Private-sector policingA burglar with 105 previous convictions has been <a href=" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13389409/Prolific-burglar-44-caught-breaking-M-S-jailed-private-prosecution-Met-refuse-investigate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sentenced </a>to prison after being detained and prosecuted not by the police but by a private investigation company, TM Eye. The store manager in the targeted business, Marks and Spencer in London, UK, had called law enforcement after identifying the burglar using CCTV footage; when London's Metropolitan Police declined to investigate, the manager turned to the private sector, leading to a successful conviction.&nbsp;No prolific police officers for prolific criminalsAs the police withdraw from policing — that is, the government withdraws from its most basic role and responsibility, that of protecting the citizenry — a space has opened up for private policing forces, such as <a href="https://tm-eye.co.uk/what-we-do/prolific-crimes-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TM Eye</a>, which claims to have made over 2,000 arrests of shoplifters, assisted in 800 prosecutions, and recovered almost $600,000 in stolen funds.It is noteworthy that TM Eye's department dedicated to retail crime is called the “Prolific Crimes Team.” The criminals they pursue are not random shoplifters, kids who ran out of cash for a Hershey bar and popped it into their pocket before sneaking away. They are repeat offenders, the scourge of stores across the world, who are responsible for massive losses for retailers.TM Eye “liaises” with police, which is <a href="https://www.jpllaw.net/blog/understanding-the-concept-of-a-citizens-arrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">obligatory</a> when it comes to detaining criminals. But they also gather evidence, obtain witness statements, compile video footage, recover stolen goods, and detain criminals. Police, by their own admission, are understaffed for dealing with crimes against people and property and simply can't keep up with the numbers of shoplifters. Instead, they are focused on far more serious incidents, such as following up “hate crime" allegations or arresting people who broke lockdown regulations during the “pandemic” or committed “possession crimes.”&nbsp;Corrupted judgment?The police are not alone in cracking down on crimes without direct victims while de-emphasizing crimes with such victims. Sometimes district attorneys refuse to prosecute or pursue only minimal charges for dangerous criminals. Judges, too, can step in and ensure that even repeat criminals get off with a relatively lenient penalty which can be as little as community service with no time served behind bars at all.But the media, too, must accept its share of responsibility for downplaying or even excusing crime, as this headline from the UK's <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11454513/Tesco-puts-security-tags-four-pint-cartons-milk-cost-living-crisis-drives-shoplifting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daily Mail</a> illustrates:<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1715206623/shoplifting_daily_mail_64d34e441b.png"></figure>Undoubtedly, the cost of living has risen in recent years. Nonetheless, people aren't actually collapsing of starvation. Although their suffering is real, people in earlier generations certainly experienced more challenging times, including those who lived through the Great Depression, without seeing (and certainly not condoning) anywhere near the level of theft seen today. Interestingly, even ChatGPT doesn't excuse shoplifting even when a person genuinely needs the food to survive.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1715207107/chat_25df18dbda.png"></figure>Presumably, ChatGPT's programmers recognize some basic adherence to moral law is necessary if society is not to entirely fragment.&nbsp;Are private militias to be the future of policing?Despite ChatGPT's outlook, society may indeed be fragmenting as few are those who are willing to step into the breach and do something about rampant crime (unless they are paid to do so).It's the stuff of movies, unless you live somewhere like South Africa:<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">Hijackers apprehended by South African private security after a high speed car chase <a href="https://t.co/D50AwtHSlX">pic.twitter.com/D50AwtHSlX</a>— alex (@africaken1) <a href="https://twitter.com/africaken1/status/1409912179441258497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Only for Big Business?Marks and Spencer is a large, established chain of stores with the ability to absorb the costs of employing private detectives to detain (and ultimately deter) criminals. Small stores have no such ability and they are being driven from the marketplace due not only to crime, but also hyper-regulation, competition from online stores, and onerous DEI mandates.The costs are not merely economic. If things continue this way, with the public losing faith in the will and ability of police to maintain public order, one can envision a future of private guard forces (militias) increasingly taking the law into their own hands, aided and abetted by the police themselves as they effectively delegate their responsibilities (for which they are paid) to the private sector. After all, TM Eye was founded by a <a href="https://tm-eye.co.uk/our-team/david-mckelvey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">former chief detective of Scotland Yard</a>.

