Green New Deal energy policies are prolonging war and over time, constitute the real “existential threat” to free societies in their struggle with powerful autocracies. A nation’s industrial base and military prowess is dependent on reasonably priced fossil fuels, to run and to grow. To think otherwise invites economic and geopolitical suicide. Once again, the real “existential threat” to Western Civilization is doing away with the very fossil fuels that are driving the global economy. The ability of Russia to wage war on Ukraine and for Iran to war against Israel depends almost entirely on both nations’ selling (sanctioned) oil to China, their biggest customer. The Biden-Harris Administration, in particular, does not enforce so-called “secondary sanctions” on Russian and Iranian oil, as they believe, rightly, that further increases in gas prices at the pump would hinder their re-election chances in November. Taking substantial amounts of Russian and Iranian oil and gas off the global market is viewed by elected officials throughout the West as too bitter a pill to swallow. Yet the national security of America and Western nations is diminished by bucking the growing domestic and global demand for fossil fuels with policies that seek to radically reduce their own fossil fuel production in their effort to mitigate changes in the global climate. That approach is not working, as global “carbon” emissions are growing substantially regardless of significant reductions in the West. The national security answer lies in lessening the focus on climate change and increasing fossil fuel production, everywhere … in particular, oil, gas and coal in the U.S. and fracking in Europe (presently largely banned). A moratorium on closing nuclear power plants would also be helpful. While the U.S. is currently producing oil and gas at record rates, those amounts are substantially less than what could be produced if stifling climate change regulations and brakes on future investment were lifted —  2.5 to 3.5 million bbl of oil/day more.  By hamstringing  America’s oil and gas production and related exports that substitute for Russian and Iranian product, the Administration is, in some measure, responsible for prolonging deadly conflicts on the European continent and in the Middle East. Alaska is virtually off limits to new exploration to say nothing about exploitation. Permits for four new LNG export terminals were put “on hold” in January endangering future supply to our European allies. Thankfully a Judge recently ruled against the Administration. EPA regulations and federal government subsidies have led to numerous high-quality coal power plant closures and even the shelving of new natural gas projects. DoD is spending substantial resources on electric trucks, tanks and yes, airplanes. This at a time when the defense budget is not nearly up to meeting the present global threats. War by the China-Russia-Iran axis on U. S. allies, Ukraine, and Israel would literally run out of gas if the U.S. and the West strictly enforced existing sanctions on Russian and Iranian energy and ramped up its own production. It is beyond ironic that America and the West accept the passage of Russian and Iranian fossil fuel production to global markets, but clamp down on their own. Necessary increased production in the West is not happening now and with a possible Kamala Harris-led, progressive, Green New Deal-focused administration in charge, the situation can only get worse. The Biden-Harris “whole-of-government” approach to doing away with fossil fuels now and into the future would continue, perhaps accelerate. Irresistible federal financial subsidies and hyper regulation to “encourage” industry and utilities to go Green would continue. The information war on fossil fuels would not stop. Depletion of America and the West’s fossil fuel-producing and processing capacity while Russia, China, and autocratic Petro-States build theirs is a prescription for Western geopolitical disaster, an unforced error of historic proportion. Yet America and the West are presently headed in that direction. The Trump candidacy has steadfastly supported the production of fossil fuels and opposed their phase-out, all-the-while taking major incoming fire from pseudo-religious but powerful forces bent on “saving the planet.” Trump et al. would work to dismantle the “climate-industrial complex” by removing the vast subsidies given to Green industry. In sum, he has promised to undo the Green New Deal at every turn while seeking American “energy independence, then dominance”… or, one might say, global energy realism. We are witnessing a growing symbiotic relationship between China and Russia. America’s main adversary, China, is strengthened enormously by purchasing and processing fossil fuels and raw materials from Russia while its manufacturing powerhouse provides them with vital “dual use” products for the Russian military and a wide array of manufactures to support the Russian people’s demand for consumer products. It’s a veritable “bromance,” just think President Xi’s “changes not seen in 100 years” statement. When experts diminish the Russian war machine by pointing to the limits of the Russian economy (about the size of Italy’s), they are not accounting for the potent China connection. The China-Russia bond of autocracies is a powerful match for the U.S. and European democracies. Add Iran in the Middle East and the West’s cause for unease is magnified. New Green New Deal policies require the expenditure of trillions of dollars ($400 billion is already contained in the  Inflation Reduction Act). Plus there’s tens of billions of dollars in Green New Deal-type spending in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. The fact that anyone who doesn’t accept the dogma of the “existential threat” of climate change is considered a heretic or a “denier” speaks volumes about the zeal of the movement and its significant impact on the electoral politics of the West. Advocates seem to think that intermittent solar and wind energy, which currently provide some 6 percent of global energy consumption, is the answer. Simplistic, unrealistic and in the end, dangerous to our way of life. Once again, the real “existential threat” to Western Civilization is doing away with the very fossil fuels that are driving the global economy while alternatives are in their nascent stage, scientifically questionable, wildly expensive and nowhere near capable of meeting the ever-expanding needs of an energy-hungry planet. READ MORE from Don Ritter: This Is Why Putin Thinks Victory in Ukraine Is Inevitable READ MORE on energy: What’s Really Wrong With the Green New Deal Whitmer Signs Michigan’s Green New Dystopia The post Reducing Fossil Fuels Helps Our Adversaries appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The renowned Spanish author Gómez de la Serna used to say that to be bored is to “kiss death”; by the way, that is also what my friend Tony does before sleeping with his harpy girlfriend. Anyway, sometimes summer is too long. The beach-bar-bed routine is wonderful, but it can be exhausting if you repeat it for more than 40 days. To break that monotony, different domestic hobbies have been invented that, while you wouldn’t kill for any of them, can entertain you for a while, although they also have their trade-offs. I propose and discuss below some that don’t stain too much (unlike painting the house), are reversible (unlike making household explosives), not too expensive (unlike lobster tossing in the backyard), and shouldn’t destroy your marriage (unlike poker). Let’s see: Making Dessert Select your favorite dessert and search for its recipe on the internet. Now check that you have all the ingredients. You don’t have them, obviously, no one does. So your cooking hobby will turn into “going down to the supermarket to buy ingredients I don’t have.” That’s why I hate cooking. You think you’re breaking the routine, but in the end you’re just doing the same old thing: going down to the grocery store. By the time you get home you’ll be too tired to make dessert. Learn Arabic Knowledge of languages breaks down cultural barriers and brings you closer to inhospitable places and souls. Arabic is a complex and richly nuanced language. The best way to learn it is to practice it. To do this, take off your shoes, pick up a stone the size of Donald Trump’s testicle, close your eyes, and drop it straight onto one of your big toes. Magic! Do you hear yourself? You’re already cursing in Arabic! Now you just need to learn some manners. Origami This is an art that consists of folding paper to give it the shape of different objects. It is a bit complicated, so I recommend that you start with something simple, for example, making a sheet. To make a paper figure in the shape of a sheet, the fold you have to make is none. If you manage not to fold it, you will have obtained a sheet. Now you can move on to the next level, which is to make a figure that represents nothingness: throw the sheet in the trash. The good thing about origami is that it is very intuitive and, I guess, sustainable. Fly a Kite From Your House The only important thing if you are going to fly a kite from home is that you know that it is incompatible with the next hobby proposal. Check that you don’t have a neighbor who has reached the next item on this list. Pilot a Drone Before you start flying a drone out the window, check that the jerk next door isn’t doing the above. Put on Your Own Play Try acting out Hamlet. If Hamlet doesn’t work for you, imagine what might happen if you tried to act out what you have written yourself. Enjoy TikTok Spend an afternoon full of satisfaction, joy, and adrenaline on the social network of the Chinese communist regime. To get started, open the app, and hit the “delete account” button. Don’t you feel better? Follow me for more libertarian tips. Make Your Own Craft Beer Buy the ingredients, put an apron on and wait in the kitchen. Lay the ingredients out slowly on the floor, put your hands up, stand against the wall, and wait; I’ve already called the police. Beer is sacred, you idiot. Organizing the Pantry There are different criteria on how pantries should be organized. My favorite is alphabetically. It may sound stupid, but it’s always easier to find something sorted by letters than when you have breadcrumbs next to flour, and garlic stuck to thyme. You can spend an