Tampa Police found well known Confederate Marion Lambert dead on his South Tampa Farm on Wednesday afternoon. Asked for comment, Police said they’re still investigating the cause of death and haven’t released any details at this time.
Compatriot Lambert is the man responsible for flying the massive Confederate Flag at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Interstate 75 southwest of Orlando.
In 2008 Lambert and others raised $250,000 in money and labor to construct slabs with a list of soldiers’ names and then raised the 30-by-50-foot Confederate Flag that has become a tourist attraction in its own right.
ALSO PASSING ON WEDNESDAY
Radio host Rush Limbaugh lost his battle with lung cancer. He was 70.
LUKE COMBS GOES TO THE DARK SIDE
On Wednesday the country singer appeared on NPR and apologized to host Ann Powers for his past use of Confederate Flag imagery, both in photos and in a 2015 music video.
“There is no excuse for those images,” he admitted. “I think as a younger man, those were images that I associated to mean something else." Combs continued. “I would never want to be associated with [the flag] that brings so much hurt to someone else.”
ALSO ON WEDNESDAY
"Bachelor" star Demi Burnett apologizes over a resurfaced photo of her wearing a Confederate Flag jacket
SAY GOODBYE FORT BRAG
And Forts Benning, Lee, Hood, and all the other U.S. military installations named for Confederates from the Civil War.
On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the four people who will replace Trump administration appointees on a Congressionally mandated commission to study base renaming.
It will be interesting to see what this esteemed group comes up with, but let’s be real: this is now an exercise for show. Start thinking up some new names while you read on.
IN THE TAR HEEL STATE
The North Carolina Commisssion on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (NC CRED) announced plans to redouble their focus on removing the Confederate monuments in dozens of communities throughout the state.
A statewide criminal justice advocacy group, NC CRED has operated since 2013, according to founding member and Chairperson James Williams II. Williams touts NC CRED as a "diverse organization," said Williams. "We have district court judges. We have superior court judges. We have lawyers, law enforcement, including one chief of police and one former police chief. ... It's a diverse group."
Basically, NC CRED is a whole big coalition of cops, judges, politicians and petty tyrants united to use the powers of government to oppress the citizens of North Caolina.
IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE
According to the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, this hearing is held for the purpose of determining "which interested entities, groups, or individuals should be given written notice" by the county that a waiver is being sought. Interested parties including Williamson Inc., Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, Williamson County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Sons of Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy and descendants of Virginia Bowman, one of the co-creators of the seal.
Commission board member Sam Elliott, representing East Tennessee, proposed a motion to have Williamson County pursue more advertising in the local paper and on its website informing community members of the petition. He believes this would help notify many of those parties mentioned by the speakers of the county's petition for waiver prior to the final hearing. This motion was seconded and approved by the 29-member commission.
The final hearing for Williamson County's petition for waiver is expected to take place in June.
ALSO IN TENNESSEE
Due to severe winter weather, Historical Commission spokesperson Susan McClamroch said consideration of the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust is rescheduled from Thursday and Friday until March 9. The meeting will remain mainly virtual because of the ongoing COVID-19 scamdemic.
A State Capitol Commission vote in July began the lengthy process for the proposal, which would move the busts of Forrest and Admirals David Farragut and Albert Gleaves from the Capitol to the state museum. A two-thirds vote is needed in the Historical Commission.
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NON-HERITAGE NEWS:
New York prosecutors are investigating financial dealings around some of Donald Trump’s signature Manhattan properties, extending the known range of the criminal probe of the former president and his company, according to people familiar with the matter.
Manhattan prosecutors are examining loans Mr. Trump took out on his flagship Fifth Avenue building, Trump Tower; 40 Wall St., an art deco skyscraper in New York City’s Financial District; Trump International Hotel and Tower, a hotel and condominium building at Columbus Circle; and Trump Plaza, an apartment building on Manhattan’s East Side. All of the loans under scrutiny were made to Mr. Trump by subsidiaries of Ladder Capital Corp., a New York City-based real-estate investment trust.
