“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Plain Jane, who would come to the Q Tree and comment when she could, is now with the Great Physician. She fought cancer with unbelievable courage and didn’t flinch at trying different therapies. RIP.
Here is the brief message from IOTWreport, a site that Plain Jane held very dear. She turned me into an admirer of “Big Fur Hat” and the other denizens of that site. I thoroughly enjoyed the history of their little collective, which reminded me greatly of ours, only they pulled it off 10 years earlier, when it was much more difficult, both technologically and politically.
Big Fur Hat kept it short and sweet and to the point.
PJ, the sweetest, has passed, succumbing to cancer.
Knowing how Plain Jane adored that site, I am tickled knowing that BFH could do her no higher honor than giving Jane her own short, sweet, dignified post of au revoir.
Maybe someday I’ll search deeply to find the night (or was it early morning?) where Jane and I talked about IOTWreport and BFH. It was fun. It was a good memory. But I think I’ll save that for later, when I need it.
Instead, what I did now, was to go back and find her very first post. That was enough for now.
I knew that Jane was one of the very first posters on this site. What I did not remember was that she was one of the VERY, VERY, VERY first posters.
She commented on THE first post of the site. The very FIRST comment was by Curry Worsham, at 11:34 PM on September 18, 2018. Plain Jane commented at 1:51 AM (on the 19th), a little over 2 hours later.
Here was our conversation. Her first comment was (I calculated – the numbers are a bit offset due to site migration) the 28th comment on the blog.
Plain Jane Offline September 19, 2018 01:51
Congrats and thanks for founding this site, Wolf. While I can’t say that I understand Q, I totally enjoy reading others’ interpretation of his posts, and sometimes even try to figure them out myself.
Thank you! And really good, because I’m a great explainer of Q, but rarely on CTH – usually in personal discussions on Twitter. This way I can help people understand some of the things that maybe don’t make as much sense. And I do think a lot of fellow Treepers will be able to explain things much more fully here, and without worrying about drawing FLAK from Soros trolls, who I will boot immediately. We won’t allow any of that here.
This is not a site for basic decisions about whether or not to “stop making fun of Q-tards”. This is a site for advanced understanding of Q. Many of the people who mock Q on the Treehouse will be banned instantly.
Treehouse standards. Q is the center of focus. Very simple.
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Plain Jane Offline Reply to wolfmoon1776 September 19, 2018 02:04
This is an excellent idea, Wolfmoon. Q people need a place to chat. I no longer do twitter or facebook, so a blog is great for me to interact on. While I like the Treehouse a lot, I find it somewhat disturbing that more people (admittedly trolls for the most part) now hit at each other over their disagreements rather than pass a comment by.
I’ve been following Q for a while now and we tune into Praying Medic regularly for his insights. I very much appreciate that you have made a space for Q followers.
BTW, WordPress has a good history for leaving politics out of it. Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That (WUWT – fighting climate change nonsense) talked some years ago of how hacks and other attacks can’t get through to a WordPress site and also how they can handle large volumes of traffic, which is why he uses them. That stuck in my mind. As far as I know, he’s never been foiled by the enemy.
Cheers to you. I have bookmarked this site and will be a regular. Now to look at and appreciate your other link…
Thank you – great post! Hope to see you here regularly! And totally agreed about WordPress security. If it worked for the climate guys and Sundance, it will work for me. I mean US!!!
Hey Wolfmoon – Just saw your contact page. Haha – Neat! I love it. Okay, any chance of an open page every week or so for open chat? Or just when nothing much else is happening? I don’t want to go off-topic on any thread already up. I sometimes just feel a need for my buddies here and to be able to talk within the realm of general topics or just say “Hi”.
You’re welcome! I tend to be cautiously speculative, which I think is a good thing for filtering truth, but allowing people to explore possibilities. As I tend to think a lot like Praying Medic, there is some chance we’ll end up sounding dittoish, but still I hope that we will overall bring something new to the table, and thus sharpen the vision of MAGA as a whole.
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I had many wonderful conversations with PJ over the years. She was – sorry – IS – incredibly grounded. She told me about some of the volunteer work she had done – it was powerful testimony. She has the DRIVE of an activist but the COOL and CALM of a true conservative.
She will be missed in the here and now, but not in the spirit, because she is truly an inspiration, and perhaps one that I need right now.
“The advantage in life, in business, and in wartime goes to the competitor that does not flinch and does not broadcast his game plan.” -Gen. Michael T. Flynn
As you know, I have always preferred to conduct my operations out in the open, as I find this conducive to honesty, honor, virtues of all kinds, and general decency. I find that secrecy breeds all sorts of counterproductive things. For this reason, I avoid email, DMs, PMs, and chats, and try to conduct the vast majority of my business and communication through posts themselves and comments here or on Gab.
HOWEVER – after January Sixth – and studying the aftermath of that day – I will be following General Flynn’s advice. I will begin by NOT FLINCHING. I will be keeping as much as possible of my GAME PLAN AGAINST THE PROGZIS secret.
You may see me discussing TACTICS and TACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS out in the open, as usual, but I will be concealing STRATEGY from the enemy. My sharing of strategy with you all will be on an AS NEEDED BASIS.
LET THEM LOSE – meaning SAYING NOTHING – will figure prominently in my public strategy.
I have applied this to Nancy Pelosi – now it applies to THEM ALL.
There are lots of reasons I’m about to shut up about what’s going to happen, but one of the biggest ones is simply this. Now this quote’s EXACT FORMS have a very RICH history, but let’s not get distracted by that. Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first …
Now – here are some TACTICS. Let’s begin.
Because the leftists routinely eliminate our best stuff from the internet using their censorship, here are MULTIPLE versions of the Flynn statement to overcome their ERROR OF CENSORSHIP.
This little clip is actually from – as nearly as I can determine – a longer video collage which celebrated the PARDONING of General Flynn by President Trump.
Here is that video.
https://youtu.be/3hwPnDjwEas
You will find that most of it – particularly at the end – is a compilation of hilarious Trump memes – BUT – from about 1:45 to 4:00 minutes, you will find a wonderful collection of Flynn quotations and sound bytes taken from speeches.
Now – THIS is where I began to see that there was great benefit in paying attention to Flynn’s thoughts, both general and specific. There was not only a lot of overlap with TRUMP – there was a lot of overlap with Q.
We aren’t hearing much from Q lately, are we? But let’s be honest with ourselves – should we?
Maybe not. But in the meanwhile, IMO, studying FLYNN is the next best thing.
