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Time of India
17 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'Ban all third world immigration': MAGA calls for blanket embargo on immigration amid LA riots
MAGA calls for a blanket ban on immigration from all third-world countries. MAGA activists pushed for a blanket ban on all immigration from third-world countries, as the crackdown on illegal aliens started the LA riots. The Donald Trump administration has taken a strong stand to deport illegals, and hundreds of Mexicans were detained and deported from Los Angeles in an ICE crackdown. Protests turned violent with people waving Mexican flags, torching and burning American flags. Chaos started brewing in the city Friday after ICE officers made several mass arrests of illegal immigrants, including one at a Home Depot parking lot where people looking for work often gather, and protestors showed up to try to block the raids. The FBI has put out rewards upwards of $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of various protestors who were caught on camera. Trump blamed Dem Governor Gavin Newsom for the LA riots and said the Trump administration cops will not allow "insurrectionists" to spit on the face of the National Guard troops. "IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!" Trump reiterated Monday. MAGA activists claimed that multiculturalism in America proved to be a failure, and it's time the US shuts its door for migrants. "Ban all third world immigration. Legal or illegal. There should be a moratorium on all immigration from the third world. We've reached our capacity. We cannot be the world's soup kitchen anymore," Matt Walsh said. "It's time to ban third world immigration, legal or illegal. We've reached our limit and we have a huge cultural, educational, housing, financial, and essential services problem to fix now because of it. We need a net-zero immigration moratorium with a ban on all third worlders," Charlie Kirk wrote. These calls opened a major debate on how racist the proposition is. Some users suggested banning non-whites from coming to the US, while some said all non-Christians should be prohibited. Minnesota lawmaker says her family entered the US illegally The LA riots prompted many people to come forward with their immigration stories, claiming that there are millions in the US who came to the country illegally because their parents were not aware about the laws. Minnesota lawmaker Rep Kaohly Vang said in the House that she just learned that her family broke to law to come to the US.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Opinion - Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society
In 1958, a group of prominent business leaders founded the John Birch Society. Led by Robert Welch, inheritor of a vast candy fortune, these titans of wealth believed a vast communist conspiracy had penetrated the U.S. government. In 'The Blue Book of the John Birch Society,' Welch presented an apocalyptic vision where politics was no longer a staid battle between the two political parties but a conflict 'between light and darkness; between freedom and slavery; between the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of the anti-Christ for the souls and bodies of men.' Welch claimed these non-Christians sought to replace Christianity with a 'pragmatic opportunism' governed by 'hedonistic aims.' He dubbed his followers 'God's Angry Men.' What energized the Birchers was their belief that the U.S. government was engaged in a plot to strip Americans of their individual rights and impose a collectivist regime on an unsuspecting public. To them, the evidence was conclusive: the 'gradual surrender of American sovereignty to various international organizations,' of which the United Nations is the outstanding example; the centralization of power in Washington, D.C., which resulted in the 'practical elimination of our state lines'; the 'steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system, leading to complete federalization of our public education;' liberal news media through which 'gullible Americans more readily swallow as true' that communism is a 'glorious system;' using the term 'civil rights' to ignite the 'flames of disorder;' and the fluoridation of public drinking water as a means of instituting socialized medicine and imposing vaccine mandates to control the population. To accomplish his aims, Welch sought to recruit 'a million men' who would impose an American-style version of authoritarianism: 'The John Birch Society will operate under completely authoritative control at all levels. … We mean business every step of the way.' The John Birch Society quickly grew to a membership of 30,000 with a staff of 240 employees and more than 400 bookstores across the U.S. with an annual income of $1.3 million. Robert Welch attracted support from the middle class and the well-to-do. As Barry Goldwater noted, 'Every other person in Phoenix is a member of the John Birch Society. I'm not talking about commie-hunted apple pickers or cactus drunks. I'm talking about the highest cast of men of affairs.' What made the John Birch Society popular was its appeal to conspiracists who saw the government as the enemy. Welch even went so far as to call Dwight D. Eisenhower a 'dedicated conscious agent of the communist conspiracy,' a charge that infuriated Eisenhower. Conservatives eventually came to despise the John Birch Society. William F. Buckley wondered how its members could tolerate 'such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.' Yet today, Robert Welch's dream of taking over the Republican Party and imposing an authoritarian-style regime has come to pass. Writing in The Bulwark in 2022, Robert Tracinski declared: 'The Birchers are back. And they're winning.' Tracinski noted the signs of conquest were everywhere: a belief in 'the machinations of a secret cabal that controls everything from the intelligence agencies to the schools,' the 'rapid spread of crackpot theories to otherwise normal and respectable people,' the disarming of conservative critics as 'weak-kneed appeasers handing over the country to its enemies' and an 'uneasy balancing act of conservatives in the media and in politics who don't want to denounce the crackpots for fear of angering their party's base.' Trump's second term has brought about the final victory of the John Birch Society. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy has incorrectly denounced vaccinations as causing the rise of autism in children, while claiming the measles vaccine has not been 'safely tested.' He has virtually dismantled the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been charged with demolishing that agency through the questionable use of a presidential executive order to fulfill Trump's promise to return education to the states 'where it belongs.' The Birchers would be delighted with the virtual elimination of USAID and Trump's pause on all foreign aid, including suspending George W. Bush's President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief that has delivered medication to 25 million people in 54 countries. The United Nations has become a place where Trump cast-offs like Michael Waltz are sent into exile. Trump has installed Kash Patel as FBI director and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, where both are firing those they believe belong to the 'deep state.' Secretary of State Marco Rubio is dismantling of the National Security Council staff, which one White House official gleefully described as the 'gutting' of the 'deep state.' We are also witnessing the targeting of bureaucrats such as Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whom Trump deems as 'egregious leakers and disseminators of falsehoods.' Finally, we are seeing fluoride bans in public drinking water in Utah and Florida, with other states poised to follow suit. No wonder one Bircher exclaimed, 'God has delivered Donald J. Trump to save the United States of America.' John F. Kennedy once described members of the John Birch Society as those on the fringes 'who have sought to escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing slogan, or a convenient scapegoat.' Trump's reelection has given Welch and the John Birch Society something they desired but never really thought imaginable: victory. John Kenneth White is a professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America. His latest book is titled 'Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
02-06-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society
In 1958, a group of prominent business leaders founded the John Birch Society. Led by Robert Welch, inheritor of a vast candy fortune, these titans of wealth believed a vast communist conspiracy had penetrated the U.S. government. In 'The Blue Book of the John Birch Society,' Welch presented an apocalyptic vision where politics was no longer a staid battle between the two political parties but a conflict 'between light and darkness; between freedom and slavery; between the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of the anti-Christ for the souls and bodies of men.' Welch claimed these non-Christians sought to replace Christianity with a 'pragmatic opportunism' governed by 'hedonistic aims.' He dubbed his followers 'God's Angry Men.' What energized the Birchers was their belief that the U.S. government was engaged in a plot to strip Americans of their individual rights and impose a collectivist regime on an unsuspecting public. To them, the evidence was conclusive: To accomplish his aims, Welch sought to recruit 'a million men' who would impose an American-style version of authoritarianism: 'The John Birch Society will operate under completely authoritative control at all levels. … We mean business every step of the way.' The John Birch Society quickly grew to a membership of 30,000 with a staff of 240 employees and more than 400 bookstores across the U.S. with an annual income of $1.3 million. Robert Welch attracted support from the middle class and the well-to-do. As Barry Goldwater noted, 'Every other person in Phoenix is a member of the John Birch Society. I'm not talking about commie-hunted apple pickers or cactus drunks. I'm talking about the highest cast of men of affairs.' What made the John Birch Society popular was its appeal to conspiracists who saw the government as the enemy. Welch even went so far as to call Dwight D. Eisenhower a 'dedicated conscious agent of the communist conspiracy,' a charge that infuriated Eisenhower. Conservatives eventually came to despise the John Birch Society. William F. Buckley wondered how its members could tolerate 'such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.' Yet today, Robert Welch's dream of taking over the Republican Party and imposing an authoritarian-style regime has come to pass. Writing in The Bulwark in 2022, Robert Tracinski declared: 'The Birchers are back. And they're winning.' Tracinski noted the signs of conquest were everywhere: a belief in 'the machinations of a secret cabal that controls everything from the intelligence agencies to the schools,' the 'rapid spread of crackpot theories to otherwise normal and respectable people,' the disarming of conservative critics as 'weak-kneed appeasers handing over the country to its enemies' and an 'uneasy balancing act of conservatives in the media and in politics who don't want to denounce the crackpots for fear of angering their party's base.' Trump's second term has brought about the final victory of the John Birch Society. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy has incorrectly denounced vaccinations as causing the rise of autism in children, while claiming the measles vaccine has not been 'safely tested.' He has virtually dismantled the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been charged with demolishing that agency through the questionable use of a presidential executive order to fulfill Trump's promise to return education to the states 'where it belongs.' The Birchers would be delighted with the virtual elimination of USAID and Trump's pause on all foreign aid, including suspending George W. Bush's President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief that has delivered medication to 25 million people in 54 countries. The United Nations has become a place where Trump cast-offs like Michael Waltz are sent into exile. Trump has installed Kash Patel as FBI director and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, where both are firing those they believe belong to the 'deep state.' Secretary of State Marco Rubio is dismantling of the National Security Council staff, which one White House official gleefully described as the 'gutting' of the 'deep state.' We are also witnessing the targeting of bureaucrats such as Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whom Trump deems as 'egregious leakers and disseminators of falsehoods.' Finally, we are seeing fluoride bans in public drinking water in Utah and Florida, with other states poised to follow suit. No wonder one Bircher exclaimed, 'God has delivered Donald J. Trump to save the United States of America.' John F. Kennedy once described members of the John Birch Society as those on the fringes 'who have sought to escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing slogan, or a convenient scapegoat.' Trump's reelection has given Welch and the John Birch Society something they desired but never really thought imaginable: victory. John Kenneth White is a professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America. His latest book is titled 'Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism.'
