Reader’s Links for Aug. 13, 2024

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  1. Property owners who don’t want to be turfed off their land by the government face being effectively punished by a compulsory purchase order (eminent domain) paying less than the open market rate for massive development projects wanted by the state to house the soaring, immigration-fuelled population.

    Britain’s new Labour government is set to give local council the power to buy ‘Green Belt’ land, 65 per cent of which is farms, at a special new below-theoretical market price if the owner refuses to sell up. The change in rules comes as the state moves to rapidly embark on housebuilding to deal with the mass migration-driven population explosion, which has resulted in a supply crunch and vastly inflated home prices.

    To overcome the government policy-created shortage, the state is now eyeing Britain’s Green Belt land, originally protected from development since around the time of the Second World War to guarantee easy access to green spaces for urban dwellers and to stop urban sprawl destroying the countryside in large swathes of the nation altogether. Attacking the Green Belt remains deeply controversial, and many farmers and landowners may not wish to be ejected from their own land without a choice, but the state at least has a way to make it cheaper for itself.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/13/land-grab-leftist-uk-govt-hopes-to-take-private-land-without-paying-full-market-price/

    You will own nothing, and you WILL like it – OR ELSE!

    • Shower thought: is it early enough to begin to alert animal rights protection organizations about the inhumane ways that insects designated for human food are being kept in? How abusive insect farming truly is to the insect: just think, the legal protocol now is that they have to completely empty their digestive systems before being slaughtered…how do they do this? Starvation? Chemical abuse? Animal protection laws should already be on the books to protect them against this abuse!

      After all, insects are sentient, as proven by hissing Madagascar cockroaches demonstrating they can tell humans apart (they used this insect because they hiss if an unfamiliar human touches them, but are fine with being handled by humans they know – and the hissing is accurate and easy to record and document.

      Also, let’s not forget that there are many studies that prove sentience in plants: from natural events where a tree on the edge of a forest is attacked by an insect/mold/fungus predator to trees kilometers away starting to produce chemicals noxious to that specific predator to lab experiments that show that house plants produce different EM waves when a person who burns their leaves with a lighter than those when a person who waters them enter the room. So, eating plant-based protein is also inhumane, in the worst possible way: the plants cannot even run away to protect themselves….

  2. City officials in Aurora, Colorado, are closing down a large apartment building today amid rival claims about landlord abuse and a hostile takeover by Venezuala’s Tren de Aragua migrant street gang.

    “Tren de Aragua taking over properties and communities in Aurora means that we are not able to be present on this property, or any of our other properties in similar situations, also being impacted by [migrant] gang presence,” said a statement to Breitbart News by an “investor for multiple affected properties in Aurora.” The statement was provided by a spokesman for the Florida-based landlord, CBZ Management.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/13/colorado-city-closes-migrant-apartment-block-amid-gang-crime-squalor/

  3. PMO slams Ben-Gvir visit to Temple Mount, assertion that Jews can pray there
    Several Israelis who visited the site were detained by police after waving Israeli flags, kneeling or lying on the ground and singing Hatikvah.

    …

    Minister Ben-Gvir made statements last month saying, “I am the political echelon and the political echelon allows Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.”

    …

    In response, the Prime Minister’s Office said that “Israel’s policy to maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount has not changed and will not change.”

    “Policymaking on the Temple Mount is directly subordinated to the government and the Prime Minister. There is no private policy of any minister on the Temple Mount – neither of the Minister of National Security nor of any other minister.”

    …

    The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned “the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by two extremist Israeli government ministers under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.” The ministry referred to the praying as a “flagrant violation of international law and the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its holy sites.”

    …

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-814514

    • St. Gerard’s Church welcomes new owner
      WIVBTV – February 6, 2017
      Ammar Shaibi and his business partners plan to transform St. Gerard’s Church on East Delavan and Daily into a mosque.

    • I’m heartbroken’: All Saints Roman Catholic Church slated for closure after its sale
      WKBW TV | Buffalo, NY – February 19, 2024

    • “Parishioners bemoan impending closure of St. Andrew’s church, school” WIVBTV – February 17, 2024

    • Book Review: The Devil and Bella Dodd w/ Paul Kengor
      Sensus Fidelium – November 17, 2022

  10. Dissension, ‘Toxicity’ Plagued Trump’s Secret Service Detail Before Assassination Attempt
    By Susan Crabtree – RCP Staff
    August 12, 2024
    Dissension, ‘Toxicity’ Plagued Trump’s Secret Service Detail Before Assassination Attempt
    AP

    Rancor, recriminations, and serious formal misconduct complaints have plagued all levels of the Secret Service detail assigned to protect former President Donald Trump over the last year, distracting the team from its core mission of securing Trump from physical harm and preventing an assassination.

