Lies, Treachery, and Colllusion from Christine Blasey Ford, Progressive Democrats, and the Deep State

THE QUESTION TODAY FOR ALL CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS IS 'WHERE ELSE SHALL WE GO?' We have witnessed a Supreme Court process hijacked by a gang of Progressive-Socialist insurrectionists. We saw a Republican Senate Judiciary Committee cave in to their demands not once but three times -- in delaying the hearing itself, in allowing the Democrat members to put a stranglehold on Judge Kavanaugh by insisting that the FBI investigate outrageous unsupported and unsupportable allegations, and finally by voting to release his name to the full Senate and then putting a caveat as big as the ProgDem Swamp on it. WHERE do American conservatives and Republicans who respect the Constitution and the Republic' rule of law go now??? • • • LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES. They are piling up like dead fish on a contaminated beach. • The Judiciary Committee was informed that the American Bar Association had asked for a delay in the vote -- a LIE. As chairman Grassley pointed out, the President of the ABA took it upon himself to make the ABA decision about Kavanaugh using ABA Letterhead. The ABA Board of Directors have reaffirmed their full support for Kavanaugh and reinstated his standing in the ABA. That LIE was used bt #NeverTrump Seantor Flake to finnagle a week delay even after the Committee had voted to release. Grassley has ample dealings with Flake to realize that he is a Swamp Snake hiding out as a Republican whose agenda is to destroy Trump. WHY did Grassley not simply send the 10-10 vote to the Senate with a note of 'no decision'??? • The President’s stamp of approval on the controversial supplemental investigation came with limitations outlined in a statement : “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.” Were the Democrats and Flake LYING when they agreed to a one-week limit on the investigation? Most likely since their goal must surely be to trot out more LIES about Judge Kavanaugh as the week rolls by -- with the further goal of delaying the vote in the Senate until after the mid-term elections in which the ProgDems have the hallucinatory dream of taking back the House and Senate. • LIES from the Democrat Committee members started with Delaware's Senator Chris Coons who told the Committee on Friday about Senator Flake's position : "We share a deep concern." Coons was reported in the mainstream media to be fighting back tears defending Jeff Flake. They withdrew to an anteroom, delaying the Senate Judiciary Committee’s scheduled vote on whether to send Kavanaugh’s nomination. They won. Coons believes, as he has stated on the record that Judge Kavanaugh "bears the burden of disproving these allegations." Who cares about the US Constitutino's presumption of innocence? Notthe ProgDem from Delaware. • Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii doesn't care about the constitutional presumption of innocene either. Senator Hirono stated on the record that Judge Kavanaugh doesn’t get a presumption of innocence because of His "Ideological Agenda." BUT, her ProgDem ideological agenda allowed her to send a fundraising email during the opening remarks of Judge Kavanaugh at Thrusday's hearing. The Hirono LIE is the overriding lies of the elites who believe they are above the law while the est of us must be subject to the law as they choose ot define it. Even Jake Tapper of CNN says that there is no corroborating evidence for any of the charges against Kavanaugh. • Christine Blasey Ford submitted four names to the Judiciary Committee and the media who she said could verify her story. Not one has done that. And, as the FBI begins its new investigation of Judge Kavanaugh -- its 7th -- a statement from the attorney representing one of those named, a friend of Christine Blasey Ford, Leland Keyser, has indicated once again that Keyser has NO recollection of the event that Ford testified to in the Senate on Thursday. Thus far, the only evidence that Ford has brought in the case is her own testimony. All of the individuals who she claimed attended the party with her and Kavanaugh deny any knowledge of the event taking place. Attorney Howard Walsh III wrote to Judiciary Committee chairman Grassley, saying on Saturday : “Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford. In his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he said : “Ms. Keyser asked that I communicate to the committee her willingness to cooperate fully with the FBI’s supplemental investigation of Dr. Christine Ford’s allegation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.” Walsh went on to stipulate that “as my client as already made clear, she does not know Judge Kavanaugh and has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.” Keyser’s statement came in response to the decision by the Senate, backed by President Donald Trump, to ask the FBI to further investigate the allegations against Kavanaugh. A LIE by Christine Blasey