Archive for February, 2015

Mike McNulty, Waco Mythbuster – RIP

Posted: February 28, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Don’t think .gov inc. won’t do the same thing again-and again,and again…

A Reader Asks: Getting Squared Away

Posted: February 28, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Stuff you need to get…

Loretta Lynch’s Secret Prosecutions

Posted: February 28, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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The office headed by the woman poised to become the next attorney general has used an unusual method to keep many of its prosecutions hidden from the public, an NBC News investigation has found.

Federal prosecutors in New York’s Brooklyn-based Eastern District pursued cases against secret, unnamed “John Doe” defendants 58 times since Loretta Lynch became head prosecutor in May 2010. Two of the 58 are terrorism cases.

Eastern District prosecutors have also sought permission to close the courtroom to the public for 11 different Doe cases during the same period, and judges have granted permission in at least 10 of the cases, as recently as February 12.

Critics are concerned the practice may infringe the Constitution’s guarantee of a public trial.

“While pseudonyms may be appropriate in exceptional cases, the courts should always opt for more transparent methods of protecting sensitive information when available,” said Lee Rowland, staff attorney of the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project. “The disproportionate number of John Doe cases in the Eastern District is certainly a cause for concern; complete secrecy about the parties in a case should never be a default option.”

On November 8, 2014, President Obama nominated Lynch to succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General. The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Lynch during confirmation hearings in January, and the committee’s vote on her confirmation is scheduled for Thursday. Lynch is in her second stint as head prosecutor in Brooklyn, also serving as the Eastern District’s U.S. Attorney from 1999 to 2001.

Federal prosecutors around the country use a variety of techniques to keep the identities of defendants secret, often to protect cooperating witnesses or to help secure a plea deal. Methods include filing cases under seal to keep them off court dockets, or sealing the identities of some secondary defendants who have become cooperating witnesses.

The Eastern District’s use of John Doe, however, is conspicuous. None of the nation’s 93 other federal district courts has charged more than eight “Does” during the same time period, and the national average is under four. * In the two federal districts with similar pending criminal caseloads (approximately 3000 cases) — Arizona and the Southern District of California — there is only one case involving a “John Doe” defendant.

The alleged offenses prosecuted in the Brooklyn Doe cases include everything from drug trafficking, violent crimes, fraud and hacking to terrorism.

Brian Fallon, director of public affairs for the Justice Department, cited “safety and security in ongoing matters” as the motives for the Eastern District’s Doe designations, and said that after “supervisory approval and review” with the U.S. Attorney’s office, the Doe label must be approved by the court as well.

“To the extent the number of ‘John Doe’ filings may be higher in the Eastern District of New York than other districts,” said Fallon, “the office’s docket of terror cases and other violent crime matters is likely a contributing factor. It is also likely the case that other districts are more likely to file their cases completely under seal rather than file ‘John Doe’ cases.”

On Wednesday, the Eastern District announced the arrest of three named defendants for allegedly plotting to wage jihad for ISIS. Prosecutors identified the defendants as Abdurasul Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30, all of Brooklyn.

But in an Eastern District case from August 2014, a “John Doe” pleaded guilty in a closed courtroom to terrorism charges, including the receipt of “military-type” training and the illegal use of firearms. That case and another Brooklyn case from January 2013 are the only docketed federal terrorism cases in the country where the defendants’ identities have been concealed.

Don Borelli, COO of the Soufan Group and former assistant special agent in charge of the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), believes the practice stems from the Eastern District’s proactive approach to fighting terror. “The Eastern District, number one, is very aggressive. They have a lot of experience with terrorism,” said Borelli, who is also an NBC News analyst. “I’m not surprised they’re leading the pack in some of these things.”

The real identities of defendants in other districts’ sealed cases generally become public once the indictments are ordered unsealed by the judge. In the Eastern District Doe cases, the true identities have been revealed when defendants are sentenced — but only three of the 58 defendants have a public record of sentencing, even though sentencing dates for many others have passed. In 40 of the 58 cases, many of the related court documents are sealed as well.

“The Non-Public Nature of the Investigation Is Crucial To Its Success”

In the U.S. justice system, “John Doe” designations are sometimes used to protect juveniles. One of the Brooklyn Does was a juvenile. The Doe tag can also be used when identities are not certain. Such cases often list aliases or possible real names for the defendant in addition to “John Doe.” Five of the 58 Eastern District Doe cases list these possible real names.

As Fallon indicated, the “Doe” label can also be employed to protect the identities of defendants when national security is said to be at stake.

Court records show that Eastern District prosecutors used the national security argument to convince a judge to preserve the Doe designation and keep the courtroom sealed in at least one instance, the 2014 terrorism case.