President Trump has called the probe a partisan “witch hunt” led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a Democrat. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have called the investigation a “fishing expedition” in Mr. Vance’s bid to get the former president’s tax returns.
Mr. Vance’s office has said in court filings that it is pursuing a complex investigation into alleged insurance and bank fraud by the Trump Organization and its officers.
ACROSS THE RIVER IN NEW JERSEY
The former Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City was blown to bits Wednesday morning.
The building went from 39 stories to nothing as it came crashing down in a big pile of rubble and dust in a controlled explosion just after 9 a.m.
About 3,000 sticks of dynamite were used and it took about 7 seconds for the building to collapse to the ground. A public viewing area for the implosion was set up at the Atlantic City Municipal Airport.
MEANWHILE
Biden got aboard the Presidential jet, and it did not change call signs to Air Force One. He is flying, and the military is not giving him the AF1 designation. Something very strange is going on. Also anons watched Biden's return trip, and again, it was 82-8000, and not AF1.
Also reported, Marine guards are failing to salute Joe Biden.
I don't pretend to know what is going on. But I don't believe for one second that Joe Biden is the President of the United States, de facto or de jure. Does the military also recognize this?
MORE NAZI MANDATES
Travelers who violate the federal transportation face mask mandate could receive fines ranging from $250 to as much as $1500 for repeat offenders, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced in an update on Friday.
These penalties come in addition to those already imposed by transportation operators, as many airlines, for example, have taken the initiative by issuing their own directives making it a requirement for passengers to wear face masks. Delta Air Lines has already banned nearly 1,000 passengers for violating its mask rule, according to CNN.
The current TSA mask mandate, which took effect Feb. 2, will expire on May 11, 2021.
Study finds CDC inflated COVID numbers by 1,600%
A peer-reviewed study contends the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention violated federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers. The figures were inflated by at least 1,600%, according to the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, which published the study, titled "COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective."
The study asserts that the CDC willfully violated multiple federal laws, including the Information Quality Act, Paperwork Reduction Act and Administrative Procedures Act, reported the National File.
In January, as WND reported, the World Health Organization admitted the "gold-standard" PCR tests used to determine whether or not a person is infected with COVID-19 are not reliable on the first try and a second test might be needed.
That fact, the National File notes, corresponds with the CDC's "quiet admission that it blended viral and antibody test results for its case numbers and that people can test positive on an antibody test if they have antibodies from a family of viruses that cause the common cold."
Among the notable findings in the study is the conclusion that the CDC "illegally enacted new rules for data collection and reporting exclusively for COVID-19 that resulted in a 1,600% inflation of current COVID-19 fatality totals," the watchdog group All Concerned Citizens said in a statement provided to National File.
"The research demonstrates that the CDC failed to apply for mandatory federal oversight and failed to open a mandatory period for public scientific comment in both instances as is required by federal law before enacting new rules for data collection and reporting," the group said.
The study pointed out that on March 24, the CDC published an alert instructing medical examiners, coroners and physicians to deemphasize underlying causes of death, also known as pre-existing conditions or comorbidities.
COVID-19 was to be listed in Part I of death certificates as a definitive cause of death, regardless of confirmatory evidence, rather than in Part II as a contributor to death in the presence of pre-existing conditions.
On its website, the CDC says, just 6% of the people counted as COVID-19 deaths died of COVID-19 alone.
The researchers estimated the COVID-19 recorded fatalities "are inflated nationwide by as much as 1600% above what they would be had the CDC used the 2003 handbooks," said All Concerned Citizens.
The CDC adopted additional rules on April 14 exclusively for COVID-19 "in violation of federal law by outsourcing data collection rule development to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), a non-profit entity, again without applying for oversight and opening opportunity for public scientific review," the organization said.
The CSTE published a position paper creating "new rules for counting probable cases as actual cases without definitive proof of infection, new rules for contact tracing allowing contact tracers to practice medicine without a license, and yet refused to define new rules for ensuring that the same person could not be counted multiple times as a new case."
