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Connecticut Child Advocate report on Newtown argues for gun bans

Posted: November 22, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Gov. Malloy's latest "report" confirms he's not interested in any information that does not promote an incremental citizen disarmament agenda.
Gov. Malloy’s latest “report” confirms he’s not interested in any information that does not promote an incremental citizen disarmament agenda.
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Unsurprisingly, a report released Friday by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate prioritizes placing the blame for the “Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School” on ownership of firearms, with particular emphasis on the semi-automatic kind that can accept standard capacity magazines. The “findings” are the result of direction from the Connecticut Child Fatality Review Panel “to prepare a report that would focus on Adam Lanza [and] develop any recommendations for public health system improvement that emanated from the review.”

That administration functionaries concluded impeding the right to keep and bear arms would be a “public health system improvement” is also unsurprising. An advocacy role in itself is telling, along with the office’s allegiance to Gov. Dannel Malloy though his appointment of “primary author” Sarah Eagan to head a state agency that holds powers of intervention and subpoena.

“Access to assault weapons with high capacity magazines did play a major role in this and other mass shootings in recent history,” the government polemic masked as authoritative study results declares, in the first of 13 references to the term “weapon” contained in the report. “Our emphasis on AL’s developmental trajectory and issues of mental illness should not be understood to mean that these issues were considered more important than access to these weapons or that we do not consider such access to be a critical public health issue.”

That “conclusion” is restated several times, along with several side trips obviously intended to further demonize private gun ownership.

Along with “gun-related homicides in Australia … The firearm-suicide rate dropped 65 percent,’” the advocates claim, citing a 2010 “study” in the American Journal of Law and Economics This was after meaningful gun control regulations which outlawed possession of assault weapons were passed following a mass shooting.”

Interestingly, the much-touted Australian experience is not all those with an agenda to advocate for defenselessness would have us believe. No less an authority than The British Journal of Criminology observed “The Australian situation enables evaluation of the effect of a national buy-back, accompanied by tightened legislation in a country with relatively secure borders. AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) was used to predict future values of the time series for homicide, suicide and accidental death before and after the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA). When compared with observed values, firearm suicide was the only parameter the NFA may have influenced, although societal factors could also have influenced observed changes.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/connecticut-child-advocate-report-on-newtown-argues-for-gun-bans?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Judge threatens detective with contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods

Posted: November 21, 2014 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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Baltimore prosecutors withdrew key evidence in a robbery case Monday rather than reveal details of the cellphone tracking technology police used to gather it.

The surprise turn in Baltimore Circuit Court came after a defense attorney pressed a city police detective to reveal how officers had tracked his client.

City police Det. John L. Haley, a member of a specialized phone tracking unit, said officers did not use the controversial device known as a stingray. But when pressed on how phones are tracked, he cited what he called a “nondisclosure agreement” with the FBI.

“You don’t have a nondisclosure agreement with the court,” Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams replied.

Williams threatened to hold Haley in contempt if he did not respond. Prosecutors decided to withdraw the evidence instead.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-stingray-officer-contempt-20141117-story.html

Media covers up Obama, Holder interference in Ferguson probe: Report

Posted: November 21, 2014 by gamegetterII in Gov't overreach, Police state USSA
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While the news media breathlessly await a grand jury’s decision on whether or not a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, will be indicted for his shooting and killing of black teenager Michael Brown, a nonpartisan group that investigates government corruption announced on Thursday the release of Justice Department records regarding alleged interference in the Ferguson investigation by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. And the media’s silence was deafening.

Many accuse Eric Holder of being overly sensitive about race which he brings to the job.
Courtesy of NewswithViews

The non-profit Judicial Watch obtained documents that reveal the Obama administration had dispatched eight Justice Department Community Relations Service (CRS) agents to Ferguson in the aftermath of the shooting incident — and during the days of protests, vandalism and looting — in response to demands made by NAACP. The DOJ agents included CRS Director Grande Lum and Deputy Director Gilbert Moore.

Set up in 1964, the decidedly secretive CRS, which requires its agents by law to “conduct their activities in confidence,” reportedly has greatly expanded its role under Obama. Although the agency claims to use “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution procedures,” the released documents suggest that the unit deployed to Ferguson took an active role in working with those demanding the prosecution of police officer Wilson instead of maintaining an unbiased perspective.

