Swarthmore College spies on it’s students, even in Crum Woods.
Kya Butterfield ’25 handled one of the observation cameras and was charged with violating the college’s vandalism rule in the Student Code of Conduct.
The initial penalty was $4,800.
Butterfield said, however, it was reduced to $2,400 “out of good faith.”
Swarthmore History Professor Timothy Burke estimated the first camera was installed 15 or 20 years ago.
Citing security concerns, Interim Director of Public Safety Colin Quinn would not disclose the number or location of the security cameras.
By comparison, in 2024 Haverford College reported 85 cameras on campus, up from 45 in 2022.
Swarthmore has re-defined disorderly conduct to include “any other action(s) that result in the unreasonable interference with the learning/working environment or the rights of others.”
Erin Picken sums up his argument by stating “If you only protest against a stubborn institution along the guidelines it has provided, how much change can you really make?
The urban campus of the University of Pennsylvania, which has 120 officers and is the second-largest police force of any private university in the U.S.
Penn uses 145 pan–tilt–zoom cameras, which are constantly monitored, and more than 1,200 other fixed cameras.
Student Milo Garcia notes he comes from small-town Mexico and was never attacked there.
“If it hadn’t happened to me in Mexico I wouldn’t think it would happen to me here,” he said.
For the lucky few among us who grew up during the 1950s in Southern California, and specifically around the Pacific Palisades/Malibu area, the non-stop video coverage of the massive wildfire was impossible to watch. My thoughts took me back to when the state lived up to its golden image. In their book “From Cows to Cement,” authors Rachel Surls and Judith Gerberk documented Los Angeles County’s agricultural history which was once America’s largest farming county. Today, L.A., once a silkworm center, is the U.S.’ largest urban county. After World War II, around 1945, people moved to Los Angeles in waves to build factories, large office buildings, cookie cutter housing and other edifices that drove land prices ever-upward. Values slowly but inevitably rose; land boom followed land boom. As property assessments soared, farmers couldn’t resist the lucrative opportunity to cash in. A less esthetic L.A. survived, with farmland replaced by cement. By 2023, Los Angeles County had become the nation’s most populous, with nearly 10 million residents, more than about 25% of California’s total population. In 1950, the county’s population was 4.2 million. Today, L.A. County is one of the nation’s largest, covering more than 4,000 square miles. If it were a state, it would be the country’s eighth largest.
Underneath Los Angeles’ urban cement nightmare lay thousands of acres of once-productive farmland. Farming was Los Angeles’ hub from its 1781 founding into the mid-twentieth century. Over the four decades between 1909 to 1949, Los Angeles grew from a farming community into an agricultural powerhouse. Farmers experimented with a multitude of crops, from fruits and vegetables, to hemp, cotton, and flowers. Livestock was important too, with major stockyards that competed with Chicago and Omaha. Hundreds of dairy and poultry farms flourished.
Intrastate transplants went west for more than business opportunities. The sunny and warm weather was a lure. To mid-western arrivals, the beaches were unparalleled. California’s coastline which stretches out over 840 miles has over 420 public beaches, the star gem of which is Malibu. Beach Boys’ songs and movies like “Beach Blanket Bingo” drew a picture of non-stop fun in the sun. All age groups that in-migrated to California found their way to the beach to suntan, fish off the pier, dine in one of the popular just-caught fish restaurants or to hang out, but also to build homes as close to the beaches as their pocketbooks could afford. The celebrities and other wealthy elite built on the ocean’s edge unconcerned about the mudslides that heavy precipitation brings.
The recent Palisades fires followed by pounding rains have created an ecological threat to the Pacific Ocean. Debris and toxins released from the fires will damage kelp forests and lead to destructive algae blooms that snuff out ocean life. The much-needed rain will mark the beginning of the worst effects in the ocean. “The Malibu coastline is extremely unique,” said Dan Pondella, Occidental College biology professor and Southern California Marine Institute research director, “It’s probably the highest density of fishes throughout Southern California.” When rain mixes with debris from burn scars, a slurry of mud, rocks and rubble pour into ocean, which Pondella said acts like both sandpaper and a blackout curtain for the fragile kelp forests. “You’ll see anything from reduced light, which limits photosynthesis in plant and algal growth, to reefs actually being completely buried in ash,” he said. The ash layer remains in the environment for a long time. When the Woolsey Fire tore through Malibu in 2018, it dumped thousands of tons of ash into the ocean, which Pondella’s team was still finding in reefs five years later. More bad news: Wildlife officials reported that a toxic algae outbreak has left as many as 50 sea lions sickened and stranded on Malibu beaches in the past week.
