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False Information: Ours and Theirs

26 Sunday Jun 2016

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Nowhere are double standards more noticeable than in the political realm. Two stark examples came out last week and are still developing.

In Idaho three juvenile “refugees” kidnapped and raped a five-year-old girl in a laundry room of an apartment complex. “Refugees” and rape go together so well they’re often conjoined – “rapefugees”. Just part of the enrichment process say the elite. The cowboys in Idaho ain’t having it. They’re mad as hell but are behaving rather tamely. 100 years ago the suspects would already be swinging in the wind.

In Germany last week an armed man took hostages at a movie theater. According to police he was armed with fake weapons but they shot him down anyway – a reasonable response to a hostage situation.

Here’s the rub:

The German incident happened four days ago and still we know nothing of the identity of the suspect nor his motives. In most cases like this (Paris, Orlando, etc.) the police release this information even as the attacks unfold. Why the silence here? What are they hiding? This case is beyond strange. The police must at least know the suspect’s identity. The only conclusion I can draw is that they are hiding something – withholding information. Are not the people entitled to know what is happening?

In Idaho the facts are there for all to see and all (almost all) are mad as hell about what happened. Enter the federal government. The U.S. Attorney for Idaho has stepped into what is a purely local, state-law case. She’s not in this to help with the prosecution of the criminals – she’s just threatening the good people of Idaho into silence.

“The spread of false information or inflammatory or threatening statements about the perpetrators or the crime itself reduces public safety and may violate federal law. We have seen time and again that the spread of falsehoods about refugees divides our communities. I urge all citizens and residents to allow Mr. Loebs and Chief Kingsbury and their teams to do their jobs.”

Why threaten victims and their supporters into silence? What is the Department of Justice [SIC] trying to hide here? This threat comes from the same criminal government that simply can’t import criminal “refugees” fast enough. The answer is obvious.

“The spread of false information … may violate federal law.” I thought that was a federal standard operating procedure. Mr. Powell told the U.N. Saddam was building WMDs. False information. They say a small office fire that burned itself out collapsed a 40-story skyscraper. False information. The VC attacked the Maddox. False information. Israel did not attack the Liberty. False information. Income tax withholding is temporary, to defeat Hitler only. False information. The Viernheim shooting was not terrorism. Your children are safe around rapefugees. And on and on and on…

How anyone can possibly trust this gang of murders, thieves, and liars is beyond me. The government needs, in any case, to either come clean or shut up and go away. In fact, they should just please go away.

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Wands and Guns: Fallout From BREXIT

25 Saturday Jun 2016

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Fifty-two percent of the British people favored leaving the EU on Thursday. That leaves forty-eight percent on the losing end – and more than a few are vocalizing their dismay.

One of the “remain” losers left furious by the will of the people is J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame. Mrs. Rowling has earned over $1 Billion dollars from her popular series about adolescent wizards. I’ve never read any of the books though my daughter is a big fan, she attended a pre-release party last night for the next Potter tome. I generally don’t like or read fantasy beyond Tolkien though I am considering A Throne of Bones by Vox Day. Anywho…

Rowling lashed out at voters with the worst she could muster – calling them “a bunch of mini-Trumps”. I fail to see how a sovereign and independent England will affect her book sales. She is likely more concerned about her portfolio at present – British billionaires lost a combined $5 Billion on Friday. They bet big but wrong.

Some have seen the young wizard Potter as an opponent of gun control or, at least, wand control, due to a self-defense incident he encountered in one of the books. “Rowling thus appears to embrace the most extreme argument for an individual right to possess weapons- that those weapons may be required in defense against one’s own government.” Again, I have not read any of the books and know nothing about Rowling’s personal stance on such issues. If the above quote is accurate, then it is a wonderful thing, BREXIT views aside.

BREXIT has unleashed other pro-gun sentiments within the UK. Nigel Farage, naturally, is one:

Nigel Farage has called for firearm laws to be relaxed, calling the current ban on handguns “ludicrous”.

The Ukip leader criticised the “kneejerk” restrictions on handguns imposed after the 1996 Dunblane massacre in which Thomas Hamilton killed 16 schoolchildren and a teacher before shooting himself.

