Letter: Dangerous encouragement of violence

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I have to assume that members of Congress are reasonably intelligent people, many having law degrees, M.D.s and Ph.D.s. And, as such, I also have to assume that they do not believe the lies and conspiracy theories about the election that Joe Biden has won. After all, if they are intelligent, they can readily see through these false claims, which have already been denied by the courts for lack of evidence.

Yet, 147 of them voted to object to the confirmation of Biden’s victory, seven of whom are from our state. So, the only conclusion that I can come to is that those who have objected are aiding and abetting the lies. By advancing their objections for their own personal political gain, they are dangerously encouraging the acts of violence that we have seen on Jan. 6.

— Howard Jaslow
Asheville

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23 thoughts on “Letter: Dangerous encouragement of violence

  1. Jim

    The biggest liars are the media, the democrats, and by saying the courts dismissed the numerous cases for “lack of evidence”, the letter author. Perhaps the liar can provide any court decision dismissed for “lack of evidence”, where the court actually LOOKED at the evidence. For instance
    Arizona… 11,686 votes exceeding the number of registered voters, Biden “won” by 10,457
    Georgia… 10,315 dead voters voted, 66,247 juveniles under age to vote, Biden “won” by 11,779
    Michigan… 174,384 votes not corresponding to any registered voter, Biden “won” by 154,818
    Nevada… 42,484 voters who voted twice, 19.218 voters from another state, Biden “won” by 33,596
    Pennsylvania… 202,377 votes more than registered voters, Biden “won” by 81,660
    Wisconsin… 170,140 absentee ballots cast without having applied for one, as required by law, 6,848 out of state votes, Biden “won” by 20,682
    Yet with thousands of statements sworn under oath of people witnessing fraud, video of votes being repeatedly counted, votes carried in the back door in the middle of the night, mail in ballots not having the required bar code, mail in ballots that were never folded, indicating they were never inserted in an envelope, according to the liars there was “no evidence”.
    But let’s just “pretend” Biden got more votes than any election in US history, so the democrats can make nationwide the wholesale election fraud the “pandemic” facilitated, censor speech they don’t agree with, attempt to make the 2nd Amendment a privilege instead of a right, unleash a flood of criminal aliens responsible for 1,373 CHILD RAPES and SEXUAL ASSAULTS in the last 12 months in N.C. alone. There’s a majority of pissed off people among the 70 MILLION people that voted for Trump that KNOW the election was rigged, no amount of liars will change that, SO, they just call us ALL “insurrectionists” and “terrorists” without evidence, while ignoring the killing, looting, and 2 BILLION dollars of property damage committed by the “peaceful protests” all summer for everyone to see.

  2. Jim

    Allied Security Operations Group did an forensic audit of Dominion voting systems used in Antrim County Michigan for the 2020 election. Their conclusion…
    “We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully
    designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election
    results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot
    errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional
    errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and
    no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we
    conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We
    further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified. ”

    “The tabulation log for the forensic examination of the server for Antrim County
    from December 6, 2020consists of 15,676 individual events, of which 10,667 or
    68.05% of the events were recorded errors. These errors resulted in overall
    tabulation errors or ballots being sent to adjudication. This high error rates proves
    the Dominion Voting System is flawed and does not meet state or federal
    election laws. ”

    “Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years;
    but all adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The
    adjudication process is the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack
    of records prevents any form of audit accountability, and their conspicuous
    absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist for previous years using the
    same software. Removal of these files violates state law and prevents a
    meaningful audit, even if the Secretary wanted to conduct an audit. We must
    conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed.”

    “Likewise, all server security logs prior to 11:03 pm on November 4, 2020 are
    missing. This means that all security logs for the day after the election, on
    election day, and prior to election day are gone. Security logs are very important
    to an audit trail, forensics, and for detecting advanced persistent threats and
    outside attacks, especially on systems with outdated system files. These logs
    would contain domain controls, authentication failures, error codes, times users
    logged on and off, network connections to file servers between file accesses,
    internet connections, times, and data transfers. Other server logs before
    November 4, 2020 are present; therefore, there is no reasonable explanation for
    the security logs to be missing. ”

    “On November 21, 2020, an unauthorized user unsuccessfully attempted to zero
    out election results. This demonstrates additional tampering with data.”

