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Roisin Ni Fiachra
Roisin Ni Fiachra's Journal
Roisin Ni Fiachra's Journal
May 27, 2023
The rural red West has many dirty cops who will support or condone an organized RW extremist terrorist attack on our country.
These rural red areas are particularly susceptible to a violent takeover by RW terrorists, as the RW terrorists and their sympathizers comprise a significant majority of the populations in these rural red areas.
Theoretically, the overall logistics and demographics of the rural red west make these areas ripe for the picking by RW domestic terrorists, should they launch a well organized widespread attack on the citizens loyal to the US, and the governments and factors and means of production in these areas.
If the cops won't stop the terrorists, a coordinated blitzkrieg type mass guerilla action has a good probability of, at least, temporary success. Mobilizing the national guards of states under siege takes too long. Once the terrorists have established an occupation of these areas, they will be more difficult to eradicate than a massive bedbug infestation in a third world cockroach motel.. They will take hostages to deter any military intervention by the federal government, which will result in a totally FUBAR mess that could take years to clean up.
After the DOJ finishes cleaning up its own house, they will need to employ more agents loyal to the US in order to more quickly identify and root out as many domestic terrorists from state and local police agencies in rural red areas as possible.
74,000,000+ voters voted for the Magat King. It is naive to believe that domestic terrorists and their collective cells are not planning and organizing another attempt at overthrowing our federal government. Unfortunately, J6 taught them to not communicate with each other electronically, so it follows that they are already employing other means of communication that are much more difficult to track.
Michael Fanone gets it. Hopefully, Attorney General Garland is also alarmed, and is already on this, in a big way. Worshipers of the MAGA king are dangerously deluded, and many are full blown psychotic.
And the majority of them are armed with weapons of war. Lots and lots of guns. I estimate that, collectively, they have a minimum of 250,000,000 firearms, plus an abundance of other types of weaponry and gear used in warfare.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The case against a DC police lieutenant accused of helping Proud Boys is
growing increasingly 'terrifying'.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced earlier this month that District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Lt. Shane Lamond had been indicted on four federal criminal charges: one for obstruction of justice, three for making false statements. DOJ prosecutors allege that Lamond shared police information with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and tipped him off about a case against him: the one in which he was arrested for his part in burning a Black Lives Matter sign that had been stolen from an African-American church in late 2020.
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"The indicted officer is not some random beat cop," Schaffer notes. "A 24-year veteran of the department, Lamond led the Intelligence Branch of the department’s Homeland Security unit until last year, when he was suspended after coming under investigation. That investigation culminated in a May 19 obstruction of justice indictment for allegedly lying to investigators who were looking into the relationship with Tarrio…. According to prosecutors, Lamond and Tarrio communicated 500 times beginning in 2019, often via chummy exchanges."
Michael Fanone, a former MPD officer who was violently attacked by Donald Trump supporters inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, has been sounding the alarm about far-right extremists working for police departments.
Fanone, now a CNN contributor, told Politico, "I think that most law enforcement agencies in this country are scrambling to maintain the officers they have and recruit new ones to replace the hundreds that they've lost. The last thing that they're worried about is coming up with a comprehensive screening process for domestic extremism.”
https://www.rawstory.com/the-case-against-a-dc-police-lieutenant-accused-of-helping-proud-boys-is-growing-increasingly-terrifying-2660669959/
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"The indicted officer is not some random beat cop," Schaffer notes. "A 24-year veteran of the department, Lamond led the Intelligence Branch of the department’s Homeland Security unit until last year, when he was suspended after coming under investigation. That investigation culminated in a May 19 obstruction of justice indictment for allegedly lying to investigators who were looking into the relationship with Tarrio…. According to prosecutors, Lamond and Tarrio communicated 500 times beginning in 2019, often via chummy exchanges."
Michael Fanone, a former MPD officer who was violently attacked by Donald Trump supporters inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, has been sounding the alarm about far-right extremists working for police departments.
