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Police chiefs are being told to make fewer arrests because of a lack of prison space—yet another blow to the Conservative Party’s claim to be ‘tough on crime,’ just as talk is heating up (again) about an imminent general election.
The plans are bound to benefit what politicians euphemistically call ‘low-level’ criminals, who nonetheless do significant harm to law-abiding citizens and damage businesses, especially small, struggling enterprises.
Despite Conservative politicians releasing some prisoners early, there are still just 1,000 spaces currently available in British prisons, some of which are in such a sorry state that regulators say they ought to be shut down.
Because of this, an internal document drawn up by the National Police Chiefs’ Council has told police constables to pause so-called “non-priority arrests” and to suspend operations that may result in “large numbers of arrests.”
The memo, seen by The Times, does not disclose the kind of offences or operations which officers should ignore. Police have already spent years not arresting those caught in possession of cannabis and other ‘low-level’ drugs, knowing that the courts wouldn’t pursue such cases anyway. Now others will be let off the hook too.
The Daily Telegraphreports that constables have also been warned that a package of emergency measures introduced by the government “risks public safety,” and that the current crisis might further restrict the ability of officers to respond even to urgent calls.
A separate memo to British justices says that prison overcrowding could result in the temporary closure of courts, which would not be able to order convicted criminals into cells anyway.
These recommendations, which effectively bow to the emboldened criminal elements of society, could be dubbed the ‘San Francisco-isation’ of Britain after officers in the crime-ridden Californian city have said they ignore some ‘low level’ crimes because the district attorney is “pro-criminal and [is] not going to enforce the law.”
Labour has grasped this news enthusiastically as yet another opportunity to bash the Tories, but few seriously believe that Sir Keir Starmer’s team will do anything to improve the situation.
A newly registered Islamic charity has compared women who do not wear the hijab to ‘unwrapped sweets’, the National Secular Society can reveal.
One True Message Foundation (OTMF), based in Feltham, West London, registered as a charity earlier this year under the charitable purpose ‘the advancement of religion’.
In a now removed video titled Hijab vs Non-Hijab, Faisel Qarni, an OTMF trustee, says:
“I have two sweets, yeah, one I open the wrapper and I throw it on the floor, yeah, and I tread on it a little bit. The other one I leave in the wrapper and I throw it on the floor and I tread on it. One’s in the wrapper one’s not. I pick both of them up and I say take one. Which one are you going to choose? … Case closed”
The National Secular Society said the comments are “deeply misogynistic” because they suggest women who do not wear the hijab are “sullied”.
Another OTMF video describes an “AMAZING SOLUTION” to “RAPIDLY reduce crime”. Qarni relates how “there’s no crime” in countries where “[they] chop your hand off, in public”.
Amputation is used to punish theft in some systems of sharia law. The OTMF representative notes exemptions in cases of theft stemming from poverty, starvation and mental illness.
OTMF published a video interview with Sheikh Abu Usama last month. Usama says he “used to criticise Hamas” because he “wasn’t informed”. He claims pork is “the white man’s food” that is “poisoning us, killing us”.
Abu Usama previously described the World Cup as a ploy from the “Protocols of the Zionists” to distract the general public: “And that’s why those people make all that money”.
Green Lane Masjid, a mosque in Birmingham where Usama has preached, had a government grant of £2.2m paused last year amid allegations of antisemitism, homophobia and misogyny.
Maryam Namazie, a spokesman for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All, said: “An OTMF video says if women dressed ‘modestly’, they wouldn’t be raped or sexually assaulted. This is exactly why modesty culture is the extension of rape culture. It always blames the victim, never the perpetrator.
“Under the guise of promoting religion, Islamic ‘charities’ like OTMF continue to promote Islamist values, like Sharia rules, including on amputation and the imposition of the veil and sex segregation on women and girls.
“When will the Charities Commission and Government give precedence to the rights of minoritised women and girls? When will they stop enabling religious fundamentalists in their efforts to deny universal rights and normalise misogyny?”