It is very useful to jump to a COLLECTION of Flynn’s quotations, here, to see even MORE congruence of thought between Flynn and Trump, and Flynn and Q.
Again, you will find that Flynn has much congruence with Trump on many issues (though not, interestingly, all of politics), and this is WHY Obama and the others were so determined to remove Flynn as Trump’s NSC. Likewise, their taking out of Rich Higgins and Ezra Cohen-Watnick makes all kinds of sense now.
The left wanted NO “fall-back” on national security policy – or “national insecurity insanity” in my opinion.
This was especially true in terms of gaining clarity on dealings with radical Islam – that of which we were no longer even allowed to speak under Obama.
The point, however, is really much bigger than JUST radical Islam.
Flynn’s point is a direct contradiction of a leftist imperative – that THE PARTY controls what exists and what does not. Note that this applied DIRECTLY to THE STEAL. To the normie masses, addicted to the MSM, “Election fraud did not exist.”
And yet notice how they also controlled what DOES EXIST, too, and EVEN FOR US.
Notice how THE CREEP ALI AKBAR – that WICKED POS – came in and ginned up the CONTROLLED “Stop The Steal” movement, then HERDED IT to the Buffalo Jump. Yes – the communists control what “does exist” for us, too. Even if we don’t want to admit it.
It’s SOVIET. Flynn is careful not to STATE trap words like “Soviet” or “communist”, but he teaches essential ideas that cut to the heart of the matter.
This podcast is a beautiful explanation of EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE NOW – but seen right before it happened.
Flynn CORRECTLY identifies the COST of FAILURE to “Stop The Steal” – and we are LIVING IT right now. Everything that Sidney Powell said we needed to do – that Flynn warns about in this interview – that Patrick Byrne explained – and that WEAK GOPe CLOWNS SURROUNDING TRUMP allowed to happen, despite the warnings – it’s all coming true NOW.
SO – why do we now need to study General Flynn?
It goes back to the title: Let A Thousand Plans Blossom
Allow me to explain.
SO – we have all been “trusting the plan” – right?
But what exactly WAS “The Plan”?
Was it just the Q drops?
Was it the Q drops minus any “disinformation”?
Was it the Q drops plus every brainless thought about flimsy numerology?
Was it the Q drops plus every speculation seeded by leftists counter-operatives?
Was the plan something BIGGER than what we were shown?
Did the plan ever CHANGE?
Did the plan ever RUN INTO TROUBLE?
Was the plan something other than what it appeared to be?
Was the plan a TRUST OPERATION?
Was the plan a TRUST OPERATION fought into a BACKFIRE?
Was the plan a FAITH OPERATION overplayed by the enemy into a TRUST OPERATION?
Now – I only asked that, so that you might realize that we ALREADY differed in what we thought “The Plan” actually was, while President Trump and Q drops were a CURRENT THING.
It has only gotten more ambiguous now that all the sliding goalposts have slid into the sea, somewhere off the coast of Syria.
But now I want you to consider something which EVERYBODY in the military quotes. It is often attributed to Colin Powell, but it is in fact a much older quote.
It is my contention that, no matter what you think “The Plan” either WAS or IS, it has CHANGED along the way. Unless you believe that GENERALS are wrong about plans surviving contact with the enemy, then you should likely agree that we are now dealing with a tactically different plan than what we were operating under, in October of 2017 – or even October of 2020.
Allowing plans to change – what Trump calls “flexibility” – speaks to a very important idea – something Trump doesn’t just HAVE, but also TEACHES – mostly by example. I once called it “Trump gravity”, but I think the more general concept is ANTIFRAGILITY.
Here is a very important discussion I had with Grandmaintexas about this idea.
And remember this – ANTIFRAGILITY WORKS BOTH WAYS.
“The main goal here is to develop a new typology of adversaries and to zoom in on those who get stronger when engaged in strategic performance. The paper draws upon the concept of antifragility, popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Anti-fragile: The Things That Gain from Disorder. I argue that depending on their reaction to strategic performance, adversaries can be put on a spectrum from fragile to resilient, to antifragile ones. To keep the scope of the investigation reasonably limited, the paper focuses on the effects of strategic performance on the adversary’s military capabilities rather on his will to fight. The first category describes the adversaries whose military capabilities shrink as a consequence of engaging in strategic performance. The second category is reserved for those adversaries who are able to replenish their military capabilities to the original position after engaging in strategic performance. The last category describes those adversaries whose military capabilities increase as a consequence of taking part in strategic performance. These are, of course, ideal types and their manifestations in strategic practice are less clear-cut.”
That was a really great read. That is actually very helpful, and hopeful in that I can now use that as a strategic metric to understand how “The Plan” was corrupted by various forces to reduce its capabilities of “teaching us to fight”.
Q was in essence an antifragility builder, which scared the scheming left, so they figured out ways to reduce its effectiveness. But now, learning FROM those efforts, we can actually make some quantum leaps in gained fighting ability – which is prime antifragility.
Not all will see this, but that’s OK. Booster stage will fall away, but many will realize it, and make the leap to the next stage.
The JE Dyer article that GA/FL posted shows that this is huge. By simply not allowing this election to be normalized, EVERYTHING changes. And that gets into what Grandma is posting from Vox Day – antifragility – TEACHING US TO FIGHT.
We cannot learn to fight by assuming somebody else is going to rescue us. And this resolves all questions about Q, and what Q really was, versus what was inflicted on the movement in a very deep and cunning fashion.
We have to go back to the drops themselves (DP does this regularly), and recognize that there ARE forces which understand the predicament, but they are UNABLE TO ACT without us becoming both STRONG and ANTIFRAGILE.
Mere belief in our destiny will not do it.
Flynn is the key. We HAVE to study his military strategy – not to PARROT it, but to USE it and EXTEND it. In searching for some of it, I keep getting IKE back from search engines, because the neural nets understand the relationship. That goes back to THE PLAN, including the parts we have to GUESS.
Rich Higgins in essence extends Flynn by correctly identifying the Red-Green axis and getting out from under the inflicted paradigm of not realizing who is really behind terrorism – who the enemy really is. Flynn forces realization of who the enemy actually is and the absolute necessity of such identification.
We ARE doing this already – embracing the complexity of enemy identification in a complex world. But we cannot rely on others to do our fighting. We must capitalize on winning strategies, and most of all, we must take to heart Flynn’s advice from that telegram message.
