This morning, I went to comment on a page that was calling Trump a coward for heading to the bunker while rioters were trying to enter the White House. The comment would not post. It said “something went wrong. We are unable to process your request.”
According to the head of the BLM movement, we should empathize with the looters. After all, they can’t afford nice things, so they need to steal them.
BLM demanded that the LAPD budget be cut by 90%– to include laying off 90% of the police department. The Mayor so far has agreed to an immediate cut of 10%. More is coming.
BLM declares they will up the ante in the war that they have declared against police. Will this be like the last few elections, with the violence stopping after election day? Or is this the beginning?
EDITED TO ADD:
For some reason, every time I link to the article about BLM declaring war on police, the link works for about an hour, and then begins getting a 403 error. Here is the link to cut and paste into your browser:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-lives-matter-plans-war-on-police-ny-leader-says
My son is now home from Harlem. As soon as he got off the plane, he proposed to his longtime girlfriend. He was the most dedicated bachelor I have ever seen. He is a bachelor no more.
My brother had cancer. It is an extremely rare, extremely deadly form of leukemia. People with this form of cancer have a median survival time from diagnosis of 18 months. He was diagnosed last summer. He has been flying back and forth to Houston every two months for treatment.
The first phase of his treatment ended in February. Now he has to return to Houston every month for the next year to receive chemo. He reports to the hospital once a month, stays as a patient for five days, and then returns. The problem here is that he is immunocompromised and cannot fly because he is EXTREMELY susceptible to COVID. He can’t even be near his family when he returns home, unless they want to be isolated, too.
So, he hatched a plan. He bought a 55 foot RV. He won’t be able to drive it home to Florida from Houston, because the chemo will make him too sick to drive for long distances. Since the RV is so large, his wife can’t drive it, so knowing my experience driving fire trucks, he asked me to drive it and him home.
So we leave on Friday for Houston, where we will arrive on Sunday. He will be admitted to the hospital on Monday morning, and will be staying there as a patient until Saturday morning. I will stay in the RV with my wife in the RV and then drive us home on Saturday the 13th. We expect to be home by Monday the 15th.
So watching the upcoming trip, there is a tropical storm headed that way. The funeral of George Floyd is going to be on Monday, less than 5 miles from the RV park where we will be staying. Normally, I would be far away from an event like this, but I have no choice but to be there in support of my brother.
The big advantage I have is that the RV is mobile. I can move if the riot or storm get near, as long as things don’t cut off my escape route in a city I am unfamiliar with. My wife is nervous. My other advantage is that I am in an RV and can bring supplies. We will have gas masks, body armor, and weapons. It seems paranoid, but all I will have while I am over 1,000 miles from home is what I bring. I am thinking 2 handguns, a PDW, and an AR15. I will have 3 magazines for each handgun, and 5 magazines for each long gun. I will also bring LODS.
That should do it.
I am going to do my best to avoid, but I need to plan for everything.
The nurses who volunteered to go to NYC to care for the people afflicted with COVID have been staying at the New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan. There are charter buses that leave from the hotel every 12 hours from that hospital, transporting the medical personnel from the hotel to the various hospitals in the city. Shift change occurs, and then the bus returns to the hotel with the nurses who just went off shift.
That changed tonight. Rioters managed to stop the bus and attack its occupants. From one of the nurses who was there:
Our bus driver, Roger, was attacked last night by these despicable people. I’m the first that will respect every American’s right to peaceful protest. I’m seeing it firsthand the protest had been hijacked by Antifa and thieves. I’m headed home tomorrow due to this exact reason. I came here to help the people here during the pandemic and now having to leave due to riots. It’s so disheartening to witness the lawlessness exhibited not by the protesters, but the groups(Antifa) hiding behind the peaceful protest. I can’t and will never support their behaviors.
My son is fine, he is not one of the people who rides that bus, and is not staying in that hotel. However, he is not happy at all with the situation, and is looking forward to getting out tomorrow. He has decided that he will not return. He told me the other night: “The way I have been treated makes me want to say, ‘Fuck New York. I don’t care if the entire city is dying, I don’t want to come back.'”
This attitude is one I am beginning to see from all of my first responder friends.
Here is the entire arrest report for Derek Chavin, the Minneapolis police officer that is accused of killing George Floyd. I got this from the Law of Self Defense blog, written by attorney Andrew Branca. If you want to understand how self defense law works, his blog is a great resource. He does charge for access, but it isn’t much. I will only include the complaint, I will not repeat Mr. Branca’s professional opinion here.
When a criminal complaint is filed, every word is important. Read the complaint, and remember that it was written by the prosecutor. Most importantly, read the account of how Floyd was resisting arrest. That is something that was not seen in the video.
Antifa member cries “I don’t want to lose my leg” as fellow members place a tourniquet on his leg after he was hit by a rubber bullet. It isn’t even bleeding any more. This is what we would be fighting, if we had the balls.
