An MSNBC guest claimed that boycott threats against major retailers like Target amounted to &#8220;literal&#8221; economic terrorism.
The guest argued, in a video clip that surfaced on Twitter on Tuesday, that such boycotts were proof that a small number of people could control what a store like Target did or did not sell simply by refusing to shop there until the appropriate changes were made.
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If you’re boycotting Target you’re a literal terrorist, says talking head on MSNBC. <a href="https://t.co/TrlCCw0CAb">pic.twitter.com/TrlCCw0CAb</a>
&mdash; Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1663486360680841218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When Target caves in to this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation, you get to control its policies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is economic terrorism, literally terrorism, creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want and not sell the things you don&#8217;t.&#8221;
Critics quickly responded to the video, saying in a number of tweets that consumers deciding what to buy – and where they would and would not spend their money – was not terrorism at all. Rather, they argued that it was simply capitalism at work.
Target has faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-had-a-special-push-to-hire-lgbtq-designers-for-pride-collection-ahead-of-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considerable backlash</a> over prominent LGBTQ Pride displays – which include transgender-friendly swimwear and Pride-themed products for babies and toddlers.
When photos and videos showing the Pride products marketed to children went viral, executives reportedly scrambled to avoid what they referred to as a &#8220;Bud Light situation&#8221; — namely the dramatic loss in market capitalization that hit Anheuser-Busch after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-situation-target-makes-emergency-calls-after-backlash-to-tuck-friendly-female-swimwear-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light</a> partnered with controversial trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Following an &#8220;emergency call&#8221; to mitigate disaster, in some areas of the country, stores have opted to move the displays to more out-of-the-way areas.
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Despite that, calls for a boycott of the retail giant have continued to grow – and by Friday, the Minnesota-based company had seen a 14% drop in stock price. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-loses-10-billion-in-just-ten-days-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overall loss</a> in market capitalization was calculated to be about $10 billion over the last ten days.

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MSNBC Guest Says Target Boycotts Are ‘Literally Terrorism’

MSNBC Guest Says Target Boycotts Are 'Literally Terrorism'

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A United States convoy was reportedly attacked in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nigeria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nigeria</a> this week, resulting in three people being kidnapped and four others being killed.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/africa/nigeria-us-convoy-attack-intl-afr/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the attack took place in the southeastern Anambra state and that local officials confirmed to the network that the assailants “murdered two police operatives and two staff of the US consulate and set their bodies and their vehicles ablaze.”
The incident reportedly happened approximately 40 miles away from the state capital in the town of Atani, according to a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gunmen-attack-us-convoy-southeast-nigeria-2-policemen-99375265" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press. Officials have pinned the blame on separatists who want to start their own country and whose leader is currently on trial for terrorism.
John Kirby, spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, said that none of those who were killed were Americans.
“No U.S. citizens were involved and therefore there were no U.S. citizens hurt,” he said. “We are aware of some casualties, perhaps even some killed.”
Local police officials told CNN that no Americans were even in the convoy.
“The security of our personnel is always paramount, and we take extensive precautions when organizing trips to the field,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack by any groups. Islamic terrorism is prevalent throughout Nigeria and the entire continent of Africa.
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Attackers carried out a separate attack in Nigeria&#8217;s central Plateau state on Tuesday, killing at least <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/at-least-30-people-killed-in-clashes-in-central-nigeria-govt-6170a31c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30 people</a>, most of whom were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/armed-attackers-nigeria-kill-20-mostly-women-children-2023-05-16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> as women and children.

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A San Diego official blamed President Joe Biden on Sunday for an Afghan national on the FBI&#8217;s terrorist watch list entering the U.S. illegally through the southern border.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested the unidentified individual who made it across the U.S.-Mexico divide near Otay Mesa, California, on Wednesday, according to a report from Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin. The report said that the FBI confirmed the match and was now in charge of the investigation.
&#8220;This should serve as a stark reminder to President Biden and the Federal Government on the critical need for maintaining a strong border,&#8221; said Jim Desmond, Supervisor, San Diego County Board of Supervisors. &#8220;The open border policy has allowed fentanyl to pour into our country, asylum seekers to be human trafficked, and terrorists to attempt entry into our country.&#8221;
&#8220;The protection of our citizens, the preservation of national security, and the facilitation of safe and legal immigration should be a top priority for this administration, yet they have failed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The presence of an individual on the terror watch list crossing our borders is a stark reminder of the failures of the Federal Government that are now being put on San Diegans and Americans.&#8221;
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) confirmed the report, and went one step further, saying that the individual was &#8220;a wanted terrorist.&#8221;
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I can confirm that a wanted terrorist crossed our open border in the San Diego region just days ago — even if the Biden Administration won’t.
&mdash; Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) <a href="https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa/status/1657886113518825478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Biden&#8217;s open borders aren&#8217;t just a gateway to five million illegals, record human and child trafficking and the deadliest drug crisis in our history,&#8221; Issa said in a statement. &#8220;Biden&#8217;s reckless policy is also an open invitation to even the most wanted terrorists in the world to come to America.&#8221;
&#8220;They know they&#8217;ll never have to leave,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The nation knows what&#8217;s going on and this president has only begun to be held accountable for what he has done!&#8221;

Migrants at Tijuana-San Diego border as Title 42 ends

San Diego Official Slams Biden After Afghan National On Terror Watchlist Illegally Entered U.S. At Border

