Starvin Larry

Drive into tiny Conoy Township, Pa., and you’ll see the standard “welcome” sign, but it also comes with a warning: “THIS IS NOT A GUN FREE ZONE.”

The signs are meant to alert criminals to the fact that many people in the rural Pennsylvania town of 3,000 are armed. A dozen have been installed so far and three more are slated to go up, which would cover every major road into the town. Officials hope the signs give would-be criminals second thoughts before causing trouble.

“I think even those who have bad intentions can read,” Stephen Mohr, one of the township supervisors, told FoxNews.com. He said the town’s five supervisors unanimously decided to put the signs up.

“What we’re telling people is that when they do come here, they should feel safer knowing that everyone in the township is watching out for them.”- Stephen Mohr, township supervisor, Conoy, Pa.

Read the rest @  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/10/pa-town-packs-heat-and-wants-visitors-to-know-it/

“Malone is expected to plead guilty next week and let the government keep the money, under a plea agreement filed Monday. The charge carries up to one year in jail and a $250,000 fine.”

  .gov inc. extortion at it’s finest-seize legally earned income-charge the person with violating some rules supposedly enacted to help catch drug dealers-yet .gov inc. uses it to hoover up all the $$$ they possibly can-gotta fund the “War on Drugs” the “War on Terror” the NSA and the Utah data center.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa widow is charged with a crime and had nearly $19,000 seized from her bank after depositing her late husband’s legally earned money in a way that evaded federal reporting requirements.

Janet Malone, 68, of Dubuque, is facing civil and criminal proceedings under a law intended to help investigators track large sums of cash tied to criminal activity such as drug trafficking and terrorism. But some members of Congress and libertarian groups have complained that the IRS and federal prosecutors are unfairly using it against ordinary people who deposit lawfully obtained money in increments below $10,000.

At issue is a law requiring banks to report deposits of more than $10,000 cash to the federal government. Anyone who breaks deposits into increments below that level to avoid the requirement is committing a crime known as “structuring” — whether their money is legal or not.

The IRS has increasingly used civil forfeiture proceedings to seize money from individuals and small businesses suspected of structuring violations, according to a review by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian group. The agency seized $242 million in 2,500 cases from 2005 to 2012 — a third of which arose from nothing more than cash transactions under $10,000. Nearly half was returned after owners challenged the action, often a year later.

Some of the depositors had broken up the deposits to save their bankers from having to submit paperwork or because they mistakenly believed it was a way to avoid unwarranted government scrutiny. The Treasury Department receives millions of reports every year, and deposits above the $10,000 threshold incur no additional fees or taxes.

Facing criticism of the practice, the IRS announced in October that investigators would no longer seize funds in cases involving legal sources of money “unless there are exceptional circumstances” and would focus on illegal sources. A U.S. House subcommittee is expected to hear testimony about the practice Wednesday, at a hearing called, “Protecting Small Businesses from IRS Abuse.”

Larry Salzman, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, criticized the government’s case against Malone given its declared shift in practice.

“This is shocking because it demonstrates that prosecutors are not taking seriously the IRS’ alleged policy change not to prosecute legal source structuring,” he said.

After the policy change, federal prosecutors in Iowa agreed to return money the IRS seized from two people accused of structuring, including a restaurant owner who had $33,000 taken and a doctor who fought to get back $344,000 in earnings from his medical practice. But prosecutors declined to drop the civil forfeiture case over $18,775 the IRS seized from Malone.

Instead, they added a misdemeanor criminal charge last week alleging she willfully violated the law, after her husband had been warned about the practice four years ago. Malone is expected to plead guilty next week and let the government keep the money, under a plea agreement filed Monday. The charge carries up to one year in jail and a $250,000 fine.

IRS agent Jeff McGuire first went to Malone’s home in 2011 to investigate alleged structuring by Ronald Malone, who was dying of cancer, records show. Ronald Malone admitted that bank deposits totaling $35,500 he’d made could appear to be structured and signed a form acknowledging he’d been warned about the law; no charges were filed. Janet Malone was present for part of the meeting.