The researchers allege the CDC "significantly inflated data that has been used by elected officials and public health officials, in conjunction with unproven projection models from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), to justify extended closures for schools, places of worship, entertainment, and small businesses leading to unprecedented emotional and economic hardships nationwide."
All Concerned Citizens said it has sent a formal petition to the Department of Justice and all U.S. Attorneys seeking an immediate grand jury investigation into the allegations.
STIMULUS EFFECT?
Radio host and financial advisor Dave Ramsey said he was against another round of stimulus checks and those in need of them were already "screwed" during a Thursday morning appearance on Fox News.
"I don't believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1,400 changes your life you were pretty much screwed already," Ramsey said. "You got other issues going on."
Ramsey said those who need the money have problems with their careers, debt, relationships, or their mental health and said the checks were simply throwing money at the problem or "peeing on a forest fire" but not fixing the issue.
Permitless Carry
A bill that would no longer require you to get a permit to open or conceal carry your gun in Tennessee has returned during the latest session of the General Assembly.
Gov. Bill Lee and other state lawmakers pushed a similar bill last year, but Lee tabled it at the start of the pandemic.
“We don’t have to have a permit for first amendment purposes or to worship in a church,” said John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association. “Regulating it or taxing it or taxing the capacity to exercise it is unconstitutional. It’s an infringement.”
Harris says the bill promoted by Rep. Bruce Griffey and Sen. Joey Hensley is the right move and would relieve gun owners from the financial burden of paying for the permit and safety classes. Tennessee permits range from $65-$300. This does not include the cost of currently required safety classes and background checks. If passed, safety classes would also not be required.
Former officers and gun instructors tell FOX 17 News they have safety concerns regarding the bill. They worry people not being required to learn how to safely handle the gun will put lives at risk. Is anyone surprised that those who risk financial loss (instructors for state-required classes) are opposed to this bill?
One sentence. Ten words.
That’s all it took for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to let his feelings – and plans — for the U.S. Department of Education be known. His bill, HR 899, reads: “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2022.”
Massie’s one-line bill is unlikely to make it very far in the Democrat-controlled Congress, as most Democrats receive generous donations from the deep pockets of the still- almighty teachers’ unions. And remember, the Department of Education is one, big gift to the unions.
Massie’s co-sponsors include some very out-spoken conservative firebrands:
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA)
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC)
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered Massie his support, tweeting: “A good step toward fixing education!”
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Two-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Klete Keller was indicted in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia for knowingly and unlawfully entering and remaining in a restricted area, interfering with official government business, engaging in disorderly conduct to disrupt a session of Congress and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder, among other things.
Keller was recognized by an FBI agent, who said he identified him due both to his height — Keller is 6-foot-6 — and the Team USA jacket that he wore that day. He also reportedly had numerous social media posts supporting former President Donald Trump, though his accounts have been disabled.
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Celebrating America’s Pro-Marxist “Emancipator” |
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Al Benson, Jr., is the Editor of the Copperhead Chronicle.
In addition to writing for Southern Patriot and other publications, he is a member of the Confederate Society of America and the League of the South.
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Well. this is the day that the country celebrates the birth of the Republican Party’s first pro-Marxist president. There have been others since Lincoln but he was the first one of note. Note I said he was a “pro-Marxist”. I need to clarify that before some screaming idiot somewhere claims I said Lincoln was a Communist. That he was a socialist with a socialist worldview I do not doubt for a minute. His political proclivities all point in that direction.
In going through the latest edition of Ron and Donnie Kennedy’s seminal work The South Was Right! you will find more than enough in the way of evidence to display Lincoln’s leftism as well as showing that his “emancipating the slaves” was the stuff of which legends are made and propagated.
