Gun Free Zone

You may have heard that Nike withdrew from sales its Betsy Ross shoes because eternally un-hirable Colin Kaepernick found them offensive because of the flag on them.

Nike is being chided and laughed that they get their marketing strategies from somebody who cannot hold a job because he sucks at it, but the best use of a white hot poking barb goes to Steve Deace:

Have the Burn Unit stand by, incoming patient.

Hat Tip Kimberly T.

About a year ago, I decided to close down the original GayPatriot blog. The reasons were many — not the least of which, I hadn’t posted in many years. And my fellow contributors were growing tired as well.

Also, for many years — my preferred outlet for free expression became Twitter.

But then I became de-platformed as “@GayPatriot” by a left-wing gay Millennial who was offended by my use of the word “Tranny.”

So, I decided to ramp it up here again

I Have Returned.

Blogging seems to be the last refuge of online Free Speech. Who knows how long we have or if we are left because they still believe we are no longer relevant. Who cares? We continue.

So Ask Amy decided to revisit her initial article about the young lady wit the super-duper explosive killing .40 caliber gun banned in so many states and correct her fuck ups only to screw it even bigger:

I definitely have a bias against the people who use guns to terrorize and kill one another. I also have a bias against the gun lobby that gaslights Americans into believing that gun ownership is not only a right, but also — these days — a necessity, as many readers have suggested.

Ask Amy revisits the gun question that brought threats against her

Why is it that for Journalists and associates, the Bill of Rights stops at the First Amendment? I imagine that the word “first” is a heavy hint that there might be more and that I should continue reading.

Just a piece of advice from a “gaslighter.”

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to a migrant detention center in El Paso, Texas yesterday.

Her reports from inside the detention center were extreme, to say the least.  She made the accusation that Border Patrol agents were forcing migrant women to drink out of the toilet.

It was later confirmed, by Rep Ocasio-Cortez herself, they were instructed to drink out of the sink part of a prison-style sink-toilet combo fixture.  Because she couldn’t apologize and be reasonable, she stated the sink was broken and migrants were still told to drink out of the bowl.

This was in fact the type of toilet we saw in the cell.

Except there was just one, and the sink portion was not functioning – @AyannaPressley smartly tried to open the faucet, and nothing came out.

So the women were told they could drink out of the bowl. https://t.co/rcu9Rt6B2x

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019

She also stated one of the women there “described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare.’”

Maybe this is just my prejudice, but I have a hard time believing that a destitute migrant from a third world country like El Salvador, would very specifically use the phrase ‘psychological warfare’ without extensive coaching.

Her accusations of the conditions from inside the detention center are not the most egregious thing that she did.  Not by far.

.@AOC after leaving the Clint, Texas border facility: “I was not safe from the officers in that facility” pic.twitter.com/jud4QADFJq

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 1, 2019

She wasn’t safe from the CBP agents.

This isn’t the only time she said this.  She also made that accusation on her official Twitter.

Just left the 1st CBP facility.

I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me.

Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets.

This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019

Let me see if I get this straight.

The most famous current Member of the House on social media, and perhaps the second most famous politician on social media (after President Trump), is afraid that US Federal law enforcement officers under the Department of Homeland Security are going to hurt her, sexually assault her, and perhaps even rape and kill her, while she is on an official Congressional tour?

Is she nuts?

Then her Chief of Staff doubled down.

https://twitter.com/saikatc/status/1145808500892811265

Again, Rep Ocasio-Cortez and her Chief of Staff want me to believe that a sworn Federal law enforcement officer is going to shoot a Congresswoman with his duty weapon during a sanctioned tour of a Federal facility.

Tell me exactly how exactly in that hypothetical scenario, the offending officer was going to get away with that and not bring down on himself, the facility, and the whole of the CBP and perhaps DHS the largest manhunt and criminal investigation in Texas history?

This ranks right up there with David Hogg claiming to have been the victim of seven assassination attempts for delusional victim status.  But she isn’t just some jackass media whore, she’s a sitting United States Congresswoman and such accusations must be investigated.

My feeling is that she’s trying to #MeToo CBP out of a budget.

Whatever she’s trying to do, this is clearly going to a level that we’ve never seen before in politics.

So I managed to piss off  reader because I would not validate his feeling about what constitutes Police State.  The Insulted showed this page where allegedly says a police went into a bar, detained everybody for the hell of it to do  warrant checks and he wanted to be reassured that we are living in the top times of a Police State in the US.

Now, I am always suspicious of videos with one heavy narrative already trying to orient the viewer, but let us say for the sake of the argument it happened exactly as the narrator said it happened.  It is at best, police misconduct that can be addressed by legal means and possibly won. It is not by a display of Police State and let me tell you why:
First, there would not be a video posted in YouTube, in fact, the young lady’s phone would probably be in a cop’s pocket while he thought how much he could get for it in the Black Market.
Second: There is too much talk, too much pissed of commentary directed at the cops. In a REAL Police State you are either very quiet or you get to shit teeth for a week and eat your meals through a straw.  Cops in Police States are very short tempered and do not take lip from anybody.
Three: Nobody is up against the wall, hands up, legs spread. That is the baseline position when cops approach you and ask for ID down there.  If you are very lucky,they are sober and do not ask ID at gunpoint.
Four (and I am guessing): Everybody who did not have a warrant went home without issues and not having to issue a bribe to the cops (or blow jobs) to be set free.

And in case you need visual aids, this is what a Police State looks like (and without legal recourse):

Venezuela National Guard playing off road with protesters

Venezuelan cops executing criminals

Report of Mexican Federal Police executing 22 people in a ranch

In the Dominican Republic and South of the Border there is no Tennessee v Garner: You “escape” and you get executed.

I reckon there is a difference between the first video and the rest.  And if you still say it is the same thing, you are a certified dumbass who has lived a very sheltered life.

A state panel has voted unanimously to revoke the law enforcement accreditation of the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the largest sheriff’s office in Florida.
The loss of accreditation — a voluntary certification sought by law enforcement agencies — won’t affect BSO’s operations in a major way. But it is a further blow to the agency’s prestige at a time when a new command staff, including a new sheriff, are dealing with a string of failures and questionable conduct by deputies.
The Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA) cited BSO’s mishandling of the Parkland school shooting last year and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shooting in 2017 as reasons for its decision in a 13-0 vote last week

After chaotic handling of Parkland, airport mass shootings, BSO loses its accreditation

Accreditation allows agencies to standardize their practices and make sure they meet widely accepted guidelines. It can also help buttress agencies in defending themselves against lawsuits as it shows their procedures have been validated by outside experts, as well as lower their insurance rates. In Florida, there are more than 200 standards that an agency must meet to to maintain accreditation.<

Higher insurance rates meas less money to be used somewhere and you bet administration is not going to get the short end of that checkbook. I think yers of shoddy leadership are finally coming to roost a top of the agency.

By the way, I made a bet with Lee Williams from The Gun Writer.  I m betting Scott Israel is elected Broward Sheriff again and he says it won’t happen.

One beer/ One Coke. Hey, budgets are short!

Two years ago I wrote a post about Redneck Revolt, a pro-gun far-Left, Antfa group.

Today, in the wake of all the internet criticism of milkshaking with cement and the beating of Andy Ngo, Vox thought it was a good idea to remind the Right that the Left has no problems using guns either.

I’m a left-wing anarchist. Guns aren’t just for right-wingers.

I am warning you, what you are about to read is a combination of mind boggling historical inaccuracies and mental gymnastics.

Right-wingers have held an unearned monopoly on gun culture for too long. Whether it’s in the halls of legislative power or in the comments under “gun bunny” photos on Instagram, there is a prevailing narrative that pegs guns and armed self-defense exclusively to Republicans, racist libertarians, and other generally Constitution-obsessed weirdos.

It’s not unearned.  I cannot think of a single pro-gun Democrat.  The closest I can thing of is the “I won’t take away your deer rifle while I try to ban assault weapons” politician.

Also, I love how a belief in the Second Amendment and civil rights in general makes a person a “Constitution-obsessed weirdo.”

It maintains that those on the left want to take away everyone’s guns and swathe the entire country in bubble wrap.

See every single candidate running on the Democrat side right now.  Every single one has pushed for gun bans and mandatory buybacks.

But I’m an anarchist, and I call bullshit.

Eh…

I’m of the firm opinion that it’s time to not only arm the left but challenge the narrative that all leftists are anti-gun. Many are, and that’s a position I can understand and respect. But there is also a long history of armed community self-defense among the radical left that is often glossed over or forgotten entirely in favor of the Fox News-friendly narrative that all liberals hate guns. That’s simply not the case — though as history has proven, the only thing that scares the reactionary right more than the idea of losing their guns is the thought of us having them.

That is true, I fear the far Left with guns.  The far Left has a nasty habit of using their guns as tools of oppression, not as tools of freedom.  The Left carries guns to make it easier to carry out a lynching or a pogrom.  Just look at what the far Left in Portland did with sticks and crowbars and milkshakes.

When I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting the Unite the Right rally in 2017, the only time I truly felt safe was when members of Redneck Revolt — a working-class, anti-fascist, anti-racist armed community defense group — showed up open-carrying and secured the park where a number of us were gathered. The police may have stood by and done nothing as a neo-Nazi murdered one of us, but Redneck Revolt was there to offer protection — and the fascists steered clear of that park because of it.

There were no good guys at at the Unite the Right rally.  Antifa is the enemy, they have proven that at every possible opportunity.

In Stone Mountain, Georgia, when a group of us marched through the streets to celebrate the cancellation of a Klan rally on February 2, we were accompanied by local activists with rifles and ARs slung over their shoulders; the police kept their distance, which was an extraordinary sight for someone used to New York City’s ultra-aggressive, hyper-militarized NYPD. As the black militant liberation group the Black Panthers showed back in the 1960s, as the Zapatistas showed in the ’90s, and as anarchists in New Orleans showed during the aftermath of Katrina, when cops and other fascists see that they’re not the only ones packing, the balance of power shifts, and they tend to reconsider their tactics.

How could we forget the terrorist acts, murders, kidnappings, bombings, and robberies carried out by the Black Panthers and Zapatistas.  This is part of that rewriting or whitewashing of history where far Left racial separatists are turned into heroes.

To be honest, the thought of a world in which the state and their running dogs are the only entities with access to firearms sends a shudder down my spine.

Here, I agree.

Leftist gun ownership is about protecting marginalized communities.

No it is not.  “Protecting marginalized X” has become the blank check for justifying violence.  Attacking people just trying to drive home from work in the middle of Portland during an anti-Cop protest is not Protecting marginalized communities.

I’m interested in reclaiming the notion of armed self-defense from those who have long used it as a cudgel to repress dissent and terrorize marginalized communities, and emphasizing its potential as a transformative tool toward collective liberation.

This is projection.  Everything that comes out of their mouths is projection.  Your and my owning guns because we want to be left alone and will defend ourselves accordingly is not a “cudgel to repress dissent and terrorize marginalized communities.”  Conservative gun owners are not carrying their guns into black or gay neighborhoods to scare the locals.

They want to pretend that we are as an excuse to instigate the violence.

There is a long history of leftist gun ownership, and a concurrent theme of state repression against it. As author and anarchist scott crow notes, “our current gun control laws disproportionately hobble poor communities and communities of color.”

Democrats made these laws.

As far as the state is concerned, black people were never meant to own guns at all; the Second Amendment was intended in part as a means of controlling the enslaved black population and suppressing possible uprisings.

None of that is true.  That is the sort of far Left anti-Second Amendment horseshit that gets thrown around on college campuses by people who do not know the writings of our founding fathers.

That sentiment has proven to have quite a bit of staying power. In 1967, the Black Panthers staged an armed demonstration on the steps of the California state courthouse and launched an occupation in protest of the Mulford Act, which banned open carry in the state. Said law was written by a Republican Assembly member in response to the Panthers’ cop-watching “police patrols”; shortly after the protest, state legislators rushed to enact tougher gun control laws, with the full support of Republican President Ronald Reagan and the National Rifle Association.

And how quickly it goes from the real history of the Black Panthers threatening people with guns to “gun control was created to disarm black people.”

We can’t depend on the police to protect us.

Again, here, I’ll agree.

I don’t have all the answers, but the bare fact of the matter here is that violent right-wing extremism is a continuing threat that has been allowed to spread unabated in this country — a country that is itself rooted in the oppression of people of color.

No, it really hasn’t.  And can this person make it any clearer how much she hates this country.

The police will not protect us; neither will the military, or well-meaning liberals, or your favorite oh-so-progressive politicians. It is not in their interest to do so, and recognizing that is imperative to the survival of those who reject this vile status quo.

This is accurate, but not entirely for the reason she postulates.  Disgraced Sheriff Scot Israel didn’t protect the children of rich white people either.  Never attribute to racism what is adequately explained by bureaucratic incompetence.

The way that leftists engage with the subject of firearms, conflict, and power within our own communities needs to shift toward a place where guns are considered just another tool in our struggle for collective liberation, not the sole focus.

“Our struggle for collective liberation” is not self defense in the conservative sense.  Considering that the Black Panthers, Zapatistas, FALN, and other Leftist groups instigated terrorist attacks, kidnappings, and murders, we are not speaking the same language.

Until we live in a world with no police, no military, and no state, we’re at the mercy of all three — and I, at least, don’t think it’s fair to expect us to confront them empty-handed.

Such a world is a terrible place.  It makes the thug with the club the king.  Rule by the most violent.  Which is exactly what they are going for.  It is what rules the streets of Portland right now.

Make no mistake, this is crybully gun ownership.

This is branding everyone that disagrees with them as fascist so they can shoot them.

This is concrete milkshakes, pepper spray, and crowbars taken to the next level.  If they can justify bashing a person in the head with a club by calling them a fascist, they can justify shooting them for the same reason.

I believe in gun rights.  This is using guns for Leftist intimidation.