[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Homeland Security has raised the level of its National Protest Advisory System (NPAS) from "Mostly Peaceful" to "Somewhat Peaceful" in response to swelling crowds outside the Supreme Court Building.
D.C. Police are on full alert with riot gear to hold back the somewhat peaceful protesters to prevent them from entering the Supreme Court Building with somewhat peaceful intent. The building itself is surrounded by oppressive barricades and the justices have reportedly been issued whistles to report somewhat peaceful touching on their person in the event of a somewhat peacefully bludgeoning.
"We advise everyone to stay away from the somewhat peaceful protests currently going on outside the Supreme Court Building," said D.C. Police Chief Frank Turtletaub. "The peaceful fire burns mightily. Several individuals are already somewhat incapacitated."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke in an effort to quell the protest's fervor when she said, "[...] the radical supreme court is eviscerating America's rights and endangering its health and safety [...] the harm is endless."
"It's a slap in the face to women," she added.
Curiously, her statements have been unable to prevent somewhat peaceful property damage.
At publishing time, the NPAS alert level was upgraded again from "somewhat peaceful" to "kind of peaceful." The mayor is currently considering evacuation orders.
[Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way] It’s the summer of 2022 — and where are all those Durham indictments you were promised? And where's that much-discussed Durham report? Do you know that you’ve been played for a fool yet — or are you still watching Fox News? Maybe you need another year to figure out the entire game. Maybe you still believe Bill Barr! Didn’t that legendary windbag tell us that the wheels of justice grind very slow but justice is coming?
Let’s turn back the clock two years — in case you forgot what AG Bagpipes promised the American public.
Indictments are coming!
People will know the names of these people!
Criminal prosecutions! Not just a report!
Notice that (then) AG Bill Barr promises justice for the Russia Hoax while at the very same time excluding Obama and Biden as subjects of the Durham investigation.
That’s the moment that you should have known: the fix is in.
The entire "tick tock" narrative that followed was brought to you (mostly) by Fox News and Bill Barr.
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How about convening a People's Court, using selected respected non-political Legal Scholars as the judges, kinda like a People's Supreme court.
Also include John Durham and Bill Barr for political abuse of power and breach of office oath.
While they will not serve time, at least the facts are presented and ruled on. Then plaster the findings across the Internet. Then what firm or company would want to be associated with them other than the same Anti-USA LSD crowd?
But at least the PEOPLE will have an Honest History account of the Coup.
#4
We now longer have a rule of law, but instead we have VERY "widespread political abuse of power and breach of office oath." Durham and Barr are rather minor players in that. How about Merrick Garland and Joe Biden?
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How about Merrick Garland and Joe Biden?
Minor players as well. The kingpins stay out of sight.
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Trump hired him.
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"AG Bagpipes promised the American public." A great disappointment. He had me fooled at the beginning. Durham was wait and see.
[Townhall] The Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the Dobbs case, and Roe v. Wade is no more. No, abortion is not banned. The original and heinous 1973 decision was overturned, and the issue is now sent back to the states. The legislative process is where this issue should be decided as abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution. Pass a law. If you want a right to an abortion, pass a law. The problem is Democrats really must bring their A-game convincing voters that baby-killing is a good thing. With this bunch, they’ll overreach. They’ll get too emotional. And they’ll come off as totally insane.
There is one woman we do need to thank. She has passed away, but her death also brought the end of Roe. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire under the Obama presidency proved to be a critical moment, though we didn’t know it at the time. It’s the reason why the Left has turned against her.
They’re not going to hardcore torch her corpse over this, but don’t be shocked if a few pieces about how this woman’s refusal to retire is at fault for this Supreme Court decision. Her death was true liberal whiplash. There was a meltdown, but then a realization that RBG screwed the Left on the abortion issue given the vacancy was going to be filled by Donald J. Trump with Amy Coney Barrett.
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Ask any old rich bitch/geezer in Congress (or gov't) why they just keep hanging on. It's can't be the money for they already have a lot of it. Pelosi, Feinstein-Blum, Waters, Sanders, and on and on and on (surely some GOPers in there, too).