Fanone, now a CNN contributor, told Politico, "I think that most law enforcement agencies in this country are scrambling to maintain the officers they have and recruit new ones to replace the hundreds that they've lost. The last thing that they're worried about is coming up with a comprehensive screening process for domestic extremism.”
https://www.rawstory.com/the-case-against-a-dc-police-lieutenant-accused-of-helping-proud-boys-is-growing-increasingly-terrifying-2660669959/
The rural red West has many dirty cops who will support or condone an organized RW extremist terrorist attack on our country.
These rural red areas are particularly susceptible to a violent takeover by RW terrorists, as the RW terrorists and their sympathizers comprise a significant majority of the populations in these rural red areas.
Theoretically, the overall logistics and demographics of the rural red west make these areas ripe for the picking by RW domestic terrorists, should they launch a well organized widespread attack on the citizens loyal to the US, and the governments and factors and means of production in these areas.
If the cops won't stop the terrorists, a coordinated blitzkrieg type mass guerilla action has a good probability of, at least, temporary success. Mobilizing the national guards of states under siege takes too long. Once the terrorists have established an occupation of these areas, they will be more difficult to eradicate than a massive bedbug infestation in a third world cockroach motel.. They will take hostages to deter any military intervention by the federal government, which will result in a totally FUBAR mess that could take years to clean up.
After the DOJ finishes cleaning up its own house, they will need to employ more agents loyal to the US in order to more quickly identify and root out as many domestic terrorists from state and local police agencies in rural red areas as possible.
74,000,000+ voters voted for the Magat King. It is naive to believe that domestic terrorists and their collective cells are not planning and organizing another attempt at overthrowing our federal government. Unfortunately, J6 taught them to not communicate with each other electronically, so it follows that they are already employing other means of communication that are much more difficult to track.
Michael Fanone gets it. Hopefully, Attorney General Garland is also alarmed, and is already on this, in a big way. Worshipers of the MAGA king are dangerously deluded, and many are full blown psychotic.
And the majority of them are armed with weapons of war. Lots and lots of guns. I estimate that, collectively, they have a minimum of 250,000,000 firearms, plus an abundance of other types of weaponry and gear used in warfare.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
April 15, 2023
Bob Marley - So Much Trouble In The World
Woke up this morning, read the news about Florida floods, mass shootings, Ukraine.
I miss Bob.
April 8, 2023
Robert Kennedy Jr. is too conservative.
His Qanon RW wacko type BS makes him completely unacceptable as a Dem candidate for POTUS.
I don't think he has snowball's chance in hell in the Dem presidential primary, but if, by some miracle, he gets elected POTUS, his conservative lunacy may lead him to switch parties, and join the GOP.
We must ensure that this crackpot is defeated in the primary. Consider this a pre-emptive strike before you start yelling at me that he has no chance of winning.
That's what everyone said about the MAGAt king.
March 29, 2023
Message of Love - Pretenders
March 29, 2023
Crazy Train-Ozzie
"Maybe...it's not its not too late to learn how to love, and forget how to hate"
March 28, 2023
https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massshoo.html
The overwhelming majority of mass murderers in the history of the US are also cis gender.
(Apologies to John Stuart Mill)
I live in a rural area heavily populated with RW extremists. The county is 93% white. The next highest of the population groups are Native Americans. The MAGAt king got 64% of the vote here.
For me, white guy with gun means run!
White Christian men have committed almost every mass murder
in the history of the US.
What is Wrong with White Christian Men?
What do serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Earle Nelson, Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Ridgway, Dean Corll and Wayne Williams have in common? They are white Anglosaxon Christians. There are only two black serial killer: Samuel Little and John Allen (the "D.C. sniper" of 2001).
