Forget Amir Locke for a second – which I think was a bad shoot – no-knock warrants were originally intended to be used only in the most extreme circumstances but have become the norm.

For Amir Locke specifically, he had a CCW, his name was not on the search warrant, and from the time to door was kicked in to when he was shot was a few seconds.

Too many people get killed needlessly with no-knock warrants.

The justification always is “the safety of the officers.”  That has become a bullshit catch-all.

Our Constitution was specifically written to prioritize the safety of innocent people over the government.

We need to reestablish that principle in law enforcement.

Update:

Based on a comment I will add that Judges who rubber stamp no-knock warrants also should be subject to the same vibe check as cops.  To be fair.

Harvard professor and CNN analyst:

The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a "freedom protest," is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks ✔️ https://t.co/nvRQTfPWir

— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) February 10, 2022

Trust me, I will not run out of ways to make this hurt: cancel their insurance; suspend their drivers licenses; prohibit any future regulatory certification for truckers, etc. Have we learned nothing? These things fester when there are no consequences. https://t.co/JnKOy7EuHd

— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) February 10, 2022

Please do this, I beg you.

I cannot imagine anything better than the elite who shut down the world because they were afraid of the air and could work from home on Zoom Stepping on the necks of working people by destroying their ability to make a living.

I want to see a million US trucks blocking every street from DC to NYC, turning the Acela Corridor into a honking gridlock.

Starve them out and prevent them from escaping.

I want to see the elite trapped in their apartments, unable to get Door Dash or Instacart for days and weeks on end, with only the ceaseless honking drowning out the rumblings of their empty stomachs.

I saw this and I couldn’t believe it:

https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1491857912502767621

This has to be a joke, right?

Nope.

https://twitter.com/sbrinton/status/1480600201782083592

It’s true.

I had to investigate.  How could this person end up at the DOE.  Every top Google search of him is LGBT activism against conversion therapy.

I found the answer.

He has a BS in nuclear engineering in 2011 and a MS in nuclear engineering from 2013.  He has 8 months internship experience at Idaho National Lab and three months internship at Argonne.

His longest job was at The Trevor Project.

He’s had a few other jobs at DC think tanks.

I looked for publications he was quoted in for nuclear energy but all I found was an article in Metro Weekly about men who do puppy play fetish kink. (NSFW. Scroll down to the 5th photo)

Understand that this position requires a DOE Q level clearance, which is equivalent to a DOD Top Secret level clearance.  It used to be (and probably still is) a disqualifying condition to be a public pervert like this to have a TS clearance.  Any information that can be used to blackmail you will get your clearance denied.

Likewise, all of his interviews are about conversion therapy.

So when our Department of Energy needed a nuclear waste expert this is who they chose.

Not a person with decades of experience in nuclear power plants or the nuclear fuel industry.

No, they found a gender-queer activist who dresses like a goth hooker and fucks men who dress like dogs, who has less than a year’s worth of internship experience at national labs doing nuclear energy research.

We are now in full balls to the wall diversity hire mode in America.

The people in government who will be making every policy and decision will have the most marginal qualifications in their field but have copious identity credits.

And we will be absolutely fucked for it.

We are so fucked.

NEWS: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Are Necessities in U.S. Military. https://t.co/7WEWrveNcc

— Department of Defense ?? (@DeptofDefense) February 9, 2022

No they are not.

Unit cohesion, esprit de corps, and the ability to kill people and break shit are necessities.

But it’s so much worse than that Tweet.

Our military has known for over a decade how bad all of this is and embraced it anyway.

This next part shocked even cynical, black-pilled me.

This DoD-commissioned report on “Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism” makes for interesting reading. For example: “The Chinese see multiculturalism as a sickness that has overtaken the United States, and a component of U.S. decline.” pic.twitter.com/zzXOvNWHfT

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 6, 2022

I’m going to pull out this paragraph for you to read again:

The Chinese accurately diagnosed our problem in 2013 and it was captured in a 2013 DOD report.