One is just a repeat at the end – and is the first idea of this post – that we should not give our GAME PLAN to the enemy. And I’m not. I’ve been SITTING on a lot of great strategy for the last week or so. Stuff I would normally talk about. Now nowhere to be seen. Stuff that will RAIN HELL upon the enemy.
Yup. MAGA Mom is asking what the big strategy is.
Sorry – I’m NOT sharing it, because it’s gonna NUKE these commies. But I will give you TACTICS, like Michael’s little doozy here:
In the event of loss of comms, find something communist and break it.
A second idea is the VALUE of UNYIELDING REJECTION of the FRAUDULENT ELECTION. Note what Flynn said: “I do not believe for a second that our country will accept Vice President Biden as the next President.” Yeah. Every day is proving that the rejection of Trump by leftists was NOTHING next to the current REJECTION OF ZUCKERBERG’S FRAUD.
Yeah, the commies may have been louder and even violent in their rejection of Trump. But our silence toward this mockery of a president is DEAFENING.
And a third is this.
Gab and Parler were both prescient as free speech networks before they were desperately needed. But why is GAB still standing as REAL free speech, and Parler was not only deplatformed, but came back “throwing in the towel” on free speech, with AI shadowbans in place?
Torba has referred – correctly – to Gab as being both robust and antifragile. Antifragile is a GOOD THING. It enables a movement to SURVIVE.
So how do we make our plan ANTIFRAGILE?
BREAK IT FIRST – AND OUR WAY
For THAT, we’re going to BEAT MAO AT HIS OWN GAME.
❀❀❀❀❀ Let A Thousand Plans Blossom ❀❀❀❀❀
We often hear the phrase “let a thousand flowers bloom”, or something similar, which is roughly attributed to Mao Zedong, but is typically used in a more capitalist, business, organizational, or “free thought” setting in Western society. It is something like a “call for democratic input”.
Now – here is what WOLF thinks about Mao and his Hundred Flowers Campaign.
Mao was a weak thinker, but an admirably persistent psychopath, hooked down to his SOUL on the greatest ideology of HATE and ENVY to ever rise from the BOWELS OF HELL. The parallels to Obama are uncanny, and BLM has both Mao and Obama written all over it. Obama hides his Maoism well, but not from THE WOLF.
As a cagey player, Mao saw all the possible outcomes of 100 Flowers, including things beyond his reach, but because he was pursuing a WEAK and universe-failing version of socialism, which cannot admit the existence and role of “God” and religion – even as abstractions and ideals of higher thought – he was playing a game he could not win. The 100 Flowers stratagem almost HAD to default into a trust operation, because Mao was not a strong enough thinker to modify Marx’s elite-born “sabotaged socialism” to even a TRULY “Chinese” version, much less correct the intrinsic failings of a crippled, self-worshiping system that turns politics into a faulty religion.
You think the dead white men were idiots, commies? Your “dear leader” is barely cold in historical terms, and he fucked up so badly, firing from his quiver full of dogshit, that all he could do well was KILL PEOPLE.
But hey – we can fix that.
If Mao had the expansively emergent advantages of TRUTH as a basis, available to religious thinkers like Christ – or more significantly Buddha and Confucius in his case – he could have tolerated even the NON-CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms generated by 100 Flowers, and would have likely created something broken but still semi-unifying like Titoism, rather than the sequential failures that he did, with 100 Flowers first degenerating into the intellectually self-defeating Anti-Rightist Campaign, and then into the democidal Great Leap Forward, and finally into the ridiculous failure upon failure of the Cultural Revolution.
100 Flowers simply cannot work for the commies.
Well, hold our THOUSAND BEERS, commies, as we toss a THOUSAND GRENADES into YOUR PLANS.
The advantage of fighting from the downside is that everything in THEIR POWER is a target, and you don’t actually NEED a unified plan to bring it down.
Sorry – let me restate that. You don’t even WANT a unified plan.
Just take THIS:
In the event of loss of comms, find something communist and break it.
And ADD COMMS.
Find something communist, break it, and show others how.
Now ACCEPT THIS. Not everybody CAN or SHOULD follow your lead.
You want to WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM? Be my guest.
You want to BRING THE SYSTEM DOWN? Be my guest.
You want to CONSTRUCT A PARALLEL SYSTEM? Be my guest.
BREAK COMMUNISM AND SHOW US HOW.
This is where I was starting to go earlier, with the idea that I’m not going to criticize what you’re doing, because it may work for somebody else. Even the hopium smokers NEED their hopium – let ’em smoke.
It is by us NO LONGER ALL BEING HOPIUM SMOKERS, THAT HOPIUM DREAMS MIGHT COME TRUE.
See?
We are BREAKING Q to make it ANTIFRAGILE.
EVENTUALLY – when enough of the REST OF US raise enough HELL HEAVEN, maybe their HOPIUM DREAMS COME TRUE, and “somebody” decides to act.
But until then, all we have to do is
FIND COMMUNISM AND BREAK IT.
Ironically, this is exactly what I’m doing here. 100 Flowers1000 Plans is not just taking communism’s FAILURE and broadcasting it – it’s beating them over the head with it – from every possible direction.
WE are actually “diversity-tolerant”. So why not use that STRENGTH to beat these fuckers to a PULP?
They are always looking for US to latch onto a cheap, easy, single strategy for THEM to counter.
Sometimes they even FEED THAT to us, like Ali Satan and his “Stop The Steal” trust operation.
STARVE THEM OF EASY OPTIONS.
Now – this is JUST TACTICS. It ain’t strategy.
Do I have one?
Oh, hell, yes, woman.
❀❀❀❀❀ Let A Thousand STRATEGIES Blossom ❀❀❀❀❀
I’ve got ALL of mine. How about YOU?
W
Today’s Menu
RULE ZERO: In the event of loss of communications, find something communist and break it.
RULE ONE: DO. NOT. FLINCH.
RULE TWO: Do not broadcast YOUR game plan.
RULE THREE: Break communism and show us how.
And HERE is your MORALE pep-talk!
“Do not lose hope. Do not give up.” -General Flynn
And – in my opinion – that even includes that bottle of hopium-laced wine, made famous in this interview, near the end. Whatever you BELIEVE – whatever you TRUST – WHOEVER you trust – don’t give up hope.
No matter how this plays out, the best is yet to come. –Wolf
I had hoped that this year, we would have a GREAT holiday season, like we almost experienced last year, other than the Phony Fake Impeachment featuring Polident and Pencilneck.
