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To dictatorial governors and mayors: where’s the science?

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One of, if not the major reason people justified, overtly or covertly, the cessation of business for “sheltering in place,” was that the science “justified” our doing so. We were attempting to “flatten the curve” as it were, which somehow morphed into “flatten the economy.”

I’ll translate for you:

-Two months ago: “We can’t open until we flatten the curve to save our healthcare system.”
-One month ago: “We can’t open until we have a vaccine.”
-A few days ago: “We can’t open until we have multiple vaccines.”
-Today: We can’t open until Biden wins.

The very persons who bleated that “we can’t politicize a pandemic” were the very first to politicize a pandemic.

As the saying goes: “Whatever the Leftists and Demorats are accusing you of, they themselves are doing right now.”

Which is this: utilizing Fear Porn to keep all you little proles, commoners, groundlings, unwashed masses, subjects and serfs in line.

All you Leftists, remember to stay inside and remain scared. Do whatever your governor or mayor tells you to do. Your business, you livelihood, your job, even your health means nothing if even one governor’s edict or mayor’s edict can be saved. OBEY. Sieg Newsom! Sieg Murphy! Sieg Cuomo! Sieg Pritzker! Linke über alles!

Remain Blue Pilled, all of you people. Quiver in the fetal position underneath your desks, in your closets, under your beds.

Let’s stop here for a moment. It’s no surprise that I’ve lost acquaintances, some fairly close, and even some friends when I voted for Donald John Trump, OMB, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head. Here’s a bit of the “odd thing” about that as well. They drew some clear lines — so I did too.

But I find it amusing that there appears to be a pretty close correlation between Trump and this Wuhan-19 thingie. The same people who kicked my ass to the curb for supporting Trump — are now kicking my ass to the curb for my support of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

You know, that pesky crap called “freedom” and “liberty.”

Frankly, I think that says a helluva lot more about them than it does me.

I’m losing more acquaintances, mostly in law enforcement (and even an actual LE friend), for my stance on law enforcement’s handling of the various incidents involving people who want to get back to work, walk in a park, boogie board on the water, let their kids visit another child, cut hair, eat at a restaurant, work out, or encounter sand.

You can walk through the wet sand, but you can’t be trusted to sit in dry sand for any period of time unless you occupy an adult playpen.

I want my baby rattle. Oh hell. I crapped my diapers. Medic!

In the meantime, some people think that woman is nuts. What’s she doing out? Moreover, what’s anybody doing out? Time to call the police! Time to create a new hashtag! #RespectTheFearPorn!

Let’s be honest; if we haven’t died yet, well, WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

“The Fear Porn lives strong in you.”

Particularly in light of not only the revelations of the Kern County Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi. Here, the false safety of mask and gloves is summed up by those same doctors.

Then there were more recent revelations of these persons.

Here is Dr Ivette Lozano, speaking in Dallas, Texas on May 10th, about the Wuhan-19 virus — daring to give you the truth.

And there you go. YouTube took Dr Lozano’s speech down because it provides an alternative to the goose-stepping Leftist governor and mayor dictator edicts that YouTube and Facebook know and love so well. So I put this up. Let’s see how long it lasts.

Here is Dr Jeff Barke from Orange County, speaking in public about Wuhan-19.

Here is Dr Barke speaking in his office about Wuhan-19 and what he has experienced.

We are seeing an absolutely unprecedented spike in videos removed by both Facebook and YouTube if they even remotely go against the grain of “huddle like a rat inside, genuflect and bow to the WHO, and Dr Anthony Fauci is god.” YouTube and Facebook will not even brook a discussion of any of these issues, as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcocki clearly states here on CNN with George Costanza.

You know, anything that slightly goes against that Chinese managed organization, the WHO — which means that, by dint of doing BZ’s Logical Extension, YouTube is nothing but a puppet for the Chinese Communists and Xi Jenping.

Not to mention the entire paradigm shift made by the WHO, World Health Organization, that kicked the Chinese model to the curb and advocates the open Swedish model of dealing with the Wuhan-19 virus.

WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a ‘model’ for countries going forward

by Jack Salo, 4-29-20

The World Health Organization lauded Sweden as a “model” for battling the coronavirus as countries lift lockdowns — after the nation controversially refused restrictions.

Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert, said Wednesday there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, which has largely relied on citizens to self-regulate.

“I think there’s a perception out that Sweden has not put in control measures and just has allowed the disease to spread,” Ryan told reporters. “Nothing can be further from the truth.”

Ryan noted that instead of lockdowns, the country has “put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long-term care facilities.”

“What it has done differently is it has very much relied on its relationship with its citizenry and the ability and willingness of its citizens to implement self-distancing and self-regulate,” Ryan said. “In that sense, they have implemented public policy through that partnership with the population.”

Let us not forget, however, that no one can advocate for hydroxychloroquine or any such cheap or readily-available drug because, after all, if it isn’t personally-embraced immediately by Dr Anthony Fauci, well, it’s just too inexpensive and won’t bring requisite cash and control to Big Pharma.

And isn’t it odd that, somehow, two American plants oddly enough happen to be on fire. I put this together; no one else that it worth mentioning.

First, this fire in Illinois.

Large fire at magnesium factory in Madison, Illinois

by Roche Madden, 5-7-20

MADISON, Ill. – A thick plume of dark smoke could be seen pouring from the site of a factory fire in Madison, Illinois Thursday afternoon.

Firefighters from 35 departments all over the area responded to the fire at Magnesium Elektron. They were afraid the fire would turn into an explosion. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.

Firefighters were concerned magnesium was burning.

Then this from the company itself, Magnesium Elektron.

Magnesium Elektron Launches New Biomedical Solutions Using Magnesium Alloys

Magnesium Elektron, a global materials technology company specialising in the design and manufacture of high performance materials, has announced the launch of magnesium for its first biomedical applications.

The use of the bioresorbable material, specifically Magnesium Elektron’s revolutionary Synermag magnesium alloy, in CE approved, cardiovascular applications has been announced.

This and a wide variety of potential pharmaceutical and biomedical applications are detailed in two new publications available to download here.

Those stories and incidents aren’t linked. What’s the problem or issue?

Magnesium stearate is an ingredient of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Two separate plants that manufacture it were on fire; the one in Madison, Illinois, and a plant in Mexico.

Simply coincidence? BZ does not believe in co-inky-dink any more. I have been terribly disabused of that by recent events.

And just when the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine is being shot down by Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots — because it is absolutely politicized — I can and will talk about articles pointing out the positive, more readily available and workable effects of hydroxychloroquine. Here is one major, major article that no one is featuring and everyone — in the American Media Maggot realm — is purposely avoiding.

From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:

Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients

Press Release, 4-28-20

In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®).

To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.

The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Additional benefits shown in some studies, AAPS states, is to decrease the number of days when a patient is contagious, reduce the need for ventilators, and shorten the time to clinical recovery.

We also know this, oddly enough, from CNN.com:

Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug remdesivir

by Maggie Fox, 4-17-20

Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial.

The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and fever, but were able to leave the hospital after less than a week of treatment, STAT quoted the doctor leading the trial as saying.
“The best news is that most of our patients have already been discharged, which is great. We’ve only had two patients perish,” Dr. Kathleen Mullane, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago who is leading the clinical trial, said in the video.

In fact, an entire nation is attempting to corner the hydroxychloroquine market because it believes in the results of the drug in helping its citizens. From UK’s TheGuardian.com:

UK bulk buys hydroxychloroquine as potential Covid-19 treatment

by Rajeev Syal and Lisa O’Carroll

Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug being taken by Donald Trump as an unproven protection against coronavirus, is being bought in bulk by the UK in case it does turn out to be an effective Covid-19 treatment.

