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Curt Weldon Speaks In Swarthmore

By Bob Small

Former Congressman Curt Weldon spoke to a rapt standing-room-only crowd, Sept. 25, in an event sponsored by the newly emergent SRC Swarthmore Republican Committee.

The SRC was created to provide an alternative voice in Swarthmore, where only Democrats have been in elective office for two decades.

Though there was rain mixed in with the humidity, over 40 people crowded the Sycamore room of the Inn at Swarthmore to hear the truth from someone who challenged the deep state and survived. He spoke about his visits to Libya and North Korea and his bi-partisan efforts to broker cooperation with Russia.

Curt Weldon is the author of two books; Countdown to Terror and Awakening The Sleeping Giant – Curt Weldon. He is the subject of the 2021 Documentary Firefight – Documentary Film – Curt Weldon.

Luigi Mangione And His Musical

By Bob Small

From Assassins to Chicago to Sweeney Todd, there is a history of “bloody” musicals. Previously, many of the world’s best-known operas focused on murderers. Bluebeard’s Castle, Lucretia Borgia, Lulu, Macbeth, and Othello are just a few of the better-known names. Somehow, adding music to the tale gives it another dimension, if not making it more palatable.

“Luigi” which features Luigi Mangione and includes the characters of non-murderers Sam Bankman-Fried and Sean “Diddy” Combs, is set in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where all three were housed. This musical premiered on June 13^t

Let me share a rather noble sentiment from the final song, “every single human being’s life has worth / so I’ll shoot everybody until there’s peace on Earth.”

The last sentence of the article is worded perfectly  “To see the system at work means becoming a witness, and becoming a witness means being, on some level, implicated in the system, for good or for ill. “

This musical that Luigi has become an unwitting “star” of Yep, the Luigi Mangione musical is here , comes with more immediacy than most other works. Should this be out before the trial begins. Just saying.

This work was created by four stand-up comedians. Whether we can expect it on the East Coast is yet to be determined though we think that’s a safe bet.

Nova Bradford, one of the creators of this musical says “We’re not valorizng any of these characters and we’re not trivializing any of their actions or alleged actions.

Lily Janiak, Theater Critic, for the San Francisco Chronicle, has a “killer” review.

Towards the end of the review , though, she quotes a very effective line “I wanted them to understand what it feels like when someone else gets to decide if you live or die.” This brings us back to why an alleged murderer has such a wide swath of public sympathy.

See also; The Battle to Define Luigi Mangione Takes Center Stage

Maybe one of our Delco Theaters that regularly runs musicals, The Media Theatre or Swarthmore Players Club can run it this Fall, so we can judge for ourselves,

The Murder of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo

By Bob Small

For some unknown reason, the murder of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo at the Salt Lake City segment of the “No Kings” rally has been “media silent”.

Mr Loo was a well-known fashion designer, was on “Project Runway” and co-founder of Creative Pacific Foundation. He leaves behind a wife, Laura, and two children.

My knowledge of this came from “an interested observer of political events” in the The Utah Vanguard The gist of this article is that the 50501 organizers, who parachuted into Salt Lake City, refused the input of the experienced organizers “on the ground”. It did not work out well.

The 50501 Organizers were warned ahead of time that “ it was a bad idea to have these ‘peacekeepers’ to be a part of what they were … attempting to do, and that it could lead to something tragic like this — and sadly it did.”

They were using ex-military, most of whom have vast weaponry experience rather than, say, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)

My years as a Quaker meeting attendee and member gave me great respect for their capabilities.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox said the group  “were warned months and months and months ago that it was a bad idea to have these ‘peacekeepers’ to be a part of what they were … attempting to do, and that it could lead to something tragic like this — and sadly it did.”

According to this article, one of the event’s security team fired three shots from a handgun, one of which killed Mr. Loo.

Originally, according to the Salt Lake City Police an Arthur Gamboa was arrested but, since he never fired his gun, he was released. Since then, nothing much has happened that is web listed.

The national group has done everything possible to disassociate themselves from this violence. They’ve been aided by

the minimal coverage the murder of Mr. Loo has received.

Now just imagine if this had happened at a MAGA rally!

Did Swarthmore College betray a student ?​

By Bob Small

Once Swarthmore College Transgender Student Evelyn “Evie” Parts was accepted as a member in the Swarthmore College Track team, and subsequently elected captain, she assumed she would be running right up until this year’s graduation.

However, she was removed on Feb.6 , which was the day the NCAA issued a new “Transgender” policy. She, however, was “fully reinstated” as of April 11.

Parts’ lawyer, Susie Cirilli, argues “the NCAA is a private organization that issued a bigoted policy and that “Swarthmore College chose to follow that policy and disregard federal and state law.”

