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EXTORTION BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL EXTORTION

Published / by Lee Kessler / 3 Comments on EXTORTION BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL EXTORTION

BY LEE KESSLER

You can call it Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.   You can call it ESG.  You can call it Reparations.  No matter how you dress this verbal conflagration that is racing across the world, infecting the logic and common sense of otherwise good, stable nations and people, extortion is still extortion.

There are legal definitions for extortion of course.   But, even figuratively, Dictionary.com defines extortion as the act of “using violence, threats, intimidation, or pressure from one’s authority to force someone to hand over money (or something of value) or do something they don’t want to do.”.

The news is full daily of people who are victims of the definition above, especially of being made to do something they don’t want to do, or prevented from doing something they do want to do.   For example, having watched the Oversight Committee hearing with the FBI Whistleblowers who were extorted not to blow the whistle, it was obvious they went ahead on their own convictions, and suffered mightily as the FBI withdrew money, support, livelihood, and their good names.

Another news agency reported last week that the environment in the FBI is now toxic, and that FBI employees are terrified.   Of what, you ask?   Of losing their jobs, and other retaliations obviously. They fear loss of homes, income, respect, titles–symbols of success.  I would argue though that character matters more.  One might not have a legacy income to leave his children, but the legacy of honor and courage is a far more important example for them to have witnessed.  Money comes and goes. There are all kinds of ways of making money. But character is lasting.

Last week also a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Anthony Bass, was sheepishly apologizing for having posted something that some “god” somewhere deemed unacceptable and who extorted him by the new means of silencing people and getting them to violate–if not even abrogate–their own First Amendment rights.   It was clear he was in fear of being sent back to the Minors, after having worked his whole life to get to be a Major League pitcher.

Dozens of corporations across this country are spitting on their loyal customers of decades as they race to embrace DEI, and outdo each other in the Wokism flavor of the month.   Why?   Again, what “god” are they satisfying?  Who is threatening them so much that they risk, and are experiencing, massive drops in sales revenue, stock prices, customer loyalty and more?  Who is threatening them with being labeled racist, or a bigot, intimidating them to the degree that all rational thinking has left the boardrooms?

The examples are too many and too frequent to catalog, but it seems clear that the message to the lone individual or corporation that tries to stand on its original principles and morals is this:  “Do as we demand OR we will hurt you!”  And that, I submit, is extortion—and a diabolical one at that.  Demanding money at gunpoint in order to provide “protection” has long been deemed illegal.   Mob syndicates when caught experience criminal prosecution.

But those who would implant and enforce DEI and ESG know that they are skirting the law here, since they hide behind the guise of “merely representing the will of fair-minded people.”  I do not know whether or not the United States has in fact devolved to the point that bullying people into submission is the new modus operandi, embraced and agreed to by our fellow countrymen.  I pray we have not sunk to that barbarism in human interactions.

I myself was raised with the old adage of “two wrongs don’t make a right.”   Adherence to that one truth alone would stop almost all this nonsense.  No matter how wronged you or I feel we have been, that does not justify our embracing the techniques of our wrongdoer and deploying them ourselves.   That can only lead to an ever-expanding sphere of one wrong being met with another wrong which is met with yet another wrong.  The society spirals down, and brutality rises.  Two wrongs make two wrongs, period!

Further, any of us who have been bullied somehow understand to either stop the bully, or get away from him.  To become a bully ourselves is to assume the identity of the enemy.  I would like to suggest that if you have been bullied, the wrong thing to do is to become a bully.  Put simply, at that point, the bully wins.

When I was young I was bullied because my father was the strict school principal, and the way people felt they could hurt him—since they were too cowardly to face him straight up—was to bully his little girl.  Running to my mom in tears, she taught me to understand why I was being attacked, and to decide those people were not worthy of my attention, let alone my friendship.  Bolstered by that sense of reality—that people have to qualify for one’s friendship—I chose to walk away, or challenge directly, but without using any of their degrading tactics.

That in turn served me well in my adult years in Hollywood.  I want you to understand that the person writing this commentary has factually been discriminated against and “extorted” because of my gender, my race, my age, my religion, and my politics.  I have personally paid a price financially and career-wise for my refusal to yield to someone’s demands that I do something I felt was wrong, or harm someone else, or abandon my beliefs and values or they would see that “I never worked again.”  The words of my mother have never left me.  Those people who would do that to another are not worthy of me. And they are not worthy of you!

