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About TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms. Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

SSCC #145 – ICE

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Apparently ICE just couldn’t keep itself out of the count. So today is going to be a double on the SSCC.

On the night of October 20, 2010, Angel Enrique and Jesus Antonio were in bed in their small, two-bedroom apartment in the Clairmont complex in Nashville. The doors and windows were all shut and locked. Suddenly there was a loud banging at the door and voices shouting “Police!” and “Policia!” When no one answered, the agents tried to force the door open. Scared, Jesus hid in a closet. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began hitting objects against the bedroom windows, trying to break in. Without a search warrant and without consent, the ICE agents eventually knocked in the front door and shattered a window, shouting racial slurs and storming into the bedrooms, holding guns to their heads. When asked if they had a warrant, one agent reportedly said, “We don’t need a warrant, we’re ICE,” and, gesturing to his genitals, “the warrant is coming out of my balls.”

Here’s what bugs me the most. There were 15 different residents affected by this raid, they detained people including a child purely because of their ethnicity.  This incident shows exactly what the Department of Homeland Security thinks of the Constitution and the law.  Just look at the VIPR program and the fact the TSA is now searching people traveling by bus as well as harassing truckers.  How long until they start stopping you on the way to work?  I would like to point out the double standard of the ALCU here.  They are more than happy to go after ICE over these incidents involving immigration, yet they sit on their hands when it comes to warrant-less searches during travel.

Tam’s comments regarding the indignities of Soviet Russia from the 80’s is looking like a positive compared to the down hill trend the DHS has placed us on.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 145 – John Doe

Because a warrant is just a technicality and doesn’t actually mean anything.  It saves us time and effort to skip the paperwork.  

SSCC #144 – Poulsbo WA

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Deputies have arrested a former police evidence clerk accused of stealing at least two guns from the evidence room of the Poulsbo Police Department.

How did she possibly steal them out of the evidence lockup I hear you cry?  Quite elementary my dear Watson.  

Dixon, 23, of Kingston is accused of stealing a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun, which was recorded as having been destroyed in May. Dixon, an employee of the Poulsbo Police Department at the time, had signed the departmental records indicating she’d witnessed the destruction.

Then, when you think this situation couldn’t possibly get any worse.

Dixon’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Jacob J. Bryant, was driving Dixon’s car at the time of the crash. Bryant, a convicted felon, was arrested for investigation of illegal possession of a firearm.

See, that is what firearm “destruction” programs bring to the table.  The ability to provide black market firearms to people who are otherwise ineligible for ownership.  This wasn’t the first time this individual did that, and I’m sure she is by no means the first person to ever do such a thing.  She certainly won’t be the last.

If under the current law* someone becomes ineligible to have their firearm returned to them, the department should sell it to an FFL.  At least selling it to an FFL would provide a paper trail to follow with independent verification.  Please note, you do not actually have to have committed a crime with a firearm to have it confiscated and taken into evidence.  What’s worse is they can confiscate your firearms when you are charged with another crime.  In those cases a person loses thousands of dollars in property, while due process is followed, that’s a property loss a non-firearm owner doesn’t deal with.  How silly could a situation like that be since a person who would loose his rights to firearms must be a violent criminal, right!?.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 144 – Amanda M. Dixon

Because if a guns being destroyed, just save it for your felon boyfriend, I mean who’s going to notice, it was destroyed after all.

*My personal feeling is if you are deemed to be safe enough to be walking out among the general public, you qualify to own a firearm as self-defense is an undeniable right.  If you can’t be deemed to be safe with a firearm, you can’t be safe with a car, saw, or any other tool that just as easily works as a weapon.  But that’s not the law as it currently sits.

via Ry.

Fast and Furious, Root Cause Analysis

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Currently Eric Holder is screaming that the cause of guns going into Mexico was because of a “lack of gun control.”  There’s one problem with that though, it is false.  Not only is that statement blatantly false but in light of the evidence, given Operation Fast and Furious, gun control is what allowed those guns to walk to Mexico.  While it may seem humorous and a joke, the fact is it’s true.

I have largely been silent on Fast and Furious for one major reason.  There are a lot of other people covering it better and more in-depth than I possibly could.

To start off for those who are familiar with the term, root cause analysis is something used in engineering to identify problems to come up with solutions that don’t just hide the problem.  Ultimately proper root cause analysis should trace the problem to a point where you can turn the issue on and off like a light switch.  Now we’re going to trace back through the events and find the point where we can turn this issue that would turn this problem on and off.