Ministers are seeking 16m tablets in packets of up to 100 as part of a £35m contract put out to tender on Friday.

The drug is being tested by government scientists, health officials said. They are securing additional supplies so it can be distributed among the population if required.

The contract, which was uploaded to a government website on 15 May, is an “open opportunity” for pharmaceutical suppliers to supply more than 33m tablets of various drugs between June and next January.

“Yeah, we don’t believe in the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine because we want to appear politically correct with all of the other talking Leftist heads — but just in case.  .  .”

What did we know and when did we know it — about hydroxychloroquine? Well, it would seem the extremely praised High Lord Himself, Dr Anthony Fauci, knew something pretty important way back on August 22nd of 2005.

Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread

Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiosis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. The fact that the drug has significant inhibitory antiviral effect when the susceptible cells were treated either prior to or after infection suggests a possible prophylactic and therapeutic use.

Let’s mention the NYU study about the combination of hydroxychloroquine and a Z-pack. Because this is likely the only place you’ll read of it.

Drug Combo with Hydroxychloroquine Promising: NYU Study

by Alyssa Paolicelli, 5-12-20

NEW YORK – Researchers at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine found patients given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc sulphate and the antibiotic azithromycin were 44 percent less likely to die from the coronavirus.

“Certainly we have very limited options as far as what we have seen work for this infection so anything that may work is very exciting,” said Dr. Joseph Rahimian, Infectious Disease Specialist at NYU Langone Health.

Additionally, from Texas:

39 elderly Texans successfully complete hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19, doctor says

by Jason Whitely, 4-14-20

DALLAS — What happened at a Galveston County nursing home over the last week was one of the first big tests of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients in Texas.

“I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not an acceptable,” said Dr. Robin Armstrong, MD, medical director at The Resort at Texas City.

Fifty-six residents at this senior facility in Galveston County contracted the novel coronavirus. Dr. Robin Armstrong said 39 of them gave him permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine pills.

“Most of the patients have done well. And, you know, and I think that that is suggestive that the medication is helpful,” Armstrong told WFAA.

Of course, you’re only hearing about the negative studies and effects because, frankly, that’s what the Demorats, Leftists and American Media Maggots only want you to hear.

You have to look deeply to find other studies. That is purposeful.

The massive demand didn’t exist then. It does now. But now that the medicine appears to be the worst of all possible worlds to Big Pharma and those doctors quite possibly on the take and padding their bank accounts — it’s cheap and effective — whoa, hold up there on that car wash! Let’s not go all crazy on solving the problem now.

There’s a fat hog to be cut here and we all want our piece.

Now, despite the fact that more and more studies clearly indicated that the Wuhan-19 virus is infinitely more prevalent than anyone previously surmised — meaning that its mortality rate is actually much, much less than previously surmised (right at or just a slight tick above that of the yearly flu), and the World Health Organization (WHO) has abandoned the Chinese model of strict isolation for the open Swedish model — we still have Demorat governors and mayors who are not only adhering to their Draconian measures but actually expanding them and extending their time in place to August and, in some cases, beyond.

First, the Stanford Research project:

Stanford researchers test 3,200 people for COVID-19 antibodies

by Kate Selig, 4-4-20

Over 3,200 people in Santa Clara County were tested for COVID-19 antibodies on Friday and Saturday in an effort to determine the proportion of the population that either has or has recovered from coronavirus. The study, led by researchers at Stanford Medicine, is the first of its kind in the nation.

Then the USC study results emerged.

Preliminary results of USC-LA County COVID-19 study released

USC-LA County Study: Early Results of Antibody Testing Suggest Number of COVID-19 Infections Far Exceeds Number of Confirmed Cases in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles (April 20, 2020) – USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread – and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought.

From this, epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis announced the results of a study that measured presence of SARS-2 antibodies in populace: 50 to 85 times more people have had the virus than was previously believed. The infection fatality rate is therefore very similar to the regular flu.

Leftists seem to love China. Here’s a report about China’s statistics, from BusinessInsider.com:

The biggest breakdown yet of novel coronavirus cases suggests that 80% are mild. Some patients never show symptoms.

by Morgan McFall-Johnsen, 2-19-20

  • About 80% of novel coronavirus cases are mild, according to China’s most comprehensive report about the outbreak published so far.
  • Many patients experience only a fever or dry cough, while some show no symptoms at all.
  • The new numbers, along with the fact that 322 out of 621 confirmed cases on a quarantined cruise ship involved people who showed no symptoms, suggest that many mild cases of the new coronavirus are going unreported.

The researchers found that 80.9% of the confirmed cases were mild. Those patients might experience a fever or dry cough but weren’t likely to have difficulty breathing or to develop a severe lung infection. The study also found that infected people could show no symptoms at all — that was the case for 1.2% of the patients.

That was the case for the co-owner of the SHR Media Network, Shaun Lewis, who is in his early 40s, when he acquired Wuhan-19 in late March. He was specifically diagnosed with having it, and stayed in the residence where the studio is located for about two weeks. He said it was similar to his having had the flu with coughing, sweating, general weakness, and an occasional temperature. He fully recovered.

I went back to broadcasting in that studio when he felt better. I am almost 70 and quite obese; a proverbial tasty target for Wuhan-19. I don’t wear a mask or gloves when shopping, having stayed inside, and have been to businesses and restaurants when they were open. I am fine.

We’re also discovering that, no, asymptomatic Wuhan-19 people aren’t going to kill us all.

In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak. All CT images showed no sign of COVID-19 infection.

So I continue to ask: why are those not in the highest risk categories — like those persons over 80 or with a series of serious co-morbidities — still locked down and even taken to jail?

From the NewYorkPost.com:

Science says: It’s time to start easing the lockdowns

by Dr Scott Atlas, 4-26-20, 

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been enormous, and New York has suffered more than anywhere else in the world. Compared as a separate country, the New York area would rank, by far, as No. 1 for deaths per capita.

The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area accounts for approximately 60 percent of all US deaths. Theories abound, but the New York area itself is different: New York is the top port of entry for the hundreds of thousands of tourists coming to the US every month from China; Gotham has a uniquely high density of living that swells daily by millions from workers and tourists; and Manhattan sees some 1.6 million commuters daily, mostly on crowded public transit, including 320,000 from Jersey alone.

Multiple recent studies from Iceland, Germany, USC, Stanford and New York City all suggest that the fatality rate if infected is likely far lower than early estimates, perhaps under 0.1 to 0.4 percent, i.e., 10 to 40 times lower than estimates that motivated extreme isolation.

But wait; there’s more.

When states and hospitals abruptly stopped “nonessential” procedures and surgery, that didn’t mean unimportant care. Treatments for the most serious illnesses, including emergency care, were missed. Some estimate about half of cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. Approximately 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Perhaps half or more of acute stroke and heart-attack ­patients missed their only chances for early treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability. Transplants from living donors are down 85 percent from the same period last year.

And that doesn’t include the skipped cancer screenings, avoided childhood vaccinations, missed biopsies of now-undiscovered cancers numbering thousands per week — and countless other serious disorders left undiagnosed.

Lastly, total isolation prevents broad population immunity and prolongs the problem.

Read that again: “Lastly, total isolation prevents broad population immunity and prolongs the problem.” Another reason, in other words, why people are becoming more “allergic” to certain foods and environments — other than it’s currently “cool” to be so.

For population immunity, it is great news that half of infected people are asymptomatic and that medical care isn’t even necessary for the vast majority of people. That fact has been incorrectly portrayed as an urgent problem requiring mass isolation.

