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SECURITY THEATER

INFRINGEMENT ‘CREEP’ (as in small incremental increases)

WHERE AT LEAST YOU THINK YOU’RE SAFE

Have you ever wondered if those stern-looking security features currently littering the American landscape really make you safer; especially the ones that deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms by simply posting a sign? Whether you have received tons of training, the bare minimum or none, and whether you have a permit in your wallet or simply rely on constitutional-carry laws now in effect in 22 states, it all hardly matters if your rights evaporate because someone claiming power over you says, “All who enter here must be gunless.”

Ever since the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, our authorities and private-security agencies have made highly visible (and enormously expensive) efforts to help keep this nation safe — or at least to help us feel safer. They have changed the face of the nation, with security apparatuses springing up everywhere you look. You can hardly take a walk without being recorded or enter an office building without a sign-in desk between you and the elevators. School kids wear laminated neck badges, government buildings make access arduous … it never ends.

CURTAIN CALL

Few doubt that some of this work has improved our security (probably). At the same time, a good deal of the activity has simply increased the impression that we are safer without actually accomplishing any increase in real security. In other words, it is “security theater,” a phrase introduced by Bruce Schneier, perhaps the world’s leading expert in this dangerous and pervasive deception. Some of the private and official maneuvers do little more than nullify your right to carry and increase your personal risks significantly. Schneier defines security theater succinctly: “Security theater is the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.”

Moreover, many of the steps have never proven any worth or stopped any terrorists, yet are exorbitantly expensive. A research fellow writing for the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Schneider says, “We need to evaluate airport security based on concrete costs and benefits, and not continue to implement security theater based on fear.”

No one has explained how the ubiquitous cameras stop jihadis from penetrating assaults with vehicles (or anything else, for that matter). Or how an ID chain deters a disturbed student from stabbing or otherwise mass-murdering classmates. And what’s to stop anyone from murdering the rent-a-guard at the sign-in book and proceeding with bloody mayhem until someone else, armed, puts a stop to it? They haven’t explained it because they can’t. It’s theater; not security. One might argue the merits, even convincingly, but the argument still stands.

FREE FALL

Make-believe “gun-free” zones are one obvious, popular and extremely dangerous element of security theater. Created by hanging signs, this fantasy is perpetrated largely by and for “progressives” and people understanding of firearms that is smaller than the Flat Earth Society’s grasp of geography. It basically changes safety from a positive ability to protect to a hoped-for reliance on the honesty of criminals and their desire to obey posted rules.

It features all The reality of a one-act play, hence the perfect name (“security theater”): “In this building, you’re protected by this sign.” In legislative settings, you’re protected by pieces of paper sanctioned by people in state capitols, wherever that may be. “No guns allowed in this park,” or whatever site they choose to write down, becomes their theatrical joke of a secure location. Too many elected representatives think such efforts actually succeed and then exercise the precise definition of insanity — they do it over and over. At a recent free-speech rally in Washington, D.C., which attracted hundreds of angry Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other far-left protesters, Police Chief Peter Newsham posted signs around the White House that The New York Times (Aug. 13, 2018, A13) likened to “a dusty Wild West town.” Each sign, posted on a lamppost, read: “All Firearms Prohibited Within 1.000 Feet of This Sign.” While it might be argued a complete absence of guns in the area would prevent gunfire, the signs were a theatrical joke in terms of making such a thing occur.

FABULOUS FLOPS

The federal ban on guns in national parks was feckless, and it was finally repealed in 2009 (H.R. 627, with statutory recognition of its unconstitutionality). Cooler heads recognized that though Democrats blindly support no-guns-in-parks statutes; it was a theatrical stunt that put decent people in danger. It empowered criminals. It favored illegal-alien smuggler “coyotes” at the borders as well as drug runners and gangsters. Perhaps worst of all, it subjected innocent people to prosecution for mere possession of their constitutionally protected property — even if they had obtained government-sanctioned paperwork.

When the ban was finally repealed by an act of Congress, and the public was free to carry in national parks under the rules of the states in which the parks were located; the media promised a parks-centered bloodbath. This never occurred. Oddly enough, neither did retractions from media outlets that promoted such ridiculously ‘hopelophobic’ mythology.

BOMBS WORK OFF AIRPLANES TOO

Consider for a moment the long lines snaking through airport gates: stay-in-formation stanchions and nylon ribbon keeping hundreds grumbling but patiently in place as you wait your turn through the metal detector, X-ray scanner, bomb sniffer, chemical wipe, facial-recognition cameras and TSA attitude-detecting agents. But it’s for “security” and your own good, and since you’re a good, obedient citizen, you obediently obey. You know “getting up-pity” can mean extra scrutiny. But what better place for a miscreant to set off a carry-on roller bag filled with Cemtex and nails or a homicide vest? Or to shoot anyone nearby who politely left their sidearms and even Swiss army knives in their cars … for safety? That’s what security theater frequently does: gives advantages to bad people, leaving little for the innocent. TSA agents know it, our security agencies know it, even the criminals and terrorists know it, and now you do too if you didn’t already. This paragraph didn’t just tip off the jihadists; this is common knowledge. Welcome to the show.

