Lori Lightfoot being sued by reporter whose press pass was revoked and his 1st Amendment rights violated

Chicago -- A reporter is suing Mayor Lori "Beetlejuice" Lightfoot for her "attack on the First Amendment" after he was verbally abused by her and ended up having his press credentials removed. [H/T Fox News]

"I was asking the obvious questions, and she lost her temper," journalist William Kelly said on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday, recalling a May exchange where she told him he was "full of crap."

"Mayor Lightfoot is in re-election mode, and she doesn't want any more embarrassing questions to go viral. So she revoked my media credential. … This is a very serious constitutional crisis in the city of Chicago."

So he's taking Lightfoot to court where a progressive judge will might trample on the US Constitution as well.

Kelly's press credentials were taken from him in August at which time he filed a federal lawsuit alleging Lightfoot and the Chicago PD Superintendent David Brown violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Kelly spoke on Tucker Carlson's show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in September at which time he said that Lightfoot and Brown helped create an altercation between him and Mayor Beetlejuice's security detail and he alleged that it was this "false report" that was used as the pretext to keep him out of press events. 

So it's likely that Kelly is an actual reporter who asks probing questions that make liberals like Lightfoot and Brown uncomfortable.

"The problem is that he sat down and wrote me a letter telling me that he was revoking my media credentials when the police department is down 1500 officers, we have an out-of-control crime epidemic, police suicide is at an all-time high," Kelly said Wednesday. "He's taking time out of his day to write me a letter telling me that he's revoking my media credential."

"I think the priorities are completely out of whack."

Kelly argued that the incompetent mayor is trying to protect herself from his questions about her "failures in performance" due to her facing re-election and warned that her actions could set a dangerous precedent for reporters and free speech in America.

"She wants to win this case against me and then expand this attack on the First Amendment to all the reporters who ask her real questions or any reporter nationally who would dare to ask a real question of a powerful politician," Kelly said.

Kelly said that this current lawsuit is really a fight to defend the First Amendment, one of the least favorite Amendments of the Left along with the Second Amendment and all the rest.

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"Thankfully Elon Musk restored the First Amendment on Twitter," he said. "But in Chicago, the First Amendment is on life support, if not dead."

"They say you can't fight city hall, but we need to fight city hall to restore the First Amendment if we're going to have an honest election."

Having an honest election is such a novel idea.

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Alexandria Obviosa-Communista adviser caught lying about documents they published

Communist Rep. Alexandria Obviosa-Communista (CD-NY) and her comrades were caught lying about the "Green New Deal" [aka "Red Old Manifesto"] they published on the freshman congresswoman's website after everyone who read it that isn't a communist, and even Democrats who are, laughed until they nearly burst a blood vessel.

In the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section of the document, clearly displayed on her congressional page, it listed loads of crazy, outrageous statements. For example,  that her "Green New Deal" sought to provide economic protections to those who were "unwilling to work," an end to all fossil fuels and nuclear energy, electric cars with charging stations "everywhere" and the elimination of cow farts. 

Seriously. Oh, and "lots of trees" and "access to nature."

On Friday, Obviosa-Communista adviser Robert Hockett appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," where he told multiple lies about the FAQ document published by the congresswoman's team. The video below is that interview. Notice how Hockett is trying to weasel out of the truth.

A video published by the far-left, Media Matters, an online propaganda and conservative smearing machine,  showed part of Hockett's untrue claims, which Obviosa-Communista then retweeted to her 3 million leftist Twitter followers.

Online archives show that Obviosa-Communista's team did, in fact, publish the document that said the Green New Deal would provide "economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work."

Their next step will be to say that they've been hacked, or call on the comrade media to save their lying butts for the sake of the party.

After being thoroughly mocked and laughed at across the political spectrum over the disastrous rollout of her Green New Deal, Obviosa-Communista did what she does best – made false and misleading statements while playing the victim card.

She planned to blame Ben Shapiro, Jonah Goldberg and Israel in general, but her cleanup crew had another idea.

Obviosa-Communista found a couple of examples of Twitter accounts who had tweeted out parody versions of her Green New Deal, and claimed that the Republican Party was secretly behind the attempt to destroy her plan because it was "so strong." Strong as in odor, but in substance, not so much.

"When your #GreenNewDeal legislation is so strong that the GOP has to resort to circulating false versions, but the real one nets 70 House cosponsors on Day 1 and all Dem presidential candidates sign on anyway," the idiot tweeted.

But conservatives need to sit back and relax and let AOC do the job to help the GOP. Hopefully President Trump will not attack her--she is doing a fine job on her own.

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Can the FBI be as corrupt as they appear?

Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is demanding answers from the FBI after the agency admitted to working with the far-left leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.

The FBI has a long history of collaborating with the SPLC, a group that labels Christian groups such as the Christian Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group, while giving a free pass to actual hate groups such as Antifa.

In a 2009 memo, the FBI described the SPLC as a "credible" organization. Credible. How incredible they would do so.

In a letter obtained by Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Gaetz said the FBI "admitted to working with the SPLC," which he calls "surprising and worrisome."

