Op-ed:
Two Cases...Two Verdicts Overturned...Two Reasons To Clear Our Judicial House
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
- Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father

Two weeks or so ago while most of us here in Florida, me included, were rightfully focused on a hurricane named Dorian, two Obama appointed activist judges were busy overturning convictions of an illegal alien and a muslim jihadi with barely a word heard in the mainstream media. Well...that word will be now be heard...better late than never I say.

Let's start with Jose Inez Garcia Zarate...the five times deported illegal alien...a man now in our country illegally for time number six...who shot and killed Kate Steinle back in 2015 when she was leisurely strolling with her dad on San Francisco's waterfront Pier 14. Dying in her dad's arms after being shot in the chest, the Steinle family saw Zarate being acquitted of murder on November 30, 2017 after the court ruled the shooting an accident. However, he was found guilty of being a convicted felon illegally in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

An illegal alien convicted of illegally possessing a firearm who now thanks to his liberal miscreant lawyers and an Obama appointed liberal activist judge named Sandra L. Margulies, has seen the knife dug deeper into the Steinle family's back as California's First District Court of Appeals has overturned even that conviction saying that, “the original judge [Judge Samuel Feng] failed to instruct the jury on one of his defenses.”

Oh really...

And so the man who stole a beautiful young woman's life...the man who claimed that, “he unwittingly picked up the gun wrapped in a T-shirt and it fired accidentally”...the man who claimed that after the gun went off...a gun stolen from a federal agent’s car...that he threw said gun away to stop it from firing again...that very man is now basically not only getting away with murder but with culpability as well, all while the Steinle family is left to relive their grief and forever wonder why it sadly ended this way.

But these six simple words can tell you and the Steinle family why...San Francisco is a “sanctuary city”...a city whose police department and government officials blatantly refuse to comply with our federal on-the-book immigration laws...a city that allowed murdering scum like Zarate to freely walk its streets. The rights of illegals over the rights of American citizens is the law San Francisco now lives by, and it's this very attitude...an attitude also embraced by California itself as it's a “sanctuary state” ...that is the direct cause of not only Kate's Steinle's death but the deaths of other folks in their state who've lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens.

Remember, if California as a whole and San Francisco in specific had just complied with federal immigration laws, Kate Steinle and the others murdered by illegals in California would not be dead, because Jose Inez Garcia Zarate and the other criminal sorts like him would not have been in these United States in the first, second...or in Zarate's case all the way up to the sixth place.

So how did this newest travesty of justice unfold...simply on the infamous “technicality” rouse is how. While Zarate remained in federal prison on the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition charge, his court appointed public defender, Matt Gonzales, was busy preparing his appeal on the grounds that while deliberating the case Judge Feng, even after being asked by the jury for added clarification about the definition of “possession,” did not inform the jury about what's called the “momentary possession of a firearm,” which legally it seems is not the same as the actual “possession” of a firearm. How so...“momentary possession” is when an individual has “brief possession” of an “item” in question...this being the gun...while being in the process of disposing or destroying that “item,” and that in no way is the individual trying to prevent law enforcement from seizing said “item.”

So with Zarate's having already fired the gun...guns don't pull their own triggers you know...and then after it “accidentally” kills Kate Steinle...Zarate throws the gun he knew had to be stolen into San Francisco Bay.

And with Zarate now having already built up enough credits for time served to cover his sentence on the state gun charge, Judge Margulies wrote in the 3-0 decision that, “During the deliberation, the jury asked for the definition of possession, whether there is a time requirement of possession and whether defendant’s possession of a firearm and knowledge he possessed it were sufficient to demonstrate wrongful intent,” and that “it is reasonably probable at least one juror may have reached a different conclusion if the jury had been instructed on the momentary possession charge,” thus allowing Kate Steinle to basically be de-facto murdered all over again.

And then to make matters even worse, Zarate's slime of an attorney, Matt Gonzales, had the audacity to call the appeal's court overturning the decision a “vindication”...a “vindication” because by Judge Feng not fully instructing the jury, Gonzales felt that Feng was in effect directing a guilty verdict be found. “He had an obligation to give this instruction whether or not we asked for it,” said Gonzalez as he seemed to relish in Kate Steinle's family having to relive once again the nightmare no parent should ever have to face.

I just wonder how people like Matt Gonzalez and Judge Sandra L. Margulies can look at themselves in the mirror let alone live with themselves knowing that they have further hurt the innocent while defending and overturning verdicts of those they know are guilty, and doing so on a “technicality” alone...what should, in my opinion, be a crime in and of itself.

