Reader’s Links for October 18th, 2024

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  1. Dr. Peter McCullough asserts the next pandemic will be deployed utilizing a gain-of-function bird flu within days or weeks (prior to election).

    Hindsight shows us how destructive the last plandemic was. Millions of small and medium businesses did not survive the lockdowns, with the expense of retaining valuable labour and market spending changes proving to be insurmountable.

    The good news is that the trust horizon–an expression seemingly borrowed from the field of financial analysis–is also severely disabled in the general population, with only 1.6 percent of Americans now taking covid boosters. (My guess is this is indicative of the most severely mentacided, or an exagerrated statistic like all other dubious statistics now generated by our captured institutions.)

    On the interpersonal, granular level relationships were damaged and destroyed, marriages ruined, children dumbed down via school policies, and lingering medical effects still have doctors studying mysterious brain and body effects of the mRNA injections. An example is doctors examining the glaring acceleration in degenerative cognitive function in covid-injected elderly.

    Despite its imperfections, the plandemic business model is strikingly effective for those properly positioned. It allows vast sums of public funds to be funneled into private hands. Corrupt politicians are able to skim these funds through “arms-length” companies or kickbacks. Then, the most lucrative aspect of the model is the currency of power which comes by suspending virtually all individual rights under the emergency umbrella. In short, the plandemic business model is a dirty eco-political bomb. The ability to suspend all normal metrics of public perception proved invaluable. It’s hard to imagine the infinite hubris of the last unaccountable culprits’ not wanting a repeat performance. Let Fauci be paid as a consultant, only.

    The middle and small business class, which is the engine of our economies, will be thoroughly cleaned out of its remaining capital if it happens again.

    https://usawatchdog.com/new-fear-campaign-for-bird-flu-vax-dr-peter-mccullough/

  3. Fight like a Flynn with General Flynn | The Roseanne Barr Podcast #69
    Rosanne Barr – October 10, 2024

  6. The global Elites are meeting again in early November, trying to push through their Pandemic Treaty. You will have no control over your own health IF they succeed. You will own nothing and be happy.

    They call themselves “progressives”.

    Feudalism —A combination of legal, economic, MILITARy, cultural, and political customs.

  7. ALARMING: Trump Supporters in Pennsylvania Targeted with Threatening Letters from the Radical Left — “Your Visible Support Comes with a Price”
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/alarming-trump-supporters-pennsylvania-targeted-threatening-letters-radical/
    Oct. 18, 2024 12:00 pm
    Reports indicate that many voters with Trump yard signs have received threatening letters via the U.S. Postal Service. (Photo credit: depositphotos.com)

    Trump supporters in Pennsylvania are reportedly being targeted with threatening letters from radical leftists, warning them that their visible support for the former President could lead to dire consequences.

    Residents with Trump signs in their yards, particularly in Philadelphia, have reported receiving disturbing letters through the U.S. Postal Service, complete with fake Trump campaign letterheads, Post Millenial first reported.

    The threatening letters, which start off as a seemingly benign “thank you” note for being engaged in the electoral process, quickly devolve into dark, ominous threats.

    One Trump voter, Janet from Penn Valley, shared her harrowing experience to Post Millenial.

    After proudly displaying Trump signs in her yard, she received one of these letters, filled with hateful rhetoric and explicit threats to her family and property.

    The unsettling message was far from an isolated incident. Janet, who reported the matter to the Lower Merion Police, revealed that other Trump supporters in her area had received similar letters.

    Local law enforcement, however, has been unable to pursue the matter further, as the letters were delivered through the mail without any available video evidence.

    Despite this, Trump supporters in the area have confirmed that this intimidation campaign is widespread, with reports of the same threatening letter being delivered both by mail and without postage directly into mailboxes.

    The letter, which opens with pleasantries, swiftly transitions into a vitriolic condemnation of Trump supporters, labeling the former President a “felon, rapist, desecrator,” and blaming him for political violence in the country.

    Read the letter below:

    Dear Neighbor

    A quick note of thanks for being engaged in the election and for your participation in the process.

    We are writing with a concern about the level of political violence in the country during this election year as well as the threats to our democracy and freedoms. So we are asking you to take a close look at the truth, facts and the future for a better America where we can all live in harmony together.

