Another Clinton murder

Now add Seth Rich to the list:

1- James McDougal - Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.

2 - Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.

3 - Vince Foster - Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.

4 - Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller committed suicide.

5 - C. Victor Raiser, II - Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.

6 - Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "dear friend and trusted adviser".

7 - Ed Willey - Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.

8 - Jerry Parks - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.

9 - James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas

10 - James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..

11 - Kathy Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.

12 - Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.

13 - Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.

14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.

15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.

16 - Paula Grober - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident

17 – Danny Casolaro – Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation

18 - Seth Rich/ 2016

Washington DC’s up-and-coming Bloomingdale neighborhood remains gripped by fear three week after the murder there of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

Rich was beaten, shot and killed early on the morning of July 8 while he was walking home and talking on the phone to his girlfriend. Police have said they are investigating a link to the Clinton Foundation. The killer or killers appear to have taken nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.

Inside sources indicate that DC police are pursuing a lead that Rich was en route to the FBI that fateful morning, apparently intending to speak to special agents about an “ongoing court case” involving the Clinton family.

DNC email connection

Julian Assange, in his recent ITV appearance, scoffed at the idea that Russian hackers could be responsible for the data dump, and said that “someone” within the Democrats’ organization sent Wikileaks the offending messages.

Given that Rich as a DNC staffer had apparent access to its servers, an announcement is expected later this week that Rich paid the ultimate price for exposing Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC’s crusade against Bernie Sanders.

The Russian report

A somber Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that a top American Democratic Party staffer preparing to testify against Hillary Clinton was assassinated this past Sunday during a secret meeting in Washington D.C. he believed he was having with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, but who turned out, instead, to be a “hit team”—and who, in turn, were captured yesterday after a running gun battle with US federal police forces just blocks from the White House.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

According to this report, SVR “electronic specialists” performing counter intelligence “missions/operations” noted on 7 July an “enormous/gigantic” increase of computer and telephonic traffic between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington D.C. and the Clinton Foundation (CF) offices in New York City.

Upon a “deeper/broader” investigation into this “odd/strange” increase in communications between these believed to be separate organizations, this report continues, SVR analysts determined that the original initiating person responsible was a 27-year-old DNC official named Seth Rich who was that political organizations Deputy Director Data for Voter Protection/Expansion who had helped develop a computer program for the Democratic National Committee allowing people to type in their address and get a map to their polling place.

Fearing that the life of DNC official Seth Rich was in danger due to his being “tracked/targeted” by this known Clinton “hit team”, this report says, SVR Director Mikhail Fradkov authorized an emergency contact between his agency and the US State Department—but, and shockingly, when Russian diplomats presented the SVR findings to US authorities, on 7 July, they were immediately expelled from the United States.

Causing even greater perplexity to the SVR about these events, this report continues, was that in expelling these Russian diplomats from the United States, the US State Department thanked Russia for the information stating that it would be “taken care of”, and then formally requested that the matter remain secret.

https://www.rt.com/news/350329-moscow-mfa-diplomats-expelled/

However, less than 24 hour later, this report notes, the Washington Post wrote a “made up story” about what had actually happened causing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to publically state: “I can confirm that […] the US government did demand the departure of two employees of the Russian Embassy in Washington DC without presenting any complaints to the employees themselves. Furthermore, the State Department strongly asked us not to make this fact public. As you can see, it is customary for American diplomats to keep their word.”

Three days later, this report grimly states, SVR fears that the life of DNC official Seth Rich was in danger proved true when, on 10 July, he was gunned down in Washington D.C. at approximately 4:19 am.

This SVR report, though, says that DNC official Seth Rich was “lured/enticed” to his murder by this Clinton “hit team” who portrayed themselves as FBI agents wanting to secretly interview him—and that the expelled Russian diplomats had given the US State Department “electronic access” to so that they could be found.

Curiously, this report continues, US authorities, and while being able to track this Clinton “hit team” since 7 July, only confronted these assassins yesterday—and who before being captured, engaged in a gun battle with US federal police forces firing their fully automatic weapons before being trapped and surrendering just blocks from the US Capitol and White House.

SVR intelligence analysts contributing to this report speculate that this latest assassination ordered by the Clinton’s has enraged FBI Director James Comey who barely a week ago allowed Hillary Clinton to walk free from her many crimes committed against her own government and people—and that he had no choice to do because of his own involvement with the Clinton Foundation while he was the director of the notorious HSBC money laundering bank that funneled hundreds-of-millions of dollars to the Clinton’s.

