Trump's Rebel Alliance Attacks the Left's Death Star As in one of those old-time movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or a sci-fi film like Star Wars, where the good guys finally go on the offensive and beat the evildoers, this week the President and the rebel alliance cracked through the Democrat’s Death Star of lies , deceit, and unpunished illegalities.  It was fun to watch, and I think it’s just begun. Candace Owens This attractive young black woman, connected to Prager U, blew House Democrats out of the water. The video of her feat on C-Span received more hits than any other Twitter/CSpan video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZxDv74rsk&feature=share Townhall, covered this, in case you didn’t see Owens in action. She demolished Congressman Ted Lieu, who tried to paint her as a Hitler lover by selectively misrepresenting her earlier statement in which she had distinguished between nationalism as pride and support for one’s country, and Hitler’s version. In the process she proved her claim that the globalist infused Democrats distort the idea of America First as a white racist doctrine because they assume that black voters are stupid. Another black woman conservative noted why this exchange was so wonderful to see: Juliette Akinyi Ochieng Conservatives who are black have been speaking out for a long time. But the House Republicans finally invited one -- Candace Owens, a fine speaker and advocate for conservatism -- and, thereby, provided a spotlight. That House Democrats made fools of themselves was mere icing. And it was sweet. We should all rejoice in this. In any event, the charge that there is an army of violent white supremacists out to harm minorities, is utter poppycock -- a propaganda ploy by the left to ingather voters who fall for it. Even a superficial glance at the record indicates that of the nearly 20,000 people killed in thousands of extremist killings in 2017, white supremacists were responsible for very few. The worst terrorist event of 2017, according to the State Department, was the explosion of a truck bomb outside the Safari Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed more than 580 people. This violent act is believed to have been the work of Al-Shabaab, which was responsible for 97 percent of the 370 instances of extremist killings in Somalia in 2017, accounting for about 1,400 deaths -- mostly civilian. The remaining violent acts were carried out by Jabha East Africa (ISIS-Somalia), a dissident Al-Shabaab splinter group. The deadliest extremist attack in Egypt’s history took place in 2017, when ISIS-Sinai terrorists converged on a mosque in Sinai during Friday prayers and slaughtered 312 people... Also in Egypt that year, on Palm Sunday, an extremist suicide bomber connected to IS-Egypt killed 30 Coptic Christians at a church in Tanta… The first day of 2017 was marked by an ISIS attack on a nightclub in Istanbul; the Uzbeki perpetrator killed 35 people. In April, another Uzbeki rammed a truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, killing seven. In August, ISIS militant Younes Abouyaaqoub ran a truck into a crowd of people in Barcelona, killing 15 people… White nationalists committed none of the above violent acts of extremist killing, and that’s nothing remarkable: almost all the world’s extremist violence is concentrated in a handful of regions, where very few white people live. In areas where whites do live (America, Canada, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand), white nationalists do indeed perpetrate a significant proportion of the relatively uncommon acts of extremist violence. Again, this is unsurprising, because whites make up the overwhelming majority of the population there.[snip] When Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that white supremacists were responsible for the most extremist killings of 2017, she was obviously wrong, by at least two and maybe three orders of magnitude (if she meant worldwide, which is unclear from her tweet). There were at least 8,500 such incidents worldwide that year, and white supremacists accounted for perhaps 15 or 20 of them, depending how you count.  A big influencer in creating the lie about white racism and violence has been the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose top two officials were fired or resigned and which now faces an avalanche of lawsuits against it. Amid the racism and sexism scandal roiling the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), former employees have revealed the far-left smear factory's list of "hate groups" as a cynical fundraising scam. Last year, the SPLC paid $3.375 million to settle a defamation lawsuit involving similar accusations. Now more than 60 organizations falsely accused of being "hate groups" are mulling lawsuits, and at least one lawsuit will come as soon as this summer. Former SPLC employee Bob Moser described "the annual hate-group list" as "a valuable resource for journalists and a masterstroke of Dees’s marketing talents; every year, when the center publishes it, mainstream outlets write about the 'rising tide of hate' discovered by the S.P.L.C.’s researchers, and reporters frequently refer to the list when they write about the groups." According to The Progressive's John Egerton, SPLC co-founder Morris Dees "viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals." Current Affairs Editor Nathan J. Robinson slammed the "hate map" as an "outright fraud," a "willful deception designed to scare older liberals into writing checks to the SPLC." John F. Kerry Congressman Thomas Massie punctured the left’s perpetually publicity seeking gasbag John F. Kerry during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. Congressman Massie has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from MIT and a decade-long history of scientific achievement before running for Congress. Kerry’s scientific knowledge is sparse, as Massie made clear. (Like Al Gore at Harvard, his college courses at Yale probably consisted of a single course headed something like “Deep Thoughts About Science.”)  Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/trumps_rebel_alliance_attacks_the_lefts_death_star.html#ixzz5lwPc3N2O   Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook