June, 2019, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Political Corruption in Minnesota and Washington and New Zealand Citizens Tell Their Government To Shove It,

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Elijah Cummings is a long term member of Congress. He has been one of the more vocal Democratic opponents of Trump, opponents who want Trump impeached for simply not liking him. But Cummings may want to idle back his public exposure, given the financial hanky panky that his wife may have been involved in, as discussed in a recent article by Madison Dibble on the Independent Journal Review website:

• Cummings wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, has been under pressure regarding alleged unethical and/or illegal behavior.
• It may turn out that she mingled two businesses that she oversaw, a consulting firm and a nonprofit.
• According to the article, “Rockeymoore Cummings’ for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC, was paid more than $250,000 by her charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions.”
• Apparently between 2013 and 2015, the nonprofit charity paid her consulting firm “management fees” that totalled over $250,000.
• Interestingly, both organizations share the same address.
• Her nonprofit is facing an IRS complaint that has been filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, that alleges she is using the charity for her personal benefit.
• The IRS complaint involves a Federal government contract that her consulting firm landed to oversee the “Leadership For Healthy Communities” in 2017, an effort that had the nonprofit listed as the “national program office.”
• The IRS concern is that the nonprofit is money laundering money for her personal use.
• Oh, by the way, certain organizations have contributed to the nonprofit, the same companies that have business interests that could be impacted by actions that Cummings takes as the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Oversight committee.
• According to the article: “When a powerful chairman of a committee of the House of Representatives has a wife that is bringing in money from entities with interests before his Committee and she is not providing the transparency mandated by the IRS, there’s a serious problem.” 

If true, this is political corruption of the highest degree but not unheard of in Washington. Many times we have run across situation where an elected official uses their government position to benefit a relative, spouse, or child (e.g. Congresswoman Maxine Walters and her daughter, Senator Diane Feinstein and her husband). Which is why nothing ever gets accomplished by D.C politicians, they are too busy enriching themselves.

2) Many Democrats and liberals in this country want to violate the Constitution and greatly restrict the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, the rights of Americans to bear arms to protect themselves, their families, and their freedom. They want to do so despite research and evidence that shows armed Americans make for a safer America. Which implies in my mind that, as always, they do not care about us, they only care about power and dominance.

Thus, it was refreshing to find out what happened in New Zealand when that country’s politicians tried to confiscate that country’s weapons from its citizens that legally owned guns under the current laws of New Zealand. Matt Agorist, writing for the Freedom Outpost website on June 7, 2019 explains:

• A few months ago New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that certain efforts would be made to confiscate certain guns of the citizens in that country.
• This was in response to a mass shooting that had occurred in that country on March 15, which was carried out by a lone gunman who killed dozens of people.
• According to Ardern: “On 15 March, our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place. What we’re banning today are the things used in last Friday’s attack. It’s about all of us, it’s in the national interest and it’s about safety.”
• But things did not go as planned since, as reported by the NZ Herald, citizens feel safer by holding onto their guns and not abdicating their responsibility for their own safety to the government.
• As a result, of the 250,000 New Zealanders that own the type of weapon that was banned, owning about 300,000 of the banned semi-automatic weapons, only 530 guns that have been banned have been turned over to the government.
• This comes out to about a .18% compliance rate, not 18%, not 1.8%, .18%.
• Government officials tried to explain away the non-compliance by saying that gun owners wanted more compensation from the government before voluntarily giving up their weapons.
• But let’s be honest, it is hardly plausible that 99.82% of gun owners were just waiting for a few more dollars but really were telling the government hands off their rights to have these types of weapons to protect themselves and their families.

This is another example of idiotic thinking by politicians. The only people who will lose in this type of confiscation mentality are innocent, law abiding citizens who have now been disarmed and left vulnerable to wacko criminals and terrorists. The wackos and terrorists are not going to give up their weapons, by definition they are wackos and terrorists.

And taking guns from law abiding citizens does not attack the root cause of gun violence. England found that out. They confiscated guns from law abiding citizens who are now being attacked by knife wielding criminals, wackos, and terrorists. This has led the politicians to put into effect an inane knife confiscation and control program.

Kudos to the good people of New Zealand who have the courage and foresight to ignore another idiotic program from their political class. The article sums up the insanity very nicely: "The protectionist attitude of taking guns from law abiding citizens to keep guns from criminals is ineffective, self-serving, one-sided and ignores the benefits of an armed society as well as history. 

And, it only serves to further the oppression of those who cannot defend themselves. While it would certainly be an amazing thought to be able to live in a world without guns, that is simply not the case. Until it is the case, anyone who wants to defend themselves and their family, should be able to do so in any manner they see fit — as the only other option is tyranny.”

3) Ilhan Omar is a first term Congresswoman from Minnesota. Although she just came into office this past January, it appears she has not wasted any time fitting in to the lawless and corrupt attitude and culture that is the American political class, as outlined in a recent article on the Patriot Brief website:

• This past week the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board ruled that Omar had committed campaign finance violations back in Minnesota.
• The board found that when Omar was a local politician back in Minnesota she used campaign money to fund her tax returns and pay for travel that did not involve her work duties.
• She has to pay back the money she abused and pay a measly additional fine of $500.
• Specifically: “Rep. Omar must personally reimburse the Omar committee $3,469.23. This reimbursement payment is the total amount of campaign funds that were used for purposes not permitted by statute in 2016 and 2017. Rep. Omar must provide documentation within 30 days from the date of this order showing the deposit of the reimbursement into the Omar committee’s account.”
• The board’s investigation also may have uncovered a reality that she has filed up to eight years of fraudulent Federal tax returns which could merit an IRS investigation.

The hypocrisy of the Democrats, and mainstream media, in Washington’s political class is very interesting in this case. While they clamor for a look at Trump’s tax returns for no other reason than an impeachment fishing expedition, they completely ignore the findings of the election board up in Minnesota who found one of their own guilty of campaign crimes and quite possibly serious IRS violations. Their silence is deafening.

That starts off this month’s political class insanity stream: illegal campaign fund mischief in Minnesota, hypocrisy in Washington, Congressional money laundering with a wife, and citizens in New Zealand tell their political class to shove it. More insanity to follow.

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