In this episode of the Mary Kinda Contrary Podcast, Mary Lemanski talks about the Russian hack of the Republican National Committee (RNC) that nobody talks about, explains the dangerous, white supremacist concept of Racial Holy War (RaHoWa), and explains how politicians on the far right, like Ron DeSantis, are diluting our “right to privacy” and the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.

Transcription

You are listening to the second episode of the Mary kind of contrary. And I am your host, singer songwriter, musician, actor, writer, producer, former politician, business owner, mother, and closet comedian, Mary Lamansky. I’m a Jill of all trades and a mistress to none, at least at the moment. Um, so start off.

I just want to do a short plug for my music video. Um, for the, um, for the song that I talked about in my last podcast, which is karma, clansmen are ruining my America. And, um, in that song I had taken, um, all of the voicemails I’d received after my tweets went. Viral after the Waukesha, um, tragedy. And, um, I took the hateful voicemails that I received and I cut them up and I took some of the pops and clicks from the calls and that were in the voicemails and I created a beat and then I laid a baseline and a synth line.

And. Uh, and then I took the rest of the like, uh, bacterial, uh, messages and turned them into the vocals of the song. Um, and so that was karma. Clansmen are ruining my America. So you can actually hear what people said to me after, um, the Waukesha tragedy. It might tweet somewhat viral. And then, um, I made a video and then, um, so you can see the video.

Um, I hope to have it up on my website@marionlemanski.com soon. Um, I’m working on getting, renovating the website and I’m hoping to have it ups this weekend, but I doubt that that is going to happen because I have other things I need to work on. So, um, but hopefully within the next week or two, I will have a fully finished website up and you can watch my video on there.

In the meantime, you can see it on YouTube. Um, it is also available if you go to. Uh, so if you go to facebook.com and go to painted girl records, Facebook page, um, you will find. You will find, um, the video for karma. So in the video I took, um, all of the text messages and Facebook messages. And, um, what else?

Uh, oh, the, uh, I had gotten mail and, um, so I took pictures of that too. And you can see all of this in the video. Um, So you could see what people had written to me. Um, but one thing, um, that did happen that you can also see in the video is that, um, there was definitely a concerted effort by a group to target me.

Uh, I caught people, not only once, but twice, um, forwarding my messages. So, so they had sent me some kind of message and I had responded back cause I was responding back to some, um, not at all. I mean, I would obviously not the death threats, but, um, I was responding back to some people just to like set them straight on, you know, lies that are circulating about me on there.

And so, um, I, so I did respond back to some people and when I responded back, um, a couple of the people who were forwarding my messages onto others, and you can see what they were saying. Um, it’s very, quite interesting. Um, but you’ll have to watch the video. But then I’m also in one of the messages where they were forwarding on.

Um, they make reference to, uh, um, I’m holding on to some messages and waiting to see how she responds is basically what they said. So apparently they, I don’t know if they had canned messages that they had prepared messages ready to send me in case I responded so-and-so or WhatsApp. I dunno, it’s very odd and weird.

Um, but you can see all of that and the music video. So I encourage you to go, um, to my YouTube page, um, and my, um, and to the peanut girl records, Facebook page and watch the video. Um, and hopefully in the next couple of weeks, it will also be on my website@marylemanski.com. Uh, In the meantime. Um, I guess that’s my plug for that.

Um, I would like to talk about a few things today. Um, and in general, we’ll just say, I’m talking about, um, the erosion of our civil liberties. Um, and also I want it to. Talk a bit about, um, add on to what I had talked about in the, my first episode about white supremacy. So, uh, I guess before I talk about all that though, um, I kind of want to set the tone and the stage, cause this is all very, very convoluted and complex.

I, well, you know, at first I need to explain. I started out at 18 as a Democrat and at age 20, I changed to a libertarian and there’s a libertarian free much for 20 years. And then, well, I don’t really want to get into why I left the party, but I left the party and, um, and then Trump got elected to office somehow.

And so then I. Uh, thought that there might be strengthened numbers. Um, because I, what, I didn’t like what I was seeing. It was very authoritarian, autocratic, BS, so, and like, you know, making fun of, I thought the deal breaker was making fun of, uh, disabled people, but, uh, you know, Who knows what the bottom is.

Um, anyway, uh, I, um, I, I, uh, decided, you know, there’s strength in numbers, so I decided I needed to do something to help the Democrats. And, um, it just so happened that did a page Democrats were looking for a social media manager or no, they were not. At that time, they were looking for someone to help with their website and I knew some word press.

