My brother lives by there , they are exactly what u said Chris Bray …. Also , A good friend of mine is a swat guy , he always told me …. Money and Monkey makes the world go round .
I agree cousin! There is so much sh*t going on that the “regular” people don’t even know about. So much is hidden. Even my husband was deployed to the desert, they were told to “blend in.” Really?!?! It’s a scary time. I often wonder about what it will be like when our children are older. I’m honestly scared for them. I have to keep faith that we raised them the best we could and they can’t “put a blind eye” to what’s really going on. I love reading your articles and I give you props for your honesty! Keep spreading the word! Maybe, just MAYBE, it will get through to someone and they’ll see what’s ACTUALLY going on!
100M Americans own 440M guns. There’s only so far the populace will be abused before they stand up for “the security of a free State.” I hope our descendants will take a stand, and not a knee.
And they never do anything with their “assault weapons “ Why aren’t all the weaponised patriots descending on these clowns/ thugs and letting them have it with some righteous justice ??
“The problem is that almost everyone in our society requires ‘permission’ to commit violence. In general, this GREATLY improves society and the efficiency of the economy. There are very few people who are capable and prepared to deal with the small fraction of society who are violent criminals.”
That goes double or triple for shooting at police & soldiers. We honor them for their service, and the idea that they’d have become unwitting enemies of the People is unfathomable without visual proof. Gun owners know that taking on the government with force is the Way of the Outlaw, and you will have to abandon everything you’ve spent your life working for. It is the last resort before slavery or destruction.
It took Germans 4-5 years after Hitler became Chancellor to get serious about assassinating him. Almost all the failures went to the guillotine.
Reminds me of David Koresh. He went into town several times a week and could have been arrested any one of those times instead of setting innocent women and children on fire at the compound.
I meant for agreeing to arrest and ruin the life of this man. The sheriff must know by now that draconian punishment awaits those who were at the J6 festivities.
The Sedition Act was passed in 1798 (under Washington) making it a crime to criticize the government. The Federalists (predecessors of modern Democrats) strongly supported it and put numerous opponents in prison.
The voters detested the Sedition Act, and led to Jefferson’s el. election in 1800, and ultimately to the collapse of the Federalists.
If modern Republicans can get their heads out their disorganized asses, perhaps we can do the same to the Democrats.
Nah, the Democratic-Republican party was the forerunner to both the Democrats AND the Republicans; the Federalists were opposed to war on general principle and ceased to exist shortly after the war of 1812.
If you compare the platforms of the Federalists and the post-FDR Democrats, there’s a 1:1 correlation. What makes you think the former Federalists just died out and didn’t join the DR’s? (They did.) The modern Republicans split from the Whigs in 1854, which in turn had been formed in 1824 by conservatives leaving the DRs.
Arresting Koresh peacefully wouldn't have made for days and days of must-see TV, and we all know that's what matters. If people die in service to propaganda, oh well, it's the big picture that counts, right? Besides, it's important for the government to show how serious it is about keeping all of us safe, as long as the perp is the right color.
“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
I don’t know why Orwell selected the pig, which is perceptive, intelligent, & sociable, completely unlike the cultural Marxist morons befalling our country & infiltrating our institutions.
I beg to differ. Fidel Castro took joy in blowing out my uncle's brain, stealing my family's businesses and several towns where we owned land. Today the Chinese are taking over our properties (near the US base in Guantanamo Bay) and the Obama administration doesn't seem concerned 🤷♀️
Dipshittery! Another Chris Bray classic word! But my amusement is tempered with a deep angst about our times... Thanks for writing with courage (and humor) about our present grim reality...