For the next few years as clean up and rebuilding continue, Malibu’s good times are over. When friends ask what it was like to grow up near California’s beaches, I can’t come up with a description that would do my experience justice. I simply say, “I wish you’d been there with me to appreciate it.”
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
I always like to have fun outside the political world.
I fell in love with wrestling when I was in middle school and I’ve been following ever since. I remember like it was yesterday watching an entire episode of Monday night Raw in May 2009 and I’ve been following it since. Jeff Hardy was my favorite wrestler at the time. Now it’s The Miz.
MEETING WRESTLERS: Over the years I’ve met guys like Rey Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, Natalya, Joe Hendry, Hulk Hogan, The Miz, Alundra Blayze, Tiffany Stratton, Bayley, King Kong Bundy, Bob Backlund, Indy wrestlers and many more.
Meeting professional wrestlers means so much because they’ve entertained me so much. The wrestlers that I really want to meet are John Cena, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Cody Rhodes, Asuka, Seth Rollins, Bianca Belair, The Undertaker, Ric Flair. But mostly Jeff Hardy because he was favorite WWE Superstar when I got into wrestling.
WHAT IS PRO WRESTLING: Professional wrestling is combat sports, intense choreography, stunt work, comedy, storytelling and its true performance art.
The risk and sacrifice that these wrestlers take to entertain millions and make fans happy. They put their lives on the line every week for this sport. It is scripted, but people who claim it’s fake are wrong. I’ve seen many injuries, marks, and bruises. That ring is not a trampoline there is plywood under the mat, the same plywood where you can get from Lowe’s or Home Depot. The weapons that they use like a kendo stick or a steel chair are not props as in a movie but real steel and wood.
GOING TO A WRESTLING SHOW: I’ll never forget when I attended my first wrestling show. It was a WWE non-televised event on February 14, 2010 at the Wells Fargo Center. It was the coolest experience ever. But later that same year, I attended my first televised event of Monday Night Raw on June 28th. Just being there on TV and hearing the loud Pyro was insane. I’ve been to 31 WWE events and a few Indie wrestling shows. So I think I’ve been to 40 Wrestling shows total.
Raws, Smackdowns, NXTs, WWE premium live event events, NWA, Monster factory pro wrestling. What makes it better is that I attended my first Wrestlemania last year. I have photos of all the events I’ve been to over the years.
MY WRESTLEMANIA EXPERIENCE: I’ll never forget when I found out that Wrestlemania was coming to Philadelphia. It was July 28, 2022 and I was scrolling through Facebook and when I saw it. I immediately lost it and shared it with so many people. I had to double check and it was legit. Never in a million years I thought this would happen so soon.
Wrestlemania is the Super Bowl of WWE. It doesn’t matter what city they’re in. They take over and fans from all over the world come to get their Wrestlemania experience. I’ve met people from the UK, Europe, Australia, and Bangladesh.
I attended WWE World at the Pennsylvania convention center. The experience was so fun seeing all the memorabilia from WWE’s archive and what made it better was The Rock showed up.
WRESTLING IS POPULAR: For years I’ve heard that pro wrestling is for kids, a redneck sport, a man’s soap opera. That IS NOT true. It’s popular all over the world places like Japan, the UK, Europe, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Women love it just as much as the men. There’s people older than me that have been fans since the old school era.
What I don’t understand is the ones who say it’s for kids still get excited for Disney movies. Like if the new Toy Story 5 came out all the adults would shove the kids out the way.
WRESTLING COMPANIES: If you never watched wrestling a day in your life the first company that comes to your mind is WWE. In reality, there’s so many other companies out there and you don’t have to watch WWE to be a wrestling fan. There’s TNA, AEW, ROH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, WOW Women of Wrestling, MLW, NWA and many indy wrestling companies.
I think it’s good for fans to watch these shows besides the WWE because you’ll learn how other companies do things and you’ll learn new talent. There were some wrestlers I knew about before they came to the WWE you’ll feel a true fan.