So, uh, I offered to do it. Um, and they had me write their blog. Um, so I was doing their blog for awhile and I did such a good job with that, that they, um, well, To make a long story short. They asked me to, um, help with their social media. So,

uh, at the time, um, somebody, I don’t even remember who I was talking to. Um, but they had mentioned, um, when I came on board, um, that, cause I had brought up Hillary’s. Um, and he, I know what is a meal he had said at the time. Uh, well, the RNC was hacked at the same time that the DNC was hacked. Uh, we know they found Hillary’s emails, but we don’t know what they found out about the RNC.

Um, and so just recently I, uh, I want it to look and see if I could find out more information about this hack. And so I, um, I looked the other day and there, um, the first mention I find of it is in, um, the New York times in December on December 9th, 2016. And, um,

so. Let me just read what they wrote. Um, American intelligence agencies have concluded with high confidence that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump. According to senior administration officials, they base that conclusion in part on another finding, which they say was also reached with high confidence that the Russians hacked the Republican national committees computer systems.

In addition to. Attacks on democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleamed from the Republican networks. So my thought and a lot of people’s thoughts is that the Republican party is being blackmail. By Russia, uh, with this information of whatever it is, because they have been acting highly suspicious since about 2016.

Um, so I just wanted to bring that up, um, because nobody seems to talk about it. And we really talked about Hillary’s emails for a long time. So I’d like to know what did Russia find out about? Uh, the Republican national committee? I don’t know. Will we ever know? Will we ever know before our democracy falls?

All right, I’m moving on. I would like to, um, I guess I want to talk a little bit more, um, in regards to, uh, white supremacy from last week, there was a few things that I didn’t get to because I was talking for two hours and I didn’t really, um, I really didn’t mean to go on for that long, but, um, but I had a lot to talk about and.

There was a lot of my mind and it just all kind of was with woven together. So this is all kind of woven together too. So, um, so people are asking you, what, what is this big focus on white supremacy? That’s not an issue, especially white people. Uh, what is, what is this? There’s no white supremacy going on.

Um, and. Th th I think the, the big thing that we all need to, um, realize, and that bothers some white people in our society, um, is that, um, around 2045 Americans will become what is called a majority minority. So that means that although the non-Hispanic white population will still be the largest single group in America, um, the combined populations of all non-white racial and ethnic groups will make up more than half of the U S population.

And so this troubles a lot. White people for some reason, I think maybe they think that people have, uh, non-white, uh, racial makeup will treat them the way they’ve treated. Uh, well, black people, especially in this case. Um, I don’t know. I don’t know why they’re afraid. Um, I guess they’re afraid of giving up power.

Um, that’s probably the biggest thing. Um, but already, currently, uh, there are more non-whites in the workforce than white peoples, so, um, I’m not sure that, uh, you know, all hell hasn’t broken out right now. So I just don’t understand their, their, their fear, I guess. Um, and so I kind of, um, in my past my. I had friends that as I talked about in my last episode, um, I had a friend that was a former white supremacist and, um, he told me about Rawa,

R a H O w a. It stands for racial, holy war. The RA ho wa um, and this term was first used, um, by Ben Klassen, who, uh, was the founder of w what became known as the church of the creator. Um, And it had a publication called nature’s eternal religion. Um, individual church members were called creators and the religion they practice was called creativity.

And this religion was based in North Carolina. Uh, they had a school for boys. Uh, they had, uh, uh, a two week summer program. That taught hiking, camping training in handling a firearms, archery, tennis, whitewater rafting, and other healthy outdoor activities. Um, as well as instruction on quote, the goals and doctrines of creativity and how they could best serve their own race in various capacities of leadership and quote Ben Clawson.

Wrote a book called Rahula. This planet is ours. And in it, he claims that Jews created Christianity or in order to make white people weaker. Uh, he, he popularized the term racial holy war within the white nationalist movement. One thing about him, he, he was a member of the John Birch society at one point, um, Uh, but he became disillusioned with the society and, um, he read them to tolerant towards Jews.

Um, so this is not a good man. So he created this religion and, um, and so. I think that a lot of these white supremacist think this is their last hoo, rah, the sister or racial holy war that they’d been waiting for. Um, and, um, I S it was, it’s been fed into with the, the evangelist movement, um, where it leans towards.

White supremacy. I think when, when Trump was elected president, I think this white nationalists movement in America saw him as their Messiah for their racial holy war. I mean, it just fed right into, uh, their paradigm that they were living in. And so they thought this was the time. You know, he’s come to, to bring about, you know, whatever heaven on earth they, they thought they were going to bring about.

