On October 26, 2001, just 45 days following the events of 9/11, then Republican President George Bush signed the Patriot Act into law.&nbsp;Patriotic violation of the Constitution?The groundbreaking act provided for warrantless surveillance and searches of property, calls, messages and business records of American citizens in direct contravention of the Bill of Rights.<blockquote>Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. [Emphasis added].</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Educating students about the Patriot Act’s infringement on their 4th amendment rights yesterday! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/restorethe4th?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#restorethe4th</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/YALiberty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YALiberty</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sfliberty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sfliberty</a> <a href="https://t.co/Oh6xxEOVfM">pic.twitter.com/Oh6xxEOVfM</a>— YAL@NEU (@NortheasternYAL) <a href="https://twitter.com/NortheasternYAL/status/922845710600626176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>Biden wrote it before 9/11?Having been written and passed by both houses of Congress at an astonishing pace, one might wonder whether a draft of the legislation predates the tragedy of 9/11. One need not rely on conjecture, though. Joe Biden revealed, in testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2002, that he in fact authored the main parts of the act half a decade before it passed:<blockquote>[Y]ou can ask the attorney general this because I got a call when he introduced the Patriot Act. He said, "Joe, I'm introducing the act basically as you wrote it in 1994.” . . . [B]ut just to set the record straight; almost the same thing that got passed, the Patriot Act, was introduced by me in 1994 and it was the right wing that defeated it. You guys tried to help get it passed, including the wiretap changes and the rest.&nbsp; [Emphasis added].</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">In his own words<a href="https://t.co/dsP9leTaZD">https://t.co/dsP9leTaZD</a>— PKSTruth (@entitymaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/entitymaster/status/1701249328918979029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>Worse than it sounds?The Center for Democracy &amp; Technology (CDT), which opposed the Patriot Act even before it was passed, <a href="https://cdt.org/insights/reflecting-on-20-years-of-the-patriot-act-u-s-surveillance-authorities-must-still-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explained</a> that the legislation turned out to be even more of an encroachment on the Fourth Amendment than they imagined and that it was approved by senators who did not read it:<blockquote>The day before the Patriot Act passed in October 2001, Center for Democracy &amp; Technology founder Jerry Berman warned, “This bill has been called a compromise, but the only thing compromised is our civil liberties.”&nbsp;. . .[F]ormer U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, the lone “no” vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act, and Laura Murphy, who managed the ACLU’s Legislative Office in Washington, D.C. at the time of the bill’s passage . . . reflected on the speed with which the bill moved through Congress, despite containing “an old wishlist of the FBI . . . because they knew it was going to pass.” Feingold remarked that many other members of the Senate admitted that they never read or even gained a basic understanding of what was in the Patriot Act. But their review, said Murphy, revealed that “some of the authorities went far beyond anything we could have imagined." [Emphases added].</blockquote>The CDT detailed those new “authorities," including the “top secret" origins of some of the surveillance:<blockquote>The Patriot Act expanded the ability of government to obtain a broad range of business records without a warrant, and to issue National Security Letters or administrative subpoenas — and for both of these authorities, it removed the requirement that the government show that the information related to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.&nbsp;Section 702, a program that allows warrantless collection of the content of communications, had its origins in the top secret Stellar Wind program conducted under a claim of inherent presidential power and was then codified by Congress in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, also remains problematic: among other issues, once the government has collected information, current rules allow it to search that data for information about specific Americans without a warrant or court review. [Emphases added].</blockquote>In fact, new agencies like the TSA and DHS, were created to check and spy on citizens, often patriotic Americans, to enforce the Orwellian named Patriot Act.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Part 23 The Goal The Events of 911 changed America, it introduced the Patriot Act 1&amp;2, it established the Dept of Homeland Security and used to pass Military Commissions Act to remove Habeas Corpus, set the events to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, made domestic surveillance legal,… <a href="https://t.co/B8KzanklyR">pic.twitter.com/B8KzanklyR</a>— The Punisher (@PunishDem1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/PunishDem1776/status/1699181247870718216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>Snowden turns the tideNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world in June, 2013, with his release, from overseas, of hundreds of thousands of documents detailing the shocking extent of the US government's surveillance of its citizenry, as <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23768248" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">summarized</a> by the BBC:<blockquote>6 June 2013: Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald reports the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers under a top secret court order granting the government unlimited authority to obtain communications data for a three-month period.7 June: The Guardian and Washington Post report the NSA is accessing the systems of US internet giants including Google and Facebook, and collecting data under a previously undisclosed surveillance programme called Prism. The programme allows officials to collect material including emails, live chats and search histories. [Emphases added].