Man shot to death by passerby was harassing, beating up strangers in Snohomish County
The word is that Wolf brand 9mm fmj was used to TCOB, which to me literally adds insult to injury. I mean, getting sent to the morgue by someone using cheap Russian hardball, instead of Federal HST, Hornady Critical Duty or any one of the other top of the line self defense rounds is humiliating.
“I know nothing” was the comic catchphrase of Sgt. Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes. He occasionally varied or elaborated on it, adding “I see nothing.” In the clip below, for example, he declares, “I see nothing. I was not here. I did not even get up this morning.”
After its customary warning to protect civilian life, the IDF took out the 12-story Jala Tower housing Hamas military intelligence offices as well as offices for media organs including Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. As far as I can tell from reports such as this photo-filled story in the Daily Mail, no lives were lost in the bombing.
The Biden administration nevertheless found the occasion fit to lecture Israel yesterday “that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.” According to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli authorities have showed Biden administration officials the “smoking gun” proving that Hamas worked out of the building. I demand proof that intelligent life exists within the Biden administration.
Self-Spreading Insanity: The Age of Contagious Vaccines
With COVID vaccination “rollouts” ongoing, it would seem the angelic host of Big Pharma has swooped in to avert the end of the world, triumphing in the nick of time over a super-lethal, super-contagious, super-pandemic…with a whopping 0.15% infection fatality rate.
But if, for whatever reason, you still aren’t sold on the whole COVID Vaccination Magical Mystery Tour, don’t worry. You may get another chance at serum-based salvation quite soon — whether you want it or not.
This is because COVID-19 may mark not the end, but the dawn of an age in which mankind will be constantly and inescapably peppered with custom-engineered viruses of all kinds. A great many of these will go by the name “vaccine.”
We can now be all but certain, for instance, that COVID-19 itself originated in a Chinese bio-lab, as part of an ongoing (and U.S.-funded) project to create extra-contagious and extra-lethal humanized bat coronaviruses — so-called “gain of function” research. (One famed virologist has even argued that COVID originated as a custom target for an experimental HIV vaccine.)
This aspect of COVID-19’s origin lends it the surreal distinction of being the world’s first wholly man-made pandemic.
10 Things We Have Learned During the Covid Coup
One potential positive from the whole Covid-19 debacle is that we have learned an incredible amount about the society in which we live. This will be crucial if we manage to stave off a descent into a nightmare future of techno-fascist slavery.
We will have a new understanding of what our world has become and what we would like it to be in the decades and centuries to come. And “we” means we. While the majority have, apparently, learnt nothing at all from what has happened, they will eventually catch up.
There is no way that knowledge gained by a wide-awake 15% or 20% of the population will not end up being shared by almost everyone. Once the truth is out, it tends to stay out. As H.R. Haldeman so wisely put it, “you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube”.
Here are Ten Things We Have Learned During the Covid Coup.
1. Our political system is hopelessly corrupt.
Virtually all politicians are hopelessly corrupt. No political party can be trusted. They all can be, and have been, bought.
2. Democracy is a sham.
It has been a sham for a very long time. There will never be any real democracy when money and power amount to the same thing.
3. The system will stop at nothing to hold on to its power
and, if possible, increase its levels of control and exploitation. It has no scruples. No lie is too outrageous, no hypocrisy too nauseating, no human sacrifice too great.
4. So-called radical movements are usually nothing of the sort.
From whatever direction they claim to attack the system, they are just pretending to do so, and serve to channel discontent in directions which are harmless to the power clique and even useful to its agendas.
5. Any “dissident” voice you have ever heard of through corporate media is probably a fake.
The system does not hand out free publicity to its actual enemies.
6. Most people in our society are cowards.
They will jettison all the fine values and principles which they have been loudly boasting about all their lives merely to avoid the slightest chance of public criticism, inconvenience or even minor financial loss.
7. The mainstream media is nothing but a propaganda machine for the system…
…and those journalists who work for it have sold their sorry souls, placing their (often minimal) writing skills entirely at the disposition of Power.
