The Seattle Police Department says that an explosive device was employed by the crowd and blew an 8 inch hole in the wall.
Interior wall:
The outside wall:
Why do people continue to call this “protesting” and not “combat?”
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Shooting at BLM march in Austin.
At the BLM march in Austin, there was a man by the name of Garrett Foster that was at the march carrying an AK clone. He was interviewed earlier in the evening by Ian Miles Cheong. You can click here to see the interview. During that interview, he made the following statement:
I think all the people who hate us and, you know, wanna say shit to us are too big of pussies to wanna stop and do anything about it.
Later that night, as the march was stopping traffic, there was a gunfight that resulted Foster’s death. The sounds of the incident were caught on a livestream of the march that can be found here (sorry, it’s Facebook), just fast forward to 1:35:43. On the video, a horn can be heard honking, there is a pause of 8 seconds, and then five shots ring out. There is another pause of about 7 seconds, then three more shots from an obviously smaller firearm.
Now that you have seen the video, here is what is being said about Foster in the press:
Mr. Foster, who had served in the military, was armed, but he was not seeking out trouble at the march, relatives and witnesses told reporters. At the time of the shooting, Mr. Foster was pushing his fiancée through an intersection in her wheelchair.
Considering the quote about counter protesters being too big of pussies to do anything, I doubt this last statement. Sounds like Foster was looking for trouble and found it. Now that doesn’t mean that the person who shot him was any less of an asshole, but we just don’t know at this point.
Police say that at least one other person besides the man who killed Foster fired shots, but are saying that Foster did not. That is all that is known at this point. I guess we will wait for more details before forming an opinion.
However, this doesn’t do anything to disprove my theory that we are in the midst of an insurgency that is in the violent stage.
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EDITED TO ADD:
Here is a picture of Foster just before shots were fired. If you were the driver and saw this, would YOU shoot in self defense? I probably would.
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Attacking a military sentry
When I first joined the Navy, I went to boot camp in Orlando. The recruits there are assigned to various security watches at night and on the weekend. Each company had its own fire watch from Taps to Reveille, and each of the nine recruit divisions had a roving patrol and a quarterdeck watch.
Recruit companies also provide security watches for various areas of the RTC. One of those watches, the one that was responsible for the damage control training center, had a bit of a run in with a local criminal. I will relate the story the way that it was told to me by the sentry, as accurately as I can remember after more than thirty years.
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The recruit reported for sentry duty. The sentry he was relieving handed over the helmet, flashlight, nightstick, and radio. The time was 2345, and the sentry would not be relived until his replacement came out at 0345.
Now the layout of the RTC becomes important. The DC training area was right against the wall that surrounded the base. The wall in this area was 8 feet tall, made of concrete, and ran alongside of Corrine Drive.
A local criminal had committed a robbery and was being chased by the Orlando Police Department and was attempting to flee on foot. He attempted to get away by hopping over the wall to the Navy Base, where he landed right in front of the recruit sentry. The sentry immediately challenged the intruder, who tried to attack the sentry.
That sentry spent the next five minutes applying his nightstick to the criminal, until base security arrived to take him in custody.
The intruder was arrested by NIS and charged with a list of crimes, the most serious of which was “attacking a military sentry” and subjected him to prosecution.
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I tried to search for the case, but since it happened in the early 80’s, I just couldn’t find it. The point is that the Federal Government follows a different set of rules and doesn’t need the permission of local government to protect its property and personnel.
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Risk and probabilty
Put things in perspective. Your odds of:
– being dealt a royal flush: 1 in 649,739
– dying in a car accident are 1 in 106
– dying from the flu: 1 in 6,500
– dying from COVID-19: 1 in 2,321
– dying from a heart attack: 1 in 4
– dying from a lightning strike: 1 in 1,200,000
– dying after being attacked by a dog: 1 in 118,776
– dying from a shark attack: 1 in 3,750,000
– a heterosexual man dying from HIV: 1 in 2,500
– a heterosexual woman dying from HIV: 1 in 1,250
People are very poor estimators of risk and probability. Watch people try to estimate probability. Ask them what the odds of this are:
Suppose you flip a coin 99 times in a row and each time it comes up heads. Now what are the chances that the 100th time you flip it, it will be heads again?
If they try to tell you that tails is “due” then they don’t understand math or probability well enough to discuss the subject.
That is why, nearly 50 years after the start of the HIV epidemic, many people still do not practice safe sex. Many still get in a car, or even eat unhealthy food. Yet they freak out when they see someone without a mask on, even though there is not one single study that shows masks worn by the public prevent the community transmission of COVID-19.
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System failed
The suspect had 230 felony arrests, 15 felony convictions, and only went to prison twice. That is the problem right there. How can a 26 year old have 15 felony convictions and still be out on the street? We see people getting more prison time for being COVID positive than this guy has gotten.
I seriously think that a judge who lets a convicted felon walk out with little to no jail time after he is convicted for the 15th time in the past 10 years should face criminal charges when that felon murders someone.
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About this blog
I occasionally hear from people who don’t understand why I named this blog “Confessions of a Street Pharmacist.” After all, a “street pharmacist” is slang for a drug dealer.
The roots of this name go back to my military days. Some friends and I were doing our taxes, and we got to the line where you have to list your occupation. We all put down “paid professional killer” on the line, and mailed it in. The group of us got a big laugh, picturing the data entry clerk down at the IRS trying to figure out why there were so many people making a living as killers.
