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Due to illness,I will not be posting for a few days-unless I recover sooner than expected,in which case-I’ll resume posting.
Coroner: Teen killed by police in Illinois shot in back
Posted: April 7, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSATags: police killings, police shootings, police state, police state USSA, police use of force
ZION, Ill. (AP) — An autopsy has revealed that a teenager killed by a police officer in Illinois over the weekend was shot twice in the back, authorities said Monday.
Justus Howell was shot by Zion police on Saturday afternoon. Police say officers responding to a call about an altercation began chasing a male when he ran from the scene. They say that after the teen was shot, officers recovered a handgun.
The Lake County Coroner’s Office said in a statement Monday that one bullet struck the 17-year-old in the left back and penetrated his heart, spleen and liver. Another bullet struck him on the right side of his back. Tests to determine whether drugs were in the victim’s system are pending.
The Zion police chief didn’t return calls Monday seeking comment about the autopsy results. Zion is a community of about 24,000 people along Lake Michigan about 45 miles north of Chicago, near Illinois’ border with Wisconsin.
Howell was black and his relatives contacted the NAACP asking its officials to speak on their behalf, according to Lake County NAACP president Jennifer Witherspoon. She says Howell’s relatives are hoping to find out exactly what happened as quickly as possible.
“Whether it was a mistake on his part or a mistake on the police’s part, they want answers to make sure something like this never happens again,” she said.
The teen’s death comes months after an unarmed black 18-year-old was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, an incident that sparked protests and heightened concerns about how minorities are treated by police around country. Police in Zion haven’t provided any details on the officer involved in Howell’s shooting, including the officer’s race.
“Here in America we are seeing this with too many brown and black boys,” said Witherspoon, who added she was encouraged that Zion police quickly handed the investigation over to the Lake County Major Crime Task Force.
Family members gathered Sunday near the site of the shooting to pay tribute to Howell.
Howell, was a high school junior who transferred from a school in Wisconsin to Waukegan Public School District 60, spokesman Nick Alajakis told the Chicago Tribune.
Alajakis said the teenager attended the Lakeshore Academy, a privately-operated school that takes students from the district and, according to the district’s website, serves academically struggling students.
French Muslim leader calls for doubling of mosques
Posted: April 7, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedLe Bourget (France) (AFP) – One of France’s top Muslim leaders has called for the number of mosques to double over the next two years to remedy a shortage of places of worship for the country’s millions of faithful.
Speaking at a weekend gathering of French Islamic organisations, where participants asked for respect in the face of a rise in anti-Muslim attacks, Dalil Boubakeur said the 2,200 mosques in the country did not adequately represent Europe’s largest Muslim community.
“We need double (that number) within two years,” the head of the French Muslim Council and rector of the Paris mosque said in the town of Le Bourget near the capital.
“There are a lot of prayer rooms, of unfinished mosques, and there are a lot of mosques that are not being built,” he added Saturday at the Muslim gathering, billed as the largest in the Western world.
This annual convention of the Union of Islamic Organisations of France (UOIF), which groups together more than 250 Muslim associations, comes just months after jihadist gunmen killed 17 people in and near Paris.
Since then, there has been a marked rise in Islamophobia in France, with 167 acts against mosques or threats recorded in January alone compared to just 14 in the same month last year.
France has long had a difficult relationship with its Muslim minority — currently estimated at between four and five million — that dates back to bloody struggles in its former North African colonies and the legacy of immigrants trapped in some of the country’s poorest districts.
Long decades of insurgency against French rule in Algeria in the mid-twentieth century, followed by a spate of Algerian extremist attacks in France in the 1990s created difficulties for communal relations — which reawakened with the rise of global jihadism after 9/11.
Apart from physical acts, anti-Muslim sentiment in the country varies from mayors refusing to have mosques built to resistance to halal meals being served in prisons or schools.
Participants at the gathering — which while organised by the UOIF, a group close to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, ranged from liberal to ultra-conservative — denounced violence committed in the name of Islam.
“We are loyal to our country, France. We love God, we love our prophet, but we also love the French Republic,” said Amar Lasfar, UOIF head.
Boubakeur agreed, adding nevertheless that Muslims must also be respected in Franc
“Islam is no longer an Islam stemming from immigration, it is a national Islam that has the right to the recognition and consideration of the French population, just like other communities in France,” Boubakeur said.
‘Armed American Radio’ launches ‘Daily Defense’ program
Posted: April 6, 2015 by gamegetterII in gun rightsTags: 2nd amendment, firearms, Gun Rights, guns, second amendment
Via David Codrea
Mark Walters, host of the weekly nationally-syndicated “Armed American Radio” program, began broadcasting “Daily Defense” Monday afternoon, a newly-redesigned AAR website informed listeners and fans. The one-hour Monday through Friday program is in addition to the three-hour program that airs every Sunday.
“I’m extremely excited to be filling your prescription for freedom on a daily basis,” Walters announced. “If you’re a fan of the wildly popular Sunday evening broadcast then you’re already aware of topic specific talk radio…usually reserved for weekend programming.”
“Mark brings hard hitting talk about the right to bear arms for self defense to the nation’s airwaves,” Salem Radio Network, the distributor for “Armed American Radio” and “Daily Defense” noted. “A one of a kind program focusing on the right to carry concealed handguns, safety and training, politics and everything else related to the right to bear arms for self preservation, Mark interviews some of the biggest nationally recognized names in the field of self-defense and tells the truth about concealed carry that the mainstream media simply ignores.”
The addition of daily programming will allow for breaking news to be discussed in a timelier manner than the once-a-week schedule has previously allowed. Meanwhile, the weekly three-hour show will still allow for multiple issues, guests and in-depth explorations of topics. Together, the programs will complement each other and fill a largely untapped market niche.
“Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense with Mark Walters” is being distributed in several markets nationwide, the AmmoLand website reported. Walters told Gun Rights Examiner in a telephone interview this afternoon that a listing of stations carrying the new program, including local variations in airing times, will be forthcoming. Until then, listeners can access the program by clicking “Listen Live” on the AAR website, weekdays at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Congressional Democrats plan to introduce national gun buyback legislation for “assault weapons.”
Posted: April 6, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshatteryTags: 2nd amendment, 50 round magazine, anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy, firearms.gun laws, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Rights, guns, second amendment
The measure is titled, “Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act.” It will be put forward by Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).
According to The Hill, the measure will differ from local gun buybacks in that those turning in weapons will receive a tax break rather than cash.
DeLauro explained: “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 the battlefield.”
DeLauro did not note that M4 carbines–the AR-15 variant that is actually designed for the battlefield–operates in full auto or in three-round automatic bursts. The AR-15s sold to civilians are simply semi-automatic rifles that are difficult to shoot accurately if fired rapidly.
This is a mistake Democrats have made again and again since Adam Lanza’s attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. They fail to understand that the reason he was able to kill so many people was not because he stole and possessed an AR-15, but because his targets were unarmed. He chose to attack in a gun free zone for a reason.
But DeLauro and other Democrats are stuck in rut when it comes to trying to get rid of the AR-15, so they plan to offer “up to $2,000 in tax breaks” for those who turn them in.
She will be introducing the bill in conjunction with National Public Health Week.
Co-sponsors for DeLauro’s bill include “Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), and David Cicilline (D-R.I.).”
Musings of an LFA III% Member
Posted: April 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshatteryTags: 2nd amendment, anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy, ATF, BATFE, BATFEIEIO, Bloomberg, communists, firearms.gun laws, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Rights, second amendment
For some of us, this cause is not a hobby. It is not drum beating, or attention seeking. It is not something we believe—it is something we are. We could no more lay down and accept this tyranny than the blabbering sheep can rise to fight. In the bottom of our souls, we know we were created for more than subjects in a kingdom, more than a commodity to be controlled and managed. We were born free.
by Kit Lange | Apr 2, 2015 |
There are a hundred ways to speak of the fire that burns in the hearts of patriots in this nation. Those who are seeking those of like mind can see it, spreading like a wildfire across a parched forest. Those who do not understand it are afraid of it, for it signifies something they cannot grasp and do not have the intestinal fortitude to stomach. Liberty for All (LFA III%), the hardcore patriot group in Washington State, may be the tip of the spear, but there are many others throughout this nation who have been in the trenches for decades.
There are those who dismiss us, who claim that standing the line is stupid or even dangerous. They claim we are setting back the liberty movement, or that we don’t know what we’re doing. We are crazy, we are arrogant, we are self-absorbed—or so the stories go. There are days it seems that there is no end to the accusations and the backbiting. At times, I find myself attempting to defend that which needs no defending. It is a difficult lesson to realize, but time spent defending this fight to those with no concept of its necessity is, quite simply, time wasted.
The truth is, I have seen the men and women who stand next to me. I have looked in their eyes and seen their hearts. They are not crazy, and they are not fools. There is a kind of soul that already knows how this ends. There is a kind of heart that sees the cost before it comes, and offers to pay it even still. For some of us, this cause is not a hobby. It is not drum beating, or attention seeking. It is not something we believe—it is something we are. We could no more lay down and accept this tyranny than the blabbering sheep can rise to fight. In the bottom of our souls, we know we were created for more than subjects in a kingdom, more than a commodity to be controlled and managed. We were born free.
We were born to fight.
The naysayers will always be there; the loyalists of our time will always seek to justify their inaction and even their blatant cowardice. The fence sitters will always find a reason to stay settled where they are, constantly trying to figure out which side of the fence is more advantageous to be on at any given time. Eventually, they too will be left without a place to sit. Tyranny does not give special treatment to those who help its growth; soon enough even those who called for caution and denigrated us will have to recognize their own chains.
In the meantime, the patriots continue to stand. We continue to push forward, to dare things not seen in this country in over 200 years. We seek no glory, but we do demand liberty; its pursuit will not be stopped for anything. For us, there is no other option. Our Constitution unites us, and the truth that men are born to be free will bind us together in this fight, come what may. We will stand with each other, and while every single day we pray that it never comes to violence, if it comes we will stand through that as well. And if the sun rises on a day when we are asked to give our lives in the defense of this absolute truth, we will do so…without hesitation.