    Trump’s regular detail team, a force of 60 employees – special agents and support staff – has been beset by internal division, long workdays and weeks, and constant stress. Last year, the team lost one of its members to suicide.

    Among the allegations are accusations of improper sexual relationships or fraternization within the team, debilitating mental health issues, non-merit-based promotions, conflict of interest issues, unfair retaliation and the creation of inappropriate memes and social media posts.

    On May 15, the top two leaders of Trump’s detail sternly dressed down the entire 60-member staff in a virtual meeting, announcing formal investigations into what they argued were serious misconduct violations, several sources in the Secret Service with direct knowledge of the online meeting tell RealClearPolitics.

    Sean Curran, the detail leader and top boss of Trump’s regular 60-member protective team, and his deputy, Matthew Piant, complained of “rumors, innuendo and toxicity” among the detail, as well as “selfishness and immaturity.”

    They reminded all employees that they had worked to mentor and train them, and, up to this point, had refrained from referring agents and support employees for discipline even though there had been violations that they could have reported to agency headquarters for investigation.

    Curran and Piant complained that they were not getting the same treatment in response from the team. Over the last year, the two leaders have been the target of formal complaints, and some members on the team viewed the all-hands lecture as an effort to turn the tables and retaliate on those complaining about their leadership.

    Piant spoke first, accusing someone on the detail of stealing from another. But he quickly shifted to harshly condemning an incident in which a teammate took cellphone photos of two members of the support staff sleeping in a command post while guarding Mar-a-Lago and circulated those to others on the detail.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/12/dissension_toxicity_plagued_trumps_secret_service_detail_before_assassination_attempt.html

  11. WATCH: Joe Biden Throws Kamala Harris Under the Bus, Says She is Also Responsible for Current Dumpster Fire Economy as She Desperately Tries to Distance Herself From His Polices!
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-joe-biden-says-kamala-harris-is-also/
    Aug. 13, 2024 1:40 pm

    Joe Biden on Tuesday stopped to chat with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House as he departed en route to New Orleans.

    Biden is traveling to Louisiana to deliver remarks a Cancer Moonshot event. He’s going to cure cancer. Just ask him.

    After hiding from the public, Biden shuffled out of the White House and took four questions before hobbling over to Marine One.

    One reporter asked Biden if he would attend a Trump inauguration.

    “I have good manners, not like him,” Biden said.

    Another reporter asked Biden about his latest threat to Trump and whether calling him a “danger to American security” was lowering the temperature of political rhetoric.

    “That’s a statement of fact,” Biden replied.

    Biden responded to criticism from Team Trump about Kamala Harris being more liberal than Biden.

    Joe Biden threw Kamala Harris under the bus and said she is also responsible for the current dumpster fire economy.

    “The issues that we’ve worked on together have made great progress economically,” Biden said.

    There is no progress economically. Americans are suffering from crippling inflation thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

    WATCH:

    HAPPENING NOW: Joe Biden takes a few questions before leaving for New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Most of his responses to the questions were inaudible, but I tried to ask if Kamala Harris will do an interview with @elonmusk next on X. pic.twitter.com/HJQwjEtj1W

    — MONICA PAIGE?OANN (@MonicaPaigeTV) August 13, 2024

    Additional footage of Biden throwing Kamala Harris under the bus:

    BIDEN: “The issues that we’ve worked on together have made great progress economically.”

    The middle class are losing their homes.

    Parents can’t feed their kids.

    The American Dream is dead because Harris and Biden killed it. pic.twitter.com/KezxuWqoqc

    — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 13, 2024

    The Harris campaign is desperately trying to distance themselves from Biden’s policies.

    Kamala Harris doesn’t have any policies are her campaign website because her policies have destroyed the country over the last 3.5 years.

    This is why she stole Trump’s highly popular ‘no tax on tips’ idea.

