American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek

“Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought,” says Jim Caviezel.

That idea is central in Caviezel’s new movie “Ghost Soldier,” he says.

“I love this character because he has to play the role of the Good Samaritan,” he says.

“Ghost Soldier” is about the fight between good and evil.

“If you’re into that in a movie, bring your popcorn, an iced Coke, and you’re going to have yourself a great day.”

@reallycaviezel

Historically, “what does the president do when he’s lost the House and Senate by wide margins?”

“The answer is pretty much what he wants to do,” says Victor Davis Hanson.

“What I’m getting at [is] a lot of the lame duck presidents feel they’re unbound, and they have nothing to lose.”

“They can no longer hurt their congressional majorities or minorities. They're going to be out in two years, and they're going to executive order and veto their way domestically.”

“And the imperial presidency operates as they wish.”

@VDHanson

The threat of a potential Chinese biowarfare attack may be closer than some realize, argues @GordonGChang.

In 2022, a building inspector uncovers a secret Chinese biolab in California that “had at least 20 pathogens, many of them for fatal diseases, including Ebola…and almost 1000 mice that have been genetically engineered to spread disease.”

In January of this year, Las Vegas SWAT and the FBI raided a home in Las Vegas, and “they find more than 1000 vials of a reddish substance that the housekeeper—who had tipped off authorities about this—said was making her and somebody else in the house ‘deathly ill.’”

“I think that that reddish substance could not have been manufactured in Reedley because Reedley was discovered more than three years before.”

“The house in Las Vegas had refrigerators and freezers, but it didn't have facilities to make that reddish substance.”

“Question is: where was that reddish substance made?”

“The evidence points to a third Chinese biological weapons facility in the United States, which I believe is a full-blown lab,” Chang says.

“And by the way, they found human tissue samples in Las Vegas.”

There’s a pattern on the radical left to claim acts of violence against their targets are “self-defense.”

Andy Ngo observed this in his extensive reporting on Antifa and now in his reporting on the Zizians, what he describes as a trans death cult.

The group is linked to 6 violent deaths across multiple states as well 2 suicides from its program of human experimentation and sleep deprivation.

One Zizian member wrote that vengeance is “self-defense,’” Ngo says.

Ngo describes the logic:

“If you don’t accept our demands, don’t accept our ideology, you’re part of the [trans] genocide. You're creating the conditions for genocide. You're providing legitimacy to the genocide.”

“Any action we take against you is self-defense.”

It’s the same with Antifa: “If you are a fascist—which is the label they use for people that they want to kill—then by virtue of having those views, by us killing you, we're protecting ourselves.”

@MrAndyNgo

The recent riots in France aren’t happening spontaneously, argues investigative journalist Richard Miniter.

“There are people in the crowd whose job it is to surveil and monitor the police and update the rioters in real time to direct them at some targets and not at others,” he says.

The riots in France and the attempted attack on a British air base used by U.S. bombers are connected, he argues. Both may be linked back to Iran.

“The situation for Iran is getting quite desperate.…They've exhausted all of their [oil] supply, and the Iranian regime is financially desperate.”

“Those are both what one intelligence analyst told me was a brushback pitch: a way to push the United States back a step and try to get it to relax its anaconda-like naval blockade of the Iranian ports and Iranian oil.”

Why would unrest in France move Washington?

“Because it shifts the European position,” Miniter says.

Iran and France go back a long way. Khomeini built a powerful network in French exile before returning to seize power in 1979.

Is that network still being used?