More Anti-Gun Asshattery

Posted: April 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Bloomberg-Backed Gun Control Group Upping Ante To End Open Carry At Kroger

Everytown and Moms Demand Action’s latest ad follows their print campaign, pictured, showing what Kroger doesn’t allow in its stores (here, outside food) versus guns, which are allowed.

Back in August, billionaire-backed groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action joined forces to pressure Kroger KR -1.45%, the country’s largest grocery chain, to change its position on the open carrying of firearms in its stores.

The two groups, bolstered by a $50 million philanthropic injection from Michael Bloomberg, focused their attention on Kroger following a spate of lobbying victories.

In the span of a few months, they’d watched Starbucks SBUX -0.44%, Target TGT +0.12%, Sonic, Chipotle, Chili's and Jack in the Box respond to their demands by asking shoppers to leave their guns at home.

The groups followed their tried and true formula, starting a petition and mobilizing their hundreds of thousands of supporters to use a dedicated hashtag, #GroceriesNotGuns, across social media.

Kroger (market cap: $37 billion) wouldn’t budge, however. That August, the Ohio-based 2,625-store grocery giant — the country’s second largest general retailer, behind Walmart — released a statement saying it would “follow state and local laws” on open carry.

The following month, Everytown and Moms Demand Action upped the ante against Kroger, launching the umbrella group’s first ever large-scale corporate campaign, with an advertising spend of six figures.

Its ad blitz aimed to contrast items banned from Kroger stores — like outside food and skateboards — with openly carried rifles, which are permitted.

Kroger remained unmoved by that campaign, as well as a rally held outside its corporate headquarters the following month to coincide with the chain’s annual meeting.

Everytown and Moms Demand Action isn’t giving up just yet. On Tuesday, the two groups launched their latest joint effort against the open carrying of guns in Kroger stores, releasing a video ad they’ll promote widely online called Not Allowed.

In the video, seen below, a man walks unhindered through supermarket aisles with a large firearm strapped to his back, while other shoppers are stopped for bringing in a dog or a water gun:

Everytown and Moms Demand Action have also launched a microsite where supporters can enter totals spent on groceries at Kroger competitors. They aim to prove to the retailer that inaction on the issue of open carry is resulting in lost sales.

A representative of the two groups made it clear they’ll carry on pressuring Kroger until the supermarket chain agrees to ask customers to forgo their guns while grocery shopping. Their expenditure on this campaign is just shy of the $1 million mark to date.

Kroger did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This post will be updated if they do.

Re-Run of Anti-Gun Asshattery

Posted: April 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is set to reintroduce legislation this week that would provide a $2,000 tax credit to people who chose to turn in an assault weapon to law enforcement.

According to the Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act, the term ‘specified assault weapon’ that people could turn in for the tax credit includes a long list of pistols, rifles and shotguns including:

AR–15, Bushmaster XM15, Armalite M15, SKS with detachable magazine, SLG 95, SLR 95, Striker 12 and “a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine, and that has— a folding or telescoping stock, a threaded barrel, a pistol grip, a forward grip, or a barrel shroud.”

Click here to see the list of weapons covered by the bill.

“Assault weapons are not about hunting, or even self-defense. There is no reason on Earth, other than to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, that anyone needs a gun designed for a battlefield,” DeLauro says in her press release.

The SAFER Streets Act creates a $2,000 refundable tax credit ($1,000 for two consecutive years) for an assault weapon owner who gives their firearm to law enforcement.

DeLauro first introduced the bill in 2013.

Video Shows Cops Arrest Healthy Man, Hours Later He’s in ICU in a Coma with Severe Injuries

Posted: April 14, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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Baltimore, MD — 27-year old Freddie Gray is now hospitalized in critical condition and in induced coma, after an incident with Baltimore police Sunday morning.

An eyewitness captured video footage of Gray being restrained and hauled into the back of a police van after being chased and arrested by bike cops. What happened after that is a mystery, as Freddie Gray is now unconscious in Shock Trauma with multiple injuries.

Gray’s godbrother did not want to be identified, but he did give a statement after he left the ICU, saying “I seen police, him handcuffed, him tased while he was handcuffed. I seen the police officer bending his leg to the point where it looked like he broke it. He was completely healthy, fine being carted off aside from his leg. It’s nowhere near how he’s sitting in the ICU right now.”

According to the family, Gray has spinal injuries and is barely alive. Richard Shipley, Gray’s stepfather, told local news affiliate WJZ, “His face is swollen. He just looks really horrible. Like I said, he’s in an induced coma. We’re all praying.”

Police will not say why the bike cops arrested the fleeing Gray, or how he ended up in the hospital in an induced coma. The arrest was described by witnesses as brutal, but Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said he did not see any use of force by police in the video, adding that the investigation was at an early stage.

“A number of officers made an arrest of a man who fled from them,” Rodriguez stated. “This is a very serious incident, that we are looking at thoroughly. I have been on the phone with the State’s Attorney’s Office and we are going to work jointly on this investigation.”

The officers involved in the mystery incident have been assigned to administrative duties.