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Are private militias the future for Big Business?

Private-sector policing: How private detectives step in where police fear to tread

<blockquote>[Nutt] I only told my mother about my asexuality but … she made a point of saying, “maybe you should stop taking those antidepressants because they can result in zero sex drive.” Has anyone heard this?[Philip027] Gotta love how some parents think, sure, let's have the kid suffer through depression, anything so that they can keep that precious sex drive.</blockquote>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; — recent conversation on the “<a href="https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/183037-antidepressant-effects/?tab=comments#comment-1063244616" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">asexuality.org</a>” forum<blockquote>After my talk, an Australian psychiatrist came up to me and told me about three of his patients, adolescents, who had been about to have relations for the first time, but in the end they didn't, because they weren't physically able to. All three had attempted suicide.</blockquote>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; — <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dr+peter+breggin+pssd&amp;oq=dr+peter+breggin+pssd&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhA0gEINjkwOWowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:e1ca117c,vid:uQSyuqJp93Y,st:0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Peter Gotzsche</a>, co-founder of the Cochrane Review&nbsp;A is for abnormalAlmost 20 percent of Americans are currently or have recently been taking anti-depressant drugs for depression. Many more are taking SSRIs, the most prescribed class of anti-depressant drugs, for reasons other than depression, such as anxiety or an eating disorder. Among younger Americans, the number of anti-depressant prescriptions issued has risen by almost 70 percent in the last four years alone.Also in the last four years, the “asexual” phenomenon has been gaining attention, publicized by organizations such as Stonewall, which exists to normalize all kinds of divergent ways of being. And yet, the asexual phenomenon is very different from many of the other letters in the alphabet soup, because it describes a person who is not different but rather “less.”&nbsp;&nbsp;Abnormal invariably means miserableStonewall describes people lacking this most basic human drive as a sub-sector of normal; for them, “asexual people hold a minority sexual orientation.” They have been labeled "Ace”:<blockquote>Ace is an umbrella term used to describe a wider group of people who experience little, fluctuating, or no sexual attraction.</blockquote>Stonewall does actually acknowledge some of the problems associated with being Ace, as they write in their 2023 “Ace in the UK” <a href="https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/ace_in_the_uk_report_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a>:<blockquote>The UK Government's landmark 2018 National LGBT+ Survey has enabled analysis of asexual people's experiences … asexual respondents had lower life satisfaction, more prevalent mental health needs, were less likely to be out to friends … and those who were out … had a poor experience…</blockquote>&nbsp;How normalizing the abnormal covers up abuseStonewall's report was based on a survey that found that people who are Ace tend more often to be younger and female. Perhaps coincidentally, younger people and females are statistically more likely to be taking SSRIs. Also perhaps coincidentally, younger people and females are more likely to be the targets of sexual abuse. In fact, many of the stories featured by Stonewall and other “pro-Ace” organizations involve individuals who have suffered such abuse. But Stonewall, as well as many self-identifying asexuals, refuse to associate the two, insisting that their asexuality is an innate part of their being and should be respected as such.It should also be noted that much of Stonewall's insistence that asexual people need to be “protected” derives from their very real victimization in a hypersexualized society where modest behavior is seen as a relic of a bygone era. No one, of course, asexual or otherwise, should be subjected to prying comments or unwanted advances.&nbsp;However, for reasons one can only conjecture, Stonewall and other similar organizations have chosen to deny any element of cause and effect and instead normalize the phenomenon, making the leap from how homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness to insisting that it is normal to lack one of the most basic human drives, as if a person who feels no hunger could be on the “food spectrum.”This is a tragic development, as it prevents genuinely damaged people from understanding their predicament and finding ways out of it. And, just as Stonewall &amp; Co. have ended up strange bedfellows with the pharmaceutical companies in the area of trans “medicine,” here too, they have fallen into line with the preferred narrative of Pharma — namely, that SSRIs are “safe and effective,” that they save lives, and that the considerable benefits justify the risks.