Judge Pamela K. Chen revealed the government’s argument when she denied a reporter’s motion to open the courtroom, unseal the case and reveal the defendant’s identity.

In her October 30, 2014 order upholding the “Doe” designation, she wrote, “the Government’s investigation involves national security issues and the non-public nature of the investigation is crucial to its success…unsealing this matter could jeopardize the safety of numerous individuals…both the closure of the proceedings and the sealing of the record were narrowly tailored to protect the law enforcement interests at stake in this matter.” **

The defendant in the 2014 terror case pleaded guilty to terrorism and military training charges and is awaiting sentencing. Lynch’s office would not comment on whether the defendant is free on bond pending sentencing, or is in U.S. custody.

“With terrorism you’re dealing with national security,” said Borelli. “You have a whole other playbook when you’re dealing with terrorism. … If the investigation is ongoing, you can’t play all of your cards face up at that point.”

Two of the federal jurisdictions with the most significant track records of trying terror and organized crime cases do not use the Doe designation as frequently as the Eastern District, and haven’t used them for terror cases.

Since January 1, 2010 the U.S. Attorney’s offices in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia have pursued only five John Doe cases combined. In each of those cases, which were on child pornography, immigration, and narcotics charges, the “John Doe” designation appeared in the docket next to the defendant’s alias — meaning an unconfirmed or suspected name or nickname.

All but two of the Eastern District’s Doe cases, meanwhile, are for non-terror-related crimes.

The Doe designation can also be used when a cooperating witness has accepted a plea agreement and consented to the use of a pseudonym.

Critics suggest that while a promise of anonymity may be an effective bargaining tool, and may satisfy the defendant, such plea deals keep the public in the dark.

Three of the Eastern District Does prosecuted since May 2010 have been sentenced, and had their true identities revealed. Defendants in two cases have not yet entered pleas. Twenty-two other cases have a scheduled sentencing date, but most of those dates have already passed. Thirty-one cases have no sentencing records at all.

In a recent essay for the New York Review of Books, a federal judge warned about the secrecy that surrounds plea bargaining, and said that such a system “invites arbitrary results.’

“There is a great irony,” wrote Judge Jed Rakoff, “in the fact that legislative measures that were designed to rectify the perceived evils of disparity and arbitrariness in sentencing have empowered prosecutors to preside over a plea-bargaining system that is so secretive and without rules that we do not even know whether or not it operates in an arbitrary manner.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loretta-lynchs-secret-prosecutions-n294666

DARPA’s ‘Cortical Modem’ will plug straight into your BRAIN

Posted: February 28, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a brain interface it hopes could inject images directly into the visual cortex.

news of the “Cortical Modem” project has emerged in transhumanist magazine Humanity Plus, which reports the agency is working on a direct neural interface (DNI) chip that could be used for human enhancement and motor-function repair.

Project head Dr Phillip Alvelda, Biological Technologies chief with the agency, told the Biology Is Technology conference in Silicon Valley last week the project had a short term goal of building a US$10 device the size of two stacked nickels that could deliver images without the need for glasses or similar technology.

The project was built on research by Dr Karl Deisseroth whose work in the field of neuroscience describes how brain circuits create behaviour patterns.

Specifically the work dealt in Deisseroth’s field of Optogenetics, where proteins from algae could be inserted into neurons to be subsequently controlled with pulses of light.

“The short term goal of the project is the development of a device about the size of two stacked nickels with a cost of goods on the order of $10 which would enable a simple visual display via a direct interface to the visual cortex with the visual fidelity of something like an early LED digital clock,” the publication reported.

“The implications of this project are astounding.”

The seemingly dreamy research was limited to animal studies, specifically the real time imaging of a zebra fish brain with some 85,000 neurons, due to the need to mess with neuron DNA and the ‘crude device’ would be a long way off high fidelity augmented reality, the site reported.

DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office was formed last April to cook up crazy ideas born at the intersection of biology and physical science. Its mind-bending research fields are geared to improve soldiers’ performance, craft biological systems to bolster national security, and future the stability and well-being of humanity.

The project follows DARPA’s upgrading of the heavy-set Atlas robot which was granted a battery allowing it to move about free of its electrical umbilical cord.

The agency also revealed biometric tracking that could identify users based on how they moved a mouse in what was dubbed a ‘cognitive fingerprint’ and slated as a possible replacement for password authentication.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/darpas_google_glass_will_plug_straight_into_your_brain/

California Cartridge-Microstamp Law Upheld

Posted: February 28, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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(Bloomberg) — California’s ban on new semiautomatic handguns that don’t stamp identifying information on the cartridge was upheld by a U.S. judge in a major loss for gun-rights groups.