Um, so it was probably very highly disappointing when he w w w lost, um, because he wasn’t supposed to lose. This is their racial holy war. Um, and, uh, so, and, and, and if you think I’m crazy saying that, oh, she’s crazy. Nobody, uh, you know, nobody thinks that in the Republican party, but, you know, um, back when.

Well back in, I guess it was well, 2018 may, may of 2018. When, uh, Donald Trump made a decision to move the us embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Fox news host, Jeanine Pirro said that it was filled with biblical significance. She said, Donald Trump recognized history. He liked king Cyrus before him fulfilled the biblical prophecy of the gods worshiped by Jews, Christians, and yes, Muslims.

That Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish state and that the Jewish people to serve a righteous free and sovereign Israel. Um, she called the move a truly historic moment in Israel’s history. Uh, So she basically said he fulfilled the biblical while she did say he fulfilled the biblical prophecy of the gods worshiped by Jews, Christians, and yes, Muslims.

I think they’re all the same, but God, but, um, at any rate, um, she did say he fulfilled a prophecy, so they were very, very disappointed when he lost, because. He was supposed to rain forever and bring heaven on earth or whatever you’re supposed to do. It’s more like hell on earth, but, okay. Um, and if you think I I’m fulling, then go to civil rights.org and look up the Trump civil rights and human rights rollbacks.

It’s very, very interesting. Uh, I hope you’re not crying by the end of it because you probably won’t be. Um, anyway, that’s what I wanted to touch on about Rahula and all of that. So we have the white supremacists and we have the Russian blackmail going on. Um,

You can, you can make up for that, which you want. That that is what is going on. Um, at any rate. I think that is pretty much, uh, all I want to say on Rahula. I do want to talk a little bit about. What is going on in Florida and Disney and DeSantis, the Disney versus DeSantis or the Satan S seven choose to call him.

Um, so the whole freedom of speech thing, and I also want to talk about Elon Musk and tell. And I think there is a big, huge confusion going on right now about what constitutes freedom of speech. Um, it seems that there’s been some clouding of the waters. Um, the us constitution protects freedom of speech.

However, In your home and in your business, you are allowed to dictate what can and cannot be said in your home and in your business. And Twitter is a business. It doesn’t have walls around it. Uh, but it very much is a. And so maybe it’s because I have an MBA and E business that I just imagined websites as people’s little storefronts, but they’re living in space somewhere.

And because of that, I draw like very similar lines between brick and mortar businesses and what’s online. And there’s very, very many similar parallels, um, including business owners rights, at least in the United States. I just want to read you a little conversation I had online and it really kind of illustrates.

A lot of my points I want to bring up. Um, I might add a few on at the end, but I mean, it really, I kind of just laid it out there in this conversation about everything, my whole thoughts on this. Um, so there was a, a group where my kids go to school. There’s a parents group on Facebook and somebody had posted an article about, um, some of the.

What was going on and in Florida. And, um, also, you know, the schools just limiting, uh, free speech in the classroom. Um, so, uh, I responded back on the article. My God, I hope Florida votes to scientists out in November. I find it very alarming that they are violating freedom of speech in the class. And so some body will call her.

Sherry says, how are they violating freedom of speech in the classroom? So I said, they are legislating what can and cannot be said in a classroom. And so sh Sherri says by rejecting math books and. And so I posted an article from the Miami Herald titled DeSantis is quote free. State of Florida faces new restrictions on free amendment rights.

And this article goes into great detail about, um, other things. The Santos has passed too. I believe so. Limiting free speech in the state of Florida. And I can talk about some of those later. I pulled some of them up. I’ll just see how much time I have. I don’t want to go too long. So Sherry response back to this Miami Herald piece, this is a seriously bias piece.

These people always, if it contradicts what they’re saying, It’s biased. I mean, it could be fact like repeated on a million different networks, but it’s biased. Um, anyway, she goes, this is a seriously bias piece. I have no problem with legislation that prohibits schools from dividing children into oppressors and victims based on their race or doing anything else based on the race of students.

An excellent book is woke racism by John MC horror. So I responded back.

I have watched the erosion of our civil rights for the past 20 years. It started with dictating whether or not a private business could allow a legal thing like smoking in their place of business. When the smoking bands went into effect, I predicted that our homes and cars would be next. You cannot smoke in an apartment with shared ventilation systems.

Why not provide consumers with the choice of smoking and non-smoking buildings or venues? It not only goes against the civil rights of private business owners. It also hurts the economy by providing consumers with less choice. After nine 11 happened, our civil rights were further up. I don’t think anyone could argue against me on that fact, then come the anti-abortion laws of the GOP, the right to privacy is not in the bill of rights.

