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April 29, 2019
Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO)
Apparently, we will be still be able to keep and bear firelocks, as the US military never issued those-see for
earlier discussion of LA Times article covering the same rally:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207897
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html
...We will also insist and ensure that weapons that were designed and sold to the United States military, with the express purpose of killing people as efficiently as effectively and in as great a number as possible, are kept on the battlefields and are no longer sold in our communities, because they will end up in our synagogues, in our churches, in our mosques and public places.
The crowd responded with strong applause...
The crowd responded with strong applause...
April 29, 2019
Starting (or eventually ending up with) these, one supposes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1795_Musket
Hmm, maybe he really means to save us from the tidal waves of bayonnettings?
Beto O'Rourke demands ban on muskets at campaign rally
Or: Democrats On Guns Sounding Like Republicans On Abortion, Part The Eleventy-First:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html
...We will also insist and ensure that weapons that were designed and sold to the United States military, with the express purpose of killing people as efficiently as effectively and in as great a number as possible, are kept on the battlefields and are no longer sold in our communities, because they will end up in our synagogues, in our churches, in our mosques and public places.
The crowd responded with strong applause...
The crowd responded with strong applause...
Starting (or eventually ending up with) these, one supposes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1795_Musket
The Springfield Model 1795 Musket was a .69 caliber flintlock musket manufactured in the late 18th century and early 19th century at both the Springfield and Harper's Ferry U.S. Armories.
The Model 1795 was the first musket to be produced in the United States by Eli Whitney. It was based heavily on the Charleville musket, Model 1763/66, which had been imported in large numbers from the French during the American Revolution, and which at the time comprised the largest number of muskets in U.S. arsenals at about 20,000 muskets. The Model 1795 was used in the War of 1812
Service history
In service 17951865
Used by United States
Confederate States of America
Wars
American Indian Wars
Quasi-War
First Barbary War
1811 German Coast Uprising
Tecumseh's War
War of 1812
Creek War
Second Barbary War
First Seminole War
MexicanAmerican War
American Civil War
The Model 1795 was the first musket to be produced in the United States by Eli Whitney. It was based heavily on the Charleville musket, Model 1763/66, which had been imported in large numbers from the French during the American Revolution, and which at the time comprised the largest number of muskets in U.S. arsenals at about 20,000 muskets. The Model 1795 was used in the War of 1812
Service history
In service 17951865
Used by United States
Confederate States of America
Wars
American Indian Wars
Quasi-War
First Barbary War
1811 German Coast Uprising
Tecumseh's War
War of 1812
Creek War
Second Barbary War
First Seminole War
MexicanAmerican War
American Civil War
Hmm, maybe he really means to save us from the tidal waves of bayonnettings?
April 25, 2019
IMO, this strikes me as being no different than anti-BDS laws.
Gotta go with Robert Bolt on this one:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_film)
Repost from LBN: NRA sues city of L.A. over its new contract disclosure law
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142307601Source: LA Times
The National Rifle Assn. filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new Los Angeles law requiring companies that seek contracts with the city to disclose whether they have ties to the gun rights group.
The suit was filed in federal court on behalf of the NRA, including a John Doe, who is described in court documents as an NRA member and business operator with several L.A. city contracts.
Plaintiff Doe participates in this action as a Doe participant because he reasonably fears retribution from the city and the potential loss of lucrative contracts should Does identity be known, the lawsuit says.
City Councilman Mitch OFarrell championed the new law, arguing in a motion he presented last year that city residents and stakeholders deserve to know whether taxpayer funds are being spent on contractors with ties to the NRA.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nra-sues-los-angeles-disclosure-law-20190424-story.html
The National Rifle Assn. filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new Los Angeles law requiring companies that seek contracts with the city to disclose whether they have ties to the gun rights group.
The suit was filed in federal court on behalf of the NRA, including a John Doe, who is described in court documents as an NRA member and business operator with several L.A. city contracts.
Plaintiff Doe participates in this action as a Doe participant because he reasonably fears retribution from the city and the potential loss of lucrative contracts should Does identity be known, the lawsuit says.
City Councilman Mitch OFarrell championed the new law, arguing in a motion he presented last year that city residents and stakeholders deserve to know whether taxpayer funds are being spent on contractors with ties to the NRA.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nra-sues-los-angeles-disclosure-law-20190424-story.html
IMO, this strikes me as being no different than anti-BDS laws.
