Bump-stock Ban in Idaho? Not so much...

...and it isn't just bump-stocks...

BOISE, Idaho (Dec. 19, 2018) – An Idaho law passed in 2014 bars state or local enforcement of President Trump’s unconstitutional bump stock ban.

The president initiated his bump-stock ban via executive action. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Department of Justice was in the process of formulating rules to ban the devices last March after Trump signed a memorandum directing the department to make the regulatory change in February. The ban was in response to the tragic shooting at a Las Vegas concert that killed 59 people.

As TJ Martinell wrote before the ban was instituted, “Regardless of how effective a bump stock ban might be in preventing mass shootings or reducing casualty count (not very), the feds have no authority delegated to them to enact such a rule. Under the Constitution, this is power simply does not exist.”

On March 20, 2014, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed a bill that effectively nullifies any federal gun laws passed after that date. The Idaho law prohibits state or local enforcement of any federal act relating to personal firearms, a firearm accessory, or ammunition in violation of the Idaho state constitution’s protections of the right to keep and bear arms.

The Idaho Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act “protects Idaho law enforcement officers from being directed, through federal executive orders, agency orders, statutes, laws, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated on or after the effective date of this act, to violate their oath of office and Idaho citizens’ rights under Section 11, Article I, of the Constitution of the State of Idaho.”

That section of the Idaho constitution bars ” the confiscation of firearms, except those actually used in the commission of a felony,” and disallows other restrictions on a person’s lawful right to own firearms and ammunition.

Under the law:

“Any official, agent or employee of the state of Idaho or a political subdivision thereof who knowingly and willfully orders an official, agent or employee of the state of Idaho or a political subdivision of the state to enforce any executive order, agency order, law, rule or regulation of the United States government as provided in subsection (2) of this section upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition shall, on a first violation, be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) which shall be paid into the general fund of the state.”

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Redoubt / Oregon III: 'Gun Grabber Day'

Land of Liberty?

Every perceived problem seems to get a new law drafted. The state tries to mandate solutions to even the smallest problems. Yet, their solutions rarely work as intended.

People aren’t allowed to solve their own problems they are forced to depend on the state’s bureaucratic experts. In turn, the individual is diminished, while the state is emboldened. Civic responsibility is weakened, and the quality of community and family-life is eroded.

C.S. Lewis noted in his preface to the Screwtape Letters, that we,

“live in the Managerial Age, in a world of ‘Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. …  it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

Lewis goes on to describe how his symbolism pictured, “an official society held together entirely by fear and greed.”  In essence, fear of the government’s regulations (and its regulators), with their ever-growing threats of fines and/or imprisonment causes people to be protective, suspicious and secretive. After all, who can know what traps have been set?

In the Senate Judiciary Committee, on April 2, a slew of anti-Second Amendment proposals is scheduled for public hearing.  These proposals are trumpeted as “necessary” for “safety”, but we all know that’s a ruse. In this case, the forty-four-page amendment to SB 978 is an full-scale barrage against the Second Amendment including a backdoor ban on concealed carry.

This law violates the inalienable right of all Oregonians to defend themselves and their families. Disarming law-abiding citizens is inviting violence into our communities and our homes. Gun-free zones are invitations to mass shootings and attacking law-abiding Oregonians isn’t going to make anyone safer. In fact, it will put us in danger. I will not compromise on the Second Amendment.

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Gun-Grabber Day is Tuesday, April 2

SB 978, on Tuesday, April 2nd, will focus on a myriad of issues regarding possession, personal firearm management, and the buying, storing and selling of firearms. If you value your firearms and your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, then please get involved.

(Click here for Location and Agenda)

Send an email to every Democrat in the House and Senate. Phone every Democrat in the House and Senate. The pro-Second Amendment Republicans are in the minority and we will need a few Democrats to vote with us in order to stop these bills. Light up their phones and clog their inboxes with emails, otherwise there is great potential that we will slowly lose our legal protections regarding our Constitutional Rights.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.


It is the argument of tyrants.


It is the creed of slaves.

— William Pitt, in the House of Commons - November 18, 1783

Remember, if we don’t stand for rural Oregon values and Common-sense - 
No one Will.

Best Regards,

Dennis Linthicum
Oregon State Senate 28
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1728
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-305, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: sen.DennisLinthicum@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/linthicum

The Black Flag is being hoisted in our lifetime...

by Kevin D. Williamson

History is very short, if you look at it the right way.

The American Revolution seems like it was a very long time ago, but looked at with the right kind of eyes, it was the day before yesterday: The revolution of Washington and Jefferson inspired the French Revolution, which unhappily perverted the classical-liberal principles of the American Founders and created instead an ersatz religion purporting to be a cult of pure reason — le Culte de la Raison — which culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The French Revolution inspired the Russian Revolution, which created its own cult of pure reason — “scientific socialism” — and modeled its “enemies of the people” purges on French revolutionary practice, culminating in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The Russian Revolution in turn inspired the Iranian one, which had intellectual roots in the Bolshevik experience in the Caucasus and culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship. The Iranians exported many of their revolutionary principles to Hugo Chávez, his United Socialist party, and their so-called Bolivarian Revolution (whose colectiovos gangs were modeled on Iran’s basji militias) which culminated in fanaticism, terror, and dictatorship, currently on particularly dramatic display.

In most cases, the revolution begins with a peasant prelude and reaches its crescendo with some variation on the theme of Napoleon; socialist revolutions in particular have a peculiar habit of beginning with a man in a work shirt and ending up with a man dressed like Cap’n Crunch. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro does look a sight in his beauty-pageant sash and Mr. T-worthy gold chains. The people who endure his socialist government are eating zoo animals and pets in what was the richest country in South America.

Elizabeth Warren is going to look terrific in those mirrored aviator sunglasses and peaked captain’s hat. She’s spent half her life playing dress-up, morally — pretending to be an Indian — so she may as well dress the part of her aspirations. “Who are you wearing to the state dinner? Oscar de la Renta? Prada? Pinochet?”

Revolutions do not set out to be awful. Not usually. They just end up that way. When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, many of them wanted to prohibit capital punishment, which they saw as a high-handed czarist institution. V. I. Lenin overruled them. “How can you make a revolution without executions?” he asked. The key to revolution in his mind — and in those of his revolutionary antecedents and descendants — was terror. “We shall return to terror and to economic terror,” he promised, in a revolution of “unrestricted power based on force, not law.”

Senator Warren apparently has found her guiding spirit and has announced along with her presidential campaign a campaign of economic terror based on force, not law. Specifically, she has proposed to begin seizing a portion of the assets of some wealthy Americans, a course of action that the federal government has no constitutional power to undertake. The seizure of assets is a fundamentally different thing from the taxation of income, which itself took a constitutional amendment to implement. What Warren is proposing is essentially a federal version of the hated asset-forfeiture programs that have been so much abused by law-enforcement agencies — minus the allegation of criminal misconduct and made universal and annual.

The senator is in a bit of a panic: She hadn’t expected to face a challenge from her left in her quest for the Democratic nomination, but as her entire party lurches in a chávista direction, she has been forced to go one step farther lest she fall into the “moderate” class, whose members almost certainly will be slaughtered in the 2020 Democratic primary. And so she proposes this ridiculous and illegal course of action.