    “Dominion voting system is a Canadian owned company with global subsidiaries.
    It is owned by Staple Street Capital which is in turn owned by UBS Securities
    LLC, of which 3 out of their 7 board members are Chinese nationals. The
    Dominion software is licensed from Smartmatic which is a Venezuelan owned
    and controlled company. Dominion Server locations have been determined to be
    in Serbia, Canada, the US, Spain and Germany. ”

    Smartmatic is currently suing 3 Fox news hosts, Rudi Giuliani, and Sydney Powell in a 2.7 billion dollar SLAPP suit claiming they conspired to spread false claims. A recent U.S. News and World Report claims
    “Unlike Dominion, whose technology was used in 24 states, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County, which votes heavily Democratic.”
    “Like many conspiracy theories, the alleged campaign against Smartmatic was built on a grain of truth. Mugica is Venezuelan and Smartmatic’s initial success is partly attributable to major contracts from Hugo Chávez’s government, an early devotee of electronic voting.

    “No evidence has emerged that the company rigged votes in favor of the anti-American firebrand, and for a while the Carter Center and other observers held out Venezuela as a model of electronic voting. Meanwhile, the company has expanded globally…”

    Funny how U.S. News didn’t say no evidence of rigged votes in American elections, as outlined above from the audit of Smartmatic software licensed by Dominion, used in Antrim County and elsewhere, or that the software was used by Dominion, nor is Allied Security Operations Group being sued, who have the forensic evidence of votes flipped from Trump to Biden.

    • Jim

      I guess I should have said, though Dominion facilitated the users of their software to “adjudicate” the high numbers of ballots scanned as errors, like in Arizona where voters were instructed to use felt tip pens the scanners couldn’t read, they can claim THEY didn’t technically do the vote flipping, it was the vote tabulators, like the ones taping cardboard over windows to keep Republicans from seeing, or keeping them away because “covid”, or telling them they are finished for the night, then counting mysterious new ballots after the watchers were gone. Others have identified a distinct algorithm to flip votes to Biden, that was mathematically impossible to be random, that no one was interested in investigating.

  3. Jim

    None of you China Joe supporters have anything to rebut the FRAUD I have outlined? You’re being awful quiet. If you had the guts to watch Mike Lindell’s excellent video you know YOU didn’t “elect” Biden, China and Iran did, of course the “resistance” in the FBI had no interest in investigating, much like Hunter Biden’s laptop, with it’s evidence of corruption, nor did the compromised democrats in congress, after all they were both in the tank to depose Trump from day one. Good luck with your “re-education” of Trump voters.

    • bsummers

      It’s not that we don’t have anything, it’s just that if your best evidence is coming from the My Pillow guy, there’s no need to even respond. Good luck with your delusions.

      • Jim

        Is that all you got? You didn’t even watch it, did you? Then again an ignorant partisan leftist like yourself will never look at evidence that doesn’t confirm your biased opinion. This isn’t for you, you’re the one that’s delusional, the facts presented speak for themselves. Mike Lindell put his country before his business, his fortune, and his reputation so Americans can see the systemic corruption of “their” government, while you offer nothing but your misguided opinion. With very few exceptions, “both” parties are a part of the steal, looking the other way, presenting fiction as fact, while China expands their sphere of influence to include the U.S. There’s a reason they barricaded themselves behind razor wire and armed guards, they are afraid of the people who know the truth holding them accountable and interfering with their treasonous globalist agenda. It’s about naked power, domination, nothing less.

        • Peter Robbins

          I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Jim, but the presidential election was decided two months ago, and your displeasure at the result heightens our enjoyment but only so much. Hence the lack of interest in your prodigious expose. See you in four years.

          • Jim

            Like Stalin said, it’s not the votes that matter, it’s who counts the votes. When do the Biden supporters start showing their support? Not seeing it so far. Not Trump only goes so far. China Joe said Trump issuing executive orders shows he is a “dictator”, yet issues 44 in his first 2 weeks while surrounded by razer wire and troops, just like every other illegitimate government that stole the vote. Are you paying attention? or is it just corruption doesn’t matter because it is “our guy”? He “canceled” good paying union jobs in the first week, to their dismay. The union leadership supported him when he told them he would. I guess he doesn’t lie every time he is able to form a somewhat coherent sentence with his cognitive decline. He ordered criminal aliens to be set free, to commit more of the crimes they were arrested for. Enjoy your globalist utopia, hope you can afford your new master’s agenda. Drive a car? heat your house with petroleum? Get your credit card out, fuel is already going up. Those “evil” capitalists providing the fuel to enable that will have to use foreign sources now, you know, the ones that hate us, and shut it down before. I remember long gas lines to buy $5 worth of gas, fun stuff! Voting doesn’t matter anymore, the globalists have always fixed the elections to put their guy in, worldwide, maybe you should read Smedley Butler’s book “war is a racket”, it shows how it was, and is now, (“we never supervised an election that our guy didn’t win”) the difference here is they weren’t so blatant with their corruption in the U.S. before. The corruption was always there, now half the country can see it.