So while Jose Inez Garcia Zarate remains in prison as the California state-court ruling has no legal bearing on federal prosecution, Zarate could still face up to ten years in prison if found guilty of federal "possession" charges. And yet even this, what seems like a last ditch attempt at justice, leaves me to wonder if Kate Steinle will ever be allowed to “Rest in Peace,” and will her family ever reach even a modicum of closure. Honestly, I just don't know especially when our current judicial system, and not just in California, seems to favor the perpetrator instead of the innocent victim.

Next on the list of Obama appointed liberal activist judges run amok involves the case of David Daoud Wright, the former ISIS operative and fame seeker who was found guilty of "conspiracy to commit acts of international terrorism" as well as being one of the ringleaders of the 2015 plot to behead political activist, blogger, and AFDI (American Freedom Defense Initiative) founder Pamela Geller...a woman I'm honored to call my friend. And why the focus on Pamela Geller...because she was the organizer of the “Draw Mohammed” art contest... a contest Wright and his ilk found offensive to mohammed and to mulsims...a contest that saw the two muslim gunmen who attacked said contest rightfully being shot dead by Garland, Texas police.

Thankfully, their plot fell apart after Wright’s uncle, one Usamaah Abdullah Rahim, said he wanted to kill Massachusetts police officers instead of Geller, but as fate would have it he was shot dead by the very officers he wanted to kill after pulling a knife on them in a parking lot when they simply wanted to question him. David Daoud Wright was now left alone to face charges, and in December 2017 he was found guilty on five counts in said terrorist plot against Pamela Geller. However, we recently witnessed one of those convictions being overturned by Federal Appeals Court Justice David J. Barron...with his decision being ludicrous at best, an outward catering to those out to kill us all at worst.

And why do I feel this way...because in his ruling this abomination of an Obama appointed islamic condoning judge had the audacity to mimic David Daoud Wright's lawyers whose sole defense was that their client, “could have simply been ‘role playing’ with respect to following ISIS’s direction,” against Pamela Geller. Ignoring that those on the jury in no way felt that Wright was “role playing” when reaching their verdict...Judge Barron also ignored that the five guilty verdicts were reached in under six hours...remarkable time in a case like this. And those guilty verdicts led Acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb to state that, “Mr. Wright is a terrorist, an ISIS supporter and recruiter who intended to wage war against the United States by beheading people and killing Americans”...Pamela Geller sadly included.

The main case against Wright involved his contact and financing of American ISIS leader Zulfi Hoxha's trip to Syria to train with ISIS, and of all things video games...video games being used as a way for someone to both train and ultimately join ISIS. In fact, Wright himself trained by using amongst others a video game called “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” to “virtually prepare” for jihad.

Judge Barron knew all this and yet apparently he did not take any of it into account. And what's even worse is that both David Daoud Wright's original 2017 conviction and sentence of 28 years in prison will now more than likely be reduced due to Barron's overturning the ISIS related conviction. And this is not only a miscarriage of justice, but yet another showing that Americans do come second to politically activist judges...in the Geller case second not to an illegal alien but to a convicted terrorist.

Makes you wonder who's worse...the illegals, the terrorists, or the activist judges who give these folks but a slap on the wrist and then basically lets them go. Sad isn't it...sad indeed.

So what's the answer to stopping liberal appeals judges from overturning rightful verdicts... to overturn them simply to meet their personal political agenda alone? Remember, it's not as simple as just replacing them with conservative justices for a defendant has the legal right to appeal any guilty verdict or in the above stated two cases any secondary part thereof said verdict without negating the original underlying guilty or not guilty conviction.

In the Zarate case his attorney Matt Gonzales used “error at trial” in his appeal to Judge Margulies, because of Judge Feng's perceived legal error of omission regarding “possession,” an error he believed contributed to a guilty verdict no matter this be right or wrong. In the Pamela Geller case, there is no rhyme nor reason for the ISIS related charge to be overturned, proving once again that liberal activist judges tread lightly in regards to those of the islamic persuasion.

So while a number of judges...whether they be appeals court judges or otherwise...must be replaced before the worst of the worst are coddled even more than they already are, they must not be replaced solely based upon their party affiliation, but based upon their judicial record of being either Constitutional judges or activist judges. Remember, we have seen Republican judges and even Supreme Court justices not following the Constitution at times, albeit to a far lesser degree than Democrat judges and justices. But no matter the judicial appointee and no matter the president who appoints them, said judge or justice must always interpret the law as per the Constitution not take it upon themselves to start legislating from the bench as the two above mentioned judges clearly have done.

It's way past time to clear America's judicial house and put it back in proper working order...and do so before it's too late.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:
Two Cases...Two Verdicts Overturned...Two Reasons To Clear Our Judicial House
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
- Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father

Two weeks or so ago while most of us here in Florida, me included, were rightfully focused on a hurricane named Dorian, two Obama appointed activist judges were busy overturning convictions of an illegal alien and a muslim jihadi with barely a word heard in the mainstream media. Well...that word will be now be heard...better late than never I say.