Ford? Highly likely. • • • AND MEDIA LEAKS ON TOP OF LIES. Legal Insurrection reported on Sunday that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island referred the latest Kavanaugh false accuser to a reporter at same time that he notified FBI and Judiciary Committee of the allegations. Senator Whitehouse said : “At the constituent’s request, I provided the constituent with the contact information of a reporter who might investigate the allegation.” A Rhode Islander made an accusation that gained media attention, alleging that Kavanaugh participated in a sexual attack on a boat in Rhode Island. The accusation was made to Whitehouse’s office in the morning of September 24, 2018, ands showed up quickly in the media feeding the political frenzy. The accuser, after the story became public and completely implausible, then recanted that night. A LIE compounded by a Senator's sleazy use of the LIE by referring the liar to a reporter. • The Senate Judiciary Committee has referred the matter to the Department of Justice and FBI for investigation and possible prosecution, because the accuser allegedly provided false information to the Committee during its investigation. The cover letter from Chuck Grassley and supporting materials are available at the Committee website. In those materials is the letter Whitehouse sent to the Committee the same day the accuser contacted Whithouse’s office. In that letter, Whitehouse states : “This morning, a constituent contacted my office to report another allegation of sexual misconduct by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominee to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. At the constituent’s request, I provided the constituent with the contact information of a reporter who might investigate the allegation. I have also alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” • Whitehouse was one of the most aggressive interrogators of Brett Kavanaugh, interrogating Kavanaugh about high school yearbook entries, and making Whitehouse national mockery. Whitehouse also announced a theory about a July 1, 1982 party, based on Kavanaugh’s contemporaneous calendar, which has been soundly debunked. John McCormack at The Weekly Standard explained : "The potential significance of this event is that it is the only party or gathering listed on Kavanaugh’s calendar at which both Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth were listed as present, and Judge and Smyth are two people alleged by Ford to have been in attendance at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted. But the house where this gathering took place (according to Kavanaugh’s calendar) does not appear to match the description offered by Ford in her recollection of events, and there are other reasons to be skeptical of the theory put forward by Senator Whitehouse and several left-leaning journalists....Ford recalled that the home where the alleged attack occurred was, according to the Washington Post, “not far from the country club” in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she had likely spent the day swimming prior to the alleged attack. Tom Kane, one of the Kavanaugh friends who was listed in attendance, told CNN’s New Day on Friday that Tim Gaudette’s house was in Rockville, Maryland, 11 miles away from the country club. 'I saw it published today that someone’s floating the notion that there was something on July 1 at Tim Gaudette’s house,' Kane told CNN. 'Tim Gaudette lived in Rockville. It’s 11 miles away from Columbia Country Club. And it wasn’t a single-family home. It was a townhouse.' " • • • WHO IS CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD? Blabber Buzz reported an article by InfoWars and Zero Hedge on Friday, September 28 2018, that sent shockwaves through me. The article was written by Infowars with the title "CIA Honeytrap Set -- Kavanaugh Accuser Has CIA Ties?" BUT, the Infowars qrticle was entirely based on a September 23 article that was a Zero Hedge Exclusive. Zero Hedge wrote : "All of the other witnesses have come forward and stated they have no recollection of the event, and have taken a step further to say that Brett Kavanaugh is an honest, ethical, and respectable individual : Everyone at the party has said they have no idea what Christine Blasey Ford is talking about, even her longtime friend Leland Ingham Keyser! Also potentially damaging to Blasey Ford’s claim is a theory presented Thursday by Ed Whelan, a former clerk to USSC Justice Antonin Scalia and currently president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank. Using entirely circumstantial evidence which could certainly ruin the life of the man at the center of the new theory, Whelan suggested that Kavanaugh’s high school doppelgänger, Chris Garrett, may have in fact been responsible for Blasey Ford’s recollection of the alleged incident. Before we dig deeper let’s understand Deep State forces a bit better. The CIA, et. al utilize a number of techniques to achieve their goals, ‘whatever works.’