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The Cowardly Pontius Pilate, and Today’s Cowardly American Courts

Too many courts are following the example of Pilate when plaintiffs have a case to bring. Rather than giving justice to just persons, the courts wash their hands by saying, “I don’t think you have ‘standing’ to bring your case to my court. Yes, it's an important case, but someone else needs to see to it. I'm washing my hands of it.”

Remarks Constitutional litigator Robert Barnes,

“This Pontius Pilate plea of the courts gives them the pretense and pretext to avoid cases and controversies precisely because they are true cases and controversies. It also affords them the means to protect their allies and impair their ideological adversaries.

“Hence, conservative courts embrace “standing” to defeat environmental groups, voting rights groups, housing discrimination groups, and the like to contesting state power

…while liberal courts embrace “standing” to prevent gun rights, property rights, and disfavored conservative causes from challenging state power.

"Both sides, of course, completely flip sides when it’s time for their side to challenge state action.

"Voters have no right to challenge 2020 election results, not even states. Yet Trump haters have standing to demand Trump not even be on the ballot?

"This is why “standing” is not a serious doctrine, nor should its advocates be taken seriously. The political shroud it provides cowardly courts to escape a case is precisely because the case is a controversy worthy of Constitutional redress, not because the case doesn’t even arise to such a controversy in the first place.”

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Yes, A.I. Is Powerful. Doomsday Powerful

Somebody typed a prompt, and a virus came out.

Sixteen of them. Genomes written by artificial intelligence, ordered as synthetic DNA, assembled on a bench, and grown into stocks that replicated and threw off offspring. Thirteen carried mutations that match no known natural sequence. The scientific paper ran in the publication Science, and its senior author disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.

Six years ago, on April 6, 2020, Bill Gates sat with Trevor Noah and said a vaccine was the only thing that would let us return to normal — and announced that his foundation would start building the factories before anyone had seen efficacy data. Scale during testing, he said, rather than waiting for results. A great many people heard optimism. Some of us heard a schedule.

-- Dr. Peter McCullough

The Trajectory of National Evil

"There are times when a people tolerate an evil for so long that they cease to recognize its enormity. The evil acquires procedures, professional language, political constituencies, legal protections and respectable explanations. Eventually bloodshed receives a clinical name, partiality becomes public policy, and injustice—once sufficiently regulated—begins to look almost ordinary."

-- Bill Evans

Taking Orders From the EU

The @EU_Commission met today with Meta & TikTok on the situation in Ceuta.

"Platforms must act decisively in keeping the integrity of the digital space, in particular during crisis situations. Monitoring must increase, cooperation with fact-checkers to be strengthened."

What has social media been commanded to do? Cover up the fact that 72,000 military aged males invaded Spain over a two day period? Spin the story? Hire fact checkers who say, "Don't believe the misinformation. It was only 72 migrants." What were the orders given to social media regarding the Hungarian election of 2026? What orders are being given to the new puppet government of Hungary by the EU?

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