Posted by Tina
Democrat and socialist activists are blatantly engaging in the most biggoted attacks we’ve witnessed since the days of the Jim Crow South. First amendment rights are being attacked and squelched through false labeling, intimidation, and lies. The latest example involves the Southern Poverty Law Center’s inclusion of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center in it’s so-called list of hate groups. Costco’s sponsored Mastercard and Citi Visa cards have allegedly been cutting off donation payments by cardholders to the think tank. Breitbart reports from Mr. Horowitz:
We have been attacked by the left wing hate machine whose goal is to suppress and silence conservative voices. This is the work of a Soros funded Media Matters and Southern Poverty Law Center operation. It’s cynical, calculated and supported by the Democratic Party. The reason Mastercard and Visa gave us for cutting us off and thus sabotaging our online fund-raising operation is that the SPLC told them that we were a hate group. It is wrong to focus on the Tech heads as the culprits because as businessmen they have a vested interest in keeping their platforms politically neutral. They have been threatened by Senator Mark Warner and other Democrats if they don’t censor conservatives. The fact that Mastercard and Visa are now part of this juggernaut indicates how dangerous this has become.
Mastercard did not respond to Breitbart’s request for comment but Visa did:
After the publishing of this story, Visa replied to Breitbart News’ request for comment, denying any involvement in cutting off the Freedom Center from payment processing. In fact, Visa claims to have not been aware of the Freedom Center’s financial blacklisting before this article.
At this point it’s difficult to tell what exactly is going on. Mastercards silence suggests corporate involvement…at Visa it could be a few activists on the payroll.
There have been too many examples of Democrat activist efforts to silence their opponents through devious means on platforms like Facebook and Twitter to say this isn’t a serious threat no matter how it’s happening.
J. Soden, who alerted me to this story, had this to say:
Just got off the phone to Costco’s Citi VISA expressing my extreme disapproval, although I was able to refrain from using unacceptable language. I thought it, though!
Contacting Costco will be next. Suggest others do the same.
Good advice. If we remain silent in the face of such vile oppression we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves when tyrants again take over and fundamentally transform America into a one party socialist nightmare. Yes, that statement is “hyperbolic,” Libby. It’s also fitting given the anti-American behaviors of your party’s activists. Your party’s platforms will demolish the progress we’ve made in creating jobs and raising the hopes and dreams of minority individuals and families: Raise taxes, impose Universal Healthcare, impeach President Trump, lax enforcement or open borders (no wall), $15 min wage or living wage, and the restoration of job killing, economy killing, industry killig regulations!
We can’t sit idly by and let them win this serious battle for power…they don’t support equal justice, freedom, free speech or gun rights…and they will continue to bully and silence any opposing voices.
Wow. Thanx, Tina!
Results of both calls were so-so. Neither representative was knowledgeable about the issue, but I expect that changed as more folks called in. I requested that my comments be recorded and submitted to higher authorities.
Oddly enough, Citi sent me a customer survey that I just completed where I could make my point in writing.
And it took 2 days for Drudge to post the story that Breitbart ran . . . . .
This just in Sunday morning on Breitbart:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/25/david-horowitz-wins-credit-card-donation-showdown-credits-breitbart-drudge/
Wonder how many other folks called their VISA banks and Costco . . . . . . . . .
I imagine it was enough to cause panic!
This is why the left is frantic to shut us up! They do not respect the First Amendment rights of their fellow Americans, that’s for sure.
Media Matters and SPLC are of the same crowd. Vile propaganda and character assassination posturing as independent and objective. They think Americans are stupid and they may have a point to this degree —
Americans so stupid as to take Media Matters and the SPLC seriously are stupid. Americans who are part of, fund or are in the employ of these organizations are stupid.
No retraction? Figures.
Out in real world:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/white-house-flag-john-mccain-tribute/index.html
What a petty little man your man is.
McCain was a crook. Remember the Keating 5? Well, he was one of them.
And his complicity in the IRS persecution of the Tea Party was unconscionable.
And there are many other unconscionable acts in his past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuV4XiCTgn8&index=3&list=PLYBbasVsxDVNDBcMkevikfWfjDGb1bnm9
U.S. Flag Code states that flags be lowered “on the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.” The flags at the White House were lowered over the weekend to mark the death of Sen. John McCain. Flags at the U.S. Capitol remained at half-staff on Monday to honor the Arizona Republican. McCain will lie in state in Arizona and at the US Capitol.
Trump expressed condolences to the family but made no statement on McCain (RIP). This is, in my opinion, a more honest response given McCain’s mixed loyalties and betrayals through the years and his lack of support for the President’s agenda.
Silence is golden.
