The Iguana Cause for Gun Control.
It is Florida and I should have expected Florida Columnist to do his dumb thing. So Fred Grimm opened his laptop and penned this idiocy.
Not all that shocking, I suppose, coming from the state that concocted America’s first “Stand Your Ground” self-defense statute. I suppose if Florida sanctions gunning down a human if a gunman experiences a bit of trepidation, it’s not much of a leap to authorize mass iguanacide. And pity the poor geckos caught in the crossfire.
First, let’s get the legal crap out of the way: You can’t kill any animal in the state of Florida in a cruel manner as it is stated in FS 828.12
828.12 Cruelty to animals.—(1) A person who unnecessarily overloads, overdrives, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily mutilates, or kills any animal, or causes the same to be done, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner, commits animal cruelty, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or both.
And if you do not kn ow what killing with cruelty is, then the problem is with you and the disappearing nighborhood cats.
Now, at the other thing: Dear Fred, baby, mi amigo. I know you hate Stand Your Ground like you hate Trump, but you cannot write an article about how bad is going to be for the uniformed people if they don’t know how to kill iguanas humanly and at the same time lie about Stand Your Ground.
Stand Your Ground cannot be claiming whenever somebody feels a bit of trepidation (like when you see a Hillary video) but as part of the chain of Self defense which includes among others the very important reasonable fear of death or grave bodily harm. You getting a small woody because you got to read a tweet from Michelle Obama does not reach that level.
Second, Stand Your Ground was not a Florida concoction. Stand Your Ground cases before the Supreme Court date back to 1895, yet he seems to need to continue the false narrative that it was an evil preparation one in the Florida cauldron of the NRA.
As a journalist (yeah right) it should behoove you to publish accurate information and not what the gun control groups that rub your intellectual tummy say it is. Notice I am not asking you for the truth, but for a degree of accuracy. If you would happen to hit it in the same zip code, your readers would stay out of jail and appreciate your word.
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Honey, we knew you were lying, but thanks just the same.
A month ago I did a full copy and paste from a post out Of Arms & The Law where we met Elizabeth McCarthy who was running for a state house seat on a Liberal platform which included Gun Control. She claimed she had treated victims of the Pulse shooting and that she even kept some of the bullets as tragic mementos of her experience.
And then she was found to be lying and quit the race.
She finally fessed up, but only after she was investigated:
Former Democratic state House candidate Elizabeth McCarthy confessed to a state investigator that she lied about being a medical doctor and about treating victims of the 2016 Pulse massacre in Orlando.
That’s according to documents released by the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday.
The department is charging McCarthy with violating state law by lying about being a doctor, under the state’s unlicensed activity statutes.…
“I lied,” the charging affidavit quotes McCarthy as explaining, when Aponte asked her why she could not provide evidence of being a doctor.
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“I wanted to be somebody in the community, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I gave any impersonation. I knew it was wrong and I should have stopped — by no means did I ever mean to put anybody in jeopardy,” the affidavit says.
Pretending to be a doctor is a felony in Florida, even if you have not treated a single patient and the Department of Health says it is going ahead with the full Monty. But I believe that once the story enters the memory hole file, she will be slapped in the wrist an sent home without supper. I mean, she Did It For The Children! ®
If your cause is righteous, why lie?
With Liberals is because they can get away with it. We can’t.
PS: No, I have not had coffee yet.
Real life is never cut and dry and sometimes we make deals with the devil for the betterment of man
Tomorrow is the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing. The Apollo 11 lander touched down on July 20, and the first moonwalk took place on July 21.
Because journalism in 2019 is fucking awful, a true coat hanger abortion dumpster fire of opinionated deceit, I have seen quite a number of opinions online about Werhner von Braun the Nazi and what that means about America.
Very few things in life are ever perfectly cut black and white, there is usually a lot of shades of gray.
War has a tendency to blur that even more.
Prior to the rise of the Nazi government, Germany and Austria were home to a substantial number of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Physics. Any student of chemistry knows how many Germans contributed to that field in the early part of the 20th Century.
This history of research led to the Nazis having an amazing science and engineering program. Germany was a technology powerhouse. If it wasn’t, it would not have been able to fight a war on three fronts (East, West, and the Atlantic Ocean) so effectively for so long given its relatively small population.
Not just did the Germans have the first ballistic missiles, but they brought some of the best planes and tanks to the front, having the first jet-powered aircraft, and highly capable submarine technology.
The United States eventually caught up and surpassed Germany in most areas, but it took a concerted effort and we were late to the game.
When the war was nearing its end, a question arose in the highest ranks of the American government. What to do with all the German scientists and engineers that survived and the research and development that they did?
Practically speaking, there were three options.
1. They could be tried as Nazi collaborators and imprisoned or hung.
2. They could be left in Germany to be captured by the Soviets and put to work building the arsenal of communism.
3. They could be captured and put to work building the arsenal of freedom.
The United States government, after much deliberation, decided that the most prudent course of action was to capture these men and put them to work on our side.
The task of doing that became known as Operation Paperclip.
In a covert affair originally dubbed Operation Overcast but later renamed Operation Paperclip, roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America’s behalf during the Cold War. The program was run by the newly-formed Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), whose goal was to harness German intellectual resources to help develop America’s arsenal of rockets and other biological and chemical weapons, and to ensure such coveted information did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union.
That knowledge was going to go to either us or the Soviets, and we weren’t going to let it fall into the hands of the Soviets.
Now if you thought that the CIA occasionally had a dirty Job, the JOIA was born out of doing a dirty job.
Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.
We were willing to look the other way until our necks cracked and our eyes strained to prevent critical scientific knowledge from going to the Soviets or dying on the gallows.
“One example was they had no idea that Hitler had created this whole arsenal of nerve agents,” Jacobsen says. “They had no idea that Hitler was working on a bubonic plague weapon. That is really where Paperclip began, which was suddenly the Pentagon realizing, ‘Wait a minute, we need these weapons for ourselves.’”
Wernher von Braun was perhaps the most famous ex-Nazi to serve a critical role in the United States building the arsenal of freedom, however, there were others who did everything from spacesuit design to developing counter agents to Soviet biological weapons.
I want to make this clear. I am not excusing the Nazis of anything. Many of the men who were captured in Operation Paperclip were responsible for developing some of the worst weapons and atrocities in Nazi Germany.
The issue is, in the late 1940’s what option was the lesser of the evils.
Our government decided that it was better to put former Nazis on the payroll and direct their efforts in the direction favorable to the United States, and peace and freedom than to let the Soviets have it and use it to commit the kind of atrocities that the Soviets had already proven they were capable of.
Imagine a world in which von Braun and others went to work in Moscow and the Soviet Union develops the technology to build a fleet of nuclear and chemical weapon tipped ICBMs by the 1950’s with no matching American deterrent. Where it was the Soviets that broke the sound barrier and developed the flying wing style stealth bomber.
Yes, these men were Nazis.
Might some of them, like von Braun have been redeemed by the good that came from the work they did under the purview of the United States government? Maybe.
What I do know, is that the post-WWII Cold War era was a different time and nothing, especially groundbreaking Nazi, science is ever straight forward in morality.
The fact that an ex-Nazi help put us on the moon and ran Marshall Space Flight Center doesn’t detract from the greatness of the Apollo missions.
The fact that we made a deal with the devil is part of the reason that we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and not the 50th anniversary of the strategic nuking of the United States by the Soviets this year.
