What is Black Lives Matter and is it a Terrorist Organization"

I was curious when I read that some lady by the name of Susan Rosenberg was a member of the board of directors of an organization that provides funding to Black Lives Matter, Inc. and that was a convicted terrorist,  so I decided to do some investigating myself.

There are two different organizations with Black Lives Matter in their name: Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. and the other is Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. It is this organization that is incorporated in Delaware and does not appear to have a 501(c)3 IRS exemption from what I can find. The BLMGNF did enter into a sponsorship agreement with another company, Thousand Currents, and it is this organization that Susan Rosenberg is a member of the Board of Directors.

“The website for Black Lives Matter is operated under an umbrella group known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, chaired by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, a self-described Marxist. “ (Washington Examiner, 6/25/20)

“A separate organization based in Santa Clarita, California, founded by Robert Ray Barnes named the ‘Black Lives Matter Foundation’ (BLMF) has a 501(c)(3) federal income tax exemption. It reports that its ‘mission is to help survivors and families that have suffered from the loss of a relative or loved one as a result of an unjust or questionable police shooting, and use our unique and creative ideas to help bring the police and the community closer together to save lives’.  Representatives of the BLM Network have disavowed any connection to BLMF, and each organization claims that their name and concept was stolen by the other. Nonetheless, due to its 501(c)(3) status, many corporations and individuals pledged donations to BLMF through platforms such as Benevity believing it to be part of the better-known movement, although much of the funds raised was not dispersed after the confusion was noted.” (Mac, Ryan; Sacks, Brianna (June 15, 2020). "The Black Lives Matter Foundation" Raised Millions. It's Not Affiliated With The Black Lives Matter Movement". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved June 16, 2020.)

Lets go back to BLMGNF – it was organized in part by Patrisse Cullors, who still maintains an active role in the organization. In a 2015 video Ms. Cullors declared that her and her fellow organizers were ‘trained Marxists’ and indicated that the organization BLMGNF was based on the Marxist’s ideology. The New York Posts reported on June 25, 2020 that Breitbart News reported that “Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview.” This would seem to parallel the Washington Examiner’s 6/25/20 statement.

Now for Susan Rosenberg. Several independent new agencies have verified that Susan Rosenberg is on the Board of Directors of Thousand Currents – the funding arm of BLMGNF. They have also confirmed that Ms. Rosenberg was a member of the radical leftist revolutionary militant group known as the May 19th Communist Organization, affiliated with the Weather Underground terrorist group and other radicals. The previous mentioned Washington Post article further states, “Rosenberg was a radical in the 1960s and 1970s who landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for a number of suspected crimes and was nabbed in 1984 while unloading from her car and into a New Jersey storage unit hundreds of pounds of dynamite along with weapons, including a sub-machine gun. She was believed to have been part of future politically motivated bombing plots. Rosenberg and her M19 associates were also charged with roles in bombings during the 1980s at the Capitol and the Navy War College, among other targets. They were also tied to a 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery that killed a guard and two police officers.”

BTW, the reason that Thousand Currents is involved in the fun raising for BLMGNF is because Thousand Currents is a 501(c)3, Not-for-Profit IRS organization where as BLMGNF is not. Donations made directly to BLMGNF would not be tax deductible but donations to Thousand Currents, through their on-line ActBlue donation platform, is tax deductible. Thousand Currents then funnel the monies donated to the BLMGNF.

In conclusion, it would appear that the following facts are true:

• Patrisse Cullors and the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation supports the ideology of Marxists;

• That the BLMGNF is supported through donations solicited on their behalf by an organization that is tied to organizations with at least some limited connections or roots to terrorist organizations in the past.

What we don’t know is does the organization, and it loosely knitted chapters, support the same ideology as their organization’s founders or financial benefactors? Actions by some seem to support the conclusion that it does and yet there are actions on the part of others that seem to NOT support that conclusion. I suspect a little bit of truth can be found in both statements. The problem is that the segment getting the most attention seems to be the former, rather than the later, and may be dominate by the more radical ideology in the organization.

Tara Reade – An Opportunistic Scammer

Recently a ‘lady’ by the name of Tara Reade came forward accusing former Vice President Joe Biden (and presumed 2020 Democratic Presidential nominee) of sexual assault. Here are a couple of problems with that claim:

1. She admits she never made a report with the Congressional Personal Office alleging that then Senator Biden either sexually harassed her or sexually assaulted her;
2. Senator Biden was vetted extensively for the position of Vice President under President Obama and nothing surfaced concerning the alleged complaint;
3. To date, no sexual harassment or sexual assault complaint against then Senator Biden has been found by the Congressional Records office;
4.  Co-incidentally, Ms. Reade makes her accusation 7 months before election against the sole remaining and presumed democratic nominee for the office of the President. She didn’t make the accusation a year ago when there were a dozen candidates – but waited until 7 months before the election;
5.  Ms. Reade waits to make her accusation AFTER the polls indicate that Mr. Trump is trailing former VP Joe Biden in the Presidential polls; and
6. Ms. Reade’s memory is so faulty, that she first comes out saying she did file a sexual assault complaint with the congressional office but now is saying she never used those specific words in the complaint she reported did file.

In conclusion, Ms. Tera Reade appears to be nothing more than an opportunistic scammer looking for money to be brought off, cash in on the notoriety, or, and equally possible and consistent with his modus operandi, was brought or paid for by the Trump campaign to put the presumed Presidential contender to shame and shift or manipulate votes. Finally, another possibility, is that Ms. Reade was brought by the Russians, and this is another Russian attempt to manipulate the vote and will of the American people in favor of Mr. Trump’s bedfellow, Mr. Putin.

More on Roger Stone

One of Mr. Thumps pundits – Roger Stone – has files a motion on the grounds that one juror was able to be unbiased in her consideration of his guilt or innocence and therefore should be acquitted.  I wonder if one could file a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court Justice who presided over the Trump impeachment on the grounds that 52 senators failed to be impartial and actually had made up their mind BEFORE any testimony was presented and WITHOUT calling any witnesses? After all, the Republican party wants to hound on the issue that this was a “trial” and Trump was never given the opportunity to defend himself.

Oh! But Wait! That would not be fair to poor, little old Mr. Trump … NOT!!!

The Unthinkable

The Unthinkable


The unthinkable, but under the circumstances not the unimagined, has started. Mr. Trump has started a political purge the likes of which has not been seen in the United States. Yes, it happens all the time in third world countries, but it has NEVER happened in the United States.


Mr. Trump has started his political purge with the removal of the Vindmans and Sonderland with still more promised. He just recently nominated US Attorney Jesse Liu to Under Secretary of the US Treasury and then abruptly with drew the nomination with no stated reason. However, Ms. Liu had been overseeing the criminal investigation of Andrew McCabe, former acting FBI director when she was nominated, and her replacement was announced. In retrospect, it would appear to have been a orchestrated maneuver to remove someone that was not doing his bidding.


Then we have Michael Flynn who was to be sentenced to six months in jail based on a recommendation by the Department of Justice attorneys assigned to the case when suddenly, the DOJ turned around and recommended probation after Mr. Trump interceded. Now, he has done it again, though he denies it, with Roger Stone. The US Attorney’s assigned the case (all five of them) recommended that Mr. Stone get 7-9 years after being found guilty on several accounts. But when Mr. Trump expressed his displeasure, the DOJ in Washington changed its recommendations leaving it up to the judge but noting the previous recommendation was excessive.


As usual, Mr. Trump is denying he asked for action, but let us be real about it. Mr. Trump has already taken action against a number of people that refused to do his bidding and instead stand up for the values of the United States, and they got ‘fired.’ It is not beyond imagination that Attorney General Barr sees the writing on the wall and figured that since Mr. Trump expressed his displeasure over the sentence recommendation of Mr. Stone, that if he didn’t do something, he would be next in line. Fear has ruled the office of President and the DOJ – and many other departments – and has become a recipe for democratic disaster.


If Americans are so stupid to re-elect Mr. Trump to the office of President, they deserve everything that follows. Hopefully, however, reason will prevail and if Mr. Trump is re-elected, then hopefully enough people will have the common sense to put enough democrats in the House and Senate to provide veto proof legislation. Congress needs to take back its role as one of the three co-equal branches of government. If it doesn’t, then it will be equality to blame for what comes next.


I fear for what the future holds for the United States if reason and love of country is set aside for love of the party. The recipe has already been written and used numerous times throughout history and all we need to do is look to Russia, China, Korea, etc. to see what could lie in our future.

A little history prospective…

A little history prospective…

So far in the history of the United States of America there has been three Presidents that have been impeached but none removed. What is interesting is when you review the votes in both the House and the Senate, the process has be partisan throughout history.

Interestingly enough, the first two impeachments were of Presidents that were Democrats and the vote to Impeach was done by a majority of House members that were republican.

In the Andrew Johnson (Democrat) impeachment, there were 124 Republicans in the House and 49 Democrats. Republicans voted 122 to 45 to impeach President Johnson. In the Bill Clinton (Democrat) case, there were 228 Republicans and 205 Democrats in the House. Republicans voted 223 to 200 to impeach President Clinton.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that both impeachments were partisan in nature with Republicans acting against a Democrat President.

It is even more evident when you look at the Senate. In Andrew Johnson’s case, the Senate was made up of 54 Republicans and 9 Democrats and the final vote was 35 Republicans voting guilty verses 9 Democrats not guilty. Likewise, in Clinton’s case there were 55 Republicans and 45 Democrats with a final vote of 45 Republicans guilty and 45 Democrats not guilty.

Up until this point, history shows that the Republican party historically has been the catalysis behind pulling apart America on such a decisive issue of removing a President. For the FIRST time in history, Democrats acted against a Republican President and they are being gutted and flayed for fermenting divisiveness in America.

Trump was impeached in the House that was predominately Democrat – 231 to 195 Republicans – and the vote was 229 Democrats to 0 Republicans to impeach. In the Senate, for the first time in history, the Senate majority was made up of the same political party as the President. Their the vote was 52 Republicans voted not guilty verses 45 Democrats voting guilty. NEVER in the history was an impeachment shown to be more partisan of an action.

So, when someone says that the action to impeach Trump was partisan, they are correct, just as they would be correct in stating that the jury (Senate) was partisan in their decision to vote not guilty.

Neither party did America any favors.  

So, the impeachment of Donald Trump is over with…or is it?

So, the impeachment of Donald Trump is over with…or is it?

History will record the last 3 weeks as democracy that has failed. It failed because 52 republican senators violated their oath of office and violated their oath to be an impartial jury during the impeachment “trail.” For the first time in the history of the United States an impeachment called no witnesses and did not subpoena documents in order to ferret out the truth of guilt or innocence.  They let the head of the republican party bully and intimidate them to erode their integrity and violate their oath.

Like a dictator that has risen to power, Mr. Trump has started the purge of his staff. Replacing those individuals that saw that their oath of office and the principles of the United States of American were more important that any party, any person in office, and their jobs. This is a president that now feels impowered, like so many dictators in history, to do whatever he wants to do. If he feels it is in the national interest, he could suspend the constitution – do what ever he wants because MOST republicans don’t have any balls to stand up to him or exercise common sense to think on their own. If we don’t learn from history we are bound to repeat it – as the saying goes – and we are on track for this dictator to declare “Hail Trump!” as the salute of America.

What is going to come of this, if not a total dictatorship, a lot of dirt will start coming to the surface. Do you even think that Mulvany, or Sonderland, or any other staff members being fired over “disloyalty” to the Trump, that they won’t go out and write books or pen op ed articles for the New York Time of Washington Post? The skeletons will come out of the closet in droves exposing the nightmares that comes along with Halloween. In the end, the 52 republicans will see the error of their ways, but it will be too late – the damage will have been done.

My Crystal Ball

So, after two weeks of public testimony in the House and the House close to voting on Articles of Impeachment against the President, I thought I would write down what I have seen in my crystal ball. Understand, this is my crystal ball and there really is nothing special about it. Nevertheless, here it is.

• The house will vote along partisan lines to submit Articles of Impeachment to the U.S. Senate;
• the U.S. Senate will take up the Articles of Impeachment as required under the U.S. Constitution;
• The U.S. Senate will hear all the evidence against the President put together by the House but the fact will remain that the republicans in the Senate all already made up their mind – the President is innocent. 
• After two weeks of hearing overwhelming evidence that the President improperly used his office for personal gain, the Senate will vote not to remove the President along party lines. 

Now, what will the vote look like will be hard to tell. There are currently 51 republicans, 47 democrats, and 2 independents in the Senate. The Senate will vote 52 in favor of impeachment and 48 against but it takes 2/3 of the Senate, or 66 votes, to impeach and remove the President from office. Therefore, impeachment will fail, and the President will remain in officeIt should be noted that Clinton failed to be impeached and removed from office by a major vote…in other words in article one of the Articles of Impeachment, Clinton was found innocence with 47 guilty vs. 53 not guilty; and in article two the vote was 50 guilty and 50 not guilty. In President Jackson’s impeachment the majority voted guilty BUT was one vote short necessary to remove the President and, therefore, the President remained in office. If Trump remains in office based on 52 guilty and 48 not guilty, Trump will become the second President to be found guilty of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors” by majority vote but failed to be removed from office because the vote fell short of the 66 required to remove from office. 

• But it won’t stop there. The republicans will run the 2020 campaign against the democrats accusing them of attempting to remove a president based on a “witch hunt” (in spite of the majority finding him guilty) while the democrats will run on the platform that the republican’s failed to faithful execute their duties under the constitution and placed party ahead of the constitution.
•  The campaign will be ugly, but the results will not be surprising. Democrats will retain a majority in the house and will take over the senate by a 54 to 46 majority. 
• Here is where my crystal ball gets muddy. If Trump gets re-elected, then nothing will get done during the next 4 years. The democrats will reject a supreme court nominee (because of Ginsburg’s retirement or death); they will attempt to increase the number of supreme court justices but that will fail because the president will veto it and there won’t be enough to override the veto; there will be a number of shutdowns in the government because the president will veto any measure coming out of the senate and the house and neither will have the necessary votes to override the veto; and the U.S. will become increasingly isolated from the rest of the world and WW III will break out (just as the U.S. period of isolationism between WW I and WW II). 

Or

• Trump will lose the election and there will be a clean sweep for the democrats in the house, senate and presidency. The democrats will increase the number of supreme court justices; the corporate income taxes will be rolled back; the stock market will go down because corporations will be paying more in income taxes; growth will slow; the economy will stagnate; and health care insurance will undergo fundamental, but positive, changes. 

So, there you have it…we are screwed either way. The question then becomes do we want some lube before getting screwed or not…