panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond unanimously ruled the case moot because the plaintiff in the case, a woman from Virginia named Natalia Marshall, turned 21 before the court’s decision became official, and is now able to purchase a handgun legally from licensed firearms dealers.
If you are filing one of these Second Amendment cases you need to remember a key point. Talk to your attorney to get it just right.
Yes, you file to get the unconstitutional law tossed. But do not leave it at that.
File for damages for the time spent while your rights were actively denied. You were damaged by the deprivation of rights. Demand compensation for that.
The car crash/2A rights deprivation may be over, but it still happened. At the very least force the court into mental gymnastics to pretend it didn’t.
That makes it tougher to dismiss cases for mootness.
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US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land.
But in the Taliban’s lightning seizure of power, most of that digital apparatus — including biometrics for verifying identities — apparently fell into Taliban hands. Built with few data-protection safeguards, it risks becoming the high-tech jackboots of a surveillance state. As the Taliban get their governing feet, there are worries it will be used for social control and to punish perceived foes.
If American-built databases of Afghans are bad, why aren’t American-built databases of Americans equally bad?
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For my work, I read a lot of legislation. Too much is mind-boggling stupid, but a few bills stand out even in that category. Rep. Ted Deutch [D-FL] and Sen. Ed Markey [D-MA] have mananaged to introduce what is possibly the stupidest bit of legislation since the failed Indiana attempt to set pi = 3.
I am speaking of companion bills H.R. 4225 and S. 2319, the “3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2021”.
The “Findings” portion of the bills immediately tipped me off that something was very wrong with the mental state of whoever actually drafted this for the gullible congresscritters. Or it was the best prank in over a century. To wit,
(1) Three dimensional, or “3D” printing, involves the programming of a 3D printing machine with a computer file that provides the schematics for the item to be printed.
(2) Recent technological developments have allowed for the 3D printing of firearms and firearm parts, including parts made out of plastic, by unlicensed individuals in possession of relatively inexpensive 3D printers.
OK, we’re talking about plastic 3D printing, right? But why do we need this ban?
(5) On June 7, 2013, an assailant used a gun he had constructed by himself to kill his father, brother, and 3 other people at Santa Monica College in California. The person had failed a background check when he tried to purchase a gun from a licensed gun dealer. The gun he used was made from an unfinished AR–15-style receiver, similar to a receiver that can now be made with a 3D printer.
The bucket o’chum in the Santa Monica shooting didn’t use a 3D printed firearm. He used an AR-pattern firearm assembled from an 80% lower. You might be scratching your head over that conflation, but there’s a method in their madness.
I’ll skip past the points where our dedicated dipsticks conflated numberless homemade guns with commercially manufactured firearms with obliterated serial numbers, or how serial numbers on commercially manufactured firearms are merely “traditional” rather law, and go straight to the prohibition.
It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally distribute, over the Internet or by means of the World Wide Web, digital instructions in the form of Computer Aided Design files or other code that can automatically program a 3-dimensional printer or similar device to produce a firearm or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.”.
You may pause for a moment to giggle at the thought of transmitting a file over the World Wide Webwithout using the Internet, along with the plurality of periods.
Done?
Yes, whether self-directed morons or gullible dupes, Deutch and Markey are trying to ban the transmission of additive manufacturing 3D printer files for… subtractive manufacturing CNC mills.
I either want to b**ch-slap someone, or shake their hand.
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So I have no idea what happened to the first part of this column. YESH, here is the missing part. But honestly, after I put this up, I found some more things to add in. Still don’t know how I managed to lose the first part.
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c’mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy…
Sometimes it can seem like everything in the deck is stacked against us. U.S. We’ve got a piece of crap dementia ridden head of a crime family occupying our White House. Elections have consequences, stolen elections more so, eh? We have “intelligence agencies” that need to be called something else. I have lots of helpful suggestions, but that’s not what this column is about.
This is about fighting back. There is something going on all across the world right now. People are waking up to the evil that governments have decided to impose on their serfs. It seems to me that people are picking what they feel most strongly about and standing up and fighting back. Some of them very eloquently.
So let’s take a look at some current events and draw hope, shall we?
First up, the Germans have had enough of the tyranny imposed by their government; mask mandates, lock downs, do this, don’t do that.
Thunder Ridge High School students have had enough of the ridiculous mask mandates, they walked out.
Students at Thunder Ridge High School in Highlands Ranch are fed up with masks. They walked out of class this morning in protest. #Denver7pic.twitter.com/BpuLW6i5pZ
Speaking of students, a whole lot of parents have flat had enough of the “woke” “progressive” agenda of turning students into future Communists. When Project Veritas exposed a antifa teacher who’s plan was to threaten and intimidate the students into being revolutionaries the rose up on their hind legs. The school districts initial response
Chris Evans, Natomas Unified School District Superintendent: “As of today, this teacher [Gabriel Gipe] was placed on paid leave because of his actions and choices in the classroom. Natomas Unified will be taking the legally required next steps to place the teacher on unpaid leave and fire the teacher. By taking a day and a half to investigate beyond the video, the district was able to learn more facts essential to the next steps.”
And then the parents showed up at the school board meeting….he’s fired. They wanted him out right now, not in a week, two weeks, whatever.