I was bullied a lot growing up for my love for professional wrestling, but that negativity didn’t stop me at all. It just made me love it even more and I’m still a fan to this day. It’s a part of me. It’s helped me during bad days, it’s something that’s always put a smile on my face. I’m happy that I was able to tell my story.
Tevin Dix and Hulk HoganTevin with The MizWith Rey MysterioWWE Hall of Famer Alundra Blayze Monday Night Raw in October 2024Tevin with SheamusAt Wrestlemania 40An NXT match at the 2300 arena in 2024
Liberty4all asked in a comment to this article from Feb. 17 “What does the ratio of Left vs Right cases undertaken by (The Institute for Justice ) look like? And who is funding them now? “
First, taking a deep dive into current cases IJ listed; CasesBowers v. Oneida County Industrial Development AgencyThis is an eminent domain case. “Can the government take your property just to hand it over to your business competitor? “ See article for the full explanation.
“First, in May 2023, WCO Moon pounded on the Thomas’ front and back doors, roamed around their yard and took pictures of their cabin, dock, and yard—all without a warrant—on the unfounded belief that Tim had been fishing without a license.”
Lastly, we have Norfolk, VA Camera Surveince“ In 2023, the city installed over 172 cameras around town. These are not your standard traffic cameras. The cameras are strategically placed to capture everybody’s daily travel. They’re straight-up surveillance cameras, set up to watch people 24/7 as they go about their lives. “
Another long-time donor, the late Dr. John B. Wenders He was affiliated with the Commonwealth Foundation, among other conservative groups.
Brian Schar is a lawyer who says “We who fight for liberty are outnumbered and outspent by the multitudinous interests who depend on the state” His position seems libertarian, rather than simply left or right.
We had become Covid vaccine skeptics and I went so far as to attend the CHD 2023 Conference. It helped that this was in November in Savannah, GA. Any effort to beat back the medical-industrial complex is to be welcomed.
The possibilities of Make America Healthy Again or MAHA were broached by Trump Press Secretary Karoline Levitt after President Trump signed an executive order creating a MAHA commission and directing Bobby Kennedy Jr. “to investigate this chronic crisis plaguing our country and the minds and the bodies of the American people.”
Another possibility is further safety studies of food dyes and other additives.
Of course there are limits to what RFK, Jr. can do. Part of the problem is the multiplicity of Agencies. Tom Scully who worked in the George W. Bush administration a current CMS chart and “there are offices I never heard of when I was there 20 years ago,” .
Another factor is that the HHS Secretary “does make the final decision” on vaccine approvals.
There are some issues that members of the medical community want addressed. Number uno is the ever-rising costs of “maintenance” drugs.
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) wants him to address “the prices set by drug companies and misuse of the patent system that blocks market-based competition for more affordable alternatives like generics and biosimilars,” said JC Scott, president and CEO of PCMA.” However is PCMA also part of the problem?
Locally, some of the fear of change comes from CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
“I think it’s a sad day for America’s children. I think it’s a sad day for public health when someone who is a science denialist, conspiracy theorist, and virulent anti-vaccine activist is [leading] the biggest public health agency in the United States,” says Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at CHOP.
Swarthmore College is in the news again. The Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) staged a sit-in on Feb 19 (See also the letters)
Their demands were “ that the college drop its disciplinary cases against students for charges related to protests for Palestine and that the college divest from companies tied to Israel.
However this time Swarthmore Public Safety blockaded the building, preventing further protesters along with supplies, etc. This was the opposite of the previous lazes-faire reaction.
Last time, for instance, a number of us took photos. Now they were told not to take photos.
For a report that the SJP is an anti-Israel group.
It should be clarified that the FBI only contacted Swarthmore College after Swarthmore SJP put out a call for others to join them. My protest experience was that if you put out a call for others to join you that, inevitably, you would have some undercover Philly PD, State Troopers, FBI, etc.
The Swarthmore Administration in the person of Val Smith wanted to clarify that the College did not contact the FBI or any other federal law enforcement agency in response to the protest.