What do mass shooters Connor Betts (Dayton nightclub, Aug 2019), Patrick Crusius (El Paso Walmart, Aug 2019), DeWayne Craddock (Virginia Beach, May 2019), David Long (Thousand Oaks, Nov 2018), Robert Bowers (Pittsburgh synagogue, Oct 2018), Dimitrios Pagourtzis (Santa Fe High School, May 2018), Nikolas Cruz (Stoneman Douglas High School, Feb 2018), Devin Kelley (Sutherland Springs church, Nov 2017), Stephen Paddock (Las Vegas, Oct 2017), Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook, Dec 2012), James Holmes (Aurora theater, July 2012), Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine High School, April 1999), George Hennard (Killeen, 1991), James Huberty (San Ysidro, 1984), Charles Whitman (Austin, 1966) and Patrick Sherill (Edmond, 1986) have in common? They are white Christian men. There is only one (one) mass shooting carried out by an Asian, Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech, Apr 2007), and two (two) carried out by Muslims: Omar Mateen (Orlando nightclub, June 2016) and Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik (San Bernardino, Dec 2015). Not a single mass shooting by a black man (more than 9 people killed).
Mass shooters and serial killers are white Christian men, with rare exceptions, and frequently with Anglosaxon last names.
("Mass shooting" and "serial killer" here refers to more than 9 homicides. The higher the threshold you choose, the more likely that they are mostly white Christians with an Anglosaxon last name. The lower the threshold, the more likely that there are also other groups. Racists lower the threshold of "mass shooting" to two victims so that most killers are from poor violent neighborhoods, i.e. blacks; but most of us think that a "mass" shooting is not a shooting of two people; two is not a "mass".
These are routinely classified as cases of "mental illness" but why is it that this kind of mental illness seems to affect mainly white Christian men born in the USA? Note that articles on these mass shootings often omit the name of the shooter (they normally only mention the place and date), whereas any article on an Islamic terrorist attack would include the names of the attackers (to emphasize their religion and origin).
What do serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Earle Nelson, Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Ridgway, Dean Corll and Wayne Williams have in common? They are white Anglosaxon Christians. There are only two black serial killer: Samuel Little and John Allen (the "D.C. sniper" of 2001).
What do mass shooters Connor Betts (Dayton nightclub, Aug 2019), Patrick Crusius (El Paso Walmart, Aug 2019), DeWayne Craddock (Virginia Beach, May 2019), David Long (Thousand Oaks, Nov 2018), Robert Bowers (Pittsburgh synagogue, Oct 2018), Dimitrios Pagourtzis (Santa Fe High School, May 2018), Nikolas Cruz (Stoneman Douglas High School, Feb 2018), Devin Kelley (Sutherland Springs church, Nov 2017), Stephen Paddock (Las Vegas, Oct 2017), Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook, Dec 2012), James Holmes (Aurora theater, July 2012), Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine High School, April 1999), George Hennard (Killeen, 1991), James Huberty (San Ysidro, 1984), Charles Whitman (Austin, 1966) and Patrick Sherill (Edmond, 1986) have in common? They are white Christian men. There is only one (one) mass shooting carried out by an Asian, Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech, Apr 2007), and two (two) carried out by Muslims: Omar Mateen (Orlando nightclub, June 2016) and Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik (San Bernardino, Dec 2015). Not a single mass shooting by a black man (more than 9 people killed).
Mass shooters and serial killers are white Christian men, with rare exceptions, and frequently with Anglosaxon last names.
("Mass shooting" and "serial killer" here refers to more than 9 homicides. The higher the threshold you choose, the more likely that they are mostly white Christians with an Anglosaxon last name. The lower the threshold, the more likely that there are also other groups. Racists lower the threshold of "mass shooting" to two victims so that most killers are from poor violent neighborhoods, i.e. blacks; but most of us think that a "mass" shooting is not a shooting of two people; two is not a "mass".