</blockquote>Snowden also took on the government's claim that only criminals need Fourth Amendment protections:<blockquote>People who say they don’t care about privacy because they have got nothing to hide have not really thought too deeply about these issues, because what they are really saying is, “I do not care about this right.” When you say, “I don’t care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,” that is no different than saying, “I don’t care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say” or “freedom of the press because I have nothing to write.”</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">End the Patriot Act. End FISA 702. End the surveillance state. <a href="https://t.co/ucrbfdVZ7q">pic.twitter.com/ucrbfdVZ7q</a>— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) <a href="https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1698824911538487739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bpO3GeXTceM" title="Edward Snowden about Privacy" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>In great part due to public resistance that built up following Snowden's revelations, Republican Senator Rand Paul successfully blocked the renewal of the Patriot Act on June 1, 2015, the day of its expiration, with the assistance of two Democrat senators. Rand, though, was well aware that the government would not give up, expressly <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/congress/rand-paul-blocks-renewal-of-patriot-act-s-expiring-powers-battle-continues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warning</a> that the victory "might be short lived," in a statement after the Senate recessed that day: “Tonight, we stopped the illegal NSA bulk-data collection. . . . This is a victory no matter how you look at it. It might be short lived.”A rose by any other nameThe block on the NSA's collection of Americans’ phone call records, in bulk, and other spying on citizens, was indeed short lived, as senators came back the very next day, June 2, 2015, to pass the USA Freedom Act, which reinstated major surveillance authorities that lapsed with the expiration of the Patriot Act the day before.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Reminder that the Patriot Act is now USA Freedom Act <a href="https://t.co/KNi3KD6pdK">https://t.co/KNi3KD6pdK</a> <a href="https://t.co/bKQO0ae9A9">pic.twitter.com/bKQO0ae9A9</a>— Tim Jondis (@globalistcancer) <a href="https://twitter.com/globalistcancer/status/1240131458288750592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>The reinstated powers included surveillance of so-called "lone wolves," people the government claims to are planning terrorism despite their failure to join or even link up with any terrorist groups, “roving wiretaps” where new phone numbers can be tapped with a warrant for a different number, and continued mass data collection.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Revised bill: * Has measures intended to address problems from IG's investigation into Carter Page surveillance * Reauthorizes until 12/2023 S215 “traditional business records provision,” roving wiretaps authority &amp; lone wolf amendment to FISA definition of agent of foreign power <a href="https://t.co/458Vt7veVj">pic.twitter.com/458Vt7veVj</a>— Center for Democracy &amp; Technology (@CenDemTech) <a href="https://twitter.com/CenDemTech/status/1238106560699740160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>Trump blocksAfter attempts to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act failed, the surveillance law expired on March 15, 2020, and attempts to renew it were <a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/news/fisa-provisions-die-in-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blocked</a> by President Donald Trump:<blockquote>But with President Donald Trump suddenly opposing the renewal bill and encouraging Republicans to oppose it, there were not enough votes to pass the legislation to restore warrantless access that began under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">PRES. TRUMP helped stop renewal of the Patriot Act in May 2020, after Mitch McConnell attempted to extend its provisions via the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act. Bush's Patriot Act became law after 9-11-2001, giving intel agencies supreme surveillance powers over U.S. citizens. <a href="https://t.co/Vf1pBvhqVD">pic.twitter.com/Vf1pBvhqVD</a>— Mr. Cardinal Truth (@mrcardinaltruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrcardinaltruth/status/1520182286032916480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>While the provisions of the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act have now expired, it is not known how much of the mass surveillance revealed by Snowden secretly persists.Never waste a crisis or never waste a chance to create a crisis?While the passage of the Patriot Act led to charges that the government exploited the 9/11 crisis in order to pass the surveillance laws that Biden had already drafted, being sure not to “waste” the crisis in the language of Winston Churchill, others, like Greg Reese, claim that the crisis itself was created by government actors and not just exploited.<div class="raw-html-embed"><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u4"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");</script>

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Bank of America is mourning the loss of a young employee who died suddenly Thursday, the second one to do so this month.<h2>25 years young&nbsp;</h2>25-year-old Adnan Deumic was playing soccer with some of his colleagues from Bank of America’s London office when he suddenly collapsed. CPR was administered but failed to save the young trader. While a cause of death has not yet been revealed,&nbsp;The New York Post&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/business/bank-of-america-trader-dies-following-death-of-leo-lukenas/">reported</a> that Deumic is believed to have suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.“The death of our teammate is a tragedy, and we are shocked by the sudden loss of a popular, young colleague,” a Bank of America spokesman said. “We are committed to providing our full support to Adnan’s family, his friends and to our many employees grieving his loss.”