Germany’s Parliament (Bundestag) has received the votes necessary to remove a section of the Criminal Code which made the possession of child sexual abuse materials a felony crime. Once the bill, passed last Thursday, comes into effect, minimum sentences for the possession of child pornography will be reduced, and the offense will be downgraded to a misdemeanor.
According to the Bundestag, the bill stipulates that “possession and acquisition should be punishable with a minimum penalty of three months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment. The offenses regulated in Section 184b of the Criminal Code are therefore classified as misdemeanors and not as crimes.”
The possession of child sexual abuse materials was first classified as a crime in 2021 after Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) introduced a minimum sentence of one year for the offense. The move classified the act as a felony, which it remained for three years until this most recent downgrade.
Responding to the passage of the bill, chairman of the association “German Children’s Aid – The Permanent Children’s Representation” (Deutsche Kinderhilfe – Die ständige Kindervertretung), Rainer Becker, pointed out that Germany could violate a directive from the European Union that classifies any child pornographic media as a serious criminal offense with the change to the law.
A statement of opposition was released by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). “The distribution, possession and acquisition of child pornography must, in principle, remain classified as crimes,” reads the declaration.
“Even if the increase in the penalty range in Section 184b of the Criminal Code in 2020 has led to practical problems in certain cases, a blanket reduction in the penalty range is the wrong solution. A change should be limited to the problem cases and solve them effectively. Scientific findings show that if the penalty framework shifts downwards, the penalties imposed in practice also tend to be lower.”
The rationale behind the downgrading of the crime to a misdemeanor included consideration for parents and teachers of children who download the content in order to inform law enforcement. “Such cases have occurred particularly frequently among parents and teachers of older children or young people who found child pornography on them and passed it on to other parents, teachers or the school management to inform them of the problem,” reads Article 1 of the bill.
The legislation continues: “A downgrade to a misdemeanor is also urgently required in order to be able to respond appropriately and with the necessary flexibility to the large proportion of juvenile offenders. Here, too, the perpetrators generally do not act in order to be sexually aroused by the child pornography content, but rather out of a drive typical of the adolescent stage of development, such as naivety, curiosity, thirst for adventure or the desire to impress.”
However, despite acknowledging such circumstances, the bill has not made certain exceptions, but rather downgrades possession of child pornography altogether – a fact that has not gone unnoticed by pro-pedophile campaigners.
The move has already been praised by a notorious German pro-pedophile activist group. Known as Krumme-13, or simply K13, the activist group has been described as a “self-help” organization for “pedosexuals.”
In a blog post written by its founder and dated May 17, K13 laments that “no politician in all factions apologized to the thousands upon thousands of those affected who fell victim” to the 2021 law which had made possession of child sexual abuse materials a felony.
A celebratory announcement shared by notorious German pro-pedophile group, Krumme-13.
K13 further advises all visitors to their site to have any relevant defense lawyers “submit applications for stays of proceedings on behalf of their clients in ongoing proceedings,” in order to wait out the period of time until the law goes into effect.
The notorious group was founded by Dieter Gieseking, who has been repeatedly charged with the possession of child pornography.
In 1996, Gieseking was sentenced to eighteen months, for which he served one year in prison, on charges related to operating a mail order child pornography service from a van. In 2003, Gieseking again appeared in court accused of possession of child sexual abuse materials obtained between July 1999 and January 2001. The pornography was found on Gieseking’s computer after a search of his residence in August 2001. His devices contained a total of 216 image files of naked children, and he was sentenced to eight months in prison.
At the time, Gieseking was also accused of linking to a child pornography page on his website. This link was discovered by jugendschutz.net, an organization set up by the federal government to protect minors online.
In a 2014 interview with Taz Online, Gieseking called for lowering the age of consent to 12 years of age, and said that adult sexual interactions with toddlers would have to be “discussed separately.”
“The taboo of pedophilia must finally be broken at all levels of society. If a pedophile can come out without fear of exclusion or even demonization, then this is the best prevention against child abuse,” Gieseking told the outlet.
“For babies and toddlers and elementary school students, the sexual component in such a ‘relationship’ is problematic. This would have to be discussed separately. From a sexual policy perspective, an age of consent (age of consent) of 12 is appropriate and long overdue in today’s enlightened society. There are boys and girls who take the initiative in a friendly and sexual relationship with a pedosexual. Therefore, there is a need for sexual criminal law reform that does justice to everyone involved.”
Through K13, Gieseking and his supporters lobby for lowering the age of consent and legalizing child pornography. K13 also campaigns for decriminalizing sexual relations between adults and children.
“Legalizing clearly self-determined sexuality between older people and those under 14 is the best protection against actual sexual violence against children,” Gieseking wrote in another petition to the government, while calling for the abolition of Sections 176 [Sexual Abuse of Children] and 188 [Dissemination, Acquisition and Possession of Child Pornographic Content] of the legal code.
Gieseking has been lobbying the government for changes to legislation for several years. Last fall, the Bundestag accepted a petition on children’s rights authored by Gieseking which amends Article 6 of the Basic Law to add statements regarding children’s rights, and states that “children should be viewed as legal subjects with their own rights.”
Among the rights listed within the petition’s text is the assertion that children have “the right to have a say in all matters that affect their emotional, mental and physical well-being,” and “the right to the free development of their personality.”
“Sexual self-determination” is included in Article 2 of the Basic Law under the phrase “free development of personality,” a fact that Gieseking made certain to point out to his followers on his website.
Every vote seems to be good enough for the Christian Democrats. In the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, Akgül Yazici is running for the Christian Democrats in the south-west Palatinate town of Pirmasens. Interestingly, the veiled Muslim woman is also an official in Erdogan’s fifth column, the DİTİB. The CDU doesn’t care about this blatant Islamisation. The main priority is to stay in power.
DİTİB, the extended arm of the Islamic despot Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Germany, is the largest Islamic religious organisation in this country thanks to mass Islamic migration. Critics repeatedly accuse the organisation of tolerating Israel-related anti-Semitism and promoting a fundamentalist understanding of Islam.
At least the latter is undoubtedly made evident by Akgül Yazici. The Muslim woman, wearing a properly fitting headscarf, is standing as a candidate for the Christian Democrats in the south-west Palatinate town of Pirmasens in the upcoming local elections. It is not enough that the CDU is promoting a candidate who wears the symbol of political Islam on her head. The Turkish-born, 44-year-old Yazici – listed in 44th place – is also a functionary of the aforementioned DİTİB, the organisation whose head, Diyanet chairman Ali Erbas, called Israel a ‘rusty dagger stuck in the heart of Islamic geography’. ‘Zionist Israel,’ said the warrior of Allah Mr Erbas, ‘is committing genocide in Gaza with its attacks based on a filthy and perverted faith.
The fact that the Muslim Yazici, who pretends to be a local patriot, is a hardcore Islamic functionary should be known to the CDU. Because: in 2020, the woman devoted to Allah ran as the ‘new chairwoman of the advisory board for migration and integration’. The local newspaper Rheinpfalz openly wrote at the time that ‘the prospective nurse’ was involved with DİTİB. The association runs the Anadolu mosque and a cultural centre on Exerzierplatz. As recently as April 2024, Yazici organised a joint breaking of the fast in front of St John’s Church in Pirmasens, also as a representative of DİTİB.
What life is like for the infidels in such Islamised areas can currently be seen in the town of Datteln in North Rhine-Westphalia. A primary school there was smeared with ‘Islamist’ – i.e. slogans taken directly from the Koran – and anti-Semitic slogans. Initially, a window pane of the school was smashed. Later, slogans such as ‘Only Allah is true God’ or ‘No German female teacher has anything to tell you’ were sprayed on the wall of the building in garbled German language.