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Border Patrol</a> agents reportedly arrested an Afghan national on the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/tsc#:~:text=The%20TSC%20works%20to%20protect,cannot%20nominate%20someone%20you%20know." target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI&#8217;s terrorism watchlist</a> who illegally entered America by crossing its southern border with a group of migrants last week.
This unidentified individual made it across the U.S.-Mexico divide near Otay Mesa, California, on Wednesday, Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin tweeted on Sunday, citing &#8220;multiple&#8221; U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-customs-and-border-protection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Customs and Border Protection</a> (CBP) sources.
The reporter said he was told the FBI &#8220;confirmed the match&#8221; and the bureau is leading an investigation.
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BREAKING: Per multiple CBP sources, Border Patrol agents in San Diego sector arrested an Afghan national on the FBI’s terror watchlist after he crossed illegally w/ group of migrants near Otay Mesa, CA on Wednesday. I’m told FBI confirmed the match, &amp; is leading investigation.
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1657794153760145411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire reached out to CBP as well as the FBI seeking comment. CBP deferred to the FBI. The bureau said it would not comment on the specific inquiry.
&#8220;We are vigilant in our efforts to detect and assess possible threats and we work closely with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to keep our communities safe,&#8221; the FBI added.
News of the arrest generated a great deal of reactions on social media.
&#8220;And remember: got aways have never been higher. Vast stretches of border totally unguarded and unpatrolled as agents forced to process and release record influx,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1657805587390906368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Stephen Miller</a>, who served as a top aide to former President Donald Trump.
The reported arrest took place as the Biden administration made preparations for an expected influx of people at the border with the pandemic-era Title 42, which allowed authorities to quickly turn away migrants at the border on public health grounds, expiring at the end of Thursday. Multiple cities and at least one state declared emergencies as officials braced for a surge in migrants, many seeking entry through legal pathways.
Still, Republicans have assailed President Joe Biden for instituting “open border policies” that they say have fueled problems, such as fentanyl drug trafficking and illegal immigration. Some Democrats have also condemned the administration for its response to the border situation.
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Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> on Sunday rejected the criticism. &#8220;It&#8217;s extraordinary what we&#8217;ve done over the past 18 months or so,&#8221; Mayorkas said during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; In addition, the secretary said Border Patrol encounters have dropped by half in the two days since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title 42</a> ended.
<a href="https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1657796315554672644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melugin said</a> Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who represents a district along California&#8217;s southern border, confirmed the Afghan national arrest with a CBP contact.
&#8220;Biden&#8217;s open borders aren&#8217;t just a gateway to five million illegals, record human and child trafficking and the deadliest drug crisis in our history,&#8221; Issa said in a statement. &#8220;Biden&#8217;s reckless policy is also an open invitation to even the most wanted terrorists in the world to come to America.&#8221;

