tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371995492024-03-04T23:09:52.102-08:00Rogue CartoonistThis blog features the official and copyrighted work of Ben Garrison, a Libertarian political cartoonist living in Big Sky Country. (That's Montana).Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.comBlogger380125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-85556370148504445472021-01-01T15:47:00.003-08:002021-01-02T02:13:04.138-08:00Claytoonz vs. Ben Garrison<p><a href="https://claytoonz.com/2020/12/14/trumplican-brains/" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknPv9N9p9VvdoZPIvIeLN-OFVwLKgu9WmjOHE-mPoh2gq58f4P5qt8enIurPbq3VaEdcTOLuQE6KKEOKldKYJYLBJEhnqmTZrB3ewHdxmeZlObR0ekpCwsfZDDDxbtmE7Yo2d/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="620" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgknPv9N9p9VvdoZPIvIeLN-OFVwLKgu9WmjOHE-mPoh2gq58f4P5qt8enIurPbq3VaEdcTOLuQE6KKEOKldKYJYLBJEhnqmTZrB3ewHdxmeZlObR0ekpCwsfZDDDxbtmE7Yo2d/w479-h574/image.jpeg" width="479" /></a></div><br /> https://claytoonz.com/2020/12/14/trumplican-brains/<p></p><p>A cartoonist named Clay Jones who calls himself 'Claytoonz' has criticized me many times. Normally I ignore such chuckleheads, but he has also been lying about me, so let me set the record straight.</p><p>I do not draw anti-Semitic or racist cartoons. Now, I do understand that folks on the far left reflexively hurl such smears toward anyone remotely conservative. It's to be expected. However, this young man presents himself as a 'journalist,' and I want to remind him that making up narratives out of whole cloth that don't align with reality is not journalism. </p><p>For example, he recently stated that I applauded Trump for the vaccine rollout. Wrong. Never said it. I'm against vaccines altogether. I've disagreed with the president on many things and I've penned cartoons sharply critical of him--and I'm against his push for an early vaccine for COVID-19. End of story. Cased closed. </p><p>Are editorial cartoonists really 'journalists' as Mr. Toonz claims? In a way we are. We want to convey the truth to the public. We can do investigative journalism to find that truth--something most employed journalists are no longer doing. Nowadays they merely parrot propaganda handed to them by their mega-billionaire owners and the CIA. Mostly, cartoonists express strong <i>opinions</i> on the news. A fair and balanced cartoon that tries to tell all sides of any issue is destined to be a flop.</p><p>Regardless, ClayToonz can call himself whatever he likes--I don't care. Many others don't care, either. Despite being syndicated, despite his quest for awards and validation, and despite his bragging about being in mainstream publications such as the <i>Los Angeles Times </i>and on <i>CNN</i>, he has not garnered as much interest as he apparently expected. Like me he's an independent cartoonist and I'm sure he works hard at his quest for fame and fortune by means of editorial cartooning. If fame and fortune truly are his prime motivation, then he has the wrong mindset because he's basing success on the wrong values. I did not start out drawing cartoons for fame and fortune and in fact, for a long while they cost me money and trolls tarnished my reputation. I drew the cartoons out of a desire to ring alarm bells. I began drawing the cartoons because I saw it as my patriotic duty to help our Republic. I don't want my country to continue its slide toward globalism and socialism. </p><p>Thanks to the ADL's libel I could not get syndicated. Mr. Toonz apparently had no problem getting syndicated--good for him. Yet he remains resentful because grrrgraphics.com has far more twitter followers than he does. My cartoons are seen by far more people than what the average employed and well-paid cartoonist receives. Clay complains about me putting labels on my cartoons (an American tradition) as well as me being a 'propagandist' simply because I balance out the Trump Derangement Syndrome omnipresent in his own work and the cartoons of his leftist peers. Mostly, though, it boils down to jealousy:</p><p><i>"<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;">Garrison has over 230,000 followers on Twitter who are just as insane (to be fair, a lot of those followers may be people laughing at him for the wrong reasons). I have a little over 9,000 and I’m a real boy….I mean cartoonist. You can have concerns about</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;">the virus while not believing it’ll plant a chip inside you. The most absurd thing is, these people believing in the tracking device probably all have cell phones which do track you. Or at the very least, they’re complaining about tracking devices on social media. If you’re on Twitter, you made</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;">tracking easy.-- "ClayToonz</span></i></p><p>Mr. Toonz says it himself. He's jealous! He even took the time to criticize me in a cartoon, which cracked me up. (see cartoon shown in post)</p><p>Despite the endless insults, lies, copyright infringement, trolls, and libel I've faced, my wife and I kept working hard to be able to make a living via cartooning. We're starting to succeed because our message resonates with a great many Americans who believe our constitutional Republic is worth saving. I am a real cartoonist. So is Clay, but message is predictably and consistently simple, overly-insistent, and very obvious, but the style of his cartoons may be what's holding him back. He draws in a flat manner with electric colors. If he drew with the sophistication of, say David Horsey, he'd have far more followers, but Clay's work is harsh and over-exaggerated so much that what he's drawing can be hard to decipher. His Trump is unrecognizable as a human being.</p><p>Clay has his own style and that's fine. But if he really wants to get better and evolve he'll need to stand out from the regular crowd of lefty artists who have long dominated the editorial cartooning world. You know, the usual names who win Pulitzers and then become judges and award them to their friends, circle jerk-like. Mostly, ClayToonz needs to ween himself from the lies spewed by so-called news outfits such as CNN. Maybe he'll develop a more original voice and eventually even garner more followers.</p><p>I wish him luck.</p><p>--Ben Garrison</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div>Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-54355982828977353042019-07-13T15:47:00.005-07:002019-07-13T15:57:01.051-07:00HUFFINGTON POST FAKE NEWS RELEASERead this claptrap from HuffPo:<br />
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<i>"<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/07/10/new-wh-says-cartoonist-is-no-longer-attending-social-media-summit-455141" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Politico reported Wednesday</a><span style="font-family: "proximanova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that Ben Garrison, a </span><a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-invites-alt-right-cartoonist-accused-anti-semite-ben-garrison-to-the-white-house/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">fringe conservative cartoonist</a><span style="font-family: "proximanova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, had been uninvited from the event after reporters dug up his anti-Semitic cartoon depicting the Rothschild family and billionaire investor George Soros ― all Jews ― as puppet masters. Critics called out event organizers for including Garrison in the first place. What did it say about the White House that an outspoken racist was invited to represent conservative social media?"</span></i><br />
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1. I'm an independent cartoonist. 'Fringe' is a pejorative word designed to make me sound like a weirdo.<br />
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2. You didn't have to dig up that cartoon. We have it on our site. We aren't ashamed of it. We aren't hiding anything. It took no digging to find it, you lazy liars.<br />
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3. I criticize the Rothschilds for inflicting their fractional reserve/central banking debt money on us all--and that includes hard working Jews. If I were anti-Semitic, I would have labeled that hand "Jews." You and Politico are libeling me, HuffPo.<br />
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4. Why did you say 'all Jews' when you are alluding to only two of them. Shouldn't it be 'both' instead of all? You did that intentionally for drama and to aggrandize the false outrage.<br />
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5. "Outspoken racist." Please show me where I said anything racist, you lying liars.<br />
