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Proposed Ohio reforms described as extension of ‘Castle Doctrine’ on self-defense

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun laws, gun rights
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COLUMBUS — In the few weeks remaining in the legislative session, lawmakers may send Gov. John Kasich a bill eliminating the legal duty of Ohioans to retreat from danger before using deadly force to protect themselves.

“A person facing a life-threatening situation should not have a duty to flee and hope for the best,” Rep. Terry Johnson (R., McDermott) told the Senate Civil Justice Committee weighing his bill containing numerous changes to Ohio gun laws.

“They should have the right to protect themselves and protect their loved ones.”

House Bill 203 passed the House nearly a year ago by a bipartisan vote of 63-27. It has drawn comparisons with Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law.

Florida’s law was tried in the court of public opinion but not in the actual courtroom when George Zimmerman was accused but acquitted in the 2012 shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.

But Dr. Johnson noted that Ohioans in such situations would still have to show they acted in self-defense and did nothing to escalate the danger. Under Florida’s law, the prosecutor bears the burden of proving the shooter did not act in self-defense.

“Ohio is one of the toughest states in the union to prove self-defense,” Dr. Johnson said. “In other states you don’t have nearly that barrier to get across.”

Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2014/11/13/Gun-law-overhaul-could-go-to-Kasich.html#r3m2OxZg1JTrFIqr.99

December 13: 5,000 Gun Owners To Defy Washington State Gun Law

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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This is what needs to be done in NY and Conn as well.

Animal “rights” whackos using eco-hysteria to sue USFWS to keep Mexican gray wolf on Endangered Species List

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in animal "rights" idiocy
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“Conservation organizations on Wednesday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to complete a long overdue, legally required recovery plan for the Mexican gray wolf, the lobo of Southwestern lore.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona, aims to enforce compliance with rules the agency adopted 38 years ago to guide recovery of the federally endangered species driven to near extinction by wolf extermination campaigns of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The asshats listed below are NOT a part of ANY conservation organization-they are eco-terrorists,nothing more,nothing less.

Plaintiffs including the Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Endangered Wolf Center, the Wolf Conservation Center and David R. Parsons, a biologist who served as the agency’s Mexican gray wolf recovery coordinator from 1990 to 1999, accuse the agency of yielding to political pressure from ranchers, hunting groups and state officials in Utah, Arizona and Colorado.

Mr. Parsons joined the suit because he would have to get a real job if the wolf program was ended-as it should be-because there would be no more free .gov inc. grant money to support the man.

The Mexican gray wolf was reintroduced into a small area of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico in 1998 as part of a strategy to reach a population of 100 wolves, including 18 breeding pairs, by 2006.
Today, the population stands at 83 wolves, and five breeding pairs. They are managed under restrictions that do not permit the mobile, clannish hunters to colonize new territory, increasing the likelihood of inbreeding, according to the lawsuit. The restrictions also allow excessive killing and removal of wolves that take livestock, the lawsuit says.

By the agency’s own assessment in a recent draft environmental impact report, the existing population is “considered small, genetically impoverished, and significantly below estimates of viability appearing in the scientific literature.”

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-wolf-recovery-plan-20141112-story.html

It’s always the same group of eco-freaks,animal “rights” whackos,and purveyors of eco-hysteria who file these moronic lawsuits.

They tried re-introducing the wolves in 1998-it is now 2014,and the population is “small, genetically impoverished, and significantly below estimates of viability appearing in the scientific literature.”

In English,that means there’s little to no chance that the Mexican gray wolf will re-populate the region.

These groups never sue to have packs of wolves,grizzly bears,wolverines,packs of coyotes,mountain lions,wild horses or any other critter “re-introduced” in THEIR neighborhoods.

It’s only the rural “rednecks” who are supposed to tolerate OUR pets and livestock being killed,ourselves and families being attacked,and OUR children being mauled,possibly killed by the animals these unicorn fart sniffing anti-human asswipes want to be “re-introduced”

These groups all believe that animals are more important than humans-they could do all of the animals,and the rest of us a huge favor by removing themselves from the planet-in an eco-friendly way of course…

Bloomberg funded morons trying to duplicate I 594’s passage in Washington with similar horsepucky in Nevada

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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“Nevadans for Background Checks collected about 250,000 signatures, according to Kayla Keller, a spokeswoman for the group. It currently takes 101,667 signatures from registered Nevada voters to qualify an initiative for the ballot”

We all know the following is bullshit-numbers produced by wording questions so those who take the poll provide a predetermined answer.

As usual-the anti-gun zealots pushing this garbage are using lies,half-truths, and obfuscation.