And then, suddenly, I realized that the commies have made EVERY YEAR a kind of hell for our side. But LAST YEAR, lacking the China Virus – their biological grinch – they failed really miserably.
President Trump and First Lady Melania had, in 2019, what was likely THE BEST Hanukkah celebration of the First Trump Term!
President Trump looked awesome, and Melania looked so good, the Jealous Left HOWLED in outrage, not quite sure what to criticize, but they did!
This year, it was interesting. The celebration was a day early (evening of December 9), and President Trump only made a late appearance. Some Fake News even LIED and said he didn’t appear, then did “updates” later to admit that he DID appear.
President Donald Trump spent his Wednesday White House Hanukkah party talking about the “miracle” he’s searching for after the November election.
“The Jewish people have endured a lot over the centuries but always overcame the most impossible situations,” Trump said after walking downstairs from the residence wearing a coat. “Miracles are possible. Maybe we’ll see one in the near future. Yes, we’re not giving up, and we’ll keep fighting to ensure four more years.”
NOW – listen to TWO videos from this little gathering, included in the article. They are VERY hopeful. It is really worth listening to their UPBEAT TONE!
The Jewish people have endured a lot over the centuries but always overcame the most impossible situations.
Miracles are possible maybe we'll see one in the near future.
VIDEO: Trump tells the crowd at the Hanukkah party that with the help of “certain very important people, if they have wisdom and if they have courage, we are going to win this election.” — remarks followed with loud chants of “four more years.” pic.twitter.com/FjCyFGOqPC
But you know – here is the thing. Here is the REAL Hanukkah gift!
Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!
I truly believe that GOD IS WITH US, and will not abandon those who are faithful and serve His cause!
Matthew 5:9
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Do you need a GODLY reason to WIN THIS THING?
We can elect TRUMP to FOUR MORE YEARS – and finish the job of securing peace and safety for Israel (and AMERICA – you know – as in AMERICA FIRST!) in these dangerous times, or we can stop HALF-WAY and go back to ENDLESS WARS with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
How I was led from prayer at a patriotic rally to resolution that we must NEVER concede to either the stolen re-election of President Trump, or the deplatforming of The Last Refuge, and that NOW is the time to send in the troops. The key is WHERE.
The order in which this happened should be noted for the historical record.
Late this morning, in the aftermath of a wonderful RALLY yesterday, and after sleeping on the thoughts of a wonderful YouTube video about the TWELFTH AMENDMENT…..
…..I had a kind of revelation, and decided that we must, and I personally will, NEVER concede to this fraudulent cheat coup.
All we have to do is NOT CONCEDE, knowing TRUTH is on our side, and this election becomes the SWORD that turns into a PLOW that digs up the DIRT in FREEDOM’S FIELD and the HARVEST is OURS.
Stay PEACEFUL – we turn NANCY’S ARROWS into the blades of AMERICA’S PLOW.
The symbolism of the SEAL where a group of patriots prayed the day before should not be lost on the reader, for it was indeed inspirational.
Immediately after that, I learned that The Conservative Treehouse is/was going to be deplatformed by WordPress.
Look HERE for the full context, including my comment at 13:40…..
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more! https://t.co/Exb3C1mAPg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020
I will cover this later. I told people here to prepare. Bad stuff. This is what CIA is doing through Stelter and CNN – putting out that “alternative social media” is dangerous.
They are TRYING to make peaceful revolution impossible. It’s quite EVIL.
POTUS may have to intervene. They are trying to FORCE VIOLENCE on America.
Now – let me make an argument which falls out of BOTH my revelation about concession, AND what is now happening to Sundance and The Conservative Treehouse.
One of the most important points is this, made by President John F. Kennedy:
Guess what? It is now my contention that the forces arrayed against President Trump are attempting to FORCE his supporters into violent rebellion. They WANT it. They understand the TRUTH of John F. Kennedy’s wonderful quote. They are attempting to FORCE President Trump to concede the election, so that his supporters are not forced into violent rebellion, but rather into submission. And yet, I am not so certain that even a concession by President Trump would – or more importantly SHOULD – work to quell the thirst for Precious Liberty in America.
Once you see the control of the media – the HIDING of our words – the SILENCING of our voice – it is quite clear that the Bolsheviks are using EVERY tool they can to force us to accept socialism, or rebel violently. The deplatforming of voices of BITTER TRUTHS, like The Conservative Treehouse, will, in my opinion, ENSURE that there is either war or concession, but more likely WAR.
Must there be war?
I bring your attention to a small, pacifist, monotheistic religion – highly persecuted – which prides itself on befriending all other godly / heavenly religions. This is the Baha’i Faith.
They have two specific beliefs which I think are highly relevant here.
One a very USEFUL belief – that we are duty-bound to always attempt to overcome thoughts of war with greater thoughts of peace.
This should not be that hard for followers of the Prince of Peace, who in fact constitute a majority of believers in America, and have since its founding. The founder of the Baha’is, Baha’u’llah, was in fact himself a big follower and fan of the Prince of Peace, and led an exemplary life, even befriending and winning over his jailers, by loving his enemy.
The SECOND point – much more interesting and a bit mystical – is that the Baha’is believe AMERICA has a special purpose in helping to bring PEACE to the world. They even have a prayer for this.
Abdu’l Baha was the son of the founder, Baha’u’llah, and so while this is not “red letter” Baha’i theology, it’s definitely regarded as canon.
Is there, in fact, a way that this can all work out?
I believe there is. And as the mysterious group behind “Q” reminds us, John F. Kennedy is the KEY.
I urge you to now take a look at all of Q’s posts which reference JFK – it will give you a picture of what is going on.
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 237dde No.324395 Feb 10 2018 03:33:29 (EST)
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.”
Prayer said every single day in the OO. JFK – Secret Socities. Where we go one, we go all. Q
Why is JFK particularly relevant? Because JFK used the military to (1) insure peace, and (2) restore civil rights to a minority being denied those rights.
Tom Cotton was suggesting that the military be sent in to confront rebellious communists (ANTIFA and BLM) directly. These groups are the violent shock troops of not just the left in general, but the leftist TECH TYRANTS in particular.
It is no accident that ANTIFA staked out my house when I first attacked censorship by Big Tech.
It is no accident that BLM, carrying a big “pocket 9”, was used to try to intimidate me into silence when that didn’t work.
However, nobody except TRUMP wants to do anything about the problem.
Chris Wray will not rein in these groups using the FBI. Mark Esper would not rein in these groups using the DoD.
Now, here’s a wild thought. What if Wray and Esper are RIGHT? Or maybe ALMOST RIGHT?