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<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-social-media-summit-bigotry-circus_n_5d25ef35e4b0583e482a4457">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-social-media-summit-bigotry-circus_n_5d25ef35e4b0583e482a4457</a>Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-78076952798526779332019-07-13T12:06:00.000-07:002019-07-13T12:06:08.827-07:00Social Media Summit After Party<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Here's a photo from the party held in a banquet room at the Trump International Hotel. I met nearly everyone here except for the woman in the center with the fancy dress. I think she's a singer. I didn't want to wear my hat, but Tina said it was part of my meme and I should keep it on, and as it turned out you wouldn't know I'm here if it weren't for my hat standing out. Anyway, there were a lot of young people there who were very smart, well spoken and many looked like movie s</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">tars to me. The guy with his thumbs up looked a lot like Sammy Davis Jr.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Some have said I brought it on myself by announcing the invitation I received from the president. I can’t disagree with that assessment now, but at the time we at <a href="http://www.grrrgraphics.com/">GrrrGraphics</a> were</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">bursting with excitement. We wanted to share the news with those who have helped us. After all, our supporters were the ones who would make such a trip possible. There would have been</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">no way I could afford to go without them, and it was an </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">expensive</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> trip.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">My old suit was 20 years old and I could no longer fit in it. So I bought a nice new suit and new shoes. I had to buy plane tickets and since they weren’t purchased well in advance they</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">weren’t cheap—even though I got the cheapest, ‘basic economy’ tickets I could find. (It would also mean that later I could not cancel and get my money back). I was going to stay at the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">cheapest hotel I could find too, but my wife correctly stated that if I’m going to see the president I needed to stay at</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> his</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> hotel. So I did. It cost well over $300 per night. At the end, it cost us a</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">small fortune. The taxi fare to and from Dulles Airport was very expensive. After I arrived at the hotel I was hungry and so got myself a steak dinner. Along with one martini added in, the tab</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">came to $88. Plus tip. On my final night there I decided to scrimp and just eat an appetizer. That came to $28 for a shrimp cocktail containing four shrimp, but at least it was artfully</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">presented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">The expense would have been worth it had I been able to see the president in person as planned. Alas, it was not to be. The ADL made sure of that. The Anti Defamation League is an</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">organization designed to thwart bigotry and hate toward Jewish people. They try to punish anyone who might express sentiments by means of public condemnation and shame. In other</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">words, their mission to end ‘hate speech’ is brought about by </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">controlling </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">free speech. They’re now an official censor. How in the hell did that happen?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Out of all the cartoons I’ve drawn over the last ten years, the ADL focussed on a single cartoon drawn by me. It was commissioned by Mike Cernovich, who helped us out a lot during a time</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">when we needed help the most. After he published the cartoon, he immediately received flak and as a result he cropped out the controlling hand at the top. Since it was his cartoon it was his</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">prerogative, but the uncropped version remains on our website. I will not apologize for it, because there’s nothing to apologize </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"><i>for</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">. It’s also featured in my latest coffee table book, which will</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">be sent out later this summer to all those who bought it in advance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">The cartoon was used by the ADL as ‘proof’ of my ‘blatant anti-Semitism.’ Since I was going to the White House the biased corporate media soon piled on and breathlessly repeated the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">smear, and the word ‘blatant.’ It wasn’t blatant and it wasn’t anti-Semitic. It was anti-central banking and globalism. Regardless, Jake Tapper did a gleeful tap dance as he played the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"><i>‘Gotcha!’</i> game. The fake news media made a huge something out of literally nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">As a result, a White House representative called me. They were wondering if my presence would be too much of a ‘distraction.' I didn</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">’t pick up on their cue at first. “Oh no, don’t worry about</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">it, it’s just a tempest in a teapot—I’m still happy to be coming.” Silly me. I didn’t pick up their real intent. I was being asked to</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> voluntarily withdraw </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">so the president wouldn’t be seen as the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">one who kicked me out. They wanted me to kick myself out for the good of the summit and so I did. My only proviso to them was that it all be kept silent. I would not tell anyone and the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">White House wouldn’t mention I wasn’t going to be there either. The media could all twist in their collectivist wind.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">But that’s not what happened. Instead they quickly caught wind that I wasn’t going and gleefully howled about their victory. Did they find out from someone at the White House? That’s</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">what I thought at first and I felt betrayed and angry. I was on CNN International News. It was said Trump was doing the right thing by banning an ‘obvious’ anti-Semitic person such as me.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Later the White House denied they leaked the story and that they were engaged in ‘fake news’ speculation. Really? What an obfuscated mess! My reputation was trampled upon mercilessly.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Like that scene played by Al Pacino in “Scarface,” I was the ‘bad guy.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">’</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;"><b>"What you lookin' at? You're all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy.”</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">The ADL needs people like me. They need to point a hectoring finger of attention to someone who they can claim is an anti-Semitic monster. Someone who is a purveyor of hate and</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">potential harm to Jewish people. They capitalize on that fear to draw in millions of dollars in donations, which helps bring them power and more influence. I was held up as their ‘bad guy.’</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Their evidence? I labeled a sinister hand with the word, “Rothschilds.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">I put that same word on another cartoon. The ‘R’s were featured in a vast swamp that also showed President Trump, who was just starting to drain it. Why didn’t they focus on that cartoon?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Because it portrayed Trump in a positive light. Instead, they riveted attention toward the classic puppet/string metaphor, which they claimed in and of itself was anti-Semitic. This link will</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">show you their take on it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">This is the supposed evidence that made me into their ‘bad guy.’ They’re wrong. If I were really anti-Semitic, I would have written the word “Jews” on the hand. I didn’t. I don’t go after</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">people based on their race or religion. I criticize people for what they do. What did the Rothschilds do? For centuries, they’ve dominated global finance. It’s a family that pushed a globalist</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">agenda while manipulating countries and currencies. They’ve urged countries to go to war with each other, while profiting on both sides. The Rothschilds virtually invented central and</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">fractional reserve banking and were instrumental in the formation of the Federal Reserve debt money system. JP Morgan did their bidding.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">They say the ‘R' family today has dissipated their wealth and are no longer a factor. If that’s the case, why all the fuss? It is said we know who is really running the show when we find out</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">whom we cannot discuss. We can’t talk about the Rothschilds. They are protected by a red shield—their ‘anti-Semitism’ accusation shield.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">It’s hard to find out what the Rothschilds are currently worth. An internet search would show that the ‘R’ family has little wealth today. They’ve fallen on hard times! </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">Stop attacking those poor</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">people!</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"><i> </i>In actuality, a small number of families control 40 percent of the world’s wealth. You can’t mention these families without getting attacked. I suspect the ‘R’s’ are still trillionaires,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">but their wealth is hidden by trust funds and such. Regardless, the cartoon represents the globalist central bankers that pull the strings of Soros and it’s getting to the point now where you</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">can no longer mention George’s last name in a negative light without getting called anti-you-know-who.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">I’m not anti-Semitic and I’ve never drawn a single anti-Semitic cartoon. The Rothschilds are public and historical figures that should not be immune to criticism. Their debt money system</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">hurts us all—including average and hard working Jews! If the ADL wants to imagine sinister things about me and claim my cartoons are dogwhistles for anti-Semitism, then they should</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">state that as </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">opinion</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">, not fact. Unfortunately their opinion is treated as fact by the mainstream media. As a result, I was viciously libeled. It has cost me my reputation and a lot of money. It</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18px;">also cost me a chance to see the president.</span><br />
