tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46167384920349826062024-03-19T04:02:37.916-05:00A COP'S WATCHMike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.comBlogger5226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-46794789814014848582024-03-13T21:12:00.002-05:002024-03-13T21:12:27.606-05:00An Anti-Jail Break.Not exactly <i>Escape from Alcatraz</i> here. From the old hometown of New Orleans. <div><div><a href="https://www.fox8live.com/app/2024/03/13/man-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-climb-into-new-orleans-jail-grounds/?fbclid=IwAR3t6rXgvcKN5ySiMsGpYjr3jt5OhgFuzYEnsDD85pilMj8jMOq_7SMwIto"><i></i></a></div><blockquote><div><a href="https://www.fox8live.com/app/2024/03/13/man-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-climb-into-new-orleans-jail-grounds/?fbclid=IwAR3t6rXgvcKN5ySiMsGpYjr3jt5OhgFuzYEnsDD85pilMj8jMOq_7SMwIto"><i>Man arrested after allegedly trying to climb into New Orleans jail grounds</i></a></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 29-year-old man was arrested Wednesday (March 13) after allegedly attempting to scale a wall to climb into the secure grounds of the Orleans Justice Center jail.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Dylon Guidry was booked with attempted burglary, resisting arrest by force, trespassing and attempting to bring contraband into the jail, Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson’s office said.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The unusual anti-jailbreak occurred around 1:36 p.m., the sheriff’s office said, after deputies spotted the man wearing a white shirt and cargo shorts attempting to climb a wall behind the OPSO’s Temporary Detention Center...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Guidry was apprehended about 11 minutes later by deputies from OPSO’s Investigative Services Bureau...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>...The OPSO said the contraband allegation against the suspect stemmed from his attempt to bring a cellphone into the facility when he tried to scale the wall.</i></div></blockquote><div><i></i></div><div>Let's all get a good laugh and to all my fellow cops out there, remember, we should take dudes like this. They are job security. </div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div>Thank you Joe Sbisa for the link.</div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-59483075062220615022024-03-10T21:35:00.000-05:002024-03-10T21:35:07.148-05:00Lessons Learned From A Cop’s Death<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Otto von Bismarck<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890</i></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In my time in law enforcement, I’ve reviewed countless videos of officer involved deadly force incidents, and where officers get killed or critically injured. It’s not to blame the deceased, but to learn from their actions to prevent another cop being injured or killed. Much like as the armed forces embraced the after-action review in the 1970s, law enforcement is also using it to improve our operations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When I was a field trainer (and field training supervisor), a bible for instruction was from the 1970s. <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/officer-down-code-three/dp/0916070018/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GVYMC6SDKDYP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Wzm3X3QhK_xxAzkKOBIBuKR-HgrWdiTJkTIa1ADGD2ECqGhaU_i4qveSMrVaS9Crt0Z0hY4fOhbVExbALkIivdjuG13Lunw6mwwqXMtK3i7Nyu-9zkTSOvbZkw1FE_rvl4fZmZ4QOiTGF60nSL4rumyE-eNkhNRyzaFr9rJKHqodG7A9xGgJYsOraQvpcQuioRFmbZuhIbijDY59NjvRH3vMYdEkonbJ4tKYXpJudGs.PVdxoUy7PUEZxYyoUSHMLo4DTRJQbk14Td4rMA536iI&dib_tag=se&keywords=officer+down+code+three&qid=1710120071&sprefix=Officer+Down%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-1" style="color: #954f72;">Officer Down: Code Three</a></i>, by Pierce Brooks is still an excellent reference on things that get cops killed. When I was instructing new officers, I would assign them a chapter a night to read, and we would review the points the next day. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Las Cruces NM Police Department lost an officer a month ago. The officer approached a suspect who was originally non-hostile. The suspect then pulled out a kitchen knife, charged the officer, and stabbed him to death. The suspect was killed by a civilian with his personal pistol (I thought that never happened) coming to the aide of the officer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Back to <i>Officer Down: Code Three</i>, the book list ten critical mistakes that get cops killed. Looking at this <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/cbAVC4cTGOM?si=WbsF68vPVWe2pu-d" style="color: #954f72;">video</a>, I see three apparent missteps that are covered by the writing: Relaxing too soon; Missing the danger signs, and; Failure to watch their hands. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cbAVC4cTGOM" width="320" youtube-src-id="cbAVC4cTGOM"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Looking at the video, the first thing to notice is how quickly the suspect jumps up as the officer approaches. The suspect has taken himself from a tactically weak position (on the ground with legs crossed) to a much stronger one (standing, able to run or engage). The implication is the suspect sees the officer as a threat and he is preparing to react. A definite danger sign missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Next, the suspect begins talking to the cop, seemingly in a friendly way. In a way that implies “I’m not a danger to you.” We can only assume the officer did not see him as the threat he was. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The officer continues to approach with his hands in his jacket pocket. He doesn’t see the suspect as a threat and has relaxed to a point. But as you see the suspect quickly starts to move towards the officer and pulls the knife out. The officer doesn’t have the time to react, specifically pull his pistol out and fire. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" style="color: #954f72;">YouTube</a></i> use of force and police tactics experts, a kitchen knife is a deadly weapon. Don’t believe that? Shove one between a couple ribs and tell me how that feels. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reviewing the video, another critical point. As the cop approaches, the suspect has his arms crossed so the officer cannot see his hands. Something drilled into cops in every instruction, hands are what kills you. They are what strike you directly or handle the weapons that do injury or kill you. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This video shows how the “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0haocH4-o" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">21 Foot Rule</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">” is applicable in law enforcement. Again, from the 1970s, it shows how quickly a man with a knife can charge and injure a cop with a gun before the cop can get his pistol out. There is a reason we train officers to approach with the pistol side back, hand on the weapon and the holster unlocked. It gives the officer the chance pull his weapon a bit faster, when a fraction of a second matters.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To emphasis again, I am in no way ridiculing an officer (RIP). I am showing the lessons to be learned on the last call he took, and hopefully this will keep other cops from suffering a similar result.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-58173467513553763082024-02-14T22:45:00.003-06:002024-02-14T22:45:18.017-06:00Another example of deafening silence. <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gregory (</span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard" style="color: #954f72;" title="Scotland Yard"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Scotland Yard</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i><br /><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><br /><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.</span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /><br /><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Holmes: That was the curious incident.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory, <i>Silver Blaze</i>, by Sir Author Conan Doyle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">On Sunday February 11</span><sup style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">, I was driving home from work around 200pm and noticed two Harris County Sheriff’s Office shops (also known as patrol cars) “running hot,” i.e.,lights, sirens, etc. I didn’t pay it much attention, it’s a not uncommon event in Houston TX.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A minute later I noticed a third car running hot. Then a fourth. I assumed it was serious, like a unit “dropping an assist.” The call “Assist the Officer” means an officer is in danger and requires immediate backup. That was an understatement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">An active shooter call dropped at Joel Osteen’s mega-church, Lakewood. The attack occurred just as they were starting Spanish service, and the shooter was armed with a “rifle.” Fortunately two cops working off duty security at the church immediately engaged and terminated the suspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">During the Super Bowl I checked on updates to the shooting and the POS was described as a “transgender female” using a “rifle” for the attack, with a 4–5-year-old child. In speaking with an officer on the scene, the POS (I will not mention its name, for multiple reasons, more to come) was using the child as a human shield. Unfortunately, the boy (the POS’s child) was hit and is in critical condition. However, thanks to the quick work of the two cops on the scene, the POS only shot one man in the leg and he should make a full recovery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, I find it curious that a mass shooting, in Texas, by a shooting using an “assault rifle” has not made a bigger splash in the news. During the Super Bowl I checked the local channels and understandably they were updating as news became available. I checked my </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">NY Times</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> emails from Sunday afternoon and did not see a “breaking news” alert on an active shooter in Houston. I reviewed their emails from Monday and it showed nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They did actually have a </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/houston-lakewood-church-shooting.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20240213&instance_id=115034&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=14450600&segment_id=158101&user_id=72881492e733d7fd7f82ff03ba5eb8d7" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">decent summary</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> on Tuesday 2/13/24, including the ”’Palestine” on the rifle, but nothing on the shooter being a ”transgender.” They did </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/us/joel-osteen-lakewood-warnings.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20240214&instance_id=115129&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=14450600&segment_id=158147&user_id=72881492e733d7fd7f82ff03ba5eb8d7" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">update their report</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> on Wednesday 2/14/24, questioning how a mentally disturbed “woman” who had been involuntarily committed for phycological evaluation could purchase a firearm. But something was missing. The shooter was a ”transgender”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">From the latest, the shooter is a biological female who “transitioned” to male, and apparently decided to go back to being a female (this is subject to change without notice). There are multiple reports referencing the shooters mental issues. Fair enough. But dare I say it, the fact the shooter is a “trans” is a mental issue. From </span><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201612/why-transgender-people-experience-more-mental-health" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Psychology Today</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Individuals who identify as transgender tend to experience higher rates of mental health issues than the general population. While<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #477be4; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none;">approximately 6.7 percent</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of the general U.S. population suffers from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/depression" hreflang="en-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 45, 48); color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;" title="Psychology Today looks at depression"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none;">depression</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #477be4; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none;">and 18 percent</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">grapple with some iteration of an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anxiety" hreflang="en-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 45, 48); color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;" title="Psychology Today looks at anxiety"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none;">anxiety</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">disorder<u>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></u></span><a href="http://people.stfx.ca/x2009/x2009lgo/Depression%201.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #477be4; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">nearly half</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u></span><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of all individuals who identify as transgender experience these issues. What's more, over 41 percent of trans men and women<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u><a href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #477be4; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">are estimated</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u></span><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">to have attempted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide" hreflang="en-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 45, 48); color: #954f72; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;" title="Psychology Today looks at suicide"><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">suicide</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u></span><u><span style="color: #2c2d30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">— a rate that's <b>nearly nine times as high as the rate of cisgender Americans.</b></span></u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have no doubt if this shooter has a MAGA hat on or attended a Trump rally it would be front, center and above the fold on page one of every paper in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Exaggeration? I don’t think so. Remember in March 2023, a </span><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/nashville-school-shooting-trans-woman-who-murdered-three-kids-was-ex-student-who-made-manifesto-and-maps-of-building-12843695" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“transgender male” entered The Covenant School</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">, murdered three children and three adults before being killed by responding officers. Almost immediately reports of the shooters manifesto surfaced, but authorities were against releasing it. If a trial was pending, that would be understandable, it could be used in the investigation. As the shooter was dead, there is no custodial interview conducted. But it was </span><a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/leaked-nashville-shooter-manifesto-shows-motivation-behind-attack-kill-all-you-little-f-audrey-hale-aiden-covenant-school-march-schooting-louder-with-crowder" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">fortunately leaked</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (The people who were very happy <i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-ruling-leak-investigation-59a40974e39a67c2ab859ba0c21c785e" style="color: #954f72;">Dobbs v Jackson</a></i> was leaked were upset at this. I wonder why?) and showed a lot of motive. Politically incorrect motive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TND) — Portions of the manifesto belonging to Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale are circulating social media after months of debate regarding its release.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Steven Crowder, the host of the Louder with Crowder talk show, shared leaked images from the manifesto Monday morning. The pages released by Crowder allegedly reveal the intentions behind Hale's deadly attack.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wanna kill all you little c*******," one page from the manifesto reads. "Bunch of little f****** w/ your white privlages f*** you f******…"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">…</span> </i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hale's manifesto includes an hour-by-hour calendar of the tragic day, which Hale called "Death Day," including everything from "getting dressed" and "eat breakfast" to "prepare for attack" and "time 2 die."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I'm a little nervous, but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks," Hale allegedly wrote. "Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm ready... I hope my victims aren't."</span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have also not heard from President Biden, his VP, or any other member of the DC Establishment (the local federal agencies have been very involved with the investigation). And I doubt I will. The facts don’t fit the template. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’ll monitor this and update as needed. But I have no doubt it will be off the national news by the end of the week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-75438464032046396162024-02-05T21:47:00.001-06:002024-02-05T21:47:37.923-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/media/equipment/ships-and-submarines/uss-constitution/2014/02/uss-constitution-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="394" src="https://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/media/equipment/ships-and-submarines/uss-constitution/2014/02/uss-constitution-005.jpg" width="592" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>I visited Boston and the USS Constitution around 20 years ago. Great long weekend in Bean Town, and I’ve recovered from my concussion on the ship. Be carful on that ship as men were shorter when she first sailed and the ceiling, and the cross members sporting them, were low. </p><p>I know the Navy works to manage the wear and tear on the Constitution. They sail it once a year, and rotate which side is docked to even out sun and water wear. I heard the Navy had a small forest of white oak to handle the ships repairs and maintenance. Here is the story oh how that came about.