Even Tony Science. He's a "civil servant" and a good 81 years old. He just won't leave/retire. Why? It ain't the money.
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Something *everyone* is overlooking here is that RBG herself thought the Rov v. Wade decision was overbroad and should have been limited to striking down that particular Texas Law.
I suspect that if the old gal were still around, she would have voted with the majority here.
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They can try to pass a law, but SCOTUS has already ruled it will be unconstitutional, either way. The right just ain’t in the Constitution. It is reserved to the states to legislate.
[HexBear] Last time there were nation-wide protests, U.S. courts showed us fascists could shoot and kill protesters and get away with it. LOL this means Rittenhouse. It was self-defense obviously, but to them you cannot defend yourself against being killed by antifa.
And of course every reddit comment is blaming people for not voting for Hillary and claiming we need to vote blue harder if we want to fix this... So fucking clueless. They hate Democrats.
Thanks for unanimously voting to protect the judges, democrats. Thanks for fortifying the court to protect it, democrats. Thanks for not using your supermajority to protect 50% of the population because you thought you could hold women hostage as a fundraising tactic forever, democrats. You absolute fucking demons. If a canvasser has the audacity to contact me I’m finding out what the legal limit of hurting someone with words is before I respond. There's not a legal limit, we have free speech in America. But a very revealing mentality that expects there to be punishment for using words.
[Daily Signal] "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."
The quote was from Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China. Mao’s first act after gaining complete control of China in 1949 was to take away all guns from the population. It was a policy he began in 1935 as he took over each rural province. Anyone found with a gun post-confiscation was executed.
An estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new "socialist" China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with—by execution, imprisonment, or forced famine.
Mao killed more people than either Stalin or Hitler during World War II. And it all began after he took away the guns.
Dictators throughout much of history have disarmed their populations before they began their mass killings. Examples abound beyond Mao: Hitler took guns from the Jews in November of 1938, and Kristallnacht and the Holocaust followed; and then there was Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to name but a few.
CUBA AND GUN CONTROL
Everybody ought to have a gun, Castro maintained—until he took over Cuba in 1959. At a rally in Havana before he assumed power, he explained: "This is how democracy works: It gives rifles to farmers, to students, to women, to Negroes, to the poor, and to every citizen who is ready to defend a just cause."
Weapons ranging from Czech submachine guns to Belgian FN automatic rifles were handed out to 50,000 soldiers, 400,000 militiamen, 100,000 members of the factory-guarding popular defense force, and to many men, women, and children in Cuba’s 1 million-strong "neighborhood vigilance committees."
Immediately after assuming power in 1959, Castro changed his position, following Mao’s rule that guns should not be in the hands of the people.
For three weeks after the Castro government was formed, Radio Havana warned, "All citizens must turn in their combat weapons. Civilians must take arms to police stations, soldiers to military headquarters."
Radio Havana’s explanation was somewhat contradictory: The guns were in bad shape anyway and the "struggle against our enemies requires a rigorous control of all combat weapons."
There was an urgency about the new policy that suggested serious concern. Failure to turn in military weapons by Sept. 1, 1959, warned Radio Havana, would be punished not by criminal courts but by the dreaded Revolutionary Tribunals—those kangaroo courts that sentenced thousands of Cubans to death after Castro took over.
VENEZUELA AND GUN CONTROL
Venezuela is now paying the price for allowing Chavez to implement the Mao rule when he came to power in 2012.
The shocking nature of an economic collapse that led Venezuela from being one of the richest countries in Latin America to one of the poorest has been well documented.
One aspect of the Venezuelan crisis that does not receive much coverage is the country’s gun control regime. All guns were outlawed when Chavez came to power, and harsh penalties were imposed on violators. The Venezuelan Armed Forces have exclusive power to control, register, and potentially confiscate firearms.
Many citizens now regret the repressive gun control legislation the Venezuelan government implemented in 2012. Naturally, this regret is warranted. The Venezuelan government is among the most tyrannical in the world, with a proven track record of violating basic civil liberties such as free speech, debasing its national currency, confiscating private property, and creating economic controls that destroy the country’s productivity.
