𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 - 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦
𝟯𝟵-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗨𝘁𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲
𝗕𝗬 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗨𝗘𝗟 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗜 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

A 39-year-old healthy single mother from Utah died four days after taking a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 1.

According to KUTV, her family said that Kassidi Kurill “had more energy” than most people around her and was a happy person with no known health problems.

“I didn’t really cry when my dad died, I cry a lot for her,” her father, Alfred Hawley, a former Air Force Base fighter pilot, told the outlet.

Kurill was a local surgical tech for various plastic surgeons.

“I’m at a state in my life where I’m OK with that [emotion],” Hawley said amidst tears, “she was the one who promised to take care of me.”

“She was seemingly healthy as a horse,” Hawley said, according to Fox News. “She had no known underlying conditions.”

On the morning of Feb. 4, Hawley woke up to his daughter’s plead for help.

“She came in early and said her heart was racing and she felt like she need to get to the emergency room,” he said.

“[She] got sick right away, soreness at the shot location, then started getting sick then, started complaining that she was drinking lots of fluids but couldn’t pee, and then felt a little better the next day,” Hawley said.

Hawley said that her condition got worse: she said that she had headaches, nausea, and couldn’t urinate although she was drinking fluids.

He took her to the emergency room, where she got blood tests. Hawley said that then she became less coherent, and began to throw up.

In the evening they transported her to Trauma Center in Murray.

“They did a blood test and immediately came back and said she was very, very sick, and her liver was not functioning,” Hawley said.

The doctors attempted to stabilize her for a transplant, but her condition worsened to the point where she could no longer talk by the morning of the next day.

“They were trying to get her to a point where she was stable enough for a liver transplant. And they just could not get her stable,” he said. “She got worse and worse throughout the day. And at nine o’clock, she passed.”

Kurill’s family is waiting for an autopsy.

They set up a GoFundMe page named “Kassidi Kurill and Emilia Memorial Fund,” in her and her 9-year-old daughter’s honor.

KUTV led an investigation into COVID-19 vaccine side effects and found four reported deaths filed by the families and caregivers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told The Epoch Times in an email that as of March 8, over 92 million doses of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 had been injected, with 1,637 deaths occurring following the injections.

The CDC states on its website that: “To date, VAERS has not detected patterns in cause of death that would indicate a safety problem with COVID-19 vaccines.”

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was put in place in 1990 to capture unforeseen reactions from vaccines.

The CDC’s data also shows that thousands of people have been impaired from normal activity, including work, after getting the vaccine.

As of Dec. 18 of last year, 3,150 people reported what the agency terms “health impact events” after getting vaccinated.

Those who are experiencing these “events” are “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work,” or “required care from [a] doctor or health care professional.”

The information was presented on Dec. 19 by Dr. Thomas Clark, a CDC epidemiologist, to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent panel that provides recommendations to the agency.

Zachary Steiber and Celia Farber contributed to this report.

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🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 - 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦
𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗻-𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀
𝗕𝗬 𝗝𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill expanding background checks on individuals who are seeking to purchase or transfer firearms as top Democrats have vowed to reintroduce gun control measures.

“This bill is a critical step toward preventing gun violence and saving lives,” said Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), who sponsored the measure known as H.R. 8 as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced the companion bill in the upper chamber.

The bill, titled the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, passed 227-203, receiving eight Republican votes and one Democrat vote against. Five Republicans co-sponsored the bill along with several Democrats.

According to a summary of the legislation, it will “utilize the current background checks process in the United States to ensure individuals prohibited from gun possession are not able to obtain firearms.” Currently, any firearm purchased at a retail store or online has to go through a background check and has to involve a licensed firearms dealer with a federal firearms license, known as an FFL. Specifically, H.R.8 would require background checks for private sales.

The House recently passed another control measure, H.R. 1446, which allows for the FBI to indefinitely delay background checks. Currently, there is a three-day default transfer window. That measure was introduced by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).

It comes as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said they would reintroduce other gun control measures. President Joe Biden’s administration also expressed support for such measures in recent days.

“No more hopes and prayers, thoughts and prayers—a vote is what we need,” said Schumer in a news conference as he vowed to bring H.R. 8 out of former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s “legislative graveyard” after it stalled in the Senate in 2019.