8. Police are not servants of the public…
…but servants of a powerful and extremely wealthy minority which seeks to control and exploit the public for its own narrow and greedy interests.
9. Scientists cannot be trusted.
They will use the hypnotic power of their white coats and authoritative status for the benefit of whoever funds their work and lifestyle. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
10. Progress is a misleading illusion.
The “progress” of increasing automation and industrialisation does not go hand in hand with a progress in the quality of human life, but in fact will “progressively” reduce it to the point of complete extinction.
Concealed Carry Revolution: Expanding The Right to Bear Arms in America
The liberalization of concealed carry laws over the past several decades represents a dramatic expansion of the right to bear arms in the United States. Concealed Carry Revolution offers the first comprehensive but concise history of the development of these laws, from the restricted era of gun carry in the 19th century, through discretionary permitting systems in the 20th century, to today’s shall issue and permitless carry regimes. It also explores variation in the implementation of shall issue concealed carry laws from state to state, especially in terms of training requirements. Accessibly written, this book will appeal to experts and interested others alike.
Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military
Irresistible Revolution is a timely and bold contribution from an active-duty Space Force lieutenant colonel who sees the impact of a neo-Marxist agenda at the ground level within our armed forces. In it, author Matthew Lohmeier provides answers to many important questions that Americans are currently asking: Is systemic racism a reality, or is much of our talk about race merely a rhetorical tool used to divide Americans? Why has the Defense Department suddenly shifted to a focus on extremism within the ranks? Is there really a white supremacy or white nationalist problem within our armed forces? Are the many Diversity and Inclusion trainings that are being conducted in our federal agencies helping solve these problems, or are they creating conflict where none previously existed? What is Marxism, and what does it have to do with all of this?
Though pundits often appear perplexed by current policy decisions being made in our country, our apparent missteps are part of a longstanding plot against America, patiently and methodically pursued by those with a mind intent on the overthrow of the US Government and its replacement with a communist dictatorship. Unfortunately, many of those now furthering that agenda do so unwittingly.
After becoming aware of the Marxist conquest of American society, you will never again look at things in the same way. Mainstream media, social media, the public education system (including universities), as well as federal agencies have all become vessels of various schools of thought that are rooted in Marxist ideology – an ideology bent on the destruction of America’s history, of Western tradition, specifically Judeo-Christian values, and of patriotism and conservatism. Marxism’s sinister and dark agenda has led the country into what some have called a cold civil war. The problem has become systemic, a tragedy considering that the defeat of Marxist-communist ideology was the very cause against which our nation spent great treasures of blood and iron during much of the twentieth century.
The book’s three-part framework begins with a discussion of the greatness of the American ideal (including the importance of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the notions of individual and civil liberties), transitions to an examination of the history and overarching narrative of Marxist ideology (specifically Marx’s and Engels’ Communist Manifesto wherein the oppressor vs. oppressed narrative is developed), and concludes by looking into the ongoing transformation of America’s military culture and military policy, while also providing a warning about where the country is headed if we choose to not make an immediate course correction.
Irresistible Revolution also covers a breadth of hot topics everyone is hearing and talking about – topics that actually have implications for our national security: woke ideology, cancel culture, identity politics, the Black Lives Matter movement, anti-racism, postmodernism, political correctness, and critical and cynical theories, to include critical race theory. Lohmeier’s penetrating and common sense look at current events within our military and across American society is a sublimely unique contribution that is certain to be shared, referenced, and discussed for years to come. Every American, including every US military servicemember, needs to read and understand the Irresistible Revolution.
You can be sure the SloJoe administration is focused like a laser on issues like this.
Space Force CO Who Got Holiday Call from Trump Fired Over Comments Decrying Marxism in the Military
A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies are becoming prevalent in the United States military.
Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, was relieved from his post Friday by Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of Space Operations Command, over a loss of confidence in his ability to lead, Military.com has exclusively learned.