    Your candidate is a felon, rapist, desecrator, an immoral flawed man. He is major reason violence us up, remember January 6th and Charlottesville? By supporting him you are declaring your public support for a disregard of the law, civil discourse and unity.

    You are indicating your hatred for minorities, immigrants, foreigners, women, education, the rights of your fellow citizens, the rights of women to make decisions over their own healthcare needs. Oh and yes a hatred for Taylor Swift, who has contributed nothing but joy to the world. And you are entitled to all of this. However this is a reminder that your visible support comes with a price and at a cost. There will be consequences.

    Should your candidate win, the consequences will be staggering. The country will continue to be divided, the economy will falter and a recession will be accelerated, the deficit ballooned.

    The majority will live under the rule of a minority. Government will be in my business, the business of my family, the deficit will grow.

    The rich will get richer and judging by your house you don’t qualify for rich, as much as you think you may. But more importantly we know where you live, you are in the data base. In the dead of a cold winters night, this year, or next and beyond, there is no knowing what may happen. Your property, your family may be impacted, your cat may get shot. And more.

    Spend some time with your rabbi or pastor or what ever religion you follow and dig into the meaning of morality and reconcile the hate with your maker. Face the truth and understand the facts. Stop being lazy.

    Question your commitment to a cult. He is the biggest threat to the country and does not understand the idea of America as defined George Washington by the founding fathers Your vote for this guy is seen as treading on my rights. You tread on me at your peril, motherfucker.

    Trending: Karine Jean-Pierre Slips When Asked About Biden and Obama’s Tense Exchange at Ethel Kennedy’s Funeral

    We look forward to visiting in the future.

    Sincerely

    Patriotic citizen and a true American”

    Residents in Pennsylvania who openly support former President Donald Trump are reportedly receiving threatening letters (Credit: Post Millenial)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/alarming-trump-supporters-pennsylvania-targeted-threatening-letters-radical/

    • EXCLUSIVE: Detroit Democrats Hold Training Session for Poll Challengers, Reveal: Increased Number of Goons Will Be Present to Abuse GOP Challengers, The Goal Is to Attack GOP Inspectors, All Ballots Will be Allowed! (VIDEO)
      thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/exclusive-detroit-democrats-hold-training-session-poll-challengers/
      Oct. 18, 2024 2:40 pm
      David Jaffe, the instructor in the Democrat Party poll challenger training in Detroit, Michigan in October 2024.

      There were three training sessions held this week for Detroit’s Democrat poll challengers.

      Reporter Shane Trejo, Big League Politics journalist and Michigan election integrity activist, sat in on one of the online training sessions and recorded it.

      According to VoteBeat Michigan, “poll challengers” — distinct from poll workers and watchers—are individuals stationed at polling places and vote-counting centers who have unique powers under Michigan law to challenge a voter’s eligibility or question the way officials are doing their jobs. Poll challengers are meant to ensure that election workers do their jobs correctly and only count legal votes.

      Michigan has new rules passed by the Democrat legislature for poll challengers following the 2020 election when GOP challengers were kicked out and locked out of the counting room. These new Democrat rules make it possible for a poll challengers to be easily removed from the facility if they make repeated challenges that don’t pass legal muster. Democrats have tried to make it a criminal offense to offend election workers.

      The Democrat poll challenger training was led by David Jaffe, a well-known leftist activist and Democrat poll challenger in the Detroit area.

      The entire training was recorded by reporter Shane Trejo. Trejo has been active in Detroit politics and was a witness to the late-night ballot drops in the TCF Center in Detroit in 2020. Trejo was the Paul Revere of 2020 voter fraud, where he caught the infamous 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump of tens of thousands of supposed “late arriving” absentee ballots. Many suspect that these ballots were fraudulent ballots used by officials within the City of Detroit to fraud the 2020 vote from Trump, where Trump had been winning on election night and suspicious ‘spikes’ of returns that were nearly 100% for Joe Biden, appeared in the middle of the night and switched the Trump victory into a defeat.
      One of the surprise late-night ballot drops at Detroit’s TCF Center on Election Night 2020 changed the election in Michigan.

      Trejo was also the journalist who first reported on the Detroit Leaks videos in 2020.