</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-225-year-old-working-warship-sustained-by-a-navy-forest?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR0MO0TUfL6agOUJ59t4NzwtON0unPYRiQZx2QZfXtnXS5WsPljGcXD42As">Where does a 225-year-old working warship get its parts? At the Navy forest, of course</a></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>A forest owned by the U.S. Navy in Indiana ensures that the U.S.S. Constitution—named by George Washington and built with bolts forged by Paul Revere—stays afloat and at the ready.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In the early 1970s, as the United States began preparing for its Bicentennial, Boston decided that the U.S.S. Constitution would be a focal point of the city’s anniversary celebrations, with a new museum to the celebrated warship opening at the Charlestown Navy Yard.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The three-masted heavy frigate, launched in 1797, was named by George Washington and built with copper bolts forged by Paul Revere. Black-sided and red-bottomed, with a single, stark white running stripe, Constitution protected American ships against the French in the undeclared Quasi-War of 1798-1800 and quelled pirate attacks in the Mediterranean during the First Barbary War. The armed vessel defeated five British warships in the War of 1812, and it was in the wake of one of those battles—in which the American crew watched enemy cannonballs bounce harmlessly off Constitution’s white-oak hull—that the warship earned its famous nickname: “Old Ironsides...”</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...The Constitution fulfilled its last mission, seizing a slave ship near the Congo River, in 1853 but remains today a fully commissioned warship of the U.S. Navy and—225 years after its launching— the oldest warship still afloat anywhere on Earth, moored in Boston Harbor’s chilly waters.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In 1906, after decades of work as a training ship along the east coast, the Navy made its first attempt to restore Constitution to its original War of 1812 configuration. In order to maintain the ship’s seaworthiness, a near-full restoration would need to be undertaken every 10 years.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But when the Navy went looking for materials to repair Constitution ahead of the 1976 Bicentennial, the enormous white oaks needed for the restoration of Old Ironsides were hard to find in the Northeast, so supervisors at the Boston Naval Shipyard scoured the Midwest and eventually bought timber from a private seller in Ohio.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>“Someone in the Navy caught wind of it and wondered why they didn’t just come another four or five hours west, where they had fantastic white oak right on Navy property that they could have gotten for free,” recalls Trent Osmon, the environmental manager at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, a Navy installation 35 miles southwest of Bloomington, Indiana.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>That pricey decision prompted the Navy in 1976 to begin harvesting white oak for the U.S.S. Constitution at NSA Crane. To celebrate the occasion, they established Constitution Grove, a ceremonial 40-acre dedicated section of forest on the sprawling base where much of the timber that keeps the formidable warship afloat is harvested. Today, NSA Crane is the only forest in the U.S. managed by the Navy to support its fleet...</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...In one corner of NSA Crane’s expanse of white oak trees is the 40-acre area known as Constitution Grove. The white oak trees are tall and slender, with branches that start high in the trunk, culminating in a canopy that blocks most sunlight from reaching the ground.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>This part of the forest was originally selected by the Navy due to its high concentration of high-quality white oak. And while Osmon and his crew harvest trees from across the Navy base for use on Constitution, most of it is tagged and felled right in Constitution Grove...</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...After felling what it needs for Constitution’s upkeep, the Navy sells the rest of its harvest to private furniture and piano makers, and, thanks to tylosis—the unique cell structure that makes white oak waterproof—bourbon cask-making for distillers just a short drive south in Kentucky’s famed bourbon country...</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...Maintenance of a 225-year-old, 304-foot-long wooden warship is a constant job, and in the 50-odd years that Constitution Grove has supplied timbers for the maintenance of Constitution, Osmon estimates that 114 white oaks have been felled for the two most recent dry-dock restorations of Old Ironsides.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...In a dry-dock restoration, Constitution is lifted out of the water for examination and repairs of its wooden hull below the waterline under the watchful eye of Robert Murphy, the production manager at Naval History and Heritage Command, Detachment Boston. Then the copper sheathing that protects the submerged section of vessel is removed, allowing Murphy’s team to more closely study the normally submerged section of the hull, looking for sections to repair and potentially replace. Armed with that knowledge, and knowing exactly how much wood Constitution will need, Murphy’s team contacts Osmon with an order for how many trees to fell for restoration of the storied warship...</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>...In felling trees for Old Ironside’s hull planks, Osmon’s forestry team seeks out mature trees anywhere from 110 to 125 years old and 120-130 feet tall, which are then loaded on commercial trucks and taken to New England. There, the ship’s caretakers mill the enormous white oaks into hull planks that stretch up to 40 feet long, with leftover pieces repurposed for more ornamental flourishes around the ship, such as handrails and trim...</i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>My best friend passed on a few years back. I remember him showing me in Jane's Fighting Ships the one listed "Sail Frigate," the USS Constitution. He was annoyed because he wanted another carrier named that, but I said no, let's have something historical like this with such a proud name. </p><p>To the men and women who man that ship and work to keep her up, a grateful nation says thank you. </p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-57759174329517685222024-01-31T22:37:00.001-06:002024-01-31T22:37:49.787-06:00What is the problem here.I have a close friend who retired from the police four years ago. I've know his kids their entire lives, and he's a great dad and was a great cop. And it pains him to tell his son, "Do not go into the police." The scrutiny of every action you do is beyond believe right now. We're raising generations of kids to be against law and order, and we have an administration allowing an invasion of criminals over our southern border. <div><br /></div><div>You want another great example of why police are getting the hell out of the job. From the New York Police Department: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DpFqtVrdOHA" width="320" youtube-src-id="DpFqtVrdOHA"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><div><a href="https://www.police1.com/officer-safety/video-group-punches-kicks-nypd-cops-outside-of-migrant-shelter?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=P1-Member-1-31-2024&utm_id=6485049"><i>Four of the men were arrested, arraigned and released without bail; the other five suspects remain at large</i></a></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>NEW YORK — A group of migrants pummeled NYPD officers attempting to make an arrest outside a shelter in Times Square, police and sources said Tuesday.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Two officers and a lieutenant from the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct approached the group of men outside a migrant shelter on West 42nd Street near Seventh Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The officers had been trying to break up the disorderly crowd outside the Candler Building, where the city announced the opening of a mega-shelter in March. When the cops attempted to put one of the men under arrest, multiple people attacked, according to authorities.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The men kicked and punched the officers in the head and body, video released by police shows.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>“They were kicking and punching one of the cops,” a security guard in the area told the Daily News on Tuesday. “They mobbed [the cops]. It was wild.”</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>The lieutenant suffered a cut to his face during the melee. He was treated on the scene along with his colleagues, according to cops.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Two 19-year-old men, a 24-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were arrested at the scene. All were charged with assault on a police officer...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div><i>Four of the suspects were released without bail following arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court...</i></div></div></blockquote><div><div><i></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiW5KS5p4mEAxWhj2oFHZu_AjMQFnoECCQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0gA7xbtstSeZM36YXC0w-O&opi=89978449">New York Post</a></i>, first, they are not "migrants," but illegal aliens. But four suspects, who have no connections to the area (family, jobs, etc) charged with <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/120.05">assaulting a peace officer</a>, are cited and released! All they have to do is walk off and there is nothing we can do, unless they are unlucky enough to get busted again and (going out on a limb here). From the PBA president:</div><div><i><blockquote>“Attacks on police officers are becoming an epidemic, and the reason is [the] revolving door we’re seeing in cases like this one,” Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said in a statement. “It is impossible for police officers to deal effectively with crime and disorder if the justice system can’t or won’t protect us while we do that work...”</blockquote></i></div><div>I've said it too many times to count. The police are joining the fire department, i.e., they are signing on, answering their calls for service, but doing nothing self initiated. You can't take risks these days. And why would you? God knows, the ex-cop now in charge of New York will not back you up. NYPD, watch yourselves, you are targets now. God Bless. </div><div><br /></div></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-3997887984663749562024-01-17T16:49:00.004-06:002024-01-17T16:49:57.948-06:00Where the Constitution is silent...<p><span style="font-family: times;">One of the points I've learned is almost six decades on this Earth is any bureaucracy, no matter how well planned or executed, has only one purpose. To insure its own existence. An interesting concept put forth by commentator Mark Levin in his book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Amendments-Restoring-American-Republic/dp/1451606273/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ICL9N9FJVKL6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._xbDBErv1MOj0ga6TyBYeivR2w2XZSS5qhJVjZS6aCDCbF67WsIsnr39NqIGgGuxDYngyKMfmMzQ5Cp5Gw1jpPm2YS_XXp0EhYh90hZVthnYMIzRvVCJJ4Zwi3vIQfvERGqrrpy4W_0525wizovH73yzI0N1lrrABftA4daofEtSXtS-Ze-mXtLmglGZnAZpFlIAyeGXnly0ygBxUSmzqY5bqQf2wYHT2ltbgtvo2dU.xTXAHBRZNQ18hTp6Q7dNX9aA3ML-z6tRDsVNNZfM__4&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+liberty+amendments+by+mark+levin&qid=1705530150&sprefix=The+Liberty+Ame%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1">The Liberty Amendments</a></i> is to sunset every federal agency every five years. These departments and agencies would have them justify their existence and organization to the Congress at regular a regular interval. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Too much you think? Well, in the lead up to New Year's 2000, we spent a fortune on preparing for the end of days because of software issues in computers. The world did not end on 1/1/00, but the federal department that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/672677/the-government-was-wasting-money-working-on-y2k-trump-just-ended-it/">oversaw Y2K prep until 2017</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">I found this article interesting about the Supreme Court reviewing the power of federal agencies to interpret federal law. A major issue with the bureaucracy is they can put out regulations with the power of law, but there is little or no legislative oversight, and if you get called inot a labor court or other hearing, you are guilty until you prove your innocence (slight exaggeration).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">From today's <i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/17/supreme-court-herring-chevron-regulatory-agencies/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter">Washington Post</a></i>: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Supreme Court divided over whether to curb the power of federal agencies</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><a class="byline" data-qa="author-name" data-reader-unique-id="200" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ann-e-marimow/?itid=ai_top_sargentam" rel="author" style="color: #1b1b1b; display: inline !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">Ann E. Marimow</a><br /></i></span></p><div data-reader-unique-id="25" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="26" style="max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="27" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>A divided Supreme Court debated whether and how to curtail the power of federal agencies Wednesday, with liberals urging the court to defer to the judgment of government experts and conservatives saying courts should not automatically favor government regulators over private companies, industry or individuals in litigation...</i></span></p></div></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="41" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="42" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>The high court was considering <a data-reader-unique-id="43" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/01/supreme-court-federal-agencies-chevron/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7&itid=lk_inline_manual_5" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">challenges</a> to federal rules requiring commercial fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors. But the court’s decision has the potential to limit the flexibility of federal agencies to regulate vast swaths of American life, including the environment, financial markets, public health and the workplace.</i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="54" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="55" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Conservatives have long targeted the framework set in 1984 in <a data-reader-unique-id="56" href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1983/82-1005" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span data-reader-unique-id="57" style="max-width: 100%;">Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council</span></a><span data-reader-unique-id="58" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span>because it requires judges to defer to the reasonable interpretation of federal agency officials charged with administering ambiguous federal laws....</i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="59" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="60" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>On Wednesday, Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch, both nominees of President Donald Trump, took turns peppering the Biden administration with skeptical questions as Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar defended the Trump administration initiative — and the longstanding <span data-reader-unique-id="61" style="max-width: 100%;">Chevron </span>precedent.</i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="62" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="63" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">(</span><span style="font-family: times;">Justices Brett) </span><span style="font-family: times;">Kavanaugh said</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span data-reader-unique-id="64" style="font-family: times; max-width: 100%;">Chevron</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">has allowed federal agencies to flip flop and impose new rules each time a new administration takes over, leaving judges with little choice but defer to the changing interpretations of agency officials.</span></i></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="66" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="67" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“Something needs to be fixed here,” said (Justice Neil) Gorsuch, who has previously called for overturning the precedent.</i></span></p></div></blockquote><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="66" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="67" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="68" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-reader-unique-id="69" style="max-width: 100%;"></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="72" style="max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="73" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">I see the issue with the Chevron case, and Justice Gorsuch is right, the bureaucracy is going far beyond what this ruling meant, IMHO. But I really find this interesting:</span></span></p><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="73" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span></p></div><blockquote><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="72" style="max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="73" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>The court’s three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson — expressed concern about shifting power to unelected judges to make technical and scientific policy decisions when laws passed by Congress are not crystal clear.</i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="84" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="85" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>“Judges should know what they don’t know,” Kagan said.