Since my Free Republic Champion (Copernicus where art thou?) has been AWOL for over a year I do not follow events at Free Republic as closely as I once did, but I have learned long time Freeper and author Travis McGee has put his money where his heart is and concocted an interesting Falun Gong saber -rattling exercise.
On March 1st his contemporary action thriller *Enemies, Foreign and Domestic* will be available for free download from Amazon in a maneuver called Operation #EFAD.
The idea is to pump up download numbers so quickly the book will rise to the top of Amazon’s Bestseller Index.
You can help in two ways:
1. Publish the link everywhere.
2. Download the book.
It is a good read, but even if you already have a paid copy download another one for friends and family.
This could be a useful Public Relations Coupe if it works as designed.
Want to join a beat-up old ex-Navy SEAL, ocean sailor and book writer on a real-world covert cyber operation?
I knew you did. So here’s the deal. The idea is a national clandestine psyop, using my first novel as a vehicle.
On next Thursday, March 1, Enemies Foreign And Domestic will be put into Amazon Kindle’s free library.
Where EFAD’s free download promotion will be different from those of the thousands of fantasy/romance/vampire novels currently offered on Kindle, is that I’m simultaneously coordinating a mass plan to ensure that Operation EFAD goes hyper-viral on all constitutionally-oriented, freedom-loving, and Second Amendment websites and blogs at the same time.
Or on at least on as many as I can reach, and that is where you come in. There are literally hundreds of patriotic websites and blogs, and I can only reach a few. You can reach them all, every last one. And then some. More about this in the next communiqué on D Minus Six.
Today’s video highlights an important distinction between actual military combat veterans (in opposite corners of the country) and the armed thugs who populate the United States law enforcement culture – the ability to carry out a necessary assignment with honor and dignity.
Most American citizens have never met the two most important people who have an inordinate unwholesome influence over the course of their daily life – the Police Academy Trainer and the University Law Professor.
For better or worse, the Academy Trainer and the Law Professor almost single-handedly determine the actual street level application of law.
So, for example, in the case of Law Enforcement, We, the Trampled, are burdened with the unfathomable concept of “officer safety” which cheerfully countenances the summary execution of family pets and sucker punched pedestrians on the slimmest pretext in the course of an ordinary encounter all because 9 out of 10 Police Academy trainers agree it is “a good idea”!
Or, in the case of the accredited Attorney-at-law, entire philosophical constructs of principle and theory are completely ignored by the Law School establishment in favor of ‘stare decisis’ and case law!
Which brings us to today’s video of a California Sheriff cold cocking a citizen without shame in full public view and the soldier who immediately spotted the violation of protocol embodied therein.
Unlike the modern patrol officer modern combat soldiers enter truly hostile and dangerous environments with a lawyer on each shoulder who eagerly await any opportunity to condemn them for any misstep -intentional or accidental. They accept the hazard as part of the assigned duty and perform fearlessly.
Compare that mentality to the “officer safety culture” which escalates the smallest encounter into a life threatening situation.
Thank you soldier for your service to our country both on active duty and off.
Coincidentally William Norman Grigg discusses virtually the same topic in his current column on the excellent Pro Libertate blog:
Anne Dekins was a loud-mouthed party girl — or at least, that’s what the arrest warrant suggested. Whatever she may have done in the past, Miss Dekins was quietly minding her own business when Officer Samuel Bray found her on the street and began to haul her away.
Dekins wasn’t inclined to go quietly, and she put up a struggle. Her cries for help attracted the interest of several armed men led by an individual named Tooley, who confronted Bray and demanded to know what he was doing to the frantic woman. The officer produced his official credentials and insisted that he was making a lawful arrest for “disorderly conduct.” When witnesses disputed that description, Bray called for backup.
Tooley and his associates ordered Bray to release the woman, and then took action to enforce that lawful order. After Bray’s partner was killed in the ensuing struggle, Tooley and his associates were arrested for murder. The trial court threw out the murder charge, ruling that the warrant was defective. Since the arrest was illegal, the court pointed out, Dekins had a right to resist – and bystanders likewise had a right, if not a positive duty, to assist her. The defendants were eventually found guilty of manslaughter, but quickly pardoned and set free.
By trying to enforce an invalid warrant, Bray “did not act as a constable, but a common oppressor,” observed the trial court. Tooley and the other bystanders were properly “provoked” by the act of aggressive violence against Anne Dekins, and their forceful but measured response – first demanding that the abductor release the hostage, then exercising defensive force to free her – was entirely appropriate.
Lawless violence against the helpless “is a sufficient provocation to all people out of compassion” in any circumstance, observed the court, “much more where it is done under a colour of justice, and where the liberty of the subject is invaded….” In fact, an act of that kind carried out by a law enforcement official is nothing less than “a provocation to all the subjects of England.”