What was Fast and Furious?

Fast and Furious otherwise known as Operation Gunwalker, was an operation conducted by the ATF under the guise of busting Mexican drug cartels.  This was done by forcing FFLs to complete illegal firearms transactions, purchasing firearms and handing them over to known criminals, and otherwise circumventing current law for criminals.

The ATF didn’t just allow guns to flow into the hands of criminals, but actively encouraged the practice. They purposely cleared transactions that were flagged. They performed the straw purchases themselves, delivering the weapons to known criminals. They instructed dealers to go ahead with transactions the dealers could tell were not “honest”.

Often when agents had followed the firearms they were told by their superiors to let the recipients go and not to follow them.  All of these actions violated existing law, yet the cause, as purported by Eric Holder, was a lack of gun control.

How did gun control cause Fast and Furious though?

The most direct route is the fact that this whole program was done with the mind of expanding gun control.  New gun control legislation and powers were the motivator behind the program.  Even as the program crashes and burns, pushes for new legislation based of the inflated numbers of Fast and Furious keep appearing.  The results of the program were used to force the long arms registry and to bolster support for additional funding for the ATF.

However the actions of the ATF have common threads with different agencies.  It is all a quest for money and power.  So we have to look back further to where the ATF got the root of its power and what allowed them to use this power to try to gain more.

The ATF is responsible for overseeing FFLs and ensuring adherence to existing firearms laws.  The can put a business that works in firearms under faster than any other.  The agency can halt a FFLs license during an investigation which can easily put them out of business.  So when the ATF asks a FFL to do something illegal, there ATF has all the leverage to make the dealer comply.  The only other option is for the FFL to go out of business under the weight of the ATF.

The ATF gained this power and latitude under the Gun Control Act of 1968.  Unsurprisingly allegations of abuse led to the Firearm Owners Protection Act to attempt to rein in the ATF.  The FOPA also stated different registry’s were prohibited from being enacted or run by the ATF, one of which they are attempting in the wake of Fast and Furious.

The depth of the corruption within the ATF and its drive to seek power through runs even deeper back to the National Firearms Act of 1934.  This provided the ATF, which was under the department of the Treasury at the time, the ability to enforce the newly created firearms laws.  This law laid the foundation for what would become the power-hungry space the ATF occupies today.

Both the GCA 1968 and the NFA 1934 are both pieces of legislation made in the effort to regulate firearms and limit their ownership.  The ATF blatantly violated existing laws during Operation Fast and Furious and went through considerable effort to arm and traffic firearms to prohibited persons.  All the while the ATF was clamoring for more gun control.  However many law-abiding citizens were left jumping through the hoops and difficulties of the existing maze of firearms legislation despite the appearance of lax laws created by the ATF.

Conclusion, Gun Control is the root cause

The ATF completely disregarded existing laws and regulations in conducting operation gun walker.  Many of those coerced into participating were in a situation that allowed the ATF leverage over them because of existing gun control legislation.  The ATF during the operation was petitioning congress for more gun control legislation, which it would be responsible for enforcement.

The ATF was also petitioning congress for additional funding for two reasons.  The first was a claim of a lack of resources to enforce existing law, which was false since they were expending resources to actually circumvent it.  The second was that it would need additional funding for enforcement of the expanded programs.

The root cause of Fast and Furious is gun control itself.  Existing gun control legislation provided the ATF with leverage over FFLs to coerce them into transactions they knew to be criminal.  Gun control provided the ATF with the resources and power to organize and conduct the operation.  Lastly, gun control was the root cause of the operation itself.  The operation was conducted in an effort to create a crisis that would warrant the further restriction of firearms.  This restriction would either be that of ownership by law-abiding citizens, or that in preventing new purchase by a law-abiding citizen.

Without the GCA of 1968 the ATF would not have had the leverage over a FFL to coerce them into proceeding with an illegal sale.  Without the NFA of 1934 the ATF would have never been the power-hungry beast it is today.

To say that a lack of gun control allowed Operation Fast and Furious is like saying a lack of prohibition let the DEA allow drugs to be smuggled across the border.  Oh wait, bad analogy, the DEA took part in Fast and Furious too.

If a lack of gun control allowed Operation Fast and Furious then violating the law to commit a treasonous act of war against a friendly neighbor is lacking in laws as well.