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The aide to a Northern Virginia school board chairman, a Satanist, a campaign staffer for a Soros-backed prosecutor, a consultant for a Democrat sheriff candidate, and a local reporter were part of a secret clique that plotted to shield Democrats from backlash over the school system’s coverup of a transgender rape, The Daily Wire has learned.
A member of the Loudoun County group also made a handwritten dossier listing the names of 115 Virginia residents, mostly private citizens, who were described collectively as &#8220;bigots,&#8221; according to photographs reviewed by The Daily Wire. The list of names included additional descriptions such as &#8220;pedophile,&#8221; &#8220;psychopath,&#8221; and &#8220;antichrist.&#8221;
Rhetoric in the group&#8217;s chatroom was far more incendiary than anything cited by the National School Board Association when it pushed for domestic terrorism statutes to be invoked against conservative parents and other concerned citizens. The Biden Department of Justice used the association&#8217;s plea as the basis for a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> decrying a &#8220;disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators [and] board members.” But messages reviewed by The Daily Wire show that in the case of Loudoun County, it was leftists who espoused violence and hate, which they directed at concerned parents.
The Daily Wire reported Wednesday that private chats in the group called “Loudoun Love Warriors” included threats against parents opposed to the school district&#8217;s embrace of a radical transgender agenda.
“Someone gonna get hurt on their side and I hope I get to do it;” read one post. “I’m sooo ready to show up with guns lol,” read another.  “If he had said that s*** about black kids or autistic kids <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutors-staffer-dem-candidate-in-violence-tinged-group-that-plotted-against-conservative-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I would shoot him</a>,” read yet another.
The primary purpose of the group appeared to be to prevent Democrat incumbents in Loudoun County, a community just west of Washington, D.C., from being blamed for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rape cover-up</a> and to target allies of the rape victim’s family for destruction.
“It’s going to be extremely difficult for these [school board] members to hang in,” group member Kristen Gorczyk, who is employed by the school board as an aide to Chair Ian Serotkin, advised. “We really need to hold the line.”
The group sought to destroy Elizabeth Lancaster, the lawyer who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represented the ninth-grade rape victim</a>, obsessing about her to the point of tracking her ex-husband and brother.
“They call us socialist, leftists, marxists, progressives,” Heather Gottlieb, who spends time regularly with Loudoun County Prosecutor Buta Biberaj as part of her “Justice Academy,” wrote.
Tori Truesdale, an organizer with Students Demand Action, responded: “Yep. I’m all of those. She about to lose her job [Elizabeth].”
Lancaster is a lifelong Democrat and former public defender who decided to run against Biberaj in the Democratic primary for prosecutor after the superintendent lied about a ninth-grade girl’s rape and the George Soros-backed prosecutor personally tried to put the rape victim’s father in jail. But Karen Jimmerson, a former town council member and a consultant for Democrat Craig Buckley, who is running for sheriff against incumbent Republican Mike Chapman, descended into conspiracies, saying someone had altered a database to falsely show that Lancaster had a long history as a Democrat.
After even Democrats on the Board of Supervisors (except perhaps its most far-Left member, Juli Briskman) demanded that their school board colleagues release an internal report on the rape that the district had kept secret, the group rebelled. “How long are we going to let the BoS (minus Juli) f*** our party?” Andrew Pihonak, a campaign staffer for Biberaj, wrote.
“There’s no pro to releasing the report,” Gottlieb wrote. “There’s no way it doesn’t reflect poorly on them.”
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The group struggled to find a way to blame the rape scandal on the Republican sheriff, with Gottlieb writing, “it appears this would be able to be blamed on someone other than Chapman. He’s a slithery f***ing snake.” Pihonak referred to the sheriff using graphic sexual terms.
Superintendent Scott Ziegler was ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> for allegedly lying about the rape. He later appeared at court wearing nail polish and an earring. But Jan Mercker, a reporter for Loudoun Now and other publications,  said he should have adopted the dress of the rapist, writing “he should have [worn] a f***ing skirt lol. It makes me like him more.”
School board members also filled in the group on their strategy. Group administrator Amanda Bean wrote that a board member tipped her off to the chair&#8217;s strategy regarding conservative member Tiffany Polifko, who group members referred to using sexual and misogynistic slurs.
The group was a who’s who of Loudoun organizations that project a welcoming tone, but privately took a dark and cynical approach toward coordinating their activities.
After courting <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/petition-seeks-ban-hate-speech-loudoun-county-school-board-meetings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publicity</a> for a demand that the school board cut off any speakers who engaged in “hate speech,” Pihonak repeatedly told fellow Love Warriors that he had not received any threats from conservatives, but Jimmerson provided media strategy consulting, saying it was “time to be a victim” and to tell the media that he was being harassed by “horrible hate messaging” and that the Bible “teaches love.”
But privately, Pihonak said that he “literally could not give a singular f*** about the bible.” Amanda Pettis, a self-proclaimed Satanist, called concerned parents “special needs parents ie righties with pearls and Jesus,” said “all religions are invisible anus,” and likened different faiths to “strains” of a disease.
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Mercker offered Pihonak advice heading into an interview with Loudoun Now.
The group repeatedly sought to get Scott Mineo, a parent who filed Freedom of Information Act requests in an effort to expose malfeasance by the district and the local NAACP chapter, fired from his job in IT. Mercker wrote that she considered assaulting Mineo: &#8220;It might be worth an assault charge to f***ing slap that guy next time I see him,&#8221; she wrote.
In February, Mineo was summoned to a meeting with his employer’s ethics department about the complaints and dismissed as part of a workforce reduction that same week. “I believe it had an impact,” he told The Daily Wire.
Mercker told The Daily Wire &#8220;I get the sense that you do not know Loudoun very well if at all and are ignorant of the great sense of harmony that can and does exist among people with different political perspectives in our community,” adding that the person she mentioned slapping — in jest, she said — was a “white supremacist.&#8221;
“I think our theme song needs to be that ‘you about to lose yo job’ remix,” said Meredith Ray, a board member of the pro-gay group Loudoun 4 All who was a frequent participant in the chats.
The group reveled in severing relationships with neighbors and even family over politics. Mercker wrote: “I unfriended all my extended family in Iowa.” Jimmerson said she “cut all ties” with a “long time friend” and “blocked her number” after discovering she donated to a group representing concerned Loudoun parents.
The Loudoun County Democratic Committee told The Daily Wire it would respond on behalf of all of the many Loudoun officials tied to group members.
“Those that use this kind of dangerous rhetoric should not be welcome in the public square,&#8221; spokesman John Block said in a statement. &#8220;We have seen too many times how violent rhetoric ignites violent actions that hurt and kill people.” School board chair Serotkin did not say whether he would continue to employ Gorczyk.
But it is not the first time that Loudoun officials have attempted to silence opponents. In March 2021, the Minority Student Achievement Advisory Council — which the Love Warriors frequently discussed — said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-enemies-list-school-body-pledges-to-silence-the-opposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;we can and will silence the opposition.&#8221;</a>
That occurred soon after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> the existence of a similar group in which public officials, including Biberaj, appeared to be members. Then-school board member Beth Barts and a constellation of woke housewives took part in a secret Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun.” The group made a list of parents who the group believed to be insufficiently committed to equity and pledged to “infiltrate,” use “hackers” to silence them, and “expose these people publicly.”
Barts later resigned from the school board, though she and others said at the time, including to police who investigated the group, that it was all a misunderstanding. (Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-sheriff-closes-probe-into-anti-racist-group-asking-someone-to-hack-is-not-illegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> charges, saying “asking to hack someone is not illegal.”) But many of the participants then moved to a closer-knit group that followed through on some of those promises.
The Daily Wire obtained the new messages through a Loudoun mother who befriended local leftists and was invited into the Anti-Racist Parents group and then its successor. The whistleblower, who The Daily Wire is not naming, provided the messages to this outlet as well as local TV station WJLA.
“I can say this definitively because I had the benefit of seeing both sides,” she told The Daily Wire. “I’ve never seen any [conservative] parents say anything nearly as bad as what they say.”
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The Love Warriors mocked Elicia Brand, a sexual assault survivor who demanded justice for the ninth-grade rape victim and founded a group called Army of Parents. “Please leave me in a room alone with Elicia,” Pettis, the Satanist, wrote. “She is so lucky that there are laws, because she would be curbstomped.”
Brand told The Daily Wire that by targeting neighbors for destruction, the group was fulfilling the promise its members made two years ago. “They said they were going to do this, and then they did it,” she said.
She noted that the letter used by the Department of Justice to justify putting activist parents in the crosshairs of the FBI cited the father of the Loudoun rape victim as a chief example, based on the fact that Biberaj prosecuted him for disorderly conduct.
&#8220;[Attorney General] Merrick Garland said he was going to send the FBI after parents who were domestic terrorists. What is he going to do about the parents who do this?” Brand asked.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutors-staffer-dem-candidate-in-violence-tinged-group-that-plotted-against-conservative-parents">Soros Prosecutor’s Staffer, Dem Candidate In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents</a>

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Virginia Leftists Secretly Plotted To Guard Democrats From Trans Rape Fallout

Motley Mix Of Northern Virginia Leftists Secretly Plotted To Guard Democrats From Trans Rape Fallout