She may not be the radical she pretends to be, but Senator Warren has pretended to be a lot of things. A Cherokee, for one, which is good for a laugh, but perhaps not the worst of it. Her longing for fame — and money and power — is impossible to miss. She spent a period trying to launch a career as a writer of dopey self-help books (The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan!) and then tried on the costume of a Lou Dobbs-style populist China hawk, and even in her scourge-of-Wall-Street incarnation, she couldn’t help cribbing from Margaret Thatcher in pandering to Dobbs, then at CNN: “One of the problems with spending money in this way is that at some point we really do run out of money.” She boasted that her little bureaucratic fiefdom — the Congressional Oversight Panel — was called “COP.” Her “professor of color” act got her a couple of cushy academic postings and a net worth of a few million dollars. I covered her Senate race against Scott Brown and watched her doing a pretty poor impersonation of an Irish-American ward-heeler in Boston, clapping along awkwardly to “Charlie on the M.T.A.” like some animatronic Muldoon. If she has to pretend to be Hugo Chávez, it won’t be her first act of cultural appropriation. And the recipe book should be a hoot.

Funny thing about Senator Warren’s asset-forfeiture scheme. Like many similar proposals, it probably would not raise much revenue and might in fact leave the country as a whole economically worse off. And the people advising Senator Warren on that are perfectly content with that outcome, because, as Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman argue in the case of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to radically increase income taxes, this is to be understood not as an economic question but as a moral one: It is simply morally obligatory to hurt wealthy people. “The point of high top marginal income tax rates is to constrain the immoderate, and especially unmerited, accumulation of riches,” they write.

And who gets to decide what’s merited and what’s unmerited? What are the chances that, say, Senator Warren’s modest millions or her multimillion-dollar home are deemed “unmerited”? What decides, of course, is “unrestricted power based on force, not law,” because the law cannot substantially answer that kind of question but can only instead encode the desires of people with power, which is what Senator Warren is seeking more of.

Again, we have been here before.

When the socialist schemes of Joseph Stalin et al. foundered, they blamed the “kulaks,” i.e. those who had enjoyed the “unmerited accumulation of riches.” There was never any real definition of a “kulak.” Basically, if you had one cow and your neighbor had two, he was a kulak. Stalin announced the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class” as a necessary precondition for the progress of his program, which was, like Kamala Harris, “for the people.” Dekulakization (раскулачивание) was responsible for the deaths of about 5 million subjects of the workers’ paradise. This was necessary, the socialists argued, because the kulaks dominated the political party system (“for the rich, wealth begets power,” Zucman writes), because expropriating their wealth was necessary to fund benefits for the people (“The affluent,” Saez and Zucman write, “can contribute more to the public coffers. And given the revenue needs of the country, it is necessary”), because the kulaks were hoarders (under the headline “Elizabeth Warren is trying to save capitalism from itself,” David Atkins of Washington Monthly decries the “artificial lack of resources caused by the looting and hoarding of the obscenely wealthy”), etc.

But do our modern progressives really propose to liquidate these “hoarders” as a class?

Saez and Zucman write hopefully of the prospect that high tax rates would make the class of people with larger incomes “largely disappear.” Representative Ocasio-Cortez declares it “immoral” that we have a “system that allows billionaires to exist.” Marshall Steinbaum, the research director of the progressive Roosevelt Institute, wrote: “It’s increasingly clear that having wealthy people around is a luxury our society can no longer afford.”

And, so, here we are again: The kulaks must be liquidated as a class. But who is a kulak?

We might glean some insight into that from the progressives’ thinking in the recent free-speech debates, which goes something like this: “We’re all in favor of free speech, but Nazis should be chased from the public square, by violence if necessary, and we should harass their employers in order to ruin them financially. Also, everybody who disagrees with me is a Nazi, including children wearing hats that I don’t like.”

You may not feel like a kulak. You may take comfort in hearing that only the “tippy-top” wealthiest people are to be expropriated in the name of social justice. Those children at Covington Catholic probably didn’t think they were Nazis a week ago, either.

History is short, if you look at it with the right kind of eyes. Some of you might want to consider looking from Zurich or Singapore.

Link to original - here.

This guy...

...is William Barr, POTUS' nominee for Attorney General.

He supported this guy...

...who shot this guy...

...and murdered this woman as she held her baby...

Now this guy...

...is best friends with this guy...

...who is gunning for this guy...

...and all of us who support him.

SO:

Who is the Deep State guy...

...who advised this guy...

...to hire this guy...

...to help this guy...

...impeach our guy?!?

It's time to...

Nevin Gussack: Golitsyn Vindicated

If your threat assessment is flawed about the who, what, where, when & why regarding the coming and imminent ruckus in America, your preps, training & protocols regarding the how will be neutered.

If you think any Leftist politician is a greater threat to you than your neighbor who voted for that politician, you are not even in the game.

From the book at right, Golitsyn Vindicated: After the "fall" of the USSR in late December 1991, Sino-Russo relations experienced a continued expansion of military and economic contacts.  This even reached into the realm of joint war-planning and occupational strategies directed against the continental United States.  According to defecting GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the Russian General Staff held a meeting in early 1992 in Moscow.  According to Lunev, the Russian Generals "...were still committed to fighting and winning a future nuclear war against America."

"...the nuclear war plan is still on." he was told.  But there would be changes.  No longer would Russian troops be responsible for a follow-up invasion of CONUS.  Russian forces would be responsible for occupying 'Alaska and parts of Canada'.  The Chinese would occupy the lower 48 states.  In addition, certain third-world countries would be given 'looting rights'.

 

There will be no Wolverine Militia living in the woods and launching ops in town.

The ground in America and among our 'allies' has been prepared by Team BearDragon.  Our culture and morals have been corrupted, our economy gutted, our ability to build any modern materiel of war equivalent to the Liberty Ships no longer exists.  Our fighting-aged male civilian populace do not have the mettle of our WWII generation.  Armies of anti-Liberty forces continue the stealth invasion of CONUS and Western countries of Europe.  Once BearDragon has a POTUS in office who would stand down our .mil in the face of attack (Think Obama, HRC, Establishment R's) - they will likely make a move.

The only event that may deter BearDragon's plan would be a sudden nationwide extirpation of our Leftist 'countrymen'...

Dan Bongino on Spygate: Obama, Mueller & The Biggest Spy Scandal In American History

DAN BONGINO: Some of you may have seen me on Fox this morning, and in fact one of the ladies I was just talking to said well, where did you do that from? I said, I just live about 20 miles north, I have a studio in my house. It's just a TV in the background. It's a TV, it's actually a video of what we took down in Palm Beach, we're just watching a movie in the background. It's in my office. If you listen real close on Fox sometimes for hits you'll hear some like gargling in the background, that's usually my 6 year old running around outside. No, I'm serious. Yeah, that's my office and it's a really small office. I don't live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion. So once in a blue moon you can hear my kids running around. So that happened. I made it down here. Sorry I didn't tell everybody I was here. When we went to the front desk I got caught up in a conversation with Sebastian Gorka and Louie Gohmert and we're all Chatty Cathies so that just went on forever, I forgot to tell everyone that I actually showed up. So I am here, we made it, it's great. Thanks to everyone who've already bought the book in advance, I really appreciate it.

That's what I want to talk about today, folks, because it's been about a year and a half now of my life. I've written four books but this one by far was the most tedious to put together. They had two co-authors actually help me out. And the reason I wrote the book, this whole spine scandal, this debacle, this atrocious disgrace of a scandal that happened to our president. You know how many, are there a lot of cops, federal agents in the room? Anyone have experience in law enforcement? Yeah, a couple raised their hand. If I'm wrong, call me out on this, but when I was a cop and then a Secret Service agent if you have even an ounce of empathy for human beings, which most of you in this room have more than an ounce, you have a whole lot, you'll arrest a lot of bad people for a lot of really bad things.

