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Government-Backed Censors Who Rigged The 2020 Election Are Now Stealing 2024
The Federalist ^ | Feb 20, 2024 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 02/20/2024 8:03:03 AM PST by Heartlander

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To: Heartlander

Yes, the communist Marxist left is determined to destroy the “democracy” they say Trump and America First Patriots are doing but of course aren’t.


21 posted on 02/20/2024 10:00:23 AM PST by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
but something deeper and more insidious...the constellation of government agencies, government-backed institutions, corporations, media outlets, and nonprofit groups. Protecting democracy, in this view, means protecting these institutions from the people they were putatively meant to serve.

"Hail Hydra" indeed. And you wrote:
We need to start this game over. But we need to sweep the current pieces off the gameboard first.

Hence my push for a Constitutional Meeting to hammer out these problems pre-Convention. The Convention is a harsh remedy - perhaps required but I think real blood would be spilled from the evil people refusing to relinquish power.

I prefer they be given a folder with the evidence of their traitorism, a gun with a single bullet in it and time alone in a guarded room until the shot is heard.

22 posted on 02/20/2024 12:19:30 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (Compare Trump never going back on his word to someone's 'word as a Biden'.)
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To: Wonder Warthog; Alberta's Child
This was precisely what the original Patriots rebelled against.

"Government-managed censorship" was not listed in the multitude reasons in the Declaration of Independence as to why the colonists rebelled. You'll find plenty regarding arbitrary attitudes and actions with regards to legislatures, the quartering of troops, taxation, and so forth: but not a whit about free speech or written media.

Given that many of these same Patriots were the ones who passed and enacted the Sedition Act of 1798 — which criminalized speech deemed "false or malicious" about the government (mostly employed by the Federalists against the Democratic-Republicans) — I don't they truly cared about government-managed censorship in principle.

(Note that it was only thanks to public outcry that the next Congress repealed the Sedition Act after 1800, as it was largely credited with propelling Thomas Jefferson — who opposed the Federalists — to the Presidency.)

23 posted on 02/20/2024 2:13:39 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Heartlander

great article, John Daniel Davidson.

Mike Benz interview needs to be seen and understood by everyone.


24 posted on 02/20/2024 4:35:32 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Heartlander

great article, John Daniel Davidson.

Mike Benz interview needs to be seen and understood by everyone.


25 posted on 02/20/2024 4:35:33 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

apologies for double post.


26 posted on 02/20/2024 4:36:15 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SuperLuminal

True. Obama was /is a party man.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 7:13:13 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: All

Jesse Waters Primetime interviewed Craig, the Democrat ballot stuffer. Craig feels
betrayed by Democrats so he’s now telling Republicans the secrets of ballot harvesting.

Craig says if you want to beat a Democrat, you have to harvest like a Democrat.

And while Republicans definitely shouldn’t start stuffing, Republicans need to start winning the
“voting early game” or the “voting by mail game” (as long as it’s within the spirit of the law).


Backstory: Ex-Atlantic City council president charged in voter fraud scheme

BY: NIKITA BIRYUKOV - FEBRUARY 1, 2024, newjerseymonitor.com

Atlantic City powerbroker Craig Callaway is accused of paying others to illegally obtain mail ballots cast without voters’ knowledge. (Courtesy of the Press of Atlantic City)

Federal authorities arrested former Atlantic City council president and Democratic operative Craig Callaway Thursday, alleging he masterminded a mail-ballot fraud scheme in the runup to the 2022 election.

U.S. Attorneys accused Callaway and other unnamed subordinates of paying Atlantic City residents between $30 and $50 to act as authorized messengers and request mail-in ballots for voters whom they had never met. Prosecutors allege that those ballots were later cast without the actual voters’ knowledge.

The charges appear to stem from work Callaway did for Rep. Jeff Van Drew’s 2022 reelection campaign. There’s no indication Van Drew (R-02) knew about the alleged scheme.