HARD TO HEAR, HARD TO TAKE
(NOW READ THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH VERY SLOWLY AND THEN THE BALANCE METHODICALLY SO IT ALL SINKS IN)

Former TSA agent Jason Harrington, who has spoken out publicly, confirmed what travelers know or suspect. Agents mock and laugh at your naked bodies, circumcisions, nipple rings —all clearly visible in scanners. They racially profile. BDOs (behavior-detection officers) and others single out blacks and fondle women. The complaints and lawsuits pile up. And scanning is easily defeated, which TSA’s own tests have proven repeatedly. He explained, according to Politico, the “everyday ridiculousness of the job … to create the illusion of security.”

The costs are beyond comprehension. Numerous studies from Cornell, ProPublica, The Association of Corporate Travel Executives, the ACLU; the U.S. Senate and many others add up in various ways: multiple arrests and firings of TSA agents for outright screening-based thefts and abuse, likely increases in cancer from screenings, financial airline losses from passengers opting to drive, increased road fatalities from increased road traffic and, of course, billions wasted on “security measures” everywhere, slowing everyone down without netting any terrorists. So many Texans innocently walked through screening with their carry pieces that the state Legislature enacted a “do-over” law so folks could peacefully leave, relieve themselves of their property and try again.

It hurts to consider, but does concealed carry sometimes contain elements of security theater too? The late-night gab about which sidearm or cartridge is best, the types of holsters you prefer, imagining how you would react to concocted scenarios — is that real or make-believe? If you only carry sometimes, to what extent are you really contributing to national defense? Or is it just a prideful sense of security when it suits you?

At its worst, you could argue security theater goes right down to the level of a bureaucrat with a uniform and clip-board who says anything like, “I’m sorry, you can’t sit there” — a bureaucrat whom you must obey, without cause or recourse, under penalty of law.

In attorney Jeff Snyder’s impeccable essay, “Walter Mitty’s Second Amendment,” he explores a fictitious nation remarkably similar to ours, where people cherish their freedoms. One by one these have disappeared, but the people cling pridefully to their right to arms, which they keep but rarely if ever use. The right to carry is incrementally removed by gun-free zones, tyrannical prosecutions for “illegal” ammo or gun types, improper display, and other non-crimes WITHOUT VICTIMS, HEAR THAT, AGAIN, WITHOUT VICTIMS, NOT UNLIKE VIRTUALLY MOST LAWS ON THE BOOKS THESE DAYS, until gun possession remains legal but virtually impossible to exercise.

But the citizens don’t care because they still believe they have their freedom (in what is no longer security theater, but theater of the absurd).

It adds new meaning to the phrase “infringement creep.”

CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS

Do know who the “Black Hebrew Israelites” are? Do you know what they stand for?

Probably not. But what you should know, is they are the ones that attacked the “WHITE” Catholic school students and then lied about what actually and truthfully happened. Did you hear from the news organizations about the “Black Hebrew Israelite’s” and what they did?

The truth is something very different from what the news organizations and celebs stated happening over the weekend. If you look at the full unedited video, NO Racist comments came out of the Catholic Students. The Students were not doing any sort of protest. They were on a school sponsored event to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. When the incident started, they were just gathering, waiting for their buses to leave. They were minding their own business.

BUT, the kids committed a mortal sin that is not allowed in this country anymore. Many of them were wearing “Make America Great Again”. This is something that the Liberal, Progressive and Radical elements in the crowd would not stand for.

The “Black Hebrew Israelite’s” started surrounding the Catholic “HIGH SCHOOL” students and yelling profanities at them. They called them Racists, Bigots, White Crackers, incest Kids and so forth.

The Indian Leader Nathan Phillips, with permission from the students teachers, started some Indian chants with the intent to drown out the profanity and help protect the students till the buses arrived in order to get the students out of there.

The high school kids were the ones being attacked simply because they were white and that several were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats.

The press gave completely MADE up and twisted reporting of the incident provided by the “Black Hebrew Israelite’s” who say they are now the Jewish descendants of the ancient Israelite’s and want the Jews out of Israel. They are EXTREME anti Semitics. This is an extreme radical group.

The young man seen in the pictures and videos facing the Indian banging the drum (as asked to do so by the Indian) was painted an Extreme Racist that had his group of High School Thugs attacking the Indians.

The HATE on the Left and the Press is SO extreme, within hours, death threats were being sent to the Catholic Students and their families.