But one of the things that impacted me so deeply in my life, I'm not going to say the guy's name for obvious reasons, let's call him john Doe. We hit a door at about 6:00 on the morning to arrest this guy on a credit card fraud scheme, and it was ugly. I mean it had been hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you're a federal agent you don't get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they'll throw you right out of there. It was a serious crime. We arrested the guy and I remember after working on this case for 6 months it was a sense of accomplishment, tempered immediately by this awful feeling in my gut. It's 7:00 in the morning, you arrest him and you don't anticipate the human side of it. But what happened, the guy's young kids ran out. That's their dad. He actually wasn't the worst guy in the world, he was actually a good father to his kids. And they're watching their father in handcuffs, and the wife is crying. Their life is over.

Now granted, the guy was a bad guy, don't get me wrong. But again, we're all human beings and I've got to tell you that I mean it almost scarred me for the rest of my time. I kept thinking to myself, I couldn't get that image out of my head. What bothers me about that and how that ties to this spy gate thing and why this whole thing has consumed the last year and a half of my life, is that guy was an actual bad guy. Imagine if you find out, you're the President of the United States, all you did was win an election and you find out the massive machinery of the Federal government with the ability to slap bracelets on you in the form of handcuffs, take your life and your freedom was turned against you? Folks, this happened. This is the biggest scandal of our generation. There's no close second. This makes Watergate look like Romper Room.

Now I only have about 20 minutes or so to get through this, this is usually about a 45‑minute speech, I just gave it in California. But I promise you there wasn't one person falling asleep the entire time. I'm going to walk you through what happened. It's all in the book, by the way, in great detail. And what we did in the book, if you choose to buy it, and that's totally up to you, I'm happy to sign it and I won't leave until I sign every one of them, but read the footnotes. We deliberately did not use footnotes from right-leaning resources. I used CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times because anyone who tells you oh, this didn't happen, just go to the footnotes and say, did you read this article? It happened, folks. The President of the United States had the intelligence community and the law enforcement community of the United States, at the highest levels, weaponized against him.

Now, I like to break it down simply as to how they did this. They had Plan A, Plan B and Plan C, and the joke of the whole thing, and when I say joke I don't mean funny, I mean a tragic joke, is it wasn't known as Plan A, Plan B and Plan C; you know why? They thought Plan A was just fine, so it was just the plan. When Plan A failed they had to move on to Plan B and then Plan C was just the cleanup operation. Here's how this whole thing starts against Donald Trump.

During the election the Obama administration, which had done whatever it wants because the media's lost in this country, folks. There's no media, forget it, that's dead and buried. The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right? The Obama administration had grown comfortable with the idea of weaponizing government against their political enemies, and it happened over and over again. We had the IRS scandal, we had the AP phone records scandal, the Jim Rosen, Fox News scandal. And I ask you this, what happened to any of the people involved? Anyone? Yeah, the answer is nothing. I have to do zeros like this now, because I used to do zeros like this but I found out through the liberal media that somehow this means like a white power symbol now or something. I thought it meant okay or zero, but the media says, no, I'm serious, like these idiots in the media will tell you, so now I do zeros like that because I'm like afraid of some media idiot, these people are crazy.

The Obama administration had gotten completely comfortable with the idea of abusing government for their political means. So what happens? This plan gets hatched, and I'm going to be candid with you; where exactly it's hatched nobody is exactly sure to this day. As a matter of fact, if you're familiar with my commentary on Fox, I say often one of the great mysteries of this case is what's Paragraph 1. Paragraph 1, what do I mean by that? When I was a Federal Agent, when you arrest someone you have to do what's calls an MR, a memorandum report. Paragraph 1 of that MR is always how the case started. I got a call from Jane Doe, bank fraud investigator, said this credit card number was stolen on April 14, 2015. I made a few calls and the next thing you know it's an 80-page report about this massive scheme. Paragraph 1 though always lays it out, always. Do you know to this day we still have no idea what Paragraph 1 was—why they started to spy on the Trump team? I get it, it was for political, I get that. But at some point somebody, you have to understand folks, how to put down on paper a semi-legitimate reason to start the most massive spying operation in a political campaign in U.S. history. Do you know nobody to this day will tell you what that is? I know what it is.

The first plan they do to hit the Trump team, folks, is they learn to manipulate things about queries in the NSA database. The NSA has a database of a whole boatload of information; meta data, tax, that kind of stuff. How it works is too complicated in the time I have, but what you can do is you can query that NSA system and you can get a whole lot of information. But what happens? This is Plan A, this is how they're going to get the information. I hope that if you’re not following, please stop me because this is important. The Obama administration figures out that through unmasking, in other words wiretapping people, pretending they’re targeting foreigners, and then querying information in this database, that they can get all the political opposition research in the world that they need against the Trump team. It's beautiful, no one's going to call them out, the media's on their side, right?

But there's a good guy in this, there's a white hat, somebody in the government sniffs this thing out. That's why I tell you, this wasn't Plan A, this was the plan. They were going to unmask people, wiretap people and they were going to query this NSA database and get all the information they needed about the Trump team. But somebody smells a problem, and he's not having it, and he's the white hat, he's the good guy in this story, and it's Mike Rogers of the NSA.

Mike Rogers of the NSA senses that there's something wrong about these queries. In other words, who's tapping into the database here and making political queries? Now folks, some of you, I don't know your politics, I assume most of you are conservative, libertarian or Republican, but that's fine either way. If you doubt any of what I'm telling you, just Google the FISA Intelligence Surveillance Court, their report about queries. Because Mike Rogers goes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and says, Houston, we got a problem. These queries are supposed to follow very specific guidelines about terrorism and all these metrics, you can't just spy on Americans in the database. The FISA court looks into it, comes back with a report that was released in March 2017, ladies and gentlemen, that is devastating. If you haven't read it, you are doing yourself a great disservice. Page 80 specifically is horrifying. Apparently the NSA database was being queried by private contractors working with the FBI, these were not even government officials. People within the government were using private contractors to query information they had no judicial or legal authority whatsoever to look at.

Rogers smells a rat. People panic in the government. Now, conveniently what happens right after the election? I'm going to put these pieces together and things will start to make sense. Donald Trump's elected, he's the President-Elect, right? Ten days after the election, Rogers, who knows this has been going on the whole time—these unmaskings—the tapping of the Trump team. They tapped Trump Tower. Now does it make sense? He got the wording wrong? He didn't understand exactly how it worked but the idea was not wrong. Donald Trump's not stupid, trust me. The guy got elected president, earned a billion dollars. By the way, I love how these journalists criticize him. Sure, the guy's making $25,000.00 a year writing click bait pieces for buzz feed, Donald Trump's an idiot. Hard pass, brother. Well, the guy just won the presidency. The guy runs for office the first time and he becomes the president, but wait, yeah, let me listen to Joey Bagadonas at buzz feed, you're right, you got this.

