He didn’t even know this individual.  I believe if he was white, he would have been arrested for that.

Video shows Raz Simone handing out a long rifle to another person inside the Seattle BLM “Autonomous Zone.” Guns, weapons and drugs are ubiquitous in and around the “no cop” zone. pic.twitter.com/u9ZsS1YlZP

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 15, 2020

Via Insty.

Another picture.  At CHAZ, it looks like this.

By the way, who owns that land you’re on, son?  Do you hold title to it?  And what are you going to do when you find out you’re doing all the work and others are eating all of your vegetables?

America has already had an experiment in socialized farming.  It was very early in our history.  It didn’t work.

Reason.

The lawyers at the Department of Justice (DOJ) came up with a new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regulation “to clarify that [bump stocks] are ‘machineguns’ as defined by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968” because “such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger.” The federal ban on machine guns, in other words, would be interpreted by the Trump administration to ban bump stocks too.

That unilateral executive action has now come under fire from two federal judges appointed by Trump himself.

On March 2, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a statement respecting the denial of certiorari in Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The executive branch “used to tell everyone that bump stocks don’t qualify as ‘machineguns.’ Now it says the opposite.” Yet “the law hasn’t changed, only an agency’s interpretation of it,” Gorsuch complained. “How, in all of this, can ordinary citizens be expected to keep up….And why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”

Gorsuch wasn’t alone. On March 30, Judge Brantley Starr, a Trump appointee who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, issued a blistering opinion in Lane v. United States that basically accused the DOJ of ignoring foundational constitutional principles in its defense of Trump’s bump stock ban.

The Justice Department justified the ban as a lawful exercise of the “federal police power,” Starr observed. But “the federal government forgot the Tenth Amendment and the structure of the Constitution itself,” which grants no such power to the feds. “It is concerning that the federal government believes it swallowed the states whole. Assuming the federal government didn’t abolish the states to take their police power,” Starr wrote, he had no choice but to deny the government’s motion to dismiss the case. He then tartly added: “The Court will allow the government to try again and explain which enumerated power justifies the federal regulation.”

Complaining isn’t the same thing as overturning and nullifying because it was, is, and always will be, unconstitutional.

Judges and justices using their opinions to bitch about things, even if that’s all the power they have if they’re aren’t in the majority, is extremely weak tea.

From a reader, Diana West.

In his memoir, Reminscences, General Douglas MacArthur provides an illuminating account of the Bonus Army riots in the summer of 1932, which, as Army Chief of Staff, he would help quell after District of the Columbia requested assistance.

MacArthur’s account highlights some striking similarities with recent Black LIves Matter/Antifa rioting in the nation’s capital, especially when it comes to his overview of the tense situation in these final months of the Herbert Hoover administration.

In 1964, MacArthur wrote:

In these days of wholehearted unity, it is hard to believe that thirty years ago the President of the United States lived in danger, and the Congress shook with fear at the sight and sound of the marchers. It is hard to believe, too, that government employees and other citizens of Washington who bore witness to the tawdry street battles cheered the stoning of the Washington police force.

Plus ca change …

The movement was actually far deeper and more dangerous than an effort to secure funds from an already depleted federal treasury. The American Communist Party planned a riot of such proportions that it was hoped that the United States Army, in its efforts to maintain peace, would have to fire on the marchers. In this way, the Communists hoped to incite revolutionary action. Red organizers infiltrated the veteran groups and presently took command from their unwitting leaders. (Emphasis added.)

… plus c’est la meme communists.

Yes, indeed, nearly ninety years ago, “Red organizers” were already using civil strife — in this case, the stress and poverty of thousand of unemployed WWI veterans nearly three years into the Great Depression — to try to spark a violent overthrow of the federal government, or cause as much chaos and mayhem as possible in the attempt while demonizing the anti-communist President Hoover and General MacArthur.

Interestingly enough, the D.C. police commander, Pelham Greenford, was more on the “woke” side than we might expect of law enforcement at the time. Fortunately, the D.C. government and the Secretary of War were clearly on the side of protecting law, order and the White House, and not the agitators — patriotic support President Trump has not enjoyed.