CNN has no room to point fingers. Their partisan coverage of Trump has reduced them to a sad bunch of partisan journalistic a$$#o*es.
Oh, my … when I posted the comment above, I had not seen the footage of that sad little man, with his short arms crossed over his ample front, and his pissy face on, practicing “golden silence”.
You know, by now, everybody on the freakin’ planet has seen it. Gorby has seen it. Merkel has seen it. Trudeau has had a healthy chuckle over it. And here we are, globally humiliated, yet again.
The only reason you libby’erals care about this McCrook issue is so you can take cheap shots at Trump. You fool NO ONE!
And let’s not forget, Joe, the way the media turned on their darling Maverick when he was running against the sainted BHO!
They praised him (a useful idiot) when it suited their political agenda. He played into because of his own political ambitions.
Honesty plays no part.
Here’s what McCain said about the Tea Party members’ brave efforts to rein in out of control government spending while he was colluding with Lois Lerner to go after them.
“The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame,” McCain recited with a mocking tone. “Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.”
The fact is McCain was a budget busting big government politician who loathed the people expected to pay for all the spending, including his deals with Keating. That would be YOU, the common taxpayer. He hated you just as much as Hillary does.
And he sent an aide to England to bring back the phony Steele dossier, setting in motion a coup to overthrow our government.
I know a guy who was in naval flight school with him and he said McCain was a real scum bag back.
Amen to that Joe!
The same media that is fawning all over McCain as if they actually liked and admired him viciously attacked him during the campaign of 08…such phony partisan jerks!
Soviet Poverty Law Center is nothing but a scam.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/17/12-ways-southern-poverty-law-center-scam-profit-hate-mongering/
Great article, Joe!
The SPLC, once dedicated to righting civil liberties wrongs, has become a radical hate group. Power corrupts.
The SPLC has long been nothing more than politically motivated character assassination tool of the Democratic Party and the radical left for at least 4 decades.
Pie, a Klansman is a Klansman.
You want to be a Klansman and run for office, be prepared to defend your indefensible position.
But don’t snivel “persecution” … it’s pitiful.
Your party had the Klansmen, Libby. Your party gave birth to them.
History.com, “Ku Klux Klan”
The American Thinker, “The Secret Racist History of the Democratic Party”
Who are you to cast such aspersions?!!
Lippy, You mean like your hero Rat bastard from hell Robert Byrd? How about Woodrow Wilson? LBJ?
Need I mention Andrew Jackson and your party’s near genocidal treatment of native Americans which Republicans fought against and the Supreme Court ruled against yet was carried out anyway by Jackson?
Don’t get me wrong. I love you Lippy. Keep displaying your stupidity and ignorance in all its glory.
I’d be worried, but you really are one pitiful practitioner of “The Big Lie.”
The funniest thing about Lippy’s comment is that she would have excoriated McCain in these pages had he been elected instead of Obeavis.
Despite McCain’s disdain for his underlings (i.e. the great unwashed voters, some of whom put him in office) Trump’s treatment of him during the race was asinine, unnecessary and stupid.
“… he would have excoriated McCain in these pages ….”
Maybe. Maybe not.
But he picked Palin and shot that all to hell.
And once it all shook out, I’ll bet he was relieved not to have to deal with the consequences of the Crash.
Palin was just as good as Obama at speaking to the people and she had MORE executive and foreign relations experience than Obama had by far.
Palin scared the Obama campaign to death, that’s why she was targeted from hour one. She and her family were attacked, hounded, harassed, and bullied by liberals and the press. It was one of the most shameful ongoing character assassinations in the Democrat kill bucket…Justice Clarence Thomas being another.
Your party is truly disgusting.
McCain would have handled the crash better and wouldn’t have put us through eight years of misery like Obama did!
Yes, the Rats are truly disgusting. Lippy is no exception to the rule.
“Palin scared the Obama campaign to death, ….”
Palin was, as she herself would hasten to claim, a gift from God to the Obama campaign.
And if you are interested in some dissing of the dead, McCain’s choice of Palin could only have been made: 1) in ignorance (which reflected poorly on the candidate), or 2) because he thought pretty little Palin would do him more good than Kay Bailey Hutchison, which also reflected poorly on the candidate.
That was one lose-lose situation.
“Palin was, as she herself would hasten to claim, a gift from God to the Obama campaign.”
Gift my butt…your party’s activists interned her in a media concentration camp at her own home and proceeded to pummel her to near death. The toxic and deadly war waged against her by your party and the media can not be described as a gift in any way shape or form. Your party’s plan was to reduce her to ashes!
“if you are interested in some dissing of the dead…”
I’m not. But you go ahead.
My goodness, Lippy hates Palin too! Whowouldathunk?