December 15, 1791

The first amendments to the Constitution were officially ratified on this day.
These first 10 are known as the Bill of Rights.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

So Australia has an ISIS cell in Sydney that they don’t seem to know what to do with. They had a licensed gun-owner affiliated with that cell who wasn’t seen as a threat. They had the police respond at first like Keystone Kops to terror-shooting target at legally disarmed Jews…
…and the solution, of course, is more gun laws.
-Stephen Green

Muslim terrorist examined by ASIO for Islamic State links six years before Bondi attack

Bondi Beach terror attack gunman Naveed Akram was investigated over links to Islamic State six years before carrying out the massacre with his father that has left 16 people dead so far.

ASIO examined the 24-year-old Muslim terrorist after police stopped a terror plot by a Sydney-based IS cell in 2019 led by Isaac El Matari, who was jailed for seven years in 2021 for planning an insurgency in Australia.

Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) official told ABC News an IS flag was found in the car belonging to Naveed and his Pakistani immigrant father Sajid Akram, 50, a licenced firearm owner who was killed during the attack on Sunday evening. Naveed is in a critical condition in hospital under police guard.

The official said ASIO examined Naveed’s links to the IS cell after Matari’s arrest, and sources said the two men were close.

ASIO boss Mike Burgess confirmed on Sunday evening that one of the gunmen was known to the spy agency, but did not specify which one, and said he was not seen as an “immediate threat”.

NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed on Monday that Sajid owned six legal firearms, and that police were in the process of determining whether the weapons were used in the Bondi attack.

Police raided the Akram family home in the immigrant-dominated western Sydney suburb of Bonnyrigg on Sunday evening, where Naveed’s mother Verena Akram told The Sydney Morning Herald her unemployed bricklayer son was a “good boy”, and had told her he was going on a fishing trip.

“He rings me up [on Sunday] and said, Mum, I just went for a swim. I went scuba diving. We’re going … to eat now, and then this morning, and we’re going to stay home now because it’s very hot,” she said.

“He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even go out. He doesn’t mix around with friends. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t go to bad places … he goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise, and that’s it.

“Anyone would wish to have a son like my son … he’s a good boy.”

FBI stops planned New Year’s Eve Los Angeles bombing by ‘anti-capitalist,’ anti-ICE terror cell

WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested five members of an “anti-capitalist, anti-government” extremist group on Friday and charged them with an alleged plot to carry out coordinated bombings in and around Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve, according to officials and a criminal complaint.

The “credible, imminent terrorist threat” to five unidentified companies’ logistics centers in Southern California came from radical members of an offshoot of the left-wing Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement officials revealed Monday.

The splinter group called themselves the Order of the Black Lotus and passed along an “eight-page, handwritten document titled ‘OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN’” that laid out the bombing plot to a confidential FBI source, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in Los Angeles federal court.

Four of the suspects were collared in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, where they were captured on video attempting to test improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Los Angeles first assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters at a news conference.
The quartet — Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41 — have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.

Carroll and Page led the group and convened a private Signal chat where they used codenames, with Carroll identified as “Asiginaak,” Page identified as “Ash Kerrigan” or “cthulu’s daughter,” Gaffield as “Nomad” and Lai as “Kickwhere.”

The group had begun assembling the “complex pipe bombs” with “homemade gunpowder” in the desert when FBI agents arrested them on Dec. 12.

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Back to the drawing board™

“Modern High Technology Strikes Again”  – Me.

Person of interest in Brown University shooting released

While Providence Police had detained a person of interest in the deadly Brown University shooting, officials noted during a Sunday night news conference that the individual would be released.

“Shortly we will be releasing the person of interest who had been detained earlier today,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said during the news conference, “Yeah, look, I think it’s fair to say that, ah, there is no basis to consider him a person of interest. So that’s why he’s being released.”

Anti-gun celebrity and his wife get theirs with a knife; by their (recovered) drug addict son.

Hollywood director Rob Reiner’s son Nick in custody following death of his parents

During a press conference on an unrelated matter held Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department brought up the deaths of the filmmaker and his wife. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell admitted the information surrounding the deaths was limited. McDonnell also confirmed Reiner’s son has been booked on suspicion of murder and is being held on $4 million bail.

 

When Seconds Counted, St. Louis Police Were Hours Away

A St. Louis woman was held at gunpoint and assaulted in her apartment for several hours this past weekend, and though a neighbor heard her cries for help and called 911, police didn’t respond until after the victim was able to get to a phone hours later.

25-year-old Miles Faris is facing charges of first-degree kidnapping, second- and third-degree domestic assault, unlawful use of a weapon, and multiple drug charges, but police have not been able to take him into custody because he fled the apartment before officers arrived on scene.

In court documents, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department acknowledged there was a call reporting a woman screaming in the apartment where the incident happened, but “due to a high level of calls that night, police were not able to respond to that call.”

The victim said he then told the woman he would kill her, her family and her friends, and told her to Facetime her mother to say goodbye. He chambered a round and held the gun to her head, reiterating that he was going to kill her, police said.

The victim recorded some of the incident on her phone, including video that showed Faris pointing the gun at her multiple times while appearing “heavily intoxicated.” Faris also said he wanted to bash the woman’s skull in, and that if she didn’t wake up in the morning, he would be the No. 1 suspect, according to charging documents.

According to a police spokesperson, police officers in the area had 27 separate calls for service between 5 and 8 p.m. last Saturday, with one of them involving shots fired. The spokesman told KSDK-TV that the original 911 call from the neighbor didn’t include any information about weapons being involved or a potentially life-threatening situation taking place, so it was essentially put on the back burner in favor of calls that were deemed more important.

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Some good, but mostly bad news

BLUF
The real question is what will the Court do with the gun and magazine ban cases in the new year? We’re getting to the point in the Court’s term that any case they decide to take up would most likely be heard next fall.

Supreme Court Turns Away Challenges to National Firearms Act

The Supreme Court didn’t grant cert to any Second Amendment cases in its orders list released on Monday, but they did keep ahold of several challenges to state-level gun and magazine bans as well as several prohibited persons cases.

The justices also denied cert to a pair of challenges to the National Firearms Act’s restrictions on short-barreled rifles, as well as the appeal of a Pennsylvania father who was hoping to revive a lawsuit against a gun maker and gun seller holding them civilly liable for the death of his son.

Robinson v. U.S. and Rush v. U.S had drawn attention from a number of Second Amendment groups including Gun Owners of America and Second Amendment Foundation, which filed amicus briefs in support of the cert petitions urging the Court to take one or both cases. The groups obviously were hoping that the Supreme Court would declare that short-barreled rifles are arms protected by the Second Amendment, but also pointed out multiple flaws in the rationale deployed by lower courts in upholding the NFA’s restrictions.

The brief filed by GOA and a number of state-level 2A groups in Robinson, for instance, noted the lower courts’ description of the NFA as a “shall issue” licensing system akin to concealed carry regimes.

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That smartphone, in fact any cell phone, in your pocket, doesn’t have to have the GPS activated for it, and thus you, to be tracked. That also applies to all these modern cars with any sort of ‘connectivity’ even if a subscription for some of the services has been paid for.
Just saying.
That’s how they tracked down this guy and also one of the ways they tracked down the murderer of the college students in Idaho 3 years ago.

Brown University shooting: What to know about person in custody

A person of interest is in custody after a gunman opened fire at Brown University over the weekend, killing at least two people and wounding nine others, officials announced.

Providence Police Department Chief Col. Oscar Perez said Sunday that the individual detained is a man in his 20s. Authorities are not currently searching for anyone else in the case.