Republicans have said these measures won’t make Americans safer, with one saying that H.R. 8 would create a possible “national registry of firearms.”

“The idea that this is going to make us safer is laughable,” said Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) on the House floor Thursday. “Criminals looking to get their hands on firearms to use in crimes are not going to submit to background checks. Only law-abiding citizens will follow the law. This is a back door means of setting up a national registry of firearms—something I completely oppose.”

Miller added that the United States has “enough gun laws,” but she said that “we need is to make sure the laws we have are enforced.”

“We need better enforcement—not more laws,” Miller added. “Instead of passing terrible legislation like H.R. 8, we need to do a better job of providing law enforcement agencies with the resources they need to enforce existing gun laws.”

The bills and proposed bills come as record numbers of firearms are continuing to be sold in the United States. According to recent figures from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), gun sales in January surged by around 9.5 percent month-over-month and around 60 percent as compared with January 2019.

After H.R. 8 was passed by the House in 2019 as well, it was never taken up by the Republican-controlled Senate. Schumer said Thursday that the legislation will be discussed in the near future.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) in its 2019 analysis, said that the bill, if passed into law, would require that “loans, gifts, and sales of firearms be processed by a gun store. The same fees, paperwork, and permanent record-keeping apply as to buying a new gun from the store.”

“If you loan a gun to a friend without going to the gun store, the penalty is the same as for knowingly selling a gun to a convicted violent felon. Likewise, when the friend returns the gun, another trip to the gun store is necessary, upon pain of felony.”

🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 - 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆
𝗕𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

McALLEN, Texas—As President Joe Biden rolled back several existing border initiatives, the number of people crossing illegally into the United States has skyrocketed.

In February—despite a week of freezing weather—Border Patrol apprehended 100,441 illegal border-crossers along the southern border, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Another 26,000 people evaded capture, according to Jaeson Jones, a former Texas Department of Public Safety captain who received the provisional CBP data from internal sources, which was reviewed by The Epoch Times.

The February number is almost triple the apprehensions from February 2020, when Border Patrol caught almost 37,000 people, while in 2019, on the cusp of the most recent crisis, the number was almost 77,000.

Many of those crossing now are unaccompanied minors (9,457 in February), who can’t be turned back if they’re from a country other than Mexico.

Minors who cross the border illegally are meant to be passed to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 72 hours, but the sheer number of minors has overwhelmed the system. Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller told media on a March 10 call that he wasn’t going to discuss how long children are being held in Border Patrol custody.

HHS has just opened a second facility for the burgeoning number of minors.

When asked what he thought was driving the trend, Miller said, “There’s certainly economic instability in the region that’s unparalleled.”

“All you have to do is look at the pandemic … the COVID rate infections down in South and Central America,” he said. “We recently had a hurricane, continued violence, unemployment. So if you put all those issues together, … you’re going to see folks looking for a better way of life.”

Miller said he wanted to be clear that the border is not “open” and that migrants shouldn’t listen to human smugglers who are saying otherwise.

“We are building an orderly immigration system and doing so in a way that protects public health during the global COVID pandemic,” Miller said. “We’re moving as fast as we can to rebuild.”

Biden has said there’s no crisis on the border and that “we’ll be able to handle it,” when asked by reporters.

On March 8, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it’s seeking volunteers from among its agencies to assist in dealing with an “overwhelming” surge at the U.S.–Mexico border.

“Today, I activated the Volunteer Force to support Customs and Border Protection as they face a surge in migration along the Southwest Border,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an email to employees on March 8, obtained by several news outlets.

The number of illegal crossings at the southern border has steadily risen since October 2020. The number of apprehensions between October 2020 and January 2021 was 296,259, while the same period the year prior saw 164,932 apprehensions, according to CBP data.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference near the U.S.–Mexico border on March 9, where he raised the alarm about a growing crisis after meeting with border officials.

The Republican governor blamed Biden’s immigration policies, saying they invite illegal immigration and are contributing to the crisis, which “will grow increasingly worse by the day.”

Among those arrested by Border Patrol since Jan. 1, more than 800 criminals have been identified, including 78 sex offenders and 62 gang members, Abbott said.