It is absolutely disgusting what the US Justice Department has done to the people who participated in January 6th. This type of theatre is no doubt a warning to any others who plan to protest any other election outcome if the Democrats win. It is not unlike how the Trudeau government here went after the Freedom Convoy. Two of the primary targets Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, so called organizers are right now on trial for various 'mischief charges'. I have sat in on a lot of if and it is ridiculous, and obvious the prosecutor or Crown as we call them here doesn't have a case. So far we have wasted 22 days of their time and thousands if not millions in taxpayer dollars on this nonsense. As they say the process is the punishment. Fortunately both of these people have generous crowdfunding resources helping to pay their very hefty legal fees. Worse yet, there are four men who have been sitting in jail for over 600 days, who have yet to be convicted of any crime. They have become known as the Coutts Four in the very small circle of people following their plight. They were arrested after raids were conducted at the border blockade protest that occurred in support of the Freedom Convoy in the border town of Coutts Alberta. The RCMP arrested them on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder police officers. It is a long a convoluded story that points to some very serious nefarious actions on the part o the Trudeau government and our federal police the RCMP. I have written at length on this in my Substack. https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-more-government
These men are being house in remand centres that are not set up for long term prisoners. They do not have access to daily exercise times, they do not have access to other anemities offered in most prisons to inmates such as education, libraries, internet access. And they have yet to even be convicted of a crime. They have often been held in solitary confinement, health concerns have not been addressed, they were forbidden to communicate with familty members for the longest time. All of them have families and children they have not seen. Their trial has been stalled by bad faith action on the part of the Crown including late disclosure, and what might even be seen as prosecutorial misconduct.
Conduct like this on the part of the Trudeau government is clearly a message to any who protest its policies, they will pay a price. Not so different from what the Biden administration has done to the January 6th participants, some of who did nothing more than attend the protest.
The western federal governments are desperate for excuses to continue to seize more and more power. They wanted an “insurrection” so they could clamp down hard on their political opponents with little pushback from the public. They want to make scenes of “dangerous fugitives on the run” cause this gives them more and more leverage for more and more power grabs.
Meanwhile, they go after your kids through the institutions. Severe the bonds of a family, and break and burn their culture. Tell them they have no culture, they only steal from others.
Talk to your kids. Turn off the TV’s. Don’t comply. Say no. Stay peaceful but firm. Assert your rights. We need to start organizing all over North America to resist, get them out, and then try them for treason.
Unfortunately the minute we try to organize, there is some bastard working as a traitor. We need an event so egregious,that we patriots don’t need yo be told to show up somewhere armed for bear, but just do.
Turdeau and F. J. Biden are both "weffers," i.e., followers of Klaus "Barbie" Schwab, head of the fascist World Economic Forum, a consortium of the the world's largest corporations, central banks, royalty, and controlled politicians. Schwab brags, Bond-villain style, that he not only controls the heads of governments but has "penetrated ze cabinets," controlling half of Turdeau's, for example.
Things in the US seem to be getting worse and worse. I think one of the best responses is to make fun of the utter foolishness going on in our government.
We should all know by now that you never, ever talk to feebs when they show up. The lawyering up sure would cut into her travel budget. She's 70 and retired.
Hopefully nothing will come of it. She never breathed a word to family or local friends.
She's been dating a Democrat for almost three (3) years. Talk about living dangerously! She says he's a conservative but doesn't know it. Yet he watches CNN. What the actual fook?
Bear with me here: The 1960’s professor/comedian/musician Tom Lehrer had a great line in a ditty titled “Pollution”:
“Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly
But they don’t last long if they try.”
Came to mind when I considered our right to petition for redress of grievances which implies the right to approach government officials where they work.
Well, the media is the enemy of the people after all. We should expect no less and remind ourselves that we fail miserably at exerting the proper amount of contempt for this vile institution.
Can’t wait to see closing number of the Broadway version: after a tense standoff, CanMan emerges from the woods and bear-sprays the shit out the feds, followed by a raucous song and dance tussle between our hero and a bunch of blinded morons in sparkly tap shoes. Maybe they could get that binary freak who got fired for stealing women’s clothes from their luggage to do the costumes.
Mostly fat white men (not very diverse!) standing around in the "suspect's" driveway all day drinking coffee, as shown in the video. And speaking of foolish, the town's mayor looked and sounded as if he were the mayor of West Hollywood. There clearly needs to be a remake of Michael Mann's great 1986 thriller Manhunter.
What is truly amazing is that our law enforcement agencies hire lower and lower IQ individuals because no one with any sense wants to be a part of that. My local police are offering bonuses to people who can pass the testing process and actually accept the job. The turn out for the test has dropped to the point where 25% of the candidates who actually qualify is a number smaller than they need to replace the retirees and flat out quitters. Outsmarting people of that caliber is not difficult, as can be observed in the skyrocketing number of unsolved crimes in this country.
No one is coming to save you. You must be ready and armed to protect yourself. Especially from the government.