&nbsp;Decades of deceitRelying on the mainstream media for information will usually bring a person to the same conclusion, unless they are scanning headlines carefully and noticed a single article in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/antidepressants-ssri-sexual-dysfunction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Times</a> from last year, or one in the left-leaning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/02/ssri-antidepressants-sexual-dysfunction-side-effects-consequences-libido" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Guardian</a> from earlier this year. Judging by these two articles, one gains the impression that doctors have only recently discovered that SSRIs could be problematic in this area.In fact, it has been known since the 1970s that anti-depressants have a strong negative effect in all areas concerning intimacy. Prof. David Healy, a UK-based psychiatrist and the founder of the RxISK website, <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076819899299#bibr17-0141076819899299" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">describes</a> how, in the 1980s, doctors came under pressure to find alternatives to benzodiazepines (such as valium) and were encouraged to prescribe anti-depressants instead, which were supposedly non-addictive.At the time, it was claimed, based on clinical trial reports, that less than five percent of those who took SSRIs (such as Prozac) experienced sexual dysfunction. However, pharmaceutical companies are not obligated to submit all their trial results to the FDA, only the cherry-picked studies that provide the data they were looking for. It later became known that, in some early studies, over 50 percent of healthy trial volunteers suffered “severe sexual dysfunction” and that some of these people never recovered full health, even after stopping the drug.Over the years, more and more studies confirmed these disturbing findings, with researchers noting that the reported figures of dysfunction were almost certainly lower than the real numbers, because people are generally reticent and embarrassed to admit to experiencing such personal difficulties.&nbsp;Informed consent?From a perusal of many, or even most popular medical websites today, one would never know any of this. WebMD, for instance, lists possible side effects of SSRI drugs including rash, blurred vision, etc., and no mention of sexual problems. The only hint they give is in a single sentence where they suggest taking the drug once a day right before going to sleep, in the event that it causes problems.There is certainly no indication that people who take SSRIs, even for just a few months, or perhaps just a few weeks, could be left with absolutely debilitating “side”-effects for the rest of their lives.&nbsp;GaslightingThe Times article does acknowledge this can happen, before the author launches on an extended gaslighting trip which includes calling involuntary asexuality a mere “hypothesis.” The Guardian is more frank about the extent of the issue, describing a 20-year-old nurse called Tilli who started out physically healthy (albeit with some anxiety and depression) who ended up numb, even years after withdrawing from the anti-depressant drug her doctor prescribed.<blockquote>When I reached out for help with my local mental health service, I was sectioned and placed involuntarily into psychiatric care as the psychiatrist said I had ‘delusional disorder’, and tried to put me on antipsychotics. It shattered my trust in ever seeking help for my mental health again.</blockquote>There are just 19 comments at the end of the Guardian article; comments were turned off only a day after the article was posted. Yet among those responses are tragic stories that should give anyone considering taking an anti-depressant a sustained pause for thought.<blockquote>I took an antidepressant for depression. It caused ED and genital numbness so I wanted to stop taking it. I tapered off the drug slowly. During the taper, something strange happened. Literally overnight, I experienced profound emotional numbness - I could no longer feel excited or enjoy anything. I also suddenly became basically asexual and could feel nothing for my girlfriend, who I had been in love with. I also had brain fog, memory loss and other cognitive problems. It did indeed feel like I had been lobotomised. 11 years later and no improvements.PSSD is absolutely devastating. I have spent many years being gaslighted by doctors. Many doctors have incorrectly confused PSSD with depression. There is a big difference. Genital numbness is not a symptom of depression. While I was depressed I still had a high libido and had sex regularly. PSSD feels like the connection between my brain and my genitals has been severed.</blockquote>&nbsp;Stolen potentialStonewall describes asexuals as born that way (or perhaps cycling through, for natural reasons of their own). They provide a forum for those who are numb to “celebrate” the way they are, and promote other websites that provide similar services.Meanwhile, people like Vancouver counselor Yassie Pirani, quoted in the Times article, points out that people who were put on anti-depressants at a young age may have had their development thwarted before even knowing what it feels like to be normal:<blockquote>People put on these drugs at a young age may just never know who they might otherwise be if they hadn't been on this drug.