Elections have proven to be useless, as they’ve been mired with corruption and charges of government tampering. For many, taking up arms is the only option left for the country to shake off its tyrannical government. But the Venezuelan government has prevented such an uprising with its draconian gun control.
These life-and-death lessons of history are lost on too many Americans. Our Founding Fathers didn’t give us the Second Amendment for duck hunting or simply for self-protection in a country that at the time had a vast and yet unknown frontier. They bestowed it upon us so that we could protect our precious nation from devolving into tyranny as so many others have done.
Politicians who respect the American ideal don’t try to diminish the Second Amendment or blame it for other ills of society that they have failed to solve, but rather embrace it as part of the legacy of rights that helps keep America free.
Link to text by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Commentary by an unidentified commenter, putatively a Ukrainian soldier:
Just got the opportunity to go online.
During this time, a lot of things happened ...
... There was a march of two tank companies and an anti-aircraft missile platoon.
... There was an order on the move to go to the aid of a territorial defense company and a combined detachment of border guards in order to drive Russian troops out of one of the villages, near the bridge over the river.
... There was the first explosion on a mine of one of the tanks
... There was a rapid entry into the village of tanks without the support of the infantry, which forgot to start advancing.
... There was constant mortar and artillery shelling from which there was nowhere to hide, knocking out tanks from the industrial zone, there was a hit by some kind of rocket in the tank, from which the car bent like a bowl.
... There was a raid by two Russian Ka-52s at low altitudes and there were missile launches from our Strela-10s. One helicopter was knocked out over the village, and the second smoke went to his own.
... And then there was an air raid and the shooting of infantry with cluster bombs, armed only with machine guns and machine guns, in an open field. One hundred - one hundred and twenty people were left lying there.
... There was black smoke from twelve burning tanks and an order to break out of the village and regroup three kilometers from the village.
... There was refueling and a second raid by Russian aircraft, there was again shelling and there was lying along the canals along the fields. And there was the death of "horseless" tankers, who, unlike us, anti-aircraft gunners, were not given bulletproof vests and helmets.
... Two soldiers of my platoon had shrapnel wounds, and there was a ricochet of a fragment from a tree, and a fatal hit between the shoulder blades of a piece of mine to the gunner of the third vehicle.
... In the evening there was an order to leave, leaving the dead and faulty cars. 14 tanks remained at the site of the rout, most of their crews and one of my Strelkas.
... Then, in the morning, in the village where the headquarters was located, we went straight from the march to the general store, and the saleswoman, despite the ban on selling alcohol to servicemen, saw something in our faces, put vodka on the counter and did not take it for it of money. We drank vodka right in the store, but she did not take us.
... And after dinner there was an order to go to pick up the bodies and suitable cars.
... And there was a full KrAZ trailer of bodies in black overalls, somewhere whole, somewhere without certain pieces of the body. Three tanks and my Strela were taken out.
... And then, instead of resting, a day later, the two remaining anti-aircraft guns were ordered to go to the front line near the Siversky Donets and cover the infantry, which did not allow the Russians to build crossings.
And now, for what day, as an incomplete platoon, we have been sitting on landings in the "gray zone", three kilometers from the front line. There are no classes and there is no Internet, just know to sit at the ready in the car, but wallow in the dugout. Of the entertainment, there are hourly arrivals from Russian artillery from across the river, but this is already familiar: you hear a shot, you hear the howl of shells and you guess whether you need to lie down on the ground or you can continue to boil coffee for yourself.
(By the way, my battery in the anti-aircraft missile and artillery division is called “Damned” behind our backs, because since the beginning of the war we have had the biggest losses: for 38 people, 2 killed and 5 wounded of varying severity. It’s easier for the rest of the batteries - there are solid MANPADS on "pick-ups" (fired and moved off mobile), and we were like suicide bombers on our bulletproof "motorcycle leagues" with old clumsy electronics.)