These are routinely classified as cases of "mental illness" but why is it that this kind of mental illness seems to affect mainly white Christian men born in the USA? Note that articles on these mass shootings often omit the name of the shooter (they normally only mention the place and date), whereas any article on an Islamic terrorist attack would include the names of the attackers (to emphasize their religion and origin).
https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massshoo.html
The overwhelming majority of mass murderers in the history of the US are also cis gender.
I did not say that every, white, christian, cis gender man is a mass murderer. I meant to say that almost every mass murder is committed by white, christian, cis gender men.
(Apologies to John Stuart Mill)
I live in a rural area heavily populated with RW extremists. The county is 93% white. The next highest of the population groups are Native Americans. The MAGAt king got 64% of the vote here.
For me, white guy with gun means run!
February 16, 2023
First, the American fascists came for transgender folks...
....and we protected them from the fascists before they had a chance to come for the rest of us.
Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists
On an overcast Saturday in the small North Texas suburb of Princeton, a tiny church-turned-community center became one of the latest fronts in the far right’s ongoing culture crusade against drag shows and the broader LGBTQ community.
Masked members of the left-wing community defense group Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, clad in black and toting handguns and radios, had already staked out positions around the perimeter of the Steve and Judy Deffibaugh Community Center before self-described “Christian fascist” Kelly Neidert pulled up with her own armed private security. About a half-dozen Princeton police officers stood watch. Neidert is the head of the so-called Protect Texas Kids (PTK) group, which baselessly claims to be defending children from “grooming.” In reality, advocates point out, the group is using false narratives to stoke hatred and violence against the LGBTQ community.
snip.....
Armed members of Veterans for Equality showed up to defend “A Drag Queen Christmas” outside the Aztec Theater in San Antonio in December, for instance, some open carrying and others concealing their firearms. “When we first came in [to the military], we swore an oath to fight enemies foreign and domestic, and right now we feel like the domestic part is really having an effect on us and trying to strip away our rights,” Veterans for Equality Cofounder Gen Peña told Truthout during the protest.
Moreover, venues hosting drag shows targeted by far right militants are increasingly hiring professional private security in advance of protests. Drag performers who can’t afford pricey private security services, however, are finding they can rely directly on the community itself.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-community-groups-are-defending-texas-drag-queens-from-christian-fascists/
Masked members of the left-wing community defense group Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, clad in black and toting handguns and radios, had already staked out positions around the perimeter of the Steve and Judy Deffibaugh Community Center before self-described “Christian fascist” Kelly Neidert pulled up with her own armed private security. About a half-dozen Princeton police officers stood watch. Neidert is the head of the so-called Protect Texas Kids (PTK) group, which baselessly claims to be defending children from “grooming.” In reality, advocates point out, the group is using false narratives to stoke hatred and violence against the LGBTQ community.
snip.....
Armed members of Veterans for Equality showed up to defend “A Drag Queen Christmas” outside the Aztec Theater in San Antonio in December, for instance, some open carrying and others concealing their firearms. “When we first came in [to the military], we swore an oath to fight enemies foreign and domestic, and right now we feel like the domestic part is really having an effect on us and trying to strip away our rights,” Veterans for Equality Cofounder Gen Peña told Truthout during the protest.
Moreover, venues hosting drag shows targeted by far right militants are increasingly hiring professional private security in advance of protests. Drag performers who can’t afford pricey private security services, however, are finding they can rely directly on the community itself.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-community-groups-are-defending-texas-drag-queens-from-christian-fascists/
First, the American fascists came for transgender folks...
....and we protected them from the fascists before they had a chance to come for the rest of us.
February 16, 2023
First, the American fascists came for transgender folks...
....and we protected them from the fascists before they had a chance to come for the rest of us.
Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists
Source: Truthout
On an overcast Saturday in the small North Texas suburb of Princeton, a tiny church-turned-community center became one of the latest fronts in the far right’s ongoing culture crusade against drag shows and the broader LGBTQ community.