  4. Stan Hawkins

    Since the people’s choice of leaders seems to be the question here. Just to offer a bit of levity, suggest you all (yawl if you prefer) check out the movie – “The Death of Stalin”. It is a hoot / satire / comedy about the unraveling aftermath of Stalin’s death involving Stalin’s subordinates. The time spent watching may bring a smile or chuckle, possibly even further curiosity about those times – maybe even help appreciate more the land we reside in.

    Just in case this history has been erased / cancelled from your experience, Stalin was the ruler of the Soviet Union (USSR) and communist party from the 1920’s to early 1950’s until his death. He was also a reluctant mentor of the Chinese revolutionary / communist party icon, Mao Zedong.

  5. “By advancing their objections for their own personal political gain, they are dangerously encouraging the acts of violence that we have seen on Jan. 6.”

    Funny how out of 500K~1M Trump supporters only ~200 or so followed violent Antifa/BLM agitators into the Capital building (while Police escorted them all into it), and F-MSM is now falsely claiming that all Trump supporters are “domestic terrorists” who incite violence.

    The FACT remains that the F-MSM refuses to acknowledge their deceit, hypocrisy, and double standards in calling all the riots throughout Democratically controlled cities all across Neo-Amerika in 2020 as “peaceful protests”. I don’t believe any American with a sound mind has ever witnessed such heights of deceit, hypocrisy, and double standards as we have in 2020, which has obviously continued on steadily into 2021.

    Further, no where on record does Trump incite violence, yet there are plenty of examples of talking heads on F-MSM doing precisely that. I just watched one the other day where some nitwit was suggesting all “domestic terrorist Trump supporters” ought to be taken out by drones — that’s a “funny” way of attempting to “unite America”, as Creepy Joe had suggested… you know, after four years of idiot Democrats calling all Trump supports “white supremacists”… well, Joe, that’s not the way to build unity… and you KNOW that… and we KNOW your globalist agenda is NOT to built unity.

    It’s also insane to claim there was no election fraud in the recent joke which is still being called an “election”. Not only has there been election fraud for decades on various levels, but this one takes the cake. When nearly every American has witnessed the blatant election fraud merely in the video which caught the fraudsters red handed in GA, let alone the mail-in fraud which was planned by Democrats while expected by all, no amount of crooked judges is going to persuade any of us otherwise.

    So you all who are posting your typical collectivist deceit, hypocrisy, and double standards can continue doing so at your own expense, because even moderates are finally now gradually realizing just how corrupt Neo-Amerika really is — something we libertarians have understood for quite some time.

    I generally don’t even bother wasting my time anymore with collectivists who continue to drink the Kool-Aid from the partisan duopoly establishment. Keep drinking in the indoctrination if you so choose to, but know that all your continued support for such corruption will certainly come back upon you.

    So yeah, go on advocating censorship rather than truth and your STATE-god religion over real science! Not only have the “Democratic/progressive” masses ignored the fact that masks are ineffective in minimizing the spread of viruses, they routinely ignore the most basic science of biology while advocating society accept the mental health condition of “gender confusion” as normal!

    As with the false claims as those with whom you disagree with being “domestic terrorists”, do you all not even recognize the double standards in taking this position either??? Because if you don’t, you just might not actually be EVIL, but rather entirely CRAY-CRAY! 🔩⚾️🤪

    Overly comical is the fact that while all these self-described “progressives” around AVL have for decades railed against [STATE sponsored] mega-wealthy-corporations, now these same sheep have decided to worship (worship = faith + obedience) BIG PHARMA in planning to not only take its vaccine, but also advocate making it mandatory.

    So much for having any consistency in principle whatsoever… yet, what else is new?

    We all ought to strive to enjoy what little time we all have left in this semi-peaceful place, because your own continued collectivist actions are dictating that we are headed for another foolish “Civil War”, for supporting tyrants who are hell bent on gun confiscation (via UN-Constitutional “Red Flag Laws” thus far) and forced vaccination — because there are a LOT of individuals who WILL NOT COMPLY… PERIOD.

