Open Carry: Are you normalizing, or making yourself a target?

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who loves him some prior restraint of rights when it comes to “law & order,” does have some good advice. Stopped clock, twice a day, and all that.

Dan Crenshaw Right About What 2A Community Needs
Rep. Crenshaw cut to the chase about how the Second Amendment movement can continue the momentum and the importance for the industry and existing gun owners to change the way they recruit and welcome new firearm owners into the community.

“We need a lot less guys dressing up in their Call of Duty outfits, marching through the streets and we need a lot more women who are talking about how they need the right to defend themselves against a larger man.”

Tom Knighton elaborated in his own words.

“They don’t see those folks as ordinary people. They seem them as a violent militia that might start shooting at any given moment. They’re terrified of what that means.”

The Gun Feed referred to that as “pro-gun LARPing.” I agree; and I’ve addressed it before. Optics — viewpoint type, not firearm — matter. The people we want to persuade need to be persuaded precisely because they don’t view these things as do we.

If you want to sway these people to the Constitutionally correct view of the Second Amendment, do it right.

Tactical gear, ARs and AKs, and scary militant slogans aren’t going to suddenly persuade the Democrat delegates, Democrat senators, and Democrat governor that, “Well, gosh. We were wrong; these are just peaceable, reasonable, nonviolent people who make an excellent point.” Militant appearance and behavior at a lobbying event reinforces their belief that mere citizens are too dangerous to be trusted with arms.

If I’d been planning this, I’d have set up the rally as a silent protest outside, with everyone dressed as neatly as possible in their everyday work attire, to drive home the real point that we are just ordinary citizens, not nutjobs.

That’s one reason to avoid the tacticool look. But consider another. Police and federal agents are also watching.

Do you remember Duncan Socrates Lemp, killed in his bed by police? They targeted him because, due to his display of weaponry and gear, they decided he was an evil boogaloo/militia type. Lemp died for his optics. He won’t be supporting 2A rights much anymore.

Then there’s the “Hey, let’s form a militia, kidnap Gov. Witless, and put her on trial” morons. Sure, the feds had them heavily infiltrated with CIs and agents, and most likely talked them into the ridiculous “conspiracy,” but why target them?

Yep, militia, running around in public with ARs, and the like. They had the right-for-the-feds-purposes look.

They won’t be very active in the 2A community for a while, what with being in jail, awaiting expensive trials.

You absolutely have the right to rig up, and demonstrate with a rifle over your shoulder. But is it worth arrest or death? Does it “normalize” firearms ownership to do something that I’m quite willing to bet isn’t particularly normal even for the tacticool demonstrators? How many of them really dress and carry like that to doctor appointments, or grocery shopping? Outside of training sessions, do they rig up for anything but protests?

There are times and places for the the tactical look, if you want to drop the occasional hint to would-be tyrants. Consider getting a group of fellow veterans together to march in a Veterans Day parade, for example. In completely appropriate setting, you’re saying, “Our regular service may be done, but we’re still willing and equipped to respond as needed.” I’m sure you can think of other appropriate settings.

Otherwise, the setting is probably inappropriate for that sort of thing. If you want to normalize gun ownership through open carry, do it normally. Dress in your normal every day attire, possibly with a little extra attention to neatness. And open carry the pistol you normally carry. Do normal things while open carrying, like checking mail, or mowing the grass (yes, I do).

That’s a lot more likely to convince neighbors you’re a normal person who just happens to own a gun and “Huh, that must be common after all, and no big deal.”

That’s a lot less likely to convince the authorities that you’re another dangerous Lemp who needs to be eliminated, or low-hanging fruit ripe for harvest in a militia terrorism sting. Think of it as “OPSEC.”

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Knives In Black Satin

Following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the spectacle of Republicans and conservatives in a wild stampede to give her a tongue bath was appalling. Praise from self-proclaimed guardians of Constitutional Originalism was so lavish and extravagant it amounted to nothing less than deification. Had Ginsburg not been Jewish, I half expected the Pope to announce her canonization.