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Left-wing activists in Northern Virginia with close ties to its Democrat politicians plotted secretly to destroy conservatives and Christians, gleefully discussing their deaths and repeatedly scheming to get them fired, according to thousands of pages of 2022 online chat logs reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Calling themselves the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun</a> Love Warriors,” the group chat included a campaign staffer for the county&#8217;s Soros-backed prosecutor, a consultant for its Democrat sheriff candidate, and the board members of a gay advocacy group. The activists were based in Loudoun County, an area just outside Washington, D.C.
“Someone gonna get hurt on their side and I hope I get to do it,” Derek Summers wrote. “I’m sooo ready to show up with guns lol,” added Summers, a rapper who offered firearms training to the group. On Facebook, he repeatedly posted pictures of himself with guns, with one adding the quote “all this love is waiting for you.”
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The group chat administrators were Andrew Pihonak, a campaign staffer for county prosecutor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-throws-soros-backed-prosecutor-off-of-case-against-loudoun-rape-victims-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buta Biberaj</a>, who was narrowly elected with the help of $850,000 from George Soros; Heather Gottlieb, who said she met weekly with Biberaj; Meredith Ray, a board member of Loudoun 4 All, a group that tried to stop the recall of school board members following the coverup of a rape by a skirt-wearing male student; and Tori Truesdale, an organizer for Students Demand Action, an anti-gun and Democrat voter drive group bankrolled by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The Love Warriors spent weeks seeking to destroy the life of a 65-year old private citizen after falsely accusing him of saying he wanted to kill gays.
During the public comment portion of a meeting of the embattled Loudoun school board on December 13, 2022, Mark Winn read a scripture passage that cautions against adults failing children, quoting &#8220;If any man or woman causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for a millstone to be put around your neck and thrown into the lake.&#8221;
The group convinced itself that Winn had threatened to kill gay people and that it needed to respond accordingly. Pihonak wrote “There is NO peace or reasoning with these people who [sic] getting people like me KILLED … Actively platforming voices speaking hate gets people like me killed on a regular basis.”
“At what point can we consider a gay person committing suicide due to bullying regarding their sexuality a hate crime. In my eyes, that’s essentially 2nd degree murder,” Pihonak wrote.
“He proposed DROWNING you,” Summers wrote. “Reciprocation is our only move. And I don’t care how that comes across. There is a HUGE push to bring violence to the LGBTQ community … SOMETHING has to happen to one of them.”
“If he had said that s*** about black kids or autistic kids I would shoot him,” Summers added. “People get ended for less than that … His life needs to be PERMANENTLY disassembled.”
“They know I don’t care about jail or lawsuits,” he wrote.
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<h1>&#8220;If it’s a misdemeanor no one will prosecute me anyway, right?”</h1>
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The group suggested that Biberaj’s soft-on-crime policies could work to their benefit. “It might be worth an assault charge to f***ing slap that guy next time I see him,” group member Jan Mercker wrote.
“I don’t even think you go to jail the first time, just fine and community service. SO worth it,” Amanda Pettis replied.
On another occasion, Gottlieb wrote “I’ll leave a credit card at my house in case someone needs to come bail me out. If it’s a misdemeanor no one will prosecute me anyway, right?”
Gottlieb wrote that she spends time weekly with Biberaj as one of 20 participants in a “<a href="https://www.loudoun.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=7824&amp;ARC=14324">Justice Academy</a>,” which is advertised as &#8220;citizens and the Commonwealth Attorney will have an opportunity to discuss matters related to safety and justice&#8221;
The pursuit of Winn continued even after a message was posted to the group explaining that he did not actually say gays should be thrown in a lake. “They can sue me all they please lol. I said what I said and I stand by it,” Pihonak said.
A real estate agent and <a href="https://www.longandfoster.com/KristineCondie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former teacher</a>, Kristine Condie, appeared to use her access to an industry database to share Winn’s address, and she and Pihonak wrote messages to his employer trying to get him fired. Pihonak told the employer that Winn said he believed “people in the LGTBTQ+ community are better off ‘with a millstone around their neck in the lake.’”
The group also included Puja Khanna, who is <a href="https://www.pujafordulles.com/">running</a> for the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. The Love Warriors attempted to recruit children. “Get HS kids involved. ‘Don’t decide our fate with your hate’ type of thing,” Pettis wrote.
Members of the group were routinely pictured on social media taking part in events with Democrat officeholders and candidates. Summers boasted that “I have direct relationships with most of them and they know me well.” He offered to serve as the liaison to the minority community for the overwhelmingly white-female group, and appeared close to Loudoun NAACP chair and statehouse candidate Michelle Thomas.
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Brian Davison, who has spoken at school board meetings criticizing the board, told The Daily Wire that Summers&#8217; antics were not limited to behind a keyboard. Summers confronted him at a protest and then began sending him messages online challenging him to a duel, and once sent a photo of a map pointing to Davison&#8217;s house, he said.
Phyllis Randall, the chair of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors — who like Summers is black — took Summers under her wing in 2016, telling the Washington Post, “You could just feel the anger radiating off him … I thought, ‘I need to talk to this young man,’ because that kind of anger can go in either direction.” He went on to become a prominent liberal activist and head of a domestic violence nonprofit. On social media, he was even pictured sitting in Randall’s chair on the boardroom dais.
Summers quit the Love Warriors on Dec. 26, 2022 after Gottlieb told him “while people appreciate your perspective and contributions to the group, not everyone is ok [with] violence. There are also people in the group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-anti-racists-targeting-children-buta-biberaj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already being</a> sued and if anyone finds out about this chat it could included in a lawsuit. It could come across that when you call for violence and no one says anything, that we condone it.”
Loudoun 4 All told The Daily Wire that &#8220;its members never endorse violence. Both Meredith and Amanda [Bean, a fellow Loudoun 4 All board member] left the group in December 2022 after some comments were made that they felt were not appropriate.&#8221;
Summers&#8217; departure left the group of left-wing radicals without any black people. Karen Jimmerson, a consultant for Democrat sheriff candidate Craig Buckley and a former town councilwoman who remained in the group, said “we really need to recruit minorities,” but Gottlieb said, “Do we even have any Black people in this chat?”
“We used to but they all left,” came the response.
Winn told The Daily Wire that during the period that the group began hounding him in December 2022, his bus-driver wife was diagnosed with cancer. He said that identity politics made for one-dimensional caricatures: Pinohak, Summers, and the others spent their lives in the wealthiest county in America, while Winn’s father died when he was 3 and he grew up in a shanty in West Virginia one of seven children, he said.
He said he has “concern for my safety and my wife’s safety,” particularly because it would be up to Biberaj whether to prosecute any crime. “If I had said that, there’d be someone at my door in minutes,” he said.
Biberaj told The Daily Wire that “One&#8217;s First Amendment rights are vital to democracy and our core principles of freedom and justice in America &#8230; However, if anyone makes threats which cross into being unlawful, I have faith that our local law enforcement is equipped to investigate the matters. If their investigation results in findings of violations of criminal law, then the legal process will be initiated and take its course.&#8221; She would not say whether Pitonak was still employed by her campaign.
The Loudoun County Democratic Committee told The Daily Wire it would respond on behalf of all of the many Loudoun officials tied to group members. “Those that use this kind of dangerous rhetoric should not be welcome in the public square. We have seen too many times how violent rhetoric ignites violent actions that hurt and kill people,” spokesman John Block said in a statement.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutors-staffer-dem-candidate-in-violence-tinged-group-that-plotted-against-conservative-parents">Soros Prosecutor’s Staffer, Dem Candidate In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/northern-virginia-leftists-secretly-plotted-to-guard-democrats-from-trans-rape-fallout">Virginia Leftists Secretly Plotted To Guard Democrats From Trans Rape Fallout</a>

