Ammoland reports that the bar shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, where 13 people were supposedly killed, had 6 unarmed, off-duty police officers as customers. No explanation was given.
Here’s YOUR “Heroes” at Work
Eric Garner’s Death Is Mourned, Big Government Is Blamed for Tragedy
“A Man Died over Cigarettes and Tax Revenue”
Washington, DC – WASHINGTON, DC — As members of the Project 21 black leadership network mourn the regretful loss of Eric Garner’s life during a confrontation with New York City police officers, they see the root problem in government overreach.
Garner died at least in part from a chokehold administered by a police officer last July after he was accused of selling “loose” untaxed cigarettes outside a New York City storefront. On December 2, a grand jury did not indict the officer who put Garner in the apparently deadly hold. While most protesters are focused on the issue of police brutality, Project 21 members are looking at the bigger-picture problem of an increasingly powerful government which zealously enforces regulations so that even minor offenses can have deadly outcomes.
“A man died over cigarettes and tax revenue. Eric Garner died because of an all too powerful state,” said Project 21 member Shelby Emmett, an attorney and former congressional staffer. “We must ask ourselves what exactly we want the police enforcing with such deadly strength. These officers confronted Garner because he was selling single cigarettes and was thus depriving the government of revenue. He was not threatening anyone’s life, starting fires or even holding up traffic. He was not suspected of a violent crime, so such force should never have been justified. Any person concerned with individual liberty should be disgusted.”
“The overregulated nanny state not only inconveniences our everyday lives, but — as we’ve now witnessed in New York City — it can even end up costing someone their life,” said Project 21 member Christopher Arps, a resident of St. Louis who was witness to both cycles of violence in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of Michael Brown. “I would never condone breaking the law, but it is inconceivable to me that a citizen can be put into a police chokehold and, despite repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe, be allowed to die over the crime of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes on the street.”
Besides government, violent cultural factors and unchecked crime within the black community is cited as a factor in the death of Eric Garner.
“Black lives do matter, and Eric Garner should not have died for selling loose cigarettes. I agree with Al Sharpton and the racialist lobby that there is a crisis of black men losing their lives, but my harmony with them ends there because they tend to only mourn the loss of black lives taken by whites,” said Project 21 Niger Innis , national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality and executive director of the TheTeaParty.Net. “The plague on young black men in urban centers is not white racists and nor murderous cops because 93 percent of black men are killed by other black men. There are far too many black men raised in households that have no black male role models and the entertainment-industrial complex perpetuates a gangsta criminal chic. Until so-called civil rights leaders can openly and honestly address this problem, the plague will continue unabated. We need to target the real cause of the genocide of young black men.”
Project 21 member were interviewed or cited by the media over 1,900 other times in 2014 – including TVOne, Fox News Channel, CNN, the Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Orlando Sentinel, National Public Radio, Westwood One, SiriusXM satellite radio and the 50,000-watt radio stations WBZ-Boston, WHO-Des Moines, KDKA-Pittsburgh, KOA-Denver, WGN-Chicago and WJR-Detroit – on issues that include civil rights, entitlement programs, the economy, race preferences, education and corporate social responsibility. Project 21 has participated in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race preferences and voting rights, defended voter ID laws at the United Nations and provided comment during the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown judicial proceedings. Its volunteer members come from all walks of life and are not salaried political professionals.
Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over two decades, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org).
Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated.
68% of Sworn Connecticut Police Officers Failed to Register Weapons
(This makes my day! I like to laugh.)
The unnamed intern then pointed at the list and said, “my dad’s name is on the list, and he is the police chief. I see three other names on this list of family members, all cops.”
With in hours a print off of all sworn Law Enforcement officers in the state was obtained. Comparisons of the list of gun owners who failed to comply with registration requirements and sworn LEOs showed a startling figure. Just over 68% of Connecticut cops had failed to register firearms according to the new law.<<<Read More>>>
Police Shoot Bear That “Made an Agressive Movement”
Here we go again. In Colorado, a bear enters a family’s home. The police come. The bear moves outside and the police follow. A police officer says the bear, “made an aggressive movement” and so he shot twice with a shotgun and killed the bear.
Some people are upset and at the end of an article written at “The Gazette” people have left numerous comments, the majority of them ignorant. But here’s one I personally like:
So sad. Did the bear open the door and let itself in? And an aggressive movement? Gun happy cops. Remember what they did when the buffalo got out? They don’t seen to think in a situation that involves animals. Animals + cops = KILL (emboldening added)
You Are On Your Own
City Bans Guns, Gun Ranges Ban Cities
Note: It is the opinion of the editor of this blog that the actions described in this news report have been done solely for the purpose of inciting people to public demonstration and violence. As is pointed out in the article, the police department in this small Vermont town expresses disappointment in the results of the “important and much-needed community dialogue regarding gun control” by showing they don’t like the outcome they believed they could dictate to the people. Too bad. If I’m not mistaken, it was idiots like those in Burlington, Vermont who began this so-called dialogue. This has been anything but a dialogue and now that people are pushing back, the fascists don’t like it. This pushing back can be accomplished without taking guns to the street and killing people. Those behind the effort to disarm America want violence. It’s their only tool to implement marshal law.
A Vermont gun range has banned the Burlington Police Department from using its facility after City Council voted to advance a proposed ban on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. And given the fact that such facilities are limited in the area, the move could impact when and where officers can go target shooting.<<<Read More from The Blaze>>>