      The #DetroitLeaks scandal revealed how far-left activists and City of Detroit officials were instructing election workers on how to commit voter fraud in a variety of different ways. #DetroitLeaks revealed that the City of Detroit was purposefully using COVID to prevent Republican challengers from being able to participate in the election process. Officials bragged that the GOP would be kept so far away from the tables they would need binoculars in order to see the ballots.

      Earlier this week, David Jaffe delivered an online training session in which he smeared and slandered Republican ballot challengers for this election cycle.

      Democrats are once again planning to abuse the process to ensure that there is no election integrity for the ballot processes in Democrat-controlled areas.

      Here’s our rundown on Jaffe’s Democrat training from the video provided to the Gateway Pundit, which you can verify yourself:

      Democrats are effectively looking to doxx election integrity activists, as a way to intimidate them against participating
      Democrats specifically name-drop the Election Integrity Fund as their opposition
      Democrats boast of a large number of people they have recruited and put into place to control the process
      Dems say the electronic poll book will be hidden from challengers and from election integrity activists! The electronic poll book is the only way to audit the ballots in real time against the paper ballots. In 2020, activists noted the electronic poll book had voters with birthdates in the 1800’s, and other obvious signs of fraud. Without access to that file, there will be no way to verify the validity of a ballot
      Dems coordinating everyone through team leads texting on electronic devices, which might have the result of preventing any paper trail
      Increased security goons will be on the side of the Democrats. They are working in concert with the Democrats — Here’s what Jaffe says: “We have a really good reputation with the security people. We have a good reputation with all the folks who work there. Introduce yourself as a Democratic challenger, a challenger from the Democratic Party, and you’ll very often get a smile of recognition.”
      Democrats plan to excessively use state law to interfere with election integrity workers, utilizing MCL 168.727(3) to screw over election integrity activists
      Jaffe says the enemy is the election integrity activist: “Let’s be clear about their goals- they’re gonna be there to delay the count, because if it takes a long time, Trump can claim victory. Create chaos, cause problems in Detroit.” Jaffe says that documenting voter fraud is, in itself, fraud. He calls it “The fraud fraud.“
      Democrats are not inspecting the election, they are there to attack other inspectors and make them ineffective at challenging fraud. Again, Jaffe says during the training for challengers: “Some things we don’t do. We do not challenge voters. The Michigan Democratic Party doesn’t do that.”
      Democrats want to create propaganda to push for further litigation and legislation that will cripple the ability for poll challengers to exercise their rights by taking notes on everything poll challengers do and say.
      Jaffe boasts that far-left Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance limits the rights of poll challengers to do much of anything
      Jaffe says that ballots will be allowed regardless of anything challengers see, because challengers have little to no power to stop the process. Says Jaffe, gloating: “A challenged ballot is always counted.”
      Jaffe claims that the ballots should be finished counting soon on election night, even though they are anticipating a total of 100,000 absentee ballots for Detroit.
      He claims Security is gonna be much “better.” Part of that is because challengers are being restricted, even their movement in the facility will be restricted. Inspectors will be allowed to “red flag” any challengers so that City officials can justify removing them from the building.
      Jaffe brags that the process denies information to challengers, saying Republicans will be “surprised by a lot” because election officials keep challengers in the dark on purpose and will not explain the election processes to them.
      Jaffe instructs Democrat challengers to take enough information on Republicans that they might be identified later, and that if they refuse to identify themselves it’s a “sign of a guilty conscience” but then also hypocritically says Democrats should not identify themselves to Republicans, saying, “If another challenger asks for your credential, I advise you not to show it to them.”

      From the training, it is clear that Democrats are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to ensure the integrity of the election process.

      They are only there to push every ballot – real or fake – through the system. And, anyone who challenges ballots will be harassed and removed from the room.

      The only meaningful screen for whether a ballot is real or fake is with the Clerk’s office, as part of the process that is completely removed from public view. In fraud-heavy Detroit, this process will happen at the Bureau of Elections controlled by Janice Winfrey.

      Shane Trejo told The Gateway Pundit, “The training exposed how Democrats are training their poll challengers to doxx election integrity activists and prevent them from stopping fraud. No wonder they wanted to keep it under wraps so badly as it demonstrates the collusion between Democrat leaders and corrupt Detroit election officials.”