On March 6, Abbott launched an operation to counter the growing crisis, activating and deploying National Guard troops and other law enforcement officers to the border to combat drug and human smuggling.

Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.

Update: This article was updated on March 10 to include final CBP numbers and quotes by acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller.

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🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 - 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗦
𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱
March 10, 2021
𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿

Commentary

I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values.

But it is a different version of Russian roulette. In the traditional version, only one of the gun’s six chambers contains a bullet. In the college version of Russian roulette, 5 of the 6 chambers contain a bullet. If your child attends almost any university in America (or Canada or anywhere else in the English-speaking world), the odds are that your child’s decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character, and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently.

The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school—public or private—is fast becoming equally toxic. More and more schools are being taken over by left-wing ideologues and by nonideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.

Once infected with leftism, these schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, whites, excellence, freedom, and masculinity. To cite one example, thanks to a million-dollar grant from Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Oregon Education Department has announced that teaching there is “one right answer” in math—yes, in math—is an expression of white supremacy. Why, then, would an Oregon parent who cares about his or her child’s mind, send that child to an Oregon school?

In addition to perverting education, teachers and their unions have exhibited a contempt for children that has taken even conservatives by surprise. Teachers’ unwillingness to show up in class for more than a year is as unscientific as it is unprecedented. On Feb. 3, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters during a White House news briefing that teachers do not need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before schools can safely reopen: “There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated. Vaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools.”

Nevertheless, in the country’s major cities, these cowards and hypochondriacs—people who claim to care more than anything else about their students—have refused to return to school (while demanding to be paid). They have refused to teach, despite the facts that child-to-teacher transmission of the COVID-19 virus is extremely rare and a teacher being hospitalized, let alone dying, as a result of interaction with students is rarer than a teacher dying in a traffic accident on the way to school. Why, then, would you send your child to be “taught” by people for whom you have—or should have—so little respect?

Why would you send your young child to a school that sponsors a “Drag Queen Story Hour” or that dwells on “nonbinary” gender identity? Do you think such things do not damage your child’s innocence? Do you want your child to be challenged about his or her sexual identity?

Why would you send your child to any school that teaches The New York Times’ “1619 Project”? This project holds that America was not founded in 1776 but in 1619, with the arrival of the first black slaves in North America, and that the Revolutionary War was fought not to gain independence from Britain but to preserve slavery. Virtually every leading historian specializing in American history—most of whom are liberals and Democrats, and some of whom were anti-Trump activists—have labeled “The 1619 Project” a lie.

Whenever I meet adults who hold traditional American values, I ask them three questions:

The first is, “Do you have children?”

If they do, my second question is, “How many of them share your values?” It is not common to meet people all of whose children share their parents’ traditional values.

If they respond that any of their children do not share their values, my third question is, “What happened?”

In every instance, these parents attribute the alienation of their child(ren) from their (the parents’) values to the college and, increasingly, the high school their child attended.

Moreover, not only are these children alienated from their parents’ values, but they are often also alienated from the parent(s). One thing you learn when you become left-wing is to have contempt for those who hold other beliefs.

Had these parents known how their children would turn out, they would never have sent them to college—or even to the high school they attended. It appears, however, that no matter how many people lose their children’s hearts and minds to left-wing indoctrination, and no matter how much information accumulates about the perversion of education in American schools, parents continue to take risks with their children they would never take in any other sphere.

I am well aware of the enormous obstacles. If your child wishes to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) or law, college remains a necessity. Otherwise, it isn’t.

As for elementary and high school, parents must either find a school that teaches reading, writing, and arithmetic rather than America-hatred, or they should home-school their child. This, understandably, sounds terribly daunting. However, it is becoming considerably easier to do so as home-school groups and quality home-school curricula proliferate around the country.

Whatever your decision, never say you weren’t warned.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 - 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗕𝗬 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗔 𝗞𝗜𝗘𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗞𝗔 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill that will require the State to provide the capability to vote in person to all voters in all elections. This bill is one in a set of bills introduced by Republican Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger to protect election integrity in New Jersey.

In 2020 Scharfenberger also introduced a bill requiring voters to present proof of identity when voting and a bill to purge ineligible voters from voter rolls. Scharfenberger plans to introduce in a few days a new bill requiring the New Jersey government to establish a hotline for reporting election fraud.

𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻

The bill requiring that all elections in New Jersey provide voters with the capability to vote in person at polling places was introduced by Scharfenberger in February. The measure also prohibits the governor from restricting the right to vote in person without the New Jersey legislature’s approval while preserving voter’s right to choose to vote by mail.

“The Legislature has been wrongfully cut-out from having any real say in these decisions—that cannot continue any longer,” Scharfenberger said in a statement, referring to Democrat Governor Phil Murphy’s Executive Order taking away the ability to vote in person in the 2020 election on the grounds of limiting the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.

“These are not some arbitrary choices with little impact, we are dealing with constitutional rights,” Scharfenberger said in the statement.

“My office was inundated with calls and emails and texts from people who were very upset that they could not go to the polls … they [felt] that they were disenfranchised,” Scharfenberger told The Epoch Time in an interview on March 5. He said that among constituents who called him were people of all political persuasions.

Many citizens wanted to go to vote in person because they felt it was their right, Scharfenberger added. “That’s the way they’ve always voted and they feel most comfortable and I think that’s only fair.”

“The arguments that they made were very compelling, … they would go into a Home Depot or Lowe’s, and there would be massive crowds, yet they were prohibited from going to a polling station where they would go one at a time into a booth,” Scharfenberger said.

COVID-19 safety precautions such as wearing masks, using disinfectants, and spacing people out could have been easily applied at polling stations, Scharfenberger said, similar to how they were applied in stores or on public transportation.

Initially in New Jersey, anybody could request a vote by mail-in ballot and that system worked well, Scharfenberger said, but a year or two before the pandemic, the New Jersey State administration began to send vote-by-mail ballots to all who had requested it anytime in the past. That upset and confused people who usually vote in person but voted by mail occasionally due to being away or other reasons, Scharfenberger said.

In the November 2020 election, when mail ballots were sent to all voters, there were many erroneous ballots sent, Scharfenberger said. He added that he received calls from people who received ballots for their relatives who had passed away long ago or moved out of the state, or from married women who had changed their name and received two ballots—one under their maiden name and one of their married name.

Prohibiting in-person voting is denying people the right to be able to physically go to a poll, Scharfenberger said. But if erroneous ballots “ended up in the wrong hands, they could be open to fraud, “ he added.

🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗯 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝘆𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆.....

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗡𝗢𝗪... 𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘...

𝗖𝘇𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀.

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
@Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂...

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁/𝗺𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲: 🤝
@𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹

𝑈𝐾 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 - 10𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2021

𝗨𝗞 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

𝗚𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁:
https://youtu.be/aAHz1p51j0M

𝗨𝗞 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮
https://youtu.be/aAHz1p51j0M

🌎 𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡 - 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁.

𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧...𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
https://t.me/Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

🇬🇧 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘆𝗲𝗿

🔗 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀


🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
https://t.me/Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

🇬🇧 𝗡𝗢 𝗡𝗢 𝗡𝗢!!!!!! 😳 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝘁?

✔𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁: 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 -
🔗 𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝘀. 𝗜’𝗺 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱...

𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚
𝟯𝟭 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵-𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝗮𝘀
𝗕𝗬 𝗭𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗥
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

Several dozen missing minors were located, recovered, or rescued after a month-long operation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, officials said on March 10.

At least seven recoveries were of critically missing children with ties to sex trafficking.

Cases included rescuing a 15-year-old girl from a “john’s” house in Fort Worth and recovering a 15-year-old girl from an Uber in Houston during a prostitution sting.

The other 24 children were recovered from friends or relatives and reunited with their legal guardians.

The operation was conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the police departments of Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Grand Prairie.

“To observe law enforcement partnerships and community concerns culminate into such a successful recovery outcome is rewarding,” said Acting U.S. Marshal Quintella Downs-Bradshaw in a statement. “Victims should know they are not forgotten, there is hope and a way to return home.”

“We are grateful to be a part of a coalition of extraordinary law enforcement agencies who were dedicated in reuniting these children with their loved ones. It is our hope that each of them will be able to put this traumatic experience behind them and move forward to have a happy and productive life,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said.