Has something changed in me? I don’t know, the sense of humor has remained the same, though it has turned a little black. He began to hear worse in his right ear (a consequence of a nearby explosion of a mine, but the eardrum was intact). I don’t complain about the psyche, unlike my driver-mechanic - he is already shaking when he needs to get into the car.
If before I was not sure if I could shoot Russian soldiers without mental resistance, now I know for sure - I can and easily. You just aim your machine gun or machine gun, pull the trigger and watch the enemy fall...
Do I hate Russians? No, I don't want civilians to die. And I'm not going to throw curses at all.
I'm just going to continue to defend my homeland from an armed aggressor, and then come what may.
From office:
Last week, one of the high officers of the brigade headquarters defected to the Russians. Perhaps due to the fact that he has relatives in Russia or just a complete bitch (after all, he could have run away in the winter with complete confusion). Now the Russian military has detailed information about the personnel, technical support and location of units. It seems that this is why two days ago a pair of high-precision missiles flew to the headquarters of the brigade, which was stationed in one of the villages of the Kharkov region.
No one was injured from the military, unfortunately, one woman was killed and two children who were playing in the street were injured.
(But they were neo-Nazis and hidden banderophiles anyway, because as V.V. Putin said in his recent interview: "Today's officers and soldiers selflessly fight for our Motherland, for our people, defend Donbass from neo-Nazis.
Our fighters act courageously and professionally, like real heroes." )
Adds Chervonets, although he fails to note the exact date and location:
Total
According to the results of one battle, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost:
- 14 tanks (with 11 burned out beyond recovery) with crews
- one launcher for the Strela-10 air defense system
- at least 150 AFU soldiers died, and if we add the wounded, then 5,000.
losses of the RF Armed Forces - one helicopter was shot down.
[Rutherford Institute] "In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught."—Hunter S. Thompson
The burden of proof has been reversed.
No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our innocence beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Rarely, are we even given the opportunity to do so.
Although the Constitution requires the government to provide solid proof of criminal activity before it can deprive a citizen of life or liberty, the government has turned that fundamental assurance of due process on its head.
Each and every one of us is now seen as a potential suspect, terrorist and lawbreaker in the eyes of the government.
Consider all the ways in which "we the people" are now treated as criminals, found guilty of violating the police state’s abundance of laws, and preemptively stripped of basic due process rights.
Red flag gun confiscation laws: Gun control legislation, especially in the form of red flag gun laws, allow the police to remove guns from people "suspected" of being threats. These laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, will put a target on the back of every American whether or not they own a weapon.
Disinformation eradication campaigns. In recent years, the government has used the phrase "domestic terrorist" interchangeably with "anti-government," "extremist" and "terrorist" to describe anyone who might fall somewhere on a very broad spectrum of viewpoints that could be considered "dangerous." The ramifications are so far-reaching as to render almost every American an extremist in word, deed, thought or by association. In the government’s latest assault on those who criticize the government—whether that criticism manifests itself in word, deed or thought—the Biden Administration has likened those who share "false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information" to terrorists. This latest government salvo against consumers and spreaders of "mis- dis- and mal-information" widens the net to potentially include anyone who is exposed to ideas that run counter to the official government narrative. In other words, if you dare to subscribe to any views that are contrary to the government’s, you may well be suspected of being a domestic terrorist and treated accordingly. In this way, government and corporate censors claiming to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns are, in fact, laying the groundwork now to preempt any "dangerous" ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Homeland Security has raised the level of its National Protest Advisory System (NPAS) from "Mostly Peaceful" to "Somewhat Peaceful" in response to swelling crowds outside the Supreme Court Building.
[Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way] It’s the summer of 2022 — and where are all those 
[Townhall] The Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the Dobbs case, and Roe v. Wade is no more. No, abortion is not banned. The original and heinous 1973 decision was overturned, and the issue is now sent back to the states. The legislative process is where this issue should be decided as abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution. Pass a law. If you want a right to an abortion, pass a law. The problem is Democrats really must bring their A-game convincing voters that baby-killing is a good thing. With this bunch, they’ll overreach. They’ll get too emotional. And they’ll come off as totally insane. 