There was a court case out east about a decade ago where a man who tested with a 125 IQ was unable to find employment as a police officer. They want their enforcers to be just smart enough to perform their duties and nothing more. God forbid an intelligent freethinker should slip through the cracks and ponder the legality and righteousness of the task laid before him by our "public servants." Even worse, what if he talks to other officers and convinces them of his reticence in following orders.
Yup, can confirm that this is universal: police selects for compliance and obedience, not dilligence and duty.
In Sweden, they use the same intelligence-test as does the military, which tests for not only IQ but social stuff as well. A total under 4 (normal/average) on a nine digit scale indicates mental retardation; the higher scores indicates above-average/normal aptitude and intelligence in various ways.
This was the lead story on the WABC NYC 5:00 p.m. news last evening. Residents were urged to shelter in place while authorities searched for the "January 6th Insurrectionist." This is no longer funny. Hemingway's line from The Sun Also Rises, much used by pundits, "How did you go bankrupt/" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly" is happening regarding our basic freedoms. The State's need for power is insatiable and corporate media is a willing partner. The Department of Justice has become the Department of Injustice. The January 6th Insurrectionist is the 21st century Emmanuel Goldstein. Orwell knew.
Yet Ray Epps managed to hide in plain sight for almost as long. No SWAT teams or FBI agents in camo were required to issue him the equivalent of a parking ticket. As late as September this year ABC characterized him as a victim of a Jan 6 conspiracy theory, though there is video of him repeatedly, overtly inciting people to breach the Capitol. Old news now, I know, but compare and contrast. This basterdization of justice is one of the greatest tragedies to befall the country in my nearly seventy years of life, as it signals the end of the USA that I pledged allegiance to nearly every day as a kid. It is gone, apparently, like my youth, though I believe I'm aging much better than Uncle Sam.
"Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for 90 minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles-an-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Gregory Yetman. Go get him.
I am terribly disappointed in the lack of diversity among the local, state, and federal nazis, uh, I mean law enforcement shown in the news clip. There were no people of color and zero people with vaginas. And definitely not one person of unusual hair color (PUHC). I could just cry. Or maybe go outside and scream at the sky. This dangerous criminal might have a kitchen fork or even a can of hairspray with him ... even though the fear-mongering mayor says the obviously law-abiding resident who has zero criminal background is not a danger to anyone anywhere.
Joking aside, I’m fearful -- for that poor guy running for his life because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time three years ago, doing nothing criminal and hurting no one. 🙁
tl;dr: Our government is a disgusting, pathetic, shameful joke.
Sounds like there's a Hollywood movie in the making here. Canhunt?
My brother lives by there , they are exactly what u said Chris Bray …. Also , A good friend of mine is a swat guy , he always told me …. Money and Monkey makes the world go round .
“The fish rots from the head down.”
I agree cousin! There is so much sh*t going on that the “regular” people don’t even know about. So much is hidden. Even my husband was deployed to the desert, they were told to “blend in.” Really?!?! It’s a scary time. I often wonder about what it will be like when our children are older. I’m honestly scared for them. I have to keep faith that we raised them the best we could and they can’t “put a blind eye” to what’s really going on. I love reading your articles and I give you props for your honesty! Keep spreading the word! Maybe, just MAYBE, it will get through to someone and they’ll see what’s ACTUALLY going on!
100M Americans own 440M guns. There’s only so far the populace will be abused before they stand up for “the security of a free State.” I hope our descendants will take a stand, and not a knee.
And they never do anything with their “assault weapons “ Why aren’t all the weaponised patriots descending on these clowns/ thugs and letting them have it with some righteous justice ??
As I commented under one of Chris‘ other columns:
“The problem is that almost everyone in our society requires ‘permission’ to commit violence. In general, this GREATLY improves society and the efficiency of the economy. There are very few people who are capable and prepared to deal with the small fraction of society who are violent criminals.”
That goes double or triple for shooting at police & soldiers. We honor them for their service, and the idea that they’d have become unwitting enemies of the People is unfathomable without visual proof. Gun owners know that taking on the government with force is the Way of the Outlaw, and you will have to abandon everything you’ve spent your life working for. It is the last resort before slavery or destruction.
It took Germans 4-5 years after Hitler became Chancellor to get serious about assassinating him. Almost all the failures went to the guillotine.
sounds like a cop out to me
Your assessment has been noted & filed.
