NBC Universal said they have zero plans to change the planned release date of “The Hunt,” a movie about liberal elites hunting “deplorables” for sport.

In the meantime, a Conservative version is in pre-production.

It will be a documentary.

This is something I saw in different forms, in different forums by different people last night.

The “Hero” should be arrested.

Take a moment to digest the the colossal stupidity uttered by Mr Blue: He is so emotionally attached to the idea of Open Carry, that he is in favor of sending a gun owner. legally carrying a sidearm to jail because he interpreted the shenanigans of a fellow Chest Thumper® as possibly dangerous, which is not an irrational thought to have after last weekend.  A fellow Gun Owner steps forward in what he perceives to be  dangerous situation, what many in the side of Gun Right have stated over and over to the other side we are willing to do, and Mr. Plate Carrier In Blue wants to ruin his life. He was so insulted, he wants the same thing Gun Controllers want: Seeing good armed folk behind bars.

Chest Thumpers® are the Kardashians of the Gun Culture.

UPDATE: I should have know that Andrew Branca would have stepped in and clear the legalities of the subject.  Go read the whole thing.

So anyone arguing that the firefighter taking Andreychenko at gunpoint must have been unlawful because Andreychenko was “simply exercising his Second Amendment rights” is rather missing the point. The firefighter pointing a gun at Andreychenko could well be perfectly lawful even if it’s true that Andreychenko was committing no crime at all.

Understanding Legalities of Walmart Rifle/Body Armor Event

Gun People: “Let’s get a Glock magazine fed, 9 mm Gatling Gun!”

Well, it is not semi, it is not a machine gun, so I recon it is valid.

The author of this piece, Katie Mettler, starts with this:

There is a tool at the federal government’s disposal that was created in 1970 to take down mob bosses, mafia families and organized criminal enterprises — groups of people with a common ideology who made the United States less safe.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) allowed the FBI and the Justice Department to hold accountable not just the low-level henchmen doing the dirty work, but the leaders and organizers behind desks who were making plans and issuing directives.

Why free speech makes it difficult to prosecute white supremacy in America

OK, you want to apply RICO to whom? Who you decided in your expertise are White Supremacists? There is no hard definition of that and it is pretty much along the lines of “Everyone I Don’t Like Is Literally Hitler.”

“Today’s white supremacists adhere to both a tactic and folklore of leaderless resistance which glorifies lone actors or small cells that have tenuous ties to actual groups,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino. “RICO is not going to be a panacea for a terrorist threat that is increasingly dispersed.”
Federal authorities have used RICO many times to prosecute white prison gangs, but what got the members of organizations such as the Aryan Brotherhood locked up under the statute was not the racism they believed but the acts they committed: crimes including drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping and money laundering.

And the same has been done to the Mafia, Irish Mobs, the Russian Bratva and MS-13.

But if they wanted to use RICO to hold accountable the collective ideology that radicalized the shooter, they would need to prove that there was an organized enterprise involved with that ideology, that there was a traceable criminal conspiracy to commit violence and that there was a leader or leaders who instructed others to cause harm.

Without that, the collective ideology is not a conspiracy but hate speech. And in the United States, hate speech is not criminal. It’s a right protected by the First Amendment.

Amazing how right protect all and not the selected ones, huh?

Even more challenging for those wishing to take on white extremism is the notion that much of what drives the ideology today occurs in leaderless, sometimes anonymous, corners of the Internet, where there is no clear hierarchy or organizational structure.

Like all the Islamic extremist, ISIS and other Muslim-based terrorist groups? The one that have mosques all over the US preaching hate for the West and death to Jews, but they cannot be touched?

And cue in token counterpoint:

Weaponizing RICO against groups for their ideology is concerning to Levin, who said he worries that it could be used “as a hammer on First Amendment dissenters as opposed to real criminal syndicates.”
“Our laudable desire to combat violent white supremacists might come back to harm us later if the law is used to punish peaceful dissent in grass-roots movements that may have some attenuated violent sliver,” Levin said.

And we have the Smart Person giving his studied conclusion in favor of destroying the Bill Of Rights:

But according to retired law professor G. Robert Blakey, who wrote the RICO statute and is considered the nation’s foremost authority on it, federal authorities should be using RICO to more rigorously investigate white extremist groups without violating free speech protections.
It wouldn’t be easy, he said, but there’s “no excuse” not to try.

It does not make sense to do a RICO investigation and arrest people if Freedom of Speech is involved and no court would be dumb enough to side with the Government, so why? The answer:

Those arrested on RICO charges were automatically denied bond, and sentences were harsher and longer.

And that is the point. They want the Federal Government to use RICO to bankrupt a shitload of folks and ruin their lives by spending time in jail while the government takes its sweet time delaying the court date filing motions. Anybody else hit with the tag of White Supremacist, will be warned to shut up or end up in a cell next to the first batch.   Happen to believe that marriage and family should be based in one man and one woman? You must go to the RICO Gulag. Are you an NRA member and participate in matches? To the gulag next in the cell to the gallows to you and your White Supremacist friends! You put on a mariachi hat last Cinco de Mayo? Cultural appropriation! You are under arrest and your frat brothers too for allowing it.