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What I reported was <i class="">clearly </i>a ‘hate speech’ page, even though they were using my cartoons which they vandalized to express their quest for murder. Facebook, as usual, said it did not violate their community standards. As long as conservatives are made to look like monsters, Zuckerberg seemed to be A-OK with it.<br />
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Now the CEO of Facebook is blatantly censoring conservative people such as Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Laura Loomer. Facebook will not even allow on ‘his’ site praise for these people by others. Zuckerberg wants them digitally erased from history. He labeled them ‘dangerous individuals.’ The lefty media teamed up and parroted the defamation, calling them ‘controversial figures of hate.’ It’s all ridiculous, but at least Facebook’s lies have been exposed. We know how the Deep State, including the CIA and Silicon Valley, consider those of us who want to preserve our Republic to be ‘figures of hate.’</div>
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Silicon Valley companies will increasingly allow conservatives to be banned as we approach the 2020 election. What’s next, will they call us ‘terrorists?’ Will we be sent to gulags? Facebook now has around 2.7 billion users. People depend on it to easily connect with friends and family. It has become a public utility of sorts and it all may have started with CIA funding.</div>
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Before you call me a conspiracy theorist, consider that the CIA has for a long time been funding Silicon Valley tech companies that interest them. They created a venture capital firm called “In-Q-Tel,” and that firm helped fund many up-and-comers including Peter Thiel’s “Palantir,” which was an all-encompassing means to gather data on everything. Although Thiel is a self-professed ‘libertarian,’ his Palantir destroys privacy. It is literally the Eye of Sauron. In the hands of the CIA, it would make that institution that much more powerful and tyrannical. Thiel may have also recommended funding for Facebook. He got in early and made a large part of his billions through Facebook stock. The CIA must love their honeypot that is Facebook. After all, billions of people voluntarily release their personal details. Zuckerberg loves it because he sells the dumb effers' data to advertisers. Facebook users are also the product. Zuckerberg is the pefect nerdy front man for the CIA. As a bonus, Zuckerberg spent some time at Harvard, which is a known and very corrupt pipeline feeding the Deep State Swamp.</div>
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Now the billionaire tyrant wants to introduce a social credit system that rewards users for politically correct behavior on his platform. It sounds suspiciously similar to China’s system, designed to keep their citizens in line. Everyone there wants a high rating. Those with low ratings are unable to travel, get a loan, or even get a job. Zuckerberg wants that for Americans. </div>
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The CIA commands way too much power and control and they always want more. I doubt many taxpayers know they are funding their own enslavement by allowing a ‘security’ agency to fund Silicon Valley companies, who now control most of our digital free speech. The CIA seems to love billionaires like Zuckerberg, Soros, and Bezos, who are working together to silence patriots who value freedom.</div>
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<br />Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-14111750042668032982019-04-28T17:42:00.000-07:002019-05-02T19:38:28.743-07:00My Doomed Attempt to Converse With Young Socialists<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: 18px;">https://www.apnews.com/7825d0df3fda4799a78da92b9e969cdc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: 18px;">Update: Facebook kicked off Alex Jones and many others today--and defamed them for being bigots, racists, and purveyors of 'hate speech.' That's richly ironic since FB for years allowed the theft of my name and face to spread hate and terrorist threats. BUT--since I'm conservative, it's just funny, right Zuckerberg? I didn't get the boot today but I have been temporarily banned for 'hate speech.' What I said wasn't hateful at all--but functionaries at Zuckerberg's CIA-created platform, they get to make up whatever they want. Zuckerberg is the hater--he hates our First Amendment. He's a traitor and a twerp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: 18px;">I noticed a page on Facebook set up to bash me and my cartoons. This seemed a little strange. If they hated my cartoons so much, they could simply not look at them. Regardless, the page was a great improvement over what I had to deal with about five years ago. In 2014, Facebook allowed 10 instances of pages using my name and face along with vandalized cartoons—all designed to destroy my reputation. The pages had a lot of followers—and they received far more traffic than our own website was receiving at the time. The pages were peppered with quotes attributed to me calling for the murder of Jews, African Americans, gay people, and so on. Facebook would not immediately remove the pages even though they were calling for violence and murder. It would take weeks of complaints from me to get a page removed, only for another page to spring up and take its place. In 2014 alone I spent over 100 man hours trying to remove troll material and impersonators from Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. It took years of struggle to finally regain my own identity and make people realize I was not the Nazi doppleganger the trolls had created.</span><br />
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Still, I was a little surprised to come across a page set up to allow left-leaning and mostly young socialists to attack and make fun of my cartoons. That’s fine—at least the cartoons got under their skin enough to do such a thing. The trolls have long been defeated by us, and at this point there’s no such thing as bad publicity. The moderator there said no conservatives would be allowed except temporarily—so that he would have time to encourage his socialist members to laugh and crudely insult them—<i class="">until they’re driven off the page. </i></div>
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This was short-lived. Soon the board was getting chastised for ‘sucking up to Ben just because he’s a celebrity.’ I don’t consider myself or care about celebrity, but shortly thereafter reasoned debate and decorum were out the window. I continued to reply to the AMA threads as well as comment on new cartoons that were posted. The trolls multiplied and began to get more aggressive. They kept calling me a ‘coward' for not ‘debating’ them, but I didn’t consider vile insults to be debate. I was told that when the socialists took over I would be sent to a gulag and forced to draw pro-Marx cartoons. Socialism doesn’t work. It always devolves into naked tyranny that<i class=""> forces </i>people to work. They were already expressing this mindset in their comments.</div>
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Bear in mind that I expected to be called names and I was—very frequently. Many expressed their sadistic delight at having a chance to ‘shit’ on me. That’s how they put it. Everything posted by me was met with hearty laughter. I was repeatedly called a ‘coward’ for avoiding answers to questions that I was in no way avoiding. The once polite pack of mostly young people seemed to smell blood in the water and went after me like piranhas. I was told what I was doing was a ‘crime’ and that I lacked humanity. Dehumanizing someone by calling them names such as ‘racist’ or ‘bigot’ or ‘Nazi’ is what allows Antifa to commit violence. </div>
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Anyway, eventually I was insulted about my sagging face. So what? I’m an old man—what can be done? Tina was insulted for her looks, too. I tried to tell the young chuckleheads that old age will happen to them, too--and far sooner than they imagine, but it was no use. None of the insults bothered me. After receiving endless hate mail and getting trolled for years on end, I’m now well-calloused to insult, but the participants were all acting on a very low-level of consciousness and it became pointless and sad. It was time to for me to leave, and so I did. Shortly thereafter the moderator accused me of being ‘afraid of debate.’ The truth is he encouraged his socialist members to laugh and crudely insult me--<i class="">until I was driven off the page. </i></div>