Let's start with Jose Inez Garcia Zarate...the five times deported illegal alien...a man now in our country illegally for time number six...who shot and killed Kate Steinle back in 2015 when she was leisurely strolling with her dad on San Francisco's waterfront Pier 14. Dying in her dad's arms after being shot in the chest, the Steinle family saw Zarate being acquitted of murder on November 30, 2017 after the court ruled the shooting an accident. However, he was found guilty of being a convicted felon illegally in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

An illegal alien convicted of illegally possessing a firearm who now thanks to his liberal miscreant lawyers and an Obama appointed liberal activist judge named Sandra L. Margulies, has seen the knife dug deeper into the Steinle family's back as California's First District Court of Appeals has overturned even that conviction saying that, “the original judge [Judge Samuel Feng] failed to instruct the jury on one of his defenses.”

Oh really...

And so the man who stole a beautiful young woman's life...the man who claimed that, “he unwittingly picked up the gun wrapped in a T-shirt and it fired accidentally”...the man who claimed that after the gun went off...a gun stolen from a federal agent’s car...that he threw said gun away to stop it from firing again...that very man is now basically not only getting away with murder but with culpability as well, all while the Steinle family is left to relive their grief and forever wonder why it sadly ended this way.

But these six simple words can tell you and the Steinle family why...San Francisco is a “sanctuary city”...a city whose police department and government officials blatantly refuse to comply with our federal on-the-book immigration laws...a city that allowed murdering scum like Zarate to freely walk its streets. The rights of illegals over the rights of American citizens is the law San Francisco now lives by, and it's this very attitude...an attitude also embraced by California itself as it's a “sanctuary state” ...that is the direct cause of not only Kate's Steinle's death but the deaths of other folks in their state who've lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens.

Remember, if California as a whole and San Francisco in specific had just complied with federal immigration laws, Kate Steinle and the others murdered by illegals in California would not be dead, because Jose Inez Garcia Zarate and the other criminal sorts like him would not have been in these United States in the first, second...or in Zarate's case all the way up to the sixth place.

So how did this newest travesty of justice unfold...simply on the infamous “technicality” rouse is how. While Zarate remained in federal prison on the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition charge, his court appointed public defender, Matt Gonzales, was busy preparing his appeal on the grounds that while deliberating the case Judge Feng, even after being asked by the jury for added clarification about the definition of “possession,” did not inform the jury about what's called the “momentary possession of a firearm,” which legally it seems is not the same as the actual “possession” of a firearm. How so...“momentary possession” is when an individual has “brief possession” of an “item” in question...this being the gun...while being in the process of disposing or destroying that “item,” and that in no way is the individual trying to prevent law enforcement from seizing said “item.”

So with Zarate's having already fired the gun...guns don't pull their own triggers you know...and then after it “accidentally” kills Kate Steinle...Zarate throws the gun he knew had to be stolen into San Francisco Bay.

And with Zarate now having already built up enough credits for time served to cover his sentence on the state gun charge, Judge Margulies wrote in the 3-0 decision that, “During the deliberation, the jury asked for the definition of possession, whether there is a time requirement of possession and whether defendant’s possession of a firearm and knowledge he possessed it were sufficient to demonstrate wrongful intent,” and that “it is reasonably probable at least one juror may have reached a different conclusion if the jury had been instructed on the momentary possession charge,” thus allowing Kate Steinle to basically be de-facto murdered all over again.

And then to make matters even worse, Zarate's slime of an attorney, Matt Gonzales, had the audacity to call the appeal's court overturning the decision a “vindication”...a “vindication” because by Judge Feng not fully instructing the jury, Gonzales felt that Feng was in effect directing a guilty verdict be found. “He had an obligation to give this instruction whether or not we asked for it,” said Gonzalez as he seemed to relish in Kate Steinle's family having to relive once again the nightmare no parent should ever have to face.

I just wonder how people like Matt Gonzalez and Judge Sandra L. Margulies can look at themselves in the mirror let alone live with themselves knowing that they have further hurt the innocent while defending and overturning verdicts of those they know are guilty, and doing so on a “technicality” alone...what should, in my opinion, be a crime in and of itself.

So while Jose Inez Garcia Zarate remains in prison as the California state-court ruling has no legal bearing on federal prosecution, Zarate could still face up to ten years in prison if found guilty of federal "possession" charges. And yet even this, what seems like a last ditch attempt at justice, leaves me to wonder if Kate Steinle will ever be allowed to “Rest in Peace,” and will her family ever reach even a modicum of closure. Honestly, I just don't know especially when our current judicial system, and not just in California, seems to favor the perpetrator instead of the innocent victim.

