News from Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The Myrtle Beach Police Department obtained AR-15s, sniper scopes and a military tactical vehicle from the Pentagon through an obscure program that provides surplus military equipment to law enforcement, an open records request reveals.

Although officers maintain the program is essential for meeting threats on the ground, critics say it contributes to the militarization of the police at a time when many are asking for more restraint from law enforcement.

“Patrol rifles are rifles carried in cars for Patrol Rifle-certified officers,” said Cpl. Tom Vest, spokesperson for MBPD. “If an officer is describing a threat that is bigger than the pistol can handle, then they can be used.”

To obtain the equipment, MBPD submits applications to the S.C. Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO), which determines whether the agency meets the right criteria.

Since the equipment is already paid for, MBPD is only responsible for covering the cost of transportation and maintenance.

Controlled items — like the the Mine-resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) military tactical vehicle and the 18 AR-15s — are audited by LESO every year. Other controlled items include infrared scopes and medical supplies.

Over its decade-long participation in the program, the department has acquired nearly 150 controlled items collectively worth over $2.7 million.

Uncontrolled items only have to be tracked through the first year.

“Things like boots, t-shirts, multi-tools, sunglasses, watches, etc., are not controlled items and were issued to officers, and are no longer tracked based on the time frame,” Vest said in an email.

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To some, an MBPD recruitment video from 2019 showcasing some of the equipment plays into that criticism.

In the clip, posted to the department’s YouTube page, officers wearing camo fatigues file out of an MRAP and brandish M16s as they carry out a raid of a dilapidated warehouse, throwing a flash bang before storming a room on the top floor. An action movie score plays in the background.

Several in the comments section call out the militaristic image put forth by the department.

“This makes your department look like a military assault unit,” wrote Michael Ferrini.

Vest said this was intentional.

“When we were looking at video, we were looking at recruitment bases,” he explained. “One of them was military, from one of our local bases. Some aspects of this job speak to different people.”

Are you ready for the best part?

According to NBC News, Obama banned “tanks and other tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft and vehicles, firearms and ammunition measuring .50-caliber and larger, grenade launchers and bayonets.”

But in August 2017, then-President Donald Trump repealed the ban.

“We will not put superficial concerns above public safety,” then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the Fraternal Order of Police at a conference. “We have your back and you have our thanks.”

The Trump Justice Department argued that concerns around the program were cosmetic and that the program deterred crime and protected officers.

Well there you have it.  Jeff Sessions.  Militarized police.  The GOP and militarized police go hand-in-hand.

Maybe not.  WiscoDave leaves this comment to the initial report.

It sounded far-fetched from the very beginning.

An Alaskan miner, cornered in the brutal wilderness to stand-off against a hungry brown bear for four days before being rescued by a Coast Guard’s helicopter that happened to be passing by, without a scratch on him.

But that’s what Richard Jessee, a gold hunter who was rescued last week in Nome, Alaska, said happened to him.

The unlikely story gathered attention from the national press and Jessee told proudly about hiding from the animal after it crushed his ATV and tossed his phone in a river.

Now, however, locals are questioning his version of events after going to the cabin where he was rescued but finding no evidence of the days-long battle he described.

Other local miners who were interviewed by The Nome Nugget went to the cabin where Jessee was rescued but found no bear tracks.

They did however find the ATV and attached trailer that Jessee said the bear pushed into the water.

On top of it was a packet of bacon in a cooler that was untouched.

‘There’s just no way it was a bear!’ one anonymous source said.

They think he simply crashed the ATV into the river and waterlogged it, but was too embarrassed to admit it, so made up the story after being rescued.

‘We went out there to the cabin, but we couldn’t find a bear track within 500 feet of the place, but it should have been all torn up, according to his story.

‘There’s no hair, no tracks, no scat, nothing.

‘He made a fool of us. We found out that his story didn’t match what we found.’

The lack of prints were especially odd given that the region had gone through heavy rainfall when the incident supposedly took place, which would leave the ground muddy and perfect for leaving prints.

The owner of the cabin added that he has never had issues with bears near his property.

The group also found Jessee’s ATV without a single claw mark despite Jessee’s claim that the bear attacked the vehicle and pushed it into a waterhole.

I don’t see what’s so embarrassing about telling people you crashed your ATV.  At least it’s honest – if that’s what happened.

Lots and lots of links.

ZeroHedge on why the globalists and governments are so desperate to get 100% vaccination.

If a large population of millions of people remain unvaccinated after the next couple of years, then they will represent a sizable and undeniable control group.

Oh I expect that horse has already left the barn.  They have about reached the end of the game.  All the talk about mandatory vaccinations will lead to voluntary quitting of jobs and hospitals, restaurants, factories, and businesses everywhere will be empty of workers and the economy will crash.  As best as I can tell from overhearing conversations, reading comments and watching the landscape, the two parties are hardening their positions.  The polarization occurred as fast as I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.