“This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast,” a Space Force spokesperson said in an email. “Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity.”
Lohmeier’s temporary assignment in the wake of his removal was not immediately clear.
Earlier this month, Lohmeier, a former instructor and fighter pilot who transferred into the Space Force, self-published a book titled “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.”
The CDC’s Mask Mess Reveals Why They Can’t Be Trusted On Guns
With the Centers for Disease Control belatedly coming to the conclusion that fully vaccinated people can ditch their masks (something that’s been obvious to the rest of us for months now), it’s become clear that the only “science” the agency’s been following for months is political science. The mishandling of the agency’s guidance, and the willingness of businesses, blue state politicians, and bureaucrats to continue to adhere to it even when it was clearly overcautious to the point of paranoia is all the reason we need to keep the CDC far away from the gun control debate.
The CDC was prevented from engaging in politically-motivated research into gun control from the mid-1990s until 2018, when money started flowing to the agency for research into firearms once again. In 2020, $25-million was allocated to the CDC and the National Institutes of Health to look into ways to reduce “gun-related deaths and injuries”, and the agency has merrily been dispersing grant money in the months since.
Soon we’ll be able to learn about the “synergistic impacts of firearm access and opioid-related harm on firearm suicide risk at the individual and population levels in the state of California”, the “context, antecedents, and consequences of handgun carrying among adolescents who reside in rural communities in order to inform culturally appropriate and community-specific interventions,” and other fun topics that can all easily be turned into calls to restrict the Second Amendment rights of all in the name of protecting some specific portion of the population.
We also know that whatever talking points come out the CDC regarding gun control, they’ll be eagerly parroted and taken as gospel by many on the Left, who don’t dare dispute anything that comes out of the mouths of the high priests of Science. Again, just look at how Democratic governors responded to the proclamation that Science no longer demands the wearing of masks if you’ve been vaccinated.
‘Pretextual stops’ were deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court. Almost anywhere else, the stops are usually used as a pretext to search for drugs since the gun laws in most states are nowhere as strict as in NY City.
Up in smoke: New weed law leads to drop in gun busts, NYPD sources say
New York’s recent decision to legalize weed has led to an alarming drop in gun arrests — at the same time shootings are surging across the Big Apple, The Post has learned.
Under NYPD enforcement guidelines outlined in a March 31 memo that cited the new pot law ban, cops are banned from searching a vehicle’s trunk just because they smell pot during a traffic stop.
The “sweeping changes” — which took effect immediately — also prohibit cops from searching anyone just for toking up “almost anywhere that cigarette smoking is allowed.”
But large numbers of gun busts have typically been made by cops who smell fresh or burnt marijuana after pulling over a car, according to NYPD sources.
Last year, 33 percent of all gun-possession arrests resulted from vehicle stops, with a majority of those also involving weed, a source familiar with the matter said.
Just me, but a lot of what I see in politics is making people believe you’re doing something, when you really aren’t, because you actually don’t like the proposed legislation.
Texas Constitutional Carry to go to Conference Committee, Future in Doubt
On Wednesday, 12 May 2021, HB1927 came back from the Texas Senate to the House. The House had passed the bill with a good margin. Governor Abbot said he would sign the bill. The Senate just barely passed the bill, but included eight amendments.
The question was: Would the House accept the amendments, and send the bill to the Governor’s desk for signature, or would the House send the bill to a conference committee. The conference committee could work out a compromise with the House. If they did, then the bill would have to go back to the Senate and the House for approval.
The Democrats in the House raised a point of order, claiming the amendment to HB 1927, which requires the state to create an online training course about gun carry and the law, fell outside the single issue rule and was therefore illegal.
Legislation in Texas is supposed to address a single issue only. What is a single issue, is subject to interpretation. Several of the other seven amendments added in the Senate could as easily fail under the single issue rule.
This correspondent is not in the Texas legislature. Representative Schaffer is. He is the House sponsor of the bill. Representative Schaffer came to the podium, asked the House to reject the Senate amendments and send the HB 1927 to a conference committee.
