From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
In a vote, 10-8, along party lines, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) ban on the sale and manufacture of more than 150 types of semi-automatic weapons on Thursday. However, the vote took place after the Cruz missile struck. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) lectured Feinstein on the United States Constitution. Continue reading “Cruz & Feinstein Have It Out As Assault Weapons Ban Bill Passes Committee”
Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg
“There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat,” warns an unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times. “They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.”
That description was not applied to the masked, armor-clad Berserkers who kick down doors in the early morning or late at night and terrorize families over non-violent “offenses.” Nor was it offered in reference to the militants who have purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition – much of it hollow-point rounds unsuitable for military use – while distributing armored vehicles and other military hardware to their adherents in practically every city nation-wide. Continue reading “Only an Incipient ‘Terrorist’ Denounces State Murder”
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
Edward Bernays, 1955
In his 1928 book Propaganda, Edward Bernays, the architect of modern day public relations and marketing, argues that manipulation of public opinion is necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in society. It’s a strategy that his been implemented for centuries, but most notably during the last hundred years. Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Hussein found propaganda to be an extremely effective mechanism of control over their populations, as have modern-day governments of the Western world where “freedom of the press” and government transparency are supposed to be a key tenet of an open society. Continue reading “An Exercise In Propaganda: “Living On the Streets of Modern Day America””
Huffington Post – by LINDA DEUTSCH
LOS ANGELES — The city has agreed to give $40,000 to two women whose pickup was shot up by a Police Department protection detail that mistook their newspaper delivery vehicle for the truck driven by rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner during his rampage, officials announced Thursday.
The tax-free settlement covering the pickup and other property came quickly after the women’s attorney, Glen Jonas, rejected Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck’s offer of a replacement truck because the women would have had to pay taxes. The deal specified no admission of liability. Continue reading “LA compensates 2 for truck mistakenly shot by LAPD”
Village Voice – by Ryan Devereaux
The only civilian eyewitness to come forward in the case of a Brooklyn teen shot dead by a pair of plainclothes New York City police officers is “certain” the 16 year-old was empty-handed when the cops opened fire.
Kimani ‘Kiki’ Gray was shot several times by two officers patrolling East Flatbush in an un-marked car around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night. Continue reading “Eyewitness “Certain” Kimani Gray Was Unarmed When Police Shot Him”
A youth baseball league in central Illinois is in desperate need of cash – so they’ve decided to auction off an AR-15 assault rifle.
Last year the Atwood-Hammond baseball league tried to raffle off half a hog. But they only raised $10 – and barely had enough to pay the local butcher. Continue reading “Youth Baseball Team Raffling AR-15 Rifle”
Resistor in the Rockies – by Ironwill III
House Bill 1224, the Magazine Capacity Ban, was signed off by the House today. The bill is now on the Gov.’s desk. He has indicated he will sign it.
The bill will ‘allow’ you to keep your high capacity magazines if you owned them prior to the date this bill goes into effect. But even if you magazine complies with this bill, you may still be in violation. Continue reading “Commierado Magazine Ban On Gov.’s Desk – We’re All Criminals”
A New Jersey mother was arrested and told to turn over her guns after reading the Constitution and peacefully protesting at a tax dispute forum, she says.
Eileen Hart was with her husband Keith and her 7-year-old daughter on Saturday at the Gloucester Community Center to dispute a mandatory home re-evaluation that would roughly double her property value (and therefore dramatically increase her rates), objecting on multiple grounds. As an Orthodox Jew, she refused to have the inspectors in her home when her husband was away at work. As an American citizen, she objected to the seemingly arbitrary reappraisal, noting that she is not planning on selling her home and hasn’t renovated her kitchen in 30 years. Continue reading “NJ Mother Pressured to Turn over her Guns, Charged with ‘Terroristic Threats’ after Reading the Constitution at Tax Dispute Assembly”
The devastating sequester cuts are going to reduce manpower on the border, bringing new attention to border patrol technology. Apparently there is a plethora of machines ready to step up, or more precisely roll up, and take on the challenge – cameras, robots, drones, I guess the drones will be flying up. At any rate, this will all be free equipment…not.