This is what a doctor says.

The curves have been flattened. Now, we must use established medical science and the evidence we have ­gathered, and for New York City in particular, limit the enormous harms accumulating from broad isolation and economic lockdown. While New York is unique, strategy should now focus on rigorously protecting the most vulnerable and strictly regulate access to senior-care centers.

Officials must issue rational distancing guidelines to the elderly and their families, including self-isolating the mildly sick. Masks could be required for public transit. We know children and young adults in good health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19, so logic means opening most schools.

A very important side-note about what the US population itself has been demanding over the decades, and I think it’s worth mentioning. This is from a Washington Examiner article by Dan Hannan (4-27-20) called “We Get The Leaders We Deserve.” He writes:

This is where public opinion comes in. We are bad at calculating trade-offs at the best of times. When there is panic in the air, we want safety at all costs. Or, rather, we don’t think about costs at all. The very idea of calculating the effect of the shutdown on people’s welfare and, indeed, overall longevity, seems distasteful. It’s far easier and far more satisfying to sloganize, to say, “Better safe than sorry” or “Lives before the economy,” as though the economy were some abstract entity rather than the word referring to human interaction intended to maximize health and happiness.

We get the leaders we deserve. Politicians know that they won’t be punished electorally for erring on the side of caution, the key word here being “erring.” There is an authoritarian tendency in every electorate, and crises of this sort inflame it. Once leaders around the world decided to immobilize their populations rather than just quarantining those most at risk, it became politically difficult to switch course. New evidence tended to be pressed into the existing narrative, that is, to be seized on as further justification for the lockdowns.

Did we bring this on ourselves? Not you, not me, but the greater population of quivering pussies in our nation? In a word, yes. And it’s generational.

Even Newsweek recently wrote:

Most U.S. Hospitals Are Empty. Soon They Might Be Closed for Good / Opinion

by Rick Jackson, 4-24-20

Tens of thousands of health care workers across the United States are going without pay today, even as providers in the nation’s hot spots struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic

This “tale of two hospitals” is a function of clumsy, if well-intentioned, federal and state directives to halt all non-emergency procedures, which appeared at first blush to be a reasonable precaution to limit unnecessary exposure and safeguard staff, beds and equipment.

But instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds in systems left untouched by the pandemic.

Those hospitals have resorted to unprecedented levels of furloughs to stave off temporary budget shortfalls, but industry and economic trends point to more lasting outcomes unless immediate action is taken.

Note this:

Outpatient services account for half of all hospital revenue, which means hospitals are now making, and spending, half what they were this time last year.

It doesn’t take an economist to understand the underlying economics here. And it won’t just be rural health care that will suffer—hospitals in every corner of the country might close for good.

“But it’s for the children.” The bleat of every society. Even in Germany. Even in the 1930s.

We have to begin asking ourselves a critical question: “Did we murder the economy and throw a fifth of the labor force out of work to save less than 0.01% of the population?”

We also have to point out this hypocritical situation — though we all know why it exists.

New York mosque still open for daily prayers while churches across the country face mandatory shutdowns

by Phil Shiver, 4-20-20

A mosque in New York is reportedly still open for daily prayers amid the coronavirus pandemic that has forced Christian churches across the country to close their doors and cancel their in-person gatherings.

While churchgoers in many states have been criticized and even punished for continuing to gather, that same level of scrutiny has apparently not been leveled at the Mosque of Jesus, Son of Mary in Syracuse, New York.

And here’s likely the most important, critical and overlooked statistic of all, which was not just avoidable, but certain New York governors made it a point to infect this class of citizen. From JustTheNews.com:

Ground Zero: A fifth to half of all coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes

by Christine Dolan, 4-27-20

few days ago the World Health Organization’s European regional director garnered global headlines by providing a grim statistic that pinpoints the ground zero in this coronavirus pandemic.

More than half of the COVID-19 deaths in Europe have occurred in long-term care or nursing home facilities. It is “an unimaginable human tragedy,” Dr. Hans Kluge declared.

Europe is not alone. At least one in five deaths recorded in the United States so far has occurred in nursing homes or long-term care facilities and experts believe that percentage may grow substantially.

Those are facts. Deaths not in youthful populations. Deaths not in people in their 20s, 30s or 40s. Deaths in our weakest, most susceptible populations. The elderly. In nursing facilities.

There’s the issue of the numbers themselves. One of the first public places we learned of this from Minnesota Senator Dr Scott Jenson. Hospitals were paid more for Wuhan-19 patients, so that incentivized their reporting a higher death rate from Wuhan-19. There is a massive difference between “dying WITH” and “dying OF.”

Then we have New York City funeral directors telling the truth about Wuhan-19 death statistics as well.

The numbers are skewed. The numbers are lying. Garbage in, garbage out. We know it now. We know the books are being cooked. We know hydroxychloroquine, when prescribed by doctors under medical conditions considering each individual patient, can be an effective tool in fighting Wuhan-19.

We know there are underlying, motivating factors in keeping Americans locked up, ignorant, quaking in fear. Many factors involving politics and cash. Politics and cash.

Dr Scott Atlas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, from April 28th, indicated it’s time to open America back up.

That’s science. The studies quoted above are science. The rationale for locking down Americans and not allowing them to purchase garden hoses, walk on dry sand, or purchase seeds is based only upon power and control. And money of course. Via tinpot Leftist dictator governors and mayors.

And despite all of this, despite all of the science in evidence, we had this in New Mexico — what was patently under-reported or avoided completely.

New Mexico governor orders roads closed to city of Gallup in effort to stop coronavirus spread

by Morgan Phillips, 5-1-20

New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to slow the spread of coronavirus and sealed off the roads into and out of the hard-hit city of Gallup, she announced Friday.

To help control a surging outbreak in the city, the Democratic governor locked down the city at the request of Gallup’s mayor, Grisham said in a news release.

Beginning noon Friday, all roads into the city were shut down and businesses were required to close from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. in the city of 22,000. Additionally, only two people are allowed in a vehicle at the same time.

As of May 22nd, there were a total of 300 deaths from Wuhan-19 in the entire state of New Mexico. Sure. Let’s just lock down an entire town and station the Stasi on the border. Sounds like something right out of East and West Germany and Berlin, doesn’t it? To people who know something about history.

The Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot — who despite her own prohibition, went out and got her own hair done “because I felt better and I have to be in the spotlight” a month ago — tacitly said that having 49 people shot, with 10 fatally in the deadliest Chicago Memorial Day weekend since 2015 is, well, pretty much business as usual.

But, dammit, you’d better not party down in Chicago because I’m throwing your ass in jail.

“If We Need to We Will Arrest You and We Will Take You to Jail” – Chicago Commie Mayor Outlaws Parties Under Her Watch

by Jim Hoft, 5-2-20

We can lock up hair salon owners, gym owners, restaurant owners, we can suspend their licenses, their certifications, ruin the lives, dismantle their businesses, and send misguided and wrong-headed cops who aren’t well versed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights to do the bidding of Leftist governors and mayors.

Hey wait. How about some more science, since Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots profess to love and revere science:

CDC’s Latest ‘Best Estimate’ of COVID Death Rate Is 13 Times Lower Than Initial WHO Claim

by C. Douglas Golden, 5-25-20

It’s a number that informed so many of our public policy decisions regarding COVID-19 — 3.4 percent.

“Globally, about 3.4 percent of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected.”

Now, was this based on incomplete information? Of course.

According to the CDC’s data, the symptomatic case fatality percentage is 0.4 percent.