The laws were brought in by Sir John Major, the then Tory prime minister, and extended to a total ban by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1997.

Asked about gun controls, Farage said: “I think proper gun licensing is something we’ve done in this country responsibly and well for a long time, and I think the kneejerk legislation that Blair brought in that meant that the British Olympic pistol team have to go to France to even practise was just crackers.

“If you criminalise handguns then only the criminals carry the guns. It’s really interesting that since Blair brought that piece of law in, gun crime doubled in the next five years in this country.”

If BREXIT does nothing more than weaken gun control, it is worth the effort. Farage is dead on with his assessment of crime rising in the absence of firearms – a universally documented experience. Britain and other EU countries have the kind of gun laws American liberals salivate over. Those countries also import a high number of non-Western types who, as a group, have a higher penchant for criminal activity than the natives. This is not a good combination. It echoes the thoughts of Scott Adams on Why Gun Control Can’t Work:

On average, Democrats (that’s my team*) use guns for shooting the innocent. We call that crime.

On average, Republicans use guns for sporting purposes and self-defense.

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So it seems to me that gun control can’t be solved because Democrats are using guns to kill each other – and want it to stop – whereas Republicans are using guns to defend against Democrats. Psychologically, those are different risk profiles. And you can’t reconcile those interests, except on the margins. For example, both sides might agree that rocket launchers are a step too far. But Democrats are unlikely to talk Republicans out of gun ownership because it comes off as “Put down your gun so I can shoot you.”

Still, gun grabbers in America are hard at work to disarm the would-be victims of crime, personal or governmental. Hawaii is now the first state to place it’s registered gun owners into an FBI database for the monitoring of criminal activity – the first step towards confiscation. That’s the only reason for such a program. The kind of people who would register and submit to such a system are the types Farage and Adams describe – those who would defend themselves against criminals. Criminals don’t care and won’t comply – something about being a criminal.

Currently the FBI program “Rap Back”is only used to monitor people under criminal investigation, like Hillary Clinton, or those in sensitive positions of trust, like Hillary Clinton. Now, the innocent people in Hawaii who are not criminal suspects will be treated like they are. The grabbers would love to expand this program nationwide.

I say Hawaii should use BREXIT as a model and rap themselves back to being an independent island kingdom. Then, they could have all the gun control they can handle. They’ll experience an increase in violent crime but that’s their business. Leave the rest of us alone.

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The Dummy Terrorist

24 Friday Jun 2016

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German police revealed that the shooter from Viernheim carried fake weapons during his attack. They have not revealed his identity however. So far he’s merely being called a disturbed 19-year-old German native, being about 5 foot 5. Interesting.

Immediately following the attacks in Orlando, in Belgium, in Paris, and in Paris again … and again – in all the recent attacks, the identify, motives,movements, connections, etc. are all known and released to the public. Now, it’s been a day since this disturbed man was gunned down and we still have no word – I can’t find it anywhere – as to his identity.

There is, of course, speculation that ISIS might have been, might have been responsible. It’s just speculation at this point as ISIS has been as silent on the matter as the authorities. ISIS just renewed its call for June jihad against Europe. Maybe they don’t want to be associated with such a pathetic excuse for terrorism. Maybe this was a ploy for more gun control that didn’t work out as planned. Maybe it was a scare tactic against BREXIT that didn’t work out. Maybe it was just a case of a disturbed nut.

The silence from the police and from the media is now more interesting than the event itself.

BREXIT! It’s Like 1776 for the Brits

24 Friday Jun 2016

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So often we in the freedom movement have to sit back, reassess, and deal with another loss and heartbreak: Ron Paul is never going to be President; the gold standard is a thing of the past; the gun grabbers keep coming back like Russian wolves in a savage winter. Then something like this happens …

BREXIT!

They did it. If one looks at the polling maps it becomes clear – the peasants rose up and told London, Brussels, Washington, and the rest of the globalist elites to “bugger off!”

BloombergBloomberg. The map shows it was the urban areas that supported the EU. I think that Ireland and Scotland will come around as things improve. If not, I support their independence as well, even if that means foolishly surrendering it back to the EU.

