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2020-09-24 -Land of the Free
Did Someone Just Try To Assassinate The President?
from a comment yesterday by Elmineling Gonque2869:
[AndMagazine] On Monday morning police in Lake Township, Ohio received a 911 call. A man, dressed in full camo gear, and a woman had parked their car in the parking lot of a local business and then started walking along railroad tracks behind a local airport. When police responded they found John C. Davison, 38, and Vicki M. Davison, 33. Both are from Virginia Beach. The police also recovered from the Davisons’ a backpack, a Glock handgun with an extended magazine, 200 rounds of ammunition, four tourniquets, two shovels, and a pitchfork.

President Trump was holding a campaign rally in the vicinity on the same day, although he flew in and out from a different local airport. Based on this the Secret Service became involved. Press reports indicate that the Davisons’ stated that it was their intent to blow up a local high school, the nearby airport, and local refineries. The reports also indicate that John Davison had some desire to come face to face with the President.

Both of the Davisons are in custody and have been charged with multiple offenses. The Facebook page that appears to be connected to John C. Davison suggests that he was formally a U.S. Navy EOD specialist. It also indicates that he was — up until the time of his arrest — running a firearms dealership in the Virginia Beach area.

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That’s one livelihood thrown away...
There is little suggestion on his Facebook page of any specific political agenda.

There are obviously at this stage a whole boatload of unanswered questions. To begin with, the motive for the alleged intent to carry out terrorist attacks remains unknown. The apparent connection to the visit of the President, suggesting a desire to harm him, is puzzling as well.

There are in addition though some other very immediate aspects of this case, which have not been addressed at all to date and which need to be run ’to ground’ immediately.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
The Davisons have indicated that there was some sort of plan to blow up a range of targets. They were caught with no explosives. Where are those explosives and who has them?

Reporting suggests that the backpack retrieved by police was described as heavily loaded by eyewitnesses when they saw the Davisons leave their vehicle and head down the railroad tracks. The only items recovered that would have fit in that backpack were a handgun and a limited quantity of ammo. Those items would not have led to the backpack being "heavily loaded." What else was in that pack and where is it now?

But, here is maybe the biggest, as yet, unaddressed concern. What were the shovels and the pitchfork for?

In the world of terrorism, special operations and insurgency — supplies and equipment are often hidden and then subsequently retrieved via caches. This means — in its simplest sense — that items of importance are buried and then dug up. Emplacing and retrieving a cache means digging, and that means shovels.

Caches, however, are meant to be hidden and secretive. That means not only that their location is unknown to the opposition but that no trace is left when they are emplaced or retrieved. After you are done digging, in other words, you do your best to make the surface appear undisturbed and give no sign of where your cache might be located. For that purpose, in spreading straw, smoothing dirt or doing whatever else is required, a pitchfork would do nicely.

What all this suggests strongly is that either the Davisons were out to retrieve items from a cache site, likely explosives, or they were emplacing something in just such a cache site. Either way, there remains a raft of questions that need urgently answered.

Since we don’t have in hand any items which appear to have been buried or which it would make sense to bury, where are they? In particular, since the Davisons apparently intended to carry out bombings, where are all the things required to make that happen, i.e., explosives, detonators, timers?

If the Davison’s were out to retrieve items from a cache site, which seems most likely given the evidence in our possession, who emplaced the items in that site in the first place? And how did whoever did that know in advance that the President of the United States would be coming to this particular location in Ohio well enough in advance to have done so? In short, if the Davisons were part of something larger, where is the rest of this possible conspiracy, and what are its capabilities?

There is a myriad of possibilities here obviously. One of them is that the Davisons are not ’all there’ and that any attempt to rationally explore their behavior is an exercise in futility. In this scenario, the rest of this "conspiracy" exists only in the minds of the folks that we have already arrested.

There is another very real possibility, however. That is that we just saw the tip of something much larger hidden below the surface. Given the scope of the Marxist insurgency ongoing in this country and the demonstrated ability of enemies of the republic to operate with impunity on our soil, that possibility should absolutely not be discounted. If the FBI can’t find the people organizing mass riots in our streets, there is no reason to think they would have infiltrated a conspiracy against the Chief Executive.

We need to ask ourselves. Did someone just try to assassinate the President and, if so, who is responsible and what is their next move?
Posted by 746 2020-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ]  Top

#1 The pitch fork is for clamming (probing) deep into the sand (or dirt).
Posted by boomerc 2020-09-24 04:31||   2020-09-24 04:31|| Front Page Top

#2 As we get closer to the NOV election date, I expect the even more odd social deviants and radical berserk'ers to come out of the woodwork.

They know TRUMP will be the legitimate winner and we know the socialist-democrats will attempt to disrupt that at any cost. Including harm to the President and Pro-America supporters, as we have already seen.

According to the leaks of their End-Game Agenda. TRUMP getting elected set them back 12 years. Hillary was to add to OBAMA's kick America to hell and stack the SCOTUS. Which would have paved the way to Socialism and the USA no longer being a Super power.

Remember....In the next 4 years we are also looking at 2 maybe 3 more justices with failing health or planning retirement.

LET US BE CLEAR.
That we will hold the Democrat Party leadership and their Liberal - Socialist donors directly responsible for any attempts to harm and inflected pain on others with opposing political views.
Posted by NN2N1  2020-09-24 07:02||   2020-09-24 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 lock 'n' load
Posted by Chuckles Snore3124 2020-09-24 13:24||   2020-09-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Next 4 years 2 definite replacements: Thomas (72 health) and Brennan (82 age).

Outside those 2 or some unexpected health consequences, the only other one is Alito is 70, and if looks like a D president incoming in 2024 then he might retire to give a solid 48 year old conservative his seat under Trump.
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-24 14:53||   2020-09-24 14:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Hit enter too soon.

Rating:

CS = Conservative (Traditional)
CC = Constitutional Conservative
CL = Conservative Libertarian
CH = Hard Conservative
LB = Liberal (Traditional)
LH = Hard Leftist
LM = Moderate Liberal Wobbler

Kavanaugh will go non-conservative sometimes on Libertarian things. Roberts may occasionally wobble back to the conservative side on some things, but he is no longer a conservative but a swamp creature and a slave to the press and DC party circuit.

Age now, age in 2024

82-86 (LB) Stephen Breyer 1994 Clinton
72-76 (CS) Clarence Thomas 1991 GHWBush

If Trump replaces both with 45-45 year old conservatives, that means in 2024 we will have

Age Rate Name Year President

74 (CH) Samuel Alito 2006 GWBush
70 (LH) Sonia Sotomayer 2009 Obama
69 (LM) John Roberts 2005 GWBush
64 (LH) Elena Kagan 2010 Obama
59 (CL) Brett Kavanaugh 2018 Trump
57 (CC) Neil Gorsuch 2017 Trump
52 (CS) Amy Barret 2020 Trump
55? (CC) Replacement for Brennan 202N Trump
55? (CS) Replacement for Thomas 202N Trump

NOW you can see why its so important for Trump to get his second turn. 5 seat conservative majority for the next 15+ years with Kavanaugh, Goresuch, Barret, and 2 replacements.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-24 15:23||   2020-09-24 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Beautifully laid out argument, Theager Borgia1057, and something I hadn’t thought about more than superficially. My learning for today! :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-24 20:55||   2020-09-24 20:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Kagen and Sotomayor won't know how to vote without Ginsberg and Breyer to tell 'em
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-24 21:26||   2020-09-24 21:26|| Front Page Top

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