So, do the math: It turns out that means the death rate is only 0.26 percent, according to the CDC’s own numbers.

If we’re talking about something closer to 0.26 percent, putting the world into a new Great Depression seems a bit of an overreaction.

Despite all of this, there are those who want even more power and control over you. When opportunity knocks, people open the door.

So now is a good time to disabuse people of the notion that there aren’t those who wish to place some kind of human trackers into vaccines and such, not unlike programs placing RFID chips in citizens. Of course those who think this may be a goal of various scientists and governments are considered tinfoil-hat-wearers up to and until the time comes that various articles shed light on the truth. From FindBiometrics.com:

New ID2020 Project to Build Biometric ID Program Around Infant Immunization

9-19-19

“The project will involve the exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants, with the aim of building a biometric ID program based on the most successful approaches.”

ID2020, a public-private alliance aimed at supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on universal identity, has announced a new identity project in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh and Gavi, a public-private alliance concerned with vaccination.

The project’s aim is essentially to create a biometric identity system based on immunization efforts conducted by Access to Information (A2I) – a Government of Bangladesh agency – and the Directorate of Health Service (DGHS), with the support of Gavi. The project will involve the exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants, with the aim of building a biometric ID program based on the most successful approaches.

Such as this.

“At the core of our digital strategy is digital identity, which we believe has the promise to deliver a fast-track to inclusion,” Clements explained. “Nearly one billion people worldwide are unable to prove who they are. That is one reason why the Sustainable Development Goals provide all people with a legal identity by 2030.”

And an important element of digital identity is biometric identification, with Clements highlighting the example of a refugee settlement in Jordan, where “refugees are able to authenticate their identity using biometric Iris scans at enabled ATMs before receiving digitally distributed cash assistance.”

Bill Gates assures us all that none of us should attend mass gatherings absent a global vaccine, from ZeroHedge.com:

Bill Gates Crosses The Digital Rubicon, Says “Mass Gatherings” May Not Return Without Global Vaccine

by Tyler Durden, 4-10-20

A recurring theme among conspiracy theorists is that the elite are just waiting for the right moment to roll out their ‘mark of the beast’ technology to remotely identify and control every single human being on the planet, thus sealing their plans for a one world government. And with many people willing to do just about anything to get back to some sense of normalcy, those fears appear more justified with each passing day.

Does this sound like ID2020? Because it is.

In September 2019, just three months before the coronavirus first appeared in China, ID2020, a San Francisco-based biometric company that counts Microsoft as one of its founding members, quietly announced it was undertaking a new project that involves the “exploration of multiple biometric identification technologies for infants” that is based on “infant immunization” and only uses the “most successful approaches.”

For anyone who may be wondering what one of those “most successful approaches” might look like, consider the following top contender for the contract. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed what is essentially a hi-tech ‘tattoo’ that stores data in invisible dye under the skin. The ‘mark’ would be delivered together with a vaccine, most likely administered by Gavi, the global vaccine agency that also falls under the umbrella of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

A simple “tattoo.” Does that sound familiar in some fashion?

Today, with the global service economy shut down to prevent large groups of infectious humans from assembling, it is easier to imagine a day when people are required to have their infrared ID ‘tattoo’ scanned in order to be granted access to any number of public venues. And from there, it requires little stretch of the imagination to see this same tracking nanotechnology being applied broadly across the global economy, where it could be used to eliminate the use of dirty money. After all, if reusable bags are being outlawed over the coronavirus panic-demic, why should reusable cash get special treatment?

Writing earlier this month in these pages, geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar provided a compelling argument that the coronavirus, which is driving the world towards a New Great Depression, is “being used as cover for the advent of a new, digital financial system, complete with a forced vaccine cum nanochip creating a full, individual, digital identity.

Then there is this from MITNews.com:

Storing medical information below the skin’s surface

by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office, 12-18-19

Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history.

MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.

“In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist at all, and electronic databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated,” says Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University.

The researchers showed that their new dye, which consists of nanocrystals called quantum dots, can remain for at least five years under the skin, where it emits near-infrared light that can be detected by a specially equipped smartphone.

Nanocrystals called quantum dots.

To create an “on-patient,” decentralized medical record, the researchers developed a new type of copper-based quantum dots, which emit light in the near-infrared spectrum. The dots are only about 4 nanometers in diameter, but they are encapsulated in biocompatible microparticles that form spheres about 20 microns in diameter. This encapsulation allows the dye to remain in place, under the skin, after being injected.

Please re-read: “This encapsulation allows the dye to remain in place, under the skin, after being injected.”

If you continue to disbelieve, you can read essentially the same information here, from Smithsonian Magazine.

So people that are telling you “chipping with injectable vaccines” isn’t possible, and that no one will do it? Yeah, now you know they’re full of shit. It is possible and people are dying to do it. To you. Do you think they’ll just drop the idea to have people geotagged? And that you’ll not have to get “updates” just like a new app or program?

And that those updates won’t contain a means to GPS your position, or limit your ability to make purchases, get money, goods, services? How about granting access to public venues? How about access to the DMV to renew a license? How about before you purchase insurance? Buy a house? Consider a firearm? Get groceries? Do any banking?

And though, yes, I am straying a bit, this reminds me of a recent social media bit from Sue Meyer. She wrote:

Here we bloody go. I live in Sweden. It is all about controlling people. We are almost cashless now. I am not allowed to cash out my money. I have not paid cash in almost three years. I absolutely hate it.

Every six months, they block access to our accounts unless we answer some very invasive questions. Making me feel, each time, as if I was living under a dictatorship and being treated like a criminal.

A few days ago there was a “glitch” in the bank system, and millions were not able to access their accounts for two days. Where is our choice and freedom?

Australians, do not allow this to happen because it is a trap, and the government can stop access to our accounts at the push of a button. Wake up.

In various articles it was touted that a cashless society was a plus, as the government could force you to spend during a time of recession, or save during a time of inflation. It’s therefore not your money, and becomes the government’s money.

And while we’re at it, wouldn’t it be great if we were all RFID or nano-chipped? What a wonderful world it would be. We’d have to possess an alternative, though. What about ID cards? Would Dr Anthony Fauci be a fan of that? From Politico.com:

Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’

by Quint Forgey, 4-10-20

The proposal, already being implemented by German researchers, is under consideration in the United Kingdom and Italy.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.

“You know, that’s possible,” Fauci told CNN’s “New Day,” when asked whether he could imagine a time when people across the country carry such forms of identification.

“I mean, it’s one of those things that we talk about when we want to make sure that we know who the vulnerable people are and not,” he said. “This is something that’s being discussed. I think it might actually have some merit, under certain circumstances.”

The proposal is contingent upon the widespread deployment of antibody tests which the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are in the process of validating in the the U.S., Fauci said.

National ID cards. Wouldn’t that be a dream? You know, like the ID cards every state requires to make sure the proper person is voting, that it’s an actual citizen who’s voting, like the ID you need to get into any DNC conference or rally. Like those.

Dr Anthony Fauci is a professional. So is Dr Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Wait; Gates isn’t a doctor. But he plays one on Leftist TV. And what he says, goes. Here, he makes the clear and dictatorial statement that “cases will be exponentially growing anywhere you don’t have a serious shutdown.”

So thank God YouTube and Facebook and all the rest of the social media realize that Dr Gates only hat nur das Beste fur alle Menschen auf dem Planeten im Sinn! Heil Gates!

“You get a hundred, you get a thousand, you get ten thousand.” Yup. Fear Porn.

Let’s begin to wrap things up with some more truth.