Gotta go with Robert Bolt on this one:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_film)
Alice More: Arrest him!
More: Why, what has he done?
Margaret More: He's bad!
More: There is no law against that.
Will Roper: There is! God's law!
More: Then God can arrest him.
Alice: While you talk, he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws
all being flat?
This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast man's laws, not God's and if you cut them down
and you're just the man to do itdo you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.
More: Why, what has he done?
Margaret More: He's bad!
More: There is no law against that.
Will Roper: There is! God's law!
More: Then God can arrest him.
Alice: While you talk, he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws
all being flat?
This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast man's laws, not God's and if you cut them down
and you're just the man to do itdo you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.
April 16, 2019
Honest Government Ad Julian Assange
Pretty vicious language- but I dare you to watch this and say they're wrong...
April 12, 2019
After all this plays out, I devoutly hope that Barr gets John Mitchell's old cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._MitchellJohn Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 November 9, 1988) was the 67th Attorney General of the United States (19691972) under President Richard Nixon. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer, chairman of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends.
After his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he served as chairman of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Due to multiple crimes he committed in the Watergate affair, Mitchell was sentenced to prison in 1977 and served 19 months...
On February 21, 1975, Mitchell, who was represented by the criminal defense attorney William G. Hundley, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the "White House horrors." As a result of the conviction, Mitchell was disbarred from the practice of law in New York. The sentence was later reduced to one to four years by United States district court Judge John J. Sirica. Mitchell served only 19 months of his sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery (in Maxwell Air Force Base) in Montgomery, Alabama, a minimum-security prison, before being released on parole for medical reasons.
Tape recordings made by President Nixon and the testimony of others involved confirmed that Mitchell had participated in meetings to plan the break-in of the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. In addition, he had met, on at least three occasions, with the president in an effort to cover up White House involvement after the burglars were discovered and arrested
After his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he served as chairman of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Due to multiple crimes he committed in the Watergate affair, Mitchell was sentenced to prison in 1977 and served 19 months...
On February 21, 1975, Mitchell, who was represented by the criminal defense attorney William G. Hundley, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the "White House horrors." As a result of the conviction, Mitchell was disbarred from the practice of law in New York. The sentence was later reduced to one to four years by United States district court Judge John J. Sirica. Mitchell served only 19 months of his sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery (in Maxwell Air Force Base) in Montgomery, Alabama, a minimum-security prison, before being released on parole for medical reasons.
Tape recordings made by President Nixon and the testimony of others involved confirmed that Mitchell had participated in meetings to plan the break-in of the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. In addition, he had met, on at least three occasions, with the president in an effort to cover up White House involvement after the burglars were discovered and arrested
April 11, 2019
Guess the Lacey District's entirely-self-caused-by-mindless-control-freakery future payout won't help with the following:
https://www.app.com/story/news/education/2019/03/19/lacey-schools-plan-layoff-staff-special-ed-close-budget-hole/3201274002/
ACLU: (NJ) Students suspended for posting gun photos on Snapchat file free-speech suit
https://www.aclu.org/news/students-suspended-posting-gun-photos-snapchat-file-free-speech-suitLacey Township High School unconstitutionally punished students for posts made off-campus and outside of school hours, says ACLU-NJ suit
April 10, 2019
The ACLU-NJ and the law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., filed a lawsuit today on behalf of two students whose First Amendment rights were violated after they were suspended for posting photos of firearms to social media made entirely outside of a school context.
When I was pulled into the principals office for something I shared with my friends privately, outside of school, over a weekend, it felt like I had no place where I could truly speak freely, said H.S., one of the students whose Snapchat post precipitated the schools actions, whose name is being withheld because he was a minor at the time of the suspension.
Im filing this suit so that no one at my high school in the future has to feel like the First Amendment wasnt meant to include them, said Cody Conroy, the other student who was suspended for the Snapchat messages.
The Lacey Township School District overstepped its constitutional boundaries by suspending Cody Conroy and H.S., both seniors at the time, for their photos of legally owned guns resting on a table. One of the posts had no caption and the other had tongue-in-cheek text: hot stuff and If theres ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go....
April 10, 2019
The ACLU-NJ and the law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., filed a lawsuit today on behalf of two students whose First Amendment rights were violated after they were suspended for posting photos of firearms to social media made entirely outside of a school context.