...we created a simple hypothesis based on history, based on their traditional Modus Operandi (MO). What if this ‘incident’ was a total fabrication, part of a CIA “Honeytrap” ? To test our hypothesis, we did a simple Google search to see if there were any keyword relations including ‘clintons’ and ‘cia’ and sure enough, all 10 of the top 10 results, including the most interesting story which has already been reported. This person’s father works for the CIA but not only that – he was an executive of the bank that handles the CIA’s black budget! You can’t make this stuff up!" InfoWars states : "Of course, this theory is perfectly, logically, and legally impossible to prove, as the CIA operates under the explicit cover of national security, which is the end all and be all of the Shadow Government. What this means is just simply this is another cut in the death by a thousand cuts approach taken by Deep-State Democrats and Crooked Clinton supporters which will do anything to justify their own means, to avoid restoration of ‘rule of law’ and defend and/or cover up their own illegal acts in any way possible. Stay tuned, this is getting interesting." • Reddit showed a site called "Drain the Swamp" that rpeoted that "Gina Haspel, CIA Director, just contacted Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump yesterday in regards to Christine Blasey Ford and let them know Christine and her father are CIA and this is a smear op." Reddit says :"HAVE NO PROOF TO BACK UP THIS, USE DECERNMENT." • Anorther Reddit link notes that "Dr. Christine Blasey heads Stanford University’s CIA Undergraduate Internship Program." You can find this internship program on the official Stanford site. • Bloomberg's short online bio says this about Ford's father : "Mr. Ralph G. Blasey, Jr. serves as a Vice President of Business Development of Red Coats, Inc., a private company specializing in commercial office cleaning, uniformed guard services and access control systems. From October 1982 to July 1989, Mr. Blasey owned and operated several privately-held companies. He has over 40 years of executive management experience in financial and manufacturing corporations and responsibilities include identifying selling opportunities for the Red Coats Family of Companies, working in conjunction with the Vice President of Sales & Marketing and the Executive Vice President. He served as the President of Weston International Corporation, a Maryland corporation, from February 1974 to October 1982. From June 1962 to January 1974, Mr. Blasey served as a Vice President of National Savings and Trust of Washington, D.C. Mr. Blasey served as the Chairman of the Beverage Industry Council of the Food Processing & Beverage Manufacturing Association from 1996 to 1998. He has been a Director of US Liquids Inc. since December 2002. He served as a Director of Weston International Corporation, a Maryland corporation, from February 1974 to October 1982. He graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Commercial Banking." Not much there. • BUT, Christine Blasey Ford's lawyer is another matter. Senator Graham said at Thursday's Judiciary Committee hearing : "Here is what I want your audience to know. If Miss Ford really did not want to come forward, never intended to come forward, never planned to come forward, why did she pay for a polygraph in August and why did she hire a lawyer in August if she never intended to do what she’s doing?...And who’s paid for it?" Debra Katz, the attorney for Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, is vice chair of the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) which has been directly funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. She’s eportedly donated about $24K to liberal causes including Moveon.org and had this to say about Trump advisors on Facebook : “These people are all miscreants. The term ‘basket of deplorables’ is far too generous a description for these people who are now Senior Trump advisors.” Debra Katz is a known lawyer who specializes in the representation of whistleblowers. How was it that she was hired months ago to represent Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser? Remember that Senator Feinstein claimed that the anonymous person wanted to stay anonymous. If that’s the case, why did this woman secure a lawyer specializing in whistleblower cases months ago? What else will we eventually learn about George Soros organizations involvedin trying to stop the Kavanaugh confirmation. These people will stop at nothing to get what they want. • The website heavy.com give a review of Ford's family : "Russell Ford and Christine Blasey Ford have two teenage sons, according to the San Jose Mercury News, which reports that the family members are all avid surfers. A friend described the couple as 'modest,' and said they eat organic food and 'drive hybrids that they plug into a charging station in their driveway.' Russell Ford’s LinkedIn page hasn’t been updated since 2016. However, at that time, it described a lengthy career in medical research. The most