It's like so about 10 days after the election of Donald Trump, someone goes up to visit Donald Trump in Trump Tower. Who visits him? Mike Rogers. But Rogers doesn't tell anyone, this is going to trip you out totally. He doesn't tell anybody in the White House he's going up there. He visits Trump in Trump Tower, conveniently 10 days after the election, which from my experience in the Secret Service is just enough time for them to go up to Trump Tower, WHCA, the White House Communication Agency for the President-Elect and set up a SCIF where they can talk privately, Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility. In other words a place where no one can listen in. Rogers gives it about 10 days, goes up there, has this big meeting with Donald Trump, and what happens the very next day? Donald Trump evacuates Trump Tower and goes to Bedminster, New Jersey to never return for another meeting. You think that was a cawinky-dink? Like he did that by accident? Oh, let's just go up to Bedminster, I've got nothing else to do.

Now, again this is all in the book in intricate detail. It's the greatest spy story ever told except for the fact that it actually happened, and it happened against you. Rogers has this meeting, Trump evacuates Trump Tower. The very next day the Obama administration comes out and calls for somebody to be fired; who's that somebody? Mike Rogers. And they start blaming it on things like drone strikes and other stuff; like really? Could you be any more obvious? The Obama administration knows Rogers is the good guy and fills Trump in on this entire debacle. He probably goes up there and says brother, they're spyin' on you, like right now. He doesn't know, but now he does. So he leaves.

All of a sudden people start resigning from the Federal government after that. You know who also resigns? Bob Hannigan. Now, who's Bob Hannigan? Bob Hannigan is the head of the GCHQ, which is the British NSA. But why do you think the head of the British NSA would resign right after that Rogers meeting, right after Trump finds out about this massive spying operation? I'm going to tell you why right now, I'm not taking a selfie of you, I'm not taking a selfie of myself, I'm going to read to you a headline. This is from CNN, see it right there, I didn't photoshop this. April 14th, 2017, remember who Bob Hannigan is, he's the head of the British NSA, British Intelligence and passed Trump associates' communications with Russians onto U.S. counterparts. You think I'm making this up? That's CNN, I didn't write it. They wrote that. So not only is the United States government in Plan A, weaponizing its intelligence community to listen in and computer search the Trump team to hurt them during the campaign for political opo, they're working with the British and the Australians to pass information about the Trump team onto the Obama administration. Don't take it from me, take it from CNN.

They find out about this. Now, this thing breaks down about halfway through it. They move on to Plan B. Sorry, there's a lot more to Plan A, but in the interest of time I want to get through this because the cleanup operation is important. They move on to Plan B; what's Plan B? They realize Rogers is onto them. They're like hey folks, we better ease up on the unmasking and the tapping into the database, people are getting caught, this is probably not good, we're leaving a massive paper trail, and what if we lose, right? They move on to Plan B. Plan B's a cross fire hurricane. They say well, listen, if we can't spy on them illegally let's just spy on them legally. We have this beautiful thing called the FISA Court where we can walk into the FISA Court, we can get a warrant on somebody and when you get a warrant on somebody in the Trump team they have this beautiful thing for the Obama administration called the two hop rule. Well, it's for everyone, it's for Obama.

Meaning, if I spy on you, and you're a member of the Trump team, I can hop to everybody you emailed and then everybody they emailed. So basically all I need to do is get a FISA warrant on the guy cleaning the floors in Trump Tower, and I've got everyone. Because if he emailed his boss and his boss emailed Don, Jr., I get everybody. Beautiful, right? Not really. Because they were stupid. They were dumb, and they screwed up. The problem with the FISA Court, unlike the unmaskings and the tapping into the database is they had to produce actual evidence in front of a judge. There was a judge in a FISA Court that needed evidence that the Trump team was working on behalf of a foreign power, but critically doing it in violation of at least one U.S. law. Folks, they had nothing. They had zero. Do you understand that they, to this day, have absolutely zero. Zero. Remember, don't do it one hand, that's a big mistake. Media people, you'll be a white power person after that. You always do it that way. They had zero evidence at all, and you think it's funny, I'm only half kidding, that's how worried I am about the media, they're so crazy these days, right? They had nothing on collusion, nothing, zero.

So what does the FBI and the State Department and the DOJ do? They say well, we don't really have any evidence, let's just make it up. We've got this guy we worked with in the past, this guy Christopher Steele. Now I'm going to do something, I'm not taking a selfie, again I'm not taking a picture of you, don't you worry. I'm going to read you another headline, you need to write this down because this one's going to blow your mind. Any of you read the dossier? You haven't, right? Not many people have. You should. If you haven't read the dossier, don't you worry, because the dossier was already written back on April 17th of 2007. You go: what do you mean, I don't get it. You mean 2017, right? No, no, no, no, no, I didn't get that wrong.

It's written right here in the Wall Street Journal, on April 17, 2007. Who's the author of this critical Wall Street Journal piece? Glen Simpson and Mary Jacobi, his wife. Glen Simpson, the purveyor of Fusion GPS. The article is called, How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington. Folks, I dare you to take a moment and read that piece, put it next to the dossier. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. It's the same story. It was written 11 years ago. Glen Simpson clearly had this information about Russian influence in Washington he wrote 10 years ago. Read the names in the article. Do you know who appears in this article? Paul Manafort, all of these players. So what likely happened after Plan A collapses is, they say listen, let's go to the FISA Court and do this legally, but we need evidence. We don't have evidence. Don't worry, Hillary Clinton's got a guy at Fusion GPS, says he's got a story to tell. Ladies and gentlemen, Glen Simpson took his Wall Street Journal piece like it was a movie script, scratched out the names, put Donald Trump's name in there and said look, do orthopedic injury have a story for you guys. It's all B.S. The whole dossier is crap. Read the article, it's a movie script they recycled. It's a fairy tale, it's an Aesop's Fable. It's made up. It's a scam. There is not a scintilla of evidence that it's true.

Now, the big question on Plan B, till I move to the mop up operation, Plan C. Now they're in trouble. They're in a lot of trouble. Because they realize the dossier in and of itself is crap and a lot of people at the Bureau know it. They need to buttress it with some stuff to make it a little harder. Now is where the Michael Cohen story comes in, Trump's lawyer.

In the dossier is a very specific allegation, right? That Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, went over to Prague to set up this whole information exchange with the Russians, right? Well, what's the problem? Michael Cohen had never been to Prague, and his passport proved it. Where do you think they got that name, Michael Cohen? You're darn right, they probably were in that NSA database looking up a Michael Cohen and they got the wrong guy. I know there's only one Dan Bongino. I can tell you for sure there are a whole lot of Michael Cohens, right? John Smith, John Brown, Cohen, these are common last names. They got the wrong Michael Cohen. So now you should be asking yourself, who the heck was Glen Simpson dealing with in the government that gave him that name? And how did they get it?

Plan B falls apart, too. Plan B falls apart because something happens in November, Donald Trump wins. Nobody, I'm telling you, take it to the bank, cash this check and spend the money, nobody saw that coming, no one. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to get in, this was all going to go away, they were going to appoint their own Attorney General, probably John Brennan and this story is never, ever to see the light of day, not in their lifetimes. But make no mistake, they know what they did. They all know what they did. Every single one of them.

So they have to move on to Plan C. Plan C, I call it Clean Up on Aisle 4. Now they're in trouble. They know they've got white hats in the government. I know one of them right now that's still in the FBI, that's unquestionably cooperating with this investigation if you know how to read the tea leaves. And if you read the book you'll figure out who it is. People start cooperating and talking and now people are panicking. Now does the John Brennan's meltdown after the election make sense? He's the head of the intelligence community who, again another thing for you to Google, but it's all in the book, again, who do you think John Brennan met with right before the election at the "director level as reported on by multiple media outlets: Bob Hannigan, the same guy from the British Intelligence Agency that quits right after Trump's election. He quits 10 days after and doesn't tell anybody about it. He says oh, I'm leaving for family reasons. What do you mean? You related to Donald Trump? What do you mean, family reasons? Family reasons, the reason that you're leaving is because Donald Trump got elected.