Coronavirus Deaths: The Most Predictive Factor

by David Catron, 5-5-20

Your chance of dying from COVID-19 is notably higher if you live in a blue state.

here is only one reliable metric that reveals how likely you are to die from COVID-19 in a given state, and it isn’t what you’re seeing in the legacy media. The number of new cases and deaths, for example, are staples of news stories about the pandemic. Neither of these factoids, however, tells us very much in the absence of sophisticated epidemiological data that just isn’t yet available. A far more predictive metric is “death rate per million.” Why? Testing is far more consistent for fatal cases. By this measurement, you are probably more likely to die from coronavirus if you live in a blue state rather than one of its scarlet counterparts.

Ooooopsie. That is not what the LDAMM want you to read or hear.

  • Simultaneously, Leftist Oregon Governor Jay Inslee demands contact tracing. Screw those puny things you think you have, called “rights.” Willkommen in Ihrem neuen Nazi-Deutschland. Heil Inslee!
  • Leftist Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer extended the stay at home “order” through June 12th. That’s the penalty for protesting, you dolts.
  • Leftist Illinois Governor JB Pritzker wants you to spend up to a year in jail for breaking his emergency rule that criminalizes business people who defy his “stay at home” order.

So this is still happening. All in the eschewing of science, you see. Because I proven time and again that keeping people locked up is essentially against all of science.

As you already know, all the people who are telling you to “stay inside” and “don’t come out” are the same people who have absolutely no skin in the game. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zed. The Null Set. Bupkus.

At the same time you’ve lost your job, your business, your house, your family, everything you’ve worked for, your life’s savings, perhaps even friends or family members to suicide — these Leftist governors and mayors haven’t lost a dime. Not one penny. They’re still employed.

Oh. And either they or their family members have gone on great vacations to the second or third homes, mansions in Florida, ranches in Wyoming. Time to buy a cowboy hat!

So what do we know? At a time when Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots were berating everyone for saying that now is the worst time to politicize the Wuhan-19, they were the very first to politicize it.

We now know that, particularly now, science has very little to do with onerous exclusions, continued lockdowns and ridiculous strictures.

We know that, in terms of the LDAMM, it has everything to do with money, power and control. “You’re not listening to vat I om zaying? You vill pay a price!” It’s now about power and punishment rather than science.

Let’s examine some final statistics, shall we? Here are some Wuhan-19 death stats at one point. Note the differences.

In Demorat States:

  • NEW YORK: CLOSED    23,083
  • NEW JERSEY: CLOSED   10,843
  • PENNSYLVANIA: CLOSED   4,624
  • MICHIGAN: CLOSED   5,129
  • TOTAL DEAD:   43,679
  • TOTAL POPULATION:   51.11 million

Then, in Republican States:

  • FLORIDA: OPEN   2,144
  • TEXAS: OPEN   1,369
  • GEORGIA: OPEN   1,754
  • OHIO: OPEN   1,720
  • TOTAL DEAD:   6,987
  • TOTAL POPULATION:   72.79 million

And please also note this:

More people have died by Wuhan-19 in NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY NURSING HOMES than all the people combined in FLORIDA, TEXAS, GEORGIA and OHIO.

So we have to ask ourselves this critical question: “Did we murder the economy and throw a fifth of the labor force out of work to save less than 0.01% of the population?”

Because at this point, the answer would have to be a resounding yes.

This was an inadvertent crisis that was turned into a feature and not a glitch by the LDAMM, the Leftists and Demorats, ably abetted and aided by the American Media Maggots. Simply put: getting the US back on its feet its against their goal to defeat President Trump by any means necessary. Getting people back to work goes against that goal. Getting people back to any sense of normalcy is bad.

And guaranteed, the two last states to release their people will be NEW YORK and CALIFORNIA, because a good portion of the US economy rests in those states and the governors know that. To extend your pain and curtail your growth suits their needs and throttles President Trump. How do we know? Easy.

Dems reportedly warning pre-election economic surge could boost Trump

by Adam Shaw, 5-26-20

As President Trump and the rest of the country grapple with an economic downturn and sky-high unemployment rates amid the coronavirus crisis, some Democrats reportedly worry that an explosive economic recovery in the fall could revive Trump’s lagging political fortunes — and boost his chance at reelection.

Politico reports that Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a Harvard professor, told a bipartisan group of policymakers last month that “We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country.”

An Obama Leftists, in a story published by a Leftist organ, says that expected economic recovery isn’t going to be good for Demorats.

The claims may seem counterintuitive amid the bleak economic picture right now. But it’s premised on assumptions that as lockdowns ease, a recovery could follow more quickly than after past economic crises. Since his earlier prediction, Furman has reportedly also been making the case to Democrats, including top members of presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s campaign.

“This is my big worry,” a former Obama White House official told the outlet, who said of the concern about top members of the party: “It’s high — high, high, high, high.”

Translated and meaning: yes, Demorats want you punished, unemployed, bankrupt and even dead — hey, it’s a corollary adjunct — if it furthers their goals of removing President Trump and installing a Demorat in the White House.

Politics, power and money.

Still and all, the most critical questions yet should be:

  • Will we learn anything at all from this, and
  • If so, what did we learn?

Or do we leave with this quote:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana

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A paddleboarder was arrested 4-3-20 for disobeying Governor Newsom’s “stay at home order” on Malibu Beach. It took a sheriff’s boat, a USCG boat, and about $17,000 worth of fuel, time and man-hours to “corral” the miscreant, who faces 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine — at the same time that actual criminals are released from Kalifornia jails. Perspective, anyone?

The fight continues.

And I am perplexed why it does.

I’m not speaking out of school when I say that this issue is tearing through a number of law enforcement contingents on Facebook, with groups featuring retired and current LE members, who have vastly different opinions on the subject.

Altogether too many of them shockingly wrong.

Wrong how? As in marching lockstep with whatever edicts are handed down by local mayors or state governors. I won’t enumerate all the myriad reasons on this post; I already did so on my prior post in great detail. Read it here.

I find this thinking disappointing and, frankly, a bit shocking and certainly disturbing. In my opinion, altogether too many law enforcement officers are willing to look at the computers in their vehicles, acknowledge a call with an easy fingertip, respond, violate rights, and seemingly think nothing of it, all in the name of what I term Fear Porn.

And now, there’s another reason for cops to continue violating your rights. We’ll get to that in a moment.

Perhaps that might have been initially semi-excusable about two months ago when the numbers were still rolling in — and yet, not very excusable when taken in overall context in terms of rights and freedoms in the United States of America.

The subject was already a primary focus, for two entire hours, on my wireless radio show last Thursday night, the 7th, where I delineated the numerous reasons, in significant detail, why too many responses by law enforcement feature unnecessary, over-the-top — and unconstitutional — reactions to situations that can be best served, easily, by other less heavy-handed means.

Listen to “BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, 5-7-20” on Spreaker.

And yet the hits and foolishness just keeps on coming. Please understand, the bulk of what I’m addressing with this post applies primarily, as you will read below, to Kalifornia laws.

The most recent incident that set me off — as well as apparently others in the opposite direction — occurred in Fresno, Kalifornia on May 10th, Sunday, Mother’s Day.

WATCH: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother’s Day Diners at Fresno Waffle Shop

by Todd Starnes, 5-10-20

At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno, California.

The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop. Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment. When they refused, the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons. It was during that confrontation that at least two people were taken into custody.

Body cam video from Fresno PD.

Then: off to the races on a law enforcement Facebook group. The original post:

So I can’t find the post where the video of my Alma Mater Fresno PD arrested a guy at a restaurant this morning.