For those of you concerned about the “State Of The Union” the last five minutes of this interview include the most uplifting comments I have heard in a while.
Glenn Beck talks to Andy Andrews (Andy Andrews is an internationally known speaker and novelist whose combined works have sold millions of copies worldwide.) about his new book “How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think”
American Legislative Tyranny is so out-of-control the British have begun to protest.
You know, England where they are subjects, not citizens, and under the thumb of the Official Secrets Act? Yeah, those British.
Seems at least one Brit is concerned about the implications of the Stop Online Piracy Act and provides some startling examples of how it will be applied with the aid of current examples.
His soliloquy is, of course, enhanced by that wonderful upper crust Monty Python accent that makes even the most droll topic seem somehow absolutely riveting – a good thing- since the people in the United States most likely to be immediately affected by this legislation would be, of course, your local gun blogger, 2nd Amendment RKBA Activist.
Yes, David Codrea would no longer have to plead with his readers to “share the link” because there would no longer be a link to share.
As far as the need to share this link, it has already gone from 2,000 + this morning to 255,000+ as I write this.
Sheriff Chuck Wright joins Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke (CLICK LINK) and Sheriff Richard Mack (CLICK LINK) with the message Americans must arm themselves to protect the Republic and maintain civil order. About time!
Investigators said 46-year-old Walter Lance grabbed a woman who was walking her dog in Milliken Park on Sunday afternoon. They said Lance choked the woman, made her take off her clothing and tried to rape her. (Full Story)
Lance is in custody and was denied bond on Monday.
Sheriff Chuck Wright opened his news conference by saying, “Our form of justice is not making it.”
He said, “Carry a concealed weapon. That’ll fix it.”
Wright said Lance had been charged numerous times with crimes against women, and other crimes such as resisting arrest and escape.
He just served 14 months on a federal probation violation for being in possession of a weapon. I don’t think every single person needs to be in jail forever, but I believe this animal right here (holds up picture) don’t deserve to be out in our society walking along aside of our women. I don’t think that this animal should have a right or an option to try and violate a lady who is a good upstanding member of society and doesn’t cause trouble and now has to live along with her family and friends has to deal with this senseless act.
Now I don’t want to make this just a crime against a woman, this is a crime that is, this is a horrific crime. This ladies life was theatened so many times during this act, it’s almost too bad that somebody with a concealed weapons permit had not walked by and heard the cries. That would fix it. That would have fixed this.
It’s gonna get, if we don’t do something in our society to change the way our justice system is not working, that’s about what you’re gonna start having. People are sick and tired of doing the right thing, doing the right thing, doing the right thing, and then people popping out of the back doors of the jails on account of some technicality.
Good Grief! Tired of shooting dogs as they cower in their crates, Police have a new hobby –shooting cows with their issue sidearms.
Is it possible to humanely take down a 1500 pound cow with a Glock 40?
Maybe, with a precision shot to break the spine near the shoulder followed with a shot through the center of the head. Not exactly what this Cop did or tried to do! Sheesh!
Excerpt:
A YouTube video of Gatineau police opening fire on an escaped cow has raised questions about their treatment of the animals.
Gatineau police said two cows were headed for the slaughterhouse when they broke free from a truck Thursday, leaving them no choice but to shoot them dead.
NC Gun Guy posts a video about the clowns who came to Occupy Raleigh.
Governor Beverly Perdue, (Nitwit,NC) who is already on record in favor of suspending elections and has repeatedly botched State Of Emergency decrees gave her tacit support for the Moron Movement from her office a few hundred yards away. Who else but a card carrying Bolshevik would put up with this nonsense week in and week out?
Excerpt:
For two weeks a bunch of out-of-town nitwits parked,puked and encamped in front of the Office of Head North Carolina Nitwit Governor Beverly Perdue (really, she could smell the puke from her office window…. http://www.nchistoricsites.org/capitol/STAT_CAP/Tour.htm)
with the blessing of both incoming and outgoing Bolshevik Mayor(s) of Raleigh.
No concern was demonstrated by anyone involved for the size of their carbon footprint or the NEED TO RECYCLE the entire time.
Okay, I left Gunwalker in the hands of the competent, “serious”, “professional” bloggers for over ten months and made no public comment as child of a lesser blog, but *THIS* is funny!!
In a comment to my previous post about signs, NC Gun Guy offered some signs he encountered.
A very interesting collection to say the least. Our society is infested with tinpot potentates from all levels of Government-Federal, State, and local!
Excerpt:
Behold the 21st Century! Bureaucratic Sign Bullies post edicts everywhere.
Frequently without statute or regulatory authority cited the signs just require compliance from one and all.
The Education Building in downtown Raleigh has one of the most impolite and draconian edicts of any government building in the city.
What top secret secrets do they protect to require taxpayers to identify themselves to anonymous bureaucrats just to enter the lobby?
