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For those of you who don’t have the time or desire to read the entire paper, I’ve listed some of its highlights (along with my commentary) below. Let’s dig in…
via 10 Lessons Learned from the new FBI Study on Active Shooters | Active Response Training.
I confess that I have not read the paper yet as life has gotten in the way. But go ahead and give this article a read as Mr. Ellifritz makes very good points.
No idea where this happened, but illustrative nevertheless.
Playing bumper cars in a busy highway? They both had very close calls with other traffic but they are so invested in their own egos that simply did not care. Both had multiple chances to disengage and take other lanes or simply lay back, but their ego forbade clear thinking.
I hope I never met idiots like this on the road.
This one came out yesterday:
And it is true. Dennis v. United States was a case where leaders of the Communist Party of the USA were tried and convicted for advocating the violent overthrow of the US government and for the violation of several points of the Smith Act. They appealed and the case went all the way to SCOTUS who approved.
But, now we fast forward to 1957 with Yates v. United States which the Supreme Court hobbled Dennis v. United Sates by deciding that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a “clear and present danger.” The final nail in that particular insurrectionist coffin came with Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) in which SCOTUS re-affirmed Yates and went on some more by stating that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite, imminent lawless action.
I am guessing that somebody in CSGV went to class with that inspired Constitutional Professor at 1600 Pennsylvania Av.?
Police say a woman who lives in the home found her husband dead in the garage.
His hands and feet were tied and the body had been decapitated.
Tulsa police told KRMG news, the death was due to suicide
via Tulsa man found decapitated, police suspect suicide | www.krmg.com.
In my younger, less illustrated days I would have called flag on the play on this one. But believe it or not, decapitations are not uncommon in hangings.
Years ago I read the book Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America (which somehow is MIA from my library, that should tel you something about accumulation) and found out that hanging is actually very delicate “science.” The idea is to break the neck as in severing the spinal cord so the death is instantaneous, but unless you know the exact combination of rope, coils, weight and a couple of other factors, the executioner would either suffocate the individual (Usually not enough wait and that resulted in having to actually pull the guy down by his legs to accelerate the process) or if the weight was too much (adding sandbags to the feet was normal) the rope would cut through the neck and decapitate the condemned man. This is not a “clean” decapitation as one would think done by a very sharp blade but a rather gruesome tearing of the flesh and separation of bones.
Notorious outlaw Thomas Edward “Black Jack” Ketchum had the misfortune of being decapitated at his hanging. The favorite story is that the person selected to be the executioner was not experienced and got his knowledge by third hand. Even though the gallows was built right and according to the specifications required by the height and weight of Black Jack Ketchum when arrested, the executioner failed to take into account that in the time Ketchum was in the shade, he gained a lot of weight and all calculations were now off.
On April 26, 1901 at 1:13 pm Ketchum was executed with less than perfect results:
There are better ways to go…
Via Bob Owens at Bearing Arms.
Surveillance footage and audio recordings released after a grand jury declined to indict the officer who shot Crawford showed that Crawford was holding the rifle at his side and pointing it to the floor at the time when Ritchie alleged that “he just pointed it at, like, two children”.
Crawford’s father and the family’s attorney said that Ritchie, 24, should be questioned by police over the discrepancy between the footage and his allegation, which he made about 80 seconds before Crawford was shot, and confirmed when asked soon after. Knowingly “making false alarms” is a crime under Ohio law punishable by a fine or jail sentence.
“He was the catalyst, if you will, in the whole sequence of events leading up to my son’s death,” John Crawford Jr told the Guardian. “It was a crank call. He excited the call, and exaggerated the call, and frankly it was just a bunch of lies.”
Ritchie declined to comment in an online message on Friday. He has previously maintained that Crawford posed a threat to shoppers and that the 911 call was justified.
Both local PD and DOJ should seriously investigate Mr. Ritchie. As for myself, I have no problem saying that it is my opinion he is the one who caused the death of John Crawford III.
Is Ritchie a member of a Gun Control group or favors them? I have no idea and nobody has come forward with the information. The reason why he chose to call 911 and give the take he gave resides in his head and since he already lawyer-ed up, I doubt we will ever know.
I hope there is an investigation, I doubt there will be one by either law enforcement or the Media. The deafening silence from Civil Rights groups is a bad omen, conflict of interest if it happens to be a politically influenced SWATting incident.
Do you remember not too far back when Moms Demand and Media Matters threw a hissy fit about the alleged insult that NRA gave modern moms because they (and pretty much nobody) bought the line that Shannon Watts was a June -Cleaver-stay-at-home mom ? They made it clear that what was seen back then as traditional roles for a woman are now insulting and degrading and we are horrible people for thinking that (which we weren’t) and Shannon was cool because she didn’t do those things?
Well, apparently very old tradition of quilting is not on the list of degrading things modern chic mothers won’t do.
DENVER, Colo. (CBS4) – Mothers across Colorado are using quilting to fight gun violence.
The group called Moms Demand Action is stitching together memories and a message as part of their Mother’s Dream Quilt Project.
via Moms Stitch Together Memories To Fight Gun Violence « CBS Denver.
I just don’t get it. How is it possible for these media and public relation experts to constantly screw up, try to cover it up and when doing so, make the problem twice as big as before?
I need coffee….