There is no way in hell that even 50% of the people of Nevada support this crap-no gun owner I know would support giving the government even more control over our right to keep and bear arms. Lies,false and misleading question on polls-and likely on the ballot initiative-are how these leftist tools produce their false numbers of supporters-wonder how many dead voters signed their petition?

“On the gun issue, polls show that more than eight out of 10 Nevadans support expanding gun background checks to private sales, including over the Internet and at gun shows, advocates say. Now, such checks are required only by licensed gun dealers to prevent felons, the court adjudicated mentally ill and domestic abusers from legally buying guns.”

“The gun background check initiative is supported by the Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund, a group launched by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who is spending tens of millions of dollars on efforts to influence elections and ballot measures in states. He spent some $40 million in the recent election, according to Politico.

If enough signatures are found to be legitimate, the initiatives would first go to the Legislature, which has 40 days to act on such measures. If lawmakers pass it and the governor signs it, the measure becomes law. If the Legislature does nothing or if the governor doesn’t sign it, an initiative goes on the ballot.

If lawmakers amend the measure, both the original version and the amended measure would go on the ballot. If both pass with more than 50 percent of the vote, the one with the larger number of “yes” votes becomes law.”

http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/pot-gun-control-measures-could-be-headed-nevada-ballot

Bloomberg Moms’ political spots relied on deceptive voter manipulation

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Bellicose Demanding Moms have proven as easy to dupe and exploit -- by pushing emotional buttons and letting their ignorance do the rest -- as Obamacare supporters.
Bellicose Demanding Moms have proven as easy to dupe and exploit — by pushing emotional buttons and letting their ignorance do the rest — as Obamacare supporters.
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Employing the same cynical political strategy and contemptuous duping of “stupid” voters as Obamacare promoters, Michael Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action relied on deception to exploit ignorance, prejudices and fears in the midterm elections, a Gun Rights Examiner analysis of social media messages on TPM Livewire demonstrates. The professionally-produced “Explain Your A” campaign featured in the story targeted three Republican candidates who had received high marks from the National Rifle Association: Carl Domino of Florida, Paul Chabot of California, and Larry Kaifesh of Illinois.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you support gun rights for suspected terrorists?” the attack on Domino read. Along with his picture, the Moms included a photo of Al Qaeda’s American-born propaganda tool, Adam Gadahn, whose previous affiliations in the “gun control” debate were with anti-gunners shamelessly exploiting another lie, that full-auto weapons could be bought without background checks and IDs at U.S. gun shows.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you support the rights of felons to buy and own guns?” the hit piece on Chabot asked. His portrait was paired with a heavily tattooed prisoner behind bars.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you oppose taking guns from domestic abusers?” the smear against Kaifesh insinuated. Accompanying his picture was the image of a distraught, heavily-mascaraed woman with her fists clenched against her cheeks suggestive of both Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and MacCaulay Culkin in “Home Alone.” For some unexplained reason, the model in the staged photo shoot has what appears to be masking tape across her mouth — either that or she’s wearing a turtleneck like Mort from “Bazooka Joe” comics. With these crazy MILMs, who the hell knows?

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers,” novelist Thomas Pynchon noted in “Gravity’s Rainbow.” In this case, the minds behind the Moms ask those questions for us in order to manipulate emotions and suppress critical examination. After all, who wants terrorist, gangbangers and wife-beaters shooting victims?

The targets of the misleading Bloomberg hit pieces are enabling nothing of the sort, of course. And nothing being demanded would stop the bad guys anyway.

If a person is a known threat, public safety demands he be apprehended. If he’s only a suspected threat, there’s this little protection we’re supposed to have called due process, where people get a trial, are proven guilty and are sentenced. What they’re going for here is a “terror watch list” for guns, as if tipping off those who are under surveillance makes for smart intelligence work. What they’re also going for is people who are not in custody being stripped of fundamental rights and liberty, not that the Bill of Rights means anything when you‘re a “progressive” with an agenda to shove down throats. Besides, there’s another, bigger deception going on: These people are using fear of an Al Qaeda boogeyman to justify deprivation of liberties they really want extended to those they paint as domestic terrorists – that is, anyone who believes the right to keep and bear arms is a legitimate deterrent to tyranny, and in a last-resort right to rebellion.