Next on the list of Obama appointed liberal activist judges run amok involves the case of David Daoud Wright, the former ISIS operative and fame seeker who was found guilty of "conspiracy to commit acts of international terrorism" as well as being one of the ringleaders of the 2015 plot to behead political activist, blogger, and AFDI (American Freedom Defense Initiative) founder Pamela Geller...a woman I'm honored to call my friend. And why the focus on Pamela Geller...because she was the organizer of the “Draw Mohammed” art contest... a contest Wright and his ilk found offensive to mohammed and to mulsims...a contest that saw the two muslim gunmen who attacked said contest rightfully being shot dead by Garland, Texas police.

Thankfully, their plot fell apart after Wright’s uncle, one Usamaah Abdullah Rahim, said he wanted to kill Massachusetts police officers instead of Geller, but as fate would have it he was shot dead by the very officers he wanted to kill after pulling a knife on them in a parking lot when they simply wanted to question him. David Daoud Wright was now left alone to face charges, and in December 2017 he was found guilty on five counts in said terrorist plot against Pamela Geller. However, we recently witnessed one of those convictions being overturned by Federal Appeals Court Justice David J. Barron...with his decision being ludicrous at best, an outward catering to those out to kill us all at worst.

And why do I feel this way...because in his ruling this abomination of an Obama appointed islamic condoning judge had the audacity to mimic David Daoud Wright's lawyers whose sole defense was that their client, “could have simply been ‘role playing’ with respect to following ISIS’s direction,” against Pamela Geller. Ignoring that those on the jury in no way felt that Wright was “role playing” when reaching their verdict...Judge Barron also ignored that the five guilty verdicts were reached in under six hours...remarkable time in a case like this. And those guilty verdicts led Acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb to state that, “Mr. Wright is a terrorist, an ISIS supporter and recruiter who intended to wage war against the United States by beheading people and killing Americans”...Pamela Geller sadly included.

The main case against Wright involved his contact and financing of American ISIS leader Zulfi Hoxha's trip to Syria to train with ISIS, and of all things video games...video games being used as a way for someone to both train and ultimately join ISIS. In fact, Wright himself trained by using amongst others a video game called “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” to “virtually prepare” for jihad.

Judge Barron knew all this and yet apparently he did not take any of it into account. And what's even worse is that both David Daoud Wright's original 2017 conviction and sentence of 28 years in prison will now more than likely be reduced due to Barron's overturning the ISIS related conviction. And this is not only a miscarriage of justice, but yet another showing that Americans do come second to politically activist judges...in the Geller case second not to an illegal alien but to a convicted terrorist.

Makes you wonder who's worse...the illegals, the terrorists, or the activist judges who give these folks but a slap on the wrist and then basically lets them go. Sad isn't it...sad indeed.

So what's the answer to stopping liberal appeals judges from overturning rightful verdicts... to overturn them simply to meet their personal political agenda alone? Remember, it's not as simple as just replacing them with conservative justices for a defendant has the legal right to appeal any guilty verdict or in the above stated two cases any secondary part thereof said verdict without negating the original underlying guilty or not guilty conviction.

In the Zarate case his attorney Matt Gonzales used “error at trial” in his appeal to Judge Margulies, because of Judge Feng's perceived legal error of omission regarding “possession,” an error he believed contributed to a guilty verdict no matter this be right or wrong. In the Pamela Geller case, there is no rhyme nor reason for the ISIS related charge to be overturned, proving once again that liberal activist judges tread lightly in regards to those of the islamic persuasion.

So while a number of judges...whether they be appeals court judges or otherwise...must be replaced before the worst of the worst are coddled even more than they already are, they must not be replaced solely based upon their party affiliation, but based upon their judicial record of being either Constitutional judges or activist judges. Remember, we have seen Republican judges and even Supreme Court justices not following the Constitution at times, albeit to a far lesser degree than Democrat judges and justices. But no matter the judicial appointee and no matter the president who appoints them, said judge or justice must always interpret the law as per the Constitution not take it upon themselves to start legislating from the bench as the two above mentioned judges clearly have done.

It's way past time to clear America's judicial house and put it back in proper working order...and do so before it's too late.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, Mullen, Nebraska Schools a Triggered Indoctrinator.
 

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Op-ed: 

Standing By Stephen K. Bannon...For Now

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio bit.ly/2cpXuRd

Donald J. Trump is the president-elect, thankfully, and now with his transition team in place...a good team I might add...Trump is starting to fill key cabinet positions in his administration. And he’s picking good people all around so far what with his original choice of Mike Pence as his Vice-President, and his having Newt Gingrich, Rudi Giuliani, and Dr. Ben Carson on the transition team. But while Trump has every right to fill his cabinet and key advisory positions as he sees fit sometimes one must learn from the mistakes of the past that others have made.