It had been worked out behind the scenes. The House asked for a conference committee.
To this correspondent, it appeared the House was betting 90% of Constitutional Carry against a chance of gaining a few more percent toward a 100% bill.
Hamas used you. pic.twitter.com/7IgKthzCUt
— JustSheila (@SheilaTjustme) May 15, 2021
Pro tip:
Make sure your landlord isn’t Hamas.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 15, 2021
Nothing new to be surprised about. It merely confirms that demoncraps are elitist hypocrites with double standards
Maxine Waters Accused of Abusing the Use of Air Marshals for Her Own Protection
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been a big backer of the anti-police, BLM movement.
Indeed, she visited Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, last month to tell protesters that they should get more “confrontational”, if they didn’t get what they wanted when it came to the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin. She also bashed the police while there, and later, in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta.
But this is a huge crock from her because while she bashes police, she seems to be very eager to have police protecting her.
As we previously reported, even as she traveled to Brooklyn Center, she allegedly had police protection on her way there.
Now, there may be a scandal breaking over her use of air marshals. And she’s not the only member of Congress involved.
Air marshals were put on flights in the wake of the 9/11 attack to protect flights, particularly high risk flights, from danger. But, according to the New York Post, after the riot at the Capitol, lawmakers began asking for extra protection when going back and forth on flights, even when going on vacation. So in response, the TSA began pulling the marshals from the high risk flights to protect the members of Congress instead.
While we reported Maxine Waters allegedly had police protection from the Capitol Police when she went to Brooklyn Center to agitate against the police, she actually may have had even more protection that we thought.
According to a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee, she was accompanied by “two armed Capitol Police and two U.S. Secret Service agents.” On top of those people, Waters requested two air marshals to join her on the plane, plus two more to escort her through the airport when she got to Minneapolis. So, she was allegedly protected by at least eight people on her way to Brooklyn Center.
“Air marshals can only be assigned to high-risk flights. That means flights that have been deemed through our vetted process that have a security risk,” said Sonya Hightower LoBasco, executive director of the Air Marshal National Council. “When these processes are violated and they’re taken advantage of and they are just tossed to the side now as if they don’t matter, we’re really looking into creating a major problem for ourselves in the aviation domain.” [….]
“Congresswoman Maxine Waters utilized numerous government resources inappropriately,” the complaint reads. “Federal Air Marshals were removed from a “High Risk” flight to cover Ms. Waters flight to Minnesota. The High Risk flight took off with no armed law enforcement on board leaving a gap in National Security.”
“Air marshals for Miss Waters trip were assigned high risk missions, they were removed from those missions and assigned to Miss Waters mission on top of her already armed security detail from the Capitol Police,” Hightower said. “That was not an official business trip. We still don’t have any justification as to why government resources were utilized to fly Miss Waters out to Minnesota.”
The Capitol Police and the U.S. Secret Service are denying that they provided Waters protection, but their denial conflicts with what the Air Marshal group is saying. Obviously Waters did get protection from air marshals, which raises the greater question of her denying those marshals from being able to protect high risk flights because of her request.
The president of the Air Marshal National Council, David Londo, objected to the greater point of using the marshals this way, calling it an “egregious misuse of government resources,” David Londo, president of the Air Marshal National Council, said in a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.
“The FAMs are now taking agents off of regularly scheduled “high risk” flights to put them on flights with members of Congress, that in most cases have their own armed federal security details onboard already. It has become akin to a type of extremely expensive concierge service for Congressional members.”
Members of Congress are supposed to be serving us, but with this, they’re taking away protection that’s actually needed elsewhere for Americans. The marshals aren’t supposed to be servants or security for Congress. This has the potential of putting national security at risk.
Biden’s Proposed Ghost Gun Rule Still Not Officially Published
It was a week ago Friday that the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced a new proposed rule to broadly redefine “frames” and “receivers” under the Gun Control Act of 1968, a move that some critics say goes too far and amounts to the agency rewriting the law itself, which is up to Congress, not the executive branch.