And very specifically I remember always something my father taught me.  He said one day when he was under attack by townspeople and being pressured to back off a project he knew would be vital to the education and safety of his students, and indeed the town, “Lee, you don’t live this life to be liked.  You live it to be effective.”

I never forgot.   My message to all who are torn now between doing the right thing even though there will be repercussions, or just cowing in the face of the extortion demands of those in authority over you—you may feel the only option you have in order to survive is to yield, to submit.  I doubt it.   And that is my parting gift to you: that doubt.

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Has DA Alvin Bragg inadvertently created an alliance between African-Americans and Donald Trump?

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Has DA Alvin Bragg inadvertently created an alliance between African-Americans and Donald Trump? What a question!

Though this would likely be the farthest thing from his mind, and completely contrary to his intentions in his unjust and unethical indictment of a former President and front-runner in an upcoming Presidential election, Alvin Bragg may have just forged an alliance that would have been considered unlikely, if not impossible, before last Tuesday.

Many do not realize that in the election of 2020, then-President Trump picked up significant percentages of voters amongst minorities that historically don’t vote for Republican candidates.   His popularity amongst African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians was rising in all categories.  Talk about forgotten men and women.   Those are people that the Democrats view as a cinch for them.  It never occurred to them that those groups are comprised of individuals—not voting blocks who swim like a school of fish.  And, as the smart, common sense people they are, those voters were noticing something.

They noticed that Trump funded, for the long term, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, eliminating those fine institutions from having to come begging every year for funding.  He lowered the unemployment rate amongst African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans to the lowest point in history.  If my memory serves me, he further raised the wages and incomes in each of these categories significantly, using his economic policies in an attempt to raise everyone into the middle class, and to increase household incomes.

In a multi-pronged approach to the crisis in our inner cities, he brought school choice and school vouchers to the table, making it possible for young boys and girls who might be trapped in inadequate educational systems to have a chance at a good education and better life.   And he was putting that into the hands of the parents. Until the election of 2020.

Coupled at the same time were his initiatives to bring business, money, and job opportunities into those same communities, making it possible for the neighborhoods to prosper, and for future generations to have a true place in our country.

Even more importantly as I watched him listen to the issues brought before him about the Justice System, and its unfairness to blacks and minorities, he was creating prison sentencing reform—not by just willy-nilly releasing hardened and violent offenders as is happening in many cities today—but by working to get the prison sentences proportionate to the crime in the first place.

Many did not get the word on any of this, since Big Media didn’t want to cover the possibility that someone could actually be raised up, given that the controlling politicians make money and win elections by keeping a people oppressed.  Many did get the word, however, and I believe that contributed to his steady rise in voters from those groups.

But there was one area for sure that African-Americans in particular continually rail against.   That is what they refer to as “unequal justice under the law.”   Though there are likely many grievances, two stand out to me.  One is the perceived prejudice against a person because of his skin color and economic strata.  The second is the over-charging of individuals who really can’t defend themselves in the court system, where public defenders may not provide adequate defense.  That leads to higher conviction numbers of excessively charged crimes, resulting in excessive sentencing.  And, in my opinion, it has opened the door to fears of persecution by our Justice system, and to manipulation by people who benefit from citizen against citizen.

I am not here to debate that, but just to point out a perception that is widely embraced, and which is hindering the prosperity of our great nation.  It is also destroying our humanity.

Then along comes Alvin Bragg, who has just now, with bias and malice aforethought persecuted the exact opposite type of citizen:  an older white male who is wealthy, and who nonetheless has been hounded relentlessly, treated constantly with a double standard, “pulled over” and “searched” for just being there, and now excessively charged.  Misdemeanor elevated to felony with no statement of the related felony.   One charge multiplied 34 times it seems to exaggerate the alleged threat of the person charged.  And consecutive sentencing—if convicted—of over 100 years.

And in so doing I believe Alvin Bragg will be “hoisted by his own petard”—unintentionally bringing together two formerly unlikely bedfellows.  Those being the African-American community that has been long-suffering and the white guy who was enacting policies designed to help in those arenas.  No one on either side is perfect.  But common sense citizens I believe can still recognize when someone else is being mistreated, and that it is not all about color. 

I believe we have an innate sense of fair play as American citizens, and we do struggle and resist when we see unfair, unequal treatment under the law.  Donald J. Trump had an intellectual understanding for sure about the problems in the system. He no doubt had empathy. But, until his arrest, it was not visceral or personal.   Now he understands at a level that no other President or other-wise interested, albeit a bit sanctimonious, politicians understand.

