Biden Recounts Time He Was Arrested At A Civil Rights Protest For Wearing A White Hood
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Jan 12, 2022 · BabylonBee.com
ATLANTA, GA - In a stirring speech in Atlanta this week, Biden recounted the time he was heroically arrested at a civil rights protest simply for wearing a white hood.
“There I was, outside a school protesting against school integration with my best pal KKK member Robert Byrd, and the cops were escorting black kids into the school,” said Biden. “And then I said ‘You won’t turn my school into a racial jungle! I’m gonna wrap this chain around your head!’ And then the cops arrested me and escorted me to their police car and bought me Burger King. It was delicious. Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting! Yay!”
The audience seemed confused until several Democrat leaders instructed the audience to clap and cheer.
“Yay! Build Back Better! Universal mail-in voting!” they all cheered.
Biden’s address has been hailed in the media as a “powerful call to America to be on the right side of history” and “a totally not racist speech.”
Democrats have instructed black leaders to instruct black people that whatever the 80-year-old white racist said in his speech was a “good thing” and they should fully support it if they want “liberation and equality and all that stuff.”
Republicans pounced on the speech, likely because they’re racist.
University that housed Biden center pressed to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations
By John Solomon and Nick Givas
Updated: January 12, 2023 - 12:16am
The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty signed and made public an open letter demanding the program be shuttered, on the grounds that it amounted to racial profiling. The faculty letter was part of a larger university battle against the program.
“We acknowledge the importance to the United States of protecting both intellectual property and information that is essential to our national and economic security,” read the letter made public on Feb. 9. “We understand that concerns about Chinese government sanctioned activities including intellectual property theft and economic espionage are important to address.
“We believe, however, that the China Initiative has deviated significantly from its claimed mission: it is harming the United States’ research and technology competitiveness and it is fueling biases that, in turn, raise concerns about racial profiling.”
A handful of left-leaning universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, had also previously appealed to the DOJ to close down the program.
Two weeks after the letter was sent, Garland announced the termination of the program, sending shockwaves through federal law enforcement.
The DOJ’s own website still includes, to this day, a lengthy recitation of criminal cases the 4-year-old program had brought against members of academia who were working with China — either on espionage charges or failure to disclose foreign monies, as is required by law.
Just a month prior to the Garland decision, FBI Director Christopher Wray traveled to the Reagan presidential library to give a speech pleading for the government to devote more attention and resources to combating China’s devastating influence inside the United States. He specifically cited cases where Beijing had used university academics to do its bidding. The FBI boss claimed China’s espionage has become “more brazen, [and] more damaging.”
“China’s government has the global reach and presence of a great nation, but it refuses to act the part and too often uses its capabilities to steal and threaten, rather than to cooperate and build,” he argued. “That theft, those threats, are happening right here in America, literally every day.”
Just the News reached out to both the Justice Department, to confirm whether Penn ever officially lobbied the DOJ directly, and also to the university itself. Neither institution responded.
Penn has long ties to both the Biden family and China. Its former president, Amy Gutmann, for instance, was named by the president in 2021 to be his ambassador to Germany.
During her Senate confirmation, Gutmann acknowledged the university took money from Chinese interests but insisted it did not affect the school’s values and that the university even rejected creating a Confucius Institute on campus funded by entities tied to the Chinese government.
“What I do know, and what I make sure of, is that no gifts, no contracts, to the University of Pennsylvania are allowed to threaten academic freedom, are allowed to threaten national security,” she testified. “We do no classified research.”
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