Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton called the jailing of a Dallas salon owner “excessive” and a “shameful abuse” as they called for her to release. A district court judge ordered the salon owner and mother jailed for seven days for re-opening her salon during the Coronavirus lockdown imposed by Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
“I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” Attorney General Paxton said in a written statement on Wednesday. “The trial judge did not need to lock up Shelley Luther. His order is a shameful abuse of judicial discretion, which seems like another political stunt in Dallas. He should release Ms. Luther immediately.”
Judge Moyé said she must see the errors of her ways and “understand that the society cannot function where one’s own belief in a concept of liberty permits you to flaunt your disdain for the rulings of duly elected officials.”
“That you owe an apology to the elected officials who you disrespected by flagrantly ignoring, and in one case defiling, their orders you now know obviously apply to you,” Moyé lectured. “That you understand that the proper way in which an ordered society to engage concerns that you might have had is to hire a lawyer and advocate for change an exception or an amendment to laws that you find offensive.”
Governor Abbott followed up, saying, “I join the Attorney General in disagreeing with the excessive action by the Dallas Judge, putting Shelley Luther in jail for seven days. As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.”
Luther replied to Moyé during the conference, “I have to disagree with you sir when you that I’m selfish [for re-opening the salon].” Salon Á la Mode owner Shelly Luther told Judge Eric Moyé during a contempt of court proceeding broadcast on the internet and tweeted by CBSDFW reporter Andrea Lucia, “because feeding my kids is not selfish.”
Earlier on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz expressed his concern over the Dallas judge’s action. “7 days in jail for cutting hair??? This is NUTS,” the junior senator from Texas tweeted. “And government officials don’t get to order citizens to apologize to them for daring to earn a living.”
THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED
WITH EVERY WAVE OF WALL STREET PLUNDER FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS.
THEY STARTED TWO WARS TO PROTECT THEIR SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS (WHO DO YOU THINK FUNDED THE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY?) AND HAVE SABOTAGED
OUR BORDERS AND HOMELAND SECURITY FOR ENDLESS HORDES OF ‘CHEAP’ LABOR.
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret
Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
Audible Audiobook – Abridged
How did the Bushes, America's most powerful
political family, become gradually seduced by and entangled with their Saudi
counterparts?
Why did the Bush administration approve the secret airlift of
140 Saudis, including two dozen relatives of Osama bin Laden, just after
September 11? Did one of the Saudi royals on the planes have any advance
knowledge of the attacks?
What specifically chosen words did George W. Bush say on
national television during the 2000 election campaign to trigger Muslim
support? How did Saudi-funded Islamic groups propel Bush to victory in Florida,
thus winning him the presidency?
The answers to these questions
lie in a largely hidden relationship between the House of Bush and the House of
Saud that began in the mid-1970s. An amazing weave of money, power, and
influence, it takes place all over the globe and involves war, covert
operations, and huge deals in oil and defense industries. But, most
horrifyingly of all, the secret liasion between these two great families helped
trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9-11.
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This book will test you.
When you wonder aloud why Congress doesn’t get anything done, foreign wars
continue without reason and deficits are so high, most are unable to see the cause.
Unger doesn’t explain it all but he explains the relationship between money and
power better than any book I’ve read to date.
The storyline of the book takes you through how the rich Saudi ruling class and
really a group of Texan oilmen bonded over business. When you read about the
genesis of the relationship in the 70s during the first part of the book, it
looked merely like the cozy insider-only type of stuff that is common in the
fabric of corporate America and most human relationships.
But the nuance Unger uncovers with his hawk-like ability to pull minutiae from
rivers of source material outlines a darker agenda. His fact finding mission
lays bare a Saudi elite trying to nudge the levers of power in Washington. And
with this insight, Unger explains the nearly invisible pattern in which money
buys powers in America. Unger’s work uncovers so many conspicuous connections
amongst so many smart, ambitious men that coincidence is ruled out as the
cause. Complicity makes the case here as well as any outsider like Unger can.