recent entry says that, from 2004 to 2006, Russ Ford worked for a company called Zosano Pharma. He gave his title as 'Sr Director, System Design and Development.' Ford described his duties as : 'Individual contributor and manager of engineering group responsible for all mechanical product design and development activities including technical scale-up for components and applicator device; i.e. non-drug, non-excipient product design -- dynamic mechanical applicator, microneedle array, adhesive patch, and packaging. Budgeting for functional group and for individual projects. Presenter and interface for device design during 6+ technical audits by prospective pharma business partners. Attendee at FDA EOP2 meeting.' Before that, he worked as director of Advanced Engineering for Abbott Medical Optics in Milpitas, California, a position he held from 2011 to 2014. 'Division of Abbott Laboratories, #1 in laser vision correction products....Ford has also held similar positions at Boston Scientific and, as noted in his wedding announcement, at Cygnus, where he describes himself as the 'developer of first FDA-approved non-invasive continuous glucose monitor for people with Diabetes.' • Christine Blasey Ford has a second brother named Tom, who is also a lawyer in the Washington D.C. area. QProofs on Twitter stated at https://twitter.com/statuses/1045876006077136896 : "Jill Strzok is Peter Strzoks' sister-in-law. Jill Strzok works with Thomas Blasey. Thomas Blasey is Christine Ford's brother. 3 degrees of separation between Christine Ford and Peter Strzok. There are NO coincidences. They're ALL connected." • According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. Infowars reports : "Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford identified herself as a ‘psychologist,’ but records indict this is a false statement under California law. Someone at Stanford University also appears to have caught the blunder and edited Ford’s faculty page. Just one sentence into her sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford may have told a lie. After thanking members of the committee on Thursday, and while under oath, Ford opened her testimony saying, 'My name is Christine Blasey Ford, I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.' The issue lies with the word “psychologist,” and Ford potentially misrepresenting herself and her credentials, an infraction that is taken very seriously in the psychology field as well as under California law. Under California law, in order for a person to identify publicly as a psychologist they must be licensed by the California Board of Psychology, a process that includes 3,000 hours of post-doctoral professional experience and passing two rigorous exams. To call oneself a psychologist without being licensed by a state board is the equivalent of a law school graduate calling herself a lawyer without ever taking the bar exam. According to records, Ford is not licensed in the state of California. A recent search through the Department of Consumer Affairs License Bureau, which provides a state-run database of all licensed psychologists in California, produced no results for any variation of spelling on Ford’s name. If Ford at one time had a license but it is now inactive, she would legally still be allowed to call herself a 'psychologist' but forbidden from practicing psychology on patients until it was renewed. However, the database would have shown any past licenses granted to Ford, even if they were inactive. Ford also does not appear to have been licensed in any other states outside California. Since graduating with a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California in 1996 it does not appear Ford has spent any significant amount of time outside the state. She married her husband in California in 2002, and completed a master’s degree in California in 2009. She reportedly completed an internship in Hawaii, but a search of Hawaii’s Board of Psychology licensing databased also did not turn up any results for Ford....Aside from potentially misleading the committee, Ford also appears to have violated California law. California’s Business and Professional Code Sections 2900-2919govern the state’s laws for practicing psychology. Section 2903 reads, 'No person may engage in the practice of psychology, or represent himself or herself to be a psychologist, without a license granted under this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.' Section 2902(c) states: (c) 'A person represents himself or herself to be a psychologist when the person holds himself or herself out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words 'psychology,' 'psychological, 'psychologist,' 'psychology consultation,' 'psychology consultant,' 'psychometry,' 'psychometrics' or 'psychometrist,' 'psychotherapy,' 'psychotherapist,' 'psychoanalysis,' or 'psychoanalyst,' or when the person holds himself or herself out to be trained, experienced, or an expert in the field of psychology.' This appears to include titles like 'research psychologist.' There is one specific exemption to the law regarding the title 'school psychologist,' which refers to school counselors who do not need to be licensed. School psychologists are legally forbidden from referring to themselves as simply 'psychologists.' ” Another LIE. • • • WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION, LET'S USE IT. On Friday, September 28, Patrick J. Buchanan wrote na article calling the Kavanaugh attack a "Dress Rehearsal for Impeachment." Pat Buchanan wrote : "Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was approved on an 11-10 party-line vote Friday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yet his confirmation is not assured. Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, has demanded and gotten as the price of his vote on the floor, a weeklong delay. And the GOP Senate has agreed to Democrat demands for a new FBI investigation of all credible charges of sexual abuse against the judge....if Brett Kavanaugh is elevated to the Supreme Court, it will be because, in his final appearance, he tore up the script assigned to him. He set aside his judicial demeanor to fight for his good name with the passion and righteous rage of the innocent and good man he believes himself to be. He turned an inquisition into his character and conduct as a teenager into a blazing indictment of the Democratic minority for what they were doing to his reputation and his family. Rather than play the role of penitent, Kavanaugh did what Clarence Thomas did 30 years before. He attacked the character, conduct and motives of his Democratic accusers. And did the judge not speak the truth? With few exceptions, all four dozen Senate Democrats are determined to defeat him, even if that requires them to destroy him. They rejected Brett Kavanaugh the day he was nominated. Why? Because the judge is a conservative and a Catholic, hence an unreliable vote to sustain Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that discovered hidden in the Constitution a woman's right to abort her unborn child....Contrast how Kavanaugh, who has served his country with distinction for decades, was treated Thursday, and how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was treated. Ford was greeted with courtly courtesy by Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley. No Republican senator asked her a question. Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor of sex crimes brought in from Arizona, quizzed her as though she were a 15-year-old girl who had just been attacked, not a 51-year-old woman whose uncorroborated accusations were designed not only to defeat a Supreme Court nomination but to destroy the career, family and future of a federal judge. After each five-minutes of polite questioning by Mitchell, Democratic Senators took turns lauding Ford's courage, bravery and heroism in agreeing to appear....'This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics,' said Senator Lindsey Graham, 'I hope that the American people will see through this charade.' They had best do so. For what is being done to Kavanaugh is, if Democrats take control of Congress in November, a harbinger of what is to come. The assault on Kavanaugh, converting a man known for his integrity into a youthful Jack the Ripper in 10 days, is the playbook for what is planned for Trump. The Kavanaugh lynching is a dress rehearsal for the impeachment of Donald Trump. And the best way to fight impeachment is the way the judge fought Thursday. In defending yourself, go after your malevolent accusers as well." • We will all agree with the Washington Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti, who wrote on Thursday an article titled "Call the Roll on Kavanaugh -- It's time to see where each Senator stands." Continetti was speaking of the roll call to come in the Senate Judiciary Committee. BUT, his point is correct and should be applied by Majortiy Leader Mitch McConnell to the final Senate vote to confirm : "What is clear is that the Senate must vote, up or down, on Kavanaugh's nomination. One way or another, the roll must be called. Yeas and Nays must be recorded. For two reasons. The first is political. If Republicans walk away from Kavanaugh now, especially after Lindsey Graham's philippic, the conservative grassroots will revolt and the midterm election will be an unmitigated disaster. According to polls, the GOP has already lost the middle. It cannot afford to lose the right. The base is the difference between no wave and a blue wave, between a blue wave and a tsunami. Let each Senator say what he or she believes, and record that judgment by vote. Even if the nomination fails because no Democrat votes yes and two Republicans vote no, that is a better outcome for the GOP than no vote at all. Conservatives expect to be disappointed by individual Republicans. No vote? Conservatives walk away. The other reason to call the roll is more abstract. This story is about more than an allegation of sexual assault. It has become a matter of political precedent. The public deserves to know the Senate's position on the following question: Are uncorroborated allegations, sometimes made anonymously, from high school and college enough to disqualify men and women from appointed office? Are we prepared to establish a standard by which appointees are judged by comments in a high school yearbook, statements from classmates 30 or 35 years ago, and attendance at student parties where alcohol was consumed? If we are to go down this road, then we should know where each of the 100 men and women elected to the United States Senate, including Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Jeff Flake, stand at the outset. How else will we be able to apportion blame when the three Furies arrive? Because they are on their way." • • • DEAR READERS, I began this blog with the question "Where else shall we go?" That question has been circulating in private and public conversations among conservatives and Republicans for some time as we watch the Deep State and its ProgDem contingent try to destroy President Trump and the GOP. • The question actually comes from The Catholic Thing's Sunday article by Randall Smith, who asks "Where Else Shall We Go?" if Catholics leave the Catholic Church. He is, of course, talking about the current scandals concerning priests who are/were sex abusers and those who covered up for them. Randall Smith's point is that Catholics do not have faith in priests or bishops. They have faith in God. Read what Smith wrote and insert Republican Party for Catholic Church : "If you ask, 'How can I continue to have faith in the Catholic Church considering all these horrible acts?' you might put yourself in the place of the Jewish community after the Holocaust. They had to ask themselves : 'How can I continue to have faith in God considering all these horrible acts?' How can we continue to dedicate ourselves to a community so unfaithful to God? Moses asked the same question when he saw the infidelity of his fellow Jews in the desert. The prophets asked the same question when they saw the injustices of the people in the Promised Land. The early apostles must have asked themselves the same question when they saw that it was one of their own company who handed Jesus over to His enemies. And Peter himself, the 'rock' on which the Church was to be built, denied he even knew the Lord in His most desperate hour of need. What could anyone do to compete with that? How hard would it have been to stay in the Church when one’s friends, neighbors, and family members were being martyred, torn to shred by animals or burned alive, for refusing to deny their faith? How hard would it have been to stay in the Church when so many of one’s other friends, neighbors, and family members had given in and denied Christ in the face of the threats of the Roman authorities. Life in the Church has rarely been simple. What would you have done when the Arian crisis split the Church in two....How about when three men all claimed to be pope in the fourteenth century? Or when the Protestant Revolt split Christendom....Imagine being a Catholic in the midst of these scandals. What would you have done? Would you have been one of those who stayed and fought the good fight in faith? Or would you have been one of the many who said, 'That’s it. I’m out'? But then where would you have gone? That’s the question Peter asks Christ. 'Lord, where else shall we go?'....C.S. Lewis once complained about a culture that produces 'men without chests' and then expects of them virtue. 'We laugh at honor,' wrote Lewis, 'and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.' " • What do conservatives and Republicans do now?? Demand the truth from Progressive Democrats in the Senate by making them stand up and vote against Judge Kavanaugh publicly so that their constituents can hear and consider their vote against Kavanaugh, the Constitution and the rule of law. Randall Smith wrote that Czech dissident in the Soviet era, and later president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel insisted that you demand truth by living in the truth, and St. Augustine said about the Gospel : “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” • If we conservatives and Repblicans believe what we like about the political process put into motion by the Constitution but reject the entire lot -- process and Constitution included -- when times get tough, what kind of conservatives or Republicans -- or Americans -- are we? There are times when we must stand up and act like we understand what the Founders meant when they wrote "We the People." They had been through hell to get to that unique historical moment of "We the People?" It is now time for us to step up and support them. Demand that the Senate call the roll on Kavanaugh. We Americans have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to see where each Senator stands. And, we have the duty and obligation to evaluate the votes and get rid of the "traitors in our midst" who place power and elite privilege above honor and country.