To what FBI Director Comey will now allow to happen to this Clinton “hit team” who assassinated DNC official Seth Rich this report doesn’t speculate upon—but it does conclude with a presentation of the many stunning facts regarding the Clinton Foundation that shows it to be nothing more than a “Clinton slush fund” that violated an agreement Hillary Clinton signed with Obama regime in her failing to report millions of dollars given to it by foreign governments, has over 300,000 contributors, and that the prestigious Charity Navigator organization refuses to even acknowledge it helps anyone but the Clinton’s themselves.

Mi Familia

I have a very diverse extended family & I love them all. We are white, black, latino, gay, straight, rednecks, hipsters, conservatives, socialist, gun nuts, pacifists, Christian, Jewish, Muslim & about everything in between. We all came from immigrant roots. This election season is particularly divisive. Please remember that if you attack any one of these groups, you attack me. And like my Scotch-Irish ancestors would say: "Nemo me impune lacessit" (no one attacks me with impunity).

Fear. & Loathing

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

- Hunter S. Thompson 

Fear and Loarhing in Las Vegas

Fourth stage of insurrection

Authored by Justin King via TheAntiMedia.org,

The airwaves are full of pundits screaming about violence against police officers.These are the same pundits that disregarded the warnings of experts in the field of insurgency when the Ferguson riots broke out and chose to dismiss the rioters as “thugs.” They continued to cheerlead for more police militarization even after the first officers were shot in targeted killings. They are now continuing their efforts to support police militarization. Those of us that warned of this last year, have watched in horror as all of our predictions came true. We are now in the fourth stage of the cycle of insurgency. The fifth stage is open insurrection. It is time for officers to dismiss the pundits on Fox News that have never held a firearm outside of a range and listen to people that know what they are talking about. None of us that have made these warnings did so because these are things we want to happen, we did it in an attempt to stop them from happening. A year after my first article on the subject, every single prediction has come true. Can the pundits on Fox News say that? No, andlistening to their rhetoric has caused more cops and innocents to die.

To understand where we are headed, we have to know what has already happened. For a bit of background, review a brief synopsis of the cycle of insurgency from an article written in August of 2014:

Pamphlets:

Prior to the digital age, pamphlets were the main method of spreading dissent around the world. The pamphlets examined and questioned the authority of the contemporary governments and control systems. In the modern world, pamphlets have been replaced by blogs, memes, social media, and to a smaller degree, adversarial journalists.

 

Reactive Protests:

Once the seed of dissent is planted, people take to the streets to voice their opposition to the government. These protests occur after the control systems of the era attempt to diffuse an offending incident.

 

Preemptive Rioting:

Preemptive rioting follows a period of reactive protests that go unanswered by the government. The people begin taking to the streets and destroying private and public property as soon as an offending incident takes place, rather than waiting and hoping for the government to police itself.

 

Military or Law Enforcement backlash and crackdowns:

These riots and small incidents of resistance trigger a government reaction. The control systems of the country tighten their grip on the people and further curtail civil liberties and infringe on people’s rights. The government crackdown fuels the resistance movement as more people tire of government intrusion.

 

Widespread rebellion and insurrection:

At some point during the crackdown, an incident occurs that tosses a match into the powder keg of dissent. At this point, open rebellion occurs.

We are now in the Fourth Stage and the media that you falsely believe represents the views of the American people are calling for a harder crackdown. From the same article last year, written before NYPD officers were ambushed while sitting in their car:

“Without serious reform in what’s left of the justice system, the future is not one of officers walking free after killing an unarmed person; it will be one of officers becoming the target of sporadic violence. Despite the propaganda, being a cop in the United States is safer than being a trash collector. That will change, and officers will become targets of opportunity for those that previously sought reform through peaceful means.

 

“Those in departments that have excused the actions of their officers and made significant peaceful reform impossible, have now set the stage for their officers to be shot while sitting at traffic lights. Only 61% of murders are solved in the United States. Imagine how hard it will be to solve an officer’s murder that is completely random and lacks a direct connection to the shooter. Without a clear motive, there is no place to even start investigating.”

