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I Am Practicing Self-Censorship in US Now, Something I Didn't Do Even in the CCP's Labor Camp
Purple Mountain Majesties and Amber Waves of Grain: The Story of America the Beautiful
The Law Perverted - Bastiat and Present Circumstances
How the Statue of Liberty Got Built
Domestic Tranquility and the Constitution
Remove the Washington Monument - Why Stop There?
Structural Racism

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I Am Practicing Self-Censorship in US Now, Something I Didn't Do Even in the CCP's Labor Camp
by Jennifer Zeng
November 18, 2020
Originally published at Jennifer’s World
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If someone says that the situation of free speech in the US is worse than in Communist China, perhaps nobody will believe it, including myself. However, after I wrote down the following statement of what I experienced in the US recently for an investigative reporter regarding social media’s censorship, I suddenly realized that I am practicing self-censorship "consciously and voluntarily" now, which I had surely not done before even in the forced labor camp in China!

After reading what I wrote below, I just want to say, “enough is enough!”

Yes, I've been suppressed very badly. What I experienced include:

1. My Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/jenniferzeng97, which has 284,562 followers was suddenly taken over by an account called “Fb portal” in early August. Since then I can’t post anything and this page became dead for me. I complained many times and Facebook never responded.

2. My Twitter account (https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd), which had 156,000+ followers about two months ago, has been suppressed ever since, and I've been losing 100-1000 followers every day, and now it's down to 150,900. Some people say they got unfollowed without their knowledge. Some say they can't see what I post even though they are following me.

3. I’ve been suppressed by YouTube too. Early this year, during the peak of the COVID 19 pandemic, my entire channel at bit.ly/3b87DPj was once demonetized. Later on, although YouTube reversed this decision, almost all my videos were given a yellow flag, which means “limited for ads”. Now, although there are not as many yellow flags, I am still being suppressed, and my subscriptions are dropping. People told me that they got unsubscribed, or they are not receiving notifications. Since I started talking about the US election, the views suddenly dropped dramatically. I seriously doubt these videos are being suppressed. Some viewers told me they even couldn’t like my videos, nor could they share them on Facebook.

4. I have been forced to censor myself for fear of being censored. For example, in the latest program about the US election（https://youtu.be/ju-IxkX1caw）, I dared not use “voter fraud”, but only vaguely said “problems in the voting system”, etc. I was afraid that the phrase “voter fraud” would be caught by YouTube’s AI system, so I have been avoiding “voter fraud” throughout the entire show.

In the U.S., where freedom of speech is supposed to be guaranteed, the situation is as ridiculous as this! When the Chinese Communist Party was cracking down on Falun Gong at its strongest, I still had the courage to write letters to the CCP leaders with my real name and address, and once planned to go to Tiananmen Square to display a Falun Gong banner (I ended up not going because I was arrested beforehand). At that time, I was willing to risk my life to defend what I believed to be the truth.

In the labor camp, which is as evil as a devil’s den, when the vicious police asked me to criticize Falun Gong, I always wrote about how wonderful Falun Gong is, and how it only benefits the nation and the people in an open and upright manner. I didn’t have fear then, as I didn’t care what they would do to me.

I never imagined that after 20 years, when I am in the United States, where freedom of speech is supposed to be ensured, I am actually practicing self-censorship-something I even did no in the CCP’s labor camp, as while I had no fear in the labor camp, I do have fear now: I was afraid if my accounts get deleted or suppressed, I will lose channels to spread the truth. Although there are alternative platforms, accumulating followers needs time. I don’t want to lose my current channels, which I have worked very hard to develop.

This is the reality of America now. Isn’t it sad?
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Jennifer Zeng is the author of Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom, the subject of a documentary (Free China: The Courage to Believe), and a member of Potomac Tea Party’s spin-off Anticommunism Action Team Speakers Bureau
YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/3b87DPj
Website: https://www.jenniferzengblog.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InconvenientTruthsbyJenniferZeng
Parler: https://parler.com/profile/JenniferZeng
Gab: https://gab.com/JenniferZeng
MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/jenniferzeng

Purple Mountain Majesties and Amber Waves of Grain: The Story of America the Beautiful
November 2020
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'America the Beautiful' was inspired by love of this country. The words were written by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College who taught Shakespeare, wrote poetry, and loved to travel. She wrote a poem about her trip in 1893 across the United States. The music was composed by Samuel A. Ward, a church organist and choirmaster in New Jersey. The combination of words and music was first published as ‘America the Beautiful’ in 1910.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
(see complete lyrics here)

The Law Perverted
by S. Chris Anders
August 26, 2020
Originally published at The Bull Elephant
Reposted with permission of the author
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“But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.”- Bastiat, The Law.