Martha MacCallum breathlessly described Ginsburg like a rapturous teen at the airport awaiting the Beatles arrival in America. Her face glowed as she praised Ginsburg’s towering intellect, great legal mind, inspiration to all women, and lamented Ginsburg being irreplaceable.1 MacCallum was far from alone slathering promiscuous adulation on this stalwart foe of the Constitution and its Judeo-Christian underpinnings. Effusive praise for Ginsburg came from Jeanna Ellis on the Tucker Carlson Show. Chyrons running under her face declared her a constitutional “authority”. An online bio states she is author of The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America’s Constitutional Crisis, that she is a Constitutional “Originalist”, and senior legal advisor to President Trump. Nevertheless, she declared Americans must respect Ginsburg’s service and legacy. She added Ginsburg was an inspiration to all women.2 Why was she, and not Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court (appointed by President Reagan in 1981, 12 years before Ginsburg) an inspiration to women? How a self-proclaimed “Originalist” and author of a book on America’s Constitutional crisis can heap such praise on a chief architect of this crisis is incomprehensible. Also appearing on Tucker’s show was conservative Judge Jeanine Pirro. She praised Ginsburg’s unconstitutional ruling against the Virginia Military Institute’s establishment as an all-male military academy.3

This strange outpouring of praise and worship for Ginsburg erupted on conservative Sean Hannity’s program so I flipped over to One America News until Laura Ingraham’s Show. I should have remained with OAN. Her guests included Constitutional “scholar” John Eastman (Chapman University) who asserted Americans should thank Ginsburg for her lasting work with respect to equality and social issues (those near and dear to liberal hearts: abortion and the homosexual agenda).4 Republicans continued to weigh in throughout the evening. George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz were almost unrestrained in their praise for Ginsburg. A guest on one of these shows allowed that Ginsburg was up in heaven now, hanging out with former colleagues William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia. How fortunate I am to have a strong stomach. Appalled, I turned the television off. Conservative online groups were no better. I read in disbelief as one “conservative” after another stated we all must respect and admire Ginsburg for her work and “service” to her country. Service? Service to the ongoing campaign to destroy the U.S. Constitution? Disgusted, I logged off and retreated into the mundane world of email. There I found a message from the Trump Re-election campaign declaring Ginsburg an “amazing woman” who led “an amazing life”. I responded asking what was so amazing about a career dedicated to destroying the Constitution and liberty. I received no reply. After beholding what so many Republican “leaders” had to say, who could be faulted for believing it was Ronald Reagan who had just died?

Lavish and effusive praise by Republicans for Ginsburg begs the question, if she is “all that”, why don’t they simply nominate another radical left-wing ACLU lawyer, who also despises the Constitution, instead of casting about for a conservative replacement? If Ginsburg was so wonderful, why don’t Republicans appoint some Stepford liberal to replace her?

Callers to conservative talk radio the following day commented on this stunning spectacle of Republican praise for Ginsburg. Some allowed that perhaps they were being overly “nice” to win political points. Really. With whom? With Constitutional originalists like myself? No way. We despise treason against the Constitution. Praise for those who want to destroy Judeo-Christian values and all that people of faith hold dear is repulsive. Points with liberals? It will never happen. If you are a conservative, the Left hates you. They are waging war against you. They despise every belief, principle, and value you hold dear. The lesson people should have learned from the Bolshevik Revolution is the left is dedicated to your total destruction and subjugation. Another reason no one mentioned comes to mind. Is it possible the Republican establishment worships the same institutions and organs of government power as Democrats? Do they fear criticism of Ginsburg might undermine support and obedience among Americans to the Supreme Court? Could criticism of Ginsburg spur Americans to ask on what basis the Court wields the power of judicial review and find there is none? Moreover, if Americans discover this truth, will they then look at the other branches and ask if what they are doing is constitutional? If Americans discover what public schools do not teach, that the actions and claimed powers of the three branches does not comport with the Constitution, how will they react? Will they try to take government back from their overseers? What does Ginsburg’s record, prior to and during her tenure on the bench, reveal?

In 1980, President Carter appointed Ginsburg to the D.C. Circuit Appeals Court. President Clinton then elevated her to the Supreme Court in 1993. Prior to these appointments, Ginsburg was a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. She rejected the notion rights come from G-d, rejected the principles of federalism and limited government, the Tenth Amendment sovereignty of states in their political spheres, and she rejected traditional Western Judeo-Christian values. Throughout her lifetime, her views never moderated.