“These kids and teens represent some of our most vulnerable populations where adults try to prey on their innocence. We will not rest until every child is located safe and someone is held accountable,” Arlington Police Chief Al Jones added.

Analysts with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services supported the operation by providing critical intelligence, with additional support from the nonprofit 4theONE.

More than 346,000 missing children reports were recorded by the National Crime Information Center in 2020. Approximately the same number were purged from the system for reasons including a law enforcement agency locating a subject or an individual returning home on their own.

Children who go missing include those who were abducted by a relative or nonfamily perpetrator, those who ran away, and those who got lost, federal officials have said.

U.S. Marshals Service Director Donald Washington said during an Oct. 1, 2020, appearance on Fox Business that many missing children “are in particular danger as a result of either being victims of violent crime or because of who they are.”

“For example, some of them may be in the middle of gang affiliations or in the midst of drug abusers or in the middle of some bad situations involving people who have violent tendencies and things of that sort.”

🔗𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 - 𝗘𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
https://t.me/Truth_Awakening_Channel
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.🤝

𝗨𝗦𝗔 - 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 - 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗬
𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀
𝗕𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗢𝗠𝗔 𝗛𝗔𝗤 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Thursday to bar transgender athletes who are biologically male from competing on girls sports teams.

Mississippi is the first state so far to enact such a ban, after a similar law in Idaho was struck down by a federal court last year. If no legal challenges come forward, Mississippi’s Senate Bill 2536 is set to become law July 1.

Republicans have said the bill was introduced in response to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden ordering schools across the nation to allow students to participate in sports under the sexual identity they have chosen.

“This important piece of legislation will ensure that young girls in Mississippi have a fair, level playing field in public school sports,” Reeves said Thursday during the signing of the bill.

“It sends a clear message to my daughters and all of Mississippi’s daughters that their rights are worth fighting for,” added Reeves.

The Mississippi Fairness Act is one of 25 other bills being introduced by U.S. lawmakers as families voice concerns about allowing biological male athletes to participate in female sports, saying it will make sports competition unfair.

Transgender rights activists criticized the bill Thursday, claiming it “isn’t about protecting fairness in women’s sports.”

“It’s about erasing and excluding trans people from participation in all aspects of public life,” Mississippi’s ACLU branch said in a statement Thursday. “Not once have the supporters of this bill cited an actual dispute over this issue in Mississippi.”

“Whatever your politics, we should all agree that ostracizing middle and high school kids is not something to celebrate,” the statement continued.

The Mississippi law will require any public school and university that is a member of the Mississippi High School Activities Association and NCAA, among other interscholastic sports conferences, to designate their athletic teams as male, female, or co-ed on the basis of biological sex, restricting athletes who are born male from joining female teams.

In addition, student-athletes who are deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffer any direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of the legislation are entitled to a “private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available under the law” against their school.

Acknowledging the “inherent differences between men and women,” the legislation explains that male-born transgender athletes have physical advantages over their biological female competitors despite any attempt to suppress male hormones.

“Even after twelve months of hormonal therapy, a man who identifies as a woman and is taking cross-sex hormones had an absolute advantage over female athletes and will still likely have performance benefits over women,” the bill reads, citing a recent study.

🔗𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 - 𝗘𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

🔗𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲👇👇 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲:
https://t.me/Truth_Awakening_Channel
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𝗕𝗬 𝗭𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

The National Guard’s chief recommended against extending the deployment of personnel in the U.S. Capitol, arguing the military reserve force didn’t have enough volunteers and faced pressing needs within their states, according to a newly published memorandum.

Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the Guard chief, wrote in the memo that officials hadn’t been successful in securing enough volunteers to meet the U.S. Capitol Police’s request for over 2,200 soldiers to remain in Washington. Only 500 had volunteered, he wrote.

States deployed tens of thousands of Guardsmen to the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach, reaching a peak of some 26,000 on inauguration day. The number has steadily declined since then, but thousands continue guarding the Capitol, which also remains behind razor-topped wire.

Hokanson noted that states are experienced unprecedented demand for Guard support because of the COVID-19 pandemic, riots, and weather events, along with the typical deployment requirement overseas.