In the wake of the George Floyd episode, we have seen this time and again, where the law is perverted to protect those who destroy, attack and steal, while punishing those who attempt to defend their own life, liberty and property.

We can see this in the recent arrest of Kyle Rittenhouse. For those that do not know, Mr. Rittenhouse was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder when he shot three rioters, from all accounts who were armed, and attacked him with a Molotov cocktail and another who attacked him while holding a handgun.

Numerous videos exist of the encounter, all apparently showing Mr. Rittenhouse first being attacked by one rioter who threw a deadly Molotov cocktail at him, and then video exists of him running towards the police to surrender (why I do not know), and then being attacked by two assailants, and shooting both of them while on the ground from their assaults.

In a lawful world, if the videos are not manipulated, Mr. Rittenhouse would not be prosecuted for his actions of self-defense, but in this racially warped Orwellian society, he is being used by a Marxist prosecutor to make political hay.

What we have is individuals being punished for the color of their skin which no human has any control over, or for defending their life or property, as communists do not think the right to private property exists.

The Law has been perverted for the benefit of the lawless mobs who are roaming the streets across the Republic. This must stop, or else incidents of this nature will become commonplace and then the political class will demand total gun confiscation.

One has to ask if the politicians are allowing this violence to occur? Right here in Virginia Governor Northam has released hundreds of criminals into society, while at the same time law enforcement has been told time and again to stand down while violence roams the streets.
What else were they thinking would occur?

Do not be confused, the political class will use this body count to further this power over us, and stand on the bodies of those killed in the very violence the politicians have encouraged, to then demand that we surrender our means of defense.

As lawlessness expands across the Republic, goaded on my conniving politicians, the siren call for yet more government control over your life will intensify.

And in the end, they will demand, for your own good, that you turn in your weapons.

The only question that remains is, will you remain silent while these gun bans are passed? And if passed will you comply?

I pray not.

In Liberty,
S. Chris Anders
Director
Virginia Constitutional Conservatives
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S. Chris Anders is Director of Virginia Constitutional Conservatives as well as a senior consultant with the West Virginia Liberty Political Action Committee, the Campaign for Liberty, as well as consulted with the National Association of Gun Rights, West Virginia Christian Conservatives, We the People, National Pro Life Alliance and the Educational Freedom Foundation. Mr. Anders is the President of Action Advocacy Group, a state level political consulting firm. With over 15 years experience in politics, he has served on Presidential, Congressional and state level campaigns while also working with issue focused groups to promote the Constitution and individual liberty.

How the Statue of Liberty Got Built
October 17, 2020
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It wouldn’t have happened without schoolkids from all over France and America raising funds. In France, money was raised at puppet shows and carnivals to pay for the statue. In America, 120,000 donations averaging under a dollar paid for the pedestal. Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer published letters from donors, including one from another immigrant who wrote he’d had his fill of monarchy and was grateful for the blessings of the American Republic.

We The Kids tells the story here (scroll down to #3). Bonus - The WTK Liberty Players talk to General Ulysses S. Grant.

If schoolkids can get the Statue of Liberty built, imagine what you and your friends can do for liberty.

Domestic Tranquility and the Constitution
by Don Powers, Esq.

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The preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a combined statement of rights held by “We the People” and duties owed to us (We the People) by our Federal government. One of the government’s duties is to, “insure domestic Tranquility,” which we have the right to enjoy. Not often used in today’s world, this phrase was selected by the Founders to identify a national environment free of civil unrest and violence.

At the time of the Constitutional Convention, America had been through a Revolution and was still struggling to pay its debts, while barely holding onto a union. One concern shared by the Framers was the inability, under the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation, either by force or persuasion, to quash rebellions and quell quarrels amongst the states. Shays’ Rebellion, an outbreak over foreclosures on farms, occurred shortly before the Constitutional Convention. Additionally, several states, such as Connecticut and Pennsylvania, approached armed conflict with each other over territory. Thus, a main goal of the Convention was to position the Federal government to assist states in times of rebellion and to smooth tension between states over borders, trade and other disagreements. Although a strong Federal government was necessary for some things, the Founders were steadfast in limiting its powers. Their goal under “domestic tranquility” was, first and foremost, to preserve the sovereignty of the states.