From the start, America’s lawgivers grounded cultural, social, familial, and legal distinctions between the sexes (men and women for liberals) in the Law of G-d. Because Ginsburg despised a world based on a patriarchal G-d, her agenda was to remake America into a nation sterilized of sex distinctions. With government force, she sought to dismantle all single-sex institutions, organizations, and clubs including the military, prisons, fraternities, the Boy Scouts, private colleges, and so forth. She even pushed to abolish Mother’s and Father’s Day holidays but that was not enough. Ginsburg opposed laws against bigamy and polygamy because statutory regulation criminalizes these behaviors based on the sex of those involved. Naturally, her radical views applied to prohibitions against prostitution and same-sex “marriage” (sic) which she sought to overturn. To the delight of pervo child molesters, sodomites running down little Cub Scouts, and sex-slave traffickers, Ginsburg pushed to reduce “the age of consent for sexual acts to people who are less than 12 years”. She even argued for overturning the Mann Act which criminalized the “interstate trafficking of women and girls” for the purposes of engaging in sex acts because it violated the “privacy rights” of those involved.5 The authors of the Mann act sought not only to stop the transportation of women, especially young girls, across state lines for prostitution, but also to put a dent in the kidnapping of young girls for such purposes.

It should come, as no surprise Ginsburg abhorred the traditional family in which the man went to work and mom stayed at home to raise the kids. In order to undermine the role of husbands, as a step toward dismantling the Judeo-Christian family, Ginsburg pushed government [taxpayer] supported daycare for unwed mothers. She did not stop there. In her brave new world, not only would women be subject to the military draft but would be billeted with men and sent with them into combat. Ginsburg pushed affirmative action hiring and promotion rules for the military, police and fire departments, public education, and private businesses. Facing federal scrutiny if failing to meet affirmative action “targets”, companies, and organizations calculated the minimum number (quota) of minorities they needed to hire and promote to avoid government sanctions. This led to qualified candidates being passed over, by the less competent, in order to satisfy quotas, especially within police departments. I saw this first hand.6 Nevertheless, this was still not enough. Robespierre Ginsburg pushed to create federal commissioners who would ride through the bowels of government offices in search of people and publications using “sexist” words and expressions. They would scrub these offending words from documents and the mouths of employees. Transgressors would be re-educated. Next, they would fan out across the nation, storming businesses, schools, churches, and maybe homes in search of banned “sexist” terms. Offensive words included, woman, women, she, her, man, men, he, him, and many more. They would root out any word based on a person’s sex (gender refers to the femininity or masculinity of nouns) like noxious weeds and burn them so that no memory of their existence remained. Ginsburg’s Commissars of conformity began to realign pay scales associated with genitalia, for example, librarians versus those operating jackhammers to “equalize” them. Angry liberal feminist harridans, their hair pulled back into severe buns call this “comparable worth”, equal pay for unequal work. They scoured all publications for the slightest reference to an individual’s sex and removed them. Anyone who has read 1984 understands control of what people read and know is central to Orwell’s novel. Ginsburg also supported abortion on demand, for any reason, throughout each trimester paid for by taxpayers including those opposed to child murder based on religious objections.7

In 1996, Ginsburg voted with the majority (Scalia dissented) to strike down the elite Virginia Military Institute’s male only admission policy. Not only did this comport with Ginsburg’s fanatical drive to destroy any organization based on sex, she also saw VMI’s policy as a roadblock to female advancement in the military. Does the federal government have the right to interfere in the education policies of the States? We shall look at that soon. In 2000, Ginsburg again voted with the majority in Friends of the Earth (sic) v. Laidlaw Environmental Services. Ginsburg ruled individuals have a right to sue companies for pollution even if the claimants can prove no harm and the company is out of business.8 This is akin to a patient suing a doctor following surgery even though they can demonstrate no harm. Had Ginsburg’s opinion been that of the majority instead of the minority in Bush v. Gore (2000), Democrats would have succeeded in stealing another presidential election [John F. Kennedy, 1960] and Gore would have been president. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), Ginsburg sided with the minority arguing against any limits on late term (including live birth) abortions. She again sided with the liberals in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), wanting the Supreme Court to control, supervise, and set election policies and practices for Southern States, forever. Does the Supreme Court have such authority? In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), Ginsburg again sided with the radical liberal minority seeking to force Christian owned companies to provide abortion coverage in employee medical plans even though this violated their deeply held Christian beliefs.9 Ginsburg argued the government’s “need” to reorder the nature of society superseded anyone’s First Amendment religious rights. Ginsburg voted with the majority, (5-4) in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) legalizing same-sex “marriage” (sic). Torturing history and the Constitution, the majority claimed the 14th Amendment, ratified to insure Constitutional rights applied to former slaves, actually meant homosexuals, and lesbians could “marry” each other, respectively.10 Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas, writing for the dissent, correctly noted the Constitution delegates no authority to the federal government, and therefore the courts, over marriage. Under the Tenth Amendment, what constitutes marriage is a state issue. Therefore, the Court had no jurisdiction to rule one way or the other.