If 1,000 people with guns, legal ones
MArched down Main street to Yetman’s home and told the rogue police what they thought of them that might have done something.
true...but also, the media tells the joke.
With no sense of shame at all.
You're being generous.
Reminds me of David Koresh. He went into town several times a week and could have been arrested any one of those times instead of setting innocent women and children on fire at the compound.
Yes. The local sheriff offered to help them make the arrest. Disgusting.
IIRC, Koresh was on good terms with the local sheriff and might have even turned himself in if the sheriff had asked him to.
The local sheriff is a jackass too.
Send details -- missed this one.
I meant for agreeing to arrest and ruin the life of this man. The sheriff must know by now that draconian punishment awaits those who were at the J6 festivities.
Waco and Ruby Ridge, never trusted the govment at all after.
They stopped being trustworthy about 15 minutes after they ratified the Constitution.
The Sedition Act was passed in 1798 (under Washington) making it a crime to criticize the government. The Federalists (predecessors of modern Democrats) strongly supported it and put numerous opponents in prison.
The voters detested the Sedition Act, and led to Jefferson’s el. election in 1800, and ultimately to the collapse of the Federalists.
If modern Republicans can get their heads out their disorganized asses, perhaps we can do the same to the Democrats.
thought the Sedition Act was passed under Adams
You’re absolutely right. I misread the dates. My bad.
Nah, the Democratic-Republican party was the forerunner to both the Democrats AND the Republicans; the Federalists were opposed to war on general principle and ceased to exist shortly after the war of 1812.
If you compare the platforms of the Federalists and the post-FDR Democrats, there’s a 1:1 correlation. What makes you think the former Federalists just died out and didn’t join the DR’s? (They did.) The modern Republicans split from the Whigs in 1854, which in turn had been formed in 1824 by conservatives leaving the DRs.
Its a Uniparty
I’m willing to give Mike Johnson a chance.
Unfortunately no individual can make any significant difference in what is a World Wide and totally corrupt system.
Admittedly there are elements of the USA that are the last bastion of possible resistance. (although the GAE is the antithesis of this)
Arresting Koresh peacefully wouldn't have made for days and days of must-see TV, and we all know that's what matters. If people die in service to propaganda, oh well, it's the big picture that counts, right? Besides, it's important for the government to show how serious it is about keeping all of us safe, as long as the perp is the right color.
"What is this if it isn't theater?"
I'd call it state terrorism.
It's both. It's Stasi-quality repressive behavior, but in tones of pathetic dipshittery.
Well, they do need practice. Remember, real communism has never been tried.
We get to be the first!
You’ll know they’re serious when they come for all copies of “Animal Farm.”
lol.
“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
I don’t know why Orwell selected the pig, which is perceptive, intelligent, & sociable, completely unlike the cultural Marxist morons befalling our country & infiltrating our institutions.
I beg to differ. Fidel Castro took joy in blowing out my uncle's brain, stealing my family's businesses and several towns where we owned land. Today the Chinese are taking over our properties (near the US base in Guantanamo Bay) and the Obama administration doesn't seem concerned 🤷♀️
Concerned? I believe they're delighted. Anything to keep the register ringing for The Big Guy and his minions in Congress.
Thank you for "pathetic dipshittery".
A picturesquely apt term.
So flatulence is flammable through flannels...who would've known.
Speaking of dipshits...I can attest this is true when I tried to show my 12 year old boy...lol.
Dipshittery! Another Chris Bray classic word! But my amusement is tempered with a deep angst about our times... Thanks for writing with courage (and humor) about our present grim reality...
Anarcho-tyranny in action. Massive enforcement against whites and the middle-class; no enforcement against POCs and the poor.
