Responding to the Uvalde school mass shooting, the good professor wrote:.
[Instapundit] I'm thinking of writing an article calling for a new tort, "failure to protect," when those charged with public safety fail to reasonably do their jobs. Current case law says there's no right to police protection, but that's just case law. I'd hold cops and the municipalities that employ them jointly and severally liable for reckless or willful failure to protect. With treble damages when they stop others from doing so.
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Until the doctrine of "sovereign immunity" is put to rest, this will go nowhere.
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05/27/2022 2:06 Comments ||
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Border Patrol Officer who took out the mass shooter was getting a hair cut, got a text from his wife who is a teacher at Uvalde elementary school and whose 10 year old daughter is an elementary students there, that there is an active shooter there, "Help!". He borrowed a shotgun, went in and shot the shooter while taking a round across the top of his baseball cap and was wounded by another round during his firefight with the attacker.
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^ No. He will be fired for "breaking protocol" and not letting the body count climb higher.
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05/27/2022 2:30 Comments ||
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I hope someone is scouring the videos looking for the guys with the high and tight haircuts and khakis lingering across the street.
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05/27/2022 2:32 Comments ||
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CORRECTION:. The above border patrol agent was not the one who shot the shooter, he was on one of the teams going from class room to class room evacuating kids and searching for the shooter.
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Gomez has two children in second and third grade and she said she drove 40 miles to the school after hearing of the attack.
She was one of the desperate parents who encouraged police with increasing urgency to enter the school.
Eventually, federal marshals put Gomez in handcuffs and told her she was under arrest for intervening in an active investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Angeli Gomez jumped the school fence and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself
Gomez said she was able to convince a Uvalde officer whom she knew to have the marshal free her and she took the opportunity to move away from the crowd, jump the school fence, and ran inside the school where she rescued her children herself.
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^ Thankless job. Don't get the idea I am anti police.
As I said yesterday, maybe it's time to stop putting fish in a barrel.
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05/27/2022 3:15 Comments ||
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Whomever the officer who put that lady in handcuffs should be the first to go. She was doing what he should have been doing.
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05/27/2022 9:54 Comments ||
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Over and over again we find failures, anomalies, hinky people and just a general surreal weirdness surrounding these events. Last night Tucker Carlson compared our response to these shootings to airplane crashes. The crashes, he noted, are thoroughly investigated to determine what went wrong and how it can be corrected. But the responses to the shootings are hysteria and political posturing. Well, there's something right there that needs to be corrected.
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05/27/2022 11:57 Comments ||
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The hysteria comes from the media and the political posturing comes from...well, you know.
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05/27/2022 12:01 Comments ||
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Rationality is another thing the left will outlaw.
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05/27/2022 12:02 Comments ||
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Also listened some to LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on KFI's John and Ken Show. A sensible guy in a crazy town, Sheriff Villanueva told John and Ken that the job of law enforcement in a situation like this is to run toward the shooting and engage the shooter.
"That's the job," he said.
Calling for backup and helping the victims can wait, he said. There is no ideal solution but the main thing is to stop the shooter.
But host John Kobylt later asserted that in a small town like Uvalde you will not find the best police officers because the best ones will moved to bigger cities where they can make more money.
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05/27/2022 12:12 Comments ||
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run toward the shooting and engage the shooter
Well, that's what we were instructed in case of an ambush - charge the shooters.
[Tom Cooper] Looks like Turkey is taking advantage of the US and Russia being distracted by the Ukraine war to expand its territorial control in Syria. Israel isn’t playing ball with the US on logistics support. Interesting speculation on the rate that Russia is burning through its war stocks of material based on recent deployment of older equipment.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Film is translatable to English
[ColonelCassad] Trailer of the film at the "Edge of the Abyss. Battle for Mariupol" by Max Fadeev. A film about the storming of Mariupol.
What can I say, very powerful. It looks like an application for the best documentary on the battles for Mariupol. I saw this level of work only with Shilov and Kharchenko in Syria.