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Additional update: The young socialists hate free speech. They continue to attack me and now Facebook gave me a three-day ban. Bear in mind that I don't like hate speech, but I definite it differently. I consider hate speech to be libel, defamation, death threats, and terrorist threats. NOPE! It now includes making an offhand remark or joke that hurts the feelings of someone, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Once upon a time Facebook allowed pages to be created by trolls. They used my name, my face, and vandalized cartoons while calling for murder--the murder of gays, blacks, jews, and so on. Facebook refused to remove these pages time after time. There were 10 instances in 2014. In one case I had to enlist the help of lawyers to get them removed. So now we know--Facebook hates conservatives and libertarians. We can talk about the weather or the food we like (promptly sold to advertisers) but we're not allowed to talk about social issues or politics--that's 'hate speech.' It will get worse for Trump supporters as the 2020 election approaches.<br />
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This excessive abuse of government power by jackbooted thugs were condemned by Democrats. Oh wait…no….they heartily applauded such action. HBO comedian Bill Maher said Stone was an upper echelon bad guy who deserved it because he’s so unlikeable. He’s expecting them to arrest President Trump next, whom he constantly calls a ‘traitor.’ Maher continues to cling to the Russian collusion lie and jokes that Trump is working for Putin. The dossier used by the FBI to conduct surveillance on Trump and his campaign was based on that lie, which was bought and paid for by Hillary. Hillary is an arch criminal and traitor who should be in jail. She lied to the FBI, destroyed evidence, sold her country out for money (Uranium One) and dozens of other crimes I won’t get into here. Suffice it to say she’s exacting revenge on the ‘deplorables’ who helped get Trump elected. Roger Stone efficaciously made that happen.</div>
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A big fuss and show had to be made over Stone’s arrest. The rogue criminal cartel known as the Deep State must make something out of literally nothing to justify the arrest of more targets—their final target being Trump himself. This is a coup being carried out by the Deep State and its special prosecutor is especially corrupt–and without oversight or accountability. Mueller has an unlimited budget while being responsible to no one. He does what he wants and sends his Gestapo out to get the job done. No, I won’t say how great some FBI agents are and that they’re good people and ‘patriots.’ They are going along with an unconstitutional take down down of a lawfully-elected president. The FBI and CIA need to be broken up. They have accrued way too much power over the decades. They all share in the blame, as does the traitorous Deep State media arms. CIA-NN in particular. Their tipoff to make the show more scary was absolutely disgusting. The government watchdogs who were once supposed to be journalists have become lying, filthy rats in charge of brainwashing citizens.</div>
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We are hurtling toward very dark times if we don’t stop this. First they came for Stone—eventually they’ll get to all of us deplorables for invented crimes. They already have enough illegally obtained info on us all. They have our email, browsing history, phone calls, purchases, financial and medical records—everything. It’s all stored up and ready to use against us for some concocted process crime. They will then send us to prison or gulags. What’s next, a shot in the back of the head? Ha ha, very funny, right Bill Maher? I’m sure many Democrats would applaud that, too. Anything to further their cause of communism.</div>
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-36369158270995918582018-12-12T12:28:00.001-08:002018-12-12T12:28:06.513-08:00Hate Speech is (mostly) Free SpeechI was disturbed by Apple CEO Tim Cook's speech as he accepted an award from the ADL for his 'courage' against 'hate.' Here is an excerpt:<br />
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"We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence, Cook said. "You have no place on our platform. You have no home here."<br />
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Cook went on to say that this is a longtime view of Apple's, and he pointed out the company's removal of Infowars content earlier this year. Apple, he said, is not afraid to say that its values drive its curation decisions.<br />
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From the earliest days of iTunes to Apple Music today, we have always prohibited music with a message of white supremacy. Why? Because it's the right thing to do.<br />
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And as we showed this year, we won't give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the App Store. Why? Because it's the right thing to do.<br />
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Infowars never called for violence. I've personally met Alex Jones and I can assure everyone that he's neither racist nor a 'white supremacist.'<br />
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I'm not anti-Semitic and I have Jewish friends who are libertarians. They LIKE Alex Jones and are against the Federal Reserve. It's not anti-Semitic to call out a warning against the ADL who have set themselves up as the arbiter of what's 'free speech' and what's 'hate speech.' I'm on their list because I criticized the Rothschilds in one of my cartoons. WHAT? We're not allowed to criticize the corrupt central banking system without being assigned the 'hate speech' label, which leads to social media bans and maybe even getting banned from Patreon and PayPal? This is a dangerous and slippery slope, folks.<br />
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So now 'conspiracy theorists' are lumped in with 'white supremacists' and 'haters' and must be banned from all Silicon Valley platforms. This is how they're going to end up banning all conservatives in order to have a monopoly on what can be said and not said. The power-mad PC lefties will FORCE us to behave and accept their agenda, which includes the silencing of Christians, the forced acceptance of 'climate change' and a carbon tax, the forced relinquishment of our guns and Second Amendment while forcing us into a Chinese-style social credit system. This must be stopped. NOW. Who says the ADL has the exclusive right to determine what is and what is not hate speech? Tim Cook is leading Apple toward the very dystopian society that the first Apple commercial in 1984 warned us about.<br />
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I know what real hate speech is--trolls used my name and face and altered cartoons to call for the murder of blacks, gays and the far left. Hate speech was not free speech for me. It was very costly. It cost me my reputation and lost work from my commercial art business. It cost me peace of mind.<br />
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At one desperate point to make it stop I said "hate speech is not free speech.' Well, sometimes it isn't. Hate speech in the form of death threats, defamation, libel, and slander is actionable in a court of law. Andrew Anglin is finding that out when he sent his troll army to target a jewish woman and her family. She slapped a lawsuit on him, and rightfully so.<br />
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I could not afford such lawsuits. There was nothing I could do about it except sit and take it. Hate speech to me still meant having my reputation and ability to make a living destroyed due to copyright infringement, slander and libel. <i>Now, however, 'hate speech' is whatever the ADL says it is. </i><br />
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Suspicious about Sandy Hook and want to point out the weird anomalies that took place? SHUT UP!--that's HATE SPEECH! Question the veracity of the moon landings? SHUT UP!--that's HATE SPEECH! Question Al Gore's 'Global Warming?" SHUT UP--that's HATE SPEECH! To protect free speech we must tolerate hate speech up to a certain point, even though I still say libel, death threats, and defamation still cross the line. That's actionable. But mostly, we can counter hate speech with free speech. Banning hate speech will only cause it to fester.<br />
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And that's my tirade for today.--BGBen Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-30322280713695312892018-12-05T14:01:00.002-08:002018-12-05T15:21:59.410-08:00BUSH CRIME FAMILY LOSES THEIR LEADER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What are we becoming—North Korea? A 'dear leader' has died and the state officially announces we must mourn? Banks, post offices and the stock market are closed to honor Bush. Will be forced to shed tears next? It’s all disgusting to me. George Bush was a war criminal who helped orchestrate 9-11 from behind the scenes with Dick Cheney. Forget his son, ‘Fredo’ Bush. ‘W’ was also a war criminal, but he was only smart enough to carry out marching orders from his dad.</div>
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-79346245999890925442018-12-04T00:31:00.001-08:002018-12-04T00:31:21.960-08:00Do Not Pay Tribute to H.W. Bush!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This cartoon cost us quite a few supporters. One man made it very clear to me that he lost all respect for me and that he would no longer support me…and that I was no better than Hillary Clinton and how Bush was a great, kind man and a heroic patriot and so forth blah blah blah. Why on Earth did he support me in the first place? Both Bush presidents lied to get us into war. They served the Deep State and its military industrial complex. A Kuwaiti girl testified to Congress about babies in incubators being murdered by Iraqis. Didn’t happen. She was the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador. A lot of people died in the war that resulted, many from cancer due to depleted uranium used in high-powered weapons.</div>