Even so, know this: we will not go quietly. We will not go easily. We will go filthy and stained, with the blood of those whose appetite for our liberties pushed them past a line from which there is no coming back. We will go with as many tyrants as we can take with us.
We will never shoot first; we will not cross the line into violence. Our creed does not make us monsters; it makes us defenders. But if we are pushed, we will fight, and we will fight until we are dead. And in the wake of our deaths, others will rise and fight in our place, and eventually we will win. Even in death, we will win, because death is always more desirable than slavery.
There are a hundred ways to say all of this; pretty words and glorious imagery that evoke emotions that most people have forgotten how to feel. But when all is said and done, it can all be summed up in one rallying cry. One basic concept that holds within it the promise to all tyrants that any attempt on our lives will result in the fight—and the end—of their own, for there will be no more free Ruby Ridge incidents, no more free Wacos, no more free bloodshed. One simple statement that every patriot understands in the core of their very bones.
We will not comply.
We stand.
LFA III%
http://www.patrickhenrysociety.com/musings-of-an-lfa-iii-member/
Resist-by any means necessary-no matter what…
France bans use of cash for more than €1000 ($1060)
Posted: April 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedComing soon to the USSA,because-terrorists ,terrorism,and “national security” gotta protect the “homeland”.
Seriously-I wouldn’t doubt it if the U.S. tries the same thing-it’s already a huge pain in the ass to withdraw large amounts of your own damn money from your own bank in cash-then when you do get your own cash,you have to worry about officer safety and co. seizing it as you’re traveling down the highway-in the name of “the war on drugs”-because anyone who carries cash just has to be a dope dealer,so they seize your cash,don’t bother charging you with a crime-then it costs you $12,000.00 in lawyer fees to get your $15,000.00 back from .gov inc.
What are the gestapo going to do for funding if no one can carry cash?
The attacks did not cost the perpetrators much and were partly financed by cash, consumer loans and trafficking counterfeit goods, officials say.
“It’s a terrorism that is low cost to carry out but has major impact,” Sapin told a news conference. “This low-cost terrorism feeds on fraud, money laundering and petty trafficking.”
From September onwards, people who live in France will not be allowed to make payments of more than 1,000 euros ($1,060) in cash, down from 3,000 now. The cap for foreign visitors, left higher for reasons that include facilitating tourism, will be cut to 10,000 euros from 15,000.
Any cash deposit or withdrawal of more than 10,000 euros over a single month will be automatically signaled to the Tracfin anti-fraud and money laundering agency.
Quick post: When ego trumps ability – aka don’t be like me
Posted: April 2, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedDon’t be that guy…
You know how here at Hogwarts we push physical training (PT) as a bulwark for personal resiliency when the grid goes down. In addition to getting strong and fit, it’s also a great way to minimize or mitigate injuries.
We’ve also read musings from guys who PT a lot (Mosby, Max) as well as masters of strength training (Rippetoe, Wendler, et al) to train hard but not let your ego get in the way of your ability lest you do something dumb and hurt yourself.
Well, yours truly took a little break from weightlifting for about five weeks and decided to hit the stack with the full force and ferocity of my last workout before the break and managed to bulge a disc and add an annular tear to the disc membrane in the process. Barbell rows were the culprit and it was a…
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D.C. gives up total carry ban to focus on ways to deny permit applications
Posted: April 2, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshatteryTags: 2nd amendment, anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy, firearms.gun laws, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Rights, second amendment
Via David Codrea
Thwarted by the courts from enforcing an outright ban, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine will concentrate resources on defending laws designed to deny concealed carry permits, his office reported in a Wednesday press release. The legal strategy will now fall back to defending “may issue” laws requiring “good cause,” as determined by the District’s government.
“We need to focus our energies not on litigating old laws, but defending new ones that our leaders enacted in good faith to comply with court rulings while still protecting public safety,” Racine announced. “The Council enacted a law that sets a process by which individuals may apply for gun licenses, which has superseded the law at issue in Palmer v. District of Columbia. Going forward, our energies are best spent focusing on defending the current law. We are vigorously defending it in the district court, and we are confident that it will be upheld.”
The result of those “current laws” is that, as reported in January, eight people, or .00001 percent of the District’s residents had been permitted to carry a gun. Of all applications, which included non-residents, more had been denied than approved.
Racine’s public air of confidence will be tested as conflicts between courts leave an ultimate judicial ruling on “may issue” vs. “shall issue” concealed carry permits up in the air, while a movement in the states to adopt permitless “Constitutional carry” is growing. The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Maryland’s “may issue” law in 2013, but state challenges to “shall issue” rulings before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California could force the High Court’s hand.
Also unclear is what effect the decision by Racine’s office will have on efforts in Congress to compel the district to loosen up on the infringements. With the administration arguing for “home rule” and with a seeming concession that still denies the right to bear arms to the vast majority of individuals who wish to exercise it, there is still much “good faith leadership” the Republican-dominated House and Senate could do to show gun owners they know who helped them attain their majorities.
Starvin Larry 