    TIME Magazine shamelessly decoupled Harris from Joe Biden: “The reintroduction of Kamala Harris”

    The reintroduction of Kamala Harris https://t.co/noW5TOgawP pic.twitter.com/iLmQIhxOeF

    — TIME (@TIME) August 12, 2024

    Fox Business reporter Ed Lawrence called out Karine Jean-Pierre for saying Harris owns the successes of the Biden Regime (there are no successes) but she somehow doesn’t own the bad economy.

    “I want to follow up, first, on what you told Phil. So, you said the Vice President owns the successes of this President over the past three and a half years. Does she also own the struggles that this President see, like the prices up 19 percent since the month they came into office?” Ed Lawrence asked.

    Trending: UPDATE: TRUMP CRASHES X! LIVE STREAM IS NOW WORKING! — Musk and Trump Interview on X — Starting at 8 PM ET — Delayed by Massive DDOS Attack!

    WATCH:

    FBN’s @EdwardLawrence: “I want to follow up, first, on what you told Phil. So, you said the Vice President owns the successes of this President over the past three and a half years. Does she also own the struggles that this President see, like the prices up 19 percent since the… pic.twitter.com/dDAvoLgwH7

    — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024

    Never forget that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ which only made inflation worse for American citizens.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-joe-biden-says-kamala-harris-is-also/

  12. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/08/new-york-city-will-now-issue-out-of-state-concealed-carry-permits/#ixzz8iohGyrHG
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    New York City Will Now Issue Out-of-State Concealed Carry Permits
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on August 13, 2024 by John Crump
    Ruger Security 380 old pan
    The Ruger Security 380 makes a great pistol both for concealed carry and plinking at the range. RIP old pot. IMG Jim Grant

    The New York City Police Department (NYPD) will start processing concealed carry permits for out-of-state residents to avoid a possible lawsuit. NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban signed the new rule on August 1, and NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed the order on August 6. It was released to the public on August 9. The new rule goes into effect immediately.

    “Current NYPD rules do not contain a normal procedure for applicants who do not reside in New York State, are not principally employed within New York City, and do not have their principal place of business in New York City,” The order reads. “A process by which non-State residents can apply for a carry license will ensure that the City is able to properly regulate handgun ownership within NYC while also complying with the Bruen decision. This emergency rule sets forth standards to submit and evaluate applications for carry licenses made by these individuals, hereinafter called ‘non-resident’ applicants. This emergency rule also amends and clarifies the process of purchasing and adding firearms to an individual’s New York City firearms license.”

    New York City has been put on notice of a possible lawsuit after Gun Owners of America (GOA) sued over the denial of out-of-state concealed carry permits in Northern New York. This case involves News Max TV Host Carl Higbie, who is not a New York State resident but wanted to carry a firearm when visiting the Empire State. New York doesn’t have reciprocity with any other state, and until now, it has been impossible to get a concealed carry permit if you did not live in the state. New York is one of the very few states that do not have any way for an out-of-state resident to carry a firearm.

    GOA believes this is a good first step but vows to keep fighting until New York’s concealed carry scheme is dismantled. The change was a last-ditch attempt to avoid a lawsuit nullifying the City’s concealed carry permit process. New York City has been hostile to gun owners and has tried to use any excuse to slow roll the changes required under Bruen but must have felt that time has run out and decided the best way to avoid a lawsuit was to pass an emergency order.

    “This is great news for the untold millions of Americans who either work or visit New York every year,” GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt said. “It’s critical that everyone can exercise their inherent right to self-defense, but until now, anti-gunners in New York denied most Americans that basic right.”

    “We will continue to monitor local cases to ensure that NYPD indeed grants these permits to applicants in a timely and non-onerous manner,” he continued. “Otherwise, we will gladly file another lawsuit directed specifically at Mayor Adams and the NYPD.”

    The requirements for a non-resident to get a permit are the same as for an in-state resident. GOA and other gun rights organizations are challenging those requirements, including personal references, an 18-hour training class, and in-person visits. The order included a provision for all applicant social media accounts to be turned over to law enforcement. This requirement is bracketed out because the courts have ruled that it violates the First Amendment, so it is not in effect unless the court’s decision is reversed. The other provisions are being challenged in another GOA case, Antonyuk v. Hochul, which GOA is currently petitioning the Supreme Court to take up.