From the beginning of the protests that turned into riots, vandalism of private property and looting of local businesses in Ferguson, the news media could not get enough news coverage of NAACP complaints about the police department’s “militarized tactics in their attempts to restore order.” The NAACP chronicling the Ferguson riots on the organization’s website stated, “Michael Brown did not deserve to die” while the NAACP website characterized the local police as “an invading army” and repeatedly voiced the “outrage over the violent response by police in Ferguson,” while demanding that “justice for Michael [be] served.”

The DOJ documents were obtained by Judicial Watch in response to its Aug. 14, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request after a two and one-half month wait. The DOJ turned over records that described how taxpayers were billed $15,000 just for travel expenses to send eight CRS agents (including the CRS Director and Deputy Director) to Ferguson between August 10 and September 3.

On August 29, CRS officials held a “community meeting” with the NAACP that, according to St. Louis Public Radio, also served as platform to discuss the importance of voting in affecting change, noted Judicial Watch. “Here you had a kid killed — whether justified or not he’s dead — and these DOJ minions and NAACP race-baiters were talking about how to get out the black vote in the next election,” said former police detective and U.S. Marine Sid Franes, himself an African American. “The kid’s body wasn’t even in the grave and these political vultures are concerned with reelecting Democrats. Remember this is the DOJ’s government employees talking with a tax-exempt civil rights group conspiring on how to use the tragedy in Ferguson to get votes,” Franes said.

According to Judicial Watch one of the documents described how:

“CRS traveled to Ferguson, MO on Sunday afternoon, August 10, 2014, in response to community tension based upon the shooting of an unarmed African American teenager on Saturday, August 9, 2014, by a Ferguson police officer. The community was outraged by the shooting and began gathering in front of the Ferguson Police Department and at the scene of the youth’s death. The NAACP requested CRS assistance by email and phone call on Sunday afternoon as crowds exceeded 400 in front of the police department. After a community vigil held on Sunday, which was attended by over one thousand people, segments of the crowd became unruly and rioting, looting and randam [sic] shootings occurred. CRS has met with the NAACP, spoken to the USA (MO – Eastern District) and the chiefs of police of St. Louis County and Ferguson, MO. CRS will continue to identify local African American community leaders to address concerns, ease community tensions and prevent further violence. (Case numbered TBD)”
http://www.examiner.com/article/media-covers-up-obama-holder-interference-ferguson-probe-report

Cleveland police kill defenseless woman

Posted: November 21, 2014 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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Cleveland police kill defenseless woman

Cleveland police
Cleveland police
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While the nation waits with bated breath for the verdict to come out of Ferguson for the police officer who gunned down Michael Brown, it’s important to remember that it isn’t the only case of a cop killing an unarmed person. Far from it, actually, as police are responsible for some 400 deaths a year, though the numbers are likely higher as departments often engage in cover-ups and obfuscation to protect their own. And not all are shootings, either.

Take the case of Tanesha Anderson, for example. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported yesterday on her case in which a police officer slammed her head into the concrete in front of her family and children. The catch? Anderson suffered from several mental illnesses and was likely unable to fully understand the situation.

Reports differ on what happened, with police saying that she resisted arrest after they were called to her home for a disturbance. Apparently she “went limp” while police were trying to take her into custody, which the cops took as a cue to smash her head into the ground hard enough to kill her.

“The woman began to kick at officers,” said police spokesperson Ali Pillow. “A short time later, the woman stopped struggling and appeared to go limp. Officers found a faint pulse on the victim and immediately called EMS.”

Anderson’s family witnessed the entire altercation, and their version of events is a little different. They say that Anderson did not, in fact, “kick at officers,” instead sitting silently in the police car until she became unsettled by the enclosed space and attempted to leave. A cop then grabbed her from the vehicle and slammed her face into the ground, according to her brother, Joell Anderson.

http://www.examiner.com/article/cleveland-police-kill-defenseless-woman?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

Pennsylvania police spent $11 million on ambush suspect manhunt: report

Posted: November 15, 2014 by gamegetterII in Eric Frein, Police state USSA
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(Reuters) – Pennsylvania State Police spent roughly $11 million on the weeks-long manhunt in the Pocono Mountains to capture a survivalist charged with shooting two state troopers and murdering one, local media reported on Friday.

The funds went mostly toward paying overtime and benefits for troopers hunting Eric Matthew Frein over the 48 days of the search, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing a police spokeswoman.