SPLC labels groups hate groups based on their politics, not actual hatred. For example, ACT for America, founded by Brigitte Gabriel to educate the public about the ideology of Islamic terrorism, is labeled a hate group and claims that it is 'anti-Muslim." It is by no means anti-Muslim; it is anti-extremism. Muslims are people, not the extremist ideology the group opposes. SPLC has clearly mischaracterized her good work.

Gaetz pointed out that after the FRC was labeled a hate group by SPLC, Floyd Corkins shot an FRC employee and admitted later that he targeted the group as the SPLC labeled them it as "anti-gay."

The FRC sees gay sex as a sin but does not hate gay people--they pray for them and support those who refuse to bake a cake for gay weddings, for example. That isn't hate.

"The SPLC's conflation of mainstream political advocacy groups with legitimate hate groups and domestic terror groups is absurd, frequently indiscriminate and dangerous," Gaetz said.

The alleged relationship between SPLC and the FBI are unclear, but what is clear is the 2009 memo, and that SPLC has briefed the FBI on alleged domestic terror threats in the U.S.

Gaetz's letter requests more information on the ties the FBI has to the group, including how much credence the FBI gives to SPLC designations of "hate groups" and what input, if any, the bureau provides to the hateful SPLC.

Although the DOJ wouldn't confirm nor deny any relationship, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered that any such relationships be re-evaluated.

"The attorney genera has directed the FBI to re-evaluate their relationships with groups like this to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates," a spokesperson said in a statement.

The SPLC recently issued an apology and a $3.3 million settlement to Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for including them in a list of "anti-Muslim extremists."

Their walk-back went like this:

"Although we may have our differences with some of the positions that Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have taken, we recognize that they have made important contributions to efforts to promote pluralism and that they are most certainly not anti-Muslim extremists," the statement said.

Nawaz is a Muslim himself, and at one time in his life, was a terrorist but has since reformed and is now a strong anti-terrorism advocate. His understanding of the terrorist mind is accurate and useful in the fight against terrorism.

The SPLC would rather be politically correct than correct. Just Google these morons and understand who the real hater is. Some on their hate group list is quite accurate, but it's the groups they leave out that's most disturbing, along with some they label as a hate group.

The SPLC cannot suck enough and the fact the FBI even considers their political tripe is unsettling.

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In the aftermath of UK attack: what we know

UPDATE: The attacker was known to British counter-terrorism intelligence. His name is Khalid Masood, 52, and he was on the terror watch list, which was totally ineffective in stopping him.

After the attack, at least 7 others were arrested in connection with it. 

London -- The attack on Westminster Bridge by the U.K. Parliament and the attack that followed, injured over 40 people and now, a fifth person has died, including a police officer.

British Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as "sick and depraved." I call the attack "religiously orthodox and jihad inspired." 

Acting Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley, who also heads Counter Terrorism said there was only one attacker who authorities believe was "inspired by international terrorism."

I say he was inspired by the Koran and the global Islamist movement to create a world caliphate under sharia.

Rowley said three civilians were among those killed along with one London police officer, Keith Palmer, 48, and the Muslim jihadist whose name has not been released yet for obvious reasons, although he said it was too early to release his name, but that officials "think we know who the attacker is and are working to establish who his associates are."

"One of those who died was a police officer from our Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command who had 15 years service," he said.

ISIS still has not claimed responsibility for the attack but investigators are considering the possibility that it was inspired by ISIS propaganda in the form of the Koran quotes and online videos.

A witness, Rick Longley told the Press Association he heard a big bang and saw a car plow into pedestrians and come to a crashing stop. 

"They were just laying there and then the whole crowd just surged around the corner by the gates just opposite Big Ben," he said. "A guy came past my right shoulder with a big knife and just started plunging it into the policeman. I have never seen anything like that. I just can't believe what I just saw."

"The thoughts of the PM and the government are with those killed and injured in this appalling incident, and with their families," PM May's office said in a statement. And in an address to the nation outside 10 Downing Street, May praised the "exceptional bravery" of police, and thanked them "on behalf of the whole country."

May added that it wasn't an accident the attacker chose Parliament, but her logic was slightly off--she said he chose it because it stands for democracy, freedom and rule of law. I think it was also chosen because ISIS suggests these types of locales for attacks. Even if it wasn't ISIS-inspired, this is the thinking of many terrorist groups.

President Trump is continuing to monitor developments out of London and the White House condemned the attacks, which is a good thing to condemn. 

The White House also said Mr. Trump "pledged the full cooperation and support of the United States Government in responding to the attack and bringing those responsible to justice."

Spokesman for the U.S. State Department said "We stand ready to assist in any way the U.K. authorities would find helpful." He also added the cliche: "Our hearts go out to those affected."

Katie Hopkins, a conservative British journalist, appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight and stated that she sees the U.K. as a "nation of ghettos," and feels the British are losing the country they love in the name of multiculturalism which places other cultures above their own.

Over the past four years, British security has thwarted about 13 terror plots and until Wednesday, has mainly been spared major international terror attacks like the ones in France and Belgium.

But London is a liberal city whose Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, is not going to make big changes to protect the ignorant liberals in his city. Until this changes, it's only going to get worse.



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