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https://www.history.com/articles/battles-of-lexington-and-concord

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence.

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Points to ponder:

The 1968 Federal Firearms Act was predicated on, and inspired by, the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK, with the idea that unregulated access to firearms by the citizens was a bad thing.... cuz JFK etc.

If what we are learning now about CIA and LBJ involvement in those assassinations, does this not undermine the 1968 Act and call for its repeal? Further, if the Act is repealed, is there any need for the ATF? Further, is the very existence of the ATF an unconstitutional restraint on the Second Amendmen?

Sitting here this morning while partaking breakfast with my wife a thought occurred to me.....If all these sealed indictments are unsealed at the same time and people around the country are arrested at the same time, will there be people in high ranking positions of power who will be swept up in the arrests? If yes, then Congressmen and Senators and Judges will be arrested and spend a day or two extracting themselves from the clutches of the law. Will there be a power vacuum within the House and Senate because there might be too few lawmakers available to vote on issues? How will an arrest affect the rest of their term? Will they have to automatically step down from office or fight the charges? Will their constituents demand their removal from office after hearing the charges against them?

I've read there is anywhere from 150k to 450k sealed indictments, so one can only surmise there will be some politicians involved in being arrested. Will they be actually tossed in a jail cell for some time or will their lawyers be able to free them with the understanding that they will appear in court at some future date? If they are to be held in a cell until their trial then how will they perform their sworn duties? Maybe some governors will replace them with temporary people until new elections are held, IDK.

Just wanted to toss this idea out there for you to chew on and see what the responses might be. I can foresee that if this kind of arrest happening makes its way down to city and town level the American people will be up against a new perspective they've rarely had to deal with, enmass. We shall see how it shakes out, but I bet this country will become a lot better in both getting rid of bad people and having our elected officials come to grips with doing the right thing, all the time.

Meta Has 100+ Ex-IDF on Staff

Meta's recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant's commitment to free speech - and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that's been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza.

More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli government scheme that allows non-Israelis to volunteer for the Israeli army.

Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.

Through this program, known as Garin Tzabar, many non-Israelis who have fought for the IDF have been implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity since Israel’s genocide of Gaza began in October 2023.

Anderson served as a non-commissioned officer in the IDF for over two years where she worked in the Military Strategic Information Section, writing dossiers and public relations propaganda for the IDF. She was also the liaison between the IDF and foreign military attaches stationed in Israel, and liaison to the Red Cross.

With AI a critical emerging technology for tech giants and militaries, Anderson’s role at Meta is an important one. She develops the legal guidance, policies and public relations talking points concerning AI issues and regulation for all of Meta’s key areas, including its product, public policy and government affairs teams.

At Meta, Anderson, who is based in Meta’s Washington DC office, is in familiar company. More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers are employed by the company, my new investigation shows, many of whom worked for Israel’s spy agency Unit 8200.

These ex-IDF members are based evenly across Meta’s US offices and in its Tel Aviv office, and a significant number of them, like Anderson, have a specialization in AI. Given that Israel has made extensive use of AI not just to conduct its genocide, but to establish its prior system of apartheid, surveillance and occupation, Meta’s recruiting of IDF AI specialists is particularly insidious. Did these former Israeli spies use their Unit 8200 connections to help the tech giant collaborate with the IDF to build kill lists? According to a report last year, Unit 8200 infiltrated WhatsApp groups and marked every name in a group for assassination if just one alleged Hamas member was also in the group, no matter the size or content of the group chat.

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/08/100-meta-employees-ex-idf/

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