This is no longer about only black people being mistreated, or the poor.  When it crossed into the current charges and legal battles, it transcended the arena the manipulators play in.   They wanted it to be about powerful politicians against other powerful wealthy people—with the victory occurring on some elevated plane.  And they wanted it to be about impoverished minorities on a lower plane.

But Bragg’s actions have breached the divider between the privileged and the unprivileged.  He has torn open a hole, revealing the problem is not really about color or education.   It is about corruption, ambition, and complete disregard for the nation as a whole.  For the first time white Americans who may have intellectually understood and debated the plight of their fellow citizens, without viscerally understanding it, are now witnessing unequal justice under the law happening to them.

Americans have always come together when there is a common enemy.  Remember how we were after 9/11? If there is no common enemy—in either person or ideology—we tend to drift and just wave at each other’s dilemmas without joining forces.  Well, Alvin Bragg may have just created a common enemy—unequal justice under the law—which transcends now and hereafter color, ethnicity, education, wealth, and much more.   And in so doing, two groups who want to be in harmony but have not attained the higher levels we are capable of, may now be looking not at each other as the source of their burdens, but rather at hate-filled corrupt men and women who would suppress and repress their fellow countrymen–no matter their color.

Now that, to me, is a cause worthy of uniting us.  And it may provide to this Presidential candidate the empathy and support of people who know exactly how he feels, and more importantly, who now know he knows exactly how they feel.  That alliance, if the individuals who are aware of what I just said unite, will change politics, the nation, and the history of our people forever.   Wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic if the malevolent Bragg brought about the uniting of the minority communities, who frankly have been taken for granted by the people they have voted for, and the would-be President who formerly tried to help.  Personally, I love irony!  And I despise injustice, anywhere, anytime.  How about you?

Don’t Take the Bait!

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by LEE KESSLER

Having revealed in my novels how “mind guys” implement their mind control, there is a tactic we all need to be aware of that has already been deployed to influence the Republican primaries and selection of the candidate for 2024.   Election interference has already begun, and it is being done under the category of Perception Management. 

That tactic used to be known as mind control or brainwashing. Then it was changed to propaganda as a whole “new-age” form of warfare was developed.   To sanitize it even further and make it palatable to the average person, propaganda was redefined as Public Relations.  A whole industry was born to do “opposition research” to support one’s candidate, and destroy the opponent by souring the voter–not on the opponent’s policies and viewpoints, but rather on a rejection of their perceived character flaws.   Initially begun with the idea that the research might expose some sordid things, but would actually be true, it has given way in recent years to a concoction of half-truths, falsehoods, and outright slander.   And that is where the propagandist operates—in the murkiness of lies that appear as truth.

Most recently, however, to legitimize it even more after the Steele Dossier and Russia Hoax debacle, those who would override your reason with emotion and passion have chosen a delicious new route called Perception Management.   If one can create and/or manipulate what you see and perceive, you change your thoughts, and thereby your decisions and actions.  Whether you change your vote, or lose your enthusiasm, or withhold contributions, or pass on harmful information in order to “inform” your followers, if one can alter your perception, they are engaged in the slickest form of mind control.

For example, last week, Trump was in New Hampshire as part of his campaign. I heard a news commentator remark that there didn’t seem to be the enthusiasm in the crowd that used to be there for him. And, further inserting his opinion into his evaluation, he added that perhaps it is time for someone new. This was a top-rated news agency, not CNN or MSNBC.

I realized then that one of the most dangerous Perception Management operations has already begun to stop Donald J Trump from receiving the nomination of his party for President.  It is obvious to me that his policies worked, and they worked because of his unique and creative leadership style, and his unshakable courage in the face of relentless attacks, 24/7. Perception Management will redefine that steadfastness as “reckless stubbornness” however. In my lifetime, I have never seen a President so attacked, so relentlessly, as he and his administration worked to better conditions in the United States and abroad.

Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted for him or against him, when a President has an historic increase in people voting for him over his first run for the office, and when he and the American people—75 million of us—were told he had lost, it defied credibility.   Sadly, the Biden Campaign was a study in Perception Management, and its first huge victory was the defeat of Trump.   Now, one should ask oneself, who really wanted Trump gone?   Was it really the American people, or was it someone else?

I believe it is in fact someone else, and they skillfully aligned forces and industries like Big Media and Big Tech to ensure he did not make it.   You can read “White King and the Seat at the Table” to find out who they are and what they plan for you next.   Their problem, though, is Donald J. Trump.  He is running again for his second term.   And 75 million Americans believe their vote was somehow negated in 2020.   Whether it was cheating, incompetence, wholly inadequate state elections laws, media manipulation, edgy voting day disparities, or even legal loopholes, the outcome was the same—tens of millions of Americans now doubt the election process in the US.