Who also quits? John Carlin. Who's John Carlin? He's the head of the Department of Justice National Security Division, the final division in the Department of Justice to put their John Hancock on the FISA warrant. He quits right after the election. Who did John Carlin work for? Now clean up on Aisle 4 is going to start to make sense. Who did John Carlin work for before he got there in the DOJ? He's Bob Mueller's chief of staff. He was Bob Mueller's chief of staff. Now does Bob Mueller make sense? Clean up Aisle 4, get the mops out. Everybody realizes they're all going down; they faked the FISA warrant, they have been involved in massive unmaskings. Susan Rice, Samantha Power, they have been busted by the FISA Court tapping into the NSA database for queries. They left a paper trail 65 miles long. Bob Mueller has to clean this whole mess up. Bob Mueller, did you notice how right away they had the name? So Bob Mueller's old chief of staff, is the cleanup guy. Listen, make no mistake, Bob Mueller's job right now is one thing and one thing only: keep the heat on Donald Trump relentlessly for anything, for jaywalking, ripping off mattress tags, combing his hair the wrong way, keep the attention on Trump no matter what because the minute the Bob Mueller thing is resolved, all of this is going to come out and it is hell hath no fury. Folks, they left a paper trail. They can't run from this.

Mueller is brought in to get Trump impeached because they don't want any of this to see light of day. Now why Mueller? Mueller knows every player involved in this and has intimate connections with all of them. The guy who signs off on the B.S FISA warrant, John Carlin, his old chief of staff, his chief bulldog in the case, Andy Weissman. Andrew Weissman worked with Bob Mueller. Andy Weissman was the chief prosecutor on the Enron case when Bob Mueller was the FBI director. Remember the Enron case that they screwed up royally? That's how they know each other. Andy Weissman hates Donald Trump. He's done emails congratulating Sally Yates for telling Donald Trump to go pound sand. Oh, it gets better.

Who else does Bob Mueller know? On Bob Mueller's Enron team, it all goes back to Enron, that same Enron team headed by Andy Weissman had another lead lawyer on the case who wasn't Kathryn Ruemmler. Who's Kathryn Ruemmler? Obama's White House counsel who was Obama's lawyer while all of this was going on. They know each other. Now you may say, fine, so Bob Mueller knows Obama's lawyer while this whole spy-gate thing was going on. What's the big deal? You Google George Nader Daily Beast, you can read an article today. It just popped up today before we showed up. One of Bob Mueller's lead cooperators in this case who's been selling out members of the Trump team from Day 1 is a guy named George Nader. Who's George Nader's lawyer? Kathryn Ruemmler. Obama's White House counsel and Bob Mueller's buddy. The lawyer for the lead witness in this case feeding information to Mueller is Obama's White House counsel otherwise known as the fixer. She fixed everything for them. She was involved in Benghazi, she was involved in the IRS, she was involved in the Secret Service scandal. Just Google her name, put in any one of those things and who's the person giving the statement? Kathryn Ruemmler. Who was also on that Enron taskforce? Lisa Monaco. Barack Obama's Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor in the White House while all of this was going on. They all know each other.

Your final piece to the cleanup on Aisle 4 operation: Who else does Bob Mueller know? Who now has judicial—excuse me—legislative control over this? I should say, right now in the Department of Justice, right? Rod Rosenstein, right? Because Sessions had recused himself, now Whitaker's in there which was a good appointment, right?

A case happens a little while ago, the TENEX case. It's around 2015 or so. It happens in Maryland. I'm familiar with it because I worked in Maryland as a Secret Service agent in Baltimore. I wasn't involved in that case at all but I know the office well. The TENEX case goes down in Maryland. The TENEX case, a cooperator for the United States government paid $50,000.00 by the FBI, comes to the FBI with some troubling information that the Russians are helping the Iranians build their nuclear program and that there's a company helping the Russians get a hold of our uranium. It's called the TENEX case. It was the precursor to something you may have heard about: the Uranium 1 operation. The same players are involved. The case gets thrown out on a BS press release on a Friday night so nobody would pay attention. Everybody's gag-ordered and it all goes away, that the Obama administration and FBI-paid informant admitted that we were giving the Russians uranium while they were building the Iranian nuclear program and chanting death to America. Who was the lead prosecutor on that TENEX case, the precursor to Uranium 1? Rod Rosenstein. And who's the FBI director? Bob Mueller. Folks, they all know each other.

This is the biggest scam in American history. Folks, I beg of you, I really do, you cannot let your legislative people, your congressmen or anyone off the hook. Whatever connections you have, you need to keep the heat on this because if these people don't go down, the right way, unlike the Obama administration tried to do it to us, this will happen again. I'm telling you, what they did was such a grotesque, horrendous abuse of power. It disgusts me to this day and I will never ever forget that story about that guy we arrested and his crying kid that morning who wasn't going to see his dad for another year. That's a horrible thing to have to do to someone and it's a grotesque thing to do to someone, to unleash the power of the federal government when they did nothing wrong. And Donald Trump did nothing wrong and if you read the book, and by the way, it's not a narrative. You don't have to read it straight through. It's written like a police file. I think that's why it's been selling like crazy. You can read the last chapter first. It’s written like a police file because the names, like I said, this is an hour long speech I compressed into 20 plus minutes.

The names never stop coming up again. Ever. Oleg Deripaska connected to Vladimir Putin who's connected to Adam Waldman, a lobbyist who's emailing and texting Mark Warner, a democrat on the senate committee. Who's Waldman working for too? Christopher Steele, the guy working for Hillary. They're connected to the Russians. The people that show up at the Trump Tower meeting. Veselnitskaya with Don, Jr. and Rinat Akhmetshin. Veselnitskaya works for Fusion GPS on a separate case and Akhmetshin, the other guy, the Russian intel guy that shows up at the Trump Tower meeting, you know who his lawyer is? Edward Lieberman. You know who Lieberman's wife is? Evelyn Lieberman. Bill Clinton's old chief of staff. Read the book folks; it's all laid out for you. So, thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Link.

...more: Rampant migrant illnesses force U.S. Border Patrol to seek help, change procedures

Hundreds of migrants and their children seeking to enter the U.S. from Mexico are arriving with illnesses, forcing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seek additional medical assistance and boost medical screenings, the agency disclosed Monday.

Between Dec. 22 and Sunday, the agency reported 451 cases referred to doctors or other providers, including 259 children. Among the children, half of the cases involved kids under the age of 5.

The ill migrants have been arriving with all kinds of ailments, many with flu or pneumonia that can be particularly pervasive and dangerous this time of year. Seventeen migrants have been hospitalized, including six children, according to the agency.

More >>

Trojan Horse?

Two dead kids from causes not (truthfully) yet made public, and an unreported number of adult death/illnesses.

CDC called in - for 2 kids who died of a 'cold' and 'exhaustion/dehydration' - sure.

It appears that someone is concerned that perhaps a bio-weapon has been slipped into the caravan.

You do not have enough ammo...

How arrest of Chinese ‘princess’ exposes regime’s world domination plot

Team BearDragon is moving steadily forward while their American Quislings keep us mired in bread & circuses.

Here's the piece.

