Crime

More Info, the Manifesto

Fifteen minutes ago, the Washington Post released what they are calling the shooter’s “manifesto.” It was reportedly sent to family ten minutes before shots were fired, so I would class it more as a suicide note. Here is the full text:

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

This guy is clearly sane, clearly leftist, and clearly planned this out. He’s a smart guy. CalTech isn’t a school for idiots. The insanity defense isn’t going to work here. His biggest flaw, and IMO the reason his plan failed, is real life isn’t like a first person shooter video game. He expected to sail through level after level of increasingly serious opponents until he faced down and defeated the “big boss.”

Look, the Secret Service has a limited budget. They can’t search everyone and their hotel rooms. This is still the US and people still have civil rights. Instead, they layer security. He made it through the outer layer, which was staffed by hotel staff and local police. He got to the first layer staffed by Secret Service personnel, and decided to run through the checkpoint. He didn’t make it. Had he, there would have been more and heavier opposition, but there was no way he would have made it all the way to the room where a gaggle of protectees was sitting.

On a larger note, the left has declared war on the nation. Read social media for a bit. I do, and what the left wants for us is no less than a full on communist utopia, with themselves as sitting around writing poetry, painting pictures, and playing video games while the rest of us toil in the factories, fields, and gulags. That’s why they hate the electoral college- they don’t think those of us who live in flyover America deserve a say, because we are all uneducated racist rednecks who are busy fornicating with our sisters.

It’s coming. Keep stocking up on supplies.

By Divemedic, ago

More Information

As usual, in the immediate aftermath of any event, things reported as facts are just wrong. Even eyewitnesses claim to have seen things that it later turns out they could not possibly have seen. Call it the fog of war, it’s like playing telephone as a kid. As I wake up this morning, the reports now are that the suspect is a 31 year old teacher named Cole Tomas Allen. He graduated from CalTech and was known to have donated to the Harris campaign in October of 2024. No other political activity has been reported at this time. He lived in Torrance, CA with his parents in a home they moved into six months ago. He was a guest at the hotel, and charged the first security checkpoint armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives.

Security camera footage released by Trump on social media shortly after the incident shows the suspect running past security officers who appear to be disassembling the metal detectors. Once the president was seated in the ballroom, additional attendees were not permitted to enter the secured area, which is why they were taking them down.

It appears that the shooter was able to be captured without being shot because the moron tripped and fell as he ran through the checkpoint.

One witness, Erin Thielman, a military veteran, left the ballroom to call her son and said she had heard three loud bangs that she believed to be gunfire. She saw a man fall flat right in front of her and said he was carrying what appeared to be a rifle and magazines.

Videos of National Guard troops and agents running around, weapons bared, screaming “Blue, blue!” to prevent blue on blue incidents. Democrats are claiming that this is staged, because real Secret Service have radios and don’t need to yell. When I tried pointing out yelling blue on a radio doesn’t work for that purpose, because the person in your radio earpiece can be miles away, so doing that is just stepping on radio transmissions for no reason, but yelling lets the people in front of you know who is who, I was told by these experts in firearms, shooting, and law enforcement who all graduated from the Dunning Krueger school of all knowledge, that I don’t know what I am talking about.

Of course the left is busy screaming that this entire thing is a false flag, just as they do after every assassination attempt on Trump’s life, even as many Democrats call for his death. That is stupid, for the same reason Alex Jones’ claims about Sandy Hook were stupid. You can’t get thousands of people to all tell a fake story like that, and not have at least one of them decide to come clean in order to be famous. In case you are keeping a count, this is the fourth time in the past two years that someone has attempted to murder Donald Trump. The score is two would-be assassins dead, one serving life in prison, and one in custody awaiting trial.

If I recall, Alex Jones was sued and ordered to pay a billion dollars for claiming the Sandy Hook shooting was false. So why isn’t someone suing the left for the same thing? Probably because the ones saying this don’t have jobs or money, and are posting that from their mom’s basement.

As to videos of the shooting itself, I am always fascinated at how the Secret Service does their job when an incident like this occurs.

That’s all I have for now.

EDITED TO ADD:

The press is claiming this to be the third attempt, but I don’t think they are counting the guy who attempted to enter Mar a Lago with the shotgun, because Trump wasn’t there at the time. I still count that one, because it was an attempt. I didn’t say it was a good one, just that it was an attempt. None of these idiots are any good at trying to assassinate the President. They aren’t good at a whole lot of anything- who charges a secret service detail with a shotgun, after all?

It turns out that I was not counting all of them. In all, there have been 18 security incidents involving President Trump. Nine of them have been what I would call attempts at assassination, and 5 of those have happened in the past two years.