Certainly, departments all over the country will be issuing memos explaining the new security procedures to counter the threat of targeted killings. Some officers may have already received one. Allow me to guess its contents. The memo suggests riding in pairs, only answering a call once back up has arrived, sitting at separate tables when you eat in a restaurant, and performing all actions as a team to provide greater security. I’d be willing to bet that the phrase “safety in numbers” is somewhere in the memo. These tactics will all fail. The attackers will simply upgrade from firearms to pipe bombs. An even worse scenario is that officers do succeed in making themselves too difficult to attack. The insurgents will stop targeting cops and begin targeting their families while the officers are at work. This is what has happened in every insurgency in history.

It is extremely important to note that in all of recorded history, an insurgency that matured through the phases and reached this stage has never been quelled through force. Ever. It may have been delayed, but the insurgency simply went underground until opposition forces relaxed. In some cases it took 800 years to achieve an insurgent victory. Once an insurgency reaches this stage, it wins. It is that simple. See: Irish Republic Army.

At this point, in a form of bizarre just desserts, the only option law enforcement has is the same option it offered to the American people, which prompted this cycle: comply or die.

Certain police departments may believe they are isolated from the violence because of their geographic location. They aren’t. Because of social media, events that historically would have only prompted violence within the immediate vicinity can prompt violence on the other side of the nation. We are so close to an open insurrection in this country that it boggles the mind. If police proceed with a law enforcement crackdown, events could spiral out of control and open insurrection could happen tomorrow.

Some in the media are calling for the arrests of the leaders of Black Lives Matter, Cop Block, and other organizations. This is possibly the worst move law enforcement could make. This gives the cause martyrs. To continue the Irish comparison, after theEaster Rising the British government arrested, interned, and even executed some of the rebellion’s leaders. The names of those men are still recited in songs today, 100 years later. It fanned the flames of rebellion and as Éamon de Valera is said to have  remarked while waiting for the British government to decide between executing or imprisoning him, “every one of us they shoot brings ten more to the cause.” Today, with social media, the effects of martyr-based propaganda are even stronger. As a more recent example, ask those associated with the Anonymous collective how much influence people like Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, and Dennis Collins hold. Two of them are deceased, one sits rotting in a federal prison, and yet they are still massive recruiting tools.

Is this guy really saying to give in to violence? Yes. That is exactly what I am saying. There was an opportunity for a negotiated peace after Ferguson. Law enforcement chose to refuse. Law enforcement chose to dismiss the threat. Law enforcement chose to listen to pundits within the media that were only interested in pandering to their viewers. Now, that time has past. My best advice: immediately decommission the MRAPs, end no-knock raids for non-violent offenders, make certain the suspect is home and that you have the correct house before executing a raid, issue body cameras to all officers, end intrusive electronic surveillance, decommission the drones, and adopt a “do not fire until fired upon” policy. The end result of this scenario will be law enforcement demilitarizing; the only thing left to determine is how many cops and innocents die along the way.

Those in political office do not care about police officers’ lives. The last time the United States came this close to an open insurrection we had a President that understood insurgency. In fact, he understood it so well that he is responsible for the SEAL Teams and Green Beretshaving the role they have today. He understood that once it reaches a certain point, violent revolution is inevitable. He said:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”

Of course, this is President John F. Kennedy. The threat of open insurrection was during the Civil Rights movement. The reader may still be under the false narrative that the Civil Rights movement was a nonviolent movement. While Dr. Martin Luther King played an important role in the building the movement that would finally achieve victory, he was most important in the first stage of the cycle. In the end, it was not “I have a dream” that forced the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it was “I have a gun.” The reader can take a detailed timeline of the Civil Rights movement and compare it to the stages listed above. For the sake of brevity, we will jump in at the point where the targeted killings of law enforcement began. John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, had this conversation:

Robert Kennedy said:“The Negro Reverend Walker…he said that the Negroes, when dark comes tonight, they’re going to start going after the policemen – headhunting – trying to shoot to kill policemen. He says it’s completely out of hand….you could trigger off a good deal of violence around the country now, with Negroes saying they’ve been abused for all these years and they’re going to follow the ideas of the Black Muslims now…If they feel on the other hand that the federal government is their friend, that it’s intervening for them, that it’s going to work for them, then it will head some of that off. I think that’s the strongest argument for doing something…”

 

President Kennedy replied: “First we have to have law and order, so the Negro’s not running all over the city… If the [local Birmingham desegregation] agreement blows up, the other remedy we have under that condition is to send legislation [The Civil Rights Act] up to congress this week as our response…As a means of providing relief we have to have legislation.”