Politico
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Doug Wilson's holy war
The gospels according to Pastor Doug Wilson offer a choice: Christ or chaos. America, he believes, has too long chosen the latter. For the past 50 years, the self-described Christian theocrat has been trying to convince the country that it should choose the former — by which he means a 'reformation' that would reshape America into a Christian republic where women are subservient to men, same-sex marriage is outlawed, non-Christians are barred from elected office and the very concept of secularism is jettisoned from society. For much of Wilson's career, the conservative mainstream has shunned him over his extremist views on gender and theocratic rule, as well as his reactionary views on race. (He once co-authored as pamphlet offering a Biblical defense of slavery.) 'But in recent years, Wilson has been making inroads into the Republican establishment, aided by a growing audience for his work among allies of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,' writes Ian Ward in this week's Friday Read. In just the last year, Wilson has appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast, spoken at an event hosted by Charlie Kirk and delivered a speech on Capitol Hill hosted by American Moment, a MAGA-aligned group. He gained even more prominence in January, when Pete Hegseth — a member of the intercontinental network of churches Wilson founded in the late 1990s — was confirmed as secretary of Defense. Ward traveled to Moscow, Idaho, where Wilson has built 'a sprawling evangelical empire around his theological principles,' to find out what makes MAGA's spiritual leader tick — and what he wants to accomplish in Washington. 'In recent years, a growing number of Republican elites clustered around the 'New Right' of the GOP have been looking to Wilson's work as a kind of how-to manual for injecting a hardline conservative form of Protestant Christianity into public life,' he writes, 'a project that ranges from outlawing abortion at the federal level to amending the Constitution to acknowledging the truth of the Bible.' Read the story. 'I think the puppy killer is not that smart …' Can you guess who said this about DHS Secretary Kristi Noem? Scroll to the bottom for the answer.** Is DC Still Safe for Diplomats? … For years, foreign diplomats breathed a sigh of relief when they scored a posting in Washington. It was about as safe as such a job could be. And when violence did target diplomats in D.C., it was usually because trouble followed them here from back home, not Made-in-America terror. The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers at the Jewish Museum might change that, writes Capital City columnist Michael Schaffer. The shootings have 'alerted our home-grown population of angry gunmen to the fact that there are representatives of foreign governments strolling around town at any minute.' Hearing the words 'big' and 'beautiful' a little more than usual? That might have something to do with a certain bill that passed the House while you weren't paying attention — but your politically obsessed friends don't need to know that. Just use these talking points over the holiday weekend, and you'll sound like you spent the week watching C-SPAN. (From Associate Editor Dylon Jones) — Talking to a Republican crowd? They're not likely to care about all the liberals criticizing the bill as an upward transfer of wealth — but they might listen to MAGA's top economist. Tell folks that 'Oren Cass even compared it to a 'death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making' in POLITICO Magazine.' — Make sure to mention Trump's blowup at conservative holdouts who had withheld their support of the bill, yet another sign of his power over the GOP: 'The president had Rep. Andy Harris and other conservatives in the Cabinet Room, and he just flat-out told them: 'Enough is enough. Get it done.' Then he walked out of the room. Lo and behold, the bill passed the House.' — Trump isn't the only one who gets credit. Remind your friends that 'House Speaker Mike Johnson had been putting out fires for months. The morning of the vote, he was talking to Rep. Michael Cloud — who previously said the bill 'fell short' — at 3 a.m. Later that morning he was sitting with Rep. Andrew Clyde, who got a concession on the taxation of gun silencers. And not long before the bill passed at 7 a.m., he was shaking hands with Rep. Max Miller, who had been irritated with the process. It was like a victory lap. You've got to imagine Johnson is celebrating this weekend.' — Trump told hardliners not to 'fuck around with Medicaid,' but the bill does include cuts to Medicaid spending — opening up an attack line for Democrats looking to pull the rug out from under the administration in the midterms. Tell your friends that 'the Democrats are ready to pounce: They're about to roll out attack ads over Medicaid cuts in 25 battleground districts.' Your Roommate Is a Recession Indicator … Fears of a recession have abounded since Trump kicked off his volatile trade wars. But how will we really know when a recession is upon us? Catherine Kim asked five economists for the recession indicators we should look for, especially the ones that are easy to overlook — and their answers might surprise you. MAGA Economist: The Big Beautiful Bill Is a Bust … Conservative populists have looked with mounting