The solution that the Perception Management people have cooked up is this.   They can’t outright tell 75 million Americans to stop believing in President Trump, or to stop believing in what they witnessed in 2020.  So, they are inside the party itself now promoting selecting someone who is “just like Trump, but not Trump.”  The very traits that made him so effective in negotiations, in policies, and in world leadership are the traits they want you to shy away from.  Statements like “well, I loved his policies, but I didn’t like his personality, or his tweets” are straight out of the opposition playbook in Perception Management.   The goal is to get you to change your perception of Trump, by lowering it just enough that you will choose “someone just like him, but not him.”   The problem is there is no one like him.   He is a one of a kind, and a total standout in the nearly 250 year history of our country.  If they can manage your perception of him, dampen your enthusiasm, or get you to embrace the delusion that if he just goes away and we pick someone else all things will calm down, they win.

I personally experienced the negative outcome of such thinking in my acting career in Hollywood.   As a young actress rising into starring roles (about the time I was blacklisted) the top producer of TV shows at the time was casting the lead in a 10-part miniseries to be followed by a series.  He had chosen me, but had not made an offer.   Then, “someone” gave him the idea that he should find someone just like Lee Kessler, but not Lee Kessler.   He searched all over the United States—literally–and the last night before he would have to start filming he found someone in Chicago “just like Lee Kessler, only not Lee Kessler.”  The project failed totally, because although she was a lovely, nice actress who looked like me, she was not me. 

And someone wants you to embrace the “just like Trump, but not Trump” mantra. My situation was trivial in the grand scheme of things.  But, the undermining of an American President is not.   The attack will be covert, and it will come from within the ranks of very credible people. Their voice and their argument will seem so reasonable. Having lived in Florida until this year, I admire and respect Gov. DeSantis.  But, he is not Donald Trump.  Neither is Nikki Haley.  Neither is Mike Pompeo.  All fine people.  But, mark my words, if  Republicans like anyone of these, or a long list of other hopefuls, and begin to salivate over the idea of offering one of them up to us as the candidate, they have already succumbed to the perception management tactics. 

Just make sure you, my fellow countrymen, do not take the bait.  He is today who he was in 2016 and throughout his presidency.  He represented and spoke for millions upon millions.  But if an enemy can get you  to favor calm and predictability more than you value world security and the security and prosperity of the American people, that enemy knows you will have fallen for their perception management whereby they persuaded you that he is somehow too noisy, too dangerous, and you must choose someone more traditionally palatable—someone safer.   In doing so, they override the obvious—it was all the calm, safe politicians who got us here in the first place, and were too cowardly to back their President when he stood up.

Controversial, embattled, noisy, sometimes full of grace, sometimes uncouth, he nonetheless got the job done in the world as it is today, not as it was in the past.  The next time you hear someone say, “well, we like his policies, but we just want someone else who won’t be soooo…we want somebody different,” just know they are repeating the propaganda line of the Perception Management arm of the global elites.   In the world of propaganda strategies, a lie told often enough becomes the truth.  Likewise,  the repetition of the message until all embrace it is an old marketing strategy still used today.   The more of you who repeat that message, the more you make it true.

Ask yourself, who benefits if someone with good intentions and talent, but nowhere near seasoned enough to stop the opposing party’s candidate—let alone our formidable global adversaries–is nominated?   You?  Or maybe the naïve people who just quietly and sweetly say, “I just don’t like his tweets,” hoping that if he goes away somehow miraculously all things will be hunky dory again ?  No.  Regrettably, just like the Hollywood story that turned out badly with the Producer’s choice, this will turn out badly. Only this one really matters to mankind’s future.  The TV show did not.  Don’t take the bait!

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My Prayer for Brittney Griner

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This is my prayer for you, Ms. Griner. As an American, I am happy you are home, and reunited with your family. I do not choose to discuss lifestyle or politics today. You are an American, and you have a right to be back in the United States of America. It is my understanding that Viktor Bout’s family is equally joyous at his return.

What I want you to understand though is that Americans will die as a result of this exchange. You are free to pursue now your American Dream–the NBA, where you play basketball. Mr. Bout is now free to pursue his dream, which is to kill Americans.