Dutch conservative Raisa Blommestijn is being prosecuted for online criticism of mass immigration. (Credit: X @rblommestijn)
Dutch conservative lawyer and presenter Raisa Blommestijn has revealed she is being prosecuted by authorities in the Netherlands for online criticism of mass immigration after commenting on viral footage of a defenseless Dutch boy being thrown onto a railway track by a gang of migrants.
In a video published on X, Blommestijn confirmed she had received a summons from the Dutch public prosecutor to attend a court hearing in front of multiple judges on Aug. 19 to face charges of “racism” and “inciting hatred.”
Remix News has translated the video, which can be viewed below.
NEW: Dutch conservative @rblommestijn, a friend of @EvaVlaar, confirms she is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for online criticism of mass immigration.
She commented on viral footage showing a migrant gang beating a defenseless white boy before throwing him onto the train… pic.twitter.com/7H7zjCRhPb
The Dutch conservative had commented on footage posted online of a gang attack against a white victim who was kicked relentlessly as he lay on the ground at an Amsterdam Metro station in May last year before he was thrown onto the railway track.
“Yet another white man got kicked around in the street by a group of black primates. How many defenseless white people remain to become victims? Countless probably: the open borders elite is importing these people in droves, with all the consequences that entails,” she wrote.
The Dutch government is prosecuting me for so-called “racism” and “inciting hatred” for bringing this video to the public’s attention.
Blommestijn explained how she had been subjected to a four-hour police interrogation for her remarks and that the authorities were now proceeding with a prosecution.
“Until now, it was still unclear what would happen next with this case. Unfortunately, I can tell you that as of today, there is clarity. The sword of Damocles has fallen because this morning I found this letter in my letterbox. A letter that cannot be seen as anything other than a subpoena,” she told her followers on social media.
“On Aug. 19, I will have to appear before the multiple sentencing chamber,” she added.
Blommestijn accused her home country of “pretending to be a democracy, a country with freedom of speech,” and lamented the fact that politicians and commentators were being “persecuted for their political opinions,” for raising awareness of “social and political problems like mass migration, migrant violence, and repopulation.”
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a fellow Dutch conservative commentator and good friend of Blommestijn, warned how “political dissidents are being criminalized in my country.”
The latest development continues a concerning trend across Western Europe of conservative activists being prosecuted for denouncing the liberal immigration policies of their respective governments and showcasing the effect they have had on society.
The 27-year-old politician was found guilty in the Verden regional court in Lower Saxony for “inciting hatred” against local Afghan workers.
Although these incidents are becoming increasingly more commonplace ahead of next month’s hotly contested European elections, in which right-wing parties are expected to increase their number of seats in Strasbourg, persecution of conservative activists highlighting these issues has been happening for some time.
The former director of BBC Television has accused the publicly-funded broadcaster of holding an “egregious” anti-Israel bias and failing to uphold its commitment to impartiality in its coverage of the Middle East conflict.
The BBC, which is funded by an annual mandatory licence fee (tax) of £159 for anyone in Britain who watches live colour television in the country on pain of fine or potential jail time, has violated its legally binding commitment to impartiality, notably from its BBC News Arabic service, said former Director of BBC Television Danny Cohen.
The Royal Charter of the BBC, which provides the constitutional basis for its continued broadcasting, states that the BBC must provide “high-quality news coverage to international audiences, firmly based on British values of accuracy, impartiality, and fairness.”
However, Cohen, who ran the public broadcaster’s television arm from 2013 to 2015, wrote in The Telegraph on Tuesday that “the Israel-Hamas war has seen the BBC fail to deliver on this crucial test on more occasions than can be explained away as ‘errors’ or bad luck.”
The ex-BBC boss pointed to statements from regional reporters hired by the BBC News Arabic service as having mimed “the language you would hear from a Hamas spokesman,” adding: “Our licence fees are paying the wages of people who celebrated the rape and slaughter of men, women and children.”