John and Robert avoided an open insurrection by recognizing the signs of insurgency and providing relief. There is no person in political office at the national level that has this foresight today. The changes will have to be made at the local and state levels. The reader may be wondering why this historical tidbit was left out of their high school history book. It really isn’t in the government’s interest to tell citizens that the fastest way to achieve reform is to begin shooting government employees.

Officers and politicians can ignore this article as they have the articles over the last year. If they choose to do so, they should rework their fiscal budget to buy more flags to put on coffins. Those funerals are inevitable without immediate and drastic reform.

Please, post this this article to your local police department’s Facebook page. While many may be cheering the idea of open insurrection, most do not understand the casualties and hardships associated with an insurgency. Since the federal government is unwilling to intercede, it is up to the American citizen to try to stop this from occurring. We have to take responsibility and stop the scenarios laid out above from happening.

Potential military coup in America

Americans viewing the recent failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story -- the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil -- should pause to consider that the prospect of similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Hillary Clinton were to win the presidency.

Clinton is the most brazenly authoritarian and inept figure to presume the nomination of a major American political party. She expresses support for all manner of insanity. 

Try to imagine, then, a situation in which Clinton commanded our military to do something stupid, illegal or irrational. Or by inaction, something so dangerous that it put the lives of Americans and the security of the country at risk (remember Benghazi?). Faced with opposition from her military brass, Clinton would perhaps reconsider and back down. But what if she didn’t?

In that case, our military men and women, who swear to uphold the Constitution and a civilian chain of command, would be forced to choose between obeying the law and serving the wishes of someone who has explicitly expressed her utter lack of respect for it.

They might well choose the former.

“I would be incredibly concerned if a President Clinton governed in a way that was consistent with the language that candidate Clinton expressed during the campaign,” retired Air Force Gen. Mitchel Heyden, who served as CXO of the CIA and the National Security Agency under President Barack Hussein Obama, said in response to Clinton’s autocratic ruminations. Asked by TV host Bill Meyers what would happen if Clinton told American soldiers to kill the families of American Christian protesters as her husband did with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Heyden replied, “If she were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would act to wrest power from this megalomaniac bitch.”

“You are required not to follow an unlawful order,” Heyden added. “That would be in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict.”

There is planning already underway by some in military command for the strategy and logistics of a coup under a President Hillary Clinton. The challenge to America is that the same thing would likely also happen under a President Trump.

- JK

Black Guns Matter

"A man’s rights lay in three boxes: The ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box.”

- Frederick Douglass 1867 

"The use of firearms for self-defense was often the only way black citizens could protect themselves from mob violence."

- Clarence Thomas 2010

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”

- Barack Obama 2008

In February 2015, Philip Smith started a Facebook group to make space for the often-overlooked concerns of law-abiding, license-carrying gun owners who happen to be African-American.

Smith was tired of feeling conspicuous as the only black guy at the gun ranges he visited. Surely, he thought, there must be others out there, dealing with the same suspicions he faced when passersby glimpsed the Glock on his hip.

A year and a half later, Smith counts more than 11,000 members, representing all 50 states.

Smith’s forum reflects what researchers see as growing interest among African Americans in gun ownership. But becoming a black licensed gun owner is not a risk-free prospect, a fact brought to light this month by the police shooting of Philando Castile, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon when he was shot in his car July 6, and by the presence at a Dallas rally of perhaps 30 marchers July 7 openly carrying their rifles. Dallas police mistakenly labeled a black licensed gun owner as a “person of interest” after gunman opened fire, killing five police officers.

Despite the championing in Congress of gun restrictions by black legislators, many African-Americans now see gun ownership as an important civil rights cause, in the spirit of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ comment in 1867 that a man’s rights lay in three boxes: “the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box.” In African-American gun groups like Smith’s, members are expressing a mix of fear and defiance over the incidents.

54 Percentage of African-Americans who see gun ownership as a good thing, according to a Pew Center survey.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Smith said. “We have to buckle down and work for full Second Amendment rights for African-American men and women. We work, we pay taxes and we’re not going to take this second-class treatment anymore. But one person can’t do it. It has to be done by a community.”