It is absolutely disgusting what the US Justice Department has done to the people who participated in January 6th. This type of theatre is no doubt a warning to any others who plan to protest any other election outcome if the Democrats win. It is not unlike how the Trudeau government here went after the Freedom Convoy. Two of the primary targets Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, so called organizers are right now on trial for various 'mischief charges'. I have sat in on a lot of if and it is ridiculous, and obvious the prosecutor or Crown as we call them here doesn't have a case. So far we have wasted 22 days of their time and thousands if not millions in taxpayer dollars on this nonsense. As they say the process is the punishment. Fortunately both of these people have generous crowdfunding resources helping to pay their very hefty legal fees. Worse yet, there are four men who have been sitting in jail for over 600 days, who have yet to be convicted of any crime. They have become known as the Coutts Four in the very small circle of people following their plight. They were arrested after raids were conducted at the border blockade protest that occurred in support of the Freedom Convoy in the border town of Coutts Alberta. The RCMP arrested them on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder police officers. It is a long a convoluded story that points to some very serious nefarious actions on the part o the Trudeau government and our federal police the RCMP. I have written at length on this in my Substack. https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-more-government
These men are being house in remand centres that are not set up for long term prisoners. They do not have access to daily exercise times, they do not have access to other anemities offered in most prisons to inmates such as education, libraries, internet access. And they have yet to even be convicted of a crime. They have often been held in solitary confinement, health concerns have not been addressed, they were forbidden to communicate with familty members for the longest time. All of them have families and children they have not seen. Their trial has been stalled by bad faith action on the part of the Crown including late disclosure, and what might even be seen as prosecutorial misconduct.
https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/p/possible-prosecutorial-misconduct
Conduct like this on the part of the Trudeau government is clearly a message to any who protest its policies, they will pay a price. Not so different from what the Biden administration has done to the January 6th participants, some of who did nothing more than attend the protest.
The western federal governments are desperate for excuses to continue to seize more and more power. They wanted an “insurrection” so they could clamp down hard on their political opponents with little pushback from the public. They want to make scenes of “dangerous fugitives on the run” cause this gives them more and more leverage for more and more power grabs.
Meanwhile, they go after your kids through the institutions. Severe the bonds of a family, and break and burn their culture. Tell them they have no culture, they only steal from others.
Talk to your kids. Turn off the TV’s. Don’t comply. Say no. Stay peaceful but firm. Assert your rights. We need to start organizing all over North America to resist, get them out, and then try them for treason.
Unfortunately the minute we try to organize, there is some bastard working as a traitor. We need an event so egregious,that we patriots don’t need yo be told to show up somewhere armed for bear, but just do.
Turdeau and F. J. Biden are both "weffers," i.e., followers of Klaus "Barbie" Schwab, head of the fascist World Economic Forum, a consortium of the the world's largest corporations, central banks, royalty, and controlled politicians. Schwab brags, Bond-villain style, that he not only controls the heads of governments but has "penetrated ze cabinets," controlling half of Turdeau's, for example.
All globalists need to be removed from positions of power and tried for treason.
Thank you, Chris, for making me laugh.
Things in the US seem to be getting worse and worse. I think one of the best responses is to make fun of the utter foolishness going on in our government.
You've got to laugh, because crying isn't fun at all.
What a bunch of maroons. We're living in ridiculous times.
Terrifying, too. A friend of mine was in DC that day and is expecting the feebs to apprehend her any day now.
Shameful. She knows to shut up and lawyer up when they come?
We should all know by now that you never, ever talk to feebs when they show up. The lawyering up sure would cut into her travel budget. She's 70 and retired.
There's a defense fund for J6 defendants, but I'm not sure how serious it is.
Hopefully nothing will come of it. She never breathed a word to family or local friends.
She's been dating a Democrat for almost three (3) years. Talk about living dangerously! She says he's a conservative but doesn't know it. Yet he watches CNN. What the actual fook?
WHY!?!?!?
He rekindled her after her long widowhood. There was something about him, she said. "BUT HE'S A DEMOCRAT! HE'S CLUELESS!"
He must be really, really good. *shudder*
Sounds like a desperate criminal to me. She’s likely to run out the back door and go on the lam.
Why do you have to insult maroons?
Bear with me here: The 1960’s professor/comedian/musician Tom Lehrer had a great line in a ditty titled “Pollution”:
“Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly
But they don’t last long if they try.”
Came to mind when I considered our right to petition for redress of grievances which implies the right to approach government officials where they work.
Looks like they pulled that mayor out of a drag queen story hour to get that riveting interview with him.
😂 And even that dude couldn't quite manage the histrionics of calling J6 an iNsUrReCtIoN.
The female news host got it politically correct, calling J6 "the ATTACK on the Capitol." 🙄
Well, the media is the enemy of the people after all. We should expect no less and remind ourselves that we fail miserably at exerting the proper amount of contempt for this vile institution.