On page 34 of their book the Kennedys noted that: “Shortly after the South seceded the Republican controlled Congress submitted, and Lincoln supported, a Thirteenth Amendment that would guarantee the security of slavery if the South would rejoin the Union. It was called the Corwin Amendment and several Union states ratified it but it soon became apparent that the South wanted independence and the amendment died.. Had it passed slavery in the United States would have continued under Lincoln’s administration and Republican Party rule. The North’s motive for invading a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America, was not to free their oppressed black brothers and sisters. Lincoln’s and the Republican Party’s primary aim was to secure the continuing flow of Southern wealth extracted via protective tariffs.
If you can still find an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation please take the trouble to really read it! You will find all the Northern controlled areas that had slavery in this country that were exempt from the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation. That’s right–exempt!
As for Communist sympathy for Lincoln, even in our day, On page 270 of their book the Kennedys observed that: “Americans who oppose secession for Dixie find themselves in bed with the Communist Party of China which proclaims the right to invade its secessionist province of Taiwan. China’s Minister of Defense, Wei Fenghe, noted that ‘Abraham Lincoln is America’s greatest president. The United States is indivisible, so is China.’ The Communist leader of China pointed out that Communist China would only be doing what Lincoln did in 1861. Of special interest is the use of the word ‘indivisible’ by this communist leader. An early adocate of the United States being trasformed into an ‘indivisible’ nation was Friedrich Engels, the co-founder along with Karl Marx of modern-day communism. In a letter to a communist Union General, Joseph Weydemeyer, Engels praised the action of the North in subduing the South because it would advance the world-wide communist effort. Weydemeyer was a close friend of Karl Marx and responsible for the publication of the first copies of Marx’s Communist Manifesto in the United States.”
You can begin to see here, in case you had not noticed before, the the comunists world-wide and those among us really had and have a love affair with Mr. Lincoln. Needless to say your “history” books in this country will refuse to deal with any of this at any point. If you want real history, don’t go to the “history” books as all you will get there is the perpetuation of the Lincoln legend.
In our day we need to get past the legend and find out the real truth, even though many “conservatives” don’t really want to know it, would really like to just ignore it in favor of their wishful fables.
Years ago I was a monthly columnist for a conservative paper in California and I did a wholle series of articles for that paper on Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression. At one point the publisher of that paper reluctantly asked me to stop writing about Lincoln because his conservative audience didn’t want to hear it and he was losing subscribers because of my exposes on Lincoln. At that point I asked myself “If the conservatives don’t want the truth, then where is this country headed?” I have to conclude that, wherever we were headed, with recent political events in this country that we have now arrived.
At any rate, if you still want some truth in the “Empire of Lies” then get the Kennedy’s book The South Was Right! from Shotwell Publishing:
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Mark C. Atkins is a 6th generation native of Henry County, Tennessee. He and his wife of thirty years have six children and direct a small K-12 classical Christian school.
He is the author of Women in Combat, Feminism Goes To War, with foreword by Major General Patrick Henry Brady, USA (Ret).
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To those of you that have a beating heart love of Dixie, and who will not betray our heritage or surrender our flag, I declare that we must accept that right now, at the beginning of 2021, after 156 years, the Left has us in a propaganda headlock with one arm and a grip on our rocks with the other.
We must accept that in the eyes of the bleating sheep of both the Left and the Right, the Left has successfully defined the Confederate flag as a wholly racist symbol and those that display it as fundamentally racist. The Left will only release us if we agree that we are evil incarnate, to don sack cloth, and then grovel at its feet. And of course pay taxes. Lots of taxes.
So, let us ponder our position, in this most uncomfortable and alarming of positions. What to do?
Many of our sheep on the Right tell us that we have lost the battle and should surrender both our emblem and our view of things and retreat to more defensible ground for the sake of the broader Conservative movement. I call this appeasement and if 2020 has taught us anything it is that the Left cannot be appeased. They wont stop with the Confederate flag, Lee, Jefferson, and Washington.
They are coming for Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Johnny Appleseed, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Mr. Bojangles.
To get out of this position we must be smart, tactical, and patient. It will take a long time to reclaim the power to define our own emblem and history in the eyes of the public.
I have one idea of how we can continue to do so that I want you to stew on. One bullet for our bandolier.
For years defenders of the Confederate flag have said “Heritage, Not Hate!” Smart! But I want to add another slogan that points to the spirit of our most potent of symbols as well as the true enemy of the West.
We love everybody except white commies!
It’s pithy, and full of meaning and truth. Something to think about.
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Vast swaths of Americans, as you well know, are now classified as racists, thanks to the Democrats' penchant for word salads. We are informed that if you supported Trump in any capacity, you are automatically a white supremacist. This blanket branding worked fine when the fake news showed carefully excised pockets of white people at rallies.
However, an inconvenient truth of the MAGA movement is that it has an infuriating number of non-white enthusiasts. At first Democrats ignored them; and when that became impossible – when it became clear there was an enormous surge of minority support for MAGA – then the left had to do something – anything – to paint these traitors with the same broad brush as they branded Caucasians.
Under the category of "You can't make this stuff up," I would like to present you with the latest explanation for Trump's popularity among blacks, Latinos, Asians and other minorities: "Multi-racial whiteness."
This phrase was coined by New York University professor Cristina Beltrán in a Washington Post op-ed to explain the diverse support for the president responsible for the lowest unemployment in history among these demographics.
Only a leftist could tell a black man to his face that he's actually white.
For the last hundred years, Democrats have labored hard to chain minority voters onto the government-dependency plantation. I don't think the Dems expected a mass breakout from the shackles of captivity during the Trump administration. Unable to paint intelligent, logical Trump supporters who have greater melanin content as "white," they simply coined a new term to brand them as evil.
"Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites," snarks a commentator named "Cockburn" on American Spectator. "Yay for diversity! Now you, too, can be a white supremacist even if you're black!"
Whiteness, explains the term's inventor, Beltrán, is the "politics of aggression, exclusion and domination."
And multiracial whiteness "reflects an understanding of whiteness as a political color and not simply a racial identity." It is a "discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others."
Really. A roaring economy is dehumanizing? Patriotism and love for country is discriminatory? Supporting the Constitution is not freeing? On what planet?
Now, presumably, anyone can have "white privilege" regardless of skin color if they believe in hard work, economic opportunities, constitutional constraints, family values and the God-given freedoms spelled out in the Bill of Rights.
So here's a question: Every conservative group has denounced white supremacy over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again as the evil that it is. So how can the left be so blatantly racist and no one calls them on it?
Oh wait, they're immune to logic. These are people, remember, who accuse blacks of being white and think they're being logical. Never mind.
Essentially, being a conservative marks anyone (regardless of ethnicity) as bad. Deviating from the insane woke worldview is dismissed as a "performance of whiteness" or "internalized whiteness." You can't win no matter what, even if you're black.
"This is not about white supremacy at all," notes Jared Dyson with the Liberty Loft. "It's about how you can tie anyone on the right to some form of extremism to further
divide the nation. ... Perhaps [the left] should give some thought that these people of color are simply tired of the lies and mistreatment of the left. Perhaps they should consider that they are finally seeing that conservatives, who fought for their freedom from the beginning, are actually giving them a chance for success."
"'Whiteness' is an elastic concept," adds John Hinderaker in the Powerline blog. "It turns out that you no longer have to be white to be white. 'White' basically means that you don't swallow the nonsense being ladled out by the far left. So, happily, people of all colors are now 'white,' according to liberals. Is that unity and inclusion, or what?"
The left is obsessed with race. Far from wanting a colorblind society, they want everything and everyone to be judged through the lens of skin color – which, duh, rather goes against what Martin Luther King Jr. preached in his most famous "I Have a Dream" speech, don'cha think?
As more and more behaviors, groups, ethnicities, races, faiths and endless other demographics are lumped together under the general banner of "white supremacy," two things will happen.
One, it will become a meaningless term. If everything is racist, nothing is racist. People will just ignore it. In fact, we already are. Yawn.