Mistakes and controversies over people picked...remember Obama’s top adviser and puppet master is Iranian operative Valerie Jarrett and Hillary’s top adviser, confident, and BFF is Muslim Brotherhood operative Huma Abedin...both deeply shrouded in controversies...both whose true allegiances remain questionable to this day. And while Trump has solid voices from the past in the running for top cabinet positions, his choice of Stephen K. Bannon as the White House Senior Council and Chief Strategist falls right into the controversial pit...a pit we had hoped with Trump’s election would have been filled-in if you will. 

Now don’t you die-hard riders of the ‘Trump train’ from the beginning think I am turning on Donald J. Trump... know that I most assuredly am not...but I did say from day one that once Trump locked up the nomination I would support him (which I have done) and if elected that I would hold his feet to the fire but in a way to help him not to criticize or condemn him.

But before I focus on Trump’s controversial pick for the above said positions...and before I propose what I consider an alternative not to replace Bannon but to be an adjunct to Bannon and why I do so...let’s digest exactly what Bannon’s duties as White House Senior Counsel and Chief Strategist will be. First, and know that at times these positions do go hand-in-hand, both appointments afford Bannon unlimited and unhindered access to the president where in his role as chief strategist, Bannon would offer strategy advice on both domestic and foreign policy issues to President Trump. Also, as part of his duties, Bannon would advise Trump on what legislation to focus on, when it would be advantageous to negotiate with Congress over a possibly contentious bill, and when to stand strong against Congress...as in when Trump should use the presidential power of the veto.

And while Bannon would also serve as a bridge of sorts between the Trump administration and those wanting updates on legislation, judicial nominations, and strategy decisions, Bannon would not serve as the Chief of Staff... that position has now been filled by Reince Preibus... which mean that in the Trump administration Steven K. Bannon would not control hiring and administrative decisions, Preibus would.

As for Bannon being chief counsel, this position simply means that he would advise President Trump on all legal issues concerning both the president and his administration while he would actually have no statutory powers and would produce almost no public documents under his name.

Now as for Stephen Bannon’s peccadilloes, if you will, and why he is a raising red flags amongst some not only in the establishment but even by some in Trump’s extended circle, and of course by those on the kumbaya left. But before I get into those specifics let’s get rid of the always pops up at election time and immediately thereafter trash...and in this case trash that Bannon is a racist or an anti-Semite. And why get rid of it...simply because there is no proof positive of either...just hearsay, innuendos, and the words of his ex-wife said in nasty divorce proceedings. 

Instead listen to facts...documented facts like Stephen K. Brannon was both a friend and business partner of Jewish Andrew Breitbart and partnered with Jewish Larry Solov after Breitbart died. When Bannon was Chairman of Breitbart News, Breitbart News stood strong with the pro-Israel community against Obama’s very bad nuclear deal; Breitbart News defended Israel against the anti-Semitic BDS movement whose ultimate goal is the economic destruction of the Jewish State of Israel; and Breitbart News gave avowed Zionist Aaron Klein a platform to speak and advance the cause of the Jewish people. In fact, Yossi Dagan, chair of Israel’s Shomron Regional Council and a major player in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, published an open letter confirming Israeli support for Stephen K. Bannon’s appointment.

Need more proof of what Bannon is not...how about what my hero and friend Pamela Geller had to say about Stephen K. Bannon, “I am fortunate to say that I have known and worked with Steve Bannon ever since the tragic passing of Andrew Breitbart. While he was at Breitbart, he would ask me to write articles on pressing issues — usually several times each week. Longtime readers who are deeply familiar with my work know that I am a fiercely proud Jew and unapologetic Zionist. As long as I have known Steve, he has been an unabashed supporter of Israel, and of those of us who fight against Jew-hatred and racism. Unequivocally.” 

If Pamela Geller, someone I have the utmost respect for...supports and has confidence in Bannon then so do I.

And while the uber liberal Southern Poverty Law Center claims that Stephen K. Bannon is a racist on the “extremist fringe,” they have absolutely nothing to back that up with except their own words which describe Bannon and his followers in the so-called 'alt-right' as “a loose set of far-right ideologies at the core of which is a belief that ‘white identity’ is under attack through policies prioritizing multiculturalism, political correctness and social justice and must be preserved, usually through white-identified online communities and physical ethno-states.” Well without proof...and know they have none...they are doing nothing but blowing hot air and spewing the rhetoric of those who cannot accept the fact that Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of these United States.
  

So let’s put the nonsense that Stephen K. Bannon is a racist and anti-Semite to rest, and let’s deal with some of the believed to be legitimate issues concerning this appointment, including that Bannon only became part of Trump’s presidential campaign this past August, and only worked directly hands on with Trump during the waning weeks of the campaign. Others who previously held those positions in question were long-time friends and/or advisers to the president they served, but what people forget is that some people just ‘click’ with another person and this seems to be the case between Bannon and Trump. What is the true concern here should not be the length of time Bannon was on the campaign trail or part of the Trump campaign hierarchy, but should be if Bannon becomes a mere sycophant... yessing Trump on everything instead of advising Trump on proper courses of action.