      Shane added, “Now Republicans can be aware of their enemy’s blueprint and plan accordingly. It will not be as easy for Democrats to ramrod suspicious votes through now that this training has been exposed.”

      There were three separate training sessions this week on how to harass GOP challengers, abuse them, and get them removed from the counting room.

      This is the Democrat Party today: militantly protecting voter fraud to ensure they stay in power after their policies have destroyed the country.

      Trending: Karine Jean-Pierre Slips When Asked About Biden and Obama’s Tense Exchange at Ethel Kennedy’s Funeral

      The Gateway Pundit reached out to David Jaffe and Thomas Luckett, Voter Protection Director for Michigan Dems for comment as well. We will post any updates if or when he responds to our questions.

      Here is the full video of the 1 hour 21 minute training session. It is clear from this training session that Democrats are not concerned about free and fair elections – at all.

      Here is the full training session video: click through to site for video

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/exclusive-detroit-democrats-hold-training-session-poll-challengers/

    • BREAKING: Judge Chutkan Unseals 2,000 Pages of ‘Evidence’ From Jack Smith’s DC Case Against Trump Less Than 3 Weeks Before Election – Trump Camp Responds
      thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/breaking-judge-chutkan-unseals-2000-pages-evidence-jack/
      Oct. 18, 2024 1:40 pm

      Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed approximately 2,000 pages of ‘evidence’ in Jack Smith’s DC case against President Trump with less than three weeks until Election Day.

      Most of the unsealed pages are redacted. The sealed documents include grand jury testimony.

      Chutkan authorized the posting of nearly 2,000 more pages of “evidence” in Jack Smith’s J6 case against Trump. Cursory review shows roughly half the pages are still sealed but documents include grand jury testimony pic.twitter.com/q69c5qOPAa

      — Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) October 18, 2024

      Earlier this month Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to unseal Special Counsel Jack Smith’s evidence attached to the 165-page ‘opening brief’ which was already used to attack President Trump.

      This is Jack Smith’s dirty October surprise.

      Trump’s lawyers previously asked Judge Chutkan to keep Jack Smith’s evidence appendix from public view.

      President Trump’s lawyers argued in a two-page filing that Jack Smith was trying to interfere in the election by publicly docketing more evidence in the January 6 case.

      Chutkan denied the request from Trump’s lawyers and unsealed nearly 2,000 pages right before the election.

      The Trump Camp responded to the latest Biden-Harris DOJ election interference.

      “Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” Trump campaign spox Steven Cheung told Fox News. “With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race and Crazed Liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out.”

      “As mandated by the Supreme Court’s historic decision on Presidential Immunity and other vital jurisprudence, this entire case is a sham and a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely — as should ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes,” Steven Cheung.

      CBS News reported:

      The judge overseeing President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case released more evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith on Friday, unveiling an enormous batch of heavily redacted records.

      The 1,889 pages of material, which Trump’s legal team had sought to keep under wraps, constitute four volumes of an appendix that Smith’s prosecutors filed alongside a motion over presidential immunity that was unveiled earlier this month. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, ordered the unsealing of the redacted appendix last week, but delayed the release to give Trump time to contest her decision.

      The new documents include transcripts of court hearings, interviews and speeches related to the case, as well as additional source material. Smith had indicated that much of the appendix contains sensitive information that should stay hidden from the public, and the released version contains hundreds of pages that remain under seal. That evidence, subject to a protective order issued at the start of the case last year, likely includes transcripts of testimony before a grand jury and FBI interviews.

      But many of the documents include publicly available information, including voting tabulations and tweets from Trump and others connected to the case. Prosecutors also included Trump’s speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he told a crowd of supporters that he won the election and said “we’re going to the Capitol.”

      Judge Chutkan earlier this month unsealed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page “immunity motion” arguing that Trump is subjected to presidential immunity following the Supreme Court’s ruling.

      Chutkan unsealed the 165-page monstrosity to do the maximum damage to Trump before the election.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/breaking-judge-chutkan-unseals-2000-pages-evidence-jack/

  8. California Man Discovers Stack of Mail-In Ballots in Storm Drain
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/california-man-discovers-stack-mail-ballots-storm-drain/
    Oct. 18, 2024 9:30 am

    Jay Senese of Sierra Madre, California uncovered nearly a dozen ballots stuffed in a storm drain while doing yard work last Saturday.