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Soros Prosecutor’s Staffer, Dem Candidate In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents

Loudoun Politicians' Aides In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents

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Nashville Police have backtracked on plans to release the so-called manifesto of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-planned-massacre-months-in-advance-considered-previous-mass-murderers-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans school shooter</a> who last month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed six people, including three children</a>, citing a pending lawsuit.
The decision, announced Wednesday, comes amid substantial public pressure to release documents believed to lay out the motive of the 28-year-old shooter, who was killed by police inside the Covenant School to end the March 27 attack. Metro Nashville Police Department officials notified the public in a terse <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/covenant-update">statement</a>.
“Due to pending litigation filed this week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been advised by counsel to hold in abeyance the release of records related to the shooting at the Covenant School pending orders or direction of the court,” read the statement.
Several media outlets, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-deny-daily-wires-request-for-trans-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, have filed Freedom of Information Requests in an effort to win release of the documents. The requests were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-deny-daily-wires-request-for-trans-shooters-manifesto">denied</a>, with authorities citing a provision that allows them to withhold records relating to an ongoing case. But late last month, police officials said they were preparing to make the papers public.
The litigation cited by the department appeared to refer to a lawsuit filed by the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) asserting that the police had wrongfully denied its public records request. Ironically, that would mean that the department was refusing to release records because it’s being sued for refusing to release records — even though the lawsuit would presumably become moot, saving taxpayers money, if Police Chief John Drake followed through with a pledge he made to Gov. Bill Lee.
“The Covenant shooting was a tragedy beyond comprehension, &amp; Tennesseans need clarity. We’ve been in touch with the Nashville Police Department, &amp; today, Chief Drake assured me that documents &amp; information regarding the shooter will be released to the public very soon,” <a href="https://twitter.com/GovBillLee/status/1651757045551452161">Lee</a>, a Republican, said on April 27.
TFA’s lawsuit questioned how there can be an open criminal case when the perpetrator is dead.
“Respondent’s denial failed to identify any underlying criminal proceeding, or even a potential defendant, such that the requested records would be a ‘case’ under Rule 16 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure,” the lawsuit said.
Tennessee resident Clata Brewer also sued over alleged public records violations related to the case on April 28.
The killer, who believed she was a man, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blueprint-on-total-destruction-astronomically-dangerous-fbi-delaying-release-of-nashville-shooters-manifesto-officials-say">killed three children and three adults</a> inside the Christian school during a period when transgender activists were outraged at actions taken by Tennessee Republican lawmakers. The Daily Wire is not naming the shooter to avoid giving notoriety to killers. Since then, authorities have used a shifting series of reasons to delay releasing any information about the shooter.
According to the killer herself, her motive was not a mystery, and would be easily discerned by authorities.
“One day this will make more sense. I’ve left <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-sent-chilling-messages-to-a-friend-moments-before-entering-christian-school">more than enough evidence</a> behind,” she told a friend just before the shooting.
But as the Metro Nashville Police Department withheld those records, Metro Nashville Democrats portrayed the cause of the shooting in unambiguous terms: Guns. A police spokeswoman told The Daily Wire that the advice to withhold the records came from Metro Legal, Nashville’s law department. Neither Metro Legal associate directors Laura Fox and Wllison Bussell nor Deputy Director Tom Cross provided any information about the reasoning in response to Daily Wire questions.
Following the shooting, Justin Jones, a state lawmaker from the Nashville area, joined with protesters to disrupt a proceeding of the state assembly and turn it into a demand for gun control, even shouting into a bullhorn on the Capitol floor. He was expelled from the body as a result, but the Metro Council, which was tasked with filling the temporary vacancy, voted to fill it with Jones himself.
John I. Harris III, the head of TFA, told The Daily Wire he is skeptical about the reasoning behind withholding the documents.
“You hate to jump to that conclusion that this is a conspiracy, but right now the only answer they’ve given is there’s an ongoing criminal investigation,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;I guess theoretically it could be an investigation into someone who’s now deceased, but for what purpose? They are now beyond prosecutorial effect.”
“The Democrat legislators that were expelled and the one that was targeted for expulsion were clearly engaged in a rally that disrupted the General Assembly and was driven by the Covenant shooting and was seeking outright gun control,” he added.
Democrats and Republicans alike have drafted bills that seem to imply various causes for the shooting, ranging from easy access to guns to prescription medications.
“We’ve already seen three bills, a Democrat red flag bill that’s draconian, one the governor filed that we think is unconstitutional, and a third one that says if you’re taking a prescription for these 10 medications, you can’t get the medications unless you sign a waiver saying you can’t purchase firearms,” Harris said.
But the actual cause of the shooting could be more definitively known if police would simply release records, Harris said. Authorities said they uncovered a “manifesto” and diary entries.
Harris said that mental illness could be the cause of the shooting, but it could also be political terrorism committed by a sane person committed to an ideology.
“The 9/11 Twin Towers, anybody can make the argument that someone who decides to fly a plane into a tower is insane, but were they insane or were they just a terrorist? To their like-kind believers, they weren’t insane, they were fulfilling an agenda of their belief system,” he said. “Was this insanity or a vendetta? Because of the lack of disclosure, we don’t know, but the legislators should know if they’re going to use it to consider legislation.”

