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About "The Only Ones"
The purpose of this feature has never been to bash cops. The only reason I do this is to amass a credible body of evidence to present when those who would deny our right to keep and bear arms use the argument that only government enforcers are professional and trained enough to do so safely and responsibly. And it's also used to illustrate when those of official status, rank or privilege, both in law enforcement and in some other government position, get special breaks not available to we commoners, particularly (but not exclusively) when they're involved in gun-related incidents.
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White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says [More]
So a CI/provocateur got a low-hanging fruit moron or two to make some outrageous statements and the narrative to tar you and me with the dangerous racist extremist brush advances.
Any bets if the complete set of circumstances is ever made known that my assessment won't be close?
Pelosi is holding up relief for millions of tax-paying Americans who are hurting so she can be seen handing it to illegal aliens. That is Russian Roulette. The waitresses who have a percentage of their sales receipts withheld from their pay based on imputed income, that is, tips they might have received, would be particularly angry with Mrs Pelosi if they ever figured that out. [More]
So we'll never tell them and blame Trump instead, which we've got them conditioned to believe without questioning.
As life in Chicago largely comes to a halt, shootings continue on South, West sides - As of Sunday evening, 10 people had been gunned down in weekend shootings across the city, one of them fatally. [More]
The NYPD is trying to reassure its rank-and-file during the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the Big Apple — but cops feel like the top brass couldn’t care less about their well-being. [More]
Pennsylvania State Representative Thomas Murt (R) represents parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties and is pushing the ammunition permit requirement for the state of Pennsylvania. Murt’s biography on his website talks about his time in the Army Reserve from 1990-2008, where he deployed in 2003 to Tikrit, Iraq. His service in the military is appreciated as it should be, but that does not mean he has the right to push for a permit that will require legal, law-abiding citizens to get licenses to purchase firearm ammunition. [More]
Any gun owner who voted for this dolt deserves to be disarmed. Sure, his commie Democrat opponent was a piece of crap, but tolerating this within the Republican party is a surefire guarantee for more betrayals as soon as the "moderates" think it's safe to turn coat.
Like Murt did. His district looks pretty reliably Republican, but unless and until PAGOP fields an acceptable candidate, they should just feel our pain.
States Can't Shut Down Non-Essential Businesses Without Harming Essential Ones - The coronavirus outbreak offers another view of the limits of central planning. [More]
Customs and Border Protection officials are defying the Trump administration’s directive to block all nonessential foreign travel into the United States from Mexico, allowing noncitizens claiming to be on shopping trips to continue entering, according to two officials involved in the implementation of the order. [More]
UPDATE [Via Wynn A]: On the other hand, we have Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, who "believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to contain it. The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO knows full well what is occurring."
Note if his interpretation is attacked, see how much of the rebuttal focuses on what he's claiming as opposed to on his "contrarian" politics.
If true, it looks like there's plenty of incentive on both sides to suppress this information.
UPDATE [Via Michael G]: And then we have the Stanford epidemiologist, who argues the overreaction is "like an elephant being attacked by a house cat." If he's attacked, see how much of the rebuttal focuses on what he's claiming as opposed to his hair.
Not being able to trust "our" government and prominent purveyors of reliable information are what lead to crazy talk. It's almost like some are counting on that as a way to distract and divert.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has an unorthodox plan for ensuring public safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: free imprisoned inmates, look the other way on crime, and try to suppress law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights. [More]
On the plus side, it facilitates their identification when domestic enemies wear a uniform...
The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the novel coronavirus spreads throughout the United States. [More]
Who stood to gain by panicking the nation & shutting down our entire economy, over an epidemic that will likely kill fewer Americans than the ‘regular old flu’? [More]
No one you'll be able to take it out on, that's for sure.
I note this also mentions chloroquine. I'd sure like to see some science on this.
Supplies for Essential Businesses and Operations. Businesses that sell,
manufacture, or supply other Essential Businesses and Operations with the
support or materials necessary to operate, including ... firearm and ammunition suppliers and retailers for purposes of safety and
security;
o. Transportation. [More]
But what is really driving this extreme public and government response, needlessly shutting down parts of the economy, is a combination of 1) hyped up danger claims from the WHO and the CDC (both puppets of Big Pharma), 2) gutless leadership that is fearful of being held responsible if things go really bad and 3) certain conspiratorial aspects of the establishment who want to accustom the people to government lockdown and control. [More]
Whether we are intentionally being fed hysterical information or whether critical information is being deliberately withheld, one thing's for sure: Ain't no one of importance going to be held accountable when it's all said and done.
Dozens of Michael Bloomberg campaign staffers learned they were exposed to coronavirus hours before getting laid off and days before they'll lose their health insurance [More]
Well, he didn't get to be a billionaire by putting others first.
I don't know if "sadly" is the adverb I'd use to describe what the economic fascist "profiteers" and their political whores have done to us, knowing full well that catastrophe and death in one form or another will be the inevitable result.
In a time of quarantines and stay-at-home orders, should a gun store be considered an “essential business?” That’s the debate in Alameda County as sheriff’s deputies order shut gun stores that continue to defy the shelter-in-place order. For the past week, the sheriff’s office has repeatedly told Solar Tactical in Castro Valley to shut down and, on Friday, the store’s owner finally closed up shop after the district attorney threatened him with prosecution. [More]
At gun stores from California to New York, the American people are stocking up in enormous numbers, almost as if the end was near. [More]
So MSN/ABC News, with all their resources and professional "real reporters," are unaware of stay at home orders in California and New York where gun stores are not recognized as "essential'?
Others are buying...can you believe it? Guns, firearms, ammunition. [More]
There are those who don't want to admit the hard truth who counter that "we" ought to be focused on outreach instead of "alienating" potential converts.
You'll notice none of them are doing it.
And what those who make excuses have no specifics for is what will be needed to overcome cultural predispositions solidified by overwhelmingly immersive indoctrination from the education, political and media establishments. Not to mention the way such efforts will be further suppressed by those who control what is allowed to be spread on social media...
They're not all side-saddlers... [Via Roger J] who notes "Leave it to NewsWEAK to illustrate an article about Canadian gun sales with a photo taken in Ottawa, OHIO."
Can there be any doubt that there are "Only Ones" not just willing to guard the camps, but to do so with sadistic, enthusiastic and repeated acts of personal cruelty?
Israeli medical doctor Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy the orders are not to allow those over 60 access to respiratory machines. [More]
So "to each according to his need" is also a lie...?