</i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="86" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="87" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Jackson said she is worried about "courts becoming uber-legislators.”</i></span></p></div></blockquote><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="86" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="87" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span></p></div><div data-qa="article-body" data-reader-unique-id="88" style="max-width: 100%;"><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="89" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Justice Kagan is worried about judges ruling on what they don't know! Justice Kagan, you voted in <i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiypIGJvuWDAxXpnWoFHUvLCL0QFnoECAgQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brennancenter.org%2Four-work%2Fresearch-reports%2Froe-v-wade-and-supreme-court-abortion-cases%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2Kz765sUBsiwqWn8pUki4YpcoxJ5XIvEl-o3OJui8uI1lC__Ix_JJhJU4_aem_AfgrWAFkIRW408Mm01VaIrZ7E38XR6HSpUUMVtGivgFGN7waH7ALIX-9h5PpMj5bFbY%23%3A~%3Atext%3DIn%2520Dobbs%2520v.%2Chowever%252C%2520independently%2520protect%2520abortion%2520rights.&usg=AOvVaw3OPk-iZI3hHWPCBNwgZ1gJ&opi=89978449">Dobbs v Jackson</a></i> that the opinion of seven lawyers in black robes should overrule the citizens and governments of the fifty states, in violation of the 10th Amendment. Justice Jackson, that is exactly what you wanted when you voted against the <i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiypIGJvuWDAxXpnWoFHUvLCL0QFnoECAgQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brennancenter.org%2Four-work%2Fresearch-reports%2Froe-v-wade-and-supreme-court-abortion-cases%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2Kz765sUBsiwqWn8pUki4YpcoxJ5XIvEl-o3OJui8uI1lC__Ix_JJhJU4_aem_AfgrWAFkIRW408Mm01VaIrZ7E38XR6HSpUUMVtGivgFGN7waH7ALIX-9h5PpMj5bFbY%23%3A~%3Atext%3DIn%2520Dobbs%2520v.%2Chowever%252C%2520independently%2520protect%2520abortion%2520rights.&usg=AOvVaw3OPk-iZI3hHWPCBNwgZ1gJ&opi=89978449">Dobbs</a></i> decision. And let's not forget Justice Sotomayor saying courts of appeal set government policy. </span></span></p><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="89" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Ladies, it's not that you don't the judicial branch making policy or policy decisions, taking the legitimate decision from the legislative. You only want that with your preferred legislative policies. </span></span></p><p data-el="text" data-reader-unique-id="89" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Sorry, a major effort of the next Republican administration is to continue the work of the Trump </span></span><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: times;">presidency in appointing judges that will interpret the Constitution, and, in t<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/16/excerpts-from-opening-statements-and-testimony-at-senate-hearing-on-bork/0b23596b-5731-469b-a593-3d45e7eb0c43/">he wise worlds of the late Judge Robert Bork</a>, "...</span>where the Constitution is silent, leaves the policy struggles to Congress, the president, the legislatures and executives of the 50 states and to the American people . . . ."</p></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-25342189356309342732024-01-13T17:30:00.000-06:002024-01-13T17:43:13.141-06:00Seditious Bureaucrats<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">This was in <i><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/" style="color: #954f72;">National Review</a></i> and I find it interesting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><b><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/striking-against-the-federal-government-is-a-felony/" style="color: #954f72;"></a></span></span></b></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/striking-against-the-federal-government-is-a-felony/" style="color: #954f72;">Striking against the Federal Government Is a Felony</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">Al-Monitor <a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/us-government-employees-plan-walkout-over-bidens-gaza-policies" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #416ed2;">reports</span></a> that “federal employees across nearly two dozen agencies plan to walk off the job Tuesday to protest the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war.” They have organized a group called “Feds United for Peace” and are coordinating the walkout to occur on the 100th day since Israel began its operations in Gaza. “One of the walkout organizers said that rather than quit, they felt ‘a moral obligation and a patriotic duty’ to influence change from inside,” the story says...</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">From the original story:</span></span></p><h1 style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 14.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/us-government-employees-plan-walkout-over-bidens-gaza-policies" style="color: #954f72;"></a></span></span></i></h1><blockquote><h1 style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 14.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/us-government-employees-plan-walkout-over-bidens-gaza-policies" style="color: #954f72;">US government employees plan walkout over Biden’s Gaza policies</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></h1><h2 data-reader-unique-id="subheadElement" style="break-after: avoid; color: rgba(27, 27, 27, 0.65); font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; hyphens: manual; line-height: 15.25pt; margin: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Organizers of the effort told Al-Monitor they expect hundreds to join in their walkout after securing commitments from individuals at 22 federal agencies.</span></i></b><i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></h2><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">WASHINGTON — US federal employees across nearly two dozen agencies plan to walk off the job Tuesday to protest the Biden administration’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-reader-unique-id="2" href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/quietly-complicit-second-us-official-quits-over-bidens-gaza-war-handling" style="color: #954f72; max-width: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #416ed2;">handling of the Gaza war,</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>according to organizers of the dissent effort who spoke to Al-Monitor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="3" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">The group — calling itself Feds United for Peace — consists of dozens of government employees who will be observing a “Day of Mourning” to mark 100 days of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The organizers, who are choosing to remain anonymous, say they expect “easily hundreds” of others to join in their walkout after securing commitments from individuals at 22 federal agencies. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">According to a list obtained by Al-Monitor, those include the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, the Departments of State, Defense, <u>Homeland Security</u> and Veterans Affairs as well as US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the <u>Naval Research Laboratory. <o:p></o:p></u></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">Others expected to join in the protest work for agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the National Park Service, the Federal Aviation Administration and Environmental Protection Agency. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">The planned walkout reflects mounting anger among US officials over the Biden administration’s refusal to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, where health officials in the Hamas-run territory say more than 23,000 people have died in three months, most of them civilians. The United Nations estimates that around 85% of the population — some 1.9 million Palestinians — have been displaced. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">One of the walkout organizers told Al-Monitor their initiative “grew out of a collective desire to do what we could to influence the Biden administration’s policy on this issue…” </span></span></i></p></blockquote><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now one of the facts people, particularly regressive on the left is they are filled with Anti-Semites. They want an immediate cease fire that will leave Hamas still functional, not held to account for their actions in the attack, and still a threat to Israel. Exaggeration? Again, from <i><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/" style="color: #954f72;">Al-Monitor</a>: </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></i></p><blockquote><p style="margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">Two US officials, including one working in the State Department bureau that oversees arms transfers, have publicly resigned in protest. Josh Paul, who served as the director of congressional and public affairs for the department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, cited the administration’s “<b><u>blind support for one side”</u></b> as being among his reasons for leaving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p data-reader-unique-id="13" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">One of the walkout organizers said that rather than quit, they felt “a moral obligation and a patriotic duty” to influence change from inside. They blamed the White House for policy decisions they lament, including the <b><u>obstruction of cease-fire resolutions at the United Nations</u></b> and weapons sales to Israel that have bypassed Congress… </span></i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="16" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">…Asked if they tried to address their concerns internally, they said, “Unequivocally, the answer is yes…” </span></span></i></p></blockquote><p data-reader-unique-id="16" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; max-width: 100%;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-reader-unique-id="17" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">Two points I would like to make from these “concerned staffers.” One, their strike is illegal. from <i><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/" style="color: #954f72;">National Review</a></i>:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-reader-unique-id="17" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); margin: 0in; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">5 U.S.C. § 7311 makes it illegal for federal workers to go on strike: “An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States . . . if he . . . participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">18 U.S.C. § 1918 proscribes the penalty: “Whoever violates the provision of section 7311 . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year and a day, or both.”</span></i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: times;">So yes, they are breaking the law. Not that they will have any worry about loosing their job or pay. With President O’Biden in the White House, they will not face any serious consequences. Now I was an officer of the United States for 23 years, and if I went on strike, it would be a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). The specific terms are Mutiny and Sedition. The penalty is a bit stricter than <i>18 U.S.C. § 1918</i>. From <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/894" style="color: #954f72;"><i>Article 84 UCMJ Mutiny or Sedition</i></a>:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></i></b></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">(a)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #333333;">Any person subject to this chapter who—<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="a_1"></a><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">(1)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> with intent to usurp or override lawful <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=10-USC-1416125171-1257414366&term_occur=999&term_src=title:10:subtitle:A:part:II:chapter:47:subchapter:X:section:894" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #001c72;">military</span></a> authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="a_2"></a><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">(2)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="a_3"></a><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">(3)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=10-USC-2139747345-1257414363&term_occur=999&term_src=title:10:subtitle:A:part:II:chapter:47:subchapter:X:section:894" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #001c72;">superior commissioned officer</span></a> or <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=10-USC-1357971763-1257414361&term_occur=999&term_src=title:10:subtitle:A:part:II:chapter:47:subchapter:X:section:894" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #001c72;">commanding officer</span><span style="color: #001c72; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a>of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a name="b"></a><b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">(b)</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #333333;"> A person who is found guilty of <b><u>attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment</u></b> as a court-martial may direct.</span></i></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Weakness invites more disruption. If we had a president in the White House right now, he would handle this quickly. He should tell every one of these idiots they are not going to be paid for this event, you have until 900am Eastern time to return to your post, or you will be terminated, and banned from future federal employment. See <a href="https://millercenter.org/reagan-vs-air-traffic-controllers" style="color: #954f72;">Reagan with the Air Traffic Controller strike in 1981</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dc8brHWFZMY" width="320" youtube-src-id="Dc8brHWFZMY"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Another point that must be made. These minor bureaucrats do not make government policy. They are there to execute the policy set by the Executive and Legislative branches. They can raise their concerns as allowed, but they cannot go on strike against it. A point made to the man who swore me into the Army, “At some point you may have an order you cannot, in good conscious, obey. Your choice, either obey the order, or resign.” So “<span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Feds United for Peace,” actually seditious </span>bureaucrats<span style="color: #1b1b1b;">, make your choice. Follow your lawful government policy or resign. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-60401220443354232622024-01-13T10:10:00.007-06:002024-01-13T10:10:59.933-06:00A local military academy...<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">In early 2023, the state of Texas took over the Houston Independent School District, as the local board was a complete disaster, for multiple reasons. The local leftist rag, the <i><a href="http://www.chron.com">Houston Chronicle</a></i>, has been outraged that the state appointed superintendent, Mike Miles, actually downsized the above school staff, and is trying the put the money into, get this, schools. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Well, found this interesting. As a kid I was part of Air Ford Junior ROTC. LA - 62, East Jefferson High School, Metairie LA and it guided me in many efforts. I gotta say this is an interesting concept, a military academy. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/houstonchronicle/default.aspx"><i><span style="font-family: times;"></span></i></a></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/houstonchronicle/default.aspx"><i><span style="font-family: times;">HISD to start military academy in 2024-25</span></i></a></span></p><div class="byline-separator" style="caret-color: rgb(74, 73, 73); color: #4a4949; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"></div><address class="ByLine" style="caret-color: rgb(74, 73, 73); color: #4a4949; font-size: 13.6px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">A military academy will open at Cullen Middle School for the 2024-2025 school year, Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles announced Thursday at an event at Delmar Fieldhouse.</span></span></p></address><div class="Content" style="caret-color: rgb(74, 73, 73); color: #4a4949; font-size: 17.6px;"><p class="indent"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Cullen Military Academy aims to help middle school students develop discipline, leadership, teamwork and physical skills, as well as Mandarin language skills and career and college exploration. Miles worked with officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy as he built this program to support students interested in joining the military. </span></i></p><p class="indent"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">“Most Americans believe that there’s an aspect of service the military provides that’s good for society but also good for young adults. So, if it leads to a military career, especially focused on leadership, character building and academics, I don’t think there’ll be that much pushback,” Miles said. “It’s (also) voluntary. We’ve got kids with interests in all kinds of different things, so we’re promoting that, a district of choice...”</span></i></span></p><div><p class="indent" style="font-size: 17.6px;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">HISD Director of Junior ROTC Programs Cornell McGhee said the military academy can help prepare students’ minds and bodies for success in any career.</span></i></p><p class="indent" style="font-size: 17.6px;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">“There are other school districts around the country that have been doing this for years,” he said. “So, we’re hoping that community gets on board with what we’re doing and will understand that we’re not creating soldiers, we’re recreating responsible citizens that are prepared to be successful in any other career fields that they choose.”</span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">McGhee said he has seen positive changes in the attendance, behavior and discipline of students who participate in JROTC and similar programs, and is confident those benefits will extend to the military academy...