And, off they’ll bugger. David Cameron has announced he will resign by October so that Britain may have a British Prime Minister – likely Boris Johnson.

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I’d pick Farage as the next PM. BBC.

The fear-mongers may be right in the very short term. The DOW futures are down 500+ points right now. There may be growing pains but this is a CORRECTION – that’s what happens. The excesses of EU stupidity need to be corrected. I predict in a few years Britain will be head and shoulders above the Continent. The invader … “refugees” should start packing now; the Caliphate will not include the British Isles. “Lord” Rothschild and his evil brood need to follow them out.

It’s a great time for the English! May this serve as inspiration for other oppressed peoples. I don’t just mean in Europe. In addition to FREXIT and GEREXIT, how about TEXIT, GAEXIT, and NHEXIT!

God save the Queen! God save England!

Viernheim: Another Lesson on Gun Control

23 Thursday Jun 2016

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Today, while people in Britain pondered BREXIT, people in Viernheim, Germany tried to take in The Jungle Book at the local cinema. Their plans were interrupted.

A gunman was shot dead by police in Germany on Thursday after he attempted to take several people hostage in a cinema.

In what appeared to be a remarkable police operation, none of the hostages were injured.

The German authorities said the gunman, who has not been identified, was “disturbed” and there was no initial evidence of a link to terrorism.

But police were reportedly investigating an explosive vest and a hand grenade found on his body to see if they were genuine.

There was no word on the hostage-taker’s ethnicity or background. Witnesses described him as being between 18 and 25 years old.

He was armed with a “rifle or long gun” and reportedly fired four shots in the air as he entered the cinema in Viernheim, a small town south of Frankfurt.

The good news is twofold: no innocents were killed; the shooter was. Multiple media sources (not many in the U.S. though) were adamant the shooter, while not yet identified, had no initial ties to terrorist organizations. Just a man with a suicide vest, a grenade, and a rifle. Just a disturbed man of unknown origins on a shooting spree.

Someone should relay this story to John Lewis and his idiot friends currently occupying the House floor in support of gun control. That way they can urge the Germans to adopt “common sense” gun control. There obviously isn’t any restriction on firearms in Jerry-Land or else this incident could not have happened.

Some good guys with guns who stopped a bad guy with a gun. Telegraph/Facebook.

Oh wait… Germany has some of the strictest gun control measures in the world. Modern efforts to disarm citizens dates to 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler was a huge proponent of gun control – for certain people. Post-WWII, the East Germans found themselves under Stalinesque tyranny, including more gun controls. The current German Weapons Act came into effect in the 1970s and has been getting more restrictive as time goes by. Germany is also the only place in the world where those seeking a (hard-to-get) firearms permit must undergo psychiatric examination. That’s one of the insane ideas the American left has thrown around at their child-like sit-ins. None of it worked today.

Germany has also recently welcomed over 1 Million third-world “refugees”. The country is a hot-bed of terrorist ideology and action. The way I see this attack: it was either an ISIS hit gone awry, and/or: it was a failure of German gun control. Either way it won’t help the intellectual descendants of Hitler and Stalin in their attempt to create unarmed subjects out of armed, law-abiding citizens.

 

 

 

BREXIT: Today’s the Day!

23 Thursday Jun 2016

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Today, already this morning, the British people are voting on the most important issue of the century – whether to abandon the European Union. I’m English by descent (the part that’s not Scottish) so I have a slight interest in the matter. I always have an interest in freedom.

Given the EU’s history of insane, suicidal policies (rivaling or exceeding those of the U.S. central government), it’s high time for the British to just be British. If it doesn’t happen today, it will happen sooner or later. Might as well get out now.

BREXIT!

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There are Lies, Damned Lies, and NYT Statistics

22 Wednesday Jun 2016

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In their quest to foist more gun control on the people, the New York Times regularly manipulates gun data just as they manipulate book sales data for their list of “bestsellers”.

Last week, the New York Times featured its latest article implying that the United States has the highest homicide rates in the “developed” world — defining any other country with a higher homicide rate as somehow unfit for comparison to the United States.