The students did NOTHING wrong. They committed the SIN of exercising their fist amendment rights of supporting their duly elected President of the United States by wearing a HAT.

But now they have been branded and labeled, like everything today, because labels are easy to remember and create division for racist, bigots, and God knows what else, but the people who actually committed the HATE crime against them have not received any negative comments from the press.

Democrats. Start looking in the mirror every morning and think about what your movements are doing to this country. Most of you are very good, but you have to stop turning a blind eye to what your party and leaders are doing. Doing nothing, saying nothing is just as bad as the acts being committed. STOP THE HATE. BE HUMANS. STAND UP FOR THIS COUNTRY.

You should be OUTRAGED that your movements are attacking SCHOOL STUDENTS!

Something is very seriously wrong with you people.

SOCIAL SECURITY RIP-OFF

A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.

And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it’s now going broke.

BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today’s seniors “vultures” in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!

The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.

THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!

F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It’s free money for the government to spend under this guise.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment ?

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.”

This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that’s close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.

If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you’d have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you’re 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).

They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot”(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them … and they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. (Isn’t it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)

But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!

Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t mean that our investments were for charity!

We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:

Our Earned Retirement Income .

Letter to My Boss

I have enjoyed working here these past several years.
You have paid me very well and given me benefits beyond belief.
Have 3-4 months off per year
and a pension plan that will pay my salary til the day I die
and then pay my estate one year salary death bonus
and then continue to pay my spouse my salary
with increases until he (or she) dies
and a health plan that most people can only dream of having no deductible whatsoever.
Despite this, I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time I will show up for work when it is convenient for me.
In addition, I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yes, if my search for this new job proves fruitless,
I will be coming back with no loss in pay or status.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950’s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is our separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

—We don’t like re-distributive taxes, so you can keep them.

–You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

–Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.

–We’ll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.

–You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.

–We’ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Walmart, and Wall Street.

–You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.

–We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.

–We’ll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

–You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.

–You can have the peace-niks and war protesters.

–When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.

–We’ll keep our Christian values.

–You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.

–We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and over-sized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.

–You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.

–We’ll keep “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “The National Anthem.”

–I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute “Imagine,” “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” “Kum Baya,” or “We Are the World.”

–We’ll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.

–Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name, and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall

Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.

P.P.S. And you won’t have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

IF TRUMP HAD HIS WAY

The TRUMP Rules: Congressional Reform Act of 2018

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office. And, no more perks go with them.

2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

PROXY WAR IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela: The Proxy War that could hit closer to home.

Venezuela has been in the spotlight recently. Given the past several years of it’s economic collapse, there is division among the government and it’s people. While the country is rich in petroleum, it has been hit with sanctions. The military now tends to its crops, which is to say that the government controls the food.

There are approximately 13 main military bases in Venezuela, I’m not sure how many satellites, lilly pads, and outposts are scattered throughout the country. What I do know is that they have a formidable fighting force if they truly do stay loyal to Maduro.

George Orwell

George Orwell and his book titled ‘1984’

Boy did he ever get that right!

The Jussie Smollet Fiasco

THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA JUST SAVED AMERICA FROM A BLOODY RACE WAR THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS TRYING TO START

In reviewing the Jussie Smollett fiasco, it’s important to note that Smollett staged his hate crime hoax in a location where he believed it would be caught and recorded on a surveillance camera. The purpose of this was to have video footage that the media would play up nationwide, fomenting an outbreak of racially-charged violence that would ultimately lead to a full-blown race war across America, which the media, of course, would blame on Trump.

This is the goal of the left-wing media, which now functions as a cabal of enemy combatants in a civil war they started. And I have no doubt that Barack Obama and his “community organizers” are behind the whole thing. Smollett is well known to be a cohort of Obama, and this is exactly the kind of thing Obama continues to direct from his “bunker” command center near the White House.

The independent media blew the hoax wide open and the Chicago police did a damn fine job too.

Yet the hoax was revealed thanks to the efforts of the independent media and old school police work by the Chicago PD, not the ‘mainstream’ media news cartels which pushed endless lies and propaganda to prop up the hoax for as long as possible.

It was the indy media that asked the first questions about the flimsy story that Smollett pushed on the world. Too many things didn’t add up, and while the left-wing media swallowed the hoax without asking a single critical question, the independent media pointed out the many holes in Smollett’s story, such as the fact that he refused to hand over his full phone records to the police… or his claim that he was attacked by two men but somehow managed to hold on to his Subway sandwich the entire time, even walking home with it. Other facts highlighted by the independent media also blew holes in the Smollett story, such as the observation that Smollett was spotted on camera walking home with the fake noose still around his neck. Why would a victim of an attempted lynching continue to wear the noose? And why would he wait 40 minutes to call the police? Why didn’t he desperately shout to the doorman of his apartment to call the police, explaining he had just been attacked?