</span></i> </div></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(74, 73, 73); color: #4a4949; font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;">Mr. Miles, I wish you the best in this effort. The language skills will definitely be a plus for any endeavor the kids go onto. And having discipline in the life of a teenager is essential, especially if the kid comes from a single parent home. </span></p><div class="Content" style="caret-color: rgb(74, 73, 73); color: #4a4949; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: left;"><p class="indent" style="font-size: 17.6px;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"></span></i></p><p class="indent" style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></p></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-14394578288342962812023-11-19T19:39:00.001-06:002023-11-19T19:39:22.723-06:00The Holocaust Deniers Are Back <p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt 45pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Someday some son of a bitch will say this never happened.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt 45pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 1in 0.0001pt 45pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower upon seeing the NAZI death camps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://afnn.us/2023/10/03/yes-sometimes-its-brutal/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Earlier this year I posted</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> on how cops must have a certain detachment to the suffering of others, and it goes well beyond compartmentalization. I recall training a rookie officer and we drove up on a car fire. The driver perished because she tried to cut in front of an 18-wheeler, struck his fuel tank, and the ignited diesel burned her car. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the firefighter finished hosing down the car, I told my trainee to look at the body. She took it well. Dealing with dead bodies is a critical part of field training, and police work in general. The need to be able to handle it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then I told her, “Let’s get some Popeye’s for dinner.” She looked at me with a “you can’t be that f%^&ed up can you Thiac” look on her face (the firefighter was also chuckling). I explained to her a warped sense of humor is a coping mechanism in this profession. Otherwise, you will lose it. I’ve seen dead children (I’ve never made off color remarks about that) and it rips at you. But you must do your job.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Last week I was reading an article in the </span><a href="https://spectator.org/israel-should-make-hamas-atrocity-videos-world-famous/" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">American Spectator</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> on why we need to broadcast what Hamas did in Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><h1 style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 14.55pt; margin: 0in 0.5in 6pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Israel Should Make Hamas Atrocity Videos World Famous - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics<o:p></o:p></span></i></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://spectator.org/author/deroymurdock/" style="color: #954f72;" title="Posts by Deroy Murdock"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deroy Murdock</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><strong><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The below account details atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel.</span></i></strong><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Israeli Consulate in Manhattan recently arranged a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4309563-israel-screens-hamas-attack-footage/" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="color: #416ed2; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">highly disturbing but equally important briefing for about 20 journalists</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">. Israel’s diplomats in Gotham presented 40 minutes of raw video that documented Hamas’ appalling atrocities during their unprovoked, surprise attack on the Jewish state last Oct. 7. This was the first presentation of these images outside Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A wide variety of devices captured this carnage. Hamas killers’ GoPro cameras recorded terrorist-eye views of that day’s bloodshed. Home-security, traffic-circle, and closed-circuit cameras caught the mayhem as it unfolded. Hamas’ social media posts showcased their deadly handiwork. The Israel Defense Forces also seized video proof of this handiwork from dead Hamas barbarians. Their cellphones and body cameras spoke volumes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“It’s important to remember what happened,” said Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, as he introduced this video. “Massacre denial is like the modern Holocaust denial. This will help people truly understand our enemy: Hamas is a genocidal terror organization committed to the destruction of the state of Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">These scenes begin at dawn. With the sun just over the horizon, Hamas terrorists in civilian pickup trucks crash through the border fence and speed toward their targets. They are exhilarated, as if heading to the beach for spring break. “Allahu akbar!”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>they cheer. Let’s kill some Jews! <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Hamas murderers soon encounter Israelis driving along a highway, minding their own business. Hamas gunmen leap from their trucks and start shooting unarmed motorists. Without warning, these drivers suddenly feel their cars riddled with bullets. As they perish, they release their steering wheels. Their cars roll off the road.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A dash camera shows the view from inside one vehicle. As the Israeli driver cruises along, a Hamas terrorist steps into the street and opens fire. The windshield cracks, pierced by bullets. With its driver mortally wounded, the sedan veers off the highway and into a ditch.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">These beasts then approach a kibbutz. A black dog responds. But this is no lunging Doberman or snarling Rottweiler. Instead, an apparent Labrador ambles forward. Its gentle demeanor suggests that it misconstrues the men of Hamas for new friends, perhaps dropping by for breakfast and then a game of fetch, with fresh tennis balls. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No such luck.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 5pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A Hamas ghoul lifts his rifle and gratuitously wastes the poor pup with three or four tugs of his trigger…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Read the article, it’s quite disturbing. But what is atrocious and beyond words is what is linked at the bottom. I have a sense of detachment, as many first responders, soldiers, etc. have to have. But this is beyond sickening. How any human can do this to an innocent child or any human being is beyond comprehension. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve read how many of our Marines and soldiers behaved with German and Japanese soldiers in World War II. Not justifying it, but they dealt with an enemy that treated other humans in a sub-human manner (e.g. the Rape of Nanking, the Baton Death March, the Holocaust, etc.), they actions can be understood by the heat of battle. These were civilians living their lives and a threat to no one. </span><a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/further-reports-come-to-light-in-case-of-the-baby-who-perished-in-an-oven-during-the-attack-by-hamas-a-tragedy-that-has-horrified-millions" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reports are that Hamas burned babies alive</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">. In no way are the perpetrators to be called anything near human. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If I had the ability, before they were brought to justice, I would have them spayed and neutered. With a rusty hack saw. Forgive me, but I have my limits. You torture or burn infants (or adults for that matter) alive, I have no issue with your pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">If you can stomach it, </span><a href="https://imfa-media-kqq5bh4gsq-zf.a.run.app/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">look at the pictures</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">. I don’t exaggerate, seeing them shook my core. I’ve seen dead children and adults, killed by accident or by deliberate actions. I’ve seen mothers cry over their dead children. I’ve smelled a body over a week old, an odor you will never forget. But never did I see evil like this. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Well, not to be outdone, our future, the young on the universities, <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/OZUEHLWE9Nw?si=t63r3BlqdI-XPucY">attempt to cast doubt on what we’ve seen with our own eyes. </a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OZUEHLWE9Nw" width="320" youtube-src-id="OZUEHLWE9Nw"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, if the power was within me, I would ensure this creature is fixed with a blunt object. For the sake of humanity, it must not breed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />As difficult as it is, these images must be broadcast as far and wide as possible. We don’t know how successful the Israelis will be in their war against Hamas. But it’s not someday. It’s today. A son of a bitch is trying to say, “This never happened. Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.” </span></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-16227263873238651482023-11-08T20:19:00.000-06:002023-11-08T20:19:51.788-06:00After the IDF Takes out the Hamas Trash, What’s Next?<div>Interesting piece on what happens after Israel takes Gaza, written by friend, mentor, soldier, and fellow bourbon and cigar consumer, Mike Ford. Enjoy, and feel free to spread.</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://afnn.us/2023/11/07/whats-next-in-gaza/">After the IDF Takes out the Hamas Trash, What’s Next?</a><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.95552em; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;">After the IDF Takes out the Hamas Trash, What’s Next?</h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.75em; max-width: 100%;"><div class="byline" data-reader-unique-id="113" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="114" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><time data-reader-unique-id="115" datetime="2023-11-07T10:26:10-05:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;">November 7, 2023</time></span> <span data-reader-unique-id="116" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;">by <span data-reader-unique-id="117" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><a data-reader-unique-id="118" href="https://afnn.us/author/mikeford3505/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="color: #1b1b1b; display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" title="View all posts by Mike Ford"><span data-reader-unique-id="119" itemprop="name" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;">Mike Ford</span></a></span></span></div></div><div class="leading-image" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" src="https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IDF-1.jpeg" srcset="https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IDF-1.jpeg 1500w, https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IDF-1-300x100.jpeg 300w, https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IDF-1-1024x341.jpeg 1024w, https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IDF-1-768x256.jpeg 768w" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div><p data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="2" style="max-width: 100%;">Once the stalwart troops of the Israeli Defense Force finish taking out the Hamas trash, what’s next in Gaza and for the </span><span data-reader-unique-id="3" style="max-width: 100%;">Gazans?</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="5" style="max-width: 100%;"> It’s been over a month since Hamas launched its terror attack on the State of Israel. Some might opine that “death, is death,” no matter the motivations of the killer or how he chooses to inflict that death on his victim. In this case, no thinking, feeling person could buy that false equivalency. The Hamas terrorists have murdered well over a thousand Israeli men, women and children,<span data-reader-unique-id="6" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span>some who were infants in the crib. (<strong data-reader-unique-id="7" style="max-width: 100%;">Note to readers, graphic, distressing imagery below</strong>).<span data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="9" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="10" style="max-width: 100%;">Knowing a little of Israeli history and given the sheer savagery of the Hamas attacks, I have no doubt that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) will have no difficulty destroying every bit of Hamas infrastructure. There is also no doubt that when the IDF gets done, if not unduly hindered by inept meddling by the Biden State Department, what will remain of the Hamas fighting force, will be a few low level street thugs, hiding under the skirts of women refugees in Egyptian or Jordanian camps.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="11" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="12" style="max-width: 100%;">So what’s next? What needs to happen when the IDF gets done taking out the Hamas trash? Prime Minister Netanyahu has some thoughts, as do the usual suspects in the Biden Administration.</span></p><blockquote data-reader-unique-id="13" style="border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 16px;"><p data-reader-unique-id="14" style="max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="15" style="max-width: 100%;">KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control over the coastal enclave one month into a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled whole swaths of the territory.</span></p></blockquote><p data-reader-unique-id="16" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><a data-reader-unique-id="17" href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/month-war-netanyahu-israel-security-role-gaza-indefinitely-104682310" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;"><span data-reader-unique-id="18" style="max-width: 100%;"><b data-reader-unique-id="19" style="max-width: 100%;">Read: A month into war, Netanyahu says Israel will have an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely</b></span></a></p><p data-reader-unique-id="20" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="21" style="max-width: 100%;">From my foxhole, there is no way that Israel can sustain a long term occupation of Gaza, without outright annexing it.<span data-reader-unique-id="22" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span>The main obstacle to that wouldn’t be Israeli capability, but rather the distorted manner in which necessary Israeli security actions are presented to the World by the leftists and their media enablers. Israel as an occupier would be prohibited from using the lawful tools it needs, to maintain order and stability. Enter-an international occupation and supervisory organization and military force.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="23" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="24" style="max-width: 100%;">The Gazan’s need two things: A stable government along with internal security and protection from groups like Hamas. </span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="25" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="26" style="max-width: 100%;">Israel, on the other hand, needs a neighbor that doesn’t pose a threat to its infants in the crib.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="27" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="28" style="max-width: 100%;">The bumbling Biden Administration has<span data-reader-unique-id="29" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span>actually and quietly proposed a U.S. force to fill the security role. (Hat tip: <a data-reader-unique-id="30" href="https://redstate.com/author/nick-arama" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">Nick Arama at RedState</a> )</span></p><blockquote data-reader-unique-id="31" style="border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 16px;"><p data-reader-unique-id="32" style="max-width: 100%;"><a data-reader-unique-id="33" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12696183/amp/biden-peacekeepers-gaza-troops-israel-united-nations.html" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">Biden administration ‘holds secret talks on stationing American troops in Gaza’ after Hamas is defeated – but US officials fear deepening political peril after Israel shelled a refugee camp</a></p></blockquote><p data-reader-unique-id="35" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="36" style="max-width: 100%;">That’s a non-starter. It would be patently absurd to put U.S troops into a peacekeeping situation such as this. There is no way they would be viewed as an unbiased arbiter.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="37" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="38" style="max-width: 100%;">I’ve also heard back-channel info that I cannot yet confirm, that there might be the possibility of the Egyptians and Israelis cooperating in such a venture. Such an international, ad hoc organization would be just the trick. The organization would be composed of mostly Arab contributions from countries who have given diplomatic recognition to Israel. Ideally, Israel should also be of the participants in order to to look after its own interests.<span data-reader-unique-id="39" style="max-width: 100%;"> </span></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="40" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="41" style="max-width: 100%;">Whether or not Israel is included in such an ad hoc politico-military stability organization, it’s imperative that the two biggest stakeholders, other than Israel, have a position of primacy in this effort. Without Egypt and Jordan involved, this effort would fail, as would the involvement of the corrupt organization known as the United Nations.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="42" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="43" style="max-width: 100%;">Having Egypt, Jordan and other friendly Arab nations ramrodding the rebuilding, governance and security effort will have multiple benefits. Most importantly, is international perception. It will be much more difficult to chastise Arab nations doing peacekeeping among other Arabs. This is a rare opportunity. The Biden State Department should quietly but intensively, advocate for this among the 3 primary stakeholders, Israel, Egypt and Jordan.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="44" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="45" style="max-width: 100%;">If they cannot, we will see more of this…much, much more.