Six Killed In Mass Shooting At A Private School In Nashville

Nashville Police Refuse To Release School Shooter’s Manifesto, Citing Pending Lawsuit

Nashville Police Refuse To Release School Shooter's Manifesto, Citing Pending Lawsuit

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The Biden administration claimed on Tuesday that the extremist Islamic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliban</a> government that runs Afghanistan killed the leader of the ISIS affiliate who was responsible for orchestrating the attack at the Kabul airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. soldiers and nearly 200 Afghan nationals.
Administration officials claimed that the Taliban led a recent a ground offensive against ISIS-K that resulted in the death of the leader, who they refused to name, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/us/politics/isis-leader-killed-kabul-airport-bombing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/25/taliban-isis-abbey-gate-afghanistan-bombing/aba0dd52-e3b0-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that neither the U.S. nor the Taliban was initially aware that the leader had been killed until days after the offensive.
U.S. officials said that they had “high confidence” that the leader had been killed from intelligence that was likely based on &#8220;informants, electronic intercepts or information from allied spy services,&#8221; the Times added.
The report was careful to note that officials provided &#8220;no evidence to support that conclusion or other details about his purported death.&#8221;
The administration began reaching out to American families whose loved ones serving in the U.S. military were killed during the attack.
“They couldn’t give me his name; they couldn’t tell me the details of the operation,” said Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover of the Marine Corps, adding that the call left him “frustrated, again.”
“I want the administration to take some accountability and responsibility for this,” Hoover said. “Say, ‘We screwed up. It’s not going to happen again.’ It can’t happen again. He gave his life for this. This is what he wanted to do, and this is what happened — and now we’re all being treated like garbage.”
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In a separate interview, Hoover said, “Whatever happens, it’s not going to bring Taylor back and I understand that. About the only thing his mom and I can do now is be an advocate for him. All we want is the truth. And we’re not getting it. That’s the frustrating part.”
Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marine</a> sergeant during the U.S. withdrawal from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-marine-breaks-down-recounting-afghanistan-pullout-terror-attack-that-killed-13-u-s-soldiers-catastrophe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke down</a> last month in front of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs while recounting his experience watching 13 U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber.
A Marine sniper at the time, Vargas-Andrews and his team were ordered from Saudi Arabia to Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 to oversee the final weeks of the U.S. withdrawal.
On August 22, either ISIS or Taliban militants conducted a “test run” for a terror attack with an improvised explosive device (IED). On August 26, Vargas-Andrews’ team received a description of the suspected terrorist bomber and, later that day, identified a man near the Abbey gate who fit the description and “consistently and nervously” kept looking at the Marines stationed near the gate.
Vargas-Andrews said his team asked twice for permission to take out the suspected terrorist. The first time, he was denied. The second time, the battalion commander, who came to Abbey Gate to see the suspect himself, replied, “I don’t know” if they had the authority to take out the suspect.
“Myself and my team leader asked very harshly, ‘Well, who does? Because this is your responsibility, sir,’” Vargas-Andrews told Congress. The commander responded that he would find out.
“We received no update and never got our answer. Eventually the individual disappeared,” Vargas-Andrews said. “To this day, we believe he was the suicide bomber.”
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

Dignifed Transfer Held For 13 Service Members Killed At Kabul Airport

Biden Admin Claims Taliban Killed ISIS Leader Behind Suicide Bombing That Killed 13 U.S. Troops

