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Ten years ago today: The @IsaacBrockSoc (per Petros) broke the news of Santa’s arrest

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Over the last ten years, the Isaac Brock Society has been a source of research and education. It has also been a source of news reporting:

“Reporting On What The Mainstream Media Would Never Have The Courage To Report”

For example …

On December 24, 2011 Brock (per Petros) was the first to report the arrest of Santa Claus along with the shocking accusation of Santa’s possible US citizenship.

Breaking News: Santa Claus arrested

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Petros Posted in Issues regarding US persons abroad, reductio ad absurdum 18 Comments

U.S. Federal agents arrested Santa Claus earlier today at the North Pole. Special Christmas Edition (Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!)

The United States Department of Fish and Wildlife has arrested Santa Claus, an elusive figure with many aliases (e.g., St. Nicholas). On the morning of 24 December, 150 heavily armed Fish and Wildlife special agents raided Claus’ North Pole compound, seized several tons of exotic woods forbidden by the Lacey Act, arrested Santa Claus and a female accomplice identified only as Mrs. Claus, and liberated thousands of diminutive slave labourers known only as “Elves”. Claus has been charged with multiple counts of money laundering, illegal exportation of currency, illegally importing into the United States toys made of contraband–rare woods, ivory and other banned substances. He has also been charged with violations of slave labor and child labor laws, hundreds of patent and trademark violations, and illegally entering and exiting the United States. Indeed, Fish and Wildlife agents also seized an unidentified aircraft called a “sleigh” which had numerous secret compartments holding the contraband. Fish and Wildlife agents charged Mr. Claus with animal cruelty with regard to the caribou that he used to launch this “sleigh”.

To read the full story please visit the original post here. Don’t forget to read the original comments including a very prescient comment from Schubert.

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Thanking Petros for his brilliant investigative reporting and for creating (in 2016) Petro’s 12 Principles which can be found here.

2 thoughts on “Ten years ago today: The @IsaacBrockSoc (per Petros) broke the news of Santa’s arrest”

  1. Brock has had a number of interesting posts offered in the spirit of Holiday gifting. This post from Petros was on December 24, 2011. One year later, on December 24, 2012 Brock author USXCanada posted the following post which I will reproduce in its entirety:

    https://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2012/12/24/u-s-passport-as-instrument-of-control/

    U.S. Passport as Instrument of Control
    Posted on December 24, 2012 by usxcanada Posted in Issues regarding US persons abroad 25 Comments

    Rather than engage in the insipid ritual of emitting a few conventional and boring and repetitive words in this season of hope and joy, usxcanada went data shopping to try to find a present to post for Brockers. The following perspective on U.S. passport is cross-posted from the growing archive (in less than one year, more than 300 annotated entries) over at USxCanada InfoShop. What will 2013 bring? Certainly to many in our circle, hopes for freedom to be obtained, and joy in freedom achieved.

    Jeffrey Kahn
    The extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: how the United States controlled international travel before the age of terrorism
    Connecticut Law Review 43:3 (Feb 2011) 819-888

    http://uconn.lawreviewnetwork.com/files/documents/JeffreyKahn43Conn.L.Rev.819.pdf

    [389 footnotes] Career civil servant Ruth B. Shipley acted as chief of the Passport Division of the U.S. State Department from 1928 to 1955. Shipley personally reviewed every passport application, and prior to 1958 Supreme Court decision, her actions were subject to no judicial review. Shipley denied passports to Paul Robeson, Arthur Miller, Linus Pauling, and “many other” Americans during the 1950s. Kahn’s article explores how Shipley acquired such power and how the US passport became an instrument to prevent rather than permit travel. A backgrounder opening (825-842) provides a history of travel controls from 1789 to the Shipley era. Originally the passport was “a document [issued by the country that the traveler sought to enter] that granted a foreigner permission to pass into or out of a country’s ports” (825) — the opposite of what the passport came to be. Kahn concludes that current administration of U.S. citizens has achieved the Shipley effect through authority “diffused among intelligence analysts in multiple agencies who now compile watchlists of people deemed too dangerous to travel.” In this environment, judicial review is crippled by “the traditional deference accorded to national security and the sometimes secret processes by which that government interest is secured” (887).

    Do read the comments to USXCanada’s post. A special “shout out” to Badger for her three “post worthy comments“.

    Finally USXCanada was the author of his own blog which may be found here.

  2. I’m not so much interested in Santa himself as I am in the nine folks who dress like Santa. Any thoughts as to when they might finally see this case? And will they finally conclude that the AGC has been naughty or nice?

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