If Ginsburg had no respect for religious freedom, and the Tenth Amendment, let alone human life, what then was her view on the right of self-defense? In Heller v. D.C. (2008), she and the liberals wrote the Constitution does not guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms. There is only a collective, not an individual right. A person may exercise this collective “right” only while serving in the military or a State National (sic) Guard. She also agreed with Justice Breyer that no one had the right, under any circumstance, to maintain a loaded weapon in their home. Nor did anyone have a right of self-defense.11 Through a 5-4 vote, had Ginsburg and the other Knives in Black Satin been the majority, they would have eviscerated and ultimately abolished the Second Amendment. Once a government hostile to the bill of rights is in power, they will extinguish your right to keep and bear arms. They would ban the manufacture, importation, and sale of firearms in the United States followed by banning the production and sale of ammunition. If you do not have a right to own firearms, you have no need for ammunition. Next, they would close gun stores and ranges. You do not need a place to buy and or practice with what you may not own. Denials to the contrary, confiscation of all firearms in private hands has always been the left’s end game. England, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada testify to this fact. As for burying and hiding firearms, what is the point? By then it is too late. You will never be able to keep and bear them again. Ever. Republicans and conservatives lavishing praise on Ginsburg mentioned none of this. Nor did anyone ask if the Court has the right of judicial review in the first place.

Each State sent delegates to what became the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia (1787). Jealous of their fresh won independence from Britain (1783), the Founding Fathers were not about to surrender sovereignty to a new never before tried form of government. Proposals made by delegates to subordinate state executives, legislatures, and courts to federal counterparts were voted down by the majority each time. This is even more remarkable considering many opposed to scrapping the Articles of Confederation refused to attend the Convention.12 The Constitution’s drafters created the U.S. Supreme Court as the final court of appeal with respect to federal law, disputes between state governments, and between people of different states in some cases. They did not delegate to it any authority to make, modify, or alter law, amend the Constitution in any way, create, or abolish rights. So-called “Federalists” (more accurately, “nationalists”), saw creating for the court a power of judicial review over state laws as a means to erode and ultimately annihilate Tenth Amendment state sovereignty.13 Those mislabeled “anti-federalists” by “federalists” opposed them every step of the way.

Convention delegate Edmund Randolph of Virginia proposed creating a national judiciary with authority to veto the laws and rulings made by State legislatures and courts, respectively. This would be similar to the English Parliamentary system Alexander Hamilton and his supporters cherished. The majority of delegates voted down Randolph’s proposal. Charles Pinckney, South Carolina, and Gouveneur Morris, Pennsylvania, followed up with similar proposals and delegates rejected them as well. Randolph did not give up and attempted to convince delegates to accept a revised version of his proposal but it too was defeated.14 The States never gave to the federal Court, the power of judicial review. Proponents of ratification promised delegates to each state convention the court would never exercise such power.15

It was Chief Justice John Marshall, an ardent nationalist and opponent of state sovereignty, appointed by President John Adams, who got the ball rolling. He simply invented for the Supreme Court a power of judicial review. He began by seizing cases beyond the purview of the court. It did not matter how it ruled, only that the court ruled in order to create precedent. Beginning with Marbury v. Madison, 1803, each case was a step toward establishing by the court, through practice and custom, the power of judicial review. This was unconstitutional because the Founders did not delegate but denied this power to the Court. Federal branches may exercise only delegated powers. Second, it constituted a violation of Article V reserving to the states sole authority to amend the Constitution. Third, and finally, it constituted a violation of the Tenth Amendment reserving all powers not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the states. Hence, sovereign State powers and functions falling within its political sphere are outside the jurisdiction and purview of federal courts. Marshall wanted to destroy those reserved powers by denaturing the Tenth Amendment. He referred to Thomas Jefferson and the Republican Party as “absolute terrorists”. Marshall ran full steam ahead, working with other nationalists, to transform the federal into a national system of government with the states as mere corporations of the general government.16