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Nashville police have denied <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>&#8216;s request for a copy of a manifesto or diary from the transgender killer who shot up a Christian school March 27, leaving six dead, including three 9-year-olds.
It has been 25 days since the shocking shooting spree, in which the killer — a woman who identified as a man and who this publication is not naming to avoid giving notoriety to shooters — carried out the massacre at the Covenant School before being gunned down by police. City Council members said shortly after the incident that there was a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; and that it would be released. But since then, state and local police have gotten &#8220;assistance&#8221; from the FBI in psychologically profiling the killer, which has been used as a reason to block release of the materials.
On Friday, the Metro Nashville Police Department denied a public records request from The Daily Wire, which is also based in Nashville, for the manifesto and journals, replying &#8220;The investigation is still an open case. &#8230; Once the case is closed, please re-request at a later date.&#8221;
It is unclear what the open case is seeking to learn, since the perpetrator is dead.
City Councilman Robert Swope previously told The Daily Wire there would be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-probes-nashville-school-shooters-manifesto-as-pressure-mounts-for-its-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no reason</a> to withhold the manifesto once the investigation is closed.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch has said that officials recovered multiple documents: a detailed plan and also &#8220;some journal-type rantings.&#8221;
Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blueprint-on-total-destruction-astronomically-dangerous-fbi-delaying-release-of-nashville-shooters-manifesto-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the chilling level of detail in the plan was being used as justification to withhold it, saying “That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous.”
But that doesn&#8217;t explain not releasing rantings that could give insight into the shooter&#8217;s motives, which came as trans activists were angry at Tennessee legislators for passing laws dealing with radical gender ideology.
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Nor does it explain the FBI&#8217;s involvement. The FBI would only have jurisdiction if it was a hate crime or domestic terrorism. But Elizabeth Clement-Webb, a spokesperson for the Memphis Field Office of the FBI — which includes Nashville — told The Daily Wire shortly after the shooting that the FBI was merely offering some assistance and &#8220;at this time it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-isnt-treating-nashville-shooting-as-domestic-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not</a> appear to be federal.&#8221;
If the shooter&#8217;s writings are not released, the public won&#8217;t know if the FBI decided to ignore compelling interest of a hate crime. The lack of official information on the motive has permitted media outlets to look past it as an instance of potential terrorism, which is defined as &#8220;Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
The Department of Justice under President Joe Biden has frequently sought to characterize Right-wing domestic terrorism as one of the most severe threats faced by the country, despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-dominate-fbi-top-10-domestic-terror-list-despite-warnings-about-far-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leftists dominating</a> the FBI&#8217;s list of most-wanted domestic terrorists.
NBC News wrote last week that the &#8220;Motive in Nashville shooting <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/motive-nashville-shooting-remains-unclear-weeks-6-people-killed-christ-rcna79700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remains unclear</a> weeks after 6 people were killed at a Christian school.&#8221;
Meanwhile, Democrats have ignored the shooting as potentially inflicted by a Left-wing terrorist, quickly pivoting to gun control and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-gop-moves-to-expel-3-dems-who-joined-protesters-during-state-capitol-storming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expulsion</a> of two Democrat state lawmakers who participated in an unruly gun-control protest in the state capitol.

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Nashville Police Deny Daily Wire’s Request For Trans Shooter’s Manifesto

Nashville Police Deny Daily Wire's Request For Trans Shooter's Manifesto

Tennessee

This week, Jews all over the world marked Passover, the celebration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. As we congregated around their seder tables to read from the Haggadah — the compendium of texts telling the story of the exodus — we said the following words: “And this (God’s blessings and the Torah) is what kept our fathers and what keeps us. For not only one arose and attempted to destroy us, but in each generation, they stand to destroy us, and God saves us from their hands.”
The Dee family, a family of seven originally from Great Britain but now from Efrat, Israel — the so-called West Bank, the heart of Biblical Israel — undoubtedly said the same words. Then, on Friday, Rina Dee (15), Maia Dee (20) and their mother Lucy (48) went on a drive through the Jordan Valley on the way to Tiberias, just miles from where Joshua would have brought the Jews across the Jordan River. There, they were attacked and shot to death by a Palestinian Arab terrorist who riddled their car with 20 bullets.
Hamas, the governing Palestinian party in the Gaza Strip and a powerful force in Palestinian Arab areas of Judea and Samaria, celebrated the murders. “We congratulate the Jordan Valley operation and warn the occupation against continuing its aggression against our Palestinian people and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque,” they said. Meanwhile, husband and father Rabbi Leo Dee gave a eulogy for half of his family: “Let the Israeli flag today send out a message to humanity which is: We will never accept terror as legitimate. We will never blame the murder on the victims. There is no such thing as moral equivalence between terrorist and victim.”
Sadly, the media played the moral equivalence game, treating the murder of two sisters and their mother as yet another round in the supposed “cycle of violence” between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. Of course, in that “cycle of violence,” Palestinian Arab terrorists target innocent civilians and then hand out candies when they achieve their evil goals, while the Israeli Defense Forces seek to root out and destroy terrorists. But to the media, it’s all the same. “Daughters of British rabbi die in West Bank drive by shooting,” touted The Sunday Times (UK), leaving no explanation for who had committed the shooting or why. “Two British sisters killed and mother injured in West Bank shooting,” tut-tutted The Guardian. “2 killed in West Bank after Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza,” the Associated Press lied by omission.
The Biden administration has been little better. In recent weeks, as terrorism metastasized, the Biden administration urged Israel to “de-escalate,” as though any state could ignore its moral duty to defend its citizens from routine acts of terrorism. Instead, the Biden administration summoned Michael Herzog, Israel’s US ambassador, to stress “the importance of all parties refraining from actions or rhetoric that could further inflame tensions leading into the Ramadan, Passover and Easter holidays.”
This vile moral equivalence motivates terrorists to murder civilians and step up other violence. After all, there’s no downside. When the media treat legitimate self-defense as terrorism and terrorism as legitimate self-defense, terrorists thrive. And they are thriving today, raising the specter of violence all across Israel: 18 civilians have been slaughtered by terrorists in Israel since January 27. As terror increases, the necessity for larger-scale intervention grows, too. Then, the same media and Left-wing governments will decry the “cycle of violence” again, fostering yet more terrorism.
In every generation, the story is the same: in each generation, there are those who seek to destroy the Jews, and in every generation, through the grace of God, they fail. But that doesn’t relieve those who retain any measure of decency from standing up against evil terrorists. The alternative is apathetic complicity — and that apathetic complicity costs lives.

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Palestinian Arab Terrorism And The West’s Moral Apathy