Following the October 7th attacks on Israel, which saw Hamas terrorists kill over 1,200 people and take hundreds more hostage, a BBC News Arabic correspondent was reported to have praised the “Palestinian resistance” for “taking an initiative” while describing a video full of civilian hostages on the back of a truck as a “proud scene”.
A BBC Arabic editor also reportedly responded to a video of Israeli citizens hiding from Islamist terrorists as: “Settlers hiding inside a tin container in fear of the Palestinian resistance warriors”.
The broadcaster has long faced accusations of hiring reporters with an anti-Israel bias. For example, in 2021, a BBC “Palestinian Specialist” was reported to have pronounced that “Hitler was right” and that Israel was “more Nazi than Hitler”.
The scandals have not been contained merely to BBC Arabic, however, with a schedule coordinator for BBC 3, Dawn Queva, being fired earlier this year from the broadcaster after it emerged that she allegedly wrote on social media that Israelis were a “subcontinental Caucasian invader coloniser species with zero indigenous/blood” and that Jewish people were “Nazi apartheid parasites”.
Cohen commented: “The BBC is employing people who celebrated the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust… If any other publicly funded organisation supported terrorist sympathisers, the outcry would be enormous. Yet the BBC seems to be impervious to its problems, unwilling to recognise and address the management failures that are poisoning one of Britain’s great institutions.”
“When breaches of impartiality are so egregious that they extend to the exaltation of a massacre, something has gone very wrong with the public broadcaster. But these scandals are made so much worse when the organisation fails to deal effectively with the problem,” the former BBC Television director added.
Cohen also noted that rather than issuing a mea culpa for the apparent anti-Israel bias of BBC News Arabic, BBC Director General Tim Davie has defended the service, saying that BBC Arabic was something “we should be very proud of”.
Despite Davie vows to maintain the BBC’s commitment to impartiality, the broadcaster has also faced accusations of bias over its editorial stances towards Israel, notably refusing to label Hamas as terrorists, instead referring to them merely as “fighters”, “gunmen”, or “militants”.
Mubarek Ali, raped, violated and pimped out a girlv West Mercia Police
The ringleader of a grooming gang that lined young girls up to be sexually abused has been jailed for a further 12 years.
Mubarek Ali, raped, violated and pimped out the girl over several years after “charming and sweet talking” a victim.
The 41-year-old was jailed 12 years ago for his part in a paedophile ring uncovered in Telford as part of Operation Chalice.
Last month he pleaded guilty to rape, trafficking and other offences against a young girl between 2004 and 2008.
During the court proceedings at Shrewsbury Crown Court, it emerged that the victim and three other girls were taken to a location in Stoke-on-Trent where there were other men.
One of them said: “So, who’s first?” As part of a witness statement, the victim said they were then sexually abused, one-by-one.
Ali denied charges relating to the latest victim but admitted to several counts on the second day of a trial. He eventually admitted to two counts of rape, one of trafficking for sexual exploitation and three counts of sexual activity with a child.
The victim, a woman now in her 30s, sat in court holding onto a family member as her statement was read by prosecutor Steven Perian KC.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be bombarded with phone calls from random men asking: “How much do you charge?” They told her that Ali had put them in touch with her.
Ali, aged in his 20s at the time, “befriended” the girl, supplied her with vodka and Red Bull and made her “fall madly in love” with him.
Perian said: “He charmed her and got her to fall in love with him to the extent she was besotted with him.”
The court heard how, not long after they started getting to know each other, Ali told her he would ‘**** you when you turn 16.”
However, Ali did not wait until she was of legal age to use the girl for his sexual gratification, taking the girl to various places for sex himself and to pimp her out to others, including hotels, his mother’s house and takeaways, reports Stoke-on-TrentLive.
Jacob Hallam KC, mitigating, asked the judge to take into account Ali admitted some of the charges. Ali will be on the sex offenders’ register for life and also subject to a sexual harm prevention order.