I watched the video earlier and only later decided to respond to it. What I saw was an officer meeting two code enforcement officers to make contact with the management of the restaurant probably to cite them for a muni code violation. As they walk up to the door, the crowd gets ugly. There is a guy blocking the door.

The big guy is about 6-03. He blocks the door as a crowd surrounds the officer and tells him he can’t go in. The big guy also gives the officer some sort of forearm or elbow. The officer arrests him.

I know the officer pretty well. He did everything by the book. The crowd and the tall guy were angry and things went down hill because of them not the police. The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily. Don’t judge until the facts are in.

You may not like the fact that code enforcement was going to shut down the restaurant, fine. In my opinion the officer did his job the way he thought it needed to be done.

I disagreed. After a number of comments I wrote:

Maybe the guy’s (the officer) a good guy. At this point it’s becoming immaterial. The numbers and the science aren’t justifying these actions any longer.

I retired as a cop after 41 years in LE. As a Sergeant I wouldn’t have allowed my troops to be the Covid Gestapo.

I can read and people can read. I smell bullshit and people smell bullshit.

You forget the phrase “with the consent of the governed” at your own peril.

From that point the fire was lighted. One deputy responded to my comment.

The police are being used by the politicians to enforce poorly thought-through directives. The public is getting more and more pissed off about these Draconian measures to contain the virus. What will result is civil unrest as the public grows more defiant against the politicians while the police get caught in the middle. It’s a no-win situation for the police.

By the way I’m a retired deputy sheriff and I’m catching a lot of flack from friends who see more and more intrusion on their civil liberties.

He’s correct. Cops are catching crap — properly — for actions such as this. I replied:

My point precisely.

Then there was a response I hadn’t anticipated, corroborating my thoughts.

You might need to get your glasses checked, the guy he arrested never gave him a forearm or elbow. The officer reacted to a verbal challenge and got pissed off. There was no crime, hope you buddy is ready for the law suit. Also ask your buddy how long it will be before he does gun confiscation as ordered.

Then we were off to the races when I wrote:

I’ve read on any number of LE sites how “politics like this” are ruining these sites. Debatable. The overarching points in my mind are Constitutionality and the Bill of Rights. That’s the oath I took. Not to a mayor, not to a governor, but to the US Constitution. Because LE can do a thing, we always need to ask: “are we doing the right thing for the right reason?”

Spirit of the law vs the letter of the law. Discretion. Malum in se vs malum prohibitum.

One individual began the thread.

So what would you have done if you were directed by your supervisor to assist code enforcement with their investigation?

I replied:

Told my troops to C4, gone over myself to look, listen. The city can send paper later. Is it worth getting my troops or citizens hurt over this when the numbers and stats don’t justify it, when I personally see the same thing happening at Costco or Save Mart, or people standing in line for EEO? Nope.

So when rational arguments don’t work, as with everyone else — and attorneys — you go for the ad hominum attacks:

You worked in Sacramento County, one of the most pussified and liberal departments in California. Where you need permission before you can make a request (he meant arrest). I understand your response. But, in real police work, things are a bit different.

So my 41 years mean nothing. Okay. But factually, again, he was sorely incorrect. I responded:

Oh, you mean SAC PD.

Because historically, with the Sacramento Police Department, you need the permission of a SPD Sergeant to make an arrest absent exigent circumstances.

Not so, historically, at the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office where I worked for 35 years, where myself and others were granted trust and utilized discretion — and did not require a Sergeant’s permission for any arrest.

That is one of many reasons that retired SPD officers came over to Sac SO to work as annuitants because, as most every retired SPD officer told me when I supervised EVOC: “If I’d only known this, that you treat your officers like actual adults, I would have gone with you guys.”

Another individual wrote:

Funny we never went with code enforcement people when they did their job, wasn’t our business enforcing health codes and such, only time I ever responded to assist a code enforcement was when the place had a history of getting physical with the code enforcers and I can’t imagine that was the case here, but one never knows. Personally with all the lies and deception coming from newscum I would have on viewed something en route and not gotten their to be involved…..this isn’t about a virus it’s about the upcoming elections…..

Now we’re getting closer to the crux of the biscuit, because here’s another thought:

Where was the on duty patrol Sgt. That would not have happened if those were my troops. I would have led the Code Enforcement officers through the back door, securred the front door after safely ecorting the customers out the back door after they had finished their meals and as as soon as Code Enforcement was done, ecorted them to their vehicles. Sorry Folks the Waffle House is closed until further notice.
10-8 Clear – return to your beats.

The same goon who hated me hated that response. He posed:

Back doors locked. Now what?

The response?

Have dispatch call them and tell them to open the back door. If that doesn’t work, have a unit borrow a crowbar from the Fire Dept. Do I have to do all the thinking? Apparently.

Boom, shaka-laka.

More comments.

We can all debate the officers actions/tactics, etc. But I’ve read several comments on here referring to the officer as “ short shot, gnome, tweedle dum” etc.
It’s disappointing that a few of the arm chair warriors on here feel the need to denigrate an officer who is still out there wearing the badge, doing a difficult job.

And:

That Officer is 5-02 of fury. He is tough as hell any of you who denigrate him based on his size are dicks.

Several comments later, a voice in the wilderness:

The police should not be involved in this issue at this level. Distrust & rebellion are growing, & involving our police is perceived as the overreaction that it is. LE cannot afford further erosion of respect & cooperation. Our collective security is at great risk & anarchy is the result. Big Bird appeared to challenge the officer. I know nothing of him or his motives but that cannot be allowed.

And there we have it. Another comment:

The officers did not have their heads in the game. I led patrol officers as their field Sgt.for 26 years and that was a cluster f..k from the get. They did not follow the 5 Ps – Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

Then it went to this, and rightly so.

Confiscation of lawfully possessed firearms? Better bring a body bag. Our neighbors, friends and every citizen will ultimately be engaged in armed resistance. We’ll be getting a taste of what it was like to be a Redcoat in 1775. Sure, there will be cops and soldiers who will buy in and enforce such orders. I expect the majority will not. I know of none of the Marines I served with who would comply.

Exactly what I want to hear from law enforcement officers.

Another comment.

“The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily.”

I don’t doubt that at all, but I bet their friends and colleagues would have said much the same about many of the Redcoats at Concord on April 19, 1775.

Sometimes “good guys” follow bad orders, and find themselves on the wrong side of history. Time will tell.

And another comment.

Speaking for myself only, if I had to go out on a call to assist another city department, I just stood by to keep the peace. My dog wasn’t in the fight over too many chickens or how tall somebody’s grass was.
That’s their call. But, if things started going south then I was in charge and called the shots. It wasn’t worth the potential damage trying to force a hand over a municipal code violation.
The department involved could file a report with the city attorney and go about finding another solution. I’d back them but I wasn’t going to get my butt in a sling for them either.

You have to look further down the road. What are the ramifications of this call, particularly a Wuhan-19 call?

The problem today is that the police are in a no win situation. They are expected to uphold the law but in turn are crucified by the press and the public, who know nothing about the law or the situation.

And:

Agencies need to step back and away from all the bull shit. U have people getting arrested and released…real crooks. Not people trying to keep there business going and people hired. Really. Going to arrest people on the beach, or your not social distancing and going to take them. Come on. My son a combat Marine grunt was hired by a agency. After seeing all this the kid withdrew. Told them he wanted nothing to do with what they r doing…He is back in the service

Then this dropped:

I thought this site was an LEO site. All the second guessing sounds like some of you need to be in IA.

A response:

Exactly. Bunch of self righteous assholes

I responded myself:

Who follow the Constitution, Bill of Rights, honor their oaths and don’t blindly obey. So I guess I’m an asshole.