“Additionally, faced with pressing needs within their states, numerous Adjutants General and Governors have expressed their unwillingness to order the involuntary mobilization of NG personnel to man the mission,” he said.

“Moreover, I am concerned that the continued indefinite nature of this requirement may also impede our ability to man future missions as both adjutants general and guardsmen alike may be skeptical about committing to future endeavors,” he added, recommending the pursuit of “other inter-agency law enforcement options.”

The memo was obtained and published by Fox News. It appeared to be from last week.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on March 9 overruled the concerns, signing off on the Capitol Police’s request for continued Guard deployment. Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, who made the request, told lawmakers earlier this month that threats to the Capitol, the surrounding area, and members of Congress are increasing.

Maj. Matt Murphy of the National Guard told The Epoch Times via email on Friday: “We cannot discuss internal deliberations that may have taken place as part of the Department of Defense decision-making process. The National Guard will carry out this mission with professionalism for as long as we are required and approved to support.”

Lt. Col. Chris Mitchell of the Department of Defense (DoD) told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, “Beyond saying that it’s important for leadership to have open and frank discussions prior to making decisions, DoD doesn’t comment publicly on internal conversations and pre-decisional documents and memos.

John Kirby, the department’s press secretary, told reporters on Thursday that Lloyd “doesn’t want our National Guard troops up on Capitol Hill one day longer than they need to be.”

“I don’t think anybody wants to see this become an enduring mission. And by enduring I mean a forever mission. At the same time, he recognizes that there is a legitimate need for them,” he added, calling the Capitol Police’s request “valid.”

Pressed on whether Guardsmen would be forced to serve if enough volunteers weren’t found, Kirby said, “I think the decision for the involuntary activation makes sense on a couple of different levels, and that gets us to May.”

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𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

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On Jan. 7 in the early morning, Hong Kong National Security Department dispatched more than 1,000 police to raid multiple homes and offices, and arrested 53 Hong Kong pan-democratic political activists. In March, the Hong Kong Department of Justice prosecuted 47 of them, accusing them of subverting state power, a charge based on the latest Hong Kong National Security Law.

Among those indicted are Martin Lee Chu-ming, Hong Kong’s retired senior counsel, the founder of the United Democrats of Hong Kong, a former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo), and a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee; Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, the owner of the Hong Kong liberal media Apple Daily; Lee Cheuk-yan, a famous Hong Kong trade union organizer, former Legislative Council member, and one of the Hong Kong Labour Party founders; Benny Tai Yiu-ting, former associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong; and young political activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung who emerged from the Umbrella Movement. Joshua was already detained in prison for another case; he was arrested again in prison.

It all started before 2014, but let’s start with 2014.

The Basic Law of Hong Kong stipulates that the Legislative Council and chief executive of Hong Kong will eventually be elected by universal suffrage. From 1997 to 2014, 17 years after China reclaimed Hong Kong, there was no progress in universal suffrage. Half of the 70-member Legislative Council was elected by universal suffrage, while the chief executive was elected by a so-called election committee with 1,200 people. The Hong Kong Democrats laid out a political reform timetable for Beijing to confirm when Hong Kong could implement dual universal suffrage.

In 2014, the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Congress in Beijing (the permanent body of the highest legislative body of communist China) passed a so-called political reform plan, insisting that candidates for chief executive must be confirmed by an election committee of 1,200 before they can stand. The citizen nomination plan proposed by the Democrats is a clause in universal suffrage in all countries, or an option of “other” in the ballot for the public. However, the committee rejected all suggestions. In other words, Beijing will put forward bad guy A and bad guy B through the Hong Kong Election Commission under its control, and Hong Kong people choose one of them.

This is the reason why the 2014 Umbrella Movement broke out in Hong Kong.

In 2019, Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong chief executive, proposed amending the extradition law to allow any alleged criminals accused by China to be sent to mainland China for trial and imprisonment without going through the Hong Kong courts. This ignited the Hong Kong resistance movement in 2019.

In November that year, in the election of Hong Kong District Councils, the pan-democrats won more than 80 percent of the seats. In the past, the pro-communist groups controlled the district councils, having invested and developed in grassroots communities for years. But this time they were defeated by a landslide, and Beijing was shocked.