Ali, who is already serving time in prison for a string of sexual offences, was given a 14-year prison sentence in 2012. He will now serve the 12-year sentence which will run concurrently.
Sentencing, Judge Peter Barrie said: “You have shown no remorse at all. She was a vulnerable girl who had been through a very difficult childhood. [She was] desperate for a stable relationship and you… must have seen that. You were an adult.
“You met her at this house where young people used to go. There was alcohol and cannabis available and shared. You struck up a relationship with her. She did not have the maturity or experience to understand what was going on. It is understandable that she thought she was in love with you.
Judge Barrie continued: “You made her have sex with you in different places, in different ways and with different people. It became normalised behaviour for her. As she became older, she became less easy for you to manipulate.
“You took advantage of the hold you had over her to get her to have sex with other men. Often with older men it involved being taken to restaurants where they were queuing up to have sex with her.”
Detective Sergeant Cindi Lee, who led the investigation, said: “We welcome the sentence given to Ali yesterday by the judge, and even though I welcome it, it does not take away the lifelong trauma he caused the victim and her family.
“Ali is a highly dangerous individual who preyed on young girls, and it is incomprehensible that he would commit such crimes against them. For the victim to come forward and to report these crimes it took a lot of courage and strength, and I would like to commend her for her bravery throughout the investigation and trial.”
On May 17, the European Union released a statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU for the so-called “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.” It was a declaration of the new Western values, calling on countries everywhere to “focus on fighting inequalities and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination” to ensure that “justice” will “apply to everyone regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity.”
On IDAHOT Day, and every day, we call on governments around the world to repeal discriminatory legislation, take action to tackle and eliminate hate crimes and hate speech, prevent all forms of violence against LGBTI persons [sic], and tackle structural and institutional barriers and biases that still limit the participation of LGBTI persons [sic] in decision-making and political processes… The EU continues to work with partners on inclusive laws and policies.
At this point, internationally recognized “LGBT awareness periods” occupy much of the calendar year, making up a sort of post-Christian liturgical cycle. May 19 is “Agender Pride Day”; April 6 is “International Asexuality Day” (in which everyone presumably leaves each other alone); September 16-22 is “Bisexual Awareness Week,” followed by “Celebrate Bisexuality Day” on September 23; October 17-24 is “Genderfluid Visibility Week,” and July 19 is “Drag Day.” There are 26 internationally recognized “LGBT awareness” days (or weeks), with some countries having plenty of domestic days as well. Canada has moved from a four-week “Pride Month” to a four-month “Pride Season.” Federally funded, of course.
Notably, not all EU countries signed off on the recent declaration of fealty and obeisance to the LGBT agenda. Nine countries refused to sign, including more conservative countries such as Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, and Lithuania, but also Slovakia, the Czech Republic and, most surprisingly, Italy. The decision provoked fury amongst Italian LGBT activists and left-wing politicians, who launched protests against the Meloni government over the decision. (Press reports referred to these protests as “widespread,” but this seems to be an exaggeration intended to pressure the government rather than a report on reality.)
The declaration, although non-binding, was significant, as it was essentially a promise from the signatory states to, as one outlet noted, work on “implementing national strategies for LGBTQ+ people [sic] and appointing a new EU Commissioner for Equality following the upcoming EU parliamentary elections.” The declaration is, undoubtedly, a coup for the LGBT activists in Brussels, and thus the dissident countries faced enormous opprobrium. Family Minister Eugene Rocella, however, defended her government’s position in an interview with Il Messaggero.
Rocella stated that everyone can choose who to “have sexual relations with.” “But the freedom to ‘be who you want to be’ advocated in the document is an ideological constraint and a denial of reality because the reality of the body and sexual affiliation cannot be changed to the end,” she added. In short, Meloni’s government has realized what other politicians have been slower to identify – that the LGBT movement is demanding that even biological boundaries be eliminated in law.
