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Excerpted from: When Trump Won the Debate, by ROBERT STACY MCCAIN | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

[See comments from the Bishop following excerpt]
The crucial moment in Tuesday night’s debate was near the end when Joe Biden invited President Trump to throw the Proud Boys under the bus, and the president refused to do it. The president was asked by moderator Chris Wallace “to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland.” Trump replied, “Sure, I’m willing to do that,” but then added that “almost everything I see” in terms of violence “is from the left-wing, not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything.… I want to see peace.”

After further back-and-forth, Trump said, “Give me a name,” and Biden said, “Proud Boys.” To this, Trump replied: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by, but I’ll tell you what, somebody’s gotta do something about Antifa and the Left, because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem.”

Because I personally know both Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and the group’s current chairman Enrique Tarrio, I was pleased by that response. The idea that the Proud Boys are a dangerous “white supremacist” organization is a myth created by the left-wing media, and it took courage for the president of the United States to stand tough in that moment.

The liberal media, of course, was scandalized, but who is rioting in Portland? Who attacked police and set up an “autonomous zone” in Seattle? Who has engaged in looting and arson in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and other major cities in the past several weeks? Hint: not the Proud Boys.

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COMMENTARY FROM THE BISHOP

If you GOOGLE (TM) “The Proud Boys” you will get page after page of very far left liberal websites condemning the group, starting with (at least in my search) the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) who once listed the blog Refugee Resettlement Watch (RRW) as a hate group.  It should be noted that RRW is simply a blog, founded by a nice little ol’ lady and her cat.  In an attempt to explain her actions, Ann Corcoran  writes on her “About” page:

Prior to 2007 I had no interest in the refugee issue, heck, I had no idea there even was any controversy.

Of course I knew there were refugees moving around the world, but I had no clue that the US government was actively working with the United Nations to select refugees from third world countries and then was quietly placing them in small and medium-sized cities in most of the fifty states.

That is, until a stir was created in the rural county where I live in Western Maryland.

To make a very long story short, I learned that the Virginia Council of Churches , working for New York City-based Church World Service, had been quietly placing refugees in our county.

I wanted to know if the people of Washington County had any say in the matter, and who told a Virginia church group that they could place an economic burden on a county that had a lot of burdens already.

Our local paper, the Herald Mail, had no interest in explaining to our citizens how the program, which I had just learned was the US State Department’s US Refugee Admissions Program, worked.  I implored the paper to investigate and report facts to help tamp down a growing anger as more people had questions about how the decision was made and who would pay for the needs of the impoverished refugees.

Click here for a post I wrote in 2007 explaining how I asked the Herald Mail to publish a thorough report on the refugee program.  I think you will see that the questions I asked were reasonable and ones any sensible person would ask.

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I launched Refugee Resettlement Watch in July 2007 simply as a place to archive everything I was learning (after the Herald Mail refused to inform citizens) about a subject that had so intrigued me.

If you are new to RRW, you need to know that I don’t work for anyone!  And, I am not paid for my volunteer work!

I’m just a citizen who believes that taxpaying Americans have every right to know how a government program works and so have spent the last 12 years (writing almost every day!) on this one very dysfunctional and frankly destructive program.

By the way, I didn’t start out thinking the program itself was dangerous for the future of our country, I was initially only concerned with how dysfunctional and unfair it is.

Unfair because local people had no say in how their community was being changed by bureaucrats in Washington!

Thousands of blog posts later RRW has become one of the to go to resources to learn of the real world implications and the excesses of a program that has systematically changed communities across the United States without the input or any consideration of the concerns of the local populations effected.  Now seriously, does this sound like a hate group, one woman who has tirelessly and largely out of her own pocket cataloged all that is wrong with the Refugee Resettlement program?

The SPLC has since changed that entry to only attack Ms. Corcoran by attempting to connect her to various far right groups simply because she has linked to articles on the websites of these groups.  However even if a web site is highly deplorable, if they publish the truth in one or more articles, even if that is an uncomfortable truth, it is still–none the less–the truth.

In the same respect, the far left has attempted to condemn President Trump because he refuses to distance his presidency from groups that the far left has unilaterally condemned, the blanket condemnations having been made largely because these groups refuse to drink of the liberal–mind numbing–Kool-Aide while kowtowing to their elitist betters and worshiping on bent knees at the altar of the progressive secular socialist cult.  Simply put, the opposition demonizes everyone that DOES NOT agree with them 100%; and they seek to control you by lying to you and controlling the flow of information so as to influence your opinions.

I mentioned above using GOOGLE as a means to research these groups you hear about in the Main Stream Media, and I pointed out how most of the returns of the search will include attacks on these groups without actually giving you a link to the website so that you can see for yourself the material posted by these organizations.  Why do they not want you to see both sides of the story?

Try using Duck Duck Go or another search engine that is not engineered to control the content of your research. Do you really want somebody in silicon valley determining what you read and think?