The attack took place one day earlier at the Providence, Rhode Island, school at about 4 p.m., law enforcement said, prompting a shelter-in-place order that forced students and faculty to spend the night on campus.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley later told reporters that of the nine people shot, one has been discharged, one remained in critical condition and the other seven victims were in stable condition.

Officials have not yet released the names of those who were killed. Smiley also said that not all of the victims’ families have been notified as of early Sunday afternoon.

Law enforcement was still reviewing surveillance footage, coordinating with prosecutors, collecting evidence and speaking to witnesses on Sunday to gather more information about the suspected shooter, Perez explained.

Here’s what we know so far about the person in custody in connection to the Brown shooting, including where he was reportedly detained:

Who is person of interest in Brown University shooting?

Police have released few details about the person of interest, aside from confirming the man is in his 20s. Authorities initially described the shooting suspect as a man who wore all black.

No charges had been announced in connection to the case as of Sunday afternoon, and Perez told reporters the person detained has not yet been named a suspect in the shooting.

“It takes time, we have to make sure we have all the right evidence to prosecute,” Perez said during an afternoon press conference.

Gov. Daniel James McKee asked the nation to pray for the victims, their families and all those involved.

“The community is suffering and in pain,” McKee said during the press conference. “We stand with you.”

Where was the person taken into custody?

The person detained was taken into custody early in the morning at a hotel in Coventry, according to an update from the FBI. Coventry is located in Kent County, about 16 miles southwest of Brown,

FBI Director Kash Patel said law enforcement used cellular data to track the person of interest to a hotel room where he was detained by US Marshals and Providence police, based off a tip from the Coverntry Police Department.

The person, local  WJAR-TV reported, was apprehended at the Hampton Inn there.

@FBIBoston established a command post to intake, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground.

We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to provide critical geolocation capabilities.

As a result, early this morning, FBI Boston’s Safe Streets Task Force, with assistance from the @USMarshalsHQ & the @Coventry_RI_PD, detained a person of interest in a hotel room in Coventry, RI, based off a lead by the @ProvidenceRIPD .

We have deployed local and national resources to process and reconstruct the shooting scene – providing HQ and Lab elements on scene.

We set up a digital media intake portal to ingest images and video from the public related to this incident.

And the FBI’s victim specialists are fully integrating with our partners to provide resources to victims and survivors of this horrific violence.

This FBI will continue an all out 24/7 campaign until justice is fully served.

Thanks to the men and women of the FBI and our partners for their continued teamwork. Please continue praying for the victims and their families – as well as all those at Brown University.

The good guy – who turns out be an Afghan immigrant himself -disarms the murdering terrorist, then lets him go? And then the one he let go rearmed himself and continued on?

Then- near the end of the video – an armed ‘someone’ good guy in the background behind them, has the shooters covered and he doesn’t engage either?

I’m sorry, I have no empathy and v-e-r-y little sympathy for the Australians.

The core question of the transgender debate is:
Is it more important to cater to the feelings of mentally ill men, or to keep women and girls safe while affirming reality?

Not surprised in the slightest.

Gabbard: 2,000 Afghan refugees in U.S. have ties to terrorism.

An estimated 2,000 Afghan nationals admitted to the United States following the deadly 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan have ties to terrorism, according to the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard made the astonishing revelation during an interview on Fox News Friday morning, following a tense House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem highlighted national security risks to the homeland.

The Center Square previously reported that the U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General released a report in January 2022 that admitted thousands of Afghan evacuees who entered the U.S. following the American military evacuation in August 2021 were not properly vetted.

“[The DoD] found that Afghan evacuees were not vetted by the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) using all DoD data prior to arriving in CONUS,” the report said.

The report also noted, during an “analytic review, NGIC personnel identified Afghans with derogatory information in the DoD ABIS database who were believed to be in the United States.”

The 2022 report affirms Gabbard’s concerns that some individuals admitted to the U.S. under the Biden administration may pose a national security risk.

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