Some Activists Call for Toppling of Jesus Statues Amid Unrest
As statues of historical American figures, including those of former presidents, are being forcibly torn down across the nation, Black Lives Matter activists are now beginning to target Christianity. Historical churches are being defaced as some call for statues of Jesus to be torn down. They argue that the common portrayal of the religious figure’s skin color is a form of white supremacy. “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy,” wrote political activist Shaun King, who is an open supporter of Black Lives Matter. “In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark,” King continued in a June 22 Twitter post. “Tear them…
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On June 22nd, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the Premier of the State Council of China, Li Keqiang, had a virtual meeting discussing issues of human rights and the responses to the pandemic. Michael McCaul, an U.S. Congressman, called on the European Union to question the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as to why it concealed the epidemic and called for a joint effort to confront the CCP’s threat.
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US Inmates Got Virus Relief Checks, and IRS Wants Them Back
BOISE, Idaho—Hundreds of thousands of dollars in CCP virus relief payments have been sent to people behind bars across the United States, and now the IRS is asking state officials to help claw back the cash that the federal tax agency says was mistakenly sent. The legislation authorizing the payments during the pandemic doesn’t specifically exclude jail or prison inmates, and the IRS has refused to say exactly what legal authority it has to retrieve the money. On its website, it points to the unrelated Social Security Act, which bars incarcerated people from receiving some types of old-age and survivor insurance benefit payments. “I can’t give you the legal basis. All I can tell you is this is the language the Treasury and ourselves have been using,” IRS spokesman Eric…