Another concern is that Bannon...also a movie producer behind the hit ‘American Sniper’...was a Harvard Business School graduate (actually a plus when dealing with economics) who worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before he co-founded the ‘Government Accountability Institute’...whose mission statement is to "investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance" and then to partner with mainstream media outlets to disseminate those findings to the “broadest audience.” But really folks, the truth about those leading or wanting to lead our country should be told... skeletons and all...and let ‘We the People’ decide if it’s relevant or not to the position they want to hold.

And immediately upon Bannon's appointment, CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) chimed in with its executive director Nihad Awad saying of Trump’s appointment of Bannon, "the appointment of Stephen Bannon as a top Trump administration strategist sends the disturbing message that anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and White nationalist ideology will be welcome in the White House." To that I say to CAIR...as politely as I can...too damn bad as the American people have had quite enough of your muslim whining, terrorist supporting, and oh so anti-American actions. Case closed on that one.

And the above concerns are it folks...some of the main reasons why some are whining and stamping their feet...especially those on the left...about Bannon’s appointment as senior council and chief strategist to President-elect Donald J. Trump. To all this I say give me something of true substance... bet you can’t...and maybe then I’d join in the Bannon-bashing party but until then I, too, stand by Trump’s appointment of Stephen K. Bannon to the above stated positions. 

However, I do have a bit of advice for Donald J. Trump... constructive advice that might actually work to both his and America’s benefit and it concerns the positions itself not the person chosen. Simply, as the chief strategist, Bannon would offer strategy advice to President Trump on both domestic and foreign policy issues, so wouldn’t it be best to split that position into two or possibly three positions having Bannon be chief strategist on domestic issues concerning the economy (after all he is a Harvard Business School graduate)... having let’s say Sheriff David Clarke as chief strategist on domestic security issues and policing matters...and having a military man, say Lt. Col Allen West, as chief strategist on foreign policy as most foreign policy involves military decisions to some degree.

This allows the chief strategist position to be more focused and detailed on specific areas of concern instead of it being too broadly all-encompassing which I believe does not serve the president nor the American people well as solutions to problems or concerns are usually found in the details...details that might be too much for one individual to weigh through and handle as undoing the damage Barack HUSSEIN Obama has done to this country will surely take a unified team effort.

Now as to the position of senior counsel...a position that means advising the president on all legal issues concerning him and his administration ranging from policy questions, to legal issues regarding signing or vetoing legislation, to ethical questions and financial disclosures, amongst other things. The senior counsel also oversees judicial selection, handles presidential pardons as well as lawsuits against the president in his role as president, and is the White House contact for the Department of Justice.

Now with Bannon not being an attorney and really having no experience with the above stated duties, and while I know being an attorney is not a prerequisite for this position, I do believe it would be best if the position was at least shared with one, possibly with the president’s personal attorney. And why...because this pairing would avoid any and all concerns that might arise over not just attorney/client privilege but with appearances of impropriety as well that might arise between the counsel and the president.

So while I personally believe that the positions Stephen K. Bannon was appointed to would be better served with others more experienced at least working alongside him, and while Bannon will surely shake up the traditional roles of senior counsel and chief strategist, we owe it to President-elect Donald J. Trump to at least trust his judgment on this appointment for if proves to not work out Bannon can always be replaced. And I also know that if the liberals, the muslims, the haters, and the media are against him then Stephen K. Bannon might indeed very well be the right man for the job.

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Op-ed:
Finally...A Very Good Week
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://cprworldwidemedia.net/

What a good week last week was for 'We the People.' A grand slam of sorts as first, the FBI announced that they indeed had retrieved some of Hillary's deleted emails and will probably be able to retrieve them all...then RINO extraordinaire, Speaker of the House John Boehner, announced that he will be stepping down both as Speaker and as Congressman from Ohio at the end of October ...and just this past Saturday, Pamela Geller let it be known that the Ground Zero mega-mosque had been forever defeated and will NEVER be built at Ground Zero.

Let's start with Pamela Geller and islam's oh-so-wanted slap-in-the-face to all we hold dear. We all know what happened on a sunny day back on September 11, 2001 when America and the world as we knew it changed forever...innocence and naivety were lost to the ages as islam declared war on America...and 3000 Americans became heroes in the blink of an eye. And as if to trample on the souls of the dead, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wanted erected at 15 Park Place...a mere two blocks from Ground Zero...a 15-story 'so-called' islamic cultural center on what will forever be American holy ground.

