Defending the Defenders Redux

I want to make sure all Oath Keepers learn about my latest GUNS Magazine piece on Operation Protect the Protectors so they can use the exposure to further raise awareness. [More]

It's the Pits

Via Sean D Sorrentino from anonymous reader

Oh, I'm sorry -- The Pit. [More]

Same difference.

Grilling while unarmed... wait 'til I tell Mark and The Mad Ogre...

[Via Geordan]

UPDATE: Without missin' a beat here... that is funny.

UPDATE 2: I'll be joining Mark Walters on Armed American Radio's Daily Defense this afternoon at 4:45 Eastern to talk about this. Click here to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.

UPDATE 3: Turns out this story is over a year old -- I got the tip via email and never thought to question the date.

The Cecil Act

Urban "progressives" are being ludicrous again. [More]

Me, I prefer the Beany and Cecil act.

At least they weren't afraid to hunt -- or to tear along the dotted lion.

Not a Dime's Worth of Damn Difference

HILLARY CLINTON’S MEGA-DONORS ARE ALSO FUNDING JEB BUSH [More]

But...but...but Jeb is PRO-GUN...

Yeah, right, until that pathway to citizenship he and the elites are paving no longer requires him to be. Not that the "single issue" sellouts will acknowledge that.

Defending the Defenders

“We will continue to guard recruiting and reserve centers,” Rhodes shot back in a clarifying update for those perceiving the policy letter had the force of law. “If we were to stand down and stop protecting the recruiters that would just put them back where they were—unarmed and defenseless.” [More]

My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column is now online.

The New Normal

Sex with robots to be 'the norm' in 50 years, expert claims [More]

I don't doubt it, at least among "progressives." Still, you have to wonder what qualifies someone to claim the title of "expert" in this perversion.

There I go, being a robophobe/hater...

Maybe when Skynet wakes up, the sexbots will do some good.

A Broken Clock

Jimmy Carter Is Correct That the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy [More]

Yeah, but he's wrong about the part that it ever was.

We've all heard the saying about a broken clock being right twice a day -- leave it to that bumbler to only be right once.

No Link

Convenient. Especially the part about not commenting on existing investigations. [More]

Why the earlier reports said something different is left to the imagination.

Forgive me for not embracing a narrative the same agency that has stonewalled and lied from Day One just took several pressured days to come up with.

Announcing: Security Operation – The White Hope Mine, MT

At the request of Intermountain Mining, owners of the White Hope Mine located in Lewis & Clark County Montana, Pacific Patriots Network, Oath Keepers and III%’s mission is to ensure the mining claim owners 4th & 5th Amendment Constitutional Right’s are not violated and to prevent further unlawful action by the United States Forest Service. [More]

Keep an eye on this one, people...

We're the Only Ones Reasonably Expectant Enough

The Orange County Register reports that three officers who were suspended after the incident are trying to stop the Santa Ana Police Department from using the footage in its internal investigation. Among other things, their lawsuit argues that the officers thought they had disabled all of the security cameras at Sky High Holistic and therefore had a reasonable expectation of privacy. The cops complain that the dispensary never got their permission to record them as they searched the premises. [More]

And:

A lawsuit, filed last week in Orange County Superior Court by three unidentified police officers and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, seeks to prevent Santa Ana Police Department internal affairs investigators from using the video...

Police unions: Is it any wonder we love them so?

Besides, violent armed criminals who break into your property, threaten to kill you, take you hostage and then steal your property have rights too!

Right, Santa Ana PO...uh...A...?

[Via William T]

How Convenient

This whole setup stinks. [More]

[Via Florida Guy]   

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Christian teachers who tell pupils that gay marriages is “wrong” should have anti-terror banning orders used against them, a Tory MP has argued. Mark Spencer has called on Extremism Disruption Orders (EDOs), which were introduced by the Government to crack down on hate preachers and terrorist propagandists, to be used to stop children being taught that same-sex marriage is a sin. [More]

Boy, "conservative" sure is a relative term, isn't it?

But wait, he says, I didn't say they couldn't say that, I just said they couldn't teach that...

You know, Jojo Krako Disruption Orders...

And no. No I wouldn't.

Sherwood and Nottingham, eh...?