Parts is a 2025 graduate with a degree in Biology and Environmental Studies. The suit was filed Aug. 14 in Eastern District Court. Parts joined the track team, returning in 2023 after gender-affirming surgery.

She was named track captain for the 2024-25 season.

In response to the suit, Swarthmore College issued a statement that begins “We deeply value our transgender community members “

This was even reported by the British Newspaper, The Sun choose to focus on Parts” depression and suicidal thoughts after being removed. They quoted Cirilli as saying  “the NCAA is a private organization that issued a bigoted policy.”

Pink News chimed in to say that the PA Senate had passed a law banning transgender athletes but Senate Bill 9 remains stuck in the State House House. More than likely, it would not be signed by current Gov. Josh Shapiro

It should also be mentioned that “The board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reportedly didn’t consult with its own medical consultants before voting to ban all transgender women from women’s sports earlier this year.”

The alternative she was given when she was removed from the women’s team, according to the lawsuit , was that “that she could only compete with the men’s team or as an unattached athlete, and would only receive medical treatment if she competed on the men’s team. ““”

Swarthmore College, and other institutions, seem to regulate based on who’s in office and which way the wind is blowing.

From the principality of Swarthmore

By Bob Small

India is one of the countries we follow (Bollywood movies, Indian cooking and restaurants, Shah Rukh Khan and) India has a corruption level equal to the old Cook County, Ill. or, more recently, the Philly Dem machine. Something to think about as you read this

One Harshvardahn Jain aka Baron H V Jain decided to create fake embassies in Ghaziabad, a suburb of New Delhi. Among the “countries” he “represented” were Westarctica aka West Arctica. (See end of article for other “micro-nations”). He reportedly has an MBA from the London College of Applied Science among other degrees.

When the police raided his “embassies”they  recovered $53,500 in cash in addition to doctored passports and forged documents bearing stamps of India’s foreign ministry.

That is what they found, who knows what else might be hidden.

Among his scams were promising people jobs in these “micro-nations” and laundering money through the Hawala system. A small golden nameplate at his door read “His Excellency Harsh Vardham Jain, Royal Consigliere, Principata de Seborga (Royal Advisor to Seborga)”

Jain follows in a long list of dreamers and/or scammers including Leicester Hemingway, who had a more famous brother named Ernest.

Swarthmore’s namesake Swarthmoor Hall, is in Lancashire England and there’s also Swarthmore, which is an “education center” in Leeds, also England. There is a Strathmore in Scotland but sadly, no principality. Another opportunity missed.

See also Indian police arrest man accused of running fake embassy

Among other “micro-nations” are;

New Atlantis

Grand Duchy of Flandrensia

Hutt River

Ladonia

Lieberland

United States of Kailasa

Sealand

Principality of Seborga

WW II Internment of Italian Americans

By Bob Small

Previously, we had discussed the hidden history of the German-American WW2 Interments,

Now we move on to the equally unknown internment of the Italian-American population. Some 1,881 Italian-Americans were taken into custody and detained during the war.

In 2010, the California Legislature passed a resolution apologizing for US mistreatment of Italian residents during the war.”

Though there were WWII restriction zones for Italians in places like San Francisco these were only on the West Coast, even though Eastern cities such as Philadelphia had large amounts of Italian-Americans.

Among the Italians affected were Giuseppe Dimaggio, who son Joe was possibly the most famous professional baseball player of his time. Even more bizarre, Ezio Pinza, possibly the most famous Opera singer of his time, was even arrested and imprisoned, albeit briefly, on Ellis Island.

Finally on Columbus Day, 1942, the US Attorney General announced the lifting of the stigma of “enemy” status.

According to this article, Fort Missoula Camp Help during World War 11” Most of the men were deemed a risk because the hearing officers couldn’t be sure they were not a risk “ One notable member of the Alien Enemy Board members was Democrat Senator Mike Mansfield, who would go on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

There are a number of discussions of this time, including Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American …, Public Law 106-451 106th Congress An Act, and A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry …

See also

Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans

POW Camps in Pennsylvania – GenTracer

Alleged Cult Murder in Delco

By Bob Small

Very rarely does a Delco Murder catch the nation’s eye, but the alleged murder in Chester Heights by Michelle Zajko of her parents Rita and Richard Zajko seems to be all over Fox News and other outlets. It could be because she is a “person of interest” in the previous killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland Jan. 20 in Coventry, Vt.

Or it could be her membership in a cult-like group known as the Zizians.

Or it could be that she’s a transexual.

