hospitals have become a conveyor belt for foreign nationals, with Schweizer noting that 70 percent of all newborns on the island are now children of Chinese birth tourists.

The scale of this influx has created what Schweizer terms a “Manchurian Generation.”

This isn’t just a matter of changing demographics, but of a latent political force: more than 1.5 million American passport holders are currently being raised under the CCP’s educational system.

These individuals represent a long-term “sleeper” asset for Beijing, capable of returning to the U.S. as adults to leverage their voting power at age 18, and chain-migration privileges at age 21, all for the benefit of the Chinese state. [read more]

The loophole needs to be closed or the Chi-Coms will continue to exploit it. An obvious no-brainer.

More articles on the matter:

• Sen. Blackburn Revives Ban Birth Tourism Act
• Chinese Social Media Chatter Indicates Trump’s Birth Tourism Crackdown Is Starting To Work
• Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: Make Birth Tourism a Crime

Christian NGO Welcomes Release of Pastor Held in Southern China

From Newsmax.com (July 5):

ChinaAid, a Christian NGO, said on Sunday it welcomed the release of Zion Church Pastor Jin Mingri, who had been held in detention centers in the southern Chinese ‌city of Beihai since last October ​and arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Eighteen leaders of the major underground church, including Jin, ⁠were arrested last November and charged with ​the crime of "illegally using information networks."

Jin's daughter Grace ⁠told Reuters on Sunday that eight members of the Zion Church are still detained in China.

"ChinaAid welcomes with profound gratitude ‌the release of imprisoned Chinese house church ​pastor Ezra Jin, ‌who arrived safely in Los Angeles on July 4, 2026," the ‌NGO said in a statement that used Jin's English first name.

China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond ⁠to a request for comment ‌sent outside work ⁠hours.

President Donald Trump had asked Chinese President Xi Jinping ⁠for ⁠Jin's release during his May trip to Beijing, Grace Jin said.

"We know ‌that this could not have happened without the direct intervention from Chairman Xi Jinping. We hope this is ‌a signal ​of a positive ‌turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations," said a ​separate family statement shared with Reuters. [source]

That is great news!  Welcome back home!

Miscellaneous Thoughts 48

• If a software designer is concerned that they are creating a malevolent artificial super intelligent entity, it might be a good idea that the entity cannot connect to the internet. Because if it does, it would be a perfect black hat hacker. This can be done by removing the network card.
• I wonder if the antichrist would belong to one of those new world order secret societies (Council on Foreign Nations, Trilateral Commission, The Bilderberg Group, The Bohemian Club, World Economic Council, etc.). If he did, the secular members of those groups probably wouldn’t even recognize him.
• The unemployment compensation tax and the tax on garage sales/yard sales should be eliminated.
• I think men who identify as women (transfemales) should have their own sports leagues. Oh, wait. There’s no physical advantage to conmen playing against other conmen. Never mind. Am I being too sarcastic? Nah. By the way, have you ever seen transmales competing against males? The answer is no. Why is that?
• Why is the word “black” capitalized when referring to race and not “yellow,” “brown,” “red” and even “white?” All those words are adjectives and not should be capitalized unless they are part of a title or the first word of a sentence.
• God doesn’t believe. He knows for certain.
• Three words God will never say: I don’t know.
• Kamala Harris’ book 107 Days does not contain the words “Venn diagrams.” I wonder why. She said they fascinated her. I was looking for an in-depth(?) dissertation on them.  
• Remember, collectivists get in power when good patriots stay home and don’t vote.
• It’s not selfish for people to be concerned about their salvation.

Remember 9/11

 

Half-male, half-female songbird discovered in Pennsylvania

From Live Science.com (Oct. 19, 2020):

Biologists recently made a "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery of a bird that's male on the right side and female on the left.

Researchers captured the bird, a rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Powdermill Nature Reserve, an environmental research center in Rector, Pennsylvania.

Plumage colors usually signal if a grosbeak is male or female, but this bird has both sexes' signature shades. Scientists who captured the bird saw male coloration — pink wing "pits," a red breast splash and black wing feathers — on the right side of its body. But the bird's left wing was browner and had yellow "pits," a color combination found in females, museum representatives said in a statement.

This condition, in which an animal possesses male and female traits divided down the middle of its body, is called bilateral gynandromorphism. In birds, gynandromorphy is thought to stem from an error during egg formation. Unfertilized eggs typically contain one sex chromosome: a Z or a W (male birds are ZZ, while females are ZW). But very rarely, an egg develops with two nuclei, one containing a Z chromosome and the other a W chromosome. If this egg is fertilized, it unites with sperm that carry the Z chromosome to produce an embryo with some cells that are ZZ, producing male traits, and some that are ZW, producing female traits, Natural History Magazine reported.

"We caught the bird during normal banding operations," said Annie Lindsay, Powdermill's Avian Research Center (ARC) bird banding program manager. "The bird received an individually numbered band just like all birds we catch," Lindsay told Live Science in an email.

The scientists recorded the grosbeak's age, sex and body measurements. They then collected feathers for genetic analysis and took photos and video before releasing the bird.

"Every member of the banding crew expressed delighted surprise and joy in experiencing the banding of this rare bird," Lindsay said. [read more]

Nature can be so weird.

Horowitz: The one public health emergency the left won't declare

From The Blaze.com (Sept. 19, 2023):

We were told in 2020 that our life, liberty, and property — up to and including our right to breathe freely — were subservient to the government’s capricious invocation of public health needs. As such, under the guise of stopping a virus, state governments were able to mask children for two years, shut down businesses and churches, and even place travel bans on Americans from other states.

Now officials want to use these emergency powers for global warming and, as we saw in New Mexico last week, for gun control. But one instance in which they will not invoke emergency power, even though it would be an appropriate use of federal and state power, is to shut down the flow of millions of illegal aliens crashing our borders and filling our cities.

If a state could shut down cross-state travel for public health, how is it that the federal government and even the states have not closed their borders to people who aren’t entitled to be here? One cannot deny the public health threat of millions of illegal aliens camping out on our major cities’ streets, not to mention the crime, flow of drugs, and strain on our hospitals, schools, and social welfare system.

Here’s the state of play at the border, a reality that has permeated practically every major city.

At present, the Department of Homeland Security is catching roughly 7,000 illegal aliens a day, an annualized rate of about 2.5 million people. Tying down border agents with “catch-and-release” babysitting duties has led to roughly one “gotaway” for every three apprehensions. That is an annualized rate of about 850,000 people, including untold numbers of criminals, gang members, and even international terrorists.

The DHS reports that 160 foreign individuals on terror watch lists have been apprehended in the first 10 months of this fiscal year. These people pay a lot of money to the cartels to cross surreptitiously, so you have to believe a substantially greater number enter the country undetected. And those are only the known terrorists on a watch list.

Are states completely helpless in dealing with the problem? It’s quite evident that the federal government is facilitating the invasion and, as such, will never stop it. That leaves resolving the crisis to the red states. The time has come for states to come together and repatriate illegal aliens with their own resources, such as the state highway patrol and National Guardsmen.

Now comes the inevitable question from those who believe we’re helpless in the face of government betrayal: Isn’t deportation a federal function? [read more]

This is not an emergency to the Left. It's exactly want they want. Good think President Trump won the 2024 election or this emergency would have continued.

Trump: WWII Memorial Vandalism 'No Greater Insult'

From Newsmax.com (Aug. 14):

President Donald Trump blasted the vandalism of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., calling it an insult to the American heroes who died in the conflict and vowing that those responsible will be tracked down.

"Our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals. THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II," Trump posted on Truth Social Friday morning. "We are on their trail! Where do these animals come from???"

The memorial was vandalized Thursday, with its fountain overflowing with soap suds and graffiti reading "Clean hands Dirty $" painted on one surface. Paint was also splattered around the area.

The Friends of the National WWII Memorial, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the site, called the vandalism "unacceptable" and said the memorial is a "sacred place of remembrance."

"There are many places in our country for expression, debate, and disagreement. A national memorial honoring those who served and those who never returned home should never be used as a canvas for vandalism," the group said in a statement.

Dedicated in 2004, the memorial features 56 granite pillars surrounding an elliptical plaza on the National Mall. It honors the roughly 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II and the more than 400,000 who died.

Trump also pointed to an earlier incident at the Reflecting Pool as he denounced the latest vandalism, writing, "First the Reflecting Pool, now this."

Federal officials vowed to identify the person responsible for defacing the memorial.

The Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, condemned the vandalism and said the U.S. Park Police are investigating.

"The vandalism that occurred is an utter disgrace and will not be tolerated," the department said in a statement. "Our U.S. Park Police are on the scene and the investigation is ongoing. The public should know we will find the person responsible for this disgusting act." [source]

Agree. No greater insult and despicable.

An update:

World War II Memorial Vandal Melissa Farris Indicted on Two Felony Counts – Faces 10 Years in Prison