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Yehuda Kaploun, Donald Trump’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, plans to attack the First Amendment

In an article titled “Why Are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?”1 Paul Craig Roberts warns about a significant threat to the fundamental constitutional right of free speech by the Jewish lobby.

Yet for all its seriousness, there’s hardly any discussion about it in the mainstream press. No surprise there. Lying by commission, or in this case, omission, is the whole point of the mainstream press, liberal or conservative.

In his piece, Roberts writes,

President Trump’s alliance with Israel is giving us Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun as  Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.  The Special Envoy’s job is to suppress free speech if it involves criticism of any Israeli policy, including the ongoing genocide of Palestine and its remaining people. 

To give you some sense of the anti-American arrogance of this unbelieving rabbi, see this recent video2 where he comments about a man who dared protest him, saying that he “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Kaploun made no allegations that the man did anything illegal. Simply the act of protesting him was enough to elicit this dark threat.

In his article “Christians and the Civil War,”3 John Robbins noted that the 1796 Tennessee Constitution “prevented ministers from holding legislative office. If the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ means anything, it must mean that the same person cannot hold office in both church and state.”

If Tennessee prohibited a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ from holding office, how much more is an unbelieving rabbi unfit to hold public office, all for the purpose of throttling Americans’ God-given, Constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.

The seriousness of the Zionist threat to American liberty was underscored by Professor John Mearsheimer. In an appearance on Judging Freedom on 3/13/2025, Mearsheimer said,

The truth is, Judge, that the single greatest threat to freedom of speech in the United States at this point in time is Israel and its supporters here in the United States. It’s truly amazing the extent to which Israel’s supporters are going to enormous lengths to shut down free speech, not only on university campuses but all across the country.4

If Americans are going to retain their most cherished rights, they must insist on the separation of synagogue and state.

  1. Why are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?” by Paul Craig Roberts ↩︎
  2. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s Israeli-born Chabadnik nominee for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says his being protested is an example of ‘anti-Semitism’ and says a man who protested him “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Apparently, the Trump Administration wants Americans to be ruled by a modern-day Sanhedrin. ↩︎
  3. Christians and the Civil War” by John W. Robbins. ↩︎
  4. Judging Freedom with Andrew Napolitano, 3/13/2025 ↩︎

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Last week, we examined some of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and found that many of them are actually more MIGA (Make Israel Great Again) than MAGA (Make America Great Again). Unfortunately, that trend has continued and requires further commentary.

Donald Trump shocked Washington by announcing Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick to be the next Attorney General (AG). As you may know, Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration for the AG role, and in his place, Trump nominated former Florida AG Pam Bondi.

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Free speech is everywhere under attack. 

In August 2018, the great internet purge began with Alex Jones being booted from multiple internet platforms within 24 hours. 

The Covid scamdemic brought attacks on free speech to a new level. Anyone caught disagreeing with the official narrative demanding mandatory masking, lockdowns, and vaxing, anyone caught raising questions about the safety and efficacy of the Covid vax, anyone doubting the official story of the origin of the virus at a Chinese wet market, found himself deplatformed, debanked, and openly derided in the mainstream lying media as a conspiracy theorist or a misinformation spreader. 

From August 2018 until October 2022, when Elon Musk finalized the purchase of Twitter, many free speech advocates voicing their complaints about the increasingly anti-free speech internet were met with a snotty retort from defenders of the regime narratives: “Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. is a private company. If you don’t like it, go start your own platform!”

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century by John W. Robbins, The Trinity Foundation, 2006.

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Once again, we find ourselves at the end of one year and the start of another.  As I write this post, the weather here in the Cincinnati area is slate gray skies, dry, and about 40 degrees.  In other words, it’s a typical winter’s day in southwest Ohio.   

I suppose most readers would find my description of the weather less than inspiring.  No blizzards and mountains of snow as in some places.  No palm trees swaying in the breeze as in others. 

But while it may sound odd for me to say this, I find this sort of weather oddly comforting.  While it isn’t beautiful or even interesting by most standards, it is familiar and comforting.  It’s the sort of weather I associate with Christmas much more so that the “white Christmases” we hear about in song or see in a Currier and Ives engraving. 

Familiar, comforting, and peaceful.  That’s how I’d describe today.   

I mention these things as I write this post on December 31, 2023, because if the prognosticators I read are even close to being accurate, there won’t be a lot that is familiar, comforting, or peaceful in the year to come.

There’s a friend of mine I meet every December for a Christmas lunch at Skyline Chili – if you’re not from the Cincinnati area, you probably aren’t familiar with Cincinnati-style chili, but it’s big here – to catch up on the past year.  During our lunch a couple of weeks back, he openly wondered what the world would be like in December 2024.  That’s a good question.  I don’t know and neither does anyone else.  We’ll find out when we get there. 

But with that said, we can see certain trends in place and make some reasonable conjectures as to what may transpire in 2024.  There’s value in considering what the future may hold.  The Scriptures commend those who exercise foresight when danger looms.  As Proverbs tells us, “A prudent man foresees trouble coming and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.” Notice that the prudent man not only foresees trouble coming, but in light of the trouble he foresees, he takes action to protect himself.  If he foresees trouble but takes no action, he isn’t a prudent man at all, but “simple” and ends up being punished.  One must both foresee and act to be prudent.      

So, what are some of the “troubles” Christians should foresee in 2024?  How ought they to respond?

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The Wittenberg Church Door where Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, October 31, 1517.

In two days, we will mark the 506th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. 

Luther wasn’t the first to push back on the theological and political abuses of the Roman Church-State.  John Wycliffe in England had done so 150 or so years earlier.  Jan Hus, another reformer, was murdered by the Church-State in 1415, just 102 years before Luther’s famous act.

Predating these men were the Waldenses, Italian Christians who left the Roman Church-State and built their own civilization in the valleys of the Alps.   According to Wylie in his History of the Waldenses, “When their [the Waldenses] co-religionists on the plains entered within the pale of the Roman jurisdiction, they retired within the mountains, and spurning alike the tyrannical yoke and the corrupt tenets of the Church of the Seven Hills, they preserved in its purity and simplicity the faith their fathers had handed down to them.”[1]

As our nation, as the whole of the formerly Christian West, turns more and more away from its historic Protestant roots and more and more toward tyranny of various stripes, I cannot help but wonder if we twenty-first century Protestants will not have to follow in the footsteps of the Waldenses to escape what appears to be a coming wave of persecution in our own time.

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Special Counsel John Durham Exonerates Donald Trump of ‘Russiagate‘” by Paul Craig Roberts, 5/16/2023

Durham Report Condemns the FBI’s Russia Probe – But Don’t Expect It to Make a Difference” by Johnathan Turley, 5/17/2023

Hunter Biden Faces no ‘Retribution After IRS Probe Team DisbandedSputnik, 5/18/2023

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report” by Bradford Betz, 5/15/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” Gab News, 4/27/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” by Andrew Torba 5/27/2023

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