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Apr 10, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Barr: "I’m very concerned about the slippery slope in terms of continuing encroachments on personal liberty.... I’d be a little concerned about...tracking of people and so forth, generally, especially going forward over a long period of time." theepochtimes.com/ag-barr-oppose…
Barr sees the dangerous precedents being set, and is keeping constitutional protections in mind. Says DoJ will examine whether "the draconian measures that are being adopted are fully justified and there are not alternative ways of protecting people." @zackstieber
Barr: Govt should step aside when emergency controls expire 4/30. “I think we have to allow people to adapt more than we have, and not just tell people to go home and hide under the bed, but allow them to use other ways, social distancing and other means, to protect themselves"

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Jan 30
Back in 1987, Benjamin Linder of Portland, Oregon, was working with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and got killed by the US-backed anti-communist resistance fighters, known as Contras.

I testified at a congressional hearing that the Sandinistas wanted people like him killed as a martyr.

The reason was that the killing of Americans would put pressure on Congress to cut off support for anti-communist forces in Central America.

We see a similar pattern inside our own country today.

Linder was raised in a left-wing activist household. His mother was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which collaborated during the Cold War with Soviet international front organizations.

Both her parents were pro-Hanoi radicals during the Vietnam War. They raised their son to support similar causes such as communist revolutionary movements in Central America.

Both Linder parents sat next to me in the hearing and were obviously displeased with my testimony. Members of Congress got upset when I said that American supporters of the Sandinistas wanted Americans like Ben Linder to die.

Part of the hearing is digitized here. books.google.com/books?id=eCZxb…

I will cite from my testimony in a subsequent post.Image
Here is what I said in my 1987 congressional testimony about American radicals who wanted US citizens to get killed as martyrs to promote their cause.

It concerns a group called Witness for Peace, which remains active in Minnesota. This is what I testified to Congress 38 years ago, so this is nothing new:

"The political tactics used by Witness for Peace are extremely unethical .... for two years it anticipated the killing of American citizens by the contras so that they could use the death for political propaganda. They wanted someone like Benjamin Linder to die."

"Now that the military value of Witness for Peace's activities have been established, the organization's motives must be considered." (See next post)Image
More from my 1987 testimony: "They want their friends to die."

We infiltrated Witness for Peace and other Marxist groups. I testified to Congress: "some of the group's leaders privately expressed hope that some of their activists in Nicaragua would get shot by the [US-backed] resistance. If a Witness for Peace activist was killed, they reasoned, American public opinion would turn against the [anti-communist] contras ..."Image
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Jan 15
🧵 Trump's squeeze on Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 passportholders is having an effect on the pro-Maduro @gastonbrowne cartel that runs the Caribbean country.

Browne's opposition is not blaming Trump. It is blaming Browne.

And Browne blames Trump. @DeputySecState @SecRubio @StephenM facebook.com/itsmyupp/video…Image
2) "We are in a place that we have never been before - a place where lifelong friends are not only telling us we can’t be trusted, but they’re telling us we are no longer welcome in their house," says opposition leader Jamale Pringle. Not only in the US, but Canada & EU. facebook.com/reel/181162564…Image
3) "It was Gaston Browne, allowing shady characters to sell our passports. It was GaB, handing out diplomatic passports like Cracker Jack to persons who know nothing about Antigua and Barbuda, while he left his parliamentarians have no such privilege," Pringle said. (Browne is pictured below)Image
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Jan 12
🧵 1) The Cuban regime will collapse soon. We must be prepared to deal with its 66 year-old international terror network - and the people in it.

Including people in the United States.

Mike Gonzalez @Gundisalvus summarizes that network in this new report (link in next post). Image
@Gundisalvus 2) "From training Marxist terrorists in the 1960s, to the pro-Hamas mayhem at U.S. universities in 2024 and 2025, to the spread of transnational crime syndicates in U.S. cities, Cuba’s rulers have long plotted America’s demise."
heritage.org/global-politic…
@Gundisalvus 3) "Today, Cuba’s communist regime is the mastermind of Caracas’s plan to destabilize U.S. streets through narco-trafficking and political unrest."

DOJ needs to draw up indictments of the Cuban officials responsible and bring them here for trial.
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Dec 5, 2025
🧵 The new National Security Strategy of the US is more pro-Europe than many Europeans are.

Page 5: "We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" Image
2) The US supports European countries keeping their national identities. Page 12:

"We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.: Image
3) The US opposes "disastrous ... ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." (page 14) Image
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Nov 14, 2025
🧵 Horrified at the @nypost report that President Trump might pardon (former) CCP secret police man Miles Guo Wengui.

Guo is not a victim of Biden. He was on the losing end of an internal CCP purge when his patron, Vice Minister of State Security Ma Jian, lost favor with Xi Jinping.

Guo sought to gain influence in the US by infiltrating President Trump's inner circle in 2017, pretending want to "take down the CCP" while at the same time making a written statement and video swearing loyalty to Xi Jinping.Image
@nypost Guo worked to penetrate Trump45's inner circle while trying to get back in Xi Jinping's good graces.

He is a Fifth Amendment Communist who refused in federal court to answer questions about his continued ties to the CCP & the CCP's intelligence services.
@nypost NY Post: “Guo Wengui was convicted for stealing over $1 billion from innocent victims who were duped that he is a Chinese dissident. Anyone who would work to have him pardoned by President Trump is doing this out of pure self-interest." nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-…
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Oct 21, 2025
🧵 It's important for President Trump to restore the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine, which the neocons abandoned & the Left renounced.

He should update & adapt the Monroe Doctrine, modernizing it with a Trump Corollary to guide strategic thinking and action in our hemisphere. Image
In his first term, President Trump pledged to "reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs" - nations like Russia, Iran, and China - but the State Department didn't get far.

Things just got worse.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/how-president-…
The Monroe Doctrine was not a blueprint for American military interventionism.

It was a defensive doctrine of the last of the presidential founding fathers. It avoided entangling alliances and exercised strategic restraint. Image
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