    This incident, first reported by ABC 7, adds fuel to ongoing debates surrounding election security and potential fraud.

    While landscaping near his property, Senese noticed unusual debris in the storm drain adjacent to his house.

    Upon closer inspection, he discovered the ballots, which were addressed to residents in nearby Arcadia, California.

    “We’re trained here to keep stuff out of the storm drain. So I got down on my hands and knees and dug around a little bit and started pulling it out,” Senese told ABC 7.

    “I pulled out a bunch of junk mail—Ralphs ads and Aldi—and these ballots were mixed in with the junk mail. Of course, they caught my attention because we’re seeing on TV about all the care being taken to prevent fraud and misuse of ballots. It seemed a strange place for ballots to be.”

    Senese’s story has quickly become emblematic of what conservatives have long feared: the mishandling and potential tampering of mail-in ballots that could jeopardize free and fair elections. Despite the Democrats’ insistence that mail-in voting is secure, instances like this continue to pile up, undermining public trust.

    Senese’s suspicion? Someone went through mailboxes in the area, took what they wanted, and dumped the unwanted items—including these official ballots—into the storm drain.

    “I’m one of these people who’s gotten almost everything paperless now. I don’t get a lot of personal mail. The only thing I get these days that might be like that is a replacement credit card or something,” Senese said.

    In response to the incident, the LA County Registrar’s website allows voters to request a replacement ballot if theirs has been lost or stolen, but you can only do so once.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/california-man-discovers-stack-mail-ballots-storm-drain/

  9. Las Vegas Couple Charged After Harrassing, Assaulting Armed Trump Supporter
    By Cam Edwards | 10:01 AM | October 18, 2024
    AP Photo/Charles Krupa

    A Las Vegas couple face charges of assault, battery, and stalking after harassing a Trump voter outside his home earlier this month and running over his foot as after he pulled a gun.
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    According to Las Vegas police, 38-year-old Jennifer Lund and 45-year-old Timothy Parks were driving around while blaring the song “F*** Donald Trump” (presumably the 2016 ditty released by rapper YG) when they stopped their vehicle in front of a home displaying a Donald Trump sign. Lund later told police it wasn’t the first time that she’d parked her car and blasted the tune with the intent of bothering the residents, but when she did so on the afternoon of October 13th, she got more of a reaction than she bargained for.

    “Parks parked his Tesla in front of the residence with Lund in the passenger seat… [playing] the song ‘[Expletive] Donald Trump,’” documents said. Seconds later, three men approached the vehicle — with one man later punching Parks.

    Detectives obtained surveillance video, which they said showed three men outside the car at the time, documents said. One of the men then took out a gun and pointed it at the car. The car then drives off, running over one man’s foot, the video shows according to police.

    At least seven bullets impacted the car, police said. “Lund stated since [the people] put the Trump sign in their yard, she feels like she has every right to tell them how she feels about it,” police said in court documents. “Lund advised this was not the first time she went to that house to play the ‘[Expletive] Donald Trump’ song. Lund states she hates Donald Trump and hates every person who represents or votes for him.”

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    What a sad, pathetic, person. While Lund may have a First Amendment right to blare her Trump-hating song as she rides around the streets of Las Vegas, that doesn’t mean that she can harrass Trump supporters inside their home whenever she feels like it. For that matter, I’m sure some of the undecideds and Harris voters on the street weren’t too happy about having an expletive-filled song echo through their neighborhood with kids around.

    RedState’s Brittany Sheehan reports that one of the three men who approached Lund and Parks in Parks’ Telsa told police that Lund was just playing “F*** Donald Trump”, but was screaming at him as the pair drove up. At one point Parks was punched by one of the men, which is when Parks put his car in gear and started to drive away, only to reverse his Tesla and back up over the man’s foot.

    The person who fired the gun said he felt his life was threatened, so he fired. He did not face charges as of Thursday.

    According to police, Lund harassed the homeowners several times before.

    Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Rebecca Saxe set bail for both Lund and Parks at $20,000. Both defendants remained in custody as of Thursday.

