When Does Someone Receive Secret Service Protection?

 Al Ritter

After the latest snub of Secret Service protection to Robert Kennedy Jr. I was curious as to who gets it and when. Do any of the Republican candidates have protection and when are they entitled to receive it?

What I found sort of shocked me. Now I know that every former President after Barack Obama has it for life but their families may be a different story.

The Secret Service was originally under control of the Treasury Department and a lot of their roles were intertwined with forgery and counterfeit money. In the last decades the Secret Service was handed over to the Department of Homeland Security.

I found this explanation in the article shown below and I thought that I would share it with my readers. Here are the highlights of the story.

The Secret Service provides protection to individuals in eight very specific circumstances, and they are these:  

• The president, the vice president, (or other individuals next in order of succession to the Office of the President), the president-elect and vice president-elect 
• Their immediate families  
• Former presidents, their spouses, except when the spouse re-marries 
• Children of former presidents until age 16 
• Visiting heads of foreign states or governments and their spouses traveling with them, other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States, and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad 
• Other individuals as designated per Executive Order of the President  
• National Special Security Events, when designated as such by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security 
• Major presidential and vice presidential candidates, and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election 

Now the requirements for candidates has yet different requirements and are as follows.

• As defined in statute, the term "major presidential and vice presidential candidates" means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee. 

So that’s one way it happens. Here’s the other... In 1968 Congress acted to provide an automatic definition of what “major” is to take the subjectivity out of the process for most who do ultimately receive Secret Service Protection. It’s been amended over the years on a couple of occasions and currently reads: 

• Are pursuing the nomination of a qualified party, one whose presidential candidate received at least 10% of the popular vote in the prior election. 
• Are qualified for public matching funds of at least $100,000, and have raised at least $10 million in additional contributions. 
• Have received by April 1 of the election year an average of 5 percent in individual candidate preferences in the most recent national opinion polls by ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, or have received at least 10 percent of the votes cast for all candidates in two same-day or consecutive primaries or caucuses. 

So as of today, there are only two presidential candidates who have Secret Service protection. The current and the former president. And as of today, based on established criteria, there are only two additional candidates who are on track to potentially qualify once we are within 120 days of next year’s election, or April 1st, and that’s RFK Jr. among Democrats and Ron DeSantis among Republicans. As of today, FDLE remains the security force which protects our governor and his family, wherever they go. Again, it’s always possible President Biden could sign an executive order mandating protection for additional candidates, or on an earlier timeframe based upon perceived security concerns, it’s also possible Homeland Security could make the call – however that’s rare. The only time this has happened since the enactment of the Congressional Act in 1968 was in 2007. Based on intelligence chatter that there could be credible threats to Barack Obama, officials provided him with Secret Service detail over a year and a half ahead of the 2008 Presidential Election. So that's who has protection, and who may have protection and when that’s most likely to occur if they do.

Many thanks to Brian Mudd from IHeartmedia for his research, here is a link to his article:

https://wjno.iheart.com/featured/brian-mudd/content/2023-06-12-qa-when-does-a-presidential-candidate-receive-secret-service-protection/

 

Biden Blames Climate Change on the Unvaccinated

 Al Ritter

Biden once again doubles down on stupidity. Never wanting to admit the massive failure of the Covid-19 “experimental” so called vaccinations, he never wants to stop blaming the unvaccinated for its failure.

From the once hidden Pfizer data we are now finding out that mortality rates increased on the vaccinated individuals but not on the unvaccinated, but that doesn’t keep him from vilifying the unvaccinated as a group.

Even his latest stance on asking soldiers back that had to be decided by the Supreme Court which certainly left Biden with a bitter taste in his mouth.

So the Biden Administration issued its Fifth National Climate assessment known as (NCA-5).

According to that report, future pandemics will become more likely, and worse as the projected impacts of climate change take effect.

Notice the word “projected” as if somehow all past “projections” have come true.

Also in the report they claim that “people can do more to save the planet by yielding to the government’s pandemic protocols.”

I have never read such doubling down on stupidity in my life, to try to connect the unvaccinated to climate change sounds like something Al Gore wrote.

Read More on stupidity here:

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/climate-clown-show-biden-admin-blames

Professor: Calls for Dismantlement and Decolonization of the US

Al Ritter

I know you are already trying to wrap your head around this one but let’s give it a try! To begin with she is a Liberal Arts Professor at the University of Minnesota. Melanie Yazzie is of Navajo heritage and she was recently a key speaker at a Pro-Palestinian Rally.

She relates to the Palestinian people because she feels the all indigenous people in the US are under occupation by the US government.

Her further claim …. “"So it's our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place, because that will reverberate all across the world," Yazzie said. "Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed."

She wants all states to be broken free from the federal government, and she is also against capitalism.

She claims that Israel and the United States are one entity.

Good thing she is a Liberal Arts Professor and wields no power whatsoever. Maybe she is great in the art world, but I think she needs to stay out of the political realm.