The tally excludes expenses paid by other law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, in the weeks leading up to Frein’s capture on Oct. 30, the newspaper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-police-spent-11-million-ambush-suspect-manhunt-052618672.html

Note that the nearly quarter million PER DAY spent by the PSP “went mostly to paying overtime and benefits for troopers”

The PSP pissed away 11 million during the course of the manhunt-that total doesn’t count all the $$$ pissed away by the FBI,U.S. Marshalls service,BATFE,and whatever other A-Z .gov inc. agencies took part in the search.

What the PSP should be spending millions on next is defending themselves from civil rights lawsuits for their unconstitutional lockdown of the area,their preventing residents from going into their own homes,traveling down the street their homes are on,searching homes without warrants,setting up roadblocks,searching cars,often searching the same cars over and over.

The PSP stopped the same guy over a dozen times because he has a slight resemblance to Frein.

Then,there’s the PSP refusing to allow Mr. Frein’s attorney to speak to him,the U.S. Marshall’s Service getting a few good shots in on Frein during the arrest-including what appeared to be a broken nose-when, by their own admission,he did not resist.

The PSP spent 48 days and 11 MILLION dollars looking for ONE GUY.

Had it been me,and an employee,or you and an employee,or you and your boss who were shot while returning to yours or my pole barn at 10pm or so-the state police wouldn’t have spent 11 HUNDRED dollars looking for the shooter,there would have been zero unconstitutional house to house searches,no roadblocks,no cars being searched.

Since it was a gestapo agent-money is no object-they’ll just seize some extra $$$ from citizens on the interstates and local 2 lane U.S. Routes, without charging them with a crime,and raise taxes on the few $$$ you and I see of each paycheck after .gov inc. gets their cut.

We will know soon enough  what the next fabrication released by .gov inc is concerning Mr. Frein…

Killings by cops apparently going up; killings of cops going down

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in police state, Police state USSA
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The number of felony suspects fatally shot by police last year — 461— was the most in two decades, according to a new FBI report.

The justifiable homicide count, contained in the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, has become increasingly scrutinized in recent months as questions continue to be raised about the use of lethal force by law enforcement.

It’s the third straight year we’ve seen an increase. If you’ve been reading The Watch regularly, you’ll know that we hit that figure in the same year that killings of police officers reached a 50-year low. Last year also saw a drop in violent crime. There are about eight to nine killings by cops for every killing of a cop. (The FBI reported 48 felonious deaths of police officers in 2012, the last year for which data were available.)

The article also mentions another problem we’ve discussed here: It’s difficult to say just how much the figure is rising because police departments are historically bad at actually reporting this data.

University of Nebraska criminologist Samuel Walker said the incomplete nature of the data renders the recent spike in such deaths even more difficult to explain.

Bottom line: We should want cops killing people less often. Instead, they seem to be killing people more, even as the threat to cops is diminishing, and society itself is getting safer. And it’s simply unacceptable that we get precise data about cops killed on the job, but only sloppy, incomplete data about who, when and how many cops kill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/13/killings-by-cops-apparently-going-up-killings-of-cops-going-down/

The Watch- The Stingray menace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Policing for profit in Tennessee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why are judges allowing this to continue to take place?

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

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

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

‘Exigent circumstances,’ warrantless searches and lethal force

Posted: November 7, 2014 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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“If a police officer is illegally attempting to enter your home, should you be legally permitted to use force to prevent him from doing so? It’s a difficult question. You don’t want to make people think they have license to decide at the scene that a search is illegal, use force against cops and then end up with casualties. Even if it were unquestionably legal, it certainly wouldn’t be advised. But the alternative is to say that citizens should be legally required to submit to illegal searches and hope that the courts will rule in their favor later. Even if the subject of the illegal search were to later win in court, which is hardly a given, an illegal search can have immediate and irreversible consequences.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/07/exigent-circumstances-warrantless-searches-and-lethal-force/

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The GOP winning the Senate will change exactly nothing.

Posted: November 7, 2014 by gamegetterII in police state
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The GOP won enough seats on Tues to take control of the Senate-which will change nothing,not one thing.

The Dems and the GOP are so far removed from from the founders idea of a representative form of government,where the people get to have a say in everything that government does,that they would not recognize the clusterfuck we currently have in DC.

The Dems and the GOP both work for themselves first and foremost,and team .gov inc. secondly.

The red team/blue team bullshit being swallowed by the “average American”-who is becoming dumber with each graduating class from the .gov inc. / leftist indoctrination camps that our public schools have become-is nothing more than bread and circuses-heavy on the .gov inc EBT card provided bread and HFCS.

