In December 2021, a Minnesota business owner who defied Gov. Tim Walz’s unconstitutional, reprehensible executive orders to shut down during COVID-19 received a 90-day jail sentence. Lisa Hanson, a mother of eight children and soon-to-be 18 grandchildren, told Fox News Digital that the Minnesota governor and running mate of Kamala Harris essentially “shut down and destroyed” her small business. Hanson warned Americans, “You do not want tyranny at this level.” Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders warns 'you do not want tyranny at this level' https://t.co/hHTjth17n2 — Fox News (@FoxNews) August 13, 2024 According to the Star Tribune, Hanson was ‘found guilty of six criminal misdemeanor counts by a Freeborn County jury.’ “A jury of three women and three men took only an hour of deliberation to convict Lisa Hanson, the 57-year-old bar owner, after a three-day trial punctuated by Hanson’s repeated attempts to argue that Walz’s orders were unconstitutional,” the outlet stated. Lisa Hanson, a mom, grandma and former small business owner, spoke with me at length about being thrown in jail for defying Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s unconstitutional” lockdown orders. She warns Americans Walz “will take your rights away” if elected VP. https://t.co/jg41IRpnSw pic.twitter.com/PvS4TFbbxu — Danielle Wallace (@danimwallace) August 13, 2024 From the Star Tribune in December 2021: Judge Joseph Bueltel followed the reading of the verdict with a scathing denunciation of Hanson’s behavior, explaining why the governor’s orders were legal. “You wanted to make money over the interest of public safety,” he said. “You don’t recognize the law. You don’t think you’re subject to the law.” He then sentenced her to 90 days in jail, which began immediately, and a $1,000 fine, considerably more than what Albert Lea City Attorney Kelly Dawn Martinez, who prosecuted the case, had sought. Asked to comment on the verdict, Hanson raised her fist and shouted, “Liberty and freedom!” as she was led away by sheriff’s deputies. It was a dramatic end to a saga that began last December when Hanson posted public announcements on her Facebook page encouraging people to visit her Interchange bar and restaurant in downtown Albert Lea, despite two executive orders by Walz prohibiting indoor dining at bars and restaurants over a four-week period. After a warrant was issued for her arrest, Hanson went into hiding. She was arrested several weeks later in Iowa, where she was staying at a motel. Her restaurant has been closed since February and the city of Albert Lea decided earlier this year not to renew its lease, which will expire at year’s end. In the meantime, she was fined $9,000 in a case brought by Attorney General Keith Ellison and fined another $18,000 in November in connection with the case. Watch Hanson’s warning: Minnesota grandma sentenced to 90 days in prison for violating Tim Walz COVID lockdown orders speaks out: “[Tim Walz] will take away your rights.” pic.twitter.com/3iwdwgmLjv — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 13, 2024 Per Fox News: She was convicted in December 2021 on misdemeanor charges and received the maximum sentence of 90 days and a $1,000 fine. Hanson ended up serving two-thirds of her sentence, 60 days. “This is the story that America needs to hear, that Tim Walz is not some cuddly, joyful coach, like all the things that the MSMs are calling him,” Hanson told Fox News Digital. “That is not who this man is. This man would like to take your rights away. He will take your rights away. Because what happened to me could have happened to anybody. What happened to me will happen to you.” “My family has paid a dear price. While I was in jail, I missed out on Christmas with my family, I missed out on my wedding anniversary, and I also missed out on the birth of one of my grandchildren,” Hanson said. “I can never have that time back. That time was stolen from me. My business was destroyed. My business is gone. After everything that happened, Tim Walz and Keith Ellison destroyed my business. They wrecked my life.” “I’ve heard some people say that Tim Walz is a real nice guy. Yeah, well he’s not. Take my word for it,” Hanson said. “Through this whole process, I’ve gotten to know other people. Similar things have happened to them when they were trying to run their business and survive. Mostly women, by the way. So Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison really like to go after women. They’re bullies.” “They’re bullies. And they like to go after