While the ATF issued a press release for the proposed rule last Friday, the rulemaking process doesn’t formally begin until the proposal is published in the Federal Register, which triggers a period of public comment. And oddly, the Federal Register has yet to publish Proposed Rule 2021R-05, which means that the proposal could still be changed before it becomes official.
Now, it’s not unusual for a couple of days to pass between a public announcement of a proposed rule change and its publication in the Federal Register, but a delay of at least a week is somewhat out of the ordinary. While none of the folks in the firearms industry that I spoke to about this wanted to offer their theories on the record, a few suggested that the Department of Justice and the ATF floated out the proposal last Friday as a trial balloon, but held off on formally publishing the proposal and starting the clock on the public comment period until they could gauge the reaction.
Well, they’ve had a week now, and as J.D. Tucille writes at Reason, the verdict from industry insiders is that the proposed rule is a mess.
An industry insider told me that the ATF obviously is trying to give itself latitude to determine whatever it wants about what constitutes a firearm without objective standards. This way it can evoke any interpretation that seems politically expedient at the moment.
But there are limits even to vague language. The ATF allows that an object must be “clearly identifiable as an unfinished component part of a weapon” to be subject to regulation and that “frame or receiver molds that can accept metal or polymer, unformed blocks of metal, and other articles only in a primordial state would not—without more—be considered a ‘partially complete’ frame or receiver.” At some point, by necessity, a component stops short of being a firearm part and escapes regulation.
That’s going to be interesting, since the current market for firearms kits and 80 percent receivers evolved in response to earlier ATF rules. Demand for the kits largely exists among people who oppose legal restrictions. The proposed revisions are part of an ongoing game of whack-a-mole between government officials and gun enthusiasts. What vendors offer in the future will be a response to the outer boundaries of these rules, not just the prohibitionist desires of the current administration or of ATF agents. The industry insider told me that the commercial market for DIY firearms components will ultimately be determined more by consumer demand than by politicians’ wishes. If buyers continue to seek products that help them make guns, sellers will find a way to keep them happy.
I encourage you to read Tucille’s whole piece, but the big takeaway is that even with these sweeping definitions of “frame” and “receiver” and “readily convertible” items, the proposed rule won’t stop people from making their own guns. 3D-printed firearms are becoming more popular, and any attempt to crack down on 80% frames and receivers will only cause even DIY gunmakers to shell out the few hundred bucks for a 3D printer of their own.
I have no idea why the ATF’s proposed rule hasn’t been officially published yet, but I suspect that when it finally appears in the Federal Register it may look slightly different than the document released back on May 7th. I also suspect that any changes that are made aren’t going to be nearly enough to satisfy gun owners and the Second Amendment organizations that are already weighing legal action if the rule is implemented.
In the meantime, I’m going to continue to watch for the publication of the proposed rule and will let you know once the 90-day window for public comment period is officially open, because it’s critically important that gun owners weigh in once we have the chance.
I can see an ‘unintended consequence’ to this ruling, can you?
Statutory Duty to Aid People You’ve Injured May Apply Even in Self-Defense Cases
So holds a New Jersey appellate court.
A New Jersey statute, 2C:12-1.2 (“Endangering an injured victim”) provides,
[a.] A person is guilty of endangering an injured victim if he causes bodily injury to any person or solicits, aids, encourages, or attempts or agrees to aid another, who causes bodily injury to any person, and leaves the scene of the injury knowing or reasonably believing that the injured person is physically helpless, mentally incapacitated or otherwise unable to care for himself….
[c.] It is an affirmative defense to prosecution for a violation of this section that the defendant summoned medical treatment for the victim or knew that medical treatment had been summoned by another person, and protected the victim from further injury or harm until emergency assistance personnel arrived. This affirmative defense shall be proved by the defendant by a preponderance of the evidence.