None of it added up. But the left-wing media didn’t care. The fake hate crime hoax fit their narrative of America as a racist nation filled with homophobic Trump supporters, and the delicious ingredients in that recipe made such an enticing narrative that the media couldn’t resist. So they risked a race war breaking out across America to try to once again demonize Trump supporters and ‘keeping the hate alive’, which is a key job of the left-wing media these days.

America was just saved by the same independent media that the tech giants are trying to wipe out

All this underscores the importance of speech diversity in a free society. Dissenting voices are sometimes the most important voices of all since they question the official narrative of lies and deception. This is exactly why systematic censorship of the independent media by the dishonest, fascist tech giants is so dangerous to Democracy.

In this case, it was the dissenting voices — the independent media — that exposed the hoax and very likely stopped the outbreak of racial violence from taking place. In other words, while the mainstream media was actively pushing for a race war in America, the independent media threw water on the embers before it become a firestorm. In response, numerous “journalists” in the media are publicly admitting they are disappointed and saddened that the hate crime wasn’t real. They actually wish for hate crime violence in America, and they don’t even try to hide their dark desires anymore.

Yes, we’ve actually reached the point of insanity in America where “mainstream” media journalists actively wish for hate crimes and race wars. And they are willing to lie and deceive the public to try to make that happen.

If anyone should be censored and de-platformed today, it’s CNN, the NYT and the Washington Post. Those are the organizations spreading dangerous lies in a deliberate effort to spark a nationwide race war. They are complicit in the plot to destroy America, and they are acting with extreme malice in trying to carry out their intended agendas to see America rip itself apart.

So why do the tech giants selectively censor the independent media while granting the lying left-wing media near-total control over the public narrative? Because the tech giants want to destroy America, too. They’re all in on it. It’s a plot to bring down this nation, blame white people, depose Trump, silence all dissent and sweep in an authoritarian regime run by deranged, fraudulent Leftists.

The time to be aware and awaken is right now!

FIGHT CLUB

Remember this.

The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact. So don’t fuck with us.”

Are We at a Standstill?

Too often, it seems — especially when it comes to mass shootings — anti-gunners are quick to use only the end results of such tragic events to justify the need for (you guessed it!) MORE gun control.

Case in point: the latest mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, last Friday.

According to the Washington Post, the suspect, who “fatally shot five people and wounded five officers at an Illinois warehouse Friday, severely beat a woman years ago in a domestic violence incident that turned him into a felon — and should have kept him from buying a gun.”

Dr. John R. Lott, (I’ve read every book he has penned) author of More Guns, Less Crime, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center and staunch gun-rights advocate, recently penned an article on the incident over at Town-hall. He wrote: “Twice, background checks failed to catch the criminal background of killer Gary Martin. Even worse, the errors that occurred in Illinois were a result of dramatic cuts in funding for background checks.”

“But, as usual, gun-control advocates called for more background checks before the facts of the case were even known,” he added.

Indeed, it at least appears that those individuals who seek to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding citizens only look at the end results of such a tragedy … and not what led up to it.

Don’t misconstrue my point here.

At the end of the day, Martin, who began shooting at fellow employees “after he was told he was being fired,” per the Washington Post, is SOLELY responsible for his heinous actions. But I think it’s a mistake to look only at the aftermath of a critical incident when it comes to calling for sweeping change.

After all, as Dr. Lott so aptly noted, “The proposed gun control laws aren’t addressing the problems we face.”

So why aren’t we looking at what other factors are at play?

Dr. Lott noted that, “undoubtedly, the first two mistaken [background] checks were due to human error. But the fault lies with Illinois. The media has made much of the fact that, after the third check, police didn’t follow through and make sure that Martin’s illegally obtained gun was taken away from him. But this isn’t due to any loophole in the law. Rather, it was a politically created problem. The automatic push for the universal background checks makes little sense, as it uses the same federal NICS system. If the problem is human error, why not concentrate on fixing that issue?”

Why aren’t we looking at the fact that Martin shouldn’t have had a gun in the first place?

Why aren’t we looking at the fact that this terrible event transpired in yet another “gun-free” zone?

And let’s not end there:

In situations where an armed citizen helped prevent casualties, what factors helped to drive that outcome? (Anti-gunners are notorious for overlooking these particular stories, but we can certainly learn something from them too.)

Let me reiterate: The perpetrators of violent crimes are the ones responsible for those violent crimes. But until we start looking at the whole picture, I fear we’re at a standstill in making any real progress toward preventing such terrible tragedies in the future.

TYRRANY

IF YOU’RE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP AGAINST TYRANNY, THEN YOU’RE ALREADY A SLAVE!