Palestinian Arab Terrorism And The West's Moral Apathy

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The mother of two teenage girls murdered by Palestinian terrorists on Friday died on Monday from wounds she suffered in the same attack.
Hadassah Medical Center announced that Lucy Dee, the mother of Maia and Rina, who were 15 and 20 years old, had died.
“48-year-old Lucy Dee was evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah Ein Kerem in critical condition, where our medical teams fought for her life over the past few days, in the trauma unit, the operating room, and the intensive care unit where she was treated,” the hospital said in a statement. “Unfortunately, despite supreme and unceasing efforts, due to her critical injuries, she was declared dead today.”
“The Dee family warmly thanked the medical team at Hadassah who did everything possible to save Lucy and did not give up until her last moments,” the hospital continued. “Despite the great grief and heartbreak, the family has decided to donate Lucy&#8217;s organs in order to save other lives. Hadassah Medical Center shares in the family&#8217;s great sorrow.&#8221;
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Tragic scenes from the funeral of terror victims Maia and Rina Dee today in Efrat.
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Lucy Dee and her daughters were traveling to Tiberias in Galilee when terrorists shot at their car. The terrorists then approached the vehicle and fired at the women at close range. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65224751?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_format=link&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_link_id=E958DE06-D6DB-11ED-B3E9-A5C74744363C">According</a> to Israeli public broadcaster Kan, 22 bullet casings were found.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented: &#8220;On behalf of all citizens of Israel, I convey heartfelt condolences to the Dee family on the passing of the mother of the family, Leah (Lucy), who was murdered in the severe terrorist attack in the Jordan Valley last Friday, together with her two daughters Maia and Rina.&#8221;
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בשם כל אזרחי ישראל אני שולח תנחומים מעומק הלב למשפחת די על פטירתה של אם המשפחה, לאה (לוסי) ז״ל, שנרצחה בפיגוע הקשה בבקעה ביום שישי האחרון, יחד עם שתי בנותיה מאיה ורינה ז&quot;ל. <a href="https://t.co/N2aIR2C7Bl">pic.twitter.com/N2aIR2C7Bl</a>
&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1645414784039284743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu from the Otzma Yehudit party <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/369810">said</a>, “Any sign of weakness that we showed in the past three decades did not work. Anytime we showed weakness to the people who harmed us, in the end, we were hurt, we and our children.”
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Absolutely tragic. 
Lucy Dee the mother of the two British Israeli girls who were murdered in a Palestinian terror attack has also passed away from injuries received during the attack. 
These three smiling faces. The brutality to walk up to them and shoot at point blank range. <a href="https://t.co/b5FXEGeL7U">pic.twitter.com/b5FXEGeL7U</a>
&mdash; David Collier (@mishtal) <a href="https://twitter.com/mishtal/status/1645410977029005314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Say their names:
🔹 Rina Dee (15) 🔹 May Dee (20) 🔹 Lucy Dee (48)
Murdered by blood-thirsty Palestinian cowards and savages. Their only ‘crime’? Being Jews in their ancestral homeland. May their memories always be blessed and their deaths be avenged without mercy. <a href="https://t.co/tzUpRPmxEK">pic.twitter.com/tzUpRPmxEK</a>
&mdash; Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1645419115660599296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Dee family came from Great Britain before emigrating to Israel; the father, Rabbi Leo Dee, originally came from Radlett. Rabbi Dee said at his daughter’s funeral he didn’t know how he would tell his wife that their daughters were dead when she awakened from her wounds. She never did.
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The BBC titled its article about the tragedy, “Maia and Rina Dee: Funerals of sisters killed in occupied West Bank to take place,&#8221; using a common reference to the region that ignores the Jewish historical and Biblical claim to Judea and Samaria, where most of the events of the Bible took place.
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Maia and Rina Dee: Funerals of sisters killed in occupied West Bank to take place <a href="https://t.co/zCTbkYzBz9">https://t.co/zCTbkYzBz9</a>
&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1645059284948992001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT

A Shattered Family: Mother Of Two Young Murdered Israeli Sisters Dies From Same Attack

Mother Of Two Young Murdered Israeli Sisters Dies From Same Attack

Judea

Terrorists

Authorities in Northern Ireland uncovered what could be evidence of a dissident plan for violence ahead of a visit by President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, according to local reports.
Leaders, including Biden, are expected to gather in Northern Ireland this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, an accord which effectively put an end to a 30-year period of near-constant sectarian violence known as &#8220;the Troubles.&#8221;
But a dissident group, known as the New IRA, is <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11954031/Northern-Ireland-police-disrupt-plan-terror-attack-overshadow-Bidens-visit.html">reportedly</a> suspected of putting together a terror plot to disrupt those plans.
The <a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/new-ira-plotting-bomb-outrage-to-upstage-president-bidens-belfast-visit/985315646.html?flow=subscribe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belfast Telegraph</a> reported the Police Service of Northern Ireland conducted searches in the city of Derry and cited a source who said a British Army Bomb squad was on the scene looking for parts that could be used to make a bomb.
&#8220;The belief is that the New IRA was planning some sort of attack to coincide with Biden’s visit, similar to the mortar attack on the cops in Strabane last November,&#8221; the source said.
The New IRA <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-63753558" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed responsibility</a> for detonating a bomb next to a police patrol vehicle in the Northern Ireland town of Strabane in November. Two police officers were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65049255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unharmed in the attack</a>.
The White House confirmed last week that Biden would travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland from April 11-14. His first stop is planned for Belfast, Northern Ireland, from Tuesday through Wednesday. Biden is slated to deliver remarks on Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden plans to &#8220;mark the tremendous progress since the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago and to underscore the readiness of the United States to support Northern Ireland’s vast economic potential to the benefit of all communities.&#8221;
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Biden is expected to join British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for the festivities. Other high-profile political figures from around the world, including former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, are expected to visit Northern Ireland in the next couple of weeks, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/06/ira-terror-attack-feared-joe-biden-northern-ireland-visit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per The Telegraph</a>.
MI5, the United Kingdom&#8217;s security agency, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/northern-ireland-police-warn-dissident-violence-ahead-biden-visit-bbc-2023-04-07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised the terror threat level</a> in Northern Ireland to &#8220;severe&#8221; at the end of March. This followed the shooting of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in February, an attack that police <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/northern-ireland-police-warn-dissident-005732323.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed on the New IRA</a>.
Authorities are particularly concerned about a potential attack on police in Londonderry on Easter Monday.
&#8220;There is very strong community intelligence specifically coming forward in respect of Monday’s events in Derry/Londonderry and a real concern that there may be attempts to draw police in to serious public disorder and to use that then as a platform to launch terrorist attacks on police as well,&#8221; Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton warned during a press conference last week.

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