The government of East Fishkill, New York has issued a travel advisory, advising all residents to avoid New York City.
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More attacks on vehicles
Protesters insurgents in Aurora, Colorado attacked a jeep on the highway, flattening one of its tires. Later, that same Jeep approached another set of protesters rioters insurgents and refused to stop. So the insurgents fired on the Jeep, striking several of their own.
At this point, there is a reasonable expectation that any group that is blocking traffic is actively hostile. Anyone who stops for such a protest is likely to either become a victim or a combatant.
We have seen insurgents use clubs, chemical weapons, energy weapons (LASERs), explosives, incendiaries, and other lethal weapons. We have seen them threaten the use of firearms.
The police and other government officials are OK with ceding territory, abandoning buildings, and being the target of attacks by thrown objects, melee weapons, explosives, lasers, and incendiary devices.
If you are taking fire from multiple people who are a part of a group of co-conspirators (combatants), at what point does this move from the standard civilian rules of engagement (only fire upon those who are an active threat) to rules more suited to combat. In other words, when is it appropriate to consider the entire group to be enemy combatants, and employ suppressive fire?
We have seen a few people respond to the violence by returning fire. Now we are seeing multiple people in the insurgent crowds fire at others. It’s only a matter of time before we move from there to a mag dump, or even to force on force engagements.
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Charges dropped in NM shooting
Remember Steven Baca? He was the guy who shot demonstrators who attacked him in New Mexico? Turns out that when the police confiscated the weapons from other people in the crowd, they never documented who had which weapons.
Since Baca was claiming that the man he shot was armed with a knife, the police have no way of proving that this was not the case, so the DA had to drop the charges.
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Explosives breaching walls
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.