Two, it will widen the divide in this country (which, of course, is the whole idea).
But I hope the left can keep one critical thing in mind: There are more of us than there are of them. Leftists behave the way they are because they control critical institutions (education, media, big tech, even government) – but there are still more of us than there are of them. We can only be pushed so far.
I can only guess the left is focusing on race almost to the exclusion of everything else because they have nothing else to focus on. They have a legacy of massive failure of everything they touch (just look at any Democrat-run city), so racism is about all they have left. But, like everything else, it's an empty hypothesis.
Trump demonstrated in spades that America is a land of opportunity for everyone, no matter what race or skin color or ethnicity. That's why he attracted so many minority followers. But, since Orange Man Bad, the left must concentrate on destroying race relations and increasing victimhood. It's the bedrock and cornerstone for everything they do.
And since the likelihood of finding a real live white supremacist is akin to finding a real live mermaid, the left just has to manufacture them out of thin air from any patriot they can find. Counter-culture author Charles Bukowski once said, "Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors." The left is proving him right.
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Herschel Smith writes The Captain’s Journal and hails from Charlotte, N.C.
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The 4th Amendment right against warrantless searches of a person’s home is a pillar of Americans’ constitutional liberties. Before a police officer, or any other government official, can enter your home, they must show a judge that they have probable cause that they will discover specific evidence of a crime.
There are some limited exceptions to this right. There is an “exigent circumstances” exception. If a police officer looks through a home’s window and sees a person about to stab another person, the officer can burst through the door to prevent the attack.
There is also the “emergency aid” exception. If the officer looked through the same window and saw the resident collapsing from an apparent heart attack, the officer could run into the house to administer aid. Neither of these cases violates the 4th Amendment and few would argue that it should be otherwise.
However, there is a broader cousin to these amendments called the “community caretaking” exception. It originally derives from a case in which the police took a gun out of the trunk of an impounded vehicle without first obtaining a warrant. The Supreme Court held that there is a community caretaking exception to the 4th Amendment’s warrant requirement because police perform “community caretaking functions, totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute.” The Court held that police activity in furtherance of these functions does not violate the 4th Amendment as long as it is executed in a “reasonable” manner.
Note that, unlike the first two exceptions, this exception is not limited to immediate emergencies. In the Supreme Court case just described there was only a general concern that vandals might eventually break into the impounded car and steal any weapons that were in the trunk. So the community care exception is far broader than the other two.
Also, all three exceptions allow warrantless searches so long as the police officer acted “reasonably”. That is one of the easiest constitutional standards to meet and is a significantly lower standard than “probable cause”, which is required for a warrant. As long as an officer might reasonably think that a warrantless search will alleviate a danger to the community, the search is considered constitutional.
There is a vigorous debate about whether the community care exception can apply to searches of a person’s home as well as of their car. Vehicles have always had less 4th Amendment protection than homes, which are considered a person’s most private sphere. Federal courts have been divided on this question and the Supreme Court has not ruled on it until now.
The Court has just announced that it will hear arguments next month on a case that presents this issue: Caniglia v. Strom. In this case, Mr. Caniglia was arguing with his wife and melodramatically put an unloaded gun on the table and said “shoot me now and get it over with.” His wife called a non- emergency number for the police who arrived shortly thereafter. The police disagreed about whether Mr. Caniglia was acting “normal” or “agitated” but they convinced him to take an ambulance to the local hospital for evaluation. The police did not accompany him.
While he was on his way to the hospital, Mrs. Caniglia told the police that her husband kept two handguns in the home. The police decided to search his home for the guns without obtaining a warrant. (Mrs. Caniglia’s consent to have the police search their home was legally negated because the police untruthfully told her that her husband had consented to the seizure of any guns.) The police located and seized the two guns. Mr. Caniglia sued for the violation of his 4th Amendment right to privacy and his 2nd Amendment right to keep handguns in the home for self-protection.