Meanwhile, on the Left Coast, Multiple pro-Palestine groups protest suspension of SJP, Graduate SJP on campus It seems the SJP violated UCLA’s Time , Place and Manner rules by protesting in Dickson Plaza and also in front of UC Regent Jay Sures Brentwood home on Feb. 5 and chanting “Jonathan Sures, you will pay, until you see your final day.”
If only the British had said “these are the official days and times for tea-tossing”.
During the seven-plus decades that I’ve been a baseball fan, I’ve watched games at all levels— Little and Pony League World Series, high school, the NCAA World Series and countless major and minor league games. When friends ask about my most memorable baseball moments, I answer going to Puerto Rico Winter League (PRWL) games. I’m not alone in my judgment. Dick Young, a New York-based columnist who wrote about the Yankees, Giants, Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers for more than 50 years said that the most exciting games he ever covered were between the San Juan Senators against its neighbor, the Santurce Crabbers.
Thomas E. Van Hyning’s new book, “The Caribbean Series: Latin America’s Annual Baseball Tournament, 1949-2024,” transported me back to those wonderful days in the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, when as a Puerto Rico resident, I watched some of MLB and the Negro National League’s (NNL) best “peloteros,” as the fans referred to them. Among the league batting champions were Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, and Orlando Cepeda; NNL stars Willard Brown and Buster Clarkson won the runs batted in titles. Crabbers’ mound stalwarts were the Giants Ruben Gomez, a 28-year regular in the PRWL and Chicago Cubs ace and Sam “Toothpick” Jones, the first black pitcher to toss an MLB no-hitter. Santurce fielded the most successful PRWL teams of the 1950s. Author Van Hyning compared Santurce to the New York Yankees, “a franchise with a rich history and a winning tradition.” The Crabbers were all of that and more in the first season I watched them, 1954-1955. Most thrilling of all, in the Crabbers’ outfield, Clemente played left field with Mays in center, a fans’ delight as the duo roamed the deepest recesses of magnificent Sixto Escobar Stadium to snag long line drives. Well-traveled fans called Sixto Escobar the Fenway Park by the ocean. Clemente and Mays played together in numerous All-Star games, but the only time they played side-by-side continuously was as Santurce teammates.
Clemente respected Mays, with whom he had friendly competition, but Roberto didn’t worship the 1954 NL MVP. Instead, Clemente admired Monte Irvin, his childhood baseball hero who played for the Giants and, earlier, the NNL’s Newark Eagles. Mays played only one season with the Crabbers, 1954/1955, but what a season it was: batting average, .395, with 12 HRs and 33 RBIs in truncated season. “Ole, mira,” came the chants for Mays, the Spanish translation of, “Say, hey.” Clemente captured the 1956/1957 batting crown with the decade’s highest average, .396. During his 15-years-long PRWL career, Clemente played for the Crabbers, the Caguas Criollos, and the agaSenators, and against topflight MLB pitching, had career total of hitting .323, with thirty-five homers, and 269 RBIs. Clemente also had two managing stints with the Senators and guided the team to the playoffs twice.
Clemente was destined for stardom from the day that Brooklyn Dodgers scout Al Campanis, who had managed Cuba’s Cienfuegos Elephantes that winter, attended a tryout at Sixto Escobar. Campanis graded Clemente, then 18, as either A or A+ in the essential five-tools category—hitting, hitting for power, fielding, throwing, and speed. In his report to Dodgers’ management, Campanis wrote, “Has all the tools and likes to play. A real good-looking prospect.” On Nov. 22, 1954, the Pirates selected the 20-year-old Puerto Rican prospect from the Brooklyn Dodgers in MLB’s Rule 5 Draft. The Dodgers didn’t need Clemente that first season — outfielders Duke Snider and Carl Furillo hit .309 and .314 respectively, combined to hit sixty-eight home runs and helped Brooklyn win the 1955 World Series. But letting Clemente get away was an obvious Dodgers’ mistake when he won the ’66 NL MVP Award, four NL batting crowns and led the Pirates to World Series championships in ’60 and ’71. Over the course of his 18 MLB seasons, Clemente slashed .345/.382/.466 against the Dodgers with seventeen triples and twenty-one home runs in 291 career games. He didn’t hit higher than .330 against any other MLB team and is the only Hall of Famer to have been selected in the Rule 5 Draft.