Although Jefferson and subsequent presidents rejected the notion the Supreme Court possessed the power of judicial review, in time future presidents and political parties came to see this as a tool to enhance executive power and overcome state resistance to their agendas.17 Chief among the Constitution destroying culprits was Franklin Roosevelt.18 Over time, Americans stopped questioning the Court’s claim to the power of judicial review. They assumed the court must have this power because, after all, they exercised it. This is known as “circulus in probando”, circular reasoning. Because the court exercises judicial review, it must have the power to do so. However, they are wrong. Granted, in post-Constitutional and post-literate America, its citizens are ignorant of what powers States delegated to the federal government and too lazy to care. In addition, profligate federal largesse to States led them to prostitute their Tenth Amendment protection against unconstitutional judicial review. Even if the Supreme Court had this power, it would only apply to the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8. The Founders created a limited government whose powers are few and clearly defined. The Constitution prohibits the exercise of any power not specifically delegated to the federal government in the enumerated powers.19 Americans appear unaware of this. Great Scott, did they go to public schools?

The States delegated to the federal government eighteen powers in Article I, Section 8. An examination reveals most have to do with foreign relations and war. There is no mention of education, marriage, abortion, firearms, the make-up of the military, clubs, colleges, organizations, the freedom of association, and so forth based on sex or any other criteria.20 Silence in any area means, the federal government has no authority to legislate and the Supreme Court review in those areas. None. Every ruling by the Supreme Court that disregards the Tenth Amendment and the States’ reserved powers does violence to the Constitution and any safeguard with respect to the Bill of Rights. It destroys federalism, the rule of law, and creates a chaotic free-for-all scramble by various factions to gain control of it by any means possible. Now Republicans from Senator Mitch McConnell on down are stressing the need to replace Ginsburg with a jurist who will protect the Constitution. Really? When the Senate was considering the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the following Republican Senators voted yea:

Bond MO, Danforth MO, Hatfield OR, Pressler SD,

Brown CO, Dole KS Hutchinson TX, Roth DE,

Burns MT, Domenici NM, Kassebaum KS, Simpson WY,

Chafee RI, Durenberger MN, Lott MS, Specter PA,

Coats IN, Faircloth MN, Lugar IN, Stevens AK,

Cochran MS, Gorton WA, Mack FL, Thurmond SC,

Cohen ME, Gramm TX, McCain AZ, Wallop WY,

Coverdell GA, Grassley IA, McConnell KY, Warner VA.

Craig ID, Gregg NH, Murkowski AK,

D’Amato NY, Hatch UT, Packwood OR,

Nay: only the following three Republicans stood up for the Constitution:

Helms NC, Nickles OK, Smith NH.

Living in Missouri, I wrote Republican Senator Bond asking why he voted to confirm Ginsburg. He explained it was Senatorial “courtesy” not to oppose Court nominations of presidents regardless of party. I wrote back asking, what about courtesy to the rule of law, to the Constitution, and to the American people? He did not respond. Americans elect Senators to protect the Constitution, and they, in turn, stab them in the back in the name of logrolling. What a disgrace. We must hold them to account for their perfidy.

11 Martha MacCallum Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

22 Tucker Carlson Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

33 IBID.

44 Laura Ingraham Show, FOX, 18 September 2020.

55 Phyllis Schlafly, “Senators Overlooked Radical Record of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” Human Events at https://humanevents.com/2005/08/23/senators-overlooked-radical-record-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

66 Sergeants told white officers at my department to look into transferring to other departments. They believed no white male could be promoted for about 5 years and or until the liberal Chief reached the right quota. Judgments as to the competency of those promoted are subjective. However, officers across the board bemoaned the lack of qualifications and incompetence of more than a few affirmative action hires and promotions. Liberal virtue signaling and quota filling.