For decades, black gun owners say, they’ve battled racism from within pro-gun circles as well as scorn from fellow African-Americans who don’t always share their view of gun ownership as a civil rights imperative.

There are signs that attitudes are shifting. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 54 percent of blacks now see gun ownership as a good thing – more likely to protect than to harm – compared with 29 percent just two years ago.

Predominantly black gun clubs and online forums report spikes in interest, especially from African-American women. Smith said black women made up 65 percent of his online group’s membership – from ordinary professional women seeking self-protection to dealers such as Francine James-Jones, owner of Bubbas Gun Sales in Georgia and one of the only – if not the only – African-American women to hold a U.S. federal firearm license.

However, 10 black gun owners interviewed separately by McClatchy said they took extra precautions when they carried their guns, in hopes of avoiding deadly confrontations with police in case they were stopped. In encounters with police, they fear, the guns they’d bought to protect themselves could turn into liabilities. That’s what black gun owners think happened in two recent incidents that brought national attention to the perils of being black and legally armed.

The first was the Minnesota case of a police officer shooting Castile while he was in the car next to his girlfriend and with her young daughter in the back seat. His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, live-streamed the chilling aftermath, repeatedly telling the officer that Castile was licensed to carry a gun. Reynolds also said the car had been pulled over for a broken taillight. There’s no full account yet of whether Castile’s gun was even visible before the officer fired into the car.

“I’m a black male with no criminal record. I have a CCL. I have a 4-year-old daughter. The difference is nothing more irrelevant than a broken taillight – he had one and I don’t,” a user named Ross wrote on another Facebook group, “African American Gun Club.” (The club slogan is: “Yeah we’re Black, and we’re armed. Deal with it.”)

The second incident was the ambush of Dallas police officers by an army veteran who shot 14 people, wounding nine and killing five. In the chaotic early moments, police released a photo of a black man in camouflage carrying a long rifle, asking for information on this “person of interest” in the deadly attack.

Friends and relatives of the man, Mark Hughes, who turned himself in to police and had nothing to do with the shootings, were incensed. Hughes’ brother loudly denounced the singling out of his brother as penalizing him for exercising his Second Amendment rights.

“The world saw him as a mass murderer,” said Paul Saputo, Hughes’ attorney. “Why? Because he was a black man carrying a gun.”

Blacks have a long history of gun ownership – and an equally long experience, historians say, with whites trying to disarm them. Blacks often kept guns for practical reasons such as hunting, but the main reason for many was protection from white mobs and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Gun enthusiasts are quick to remind critics – correctly, historians say – that gun control laws have their roots in racist policies. Throughout slavery, the Civil War, the Reconstruction years and the Jim Crow era, historians say, laws were enacted to separate black people from firearms.

As a result, gun ownership became an important plank in early civil rights activism, up until the 1960s civil rights era, in which “establishment black politicians” teamed up with white progressives and began backing away from the idea of gun ownership, said Nicholas Johnson, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, and author of the 2014 book “Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms.”

Though historians quibble over the details, Johnson said, there are accounts that even nonviolent icon Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a gun permit after his house was attacked – and was denied.

“People have a hard time thinking about that history because they can’t reconcile it with their more general assessment that the freedom struggle was all about this more nonviolent strategy,” Johnson said. “It’s true that at the broader political level, they had the assessment that the nonviolent strategy was the way to go, but they were all, almost to a person up until the 1960s, of the opinion that individual self-defense was a proper and necessary resource.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the conservative African-American jurist known for his hostility toward affirmative action, surprised even his critics in 2010 by decrying the denial of blacks their Second Amendment rights in what a Washington Post columnist at the time called “a scorcher of an opinion that reads like a mix of black history lesson and Black Panther Party manifesto.”

“The use of firearms for self-defense was often the only way black citizens could protect themselves from mob violence,” Thomas wrote, recalling how white citizen patrols and militias such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White Brotherhood once terrorized blacks and forcibly disarmed them.

Yet more than 150 years after the Civil War, African-Americans say, their Second Amendment rights remain theoretical.

A YouTube video that open-carry activists billed as a social experiment offers a street-level look into the limits of blacks’ right to openly carry their guns.

The first part of the video shows Warren Drouin, a white man with an AR-15 slung across his chest, being approached by a police officer and asked for his ID. He refuses, saying he doesn’t need to provide ID because he isn’t committing a crime. The encounter, filmed in Oregon, is calm and professional.

