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friendly_iconoclast's JournalJohn Bolton's role model for his Persian Gulf of Tonkin "incident": Operation Himmler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler...For months prior to the 1939 invasion, German newspapers and politicians like Adolf Hitler had carried out a national and international propaganda campaign accusing Polish authorities of organizing or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans living in Poland.
The plan, named after its originator, Heinrich Himmler, was supervised by Reinhard Heydrich and managed by Heinrich Müller. The goal of this false flag project was to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which could be used to justify the German invasion of Poland.
John Bolton's role model for his Persian Gulf of Tonkin "incident": Operation Himmler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler...For months prior to the 1939 invasion, German newspapers and politicians like Adolf Hitler had carried out a national and international propaganda campaign accusing Polish authorities of organizing or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans living in Poland.
The plan, named after its originator, Heinrich Himmler, was supervised by Reinhard Heydrich and managed by Heinrich Müller. The goal of this false flag project was to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which could be used to justify the German invasion of Poland.
The Liberal Gun Club Amicus Brief: New York City's Transport Ban Fails All Heightened Scrutiny
https://theliberalgunclub.com/the-liberal-gun-club-amicus-brief-new-york-citys-transport-ban-fails-all-heightened-scrutiny/As has been found in a recent case regarding safe and legal abortions, laws that restrict the rights of citizens must be narrowly tailored to be the least intrusive means of serving the governments interest. In the current case before the court the law has been used as a bludgeon rather than as a scalpel, resulting in the inability of NYC Citizens to transport their firearms in any manner, whether it be to their second home or training class, putting them at unnecessary risk and unable to gain levels of proficiency that all other states, including those that have heavy regulation, are available to them.
This law also prevents the citizens of New York City from carrying their firearm in the other 38 states that they could otherwise carry in, if not for this law, applying their laws nationally, regardless of local regulations.
In addition, although its not found in the brief, this law misses addressing the root causes of violence by a mile. Rather than working on the real issues behind violence such as toxic masculinity, the generational oppression of minorities, and a lack of universal healthcare, including mental health care, this law is used as a way to substantially impact those gun owners who abide by the law.
A *PDF copy of the LGC brief can be found here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-280/99732/20190514165229684_NYSRPA%20v%20NYC%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20The%20Liberal%20Gun%20Club.pdf
It's good to see that others have noticed (even if only in passing) the similarity of the mindsets of the reproduction slavers and those phobic of firearms and firearms owners.
On gun control and border walls
It strikes me that they're both being promoted in the same way:
By playing on the fears of low-information voters (for fun, profit, and most importantly *votes*) by promising to keep them safe from an outgroup that the in-group regards as threatening, violent, and culturally inferior...
At UMass, a Palestinian human rights panel draws a lawsuit
https://www2.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/29/umass-palestinian-panel-draws-lawsuit/W4Q3zxw54N6Zt5MgCWFQ8L/story.html...The panel in question at UMass is set for Saturday evening. It is organized and funded by Media Education Foundation, a Northampton organization headed by Sut Jhally, a UMass Amherst communications professor...
...UMass officials have said they will allow the panel to take place.
UMass Amherst is committed to fostering a community of dignity and respect and rejects all forms of bigotry. The campus is also firmly committed to the principles of free speech and academic freedom. As such, and as is required of a public institution under the First Amendment, UMass Amherst applies a content-neutral standard when making facilities available to outside organizations for the purpose of holding events, the university said in a statement.
My personal take: A group of Jewish students is trying to shut a discussion to be held by people who regularly claim
that Jews in the US try to censor people like them
Way to make their point for them....
Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO)
Apparently, we will be still be able to keep and bear firelocks, as the US military never issued those-see for
earlier discussion of LA Times article covering the same rally:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207897
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html
The crowd responded with strong applause...
Beto O'Rourke demands ban on muskets at campaign rally
Or: Democrats On Guns Sounding Like Republicans On Abortion, Part The Eleventy-First:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html
The crowd responded with strong applause...
Starting (or eventually ending up with) these, one supposes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1795_Musket
The Model 1795 was the first musket to be produced in the United States by Eli Whitney. It was based heavily on the Charleville musket, Model 1763/66, which had been imported in large numbers from the French during the American Revolution, and which at the time comprised the largest number of muskets in U.S. arsenals at about 20,000 muskets. The Model 1795 was used in the War of 1812
Service history
In service 17951865
Used by United States
Confederate States of America
Wars
American Indian Wars
Quasi-War
First Barbary War
1811 German Coast Uprising
Tecumseh's War
War of 1812
Creek War
Second Barbary War
First Seminole War
MexicanAmerican War
American Civil War
Hmm, maybe he really means to save us from the tidal waves of bayonnettings?
Repost from LBN: NRA sues city of L.A. over its new contract disclosure law
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142307601The National Rifle Assn. filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new Los Angeles law requiring companies that seek contracts with the city to disclose whether they have ties to the gun rights group.
The suit was filed in federal court on behalf of the NRA, including a John Doe, who is described in court documents as an NRA member and business operator with several L.A. city contracts.
Plaintiff Doe participates in this action as a Doe participant because he reasonably fears retribution from the city and the potential loss of lucrative contracts should Does identity be known, the lawsuit says.
City Councilman Mitch OFarrell championed the new law, arguing in a motion he presented last year that city residents and stakeholders deserve to know whether taxpayer funds are being spent on contractors with ties to the NRA.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nra-sues-los-angeles-disclosure-law-20190424-story.html
IMO, this strikes me as being no different than anti-BDS laws.
Gotta go with Robert Bolt on this one:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_film)
More: Why, what has he done?
Margaret More: He's bad!
More: There is no law against that.
Will Roper: There is! God's law!
More: Then God can arrest him.
Alice: While you talk, he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws
all being flat?
This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast man's laws, not God's and if you cut them down
and you're just the man to do itdo you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety's sake.
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