You do not have enough ammo.  And unless you have already IFF'd every Lefty and Lefty Asset in your AO, you are existentially behind the curve.

Golitsyn.  Buy yourself a Christmas present of New Lies for Old - if your haven't already read it.

Mandatory Mental Health Exam for Students up for Consideration

A bill that would require a mental health exam for every student in grades 6 through 12 each academic year is up for consideration in the Oregon state legislature.

Legislative Concept 2890 would require school districts and public charter schools to conduct “mental health wellness checks” annually on every student in grades 6 through 12, Truth in American Education observes.

According to Mental Health America, Oregon is ranked as the state with the highest prevalence of mental illness. Additionally, the state earned a ranking of 16 out of 51 on Mental Health America’s “Access to Care” map.  More here.

Why are they doing this? 

#1: To condition your children for a life of oversight and meddling...

#2: So they can twist your lil' darlin's brain and get the behavioral outcomes deemed appropriate by those who mean to be our Masters...

#3: To reinforce Good-Think...

#4: To have a paper trail of reasons for later life to deny 2A, jobs, et cetera...

Any parent surrendering their children to public schools is sending them to a life of enslavement and the slaughter of their souls...

Jeanette Finicum: A Patriot

Mrs. Finucum

It was wonderful and humbling for H and I to meet Mrs. Finicum Friday night (30 Nov) and to learn firsthand much about her loss and her husband that will never be published by the Fake News.

Here is a link to her Legal Defense Fund.  

She is going after those who murdered (assassinated) her husband.  She is doing it for her husband, for herself, her family - and for all Americans who are disgusted by the conduct of ...those who mean to be our Masters.

It is in no small measure because of her husband that Dwight and Steven Hammond are home today from Federal prison.  LaVoy stood.  Now his family stands when he cannot.

Stand with them.

Jedburgh Academy: 11-13 Jan 2019

January 11-13 - St. Maries: Active Shooter Response.  

Street clothing, Combat Rifle & Handgun at CQB & Contact Ranges w/Armed Combatives. 

Class limited to 15 participants (3 slots remaining). 

Class to be held at Mountain site & at 2nd Street Dojo

Students: Come prepared for snow and cold temps.

March 8-10 - St. Maries: Team Organization, Leadership & Operations. 

Class limited to 10 3-man teams.  (4 Team slots remaining). 

Location: Mountain Facility.

Makers vs. Takers - aka - Americans vs. Leftists Living in America

Source: WalletHub

The American firearms industry contributes more than $51,000,000,000 annually to the national economy.  More than 300,000 people are employed directly and indirectly by the US firearms industry.  Americans average 25,000,000 new retail sales each year (requiring NICS), not factoring direct sales between citizens.  The industry has remarkably closed the production capacity gap that was on display immediately following Sandy Hook, when retail shelves across the nation went bare as Americans bought everything in inventory and manufacturers could not re-supply.  After Parkland, retail prices of ARs continued a downward trend despite an uptick in sales and no supply problems - the production gap has been cured by simple market forces of supply & demand.

Despite the rabid demands from American Leftists for more gun control laws and the breathless chicken-little panting from too many agenda-driven 'Patriots', gun control laws in America have significantly eased since Sandy Hook.  The Red Flag laws in America exist in the predictable Leftist shit-states one would expect:  California, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Vermont, Florida, Connecticut, Indiana, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Massachusetts, Illinois - yet Castle doctrine & Stand Your Ground laws are rising.  Constitutional Carry laws rule in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia & Wyoming.

Today you can buy well-made new AR-15 rifles all over the place for $300-$500.  Today you can build your own firearms - legally - with no paper trail, that rival and often surpass manufacturers final product quality.

Too often we hear calls from 'Left' and 'Right' of impending civil war and jack-boots stomping across America.  Many of the loudest advocates insist America has never been at such conflict within herself.  This is, of course, lazy thinking at best, and sinister cynicism at worst, spewed by people who have an agenda.  Collectivists were here before the Revolution, and after.  They were called Loyalists, Tories, Federalists, and so forth.  Later they were called Yankees.  Today they are Globalists and 'Antifa', Leftists, Communists, Progressives, Liberals and such.

Those subscribing to Jeffersonian ideals of Rightful Liberty have always been a minority in America.

Sadly, most people claiming the mantle of 'personal liberty' today are wholly ignorant about what personal liberty really means, and many others deliberately misuse the title for personal gain.

Don't live on Welfare Lane, folks.

There is no such thing as a 'Patriot' who accepts welfare into his home.  True Patriots and the Welfare Sluts are mutually-exclusive entities.  There is no such thing as a 'Patriot' who works a job that, by definition, includes infringing the Natural and Constitutional rights of others.

There are people who produce, and people who take.  There are those who contribute to society and those who only destroy.

There are people who believe they are entitled to some portion of the fruits of your labor, especially if the taking is done by some third-party, like 'The Government'.  These people are not, in any reality, supporters of personal liberty.

The challenge facing true-believers of Rightful Liberty has always been there, and will always be there.  Those who will lay claim to the fruits of your labor will always outnumber us.  They will always seek to badger us to 'share' for 'the good of us all' or 'for the children' - or even 'for America.'  They will try to shame us with hurtful words and outright lies.  They will try to force our compliance with ostracization.  They will threaten us with force, prison and more.

The recourse to such parasites is as it has always been and always shall be - self defense.

There is no need to secede.  There is no need for a civil war with mustered armies marching across CONUS.  There is no need to allow yourself to be subjugated to the takers.  There is no need to tolerate open borders or any other policy that rises to the level of existential threat.

The American firearms industry and all the Americans working within that industry (and related industries) provide the means to secure personal liberty from the parasites who accept and demand the fruits of your labor.

What we can't do is make you courageous enough to stand your ground for the defense of your own Liberty.  That's on you.  If you are one of those 'Patriots' who waits for the monthly check from the 'Government' so you can buy another box of ammo or another AR or a pound of bacon - you are part of the real problem facing real Americans and true liberty.  You will never stand for true Liberty - because the bread on your table demands that you infringe the Liberty of your neighbors.  You simply lack the principles and mettle to ever be a true American.

American Patriots have allowed far too many parasites to live among us.  We tolerate too much Stupid and we allow The Stupid to rise to existential levels of risk because our innate nature is to live and let live.  We too often turn the other cheek.

Clean the doorstep of your own home of the takers, then clean your block, and your neighborhood.  Continue until you bump into another real American Patriot who is doing the same work. 

Judge every person by a simple metric: Do they take or do they make?  Do they build, or denigrate?

There is a point of no return in this war.  There will come a time when standing up will result in nothing more than martyrdom.  There is rapidly approaching that moment when there are simply too many takers, and their waves will overtake us all.  They will, of course, begin to eat their own and fail in the end - but you and I will be dead by then.

If you are a maker, stop tolerating all incursions into the fruits of your labor.

If you are a taker - stop right now, whatever the personal cost, and refuse to take what is not rightfully yours and freely given.

And to all others who refuse to stop being parasites - we let them continue at our peril.

Unconstitutional: Attorneys Argue Against Concealed Carry Permits

In Chicago, no less.

Here.

Of course it is all academic.  No man has the authority to deny Natural Rights of another man.

He may have the power - but not the authority.

Veterans Day

I hope everyone took at least a moment today to honor all of the Americans who have served, who have been wounded, who have died in service to our republic.

Without them and their sacrifices, millions and millions of our countrymen could not today continue to live off the blood-soaked money they accept every month living on Welfare Lane and those who feed at the trough of unconstitutional .Gov jobs...

