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friendly_iconoclast's JournalOakland school disowns gun control video made on campus
http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-times/ci_27196097/oakland-school-disowns-gun-control-video-made-campusOAKLAND -- A charter school here is distancing itself from a controversial anti-gun video filmed on campus over the summer that shows a student bringing a gun to school and giving it to his teacher.
North Oakland Community Charter School Director Carolyn Gramstorff said the school rented space to San Francisco filmmaker Rejina Sincic but had no idea the content would become so divisive on both sides of the gun control debate...
...The film, called "Stop Gun Violence-PSA", is getting negative comments from all sides of the debate on gun control because it shows a kid bringing a gun to school in his backpack.
"We do not advocate for children to bring guns, real or fake, to school," Gramstorff said when contacted by telephone in Florida on Tuesday.
Protip: encouraging kids to commit multiple felonies *might not* be such a great idea:
Other antigun types are already implying that this video is some sort of
'false-flag' operation:
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/gun-violence-psa-director-rejina-sincic/
I smell a rat here, Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told Vocativ on Tuesday. To me, this reeks of something thats been planted.
Its shocking how this suddenly went viral on right wing media when no one in our movement is promoting this video, Everitt continued. Im actively questioning who this woman is. And Id like to know who paid for this and why.
And here we've been told recently here at DU that it's *gun owners* that are paranoid...
Fox-style homophobia from anti-vaccine Facebook page vactruth.com
https://www.facebook.com/vaccinetruth/posts/10152594501857989December 9 at 11:02am · Edited ·
For the readers who have asked this question,
Do you think vaccinating a child with vaccines, that are made up of endocrine disrupting chemicals, can affect the outcome of a person's sexuality? Homosexuality is found in nature in other species and has occurred in populations long before the advent of vaccines. Some believe vaccines affect sexuality and some don't. It is known that vaccines do disrupt hormonal function and can cause fertility and thyroid problems, so this is a legitimate question some people want to learn more about.
Below is a link discussing what some doctors have to say on the issue but not in relation to vaccination status. Many people are afraid to bring this topic up and write about it. We know this is on some people's minds, so please respectfully share your experience.
http://borngay.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000020
Some comments:
Fortunately, at least one commenter saw right through this bigoted nonsense:
Stingray Warrentless Wiretap by Chicago PD on Activists
Activists Say Chicago Police Used ‘Stingray’ Eavesdropping Technology During Protests
Source: CBS Chicago
Activists Say Chicago Police Used Stingray Eavesdropping Technology During Protests
December 6, 2014 11:19 AM
(CBS) Activists who have been protesting in Chicago claim they have proof that police have been using so-called Stingray technology to eavesdrop on their phones, reports WBBMs Mike Krauser.
The technology essentially puts up a wall between the users phone and their provider, forcing phones in the immediate area to send data to the police instead of the nearest cell towers.
Activists have posted pictures online of a city of marked Chicago emergency management vehicle with what looks like radar on top following protestors. Some have reported that when the vehicle is nearby their phones dont work properly.
The activists think theyve found proof police are using stingray technology in a radio exchange between officers on the street and headquarters during a recent protest.
Read more: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/06/activists-say-chicago-police-used-stingray-eavesdropping-technology-during-protests/
The intercepted radio exchange:
Gun control advocates are lying to us again. Color me unsurprised
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/14/more-guns-more-crime-new-research-debunks-a-central-thesis-of-the-gun-rights-movement/More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/november/donohue-guns-study-111414.html
"The totality of the evidence based on educated judgments about the best statistical models suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates" of aggravated assault, rape, robbery and murder, said Donohue.
The strongest evidence was for aggravated assault, with data suggesting that right-to-carry (RTC) laws increase this crime by an estimated 8 percent and this may actually be understated, according to the researchers.
"Our analysis of the year-by-year impact of RTC laws also suggests that RTC laws increase aggravated assaults," they wrote.
The murder rate increased in the states with existing right-to-carry laws for the period 1999-2010 when the "confounding influence" of the crack cocaine epidemic is controlled for. The study found that homicides increased in eight states that adopted right-to-carry laws during 1999-2010.
Let's just see about that, shall we?
First off, the crime statistics are obtained from the FBI's "Crime In The United States"
reports, and rates are per 100,000 inhabitants:
1999
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/1999/table5_state99.xls
2010
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl05.xls
M = Murder and non-negligent homicide
AA = Aggravated assault
The first number is the 1999 rate, the second the 2010 rate
The following states are the eight that passed shall-issue laws in the period 1999-2010
The disinterested reader will notice that there was only *one* increase
in aggravated assault rates and *one* increase in murder rates, in two different states.
Colorado
M 4.6 2.4
AA 219.2 212.4
Minnesota
M 2.8 1.8
AA 146.5 136.4
Missouri
M 6.6 7.0
AA 336.6 321.7
Kansas
M 6.0 3.5
AA 259.5 272.1
Michigan
M 7.0 5.7
AA 375.7 321.0
Nebraska
M 3.6 3.0
AA 325.9 183.6
New Mexico
M 9.8 6.9
AA 622.2 457.1
Wyoming
M 2.3 1.4
AA 186.0 151.9
I think this tells us all we need to know about John Donahue and those that
tout his 'findings'...
More attempted turd-polishing from gun controllers
Also posted at GCRA, but reposted here for some non-"amen chorus" discussion:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120236/2014-midterms-boosted-gun-control-and-hurt-nra
For example, note what's buried amidst the happytalk glurge in this paragraph:
"Yeah, we got...back to where we started in two districts and lost overall-but it's a VICTORY!"