In the end result, the high technology will cost more to do basically the same job, which is no job at all, as ICE Agents have already been told to leave the poor immigrants and their backpacks full of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, alone, as they are just coming here for a better life. And if they do wind up being arrested for a crime committed against an American national, well they will be released, as we cannot afford to house them because of the sequester. Continue reading “Technology to Seal our Southern Border – Yeah, that’s the Ticket”
PHOENIX – The video made national headlines — a Phoenix Police officer caught on camera tackling a teenage girl.
The chief of police wants to suspend that officer, but the officer says it’s too harsh, and he’s appealing the decision.
That officer is fighting a 5-day suspension. He believes he acted within policy, but a disciplinary review board and the chief don’t think so. Continue reading “Officer who tackled teenage girl appeals suspension”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Standing as a bulwark of liberty, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill protecting citizens of the Sooner State from the unconstitutional provisions of ObamaCare.
By a vote of 72-20, the state House of Representatives passed House Bill 1021, a bill that if signed into law would stop the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as ObamaCare) at the borders of the sovereign state of Oklahoma. Continue reading “Oklahoma House of Representatives Passes ObamaCare Nullification Bill”
Reuters – by Emily Flitter and Stella Dawson and Mark Hosenball
(Reuters) – The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. Continue reading “U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances”
New York Daily News -by CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS AND SHANE DIXON KAVANAUGH
Protesters enraged over the fatal shooting of a teenager by police poured into Brooklyn streets for a third straight night Wednesday, pitching bricks, bottles and garbage in furious clashes with cops.
At least 18 demonstrators were arrested along Church Ave. in East Flatbush. Police struggled to control a hostile crowd that broke away from a planned peaceful vigil for Kimani (Kiki) Gray, 16, killed by police on Saturday night. Continue reading “Enraged protesters battle cops in Brooklyn streets during third night of rioting after it’s revealed that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot in the back”
The Taser, the non-lethal law enforcement weapon that is meant to incapacitate criminals without causing great harm, has killed at least 500 people last decade. The real number of casualties might be even higher.
In the period between 2001 and early 2012, the stun-gun Taser devices used by law enforcement across America have claimed the lives of 500 people. Continue reading “Tasers Have Killed at Least 500 Americans”
Militant Libertarian – by William N. Grigg
There is no situation that cannot be made instantly and immeasurably worse through police intervention. A splendid illustration of this principle is found in a recent ruling from the the Arkansas Court of Appeals.
According to the court, police were entitled to arrest, taze, and beat a teenager who had done nothing more sinister than speak to his mother on the street in front of their home. A police officer accosted the young man – who, as a juvenile, is identified only by the initials “R.R.” — after he saw him approaching a woman who was walking a dog. Continue reading ““For Your Own Protection””
Natural Society – by Anthony Gucciardi
There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunity from any USDA action regarding the potential dangers of their genetically modified creations while under review. The USDA would be unable to act against any and all new GMO crops that were suspected to be wreaking havoc on either human health or the environment. Continue reading “New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto Power Over US Government”
The Daily Caller – by Nicholas Ballasy
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told The Daily Caller that his department is “making reductions everywhere” to deal with the sequester, including furloughing Federal Aviation Administration workers.
But less than seven months ago, LaHood said he was “very proud” of putting 65,000 people to work with $48 billion in federal stimulus funds — a figure that amounted to $738,461 per job. Continue reading “After proudly bingeing on stimulus dollars, Ray LaHood now says his Transportation Dept. is cutting ‘everywhere’ for sequester”
When the smoke cleared at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in the wee hours of a Friday morning last July, 12 people were dead, 58 were injured and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in New York, readying an assault of his own.
The campaign that Mr. Bloomberg and his “gun team” came up with in the hours and days after Aurora involved carpet-bombing Washington with millions from the mayor’s immense fortune and a media blitz that would be deployed following the next massacre. Continue reading “After Aurora: How Mayor Bloomberg Planned to Make the Next Massacre Count”
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted details of a no bid contract with weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer, worth $4.5 million over the next five years.
The contract is identical to the one DHS announced last week with Heckler & Koch.
Both contracts are for $900,000 worth of “replacement parts” a year, for weapons used by DHS agents. Continue reading “Stockpile: DHS announces second $4.5 million gun purchase in less than a week”
Cowboy Byte
The Blaze – by Erica Ritz
Politicker – by Hunter Walker
The Examiner – by Dave Gibson