When I was pulled into the principals office for something I shared with my friends privately, outside of school, over a weekend, it felt like I had no place where I could truly speak freely, said H.S., one of the students whose Snapchat post precipitated the schools actions, whose name is being withheld because he was a minor at the time of the suspension.
Im filing this suit so that no one at my high school in the future has to feel like the First Amendment wasnt meant to include them, said Cody Conroy, the other student who was suspended for the Snapchat messages.
The Lacey Township School District overstepped its constitutional boundaries by suspending Cody Conroy and H.S., both seniors at the time, for their photos of legally owned guns resting on a table. One of the posts had no caption and the other had tongue-in-cheek text: hot stuff and If theres ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go....
Guess the Lacey District's entirely-self-caused-by-mindless-control-freakery future payout won't help with the following:
https://www.app.com/story/news/education/2019/03/19/lacey-schools-plan-layoff-staff-special-ed-close-budget-hole/3201274002/
Lacey schools may lay off special education staff to close budget hole
LACEY - School employees who work with special needs children are facing layoffs and elimination of their benefits as the Lacey Board of Education plans to fill a budget hole created by declining state aid.
School officials issued the district's paraprofessional staff, who assist students with various special needs, "reduction in force" notices earlier this month.
School board President Shawn J. Giordano estimated that about 70 to 80 paraprofessionals currently work in the district, and most of them receive full-time hours and benefits. However, a new plan would fire and rehire only about 35 to 45 percent of them as full-time staff, he said...
LACEY - School employees who work with special needs children are facing layoffs and elimination of their benefits as the Lacey Board of Education plans to fill a budget hole created by declining state aid.
School officials issued the district's paraprofessional staff, who assist students with various special needs, "reduction in force" notices earlier this month.
School board President Shawn J. Giordano estimated that about 70 to 80 paraprofessionals currently work in the district, and most of them receive full-time hours and benefits. However, a new plan would fire and rehire only about 35 to 45 percent of them as full-time staff, he said...
April 11, 2019
Guess the Lacey District's entirely-self-caused-by-mindless-control-freakery future payout won't help with the following:
https://www.app.com/story/news/education/2019/03/19/lacey-schools-plan-layoff-staff-special-ed-close-budget-hole/3201274002/
ACLU: (NJ) Students suspended for posting gun photos on Snapchat file free-speech suit
https://www.aclu.org/news/students-suspended-posting-gun-photos-snapchat-file-free-speech-suitLacey Township High School unconstitutionally punished students for posts made off-campus and outside of school hours, says ACLU-NJ suit
April 10, 2019
The ACLU-NJ and the law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., filed a lawsuit today on behalf of two students whose First Amendment rights were violated after they were suspended for posting photos of firearms to social media made entirely outside of a school context.
When I was pulled into the principals office for something I shared with my friends privately, outside of school, over a weekend, it felt like I had no place where I could truly speak freely, said H.S., one of the students whose Snapchat post precipitated the schools actions, whose name is being withheld because he was a minor at the time of the suspension.
Im filing this suit so that no one at my high school in the future has to feel like the First Amendment wasnt meant to include them, said Cody Conroy, the other student who was suspended for the Snapchat messages.
The Lacey Township School District overstepped its constitutional boundaries by suspending Cody Conroy and H.S., both seniors at the time, for their photos of legally owned guns resting on a table. One of the posts had no caption and the other had tongue-in-cheek text: hot stuff and If theres ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go....
April 10, 2019
The ACLU-NJ and the law firm Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C., filed a lawsuit today on behalf of two students whose First Amendment rights were violated after they were suspended for posting photos of firearms to social media made entirely outside of a school context.
When I was pulled into the principals office for something I shared with my friends privately, outside of school, over a weekend, it felt like I had no place where I could truly speak freely, said H.S., one of the students whose Snapchat post precipitated the schools actions, whose name is being withheld because he was a minor at the time of the suspension.
Im filing this suit so that no one at my high school in the future has to feel like the First Amendment wasnt meant to include them, said Cody Conroy, the other student who was suspended for the Snapchat messages.
The Lacey Township School District overstepped its constitutional boundaries by suspending Cody Conroy and H.S., both seniors at the time, for their photos of legally owned guns resting on a table. One of the posts had no caption and the other had tongue-in-cheek text: hot stuff and If theres ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where to go....