</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="681" height="383" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LJrda-xpk8w" title="Conversation with a PSSD Therapist | Interview with Yassie Pirani" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>She also notes that despite decades of reporting and research, most doctors still dismiss their patients' concerns when they seek advice in a panic at finding themselves fundamentally altered after taking a “safe and effective” medication.&nbsp;“Things just didn't feel right…”“<a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19965065/this-is-what-it-s-really-like-to-date-on-antidepressants/?utm_campaign=sharebutton&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lucy</a>” went to her doctor after years of suffering from social anxiety that was preventing her from forming a relationship. She found dating so stressful that she would sometimes flee during an evening out. She allowed herself to be persuaded by her GP to try an anti-depressant. After taking an SSRI, she felt liberated, able to date without pressure.<blockquote>Soon after that, I met Dan (not his real name) online. I found him incredibly attractive, funny, and engaging. I thought he was perfect for me, and we transitioned from dating to a relationship with no panic attacks...&nbsp;As the weeks progressed, though, I started to realize things just didn’t feel right. While my doctor had warned me the medication would likely dampen my sex drive, it wasn’t just my lack of interest in sex that was an issue. The blasé emotional scale I’d initially welcomed dimmed any spark I felt for Dan. And the relationship started to feel the strain.While Dan would constantly text me sweet notes throughout the day, something I’d normally be giddy over, I’d often forget to even look at my phone or think beyond texting the logistics of our dates.&nbsp;</blockquote>Lucy ended up splitting with Dan. Her case is far from being an outlier. Dr. Helen Fisher, quoted in the same article, describes the case of a husband and father who started taking SSRIs and whose feelings simply disappeared. He assumed at first that his love for his wife and children had somehow evaporated; it was only after ceasing the drugs that he realized what was happening.&nbsp;Doctors in denialThe experiences of all these people, unwittingly rendered asexual, now have a name: Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction, or PSSD. Dr. Josef Witt-Doering, a former FDA medical officer, admits that the condition can be permanent and adds that the medical community is largely still in denial:<blockquote>Once PSSD symptoms begin they can last for years and may even be permanent in some people … Despite the public recognition of this condition by major government health authorities, the condition is still under-recognized by the medical community.</blockquote>The FDA has, for the most part, declined to require a boxed (once known as “black-box”) warning for SSRI drugs with regard to PSSD. The European equivalent of the FDA, however, has bowed to the pressure of doctors such as Dr. Healy and does now require patient inserts to include this information, albeit in a very abbreviated form.&nbsp;Feelings wiped out, foreverEven where the information is given, doctors often fail to convey the utter devastation wrought by PSSD. In fact, the emotional blunting is often described by victims as worse than the physical manifestations.<blockquote>I knew, intellectually, that I loved my wife, that she meant the world to me, that I'd do anything for her. But I didn't feel anything. All my feelings were gone. Maybe forever.</blockquote>For Dr. Audrey Bahrick, a former psychologist, “forever” has been 27 years already:<blockquote>I stayed fairly hopeful, all of that time. I thought being healthy and eating well could help me resolve PSSD but nothing did. I continued to hope for months, and then years. It has been 27 years.</blockquote>&nbsp;Slain by PharmaThere is no treatment for PSSD. It strikes people without regard for their general state of health, age, or other factors. It drives people to suicide; Dr. Healy describes being approached by the Swiss euthanasia business Dignitas regarding people so shattered by the loss of their selves that they wanted to end it all.“Yes, but what about depression?” one may ask. Should depression then go untreated for fear of the side-effects? Clearly not, but informed consent about the success rate of any drug under consideration (no better than placebo according to <a href="https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/1/7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">many</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">studies</a>) as well as its adverse events (which may lead to even more devastating depression) should, and according to the law must, be given.There have always been people falling through the cracks of society. There have always been non-drug methods of extending a helping hand and setting people back on their feet. As Stonewall notes, asexual people — indeed, all people — need and deserve protection. The question is: From whom?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disclaimer: Content on this website is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for professional medical or legal advice.

