Illegal Immigrant in Virginia Charged with Producing Child Pornography

An illegal alien in Virginia has been charged with multiple counts related to producing child pornography.

Gherson Gonzales Hernandez, 24, of Honduras, has been arrested and charged with 10 counts related to child pornography material and two counts of unlawful creation of a videographic or still image of a minor, according to a report from Fox 5 DC.

The unlawful filming charge is related to an incident in August 2019.

“Arrest warrants obtained by FOX 5 on Friday state the warrants for the child pornography charges were issued Feb. 8, and they were connected to a Nov. 2023 offense,” the report explains. “The warrants also list a Springfield home address for the suspect, though neighbors FOX 5 spoke with Friday did not recognize him.”

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations spokesperson James Covington provided the station with the following statement:

“Gherson Djorkaeff Gonzales-Hernandez is a 24-year-old unlawfully present Honduran national. He was arrested by Fairfax County Police Feb. 9, and charged with multiple crimes related to child sexual abuse material. ICE ERO Washington, D.C. lodged an immigration detainer against Gonzales-Hernandez with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center following his arrest Feb. 9. As part of our mission to identify and arrest removable noncitizens, ERO lodges immigration detainers against noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity and taken into custody by state or local law enforcement.

Detainers request that state or local law enforcement agencies maintain custody of the noncitizen for a period not to exceed 48 hours beyond the time the individual would otherwise be released, allowing ERO to assume custody for removal purposes in accordance with federal law.

Detainers are a critical public safety tool because they focus enforcement resources on removable noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity. They increase the safety of all parties involved – ERO personnel, law enforcement officials, the removable noncitizens, and the public – by allowing an arrest to be made in a secure and controlled custodial setting as opposed to at-large within the community. Since detainers result in the direct transfer of a noncitizen from state or local custody to ERO custody, they also minimize the potential that an individual will reoffend.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/illegal-immigrant-virginia-charged-producing-child-pornography/

France Says Russian Intelligence Behind Antisemitic Graffiti Campaign

In November, soon after the Hamas terror attack of Oct.7 in southern Israel, mysterious graffiti appeared in the capital of France and in surrounding Paris suburbs.

More than 60Jewish stars had been spray-painted, which began being observed in late October. They were all identical, and seemed connected to the ongoing war in Gaza, given some of them were accompanies by written slogans including, "From the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, Palestine will be free."

It was widely interpreted as a threat to Jewish people. Subsequently, a Moldovan couple was arrested and they were alleged to have ties to a "pro-Russian" Moldovan intermediary.

But contradictions abounded, seen in the fact that many news articles of the time include statements like the following buried deep within them: "Investigators have said they aren't convinced the graffiti can be classed as antisemitic, but they are concerned about possible Russian meddling at such a sensitive time."

Additionally, the other problem with being quick to seize on this narrative is that France has a huge population of Muslims - some of which have made no secret of their disdain for Jews in recent protests. The immense civilian death toll in Gaza has also outraged young demonstrators all over Europe.

But on Friday the AFP is reporting that France's international security service DGSI believes this was all the work of Russia's FSB, which is a successor agency to the Soviet KGB: "France believes that Russia's security service FSB was behind a campaign in which Star of David graffiti were daubed on buildings in and around Paris last autumn, a French source said Friday."

According to the fresh report:

In a recent note seen by AFP on Friday, the DGSI urged French police forces to report even "weak signs" of potential Russian "subversion", such as vandalism, graffiti, posters, stickers and flyers, which are usually aimed at "amplifying divisions" in French society.

Also, the same report says "Le Monde said the alleged FSB operation was part of a wider disinformation campaign that also targeted Poland, Spain, Germany, Romania and Austria."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-says-russian-intelligence-service-behind-antisemitic-graffiti-campaign

Ex-Austrian chancellor found guilty of perjury

Sebastian Kurz has said he will pursue all avenues to reverse the judgement

An Austrian court has found former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz guilty of lying to a parliamentary investigatory committee. The 37 year old was handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence for perjury in a verdict delivered on Friday.

The judgment will not enter into force until all attempts to overturn the conviction have been exhausted. Kurtz said he would appeal the ruling. The case against Kurz opened by Austrian prosecutors more than two years ago focused on statements he made in 2020 to a parliamentary investigative committee probing corruption in his government.