But it’s not just antifa teachers, and actually I bet there are more of those than we could imagine. It’s Critical Race Theory. And parents have had enough of it. They are showing up at school board meetings like never before. Apparently a lot of parents were like mine, who thought they could trust the educational system. Back in my day, they probably could without too many repercussions, but not so today.
And then there is the mandatory jab, vaccine mandates. Not surprisingly to me anyway, a lot of healthcare workers do not want to be injected with the mRNA experimental shot. Isn’t it weird, a year ago when there was no injection it was “Healthcare heroes”, “Frontline workers” now doing the exact same job, wearing the same PPE (personal protection equipment) for some reason hospitals are so frantic to get this substance into their former “heroes” they will fire them if they don’t submit. Guess all that “essential” stuff was B.S. right? Kind of weird isn’t it, one would think that hospital workers, especially the frontline variety would be begging for the injection. Yet, they aren’t. Wonder why that would be. And many that have taken it were threatened, or bribed with chances to enter lotteries with thousands of dollars. You know, like every other injection in history for a disease with a 99% + survival rate. Sorry, I got off topic there. Anyway, they aren’t sitting down and taking it quietly either!
Thousands protest vaccine passports outside hospitals across B.C.
Nurses protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health care workers
Health care workers protest vaccine mandate at local hospitals
New Yorkers want the tyranny to end, a helpful aside to our New York brethren, stop electing frickin’ Communists, this is what they do! If it’s got a D behind it’s name don’t vote for it because if there were honesty in advertising it would be a C for communist!
New York teachers don’t want the mandated jab either
And then there is the “green pass” the modern version of “papers please” and if you don’t have it you will be denied entry to sporting events, movies, restaurants and even grocery stores to buy food!
I heard tell of a town in Russia where the mayor had passed a mandate, you had to be injected to go to many places in town. So the injected and the un-injected all banded together and nobody went anywhere! Within a week shop owners were calling the mayor and letting him have it. They were making no money, the mayor spewed out some political B.S. about how great the covid rates are and he repealed the mandate.
The French are boycotting restaurants demanding a “green pass” by having picnics in the street, lots of people eating their picnic suppers in front of empty or near empty restaurants. There’s video in the link.
French citizens boycott vaccine passports by eating right in front of nearly empty, vaxx-only bars and restaurants. Red pill news UK pic.twitter.com/B3MqUmpTsv
A supermarket that banned un-injected people from buying food has found that isn’t working out as planned.
FRANCE: ACTIVISTS BLOCK A SUPERMARKET THAT BANNED unvaccinated people have organised themselves to force their way into supermarkets. Or conversely, to block access to all in order to protest against the vaccine passport. pic.twitter.com/sbjniTno1g
In case you’re wondering why I called this column “Convoy”, in the penal colony of Australia, the truckers have had enough of threats of the jab and “green pass”.
They are bringing things to a standstill. And the mainstream media is silent.
Lots of everyday American people are finding things they can do, and I think that’s great because it lessens the feeling of helplessness.
There are election Audit groups in almost every state now, and they need people to be involved. I know they are on Telegram, but here’s their web site, https://t.me/s/americasauditforce
The enemy knows that Patriots in America are waking up, getting informed, and rising up.
The enemy is panicking.
The enemy is being forced to accelerate its nefarious plan to seize control of our country and our lives.
The enemy will lose. This is America. The enemy underestimated the will and spirit of American Patriots. We The People are the government.
So let’s keep engaging in guerrilla warfare against the enemy while we have the enemy on the run.
Use your money as bullets. STOP doing business with the enemy.
Use your voices and rights of free speech and freedom of assembly to organize rallies to demand forensic audits of the 2020 vote.
Use your voices and rights of free speech and freedom of assembly to organize protests where “elected” officials make public appearances or conduct public meetings. Drown them out with shouts of “traitor,” “communist,” or “fix it NOW!!!” Don’t let these traitors get in a word edgewise. Send them back to the swamps from which they emerged.
If an employer illegally fires you because you exercise your legal right to decline to wear a mask or take the jab to be part of a dangerous experimental medical treatment with an unknown and potentially lethal “vaccine,” stand on your rights. They cannot do business if enough employees refuse to be coerced and threatened. Shut them down. Then hire a honest lawyer (will take some time to locate one) and sue the employer for its wrongdoing.
Go to https://strikebackforfreedom.com/ and provide #StrikeBack the names of God-fearing Patriots and Patriot business with whom Patriots should do business. We need your information to populate the website.
Finally, your prayers are your nukes. Organize prayer meetings in your neighborhoods and communities. Prayer is the strongest of ALL weapons.
People are running for school boards and local offices, they are showing up at political meetings and forming citizen groups, and I don’t mean “Republican clubs”. Even a sizable number of what used to be Democrats want Joe “The Big Guy” Xiden impeached and the murder turtle said “no way”. No, I mean American Citizen, American Patriot clubs. Then build fires to hold elected officials feet to the fires. If they don’t tow the line, primary them. But the 2020 election needs to be audited or how can we ever have faith in another one?
So there are things ordinary citizens are doing. They are unwilling to sit by and watch our country circle the drain. These are just some ideas of things already happening. There is a spirit, there is is a movement that is beginning to sweep the world, it’s a battle of good vs evil. But there are a lot of us, and more waking up as opposed to being “woke” every day…was that an airhorn I just heard?
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c’mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy…
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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