    So Federal tyrants like Biden & Harris, along with NC State tyrants like Cooper, can take all their collectivist orders and BS legislation which violates our Natural Rights and SHOVE IT!!!

  6. Deceit, hypocrisy, and double standards recently exemplified by F-MSM Democrats regarding the incitement of violence:
    MSNBC host suggests treating COVID lockdown skeptics like domestic terrorists
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0xqFnT8QM&feature=emb_logo

    Yet, those of us who DO NOT trust the STATE regarding ANYTHING — including election fraud — nor do we trust its sponsored BIG PHARMA regarding our quality of health, are being considered “domestic terrorists” who should be put to death.

    Yeah, great strategy of uniting America there… NOT! 🤪🧠🥊⛑

  7. Stan Hawkins

    Since the original piece written here is specifically addressing actions of members of the US Congress, I thought I would add this bit of history just below. Now, naturally history can be convenient or inconvenient depending on your perspective.

    Notwithstanding the question of the application of law, the appropriate prosecution of unlawful harm to life and property, and the right to speak freely: We must ask ourselves, are we equally appalled when we hear or read speech that seems to cross the line and witness harm to life and property in support of a political cause wherever it happens? If not- why not?

    Below is a transcript of Cawthorn’s capital speech within article attached. Also attached is a record of words spoken by Congresswoman Maxine Waters at a rally in California. You can decide for yourself what words have the intent to incite people to action. Remember though, Hillary Clinton’s key defense in her action regarding the storage of national security data on her private server and devices was, “no intent to commit unlawful acts”. A vote in congress is lawful. If you don’t like the votes they make, then voting them out is your recourse. Perhaps, they should both find a new career.

    https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/politics/2021/01/07/nc-rep–madison-cawthorn-spoke-at-rally-before-capitol-attacked

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/393874-maxine-waters-calls-on-supporters-to-confront-trump-officials-in-public-spaces

    • Jim

      So how do you “vote them out” with a corrupted voting system? That was the point of everything I have written, including the comments about the role of the democrats’ Covid response, censored by the Express.

      • Stan Hawkjns

        An often forgotten strategy used by entrenched power is to provide the public with “shiny objects” to distract them from paying attention to history / truth.

        Most progressives would probably not like to admit they are educated to avoid history except when it is convenient. Think just blips on a timeline, instead of what was going on when and previously to key historical events through the centuries. This is very inconvenient for utopian ideology.

        For conservatives, many have strayed from their core mission, say many things, yet run up massive debts just like liberals. So it seems like a club of charlatans at times.

        The only answer I can provide is a very thorough review of history, what has worked, what hasn’t, and ask your representatives to speak about that history if they were involved, or explain the ideology at the time.

        The key is not to allow them to divide and be willing to consider what they actually say and do regardless of political party. They want like not being able to divide us,

  8. Jim

    The republicans are DEFINITELY a “club of charlatans”, that was Trump’s appeal, as George Carlin said it’s one big club, and you’re not in it, Trump wasn’t either. The republicans love losing elections, it gives them the “look what democrats are doing” to fundraise, it’s their purpose, to pretend to be the opposition while being on the same globalist team with the democrats. With Trump in office, majority house and senate, they did nothing. His ending globalists agendas was a slap in the face to the “new world order” crowd, democrats and especially republicans, he had to be stopped. They both worked against him, despite the positive things he did for the American economy, and the American people. They hated him for showing a different paradigm to the rabble that they claimed to represent.

  9. Imagine that! Collectivists are censoring alternate viewpoints, unwilling to consider any dissent from the mainstream narrative! Gee, what will they think of next to prevent individuals from hearing truth? So much for “tolerance” and “diversity” of ideas & opinions about which they routinely clamor! 😂🤣🤪

  10. Please explain to us Howard Jaslow how it is that you justly conclude those merely seeking truth about anything to be “‘domestic terrorists’ dangerously encouraging the acts of violence”, while Democrats have been supporting rioting throughout all of 2020… which now continues in 2021?

  11. Jim

    Funny how pointing out a study that shows a 1600 percent exaggeration of covid deaths, leading to the 6 counties that were demonstrated to have “irregularities” that illegally changed election procedures that changed the outcome of the election due to election procedures that violated state law and the Federal Constitution is not permitted in this “conversation”.

    • “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – JFK

      Apparently, all these collectivists who support censorship — both Democrat & Republican — truly prefer a violent revolution over peaceful investigation and examination of evidence. Again, they have taken deceit, hypocrisy, and double standards in Neo-Amerika to new heights.

      si vis pacem, para bellum…

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