Red More Here:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/minnesota-professor-calls-decolonize-dismantle-090006010.html

Be Very Careful About Picking Your News Sources

 Al Ritter

I read an article the other day about an American that was found guilty of violating Russia oligarch sanctions. Embedded deep in the article was the revelation that he was a past FBI agent.

The article went on to say he was sentenced to 4 years in jail and fined $40,000. I first thought that what he received was a pretty light sentence and so I scrolled on to the next article.

This article was on a website called RT.com. Although I had read articles on that site before I really thought little of it until seeing another article on a site I do actually respect that painted a side to this case I hadn’t seen on RT.com.

The Epochtimes.com is one of my trusted sources so I delved a little further into the story to find out that this man who was a past FBI agent was actually one of the people who started the Russian Collusion hoax! In fact he worked as the head of the New York FBI counterintelligence office.

How fitting that this man would be spending time in jail for the very same thing that he falsely accused Trump of committing.

However the story doesn’t end there. I thought it strange how none of this was brought to light in the first article so I researched RT.Com. Originally called Russia Today but later shortened to RT.com it now seemed obvious that what I was really reading was Russian propaganda!

Search your sources before you just blindly share an article on social media.

The first article from RT.com:

https://www.rt.com/news/589148-mcgonigal-sentenced-fbi-deripaska-conspiracy/

The trusted video from Epoch Times :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajXqZNBBa1Y

 

 

Is Morality Dead?

 Al Ritter

Opinion 

In my opinion and my one word answer is YES! Integrity, fair play, justice, selflessness, and truth are all gone now in our society. Replaced by corruption, greed, injustice and immoral behavior. 

Let me give you an example and you judge the situation for yourself. A prominent individual whom I will call Mr. Douglas (not his real name) makes an offer on a piece of property and it is accepted by the widow. The settlement date is set for 2 months later. The widow is hurriedly moving and selling items for the move because the house is close to 5000sq ft. You can imagine how monumental a task that is for a widow in her later years. 

The purchaser comes to the woman and offers her $250,000 less than the agreed upon price for the property 7 days before settlement. He tells her if she doesn’t like it she can take him to court! 

She is caught between a rock and a hard place because she has emptied her home at this point and just wants things to be done. She turns the situation over to her attorney and he negotiates with his attorney and they settle on a reduction of $125,000 on the property. In the final days before settlement she falls down the stairs while cleaning out some final things and breaks her pelvis mere days before settlement forcing her to hand over power of attorney to her son for the settlement. 

As you can imagine this doesn’t sit well with the past landscaper as he viewed this widow and her husband who had passed but a few years prior as “family.” 

The new owner contacts the landscaper to continue his service on the property. The landscaper refuses immediately and explains that the widow told him about what he had done days prior to settlement. 

The purchaser replied, “That was just good business.” 

What do you think drives a person to do such a thing to an elderly widow in such a vulnerable situation in her life? I could relate multiple scenarios this man has performed resulting in not only moralistic lapses in judgment but violations of law, but I’ll save that for another time. 

Now I ask you my readers, is this a person that you want as either a neighbor or an employer? Did the landscaper make the right decision to blow Mr. Douglas off? Or was Mr. Douglas right in his actions?

 

Can a False Flag Event Cancel the 2024 Election?

 Al Ritter

Not only can it happen, it’s being simulated today by the DHS under Mayorkas in conjunction with the FBI under Wray. They are simulating cyberattacks to what they claim are our elections. They are doing this not in the way you’d think. They aren’t simulating attacks on actual voting machines or their software, they are simulating attacks to cause civilian mayhem.

Attacking traffic lights to cause catastrophic death. They are simulating hacking self-driving cars to cause crashes. They are simulating attacks on the internet. Why exactly are they doing this while under the guise of election interference?

The main aim is to cause a situation where they can plant the fingerprints of some foreign government to obtain a general consensus from the American people to go to war. Think about the Iraq war if you need a glaring example.

These are basically wars games against our own citizens to create a situation of martial law to circumvent the 2024 Presidential election.

Of course this has some Deep State players also, WEF and a company called Cybereason which has ties to through its work with the Israeli group Mossad.

Not once has it been mentioned how easily the voting machines are to hack or how to stop that, but only to wreak havoc on American soil to trigger martial law.

They are laying out the plans of attack on America’s own citizens and the general population is oblivious.

Watch Journalist Whitney Webb lay out her scary research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDsrH6zuqWI

So it begins:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/professor-david-clements-let-my-people-go-documentary/

So What is Changing in 2024 to Assure Fair Elections?

 Al Ritter

Everyone on the right is saying that 2024 will be a Trump landslide this time! My question to this would be how? Such a claim was made in the 2022 midyear elections. With so much rampant election fraud in this country in 2020 how can you be sure 2024 will be different?

Most cases were dropped by liberal Judges under the guise of “no standing.” Frankly I don’t really understand how ANY American can be judged as not having standing. The elections affect us all, and the premise in our country is that fair elections are the cornerstone of our Republic.