The Crabbers, led by Mays’ .440 average and Clemente’s series-leading eight runs scored, topped off an excellent season by winning the 1955 Caribbean World Series. I moved back to the mainland before I would have seen a long string of Cooperstown Hall of Famers like Bob Gibson, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, Robin Yount, and Reggie Jackson. As I read Van Hyning’s book, thoughts of those great evenings I spent in Sixto Escobar Stadium, enjoying the warm Caribbean trade winds and top-flight baseball came back to me as though they happened yesterday.
Joe Guzzardi is a Society for American Baseball Research member. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com
If the Democrats are as battered, bruised and confused as has been repeatedly written, then the party should act immediately to remove Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). After the 2024 drubbing that Democrats were on the short end of, and with defeated presidential candidate Kamala Harris permanently out of DC politics, Schumer is an omni-present reminder of the party’s failure. When last seen, Schumer was protesting in front of the Treasury Building alongside Maxine Waters (R-Calif.), “We will win. We won’t lose,” a reference to Elon Musk’s DOGE. Yelling and arm-waving is a bad image for Waters, age 86, Schumer, 75, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA.), another shrieking protester, age 75, and the floundering Democratic Party. Waters has been a congressional fixture for 36 years, Schumer, 45 years, and Warren, 10 years although she has been hanging around Washington in various capacities for 30 years. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 80, Senate Minority Whip, is a 42-year congressional veteran who will assumedly run for a sixth term in 2026. Durbin’s signature issue, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the unpopular and unconstitutional DACA, has been stuck in legislative quicksand for two decades. Some DACAs are now over forty, have protection from deportation, work authorization, jobs, and families that include American citizen children.
When the American Federation of Government Employees gathered on Capitol Hill and rallied “to save the civil service” and to oppose President Trump’s push to reduce federal government’s workforce size, Maxine Dexter, (D-Ore.) said, “…we have to f… Trump.” Free speech rights may protect Dexter, an M.D. and first term U.S. Representative, but her vulgar comment could be construed as a threat to the president, a felony that carries a maximum jail sentence of up to five years and a fine not to exceed $250,000. As President Teddy Roosevelt said, “Profanity is the parlance of the fool.”
Whether engaged in free speech or felonious behavior, the Democrats’ strategy is wrong. Insistence that the Trump administration represents a “constitutional crisis” does not resonate with voters, too reminiscent of the endless pre-election assertion that fascist DJT would be a “threat to democracy.” Tennis players’ comportment could help guide Democrats to get over their automatic hysterics of all-things Trump. In tennis, after the match, the loser and winner meet at the net, shake hands, and pat each other on the back. The loser returns to the locker room, not grousing but committed to reviewing the match tapes, identifying strategically what led to his loss, and dedicating himself to practicing longer and harder to win next time. Before the upcoming tournament, the loser fires his coach, his trainer, and his dietician; he sheds deadwood. Getting rid of power-obsessed, entrenched Schumer and Durbin would be hard unless former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is summoned. Pelosi put the skids to President Biden, her friend of 50 years, to end his re-election bid. Even if Schumer and Durbin retire or are pressured to resign, New York and Illinois will remain blue, but the rest of the 2026 Senate election calendar looks grim for Democrats, especially after Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) announced their retirements
Looking back at November, woeful Kamala Harris deserves the lion’s share of the blame for her landslide defeat. Harris was a bad candidate who ran a horrible campaign. Her candidacy was, as Democratic strategist James Carville said, like starting the seventh string quarterback in the Superbowl. But the Democrats’ bench is wafer-thin. California Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) or any of the other possible candidates would have fared worse than Harris. They all shared the impossible task of winning while saddled with President Biden’s burdensome baggage—an open border that admitted more than 10 million unvetted illegal aliens, national debt increases of more than $6 trillion, and brazen disregard for the Supreme Court’s ruling that he could not forgive student debt, a decision he disobeyed when he subsequently discharged multiple billions in indebtedness, and then bragged about his defiance of SCOTUS. Not for nothing did President Biden have a 35% approval rating among likely voters.