“Holding free and fair elections is a bedrock principle of our democracy,” U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said in a statement. “As alleged in the complaint, the defendant attempted to deprive New Jersey residents of a fair election by fraudulently procuring and casting ballots. Today’s charges reflect our office’s commitment to hold to account those who try to undermine the electoral process.”

Prosecutors did not seek to detain Callaway before trial, though he must provide a $50,000 appearance bond, forgo international travel, and avoid contact with others involved in the case as conditions of his release.

Megan Davies, Callaway’s attorney, declined to provide immediate comment. Both parties agreed to a continuance order that would delay further proceedings until March 29.

Van Drew’s 2022 campaign paid GOYV LLC, Callaway’s consulting firm, $65,500 for strategic consulting, including $25,000 in early October, when prosecutors allege the scheme began.

The congressman’s campaign denied any knowledge of the alleged scheme, adding Callaway had signed an agreement meant to prevent the sort of conduct he faces charges over.

“We never have and never would condone any illegal activity,” the campaign said in a statement. “In fact, as is always the case with our vendors, the campaign had a signed consulting contract. Mr. Callaway signed the contract for that election, and previous elections, specifically stating that as an independent contractor he ‘agrees all work and services provided shall adhere to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.’”

Callaway faces up to five years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release if convicted on the single charge of procuring, casting, and tabulating fraudulent ballots he faces.

The charges are not the first Callaway has faced. In 2006, he admitted accepting $36,000 in bribes from a contractor he helped to obtain city contracts. In 2008, he admitted guilt in a separate blackmail scheme targeting an Atlantic City councilman while serving the sentence of his bribery conviction.

In 2017, Assemblyman Don Guardian, then the city’s mayor, accused Callaway of a similar ballot harvesting scheme to boost Frank Gilliam, who won the election but resigned in late 2019 after pleading guilty to wire fraud over the theft of $86,000 from a youth basketball team he ran.

“It’s no secret that candidates from both parties have hired Callaway in the past to help them win elections. Those who hired him cannot plead ignorance now. Everyone in Atlantic County knows exactly what Callaway’s operation is and the blatant illegality of it all,” said Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman.

Suleiman added he would lobby the Legislature’s leaders and the governor’s office to pass legislation banning payments to ballot bearers and messengers, which are not illegal in New Jersey.


28 posted on 02/22/2024 4:06:38 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: MAGAthon; Liz; qaz123; GOPJ; V K Lee; rlmorel; SunkenCiv; mass55th

Bookmark — big time. This guy knocked my socks off with this insider knowledge and straight talk.

Every patriot needs to hear what Benz is saying.

I clicked over to Benz’s X site and found many great posts and selfies from Benz. He’s a got a talent for explaining what Elon Musk is trying to do to break the back of the Censorship industry / Deep State / Google etc.

He’s a Michael Flynn kind of hero to me now. And his ability to sort through complex processes is truly amazing.

https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber


29 posted on 02/22/2024 5:22:07 PM PST by poconopundit (Kayleigh the Shillelagh, I'm disappointed in you....)
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To: Heartlander

bttt


30 posted on 02/22/2024 5:23:43 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave a new Socialist America.)
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To: poconopundit

Thanks for the ping pundit


31 posted on 02/22/2024 7:55:44 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat superdelegates created to stop the 'black community' from electring the 'wrong person'...)
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To: joethedrummer
Under these circumstances, free speech was the last thing that could be allowed to flourish online. Censorship became the order of the day. As Carlson put it, these NATO and EU leaders identified their new enemy as democracy within their own countries — their own voters, in other words: “They feared that their people, the citizens of their own countries, would get their way. And they went to war against that.”

Yikes!

32 posted on 02/22/2024 8:06:38 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat superdelegates created to stop the 'black community' from electring the 'wrong person'...)
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To: hardspunned

because for every Democrat CIA cutout like THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY there is a republican side to the coin like International Republican Institute. Hence the uniparty. It just depends on which part of the uniparty is in power.


33 posted on 10/26/2024 10:08:52 AM PDT by superfries
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