You support the Bill of Right like millions of other people in the US?  Shit, we are out of space in jails and prison. We may need to rent abandoned stadiums to warehouse all these White Supremacist, all these political “Untermensch “, these filthy Deplorables. Maybe a relocation camp or two. Is Manzanar in decent shape?

Winters: Will you ask him what kind of camp this is? What, why are they here?Liebgott: He says it’s a work camp for. . . .l’m not sure what the word means.-Unwanted, disliked, maybe?
Winters: Criminals?
Liebgott:l don’t think criminals, sir. No.
Doctors, musicians, tailors,
clerks, farmers, intellectuals.
l mean, normal people.
They’re Jews. Jews. Jews. Poles and Gypsies.

Band of Brothers – Why We Fight

And that is why we have a Second Amendment, Ladies and Gentlemen.

“On May 19, 1967, Maj. Roy A. Knight, Jr., USAF, was shot down while attacking a target on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. He was initially listed as Missing in Action until being declared Killed in Action in 1974. During that time, he was promoted to Colonel. Fifty-two years later, in February, 2019, Col. Knight’s remains were recovered and identified by personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency….”

Go read the rest of the story over at The Universal Spectator. There might be some allergy.

A young Jewish Israeli man was stabbed to death by a Palestinian a few days ago.

TERROR VICTIM KILLED DAYS BEFORE 19TH BIRTHDAY EULOGIZED AS GENTLE SOUL

Dvir Sorek was returning from a trip to Jerusalem to the Machanaim Yeshiva, located between Efrat and Migal Oz in the Gush Etzion region, after having purchased some books for his rabbis as an end-of-year gift for them on behalf of his classmates.

According to Vilk, he had earlier messaged his study partner about what time he would return for their study session, and said that the yeshiva students and staff were immediately concerned when he failed to show up on time.

Despite the Palestinians saying that he was a soldier, he had not gone through induction yet.

Dvir was not wearing an IDF uniform and had not started his IDF training, but technically speaking he had already started his service with his studies in the military Hesder program at Yeshiva Machanaim, Sorek explained.

“We never saw him in uniform, because his induction was scheduled for March,” he said. “Now that will never happen.”

So while Israelis were having a very public funeral for Dvir, as is usual with the victims of terrorism, what were the Palestinians doing?

Shooting off fireworks:

Fireworks being fired in Silwad, an Arab village near Ofra, during the funeral of Dvir Sorek the Yeshiva bochur/Soldier who was murdered last night in Gush Etzion. pic.twitter.com/eHFbjOeKAn

— Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) August 8, 2019

And passing out candy:

#صور الكتلة الإسلامية في جامعة بيرزيت توزع الحلوى بمناسبة عيد الأضحى المبارك وابتهاجاً بـ #عملية_عصيون الذي قتل فيها جندي إسرائيلي. pic.twitter.com/kD9dVfwwD9

— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) August 8, 2019

I ask you, how can there ever be peace when one side celebrates the murder of a civilian from the other side like it’s Mardi Gras?

This is the side that the Squad in Congress wants the US to start siding with.

This is the reality of the Palestinian movement that the Left will never admit to.  It has nothing to do with land or with the placement of a wall, and everything to do with so much Jew-hatred that Palestinian children look forward to the murder of Jews so they can get candy.

I honestly wonder if Congresswoman Tlaib was passing out treats in her office today.

Kimberly Strassel is a decent reporter.  She started a Twitter thread about those going after gun rights following the last few mass shootings.

She sent one Tweet which was insightful but I think she missed the point with it.

2) If you are going to cheer taking away gun rights, at least acknowledge you are messing with a constitutional right on par with freedom of religion, voting, free speech, privacy. And treat that with the gravity it deserves, rather than suggesting opponents are just a problem.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 8, 2019

She is correct, gun rights are as much valued Constitutional rights as free speech or voting or privacy.

The issue is that those who oppose gun rights need to dismiss those who are for gun rights as a problem because the end game is to dismiss those who are for free speech rights or freedom of religion or privacy as a problem too.

Look at their track record.

In the last few years, we have seen an attack on those business owners who for religious reasons did not want to participate in gay marriages or provide abortifacients as part of their company’s healthcare.

The Left denounced them as bigots and misogynists.

The entirety of the microaggression movement has been to say that free speech is actually physically harmful to people.  This has been particularly taken up by the gender warriors of the Left with the use of non-gendered language or preferred pronouns.

This allows the Left to dismiss those who favor free speech as people who are being violent or harmful and need to shut up.

Recently, we’ve seen the use of revealing political contributions – which are protected free speech – used as tools of intimidation, by targeting business owners as bigots.

Since 2016, we’ve seen an attack on the Electoral College and Senate representation.

If the can topple gun rights by getting the public to dismiss pro-gun people as the problem, they can topple voting, religious, and free speech rights using the same argument.

Strassel’s Tweet assumes that the Left respects these other rights and what they need to do is understand other people respect gun rights just as much.

The problem is the Left doesn’t respect these other rights so such an appeal is useless.