Then Chancellor Kurz was accused of lying after he testified he had not played a decisive role in appointing close confidant Thomas Schmid to run Austria’s state holding company OBAG, claiming he was “involved in the sense of informed.”

Evidence supplied by prosecutors included leaked text messages and testimony from Schmid, who was a key state witness. The judge said he found Schmid credible and rejected attempts by the defense to present him as unreliable, ruling that Kurz played an active role in the corruption scheme.

“I find this part of the ruling very unfair,” Kurz told reporters after it was announced. “We have appealed and I am very optimistic that we will receive a ruling in our favor in the second instance,” he added. Kurz, who denies any wrongdoing, told the court before the judgement that the prosecution’s accusations had made him feel “terrible” and “helpless.”

Becoming one of the youngest leaders in the world at age 31, he served twice as chancellor of Austria – from December 2017 to May 2019 and from January 2020 to October 2021. Both of his governments collapsed following a scandal.

In 2019 a video filmed in Spain emerged showing the leader of Kurz’s coalition partner, Heinz-Christian Strache, promising contracts in exchange for campaign support to a woman he believed was the niece of a Russian oligarch.

The resulting fervor toppled Kurz’s government, but his party won the next election and he built a new coalition with the Greens. Kurz appeared to have outridden the storm until investigators stumbled on a flurry of leaked text messages from Schmid, showing that the two men had communicated about the position the latter got with OBAG.

https://www.rt.com/news/593061-sebastian-kurz-guilty-perjury/

Reporter goes viral for attacking Christians who believe rights come from God — and the responses are glorious

Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla claimed on Thursday that Christians who believe rights are derived from God are "Christian nationalists."

Speaking on MSNBC, Przybyla claimed that former President Donald Trump is surrounding himself with an "extremist element" of Christians, whom she identified as "Christian nationalists."

That's when things got weird. According to Przybyla, there is one belief that all so-called Christian nationalists share.

"[T]he thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress. They don't come to the Supreme Court. They come from God."

The "problem" with believing that rights come from God, Przybyla claimed, is that "men" misapply "so-called natural law" to oppose progressive issues, like abortion, sex education in schools, IVF, and gay marriage.

There is an obvious problem with Przybyla's argument: the Declaration of Independence. Philosophical debates about "rights" aside, the founding document is clear that rights are not derived from man like Przybyla claimed.

The Declaration of Independence declares:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Founding Fathers, then, were aware of the dangers of a government being empowered to control rights: if the government giveth, then government can taketh. But if fundamental rights are ultimately derived from God, no government can take them.

Przybyla comments went viral on Friday afternoon and triggered an avalanche of mockery:

"Our rights as human beings don’t come from the Constitution, the government, Congress, the president, or the Supreme Court. They are inherent. … This belief that rights precede government—regardless of whether you believe in God—is fundamental to what it means to be an American," former Rep. Justin Amash said.

"Is someone’s ignorance and religious bigotry showing?" Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked in response.

"What the state gives the state can take away. What God gives the state takes at its moral peril. Sincerely, The prophets of old," Jordan Peterson responded.

"Human rights come from God. That’s why all human beings have innate value and no human entity has the authority to strip them of those rights. That belief doesn’t make millions of Christians around the world Christian nationalists," AND Campaign president Justin Giboney responded.

"We are all Christian Nationalists now," pastor Tom Ascol responded.

"I guess those truths just aren't as self-evident as they used to be," National Review writer Dan McLaughlin mocked.

"This is what secularists want you to believe. If your rights originate from government, then the government is ultimate and statism becomes the dominant belief. But God is ultimate and human rights come from God," pastor Grant Castleberry pointed out.

"Imagine believing your rights come 'from Congress,'" Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) mocked.

"This is a civics failure, a talent failure, an intelligence failure, a historical failure, an ethics failure…shall I keep going?" professor Andrew Walker pointed out.

"I can only suppose that this is what comes of liberal elites living in a bubble. They speak with supreme confidence only to reveal spectacular ignorance–of history, philosophy, the beliefs of the people they regard as their intellectual and moral inferiors and hold in contempt," professor Robert George responded.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/heidi-przybyla-christians-rights-god