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Both father and son were Skull & Bones men. So was Prescott Bush. That means they were sworn to power via Satanic rites and will employ ruthless means to obtain and wield power. I did not reply to the man I so greatly offended and sooner or later I’m going to offend every supporter we have because after all, nobody sees eye-to-eye on everything. Even I’ve changed my mind on issues over time. The old me would not agree with the young me.</div>
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I won’t be saluting H.W., except perhaps with the salute of a stiff mid digit. Nor will I participate in moments of silence as a tribute to him. Not that anyone will notice–I’m tucked away in the obscurity of a snowy and cold Montana.</div>
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We do depend on our supporters, however. Our Patreon support went down by 10 percent. If it weren’t for a few loyal and generous benefactors (you know who you are), I’d only be able to dash off an occasional cartoon. I’d have to beat the pavement and look for more commercial art jobs. Or look for some sort of mop job. W never had to do that. He had everything handed to him. He was the Fredo of the family, but did has he was told. If he had been born to a regular family, he’d probably have a job at a tire store or something.</div>
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The Bushes were not great men. Barbara Bush was a mean-spirited old hag. The Bushes are men of privilege, corruption and criminality. Prescott Bush was one involved in trying to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a Nazi system. He admired, helped, and profited from the Nazis. Their vision of a New World Order now exists under the EU. The EU oligarchy even want a European army. H.W. Bush loved the New World Order–as long as he was part of that oligarchy.</div>
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Here's a photo of him in Dallas after the Kennedy assassination. H.W. claimed he couldn't remember where he was when it happened. Really? I can remember when it happened. I was in the first grade and heard it on the playground. I still remember. Why couldn't he? Because he's a liar. He was there as a CIA man helping matters. Later when Reagan was almost assassinated, the Bushes were there, too. They were friends with the Hinkley family. A 100 million-to-one chance? I don't think so.</div>
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'National Review' mentioned me in an article written by a Canadian man with his nose far, far up in the air (and probably in other places). No wonder this know it all, neocon, 'never-Trump' echo chamber has lost credibility. The NR itself is in decline--not just editorial cartooning, you toffee-nosed Brahmin bullshitters!</div>
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"Way on the other end, there is Ben Garrison, the favored cartoonist of the Trump-era Right. Garrison is a talented artist with firm allegiance to the traditional norms of editorial cartooning, yet his work is so childishly partisan that it’s painful to consume in large doses. The man is a living example of Poe’s Law — which states that earnestness is often indistinguishable from mean-spirited parody. A typical Garrison cartoon depicts our lumpy president as a lantern-jawed he-man fighting various embodiments of the Left and stock villains of the crackpot Right (Illuminati, Rothschilds, chemtrails, etc.). This too serves no purpose beyond propaganda."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif;"><b>"OUR" lumpy president? JJ, you are CANADIAN. Stick with drawing pro-Trudeau cartoons. You've stated, "Editorial cartooning now appears to be something of a dead art so lately I’ve been trying to move on to other things." It's a dead art for you because you're no good! Because your cartoons are DOA doesn't mean the entire genre is dying.</b></span><br />
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Notice how outfits like the NR like to shill for the establishment. The Deep State does not exist for them because they are one of its mouthpieces. The CIA, FBI, CFR, the Bilderbergs, the military industrial complex, central bankers and so forth--all are good guys to NR and if you question it you're called a conspiracy nut. There are corrupt villains in the Deep State--they are not 'stock.'</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are CNN's cartoonist! Here's a <i>childish</i> cartoon you drew showing Trump with small hands, squinty eyes, tan lines, etc etc. The usual approach from anti-Trumpers. You drew the corrupt hag Hillary in a positive light. Your cartoons are ham-handed and flat. Death of editorial cartooning? Yes, and hacks such as you are definitely a part of that trend. </span></div>
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1. On July 29, 1967, the spoiled brat McCain pulled a prank and wet started his jet as while aboard the USS Forrestal. His mother lovingly called him a ‘scamp’ and it was well known he was a practical joker and rule breaker. He finished near rock bottom in a class of over 800 at Annapolis because he tried to break every rule in the book there while also making terrible grades. Such a prank befits his character. The huge flame created touched off a bomb on the plane behind him which led to more bombs going off from other parked planes, which then led to the deaths of 134 sailors. McCain did nothing to help during the fire. He quickly jumped ship and was later transferred to another carrier. He didn't even ask permission to leave because he was protected by his father and grandfather who were both Navy admirals. The Deep State Swamp media has since tried to cover this up. They protect their own.</div>
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<br />Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-63501426382745824402018-08-10T14:18:00.006-07:002018-08-10T14:18:56.955-07:00MOCK THEIR SANCTIMONY!<div class="pb-sig-line inline-content hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column" style="align-items: baseline; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: FranklinPro, FranklinITCProLight, "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Franklin Gothic", "ITC Franklin Gothic", "Apple SD Gothic Neo", "Myriad Set Pro", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica Neue Light", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harry Litman teaches constitutional law at the University of California at San Diego and practices law at the firm Constantine Cannon. He was U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2001.</i></div>
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Even as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/testimony-by-right-hand-man-critical-in-manafort-trial/2018/08/06/94c2349c-9936-11e8-a8d8-9b4c13286d6b_story.html?utm_term=.00f09eff85cc" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">marches forward</a> with his prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and as the case that President Trump engaged in criminal conduct <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/27/the-trump-tower-meeting-increasing-looks-as-bad-for-trump-as-it-at-first-seemed/?utm_term=.f070653e3678" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grows stronger</a>, </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">NO IT DOESN'T GROW STRONGER--THERE WAS NEVER CASE TO BEGIN WITH. YOU DON'T SAY HOW IT IS GROWING STRONGER BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE, SIR! THE CASE BASED ON A PROVEN FAKE DOSSIER PURCHASED BY HILLARY TO SMEAR TRUMP. THERE WAS NO 'CRIMINAL CONDUCT' BY TRUMP NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU ENGAGE IN WISHING AND HOPING!</span></span></h3>
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the president and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani continue their tango about whether the president will deign to answer questions from Mueller’s team.</div>
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Enough is enough. <b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ENOUGH WHAT? THERE IS NO THERE THERE! </span></b>It’s time to subpoena the president. <b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO, IT'S TIME TO END THIS FARCE OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT HAS COST TAXPAYERS OVER $20 MILLION!</span></b></h3>
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Mueller has been extraordinarily deferential and patient while Trump and his representatives engaged in their scarcely credible gamesmanship. </div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Notwithstanding Giuliani’s representations that Trump is pawing the stall </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">(WTF?!)</span> </b></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">eager to submit to an interview under oath, it has become increasingly apparent that neither Trump nor anyone in his orbit has any interest in his answering Mueller’s questions. In a word, they are playing Mueller, and in the process, playing the country.</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WRONG-O, IT IS THE DEEP STATE SWAMP THAT IS DOING THE PLAYING!</b></span></div>