Ann Barnhardt.

-40 trillion mRNA spike protein particles per injection, which spread throughout the entire body

-Each particle bonds to interior wall of capillaries causing the interior surface of the entire vascular system to become rough like sandpaper instead of the natural smooth blood vessel lining, on the capillary level

-Body reacts by forming clots and blocking the injured vessels and capillaries. This process is permanent and irreversible

-Micro-clotting of capillaries is invisible to scans, only the D-Dimer test shows that clotting is happening in the body on a micro level, but not where it is happening

-Micro-clotting in the lungs causes increased pressure on the right side of the heart which must pump against the blocked capillaries in the lungs. Right side heart failure generally occurs within three years when this pulmonary micro-clotting occurs

Voxday.

The problem is threefold. First, the vaccines are creating the variants because they are non-sterilizing. Second, the more vaccines an individual receives, the more protein spikes and micro-clots he has, thereby increasing the odds of a stroke or heart attack. Third, Antibody Dependent Enhancement is further enhanced by the additional boosters.

Big Pharma is piling scientific failure upon scientific failure, and the stupid politicians are being bamboozled by the wicked to continue to make things worse for their nations and their economies.

Meanwhile, the vaccine mandates are going to fail completely too:

I’m getting reports from all over the place, including on my forum and mailbag. Nurses are walking out en-masse over vaccine mandates in hospitals and other care settings. 

In Europe, entire hospitals are shutting down rather than submit to the vaccine mandates.

When asked to explain non-sterilizing, this helpful comment was made.

A sterilizing vaccine is one that causes you to develop an immune response which, when you encounter the real pathogen, will prevent it from replicating in your body. In other words, your body is “sterile” in terms of the pathogen’s ability to “grow” inside you. Therefore it can’t infect you and you can’t develop a viral load to pass on to someone else.

A non-sterilizing vaccine, assuming it does any good at all, only protects you from all or some of the damage the pathogen does, but it doesn’t prevent it from replicating inside your body, so it can infect you and you can produce enough viral load to pass it to others. Since you’re less likely to experience symptoms to warn you that you’re infected, you’re more likely to go around spreading it. And since you don’t either die or destroy the infestation right away, it can go on indefinitely producing lots of mutations inside you, increasing the chance of developing a more virulent one that *does* harm you and others.

I found this amusing article at the CDC website.

During July 2021, 469 cases of COVID-19 associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, were identified among Massachusetts residents; vaccination coverage among eligible Massachusetts residents was 69%. Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully vaccinated persons (those who had completed a 2-dose course of mRNA vaccine [Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna] or had received a single dose of Janssen [Johnson & Johnson] vaccine ≥14 days before exposure). Genomic sequencing of specimens from 133 patients identified the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in 119 (89%) and the Delta AY.3 sublineage in one (1%). Overall, 274 (79%) vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection were symptomatic. Among five COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated; no deaths were reported. Real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) cycle threshold (Ct) values in specimens from 127 vaccinated persons with breakthrough cases were similar to those from 84 persons who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median = 22.77 and 21.54, respectively). The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is highly transmissible (1); vaccination is the most important strategy to prevent severe illness and death. On July 27, CDC recommended that all persons, including those who are fully vaccinated, should wear masks in indoor public settings in areas where COVID-19 transmission is high or substantial.* Findings from this investigation suggest that even jurisdictions without substantial or high COVID-19 transmission might consider expanding prevention strategies, including masking in indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status, given the potential risk of infection during attendance at large public gatherings that include travelers from many areas with differing levels of transmission.

It would appear that the vaccinated are the ones spreading pathogens around.  Further, the vaccination appears to be worthless.  What does the CDC recommend?  Wait for it … drum roll … more vaccination and masking.

Finally, the vaccine causes the virus to be more dangerous.

And you’re going to be hearing the phrase “Antibody dependent enhancement” much more in the coming months.

News from California.

A photo of an airsoft gun sent by a teenager to other passengers on a plane at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday forced the removal of everyone so officials could rescreen them and inspect the aircraft, according to an airport spokesman.

According to a report by NBC Bay Area, United Airlines Flight 2167 from San Francisco to Orlando was preparing to leave the gate when several passengers reported receiving a photo of an airsoft gun sent via AirDrop from another passenger, airport spokesman Doug Yakel said.

Although Yakel said it was determined the photo was taken at an earlier date at a location other than at the airport and that the teen did not have the gun on him, passengers were evacuated from the plane “out of an abundance of caution” and rescreened.

A security inspection of the plane was performed by officials who later cleared it for reboarding, but the teenager was not allowed to reboard the plane, Yakel said.

Somebody was paid to do that on that particular day, and is probably paid to do such things all the time.  Paid money.

Hey, the good thing is that their “abundance of caution” kept the dangerous kid and his dangerous, scary airsoft gun out of the heads of the Karens during the flight.

Whew!  Glad that problem was solved.