    While Lund and Parks are the only ones facing charges at the moment, that could change as police continue their investigation. If the surveillance video that captured the incident showed any of the three men acting as the initial aggressor, however, my guess is that they would have been charged along with the anti-Trumpers who thought it would be fun to harass their political opponents.
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    I’m glad that no one was seriously injured in this incident, but as Sheehan writes at RedState, “[e]xtreme rhetoric is disrupting the peace as citizens prepare for an election that seems to be locked in a dead heat. As we approach the election, voters must prioritize their safety and well-being.”

    That includes being able to protect yourself from those ready and willing to inflict violence on their political opponents, but it also means not harassing, stalking, or assaulting those who disagree with you in the first place. No matter how much Lund or Parks hate Trump or despite his supporters, they had no right to harass or intimidate the homeowners for simply showing their support for a candidate. It would have been better had they realized this before their arrest, but perhaps this will be a teachable moment for the Harris fans.

    https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/10/18/las-vegas-couple-charged-after-harrassing-assaulting-armed-trump-supporter-n1226605

  10. Sorry, Not Sorry. There Is No Middle Ground on Guns.
    By Tom Knighton | 8:31 PM | October 16, 2024
    AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File

    There are a ton of people out there that want gun control. They are bound and determined to restrict your rights no matter what. They don’t really care what the Constitution has to say about it, either.
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    Which, in and of itself, is fine. People are free to be quite wrong, after all.

    Unfortunately, sometimes those wrong people run for office. To make it worse, they try to pretend they’re being reasonable.

    [Democrat Kathy] Lennon said she believes in protecting the Second Amendment rights of responsible gun owners. Her son hunts and is a gun owner, and she said she is not against that.

    Lennon said she thinks legislation should be passed to address gun safety issues, particularly safe storage laws that would further restrict the ability of gun owners to leave loaded guns in their vehicles.

    She is also interested in the implementation of extreme risk protection orders in Tennessee — orders that would enable law enforcement or immediate family members to petition a judge to remove firearms temporarily from a person who is believed to be a risk to themselves or others.

    Gov. Bill Lee proposed gun safety legislation encouraging stronger background checks and an order of protection law on guns in the spring of 2023 after a shooting took place at The Covenant School in Nashville and six people were killed. This year, Senate Bill 2763 — which does the opposite of Lee’s early gun safety proposal — passed through the Tennessee Senate and was signed by Lee in May. The bill prevents extreme risk protection order legislation from being adopted and also prevents agencies within the state from accepting resources to enact such legislation.

    Lennon said she wants to find common ground to keep the community and schools safe. She said that children should not have access to guns and that safeguards need to be in place to prevent guns from entering schools.

    “I think it’s on the adults to be adults, and if it means to have a few stricter laws in place, then I’m ready to have those hard conversations,” Lennon said, “because I do not want a tragedy to happen like Covenant in Nashville again.”

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    So, by this, it’s pretty clear that being an adult means having restrictions on our rights, yet she also says she wants to find “common ground.”

    I hate to break it to Lennon, there is no common ground on guns. There are only those who want to take and those who are expected to give up.

    At no point has an anti-gunner offered a compromise that gives us anything. They don’t suggest that maybe we could, say, open up the NFA registry on machine guns in return for making AR-15s NFA items. I wouldn’t support putting AR-15s there, but at least they’re trying to give us something.

    Instead, compromise simply means taking a little less than they wanted to.

    At least, it means taking less right now.

    Invariably, people like Lennon try to pretend they’re being reasonable, will take a little less, and then? Then the next legislative term, they’re pushing for still more restrictions. They don’t even know if what they just passed yet will work, make things worse, or do nothing at all. They don’t care. They just expect us “to be adults” and just accept whatever they demand simply because they try to appeal to people’s emotions.

    There’s no middle ground on guns because people like Lennon have a long history of saying they only want this right up until they get it. That’s when people figure out they want so much more.

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/10/16/sorry-not-sorry-there-is-no-middle-ground-on-guns-n1226575

  11. Gun Registry Lessons From New Zealand
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    Mark Chesnut –
    October 18, 2024 5

    A recent spate of gun confiscation in New Zealand shows just how dangerous a gun registry can be when combined with some gun owners opposing the views of those in charge of the government. And with constant attempts to create a registry in the United States, it highlights a danger Americans should understand.