The law barring sales of handguns without the microstamping technology doesn’t violate the Constitution’s Second Amendment because gun owners don’t have a right to buy specific types of firearms, U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento said in her ruling.

“Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Second Amendment rights,” Mueller said. The insistence upon particular handguns falls “outside the scope of the right to bear arms,” she said.

California in 2013 became the first state to bar retailers from selling new models of semiautomatic handguns not equipped to imprint the weapon’s make, model and serial number on the cartridge when a bullet is fired. The statute was supported by law enforcement because it can help deter or solve crime.

Thursday’s ruling that the requirement doesn’t violate the Second Amendment will prompt other states to impose similar requirements, in particular because there’s wide popular support for ballistic fingerprinting, said Allison Anderman, an attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco.

“Microstamping is a really important tool for law enforcement,” Anderman said in a phone interview.

De Facto Ban

Calguns Foundation Inc. and the Second Amendment Foundation argued that the requirement amounts to a de facto ban on sales of new semiautomatics because several manufacturers said they wouldn’t produce guns that included microstamp technology even if it meant their firearms couldn’t be sold in California, the most populous U.S. state.

About 1.5 million handguns were legally sold in California since opponents sued in 2009 to block the microstamping requirement, which according to Mueller’s ruling shows that the law doesn’t effectively ban the sale of firearms in the state.

The District of Columbia, the only other place in the U.S. to mandate microstamping, is set to begin enforcing that requirement next year, Anderman said.

The two gun rights groups said in a court filing Thursday that they will appeal the ruling by Mueller, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama.

‘Strong Case’

“The court’s reasoning, that California’s prohibition of most handguns doesn’t even implicate the Second Amendment, is interesting,” Alan Gura, a lawyer for the groups, said Friday in an e-mail. “But we’re confident that we have a strong case on appeal.”

The case may go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2008 upheld individuals’ right to own handguns, calling them the “quintessential self-defense weapon.”

The 2008 high court ruling left room for gun-control backers to impose new rules to promote safety. California, New York and Maryland, among other states, enacted restrictions that U.S. gun manufacturers and retailers contend are intended to regulate their $14 billion industry out of business.

The California law was signed in 2007 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, and was put on hold until 2013 when state Attorney General Kamala Harris, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate next year, determined the technology was available to all gun makers and wasn’t encumbered by patent claims.

“The court’s ruling means that more gun crimes will be solved, more lives will be saved, and California communities will be safer,” Mike Feuer, the Los Angeles city attorney and the author of the microstamping bill, said in a statement.

The case is Pena v. Cid, 09-cv-01185, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento)

The Real State Of The Union-not .gov inc.’s Propaganda

Posted: February 27, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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We no longer have the freedom we’re supposed to have,according to the Declaration of Independence,the Constitution,and the Bill of Rights.

Rightful Liberty is a thing of the past,back when our once great country was founded,Rightful Liberty meant the following :

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence states :

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The Bill of Rights describes the Pre-existing rights all of us have,which the government can not infringe upon-in theory anyhow…

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Other than the third amendment-our government is currently infringing on the remaining NINE enumerated rights we are ALL supposed to have as citizens of the United States of America.

Then there’s the absurd number of local,county,sate and federal regulations we all are supposed to follow.

Violate some obscure federal regulation-and you get a visit from armed .gov inc. stormtroopers-ask the owners of Gibson Guitar about that one…

Even though the first amendment guarantees us the right to peacefully assemble- .gov inc. forces us into “free speech zones”-areas they set up to fence in protesters,and keep us separated from those we are protesting about/against.

Even though the first amendment guarantees us the right to free speech .gov inc. listens to,reads,records,videotapes,records via  TV camera,drone cameras,helicopter cameras,FLIR,infrared,thermal imaging,satellite camera,traffic cameras,everything we do is recorded somehow by .gov inc. despite the fourth amendment protections against illegal search and seizures.

Police from the township cop to the FLEA’s-(federal law enforcement agents)- stop us while traveling the highways,and seize cash and property from us,which we can not get back without spending our life savings on attorney fees-unless it was our life savings that were seized-even though we were never charged with any crime.

.gov inc. tracks our movements via GPS in our cars,or our smart phones,along with license plate scanners and traffic cameras. . gov inc knows every financial transaction we make via tracking our credit/debit card purchases-they know what we bought,where we bought it,when we bought it,how much we paid for it,how much our checking account balance was at the time,or how much available credit we had at the time-and they most likely have us on camera making the purchases.