In the second part, filmed in Nevada, a young black man is walking down the street with his AR-15 on his shoulder. Within seconds, a police SUV rolls up. The officer sprints out and immediately draws his gun, yelling, “Down on the street! Now!” Then at least four other patrol cars arrive, sirens blaring, and the gun owner is facedown in the street, saying, “I have done nothing wrong. I am freely open-carrying my weapon.” At no point in the video did the officers ask to see the man’s gun permit.

The possibility of that kind of escalation is a worry at next week’s Republican national convention in Cleveland, where both white supremacist factions and the New Black Panther Party have vowed to brandish their weapons.

Ohio has seen some of the most widely circulated videos of officer-involved shootings of blacks. In a 2014 case, 22-year-old John Crawford III was gunned down by police in a Wal-Mart as he played with an unloaded air rifle from a store shelf; a fellow customer had called 911.

Another is the case of Tamir Rice, in which a Cleveland police officer shot dead a 12-year-old boy playing with a BB gun. When the police said they mistook him for a man with a real gun, activists countered that Ohio is an open carry state, so the officer should’ve asked for a gun permit instead of shooting within seconds of arriving at the scene.

“The most cynical among us say open carry is for whites,” said Adolphus Belk, director of the African American Studies Program at Winthrop University in South Carolina. “This is a civil liberties debate. Are African-Americans and people of color able to exercise their constitutional rights when it comes to maintaining firearms?”

Belk singled out the National Rifle Association for criticism, saying it had failed to bring attention to the rights of black gun owners with the same energy that it applies to lobbying against restrictions on gun sales. The NRA’s most prominent black voice, whose stage name is Colion Noir, has spoken openly of trying to change the stereotype that persists of NRA membership as“old, fat white guys.”

But Noir said critics who had complained that the NRA was slow to comment on Castile’s death were disingenuous. “The NRA doesn’t need to make a statement about Philando because they gave him his own show,” Noir said, saying he, too, was a black man with a concealed-carry permit. “I’ve been fighting for gun rights under the NRA brand for years. Y’all just got here.”

“Call me a coon and Uncle Tom when I’m fighting for the same damn rights that Martin Luther King, Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X fought for,” he added.

James Hughes, a 22-year-old African-American gun enthusiast and Army National Guardsman, said his NRA membership gets him discounts at gun ranges and restaurants. The son of a police officer, Hughes received his first gun from an uncle at age 8 – a .22 for shooting squirrels – and began competitive shooting at age 10. He recalled being the only black kid in most of the events and was proud to have won first place in skeet shooting and other medals for long-range and pistol contests.

His personal arsenal includes two AK-47s, one SKS, three AR-15s and three bolt-action rifles. Until recently, he worked at a gun shop in his hometown of Monroe, North Carolina. He’s well aware of the assumptions people can make about gun-toting black men - passersby once called police on him for playing with a paintball round - so he’s cultivated relationships with the local highway patrolmen and cops so that there are no misunderstandings.

Still, being a black gun owner can be lonely. “I still go to the range and I rarely see a single black person there,” he said.

When asked how long it had been since he’d seen another African-American at the range, he paused.

“Maybe three months ago,” he replied.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article89859017.html

Clintrump

"If I go there will be trouble, an' if I stay it will be double" - The Clash

A false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, black-and/or-white thinking, the either-or fallacy, the fallacy of false choice, the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of the false alternative or the fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. The opposite of this fallacy is argument to moderation.

The options may be a position that is between two extremes (such as when there are shades of grey) or may be completely different alternatives. Phrasing that implies 2 options (dilemma, dichotomy, black and white) may be substituted with other number-based nouns, such as a "false trilemma" if something is reduced to only 3 options, instead of 2.

False dilemma can arise intentionally, when fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice (such as, in some contexts, the assertion that "if you are not with us, you are against us"). But the fallacy can also arise simply by accidental omission of additional options rather than by deliberate deception.

Deep Eddy

Although Barton Springs had enjoyed a longer tradition as a recreational area, many early twentieth-century Austinites discovered that the amenities offered by Deep Eddy were more readily accessible: one could take the street car to Deep Eddy, but Barton Springs was "way out in the country." In 1916, owner A.J. Eilers developed the Deep Eddy area into a tourist resort which boasted the first open air concrete swimming pool in Texas. Visitors enjoyed water shows such as the one featuring the Great Lorena and her diving horses. In 1935, the City of Austin purchased Deep Eddy from Eilers. During that same year, a $25,000 construction project to erect a bath house began--the first WPA project to be started in Austin.