Setting off a rightful national outcry, Pamela Geller and her SIOA partner Robert Spencer led the fight against this abomination as it became known that islamists build mosques at the sites of conquests and victories. Organizing and leading rallies and protests...the largest of which was on September 11, 2010...and I was honored to be there...Pamela NEVER let up in her quest to bring honor to the dead and to make sure their memories would NOT be defiled by a building that paid homage to those out to kill us all. And thanks to Pamela's non-stop efforts, property developer Sharif El-Gamal finally caved to pressure, and that coupled with a lack of much needed funding, has led him to decide instead to build a luxury condominium on the site. And now 3,000 American souls can Rest in Everlasting Peace thanks to Pamela Geller...a true American hero.

Next up is the happiness we on the right are feeling as we watch Hillary 'What Difference Does It Make' Clinton and her presidential aspirations crash and burn and it's all of her own accord as last week the F.B.I. announced that they had retrieved from Hillary's secret server that she thought was wiped clean some of her undisclosed work-related emails as well as personal emails from when she was Secretary of State.

Among these emails first discovered by the Defense Department and then passed onto the State Department’s inspector general was a thread between Hillary and General David Patraeus, who was then commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) that started on January 10, 2009 before Hillary became Secretary of State and was on her older email account...which she claims she NO longer has access to. Then on January 28th...a week after being sworn in as Secretary of State...Hillary switched this conversation and all future conversations until she resigned as Secretary of State on February 1, 2013 onto her private email address on her private server where she continued her conversation with Patraeus until February 1, 2009...you know the private email address and server Hillary's people claim was NOT used until March 28, 2009...yeah right.

And while 'officials' are saying that NO classified information was discussed on the thread...even though an official determination has NOT yet been made...Hillary and Patraeus did discuss government personnel which is indeed work related, and proves Hillary did NOT turn over all the emails requested of her even after signing a statement in August that she did so. In fact, according to State Department spokesman John Kirby, these newly recovered emails were NOT previously in the possession of the State Department, but now have been forwarded to Congress and will be subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, meaning 'We the People' will eventually get to see them.

Also, an unnamed State Department official claimed that in their turning over Libya-related emails to Trey Gowdy's Select Committee on Benghazi, they found a "small number" of Benghazi-related emails Hillary deliberately did NOT disclose to the committee. These particular emails...found because they have now been digitized and are now easier to search...are part of the 925 Libya-related emails Hillary did turn over to the State Department.

And in the emails now being examined by the F.B.I. is one from April 2011...sent from Timmy T. Davis, a State Department official who was then a personal aide to Hillary...found in her private email account described the “deteriorating” situation in Libya that concerned American diplomats as they were in the middle of a 'phased checkout' (“paying hotel bills, moving some comms to the boat, etc.”) from Benghazi. Included in that email was also an update from the Africa Command of the Department of Defense detailing Libyan military movements...which indeed is classified information.

Another email the F.B.I. is examining, concerns further issues related to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program...issues that intelligence officials said should have been designated as 'Top Secret' from the beginning because State Department officials could only have obtained said information found in the email from a satellite surveillance program called 'Talent Keyhole'...meaning in NO uncertain terms that the information was 'classified.'

A third email being examined is a copy of a controversial New York Times article about the C.I.A.’s drone program, a program which is indeed classified. In the email, State Department officials complain in comments about aspects of the article, which intelligence officials say makes the comments 'Top Secret.'

So as the F.B.I. continues with its investigation to determine if any of Hillary's newly recovered emails had 'so-called' sensitive information on them and if that information was “inappropriately” passed to Hillary by the infamous Huma Abedin and others... Republican Senator Ron Johnson (WI)...chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Operations Committee...asked the F.B.I. to turn over those newly recovered emails to either the State Department or an independent third party for review to determine if any should have been retained as government records. However, they may be ordered to do so by a federal judge who is already handling a case filed by Judicial Watch, who is trying to obtain copies of all Hillary's emails.

And now once again we wait for answers while deals will be cut with the feds I'm sure...a deal maybe to give up Obama in exchange for keeping her equally sorry butt out of prison...as Hillary NOT only tries to save her presidential campaign but herself as well. And all will be done while hubby Billy-Boy bloviates that he is NOT happy about the way the media and Republicans have been treating his wife. Saying Republicans continue to make a big deal out of Hillary’s “alleged email scandal” in an effort to destroy her presidential campaign, Billy knows well that there can be NO formal penalty adjudicated if the individual involved...as in Hillary... has left government service...but here there is a 'gray area' because Hillary is running for government service...as in the presidency. So does that still apply or will Hillary finally be made to pay for Benghazi along with her other assorted traitorous actions, and will she take Obama down with her as there is NO love lost between the Clinton's and the Obama's...only time will tell and time is one thing that is running out as the 2016 election looms large.