[Via Florida Guy]   

"This Alert Has Now Been Made Public to the Media"

That's nice to see confirmed. [More]

I guess I'm just not authorized enough.

Invasion of the Body Politic Snatchers

Top Immigration Agency Touts ‘Path To Citizenship’ As Means For Blunting Homegrown Terror [More]

Yep-- just replace existing citizens with voting alien pod people.

We're the Only Ones Evaluating Enough

“Are you some kind of a constitutionalist crazy guy, or something like that?” [More]

Crazy, man.

Yeah, I feel just great knowing the "authorities" are demanding even more power to use mental health justifications for additional citizen disarmament, especially seeing in their minds, the same criteria for suspicion of domestic terrorism apply.

And I love Mayor and Manager Weaselword having to "verify that appropriate protocols were followed."

Pulling a gun on a citizen is not an appropriate protocol. Still having a gun in hand while turning your back to the person it was pulled on is not appropriate protocol. If these two think it is, they're as crazy as their badged bully boy, who [SURPRISE!] is referred to in the CBS News story as "the unnamed officer," and who was only scared away because he realized being recorded involves personal consequences.

FBI Alert?

COLORADO, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, WYOMING (U//FOUO) FBI Alert: Middle-Eastern Males Approaching Family Members of US Military Personnel [More]

Public Intelligence has a good reputation for not going off half-cocked and spreading spurious or unvetted stuff. Still, it pays to be cautious, for instance, documents can be forged and the best of us can be fallible, so when the alert advised "Comments and queries may be addressed to the DENVER Division at 303-629-7171," I took 'em up on it.

The guy at the switchboard put me through to their media liaison, a special agent, actually, and her voice message advised if I wanted a timely answer, to send an email.

Fair enough. I prefer things documented anyway, so I wrote:

I am a member of the news media and a field editor for GUNS Magazine. I am attempting to determine the authenticity of the SIR presented at the Public Intelligence website: https://publicintelligence.net/fbi-middle-eastern-males/ As this is already making the rounds on the internet, and evidently on the verge of gaining wider notice, the FOUO notice no longer seems much of a deterrent. Can you confirm if it is authentic?

And received back:

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any information on the authenticity or contents of the document you sent. Our standard practice is to neither confirm nor deny investigations or comment on bulletins provided to law enforcement partners. Thank you,

Reading between the lines...

If anybody knows anyone who received this alert in an LE capacity and I can validate that, tell them I offer the same source protection guarantees the Fast and Furious guys came to trust me 'n Mike over -- not that I'm holding my breath, but I gotta try.

Waco Biker Story Brings Out Misconceptions About Oath Keepers

Still, this is a “lemonade out of lemons” opportunity to educate a wider gun owner readership of the mission of Oath Keepers, as well as to provide real life examples of Oath Keepers making real contributions to advance freedom. [More]

I guess being out there doing something is a pretty good way to become a target.

Media Challenges Waco Twin Peaks Gag Order As Questions About DA and Judge Emerge

That’s not the only questionable conduct on the part of both the court and the DA. For starters, again per NBC 5, Judge Johnson and prosecutor Abel Reyna, who requested the granted gag order, have enjoyed a longstanding personal and professional relationship. They’re former law partners, and Reyna contributed the maximum amount allowed by state law to the judge’s political campaign. [More]

My latest TTAG offering notes a whole lotta coverin' up goin' on...

I'm going to be trying to pull some threads on this one.

We're the Only Ones Offering Parting Shots Enough

[A]n off-duty state trooper fired three shots from his personal gun as three teens fled his street in a car early Sunday morning... [More]

You know, just like you and I could do, if WE lived in New Jersey. And had a badge.

That's a pretty nice house and neighborhood for a trooper's salary. Come to think of it, we know the kids' names and we even know the name of his neighbor from two doors down... I guess the reporter has his reasons for keeping the name of the guy squeezing off rounds in the cul-de-sac at 2 a.m. a secret...

Noting the town this happened in, I'm wondering if he yelled "THIS IS SPARTA!" while he fired...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones with Sporting Purposes Enough

The men came forward in March with the allegations that four deputies arranged and gambled on fights between Palikiko-Garcia and Harris at County Jail No. 4, located at the Hall of Justice. [More]

WarOnGuns has uncovered footage of captors placing bets over prisoner objections.

[Via Florida Guy]