women and torment and destroy women’s lives. This is what they have done in the state of Minnesota. So let America know you do not want Tim Walz as vice president. You do not want tyranny at this level,” she continued. “I have seen firsthand. We, the people of Minnesota, have seen what Tim Walz, the type of evil he orchestrates if he is elected as vice president of this country. He, in lockstep with Harris, who is also evil, will perpetuate this same type of evil on the American people. We do not want that. So this is the truth about Tim Walz.” “I would like to see Tim Walz impeached. I would like to see him prosecuted for the crimes he has committed against the people of Minnesota,” Hanson said. In another flashback, Walz deployed the National Guard to enforce a curfew against Minneapolis residents at the height of COVID insanity and the George Floyd riots. Video footage from May 2020 showing police officers and National Guard forces shooting paintballs at residents standing on their porch is sweeping social media. FLASHBACK: Police And National Guard Enforce Curfew In 2020 By Shooting Paintballs At Residents After Tim Walz Order, “Light Them Up”

Sean Spicer and Michael Knowles discuss Jamie Raskin’s recent remarks saying Democrats will not certify Donald Trump’s victory were he to win in November. “Their plan is simply: We don’t care! The ‘Party of Democracy’ will disqualify him,” said Spicer. “We’ve heard for years about the awful perils of January 6, and they promise now to go around and do exactly the same thing,” explained Knowles. “He’s saying the House will unilaterally disqualify him using the 14th Amendment.” Watch the full clip above.

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A Stephen Colbert interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” took an unexpected turn after the audience unexpectedly laughed at Colbert’s description of CNN as “objective.”

The Kamala Harris campaign claimed that Governor Tim Walz has no relationship with a Hitler-promoting Muslim Imam Asad Zaman. Zaman was repeatedly invited to participate in Walz’s events. In a newly uncovered video, Walz talks about his friendship to the Imam and all the time they “spent together.” It allowed him to see “things in […] The post Kamala Lied As Walz Promoted a Radical Islamic Terrorist appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Late-night host Stephen Colbert seemed surprised when his audience burst out laughing following his assertion that CNN did “objective” reporting.  CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins was a guest on the show Monday night. As expected, they spent the time discussing the upcoming presidential election, including the changing strategy Republicans have taken now that the Democratic candidate switched from President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris. Not even NYC lefties buy CNN as objective. @colbertlateshow audience laughed when Stephen #Colbert asserted: “I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is” @KaitlanCollins: “That supposed to be a laugh line?” Colbert: “It wasn’t supposed to be” pic.twitter.com/IfqNEDPrfa — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) August 13, 2024 “Trump has kind of been thrown on his heels by this and he’s not really sure how to go after Vice President Harris,” said Collins. “He knew his attack lines on President Biden. He really has struggled with how to go after someone who’s twenty years younger than him, who is a different gender, a different race… it’s kind of been this moment where he has not been able to coalesce around a single attack line.”  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is,” Colbert said of CNN, which spurred the audience to erupt into laughter. Colbert turned toward the audience, seemingly surprised by the reaction. “No, I know, CNN makes a, uh, I know this…” he stuttered as they kept laughing. “Was that supposed to be a laugh line?” Collins asked the late-night host. “Ah, it wasn’t supposed to be, but…I guess it is,” Colbert replied. “Umm…..” Then he quickly changed the subject, asking if Collins could have predicted that Biden would drop out of the race. Social media users were quick to react to the clip, which started circulating on X. “I absolutely loved the joke about CNN being objective. It was a great moment between you and the audience,” an X user wrote, addressing Collins.  “That was hilarious, even the woke crowd knows,” another replied, referencing how most of Colbert’s audience in New York City was likely to be liberal.  