hope to the Trump administration to move away from Republican economic orthodoxy — but they won't find much to celebrate in the 'big, beautiful bill' that just passed the House, says Oren Cass, the MAGA movement's top economic mind. '[It's] not something that has an especially coherent logic to it or much prospect of actually accomplishing the things that I think people want,' he tells Ian Ward. This Pro-Trump Rapper Is Getting Deported … In 2023, Cuban rapper El Funky won praise from conservatives like then-Sen. Marco Rubio when he released the Grammy-winning protest anthem 'Patria y Vida,' or 'Homeland and Life,' rebuking Fidel Castro's regime. But now, El Funky's residency application has been denied, and he faces deportation and likely imprisonment as a dissenter in Cuba. Nonetheless, he still considers himself a Trump supporter, he tells Achy Obejas. 'I understand trying to get rid of those who shouldn't be here. But Trump should look at each individual case,' he says. 'Like mine.' MAGA's Menswear Mastermind … Those of you in politics know Michael Anton as a conservative official in the Trump administration. But Derek Guy — or the Twitter menswear guy, as he's affectionately known online — knows him as Manton, the imperious and respected menswear critic on StyleForum, where aficionados and connoisseurs debate the finer points of men's fashion. He was known for the concept of 'Conservative Business Dress' — a standard of dressing that his coworkers in the White House routinely fail to meet. ('trump=bad' he once posted on StyleForum.) Guy takes us on a comprehensive tour of Anton's alter-ego as the fashion police. An Intimate Look at the New York Mayor's Race … The New York mayor's race is heating up, with the controversial former Gov. of New York, Andrew Cuomo, facing off against a pack of Democratic challengers led by young socialist Zohran Mamdani. With the June 24 Democratic primary fast approaching, photographer Mark Ostow hit the trail to capture the top contenders in his signature, stark style. Get ready to see the mayor's race like you've never seen it before. From the drafting table of editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker. Who Dissed? answer: It was Sunny Hostin, one of the hosts of The View, talking about Noem's inability to correctly define 'habeas corpus' during a Senate hearing. Hostin was also referencing Noem's memoir, in which she wrote about shooting and killing her dog. politicoweekend@
The Hindu
14-05-2025
- The Hindu
People from other faiths prayed for me, says Assam pastor absolved of ‘magic healing' charges
A pastor in eastern Assam's Golaghat district, who was arrested on charges of converting people through magical healing, said he had faith in the 'power' of the Constitution of India to deliver justice. A day after the Golaghat district court dismissed the case against him, pastor Pranjal Bhuyan told The Hindu on Wednesday (May 14, 2025) that the collective prayers of Christians and non-Christians had also played a role in absolving him of a crime he did not commit. The 38-year-old project coordinator of Golaghat Baptist Church was arrested on November 23, 2024, under the Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Act of 2024, which seeks to curb deceptive healing practices. The first person to have been arrested under this Act, he was released on bail six days later. 'The police complaint was filed by a group of people who did not know me. I did not know any of them either. They could have been influenced by someone or instigated through social media, which spreads hatred,' Mr. Bhuyan said. The First Information Report against him was lodged at a police station in Dergaon, his home town about 280 east of Guwahati and 22 km north of district headquarters Golaghat. 'Why should I force or lure people through magical practices to convert when I adopted Christianity voluntarily after stepping into adulthood?' he asked. A Hindu by birth, Mr. Bhuyan said he became a Christian in 2006 after watching some shows by televangelists or television preachers. 'I faced a lot of resistance at home, but my parents relented after they found my association with the church made me a better person with a positive attitude. They became Christians six years after me,' he said. 'Prayers only' Mr. Bhuyan denied using magic or tricks to brainwash people, as alleged. 'I am neither God nor a doctor to cure anyone. People come to me for prayer requests for any problem they face. As a pastor or evangelist taught by the Bible to love people of any faith and pray for their well-being or forgiveness, I pray for them,' he said. 'Some people let me know that the prayers worked for them. I feel good and move on to more prayers for others. If this is a crime, so be it,' he said. Mr. Bhuyan said the members of his family, including his wife and daughter, were traumatised by his arrest. 'I assured them that my belief in Christ and the Constitution of India would see me through,' he said. Hoping that he would be the first and the last person to be booked under the Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Act, Mr. Bhuyan underscored the need to implement the piece of law carefully so that it was not misused. 'I was falsely accused of converting people, and the court's verdict made it clear. However, I bear no ill will against the complainants because not forgiving them will go against what I have imbibed,' he said.