What if WE THE PEOPLE have the primary duty to rein in ANTIFA and BLM – if only we could?
Normal citizens in NORWAY reined in THEIR Antifa problems PEACEFULLY by their VOICES – by their FREE SPEECH – in public and online. They SPOKE Antifa into retreat, and ultimately into nearly vanishing. Interestingly, it involved a lot of argument and even ridicule. Very interesting that Jack Dorsey FORBIDS the social speech which inhibits these violent Bolsheviks.
Wow. You know, we could do that here, too, if our voices weren’t suppressed by the MEDIA and now the SOCIAL MEDIA.
But it gets worse. Voices of reason and peace – remember COLD ANGER? – like Sundance of the Last Refuge, are now being squelched.
This is too far. THIS is directly interfering with those who counsel RESTRAINT. It is a cunning way to pave the way to WAR. WordPress was one of the last bastions of reasoned but unrelenting free speech on the internet. The Last Refuge is indeed one of the LAST refuges of smart and restrained but uncompromisingly free speech without ever descending into hotheaded fury.
Thus, I am suggesting something entirely different. I believe that the TECH TYRANTS – gifted the beauty of the INTERNET by our own military – have ABUSED THEIR PRIVILEGE, and are now choosing to KNOWINGLY disenfranchise a segment of our population for political reasons. They are DENYING IN PRACTICE our civil rights – our equal rights – and particularly our FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
They even push us into SEGREGATION.
They are doing this knowingly, to create conditions for WAR, while pretending to seek PEACE.
PURE BOLSHEVIK. “Make it look like the other guy is at fault.”
Forget Section 230. SEND IN THE TROOPS – not for WAR, but to preserve PEACE.
All we want is free speech and freedom of religion. Nothing more. We can handle PEACE from there.
Restore our ability to seek a PEACEFUL transition to the next administration – and we all know who that will be, if the public is allowed to SPEAK FREELY and demand TRUTH and FAIRNESS.
Restore our VOICE. Prevent the cunning tech Bolsheviks from forcing us into WAR by their removal of our FIRST AMENDMENT OPTION. Stop them from forcing us to the SECOND Amendment.
Send in the troops, and restore TRUE law and order – on the internet.
is a place for our Wolf pack to post their prayers
and to post whatever they feel they would like
to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the KAG!MAGA world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said,
comment on people’s comments.
Keep it civil. Treehouse rules.
See the January 1st daily thread for the rules of the road, which are few but important.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
Prayers for America & our President
Let us stand in prayer for our amazing President Donald J. Trump and all those who are working alongside him to free our country from tyranny and restore our beloved homeland to her former beauty.
Think*3
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We pray for safety, blessing, wisdom, unity
& more of God’s Kingdom for:
Our Lion President Donald J. Trump with all of his administration,
our much appreciated blog host Wolfmoon,
the White Hats in Law Enforcement, the QAnon Team,
all Unborn and Born children of the world
and those fighting to protect them,
our Spouses, Families and Local Communities,
and the Members of our Q Tree.
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† Breastplate of Saint Patrick †
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism,
Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial,
Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension,
Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
In obedience of angels,
In service of archangels,
In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
In the prayers of patriarchs,
In preachings of the apostles,
In faiths of confessors,
In innocence of virgins,
In deeds of righteous men.
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven;
Light of the sun,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of the wind,
Depth of the sea,
Stability of the earth,
Firmness of the rock.
I arise today
Through God’s strength to pilot me;
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s hosts to save me
From snares of the devil,
From temptations of vices,
From every one who desires me ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone or in a multitude.
I summon today all these powers between me and evil,
Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul,
Against incantations of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom,
Against false laws of heretics,
Against craft of idolatry,
Against spells of women and smiths and wizards,
Against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul.
Christ shield me today
Against poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against wounding,
So that reward may come to me in abundance.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through a confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation
This Sunday our Dear MAGA Open Topic is especially dedicated to creating a place to share prayers for the safety of All those working to Bring Good to the World.
Think*3
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We pray for safety, blessing, wisdom, unity & more of God’s Kingdom for:
Our Lion President Donald J. Trump with all of his administration,
our much appreciated blog host Wolfmoon,
the White Hats in Law Enforcement, the QAnon Team,
all Unborn and Born children of the world and those fighting to protect them,
our Spouses, Families and Local Communities,
and the Members of our Q Tree.
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† Lorica of Saint Patrick †
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism,
Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial,
Through the strength of His resurrection and His ascension,
Through the strength of His descent for the judgment of doom.
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of cherubim,
In obedience of angels,
In service of archangels,
In the hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
In the prayers of patriarchs,
In preachings of the apostles,
In faiths of confessors,
In innocence of virgins,
In deeds of righteous men.
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven;
Light of the sun,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of the wind,
Depth of the sea,
Stability of the earth,
Firmness of the rock.
I arise today
Through God’s strength to pilot me;
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s hosts to save me
From snares of the devil,
From temptations of vices,
From every one who desires me ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone or in a multitude.
I summon today all these powers between me and evil,
Against every cruel merciless power that opposes my body and soul,
Against incantations of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom,
Against false laws of heretics,
Against craft of idolatry,
Against spells of women and smiths and wizards,
Against every knowledge that corrupts man’s body and soul.
Christ shield me today
Against poison, against burning,
Against drowning, against wounding,
So that reward may come to me in abundance.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in the eye that sees me,
Christ in the ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through a belief in the Threeness,
Through a confession of the Oneness
Of the Creator of creation
We all understand the incredible power the internet wields in our lives today. And yet all the big players seem to have no serious interest or ability in building an internet that provides good value, security and privacy at scale. And every single one seems to have curious founders and beginnings associated with persons involved with government agencies of various stripes.
The worst offenders need no elaboration. In the early days we loved to hate Micro$oft, Yahuuuu, and Netscrape. Now we worry about Faceborg’s over the top invasive data collection, with it even trying to contract with hospitals to get personal medical records! Their interest in collecting everything on everyone certainly should bring a smile of delight from the control freaks that want to run the planet.
In the run up to the 2020 Elections the ways in which our voices are silenced will likely be beyond belief. If there ever was a time to pray for God to place his hand on the technologies such that they serve his purposes, now is that time.
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Another excessively large and questionable player, the Goolag, loves to build everything in a way that allows data collection on pretty much everything they touch.
And they aren’t afraid to use their search engines to not only manipulate public perceptions, but undercut their competition as well.