A reply to me:

Right. I’m sure when you were a cop in the 80’s and some asshole mouthed off to you, you immediately thought “of the constitution, bill of rights” and walked away. Come on.

Me:

Apparently you don’t understand the difference between Constitutional and unconstitutional. I’m not someone’s political poodle and this is all politics. These political mayors and governors can fight their own political wars.

Him, with the ad hominum attack, which is what attorneys use when they have no argument.:

Apparently you forgot what it was like to be an officer. Easy for you to judge in retirement how bad ass you were and how you would have done it.

One defender:

Calling out a fellow officer for doing something stupid isn’t anti LEO.

Then I wrote, more pointedly:

Oh please. This is all political bullshit that cops get placed into by fuckhead politicians, meaning it isn’t worth getting my troops embroiled in. I go back to my original reasons above. Numbers, stats, politics.

Then a little more common sense emerged from another officer:

This reminds me of the time I had a municipal code violation for loud music. The guy was ready to go to blows along with his party friends. I issued the ticket noted the refusal, wrote a brief report. The city attorney later got upset and said I should have taken the guy to jail. I asked if they would have stood by me for a use of force complaint over loud music. The look on his face told me I did the correct thing… cops are being pulled into a bad situation with this mess.

Bingo. Thank you. Then another interesting comment making the distinction between a police department and a sheriff’s department.

Can’t fault a city peace officer if he is ordered by a city appointed Police Chief who must answer to city officials who order him to enforce unconstitutionally issued orders, codes or statutes.

A county Sheriff on the other hand is elected and answers directly to his citizens and if he truly believes in the Oath of Office he swore to he will tell those communist leaning officials, whether they be city, county or state, that he will NOT enforce any unconstitutional statue or rule that violates the rights guaranteed to the citizens under the U. S. Constitution.

Whether it be active military or active law enforcement anyone who took the Oath of Office which is a life long obligation, knows full well they do not have to carry out orders they know to be wrong and in this case an egregious violation of the rights of all Americans…….………………

Read what Wikipedia says about governors executive orders. As I interpret it, the governors executive orders apply to only government employees and departments, “NOT” the citizens. If that is the case all of these communist leaning orders they have issued are illegal in the first place and not adhering to an illegality issued statute or code by people exercising their protected rights is not a violation of anything.

Except yes, I still fault the police department.

It’s politics, people. Backed, now that we are cognizant of so many other updates, by smoke and mirrors. The numbers and statistics and even the World Health Organization, the WHO, no longer back the Chinese model, instead selecting the Swedish model. Sounds kind of lascivious. I’d select the Swedish model also.

And on and on it went.

So let’s check the law. Let’s let an attorney grab a part of this.

Please note these salient portions.

California Government Code section 8567 states that all orders under the California Emergency Services Act must be in writing and they take effect immediately. When the governor calls a state of emergency, he may suspend any state statute, rule or regulation. (Cal. Gov. § 8571). Please notice that the governor does not have the authority to suspend the California Constitution. As such, any rights contained in the Constitution are still in force. In fact, to make sure the government understands that there are limits to their authority, Cal. Gov. § 8571.5 expressly states that nothing in the California Emergency Services Act gives the government the right to seize or confiscate any firearm or ammunition unless an officer is arresting someone pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime.

And:

On March 4, 2020, Governor Newsom Declared a State of Emergency.

On March 11, 2020, Governor Newsom’s office published the fact that it was California Department of Public Health’s policy of preventing gatherings of groups larger than 250 people “should be postponed.” This was not an executive order by the governor, instead it was a California Department of Public Health policy. This policy does not cite a single law that gives the California Department of Public Health authority to shut down events of 250 people or require social distancing of more than 6 feet. While these may be good guidelines to follow, they are simply policies, they are not the law.

To emphasize that this was just a policy and not a law, on March 12, 2020, Newsom issues his next executive order (N-25-20). This executive order states that “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance of state and local public health officials, including but not limited to the imposition of social distancing measures, to control the spread of COVID-19.”

Notice the language of this order. “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance …”. If you look up the word heed in the dictionary, you will discover that it means “to give consideration attention to.” It does not say you must obey. Gavin Newsom in his executive order utilizing his powers granted him after declaring a state of emergency told the citizens of California that Californians should takes the advice given by the California Department of Public Health into consideration when making decisions.

Now a very important part.

Thus, contrary what you may have been led to believe, Gov. Newsom did not actually issue an executive order requiring Californians to practice social distancing, nor did he actually order gatherings of over 250 people to shut down. All he did was order people to pay attention to what these organizations were saying. These were merely recommendations.

Understand, a policy is different from a regulation. While I was able to find authority that allowed the California Department of Health Services to issue emergency regulations after they jumped through a few hoops, I have been unable to find where their policies would have the full force of law. Laws are passed by the legislature, or under the state of emergency, via executive order by the governor.

We’re not done yet.

Cal. Health & Safety § 101040 permits local health officers to take any preventive measures that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any state of emergency declared by the governor. After a local health emergency has been declared, “The sheriff of each county .. may enforce within the county … all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.” (Cal. Health and Safety Code 101029). Cal. Health & Safety § 101030 specifically gives the county health officer the authority to order quarantines.

As one studies California law, it is clear that the law used to be very explicit that a quarantine was only applicable to those who had a contagious disease or those who had come in contact with someone who had a contagious disease.

While most of the laws regarding quarantine are very broad, Cal. Health & Safety § 120215 appears to have limiting language. This statute reads: Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need for strict isolation or quarantine, each health officer shall: (a) Ensure the adequate isolation of each case, and appropriate quarantine of the contacts and premises. (b) Follow the local rules and regulations, and all general and special rules, regulations, and orders of the department, in carrying out the quarantine or isolation.

And finally:

The quarantine laws are clearly intended to be applied to individuals not to the entire county. The quarantine laws are designed to stop those who might have been infected from passing the disease onto others. Absent the local health officers finding that an individual has the disease or is likely to have the disease, California law does not give them broad authority to quarantine the entire county.

As such, it appears counties such as San Francisco that have issued broad shelter in place laws may be violating California law.

Let’s just be plain and obvious. With altogether too many cops in these circumstances, they are taking the calls personally. It becomes a personal affront. That’s not how this works. Not with politics and politicians — who are all to happy to allow cops to get caught in the middle so that they can be kicked to the curb at will.

And by departments, when faced with use of force complaints, aren’t willing to support their officers when they’re correct.

They are failing to see the ramifications of their short-sighted decisions. That’s my job as a Sergeant, to cover my troops, make sure they’re doing the right thing for all the right reasons, and to ensure people are safe and rights are upheld.

Here is an organization that knows how to protect its troops against an absolutely classic “no-win” situation for law enforcement, the New York Police Benevolent Association.

NYPD union wants cops out of ‘social distancing enforcement’

by Tina Moore, 5-4-20

The city’s largest police union is demanding cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” while slamming New York pols for “releasing criminals,” “discouraging proactive policing,” and leaving subways “in chaos.”

“This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” a statement from Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.

“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.”

Lynch was referring to a fracas that erupted as NYPD cops were trying to enforce social distancing rules over the weekend in the East Village and a cop was caught on video slapping and hitting a bystander who appeared to challenge him.

Lynch added that the politicians are “still watering down our laws, releasing real criminals and discouraging proactive enforcement of fare evasion and quality of life issues.”

“As a result, our subways are in chaos and we have hero nurses getting mugged on their way to our hospitals,” he said, referring to a nurse who had her phone torn out of her hand in Times Square on April 26. “As the weather heats up and the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”

If only more organizations took this logical stance.