The right that we have under “domestic tranquility” is to live in a law-abiding environment so that there is a sense of tranquility in our lives and the lives of those around us. The duty required of the Federal government is to assist the state, if necessary, in maintaining a law-abiding environment without usurping any power of the state. This duty is directed at mobs, outlaws, invading enemies, illegal aliens or any effort to forcibly overthrow the elected, legally constituted, republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson cautioned that we must preserve our unalienable right to rise up and take control of our affairs. All citizens, according to Jefferson, should be cognizant of the great difference to be found in spreading havoc (by an illegal mob from within or an invasion by force from without) versus actions taken to restore rights. He also made it clear that the ends do not necessarily justify the means, but preserving the Constitution is a justified reason for push-back.

James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, #45, “The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments in times of peace and security.” Edmund Pendleton, in the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, said, “Our dearest rights – life, liberty, and property – as Virginians are still in the hands of our state legislature. If they prove too feeble to protect us, we resort to the aid of the general government for security.”

How do you feel about your domestic tranquility; your right to a secure and lawful environment? Do you think members of “We the People” in Arizona and South Texas agree with you? They have lost this right because the Federal government has failed in its duty to secure the borders of our nation. Every U.S. citizen should be indignant over this unconstitutional behavior of our government and its failure to insure our right to domestic tranquility. We should also hold dearly to our Second Amendment rights as a way to protect domestic tranquility.

Independence Facts:
Shays’ Rebellion occurred in western Massachusetts during a time (1786 – 87) of economic depression and land seizures for debt collection. Hard-hit farm families were led by Daniel Shays, a captain from the Continental Army. Shays and his farmers marched on the state supreme court in Springfield and successfully suspended foreclosures and debt collections. He then marched on a nearby federal arsenal that fired on his men, killing 20. The deaths of those farmers ended the rebellion. As a result of the uprising, the state enacted laws easing the economic conditions of debtors. Captured rebels were pardoned by a new governor prior to their appointed hanging.

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Don Powers is an attorney and award-winning Constitution instructor in Oklahoma. He received the George Washington Honor Medal from Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 2012. Complete bio here.

©Don M. Powers,
Edmond, OK 2020
First Publication 01/17/20

Remove the Washington Monument - Why Stop There?
- An Immodest Proposal for Achieving Total Wokeness in Our Lifetime
by Ed Moser
September 4, 2020

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News Item: D.C. Mayor’s Report Calls for Removing Washington Monument, Other Memorials

The Report obviously doesn’t go far enough--

Take the name of the city. Washington, D.C. If you’re going to remove the Washington Monument, obviously you must remove the name of the city named for Washington.

And D.C., the District of “Columbia” too. Columbia is named after Columbus. If you’re going to remove the statue of Columbus at Union Station, obviously you must remove the part of the city named for Columbus. Perhaps change the city name to Potomac City, D.C.C., with D.C.C. meaning District of Cancel Culture.

By the way, if you remove the Washington Monument, how are you going to pull that off? You’ll need a mighty big crane. Or lots of explosives. The same goes for the Jefferson Memorial. Maybe blow it up on July 4th as a fireworks display, and save money.

The Lincoln Memorial as well. Many want to take down the Emancipation Statue, of Lincoln with the freed slave, so why keep his far bigger, and even more offensive, Memorial?

The FDR Memorial. President Franklin Roosevelt interned Japanese-Americans, and against the advice of that noted civil liberties advocate, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He also had Hoover spy on his political foe. Make the Memorial into softball fields again, while banning organized sports during the pandemic.

The White House. If you don’t remove it, at the very least change the offensive name, to the Rainbow House or something.

The Air and Space Museum. Its atrium contains the “Spirit of St Louis” plane of Charles Lindberg, a Nazi sympathizer. And the V2 rocket of Werner von Braun, a Nazi. In fact, von Braun was the guiding force behind the Apollo program to the Moon, which makes up much of the Museum’s contents. Clear the whole place out.