At the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was significant concern that China would follow with its own invasion of Taiwan. With both Moscow and Beijing moving to secure what they consider breakaway states within days of each other, the United States--months away from its own messy pull out of Afghanistan--would be too caught in a lurch to react to either.
That obviously didn't happen.
It's not that China is not always considering how it can bring Taiwan back into the mainland's fold. It's just a question of what the scope of an invasion would look like, and what sort of consequences the Chinese will be brought to bear. The arithmetic and planning for both have changed sharply in recent months.
If anything, Russia's bungled invasion of Ukraine showed the Chinese that there's no quick or easy way to overwhelm a fortified and prepared neighboring state. Consider the fact that the Ukrainians have only really existed as a unified, functional post-Soviet country since the Russian's first invasion of the Donbas in 2014. Taiwan has been preparing for a potential Chinese invasion for over six decades.
There's also the obvious fact that Taiwan is an island. The Russians attempted to slow-roll a land based invasion from Russia and Belarus into Ukraine. China is going to have to move armor, soldiers, supply chains, etc across the Taiwan Strait or by air. En masse. This is something incredibly difficult and costly to do even for the best equipped air forces and navies. China's remain largely untested.
And then there is the threat of international reaction. China's proximity to the world's most concentrated production hub of high-end semiconductors seems like effective leverage. And to some extent, it is. But China's workers lack the skillset to design and build the high-end chips Taiwan is known for. And most of the R&D happens in the United States. While Taiwan's plants would most likely shutter, one should keep in mind that much of China's most valuable exports--high end electronics, smart phones, etc.--are reliant on these very same chips.
Which brings us to global consequences. The world is not going to take lightly to the Chinese upending the chip supply chain. Nor can China expect to avoid crippling economic consequences. Consider that outside of energy and extracted resources, Russia has not spent most of its post-Cold War life integrating too heavily into the global economy. China is the complete opposite. Whatever difficulties Moscow is facing with Western economic sanctions, China's pain would undoubtedly be orders of magnitude worse.
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The offsetting worry is that there will never, ever, be a more feckless, cowardly, corrupt, ignorant, globalist and self-delusional administration to challenge for hegemonic control of the Asian-Pacific region!
[Tom Cooper] As I’m writing this, the oligarchy of this planet (minus Russians, this time) — plus many of politicians bribed by it — is in the process of closing its gathering at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, in Switzerland. In between of enjoying hamburgers priced at €80 apiece and lots of networking necessary after two years of pandemic, they were mumbling about affairs like ‘collaborative, multistakeholder impact’, ‘unique collaborative environment in which to reconnect…’, and, time and again, such unimportant affairs like the Ukraine War and the possible famine it might cause in Africa and Asia, or energy crisis, and plastic pollution…
As so often before, one of ‘stars’ was Henry Kissinger. For youngsters between us: he’s a former National Security Adviser of the USA (from back in the late 1960s and 1970s), best known for involvement in lying to the US public about de-escalation in Vietnam War while widening the war into neighbouring Cambodia; for playing an instrumental role in a coup against President Allende of Chile of 1973; for putting the US Armed Forces on DEFCON2 (nuclear alert short of all-out war) during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War; for supporting Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor….and few other….’controversial’ affairs. To others, he might be famous for his statements regarding importance of oil and specific human beings….and to me, he’s best-known as director of the think-tank Kissinger Associates, which was instrumental in the US involvement in support of Paul Kagame’s ‘democratising’ regime in Rwanda, and its looting of the Congolese mineral wealth since 1996…
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^ The only fail was there were no prisoners to free. Intel failure. But the media slimed everyone involved from Nixon on down.
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/\ Yes! Here was another highly successful operation "slimed" by the West and international media. Many of the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) employed on Son Day were also used on Reindeer.
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At the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was significant concern that China would follow with its own invasion of Taiwan. With both Moscow and Beijing moving to secure what they consider breakaway states within days of each other, the United States--months away from its own messy pull out of Afghanistan--would be too caught in a lurch to react to either. 