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="46" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><strong data-reader-unique-id="47" style="max-width: 100%;">WARNING: GRAPHIC & DISTURBING</strong></p><p data-reader-unique-id="51" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="clear" data-reader-unique-id="52" decoding="async" height="150" src="https://afnn.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/murdered-infant-150x150.jpeg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.5em auto; max-width: 100%;" width="150" /></p><p data-reader-unique-id="54" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="55" style="max-width: 100%;">If you enjoyed this article, then please REPOST or SHARE with others; encourage them to follow <a data-reader-unique-id="56" href="https://afnn.us/" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">AFNN.</a> If you’d like to become a citizen contributor for AFNN, contact us at <a data-reader-unique-id="57" href="mailto:managingeditor@afnn.us" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">managingeditor@afnn.us</a> Help <a data-reader-unique-id="58" href="https://afnn.us/donate-now/" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">keep us ad-free by donating here</a>.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="59" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="60" style="max-width: 100%;">Truth Social: @AFNN_USA</span><br data-reader-unique-id="61" style="max-width: 100%;" /><span data-reader-unique-id="62" style="max-width: 100%;">Facebook: <a data-reader-unique-id="63" href="https://m.facebook.com/afnnusa" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">https://m.facebook.com/afnnusa</a></span><br data-reader-unique-id="64" style="max-width: 100%;" /><span data-reader-unique-id="65" style="max-width: 100%;">Telegram: <a data-reader-unique-id="66" href="https://t.me/joinchat/2_-GAzcXmIRjODNh" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">https://t.me/joinchat/2_-GAzcXmIRjODNh</a></span><br data-reader-unique-id="67" style="max-width: 100%;" /><span data-reader-unique-id="68" style="max-width: 100%;">Twitter: <a data-reader-unique-id="69" href="https://twitter.com/AfnnUsa" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">https://twitter.com/AfnnUsa</a></span><br data-reader-unique-id="70" style="max-width: 100%;" /><span data-reader-unique-id="71" style="max-width: 100%;">GETTR: <a data-reader-unique-id="72" href="https://gettr.com/user/AFNN_USA" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">https://gettr.com/user/AFNN_USA</a></span><br data-reader-unique-id="73" style="max-width: 100%;" /><span data-reader-unique-id="74" style="max-width: 100%;">CloutHub: @AFNN_USA</span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-7145707158598266902023-10-22T13:09:00.001-05:002023-10-22T13:09:36.907-05:00<blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>Everywhere else is Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>Tennessee Williams</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">A couple of weekends back my wife and I traveled back to New Orleans for my high school reunion. God where did forty years go? As we are getting older, we are contemplating where to retire to, and occasionally going back to our hometown of New Orleans comes up. The three F’s, family, friends, and food are mighty attractive. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">Then we spend time back in the New Orleans area. While the attractions are still there, we know we will not retire in Louisiana. And that is a shame. There are great places to eat, the New Orleans zoo and aquarium are incredible, and if you have not seen the World War II Museum, do so, and do it now. A lot of the vets are hanging out over there, and the fact is they are passing on every day. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">But the crime, corruption, and politics are too much. The New Orleans Police Department is over tasked and undermanned, the local “leaders” are worthless, and crime is out of control. For a city of 390K, <a href="https://www.nola.com/new-orleans-year-to-date-murder-chart-2023/html_b94e96b6-8bb7-11ed-9345-5b09347ec2d4.html" style="color: #954f72;">it’s already had 166 murders</a>, and it might be a reason to celebrate. This time last year it was around 200. In comparison <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2023/10/18/467001/violent-crime-in-houston-has-been-trending-downward-over-the-last-year-new-hpd-data-shows/" style="color: #954f72;">Houston TX, population 2.3M, has had 288 homicides in 2023.</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">As a rule I don’t wish that anyone become the victim of crime. But for some people, let’s just call it reality therapy. A man named Jason Williams learned that a week ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/soros-backed-new-orleans-da-and-his-mother-carjacked-at-gunpoint/ar-AA1iwlq9" style="color: #954f72;">Jason Williams is the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, LA</a>. He’s the “chief law enforcement” officer of the city of New Orleans. He’s a Soros backed criminal justice and bail “reform” advocate. In other words, he doesn’t want to prosecute criminals. Well, some of the dudes he thought should not be in jail thanked <i>him for his service</i> to the criminal community.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.fox8live.com/2023/10/17/district-attorney-jason-williams-his-mother-carjacked-gunpoint-new-orleans/" style="color: #954f72;"></a></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.fox8live.com/2023/10/17/district-attorney-jason-williams-his-mother-carjacked-gunpoint-new-orleans/" style="color: #954f72;">District Attorney Jason Williams and his mother carjacked at gunpoint in New Orleans</a><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint Monday night (Oct. 16) in New Orleans, his spokesman said.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>“OPDA confirms that DA Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint as he was helping her into a car,” office spokesman Keith Lampkin said in response to questions from Fox 8.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>“DA Williams and his mother were unharmed and both thank the NOPD for their hard work tonight and every night responding to crime victims.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>The New Orleans Police Department says two armed suspects demanded Williams’ black Lincoln Navigator around 10 p.m. in the 1000 block of Race Street in the Lower Garden District…<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>…Fox 8 spoke again with an <u>emotional Williams</u> at his office Tuesday just before noon. He said the masked suspects did not appear to be juveniles. He said they brandished high-powered automatic weapons and made off with some of his mother’s belongings.</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">I wonder if Mr. Williams ever though other victims of carjacking, juggling, and other aggravated crimes would be <i>emotional</i>? Maybe, Mr. Williams, you should consider that next time the case of a a thug with a criminal record comes before your office. Perhaps you should think, “Well, he’s already out on 5 five felony bonds, and is suspect in three other aggravated cases, maybe we should ask for remand finally.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">I doubt it, but one can always hope. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>Metropolitan Crime Commission president Rafael Goyeneche agreed with the DA that Williams and his mother are lucky to be alive.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>“We’ve seen some carjackings that have ended in homicide,” Goyeneche said…<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>Williams said his mother is still reliving the terror that unfolded within a matter of seconds near his home. He said those traumatic seconds can change crime victims’ lives forever.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>“I think it’s important to reiterate that my mother and I are just a small fraction of the number of people impacted by violence in this city,” he said. “We have to collectively work on crime-prevention efforts, policing efforts and our prosecution efforts.”</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">You don’t say. Tell me Mr. Williams, how many other mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, etc. relive that every day. It’s a lot. There were <a href="https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/nopd-preliminary-stats-show-carjackings-down-car-thefts-up/289-3278feb3-3d71-44fd-906c-139c6a09bf96" style="color: #954f72;">144 carjackings in New Orleans as of August 2023, which is down from 259 in the same time in 2022</a>. Improving, yes, but many are not reported, and still a lot for a city of less than 400K.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">There is something interesting at the bottom of the article: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><blockquote><i>The NOPD said the same three suspects carjacked a 22-year-old woman about 30 minutes later, just over a half-mile away in the 1800 block of Baronne Street. Her stolen Honda Civic was also recovered.</i></blockquote><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">You mean the same criminals committed multiple crimes? Who would have thunk it? The answer is anyone with a two-digit IQ. Not to mention, the thug who did it: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.nola.com/news/courts/arrest-made-in-new-orleans-da-jason-williams-carjacking/article_07a4e7ba-6dbd-11ee-ad2a-d7bfb6ece024.html" style="color: #954f72;"></a></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.nola.com/news/courts/arrest-made-in-new-orleans-da-jason-williams-carjacking/article_07a4e7ba-6dbd-11ee-ad2a-d7bfb6ece024.html" style="color: #954f72;">Man arrested in DA Jason Williams carjacking, tells police 'y'alls people' were the victims</a><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>New Orleans police arrested a man in the Monday night carjacking of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams in the Lower Garden District after <u>detectives tracked a pickup allegedly used in that carjacking and a second one the same night.<o:p></o:p></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>The details of the arrest of Raymond Rochon, 18, are contained in police records filed this morning in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. <u>With the single arrest, police also cleared at least three other auto-related crimes they say took place over the course of this year across the city…<o:p></o:p></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>…Less than 30 minutes later and just a few blocks away, the same blue pickup truck pulled up alongside a woman in the 1800 block of Baronne Street. Two masked men demanded the woman’s Honda Civic at gunpoint, according to the records. She was not injured… <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>…He (Rochon) would soon tell police that he knew why they'd been able to find him so quickly, according to the records. As a detective was reading Rochon his Miranda rights, he allegedly said: "I know why y'all are here," according to the records. "Y'alls people" had been "got…"<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>…According to police records, Rochon has also been connected to at least three other car thefts beginning in April…<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>… Rochon is additionally charged with illegal possession of a firearm because he was armed with a handgun when police arrested him Tuesday…</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p>That’s about right. Thank God the lady with the Civic is OK. But look at this one thug, eighteen years old (sorry mom, but your boy ain’t going to Harvard) and he’s already charged with multiple felonies. And he’s not the only street thug out there praying on innocent people. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">Mr. Williams, you, like many Soros backed radical district attorneys, need to decide what matters. Doing your duty by enforcing the law and separating the citizens from the criminal class. Or getting the money for Soros to keep your job. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;">Knowing New Orleans, I think I know what’s going to happen. A hell of a shame. A very unique city is on the way down, and no sign it’s going to stop dropping. <o:p></o:p></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-52959442781842863862023-09-17T19:27:00.001-05:002023-09-17T19:27:36.491-05:00A Question Of Qualified Immunity <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Another example of a court second guessing a cop’s split </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">second decision</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In multiple writings on various sites that since the beginning of the war on police, I’ve made the point cops are “joining the fire department.” By that I mean patrol officers are signing on, going to their “safe spaces” (parking lot, etc. where they can safety handle paperwork, etc.), answering their calls for service, but nothing else. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Effective patrol, by its definition, must be proactive. Cops must drive around, know the areas, see the “usual suspects” at work, and act against them to prevent criminal incidents. For instance, an experience patrol officer sees a convicted drug dealer on the sidewalk. He observes an apparent sale to a second person, so he stops the suspect and starts to talk to him. In accordance with <i><a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/392/1/" style="color: #954f72;">Terry v. Ohio</a></i>, the officer conducts a quick pat down and feels the outline of a gun or knife. He then had reasonable suspicion to reach into the pocket where he discovers the 9mm he was carrying. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the man is a convicted drug dealer, he cannot carry a firearm. The officer places him under arrest and he’s sent back to jail or state prison. What is not shown is the drug dealer was going to use that later on a drive by shooting. While he’s being processed, the other gang banger dodges being shot (for today).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I thought of this after reading <a href="https://www.police1.com/legal/articles/ninth-circuit-reverses-course-and-issues-new-ruling-giving-lapd-officer-qualified-immunity-sntvJPP8OSuv0p1S/?utm_source=Police1&utm_campaign=b99a15c6f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_13_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5584e6920b-729ca2b637-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" style="color: #954f72;">this article</a> on two Los Angeles police officers and what they have endured since a shooting in 2018. They were called for a disturbance in a gym locker room, where the suspect refused to leave and had assaulted a security officer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>“After engaging the suspect, who was naked and much larger than both officers, the suspect refused to leave and resisted attempts to take him into custody. After warning him they would use their TASERs, the weapon was discharged with no effect. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>The suspect then punched one officer in the face so hard he was disoriented and knocked against a wall. After regaining his balance, he saw the suspect was punching his partner in the head multiple times. The female officer was in a fetal position on the floor, and the suspect grabbed her TASER. At that time the officer ordered him to stop, and then fired, killing the suspect.”</i></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i></i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Did the officer have “<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjM0-yR3bKBAxVSl2oFHfE-CrsQFnoECBkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupreme.justia.com%2Fcases%2Ffederal%2Fus%2F490%2F386%2F&usg=AOvVaw1p9eKIrlJNKFqtqmx-IwA1&opi=89978449" style="color: #954f72;">reasonable fear for the life and serious injury of himself or a third person?</a>” I think so, the suspect had overpowered both of them, TASER was not effective, he was punching one officer repeatedly in the head, and he was grabbing for her TASER. However, the 9<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeal stripped the officers of <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/qualified-immunity#:~:text=Summary%20Qualified%20Immunity&text=The%20doctrine%20of%20qualified%20immunity,when%20Congress%20adopted%2042%20U.S.C." style="color: #954f72;">qualified immunity</a>, leaving them open to personal financial liability in civil suits over the shooting. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">After several months of an appeal, the 9<sup>th</sup> Circuit reversed, restoring the qualified immunity for the officer who fired the shots. “The court stated the officers were under a ‘high-stress, rapidly developing situation with a suspect, much larger than both officers, in a confined space. Moreover, use of an intermediate weapon, the TASER, did not bring the man under control.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now I have no doubt the city will settle with the criminal’s family as soon as possible. But the question is would Los Angeles have stood behind the officers in civil litigation if they were not force to? Forgive me if I say, “I doubt it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The action of the officers here is within applicable law, and I’ll assume department policy. But the departments and cities are not interested in justice. They want to cover their…liability.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A classic example is from the 1980s, where a Mid-West city police department (like most major cities in the 1980s) was transitioning from revolvers to semi-automatics. The academy trained the officers if a jam occurred during a firefight, you should “CLEAR! (clear the jam), RACK! (load a round in the chamber) and SHOOT!” Later an officer has a jam in a firefight and does exactly that, “CLEAR! RACK! SHOOT!” However, while the officer was handing his pistol the suspect dropped his and was not a deadly threat anymore. He died from being shot. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">During the lawsuit for the suspect’s death, the city attempted to sever liability, saying the officer should have reassessed before shooting. Fortunately for the officer, his training records were produced to show that was the city trained their officers to do, and they were liable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Current example, a major city just revised its pursuit policy. Speaking with a sergeant on the force, he was very plain on the matter. “They are putting all the liability on the street supervisor. I’ll say it. Unless the suspect driving away is a murder suspect, I’m cancelling the pursuit.” Trust me, he’s not the only sergeant thinking that, and the criminals know it. So they will simply drive off, betting their will not be pursued. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Between the feds coming down at every possible chance, cities not backing their officers, and departments higher ranks being staffed with politicians, not cops, officers will not stick their neck out. Not physically (see the LAPD example above) or legally/financially. And to borrow the phrase, “women, children and minorities hardest hit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-44998451005398911342023-07-19T17:10:00.000-05:002023-07-19T17:10:17.637-05:00How the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) looks at night...<div>Not to be confused with the People's Democratic Republic of Kalifornia (PDRK)</div><div><br /></div>Ages ago I read Dick Cheney's autobiography, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Time-Personal-Political-Memoir/dp/1439176221">In My Time</a></i>. One of the points I remember was he put in his office, when he was the Secretary of Defense, a picture of the Korean Peninsula at night. Everything below the DMZ was fully lit, especially around Seoul. North of the border, with some exceptions (Pyongyang), was completely dark. <div><br /></div><div>I subscribe to <i><a href="https://www.38north.org/2023/04/a-fresh-look-at-north-korea-at-night/">38th North</a></i>, a daily summary of unclassified intelligence on the DPRK. Yes, once an intel nerd. always an intel nerd. But I've been studying this country since 1988 (when I got my first assignment out of my Army basic course), and while countless Asian nations have entered the 21st Century, it is still in the years before the mid-20th Century. And this latest photo shows it. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljMYBw4UmaClD44boEYBpxRI2SnzyfzPYfM-eXdvRuGj_v9MxS-jSFVOb1WLPmy-kAfju57g6L1BQ2QTMLVqFD89ixNyzL54da0FX6xdO-fkJU3k47vce2PdYVq35WR7OQrCiiaghSQZ5P_rnCQXeF6d6lp-MHjOKKqXcQNLahs6fp-vCoDhlco35ZkWA/s584/DPRK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="584" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljMYBw4UmaClD44boEYBpxRI2SnzyfzPYfM-eXdvRuGj_v9MxS-jSFVOb1WLPmy-kAfju57g6L1BQ2QTMLVqFD89ixNyzL54da0FX6xdO-fkJU3k47vce2PdYVq35WR7OQrCiiaghSQZ5P_rnCQXeF6d6lp-MHjOKKqXcQNLahs6fp-vCoDhlco35ZkWA/w640-h470/DPRK.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I've read a bio of Lyndon Johnson and how he was instrumental in getting electric power to Texas Hill Country people. The wires were run, but there was no power for ages. Then one family was walking back to their home just as it was getting dark, and they thought the house was on fire. No. It just had electric light for the first time. </div><div><br /></div><div>Somewhere in my office is a picture of me in the summer of 1989 on the DMZ. And I've recently heard that <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4104321-us-soldier-detained-in-north-korea-what-you-need-to-know/">another idiot walked into North Korea, and Army private</a>. Why they would do that, I don't know, but knowing Lloyd Austin et all will trade a fortune for him. I was about 200 yards from the border, and that was close enough. </div><div><br /></div><div>See the future liberals want for all of use (well, not them you understand...). No lights, no power, no transportation, etc. </div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-54643613341790481362023-07-18T16:55:00.001-05:002023-07-18T16:55:55.466-05:00An Easy Solution Environmentalists Don't Want To Use. I've often said I'm an not an "<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/environmentalist">environmentalist</a>," as they are radical anti-growth and frankly anti human development people, many of whom want to spare themselves of the pain they push on others. Just recently John Kerry, hypocrite extraordinaire, was actually called out on his use of his private jet to go to one conference after another demanding we stop using internal combustion engines. Like the one in "his" plane and the limo he always rides in. <div><br /></div><div>In fairness, it was not <i>his</i> plane. It was his wife's. </div><div><br /></div><div>I prefer the term <a href="https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/conservationist">conservationist</a>. I believe the Earth's natural resources should be efficiently exploited for the benefit of mankind. That include oil, natural gas, coal, water, and air. Keep the air and water clean, absolutely. Stop using things that work (e.g. automobiles, aircraft, etc) while the hypocrites lecture us from their 200' yachts? I don't think so. </div><div><br /></div><div>One point made countless times is there is a source of electricity the leaves no "greenhouse" gases, but many of the enviro nut-jobs want no part of is nuclear power. Legitimately there is an issue of where to store the radioactive waste, but that should have been settled ages ago. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository">Yucca Mountain in Nevada</a> has been designated as a national storage site since 1997, and it's still an open issue after resistance from local politicians. Hopefully a Republican president in 2025 will use eminent domaine to seize the land, establish the final site and name it after a man who's deserved this honor. Let's call it the Harry Reid Toxic Waste dump. </div><div><br /></div><div>But I found this interesting. The Army is working on portable nuclear generators to deploy to the field. If we can send these to 3rd World nations, why not downtown USA? </div><div><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/"></a></span></h1><blockquote><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/"><i>Pentagon to build nuclear microreactors to power far-flung bases</i></a></span></h1><p data-reader-unique-id="36" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Pentagon officials recently announced that the Defense Department will build a nuclear microreactor that can be flown to an austere site by a C-17 cargo plane and set up to power a military base.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="37" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>A statement released Wednesday by the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office <a data-reader-unique-id="38" href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2998460/dod-to-build-project-pele-mobile-microreactor-and-perform-demonstration-at-idah/" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced </a>the construction and testing decision that followed the office’s Environmental Impact Statement work for “Project Pele...”</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="45" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>...The plans call for a 40-ton reactor that can fit in three-to-four 20-foot shipping containers and, once set up, provide 1 to 5 Mega Watts of power on full power operation for up to three years before refueling.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="78" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The microreactor will ultimately join a newer type of nuclear fuel being used in the program at the Idaho National Laboratory. Testing and experimentation will occur in 2024, with demonstrations anticipated by 2025, (<span style="background-color: white;">Program Manager, Dr. Jeff Waksman) </span>Waksman said.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="89" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“Advanced nuclear power has the potential to be a strategic game-changer for the United States, both for the DoD and for the commercial sector,” Waksman said. “For it to be adopted, it must first be successfully demonstrated under real-world operating conditions.”</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="90" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>...Waksman responded to that concern with a twofold answer to Army Times this week, saying that the microreactor will be used for austere locations, some of which were identified in the original 2018 Army G-4 report, “Study on the Use of Mobile Nuclear Power Plants for Ground Operations.”</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="99" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Those include places such as Fort Greely, Alaska, and Lajes Field, Azores.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="100" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Second, Waksman said that both the newer designed reactor, a “high-temperature gas reactor,” and its fuel source, known as <a data-reader-unique-id="101" href="https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-high-assay-low-enriched-uranium-haleu" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">high-assay low enriched uranium tristructural isotropic</a> fuel, provide more safety measures than older generation reactors and fuel.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="107" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The design also has protection features built in that are currently classified, Waksman said. Additionally, commanders can enhance protection with barriers or by burying the reactor underground, he said.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="108" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“This thing is very resilient,” Waksman said.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="109" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The fuel type offers another layer of protection.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="110" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“The uranium is in millions of tiny pebbles, less than 1 mm in diameter, each individually encapsulated,” Waksman said. “Each fuel pellet is its own barrier...”</i></span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/resizer/TK11id5sG4myLgivBNVBBSsZ9Y0=/1440x0/filters:format(png):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/archetype/QVOTDKHA2NGLDPWBQ52OPQ6FRM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="800" height="224" src="https://www.militarytimes.com/resizer/TK11id5sG4myLgivBNVBBSsZ9Y0=/1440x0/filters:format(png):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/archetype/QVOTDKHA2NGLDPWBQ52OPQ6FRM.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 0.75em;"> </span><p></p><p>The article is long and there is a lot of verbiage from opponents such as the <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org">Union of Concerned Scientists</a>, a group of scientist with less credibility on nuclear proliferation than the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/antisemitism">Southern Poverty Law Center </a>has with "hate groups." Legitimately they raise the issue of exposure to air attack, but this would be less of a threat than they publish. The idea is for this generator to be far behind the lines, not on the front lines. This is where you have air defense coverage, not to mention ground security. </p><p>Progress. Seeing these "scientists" want us to mine for rare minerals for <a href="https://blog.evbox.com/ev-battery-environmental-impact">EV batteries in spite of the pollution that causes</a>. Or <a href="https://time.com/6077220/air-conditioning-bad-for-planet-how-to-fix/">air conditioning</a> is "destroying the planet" but they don't shut their AC units off. I will remind these "experts" the US came in under the carbon restrictions of the Paris Climate accord thanks to fracking, allowing us to use more natural gas for electricity generation. And it will be business, not idiots with PhDs, who will lead us into a powered future. </p><figure data-reader-unique-id="112" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%;"><figcaption data-reader-unique-id="119" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.8em; max-width: 100%; width: 647.546875px;"><p data-reader-unique-id="120" style="margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 100%;"></p></figcaption></figure></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-13435257680710156412023-07-07T14:15:00.006-05:002023-07-07T14:15:51.829-05:00 One Again, All Together, Thanks Joe<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lie spread across the world is 90% of all weapons in the hands of Mexican gangs comes from the US. Very wrong, as <a href="https://acopswatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/security-weekly-mexicos-gun-supply-and.html" style="color: #954f72;">STRATFOR</a> has documented on multiple occasions. Yes, they get firearms from the US, but the majority that can be verified are from other nations. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of Joe Biden’s many disasters since entering the White House (and he was a disaster before entering the White House) was the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan. It made the final days in Saigon look organized and dignified. A helicopter leaving the embassy is one thing, people grabbing the nose gear of a cargo plane is even worse. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to Joe and his idiot Defense Secretary, we handed over to the “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/afghan-weapons-left-behind/index.html" style="color: #954f72;">Taliban </a> at least 78 aircraft, millions of rounds of small ammunition, and over 300,000 rifles, over 9,000 air to ground weapons, not to mention 42, 000 pieces of <span style="background: white; color: #1b1b1b;">night vision, surveillance, ‘biometric and positioning equipment.</span>’” Now the Taliban have become arms dealers for other 3<sup>rd</sup> World enemies. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/05/taliban-afghanistan-arms-dealers-weapons-sales-terrorism/">The Taliban Are Now Arms Dealers</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Terrorists are shopping for left-behind American weapons—and turning them against Washington’s friends around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Taliban fighters stand guard next to weapons on display for media representatives in Kunar province." border="0" height="266" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/b6d9a47e-67ff-44c5-8f4b-510bc430472b" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="400" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taliban fighters stand guard next to weapons on display for media representatives <br />in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 25, 2022. AFP via Getty Images</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"></span></span></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. military retreated from Afghanistan two years ago, leaving behind weapons that are now turning up in far-flung trouble spots where terrorists are fighting and killing America’s allies. In markets that have sprung up across the southern and eastern badlands, where the hottest fighting of the war took place, merchants with Taliban permits are offering U.S.-made automatic assault rifles and handguns for sale alongside hardware from Russia, Pakistan, China, Turkey, and Austria. Business, like terrorism, is thriving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Under weather-beaten tarps slung across wooden poles, in isolated strip malls deep in the desert, or laid out on dusty carpets along bumpy tracks off the major highways, these ad hoc weapons bazaars are offering rockets and bombs, shoulder-fired grenade launchers, night vision goggles, sniper rifles and scopes, and ammunition. The wares are priced in afghanis, rupees, and dollars; recent price increases reflect the business acumen of one of the world’s richest criminal cartels that has sought to keep tight control on supply.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Left-behind American assault rifles command a premium: an M4 in good condition can fetch up to $2,400, a status symbol with as much cachet in the Himalayan tribal belt as a luxury handbag in Manhattan. In contrast, a Pakistan-made knock-off of an AK-47, the world’s most ubiquitous killing machine, can go for as little as $130…</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the results of this new found “capitalism” for small arms, etc. “The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Pakistan’s torn <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-armed-groups-obtain-us-weapons-left-in-afghanistan/32340664.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #416ed2;">northwest</span></a> tribal regions and separatists in restive <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2023/05/05/pakistan-militants-launch-attacks-with-advanced-us-weapons-left-behind-in-afghanistan/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #416ed2;">Balochistan</span></a> are using made-in-America weapons to kill police and soldiers in an escalating war against the Pakistani state.“</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></i></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…The Taliban, allies of if not quite affiliates of al Qaeda, are at the center of a global smuggling web that earns billions of dollars from heroin and meth. Now they appear to be funneling small arms to like-minded extremists inspired by their victory, not least next door. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Pakistan’s torn <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-armed-groups-obtain-us-weapons-left-in-afghanistan/32340664.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #416ed2;">northwest</span></a> tribal regions and separatists in restive <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2023/05/05/pakistan-militants-launch-attacks-with-advanced-us-weapons-left-behind-in-afghanistan/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #416ed2;">Balochistan</span></a> are using made-in-America weapons to kill police and soldiers in an escalating war against the Pakistani state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dramatic TTP <a href="https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1562005153317789697?s=20" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #416ed2;">videos</span></a> show apparent attacks on Pakistani police and army outposts by militants armed with American weapons and using night vision and thermal sights, which Afghan Peace Watch said in a new report are “highly sought-after accessories supplied to Afghan Special Forces.” The report quotes a Taliban fighter in Nangarhar province, bordering Pakistan, as saying night vision items sell for $500 to $1,000…</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes I hear someone say, “They can’t be that stupid, can they?” My response is, “Don’t challenge them. They will surprise you.” Well, here we go, another example of leaving children and ideologs in charge of American policy. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-82996341202697386392023-07-04T00:01:00.002-05:002023-07-04T00:01:00.150-05:00Happy Independence Day<div><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor...</i></div><div><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1029426623068079488" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the very hot summer of 1776, </span>representatives<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the original thirteen colonies of Great </span>Britain<span style="font-family: inherit;"> met in Philadelphia, and discussed as serious a subject as could be </span>deliberated<span style="font-family: inherit;">. They were about to commit treason against the sitting monarch of England, George III. As this meant nothing short of death in case they were captured, there was no going back once this document was signed. And many of the 56 signers paid the ultimate price for their actions that summer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rush Limbaugh Jr., the father of the late great Rush Limbaugh, gave a </span><a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/11/21/my-fathers-speech-the-americans-who-risked-everything/" style="color: #888888; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">presentations on what happened to these men.</a> <a href="https://politicalvelcraft.org/2014/07/04/the-56-men-who-signed-the-1776-declaration-of-independence/#:~:text=1%20Five%20signers%20were%20captured%20by%20the%20British,hardships%20of%20the%20Revolutionary%20War.%20More%20items...%20" style="color: #888888; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Of the 56 signers</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, five were captured by the British, tortured, then executed as traitors. Nine fought in the Revolutionary War and died. Two of the signers lost sons serving in the Colonial Army, while another two had their sons captured by the British Army. Twelve lost all their </span>worldly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> possessions when the British ransacked and burned their homes. </span></p><p>A sobering thought at what men in the 18th Century risked and sacrificed to establish the United States of America. </p><p>I've heard from some that America has never been so divided as today. Seeing we had a Civil War break out, not to mention minor open rebellions (e.g., the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/whiskey-rebellion" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Whiskey Rebellion of 1794</a>) I can't agree. But as we've had one challenge after another, on the anniversary of our independence, it is good and proper to reread the document that started it all. And while we will not "...mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.," we are, as citizens, called upon to continue the work to make us a more perfect union. And on the 247th anniversary of our nation's founding, please read the document that founded the greatest nation on Earth. </p><p>My fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day.</p><p class="larger" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p class="larger" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In Congress, July 4, 1776</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,</span> </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.</i></span></p><div class="space-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin-left: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</i></span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.</i></span></p><hr style="background-color: #999999; border: medium; box-sizing: content-box; color: #999999; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; width: 761px;" /><div class="nwidget nlayout ncolumns row make-eq" data-columns="4x1_4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><div class="col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 190.25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Georgia</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Button Gwinnett</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lyman Hall</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Walton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">North Carolina</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Hooper</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joseph Hewes</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Penn</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">South Carolina</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Edward Rutledge</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Heyward, Jr.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Lynch, Jr.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arthur Middleton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Massachusetts</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Hancock</span></p></div><div class="col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 190.25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maryland</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Samuel Chase</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Paca</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Stone</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Virginia</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Wythe</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard Henry Lee</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Jefferson</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin Harrison</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Nelson, Jr.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Francis Lightfoot Lee</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carter Braxton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pennsylvania</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Robert Morris</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin Rush</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin Franklin</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Morton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Clymer</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James Smith</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Taylor</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James Wilson</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Ross</span></p></div><div class="col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 190.25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Delaware</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caesar Rodney</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Read</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas McKean</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New York</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Floyd</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Philip Livingston</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Francis Lewis</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lewis Morris</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Jersey</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard Stockton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Witherspoon</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Francis Hopkinson</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Hart</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abraham Clark</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Hampshire</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Josiah Bartlett</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Whipple</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p></div><div class="col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 190.25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Massachusetts</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Samuel Adams</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Adams</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Robert Treat Paine</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elbridge Gerry</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rhode Island</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stephen Hopkins</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Ellery</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Connecticut</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Roger Sherman</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Samuel Huntington</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Williams</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oliver Wolcott</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Hampshire</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matthew Thornton</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="nwidget nlayout ncolumns row make-eq" data-columns="4x1_4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><div class="col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 190.25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #666666; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-82429075190461735052023-07-03T11:00:00.026-05:002023-07-03T11:00:00.139-05:00Officer Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26722/orig/police-officer-areanah-preston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/657/chicago-police-department.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" height="150" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/657/chicago-police-department.png" width="150" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="309" height="200" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26722/orig/police-officer-areanah-preston.jpg" width="160" /></div><br /><br>
<i><blockquote><a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/26722-police-officer-aranah-m-preston">Police Officer Aréanah M. Preston</a><br>
Chicago Police Department, Illinois<br>
End of Watch Saturday, May 6, 2023<br>
Age 24<br>
Tour 2 years, 6 months<br>
Badge 15870<br>
Cause Gunfire<br>
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Police Officer Aréanah Preston was shot and killed during an attempted robbery at 8157 South Blackstone Avenue in Chicago at about 1:40 am.<br>
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She had finished her shift and was returning home when armed subjects confronted her, attempting to rob her. She was able to draw her weapon and exchanged shots with multiple subjects before being mortally wounded. The subjects stole her gun and fled the scene.<br>
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An officer who was responding to a nearby crash discovered Officer Preston on the ground. The officer rendered aid and transported her to a local hospital in a patrol car.<br>
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Five suspects, including one juvenile, were arrested the following day. Four of the subjects were charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery, arson, burglary, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.<br>
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Officer Preston had served with the Chicago Police Department for 2-1/2 years and was assigned to the Fifth District. She is survived by her mother, father, and twin sibling.<br></i></blockquote>
Rest in Peace Sis…We Got The Watch<br>
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<i>Nemo me impune lacessit</I> <br>
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<i><a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/14taps.mp3">Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.</a> </i>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-46407073674664447832023-07-01T10:26:00.001-05:002023-07-01T10:26:18.660-05:00Even Montgomery is looking down at this and crying<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ages ago, when I was a second lieutenant in Korea, my brigade executive officer had a great term I've used for ages: Oxygen thief. Generally a useless buerocrat who serves no constructive purpose. As any </span>bureaucracy<span style="font-family: inherit;"> grows, it generally gets filled with more and more of them. The Department of Defense is an excellent example of one. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two years ago the Navy put out an instructional video on how to use pronouns and create "<a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/video-here-is-the-navys-gender-pronoun-video-for-safe-spaces/">safe spaces</a>." The fact this pathetic joke is seen as anything other than the waste of oxygen and resources is beyond me. I pray come January 2025 a new president purges the DOD of the people who created this crap and we can concentrate the military on its real purpose, to win our wars. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But such stupidity is not just in our service. From our greatest ally, London, we have a problem. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1781068/masculine-military-titles-scrapped-gender-neutral"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i></span></a></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1781068/masculine-military-titles-scrapped-gender-neutral"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Army boss considering scrapping 'masculine' titles like Guardsman </i></span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>General Sir Patrick Sanders says he wants to ensure everyone in the Army can be themselves.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The head of the Army is mulling scrapping traditional military ranks such as Rifleman and Guardsman because they are masculine. General Sir Patrick Sanders, in a plan to make regiments more inclusive, is set to move away from centuries of history by ditching the titles.<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Gender-neutral ranks may replace the world-famous Guards regiment, and even General Sir Patrick’s own regiment, the Rifles...</i></span></span></p><div data-reader-unique-id="80" style="max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="98" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>...The decision in the hands of General Sir Patrick may also have wider implications for other strands of the armed forces.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="98" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In the event that he opts for gender neutral ranks, the Navy may be pressured into doing away with historic titles such as “midshipman” and “seaman”.</i></span></p></div></blockquote><div data-reader-unique-id="80" style="max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="98" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="98" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">General Patrick, your a<a href="https://www.army-technology.com/features/uk-military-sees-near-30-decline-in-people-joining-regular-forces/">rmy's </a></span><a href="https://www.army-technology.com/features/uk-military-sees-near-30-decline-in-people-joining-regular-forces/" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">recruitment is down </a><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">even with a tough economy. You are supporting another nation's war against Russia. You have continued real issues with handing an army, and you are concerned about this crap? </span></span></p></div><div data-reader-unique-id="121" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="123" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i></span></p></div><blockquote><div data-reader-unique-id="121" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="123" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>.<span>..Speaking to the Centre for Army Leadership podcast, General Sir Patrick said it was nations rather than simply armies that fight conflicts, and as such it was necessary for the army to reflect the nation it represents.</span></i></span></p></div><div data-reader-unique-id="152" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="155" style="max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="156" style="font-family: inherit; max-width: 100%;"><i>The Chief of the General Staff added: “If you want to tap into people's potential, <u>people have to feel they can be themselves...</u>”</i></span></p></div></blockquote><div data-reader-unique-id="152" style="max-width: 100%; text-align: left;"><p data-reader-unique-id="155" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="156" style="font-family: inherit; max-width: 100%;"><i></i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="157" style="max-width: 100%;"><span><span style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">Sir, with all do respect, you are dead wrong on this. An army is a team. "It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team." Perhaps you missed something about basic </span></span></span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">training. The instructors break the individual down to almost nothing, and rebuild them, ready, "part of a team." The day we lose that focus, we have lost. </span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="157" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">The problem is the Brit's (and the Americans) are not "loosing" that focus, but embracing the destruction of that focus. Ten years ago this concept would be laughed at as a bad joke Now it'e being </span>metastasized<span style="color: #1b1b1b;"> into military culture. </span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="157" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">After the disaster of Vietnam, we spent a generation rebuilding what Washington destroyed. We will have to relearn the lessons and rebuilt again. </span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="157" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #1b1b1b;"><br /></span></p></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-36599195976554460802023-06-26T19:22:00.000-05:002023-06-26T19:22:39.222-05:00I can relate to the ‘Daniel Penny Effect’ <span style="font-family: inherit;">The persecution of Daniel Penny is an absolute disgrace, I don't question the man was mentally ill, but liberals and other idiots think all we have to do is talk to someone crisis and they will respond. I beg to differ, when a schizophrenic is listening to a couple of dozen voices in his head, the 23 year old sociology major getting a job on the subway will not break through all the noise in his head. I know, I've had to handle them, and it's no fun.</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to Mr. Penny, once I heard he was going to be charged, I immediately donated 100 dollars to his <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny">legal defense fund</a>. Looks like I was not alone, it's over 2.9 million. But it looks like New Yorkers are afraid to intercede when people need help from criminals or people in crisis. From <i><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/daniel-penny-effect-seen-in-nyc-subway-attacks-including-at-least-one-where-no-one-intervened/">Legal Insurrection</a></i>:<br />
<i><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/daniel-penny-effect-seen-in-nyc-subway-attacks-including-at-least-one-where-no-one-intervened/"></a></i></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/daniel-penny-effect-seen-in-nyc-subway-attacks-including-at-least-one-where-no-one-intervened/">‘Daniel Penny Effect’ Seen in NYC Subway Attacks Including at Least One Where No One Intervened</a>