Before I go, this came to the forefront:

The original video can be seen here.

There is also this, from a locality closer to my area, Lodi, Kalifornia:

Lodi Police Officer Says He Was Fired For Refusing To Enforce Stay-At-Home Order

LODI (CBS13) — A Lodi police officer says he was fired for not enforcing the states’ stay-at-home order.

In the past 24 hours, his community has raised thousands of dollars to support his family.

Former Officer Jordan Duncan only worked with the police department for four months. The details of the incident aren’t clear, but city officials confirm an April separation date. They would not go as far as to say that Duncan was fired.

Officials did point to a recent ruling which calls the stay-at-home order “lawful,” and said police officers can’t choose which laws to enforce.

That last paragraph? Wrong. Cops have been using discretion in terms of which laws to apply and when for, literally, over a century.

Two aspects the article fails to point out are that, one, he fronted off the Chief of Police in a briefing, telling him what he would and would not do. The other aspect is, two, that he belongs to the easiest class of person in the world to fire, someone on probation.

THIS JUST IN: A RECENT RAY OF LIGHT

From Breitbart.com:

Fresno County Sheriff Won’t Enforce Stay-at-Home Orders; Too Busy Re-arresting Freed Criminals

by Joel B Pollak, 5-14-20

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.

Mims appeared on the Trevor Carey Show, discussing the challenges facing law enforcement during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the economic hardship. She pointed out that government employees were also vulnerable to the economic damage, because the decline in tax revenues meant that state and local governments would cut services.

Carey asked her: “I’ve heard multiple sheriffs around the nation state they will not enforce their governors’ shelter-in-place orders. Is that your position?

“That is my position. We do not stop the public to find out what they’re doing when they’re not sheltering in place. We don’t ask those questions, we don’t ask if they’re ‘essential’. We’ve got our hands full trying to re-arrest people that are released due to zero-dollar bail. So we’ve got other things that are on our mind that are more important than stopping normally law-abiding citizens.”

Fresno County now, officially, has a Good Sheriff.

Clearly, two camps have emerged in law enforcement.

The strict “we follow the orders and directives all the time” camp — and the other, like mine, who insist there are overarching issues we shouldn’t be ignoring — like the rights and freedoms we as peace officers are sworn to uphold, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, no matter the circumstances. I don’t recall the “Time Out, It’s A Bad Flu” clause in any of those documents.

The bottom line is: there’s no doubt this is a proverbial “dry run” for Leftists and Demorats to push the envelope and see what it is that you, the average American citizen, will tolerate in terms of having your freedoms and liberties removed.

Do they only have to provide some kind of “safety crisis” for you to cave and fold? Will Fear Porn do it? How far can you be pushed before you react negatively?

I think we’re starting to see those answers right now.

We cannot allow law enforcement to be wedged into political issues like this. Because we have to do what I term The Logical Extension:

If law enforcement will willingly obey Fear Porn — what will they do when ordered to confiscate firearms from American citizens should Leftists return to power — which they obviously will, some day? And just as Leftists and Demorats said “nah, we’re not coming for your guns,” wrong, they now state openly they’re coming for our firearms.

Doing again The Logical Extension, that means they’re coming for, eventually, all of your rights — every little thing they can steal. IF you stand there complacently and allow it. But wait. Once you have no firearms?

Yeah. You are going to have to stand there and allow it.

I wish I could say I knew for a fact that all law enforcement officers are not going to act unconstitutionally. I cannot.

And that is so foundationally disturbing to my core.

Because I’ve seen all of this, now.

BZ

 

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Oregon standoff: what you don’t know

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First, here is a map of land held by the federal government by state.  Click on the photo to embiggen and note the figures contained.

Federal Land Ownership Per StateAre you as astounded as I am, that the federal government owns so much land in the western states?  Might you now begin to understand the reasons that various ranchers in these western states, many of them having ranched through many generations from the 1800s, may be a bit upset about the federal government land takeover throughout the years and the onset of not only regulations but the application of various major fees and leases?

Perhaps you can.  I can understand.  Not condoning.  But understanding.

Second, Oregon Representative Greg Walden made an even-keeled speech that nailed the issues involved; please watch:

Yes, it is about the federal government.  Yes, it is about freedom.  Yes, it is about land rights.  Yes, it is about the government moving the goal posts.  Yes, it is about our founding documents.  Here is what Mr Obama’s truly doing to our Second Amendment.

Obama Shooting the 2ndI highly recommend this article by the creator of the above cartoon, Michael Ramirez.

And you cannot convince me that the ultimate goal of Leftists isn’t eventual firearms confiscation and elimination from civilian hands.

People are frustrated and stymied and don’t think the federal government is truly answerable and accountable any more.

Third, some info you weren’t aware of in re Obama’s EO regarding firearms, thanks for CLA:  Please click on the graphic to embiggen and read it carefully.  Obama wants his EOs to be interpreted to the point where just one purchase can potentially make an individual a gun dealer and therefore required to possess a FFL.  This will make criminals out of law-abiding citizens — when the federal government picks and chooses what laws it will enforce AND what laws it will obey.

Obama BATFE Details2016, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be a very, very wild ride, not unlike Mr Toad’s.

BZ

 

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Registration then confiscation: Connecticut first

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Guns -- Hi Capacity MagazineFrom Ginny Simone:

Once again I say — and history has proven this time and time thereafter — persons who are unarmed are called Serfs, Proles, Groundlings.

Lt Vance It's Not Even In the Cards -- RIGHT NOW“It’s not even in the cards — right now.”  So says Lt J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police.  Sorry sir.  I don’t believe you for an instant.  You made an equivocation.

Surrendering our freedoms.  Does this sound like America to you?  Why do our soldiers fight for our so-called “rights” if we are simply in the process of giving them away to a New World Order that disdains state and national rights for an overarching global hegemony?

The Second Amendment does not — please let me emphasize this — exist to protect so-called “hunters.”  It exists solely for the protection of the citizen from the actions of its government.  Plain and simple.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I submit the founding fathers were frighteningly prescient.

Here’s the funny thing: I don’t see in the many videos available regarding the diminishment of our Second Amendment rights, many Asians or black or Mexicans.  Because they should, en masse, have gathered around

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

One point of Libertarianism upon which I most wholeheartedly agree, and why I left the GOP and became a registered Independent:

“We’re better off when government was left small, and people were free.”
– John Stossel

BZ

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Privacy removed again: “Get Ready for Regulators to Peer Into Your Portfolio”

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FDR Memorial WallMore American Freedoms Removed.

From WSJ.com:

by Jason Zweig

In December, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed what it calls Cards, an electronic system that would regularly collect data on balances and transactions in brokerage accounts.

If adopted, Cards would revolutionize how regulators do their jobs and could make it harder for unscrupulous brokers to bilk customers.

Right.  Let’s — again — trade freedom for alleged security.

But some critics think it could endanger the privacy and security of investors’ confidential data. And the proposal ups the ante for Finra, which often has been criticized for letting wrongdoers slip through the cracks.

Under Cards (which stands for Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System), Finra would collect—probably weekly—a record of activity at all of the more than 4,100 brokerage firms nationwide.

It means this: the federal government being able to scan your investment portfolio, any time, for any reason, unimpeded and — of course — unmonitored and unchecked.

Benjamin Franklin, you rake, take it away:

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have,
nor do they deserve, either one.”

Under CARDS you will not have fiscal privacy or fiscal freedom, nor will you have digital or personal security when the government can sift through your financial records wholesale.  And when that said security, conglomerated in one place, can be hacked at will by insiders or those paid by outsiders.

BZ

 

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