Shortly before his death in October 2011, Ronald Malone told his wife about a briefcase containing $180,000 cash from his job as a publishing executive, gambling winnings and investment income. She deposited some of it in increments between $5,800 and $9,000. The IRS obtained a warrant to seize it based on suspicion that the transactions were meant to avoid reporting requirements.

Janet Malone was irate when she learned of the 2013 seizure, noting that she didn’t sign the form warning her husband and didn’t remember details of the earlier visit because “she was in a state of despair over her husband’s health,” according to an IRS affidavit.

“You won’t prosecute a widow,” Malone said, according to the affidavit. McGuire responded that the family had been given a pass from the IRS once.

Spokesmen for the IRS and U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to talk about how the case fits with the new policy. Malone’s attorney declined to comment.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-charges-iowa-widow-over-she-deposited-husbands-190710409.html

Via David Codrea…

“That looked like a waste of time and effort. All they did was lock the doors,” an anonymous troll on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog posted in comments underneath the text of Mike Vanderboegh’s Saturday speech at the State Capitol in Olympia. It was an obvious attempt to either diminish the significance of government officials hiding from freedom activists, or to put his own ignorance on display. That the significance of the day is lost on him is not surprising. Neither would it be surprising to learn it’s not lost, and that the anonymous put-down was as much an act of sabotage as his courage permits. That’s in character with the sadist /psychopath / infiltrator / disruptor nature of those who abuse the marvel that is the internet by attacking others from the shadows, seemingly protected from all personal repercussions but the corruption they do to their own souls.

The character of those who proudly advocate for their rights, assuming risks of condemnation and worse from lesser men, including those with power posing as greater men, was on display as activists, accompanied by politically courageous representatives Elizabeth Scott and Matt Shea, marched through the Capitol halls determined to make their voices heard, even as those who feared their message foolishly presumed locked doors could stop the signal.

While those trying to steal that to which they have no claim would not face and address fed-up constituents, they still were not able to avoid being put on notice, as demonstrators knocked firmly on massive wooden doors, and called to be let in. In a move some have likened to Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses against clerical abuses to the church doors in Wittenburg, an act many — who could not foresee what a transformative event that would be a catalyst for — dismissed as extremist and insignificant, the protesters affixed their list of grievances to the House Gallery doors.

Read the rest @  http://www.examiner.com/article/child-demanding-entrance-to-gallery-captivates-freedom-knocks-activists?CID=examiner_alerts_article

From Max-

Ok, so there is that song “You’re so vain, you think this song is about you.’ Well, in this case, THIS POST over at WRSA is actually aimed at me. I know that because I was in email conversation with Concerned American (CA), who runs the place, and he appears to have generally misunderstood what was being said to him by me, and we have agreed to part ways. He’ll probably tell you that I was the trainer he referred to being banned. That’s fine, because there are a number of issues here.

Now, the great crime to which he is referring is my telling of some facts and truth comments in THIS POST over at WRSA. Now, to read the latest post, CA is claiming that I had an ego moment and was hitting out at these two trainers, as if they are innocent. In fact, he has even asked me if I am ‘alright’ and referred to me in an email in terms of this quote:

“Each person believes that if only he had the ring, if only he were the leader, he could resist the temptations of power and achieve what others could not. And so he refuses to work with others or to share the stage, or he even attempts to subvert or co-opt the legitimate accomplishments of more capable men.”

In the sense that this applies to me. But that is in fact the opposite of what has been going on.

There are two main issues here. In summary:

1) I outright challenged Tom of DTG and JC Dodge of MDT, who had formerly been official trainers for the III% SFPA, over the following behavior:

• Blocking my training ideas from the III% Society, where I was a senior policy adviser, including the MVT RIFLEMAN CHALLENGE. This was confirmed to me by members of the III%SFPA board. In fact they stymied tactical training  progress so much that they have since parted ways with the III% Society and are no longer part of it.
• It was confirmed to me that they had done this simply for ego reasons, and due to concerns over ‘market share’.
• I have been consistently back-stabbed by JC Dodge. This is no surprise to me, because I have sat through multiple occasions, even at my classes, where I had JC as an AI on a couple of occasions, where he destroyed Mosby’s reputation, and did the same to anyone who would hear at the PATCON. This was due to a situation that happened when Mosby ran a class at Echo valley, and JC Dodge was sidelined by the SF cadre due to incompetence
• The final part of this is a lack of general competence as tactical trainers. There are some great tactical trainers out there, such as Mosby, Dan Morgan, Sierra12. DTG and JC are not among them.