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Mueller surely recognizes this, but he likely has resisted forcing the issue into court for a combination of practical and legal reasons, <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE HAS NO CASE, MORON!</span></b> including the months-long delay a court resolution would require and the need to show every possible respect to the office of the president (if not its officeholder). <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU HATE TRUMP AND SMEAR HIM--THAT'S WHAT THIS PIECE IS ALL ABOUT!</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Trump’s intransigence raises the prospect that Mueller will need to submit his report to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein with no input from the president. This is simply an unacceptable resolution for a probe of this gravity. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>WHAT <i>GRAVITY?</i> IT'S A CREATION OF DEEP STATE ANTI-TRUMPERS! </b></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mueller’s mission is not just to investigate and charge crimes. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">NO CRIME COMMITTED BY THE PRESIDENT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WISH IT! </span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is also to determine what happened. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOUR BELOVED TRAITOR OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY ILLEGALLY GOT A FISA WARRANT PUSHED THROUGH BASED ON LIES! </span></b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, he is the country’s only hope for some clear picture of the facts. As the recently released tapes of </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/09/devin-nunes-in-secretly-recorded-tape-tells-donors-gop-majority-is-necessary-to-protect-trump-were-the-only-ones/?utm_term=.f6d41ae52bb9" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="www.washingtonpost.com">Rep. Devin Nunes</a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> (R-Calif.) makes clear, congressional Republicans are determined to avoid any serious investigation, and the media can probe only so far.</span></div>
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A stunning feature of the drama Trump has inflicted on the country <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">NO, HILLARY AND DEEP STATE CRIMINALS INFLICTED THIS DRAMA UPON US, YOU IDIOT!</span></b> is that we have become inured to daily dishonesty of an unprecedented sweep and magnitude. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU BLAME TRUMP FOR WHAT THE DEEP STATE SWAMP IS DOING DAILY </span></b>We acquiesce, or at least cease to push back against, the argument that lying to the media and public is no crime. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">TRUMP/RUSSIA COLLUSION IS THE LIE AND THE CRIME IS THE FBI AND OBAMA ILLEGALLY SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!</span></b></div>
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Consider, though, the consequences of the president’s denials and obfuscations on issue after issue in this probe (combined with the cravenness of congressional Republicans). Trump’s successful dodging would leave a permanent hole in the historical record, particularly on a hostile foreign power’s attempt to influence our elections. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">UNPROVEN--BULLSHIT LIES~!</span></b> There will be no future <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/world/europe/david-frost-known-for-nixon-interview-dead-at-74.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 213, 213); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="www.nytimes.com">David Frost interviews</a> to fill in the facts, and if there were, we could never believe them anyway. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">TRUMP IS NOT NIXON AND THE REAL SCANDAL IS FROM DEMOCRATS TRYING TO BRING ABOUT A COUP AGAINST A LAWFULLY-ELECTED PRESIDENT! THE DOINGS OF HILLARY, OBAMA AND THE CORRUPT FBI ARE FAR WORSE THAN NIXON'S WATERGATE SCANDAL!</span></b></div>
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It is true, of course, that Trump could respond to a subpoena by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. He is not legally required to fill in Mueller’s case for him. But that act would speak volumes to the country, while subjecting the president to historical ignominy. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU DON'T GET TO PAINT HISTORY, CHUCKLEHEAD!</span></b> And there is no constitutional reason it shouldn’t: We are not an impaneled jury, but a citizenry entitled to know whether the president committed crimes and conspired with a hostile foreign power to try to swing the election.</div>
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It is also conceivable that the Supreme Court could agree with the president to quash the subpoena, but it is highly unlikely. Precedents in the cases of presidents Nixon and Clinton strongly indicate the subpoena would be enforceable. And it is in the interest of the country to get a definite resolution of the question from the Supreme Court in any event.</div>
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Assuming Trump contested the subpoena, it would take months to reach the Supreme Court, even on an expedited basis. But Mueller’s probe has longer than that to go with respect to matters other than obstruction, so it wouldn’t extend the overall investigation. It would mean that the obstruction report would not be delivered by November, thereby leaving the probe to hang over Republicans during midterm elections. But that probably would be — and certainly should be — ascribed to Trump’s resistance to lawful process.</div>
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In any event, the long-term stakes are too high to permit Trump’s obduracy to win the day. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">TRUMP HAS ALREADY WON BECAUSE TRUTH IS ON HIS SIDE! </span></b>He needs to be brought to heel <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">RULE OF LAW THAT OBAMA AND HILLARY ROUTINELY BROKE, YOU HEEL! </span></b>by the rule of law and provide some answers, under oath, and there is no good reason to wait any longer to initiate the process. <b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">UTTER BUNK, YOU LYING, LEFTIST POLITICAL HACK!</span></b></div>
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-20889191769781256652018-08-10T13:43:00.000-07:002018-08-10T13:45:03.807-07:00The Demonization of Alex Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a shameful article from the left-leaning CNBC, we read about the 'dark side of untrammeled discourse' (they want censorship and trammeling) as well as the dangerous 'conspiracy theorist' Alex Jones, whom they smear as a 'right-wing provocateur.'<br />
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What they're doing is excusing Silicon Valley for blatantly censoring the free speech of a patriot and journalist who informed of us<i> real conspiracies-</i>-not conspiracy 'theories.' The Deep State, the Bilderbergs, and fluoride in our water are only a few examples of such 'theories.' They're now established facts.<br />
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The fact of the matter is the Deep State and the oligarchs that run things continue to lose control of the dialogue and people are dismissing their narrative of globalism. It's their game and they want to keep their private monopoly and control of minds.<br />
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Since they're LOSING the argument they're now resorting to gross censorship. Lefty media outlets such as CNN, "The Washington Post" and CNBC are applauding this assault on our First Amendment. The latter published piece that refers to Jones, which can be read here:<br />
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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/the-associated-press-tech-giants-still-stumbling-in-the-social-world-they-created.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/the-associated-press-tech-giants-still-stumbling-in-the-social-world-they-created.html</a><br />
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Notice how they added insults into their story---as if to suggests conservatives are violent 'Nazis,' murderers and rapists. This is despicable and a disgusting example of editorial reporting.<br />
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<i><b>That all got dicier once the election of <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/" style="color: #2077b6; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">President Donald Trump</a> focused new attention on fake news and organized misinformation campaigns — not to mention the fact that some of the people grabbing these new social-media megaphones were wild conspiracy theories who falsely call mass shootings a hoax, white nationalists who organize violent rallies and men who threaten women with rape and murder.</b></i></div>
Shame on all the censors from Silicon Valley and the legacy media who want to control what used to be free speech on social media.<br />
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--Ben GarrisonBen Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-67934328009948629362018-07-25T15:10:00.001-07:002018-07-25T15:10:30.134-07:00TSLA: Short of The Century<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;">The volatile billionaire Elon Musk has been in the news a lot lately, so I thought I’d dash out a cartoon about him. The man is quite a character with varied ambitions, but lately he’s been mostly concentrating on making a success of Tesla, the maker of luxury electric cars. I’ve looked at the money-losing company with skepticism for a long time. I’ve also been perplexed that its stock could reach such a high orbit. After all, Tesla has chewed through billions of dollars and many problems remain to be solved. I’ve read that it burns around $6 million per day and has already run up a $9.4 billion debt. These figures are constantly in a flux, but they can be readily obtained through internet searches.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;">Musk’s ego may soon be crashing into fiscal reality. He has a big stake in the company and naturally wants it to succeed, but his erratic behavior isn’t helping. TSLA is one of the most heavily shorted stocks and he hates those who are doing the shorting. According to ‘Zero Hedge,’ Musk leaned on the boss of a well-known critic and short seller of TSLA going by the handle, “Montana Skeptic.” He voluntarily deleted his Twitter account to keep his job. If this rumor is true, then such behavior by Musk is completely reprehensible. A CEO should never attack shorts because it only makes the situation look worse. Shorts can also be beneficial because they add liquidity and if the company has success, a short covering spike can add shine to that success.