Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[The Minsky Moment]

How would the right to purchase a "semi-automatic rifles" and "certain categories of shotgun" have any bearing on Australia's COVID legislation?

[Barrister]

How would the right to purchase a "semi-automatic rifles" and "certain categories of shotgun" have any bearing on Australia's COVID legislation?

Don't be a sheeple, Minsky.

Australians no longer have the firepower to actively rebel against the government, which means the government can impose whatever totalitarian laws they want!

[Razgovory]

How would the right to purchase a "semi-automatic rifles" and "certain categories of shotgun" have any bearing on Australia's COVID legislation?

It's easier to lynch legislators if you have weapons.  It's the whole "we have guns to keep the government in line" bullshit.

[The Minsky Moment]

OK, yes, my question is rhetorical.

But it's the sign of troubling times that so many people believe that violent extortion and insurrection is a legitimate check on legislative democracy.

[viper37]

OK, yes, my question is rhetorical.

But it's the sign of troubling times that so many people believe that violent extortion and insurrection is a legitimate check on legislative democracy.

It's been the case since the founding of the US, no?

[The Minsky Moment]

It's been the case since the founding of the US, no?

I know you are joking but in seriousness the opposite is close to being true.

An immediate impetus to the US Constitution was Shay's Rebellion where the governor of Massachusetts had to deputize a mercenary army to fight the rebels - a motivating purpose was to create a strong national government that had the capacity to suppress local armed insurrections.  And when the whiskey rebellion broke out in western Penn a few years later, Washington (as President) raised a large federalized militia force to put it down.

[Jacob]

[Josquius]

True.
I was just thinking earlier - imagine the conspiracy nuts are right. The covid vaccine is a danger and its going to kill everyone who took it.
.... Do we really want to survive to live in the world that's left considering the people who will make it up?

[Syt]

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

After researching those terms, I've decided not to vote to reelect Kennedy. 

[Josquius]

Oh no. They're trying to use the Simpsons now.

[grumbler]

Did you know that the US, UK, and Canada (with help from other countries) tried to make a live-action show from an anime series?  Research "Operation Overlord."

[Razgovory]

Research needs to come from a peer review publication.

[Syt]

https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/horror-story-navy-vet-never-set-foot-capitol-jan-6-held-solitary/

'Horror story': Navy vet, never set foot in Capitol on Jan. 6, but held in solitary!

By Art Moore
Published October 5, 2021 at 8:06pm

Accused of "plotting an attack on the Capitol" on Jan. 6 even though he never went inside the building that day, 66-year-old Navy veteran Thomas Caldwell spent 49 days in solitary confinement.

Now in home detention awaiting trial, Caldwell told Fox News host Tucker Carlson "they made me the poster boy."

"I was defendant No. 1 in a conspiracy," he explained. "They said I conspired and I actually put together a military-style attack on the Capitol. Then I stormed into the Capitol and did all these terrible things."

Caldwell said "they even claimed I threatened our lawfully elected representatives in Congress."

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"Total claptrap," Caldwell told Carlson.

"But they sent that information all around the world, across all the media platforms."

Caldwell was an FBI section chief from 2009 to 2010 after retiring as a lieutenant commander from the Navy.

Julie Kelly told the Caldwells' story in a column for American Greatness.

Caldwell's wife awakened him in a panic at 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 19, saying, "The FBI is at the door and I'm not kidding."

The Navy vet told Kelly there was "a full SWAT team, armored vehicles with a battering ram, and people screaming at me."

"People who looked like stormtroopers were pointing M4 weapons at me, covering me with red [laser] dots."

In his interview with Carlson, Caldwell said he and his wife hired a lawyer who demanded that prosecutors present their evidence.

"When they couldn't produce it, they immediately changed their position," Caldwell said.

"Now they say the exact opposite of what they said. Originally they said I was the commander of the Oath Keepers. That I did this terrible thing to go inside and attack Congress," he said.

Now prosecutors acknowledge he wasn't even a member of Oath Keepers, didn't plan an attack and didn't go inside the Capitol.

"But still, Tucker, we're mired in a legal battle against the government with no end in sight," Caldwell said.

The couple's finances "have been decimated."

"We're Christians, and we believe God has us in the palm of his hand, [but] things aren't looking all that great, and we're at the edge of losing the family farm," he said.