To begin with, this is your president. This ought to be one of the most shameful things ever said by a sitting president.
"Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?"
BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have."
"Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?"
BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024
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In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can’t evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal government.
The plaintiff in that lawsuit, a Marine veteran named Stephen Lara, had nearly $90,000 in cash seized from him in 2021 by two Nevada Highway Patrol officers. The cops admitted to Lara that there was nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash. But they decided that Lara’s money was likely drug proceeds, and they coordinated with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to forfeit it through a process called civil asset forfeiture.
The Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, sued the NHP and DEA on Lara’s behalf in 2021, arguing not only that should Lara get his money back—the DEA agreed to return it shortly after the suit was filed—but that the NHP exceeded its legal authority to hand the case over to the feds rather than following Nevada’s stricter asset forfeiture laws.
This was the first time Nevada courts had considered police participation in the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing Program, in which federal law enforcement “adopts” civil forfeiture cases from local police. The local department gets up to 80 percent of the forfeiture proceeds, and the rest goes into a Justice Department pool that is doled out to other participating departments around the country.
Nevada Second Judicial District Judge Connie J. Steinheimer held that forfeiture laws are required to be strictly interpreted, and that there was no way to do that while allowing the NHP to unilaterally undercut them.
“Without a clear dictate from the Nevada Legislature,” she wrote, “NHP cannot undermine this bedrock policy and effectively circumvent Nevada’s civil asset forfeiture statutes by electing to participate in the federal equitable sharing program.”
Steinheimer ruled that just because the federal government has the authority to adopt forfeiture cases doesn’t mean state police have the authority to accept the offer.
In a press release, Ben Field, an Institute for Justice attorney, called the ruling “a big step toward ending the abuse of civil forfeiture nationwide.”
Civil asset forfeiture laws are unconstitutional on their face, whether federal or state statutes. It’s highway robbery, and if I was the judge I would have put the cops who did this in prison, as well as any FedGov agents who participated in this obscene sin.
Furthermore, the biblical penalty for theft is to work in servitude to the offended party to pay the debt back three-fold. That would have been on my menu of penalties.
Then again, I’m not a judge and never will be believing things like this. The government doesn’t want justice. It wants control and money.
You could line up ten thousand employes of the federal government to say that this isn’t happening, and I’d call all ten thousand of them liars to their face.
A neighbor one house down from me made a run to Swannanoa a couple of weeks ago to deliver toys, propane, socks, shoes, food, clothing and other necessities. Folks were lined up for miles.
He told me that he saw a large number of children who weren’t wearing socks or shoes. They were barefooted in the winter in the N.C. mountains.
I told him I wanted to be informed the next time he made a run to the mountains. I’ll be going too.
A court vacating the final rule means nothing to the tyrants and controllers. They’re at it again.
Then again, if they are keeping a searchable database of gun owners in violation of federal law — and I believe they are — why wouldn’t they continue to violate the law including judicial orders? No one has stopped them yet. No one has fired them yet. No one has defunded them yet.
There have been absolutely no consequences to their illegalities.
He does just as good of a job with part 3 as he did with parts 1 and 2.
I do have a bone to pick with his analysis. As for the fires set by the British during the war of independence, they did actually do some of that, as did the Tories in S.C. It may not have looked exactly like the one in Patriot, but it did in fact happen where patriots were burned out of their homes.
In the interest of being open and honest, I’ll embed some of the videos with links to others. However, I’ll say my piece before I do.
I don’t want to have my mind blown by a new cartridge.
I don’t want to run steel casing in my rifles.
I don’t want 85,000 psi in my barrel or anywhere around me, and certainly not that close to my eyes and face.
I don’t want to have reduced barrel life.
A bullet can only pass through game once and then it’s done. Hit where it counts like the scapula – don’t shoot through with 50% to spare. Generally, I don’t want a new cartridge. I’d rather see Marlin (Ruger) make a lever gun in .454 Casull and .41 magnum, and S&W make a lever gun in 500 S&W. But I guess Federal thinks some folks want a new cartridge, or they wouldn’t have come out with one.
Funny how the influences all come out with this video at about the same time, almost as if on cue. I’m sure they were paid something for it – I would have demanded to keep the rifle rather than send it back. I’m sure it was a custom rifle.
This is yet another instance of cops attacking the wrong people, violating the right to privacy and the right to due process.
On another front, cops shouldn’t have access to dogs. They should wear sky blue collared shirts in full uniform, knock on doors, and be imprisoned for violation of rights.
Finally, any man who can’t control their beasts any better than that doesn’t deserve to have them. There should be a permanent injunction against the handler ever having dogs again, right after he gets out of prison.
Because by design the unorganized militia isn’t under the control of the FedGov (as intended by the founders), and totalitarians and tyrants want everything to be under the control of centralized governments. That’s why. They always have wanted this, and still want it today. The controller mentality hasn’t changed in the entire history of the world.
They fear armed, trained Americans. Therefore, never give up your firearms, and stay trained.
This is a very well-researched and very well-done video series. Thankfully, there is at least one more to come.
I do have a few nits with what he says in the second video along with some other observations. I do think that the individual agents in the ATF are culpable for the sins and crimes of the ATF. While the laws may not lend themselves to enforcement by any means but tyranny, that sort of organization only invites tyrants to work there.
As for Ruby Ridge, Lon Horiuchi was and is a murderer. Never forget that Bill Barr, Trump’s AG, got a list of former U.S. AGs together and petitioned the court on behalf of Horiuchi. The U.S. government, you see, can never be put in the position of not being able to enforce tyrannical laws.
And also never forget his points in the first half of the first video. It was moralistic do-gooders who pressed the whole temperance movement (and eventually, illegality of booze with prohibition). It was all a terrific failure as one might expect, and only made criminality worse.
Note the totalitarian and tyrannical nature of FDR, who was a communist and also a great admirer of Stalin. His AG wrote the NFA (you thought that Congress was supposed to write laws, didn’t you?).
Finally, I appreciate his personal recollections in the wake of Ruby Ridge.
This is yet another wrong-home SWAT raid. This one is so bad it defies belief.
They originally should have gone to another address (actually, they should have just knocked on the door and asked questions), then they got a warrant for the wrong address, and then finally, they went to yet another residence from the one they should have gone to or the one on the warrant – and shot an innocent man to death.
It’s like the keystone cops with rifles. Ignorant and uneducated goobers with deadly weapons aimed at innocent people.
Again, for the thousandth time: You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. There is never a situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
Here’s the kicker. They were looking for a weed eater belonging to a judge. So you see, all animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
I hope his surviving family sues the city out of existence, although that wouldn’t complete justice. The judge who issued the warrant and the officers who executed the warrant should all be in prison today and facing charges tomorrow.