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;">Running a electric car company that has already lost billions should be a full plate for any ‘visionary,' but apparently that’s not enough risk for Musk. He’s also behind ‘SpaceX’ and space is always a risky and expensive venture. He wants to colonize Mars and even joked that he might be named ‘emperor’ of that orange world that is one third the size of Earth. It also has no breathable atmosphere, no magnetosphere to protect humans from on-coming radiation from the sun, no temperate climate, very cold temperatures and no easily obtainable water. Apparently the man likes a challenge. </span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;">My worry is he’ll get government to bail him out. The taxpayers in California are already subsidizing TSLA to a degree because government there is desperate to reduce the smog from all the internal combustion engines on their jammed freeways. Look for a big bailout from California taxpayers, even though that state is a cash-strapped mess. If that’s not enough, look for the US taxpayers to bail out “the too big to fail” TSLA. It will be far worse than Solyndra. </span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;">There is a joke going around the Internet regarding Tesla. Recently it was discovered there was a lot of inventory sitting out in a California field and going nowhere. The joke is Tesla is outstanding in its field. Let’s hope the batteries in those neglected vehicles don’t catch fire in this summer heat.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px;"><i>—Ben Garrison</i></span>Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-46721249227269156372018-07-25T15:08:00.000-07:002018-07-25T15:08:46.232-07:00The Latest Internet Extortion Scam<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: 18px;">I've now received a couple of these annoying emails. The anonymous senders with fake names are attempting to extort people. I thought I'd answer them here. They know porn sites are very popular and receive a ton of traffic. Their emails are designed to snag users and strike fear into their hearts. The scam artists' emails are usually filled with bad grammar, but what's especially annoying is their morally superior tone. THEY are doing something outright criminal by means of extortion, but they treat recipients as if they were caught in some dreadful wrong doing and so they're spending a lot of their valuable time doing the work because they're concerned citizens or something. They hope to catch a 'perpetrator' masturbating in the privacy of her or his own home and they want to exploit and profit from the shame. Their unctuous tone is pervasive throughout. The 'fee' varies from sender to sender. Some ask for a few hundred bucks. For me, they demanded $3,200. Now it's up to $5,000. Wow, I'm flattered, but I don't have that kind of dough, so I guess I'll be 'exposed.' <b>Anyway, here's the latest:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">[Your] (<i>one of my old and now unused passwords</i>) is one of your Password. Lets get straight to the point. You don't know me whereas I "now" know alot about you and you must be thinking why are you receiving this email, right? </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>The actual once-used password is designed to shock you, but they got it from a hacked site. Yahoo, Adobe, LinkedIn and many others have been hacked and such data has been released and sold to shady folk on the dark web. Always be changing your passwords!</i></span></b><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">You may be thinking "how?", I actually placed malware on sex vids (pornographic material) and there's more, you visited same sex web site to have pleasure (if you know what I mean). And when you got busy watching those videos, your web browser started functioning as a RDP (Remote Desktop) having a backdoor which provided me with access to your display screen as well as your webcam recordings. Right after that, the software obtained every one of your contacts from your social networks, and e-mail.<i> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm not a software expert, but I doubt this is possible. I've run a key logger and virus check and my computer has not been taken over.</span></b></i></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /></span></b><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">What have I done? </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>What you have done is commit a crime.</i></span></b><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">It's simply your bad luck that I found your misadventures. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>No, you found an email address and old password from a hacked site.</i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> Next, I put in more time than I probably should have </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>what a work ethic you have! </i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">exploring into your data and generated a two screen sextape. First half displays the recording you were viewing and second part shows the recording of your web cam (its you doing naughty things) </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>I keep tape over my webcam--and everyone should.</i></span></b></div>
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<br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Exactly what can you do?</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Honestly, I am willing to forget everything about you and allow you to move on with your regular life. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">How very kind and egalitarian of you! </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">And I am about to give you a way out that will make it happen. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>How very considerate and 'giving' of you--looking out after the mark's best interest!</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">These two choices are either to disregard this email (bad for you and your family), or pay me $ 5000 to finish this mattter forever. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Oh really? I'm supposed to trust you, a criminal stranger to do that?</i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> Let us explore these 2 options in details.</span></div>
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<br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Alternative one is to turn a deaf ear my email. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Which I will do.</i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">You should know what is going to happen if you opt this path. I definitely will send out your video to all of your contacts including close relatives, colleagues, and many others. It does not shield you from the humiliation your household will have to face when friends and family discover your dirty videotape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Second Option is to make the payment of $ 5000. We’ll name it my “privacy fee”. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>It's not a 'fee,' as if it's for some service you're performing. it's criminal extortion!!</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Now let me tell you what will happen if you pick this path. Your naughty secret remains private. I'll destroy the recording. </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">After you you pay me my fees, </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>fees? PLURAL? You slipped because you know this was written for mass mailing.</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">You can freely keep your lifetime and family like nothing like this ever happened.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>If anyone pays you, you and your colleagues will be shaking them down for even more money.</i></span></b></div>
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<br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">You will make the transfer via Bitcoins (if you don't know how, search "how to buy "bitcoins" on search engine)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">My BTC Address: 186nxWAcEPDzGvxnGvKCjrhfREtcP9n2HS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">(It is cASe sensitive, so copy and paste it carefully) </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Thank you for your kind advice!</i></span></b><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" /><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Important: You have one day to make the payment. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>What if someone knows nothing about bitcoin? ONE day is not much time! </i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">(I've a unique pixel in this mail, and now I know that you have read this e mail). <span style="background-color: #cc0000;"><b><i><span style="color: white;">The solution to this is to block emails with photos in your junk folder!</span> </i></b></span>You must not explain nobody what you would be using the Bitcoins for or they will often not give it to you. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Because they would probably know about the scam.</i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> The procedure to get bitcoin can take a couple of days so do not delay. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>b-but...you said I have only one day!</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">If I don't get the Bitcoin, I definitely will send your video to all of your contacts including members of your family, co-workers, and so forth. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>I don't have any coworkers--don't you know that?</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">having said that, if I do get paid, I will erase the videotape immediately. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Uh huh.</i></span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> If you want evidence, reply with "yes!" and I definitely will send out your video to your 6 contacts. </span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>"You'd better not ask for evidence--just trust me!"</i> </span></b><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">It is a non negotiable one time offer, thus kindly do not waste my personal time & yours by replying to this message.<i> </i></span><b style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>If you had evidence, wouldn't you show it right off the bat? You want me to reply yet you say not to waste your time replying?</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;">This is an obvious scam, but it should alert recipients to be aware of our dwindling privacy. The NSA has obliterated our 4th Amendment and routinely records all phone conversations. ISP providers sell info and Smart devices record data as well. Never buy an "Alexa" or such device that can also record family conversations. It's already bad enough, but when government becomes the extortionist, they will be able to use far more sophisticated means to shake down citizens.</span></div>
Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-16429608014033678572018-07-22T14:19:00.001-07:002018-07-22T14:45:06.612-07:00Swalwell The Punk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-26566461648995667862018-07-20T11:28:00.000-07:002018-07-20T11:28:04.056-07:00Deep State Anti-Trump Hysteria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, no kidding. That’s because they’re <i class="">not</i> trustworthy. Sure, here’s where I must insert the obligatory statement that there are some ‘good, hard-working and dedicated people’ working at the FBI and CIA. The problem is, too many have become politicized arms of the globalist Deep State.</div>
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Just what is the Deep State? Some on the left insist it doesn’t exist. Bill Maher recently stated that the Deep State is merely ‘government.’ It may be<i class=""> part </i>of government, but it’s always corrupt. The Deep State is that which exercises government power and influence that is not part of our mandated Republic. That is, it’s government by inside and outside sources that runs contrary to our Constitution. The Deep State can be central bankers who want to make sure we keep Russia as a big-time enemy so they can rake in more money through their wars started by false flags. The bankers can’t stand that Putin, like Trump, is a nationalist who doesn’t want globalist bankers taking over.</div>
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How can Obama and Bushes be part of the Deep State? Daddy Bush was involved with the CIA and the assassination of JFK. He pushed the globalist agenda of the "New World Order." His son was unqualified to be president, but pushed in by the Bush machine and he carried on the globalist program of war, lies and open borders. Just look at Jeb went into his virtue signaling mode about 'immigrants' during the Republican debates. The Deep State wants open borders. Presidents are supposed to protect our borders. Obama was put into office by the Deep State machine to further its goals. He was also illegally part of the UN and actually sent the UN's 'Green Climate Fund' $500 million of American taxpayer money. He also illegally sent Iran huge palettes of of cash--billions of dollars--to help bring about a terrible deal with that theocratic country. He illegally began a war with Libya among a myriad other wrongdoings. Read this book by Matt Margolis. Obama claimed his administration was 'scandal free' and the fake news media parroted that line. In actuality, his presidency was chalk-full of scandals!</div>
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The Deep State also consists of big-time financiers such as George Soros, who astro-turfs protests and tries to turn elections in favor of his globalist agenda. The corporate controlled partisan media propaganda outlets influence voters. Paid Deep State lobbyists influence or even write legislation. It should come as no surprise that our so-called ‘security agencies’ are part of that game. After all, the NSA has completely shredded our 4th Amendment.</div>
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Presidents may come and go, but the people running those agencies and government bureaucracies in general tend to grow complacent. They begin overreaching and eventually start abusing their positions of power. Peter Strzock is a good example. He’s could be considered the face of the arrogant Deep State. HE was going to make sure Trump was thwarted. Never mind what the voters and Electoral College said. People such as Strzock and John Brennan are part of the Deep State that Eisenhower once warned us about. It’s the Deep State aided by sharks such as Allen Dulles that led to the assassination of President Kennedy.</div>
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Trump trying to make peace with Russia. It’s clear that no matter what might have occurred, Trump was going to be swamped with waves of shrill invective from the Deep State Swamp hydra. It’s important that our president maintains his focus in order to help make America great again.</div>
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-39941901527881221532018-07-09T12:03:00.002-07:002018-07-09T12:03:49.253-07:00JOSHUA GOLDBERG: JUSTICE SERVED!Joshua Ryne Goldberg was sentenced to <b>10 years in prison.</b> I'm surprised--I thought he would escape justice by claiming some sort of mental illness 'disability.' Instead he's going to serve hard time in the slammer. I'm happy to hear this--I'm enjoying a bit of justice served. Even if indirectly.<br />
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Goldberg is a young man from Florida who harassed me for several years while using the handles "Moon Metropolis" and "European88." He was the troll who pasted my name and signature onto 'hate meme' boxes. Those boxes egregiously libeled me as a 'Nazi' and they were all over the Internet for a time. Some appeared nearly daily on 4chan and 8chan. As European88, he created a Ben Garrison board on Reddit were he published defaced cartoons (more libel) and claimed they were the 'originals.' All of his garbage was readily seen on the search engines and it hurt my commercial art business and reputation. In my book "Rogue Cartoonist" I list him as European88. A cyber detective was certain he was from Australia. For some reason Goldberg liked to pretend he was Australian and had a spate of Australian aliases. We guessed wrong about his location, but as it turned out the FBI was all over him after he incited the shooting in Texas--at the Garland 'Muhammad Draw-In" event.<br />
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<br />Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-30778295179034204322018-05-27T18:41:00.001-07:002018-05-27T18:41:56.676-07:00Not So Great Britain's Police State<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-17053846748927278122018-05-21T23:47:00.002-07:002018-05-23T23:42:48.200-07:00LOCK THEM UP!My third book is out. It's titled, "LOCK THEM UP!" It's available on <a href="http://grrrgraphics.com/">grrrgraphics.com</a> as well as on Amazon.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692126600/ref=crt_ewc_title_gw_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0692126600/ref=crt_ewc_title_gw_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER</a><br />
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<br />Ben Garrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907040290398696933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37199549.post-85148058346072554582018-05-14T08:50:00.000-07:002018-05-14T08:50:14.618-07:00A House Divided<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Investigative journalism is on the wane. Newspapers are getting staff and budgets slashed. Newspapers are going away. TV news is going away, too. Nowadays we find our news on the Internet in millions of fragments. We are bombarded with interpretations, analysis and predictions from thousands of ‘experts' and news personalities. This is occurring as our country has become more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Therefore, I decided to draw this cartoon—based on a famous Escher drawing—to show the confusion and division. There’s nothing profoundly satirical going on here—I’m merely illustrating the existing situation. </div>
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Bernie not only says ‘our democracy,’ he also uses old Communist catchphrases such as “our struggle.” One does not require an expert to help in the realization that ol’ Bernie is pushing the same old failed socialism that has been a disaster wherever it has been tried. Yes, even in Sweden. The lefties love to cite that country as an example of ‘good’ socialism. Nope. No such thing. Sweden avoided WWII and still had capitalism and an intact industrial base and became wealthy as a result. That enabled their form of socialism to coast for a while. But now they’re going to go broke just like Venezuela. Especially since they’re importing more and more free stuff-demanding Muslim ‘immigrants,’ who tend to have large families. A rising crime rate is also costly.</div>
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Next time you’re trying to decide on who’s right amid the confusion, consider whether it is in line with our belief in freedom and individual liberty. Forget trying to figure out what “Q” is saying. We don’t need a secret decoder ring. We have the Constitution.</div>
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