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Dear Black Lives Matter leadership team,

I have watched your organization grow from a group of concerned citizens who protested the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin in 2013 to the powerhouse it is today, with local chapters across the country. While there are many things we disagree on,we agree on this fundamental point: that black lives matter.

Your work to draw attention to the need of black communities to be confident in police presence and protection of their citizens is admirable. Your diligence in seeking legal justice for citizens of color is commendable. But there are black lives whose situations I have never seen addressed by you with the same vigoryou applied to tragedies likethe killings ofMartin and Michael Brown.

On November 2, 2015, 9-year-old Tyshawn Leewas lured into a Chicago alley and shot execution-style in a gang revenge killing. If ever you would speak up for innocent black lives lost to senseless violence this would have been the time.

But I didn't see your national organization scheduling protests or speaking out forthis precious little boy. This black life mattered.

6-year-old Kingston Frazier was shot to death in May of this year by three teens when they stole his mothers car with the child inside. His body was found still in the vehicle.

There were no marches to draw attention to the violence and hatred that took his young life. This black life mattered.

In February 2017, three children were killed within two days of each other in Chicago in gang-related violence. Kanari Gentry-Bowers, 12, Takiya Holmes, 11, and 2-year-old Lavontay White, Jr. were shot to death.

But your organization did not make sure their names were forever sealed in the consciousness of America like Michael Browns or Trayvon Martins. Their black lives mattered.

Your organization has some interest in international affairs since you have accused Israel of genocide and apartheid.

So why didBlack Lives Matter remain silent when, on April 14, 2014, 276 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by the extremist Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram? Your website states, We are committed to building a Black women affirming space free from sexism, misogyny and male-centeredness. Wouldnt being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery and manual labor count as sexism and misogyny?

And just last week, Al-Shabaab, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, hacked three Kenyan Christians to death after they refused to recite an Islamic prayer. The group then went to the home of one of their brothers and killed him. Al-Shabaab beheaded nine Kenyans in one attack last month and four people two days earlier.

I can find no record of you using your influence to draw attention to these black lives lost in unimaginable violence.

Over 1,000people lost their lives in the August 14mudslides in Sierra Leone, but relief efforts have been almost non-existent.

If these black lives matter, why not use some of your millions in funding to send some teams to help in this tragedy or donate part of that stash to organizations with boots on the ground there?

Finally, adisproportionate number of black children are targeted for destruction in abortion facilitiesacross our country every day. Black children are killed at a rate three times that of white babies. Every one of those lives isprecious and worth defending. These black lives matter, too.

Your silence on these lives that were taken by violence or lost in natural disasters points to your involvement with only those lives who can be used to advance your political agenda. If you actually spokefor all of those lives who can offer you no political advantage, I could consider standing shoulder-to-shoulder with you to defend the least of these."

Sincerely,

A mom who believes all lives matter

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In response to the deadly white supremacist protests, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Louisville, Kentucky published an article titled, White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader.

Chanelle Helm, organizer and co-founder of the BLM chapter in Louisville, Kentucky, made 10 specific requests that white people should be doing for people of color following the violent protests between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Addressing racists, Helm implied that white women are inherently nosy, and so white women should use that skill to get racists fired from their jobs.

Yaw know what the f**k they be saying, You are complicit when you ignore them, Helm continued by saying, Get your boss fired cause they racist too.

The BLM leader wrote that white people need to find and call out racist Nazis, stating that whites should profile other white people and Call the police even: they look suspicious. Violence is not off limits for the BLM activist who also requested white people use force against racists if necessary.

Get Them Fired. But certainly address them, and, if you need to, you got hands: use them, Helm wrote.

Also addressing the housing disparity between minorities and whites, Helm demands that white people should leave their property to a black or brown family once they die, if they arent leaving it to a family member.

And for white people who are inheriting property that they plan to sell, she demands they just give it to a member of the black community for free. Her reasoning? White people are bound to make that money in some other white privileged way.