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Have the asexuals of Gen Z been chemically castrated?

'My feelings are gone, maybe forever': What your doctor didn't tell you about anti-depressants

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker sparked outrage among feminists with his recent commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas.<h2>What did Butker say?</h2>Butker’s remarks were unapologetically pro-family. He referred to Pride month as a “deadly sin” and criticized “diversity” initiatives. He also slammed the ideal of putting off motherhood to advance a career and urged female graduates to find their calling as homemakers as first priority:<blockquote>I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I’m on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">Listen to Harrison Butker's full commencement speech at Benedictine College. The people who are trying to cancel him are lying about what he said. They don't want you to hear this. <a href="https://t.co/VPZ748MII6">pic.twitter.com/VPZ748MII6</a>— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1791992868795814092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2>Reception to Butker’s speech</h2>Female graduates loudly cheered these remarks by Butker, but the NFL quickly distanced itself from the athlete. Mainstream media launched a maelstrom of criticism and immediately branded Butker a “sexist.”Reports nonetheless suggest that Butker continues to strike a chord with many women.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/degree-women-defend-harrison-butker-commencement-controversy-wives-mothers">According</a> to&nbsp;Fox News,&nbsp;women across social media are defending Butker’s remarks and urging fellow females to find fulfillment as wives and mothers.&nbsp;Outkick&nbsp;<a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/harrison-butker-womens-jerseys-sold-out">reported</a> Friday that after the commencement speech, the NFL completely sold out of women’s jerseys featuring Butker’s name.<h2>Feminism breeds unhappy women</h2>These reports are in line with&nbsp;<a href="https://eml.berkeley.edu/~cle/laborlunch/stevenson.pdf">research</a> showing that women’s happiness has plummeted as the feminism movement has advanced.In the 1970s, when women were less likely to attend college, less participatory in the workforce, and more likely to be homemakers, women reported a significantly higher sense of well-being and were happier than men.Today, however, when women earn at least as much as their husbands in nearly half of marriages and have a higher rate of attending college than men, women report being less happy than men.<h2>‘Liberated’ women less likely to marry, have children</h2>Other findings may explain the unhappiness among today’s women.&nbsp;<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4508123">Research</a> has found that marriage is the largest differentiator of happiness, accounting for a 30% difference between people who are happy and those who are not.&nbsp;Feminist ideals have&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/us-depopulation-plan-hits-new-milestone">contributed</a> to a steep decline in marriage.&nbsp;Business Insider says declining birth and marriage rates are being driven by women who are choosing careers over children, which it claims is “a sign of economic progress, signaling a rise in individualism and women's autonomy.”Statista&nbsp;confirms that women no longer feel marriage is important because they have “gained economic power”:<blockquote>The general increase of people who are still single by 40 suggests that there has been a shift in sentiments on the importance of marriage. The trend is likely due to a wide variety and combination of factors, whether that’s a loosening of stigma around being single, or as Belinda Luscombe of Time Magazine explains, due to economic reasons, such as the fact that since women have “gained economic power, they needed to rely less on men to provide”, or conversely, because many men say they feel they need a level of financial stability to be ready for marriage.</blockquote><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations-2/#:~:text=Millennial%20women%20are%20about%20four,better%20educated%20than%20their%20predecessors.">According</a>&nbsp;to data from Pew Research,&nbsp;Millennial women are four times more likely than those in the Silent Generation (who grew up during the Great Depression and World War II) to have a bachelor’s degree — and the more educated a woman becomes, the more likely she is to postpone having children or not have them at all.&nbsp;

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Pushback_Resistance

‘Liberated’ women unhappier than homemakers, research shows

Women snub feminism by rallying behind pro-family NFL star

An 18-year-old gunman who used an AR-15 to fire 26 rounds at an occupied vehicle was released from custody last week by Magistrate&nbsp;Judge Lloyd U. Nolan, Jr. of the Superior Court of the District of&nbsp;Columbia.Judge Nolan: ‘This action could have killed someone’The court was provided with video evidence and witness testimony that 18-year-old Amonte Moody sprayed over two dozen bullets at a car containing four passengers. Moody was charged with endangerment with a firearm,criminal possession of a weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon. Judge Nolan agreed with prosecutors that the action was severe.“The concern I have is that this action could have killed someone,” said Nolan <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/legal/amonte-moody-ar-15-judge-releases-alleged-shooter-us-attorney-for-district-of-columbia/65-80cd6a74-eea8-4524-a8ab-57ea45f9c463%5C">according</a> to&nbsp;WUSA9.&nbsp;Judge’s decision shocks prosecutorsNevertheless, the judge concluded that a GPS ankle monitor would “ensure the safety of the defendant and the public.” He released Moody to house arrest until his trial.The decision to release Moody from custody outraged prosecutors at the US Attorney’s Office, who have filed an emergency motion to reverse the judge’s decision.“Despite the egregiousness of this conduct, the strength of the case, including video evidence depicting it and two identifications of the defendant as the shooter, and the statutory presumption in favor of detention pending trial, the Magistrate Judge released the defendant,” the surprised prosecutors wrote.Soros: The man behind 40% of America’s crimeNolan, an outspoken supporter of causes such as Black Lives Matter, also has reported ties to globalist billionaire George Soros.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-facing-heat-releasing-alleged-dc-teen-shooter-donated-soros-fund-posted-being-woke">According</a> to&nbsp;Fox News,&nbsp;Judge Nolan has previously donated to Gideon’s Promise.&nbsp;Gideon’s Promise is an organization backed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and serves as a training camp for public defenders. The mission of Gideon’s Promise, according to its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gideonspromise.org/what-we-do/">website</a>, “is to transform the criminal justice system by building a movement of public defenders who provide equal justice for marginalized communities.” The organization aims to “strengthen the efficacy of public defenders as a critical part of systemic criminal justice reform.”Gideon’s Promise and other initiatives backed by Soros have successfully churned out public defenders who have been trained to aggressively defend accused criminals and demand minimal or no jail time even in the face of clear evidence of criminality. Sometimes, these defenders threaten protracted trials that could drain prosecutors' resources in order to pressure DAs into plea bargains calling for no jail time.&nbsp;In some cases, though, the public defenders need not work so hard to convince the DA's office to go soft on crime. Soros is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-soros-invested-40-million-to-help-elect-dozens-of-progressive-prosecutors-across-the-u-s-study">known</a> to have spent at least $40 million to install around 75 district attorneys across the United States who pledge to bring about “criminal justice reform,” i.e., to drop charges or seek light sentences based on social factors. Together, those DAs oversee half of America’s most populous cities and are responsible for prosecuting an estimated 40% of the country’s crime.

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Top “disinformation” expert and censorship operative Kate Starbird last month told an audience at Cornell University that censorship is a form of free speech.<h2>A key figure in the government-censorship complex</h2>Starbird, currently an associate professor at the University of Washington, was instrumental in the widespread suppression of online content during the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic. She remains one of the key figures in the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a mass censorship operation backed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).In 2020, the EIP partnered with Stanford University to censor content that questioned the integrity of the presidential election. The EIP acted as a censorship “switchboard,” where around 100 operatives worked around the clock scouring social media platforms for unapproved content. Once they flagged the offending posts, the content was sent to the social media companies for removal.Kate Starbird is director at the Center for an Informed Public, one of four bodies that make up the EIP. In 2021, the US government <a href="https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/kate-starbird-freedom-speech-favors-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">awarded</a> Starbird’s Center for an Informed Public $2.25 million in taxpayer funds through the National Science Foundation.<h2>Censorship: A ‘valid act of free speech’</h2>Last month at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Starbird was invited to speak as part of a series on free expression. In her remarks, the disinformation operative&nbsp;<a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/05/speaker-content-moderation-free-speech-not-censorship">complained</a> that “purveyors of disinformation” are trying to “rebrand” content moderation — the act of suppressing certain content — as censorship. Content moderation, she said, is a “valid act of free speech.”Starbird also told attendees that Russia influenced the 2016 election, though she considers any suggestions that the 2020 election was influenced to be “disinformation.”<h2>Free exchange of ideas mostly breeds misinformation</h2>And while Starbird claims that censorship is an expression of free speech, she believes that the free exchange of ideas breeds mostly “misinformation.” In a virtual panel at Stanford University in 2021, Starbird said just that:<blockquote>You center on that idea of sort of, freedom of speech and this level playing field on which ideas compete. And unfortunately, from my perspective as a researcher in these spaces, this playing field is tilted in favor of misinformation.</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> Kate Starbird participated in a Stanford planning meeting to prop up NewsGuard &amp; other "middleware" censorship-as-a-service firms She argued against starting from the idea of "free speech" or a "level playing field" because free speech "is titled in favor of misinformation" <a href="https://t.co/Odt8iNUrWk">pic.twitter.com/Odt8iNUrWk</a>— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1737487474635542915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Starbird’s fellow panelist, Francis Fukuyama, agreed with Starbird and said that the marketplace of ideas is an outdated “18th century notion.”

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