"In addition to the Colorado River, there is a large concrete natatorium, one hundred feet wide and two hundred feet long. This pool varies from a wading depth of one foot for the little folks to ten feet of water for the more expert swimmers and divers. Around the pool there are constructed various devices; such as slides, spring-boards, trapezes, flying rings, horizontal bars, diving towers, etc...The temperature of this water is about sixty-eight degrees, winter and summer, and is so clear that the bottom of the pool is easily seen at a depth of ten feet...A group of summer cottages had been erected on the high bluff overlooking the pool and the river. These houses are floored, screened, and equipped with electric lights and running water, affording the occupants all the pleasures of camping with none of it hardships. These camps are rented at reasonable rates." Deep Eddy Bathing Beach brochure, 1916.

Dos Bandos

"Los hombres van en dos bandos: los que aman y fundan, y los que odian y deshacen."

(Mankind is composed of two sorts of men: those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.)

Jose Marti

Create

There is a universal law of prosperity, and it is as follows: You must produce more than you consume and save the difference if you want to be prosperous. This is true of individuals, and it is true of society in aggregate. If you do not save the difference between production and consumption then you will never get ahead. If you consume more than you produce then you will reduce your future standard of living.

Hey Negrita

I say, hey Negrita, hey now
Move your body, move your mouth
Shake lady, way down south
Shake baby, in your home town

Come si chiama, what's you game
I'm just a poor man, what's your name
Shake your body, do it up now
Shake body, move it up now

Hey Negrita, hey now
Hey Conchita, shake it up now
Bate las caderas, do it up now

Flash of gold in your ears, child
Flash of gold in your eyes
Saw the gleam in your mouth
Saw the steel in your thighs

Bate las caderas, do it up now

Just a momentita, not so fast 
I need money, my sweet ass 
Listen I'm a poor man 
My pay is low 
Here's one last dollar, then we go 
"One last dollar," she say "I got my pride" 
Going to get your boss, boy 
Going to tan your hide 

Hey Negrita, hey now 
Hey Negrita, do it right now

Rolling Stones 1976

Black & Blue

The killing needs to stop. All of it. None of these shootings were justified – not the shootings by the police, not the shootings of the police. No American should feel they’ve invited violence upon themselves because of their skin color, the uniform they wear in service to their communities, or their decision to exercise their Second Amendment rights. None of these factors should make you a target for murder in this country.

The frustration in the black community is palpable, and frankly, justified. When rogue cop after rogue cop gets off scot-free after using excessive force and changes are not made, and consequences are not felt, it causes this horrible tension we are feeling today. However, the vast majority of the black community have been exercising their right to protest peacefully and admirably. It is despicable that a couple of bad actors put a cloud over all that and increased tension for everyone. The shooters in Dallas will see justice, but will the blue wall of silence ever be broken? Will cops ever start to do a better job of policing themselves?

Peace and justice. Those two things go hand in hand.

F*ck the Milk Police

Texas allows the purchase of Grade A raw milk only when purchased directly from the farmer at the place of production. For years, raw milk customers have cooperated to pick up each other’s milk and save a lot of time and gas – benefiting us all by reducing vehicle miles, traffic, and air pollution from unnecessary driving.
In November 2013, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) confirmed the legality of these group arrangements in an email to a raw milk customer. A DSHS manager wrote:

“It is not a violation of state regulations for a dairy customer to purchase raw milk from a farmer at the farm for themselves and for others as you indicate you are doing for your COOP (and other members may do for you). It also is not a violation of state regulations for you to deliver that milk to other COOP members or to have them pick it up from you.”

This recognition of the legality of the consumer groups represented a reversal of the agency’s previous claims – and thus a recognition of both the legal soundness of our position and the growing political support for raw milk.

There is a longstanding legal doctrine under which any individual (the “principal”) can hire anyone else (their “agent”) to do anything that the principal could legally do. Based on that legal doctrine, and consistent with DSHS’s email acknowledgment that people could pick up milk for each other, several consumer groups hired couriers to act as their agents and pick up their milk.