    According to a report at waikatotimes.co.nz, 62 firearms license holders recently had their licenses revoked, forcing them to surrender their guns to the government or another firearms license holder. The individuals were all members of the group Sovereign Citizens, or SovCits, who hold that the federal government there is illegitimate.

    New Zealand authorities conducted Operation Belfast in 2022 in an attempt to identify safety risks for law enforcements. The focus was SovCits, and authorities identified some 1,400 people they believed subscribed to the group’s ideology. Of that group, 58 were firearms license holders.

    One of the conditions of retaining a firearm license in New Zealand, under the country’s Arms Act, is that license holders meet the obligation of being a “fit and proper person” to hold a license. Having an undefinable condition like that within the country’s gun laws gives the government overwhelming power to deem anyone they choose to not be “fit and proper” and make them relinquish their guns.

    According to the report, an intelligent report from 2021 “found that there was a ‘realistic possibility’ that a violent extremist or group of violent extremists, motivated by SovCit beliefs, would commit a spontaneous act of violence in response to a perceived assault by government agencies during a routine act of legal or regulatory enforcement.’” However, to date the perceived “threat” hasn’t resulted in any violence with firearms.

    Over the years, the New Zealand government has repeatedly tightened its gun laws, most recently in 2020 with firearms registry that required license holders to update as they buy or sell guns.

    “The new law is designed to stop firearms falling into the wrong hands,” Minister of Police Stuart Nash said at the time. “It spells out for the first time that owning a firearm is a privilege, limited to responsible licensed owners.”

    The move prompted the International Bar Association to tout the country as a model for what American politicians should do to address criminal violence.

    “The Pacific nation has introduced swift and sweeping reforms of gun laws following the mass shooting in Christchurch in March—a move that highlights the continuing lack of action to tackle gun violence in the United States,” the IBA stated in a news item following the passage for further restrictions.

    Interestingly, the Sovereign Citizens movement is alive and well in the United States. In a nutshell, adherents believe the government is the illegitimate product of a conspiracy that subverted the original, lawful government. And they believe people can take steps to divorce themselves from the illegitimate government, after which it has no authority or jurisdiction over them.

    If, in fact, we had a national gun registry or national firearms licensing in the U.S., it’s not a large step to think that the Biden-Harris administration or future administrations might go after their firearms by deeming them a threat to law enforcement or simply because their ideology wasn’t in line with the people in power.

    https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-registry-lessons-from-new-zealand/

  12. Israel ‘plots strikes on Iran to topple regime’ and ‘is planning to hit them hard’

    By Olivia Christie

    Published: 05:30 EDT, 18 October 2024 | Updated: 05:33 EDT, 18 October 2024

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    Israel has hinted it is plotting airstrikes to topple the Iranian regime as it seeks retaliation for its missile attack earlier this month.

    Tel Aviv has been narrowing down its targets to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its volunteer paramilitary force as it consults the US on its response, The Times has reported.

    Although it is unlikely one round of missile strikes would topple the Iranian regime, it has been suggested by a western official the strength of the attack could encourage opposition from within.

    Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement addressed to the Iranian people: ‘Don’t let a small group of fanatic theocrats crush your hopes and your dreams … The people of Iran should know: Israel stands with you.’

    ‘When Iran is finally free — and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think — everything will be different.’

    The declaration was made in English just a few days before Iran launched 200 missiles into Israel on October 1.

    Netanyahu is hoping any future airstrikes will help weaken the two pillars of Iran’s Islamic regime – the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij paramilitary force.
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    While the IRGC is an elite military force, the Basij is a loyalist militia usually made up of foot soldiers.

    It comes as Israel warned that Iran will ‘not know what’s hit them’ when the country retaliates.

    Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant said in a video issued by his office: ‘Whoever attacks us will be hurt and will pay a price.

    ‘Our attack will be deadly, precise and above all surprising, they will not understand what happened and how it happened, they will see the results.’

    Netanyahu has also also promised its arch-foe will pay for its missile attack that ultimately killed no one.

    Washington labelled it as ineffective and the Israeli government previously described it as a ‘failure’.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13974627/Israel-plots-strikes-Iran-topple-regime.html

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