Month: February 2018

Why the Parkland shooting has had the worst reaction

I have an idea why the reaction to this shooting has been so much worse than Virginia Tech, Las Vegas, or Orlando, even though those body counts were higher.

Yes, some of it is resonance with the Anti Trump movement. But I think there is more.

Every bit of news that has come out of this shooting is about just how bad the government shit the bed then fucked the dog on the shit covered sheets.

The school didn’t report any of the warnings to police about Cruz.  The Sheriff’s department had 39 calls to the house but did nothing.  The Department of Children and Families dropped the ball when Cruz’s foster mom reported violent incidents. The FBI dropped the ball on multiple tips. 

For school RSO Scot Peterson, when danger reared it’s ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Deputy Peterson turned about and gallantly he chickened out.  Swiftly taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the brave, Deputy Peterson. 

Now we find out that the school security cameras were on a 20 minute delay.  So the footage the police were seeing was 20 minutes behind.

Remember that the First Commandment of the Church of State is: I am the Lord your government, and you shall have no other gods before me. 

For the worshippers of big government, they can’t let it be seen that their God is fallible.  Layer upon layer of bureaucracy let those kids die.  That’s not supposed to happen.   The government is supposed to take care of everybody if you open your heart and home to big government and let it in.

So these people have to blame the NRA, guns, and Dana Loesch, at the top of their lungs to distract from the failure of their god.  If their God is fallible, people will lose faith in it.

They are over the top in thier reaction to this shooting precisely because everything they believe in failed to miserably to prevent it, and they just can’t handle that.

Woke on guns and cops

The far Left has lost its dammed mind.  There is no doubt about it. 

Wherever a person stands on gun control, the majority of rational people understand that having some sort of law enforcement or security personnel in schools is a good way to reduce the likelihood of criminal violence in schools.

The far Left has drunk so deeply from the well of identity politics that it can’t even agree to that.

To Mrs Cox, armed professionals in school are MORE dangerous to minority students than school shooters. 

This is an overdose on Black Lives Matter.

Only a crazy person would see a police officer in a school hallway and instead of saying “probably won’t be another Parkland here,” says “oh no, some unarmed black kid is going to be murders by him on his way to class.”

The have become so anti cop they can’t even agree to use police to protect children in school.

I just can’t wait for this to be a more mainstream Democrat message.

“We can’t prevent the next Parkland with police because they’re racists and will murder black students.”

That is something the major of parents in the US can really rally around.

Florida Legislature’s Leadership has come up with a School Safety Proposal

In a press release, the leaders of the legislature announced several items and I am going to focus on the first three contained in Bill 7022

That would be Bill 7022:

Number one has to go. I thought we were done with the BS of having “special people with more special rights than you” even if they are LEO or Military.  And why does the Legislature think that an adult 18-19-20 years of age does not have the right to purchase the basic tools to defend himself/herself?  This is gonna lead to the inevitable Straw Purchase by people who will “figure out a way” to beat the law not knowing they can get in bigger troubles.

Number 2, Three-Day waiting period with the usual exceptions. No change there. I can’t find the Criminal History thing.

Number Three: It can go and I’ll be happy to see it disappear, but as expressed by many others and with my agreement, that ain’t a hill I am willing to die on.

What is in this bill is the Risk Protection Order. (IANAL Warning) But contrary to the one in California, this one is not as easy to obtain or that is what I think I read. It is a long piece of work and I read through it with civilian eyes, but I think it has been tailored not to conflict with the laws to protect possible mental patients or to avoid abuse of the law. I am gonna have to wait for brighter minds to interpret.

Then we have Bill 7024 which protects the addresses of Mass Shooting Victims. I have zero problem with that. And who is the disgusting ghoul who will go bother relatives of victims and/or survivors of something like that? (Your guess is the same as mine, I bet)

And then we have Bill 7026, Establishing the Office of Safe Schools within the Department of Education. At first glance, it looks like the Legislature will be proving several people with jobs which are basically “sit down and argue” how to do shit about schools. You are gonna get a headache reading through the BS. The Meat and Taters comes on the last quarter of the bill: Florida Sheriff’s Marshal Program (line 615).

Again with a quick read, I don’t see anything much that would make me hate this bill. It is the old Armed Teachers bill with some modification. One I like is that the approval of the Principal is no longer required and the school district may sponsor volunteers to go into the program. they pretty much nipped a veto from either two.

OK, read the bills and digest them so we can analyze them better. Use the comment section. Stay away from “Muh Rights!” and assorted BS that conducts to nothing useful in this instance.

If we can clog the plumbing till March 9th and have all bills stuck in the pipes, then we are set even if it means killing the School Marshall thing.

March 9th is the last day of the regular session of the Legislature. If t ain’t passed by then, that will be it till next year. And no, I don’t think Governor Scott is gonna call for a special session since he has his eyes set for Rubio’s vacating seat.

On Broward Sheriff Office not reporting school crime.

By now you know that the Broward Sheriff Office was not truthfully reporting (if at all) crimes committed by students in schools. Some will find that shocking but those of us who have been living here a while, is nothing new.

Powertrac was a complex statistical system used to quickly assess and respond to crime patterns. Modeled after Compstat, a seminal crime-fighting tool developed by the New York City Police Department in the early 1990s, Powertrac powered up just as Jenne became sheriff. He wholeheartedly embraced the system, torturing a catchy acronym from the name: Provide Objectives Where Enforcement Resources Target Responses Against Crime.

Suddenly, amazing things were happening when BSO patrolled neighborhoods. Crime plummeted and the rates of solved crimes soared. Other police departments in Broward — and all over the state — looked like Keystone Kops compared to crack crime fighters of the BSO…

…By early 2004, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office (SAO) was immersed in an investigation of widespread falsification of records by BSO deputies. Particularly skewed were BSO’s rates of solving crimes in Pompano Beach and Oakland Park as compared to the numbers generated by the disbanded police departments.
Interviews with current and former BSO employees and independent investigators, as well as a careful reading of court and SAO documents, suggest that Jenne and his top men had long known of the problems underlying Powertrac and the improbability of its results.

The Naked Truth – Miami New Times.

It is a long article, but it explains how deeply corrupted BSO was under Ken Jenne and I have the feeling that it has not been cleaned that good after his departure and vacation at a Federal Pen. The shit they pulled was amazing and yet, only an expendable handful were punished.

Fudging stats is too tempting. It requires little in human resources and little in the way of expenses.

 

Florida Gun Owners: Have you contacted your Reps?

I am gonna get this bothersome till the Legislature closes for the year in 2 weeks.

Besides your state Senate and Representative, you also need to contact these two gentlemen: Speaker of the House Representative Richard Corcoran and President of the Senate Joe Negron. On their pages you will see the contact info in the left column.

And this is the locator where you can find the contact information of your Legislators.

Be polite, be succinct, use Gun Control to name our opponents and use the word Rights and Bill Of Rights as identifier of our side. It does not have to be a long and elaborate letter, just make it clear you do not support any more Gun Control bills. You can use the same one for all four (or more) individual, the beauty of Copy/Paste.

On the one I just sent, I asked to investigate why County Officials failed to act on Nick Cruz rather than accepting Gun Control bills that would have not prevented the massacre.

So please, go use 10 minutes of your life to defend our rights.

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