But the circumstantial nature of this book cannot be completely swept away.
Unger has grokked the nefarious nature of this relationship but is missing the
proverbial smoking gun. There is no ipso facto ‘A funded B which lead to C relationship’
outlined in the book. The closest we get to this as a reader is when the Bin
Laden family and other Saudi royals are ferried out of the country while the
FAA has all airspace on lockdown, a fascinating story that makes the TSA’s
security theatre we endure at every airport comically irksome.
Recommending this book is easy, but to whom I would make that recommendation is
difficult. If you sometimes watch/read the news with an open mind and wonder,
“How did we get to this place?”, then I’d put this book on your list. If you’re
knowledge of the middle east and current events is low, try paying attention to
that news first, watch for the patterns and then read this to learn the
connections. Most importantly though, any citizen trying to understand the ways
in which money buys power in the modern nation-state needs to read this book.
Josh Hawley: Abolish the World Trade Organization in Wake of
Coronavirus
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Corum/Getty Images
5 May 2020414
3:45
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) says the
World Trade Organization (WTO) should be abolished in the wake of the Chinese
coronavirus.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Hawley credits
the WTO with helping to empower “China’s rise” while weakening American
workers:
BLOG: BUSH'S VISION OF
'NEW WORLD ORDER' HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING BUT HIS CARLYLE
GROUP/HALLIBURTON WAR MACHINE AND SAUDIS BIG OIL WHICH HIS FAMILY STARTED TWO
WARS AGAINST THE IRAQIS TO ADVANCE.
But in the early 1990s, with America’s
principal adversary gone, Western policymakers were in a messianic frame of
mind. President George H.W. Bush promised a “new world order” of “open
borders, open trade … and open minds,” a new international system based on
liberal values to bring peace to the world. He and other internationalists wanted
a new economic system to match. [Emphasis added]
…
Take the World Trade Organization. Its
mandate was to promote free trade, but the organization instead allowed some
nations to maintain trade barriers and protectionist workarounds, like China,
while preventing others from defending themselves, like the United
States. Foreign agriculture won concession after concession, while
American farmers struggled to get fair access to markets.Meanwhile, the W.T.O.
required American workers to compete against Chinese forced labor but did
next to nothing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property and
products. [Emphasis addd]
Under the W.T.O.’s auspices, capital and
goods moved across borders easier than before, no doubt, but so did jobs. And
too many jobs left America’s borders for elsewhere. As factories closed,
workers suffered, from small towns to the urban core. Inflation-adjusted,
working wages stagnated and upward mobility flatlined. [Emphasis added]
Enough is enough. The W.T.O. should
be abolished, and along with it, the new model global economy. The quest
to turn the world into a liberal order of democracies was always
misguided. It always depended on unsustainable American sacrifice and
force of arms. And its companion economic order has, in a similar vein, succeeded
mostly in weakening American workers and industry. [Emphasis added]
The U.S., Hawley writes, ought to “seek
new arrangements and new rules” to restore the nation’s economic sovereignty —
which includes returning to the economic system before the WTO’s creation,
where reciprocal trade “protected our national interests and the nation’s
workers.” Hawley writes:
That means returning production to this
country, securing our critical supply chains and encouraging domestic
innovation and manufacturing. It means striking trade deals that are truly
mutual and truly beneficial for America and walking away when they are not. It
means building a new network of trusted friends and partners to resist Chinese
economic imperialism.
Since the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted and China entered the World Trade Organization
(WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have
been eliminated from the American
economy — 3.4 million of which are due
to U.S. free trade with China. The mass elimination of working- and
middle-class jobs and depressed U.S. wages due to NAFTA and China’s entering
the WTO have coincided with a more than 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
Of the 3.4 million American jobs lost
due to free trade with China, about 2.6 million — or about three-fourths — were
lost in the crippled manufacturing industry. U.S. trade deficits with China
have eliminated American jobs in all 50 states.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Bush
Center Slams Trump: We Want More Migration
3 May 202022
7:11
The
economics director at President George W. Bush’s advocacy center slammed President
Donald Trump’s popular, pro-American immigration policy.