OK, but what about felons, that is, people who have already received their due process? We’ll put aside my longstanding contention that anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian, and focus on the way things are. Such criminals are already prohibited by law from having a gun – for all the good that does at stopping them. What the Bloombergians want here is to end all lawful (!!!) private sales and transfers, done under another deception as we’re seeing unfold in Washington State, so-called “universal background checks.” And yes, of course they’re aware that the National Institute of Justice produced a “Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies” report in which it concluded “Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration…”

So of course what they really want is gun registration (something the gun-grabbers know felons are exempted from, because requiring it of them would violate their right against self-incrimination). If all they really intended was to ensure recipients of firearms transfers were legally eligible, “common sense gun safety advocates” would be promoting a Blind Identification System, which could verify no legal impediment to a transfer exists but record no information identifying either gun buyers or what they purchased. And, again of course, the real reason they want registration is to facilitate confiscation.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-moms-political-spots-relied-on-deceptive-voter-manipulation?CID=examiner_alerts_article

New Media: Support It

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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This one needs to be spread far and wide-more people need to not only get their news from alternate media-more people need to be the alternate media…

The Watch- The Stingray menace

Posted: November 12, 2014 by gamegetterII in police state, Police state USSA
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This…

“But perhaps the larger and scarier problem with Stingrays is that they now give local police all of the information that any particular cell tower has, without having to bother with a subpoena to cellphone companies. It’s this dragnet aspect of Stingrays—that police can simply drive to neighborhoods and log calls, numbers, and locations—that has a terrifying effect on privacy. It’s easy to imagine the parade of horribles that could result from this type of continued used of Stingrays without warrants by local police: targeting and tracking of certain protesters, or a more general dragnet collection of phone numbers in high crime areas, or even use by one local police officer who has a grudge. Both of these issues are problems that judge-issued warrants—which require a level of specificity and basis for the particular search that a reasonable human being must accept—were designed to solve.”

Should never,ever be permitted to be used by any “law enforcement” agency in the USA. Think the local cops are not abusing this technology? Piss off a cop in public-then they go and fire up the stingray in your neighborhood-and boom-they now have a record of every call you’ve made,every text you’ve sent-and then they are free to fabricate some grand conspiracy involving you-which you will have to somehow prove to be false-from your jail cell-because to team .gov inc. you are guilty until proven innocent.

Over at Slate, Kate Klonick has a primer on the police use of Stingrays, an issue we’ve been following here at The Watch.

A Stingray mimics a cellphone tower and forces all nearby mobile phones or devices to connect to it. Every phone that connects to the Stingray reports its number, GPS location, and the numbers of all outgoing calls and texts. That’s every location and outgoing call and text log of every phone within a certain radius—up to several kilometers—of the Stingray, and that’s all without a warrant . . .

. . . polling shows that only 27 percent of people think that this technology is focused on them, and even if not, half of Americans surveyed say that there might be a margin of federal surveillance they’re willing to endure in the name of homeland security or fighting terrorism.

But that logic is a much harder sell when it comes to local police, who have been acquiring Stingrays in increasing numbers. At least 46 state and local police departments, from Sunrise, Florida, to Hennepin, Minnesota, have gotten cell-site simulators, which range widely in price from $16,000 to more than $125,000 a pop. And like the federal government, local police are using this technology without any judicial oversight. That means Barney Fife—or, if you’re looking for a more sinister example, think Denzel in Training Day—can walk into your neighborhood with a Stingray, fire it up, and collect all the numbers, GPS, and call logs of every cellphone in the area. If they’re looking for a specific number (hopefully, it’s not you), they can also use a Stingray to trick your phone into being a personal GPS tracker and then use that warrantless cellphone tracking to enter your home and arrest you—again without a warrant.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/10/the-stingray-menace/

Policing for profit in Tennessee

Posted: November 12, 2014 by gamegetterII in police state, Police state USSA
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Phil Williams of Nashville’s NewsChannel 5, WTVF-TV, one of the best TV investigative journalists in the country, has been doing particularly stellar work over the last several years on civil asset forfeiture in central Tennessee. He has continued that work with a series of reports this week.

A traffic stop along Interstate 40 is raising new questions about your constitutional rights. Among the questions: what happens to your right to say “no” to a search when police are looking for cash?

The traffic stop occurred west of Nashville, along a stretch of interstate in Dickson County that’s become well-known for a controversial practice known as “policing for profit.” . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/12/policing-for-profit-in-tennessee/

This shit continues because not enough people who have been subjected to it go to the media with their stories.

The police use these tactics as a funding source,seizing cash from people who are never charged with a crime.