While Deputy Commissioner Rodriguez denies any use of force in the video, there is a considerable amount of time not documented. So what happened after Freddie Gray was loaded into the police van to put him in critical condition? Did Gray receive a “nickel ride” from the fine folks at the Baltimore Police Department?

For those who don’t know, “nickel rides,” as reported by the Inquirer in 2001, were a witness-free way for police to punish unruly, uncooperative, or arrogant suspects – without ever laying a hand on them. For rogue police, it was a literal way to deliver “street justice.”

Anyone else with evidence of the arrest is being encouraged to contact police. Unfortunately, police have a history of tampering with and erasing video evidence incriminating them. We at The Free Thought Project encourage anyone with evidence regarding this situation to send it to contact@thefreethoughtproject.com or any other media source you trust.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11386489

NPFD 2015/1 Quick Update

Posted: April 14, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Police Kidnap Children for Playing Outside without their Parents, Bring them to CPS

Posted: April 13, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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Silver Spring, MD — Two children were kidnapped by state agents Sunday as they walked home from playing.

The state claims to have kidnapped these children in order to protect them. Who, exactly, the police were protecting them from remains unclear.

In March, Danielle and Sasha Meitiv were found guilty of child neglect after letting their children walk home from a nearby park.

Refusing to let the state dictate how they can raise their own children, the Meitiv’s continued to allow their kids, ages 6 and 10, to be “free range.”

As their kids walked home Sunday around 5:00 pm, a nosey neighbor called 9-1-1 to report the horrible “crime” of two responsible children walking down the sidewalk.

Police were then dispatched to “protect” these children, so they kidnapped them.

According to Fox 5 DC, the Meitivs’ 10-year-old son told reporters they sat in the police car for about two hours before they were told they would be dropped off at home, but instead, they went to CPS in Rockville.

Frantic after their children failed to come home at 6:30, like they said they would, the Meitiv’s went out to search for them. The police never reported that they picked up their children, and CPS didn’t call them until 8:00.

Danielle Meitiv told Fox 5 DC that she always feared something like this would happen.

When the Meitiv’s arrived at CPS to get their children back from their captors, they weren’t given any information about them. They were instead told to “take a seat” and were forced to wait for hours before finally being reunited with their children at 10:30 pm.

Police claim that they are now conducting an investigation to determine what charges will be brought against these parents.

Growing up in the 80’s, I remember roaming the neighborhood as a 6-year-old child. We were told that we didn’t have to come home until the street lights came on. My parents, nor the parents of my friends, who were allowed to roam free, were never harassed or worried about facing charges for their parenting.

The term “free range kids” in the 80’s and 90’s did not exist, they were just called “kids.” What used to be a completely normal behavior is now considered a criminal act in modern day Police State USA.

What the police and CPS are proving here, is that it is, in fact, dangerous to let your children roam free. However, the people posing the greatest risk to your children as they roam free, happen to be the police and CPS.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kidnap-children-playing-parents-bring-cps/#GQO72YuHsajlXy7S.99

Autistic 6th Grader Assaulted by School Cop, Now He is a Convicted Felon

Posted: April 13, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Lynchburg, VA — Nothing wreaks of the police state like police officers assaulting and arresting children at school; especially an 11-year-old boy with autism.

Meet Kayleb Moon-Robinson, a 6th grader at Linkhorne Middle School, whose life has been forever changed thanks to the American police state.

Kayleb’s problems began one day as a teacher was yelling at him for misbehaving. In a fit of anger, Kaleb kicked a trashcan; not a teacher, not another student, a trashcan.

When the school police officer witnessed Kaleb’s attack on the trashcan, instead of getting detention or losing his recess break, Kaleb was arrested. He was then charged with disorderly conduct in juvenile court.

Disturbingly enough, none of the teachers or school officials saw a problem with the use of law enforcement to remedy middle school discipline problems.

Not only did they see nothing wrong with it, but school officials actually used this armed agent of the state as their personal attack dog on this 11-year-old autistic boy.

After the initial charge of disorderly conduct, life for this little boy, who says he loves science, would get worse, much worse.

Only a few weeks later, Kaleb would be accused of breaking another rule. Kaleb, who was treated differently than all of the other students, was forced to remain in the classroom until all of the other students left at the end of each period.

In November, Kaleb left the classroom as the other students left, instead of waiting. The principle then sicked his state-sponsored attack dog on this boy. The school cop approached Kaleb, who might weigh 80 pounds, as if her were a 250 pound hardened criminal.

“He grabbed me and tried to take me to the office,” Kayleb told the Center for Public Integrity. “I started pushing him away. He slammed me down, and then he handcuffed me.”

The incident was witnessed by school officials, and none of them spoke up or tried to stop it.

The Center for Public Integrity reports:

Stacey Doss, Kayleb’s mother and the daughter of a police officer herself, was outraged. Educators stood by, she said, while the cop took her son in handcuffs to juvenile court. The officer filed a second misdemeanor disorderly conduct complaint. And he also submitted another charge, a very grown-up charge for a very small boy: felony assault on a police officer. That charge was filed, Doss said the officer told her, because Kayleb “fought back.”

