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Despotism Stooooopid!

If you are going

to prohibit people from defending themselves the YOU naturally bear responsibility if they are injured through your actions.

After all, it only makes sense, as it is the owners posting “No Guns” signs on their property that are leaving gun owners defenseless in areas where criminals have no qualms about having a gun.

… “All we want to make sure is, if you’re in the store or anywhere and it has a ‘no gun’ sign, then that store needs to understand they have absolute custodial care of that person,” Rep. Momtahan said of the measure.

Look, it’s only fair. If I a damaged by you policies, you may be legally liable for any damages that result in you action. Hey, I might feel scared and anxious even if no gang-bangers walk in with guns! You may be liable for that, too, Mr. property owner/leaseholder!

You wanna play the lawfare game? OK, but you won’t like it!

According to the text of the legislation, “Any lawful weapons carrier who is prohibited from carrying his or her weapon, including a concealed weapon, and who is injured, suffers bodily injury or death, or incurs economic loss or expense, property damage, or any other compensable loss as the result of conduct of another person occurring on property where the lawful possession of weapons is prohibited, shall have a cause of action against the person, business, or other entity that owns or legally controls such property and causes such prohibition to occur. In addition to damages, the lawful weapons carrier shall be entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees, expert witness costs, and other costs necessary to bring the cause of action.”

But that could also render the owner if a citizen doesn’t even own a gun with them: “I would have bought and carried a gun but the sign said they weren’t allowed.”

And gee, what if a person suffered injury at another location because he or she didn’t have a gun with them solely because they thought they might drop by that store?

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Despicable Despotism

Amazon colluded

with “Biden” to suppress scientific criticisms of the pandemic response. THAT is horrible!

I think it may be time to leave Amazon as much as possible. PublicSquare is an alternative, as is Walmart online. But I agree, it is hard. Still, there is a moral issue at stake, here.

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Despicable Despotism

Oh! You

don’t say!

The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying records from data brokers detailing which websites and apps Americans use, US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed Thursday.

This news follows Wyden’s push last year that forced the FBI to admit that it was also buying Americans’ sensitive data. Now, the senator is calling on all intelligence agencies to “stop buying personal data from Americans that has been obtained illegally by data brokers.”

Now, the next question is this: Once they gathered the information, did they act on it? Are there people in jail now because of what they did?

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Despotism Fighting Back

How do you

say, “Kiss my butt”in Federalese?

The Texas National Guard continues to fortify border barriers with razor wire, defying demands of the Biden administration, The Daily Wire found upon visiting the park in Eagle Pass, Texas, that has become the focal point of the feud between the state and the federal government.

Remember, SCOTUS did not say that Texas could not put up razor wire. It only said that the Feds could cut it if they have access to it.

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Despotism Illegal Immigration

Abbott is

not backing down. He is having none of it.

Abbott said that Biden’s failures to secure the border “imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense.”

… “For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself,” he concluded. “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.” [emphasis added]

In case you didn’t understand, he is saying that the SCOTUS ruling is null and void in Texas because it is superseded by the Constitution.

The short response from Abbott?: Your money’s no good in here.

The ball’s in your court, Feds…

UPDATE: But even so, did SCOTUS rule that Texas had to allow illegal immigration? Perhaps not. But it is a complicated legal matter.

So, at this point, there simply is not a court order in this case governing who can do what to the concertina wire. The Government is free from the restraints of any court order forbidding it to destroy the wire. But, just as the Government was legally free to continue destroying wire after the TRO was filed but not entered, Governor Abbott is likewise free to have the Texas Rangers or National Guard safeguard the wire and block the feds from destroying its property (at least until Biden federalizes the National Guard).

Basically, the SCOTUS ruling was that the Feds were no longer prohibited from cutting the razor wire. That’s pretty much it.

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Despotism

Well, a TON

of us would be very pleased if this crap ended! I just get sick and tired of the petty despotism!

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Anti-scientific stance Despotism

Kennedy is more than a

bit of a kook, so it pains me to acknowledge that he is absolutely right, here:

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Despotism Injustice

Wow! Can’t speak

in your own defense, eh?

THIS is a cosmic level of despotism! Just stunning.

I mean, this is Revolutionary War stuff. No wonder Leftists hated the Tea Party so and Obama was so desperate to strangle it in its crib!

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Despotism

I don’t know

if it’s true, but I sure hope so!

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Despotism Disgusting!

Yes, just what is Biden

trying to achieve?

Joe Biden’s Jan 6 speech raises some interesting problems. What does he really want to achieve by declaring his foes outlaws? Even if he succeeds in jailing, disqualifying or otherwise delegitimizing his 2024 political opponents, the challenge to “our democracy” he posits will not go away for two reasons. First, the crisis facing the status quo does not arise from one man, Donald Trump, but from the failure of the establishment to deliver across a wide range of issues. Second, the discontent of which Trump is a figurehead now includes significant parts of the electorate and has political strongholds in a number of states.

This means the “insurrection” that Biden wants to stop cannot be decapitated by simply jailing one man because it does not arise from one man nor inhere in a single individual. Any realistic preemptive strike against the rebels must be broader in extent than any process the justice and police system has contemplated so far. If Joe wants to use force he will have to brandish a much bigger gun than heretofore with all the danger of escalation that entails.

I think the answer (at least one of them) is that Joe Biden is not really all that bright. And like many Leftists, he thinks with his spleen rather than with his brain. He is, at heart, a vicious despot. And therefore he does vicious despot things.

Recent political developments become less confusing when we relax the assumption that events are ultimately about America. Ambiguity is the enemy of constitutional democracy, but confusion is the friend of operators and dealers. Perhaps the correct paradigm is not to judge events through the prism of national interest but by the criteria of factional gain. Then a third possibility emerges: maybe 2024 is not about “democracy” or “elections” but a political bank robbery in progress.