Flash forward to years later, and I was sitting in the station house while listening to my partner complain that so many of the people who call 911 are just trying to figure out how to get EMS crews to inject them with their drug of choice- we called them “drug seekers,” and some of them have gotten pretty good at it.
That same year, when I did my taxes, I listed my occupation as “street pharmacist.” It wasn’t a big leap to name my blog after that bit of humor.
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Range day with an insurgent
Remember Grandmaster J of the NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition), the guy who said he was going to take over Texas? He claimed that he and the other senior members of his group of insurgents had all received military training and were experts on the rifle range? He decided to put his latest range day up on Youtube.
A bench rested shot on a pistol target from 10 and then 25 yards with an AR-15, and THAT is the best he can do? He is certainly no expert. His gun handling skills would get him thrown out of my range. He has no muzzle control and is certainly not in any position to be teaching this to others.
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Vacation
My one real vice is that I am a gambler. This made my wife nervous when we were first together, because she didn’t like to see me betting several hundred dollars at a time. She has since come around and realized that you can gamble without losing your house or life savings. She even plays with me, but won’t play when the table minimums go over $20.
At any rate, I gamble enough that I get the occasional free stay. Back in March, we had a free stay (complete with hotel, airfare, hotel transfer, and a $100 credit for food) at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. Two days before we were supposed to leave, the trip was cancelled.
With the school year starting back up next week, we had completed our required summer training sessions, so I decided to go on vacation while we could. Last Monday, we drove from our home to Biloxi and stayed in a hotel for three nights. The stay wound up costing us $500 for everything including food. Where they got me was the casino. I wound up losing about $1200 at the craps table.
We got home and were immediately offered 4 free nights in Las Vegas. The airfare was $100 each round trip, so we went. Las Vegas is my very favorite city. I know New York claims to be the city that doesn’t sleep, but Las Vegas really doesn’t. and they have fun doing it.
Now we usually come to Vegas twice a year. Last year, we were here for Christmas and in March. (We LOVED coming for Christmas) This week’s visit is our first this year. The differences are jarring.
The place is a virtual ghost town. Many shops and restaurants are closed. Quite a few of the large casino resorts are closed, and the ones that are open are virtually empty. I have been here during the busy and slow seasons, and this looks like an unusually slow season.
We are at the NY NY casino. It is so empty here, that they offered us an upgrade into their largest suite for $80 a night. We were originally booked in a King room for free (all you pay is the resort fee) for 4 nights. We moved to this GIANT suite of 1100 square feet. It has a whirlpool for 2, with complementary drinks in the mini fridge. The cost for 4 nights? $600, and they threw in $100 for food and $75 for some free gambling money. Here is the view* from one of our windows (the suite is on a corner and 2 walls are windows):
(green because the windows are tinted)
If you are familiar with Vegas, you will see that traffic is almost nonexistent compared to normal. The road running from lower left to middle right is the Las Vegas Strip. It is normally packed this time of day.
The hotel seems nearly empty. That is probably why we got the suite so cheap. There is a restaurant near the casino floor that is normally open 24 hours a day. I normally love eating there for breakfast because they have strip steak and eggs for $16. Now they are only open 7am-3pm.
The bars are closed, but not restaurants. Last night, we got several large Margueritas and some outstanding Mexican food. There is a bar on the casino floor where we like to sit and watch people/sporting events/etc. It is closed.
The tables are just as deserted. Here is a Blackjack table:
Note that there are only three players to a table, and they are all in a plexiglass booth. Masks required.
Here is the Craps table. Note there are dividers between players, only three players to a side (normally it’s 8), and most importantly- the tables are closed during the day. Usually, there is at least one table open 24 hours a day. The table minimum when it is slow (especially during the day) is $10, increasing depending on how busy things are. Now, even with as slow as it is, the minimums are $25.
Vegas is hurting. All of America is hurting. This COVID stuff needs to end, before we kill the economy. I personally think it’s deliberate. Hopefully it will be over by November.
The news here is different. It leans even more to the left than I am used to. Every story seems to relate to “Orange Man Bad”- even more so than at home.
* an interesting aside: On the upper right of the picture, you can see some aircraft parked in front of a hanger. That is the CIA’s so-called “secret airline” The parking lot in front of it is for employees of the CIA and of the Groom Lake facility, I am told.)
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DeSantis, the South, and Superiority
A person recently told me that Florida is messed up because our governor has a 4th grade education. The funny part of that is Governor DeSantis has a BA in history from Yale, a JD with honors from Harvard, and served in the US Navy as a Lieutenant Commander (O-4). He spent 2006 as a part of the JAG team that was assigned to Guantanamo Bay’s terrorist detention facility, then in 2007 was sent to Iraq as a part of the command group for SEAL team One, which was in Fallujah.
Compare that resume to the one for Governor Party Tits of New York, who graduated from the Albany School of Law.
The left assumes that anyone who disagrees with them must be uneducated and stupid. I get that all the time, despite the fact that I have 3 college degrees, and scored in the 90th percentile or higher on the ACT, the SAT, and the GRE. Because I am from the south and not a liberal, they assume that I am stupid. Just today, I had a guy with a Liberal Arts Degree call me stupid for no knowing who Immanuel Kant was. He got to feel smarter because his Arts Degree enabled him to know that. Did I mention that he is the Assistant Manager of a Taco Bell?