“I thought in my mind — Kayleb is 11,” Doss said. “He is autistic. He doesn’t fully understand how to differentiate the roles of certain people.”

Young Kids and Heroin-Why?

Posted: April 13, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Why the fuck are young kids doing heroin-and dying from it-it makes no Goddamn sense.

They see friends die,they know they are either going to die,or go to prison,but they keep doing the shit.

Offer them all the help in the world-and they just keep doing heroin-it’s all they care about.

When family members don’t hear from them,they get worried,and usually find the kid with a needle in their arm,or like my son in law-the cops gotta kick the door,then they find an already decomposing body with a needle still stuck in the arm.

Then the coroner tells the kid’s mother she can not see the body-it’s too bad,has to be cremated,and/or  has to be closed casket funeral.

This makes 6 people we know who have overdosed in the past year or so-all but one were the kids of our friends.

These kids see their friends dying-they go to the damn funerals-yet they still do the shit.

I’ve taken every narcotic there is for pain over the past 8 years-and never had the desire to take a bunch of extra pills just to get high.

I just don’t get it-these kids know better-they know how it ends.

This was a great kid when he wasn’t doing the heroin-now he left a widow,and a baby with no father-and his mother and father who are devastated-just because he put getting high above all else.

I just don’t get it.

Just when I started posting again…

Posted: April 13, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Due to a death in the family,I will not be posting much for the next few days.

China Now Has an Internet Cannon. Wait, What’s an Internet Cannon?

Posted: April 12, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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***information provided in the Edward Snowden leaks outlines U.S. government systems that can intercept and redirect Internet traffic to a site of their choosing.

The American system, according to the documents, which were published by The Intercept, can deploy a system of programs that can intercept web traffic on a mass scale and redirect it to a site of their choosing. The N.S.A. and its partners appear to use the programs for targeted surveillance***

On Friday morning, news reports surfaced that China had acquired an Internet cannon. And … wait: What is this about China having an Internet cannon?

If you feel terrifyingly out of the loop, take a deep breath and read the following to learn more about what an Internet cannon is and what it can do.

What is an Internet cannon?

More commonly known in the hacker community as a Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC or WebLOIC), an Internet cannon is a type of computer program used to force traffic overloads (or denial-of-service) onto targeted websites. It uses the Internet to blast out cyberattacks. It’s not a literal cannon.

So even though you read “Internet cannon” and were probably imagining something like this:

China Now Has an Internet Cannon. Wait, What's an Internet Cannon? (US Navy)

 it actually looks more like this:

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(Wikimedia Commons)

Why does China have one?

A new report and analysis claims that China is using what is being termed the “Great Cannon,” ostensibly a type of LOIC, to force an overflow of Web traffic and malicious code onto sites its government wishes to squash in the name of censorship. (If a website is overwhelmed by traffic, real or manufactured, no one will be able to visit it.) The new cybertool is being used in conjunction with its “Great Firewall,” which already blocks access to sites like Facebook and Twitter on Chinese networks.

Denial-of-service attacks on two GitHub project pages last month are now being credited to China’s Great Cannon. The GitHub pages were hosting Chinese censorship circumvention projects run by the anonymous, presumably Chinese activist site GreatFire.org.

Jeesh. That sounds terrible. What kind of country would build such a heinous cyberweapon?

Well, the United States has a similar program.

According to the New York Times, information provided in the Edward Snowden leaks outlines U.S. government systems that can intercept and redirect Internet traffic to a site of their choosing.

Read the rest @  https://www.yahoo.com/tech/china-now-has-an-internet-cannon-wait-whats-an-116045635559.html

Man Films His Own Assault as Police Taser & Arrest Him After Finding Him Asleep in Backseat of Car

Posted: April 12, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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San Marcos, TX — A disturbing video uploaded to YouTube this week, shows a man being tasered, assaulted, and pulled from a car. Elliot Blake, aka RichBoy Boom, claims he was simply sleeping in the back of a friend’s car when police began to harass him. He was tired from a day of passing out flyers for an event.

According to Blake,

After driving from Dallas to Austin, then promoting around the Texasx State Campus for hours, I took a nap in my friends car. I was awakened by 3 officers. I complied showed them the flyers with the address of the very venue I was at and everything, when the female officer planted weed in the vehicle and at that point I started to recorded bc if they will do that they will do anything.

The video starts as officers J.Cope and B. Ellington, of the San Marcos PD, were attempting to remove Blake from the vehicle.

Blake tries to tell the officers that he hasn’t done anything wrong and that the marijuana was planted on him. But the cops were set on getting him out.

The situation quickly escalated into a violent one as police forcefully kidnapped a man for the alleged “crimes” of sleeping in a car and having a bag with pieces of a plant in it.

From the information we’ve obtained, there were no victims in this “crime;” except, of course, the man who was electrocuted and kidnapped.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-films-assault-police-taser-arrest-finding-asleep-backseat-car/#QblsFuq60PGvMzM2.99

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