So my question to America, and I mean both parties now, is how can we continue down this path of corruption in elections and maintain our representative Republic?

With continued election fraud comes a gradual transition to a corrupt government. God knows we certainly have enough of that already. The move eventually leads to totalitarianism or an autocratic society.

Those that benefit from election fraud have no real incentive to stop doing it, which was clearly evident in 2016 when Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were fined for election interference and yet no criminal charges were filed. A couple hundred grand is nothing out of the DNC or Hillary’s pocket.

So for those of you that think this election will be fair and free from abuse, please give me an example…I’ll wait.

Government Psy-Ops against its Own Citizens? You Can Bet on It!

Al Ritter

We already know that our government has run a “disinformation” campaign against its citizens during the Biden Administration. Most prevalent is the Covid debacle and the Hunter Biden laptop, but it goes much deeper and farther back then that!

Now you are asking…”During the Trump Administration?”

Nothing is clear on that front but there is now proof that the whole psy-ops thing went back to the previous administration. Yes it seems everything eventually leads back to Barack Obama.

Near the end of his term Obama started this psy-ops program through the military, we know from the past that psy-ops programs for swaying public opinion has been done for years through what we know as propaganda.

Up until the Obama orders were handed down that this propaganda had only been done in foreign countries through the CIA NSA, and FBI. Entire departments were formed for such work.

This latest psy-ops program was now handled directly through the military of not only the United States but also involved the Military of the UK!

So the military of both governments are altering common perceptions to mold the way people think to the mindset of government!

Watch this very disturbing video brought to you by Sky News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBbkTmOG7k

Obama's collusion with Hillary covered by the three letter agencies and the military:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3uoKyU-F8

CIA and Fauci work together for misinformation campaign:

https://rumble.com/v40w2qo-bombshell-rand-paul-blows-the-cover-off-anthony-faucis-secretive-involvemen.html

 

 

Climate Change is now Racist?

 Al Ritter

It was certain to happen eventually, Racism and Climate Change would be tied together.

Only in CNN’s narrow mind could these two things be tied together. Their claims are that bad weather events affect cities with a higher African-American count disproportionally from White areas.

Does that even make sense? Maybe they are counting the New Orleans area disproportionally to the rest of the country, maybe they are just manufacturing statistics to fit their own agenda.

Climate change has been a hot topic for over a decade but to claim that a “man-made” situation has contributed to harming blacks more than whites is certainly a stretch of the imagination!

Read this extraordinary claim here:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/black-communities-in-southeastern-states-are-more-likely-to-be-exposed-to-extreme-weather-events-than-overall-population/1600331

Carjacking and Thefts on the Rapid Increase

Al Ritter

Car theft seems to be on the rapid increase in America and many people are asking why.

Many states are initiating law suits on specific car makers for making their cars too easy to steal, but one has to wonder….is that the real underlying factor of the thefts?

Hyundai and Kia are experiencing the brunt of the situation now offering software updates and steering wheel deterrents, but are these the real cures?

While Baltimore City has experienced an over 300% increase at almost 11,000 thefts Mayor Scott recently said this

“Our work really falls into four buckets: One is prevention, two is deterrence, three is enforcement, and four is continued legal action against negligent manufacturers,” said Mayor Scott.

You do notice that Mayor Scott never addressed prosecution. While local media describe the incidences as “mundane.” Car-jackings are anything BUT mundane when they involve a family member, and they have become way too much of a “normal occurrence” in the state of Maryland

Most of these car-jackings and thefts involve teenagers which are hardly ever arrested and if they do only get a slap on the wrist because of Soros installed prosecutors, in Maryland just like all most liberal cities want to blame manufactures rather that the culprits much in the way they want to sue gun manufacturers for murders and ignore prosecutions.

These cities never want to place blame or the violators only the manufacturers.

When exactly will our country wake up to the realization that the Mayors and the Governors are to blame for their own policies?

Read more here:

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/baltimore-auto-thefts-surpass-10000-despite-preventive-measures#

https://news.maryland.gov/msp/2023/11/02/maryland-state-police-vehicle-theft-prevention-council-remind-motorists-about-tips-to-reduce-vehicle-thefts/

 

NY Times Spins Terrorist as a Victim

Al Ritter

The article read

           “A disfigured woman whose case has become well known is among the Palestinians released.”

The person in question is a Palestinian car bomber whose bomb exploded before she reached her intended target. Israa Jaabis has been in an Israeli jail since 2015 for the failed attempt of a suicide bombing.

She had also received plastic surgery at the expense of Israeli taxpayers. Her release was part of a 39 person prisoner exchange.

This is but one more exchange for terrorists for innocent women and children that was part of Hamas’ kidnapping on Oct. 7^th.

For the New York Times to try to spin this somehow to make it sound as if Israel somehow disfigured her is certainly unconscionable.

Read More here:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/11/27/nyt-on-disfigured-woman-n2631669