Remember, folks - every dollar taken into the home of the welfare/.Gov parasites is a dollar stolen by threat of violence from the productive men and women in America.

If your 'job' in any way facilitates, enables or directly results in the infringement of the Natural/Constitutional Rights of your fellow Americans, you are not a Patriot - you are the problem...

How to handle an 'Active Shooter' from the experts at HuffPo

HuffPo compiled a reaction plan for people who get caught in an 'Active Shooter' situation, citing 'experts'.

What we teach at the Jedburgh Academy is in the graphic at right.  --->

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From HuffPo: 

1. Be aware.
It sounds basic but sometimes the most obvious points are the most crucial. Put down your phone and tune in to your surroundings.

“In security, we often refer to the phrase ‘situational awareness,’ being aware of our situation wherever we are,” said Brent O’Bryan, corporate vice president of training and organizational effectiveness at Allied Universal, a private North American security company.

When you first walk into a building, O’Bryan recommends getting your bearings and taking inventory of your surroundings: Notice the people in the room, the layout of the venue, where the nearest exits are and whether anything appears off.

2. Make a brief, mental “what if” plan ahead of time.
“People have to unfortunately have the mindset these days that when you walk into anywhere, something bad can happen and you have to begin to mentally prepare yourself with the ‘what if’ scenario,” said Mike Zimet, owner of New York-based executive protection company Mike Zimet Protective Services.

If used correctly, that strategy could potentially save somebody’s life.

“We use the what-if scenario in protection all the time,” Zimet said. “What if this happens? What would you do with the person you are protecting? How would you evacuate them?”

This type of thinking, he added, trains you to be a lot more diligent in looking for exits or a safe room where you can shelter. Take a few minutes to put an escape plan into place when you first arrive at a venue, he suggested, and then go back to enjoying the evening.

3. Know what to look for.
When taking inventory of a place or scenario, be on the lookout for anything that appears suspicious.

“The biggest red flag is somebody appearing out of place by their clothing ― they are dressed for the winter in the summer ― or by their actions,” Zimet said. Actions to watch for include leaving a suspicious package behind or behaving uncharacteristically for the setting.

4. Don’t be afraid to report something suspicious.
“Be aware of your neighbors, people’s activity on social media, and don’t be afraid to share your concerns,” O’Bryan said.

If something seems suspicious, you shouldn’t assume that somebody else is going to call it in or otherwise report it. Make the call yourself.

“We need to do better as a society with having that courage to step in when we see something that doesn’t seem right,” O’Bryan said. “Law enforcement would rather have us be more proactive in sharing leads and concerns so they can say, ‘OK, that’s not a concern’ or ‘That is a concern’ than have us thinking, ‘That looks suspicious but I’m not sure if it is so I’m just going to hold back.’”

“Trust your gut instinct when something niggles at the back of your mind that something is wrong,” added Robert Sollars, a security consultant based in Phoenix with 35 years experience in the industry. Too many people ignore those feelings even though they could save lives, Sollars said.

5. Try to remain as calm as possible.
Focus on breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth as you take action.

“Remaining calm and focused can mean the difference between life and death,” Guerrero said, adding that a “heightened state of panic may impair your judgment and ability to make sound decisions when time is of the essence.”

Matt Harden, a SWAT team member and owner of the San Francisco Bay Area company OpTempo Training Group, which provides active shooter training, noted that staying calm also helps people “to not alert the shooter to their location.”

6. Run if you’re able to.
In a situation involving an active shooter, your immediate move should be to get out of the building if you can safely do so. And once you are through the door, don’t stop.

“Keep going and get as far away from the line of fire as you can,” Zimet said. Don’t assume that you’re safe once outside just because the gunfire is happening inside.

“Many gunmen go in through front door. The same way they went in shooting, they can come out shooting. So if you are lingering outside, you could find yourself back in the line of fire,” Zimet warned.

Even though it might be your first instinct, O’Bryan said you should not stop to dial 911 before running.

“Get to safety and then make that call. To stop and make that call immediately, you are risking yourself and you’ve gotten rid of a few seconds you could be using to get somewhere safely to make the call,” he said.

7. Hide if you need to.
If you can’t get safely to an exit and out the door, your second choice is to hide.

“Law enforcement will arrive quickly and if you can’t run, then your next best option is to hide and wait for them to arrive,” O’Bryan said.

Once you are hidden and secure, remain quiet and still. “Hiding is not the time to get on your phone,” O’Bryan added. “If you have that opportunity and you truly think you are safe, you can reach out to 911, but you want to be very careful. Especially in a dark situation, you want to maintain the darkness. You don’t want to have your phone on to give you away.”

Zimet recommended concealing yourself behind the hardest object possible so as to shield yourself from bullets. O’Bryan also suggested looking for a room with a door that you can lock from the inside, if possible.

8. Stay hidden for the long haul.
Once hidden, don’t come out until law enforcement arrives and announces that they are ready to escort you out. Don’t try to determine when it’s safe to emerge on your own accord.

“If you’re hiding and still in the building when law enforcement arrives, be prepared for officers with rifles entering to deal with the threat,” Harden said, adding that it’s crucial you stay where you are and not try to run over to them even if you’re injured.

“You can call out to them but they will find you,” he said. “Follow their commands.”

Officers are entering a very uncertain, chaotic scene and will be focused on clearing the entire structure to ensure there are no additional shooters or threats. “The initial officers may bypass injured people asking for help until the scene is secure. But they will return to render aid and evacuate,” Harden said.

9. Get low to the ground.
If you can’t run away or find a hiding space, or you’re out in the open, you’ll want to get as low as possible.

“Duck down to the floor and try to put yourself in a fetal position because that reduces the amount of target that somebody is targeting at,” Zimet said.

Dropping to the ground can also help to get you out of the line of sight of an active shooter and reduce your chances of getting hit by gunfire. “The more you reduce your size and your target, the better chance you have of surviving,” said Zimet.

10. Fight back only as a last resort.
Your safety comes first. Attempting to stop an active shooter is only advised if they are extremely close to you and you cannot take any of the above safety steps, Zimet said. Basically, only try this if it’s your sole option.

“Do not run across a huge distance to the attacker and hop into their line of sight in the process,” he said, noting that if you do attack, your focus should be on lunging at the person and going after the weapon.

“The attacker will not be expecting an attack from a victim so the bigger, louder and more violent you can be, the more you will disrupt their train of thought. If you have a group of people, even better,” said Tammy Johnson, CEO of Bravo1 Protection, an event security service in South Carolina.

11. Finally, curb your curiosity.
If a shooting happens in your neighborhood and you are not actively caught in the situation, remain a safe distance away. Louis Perry, the owner and executive vice president of Los Angeles-based Kadina Security who has provided security for politicians, former presidents and other high-profile individuals, said that often someone shoots a gun and people actually run toward the sound of the gunfire to see what’s going on.

“It’s human nature to be curious but you don’t want to do that,” Perry said. “I know it sounds silly to say this but if somebody shoots a gun, you want to run away from the gunfire.”

So if there is a shooting in your area, remain inside, keep your doors locked and wait until you are given the all-clear from officers to leave your premises.

Original is here.

AG Whitaker: Would be a good POTUS from what I see in this interview. Especially #19...

Matt Whitaker IFFC Spring Event 4-8-14

1.  What’s the most rewarding job you’ve held?

Matt Whitaker: “Certainly being the United States Attorney for the southern district of Iowa.”