“I think the so-called gender binarism should continue to apply: There are women, and there are men,” Rocella noted. “We want to preserve the anthropology on which parenthood and the continuity of humanity are based because if you abolish men and women, parenthood also changes, and you shouldn’t be surprised if no more children are conceived.” While Rocella stated that the Meloni government has no problem with people getting “sex change” surgeries if they choose, they are not willing to accept gender ideology wholesale.
“They are trying to deny not only biology but also the body, which is based on the gender difference between men and women,” Rocella concluded. She’s right, and the outrage of LGBT activists indicates that they are concerned about this expression of common sense. In an increasing number of European countries, the transgender movement’s advance has been halted after a decade of nearly unimpeded progress and the colonization of wide swathes of the calendar. Perhaps Italy’s opting out is a sign of things to come.
Image: The Deep State Fantasy by Andrea Widburg, using AI.
By Andrea Widburg
We know that the FBI and DOJ made a point of conducting the Mar-a-Lago raid when they knew Trump would not be there. However, newly released documents associated with the raid empowered the FBI and DOJ agents present on the scene to shoot Donald Trump and his Secret Service detail if necessary. We don’t know if this was standard operating procedure or not, but it’s certainly concerning on its face.
An exhibit filed today by Donald Trump in a motion to suppress evidence seized during the FBI’s August 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago revealed shocking new details about the bureau’s plans to use deadly force and even engage the former president and his security detail that day if necessary. The document is just one of many court filings recently ordered unsealed by Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the matter in southern Florida.
As noted above, the FBI and DOJ planned the raid for a time when they knew that Donald Trump would be away. However, the best laid plans don’t always go as expected, so there had to be a contingency plan…and what a plan it was. Per Julie Kelly:
One section of the plan described how agents should handle the potential for use of deadly force:
The FBI also considered various scenarios should the former president unexpectedly arrive at his residence during the raid. Agents were also prepared to go door-to-door to terrorize Mar-a-Lago guests if staff refused to turn over room keys:
Assuming that the use of deadly force statement is not the FBI’s standard operating procedure, its inclusion in the raid plan is disturbing. And even if it is SOP, the additional “contingencies” plan has sufficient ambiguity to suggest that the agents on the scene had a lot of latitude.
Thus, paragraph 2 of the “Contingencies” document states, “Should FPOTUS arrive at MAL, FBI MM EM and OSCs will be prepared to engage with FPOTUS and USSS Security Team.” In the context of a plan that explicitly authorizes the use of deadly force, the concept of “engaging” can have myriad meanings, some of them deeply disturbing. Indeed, the FBI also planned to bring along a medic in case anyone was “injured,” and it identified the closest trauma center. Again, SOP? We don’t know now.
I don’t need to repeat at length here that the entire classified document case is completely bogus. We now know that it was the National archivists who dumped the boxes with Trump.
Moreover, as president of the United States, Donald Trump had plenary power over all classification schemes. Neither the employees of the administrative state (who work for the president and not vice versa) nor the legislature (which cannot infringe on the executive’s constitutional authority) can alter the president’s final say over document classification. Also, as a reminder, Biden was not president when he mishandled classified documents.
The raid and the ensuing indictment were intended to embarrass Trump, sideline him, and potentially imprison him. It’s possible, too, that the raid was also meant to locate documents showing criminal acts that the Democrats committed during and after Obama’s presidency.
With this new information about the authorization for the use of deadly force and the contingency plan in case Trump and/or his Secret Service got in the way, it’s just so easy to let your imagination run wild. Can’t you just see some fervently partisan bureaucrat in the DOJ or the FBI fantasizing that Trump will arrive at Mar-a-Lago unexpectedly, get feisty, and be taken out by an over-zealous agent?
In this fantasy, the agent, of course, will go to prison, a sacrificial lamb on the altar of making the obscene look respectable. However, sacrificing a pawn is a small price to pay if you can rid yourself of your most feared political opponent.