<br /></i></span><div><p data-reader-unique-id="94" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The <span data-reader-unique-id="95" style="max-width: 100%;">New York Post</span> <a data-reader-unique-id="96" href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/chilling-video-captures-nyc-subway-slash-victim-screaming-in-agony-seconds-after-attack/" rel="noopener" role="link" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> on three slashing attacks that occurred on the subway system in a span of less than 20 minutes on June 18th, all allegedly by the same suspect. In at least one, it appears no one intervened as the suspect moved from one train to another as the bleeding victim cried for help:</i></span></p><blockquote data-reader-unique-id="97" style="border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 16px;"><p data-reader-unique-id="98" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Chilling video footage obtained by The Post captures a Manhattan subway-slash victim screaming in agony after the random attack — and pleading for help as other riders apparently just go about their business.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="103" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“Pull the emergency brake! Pull the emergency brake!” the 28-year-old victim can be heard sobbing. “Yo! Yo!”</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="104" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The ailing straphanger actually hobbled after her attacker through the train car while shooting video of him on her phone — footage that cops said they used to help nail him.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="105" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The creep can be seen strolling off into the next car — as commuters stare at his distraught victim.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="106" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>At one point, the victim, whose name is being withheld by The Post, pans down to show her sandal caked in blood.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="111" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“Yo! Somebody call 911! Somebody call 911!” she screams.</i></span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="112" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The victim was attacked around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on a southbound No. 4 train as it neared the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station — in what was one of <a data-reader-unique-id="113" href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/nyc-straphangers-slashed-in-three-subway-attacks-sunday-sources/" rel="noopener" role="link" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">three unprovoked slashing attacks</a> in fewer than 20 minutes.</i></span></p></blockquote><p data-reader-unique-id="114" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Two of the attacks are <a data-reader-unique-id="115" href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/28-year-old-man-arrested-for-unprovoked-subway-slashings" rel="noopener" role="link" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said to have happened</a> inside the subway station. The third, detailed above, happened on the train.</i></span></p></div></blockquote><p>I can relate from a recent experience. In May my wife Beth and I flew to Seattle for an Alaskan cruise.After settling in, we went to dinner and I wanted to take the subway. Mistake. </p><p>Once we started moving a homeless male got into Beth's face and demanded, "You got money!" I didn't intervene immediately, I know that may make him worse. But I did get into a crouch position and oriented on his mid-body. If he got any more aggressive, I would take action. </p><p>Fortunately, he walked off, made the same demand of every other rider on the car, then started smashing his arms against the door, But a disturbing thing is I was thinking I would be the next Daniel Penny. I really had thoughts of a liberal DA in Seattle charging me with assault of a homeless dude who threatened my wife and others. Have no clue what criminal record this dude has, but I'll lay money it violent. He doesn't know better. </p><p>Suffice to say we never took public transportation again while we were there. But this is what happens when you allow leftist intent on destroying society to have power. God help Mr. Penny. And God help the John and Jane Q. Publics other there in major cities who have to use public transportation.</p><div><p data-reader-unique-id="114" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i></span></p></div></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-56735412601611546932023-06-23T11:00:00.035-05:002023-06-23T11:00:00.134-05:00Officer Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2768/new-york-state-police.png" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><span> <span> </span></span><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2768/new-york-state-police.png" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26713/orig/c_georgeadis.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="397" height="200" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26713/orig/c_georgeadis.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26713/orig/c_georgeadis.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></a></div>
<i><blockquote><a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/26713-senior-investigator-nicholas-georgeadis">Senior Investigator Nicholas Georgeadis</a><br>
New York State Police, New York<br>
End of Watch Friday, April 28, 2023<br>
Age 52<br>
Tour 21 years<br>
Military Veteran<br>
Cause 9/11 related illness<br>
Incident Date Tuesday, September 11, 2001<br>
Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet<br>
Offender 19 suicide attackers<br>
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Senior Investigator Nick Georgeadis died as the result of cancer that he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.<br>
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Investigator Georgeadis was a United States Army National Guard veteran and had served with the New York State Police for 21 years, assigned to the Special Investigations Unit and New York State Homeland Security. He is survived by his wife, two sons, daughter, father, sister, nieces, and nephews.<br>
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Rest in Peace Bro…We Got The Watch<br>
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<i>Nemo me impune lacessit</I> <br>
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<i><a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/14taps.mp3">Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.</a> </i>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-53092233656880098462023-06-21T11:00:00.028-05:002023-06-21T11:00:00.144-05:00Officer Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2861/nyssa-police-dept.png" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2861/nyssa-police-dept.png" width="200" /></a><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26700/orig/c_joseph-johnson.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="358" height="200" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26700/orig/c_joseph-johnson.jpg" /></a></div><br>
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<i><blockquote><a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/26700-reserve-corporal-joseph-johnson">Reserve Corporal Joseph Johnson</a><br>
Nyssa Police Department, Oregon<br>
End of Watch Saturday, April 15, 2023<br>
Age 43<br>
Tour 16 years<br>
Cause Gunfire<br>
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Reserve Corporal Joseph Johnson was shot and killed near the intersection of North Third Street and Locust Avenue while making a traffic stop at about 8:20 pm.<br>
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He was responding to reports of a violent man damaging property at a home and threatening its occupants. During the response, he encountered the suspect driving away and conducted a traffic stop. The subject immediately exited his car and opened fire, fatally wounding Reserve Corporal Johnson before he had a chance to return fire. The subject abandoned his vehicle, fled the scene, and was arrested two days later.<br>
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Reserve Corporal Johnson had served with the Nyssa Police Department for almost five years. He had also served as a corrections officer with the Oregon Department of Corrections for 15 years and currently worked as a civilian employee for the agency. He is survived by his wife and two children.<br></i></blockquote>
Rest in Peace Bro…We Got The Watch<br>
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<i>Nemo me impune lacessit</I> <br>
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<i><a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/14taps.mp3">Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.</a> </i>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-57411461010031340492023-06-19T11:00:00.018-05:002023-06-19T11:00:00.141-05:00Officer Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/7754/pope-county-sheriffs-dept.png" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/7754/pope-county-sheriffs-dept.png" width="200" /></a><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26699/orig/c_josh-owen.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="315" height="200" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26699/orig/c_josh-owen.jpg" /></a></div></div><br>
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<i><blockquote><a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/26699-deputy-sheriff-josh-owen">Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen</a><br>
Pope County Sheriff's Office, Minnesota<br>
End of Watch Saturday, April 15, 2023<br>
Age 44<br>
Tour 12 years<br>
Badge 603<br>
Military Veteran<br>
Cause Gunfire<br>
Offender Shot and killed<br>
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Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen was shot and killed while he and another deputy attempted to arrest a man for domestic violence in the 400 block of Stromen Street in Cyrus at about 7:30 pm.<br>
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Deputies, as well as police officers from the Glenwood Police Department and Starbuck Police Department, had been dispatched to the house for reports of a domestic violence incident. The officers were attempting to place the man into custody when he opened fire on them. Deputy Owen and the subject were both fatally wounded. The other deputy and the Starbuck officer were injured.<br>
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Deputy Owen was a Minnesota National Guard Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran and had served with the Pope County Sheriff's Office for almost 12 years. He is survived by his wife, son, and parents. His father is a retired law enforcement officer.<br></i></blockquote>
Rest in Peace Bro…We Got The Watch<br>
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<i><a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/14taps.mp3">Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.</a> </i>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-79143046199989441332023-06-17T10:00:00.002-05:002023-06-17T10:32:16.444-05:00Deleted Space Seed scene<p>From the endless sea that is YouTube, an interesting scene from a great series. Star Trek's greatest villain, Khan Noonien Singh, is holding the command staff in the briefing room as Captain Kirk is suffocating. A piece taken from the reel. Enjoy. </p><p> </p><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FI8IQYJSl4">Deleted ‘Space Seed’ Scene Wows ‘Trek’ Fans</a></i></span></h1><div class="metadata singleline" style="margin-bottom: 1.45em; margin-top: -0.75em; max-width: 100%;"></div><div data-reader-unique-id="1" style="max-width: 100%;"><div data-reader-unique-id="2" style="max-width: 100%;"><div data-reader-unique-id="3" style="max-width: 100%;"><figure data-reader-unique-id="4" style="clear: left; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); float: left; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 1.4em; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="Khan in 'Space Seed'" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" data-dom-ready-time="2583" data-img-load-time="1342" data-reader-unique-id="5" decoding="async" height="112" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px" src="https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/spaceseedhd585-e1655064417724.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780" srcset="https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/spaceseedhd585-e1655064417724.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780 780w, https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/spaceseedhd585-e1655064417724.jpg?quality=15&strip=all&w=1100 1100w, https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/spaceseedhd585-e1655064417724.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=1350 1350w" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-inline-start: -66.953125px; margin: 0.5em auto; max-width: none; width: 780px;" width="200" /></figure></div><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="max-width: 100%;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">The</span> <a data-reader-unique-id="14" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FI8IQYJSl4" rel="noopener external" style="color: #416ed2; font-family: inherit; max-width: 100%; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">deleted scene</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, which popped up on YouTube in 2020, takes place in the briefing room aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) and a group of his followers have seized control of the ship, with at least four of them brandishing phasers. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Scotty (James Doohan) are seated in chairs, as Khan stands in front of them, addressing the group. Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is standing to Khan’s right. The camera then pushes in tight on McCoy as he approaches Khan and the doctor testily says, “I never thought I’d say this to a patient, but you owe me something. In case you’ve forgotten, I saved your life!” McCoy grabs at Khan’s arm and is immediately hit with phaser fire by one of Khan’s group. The doctor falls to the ground, as Uhura reaches out to help him. As the scene went unused in “Space Seed,” it was never completed. Thus, there are no special effects (for the phaser fire), nor is there any music to complement and enhance the action.</span> </i></p></div></div><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The scene continues with a quick cut to Spock, who is now standing, and Khan, who explains to the Vulcan that McCoy is only stunned and that he will avoid bloodshed…if possible. Khan then says, “I’m sure you approve.” Spock replies, “I approve only of the logic with which you took control of our vessel.” Spock pauses and raises his right eyebrow, and then says, “Brilliant.”</i></span></p><h2 data-reader-unique-id="18" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>It’s Dr. McCoy’s Passion Versus Spock’s Logic in Confrontation With Khan in Deleted ‘Space Seed’ Scene</i></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p data-reader-unique-id="20" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><lite-youtube data-reader-unique-id="21" itemprop="subjectOf" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" params="" style="background-image: url("https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5FI8IQYJSl4/hqdefault.jpg"); max-width: 100%;" title="Video" videoid="5FI8IQYJSl4"></lite-youtube></i></span></p><div class="iframe-wrapper extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="background-color: black; height: 442.177734px; margin-inline-start: -70px; max-width: none; text-align: center; width: 786.09375px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" data-reader-unique-id="22" height="315" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5FI8IQYJSl4?autoplay=1" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; height: 442.172px; max-width: 100%; width: 784.094px;" title="Play" width="560"></iframe></i></span></div><button class="lty-playbtn" style="max-width: 100%;" type="button"><span class="lyt-visually-hidden" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; max-width: 100%;"><i>Play</i></span></button><p></p><p data-reader-unique-id="26" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Great scene from a great series. RIP Spock, Scott, McCoy and of course Khan. And thank you for the great memories. <br data-reader-unique-id="28" style="max-width: 100%;" /><br /></span></p>
Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-69534317583921256652023-06-16T12:13:00.005-05:002023-06-16T12:13:46.492-05:00Be careful what you wish for...Says it all. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8zIZy21CWWPh4j5u2O3aR02p0sVS3UBmZq4qyUqISHnzxJAMSQHxl9tszAg1cZaNoMmK5F0gu-ujvwT_HKgYCPNDAEupA5D1IXBlP3Y9hnGckMqpiOPg_gm0f8PmRSotPZfJfSfqc-pB6YOa34VH-Z50tC9-sqKZVWFVlNBkoE2omyTOR9SHjiDvLg/s843/354059420_10226883683992122_585857939377195603_n-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="843" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8zIZy21CWWPh4j5u2O3aR02p0sVS3UBmZq4qyUqISHnzxJAMSQHxl9tszAg1cZaNoMmK5F0gu-ujvwT_HKgYCPNDAEupA5D1IXBlP3Y9hnGckMqpiOPg_gm0f8PmRSotPZfJfSfqc-pB6YOa34VH-Z50tC9-sqKZVWFVlNBkoE2omyTOR9SHjiDvLg/w400-h238/354059420_10226883683992122_585857939377195603_n-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616738492034982606.post-78374205363948972672023-06-16T11:00:00.025-05:002023-06-16T11:00:00.140-05:00Officer Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2768/new-york-state-police.png" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/agency/2768/new-york-state-police.png" width="200" /></a><a href="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26706/orig/c_hogan_patrick.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="467" height="200" src="https://www.odmp.org/media/image/officer/26706/orig/c_hogan_patrick.jpg" /></a></div></div><br>
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<i><blockquote><a href="https://www.odmp.org/officer/26706-investigator-patrick-j-hogan">Investigator Patrick J. Hogan</a><br>
New York State Police, New York<br>
End of Watch Thursday, April 13, 2023<br>
Age 61<br>
Tour 22 years<br>
Cause 9/11 related illness<br>
Incident Date Tuesday, September 11, 2001<br>
Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet<br>
Offender 19 suicide attackers<br>
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Investigator Patrick Hogan died as the result of cancer that he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.<br>
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Investigator Hogan was a United States Marine Corps Persian Gulf War veteran and served with the New York State Police for 22 years. He is survived by his wife, three children, three brothers, and a sister.<br>
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Rest in Peace Bro…We Got The Watch<br>
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<i>Nemo me impune lacessit</I> <br>
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<i><a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/14taps.mp3">Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.</a> </i>Mike Thiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.com0