Yeesh...
The Democratic Party Has Become General Motors Circa 1999
As evidence, I offer...the Pontiac Aztek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Aztek
In case you're wondering if I've totally gone off the beam-after seeing the recent election debacle, I remembered this interview last month in Road and Track with auto industry bigwig Bob Lutz
I found the parallels striking...
http://www.roadandtrack.com/voices/columnists/bob-lutz/bob-lutz-tells-the-inside-story-of-the-pontiac-aztek-debacle
How Bad Cars Happen: The Pontiac Aztek debacle
Bob Lutz on the dangers of totalitarian management.
By Bob Lutz October 10, 2014
The guy in charge of product development was Don Hackworth, an old-school guy from the tradition of shouts, browbeating, and by-God-I-want-it-done. He said, "Look. We've all made up our minds that the Aztek is gonna be a winner. It's gonna astound the world. I don't want any negative comments about this vehicle. None. Anybody who has bad opinions about it, I want them off the team." As if the public is gonna give a sh** about team spirit.
Blaming the (non)voters/buyers? Yep, there's some of that too...
The danger with the totalitarian management style is that people won't speak up when there's a problem. They'll get their heads cut off or the messenger gets shot...
That last line sound familiar to anyone else?
Process over results...
Rifle-Toting Huey P. Newton Gun Club Delivers Report on Police Shootings to Feds
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/huey_p_newton_gun_club_dixon_circle_james_harper.phpBy Sky Chadde Tue., Oct. 7 2014 at 7:38 AM
The Huey P. Newton Gun Club and the Indigenous People's Liberation Party stand across the street from the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse.
In hopes of raising awareness of police brutality, two groups walked single-file together through downtown Dallas Monday afternoon with rifles slung over their shoulders. The Huey P. Newton Gun Club, which marched down Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in August, and the Indigenous People's Liberation Party stopped in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. As about 10 members stood in a line on the sidewalk across the building's entrance, three members went inside and attempted to hand a report directly to U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana.
They got as far as her division manager with the report, compiled from data obtained through open-records requests, which shows that the majority of victims of Dallas police shootings are from the minority community. It's the same report Dallas Communities Organizing for Change released to the media last week. To the marchers, the numbers in the report are evidence of a systemic problem of police abuse toward minorities.
Charles Goodson, one of the three who handed over the report and a Gun Club leader, believes the numbers in the report have been largely ignored by the city and police Chief David Brown.
"I think it's a great contradiction that they would allow us to get these records and then at the same time when we present them with the facts and the records that they've given to us they don't really pay close attention to that at all," Goodson said. "One of the main things we want to do here today is put that information forward to the community and get it legitimized."
Members of the Gun Club prepare for their downtown march.
Wonder what those that pissed all over a more recent group of armed demonstrators
in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014928412
will have to say about this- that is, if they don't studiously ignore it?
Florida Supreme Court Rejects Cell Phone Tracking by Police
http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/fl-supreme-court-rejects-cell-phone-tracking-policeBy Jim Saunders of The News Service of Florida
6:37 pm
Thu October 16, 2014
Pointing to privacy rights, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday said police need to get warrants before using cell-phone information to conduct "real-time" tracking of criminal suspects.
Justices, in a 5-2 decision, sided with a man who was arrested in 2007 in Broward County after a search of his vehicle uncovered a kilogram brick of cocaine hidden in a spare-tire well. Police tracked the man, Shawn Alvin Tracey, through location information given off when cell-phone calls are made.
In a 46-page majority opinion, Chief Justice Jorge Labarga wrote that using the information without a warrant violated Tracey's Fourth Amendment constitutional rights, which protect people from unreasonable searches and seizures. Labarga, in ruling that evidence against Tracey should be suppressed, also pointed to the public's dependence on cell phones.
"We cannot overlook the inexorable and significant fact that, because cell phones are indispensable to so many people and are normally carried on one's person, cell phone tracking can easily invade the right to privacy in one's home or other private areas, a matter that the government cannot always anticipate and one which, when it occurs, is clearly a Fourth Amendment violation,'' wrote Labarga, who was joined in the majority by justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, Peggy Quince and James E.C. Perry.
Florida Supreme Court Rejects Cell Phone Tracking by Police
http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/fl-supreme-court-rejects-cell-phone-tracking-policeBy Jim Saunders of The News Service of Florida
Pointing to privacy rights, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday said police need to get warrants before using cell-phone information to conduct "real-time" tracking of criminal suspects.
Justices, in a 5-2 decision, sided with a man who was arrested in 2007 in Broward County after a search of his vehicle uncovered a kilogram brick of cocaine hidden in a spare-tire well. Police tracked the man, Shawn Alvin Tracey, through location information given off when cell-phone calls are made.
In a 46-page majority opinion, Chief Justice Jorge Labarga wrote that using the information without a warrant violated Tracey's Fourth Amendment constitutional rights, which protect people from unreasonable searches and seizures. Labarga, in ruling that evidence against Tracey should be suppressed, also pointed to the public's dependence on cell phones.
"We cannot overlook the inexorable and significant fact that, because cell phones are indispensable to so many people and are normally carried on one's person, cell phone tracking can easily invade the right to privacy in one's home or other private areas, a matter that the government cannot always anticipate and one which, when it occurs, is clearly a Fourth Amendment violation,'' wrote Labarga, who was joined in the majority by justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis, Peggy Quince and James E.C. Perry.
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