<h2>Former Green Beret</h2>The tragedy came exactly two weeks after another Bank of America employee, 35-year-old Leo Lukenas III, also died suddenly. The father of two and former Green Beret&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/09/business/wall-street-bankers-death-ignites-anger-at-long-workweeks-could-prompt-walkout/">reportedly</a> died from acute coronary artery thrombus, a blood clot in the heart that causes heart attacks.&nbsp;While difficult working conditions are being blamed for the two deaths, social media netizens are suggesting the COVID-19 vaccines may have played a part.<h2>What the Science Says</h2>In 2022, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z#Sec14">discovered</a> a direct correlation between the COVID-19 shots and a 25% rise in cardiac events among young people. The State of Florida, in a&nbsp;<a href="https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">statement</a> warning against COVID-19 vaccination for males aged 18–39, attached its own study conducted by the Florida Department of Health. The study found an 84% increase in cardiac-related deaths among males in the 18–39 age group within 28 days of receiving an mRNA shot.<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27332903/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Studies</a> before COVID-19 estimated the annual number of sudden cardiac deaths among people under 35 to be 1.3 cases per 100,000.<h2>Former CDC director: ‘We have to be honest’</h2>Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield last week called for a public discussion about significant side effects from the COVID-19 shots.“Nobody wanted to talk about the potential there was a problem with the vaccines because they were afraid that would cause people to not want to get vaccinated,” Dr. Redfield told Chris Cuomo on&nbsp;News Nation.“We have to be honest, some people got significant side effects from the vaccine. I have a number of people that are quite ill and they never had COVID, but they are ill from the vaccine. And we just have to acknowledge that,” he added.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">This is huge: The former director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits Covid shots caused ‘significant side effects’ among young healthy people. He also admitted that the vaccine wasn’t really “necessary” for people under 50 years old. He THEN… <a href="https://t.co/YR9yFlYtwV">pic.twitter.com/YR9yFlYtwV</a>— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) <a href="https://twitter.com/DiedSuddenly_/status/1791989489658691991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

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Governments need to roll out digital identity programs to fight climate change, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said last week.<h2>Digital ID: A tracking system</h2>In an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.undp.org/blog/why-legal-identity-crucial-tackling-climate-crisis">article</a> titled “Why legal identity is crucial to tackling the climate crisis,” UNDP officials made the case for why digital identity is a key weapon against climate change. If governments assign digital identities to citizens, they explained, authorities can track populations more easily in an environmental disaster.The UNDP further argued that countries which roll out digital identity programs will have more data about their taxpayers that can then be used in an emergency. Governments should know the income and health status of every taxpayer, as well as their education level. This would help authorities have a more “targeted response” to citizens during, for example, a weather disaster, according to the world body.<h2>Digital ID: A way to ‘change behaviors’</h2>But digital identity is not only for tracking taxpayer movements and backgrounds. It can also be used to track how much energy taxpayers are consuming, says the UNDP. Once a government has this data, it can force citizens to change their energy consumption habits, or what the UNDP calls “inspiring behavior change.”“Leveraging digital legal ID data to track energy consumption, inspire behaviour change, and enhance sustainability measures can mitigate climate-related disasters,” the UNDP officials wrote.This push for digital ID, however, is not a new one. The UN has had a years-long objective to ensure that every person is assigned a digital ID. One of the organization’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to register all children under five with digital legal identities.<h2>Digital ID: The center of a taxpayer's life</h2>According to the UN’s vision, each individual’s digital identity will be tied to other aspects of his or her life, creating a kind of digital web. At the center of this web would be the ID, which would be accessible to government authorities.&nbsp;Frontline News&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/un-aims-to-tie-vaccinations-to-legal-identity-says-biometric-firm">learned</a> last year, for example, that GAVI, a UN-sponsored vaccination body, began pilot testing a program in Ghana that immediately registers the biometric data of every newborn. At birth, infants’ fingerprints are scanned, as are the voices of their parents or caregivers. These data are used to create digital identities that track each baby’s vaccinations and allow him or her to receive government benefits.In May 2023, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf">called</a> for universal welfare, which he said governments should distribute to citizens according to their&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/governments-tech-giants-began-developing-digital-i-ds-in-2020-report-reveals">digital IDs</a>. Those IDs, he explained, should be linked to private bank accounts:<blockquote>Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programmes.</blockquote><h2>Digital ID: Surveillance State</h2>But the concept raises concern among opponents of digital ID, which is known as the&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/canada-minister-confirms-vaccine-passports-paved-way-for-digital-id">successor</a> to vaccine passports. Critics say that digital ID increases the&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/cbdc-will-not-be-anonymous-fed-chair-confirms">probability</a> of government surveillance and totalitarian overreach. For example, while a government can use a taxpayer’s digital ID to deposit money, it could also use it to lock their bank account if they haven’t paid their carbon taxes, another proposed reform by Guterres.