    The rule is in effect now, but the NYPD’s website has not been updated.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2024/08/new-york-city-will-now-issue-out-of-state-concealed-carry-permits/#axzz8iogyCbkX

  13. Second Circuit Rules Legal Gun Ownership Not Probable Cause for Warrantless Search
    By Cam Edwards | 7:31 PM | August 12, 2024
    Image by diegoparra from Pixabay

    The Second Circuit Court of Appeals hasn’t traditionally been a welcoming place for gun owners. This is the same appellate court that originally upheld New York’s “may issue” carry regime before the Supreme Court overturned their decision in Bruen, and since then the court has upheld many of New York’s post-Bruen restrictions on lawful gun owners.
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    Today, however, a three-judge panel on the court got it absolutely right when it ruled that a Connecticut police officer isn’t entitled to qualified immunity after handcuffing, detaining, and conducting a warrantless search on a resident after he produced a valid handgun permit.

    Defendant-Appellant Nicholas Andrzejewski, an officer of the Waterbury,Connecticut police department, appeals from the judgment of the United StatesDistrict Court for the District of Connecticut (Arterton, J.) denying in part his motion for summary judgment on the grounds that his purported conduct was not shielded by qualified immunity. That conduct, as alleged by Plaintiff-Appellee Basel Soukaneh, is that in the course of a routine traffic stop, Andrzejewski unlawfully and violently handcuffed and detained Soukaneh in the back of a police vehicle for over half an hour and conducted a warrantless search of Soukaneh’s vehicle after Soukaneh presented a facially valid firearms permit and disclosed that he possessed a firearm pursuant to the permit. On appeal, Andrzejewski argues we should reverse the district court’s denial of qualified immunity because the presence of the lawfully owned firearm in the vehicle gave him the requisite probable cause to detain Soukaneh, search the interior of his car, and search his trunk.

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    Andrzejewski’s argument is essentially that, by exercising our Second Amendment rights, we give up our Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, he basically maintained that possessing a valid pistol permit gave him reasonable suspicion to search Soukaneh’s vehicle for some evidence of wrongdoing.

    After the district court ruled that the officer wasn’t entitled to qualified immunity for his actions, Andrzejewski introduced a new argument in his appeal to the Second Circuit; it wasn’t solely Soukaneh’s gun permit that led him to handcuff the gun owner and search his car, it was the fact that Soukaneh had stopped his vehicle in a “high crime area known for drug transactions”. As the panel noted, however, “a location’s reputation as a high crime area alone is typically not enough to suggest reasonable suspicion [of a crime], let alone probable cause.” And the court found that Andrzejewski offered no evidence whatsoever that Soukaneh was illegally possessing a gun when he was confronted by the officer. To the contrary, as a matter of fact. Andrzejewski was able to conclusively determine that Soukaneh had a valid pistol permit and lawfully possessed the firearm that he informed the officer he was carrying.
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    The desire to confirm the legitimacy of the facially valid firearms permit that Soukaneh presented did not—with nothing more—provide Andrzejewski with probable cause for the half-hour or longer handcuffed detention that occurred. It is uncontested that Soukaneh presented Andrzejewski with a gun license, the legitimacy of which Andrzejewski himself admits he had no reason to question. Moreover, Andrzejewski concedes that he was informed of the facially valid license before Soukaneh told him that he had a gun and specified its location. Andrzejewski does not allege that the permit appeared abnormal in any fashion or that Soukaneh engaged in any suspicious or threatening behavior. On the facts before us, Andrzejewski does not provide an articulable reason why he, or any other reasonable officer, could conclude that there was probable cause to believe that Soukaneh possessed his firearm unlawfully in violation of Section 29-38(a). To find otherwise would consign those validly carrying firearms pursuant to a license to automatic detention because it would effectively presume that gun permits are invalid until proven valid, or that lawfully owned guns are per se contraband until proven otherwise. Such a finding would effectively render armed individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights meaningless when they are lawfully carrying firearms.

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    As common sense as that position is, it’s still somewhat surprising to see the Second Circuit panel unanimously reach that conclusion… especially since the panel was comprised of two Biden appointees and one judge appointed by Barack Obama.

    Andrzejewski could still appeal to an en banc panel of the Second Circuit or take his case directly to the Supreme Court, but I doubt he’s going to find a more receptive audience for his arguments at SCOTUS. The Supreme Court has already declared that the Second Amendment isn’t a second-class right, so I doubt a majority would go along with the officer’s contention that exercising your right to keep and bear arms negates your Fourth Amendment rights altogether.

    https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/08/12/second-circuit-rules-legal-gun-ownership-not-probable-cause-for-warrantless-search-n1225903