The MLK Memorial. MLK’s biographer recently disclosed that King at a minimum, condoned and witnessed, and may have taken part in, a serious sex crime. Due to this terrible act, the Memorial must go.

The Alexander Hamilton statue in front of the Treasury. Many have recently attacked the play “Hamilton”, as the Treasury’s founder ignored civil rights in his time. (Though he did co-found, with Aaron Burr, New York’s first society for abolition.) Pack the Broadway star’s figurine off to the Great White Way, um, to Broadway, where it belongs.

The Albert Pike statue. The authors of the Report, in recommending the removal of the image of the explorer, chief Mason, soldier, poet, and defender of Native-American rights, were apparently unaware the statue was toppled and set on fire by rioters from Antifa and other groups several months ago. However, down the street from it, in front of the Old City Hall, is another statue of Lincoln. Get rid of it.

By the bye, the Old City Hall, now the D.C. Court of Appeals, was designed by George Hadfield, a friend of Hamilton and Jefferson. Guilt by association, baby. Turn it, like most historic buildings nowadays, into condos.

The Frederick Douglass statue at National Harbor. Douglass fiercely argued that female suffrage should only come after African-American male suffrage. Such a patriarchal oppressor deserves elimination.

Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington was the name of an estate managed by Robert E. Lee (so that he could put its financial affairs in order, to free its slaves). Moreover, the Arlington House mansion was designed by Hadfield. In any event, anything to do with the Lee name must be annihilated. The graves might be disinterred, and the remains returned to their original resting places.

Theodore Roosevelt Island. As big-game hunter, TR was contemptuous of environmental protections. He was also a militarist who won fame in the Spanish-American War and as President built, you can’t make this up, something called the “Great White Fleet”. Return the island to its original moniker, George Mason Island, after the civil libertarian who authored the Bill of Rights. But on the other hand, Mason was a plantation owner who also owned…

Eisenhower Executive Office Building. In World War Two, Ike had an affair with his female Jeep driver. An unforgivable MeToo violation. (Though Eisenhower did help, with Churchill, a vile imperialist, to save the world from the likes of Werner von Braun.) Goodbye, EEOB.

The Museum of African-American History. The very name reveals it to be racialist and race-centered. Change the term, or perhaps remove the whole edifice, returning the locale to the colorful Hookers Alley neighborhood of yore. However, by all means keep its Food Court, for its delectable Southern cuisine.

The Kennedy Center. The number of MeToo violations associated with the Kennedy clan are beyond the power of a supercomputer to count. Concerts there are cancelled indefinitely, so who needs the place anyway? Transform the site back to its previous incarnation, a brewery. Not a micro-brewery, however, a name that slurs the vertically challenged and the height-disadvantaged.

The Museum of the Bible. An in-your-face violation of church and state. Gonzo. Ditto the National Cathedral. Not to mention Maryland, named after a religious figure, and Virginia, which refers to a safe-sex practice of religious zealots. Rename those states. Further, John’s Church in Lafayette Square was only partially burned during the recent bedlam. Put it fully to the torch.

Lastly, the Boss Shepherd and Marion Barry statues outside City Hall. As his nickname suggests, Shepherd was a corrupt politician, a man who bankrupted his city. (Though he did provide it with paved roads, drinkable water, and a workable sewerage system for the first time). Barry was a crackhead (though also, early on, a significant civil rights leader). Toss these false idols, these graven images.

Moreover, City Hall spawned the farcical Report on removing and renaming the capital’s grand monuments and memorials. For that offense alone, it must be bulldozed into the Potomac.

Or turned into condos.

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Ed Moser is a veteran and book author. He was formerly a speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush and writer for Jay Leno's The Tonight Show. Ed’s latest book is The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square

STRUCTURAL RACISM
February 2011
Editor's Note 8/29/20: This was written by a Tea Partier in 2011. Everything came true, except it only took nine years and it's being carried on by self-declared "trained Marxists".

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Highlights
* The Left is misusing race under the banner of 'structural racism' as a weapon to advance its collectivist, redistributionist agenda.
* Structural racism advocates are making significant inroads in both civil rights circles and popular thought.
* Unless somebody with influence starts standing up to the structural racism crowd, structural racism will become a 20-year overnight policy success. It's already well on its way.
* Anyone hoping to compete with structural racism advocates rhetorically had better come to the battle well-prepared and able to match their sophistication.

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