Guess the Lacey District's entirely-self-caused-by-mindless-control-freakery future payout won't help with the following:
https://www.app.com/story/news/education/2019/03/19/lacey-schools-plan-layoff-staff-special-ed-close-budget-hole/3201274002/
Lacey schools may lay off special education staff to close budget hole
LACEY - School employees who work with special needs children are facing layoffs and elimination of their benefits as the Lacey Board of Education plans to fill a budget hole created by declining state aid.
School officials issued the district's paraprofessional staff, who assist students with various special needs, "reduction in force" notices earlier this month.
School board President Shawn J. Giordano estimated that about 70 to 80 paraprofessionals currently work in the district, and most of them receive full-time hours and benefits. However, a new plan would fire and rehire only about 35 to 45 percent of them as full-time staff, he said...
LACEY - School employees who work with special needs children are facing layoffs and elimination of their benefits as the Lacey Board of Education plans to fill a budget hole created by declining state aid.
School officials issued the district's paraprofessional staff, who assist students with various special needs, "reduction in force" notices earlier this month.
School board President Shawn J. Giordano estimated that about 70 to 80 paraprofessionals currently work in the district, and most of them receive full-time hours and benefits. However, a new plan would fire and rehire only about 35 to 45 percent of them as full-time staff, he said...
April 6, 2019
NC sheriffs now oppose mandate to help ICE but its closer to becoming law
Wonder where the state of NC might have gotten the idea for this...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10672014
https://www.abqjournal.com/1300209/ag-directs-sheriffs-chiefs-to-enforce-gun-law.html
AG directs sheriffs, chiefs to enforce gun law
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142272102
Washington state: at least 20 county sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211974552#post1
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211974552#post7
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207848#post3
NC sheriffs now oppose mandate to help ICE - but it's closer to becoming law
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article228789969.htmlNC sheriffs now oppose mandate to help ICE but its closer to becoming law
...House Bill 370 won approval from the state House on Wednesday just hours after the association announced its opposition.
The bill would require law enforcement agencies across the state to comply with detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
...After the House vote, Speaker Tim Moores office published a news release that included quotes from Rep. Destin Hall, a Caldwell County Republican.
These sanctuary sheriffs are simply putting partisan politics ahead of public safety, Hall said.
The bill would require law enforcement agencies across the state to comply with detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
...After the House vote, Speaker Tim Moores office published a news release that included quotes from Rep. Destin Hall, a Caldwell County Republican.
These sanctuary sheriffs are simply putting partisan politics ahead of public safety, Hall said.
Wonder where the state of NC might have gotten the idea for this...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10672014
https://www.abqjournal.com/1300209/ag-directs-sheriffs-chiefs-to-enforce-gun-law.html
AG directs sheriffs, chiefs to enforce gun law
SANTA FE Attorney General Hector Balderas is warning sheriffs and police chiefs throughout New Mexico that they risk legal liability if they refuse to enforce the states new background checks law for gun sales.
The legislation, which takes effect this summer, emerged as one of the most fiercely debated proposals of the 2019 session, with sheriffs and their deputies turning out in force to testify against it. Some said they simply wouldnt enforce it even if it became law.
But Balderas, a Democrat, sent a letter to every law enforcement agency in the state Thursday, warning them of a legal obligation to uphold the requirements outlined in Senate Bill 8, regardless of whether they agree with the legislation.
As law enforcement officials, Balderas said, we do not have the freedom to pick and choose which state laws we enforce.
The legislation, which takes effect this summer, emerged as one of the most fiercely debated proposals of the 2019 session, with sheriffs and their deputies turning out in force to testify against it. Some said they simply wouldnt enforce it even if it became law.
But Balderas, a Democrat, sent a letter to every law enforcement agency in the state Thursday, warning them of a legal obligation to uphold the requirements outlined in Senate Bill 8, regardless of whether they agree with the legislation.
As law enforcement officials, Balderas said, we do not have the freedom to pick and choose which state laws we enforce.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142272102
Washington state: at least 20 county sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211974552#post1
Lock him up.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211974552#post7
Fire all police who refuse to enforce the law
Fire them, lock them up, fine them. Fucking Nazis!
Fire them, lock them up, fine them. Fucking Nazis!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207848#post3
Let's hope his wish is granted
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