The “average American” is a dumb,fat,lazy, pathetically out of shape wage slave who simply does not understand-or refuses to believe what’s going on in front of their eyes.

Team .gov inc is taking the citizens freedoms a little at time.

This started as a death by a thousand cuts approach,lately-it is turning into an all-out assault on our freedoms.

The gestapo kicks in doors at 4 am,often the wrong door,at the wrong home,and faces no wrath from the dumbed down fat fucks that make up most of the citizenry-they actually swallow the team .gov inc. propaganda that these raids are to keep them safe from “terrorists” and violent criminals.

The gestapo stops random cars on our interstate highways,and searches innocent citizens,confiscating their hard earned cash without ever charging them with a crime.

The IRS just takes citizens hard earned cash directly from their bank accounts-without ever charging them with a crime.

The gestapo can force you,by using your own fingerprint-to “unlock” your smartphone-without first obtaining a warrant.

The NSA is tracking every text,e-mail,phone call,and the internet browsing history of all of us.

The new TV sets have so much technology that the NSA could easily abuse that you can be on video and audio,being watched by the NSA any time you are in the same room as your new flat screen tee vee.

I’m sure that it won’t be long before team .gov inc. is spying on all of us via drones-they probably already are.

Print and TV journalists are being spied on by team .gov inc.

The media is largely state run now-nothing more than propaganda being spewed by team .gov inc.

You can not even build a new pole barn,garage,or remodel your home without a multitude of local,county and state agencies getting some of your hard earned $$$. After all that-the EPA can just claim your property is a wetland,or an endangered toad,frog,mouse,lizard,tortoise,or unicorn lives in the area,and it’s now off limits to any and all human activity.

The BLM is working with the EPA,and a bunch of the animal “rights” whackos,and enviro-nazis to classify millions of acres of fed lands “Areas Of Environmental Concern”,and restricting or banning human activities on said lands.

The BLM is not the only team .gov inc. agency working with the EPA, animal “rights” whackos,and enviro-nazis-the USFS has banned logging on billions of acres of national forest lands,the USFWS has banned and/or restricted fishing and hunting on fed lands,as has the Army Corps of Engineers.

The leftist governors of NY CO,and Conneticut,along with both state’s elected representatives have banned certain types of firearms,and the standard capacity magazines that go with them,making all of those-and there are quite a lot of “those” who refuse to comply with the bans instant felons.

None of the leftist/socialist governors has sent his state’s gestapo,and their “SWAT” teams to begin kicking doors in the middle of the night,and hauling the gun owners lucky enough to not have been killed by the poorly trained,trigger happy team .gov inc. members of the “SWAT” teams off to the gulag.

Should these morons begin kicking in doors at 4am to attempt gun confiscation-a whole lot of people are going to die,because most people I know-if their door was kicked in at 4am-are coming out of their bedroom shooting to kill the intruders.

Should these fucktard governors decide that kicking in doors to confiscate guns is a good idea-they will ignite a civil war that will make version I look like it was re-enactment,it would last years,and many millions would die.

The three states still have the same fucktards as governors-CO and Conn. have populations of leftists that vastly outnumber those who value freedom and rightful liberty.

So does NY,but like CO’s Denver,NYC and the large cities in Conn-the leftists in the big cites now outnumber the rest of the states-where the majority of gun owners reside.

The  first, second,and fourth amendments are being largely ignored by team .gov inc.

The fat,dumbed down,pathetically out of shape sheeple were all warm and fuzzy over the GOP wins-that’s because they have lost the ability to think for themselves,and are too busy watching the bullshit on the tee-vee,watching football,or “reality” shows.

Some people are opening their eyes,and waking up to the shit being pulled by team .gov inc.

More people need to be aware of what is actually taking place in our government-it’s sure as hell not a government of the people,by the people,and for the people any longer.

Those elected to represent the citizenry represent themselves first, and team .gov inc second-they could care less about you and me. They are too busy enriching themselves,their families,and their friends,being bought and paid for by lobbyists, and lining up a job after they leave office.

Red team or blue team-there’s no difference-they are both only out for themselves and team .gov inc.

It’s not likely that we can vote our way out of the mess that is the federal government…

“…and the sad truth is that 95% of the problems we have in this country could be solved tomorrow, by noon… simply by dragging 100 people out in the street and shooting them in the fucking head.” – An anonymous former US Marine.

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