.gov inc. knows what was typed in every text and e-mail we send,every comment we made on any forum on the interwebz,and with the new tee vees-they have us on camera-audio and video- as we type.

The president,the EPA,DOJ,BATFEIEIO,USFWS,BLM,NSA,FBI,DEA,et-al enact whatever laws and regulation they choose to-without regard to the Constitution,especially ignoring the Bill of Rights,with lots of focus on denying us our second amendment right to keep and bear arms.

The current admin is especially hostile towards our right to keep and bear arms. We have politicians who have made it their career goal to ban all private ownership of firearms-Diane Feinstein,Chuck Schumer,former mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg.

There are very wealthy individuals financing these attempts to infringe on our second amendment right to keep and bear arms,besides Bloomberg, Bill and Melinda Gates, Paul Allen, LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and entrepreneur Nick Hanauer.

Multiple leftist foundations donate millions to the anti-gun efforts.

The Climate change cultists use altered data,computer models that do not produce the desired results to support the global warming/climate change hysteria,yet they still claim CO2 is a “pollutant”.

It’s not about saving the planet-it’s about extorting money,and controlling people.

Goes hand in hand with the U.N.’s Agenda 21,which despite the claims by the leftists-is in fact a threat to our personal freedom. Anyone can verify that claim with a 5 minute Google search,and checking out the U.N. site.

We are taxed on everything,payroll taxes consist of-federal taxes,Medicare taxes,social security taxes,state and local taxes.

We do not own our homes-we lease them from the state-don’t believe me-try not paying your property taxes.

We pay taxes on everything we buy,with extra “sin taxes” on alcohol and tobacco products.

We pay taxes on the fuel to drive our cars-the fuel that contains EPA mandated ethanol-which is destroying our car’s engines-on top of paying fees for license plates,and driver’s licenses.

We pay extra taxes in the form of fees when we send our kids to school,when we build or remodel anything on our property,that’s on top of all the property taxes we already pay,and the cost of whatever materials we use.

.gov inc. knows every single item that we purchase by tracking our credit and debit cards-they know our movements through traffic cameras,license plate scanners,cameras at ATM’s cameras at stores,GPS in our cars and/or smart phones,the NSA can remotely hack our computers,new tee vees send audio and video to third parties-and you can be sure that the NSA has full access to that information.

There are so many state,local,and federal laws and regulations that any prosecutor can- at any time they choose-indict and convict anyone they choose- of any crime they choose to convict them of.

With all the video and audio recorded of you-and every  text and all the e-mails you have ever sent under the control of .gov inc. you can be arrested,charged,and convicted of whatever they want to convict you of-whenever they choose to do so-and it will all be backed up by manufactured audio,video,text and e-mails that you supposedly sent.

Think about that one-think about all the data .gov inc. has about you-then think about what .gov inc. is going to do with that data if you are perceived as a “threat”.

Remember all the “Fusion Centers”? Remember all the bullshit in the misnamed “Patriot Act”?

Remember a couple days ago it was reported that the Chicago PD was operating a CIA style “Black site” where they took people they had in custody that they wanted to interrogate with no paper trail? NO lawyers,No phone calls?

Think that’s the only site like that a big-city PD has? Think the feds don’t have improved versions of what the Chicago PD was caught with?

Remember who was on the lists of threats to .gov inc. the past couple times such info was made public?

Those who support the Constitution and Bill of Rights-those who support the second amendment-those who believe the government has too much power-and on and on-if you do not support .gov inc. in lockstep with all the violations of our rights they commit daily-YOU are an “enemy of the state”.

If you believe in Rightful Liberty-then YOU are an enemy of .gov inc.

If you do not follow DHS’s “See Something-Say Something”-and snitch on your neighbors for something-YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not agree with SWAT teams kicking in doors at 4am to serve warrants for non-violent crimes-YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not agree that SWAT teams should be allowed to toss flash-bangs in babies cribs-YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not agree that police can seize cash and legally owned property from people traveling on our highways,and keep it without ever charging those who they seized the cash and property from with a crime-then YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not believe that .gov inc. should be able to tell you what you can and an not do on your own property-like build a home,or a farm pond- because of some misguided,overzealous EPA regulations-then YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not believe that .gov inc. should be able to require  licensing and registration of firearms and firearm owners-then YOU are an enemy of the state.

If you do not believe that you should give half -or more-of your legally earned income to .gov inc. to house,feed,and clothe the free shit army-then YOU are an enemy of the state.

.gov inc. has complete power over you-your family,and everything you do via the police state.