Here’s how events unspooled in 1932. Thousands of “Bonus Army” protestors had camped out in and around the District on federal property since May. After Congress failed to comply with their demands to issue an immediate bonus for their war service, President Hoover was able to get a bill passed providing them with travel fare home. Thousands left the city. Those who remained were increasingly under Communist Party influence and increasingly violent.

After twice advising against providing Army assistance to Washington metropolitan police, MacArthur writes, “on July 28, the crisis was reached.”

A mob 5,000 strong began to move up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Treasury Building and the White House. The police were outnumbered five to one. [Police commander] Glassford was mauled and stripped of his police superintendent’s gold badge, gunfire broke out, and a score or more were badly injured. It was evident that the situation had gotten beyond the control of the local authorities.

A request was immediately made through the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia for federal troops.

Note that in 2020, after three days of rioting and looting in D.C., including in and around Lafayette Square during which some 60 Secret Service and special agents “sustained multiple injuries” defending the White House, and St John’s Church was torched, D.C. Mayor Bower was more adamant about fending off  National Guard assistance than fending off protestors. She even went so far as to eject members of the Utah National Guard from a D.C. hotel, and, infamously, permitted 16th Street, NW, to be emblazoned with the words “Black Lives Matter.”

Back to 1932:

Commissioner Richelderfer, in requesting such assistance from the President, “stated that it would be impossible for the police department to maintain law and order except by the free use of firearms. The presence of federal troops in small numbers will obviate the seriousness of the situation, and it will result in far less bloodshed and violence.

The President then conferred with Patrick Hurley, the Secretary of War, who was immediately placed in charge. Hurley issued the following order:

To: General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff US Army

The President has just now informed me that the civil government of the District of Columbia has reported to him that it is unable to maintain law and order in the District.

You will have United States troops proceed immediately to the scene of disorder. Cooperate fully with the District of Columbia police force which is now in charge.  Surround the affected area and clear it without delay.

Turn over all prisoners to civil authorities.

In your orders insist that any women or children who may be in the affected area be accorded every consideration and kindness. Use all humanity consistent with the due execution of the order.

Patrick J. Hurley

Secretary of War

So let’s make it clear from the outset that I am not advocating based on this, nor have I ever advocated, that the U.S. military become involved in the current riots, burnings, lootings, etc.

There is a legal, historical and necessary function for the unorganized militia.  This is just the kind of thing.

If the state of Washington were to have made the call for militias nationwide to come to the aid of their PD, and ten thousand people had showed up with battle rattle and full kit, it would have taken two hours to arrest the ne’er-do-wells, sent the other ones packing, and returned normalcy to the kidnapped property owners inside those six blocks.

I’m just saying.  This is all happening because the communists want it to happen, whether in Antifa or government (and I’m being redundant here, I know).

Axois.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit federal law enforcement and local police that receive federal funding from entering homes without warning through a “no-knock” warrant, which was reportedly obtained by the officers that shot Louisville resident Breonna Taylor in her home on March 13.

Why it matters: In the wake of nationwide protests against the killing of George Floyd, there’s now a bipartisan consensus that police reform is necessary.

Senate Republicans led by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) are planning a package that would require states to provide data on the use of no-knock warrants, but Paul’s proposal goes even further.

House Democrats, meanwhile, have proposed their own bill that would reform police training, make lynching a federal crime, and ban chokeholds and the use of no-knock warrants in drug cases.

Would you really have expected that either the democrat or republican bills would have banned no-knock raids outright like Rand Paul’s bill?

Of course not, and neither does this bill have anything whatsoever to do with George Floyd.  But watch it and see, and let me know later if I was right about this.

Rand Paul’s bill doesn’t stand a chance.  The FedGov, StateGov loca .gov wants their ability to send in the thugs.

If they don’t ban raids outright, then everything else is window dressing.

Via David Codrea, this video from Bill Gates explains an awful lot.