In State v. Sanders, decided yesterday by the N.J. intermediate appellate court, the court (in an opinion by Judge Greta Gooden Brown, joined by Judges Jack Sabatino and Heidi Currier) held this applied even when the person had injured “another” in self-defense. Julian Sanders was prosecuted for first-degree murder, weapons possession, and endangering an injured victim:
BLUF:
….it’s a true shame, and to the detriment of our entire country, that their work will be completely overshadowed by how those at the top mismanaged, lied, and bent to politics of this moment. Walensky, and the officials below her as well as those who preceded her in 2020, destroyed the credibility of the entire organization, giving Americans no reason to trust any of their baseless guidance ever again.
How A Year Of Unfounded, Contradictory CDC Guidelines Destroyed That Agency’s Credibility Forever
Will Americans ever be able to trust the CDC again after the agency mismanaged, lied, and bent to politics of this moment?
No other government agency has accelerated its own demise in the last year faster than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s stuffed to the brim with scientists and doctors and virologists, yet instead of rising to the occasion of a global pandemic, the bureaucracy shattered its reputation and credibility beyond repair.
As Americans slowly learned more about the novel virus and its risks over the course of the last year, they looked to the CDC for expert guidance. The agency responded by only confusing Americans, issuing guidance that not only contradicted their own previous guidelines but also the very thing they claim to represent: science.
Analysis: Dogs Can’t Smell Serial Numbers and the Dangers of Mindlessly Repeating Police Narratives
Dogs, no matter how well trained, can not tell if a gun has a serial number engraved into it or not.
That is not the impression you would get if you listened to KSBY’s report on Santa Barbara, California’s new police dogs, though. The NBC affiliate chose to frame their story on the dogs through the lens of their ability to detect so-called ghost guns.
“The [ghost] gun might look similar to any regular weapon; however, it’s missing one major piece: registration to make it legally owned,” KSBY reporter Melissa Newman said. “Today, I got a first-hand look at the only K9 in the county trained to detect them.”
The K9 is actually trained to sniff plastic, steel, and gun powder. That’s it. He can’t smell whether a gun has a serial number engraved in it. He doesn’t know if the owner has a registration paper from the state government for it. That is exactly what Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Deputy Shane Moore tells the station eventually.
“Zeke is trained to alert on what we call polymer 80’s, and it’s like the grip part of the handgun. He’s also trained to alert on the steel, the slides, and the ammunition we use for firearms,” Deputy Moore told the news station.
Moore is oddly trying to conflate a company that sells unfinished gun parts, Polymer 80, with the gun parts themselves. So, let’s be clear. The grip on a gun made with Polymer 80 parts is made out of, you guessed it, polymer, just like a Glock or Smith & Wesson pistol sold at the store. There’s no real difference in materials for parts used in homemade guns or retail firearms.
KSBY eventually acknowledges this obvious fact, but they commit to this bizarre framing anyway.
The whole piece reads like a police department wanted to brag about how they’re doing something to combat the specter of “ghost guns,” and nobody at KSBY thought twice about how ridiculous the narrative was. Police departments often want to show people they are actively fighting criminals, and local news often wants to play up threats to juice ratings. Those incentives align in all sorts of bad ways, but occasionally they combine to make everyone involved with the story look utterly ridiculous.
I believe most police are trying to do the right thing most of the time. But that doesn’t mean you have to take everything they say or do at face value. You absolutely shouldn’t do that with police spokesmen or any other kind of government official if you’re a journalist.
There’s a major difference between respecting law enforcement and mindlessly repeating anything they have to tell you. This principle extends well beyond firearms, but it’s certainly true here. Some police, especially those in public relations, like to frame rights primarily as impediments to easier police work. And while life would be easier on law enforcement if we allowed them to search anyone for any reason they saw fit, or let them arrest anyone for merely owning a gun, it would make life quite a lot worse for everyone else.
So, the next time a police officer tries to tell you a story about how their new K9s are trained to smell the difference between a serialized gun and an unserialized one, maybe take that with a grain of salt.