  1. On June 18, 2016, Michael Steven Sandford attempted to grab a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer’s pistol and expressed his desire to murder Trump.
  2. On September 6, 2017 Gregory Lee Leingang stole a forklift and attempted to drive it toward the presidential motorcade and admitted his intent to murder the president by flipping the presidential limousine with the stolen forklift.
  3. On August 10, 2020, Trump was escorted from a press briefing by a Secret Service agent after an armed suspect was shot outside the White House fencing.
  4. On September 20, 2020, Pascale Cécile Véronique Ferrier wrote a ricin-laced letter to Trump.
  5. On July 13, 2024, Thomas Crooks fired eight shots from an AR-15–style rifle at Trump near Butler, Pennsylvania.
  6. On September 15, 2024, Ryan Routh waited for Trump at a golf course while armed with a rifle in West Palm Beach, Florida, later admitting he was trying to kill the President and had at least one accomplice
  7. On November 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Farhad Shakeri, an Afghani citizen, along with Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt (whom Shakeri had met in a U.S. prison) in connection with another murder-for-hire plot to kill the President at the request of Iran
  8. On February 22, 2026, the United States Secret Service shot and killed Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old man from Cameron, North Carolina, who was reportedly carrying a shotgun and gas canister onto the grounds of Mar-a-Lago
  9. and now last night’s attempt.
By Divemedic, ago

Death

Anyone who reads this blog knows I am opposed to the death penalty- not in theory, but because too many in our court system are willing to lie, cheat, and right the system to get convictions whether or not the accused is innocent.

With that being said, anyone who would spend an hour raping and murdering a 7 year old little girl while she cried for her mother deserves to be killed in the most painful way that can be arranged.

This animal pled guilty, claiming he panicked after accidently hitting her with his FEDEX work van. Video showed otherwise, and audio captured after he covered the camera caught the rape and murder.

The family’s life has been torn apart. Kill him. There is no way to make him well again, but there is a way to make sure he never kills again. Society failed that little girl. Let’s no fail another.

By Divemedic, ago

We Forgot

Remember 9/11, we won’t forget?

Until NYC elected a Muslim mayor. Now the Muslims put prayer rugs right on top of the list of firefighters killed on 9/11.

and don’t tell me bullshit about inside jobs. I have friends who were there that day, some died, most didn’t. I won’t permit such half baked comments.

I was on shift that day, friends died. So keep that shit on your own blog.

By Divemedic, ago

Suspicious

The man who was shot dead by Secret Service agents after entering Mar a Lago armed with a shotgun at 0130 this morning had been reported missing by has family less than 12 hours earlier, and local police had notified the FBI.

Twelve hours isn’t even long enough for a missing person report, much less FBI notification. What else was known that made this necessary? Did he leave a manifesto or something?

Now all of the news stories I found from when he went missing have been scrubbed. The left is already claiming it to be a false flag designed to boost Trump’s numbers.

Too many more Trump assassination attempts, and i will have to create a blog category specifically for this.

By Divemedic, ago

Shooting

A Walmart in Poinciana Florida, an unincorporated community that spans Osceola and Polk County, had been hiring off duty Sheriff’s deputies as security. One of them confronted a group of “teens” who had been shoplifting. That’s when one of the youths decided to pull a gun on the Deputy, thereby changing his crime from misdemeanor larceny into armed robbery, a forcible felony.

The Deputy conducted an impromptu ballistics test of his .45 ACP caliber Glock, which performed as expected. The crowd became a bit irate because the deputy shot a “kid,” so another off duty deputy, along with an off duty firefighter, both of whom happened to be in the store and were armed, assisted the original deputy in securing the crime scene until others could arrive. I can’t post the link to the tweet with the video, because it’s been restricted. Click on the tweet below and take a look.

By Divemedic, ago

Scams

A reader recently wanted to know why people make money when owning companies that don’t ever make a product. Some companies are scams, that’s how. Look at this post from Twitter/X:

Believing that a 3D printed filter can eliminate 74% of the CO2 emitted by a car’s tailpipe is ridiculous. The chemistry alone is impossible. Plants don’t just convert CO2 to O2. They are doing so because they need the carbon atoms to make other things, but discard the unnecessary oxygen. The carbon gets turned into other things: cellulose, fructose, proteins, and all of the other things the plant needs. In other words, the plant gains in mass by taking in this CO2. The formula is one that is known and taught in high school biology courses.

CO₂ + H₂O + light → biomass (carbohydrates) + O₂

What makes this impossible is the numbers involved. Burning gasoline produces about 8.9 kg CO₂ per gallon. So at 30 mpg, that’s about 0.30 kg CO₂ per mile. To reduce CO₂ by 74%, you’d need to remove roughly 0.22 kg CO₂ per mile. At 60 mph = 1 mile/min → you’d need to remove ~220 grams of CO₂ every minute. That doesn’t seem to be too bad, on its surface. So why is this impossible?