On June 30, 2020, the committee passed the Hong Kong National Security Law, which was incorporated into the Basic Law as a subsidiary document. The provisions of this law are completely different from the previous Anglo-American laws. The law stipulates that Beijing can establish a state security agency in Hong Kong. Cases under its jurisdiction are directly prosecuted and tried by courts in mainland China. At the same time, the law also stipulates that the Hong Kong police establishes a national security department, and cases under its jurisdiction will be tried by “designated special judges.”

Hong Kong was originally scheduled to hold the seventh LegCo election in September 2020. The Democrats held a pan-democratic primary election in July, hoping that citizens would decide who will run for seats in the relevant LegCo. This kind of primary election is somewhat similar to the inner-party primary election of American political parties and is not legally binding. On that day, the number of votes for the primary election reached 610,000.

The Hong Kong government subsequently announced that it would cancel the LegCo elections originally scheduled for September because of the “severe epidemic.”

After September, Beijing appointed the original LegCo to extend its term by one year. Several Democratic members who opposed the Hong Kong government’s cancellation of the LegCo election resigned in protest, but most of the pan-democratic members stayed.

By November, Beijing bypassed the Hong Kong court, and the committee directly announced the disqualification of four opposition legislators. This approach overrode the Department of Justice to file an arbitration application of the qualification of the legislator, and made the judgment on behalf of the court. This bypasses Hong Kong’s Basic Law. Under the Basic Law, the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of China cannot legislate for Hong Kong, but can only interpret the Basic Law.

Subsequently, the remaining 15 pan-democratic parliamentarians expressed their protest by collective resignation. Hong Kong’s LegCo is left with completely pro-Beijing members. According to the law, the remaining LegCo isn’t qualified to pass any resolutions, because there are less than two-thirds of its members left out of the total number of 70 members.

Then there was a mass arrest on Jan. 6 this year.

Of course, it’s not finished yet.

At the March 5 meeting, the National People’s Congress of China reviewed the draft decision that will change the Hong Kong electoral system. The National People’s Congress is going to carry out direct legislation for Hong Kong’s political system.

Wang Chen, vice chairman of the committee said at the meeting that the key is to ensure that Hong Kong is governed by “patriots,” that is, Hong Kong is governed by those who love the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing wants to restructure the Hong Kong Election Commission, change its size and composition and its method of formation. Not only will the Election Commission continue to elect the chief executive, it will also entitle 1,200 members of the commission to elect a “larger percentage” of LegCo members.

In addition, the Election Commission will have the new function of directly participating in and nominating all candidates for the LegCo, as well as their qualification review.

To put it simply, Hong Kong has been deprived of the legislative power of local elections. Fundamentally speaking, Hong Kong is now deprived of its independent legislative power, because in the future, according to the CCP, LegCo members will be generated in “a large percentage” by the 1,200 members of the Election Commission instead of in a one-person-one-vote election.

When things have reached this point, we can conclude that Hong Kong, known as the Pearl of the Orient, the largest free port in East Asia, and which topped the world in the World Economic Freedom Index for many years, has officially died. The future of Hong Kong will not be much different from Shenzhen and Shanghai.

Hong Kong is dead. I really like this city where I lived for many years, but she is dead.

During the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine in China in the 1960s, how many lives did Hong Kong people save by mailing large quantities of food to the mainland? When China began to reform and open up in the 1980s, how much money did Hong Kong people bring in? How many companies were built? How many products from mainland China were brought to the international market? Hong Kong was the most important facilitator of economic growth in the early stage of reform and opening up in mainland China, and was once vital to the Chinese economy.

In the past, many people in Hong Kong believed Deng Xiaoping’s internal instruction which claimed, “well water does not offend river water” (meaning that the two sides do not interfere with each other’s internal affairs). Now they are fully awake.

For the past 20 years, Hong Kong people have been at war, but few people realize that their enemy is not the Hong Kong government, not the so-called establishment, but the CCP. On the other hand, as long as the CCP’s one-party dictatorship exists, there’s no peace for the surrounding regions and countries. The same goes for the United States.

Alexander Liao is a journalist who covers international affairs, focused on the United States, China, and Southeast Asia. His work has been published in newspapers and financial magazines in the United States and Hong Kong.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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