She’s certainly aware of the Zizans’ status, saying of the coverage of the group “ has painted them as “Satan’s lapdogs, the devil and the Manson family all rolled into one.”

There are many articles on the Zizians most of which tirelessly remind us that Ziz Lasota, the alleged founder, is a transexual as are many o Zizians. Many of them are also vegetarians, but that’s not as frequently mentioned.

One fascinating tidbit can be found in this BBC article. In 2022 after her failure to show up at a court hearing her lawyer said she was “now deceased after a boating accident in the San Francisco Bay area”. She even received an obituary in an Alaska Newspaper. How many of us, besides her and Mark Twain, have been able to claim to have read their own obituary?

Forget the noise about the Zizians being transexual and vegetarian. According to the Desert Sun quoting the San Francisco Chronicle, many Zizians had worked previously at either Google or NASA. Poulami Saha, a professor at UC, Berkeley said “The internet culture and the absolute immersion that’s possible there means there are forms of connection that only appear only after the fact” She went on to add, “We are kind of grasping for a story that makes sense of it. … People on the outside can never fully know what’s happening on the inside.” Basically, this is not an hour documentary, more like a twelve chapter mini-series.

As we get closer to trial date, in Maryland, it gets curiouser and curiouser. Stay tuned!

The German American Internment

By Bob Small

When we hear about US Internment Camps, we automatically think of the Japanese Internment Camps that occurred during World War 2, both for the massive publicity they have been given and for the public apologies and reparations that have occurred, both of which, in my opinion, were deserved.

Less well-known are the German-American Internment Camps, the only group interned during both World Wars.

A total of 2,048 were incarcerated by 1918 and the Internment of German Americans was coordinated by the Department of Justice Alien Registration Section, headed by the then 23-year-old John Edgar Hoover, the future FBI director.

Prior to that, evacuees from two German Cruisers, Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm were moved on Oct 1916 to The Philadelphia Navy Yard where their lodgings became known as “The German Village”.

During World War II, 11,507 persons of German ancestry were interned which was 36.1 percent of the total internments. Approximately 4,500 Germans were deported from 15 Latin American countries and landed in other US Internment camps. Some internees were not released until 1948.

Following the example of the interned Japanese, in 2005, activists formed The German American Internee Coalition: Home. There is also the proposed S.1356 – Wartime Treatment Study Act 107th Congress (2001 … brought up a number of times.

Of course, this history has been denied and distorted. One frequently cited source, Personal Justice Denied lists only four of the 50 internment sites. It should also be noted that 64 percent of those arrested during World II, were either European or European Americans.

For a more thorough review, see Fear Itself: Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans …

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, issued during the Presidency of John Adams says that all 14 old males and up from the warring nation, “who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”

According to A History of the Alien Enemies Act, this act was first used during the War of 1812.

See also

WWII: U.S. Germans Were “Enemy Aliens”

How does the Alien Enemies Act work?

Dr Oz And Bobby And A Wobble of Canadian Ostriches

By Bob Small

Due to Avian Flu fears the Canadian Health Dept. was preparing to cull 400 Ostriches from a a British Columbia farm. However, RFK, Jr. requested the Canadian Food Inspection Authority (CFIA) not proceed with the cull.

Bobby Kennedy Jr., of course, is our Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Universal Ostrich Farms of British Columbia had requested an exemption but was denied.

They are not going to take it, it should be noted.

And some experts oppose the cull.

“Only one exemption to a cull order has been granted in Canada,

Fiona Brinkman, from Simon Fraser University’s Molecular Biochemistry and Biology wants the CFIA to conduct new tests because so much time has passed since the initial cull order was given.”\

MAGA supporters and the Canadian Freedom Convoy are working together against what they – and Bobby — perceive as “government overreach”.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is also supporting the big birds even offering to house them at his Florida ranch”.

Dr. Oz told the New York Post “The Canadians should stop putting their heads in the sand,” he said. “ and study herd immunity by keeping them alive.

Billionaire John Catsimaditis of the Save our Ostriches believes the birds have “life- saving antibodies.

The plight of the “wobble”– a term for a group of ostriches — has Canadians on both sides of the issue.

Gozmodo has a fairly snide article — RFK Jr. Begs Canada to Pardon 400 Ostriches — about it.

They quote Dr. Oz, however, saying “We’re sticking our necks out for the birds.”

Mostly, though, this was an opinion piece masquerading as a news article.You have to read Ostriches facing cull at Canada farm find unexpected allies to discover some of RFK Jr’s other allies and co-signers,

See also RFK Jr wants Canada to pardon 400 ostriches

If you search the March 5^th letters section of Northeast Times: Home there’s an interesting letter entitled RFK Jr, the new Elliot Ness.