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Climate vaccine developer ArkeaBio has raised $26.5 million in Series A funding, the company&nbsp;<a href="https://live-arkea-bio-corp.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ArkeaBio-Raises-26.5M-to-Reduce-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-with-Methane-Vaccine.pdf">announced</a> last week. ArkeaBio aims to fight climate change by vaccinating livestock.&nbsp;<h2>Suppressing methane emissions</h2>A vaccine being developed by the company is designed to prevent animals from releasing methane emissions. Once vaccinated with the AkreaBio shot, an animal’s immune system is supposed to create antibodies that will target methane-producing microbes.&nbsp;The Boston-based startup&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/breakthrough-energy-ventures-leads-12m-seed-investment-in-arkeabio-to-develop-and-commercialize-technology-reducing-on-farm-methane-emissions-301699932.html">secured</a> its first major investment in late 2022 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investment fund founded by billionaire Bill Gates.&nbsp;“Our vaccination-based approach allows for much-needed decarbonization of global meat and dairy products across multiple geographies, supporting greater sustainability in agriculture,” the company explains on its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.arkeabio.com/">website</a>.<h2>Pharma industry eyes climate vaccines for humans</h2>While ArkeaBio hopes to deploy the vaccines worldwide for livestock, it has not yet announced plans to develop climate vaccines for humans.But human-targeted climate vaccines do appear to be in the works. Researchers at Gingko Bioworks, a biotech firm also backed by Gates, have&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/gates-backed-scientists-predict-deadly-climate-pandemics">floated</a> mRNA injections as a measure to mitigate the impact of global warming. The World Economic Forum has also&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/world-economic-forum-pushes-climate-vaccines">expressed</a> support for climate vaccines.The biggest push, however, is coming from the pharmaceutical industry, as vaccine makers&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/vaccine-maker-declares-climate-change-public-health-crisis">claim</a> vaccines are a “critical response to the climate crisis.” In December, pharmaceutical giant GSK wrote on its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/behind-the-science-magazine/vaccines-climate-change-health-economy/">website</a> that “[i]n the face of climate change, vaccines play a crucial but underestimated role.”AstraZeneca last year declared climate change to be a public health crisis, sparking concerns that the pharma industry may play a role in climate mandates. The declaration came two months after drugmaker Sanofi’s Executive Vice President of Vaccines Thomas Triomphe penned an article titled “Vaccine innovation is a critical response to the climate crisis.”<h2>Climate vaccines required for vaccine passports?</h2>Pharma industry chatter about climate vaccines comes as the World Health Organization (WHO), which has warned of an impending climate pandemic, is developing global vaccine passports. If climate vaccines for people are developed, the WHO could demand that the vaccine passports display a person's climate vaccine status together with other so-called “immunizations.”A status showing that passport holder one is not up to date on any scheduled vaccine could lead to the denial of that person's right to travel between nations or even within a nation. &nbsp;<h2>Efficient system … for denying travel rights</h2>In June last year, the WHO&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/05-06-2023-the-european-commission-and-who-launch-landmark-digital-health-initiative-to-strengthen-global-health-security">announced</a> the launch of its “digital health partnership” with the European Commission. The joint program will involve the development of global vaccine passports among other “digital products to deliver better health for all.”According to the WHO, the passport system will allow “global mobility” and protect people not only from “future health threats” but those that are “on-going”.“In June 2023, WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics,” announced the WHO in a statement.The globalist organization clarified that this will likely include a global vaccine passport, much like many Western countries used during the COVID-19 pandemic:<blockquote>This partnership will work to technically develop the WHO system with a staged approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitisation of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Expanding such digital solutions will be essential to deliver better health for citizens across the globe.</blockquote>As a “first step”, the WHO and European Commission will “ensure that the current EU digital certificates continue to function effectively.”&nbsp;<h4>Related Articles</h4><a href="https://frontline.news/post/gates-backed-scientists-predict-deadly-climate-pandemics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gates-backed scientists predict deadly climate pandemics</a>