The May 1 slam came just before Bush posted a May 2 video urging
national unity in the coronavirus crash that has pushed more than 25 million
Americans out of jobs.
“The most important thing to
remember in this is that we don’t want [Trump’s] temporary policy to become
permanent immigration policy,” economic director Laura Collins said a video
posted on the center’s Twitter account. She continued:
We know immigrants are good for the economy. We know they’re
good for our culture. We know they’re in this fight with us together, and we’re
going to meet them working with us side by side in any recovery after the
pandemic is over.
Trump’s April 22 immigration
policy says the
economic needs of American employees are more important than the immigration
preferences of foreigners. His policy temporarily trims the annual inflow of
legal immigrants and directs agencies to review visa worker programs in 30
days.
Polls show the
public — including recent immigrants — is overwhelmingly aligned with Trump in prioritizing
jobs for Americans over welcomes for legal immigrants.
The visa worker programs targeted by
Trump are extremely important to the Fortune 500. In response, the companies’
lobbyists and progressives allies have quickly launched a hard-nosed lobbying campaign and a soft-focus PR campaign to
protect the programs and mass migration.
Congress now accepts 1 million legal immigrants per year.
It also allows companies to keep roughly 2 million cheap and
complaint foreign visa-workers in U.S. jobs. The 2 million workforce includes
roughly 1.5 million foreign white-collar visa workers, plus roughly 400,000
foreign blue-collar guest workers, in professional or seasonal jobs needed by
roughly 26 million unemployed Americans.
Collins touted the corporate PR campaign, dubbed #AllofUs, in
her video slamming Trump’s pro-employee policy.
“The stated objectives of this executive order were to preserve
medical supplies in a pandemic for American immigrants already here and to
preserve job openings in any recovery for American workers that can be first in
line,” Collins said her video posted May 1.
She continued:
Unfortunately, this executive order is not going to accomplish
either of those objectives.
First of all, the virus affects all of us equally. It doesn’t
care who we are, or where we’re from. Current travel restrictions and
quarantine protocols in place, protect us from viral spread regardless of where
we’re from. And so there’s not really a need to prevent more people from coming
in in terms of slowing down viral spread. We know the virus is here and it’s
spreading. And what we’re doing is working.
However, Collins’ main focus is the economic worry that Trump’s
reform may permanently reduce the unending inflow of foreign workers,
consumers, and renters preferred by CEOs and investors. She said:
We know immigrants are good for the economy. We know immigrants
don’t compete with native-born Americans for jobs. And we know that before the
pandemic, there were millions of unfilled jobs in the United States.
If we assume that in any recovery, all those jobs come back,
every American that wants a job will have the ability to fill the jobs that
were there. We’re still going to have shortages and we’re going to need
immigrants there to help fill those jobs.
We simply don’t have a labor force at full employment, big
enough to fill all the jobs in the economy.
Immigrants — like the birth of Americans’ children — help grow
the economy. They expand the labor force, boost retail sales, spike real estate
values, fuel the stock market, and expand the number of companies. A growing
economy can be good for all — but it is especially good for wealthy people who
can invest in company stocks.
Yet every annual wave of immigrants also causes much economic
harm to the roughly 220 million Americans (and recent legal immigrants) who
work for a living, or who are educating themselves to take jobs in a few years.
Every new wave of legal immigrants
and illegal migrants competes for existing jobs and force down Americans’
wages. The arrivals also expand poverty, reduce pressure on investors to buy productivity-boosting machines, drive up the price of good housing, and add congestion to K-12
schools and universities.
Over the last 30 years, since George Bush’s father signed a 1990 bill roughly doubling
immigration, the government’s massive inflow of immigrants has kept
Americans wages almost flat (until 2018) and so has turbocharged the U.S. stock
market.