In a separate point, Helm also said white people should never leave their property to a racist.

White people, if any of the people you intend to leave your property to are racists a**holes, change the will, and will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably a family from generational poverty, Helm wrote.

Going even further, she wants white realtors and housing developers to build housing complexes exclusively for African Americans and let black and brown people live in it for free.

Despite housing becoming unaffordable across the board for all races and prices rising twice as fast as inflation, Helm wants white families to downsize and buy smaller houses. The catch? She demands that the larger homes she claims whites currently live in are to be given to black people for free.

Concluding her ten points, Helm left her personal PayPal, Cashapp and Venmo information to accept individual donations from readers.

Red Alert Politics reached out to the Black Lives Matter organization for a statement on the Louisville BLM leaders demands with no response. The #BlackLivesMatter organization was created in 2012 after a Florida neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The group addresses inequalities for the black community on issues like poverty, incarceration, assault, LGBTQ rights.

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Today, it is easy to forget where many of our freedoms come from. It is also dangerous to turn a blind eye to history. Civilizations, military commanders, and leaders of nations have ignored history and human behavior with devastating results.

Perhaps the most important freedoms we enjoy are embedded in the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution was added as part of the Bill of Rights on Dec. 15, 1791. It protects us from the unreasonable searching of our homes and some areas of private property. The Fourth Amendment specifically provides:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Founders believed that freedom from government intrusion into ones home was a natural right (one granted from God) and fundamental to liberty. The idea that citizens should be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures originated in England hundreds of years ago. In 1604, Sir Edward Coke first identified this right. He said that The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

During the Colonial era, the King of England looked at the American colonies as a financial investment. Britain passed numerous revenue collection bills aimed at generating as much money from the colonists as possible. Obviously, the colonists resented this act by the King and began smuggling operations to circumvent the custom taxes imposed by the British Crown.

In response, King George began the use of writs of assistance. These were legal search warrants that were extremely broad and general in scope. British agents could obtain a writ of assistance to search any property they believed might contain contraband goods. They could enter someones property or home without notice and without a reason. Agents could interrogate anyone and force their cooperation. These searches and seizures became an egregious affront to the people of the colonies. They would also be one the precipitating factors leading to the American Revolution and the eventual forming of our Constitution.

Since it became part of the Constitution, many common-sense exceptions to the Fourth Amendment right to have a properly executed search warrant issued before a search or seizure of private property can be conducted. They are too numerous to list in this column. However, two common examples are (1) a police officer may conduct a pat down search of someone if he or she has observed someone engaging in behavior that would give the officer reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime has or is being committed; and (2) if a police officer sees someone committing a crime, or believes that he or she has probable cause to suspect someone has committed a crime, the officer may arrest the suspect without a warrant.

Today, the most common arguments in criminal cases surround the Fourth Amendment. We have vehicles, phones, computers, text messaging, Facebook, and numerous other forms of technology that did not exist in the 1700s. Judges must rule on contemporary issues as modern technology surfaces.

But, the analysis is the same today as it was over 200 years ago. The search and seizure of data from a smartphone must be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment just as the search and seizure of handwritten documents in a barn in 1820 would have had to be reasonable.

Looking back at the reasoning behind liberties in cultures helps to preserve freedoms. It is only when we become disinterested or even indifferent to our Founders that we take a dangerous path toward civilizational decline.

We cannot forget that our freedoms come from natural law, the courage of our Founders, and the words in a very old document that still apply today; the United States Constitution.

Jason Swindle is a Carrollton attorney.

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Not to take sides, but No Strings Attached sex is not necessarily a one night stand. In our society's youth today is quite common to have hook up sex. We hear of this at the hospital a lot now a days. The term of engagement is not important to them. One girl said it just means that she likes and wants sex, but doesn't necessarily want a long term relationship with that person or even a relationship at all. She stated she has a guy that she goes to when she needs "release" with no questions asked. They are not even close friends.