Although the report is almost 10 years old, it calls attention to the “anti-racist” CRT-inspired propaganda that was already so pervasive in U.S. entertainment and education. (The author is praising this effort, in contrast to China). pic.twitter.com/n9P5sZrlZW

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 6, 2022

The report traces historic and cultural influences contributing to Chinese ethnocentrism and the concept of race – from ancient times to the 20th century – including Sun Yat-sen who viewed the Chinese as “a single, pure race” and stated that “the greatest force is common blood.” pic.twitter.com/uDxO6QZxzW

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 6, 2022

Under Mao, the communists pushed the now-familiar anti-white view that only westerners could be “racists” and that even the Russian communists were suspect due to their “whiteness.” But tensions with Africans undermined calls for non-white solidarity. pic.twitter.com/g0GUVKkjoj

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 6, 2022

In contrast to western countries, China maintains a strong sense or racial identity and pride. Unlike westerners, the Chinese can see themselves as part of an extended family, descended from common ancestors. pic.twitter.com/YfzUiwODWP

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 6, 2022

The Chinese are perplexed by America’s pivot to “multiculturalism” – “the United States is explicitly rejecting the principles that made the country great, and united it.”
“… all of this conspires to cause the breakdown of American society and the lack of purpose in life …” pic.twitter.com/YJdYN8V62k

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 7, 2022

Again, I’m going to pull out a critical paragraph:

Reluctantly, the report acknowledges important strategic advantages of Chinese “racism:” The Chinese have a sense of unity, idently, community, and confidence. pic.twitter.com/tub880SOnM

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 7, 2022

The 2013 report argued that the U.S. had a significant “soft power” advantage in that “it is not a racist state.”

Unfortunately, the U.S. ruling class spent most of 2020 – 2021 proclaiming that the U.S. definitely *is* a racist state – so this advantage may have been lost. pic.twitter.com/ve8TW8kxNa

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 8, 2022

I must interject at this point to remind you that this is central to Chinese propaganda against the US.

“How dare they US criticize us about the Uyghers/slave labor/other human rights violations when they have BLM protests and fight over voting rights.”

The Left ceded any moral high ground we had by constantly attacking America as systemically racists and blowing our race problems hugely out of proportion.

Report’s recommendation:
> “Hey world – look how racist China is”
Actual U.S. policy:
> “Hey world – look how racist *America* is!” pic.twitter.com/6COkUBIxZp

— Jake (@s_decatur) February 8, 2022

Since 2013 China got a lot closer to Nazi Germany with putting an ethnic minority on rail cars, taking them to slave labor camps, and sterilizing them.

In 2013 the DOD commissioned a report to attack China for being an authoritarian ethno-state, that believes in its own ethnic superiority and that superiority justifies its right to dominate the world.

This report recognized that the Chinese saw us as a strong opponent when we were united under our traditional Liberal values founded under the enlightening Anglo-Saxon tradition. As we embraced multiculturalism and the corrosive perversion of extreme individualism we have weekend ourselves.

We accurately diagnosed both China and the United States a decade ago and all we did is accelerate into it.

We have allowed China to be more aggressively racist and colonial with their Belt and Road program, and we haven’t been as weak on the international stage since pre-WWI isolationism.

We drank the poison, knowing it was poison, and committed suicide.  Partly out of a suicidal ideology and partly due to the actions of leaders who sold out America for million in thirty pieces of silver Yuan.

https://twitter.com/ASo1omons/status/1491583007022530562

As the Left is backtracking on COVID-19 restrictions and pretending like they are taking a reasonable stance and not reacting to Biden’s crashing poll numbers.

Jesse Kelly asked people to tell their Covid lockdown horror stories.

Two broke me.

https://twitter.com/mrsdewhirst7/status/1491466155810250753

https://twitter.com/TweetsOfMark/status/1491460732759728130

It’s what was done to the children that is unforgivable.

It was the first time in the history of the civilized world I can think of where the elderly fought to keep themselves safe by sacrificing the children.

I do not want to to let bygones be bygones and go back to normal.

I want every one of these Covidians to suffer and pay for what they’ve done.

“I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment,” [O'Rourke] said. https://t.co/9w2U3eVbYQ #TXGOV

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) February 9, 2022

I think the Trucker protest in Canada has them scared.

They are watching people pushed to the limits bring down a government in real time.

Now imagine that plus 400 million guns.

It’s no wonder emboldened Leftists are backing down.

We owe the Truckers a debt of gratitude.