On a nationally televised interview, the host asked his guest Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson if Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had knocked on his door to present the Democrat plan. In the imaginary conversation, Jefferies would say to Johnson, “We agree that government waste and fraud must be eliminated. But we have produced a better plan you should consider.” Johnson replied to the interviewer that no one from the aisle’s other side had, at any time, reached out to him. The Democrats undertaking—to forget about President Trump, he won, you lost. Make a sound plan, promote it nationwide, sell it to the voters, a task that is within your reach. Statistics compiled in 2024 show that of the 210 million registered voters 38.8 million are Republicans and forty-nine million are Democrats. The new and improved Democratic roadmap should be to stop harping about President Trump and instead explain why Americans deserve your party’s vote.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
When President Donald Trump talks to his pillow every evening, he’s thanking his lucky stars that his original Attorney General nominee, the controversial Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, dropped out. Trump’s second choice, Pam Bondi, is off at break-neck speed to right many of the wrongs done by the prior administration. The same day that the U.S. Senate confirmed Bondi, she issued several memos including one to put DOJ employees on alert that if they allow their personal political views to interfere with defending federal priorities, they could be fired. Another memo Bondi distributed to her staff created what the new AG called a “Weaponizing Working Group.” The group will, among its other missions, investigate special council Jack Smith’s part in two federal criminal cases against President Trump: one over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, surge on the U.S. Capitol and another on his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Bondi directed the newly created group to examine potential federal weaponization cooperation with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s and New York Attorney General Letitia James’ offices.
Most important to voters who voted for and support President Trump’s commitment to removing criminal aliens, Bondi ordered a pause on distributing funds to sanctuary jurisdictions, cities or counties that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or abide by federal immigration law. Enforcement advocates have for years urged both Republican and Democratic administrations to stop funding self-appointed sanctuary cites that are, in truth, a refuge for criminals. San Francisco and other sanctuary cities and states sued the Trump administration; Bondi’s overdue actions against immigration lawbreakers have been temporarily enjoined, but better times are coming. Sure enough, Bondi has also sued for their immigration crimes the States of Illinois and New York as well as AG James and DMV head Mark Schroeder. “We sued Illinois. New York did not listen, now you’re [NY] next. This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans,” Bondi told reporters. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.” As an example, Bondi pointed to New York’s Green Light Law that prohibits the state’s sheriff’s department and other agencies from sharing motor vehicle data with federal authorities for purposes of immigration enforcement. “They have a ‘tip-off’ provision that requires New York’s DMV commissioner to promptly inform any illegal alien when a federal immigration agency has requested their information,” Bondi added. “It’s tipping off an illegal alien. And it’s unconstitutional, and that’s why we filed this lawsuit.”
Not only has Bondi expressed her determination to end the practice of harboring criminal illegal aliens, but border czar Tom Homan has strongly stated that governors and mayors who obstruct ICE in its mission or any other party that interferes could be prosecuted. Neither Bondi nor Homan could have imagined that, after her forceful and specific memos, FBI agents would have leaked information that allowed Tren de Aragua gang members to avoid capture. Allowing personal political views to interfere with federal law enforcement is punishable by, at a minimum, dismissal. Last week, Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested that the FBI leaked information about when and where the raids would occur. “Some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the FBI,” Homan said in a nationally televised interview wherein he also vowed to recommend to the Justice Department that the leakers be prosecuted.
Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, strongly pro-law enforcement, promised Homan that not only will these persons lose their jobs and pensions, but they will also go to jail, adding that the leaks about ICE raids targeting Venezuelan TdA members are “giving the bad guys a heads-up so they can escape apprehension.”
Once Noem and Homan identify the traitorous agents, the soon-to-be appointed new FBI director Kash Patel can start to root out the abundant rot.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Yet another group we learned about at the Bill of Rights Banquet was The Institute for Justice which describes itself as “ a nonprofit, public interest law firm. Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power and secure the constitutional rights that allow all Americans to pursue their dreams”
So far, they have won 10 of their 12 cases at the Supreme Court and “returned $21 million in wrongfully seized assets”, among other victories.
Source Watch, in their evaluation of IJ, Institute for Justice – SourceWatch mentions that PFAW (People for thr American Way) , a Progressive organization, has described IJ as a “one of the litigation groups that has “eagerly sought out potential court challenges in lower-income urban communities” and has loudly claimed “the mantle of supporters of education for the disadvantaged.” Whether Charles Koch, who provided seed money for IJ, would regard this favorably, is a moot point.