unforgettable evening alphabetizing your food. You can top it off by having Alphabet pasta for dinner. For dessert, have a bite of Quixote. Walking An Egg Stand at one end of the house. Bite a soup spoon with your teeth and keep it (the spoon) parallel to the ground. Now put an egg on top of the spoon and try to get to the other end of the house without dropping it. Now you grab a mop and a scouring pad and start scrubbing the carpet, I reckon it will take you most of the afternoon. Note: you have to be really bored to do this one. Note 2: if you’re going to do this, refer to “Receiving a visit from the fire department.” Start a Diary No one, except psychopaths or writers (which are synonyms), continues writing a diary after starting it. So if you don’t want your journal to look dreary, I recommend that you write the next three weeks on the first day. The important thing is that you then make sure that you follow through on the plans and experiences you have written in the diary, otherwise you will have to rewrite it, and that is no longer a hobby but a chore. Writer’s word. Clean the Skirting Boards Around the House Try not to use every single activity that was designed to punish children with. Fix Things in the House As time goes by, houses deteriorate, broken handles, light bulbs that don’t work, closets that don’t close, or damp spots on the wall. Broken handles are broken, so they cannot be fixed. Changing a light bulb is a high-risk activity without adult supervision, but if an adult is present, you can ask him or her to change the bulb. Closets that don’t close allow you to keep clothes from smelling like a closet, so don’t close them, lest the closet should start smelling of clothes. And damp stains on the wall could be esoteric manifestations of ancestors who inhabited your home long ago. Try to identify them in a photograph, learn their names, turn off the light, light a couple of candles, and communicate with them. If they do not answer, they are damp stains: call the painter. Receiving a Visit From the Fire Department This is my neighbor’s favorite hobby, especially since she broke up with her boyfriend and is lonely. To get firefighters to come you need to know that there are three things they are deeply attracted to: fire, people trapped in places, and calendars. For calendars you need a charitable cause and a photographer — and anything charitable is expensive — and getting trapped is claustrophobic, whereas fire is easy. Men have known how to make fire since at least the Stone Age, so you don’t need me to tell you how to do it at home, and I wouldn’t do it unless without my lawyer present. One piece of advice my neighbor gave me: when the firefighters come around, be very careful about stepping on hoses. They might not be hoses. READ MORE from Itxu Diaz: Cars and the Repair Shop Oracle Woke? Nope. Back to Sleep. The post Hobbies for Boring Days Around the House appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

What some are calling the media’s “honeymoon” with Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is nothing of the sort. It is an alliance. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and most national pollsters are, to put it mildly, anti-Donald Trump. Those who claim the honeymoon will end are living in the past…. That mainstream media no longer exists. Most of them have pushed a narrative that Trump is a threat to democracy, an autocrat who likes the world’s other autocrats (especially Vladimir Putin), a racist, a misogynist, anti-gay, a white Christian nationalist, etc. These are the same media outlets that pushed the phony Russia Hoax and who cheered when Democrats launched impeachments and local and state Democratic prosecutors fulfilled their campaign pledges to “get Trump.” And the media “honeymooners” are joined by social media platforms that have censored Trump supporters and censored Trump. Thanks to Elon Musk, Twitter (now X) has broken from the anti-Trump pack. These are the same media outlets that promoted and protected Barack Obama in 2008. They are the same media outlets that concealed President Biden’s mental slippage for more than three years, only relenting when Biden’s debate performance exposed their previous efforts to protect him from scrutiny. Alliance With Harris Is Strong With Kamala Harris, these media outlets have a candidate that checks all of their cherished boxes: she would be the first female president, the first black female president, the first black-Asian female president. And, of course, she is a leftist who shares the mainstream media’s worldview. She may not be as smart as Obama, but she checks more ideological boxes than even he did. Even Donald Trump has fallen for the “honeymoon” analogy. The Hill reports that Trump predicted that Harris’s honeymoon period would end eventually. No it won’t. The mainstream media fell in love with Obama in 2008, and they have fallen in love with Harris in 2024. They were, of course, willing to conceal Biden’s cognitive impairment as long as they thought he could beat Trump. Once the post-debate polls showed otherwise, they (and their Democrat allies) ganged-up on Biden and forced him to end his candidacy despite the anti-democratic