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Resist-in every way possible…

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A partial list of things that field testing drug kits have mistakenly identified as contraband

Posted: February 27, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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***Why, it’s almost as if these field tests will say whatever law enforcement officers want them to.***

from Balko’s The Watch-

Last week, my Post colleague Abby Phillip wrote about Joseph Ray Burrell, a Minnesota man who spent more than two months in jail because a police drug field test incorrectly identified a bag of vitamins in his car as amphetamines.It isn’t the first time one of these field tests has caused a wrongful arrest. Or the second. Or the third. In fact, I’ve been compiling a running list of all the materials that one or more of these field tests has mistaken for drugs. It includes . . .

Why, it’s almost as if these field tests will say whatever law enforcement officers want them to.

Six years ago, the Marijuana Policy Project put out a study to demonstrate the high error rate in these tests and to draw attention to the fact that false positives can lead to wrongful arrests. It didn’t seem to do much good.

Radley Balko blogs about criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post. He is the author of the book “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.”

Thoughts On NPFD 2015/1

Posted: February 27, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Washington activists plan peaceful armed assembly response to activist’s arrest

Posted: February 27, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Reacting to the “catch and release” of one of its leaders for openly carrying a firearm on federal grounds that ban firearms inside the facility, Washington activists are planning a responsive armed demonstration, the Our State, Our Rights coalition announced today on Facebook. Liberty for All and Defend Amendment X will gather in front of the Tom Foley Federal Building in Spokane next Friday to protest the arrest and detention of Anthony Bosworth by DHS police on Wednesday.

“Bosworth … was arrested, detained for five hours in a steel cage without charges, denied Miranda rights, and access to an attorney, interrogated by the FBI as a domestic terrorist, and then released with a citation for ‘failure to comply,’ even though his civil rights were clearly violated at every turn,” the protest announcement explains. “His only action was that he was standing outside the federal courthouse at a 10th amendment rally, while legally openly carrying a firearm. The Feds have still not returned his firearms.”

Read the rest @ http://www.examiner.com/article/washington-activists-plan-peaceful-armed-assembly-response-to-activist-s-arrest?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Demanding Mom and WaPo shrink dismiss all college women as irresponsible drunks

Posted: February 27, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Via David Codrea…

Demonstrating once again that Everytown is a place seething with ignorance and prejudice, Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action sent out a tweet Thursday every bit as insulting to young women as patron and patriarch Michael Bloomberg proved to be about minorities.

“You think your drunk college-age daughters are bad with their iPhones?” Watts asked, approvingly parroting the headline to an editorial in The Washington Post by an anti-gun psychiatrist. “Imagine them with guns.”

Read the WaPo article-it’s good for a few laughs anyways-the surprising thing is that supposedly “educated”people think like this…

The thing is, from her own narrative, the shrink admits she raised a scatterbrained girl. At least her daughter has learned enough to know mom will shield her from the consequences of her irresponsibility and buy her a new phone if she loses or destroys it because she’s oblivious or falling-down-stairs drunk. In any case, that’s hardly cause to project those failings onto all, and use the reality that some people abuse freedom to deny it to all.

Prejudiced citizen disarmament flack Watts joined an anti-gun headshrinker in painting all college women as drunken airheads, too irresponsible and incompetent to exercise their right to armed self-defense.

Sure, some college-aged people behave badly. And some behave well. Just like the rest of the world, isn’t it?

The antis twist that around, too. That way, if Chicago experiences a rising murder rate, why, that’s a perfect opportunity to rail about “concealed carry killers” or some other damned lie aimed at disarming people who aren’t the problem.

Funny, how college women are competent enough to drive “deadly” vehicles, to vote, to live on their own, to join the military, to get jobs, to form contracts, to get married, to “choose,” and to assume all kinds of adult responsibilities. Funny how “progressive feminists” (and talk about Opposite Day on steroids – or would that be estradiol?) rail against “inequality” and the like, yet when it comes to choosing the right to keep and bear arms, their default position is along the lines of “There, there, dearies, don’t you worry your pretty little heads about it.”

That’s hardly hyperbole. It’s the continuation of a gun-grabber tradition.

“Women are virgins when it comes to guns,” District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, one of 25 women in Congress who sent a letter to the National Rifle Association protesting its then-new “Refuse to be a Victim” program was quoted in the January 1994 issue of Women & Guns magazine. “It should stay that way.”

Again we see stereotyping, and presuming to speak for all, because those who would control others know best. Right now it looks like there’s no shortage of people calling Watts on her shared WaPo prejudices over on her Twitter feed, and hopefully that post will stay up (if it doesn’t, I have a screenshot). At least that’s an improvement over her boss, who when he stepped in it and revealed his inner bigot, had the clout to order the video of it suppressed.

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