Now I know that in the wake of this, they are trying to claim the moral high ground and put it about that I have lost my mind, or done this for ego reasons. I am simply telling the truth. They were conducting themselves poorly behind everyone’s back, I have just pulled the band aid off. So now they are scrambling to try and plaster this over, and trying to make it out that I have lost my mind, or comically, that I am threatened by them as ‘better men.’ Ha! If only I had listened to my wife when she had her intuition about JC, rather than supporting him over the whole Echo Valley disaster. If only.

WRSA has tried to put this as a great betrayal of the ‘freedom movement’ but in fact it was necessary. No, I’m not trying to be the only trainer, but I have high professional standards and I want people to be trained by professional instructors. How is my behavior, calling them out for their bullshit, worse than them undermining other trainers, and the organization as a whole behind everyone’s back? Trying to get ahead on the shoulders of better men, and creating an old boys club to make money and corner ‘market share’ for themselves (their words, as reported to me).

I call BS.

So anyway, displaying a lack of judgement and tactical know-how, CA decided to come down on their side on his site, and DTG and JC are all over it with posts about their boy-scout rucking experiences.

2) But the plot thickens. I had expressed to CA concerns over the way his site has increasingly become an anarchist-fantasist-hater venue. He calls it free speech. I say it is splitting this so called ‘freedom movement.’ This was apparent in this post of mine:

Philosophy: Rights & Anarchy

and the follow up:

Max Velocity Tactical: Statement of Intent

So it appears that what may be going on is that CA is an ‘anarchist’ sympathizer and he was unhappy that I challenged him on this. I have heard from multiple people who either no longer read WRSA, or who won’t comment, and who will tell you that the place is now infested with anarchists and trolls. I mean, there was a really nasty post right there today by Buppert, with the following line:

“And then we have the mewling from certain sections of the feedlot about the sacred Constitution and returning to our roots to regain our liberties. Fat chance, since the germination of that document gave us the leviathan we labor under today. That is not coincidence but causation, the Constitution was designed from the beginning to be an engine for giant government.”

Perhaps it’s not too paranoid to say that was a result of him coming over and commenting on my Philosophy: Rights & Anarchy post? So, this smacks of an attack based on my adherence to Rightful Liberty and refusal to engage in the anarchist fantasy that they can live in little ‘voluntarist’ groups and not end up in perpetual war, or not get taken over by warlords…..yawn. I vote for civil society where Rightful Liberty is protected by common law. There’s an app for that, it’s called the Constitution. And don’t start me on where we are today – that is a human failure, that will apply equally to those trying to live as anarchists, but they will simply have no protection at all. The strongest will dominate.

So by sticking with DTG and JC and banning me, CA is doing his readership a disservice. It won’t be the first place I have been banned from for telling the truth! Maryland Shooters most recently (for telling a troll he was  a muppet…), American Preppers Network…..LOL. There are idiots all over the internet. I don’t tolerate fools and so don’t do so well on the internet.

A truth telling session about some disreputable trainers does not destroy the ‘freedom movement’ as CA referred to it. It does not mean that I have lost my mind. However, the greater threat is this move towards anarchy that WRSA is hosting. That splits the movement. It also makes it impossible to bring folks who are waking up on side – when they read that hater stuff. When they read the post equating Chris Kyle to Lon Horiuchi (sniper at Ruby Ridge). I’m not a Kyle-lover, but I did not like that at all.

If you are in the military, you are wrong, according to these folks, the anarchists. Ooops. that’s your tactical trainers! But you see, the anarchist types never train anyway, and they are not going to fight for America, ever. Why fight for America when you hate the place, even the very Constitution? These are as much enemies of freedom as statist lefties. So we are not concerned about that. They are just self-absorbed cowards.

So no, WRSA is not the place for me or my posts. I did express gratitude to CA for all the traffic he has directed my way, but he didn’t seem to get that from my email.