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Little firms protecting the little guyAn amendment to the New York State constitution that would have severely curtailed the rights of normal New Yorkers has been <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/000778_2023_Marjorie_Byrnes_et_al_v_Marjorie_Byrnes_et_al_DECISION___ORDER_ON_81.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">taken off</a> the November 5, 2024 ballot, thanks to the concerted efforts of two attorneys from a small legal firm, Cox Lawyers PLCC.The amendment concerned is usually referred to as Proposition One or the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). As things stand, discrimination based on race, color, creed, and religion is already banned in New York State. The ERA would have added ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health care and autonomy (additions to the current constitution are in boldface in the extract below):<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1715854344/ERA_4697ee5496.png"></figure>&nbsp;The only people without a protected category are “normals”While protecting people sounds like a noble intention, the ERA, if passed, would have in practice led to certain people in these categories being “protected” at the expense of others — &nbsp;who, in most cases, would be the majority of New Yorkers. For example:<ul><li>Protecting “gender identity and expression” would lead to an inability to bar men (that is, “transwomen”) from women's dormitories, sports, locker rooms and showers, public bathrooms, etc..</li><li>Banning “age-based discrimination” would potentially allow minors to take charge of their medical decisions and sideline their parents or guardians, barring them from intervening even in the event that they chose to undergo life-altering procedures.</li><li>Protecting “reproductive autonomy” would have the practical effect of enshrining in the constitution the right to have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, right up to birth.</li></ul>This is why people such as Lee Zeldin, gubernatorial candidate for New York in 2022, have described Proposition 1 as an unprecedented threat to women's rights:<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">In New York, there has been no greater threat to women's and girls’ rights in our lifetimes than Kathy Hochul and the Dems attempting to enshrine their far-left, woke agenda into the State Constitution through Proposition 1, which is on this November’s ballot. To defend your… <a href="https://t.co/NfUzFf7hBK">pic.twitter.com/NfUzFf7hBK</a>— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1787622930593067394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Arrogance came before a fallGiven that New York is a solidly Democratic state, the ERA will almost certainly pass if it appears on the November ballot. Attorneys <a href="https://attorneycox.substack.com/p/victory-we-just-won-another-big-case?utm_source=substack&amp;amp%3Butm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bobbie Anne Cox</a> and Chris Browne attacked the proposed amendment on procedural grounds, as it was advanced in an unconstitutional manner.<ul class="todo-list"><li><label class="todo-list__label"><input type="checkbox" disabled="disabled">Senator George Borello excoriated politiicians for their arrogance in assuming that they could get away with cutting corners in pushing their agenda:</label></li></ul><blockquote>The Democrats that control state government think the rules don’t apply to them, which is why we repeatedly see them cut legal and ethical corners in order to achieve their political aims. While the Democrats will appeal, I urge the appellate judges who will make the next determination to be guided by the dictates of the state constitution and not politics. We all lose when the authority of our constitution is weakened, which is why I am optimistic this ruling will stand.</blockquote>&nbsp;Those who oppose woke ideology labeled ‘extremist’According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-new-york-amendment-election-2024-4d3815708ef78c11599e1ebbb35ef896?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">media</a> accounts, Democrats had been “counting on the measure to help generate voter turnout." The Democrats have a $20 million <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/03/building-strategy-pass-equal-rights-amendment-new-york/395147/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">budget</a> to promote the ERA, and Attorney-General Letitia James has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-yorks-abortion-rights-amendment-knocked-off-november-109994832" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">insisted</a> that her party will appeal the ruling;&nbsp;<blockquote>The Equal Rights Amendment was advanced to protect New Yorkers’ fundamental rights, including reproductive freedom and access to abortion care. This is a disappointing court decision, but we will appeal because New Yorkers deserve to be protected by their Constitution, especially as our basic freedoms and rights are under attack.</blockquote>Governor Kathy Hochul expressed similar sentiments, and also went as far as <a href="https://www.wxxinews.org/new-york-public-news-network/2024-05-07/ny-dems-confident-equal-rights-amendment-will-be-back-on-nov-ballot-after-ruling-strikes-it-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">calling</a> the judge who ruled in the case, Justice Daniel Doyle, an “extremist judge”:<blockquote>Our decades-long fight to protect equality and reproductive freedom will not be thrown off track by one extremist judge and I look forward to casting my ballot for the Equal Rights Amendment in November.</blockquote>

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