It is an implied rate. It is implied with no unlawful search and seizure, but it is not explicitly written out. Roe versus Wade as the main court case arguing right to privacy. When the GOP overturn Roe vs. Wade, it will be a gigantic blow to right to privacy. Guess what? They can take your guns. Now they are trying to dictate free speech in the classroom by saying what teachers can and cannot say about certain topics.

They don’t want history taught because it might make white people feel bad. Boo hoo. Imagine how bad 400 years of slavery feels like learn some empathy. They censor free speech in the name of quote parental rights, but there is no such thing as parental rights in the constitutes. There is freedom of speech and public and public schools are public.

Um, and so then she goes on or somebody else asked me, are you a libertarian? So I say, funny, you should ask from age 18 to 20, I was a Democrat. Then I became a libertarian for 20. Which I talked about earlier, I even did social media for the national party, but I had some issues with the direction of the party.

And I did a really huge project on my own to help them out for free. And they took the information to give them and didn’t even acknowledge the three months of work I did. So I left when Trump took office, I became a Democrat and was the social media manager for four years for the DuPage Democrats, until I got tailed by proud boys for a week after speaking up at the downers Grove 99.

Board meeting against them and censorship. And a week later they made some tweets. I posted that were not good. Tastes go viral at 2:00 AM and Fox news thought it thought it was so profoundly interesting that they put it on national news at 4:00 AM. I resigned from my position with the Democrats and I’ve been getting death threats and all kinds of stuff has been happening ever since because of white supremacists and fringe.

Right-wing in cell elements of a non. I’m writing a book and exposing all of this takeover by the far right and white supremacists at the local level. And this other person said, ouch and Bravo sending you a PM at night. I said, looking forward to it. And then Sherry comes back and says, you must have been furious when the government closed down private businesses and force people to get vaccinated then, or when they allowed abortion, but not colonoscopies or mammograms during the last.

So I said back one public health is always more important than business. You cannot sell to dead people to, and abortion can be life or death situation. I know because I had one because my body would not abort my dead baby on its own. It had been dead for 12 weeks and I literally smelled like. Column Mohs, colonoscopies and mammograms are not usually life-threatening

got any more for far right talking points for me to strike down. So she says, so smoking has nothing to do with public health. You’re funny not getting a colonoscopy or mammogram can be life-threatening abortions or life-threatening to a baby where life-saving abortions. The only ones performed during the last.

This coming from the person who said the Waukesha massacre was karma for the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. You are all over the place on what constitution constitutes a violation of rights. Thanks. I knew you would justify the economy crushing lockdowns that did nothing to slow the spread of COVID, which is been proven wrong and time and time again.

But, um, I responded back to Sherry. Smoking does have to do with public health. You’re right. However, the spread of smoke can be controlled by having smoking and non-smoking buildings and venues COVID is everywhere and we have no control over where it goes.

That is the main difference. I’ve gotten both mammograms and colonoscopies and neither are emergency procedures. If it is an emergency that you have breast cancer or something is emergency level wrong with your colon, they’re not going to give you those procedures. They will most likely be taking you into exploratory surgery.

It takes hours to it to do a colonoscopy. The prep itself takes hours. Did you not read my abortion story? I literally smelled like death. Necrosis was setting in my life. My life was threatened. The baby was dead. Our dumb ass former president spreading lies about COVID and people like. Not doing your patriotic duty to our country by protecting the public health and protesting public health measures and spreading Russian propaganda on why lockdowns are not as, and that is why lockdowns are not as effective as they could have been.

Uh, I also wrote, do you must have missed my three public apologies, including the podcast w that I listed above, uh, and about my $10,000 donation to the wok Shaw victim spawn, it doesn’t fit your narrative. That I’m a horrible person. So she responds back, I’ll leave you to it. And I said, leave me to what?

And she said, it’s an idiom. I’m moving on. And I said, I hope you learn something. And she said, not from you. And so I said, that’s a shame, uh, and that was our conversation. So, um, yeah, that is my issue. Um, people are confusing, private property and public property for starters. And what can be said on one thing and not on another, there they’re all mad because.

Trump got censored. Trump didn’t get censored because he didn’t, we didn’t agree with him. He got censored because he started an insurrection. That’s why he got censored. It wasn’t a disagreement about politics. He tried to overthrow our democracy. Um, and what the Santas is doing in Florida is people don’t realize this.

I mean, he’s limiting free speech in a public class. And he’s doing a couple other things, too. This is not just the only, only law limiting free speech in his, uh, state. He, and he does things in, in a way that he’s he’s, um, he’s saying that he’s, he’s helping parental rights while parental rights. Aren’t a thing.