nature of the political coup. Piers Morgan claims that Harris’ honeymoon will last about a week. He’s wrong. The New York Post noted that “Kamala Harris’ so-called ‘honeymoon’ in the polls shows no signs of stopping … ” Axios says the Harris honeymoon is of “epic proportions.” Several Democrats, including Sen. John Hickenlooper, say “There’s no limit on a honeymoon,” arguing that Harris has “a lot of momentum … that’s going to keep up for a good while.” Those who claim the honeymoon will end are living in the past — when the mainstream media still had anchors and political reporters who were somewhat fair and cared about at least appearing to be impartial. That mainstream media no longer exists. It ended when it became partisan cheerleaders for Obama. Media Hates Trump More Than Nixon Today, it doesn’t even attempt to conceal its anti-Trump venom. It is even worse than the anti-Nixon venom of the early 1970s that drove one of the most electorally popular presidents in history from office. In Nixon’s time, the mainstream media had the field to itself. There was no internet and no “alternative” media to contest their narrative that Nixon was a “crook” who had abused his office. The late, great British historian Paul Johnson rightly labeled Watergate a “media putsch,” aided and abetted, argues Geoff Shepard, by a Democrat Congress, a partisan special prosecutors office, and a compliant judiciary. Shepard’s evidence is detailed in a just released movie Watergate’s Secrets and Betrayals that every open-minded American should watch. Like Shepard’s books, it shreds the conventional Watergate narrative that the media has promoted for 50 years. Make no mistake: the media’s “honeymoon” with Harris will last at least until Nov. 5. READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: Paul Nitze: A Career of Thinking About the Unthinkable The 9/11 Murderers Escape the Death Penalty Even More Echoes of 1968 The post This is No ‘Honeymoon.’ The Media and Harris Are Allies. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Cliches are sometimes unavoidable (hindsight is 20/20), but then so is history – it provides clarity when obfuscation is the order of the day. It seems fitting to say that in some respects we have been here before. Earlier it was with one who some say was a pioneer and in some respects a forerunner to Trump – Patrick Joseph Buchanan. The author, advisor to Nixon, Ford, and Reagan and TV commentator pursued a political agenda that still resonates today among conservative American minds. Those searching for Pat Buchanan’s influence on Trump and the Republican party will not find it in Buchanan’s animus toward the State of Israel. High on his list of priorities for America was a moratorium on unlimited immigration, including a wall along the southern border. He sought to rescind unfair trade agreements and reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing. Buchanan cautioned Americans against foreign interventions and warned that American culture was slipping away. He decried as un-American a “rigged” political system with a voice which produced a groundswell shaking Republican elites. And he was denounced (at the time) by the future 45th President of the United States — Donald J. Trump. In 1999, the Reform Party in America had just been created from what remained of Ross Perot’s two efforts for the White House. Pat Buchanan was about to campaign under that aegis for his third presidential run in a decade. Contrary to his ‘92 and ‘96 bids, Buchanan arrived for his 1999 presidential campaign as a serious contender. It was assumed he’d give “the second Bush” a serious run. (READ MORE from F. Andrew Wolf Jr.: Is ‘Man the Measure’? From Where Does Our Freedom Come?) But the Republicans were putting together something much stronger than what Buchanan had experienced before. It quickly became apparent; the contest was being orchestrated against him. Sound familiar? Buchanan realized his dilemma. He could surrender, like others before him; he could against all odds wage a principled but “rigged” battle against the second Bush. Or he could embrace America’s newest electoral entity — the Reform Party. “The day of the outsider is over in the Beltway parties,” Buchanan said. “The money men have seen to that. Never again will our political establishment permit a dissident to come as close to capturing a nomination as we did in 1996. They have rearranged the primary schedules and rigged the game to protect the party favorites.” Buchanan’s new book at the time was met with both enthusiasm and no small degree of trepidation. A Republic, Not an Empire, amounted to a concerted exposition against foreign entanglements — especially military interventions. The “year 1989 was the American moment,” he writes, “but such moments never last.” Buchanan added, “It is time to let go of empire.” He castigated the establishment (including the military industrial complex) by reconsidering America’s past military ventures. Buchanan showed that “America’s latest commitments were a dramatic break with the most cherished and prudent traditions of American foreign policy. Washington’s Farewell Address was front and center in this story.” The political