And make no mistake, Americans will die in the future as a result of your freedom. You will not know their names, nor will I, for some time. But, make no mistake, your experience in Russia must have established for you a new reality on the difference between true freedom–however flawed you view it–and true suppression. Mr. Bout will ensure, directly or indirectly, that Americans die.

So, please, honor them now in advance. Men and women–and possibly children–will pay the price for your freedom. Their families will never be “reunited” because their loved one will have perished. The government of the United States has decided to spare you, in exchange for the future death of American citizens. It is my prayer that you be grateful for the sacrifice the countrymen you have disparaged will make in the near future for you. And that you will show the same grace and compassion for them and their beliefs as they, as Americans, have shown to you today.

It is my further prayer for you that you become an activist now to bring home every American who has been seized–regardless of their politics, their gender, their color, or any other thing you value. They are Americans, and they deserve not to be left behind. Your credentials, and those of Steph Curry as well, should help them and their families.

And it is my final prayer for you–coming from someone as different from you as you can imagine–that you cease disrespecting this country and your fellow countrymen who will have made an ultimate sacrifice so you can pursue the American Dream. I honor what you have done. Now let’s see what you learned from this, and who you become, and what you do in the future.

Welcome home, Ms. Griner. You are welcome here!

From, “someone who could be the next intended victim of Viktor Bout.”

And it is my prayer for my fellow Americans that you spread this Blog “far and wide, even into the seats of power.”

While We Rearranged the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

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It’s been a week since the 2022 mid-term elections, and final results are still not in. For seven days now there have been recriminations, finger-pointing, blame-shifting, jockeying for position for 2024, betrayal, shock, disappointment, glee, and endless preliminary analyses on how so many got so much so wrong. I will leave the postmortem on all that to the commentators and op-ed writers.

As for me, having written “White King and the Seat at the Table,”–the novel revealing who, how, and why America is being brought down from within–and having been raising red flags all through this election cycle, it is now time for a look from a different perspective, a different angle, and a different elevation.

All of America, certainly all of the Media, and all of our politicians pinned their hopes, on both sides, on last Tuesday. In Clearwater, Fl. in September, I attempted to warn a political activist group I had been asked to speak to that even if we won, it would not be a silver bullet, but rather a bullet dodged. My message and the reasoning behind it fell on deaf ears that night, as all were caught up in the frenzied and impassioned dedication to the task immediately in front of them.

Well, there were some wins and losses, but while we were distracted “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” a great deal happened that no one was looking at. Even as I write this, those in charge in Washington are in heated debate over where they should put the chairs next time, who was too fat and tilted the ship, who left too many light weight chairs on the wrong side of the deck, who picked the wrong people to assign to areas of the deck and to traffic control, who didn’t pull their weight, etc. etc. That debate will go on for weeks.

But while it has been raging this week, the Titanic called the United States of America not only did not stabilize, it continues to sink, as America loses freedoms, wealth, hope, and leadership in the world. The gash produced by the iceberg floating in international waters is widening, and our nation itself is being swamped. Here’s what you missed in the frantic “rearranging of the deck chairs.” Here’s what our Media failed to cover.

The United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt is occurring. Heads of state of about 100 nations, including our own, are attending. For years now they meet annually as they plan on how to handle what they call the impending global climate disaster. It used to be called Global Warming, but that didn’t pan out. Then it was called Global Cooling, but that didn’t pan out. Knowing that the target would always be shifting in this pesky thing called the physical universe, their marketing department came up with a label that can be used forever, and will likely apply somewhere on our orb on any given Sunday–“Climate Change.”

However you feel about it, here’s what I saw and read about this week. Standing on the same stage were the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, and John Kerry representing the United States. He proudly laid out how they plan to handle a global climate-death emergency. They will use the Covid-19 model. We all know how that turned out. Lock-downs, mandates, cessation of freedom, individual medical freedom overridden. Kerry seemed to assert that the World Health Organization is poised to declare a global emergency, and when they do, the test-run of the pandemic and the protocols they used to curb it, will be implemented globally.


Whether it was Kerry or someone else who brought it up, there appears to be a GPS app now that can be used globally to measure CO2 emissions and identify who the culprits are who are harming the planet. They then can be located and “handled.”

So, while we were distracted, the world moved one step closer to an authoritarian global governance, with arbitrary designations determining who survives and who does not. If you have not done so, please read the fictionalized truth revealed in “White King and the Seat at the Table.” Reading a story will help you see what you can not see at the moment amidst all the current non-fiction noise.

It is my absolute intention that the Titanic does not sink, but we had better identify who floated an iceberg into our great nation before it is too late.

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