The establishment’s immigration policy has worked with free
trade to shift much wealth from middle-class employees and the heartland states
towards the stock market and the major coastal cities.
Trump was elected in 2016 to help reverse the establishment’s
economic policy.
Since 2017, he has mostly stopped illegal migration, and
he pushed wages up for blue-collars in 2018 and 2019. He has also trimmed legal
immigration, and his April 22 policy sets the stage for incremental,
significant reductions in the visa worker programs, such as the little-known
B-1 and OPT visa programs.
Business lobbies strongly oppose reductions in immigration and
visa workers.
Collins’ pro-migration views reflect George W. Bush’s
pro-business leaning and his 2001 push to allow U.S. employers to bypass
Americans and instead hire any willing workers from anywhere on the globe. The
2001 Twin Towers attack stopped Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” plan.
Collins insisted, “We know immigrants don’t compete with
native-born Americans for jobs.”
But the Center for Immigration
Studies reported in August 2018:
If immigrants “do jobs that Americans won’t do”, we should be
able to identify occupations in which the workers are nearly all foreign-born.
However, among the 474 separate occupations defined by the Department of
Commerce, we find only a handful of majority-immigrant occupations, and none
completely dominated by immigrants (legal or illegal). Furthermore, in none of
the 474 occupations do illegal immigrants constitute a majority of workers.
For example, companies provide the reward of green cards to
roughly 50,000 foreign visa-workers each year after those foreign workers have
taken technology jobs from Americans via the H-1B and other visa programs.
Exclusive–Jeff Sessions: Why Bring Foreign Workers to U.S. When
30,000,000 Americans Are Jobless?
12,
4 May 20204,746
3:07
United
States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American
labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a
continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass
unemployment.
In an
exclusive interview with Alexander Marlow on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Sessions
said it is critical that lawmakers defend the interests of unemployed Americans
who have been laid off due to forced business closures spurred by the Chinese
coronavirus crisis.
LISTEN:
“We have 30
million unemployed … We don’t have jobs in the United States,” Sessions said.
“There are no jobs now. We’ll lay off more people this week then we did last
week.”
“Why would
we bring in foreign workers to take jobs when we don’t have jobs for the
American people,” Sessions asked. “What theory is it that they’re operating
under when they try to justify such a policy position? It’s certainly not in
the interest of the American people. It’s in the interest of their corporate
friends and some ideology that they adhere to … so I do think that it’s time
for this Congress to deliver on its promises that the president made in the
campaign.”
Sessions
said more Republican lawmakers must be stepping up to the plate to take on China,
holding the communist regime accountable for wrecking the U.S. economy. A
select committee in the House and Senate, Sessions said, ought to be formed to
determine the truth behind China’s role in spreading the coronavirus to the
world.
“Where are
the rest of the Republicans? Where are they? I mean this is a big issue,”
Sessions said. “This party owes it to the American people to defend our
interests — American interests. And I don’t think there’s been near enough
action.”
“I would
think the first thing we need to do is to rally the people who understand the
significance of this and have what I call for, is a select committee to study
this pandemic and how it started,” Sessions continued. “We did that after the
attack on Pearl Harbor … where House and Senate appoint select members of
congress … and the charge is what did China know and what did they do, when did
they act on it or not, and did they lie about it? The world needs to know.”
As Breitbart
has reported, existing U.S. legal immigration law
greatly benefits China. Visa programs such as the EB-5 visa for wealthy foreign investors, the F-1 student visa, and J-1
visas allow about 180,000 Chinese nationals to enter the country every year
in addition to the 60,000 to 70,000 Chinese nationals who secure green cards
annually.
There are
nearly 500,000 Chinese students in the U.S. in
any given year — more than any other nation — taking seats in university
classrooms and looking to eventually obtain Optional Practical Training (OPT)
authorization to take entry-level jobs in white-collar professions.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart
News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.