The Gulag

A long time ago, so long ago that the posts have been lost to time, I warned that we should not grant the powers of the Patriot Act or of the GWOT to the Republicans, lest we see those same powers granted to the left and abused by them. I was shouted down. I know some of those comments were made on the now defunct Packing.org as well as on a couple of progun sites whose names I can no longer remember.

I didn’t take long. Even the Republicans abused them. For example, Sheriff Grady Judd abused the laws in order to shut down the website that made GW look bad. That was the case of Christopher Michael Wilson, who ran a website that allowed people to post nude pictures of women on the site, and it required a credit card to access, so that the Wilson would know that people accessing the site were adults. Military men complained that they could not do so while in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, because the web servers in those countries blocked credit cards from being processed by companies who promoted pornography. Because of this, Wilson allowed members who posted pictures from the war zone to have access to the site. The site became a photo journal that chronicled the Iraq war. It was one of the first sites to publish the Abu Grhaib pictures that so embarrassed former President Bush.

It eventually came to pass that Obama began abusing those same laws, declaring those who dared disagree with his policies.

It is those very laws, the same government policies and personnel, that were unleashed upon the enemies of the left, once Biden took office. I am talking about the way that the J6 rioters were treated. They were tortured, mistreated, and illegally held- despite all of the sturm und drang that was unleashed over the treatment of terrorists at Gitmo. Watch this video:

https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1882841850148700180

The comments to it are enlightening. The leftists on there who say “Well, next time he won’t trespass in the Capitol.” The issue is that Enrique Tarrio wasn’t convicted of being in the Capitol. He never, in fact, entered the building. Somehow, they took a man who was of mixed black/Cuban heritage and made people believe that he was a white supremacist.

I want you to replay every event in your life, especially the ones that can be used to paint you in an unflattering light. Now picture the left’s enforcement arm in the FBI spinning that in the worst way possible, then amplified and embellished by the MSM. Then they use it to toss you in the Gulag. That’s what happened here.

No matter how evil you think our government is, it is much worse than you can possibly imagine. Corrections officers are some of the most sadistic of the entire bunch. I watched a CO torture a man with my own eyes, then saw him lie about it, then watched as his own superiors told me and three other staff members that we didn’t see what we all just saw.

If you think that, just because Trump one an election, that the left has given up, you are sorely mistaken.

America’s Sheriff? Not mine.

Let’s not leave out that grandstanding, antigun asshole Grady Judd, who wants to find a way around Trump’s pardon of the J6 defendants.

“I understand the 30,000 foot view of what the President did, but there’s a granular level where they were attacking our police officers who were just doing their job. There was a better way to deal with that,” said Judd.

Nope. Those cops were supporting the theft of an election. That is indisputable. For that reason, “Just doing my job” is bullshit. Shooting an unarmed woman for trespassing isn’t “just doing your job,” nor is inviting people into a building, then showing up to their homes years later to toss them in prison. Torturing prisoners isn’t a job that needs to be done, nor is supporting the outright and obvious theft of an election. That excuse didn’t work for the concentration camp guards of Germany, nor does it work here.

Pardons Don’t Mean Shit

President Donald Trump ordered that the defendants from January 6 be pardoned. As the chief executive, the power to issue pardons is absolute. That doesn’t mean shit to the leftist enforcers. Although Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson III have been pardoned for their actions on January 6, the Feds still would not drop the counts of failure to appear in court from 2023. Why didn’t they appear in court?

After reading stories about the abuse suffered at the hands of police that are detaining J6 defendants for trial, knowing how cops will abuse and torture prisoners, and how they are transferring them to Supermax prisons, many J6 defendants began simply skipping out on their trials and sentencing hearings:

So Pollock and Hutchinson did what many would have done- they simply removed their ankle monitors and skipped town. Because of that, the Feds decided that Trump’s pardon didn’t excuse them from criminal charges.

The good news is that a Federal judge ordered that the charges be dismissed. The Federal employees are refusing to obey orders. This is being replayed all over the government- there are employees and former military members who still are loyal to the commies that are trying to overthrow our government. They need to be rooted out- every last one of them.

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Automatic Money Generators

Osceola county is installing cameras at schools that will issue speeding tickets to drivers who exceed the speed limit in front of schools. The county claims that a law enforcement officer will verify each infraction before a citation is issued.

We all know how that really works. About a decade ago, 2,000 Baltimore red light camera traffic citations which require a police officer to swear that he or she has reviewed the photos as showing a traffic violation when it was discovered that all the verification signatures on the citations issued were from an officer that had died a year before the citations were issued.

Hating Government

However much you hate the evil government we have, you don’t hate them enough. The latest installment is that time the Broward County Sheriff’s office made a bunch of crack cocaine, then had undercover deputies sell it purposely within 1,000 feet of a school so they could get 3 year sentences on those who bought from them.

The State Supreme Court has since ruled the actions to be unconstitutional entrapment, but thousands of convictions remain on people’s records.

Like the FBI, cops follow Ayn Rand’s theory:

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them.

Inside Job

More and more evidence is pointing to J6 being an inside job. If it turns out that the FBI can be proven to have been the driving force behind the events on J6, the only rational response is to eliminate the entire agency and fire every single one of its agents. Take off and nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

We are in the middle of watching segments of our government try to overthrow the legitimate powers that be in order to institute a dictatorial police state. I have been saying this for nearly five years.

No More Qualified Immunity

Why? Because you need an ID to lie on a park bench, but you don’t need one to vote.

It’s time for qualified immunity to go. As a health care professional, I have to carry a million dollars in malpractice insurance. It’s time we make cops do the same.

Can we here in Florida get a petition to have this added to next year’s election as a State Constitutional Amendment?


Facts of this case:

On June 7, 2019, Keokuk, Iowa Police Officer Tanner Walden responded to a report that someone was sleeping in a park. Walden found Land, who was watching the sunset on a park bench. Land told Walden that he had not been sleeping and was not in distress. Walden asked for identification, and Land refused. Walden arrested Land for misdemeanor interference with official acts. During a search, officers found drug paraphernalia and added a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. The incident was captured on Walden’s body-worn camera.

On August 27, 2019, a judge dismissed the charges against Land because the pretext for the stop was improper.

On June 6, 2021, Land filed a federal lawsuit against the city and Walden, claiming violations of his rights under the Fourth Amendment.

On September 20, 2021, the city claimed that Walden “exercised all due care to comply with the law and is entitled to qualified immunity” and also (in October 2022) that Walden had reasonable suspicion as required by Terry v Ohio and probable cause to arrest Land.

On October 26, 2022, the judge disagreed when he ruled that Walden’s contact with Land should have ended when it became clear that Land was not sleeping in the park or in need of assistance, and that the city was not responsible for Walden’s actions.

On November 22, 2022, the city settled the lawsuit for $30,000.

Rights Watch Tab Clearing

Getting rid of a bunch of tabs that expose infringements on our rights, but that I just didn’t get time to write a post on:

No Winning

Check this out:

Here is the story, if you would like to read the rest of it. The incident happened on July 4, but as of this point in time, she has still be arraigned.

There is no winning here. Let’s say you see a cop doing this to your wife. It doesn’t matter if he is right or wrong, overpowering this cop, holding him at gunpoint, or shooting him will result in your death, no matter how unlawful his actions were.

The saddest part is that her kids were acting like their mother was in the wrong.