77 Schlafly

88 Richard Wolf, USA Today, 18 September, 2020, “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s top opinions and dissents from VMI to Voting Rights Act”, at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/18/i-dissent-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-most-memorable-opinions/2661426002/

99 IBID.

1111 On The Issues, Wall Street Journal, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Gun Control; Heller v. D.C.”, at https://ontheissues.org/courth/ruth-bader-ginsburg-gun-control.htm

1212 John Taylor of Caroline Virginia/James McClellan, editor, New Views Of The Constitution Of The United States (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1823/2000), 2-23, 29-30, 35, 40-42, 48-49, 133-137, 143-154, 174. See also Clyde N. Wilson, “Toward Real Federalism”, Ludwig von Mises Institute, The Free Market 9 (August 1995) at https://mises.org/library/ttoward-real-federaism/ and Clarence B. Carson, Basic American Government (Wadley, Alabama, American Textbook Committee, 1996), 37-40, 506.

1313 IBID. li-liv.

1414 IBID. 19-23.

1515 Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 2010), 287-291.See also, Taylor, 25, 143, 127-128, 177-179, 196-197, 309,331, 372.

1616 Brion McClanahan, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America And Four Who Tried To Save Her (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2016), 14, 61, 198-202.

1717 All laws, bills, legislation, regulations, and so forth by law must originate from the legislation branch. Beginning with “Progressive” Teddy Roosevelt, executives began to take this function away from the legislative branch.

1818 McClanahan, 75-98. See also, Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression And The New Deal (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2009), 11, 18, 27, 59-60, 102, 116-117. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Washington, D.C., Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), 17-30, 139-156.

1919 Clinton Rossiter, Editor, The Federalist Papers: Madison, Federalist #45 (New York, N.Y., A Mentor Book from the New American Library, 1961), 292-293.

2020 William A. McClenaghan, Magruders American Government (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2006), 763-765.

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Feeling Sociable?

Ok, that’s a fib, I’m not that sociable most of the time. Not necessarily because I don’t want to be, but because I have a lot to keep up with, lots that needs to be done. But something I try to do almost daily, except for Shabbat, is post stories to the Zelman Partisans accounts on Twitter, Gab, MeWe and Facebook. I post stories of courts cases, gun rights related, self-defense as well as our TZP original and exclusive stories. How about that White Paper Bear was asked to write? Is he amazing or what?

Social media allows family and friends to stay in touch, it allows old friends to re-gain contact, and it allows for the flow of information. Allowed.

There were rumblings after the last election that “Russian Bots” were spreading “mis-information”. The President Trump made the phrase “Fake News” a household word. And like most things the left touches, it perverted that. The big social media platforms have begun to censor conservative voices claiming they are “fact-checking” because of fake news.

I’ve shared stories on fb only to find they now sport a banner below them, or a fuzzy overlay saying that they aren’t accurate, so if my friends or family want to read them theywill know I’m spreading fake news per facebook’s totally, unbiased fact checkers. No, really they are unbiased. Just ask Zuckerberg. Recently TZP was locked out of our Twitter account because of a story on TZP about Kyle Rittenhouse. They said it violated their community standards. Yep, the mullahs of Iran have their account intact, Hamass has their account intact, heck Abu Mazan probably has his account intact. We know BLM and Antifa (the idea that decimates stores and neighborhoods) have theirs intact. The GoFund me for Kyle was removed, and the big tech companies did everything they could to block support for the brave 17 year old. Kamala Harris asked her followers on Twitter to donate to the criminals of BLM and Antifa arrested for peaceful riots to bail them out. No problem for Twitter. You know who else is a problem for Twitter? The Trump election campaign account, Kayleigh McEnany, the Press Secretary. Or as I call her Press Secretary Honey Badger. Love her. Jack Posobiec, and some US Senators recently. So I suppose TZP is in fine company.

Commu-book

You know the debates that have raged about the Wuhan Flu, the debates over Hydroxychloroquine, the doctors from California that talked about opening up the economy and how the lock-downs were creating more health problems than the Wuhan Flu. YouTube deleted their videos. In fact YouTube deletes any videos that go against the CDC and the WHO, because free thought and the flow of information must be stifled.

I heard on the Dennis Prager show yesterday that most young folks get their “news” not from the main (lame) stream media, but from the internet and to an extent from social media. Thanks to the mainstream media, censoring by social media and tech giants like google manipulating search results the only voices and information they will get will be from the left. What the big media allows, because thoughts must be controlled to be acceptable.

Information is power.