What needs to happen now is for a site to be created that is for freedom and Rightful Liberty, that will bring together Constitutionalist Patriots rather than fragment them with this hater anarchist stuff.

Anarchists suffer the same issue as pacifists – pacifists can only enjoy the fruits of their pacifism because rough men stand watch over them in the night. Anarchists can enjoy their associations of three dudes or whatever because they live within a state that provides law and structure. Whether or not that state is perfect right  now or not is irrelevant, because if it went away, then it’s chaos time!

Anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension ability can understand what I have said in all these linked posts, see the truth there, and know that I have not lost my mind, I’m not an agent trying to split the ‘movement’, nor have I suffered an exaggerated ego.

I started this training business with the outline idea to “help good folks stay alive.” From this post: Max Velocity Tactical: Statement of Intent, the mission of Max Velocity Tactical can be expressed as follows:

To provide high quality tactical training, primarily to armed civilians,  in order to enhance their ability to survive life threatening situations.

As always, MVT will drive on with this mission. Providing high quality combat-proven professional training. .

Why?

Live Hard.

Die Free.

Max

The reporter obviously can’t count,there was 105 people at the protest,according to those who organized the event’s twitter feed. At first they tweeted that there were 82 people attending,a second tweet said there were 105 people attending-there could have been additional tweets that I missed-but the point is-the media claims about half the number of people were there than were  actually present.

As usual,the media’s account is greatly different than what actually took place-according to those who were there.

The media is never going to accurately report on anything that’s pro-gun/anti-police state.

Just check Twitter… #westandinWA for what really took place.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A gun-rights rally drew about 50 people, mostly armed, to the steps of the Capitol on Saturday morning for a demonstration they hoped would end with their arrest. To raise money for bail, some protesters hawked caps with “Fight Tyranny — Shoot Back” printed on them and sold out.

The plan was to walk into the Capitol after a few speeches and carry guns into the Legislature’s viewing gallery, in defiance of rule changes made in January that banned the open carry of firearms there. However, the Washington State Patrol kept the gallery doors locked after the building opened to the public at 11 a.m. The crowd, including two state legislators, walked through the marble hallways, with some lining up to knock on the doors to the House gallery and Gov. Jay Inslee’s office.

No one was arrested, and the State Patrol reported no disturbances. The protesters went instead to the closed gate of the governor’s mansion and prayed.

“What’s the world coming to when there are people who want to break the law and they won’t let you do it?” said Dave Grenier, 58, of Tumwater, as his fellow pro-gun demonstrators began to file out of the Capitol.

Their complaints against state government stem from the 2014 passage of Initiative 594 by voters statewide. It imposed new background-check requirements on several types of gun transfers, including purchases and loans, and opponents say the new law infringes on firearm rights guaranteed in the state and federal constitutions.

After protest rallies at the Capitol in December and January, leaders of the House and Senate prohibited the open carrying of firearms into the Legislature’s viewing galleries. In the January rally, one protester among the dozen or so who carried guns into the House gallery was rebuked by the State Patrol for how he was holding his gun, and the ban was instituted days later.

Saturday morning’s rally began before the Capitol opened to the public at 11 a.m. A few visitors waiting for guided tours of the legislative building mingled with the gun-rights advocates who clustered in the portico facing Washington’s Temple of Justice to get out of the rain.

State Reps. Elizabeth Scott and Matt Shea addressed the crowd. Shea, R-Spokane Valley, gave a fiery speech that included a list of more than 20 grievances against the government, including militarization of police, high taxes, surveillance programs, Sharia law and restrictions on guns. Scott, R-Monroe, opened her coat to show the crowd her pistol.

“I carry at least one gun every day,” Scott said, “because a cop is too heavy and a guard is too heavy.”

For Eric Devenny, 19, an apprentice mechanic from Bremerton, the rally was his first trip to the Capitol. He wore an AKS-74, a variation of a Russian assault rifle, in a sling on his back as he walked with the group into the legislative building and out to the governor’s mansion gate and said he’ll return for another protest.

“It’s not gonna stop, and we won’t let up,” Devenny said.

http://news.yahoo.com/armed-gun-rights-advocates-rally-washington-state-capitol-213750603.html