A brief trip back to my native Britain the other week was a depressing experience. There has been widespread rioting in cities across England following the murder of three young girls in Southport at a Taylor Swift dance class. A large number of Brits, I think it is fair to say, are extremely agitated about uncontrolled (often illegal) immigration. Tens of thousands of migrants have been allowed to flood into the country on small dinghies from France. 1 in 27 people now living in Britain arrived in the past two years. 4 in 10 foreign-born people in Britain have arrived in the past decade.  There is a palpable sense that nothing in Britain runs the way it should, least of all the criminal justice system. The number of recorded rapes in England and Wales in 2023-24 was three times higher than in 2013-14. A recent investigation discovered that across much of the country, the police had not identified a single suspect for neighborhood crimes over the previous three years. Only a few weeks before the unrest erupted, the authorities announced that even violent offenders would be released from prison after serving a mere 40 percent of their sentences. Then came the riots, and the authorities suddenly discovered that it is possible to arrest and prosecute criminals after all. Prosecutions that would normally take months to come to court were undertaken within a few days. That, plus the return of British rain, seems to have dampened the spirits of the troublemakers. Instead of clamping down on immigration, or addressing some of the underlying concerns about Muslim integration (or lack thereof), the authorities seem to find it easier to clamp down on free speech, prosecuting people for obnoxious opinions about either immigrants or Muslims expressed online. The most senior official in charge of public prosecutions in Britain declared that he has a team of “dedicated police officers scouring social media” to arrest people for posting things that are “insulting” or “abusive”. He even threatened to extradite people to the UK for sharing such material online. All of this has helped contribute to the now widely held idea that Britain has a “two tier” criminal justice system. Having cheerfully announced that they would be letting violent criminals out of prison after completing less than half their sentences a few weeks before, the authorities now threaten people with jail time for expressing idiotic views. In Cheshire, the police boasted of arresting a woman for what they called “an inaccurate social media post”. In order to fully understand why Britain is in such a sorry state it is essential to appreciate what has gone wrong with the country’s judiciary. Mass immigration has become an explosive issue in Britain because judges have routinely thwarted attempts by successive governments to control it. In 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, Brits voted repeatedly to end mass immigration. It has not happened because judges have systematically prevented elected governments from controlling the country’s borders. British judges only ever seem to rule in favor of those who enter the country illegally being able to remain, ruling on the basis of what they think the law should be, not the laws Parliament has passed.   Britain, a once orderly, high-trust society has become increasingly lawless because judges have routinely failed to apply sentences that ordinary Brits would regard as just. It is so commonplace for violent robbers and rapists to be given community sentences, rather than go to prison, it is seldom even reported anymore. Why are British judges so awful? Because they are unaccountable to the public. In Britain, judges are appointed, not elected. Until 2006, at least the appointments were made by an elected minister, meaning there was a degree of democratic oversight.   Since 2006, Britain’s judges have been appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission, a body obsessed about diversity, equity and inclusion, rather than justice. Thanks to Human Rights law, judges are not merely unaccountable. They regard judicial activism as part of their job. Liberty and order in Britain are collapsing as a consequence. At some point, we must all hope a new Margaret Thatcher emerges in Britain, someone with the vision and principle to save the country from decline. On its current trajectory, Britain is drifting towards the abyss of a sectarian society. In 2001, there were one and a half million Muslims in Britain. Today there are 4 million. If even a small percentage of British Muslims adhere to the Islamist teachings of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian father of modern violent jihad, the country has a massive problem. Far from addressing the problem, right now Britain is a country that cannot even talk about the fact that it might have a problem. Any new Thatcher must, as she did, address an underlying British economic malaise. Thanks to net zero energy policies, extraordinary restrictive regulations, high taxes and excessive public spending, the UK has had remarkably little per capita growth over the past decade. But far more important than fixing the economy, Britain needs a state machinery capable of addressing issues of culture and cohesion. Old assumptions, and long established precedents governing citizenship, will need to change. For that to happen, the next Thatcher needs to recognize that much of the machinery of the British state is dysfunctional. Reform is overdue. Judges need to come under some sort of democratic oversight. Senior civil servants must no longer be afforded the luxury of deciding whether to implement policies that clash with their preferences. Those elected to Parliament, not unelected officials, need to be able to decide if the country can afford to cut taxes. Britain can only be pulled back from the brink by a leader that recognizes that it is time to treat the judiciary and the administrative state as Thatcher once treated the trade unions. * * * Douglas Carswell is the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. He was previously a Member of Parliament for 12 years and never lost an election. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI