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Tag Archives: Guns
Hate gets a pass…racial profiling as political correctness
By ann summers Because of a “mouth-feel” like styrofoam peanuts, I hate baked Cheetos or their generic imitators even as I definitely like fried Cheetos. So much for common sense about what is healthy snack food— fortunately it probably isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Equal Rights, Government, Homosexual Rights, Law Enforcement, Media, Politics, Presidential Elections, Racism, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Gun Violence, Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, profiling, Racism, Republicans, Terrorism
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Public Safety in the post-Pulse era
By ann summers Orlando’s horrific domestic extremist attack demonstrates that with the constant, cyclical negation of private and public rights there cannot be win-win solutions in a modern democracy that has foundationally resisted the notion of a theocratic state. An … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Afghanistan, Civil Liberties, Crime, DHS, Equal Rights, FBI, Florida, Government, Heroism, Homeland Security, Homosexual Rights, Immigrants, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Media, Murder, News, Police, Racism, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, police, Terrorism
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Tennessee Sheriff proves beyond all shadow of doubt that Beyoncé is a stochastic terrorist
By ann summers Another minor public official in Tennessee has decided to support the Bundystani Soverign Citizen wardlordism using county sheriffs as the dupes of anti-government libertarianism. Now the false equivalence of RWNJ sovereignty protests applies where not only is … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Government, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Logic, Media, Murder, Music, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, North Carolina, Progressives, Propaganda, Rock and Roll, Short Video, State Government, Tea Party, Television, Tennessee, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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A Balkanization too far: taking back The United Counties of America
By ann summers Malheur Wildlife Refuge’s standoff even with its indicted malingerers demonstrates the abject FAIL of the Bundystani attempt to create a county-level bantustan near Burns, Oregon. However, chances are the armed farces now cruising Burns in their flag-flying pickup trucks have nothing … Continue reading
Posted in California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Humor, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Racism, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, police, Terrorism
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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency
By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ. Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Breaking News, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, Crime, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, FFS Update(s), Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Literature, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Oregon, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, State Government, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States, War
Tagged Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Terrorism
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Bundystani Barbarism – Going Medieval, new materialism & land jumping piracy
By ann summers The prototypical crypto-fascists terrorizing Eastern Oregon in the USA represent largely symbolic, yet armed, direct actions performed with the occupation of federal land and structures in order to promote issues of anti-governmental resistance on the behalf of land-owning individuals and their … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Courts, DHS, DOJ, Economics, environment, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Federal Courts, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Green, History, Law Enforcement, Legal Analysis, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Oregon, Police, Progressives, Propaganda, State Courts, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theodore Roosevelt, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, Guns, Law Enforcement, Oregon, Racism, Racism in the United States, Republicans, Terrorism
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Word Cloud: GUNFIRE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD GUNFIRE Someone picks up a gun and points it, At some famous face they think they know, Then pulls the trigger — The bullet nicks the heart of the world And we all bleed. Someone picks … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, Art, FDR, Holocaust, Nazis, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, United States, War, Word Cloud, World History, World War I
Tagged Assassination, Firearms, Gunfire, Guns, Murder
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Nature Rebels . . . Kinda
What to do with an invasive and annoying animal species is an issue for us humans. Sometimes it is a legitimate concern. Exploding and/or invading animal populations can pose health risks for humans in the forms of spreading disease, dangerous … Continue reading
Police Chief of Gulfport, Mississippi, Says That Open Carry Incident in a Walmart Store Could Have Turned into ‘Violent Misunderstanding’
By Elaine Magliaro Leonard Papania, the police chief of Gulfport, Mississippi, appears to be unhappy with his state’s open carry laws “after a man strolling through a Walmart Sunday night menaced shoppers by loading and racking shells into his shotgun…” The … Continue reading
Posted in Law Enforcement, Mississippi, Police, States, United States
Tagged Guns, Open Carry Laws
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