So remember boys and girls, Bill had detailed involvement in a huge experiment in India.  Read that account from Indians themselves, not from liar websites like Snopes.

I would think that 30 rounds of 350 Legend in spicy time would be handy.

So there I was relaxing for the evening watching Colonel Thomas Holden, USMC (Ret.) lecture on the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, discussing flight ceiling and why they chose that, specifics about the 682 sorties they flew, and many other historically interesting facts.

Then my evening was interrupted by a reader with this awful scene.  This is director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization.

What the hell is he doing, you ask?  I can only guess, and those guesses are all ugly and I didn’t spend much time on them.

Sort of makes you want to (ahem) stay out of bed with the WHO, yes?

Uh oh.  Reality sets in and threatens rainbows and purple unicorn farts in CHAZ.

In addition to still utilizing the city’s power, water, and porta-potties, the occupiers called the Seattle Fire Department after a dumpster fire was started just outside the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” as it threatened to set a nearby building on fire.

Without the presence of police in the area, things can be dangerous for people accused of wrongdoing. In one instance, a young man was accused of stealing a phone from another protester. A crowd quickly surrounded him and tried to interrogate him, with one individual brandishing a baseball bat in the man’s face. The accused thief was clearly frightened and explained he did not steal anything, to which the crowd asked why did he run away.

The situation was resolved after it was discovered the phone was never stolen, but it only came after the man was able to once again run away from the crowd.

Truck drivers say they won’t deliver to locations with defunded PDs (that’s a real drag for ’em, huh?).

But there’s more.

Police have repeatedly said they have “heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area” while others have complained about armed guards asking to see identification for people to enter their homes, according to Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette.

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One agitator group on Twitter posting photos inside CHAZ showed a list of items needed by demonstrators including cigarettes, tents and bedding.

Aw, say it ain’t so – CHAZ cops demanding protection money.  But wait, there’s more.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the “warlord” of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites (language warning).

[ … ]

Here’s the archived version of the above screen grab, available for viewing as of this writing. [there’s more]

Here’s the archived link for one of the tweets in the above four-tweet screen grab.

In spite of evidence to the contrary, Simone is employing the Joy Reid “I was hacked” defense.

Now I couldn’t care less how he views anything, including gays.  But listen, warlord.  The interwebz and its metadata are forever.  You can’t hide behind lies.

So their “hero” of purple unicorn farts, utopia, the grand new society where everything belongs to the cooperative commune, and reparations for all except whitey, doesn’t really fit the narrative.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Give it another week.  It’ll be like Lord of the Flies.  Porta Potties will be running over, trash will be collecting in the streets, it will stink, it’ll be filthy with flies, fleas, roaches and disease, Coyotes will have begun to encroach to get at the trash, gunfire will be routine, people will begin to complain about the overbearing “justice” of the warlords, they’ll hate the CHAZ police as much or more than the real police, and they’ll begin to go home, one by one, fives by fives.

Raz and a few diehards will be the only ones left, until Raz gets a disease of his own making, and then he’ll wind up in a hospital bed paid for by hard working taxpayers.

Governance is a drag, huh Raz?  You actually have to have the smarts to know how to pull it off.

News from New Mexico.

Robert Whitmon of the American Patriots of New Mexico, one such group, says they’ve been working with police for years. Regardless of their claims of support for protesters, demonstrators say they raise tension and anxiety, and they’re already concerned about state-sanctioned violence and the possibility of retribution for speaking out.

We hear from Andres Valdez, Selinda Guererro and Amelia Brown. They are among the protesters and organizers of last week’s demonstrations who shared their impressions of the men carrying rifles that showed up to watch protests.

Of course the local PD doesn’t “work with” the local militia, because they don’t understand the purpose of the second amendment and if they did they wouldn’t believe in it.

Contrast that with the ugly goings-on in Seattle.

They’re opposed to YOUR firearms

— Bill (@AngryRetailDale) June 9, 2020

You see, the local authorities are just fine with people conducting self defense and defense of others, as long as the ones being protected and doing the protection are intent on tearing down the cultural history of America.