Most people don’t fight the seizures in court because -duh-the gestapo took all their money,they do not have the cash to hire a good attorney,miss multiple days of work due to repeated court appearances where nothing gets done,other than the .gov inc. police and prosecutors offering to make a “deal” and return half of the cash that was seized…remember-the person still has not been charged with any crime,the gestapo just took their money -usually because a “drug sniffing” dog “alerted” on their car. It’s a well known fact that these drug dogs are trained to “alert” on demand,and that rarely are any drugs found during these side of the highway gestapo searches.

The police and .gov inc. just use these seizures as a source of funding for their local SWAT teams,drug task farces…uhhh…forces,and donut supplies.

They are taking legally earned cash from citizens who have committed no crime-and the judges and court system-part of .gov inc. just ignores the violation of citizens rights that these seizures are.

Remember-these officers have complete control over you,your family-your property-and your money-they can take anything they want to from you-at any time-without ever charging you with a crime…

Think about that for a minute…let that sink in.

How would you feel if you were on your way to buy a new car,truck,piece of equipment for your shop or business-and the gestapo decides that YOU “fit the profile” of a “drug courier”-and all the cash you planned on buying that item with is just taken from you by the gestapo.

They just take your shit-and even though you are not charged with any crime-you have to hire an attorney,go to court,miss work,travel to whatever city or podunk town the gestapo took your money in-and there’s still no guarantee that you will get your money back.

This kind of shit is simply not supposed to happen in a free country-ever.

Taking peoples money and property without charging them with a crime is what third world dictators have their gestapo do-it is not supposed to happen here.

Too few people are aware of this taking place,those who do hear about it just assume that the gestapo is taking drug money-they’re not-they are taking money that people worked for-legally earned-then forcing them to go to court to even begin to think about having their cash returned to them.

The gestapo threatens to let the local news media know that your car was searched because the drug sniffing dog supposedly found drugs in your car-leaving out the fact that no drugs were ever found.

Just having their names associated with drugs can destroy some people’s businesses instantly. It is sickening that “law enforcement” in this country is even involved in shit like this-what happened to the oath these “law enforcement” officers took?

Why are judges allowing this to continue to take place?

This technique being used by the gestapo violates so many civil rights it’s absurd.

Yet it continues to happen ever day,on every interstate highway,in small towns off the interstates-where entire police departments are funded by the combination of speed traps,and seizing cash from those unlucky enough to have traveled to their shithole of a town.

Those who founded this country started the revolution over much less…

Brown father at U.N. says seeks justice for slain son

Posted: November 12, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The father of black teenager Michael Brown, shot dead by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, said on Wednesday he and the boy’s mother had come to the United Nations in Geneva to seek justice for their son.

“Me and his mother have come to the U.N. to get redress for our son,” Brown Sr. told a news conference after a session of the U.N. Committee on Torture which held a regular review of the U.S. record. “There couldn’t be a better place to do that.”

http://news.yahoo.com/brown-family-calls-non-violence-faith-jury-lawyer-141523618.html

Here’s a thought-if they would have taught their kid to show some respect for other people-and other people’s property-then the thug wouldn’t have been shot.

The loving mother was arrested for assault as a result of a fight with a relative over selling T-shirts with her kid’s picture on them.

Can’t have relatives cutting into the profits she’s making off of her kid’s death ya know.

By all accounts-her kid was just another gang-banging piece of ghetto trash,another “aspiring rapper” with zero job skills,an appetite for smoking weed,and who knows what else,he was involved in a murder case as a juvenile,there’s plenty of pics of him flashing gang signs,there’s video of him pushing a store owner into a display rack by way of these parents’ innocent baby’s hand on the store owners throat.

Even with all the obvious signs that the kid wasn’t anywhere near the innocent child the parents and race hustlers portray him to be-we will see another round of rioting and looting should the grand jury choose not to indict officer Wilson.

The parents and the race hustlers including Al Sharpton are still demanding the arrest of officer Wilson,still demanding that he get charged with murder-despite the evidence to the contrary,now the idiot parents are going to the U.N.? The effin U.N.?! WTF is the U.N. going to do?

Maybe the kid was the guilty party here,have any of these morons stopped to consider that possibility?

Maybe the witnesses who say Mr. Brown was running towards the officer are right-and the kid was trying to attack the cop. Wouldn’t be the first time that took place,won’t be the last time.

Maybe the cop was a bit trigger happy. Wouldn’t be the first time that took place-and it won’t be the last.

No matter what the grand jury decides-and it’s doubtful that they are going to indict officer Wilson,we are sure to see a repeat of the summer’s activity in Ferguson,with the free shit army rioting,looting the local stores-most of which will choose to just shut down their business,and move to an area less prone to the nonsense of the FSA.

Quote of the day

Posted: November 12, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Sums things up nicely…

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