But for now let's revel a bit in the happiness that once again Hillary has been caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar and those cookies are awfully crumbly.

And part three of last week's grand slam is that this past Friday, Speaker of the House John Boehner... RINO extraordinaire...let it be known that at the end of October he will be resigning NOT only his speakership position but his Ohio Congressional seat as well.

Finally caving to pressure from party conservatives, Boehner said that he hopes his resignation will help avert a government shutdown. Saying, “My first job as speaker is to protect the institution,” and that “It had become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution,” I say who does Boehner think he's kidding for this man, if anything, is calculatingly conniving coupled with now having an urgent need to run as far away from D.C. as possible. And why the need to run...because some of Hillary's supposedly gone forever emails have been recovered by the F.B.I. and Boehner fears his name will be found in some of them.

Let me explain...remember back to April 2014 when my Right Side Patriot Partner and friend Craig Andresen and I did a 3-part investigative report on Benghazi where we tied lose ends together with such precision tightness that the regime tried to shut CPR...the radio station we broadcast from... down. In that report we presented what we believed was the scenario that led to Ambassador Stevens' death including words to the affect that we believed Benghazi was constructed to cover for the 'targeted kill' of Ambassador Christopher Stevens who had found out that Obama was smuggling guns and weapons though Benghazi to the al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebels. And we also stated that it was our belief that towards the end Ambassador Stevens realized the scope of betrayal and that NO help was coming from Hillary or from any other in this administration. And it's at this point that we stated our belief that Stevens reached out to the political opposition...as in John Boehner...and again got NO help and why, because Boehner was already being blackmailed by the Obama regime.

Also, remember that on September 19, 2012, eight days after the attack and again on October 25, 2012, Boehner met with Leon Panetta...who at this point Boehner still trusted...to discuss 'issues' like the IRS scandal and such. And you just know that Benghazi was discussed as well, and we believe that Panetta immediately told Obama and Hillary what Boehner told him about Ambassador Stevens begging him for help and for him being unable to do anything to help...thus setting up a foundation to silence Boehner from doing anything but the regime's bidding.

We believed then and still believe now that Boehner knew the names of the others, besides himself, to whom Stevens sent his suspected gun running information to, and that Obama and crew suspected that he knew but at that point were still NOT able to 'break him' if you will, but by blackmailing him on one of two issues...or both... they could somewhat keep him in check. Issue one: with Boehner long suspected of having an affair with Lisbeth Lyons (Vice President for Government Affairs for the American Printers Association and a D.C. lobbyist)... what if Obama and crew had proof of said affair, thus yet another D.C. sex scandal...like that which destroyed General Petraeus' career and got Billy-Boy impeached...would be born. Issue two: what if Obama and crew had secured copies of Boehner's and Stevens' emails to each other...remember Stevens used his government assigned email address in all his correspondence...where Boehner told the Ambassador his hands were tired and that he could NOT help him. Imagine if that got out...it would NOT only destroy Boehner's career, it would destroy his legacy as well, and possibly leave him open to some sort of charges being brought against him for NOT helping Stevens or at least for NOT bringing Stevens' plea and Hillary's refusal of help to the public.

But if either scenario holds true, John Boehner had to bow out before any mention of him could be found in Hillary's emails, but the timing of his announcement is suspicious at best as it shows a man in fear of being exposed...but being exposed for what exactly. And while Boehner’s stepping down does lessen the chance of a government shutdown next week as Republican leaders push for a short-term funding measure to keep the government operating, and with Boehner NO longer side-tracked by those who threatened his job, do NOT think for a minute that this is the last we will hear from John Boehner...for it won't be as I'm sure Boehner knows more than he's saying and I would NOT doubt that we will soon be hearing about it in a new tell-all book.

But for now last week remains a very good week for 'We the People' and we have every right to relish in that joy for a bit for who knows what this new week will bring...after all in ObamaNation up is down and down is up...so dictates our narcissistic traitor-in-chief Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

How to access the Right Side Patriots show with special guest Pamela Geller 

Yesterday, Wednesday, August 12th, on RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on CPR Worldwide Media from 2 to 4pm EST, Craig and Diane were honored to have as their very special guest PAMELA GELLER and she had breaking news. Also discussed...even more about Hillary's emails, and why the Republican debate for the most part left out veterans issues.

Many have asked Craig and I how they can hear the show again, and those who missed it asked how they could hear it for the first time. This is how anyone who would like to hear the Pamela Geller interview or any of our to-date archived shows can do so: first go to www.cprworldwidemedia.net ... click on ARCHIVED SHOWS, scroll down to Right Side Patriots, click on that and you will find the show.

Hope you enjoy this special show as Pamela Geller...one of my heroes...is an amazing women who is fighting hard for all our freedoms, and let it be known that through thick and thin, 'I Stand With Pamela Geller.'

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