commentator turned savvy politician fiercely resisted the Washington establishment by challenging not only the elites of the Republican Party but the scion of a former president from its ranks. He captured the fear and frustration of the latter couching his 1992 campaign as “a culture war … a struggle for the soul of America.” But he also garnered the attention and wrath of a former president and his son, who feared that the adage “like father like son” would eventuate politically. It has been rumored that within the Bush family, itself, an uneasiness existed — if Perot cost the father a second term, would Buchanan now deny the son his first? His solution to America’s problems would be the basis for three back-to-back runs for the White House. America, he said, needs a “new nationalism” that focuses on “forgotten Americans” left behind by unfair trade agreements, detrimental immigration policies, and foreign policy military incursions. The three-time presidential hopeful argued that “with the collapse of the Soviet empire, Europe, Japan, and South Korea were now more than capable of providing for their own defense.” America should no longer carry the burden of their defense. The ideas which Buchanan employed were and remain a function of his political ideology: nationalist, noninterventionist, contra open-border immigration, anti-establishment, against unfair trade practices. In a like manner the former president articulates his vision for America in ways that may strike a chord with the past, but that’s only because things haven’t changed much. The system doesn’t permit that. And the issues which need addressing are similar to those of the past. (READ MORE: The Enduring Ronald Reagan) Yet, in considering the past, it is not Pat Buchanan who should garner our attention when considering the politics of Donald Trump today. Yes, like Buchanan, he is nationalist, non-interventionist, contra open-border immigration, anti-establishment, and against unfair trade practices. But Donald Trump is not constrained by those political characteristics; in fact, it was Pat Buchanan who has referred to the former president as the “heir to Reagan.” The similarities are not insignificant. The two former presidents were outsiders, not career politicians. Reagan a successful actor in Democrat Hollywood — Trump, a real estate developer from Queens (a distinctly Democrat city). Both took on the Washington establishment of their day and left their imprimatur upon it. Lest we forget history — let’s “give credit where credit is due.” While it is true that “Make America First Again” started with Buchanan in the ‘90s, it was Ronald Reagan who printed “Let’s Make America Great Again” on millions of buttons and posters in his landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980. Like Ronald Reagan, Trump was regarded in Washington with derision, bordering on resentment for having the audacity to be President in “their city” and contempt for surviving their ridicule (in spite of assassination attempts.) Reagan, like Trump, also admonished America that a country that can’t control its borders isn’t really a country any more. Many deride Reagan for signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which sparked the decades-long flow of immigrants into the U.S. But no one doubts Reagan’s sincere belief in the efficacy of the employer sanctions he insisted be written into the bill. He couldn’t have known at that time of the overwhelming power of the metastasized civil rights regime, or that in its name the courts would step in to obstruct enforcement of those provisions. Reagan and his “heir apparent” subscribe to federalism and state’s rights, preferring to send power and authority back to the people. A Pro-life commitment is tangible in each president’s tenure in office, with Trump appointing three of the justices who made possible the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And both articulate libertarian policies which focus on individual freedom, exemplified by both presidents’ record of deregulation. Tax cuts are and were important to both presidents. For Reagan, they were employed to mitigate our dependence on government and kickstart a moribund economy. For Trump, they incentivized businesses and helped a beleaguered middle-class. Necessary programs like Medicare and Social Security were never in jeopardy. Finally — and this is where the difference between Trump and Buchanan are most apparent — both presidents shared a commitment to Israel, embracing the Strategic Defense Initiative as now embodied by Israel’s Iron Dome Anti-Missile Defense System. Reagan became politically conscious at the time the Jewish state was created in 1948 and felt a warmth toward it stemming from Truman’s embrace of the embattled fledgling democracy. For Reagan, Israel was a stalwart anti-communist ally in a dangerous region. Moreover, Israel now rejoices in Trump’s having moved the U.S. Embassy to its capital city of Jerusalem, as well as in America’s recognition of the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory. Several Muslim countries in the region have begun “normalizing” relations with the Jewish State thanks to Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords initiative. Those searching for Pat Buchanan’s influence on Trump and the Republican party will not find it in Buchanan’s animus toward the State of Israel. Republicans are now overwhelmingly pro-Israel and feel a kinship with Israel’s Likud party. Few (if any) Republicans would say today that the problems in the Middle-East are the fault of “the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States,” as Buchanan did in 1990. But in truth, the calls from both Reagan and Buchanan for Americans to “take back America” from those who care only for themselves — and not America or Americans — continues to ring true on the lips of Donald Trump. Buchanan, now 85, looks back on a life replete with victories for many of the beliefs he thought redounded to America’s best interest. For a long period many thought these beliefs were at risk of being forgotten — but that was before Donald Joseph Trump became the 45th President of the United States. For all of his influence, Buchanan himself now views Donald Trump as “the future of the Republican Party,” and he acknowledges that Trump possesses attributes that he himself did not. “Trump is sui generis, unlike any candidate of recent times,” writes the retired Buchanan. “And his success is attributable not only to his stance on issues, but to his persona, his defiance of political correctness … charging in frontally where others refuse to tread.” High praise from an influential elder statesman. The post Is Donald J. Trump Channeling Pat Buchanan? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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Vice President Kamala Harris‘ Secret Service detail was caught on video committing crimes against a local business owner during a Harris campaign event late last month in Massachusetts, according to a report. Alicia Powers, owner of Four One Three Salon in Pittsfield, said that she would have been more than happy to let the Secret Service use her business as a comfort station during Harris’ event in the city on Saturday July 27 if they had simply asked her permission. “I’m the kind of person that would have set up coffee and doughnuts for them had they asked me for permission,” said Powers. “Instead, they taped over a security camera on the back porch, broke into the salon, helped themselves to the bathroom, ate the mints on the counter and left without tidying up the bathroom or locking the back door on the way out,” according to The Berkshire Eagle, a local newspaper. The Secret Service agents never contacted her or her landlord to ask permission to enter the building. Powers had decided to close her business for the remainder of the day on the 27th because the agents were doing intense bomb sweeps in the area and things became “a little bit chaotic.” The U.S. Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered her security camera with duct tape and broke into her salon by picking the lock so that its bathroom could be used by various people for a two-hour period. After the two-hour period,… pic.twitter.com/s4qSFtebn0 — Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 11, 2024 The Pittsfield Police Department has been supportive of her efforts to get accountability after what Harris’ agents did. The Secret Service claims that they never would have entered the business if they were not given permission. Powers said that she did not give them permission and she feels violated, angry, and disrespected, the report said. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “When they cleaned up and they left the tape on my camera and they left my back door completely unlocked,” she said. “What could have happened in that hour and a half or two hours that you guys left the building unlocked?” Brian Smith, the building’s landlord, told Business Insider that he did not give the Secret Service permission to enter. “Me and my dad own the building, and I have a crazy eccentric guy that lives upstairs,” Smith told BI. “And he didn’t tell the Secret Service they could use it, and I didn’t tell them, and my father didn’t tell them, and they had no permission to go in there whatsoever.” Powers had other cameras set up that alerted her that people were coming in and out of her business for two hours. “From the communication I’ve heard from the EMS workers, somebody dressed in all black was telling them to come in and use the bathroom all afternoon,” she said. When she spoke to the New York Secret Service office, she said that they denied their agents would act that way and then tried to guilt her into letting go of the issue. “And he kind of ended the conversation with telling me, ‘Do you think we need to deal with this right now with what we have going on?’ And my response was, ‘Sir, I’m not trying to be rude but I don’t deserve to deal with this right now either,’” she said. Powers told Business Insider that the head of the Secret Service’s Boston-based field office caller her and apologized after Business Insider published its report. “He said to me everything that was done was done very wrong,” Powers said. “They were not supposed to tape my camera without permission. They were not supposed to enter the building without permission.”