Masked members of the left-wing community defense group Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, clad in black and toting handguns and radios, had already staked out positions around the perimeter of the Steve and Judy Deffibaugh Community Center before self-described “Christian fascist” Kelly Neidert pulled up with her own armed private security. About a half-dozen Princeton police officers stood watch. Neidert is the head of the so-called Protect Texas Kids (PTK) group, which baselessly claims to be defending children from “grooming.” In reality, advocates point out, the group is using false narratives to stoke hatred and violence against the LGBTQ community.
snip.....
Armed members of Veterans for Equality showed up to defend “A Drag Queen Christmas” outside the Aztec Theater in San Antonio in December, for instance, some open carrying and others concealing their firearms. “When we first came in [to the military], we swore an oath to fight enemies foreign and domestic, and right now we feel like the domestic part is really having an effect on us and trying to strip away our rights,” Veterans for Equality Cofounder Gen Peña told Truthout during the protest.
Moreover, venues hosting drag shows targeted by far right militants are increasingly hiring professional private security in advance of protests. Drag performers who can’t afford pricey private security services, however, are finding they can rely directly on the community itself.
Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/armed-community-groups-are-defending-texas-drag-queens-from-christian-fascists/
First, the American fascists came for transgender folks...
....and we protected them from the fascists before they had a chance to come for the rest of us.
January 18, 2023
"Do Not Eat The Fish"
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."
- Alanis Obomsawin
Eating locally caught freshwater fish can put PFAS in human blood, study says
Eating one locally caught freshwater fish in a year delivers as much potentially health-harming nonstick PFAS compounds to the blood as drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, newly published scientific research finds.
Eating these fish "is like drinking some of the most PFAS-contaminated water that you could find in any public water system in the country, if not worse," said David Andrews, senior scientist with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., which conducted the study with Duke University.
The researchers reviewed data from more than 500 fish fillet samples collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2015 in two programs: nationwide in its National Rivers and Streams Assessment and for the Great Lakes Human Health Fish Fillet Tissue Study. More than 44 different fish species were sampled, including popular sport fish such as largemouth and smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, northern pike and more.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — PFAS — were compounds used throughout industry and in commercial products since the mid-20th century for their nonstick and water-resistant properties, including Teflon-coated pots and pans, Scotchgard carpet stain protection and Gore-Tex rain-resistant clothing. The compounds have been dubbed "forever chemicals" because they generally fail to break down in nature. In recent years, they've been found to contribute to a host of human health problems, including cancer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/eating-locally-caught-freshwater-fish-can-put-pfas-in-human-blood-study-says/ar-AA16thSC?cvid=d5626b19d64740e9aab3966bb15b6ad1
Eating one locally caught freshwater fish in a year delivers as much potentially health-harming nonstick PFAS compounds to the blood as drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, newly published scientific research finds.
Eating these fish "is like drinking some of the most PFAS-contaminated water that you could find in any public water system in the country, if not worse," said David Andrews, senior scientist with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., which conducted the study with Duke University.
The researchers reviewed data from more than 500 fish fillet samples collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2015 in two programs: nationwide in its National Rivers and Streams Assessment and for the Great Lakes Human Health Fish Fillet Tissue Study. More than 44 different fish species were sampled, including popular sport fish such as largemouth and smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, northern pike and more.
snip---
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — PFAS — were compounds used throughout industry and in commercial products since the mid-20th century for their nonstick and water-resistant properties, including Teflon-coated pots and pans, Scotchgard carpet stain protection and Gore-Tex rain-resistant clothing. The compounds have been dubbed "forever chemicals" because they generally fail to break down in nature. In recent years, they've been found to contribute to a host of human health problems, including cancer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/eating-locally-caught-freshwater-fish-can-put-pfas-in-human-blood-study-says/ar-AA16thSC?cvid=d5626b19d64740e9aab3966bb15b6ad1
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