At a conservative microalgae fixation rate of 4 g/L/day, you’d need ~106,600 L of culture. At 1 g/L density, that’s ~107 kg dry algae. That’s not all- that dry algae would need a water bath in order to function. Once the water is added, that amount of algae would have a mass of 107,000 kg- more than 100 tons. Fit in a plastic tailpipe adaptor. Obviously not possible in any practical sense. It’s like discovering your dog eats dog poop, so there’ll be no more dog poop if you just get your dog to eat its own poop.

So these kids are not the first ones to run a scam like this. There is the company website at https://www.gogreenfilter.com/ and they have corporate sponsors, including T-Mobile. They are marketing and selling these things.

Back in 2018, there was a post I did about a Canadian company claiming to be able to make gasoline from CO2. This is what I said then:

This company is hoping that those watching don’t understand the First Law of Thermodynamics. Carbon dioxide is NOT energy. Taking CO2 and converting it into hydrocarbon fuel USES energy. Thanks to inefficiencies in ALL chemical reactions (First Law of Thermodynamics) it takes more energy to create the fuel than the fuel itself contains.

I thought it was a joke, it was so stupid. I thought — it’s junk science, junk commerce, nothing makes sense about it. But look how pretty it is.

About a dozen years ago, there was another college concept where women could paint on a drug detecting nail polish that would change colors when exposed to date rape drugs. A woman could simply stir her drink with a fingertip and make sure the polish didn’t change colors. For numerous reasons this is impossible, but there are sill tons of people out there who are wanting to buy this stuff. I could swear I did a post on this years ago, but I can’t seem to find it. They were collecting funding to get the company off the ground. In other words, scamming investors.

The point is that there are tons of scams out there, and people will happily hand over their cash without bothering to check the claims of the person making them.

If you make a product while making claims about its performance, but you don’t test to make sure the product works as you claim, that is fraud or a scam. If I tell you that I have a machine that creates gold out of lead, then sell them for $10,000 each, but I never test to see if it actually works, that’s a scam. If I collect investor cash to develop this product, it’s a scam.

On the other hand, if I convince a company to fund my development of an idea for a product, or develop some technology with possible future value, that’s R&D. Sometimes R&D leads nowhere, and that is why companies have an R&D budget. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it leads to a dead end.

It’s a line to be drawn- if I tell you up front that this is research of concept, it isn’t fraud. If I tell you that I have a working prototype that I want to bring to market and I don’t, that’s a scam.

By Divemedic, ago

Not Evidence of Guilt

A lot of hay is being made about people whose names appear in “the Epstein files.” I have seen people screaming that, if someone’s name is on the list, they should be summarily tossed in prison for pedophilia. I think that is wrong on so many levels.

Simply knowing Jeffery Epstein is not evidence of illegal activity. Flying to his island on Epstein’s personal plane? Still not evidence that the person was breaking the law. Do you know what would be? Evidence of a person actually breaking the law by having sex with children.

The government, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, doesn’t have that evidence. Epstein maintained contact books listing hundreds of names—politicians, academics, celebrities, business leaders. Again, inclusion does not equal criminal involvement. Most names in Epstein-related documents appear because of:

  • Flight logs
  • Address books
  • Deposition mentions
  • Social contact

That is not the same thing as evidence of sexual conduct, criminal conduct, evidence of sex with minors. Even if they did have such evidence, there are some major issues with a case like this.

  • Being in flight logs or address books ≠ evidence of criminal conduct.
  • Epstein is dead → the central cooperating witness is gone, which is why he was killed to begin with, in my opinion.
  • Most alleged conduct dates to 2000–2005, so many potential state-level charges likely expired under 2005-era statutes of limitations.
  • Memories fade, witnesses die, evidence deteriorates.

High-profile people circulate in overlapping elite social networks. Presence alone proves proximity — not participation, knowledge, or criminal intent. Demanding punishment purely on that basis ignores:

  • Presumption of innocence
  • Burden of proof
  • The need for specific criminal acts

This entire Epstein debacle has become a political football, with each party using it as a cudgel with which to beat the other team over the head. It’s political theater, nothing more. There are hundreds of names on those lists, a who’s who of the rich, powerful, and politically well connected. Everyone who was anyone- from Ronald Reagan, to Cher, Princess Diana, Steve Bannon, all three of the Clintons, and even the Pope appear in those lists. It’s unlikely that all of them committed crimes. At the same time, it’s unlikely that none of them committed crimes. The rub is separating out which is which, and that is not ever going to happen.

Each side can highlight names inconvenient to opponents, ignore names inconvenient to allies, imply guilt through association without meeting evidentiary standards. That creates an information environment where association is framed as implication, lack of charges is framed as cover-up, and legal nuance is discarded for outrage value. That’s political theater dynamics, not prosecutorial analysis.

By Divemedic, ago