There are those fighting back, Gab MeWe and more recently Parler of these Parler is probably my least favorite as I’m just not used to it yet, perhaps. Gab is rapidly becoming my favorite. Gab has been attacked from the beginning, they aren’t allowed in the app stores of apple or android because they won’t stifle anyone’s right to free speech. Gab has been banned by Paypal, Stripe, Square, and dozens of other payment processing providers. His family has even been personally blacklisted by Visa. Gab you can send messages to other members, as you can with MeWe, Parler you can’t until you are verified. But Gab has a newsletter that I’m really liking. I’ll share a few. Most aren’t very long, and are relevant. All are written by Andrew Torba.

Russian Hoax 2.0: How “Journalism” Works, According To Reuters the low traffic blog mentioned in the article actually looked pretty interesting, but I didn’t read any of the stories.

Seed The Narrative Early and Often: How “Journalism” Works, According To CNET election night and Gab people best not be talking about a winner from what CNET is thinking.

And since the Biden emails were recovered off the laptop Hunter left in the repair shop and didn’t go back to pay for the repairs things have really been clamped down.

WAR: Facebook and Twitter Unleash Mass Censorship To Protect Biden Campaign

The Digital Civil War is Here, Which Side Are You On?

There is a price to be paid hopefully, basically what Twitter is doing is giving the Biden/Harris or Harris/Biden according to the day of the week, an “In kind” donation. And they were already in trouble.

Twitter Fined For Multiple Campaign Finance Violations

Twitter Slows Down Retweets Ahead of U.S. Election

And getting information to disseminate can be an issue as well, especially when it is coming from the swamp.

From Judicial Watch: Judge Rejects Stonewall — Orders Initial Production of Fauci Emails this Month

The Deep State has been circling the wagons around Dr. Fauci, but that’s coming to an end – after an unnecessary delay.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin producing communications and other records of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and Deputy Director H. Clifford Lane about the World Health Organization (WHO), China, and the coronavirus.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DCNF-v-HHS-WHO-complaint-01149.pdf

If you want to read it.

And speaking of Anthony Fauci, as you may have noticed, I do not hold him in high regard. One of my two movie efforts for ya’ll.

Yes, this one is a parody, it’s a bit over 7 minutes.

This one is 49 minutes and it is no joke. If it comes to pass I believe I would be thrilled, I think Fauci and Birx need to be held personally accountable. There are so many actual doctors and scientists that have spoken out against this disastrous lockdown. And yet because of the lamestream media citizens are terrified beyond rational thought. If you have time, this is well worth listening to. I’m not sure how long YouTube will leave it up. He’s part of the German Investigative Committee, a lawyer in German and California named Dr. Reiner Fuellmich.

And this is the second time I’ve replaced this video. Because youtube doesn’t want you to see this. This link is from a source other than youtube.

It wasn’t the virus that caused the damage. Crimes against humanity, and we’ve yet to feel the full force. The information about the PCR test alone is fascinating.

Had enough

Yes, the Eagle logo was swiped from Missouri Bullet Company. I would say we, the normal sane Americans are getting very tired of being manipulated, lied to and abused as one of the parties tries it’s best to shove America over the edge into communism. While President Trump may not be a perfect human, and he may not do everything perfectly or say everything perfectly to me the choice this election is pretty clear. And while your local Democrats may tell you they don’t hold with the party platform on gun control, they aren’t like that, why they even hunt! Keep in mind when it comes to getting help from the party to campaign or getting committee assignments they will tow the party line or else. I wouldn’t vote Dem in this election for anything, there is too much at stake.

Knowledge is power, unless you’re fond of being censored, canceled, or deceived I would urge you to find some alternative social media and some good news sources other than the mainstream media. Except of course One News America (which I don’t get) and NewsMax, they have a free TV channel too. I like them. There are probably others as well.

So I guess I just feel selectively sociable.

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A New White Paper on the ATF

We’ve added a new document to our Resources page. It’s a nine page white paper, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (PDF, 65KB)

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has long been known by the firearms industry and owners as arbitrary, capricious, and full of enough uncertainty to make Werner Heisenberg jealous. And just as Schrödinger had to peer into that box to discover whether cat had perished or lived on, gun owners must wait on the ATF to randomly determine the state of our implements; whether they be guns or piles of ore, and what sort of gun. Even the caliber can change from the ATF’s act of observation.

Check it out.

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