Freedom of speech is a thing and he is limiting freedom of. Um, and you know, and they’re confusing the issues, um, with, on, on Twitter, they’re they’re saying, oh, it’s it’s Elon Musk is bring bringing free speech back. It’s not free speech. It’s a private, it’s a private, um, company. Uh, I can’t go running through the grocery store.

Um, and. Every time I find a good deal. Dolph. Yeah. Good deal. Fucking freedom of speech. I just can’t do that. Uh, so I don’t see why they think they have freedom of speech on just because it’s an internet pub and. And you can get on the website. Uh, it’s still a private business and it’s, you know, you have to sign in, I mean, you don’t have to sign in to see stuff necessarily, but some stuff you do, you have to sign in, um, to take advantage of it.

So, I mean, you were on their property, so I don’t even see how you could even make the argument that that is. Public forum, a public square. It’s not really, it’s a private business and people get on it. You’re confusing things. Um, and you know, I’ve watched the deterioration of private, private owners, especially private business owners rights.

You can’t, you can’t do a legal thing on your business. Uh, even if all your employees want to smoke, can’t have smoking in your. It’s kind of ridiculous. Um, so I mean, yeah, why can’t we have smoking and non-smoking establishment. I’m not a smoker by the way. I mean, I might, well, I do smoke cannabis, but I, I’m not a cigarette smoker anymore.

At one point in time, I was, um, which is why. Recognize when somebody is rights are being trampled on and despite, uh, it being a public health thing. Yes. Should there be a Publix smoking allowed in public places? No. Should a private business owner be allowed to decide if they want smoking in their establishment?

Yes. I, I have a real issue. That, that S that that line was crossed because they did go into people’s homes and they went to people’s cars. So if you have children in the car, you cannot smoke. Now, granted, this is common sense stuff, but they’ve still gotten into where you are. So now there’s a precedent.

So now there’s limitations to right to privacy. Um, there’s a precedent for if they want. It’s more stronger laws against right to privacy. Um, and so this is the scary downward spiral that Mr. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida down, um, and Floridians or cheering it on. Woo. Yes. He, he, they can’t tell our children about gay people.

Um, your children already know about gay people. They’re sitting there calling other kids on the playground. They hear the older kids calling the other kids gay, or maybe they even other here, older kids in the school talking about it. When they’re in the washroom, lots happens in the washrooms in grade schools, in India and high schools hold dramas, go down.

Um, so anyway, uh, It’s better to have your children educated than to get their information from other kids. Just that’s just my 2 cents. Um, and also, um, uh, I had experienced with a mother who did not tell me about the birds and the bees. And, um, I didn’t have my, I didn’t have sex education class in my Catholic school until fifth grade.

However, I had my periods. Uh, the day after my 11th birthday, I started developing when I was like nine. Um, so I could have used that those early sex ed classes when I was eight, um, that these people are protesting. That’s and, and, and I D when I started having my period, I thought I was bleeding to death, and I did not tell my mother because, gosh, that was a dirty place down there.

That’s sinful place down there. You don’t talk about that area down there. So we’re, we’re raising another generation of scared kids, scared adults, um, that don’t know anything. Science in their private parts. Um, and don’t know how to probably put, put, um, their feelings about sexuality into words either. Uh, but anyway, um, let’s um, well, one, I just want to, um, say in closing that, uh, This is not the first time that Disney has stood up to, uh, this kind of fascist behavior.

Um, they had, uh, a cartoon in a song called the fierce face back when Hitler was, uh, running Germany. So look that up, Google that it’s quite entertaining. So anyway, I just, um, I hope this hasn’t been too rambling. I just, I just want kind of wanted to bring up some things that people never talk about. Like the RNC being hacked and nobody knowing what Russia found on the RNC and how they’ve been acting since 2016.

I mean, their, their, their constituents were needing money. They were needing relief during a pandemic and they didn’t want to give it to them. And they were simply okay. With Trump rating states supplies, um, for, you know, masks and, and stuff like that to, to replenish the federal supply when people in states needed it just horribly.

Um, it was just crazy stuff that Trump was doing during the pandemic. And, um, I just. I’m glad we’re out of it or, well, we’re not out of the peanut demic. We’re still, uh, we’re, we’re almost out of it, hopefully, but anyway, I’d like to thank you for joining me for the second episode of the Mary kind of contrary podcast.

The next episode we’ll have a much lighter subject matter. I’m going to talk about my experiences Grammy week. I went to the music cares person of the year event, honoring Joni Mitchell and a few other events as well, including the Grammys to themselves. So look for episode three soon, this is Mary Lemanski and the Mary kind of contrary podcast signing off.

I have a good one. .