The article partly shown above, Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail, chronicles the year long battle by ProtonMail to get them to “fix” a problem that was killing search access to their site and product information. It cost the company some serious loss of revenues. Here’s more of the story…
Our VSG Lion PDJT has made sport of our enemies using the online media giant I like to call Twister, even using it to call out the service when it shut down the accounts of James Woods and Mary Ann Mendoza (among others). We should all be infuriated by their heavy handed ways that distort, throttle and even silence the voice of our conservative Patriot “digital army.”
I will help Angel Mom (and great woman) Mary Ann Mendoza with Twitter. I know Mary Ann from the beginning, and she should never be silenced. She is a winner who has lost so much, her child. Twitter, if you’re watching, please do what you have to do, NOW! @foxandfriends
With all that said, the hidden 500 pound Gorilla controlling much of the internet today is a company called CloudFlare. You many not even know how much power they wield over much of the global internet traffic. They have built a global infrastructure that virtually replaces the federation model of an internet run by multiple providers at every layer. This puts way too much power into the hands of a small number of technocrats.
They took a lot of heat in their early days for not deplatforming a controversial site, and in the end they did indeed remove support for the site–on a whim of the CEO. And have more recently been in the news for deplatforming 8chan. CloudFlare founders Michelle Zatlyn and Matthew Prince But make no mistake, the concerns over CloudFlare run far deeper than the ability to stop providing DDoS protection services. Some have suggested that the addition of certain new board members this past spring, may have been a factor in the decision to join in the smear campaign (and all out attack) on the home of the Qanon message board. That may be, but you can be sure that there have been many pressures to take sides in this war.
CloudFlare is now the Man-in-the-Middle of nearly everything that is on the internet. That means they can block access to site content, spy on everything that goes through their world-wide server network, and give higher paying customers faster internet traffic routing with faster results.
What could possibly go wrong?
In the days to come, it will become more and more important to have researched and developed alternative platforms for the sharing of information and real-time communications. Tech companies are going to keep promising that they care about your safety, security and privacy. And those same companies will not really care at all…
Finding alternative comms will not be as simple as getting a Gab account as we have discovered. While 8chan was in the crosshairs of those at war with free speech and the Q movement, Gab was next in line.
The troubles they have encountered are helping us all to see where the weak points are and hopefully develop better services in response. At this stage, it would seem that we need multiple modes for connecting in the hopes that not all of them are taken out at the same time.
At this point it would seem that CloudFlazi is going to be one to watch and to keep in our prayers. I’ve been given a server unreachable error message from CloudFlazi more than a few times when trying to reach Gab.com in the past month.
We are in this to win, with the help of God.
Let’s work to get wise and to stay connected!
Think*3
Calendar side note: Today is also the beginning of the festival celebrated in India called Navaratri (meaning nine nights). It’s definitely not a Christian event, but Christians in the Indian culture do sometimes participate. Top line: it’s a celebration of good triumphing over evil. Under the hood: this is a purely Hindu festival with goddesses receiving worship as the heroines in the struggle against the demons of their mythology. As believers, understanding this holiday may help us open a conversation and offer a Christian perspective to our Indian friends.
Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS: I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
What Trumps Intelligence?
There’s been much talk of research into artificial intelligence (AI) being important to various nations for national security reasons. We’ve seen recent speculation about body doubles or even clones for some influential but elderly persons.
There has been discussion about the work of researchers here and abroad attempting to merge human and machine as the next step in our evolution. And some independent voices have been suggesting that those who desire power and dominion in our world are seeking methods for creating soulless humanoids that would be easier to control.
Let’s ask some questions about the appropriateness of the focus of these discussions. Are youth, embodiment and intelligence actually the keys to much of anything after all?
Let’s talk about I.Q. Around the same time as eugenics became a hot topic among the (godless) elite in academia (Salk, Stanford), the all -hallowed TESTING (Wolf!) of children to identify those with high I.Q. was pursued as the way towards the best future for humanity. In fact, this was the beginning of almost 50 years of forced sterilization or even institutionalizing of supposed low I.Q. women to prevent them from creating more “low I.Q.” children. A sad and shameful blight on our history based on wrong thinking that did not prove out. Did you know that activism and papers written here in the USA at that time became the inspiration for Hitler’s eugenics programs?
However, you have likely seen for yourself that a very clever person who has not developed genuine strength of character is often merely a more successful predator and/or criminal.
Later research was published indicating that your I.Q. score has little or no correlation to success or fulfillment in real life. The willingness to apply oneself, develop skills and good character traits all come into play when looking at the basis for enjoying a good life.
Some researchers still think those with high I.Q. have better success in life, but admit they may struggle more with certain health issues.
May I propose that what actually trumps the #FAKE siren song of increasing our INTELLIGENCE will be elicited by discarding the FAILED materialistic model of reality pushed on us by #FAKE SCIENCE and returning to the world view of the mystics where reality is found in a living, energetic, conscious universe.
Returning to such a world view immediately remedies many of the evils of this present age–nearly effortlessly. If the universe itself and all that inhabits it are energetically and consciously interconnected, then everything matters, everything is to be given a voice, some consideration, a say in the process in which we find ourselves.
Canticle of Brother Sun and Sister Moon by St. Francis of Assisi Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord, All praise is Yours, all glory, all honour and all blessings. To you alone, Most High, do they belong, and no mortal lips are worthy to pronounce Your Name. Praised be You my Lord with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour, Of You Most High, he bears the likeness. Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars, In the heavens you have made them bright, precious and fair. Praised be You, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, And fair and stormy, all weather’s moods, by which You cherish all that You have made. Praised be You my Lord through Sister Water, So useful, humble, precious and pure. Praised be You my Lord through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. Praised be You my Lord through our Sister, Mother Earth who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with colored flowers and herbs. Praise be You my Lord through those who grant pardon for love of You and bear sickness and trial. Blessed are those who endure in peace, By You Most High, they will be crowned. Praised be You, my Lord through Sister Death, from whom no-one living can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Blessed are they She finds doing Your Will. No second death can do them harm. Praise and bless my Lord and give Him thanks, And serve Him with great humility.
With a holy awe silencing our drives to mold the world into that which would please ourselves the most, we begin to allow the more subtle essences of Creation to guide us.
We do not abuse others, using them for our pleasure with a total disregard for the consequences such soul-stealing acts initiate within and around all that is touched by the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical darkness we are empowering. We become more thoughtful when we encounter ethical questions about killing babies in the womb, snowflake babies, IVF, human cloning, baby farms, sexual abuse of babies and children, the use of embryonic stem cells in vaccines, the use of aborted baby tissue in cosmetics, the suggestion of outright cannabalism as a solution for “climate change.”