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (which is the federal court just below the Supreme Court in Caniglia’s jurisdiction) sided with the police. The court wrote: “At its core, the community caretaking doctrine is designed to give police elbow room to take appropriate action when unforeseen circumstances present some transient hazard that requires immediate attention. Understanding the core purpose of the doctrine leads inexorably to the conclusion that it should not be limited to the motor vehicle context. Threats to individual and community safety are not confined to the highways.”
The author ends with this. “The Supreme Court is going to take a very close look at this case and there is a good chance that they will overrule the lower court’s decision.”
I’m not so sure. The communists (the leftist wing of the court, including Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts) will certainly decide to keep the ruling of the circuit. The law and order statists (Alito and Kavanaugh) will likely decide with the leftists, I’m afraid, even if it’s a concurring ruling disagreeing with the majority but still vote to keep the circuit ruling.
The only ones who will vote to strike down the circuit ruling will be Thomas and Gorsuch (maybe), and Barrett is a wild card, but it won’t matter what she does anyway. This is one of those cases where you wish the supreme court would decline to take it because the damage they do is worse than the other outcome, where this ruling is only valid in the 1st Circuit.
To say that America has become a Stasi state is a grotesque understatement.
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Included in the tribute are an "Animal Rights" update, "feminazi" update, "condom" update, and other parodies from the Rush Limbaugh radio show that were not featured in the tribute that the host gave on his other show, TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour.
Also featured is a clip from Rush's short-lived 1992 night-time TV show.
The show ends with President Donald Trump giving a fitting tribute followed by a conversation with Dr. Ed's personal physician, Dr. von Peters, who explains how we can boost our immune systems.
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He started Dixie Heritage in March of 2015.
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Fenix Ammunition, a family-owned ammunition producer based in Michigan, has enacted a policy of not selling to Biden voters. When a shopper visits Fenix’s website, a popup prevents the would-be buyer from accessing the site unless they answer “No” to the question, “Did you vote for Joe Biden?” A “Yes” answer directs the shopper to Biden’s so-called “gun safety” page on his platform website.
In order to prevent undesired customers from purchasing their products, Fenix has also reportedly placed a questionnaire into the purchasing steps that asks whether the customer voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election. If the customer answers, “Yes,” the sale is declined.
Another business, Seed to Table Market in Naples, Florida is a grocery store where owner Alfie Oakes has decided to buck Collier County's mask ordinance with a sign in front of the store stating that customers do not have to wear a mask if they have a medical condition -- and adds that no one can ask what that medical condition is due to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that protects patients' medical records.
"Therefore, if we see you without a mask, we will assume you have a medical condition and we will welcome you inside to support our business," the bottom of the sign reads.
Viral video taken inside the store this week showed both maskless customers and employees, chatting and laughing, without any social distancing.
Today, my son and I walked around ACE Hardware for about 45 minutes, shopping and buying supplies without wearing a mask. When we finished shopping he took his purchases to a cash register and paid for them before leaving. At the register he was told by a cashier that he was supposed to wear a mask. He asked the cashier if she wanted him to purchase or to leave? The manager rang him up personally.
If we want life to go back to normal? If we want our country "back"? Its going to be up to us!
Fenix is exercising their right to sell to do business with, and/or not do business with, whoever they chose. Seed to Table has exercised their right to conduct business without being an enforcement agent or arm of the Empire. And my son has simply chosen to live his life. When, and only when, more of us begin to do the same, everyone's lives will begin to return to normal.
Government, let us not forget, can only govern with the CONSENT of the governed.
We had a great response to our offering last week of Mike Lindell's recently released documentary film Absolute Proof. If you did not get your DVD copy last week just click below. When you donate to Dixie Heritage we will send you a copy of Absolute Proof to not only view, but also to SHARE:
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Another thin that "We the People" can do to reclaim our lives and culture is to DROP the big-tech platforms and support those that promote and support freedom of expression.
MeWe is a social media platform very much like fACEBOOK. But unlike fACEBOOK, MeWe does not censor and delete the posts it does not like.
Deo Vindice!
Dr. Ed
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