This is a common tactic among gun control advocates who make claims such as “the US has the highest homicide rate of any developed country.” The qualifier “developed” is then manipulated to make the US seem like a freakish outlier. As I’ve explained here, this common tactic requires a lot of cherry picking of data and ignores the way that many American states — many of which have few gun control laws — have some of the world’s lowest homicide rates.

— Ryan McMaken, Mises, 6/20/2016.

Gun grabbers always resort to lies and lying statistics.

Designated Shooters Maybe?

22 Wednesday Jun 2016

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The gun grabbers are still in a tizzy. They always are. A cartoon dissected:

Nick Anderson/Tampa Bay Times

Frame 1: True, shooters almost always pick gun-free zones – so they won’t be shot at themselves as they “work”.

Frame 2: A good guy with a gun can and usually does stop a bad guy. This is how many if not most gun-related criminal encounters end and usually with no harm to anyone except perhaps the criminal. The media rarely reports these instances as they don’t help the narrative of a wild west, crazy gun culture out of control. Mass shooting criminals don’t stop until they are shot by other men with guns – either by the police or by armed citizens. Omar Mateen killed away in a gun free zone until terminated by armed police. The cops took 3 hours to do it – citizens usually take a minute or less.

Frame 3: How about a nightclub full of drunks and a couple of sober, armed people.

Frame 4: Couldn’t get much worse than 49 dead, huh?

Under existing Florida law patrons, even with a CCW license, could not legally carry at Pulse, a place that serves alcohol. “A license issued under this section does not authorize any person to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or firearm into … Any portion of an establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, which portion of the establishment is primarily devoted to such purpose…” Fl. Stat. § 790.06(12)(a)(12)(2016).

Georgia recently amended its corollary law, becoming one of 13 states that allows for firearms carry in bars and places that serve alcohol. HB 60 (2013-14) amended O.C.G.A. § 16-11-127 (2015) so as to remove the prohibition against carrying into bars. However, it is still illegal to discharge a firearm while under the influence except in cases of a valid emergency.

It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge a firearm while: (1) Under the influence of alcohol or any drug or any combination of alcohol and any drug to the extent that it is unsafe for the person to discharge such firearm except in the defense of life, health, and property; (2) The person’s alcohol concentration is 0.08 grams or more at any time while discharging such firearm or within three hours after such discharge of such firearm from alcohol consumed before such discharge ended…

O.C.G.A. § 16-11-134(a) (2015)

Out of these 13 states I am not aware of any abuse committed by any carrier in a bar. In these jurisdictions bar owners still have the right to refuse entry and service to anyone carrying a gun.

If one applied the cartoonist’s ridicule to alcohol consumption itself, rather than to guns, the result would be prohibition. That has been tried and did not work out so well for us, being the only Constitutional Amendment ever repealed after ratification. Still, there is a “common sense” parallel to be drawn between guns and alcohol, and concerning guns and alcohol. It’s Georgia’s approach. As we have promoted designated drivers, so we should promote designated shooters.

Yes, good guys with guns do stop bad guys with guns – even in bars.

My Name is I Pledge of Allegiance…

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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After jerking the people around with BS about not wanting to inflame hatred or inspire copycats (or whatever) the Department of Justice [SIC] and the FBI released the FULL, UNREDACTED transcript of Omar Mateen’s 911 call. Here’s the whole thing:

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That’s it. All of it. Thirteen lines and only six of them are Omar’s. There are more recorded conversations between Omar and the police – almost half an hour’s worth. Those transcripts and the recordings themselves are being held back. They will be ultimately released but, given the insane way this 30-second call was danced around, who knows if we will ever get an accurate and complete picture of the whole series? I have suspicions.

A little is known about the other calls between Omar and negotiators. Omar told them, told us, why he committed his hideous crime: because the U.S. is bombing his [Muslim] countries. I’m surprised they let that out. Wouldn’t have been better to blame the crimes on the easy availability of guns? Or on hating our freedoms? Or hating gays? Or income inequality? Something to better suit the narrative?

I, personally, wonder if Omar mentioned any government contacts in those recordings. Those mentions, if they happened, will certainly not be released – not for a long time, if ever. Time will tell. When the truth counts, the government doesn’t.