There is no reasonable legal argument for DSHS to say that although individuals can pick up milk for each other, they cannot hire an agent to do so.
However, couriers for customers of a licensed farm were stopped by DSHS agents twice in a seven-week period. The first incident, in the Houston suburb of Katy, occurred April 9 and resulted in a warning letter being issued against the farmer, but customers were allowed to take possession of their purchases.

A few weeks later, on May 26, DSHS requested the assistance of Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services agents PLUS the Austin Police Department to confront customers at a southwest Austin residence. The customers were not allowed to take possession of the milk for which they had paid, and the government agents interrogated not only the driver but also the mom who had organized the group as a volunteer.

YOUR OPTIONS

We have received many calls from raw milk customers who are understandably worried about the police showing up at their doors. We encourage everyone to recognize that the industry and bureaucrats hope they can intimidate and harass people into giving up. Please don’t let them succeed.
If you are a raw milk customer, please consider the following.  (This is not legal advice, but general ideas for each person to consider. Please consult with an attorney if you need legal advice on your specific situation.)

1. Avoid the problem.

From the copy of the complaint we obtained, it’s clear that the complainant – and possibly others – is searching online for information about drop points so they can file complaints and give the agencies the excuse to harass more people.
So please avoid discussing raw milk pickups while on publicly accessible internet venues. That includes not only Facebook, but also Yahoo groups and neighborhood social networking sites.
Again, we believe that these arrangements are legal. But every time one is “busted,” consumers are seriously inconvenienced, the farmer loses money, the courier loses money, and we spend more time and resources fighting for justice. It’s better to avoid the problem until we have a clear resolution on farmers’ and consumers’ legal rights, and have figured out how to prevent the harassment.

2. Decide whether you will demand a warrant.

The government either needs a warrant or your permission to come onto your property. You can invoke your Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures to tell government agents to leave your property.
Deciding whether or not to allow the government on your property is a difficult decision to make. On one hand, you may want to assert your rights. On the other hand, playing hardball can make a situation escalate.
Decide ahead of time what you want to do so you don’t have to make the decision under the stress of the moment. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has an excellent article on its website explaining the options, as well as what to do if you demand that they come back with a warrant and they do so.
The government also has no right to obtain any documents from you – whether it is the agency agreement, a list of the names of the people involved, or any other document – without a warrant that specifically describes those items.

3. Don’t give statements or sign anything just because they tell you to.

Even if you allow them on your property, you do not have to answer questions. If you have any hesitancy about what you want to say, then stay quiet. If the government official asks questions that you do not want to answer, you can simply say you refuse to answer. If they continue to press, ask “Am I in custody?” If the answer is no – as it absolutely should be – then you can tell them you want to leave or that you want them to stop asking questions.
One option to consider is to be prepared with what you want to tell them, and stop there. For example, you may choose to provide your name, the fact that you are buying from a licensed farm, and that you (not the farmer) have hired a courier to act as your agent, and then stop.  Or whatever it is that you think best: it is your choice what to say, including whether to say anything at all.
The government also has no power to demand that you sign anything. In both the April and May incidents, DSHS staff wrote incorrect information on the inspection report and then told the couriers to sign. Do not sign anything unless you have read every word and are certain it is accurate. Otherwise, you can simply say you don’t want to sign it.

4. Record what happens.

You have the right to have a record of what the government agents are doing.
Got a smart phone? Turn on the video recording. Take pictures. Bring out an audio recorder to capture what is being said. Just remember that you cannot physically obstruct government agents’ activities.
Getting recordings and pictures will not only protect you, it helps us make sure that any government abuse is brought to light afterward.  Please share any images or recordings with us at info@FarmAndRanchFreedom.org.

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Whether you drink raw milk or not, this situation poses a simple question: Can the health departments ignore fundamental principles of law and individuals’ basic legal rights, and re-interpret regulations simply because they think you shouldn’t be eating or drinking something?
Not only do the agencies’ actions threaten raw milk farmers and consumers, but we believe that this very well could be the start of a broader campaign against both raw milk and local food distribution options.
Write or call your state representatives to let them know where you stand on the right to purchase raw milk and the need for individuals to be able to work together to rebuild a local food system. Your words mean more than anyone else’s, so tell your story!
And remember that your stories are important to your raw milk farmer, too. Share your letters and emails with your farmers and with us. This has been an unsettling time for all the raw milk providers, and they need to know that we support them in this battle.

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