Perhaps this will present an opportunity to increase visibility for Oath Keepers, and to develop allies. But at the very least, the record will show that while the government and media have been universally painting a federal LEO as guilty, it was the "anti-government right wing gun extremists" doing the reminding that we need to consider his innocence until the burden of proof requirement has been satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt.I'm as surprised as anyone to find myself concerned about a federal LEO/FBI sniper, but this case just doesn't smell right. When I hear from a source that the US Attorney leaked the affidavit to the press, my antennae go up.
If we want that for ourselves, we must demand it for John Shipley. [More]
Here is today's Gun Rights Examiner column, which includes a link to the affidavit as well as information on this case the "Authorized Journalists" won't tell you about.
Also see the latest cuckolding of gun owners by Kirsten Gillibrand and hear her competitor in Constitutional sabotage use a word generally associated with racists.
Tell a friend?
Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:
- Atlanta: You bet it's personal!
- Austin: Why do children need guns?
- Boston: Sotomayor: Unfit to serve
- Charlotte: Sotomayor: Where for art thou, NRA?
- Chicago: National right-to-carry reciprocity can't touch Chicago, but can it pass?
- Cleveland: National ccw reciprocity bill vote likely
- DC: Sotomayor: the abstract justice?
- Denver: Lessons from "bring your guns to church day"
- Los Angeles: On Sotomayor: The Judiciary Committee needs to get it, too.
- Minneapolis: Lies, damn lies, and VPC statistics
- Seattle: Outrage over national concealed carry misplaced while Seattle looks for a killer
- St. Louis: The Brady Campaign to create 'gun crime'
- Wisconsin: Party like it was 1773
Ok, the benefit of the doubt goes far too often to he who wears the super hero costume and bears the magic shield....but, I'm willing to see how this plays out.
ReplyDeleteShipley, you say to the world that you're a good fellow who is being persecuted? Prove it. When it is over, will YOU join Oathkeepers? Will YOU stand up to your bosses and say,
"No! No way no how. I ain't doin' it."
Crickets chirping...
Of course the law he's being prosecuted for breaking is bullshit. So are the volumes and volumes of laws he's been enforcing for the past thirteen years. How's it feel, Shipley, here in the "Land of the free?"
ReplyDeleteFor me, the most damning element of the indictment is the allegation he had sales of guns arranged BEFORE executing the 4473. That's a straw sale and he should have known better.
Let him rot. There is no such thing as a "good" FBI agent.
I have zero sympathy for this guy - exactly the same amount he had for Vicky Weaver.
ReplyDeleteI think its about time that our privileged class finally started taking it in the shorts like the rest of us.
Lots of justified anger out there. Lots of satisfaction that one of the agents of tyranny is on the hook. Emotionally, I stand with them. Logically, I do not. Or we become like them. "Hooray for me, fuck you".
ReplyDeleteI cannot see that we want to replace one corruption with another. We will be no better off and may be worse off. We will not advance the cause of liberty, justice, or restore our Constitution by taking revenge, instead of honorably demanding the same rights for this accused as we claim for ourselves. That we have regularly been denied these rights is not justification for our denying those rights to any other.
If he has committed crimes, he should be treated as any other citizen. We cannot hope to restore our nation to the grandeur it once had if we engage the same acts that have so crippled liberty in our land.
How are the crimes he committed behind the badge better than the (false) one he is accused of committing free-lance?
ReplyDeleteMy only wish is that this would awaken him to the horrors he has been a willing part of, and bring him away from the dark-side.
I won't hold my breath. The brainwashing runs very deep.