Can’t wait to see closing number of the Broadway version: after a tense standoff, CanMan emerges from the woods and bear-sprays the shit out the feds, followed by a raucous song and dance tussle between our hero and a bunch of blinded morons in sparkly tap shoes. Maybe they could get that binary freak who got fired for stealing women’s clothes from their luggage to do the costumes.
Our world is beyond parody now.
It’s ridiculous that grown men are foolish enough to follow such orders
Mostly fat white men (not very diverse!) standing around in the "suspect's" driveway all day drinking coffee, as shown in the video. And speaking of foolish, the town's mayor looked and sounded as if he were the mayor of West Hollywood. There clearly needs to be a remake of Michael Mann's great 1986 thriller Manhunter.
Maybe I’m projecting but I thought they looked embarrassed.
No. They’re LARPing and getting all excited pretending to be Special Forces macho men
Most of them would suit an audition with The Village People
Why do you scare me like this! I'm not going to be able to fall asleep tonight knowing that this spray wielding maniac is on the loose
😂😂😂 sorry don't know why this made me laugh. Must be my crazy sense of humor. Be safe.
Laughter is the best survival mechanism for this insanity :D
What is truly amazing is that our law enforcement agencies hire lower and lower IQ individuals because no one with any sense wants to be a part of that. My local police are offering bonuses to people who can pass the testing process and actually accept the job. The turn out for the test has dropped to the point where 25% of the candidates who actually qualify is a number smaller than they need to replace the retirees and flat out quitters. Outsmarting people of that caliber is not difficult, as can be observed in the skyrocketing number of unsolved crimes in this country.
No one is coming to save you. You must be ready and armed to protect yourself. Especially from the government.
Government wants, at best, LEOs with average IQ.
There was a court case out east about a decade ago where a man who tested with a 125 IQ was unable to find employment as a police officer. They want their enforcers to be just smart enough to perform their duties and nothing more. God forbid an intelligent freethinker should slip through the cracks and ponder the legality and righteousness of the task laid before him by our "public servants." Even worse, what if he talks to other officers and convinces them of his reticence in following orders.
Yup, can confirm that this is universal: police selects for compliance and obedience, not dilligence and duty.
In Sweden, they use the same intelligence-test as does the military, which tests for not only IQ but social stuff as well. A total under 4 (normal/average) on a nine digit scale indicates mental retardation; the higher scores indicates above-average/normal aptitude and intelligence in various ways.
For police, a 3 is enough.
Exactly. Search “first amendment auditor” on YouTube and watch the auditors own the cops.
This was the lead story on the WABC NYC 5:00 p.m. news last evening. Residents were urged to shelter in place while authorities searched for the "January 6th Insurrectionist." This is no longer funny. Hemingway's line from The Sun Also Rises, much used by pundits, "How did you go bankrupt/" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly" is happening regarding our basic freedoms. The State's need for power is insatiable and corporate media is a willing partner. The Department of Justice has become the Department of Injustice. The January 6th Insurrectionist is the 21st century Emmanuel Goldstein. Orwell knew.
Yet Ray Epps managed to hide in plain sight for almost as long. No SWAT teams or FBI agents in camo were required to issue him the equivalent of a parking ticket. As late as September this year ABC characterized him as a victim of a Jan 6 conspiracy theory, though there is video of him repeatedly, overtly inciting people to breach the Capitol. Old news now, I know, but compare and contrast. This basterdization of justice is one of the greatest tragedies to befall the country in my nearly seventy years of life, as it signals the end of the USA that I pledged allegiance to nearly every day as a kid. It is gone, apparently, like my youth, though I believe I'm aging much better than Uncle Sam.
It's got to be done.
"Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for 90 minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles-an-hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Gregory Yetman. Go get him.
Forget border crossing Hamas or Hezbollah, let's get those J6ers! Forget the crimes being committed across the country. But J6er - GET HIM!
I am terribly disappointed in the lack of diversity among the local, state, and federal nazis, uh, I mean law enforcement shown in the news clip. There were no people of color and zero people with vaginas. And definitely not one person of unusual hair color (PUHC). I could just cry. Or maybe go outside and scream at the sky. This dangerous criminal might have a kitchen fork or even a can of hairspray with him ... even though the fear-mongering mayor says the obviously law-abiding resident who has zero criminal background is not a danger to anyone anywhere.
Joking aside, I’m fearful -- for that poor guy running for his life because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time three years ago, doing nothing criminal and hurting no one. 🙁