On another note, I have two friends, who are friends with each other but not seeing each other socially. They both just got out of long term relationships. They never spend the night together afterwards or cuddle or anything "intimate" in that context, they just use each other to get off because they have both been tested and aren't at a point where either wants a relationship.

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Colour me shocked. It appears the NSA has been collecting a treasure trove of hacks for Windows, both desktop and servers, covering all versions of the OS bar Windows 10. And this toolbox of capabilities, which also included ways to get into banking and other related systems, has leaked to the public.

I suspect your jaw isnt gaping in surprise. Whats followed has been just as predictable.

First, theres shock that the NSA might have built such a collection of exploits. Sorry, what doyou expect the NSA to be doing? Creating toolkits that can be used against undesirables is what it exists for. Injecting custom spyware onto the laptop of a terrorist could bring up incredibly useful intelligence information, after all.

Then theres the public horror that the NSA didnt tell Microsoft about the exploits. Why is anyone surprised? Sure, its good practice for security researchers to tell Microsoft (or Apple, Facebook, Google, whoever) that theyve uncovered a security hole. There are processes inplace by which such reports are made, the vendor is given time to patch things and issue anupdate, and then the exploit is made public once the patch has been issued. Its all very gentlemanly, and some companies even offer financial rewards.

Would I expect the NSA to tell Microsoft about the exploits? Of course not. Keeping such flaws hidden from Microsoft meant they were exploitable for as long as possible.

No-one is suggesting the NSA, or any other equivalent organisation, is using these tools against the wider population. I dont think there have been mass deployments of EmeraldThread or EternalRomance or EclipsedWing or any of the other rather charming codenames. (Nasty1 and Nasty2 and ReallyNasty3 just dont have the same ring to them.)

But then we come onto the real problems. The tools have now been released into the wild, and it doesnt take much effort to download them. Thismeans there will be a flood of script kiddies trying them out and targeting everyone from NASA to the takeaway down the street. Thats a whole pile of grief no-one needed.

It would be interesting to analyse which antivirus packages would protect you against these exploits. My hunch, backed by discussions with friends in the industry, is almost none. As they say about financial results, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Even so, now the toolkit has leaked, its of much less use to the NSA, and any other organisations that might have had access to it. That cant be a good thing. Dont confuse that statement with any desire on my part to see government-mandated encryption backdoors being forced into end user applications. I see a differencebetween what an organisation such as the NSA or GCHQdoes and thefar more widespread misuse of data-snooping that we have seen in the UK. And my distrust of the ability of government departments, including the NHS, to keep massive datasets secure has almost no limits.

Then we come to Microsofts interesting claim that these exploits have been patched already, but only very recently. One wonders whether the NSA told Microsoft about the leak once it knew its toolkit was compromised and Microsoft went into top gear to get fixes out as soon as possible.

It does mean, of course, that the old mantra about running only the most current and fully patched versions of applications and operating systems is as true today as it has ever been. Microsoft rather coyly states that Of the three remaining exploits, EnglishmanDentist, EsteemAudit, and ExplodingCan, none reproduces on supported platforms, which means that customers running Windows 7 and recent versions of Windows or Exchange 2010 and newer versions of Exchange are not at risk. So if youre on XP, youre on your own.

Its also true that weve managed to get ourselves into a situation where OSes are so complex that it is now effectively impossible to ensure they are secure. The approach taken by Apples iOS, forcing a walled garden approach on the developers and the execution of code, is arguably the most secure widespread end user platform available. But that still doesnt mean that the core OS itself is secure. Is open source the answer? Maybe, but exploits are found there too.

You may be thinking Ill use this final paragraph to deliver the answer. Sadly, there isnt one. If GCHQ or the NSA want to access my computers, they will either hack their way in, use a backdoor that we dont know about, or just turn up with a warrant and remove every device fitted with a mains plug. And there is nothing I, or you, can do.

This article originally appeared in PC Pro.

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