If all of Creation is an interconnected, conscious and living Unity, we cannot respond as Cain and say, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” as that implies we have the power to “divorce” ourselves from the greater totality of existence. To vainly attempt to create our own mini-universe where we happily exclude all that we personally reject about reality.
Not even satan has succeeded in fully escaping the winsome pull of the beauty and sheer goodness of Heaven’s essence which are embedded holographically into the very smallest quarks in Creation and it has driven him mad. We become fools if we imagine we have the power to do so ourselves. Think*3
The shooting at the synagogue in Poway has interesting details
that we might want to keep discussing as we ponder
the aims, successes, and yes, failures of the puppet masters
behind these despicable attacks.
Rachel Stoltzfoos | Staff Reporter at DailyCaller.com
The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him, yelling so loud the priest at a neighboring church could hear.
“Get down!” Stewart yelled, according to his wife and others who were at the scene. “You motherfucker! I’m going to kill you!”
Others who were there later told him it sounded like four or five people were shouting. He thinks maybe an angel was standing behind him and speaking through his voice. When the shooter ran, he immediately gave chase.
Stewart, 51, told The Daily Caller on Sunday he doesn’t remember any conscious thought from the moment he heard the gun shots until it was all over — he just acted on instinct to stop the shooter and prevent him from leaving so he couldn’t hurt more people somewhere else. The Iraq combat veteran said his military training kicked in.
“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldn’t get to me,” Stewart said. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”
Stewart served in the Navy in explosive ordnance disposal from 1990 to 1994, then enlisted in the Army in 2001 because of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
“Looking back, it was kind of a crazy idea to do, but I did it.” He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and left the military in 2004, as a staff sergeant. He’s now in construction work.
When the gunman opened fire, he was in the back of the synagogue. By the time he got to the lobby, the shooter had killed one woman, blown the finger off of a rabbi, and injured two others.
“I heard gunshots,” Stewart said. “And everybody got up and started trying to get out the back door, so I — for whatever reason — I didn’t do that. I ran the other way. I ran towards the gun shots.”
“When I came around the corner into the lobby area, I saw the individual with a gun, and he fired two rounds. And I yelled at him and I must have yelled very loud, and he looked at me, and I must have had a really mean look on my face or something, because he immediately dropped his weapon and turned and ran. And then I gave chase.”
Stewart said he chased him all the way out to his car and began pounding on it — the shooter had managed to lock himself in. When Stewart saw him reach for a rifle, he punched the side of the car as hard as he could, intending to figure out a way to drag him out of the car. That’s when a Border Patrol agent who attends the synagogue came running out to the parking lot, yelling for Stewart to get down because he had a gun.
Stewart says this man may have saved his life and pointed to his use of a civilian’s gun as evidence that gun control isn’t the answer to these kinds of tragedies. Stewart was off-duty and was apparently handed the weapon by someone else on the scene.
“It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun,” he told the Caller.
The agent fired several rounds into the lower part of the vehicle, intending to disable it, but the shooter managed to drive away. The two of them then grabbed a phone from someone and called the police to report his license plate. The shooter later turned himself in.
After he sped off, Stewart ran back into the synagogue and found a woman he knew, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert Kaye, unresponsive on the floor in the lobby. He began CPR and continued trying to bring her back to life as a couple of doctors arrived and began to assist him. She didn’t make it. The two had talked occasionally, and he remembers her as a passionate and kind woman.
“She had different political views, so we had interesting discussions when we talked,” he said. “We didn’t just talk about the weather. It was kind of cool. She was a very loving woman.”
Stewart considers her the real hero. Eyewitnesses said she jumped in front of the rabbi to save his life.
“People in the aftermath here have been saying it’s important to be strong and defend ourselves. I also think it’s important to know that being strong and defending ourselves requires a lot of sacrifice too.”
“I don’t know if I consciously made the choice to potentially sacrifice myself,” he added. “But I did. And this lady, she stood and she jumped in front of the shooter and she saved the rabbi’s life. When somebody said I was a hero, I’m like, she was a hero. I just did it instinctively, like an animal. There was no conscious decision. I just did it.”
He may not call himself a hero, but Stewart believes his actions effectively stopped the shooter. He doesn’t think reports of the shooter’s gun jamming as the reason he fled are likely to be true, because he was using a semi-automatic rifle. “Full automatic weapons will jam,” he said. “Semi-automatic weapons do not jam.” He thinks maybe the shooter had emptied his magazine. Whatever the case, the shooter let the slung weapon drop and fled.
“He was in the act of shooting when I saw him,” Stewart said. “When I yelled at him he turned and looked at me, and he like froze. And then the look on his face was one of amazement at first, and then one of fear. He saw me coming, and I was ready to do whatever I had to do to stop him.”
For his part, Stewart doesn’t attribute the shooter’s actions to a larger agenda and was reluctant to connect him to a larger political context. He doesn’t blame President Donald Trump and expressed hope that people don’t try to blame anyone else for the man’s actions. “He was an individual acting alone,” he said.
“If you’re ignorant and you don’t know what people are like, you don’t know that I’m a person just like you. I go to work every day in a manual labor job. I’m not some, you know – supposedly he said in his manifesto that the Jews control this and that — I don’t control anything. I go to work just like you every day. He didn’t know that.”
“If he had gotten to know me, he would know that I’m a great person, that I’m a nice guy, that I’m a very caring person,” he continued. “My apprentices — they all love me. They say that I’m the best teacher in the world, you know, that I care, that I try to teach them, and if he had known any of these people, like the lady Lori who died. She would go give Easter baskets to kids and that’s not even a Jewish thing, you know. … She was just a warm person.”
If anything’s to blame, he says it’s social media and the increasingly disconnected world we find ourselves in. “The whole media thing — people don’t get to know people, and they get to sit in a cocoon, and sit and make opinions on what somebody writes. It’s not good. We need to interact more.”
“The most important thing I want to share is that we need to know each other,” he said. “If you make an opinion on anyone, you need to know what they’re about, and who they are. You can’t generalize and say every blue person is evil because they’re blue. That’s ridiculous.”
The funeral service for Kaye is on Monday. He expects the synagogue will be totally packed.
Wow! #Poway Chabad Rabbi had asked border patrol agent who took down the Synagogue shooter to pray armed – just in case. In doing so, they averted an even greater catastrophe! The agent only recently discovered his Jewish roots.https://t.co/taCgwSj8fQ
POWAY, California — Jonathan Morales, an armed off-duty US Customs and Border Patrol agent who recently discovered his Jewish roots, was among the worshipers at Chabad of Poway on Saturday when John Earnest entered the synagogue near San Diego during Passover services and began shooting. The 19-year-old gunman killed Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounded three people: Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 8-year-old Noya Dahan and her uncle, Almog Peretz. “Morales recently discovered his Jewish roots. He would travel three and a half hours from [the California town of] El Centro to pray with us at our shul,” Goldstein told media at a Sunday press conference outside the synagogue. “He felt this was his house of worship. And many times I said, ‘Jonathan, you work for the border patrol. Please arm yourself when you are here; we never know when we will need it.’” US President Donald Trump spoke with Goldstein on Sunday and took to Twitter to praise the rabbi and Morales, writing: “He may have been off duty but his talents for Law Enforcement weren’t!”
Sincerest THANK YOU to our great Border Patrol Agent who stopped the shooter at the Synagogue in Poway, California. He may have been off duty but his talents for Law Enforcement weren’t!
As for why there weren’t any active duty guards at the synagogue, in an earlier interview with CNN Goldstein said, “Unfortunately, we couldn’t afford to have an armed security officer at every service, so whenever we had extra help, we were grateful for it.” In a moment that Goldstein referred to as “miraculous,” Earnest’s gun jammed, and congregant Oscar Stewart, a 51-year-old Army veteran, and Morales attempted to subdue the gunman. Morales was also able to open fire and give pursuit. After Earnest fled the building, Morales followed in his own vehicle and shot and hit Earnest’s car. Earnest soon turned himself in to law enforcement. On Sunday, Goldstein, his two hands in fresh blue bandages, gave a detailed recounting of Saturday’s harrowing shooting in Poway, a suburban town just north of San Diego. “I was preparing for my sermon, I walked out of the sanctuary and into the lobby and I saw my dear friend Lori Kaye,” said Goldstein. “I walked into the banquet hall to wash my hands, walked two or three footsteps and I heard a loud bang.” That bang was the sound of the first shots fired by Earnest, a college student who entered the Chabad House undetected amid a flow of mourners who were gathering for Yizkor, the traditional memorial service held on the final day of Passover. “I turned around and saw something indescribable,” Goldstein continued. “Here is a young man standing with a rifle pointing right at me. He had sunglasses on. I couldn’t see his eyes, I couldn’t see his soul.” The rabbi said that when he saw the shooter he initially froze, then raised his hands to cover his face. Two of his fingers were blown off; one was reattached by surgeons at Palomar Medical Center in San Diego late Saturday. Gilbert-Kaye, whom relatives and friends on Saturday described as a woman of unconditional love and unbounded generosity, was the only fatality of Earnest’s mass shooting. Goldstein took several minutes to thank San Diego County law enforcement and to praise the wellspring of warmth and support that the local community has offered in light of the tragedy.
A chain of miracles
In a remarkable series of events, the rabbi and a handful of congregants were able to save a group of children playing in the adjacent banquet hall, preventing a full-fledged massacre. “I ran [to gather the children],” Goldstein says. “My granddaughter, who is four and a half years old, saw her grandpa with a bleeding hand. She saw me shouting, ‘Get out! Get out!’ She didn’t deserve to see her grandfather like that.” Aided by Peretz, an Israeli war veteran who was also at Chabad of Poway with his family Sunday, Goldstein was able to usher the children out of the banquet hall with the shooter in pursuit. But in what Goldstein referred to as a “miracle,” Earnest’s gun jammed. Even while Morales was still on Earnest’s trail, congregants — who had been gathered in the sanctuary and would have made easy targets for Earnest had his gun not jammed — fled to Chabad’s front entrance. Goldstein’s hand was bleeding badly and his two fingers were dangling by cartilage. “I grabbed a prayer shawl,” he said, wrapped his wounds, and stood on a chair to address his congregation. “I said, ‘I gotta do something,’” he said. “I said to our congregation: ‘Am Yisrael chai [The People of Israel live]. We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall and we will not let anyone or anything take us down.’”
Farewell to an ‘angel’
“Lori took the bullet for all of us. She died to protect all of us. She didn’t deserve to die,” Goldstein said. Gilbert-Kaye was one of the congregation’s oldest and most devoted members, the rabbi told media. A former employee of Wells Fargo, she was instrumental in helping Chabad secure the loan for the building in the early 1990s. She and her husband Howard were so close with the rabbi and his wife that two weeks ago they flew to New York City for Goldstein’s youngest daughter’s wedding, and danced together with the bride.
Roneet Lev, friend of Chabad of Poway shooting victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye, April 28, 2019. (Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)
Her generosity and kindness was lauded on Sunday by Roneet Lev, who was at the Chabad of Poway to mourn. Lev described herself as Kaye’s best friend. “Lori Kaye is an angel on this planet,” Lev said. “She’s touched many lives in her own life. Not just in this community but throughout the entire world.” Describing a woman who always carried gifts cards and greeting cards to offer as presents and who would regularly purchase extra coffees and donuts for homeless people on the street, Lev explained that Kaye was at Chabad of Poway to say the first Kaddish mourner’s prayer for her mother, who had recently died. Kaye’s daughter Hannah lives in Los Angeles and had driven down to be with her mother for the service. Lev offered hope and optimism as she spoke of her friend. “Even in this horrible, painful event, we know good will come out of it,” Lev said. “Lori is known for bringing out the good in people. And look at these flowers. Look at this law enforcement. Look at the good people of San Diego. Lori is now bringing them together.”
p.s., another article about the shooting from a local paper was originally posted with some odd wording that cast some shadows on the synagogue’s use of DHS funds to strengthen security. The second and third versions fixed this gaff and added a quote from the local ADL spokesperson.
Oh, VERY IMPORTANT!
The “AR” in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite, NOT assault rifle. This is a point we need to be making with everyone that we talk about such things with. Continue reading “Be Like Lions, Not Lambs”→
This DARKNESS TO LIGHT TUESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
"We have done battle w/the power of evil and can have compassion on those still within its grip. We have been freed from the kingdom of darkness and can bear witness to your Kingdom of Light. May the witness of all your people through these 40 Days for Life bear abundant fruit."
You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.
Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.
Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.
There’s a lot to pray about. But an extra prayer for FRANCE couldn’t hurt.