2.  First job you ever had?

Matt Whitaker: “I was a bus boy at Mr. K’s restaurant in Ankeny, Iowa.”

3.  Describe your worldview and what role that would play in your decisions as U.S. Senator:

Whitaker: “I have a Christian worldview. Our rights come from our Creator and they are guaranteed by the Constitution. So I would start all analysis of any law or anything else first with the Constitution and then work from there.”

4.  What is the purpose of the federal government?

Whitaker: “To do the certain, limited functions that the Constitution lists out and to do them well.”

5.  What books, family influences and/or historical figures have had the most influence on you?

Whitaker: “I would say growing up in the 1980s Ronald Reagan played a large part of my political and public policy foundation. The books that I’ve read include various subjects. Obviously the Bible is a book I’ve read and continue to read. Then others include historical figures. I’ve read extensively about our Founding Fathers. I’ve read extensively on Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. I’ve read extensively on the Alamo and the folks involved in the Alamo. Those are several areas that I love. I think my view of our country and our future is informed a lot by what I’ve read about our nation’s history.”

6.  What are the issues you consider non-negotiable?

Whitaker: “Life. I don’t believe I’d negotiate on marriage, although I believe that’s primarily a state issue. I would not negotiate on raising taxes. I don’t think our government has a revenue problem I think it has a spending problem. Those would be the big ones off the top of my head.”

7.  What is the law and where does the law come from?

Whitaker: “You’re asking me like I’m a lawyer or something. We come out of a common law tradition in the United States. Obviously I already mentioned I think our rights come from our Creator and are guaranteed by our Constitution. Our laws are passed by legislators and are executed by the executive branch. Obviously the courts have a role, although I don’t believe the courts should make law. I’ve talked about that many times before. Much like Chief Justice John Roberts says, the courts should call balls and strikes, although he’s not a good person to point to when it comes to actually just calling balls and strikes in practice. Obviously our laws follow the Constitutional system for how they have to originate and be passed, at least in the federal system.”

8.  At what point do you believe a human life is guaranteed the legal protections of being an American citizen and what would you do to ensure those protections are provided?

Whitaker: “You know I believe that life begins at conception through natural death. That’s informed in large part by my three children that I have. I listened to each of their heart beats at the doctor’s office. So that’s where I begin and end the analysis.”

9. A lot has changed under the current administration with regards to the definition of marriage. What’s your position and what is your end game for the debate?

Whitaker: “I believe marriage is between one man and one woman. Throughout history it’s traditionally been up to the churches and to God to define that. I don’t have an omnibus solution. Certainly it’s affecting all sorts of parts of our country. Here in the state of Iowa we can’t even get our elected officials to do anything about it and that’s really frustrating. It’s affecting our military. There are chaplains in the military under a lot of pressure to go against their religious beliefs. But what can I do as one freshman senator in the U.S. Senate? Give me the bills and I’ll vote for them, but the president has done significant damage all over the country. There will be an unbelievable, long-term negative impact he’s leaving.”

10. What is your position on ObamaCare?

Whitaker: “We need to do everything we can to repeal it, defund it, delay it — we need to do whatever it takes. It’s having an incredibly negative impact on our economy. What can we do? We need to get a majority in the House and Senate and we need to get this president to change his mind. We need the people to agree with us that it’s such a negative, long-term impact on our economy and it has to be undone.”

11. What about illegal immigration and the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill?

Whitaker: “I do not support the Gang of Eight bill. I have reviewed that one. As U.S. Attorney I enforced immigration laws and I visited the border in El Paso and California and in the state of Washington. I was able to see what our border looks like and the fact it is under assault on a daily basis from people trying to bring illegal people and illegal drugs into our country. What do I think the solution is? We need to secure the border first and then look at ways to reform the system. Whether that’s getting rid of chain immigration or increasing the number of skilled worker visas. Those are a couple of ideas I’ve heard. One thing I would not support is amnesty. The reason I don’t support amnesty is because the American worker who currently cannot find a job, if we legalize 11 or 12 million people, that will put them under tremendous pressure in their job search and on their wages.”

12. Can we prevent more mass shootings at schools, malls and movie theaters through legislation while preserving the Second Amendment?

Whitaker: “The mass shootings we’ve seen in our country have been often times and always executed by mentally ill individuals who those laws never would’ve impacted in the first place. So I don’t think infringing on Second Amendment rights will prevent those types of events.”

13. What about the EPA, climate change, cap and trade and that issue?

Whitaker: “You know, I think that I’m not a climate denier. It may be warming, I think the evidence is inconclusive, but there may be a human component to global warming. But that’s very small and it may be part of the natural warming or cooling of the planet. I’m certainly not a climate expert, but I don’t believe in Cap and Trade or those types of regulations that try to hamstring the U.S. economy as other countries continue to put carbon into the air. I don’t believe in big government solutions to a problem that doesn’t appear to be that significant or quite possibly isn’t man made.”

14. What about the IRS?

Whitaker: “Two things: As someone who was quite possibly targeted for my political beliefs via the IRS, I went through an audit not long after the first year of my business represented some conservative groups. The politicization and targeting of groups is so against the America I believe in. I support all tax reform, anything that makes it simpler, easier to comply with and puts less of a burden on our families and small businesses. I’m familiar with the Fair Tax and the Flat Tax. I like them both. The only challenge with the Fair Tax is we’d have to repeal the 16th Amendment. It worries me giving Congress potentially another avenue to tax. That scares me. You’d have to make sure the income tax was put to rest before implementing the Fair Tax.”

15. Have you ever supported raising a tax and if so which ones? Are there any current taxes you would support increasing?

Whitaker: “No and no.”

16. What about the NSA and balancing security with our right to privacy?

Whitaker: “I certainly would continue and always have supported the monitoring of foreign nationals outside of our country. But the Constitution provides certain limits on government surveillance on its own citizens and I’d continue to support those constitutional protections. For me as a former prosecutor, I know the line and I know the process of getting a court order to bypass and listen to other people. We should just continue to use what we’ve always used on our own citizens for law enforcement purposes. For listening to non-U.S. citizens outside the country, it’s wonderful and we should do all we can.”

17. What about the situation in Egypt, which has brought to light the issue of foreign aid?

Whitaker: “I don’t think we should send foreign aid to countries that don’t like us. It’s that simple. I think if you look at whether the foreign aid is going to Egypt or the UN, we need to really take a careful look at where we’re sending our tax dollars and the regimes we’re supporting.”

18. What role should the federal government have in public education?

Whitaker: “None. I think the Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools. Bureaucrats in Washington D.C. shouldn’t know how to better educate my kids than I do.”

19. What’s the role of the courts and what is or what are some of the worst decisions in the Supreme Court’s history?

Whitaker: “The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government. We have unfortunately off loaded many of our tough public policy issues onto the court and they’ve decided hem. Unelected judges are deciding many of the issues of the day. There are so many (bad rulings). I would start with the idea of Marbury v. Madison. That’s probably a good place to start and the way it’s looked at the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of constitutional issues. We’ll move forward from there. All New Deal cases that were expansive of the federal government. Those would be bad. Then all the way up to the Affordable Care Act and the individual mandate.”

20. Favorite politician in U.S. history?

Whitaker: “Ronald Reagan, George Washington and James Madison. I didn’t enjoy his politics as much, but I enjoyed (Teddy Roosevelt’s) style. He was certainly somebody who I enjoy reading about as a personality.”

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