SSCC #143 – Bedford Co. VA

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A former Bedford County sheriff’s deputy charged with taking indecent liberties with a child has been released on bond.  Ernest William Grubbs was released on a $5,000 bond.  Grubbs is due back in court on November 2nd to advise about his attorney.

Considering he was fired from his job immediately and is currently awaiting trial it is hard for me to call him a full criminal since he’s not going to get away with it.  That was until the following.

Grubbs was a School Resource Officer at Liberty High School.

He was responsible for watching out and protecting those kids.  Yet he was a predator.  A predator put there at the command of the state, provided with the perfect cover to be browsing for victims.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 143 – Ernest William Grubbs

Because what better way to hide as a child predator than in plain sight and have the state put you next to your prey.

via Jake

The Myth of Giving them What They Want

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Often we hear the anti-rights cultists tout how you should just give an attacker what they want.  We hear them claim, “Nothing is worth taking someone’s life over.”  While most could sympathize with that statement it ignores a couple very basic fundamental things with regard to someone attacking someone else.

It is also known that the blogosphere is one big circlejerk or a reverberation chamber.  Consider this a reverberation in F# to the tune of:

Let’s dissect the assumptions made by the anti-rights cultists shall we?
  • The attacker is looking to steal only property. 

Property has a monetary value and you can easily make that comparison except for one serious flaw.  The attacker has ruled your life worth less than the monetary value of the object they’re stealing.  You have worked a portion of your life to purchase that object and they are stealing that part of your life.  Not only are they stealing your life, but in attacking you they are willing to take the rest of your life to obtain it.  What if the attacker stealing your property also has a rule of leaving no witnesses.  

  • The attacker is only seeking monetary gain for his personal benefit.

If this were true the following stories would have never occurred.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in southwest Florida say a clerk at a 24-hour food store shot and killed a man who tried to rob her and take her 1-year-old daughter.

Store owner Del Ackerman told the Naples Daily News (http://bit.ly/rnKaJe ) his granddaughter shot the man after he stormed into the store Tuesday afternoon and demanded money and grabbed the stroller that held her baby.

This woman reacted in defense of her children.  The man wanted not just something of monetary value, but the woman’s child as well.  What would the anti-rights cultists suggest she do?  Let her child be kidnapped by someone of such high and impeccable moral character as a man who would rob a convenient store and steal a child?  Odds would greatly weigh against the safe recovery of the child at that point, but I guess the criminal’s life is worth more than the child right!?  Just let the cops do their job and your child will be fine.

Or this story, where again the subject of the attack was nothing of monetary value but that of a woman’s virtue.

A Cape Girardeau woman shot and fatally wounded Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a
registered sex offender who had broken into her home early this morning
with the intention of raping her a second time, Cape Girardeau
Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said today.

There’s the numerous methods from the antis about how a woman can defend herself against rape.  My personal favorite was telling women to vomit on themselves.  There is a much better solution and it results in a safety improvement for women everywhere.  Shoot the bastard.  A cops response averages about 88fps(60 MPH) at best from a distance measure in miles.  A .45 ACP will be there at 850fps from a distance measured in yards at most.  Guess which will reach the attacker first.  It will also make for damn sure he can never do it to another woman ever again.  Many times though the mere presence of force will cause the attacker to seek a new victim.  Attackers want easy prey that is safe for them, the are out to inflict pain on others, not to have their victim fight back.

Which brings me to my third story that seems right out of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young
punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week
theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of “get the old
geezer.”

These kids went out and assaulted and beat an old man because they knew him to be an easy victim, unable to defend himself unarmed against people a 1/4 his age.  Their victim selection in this case was lucky because when the elderly man is armed, all the sudden the field is leveled
.

All three of those cases there was nothing to give the attacker but the life of their child, their virtue, or lastly their own life.  When one attempts to execute harm to another unprovoked, the attacker has stated that their victim’s worth is 0.  They have no value on your life, so why are you attempting to provide a value to theirs?  The lives of your family, your virtue, and your life should be weighted as priceless.  A person attacking you is not worth more than your own life.

These cases illustrate the absurdity of the assumptions and their complete lack of understanding.  They are attempting to take a very large complex subject and provide a black and white lens to view it through.  Not only that though they are trying to state there is no black in their world, only white.

In all three of those incidents our criminal occupational hazard reduction organizations would wish that the attacker succeeded with their attacks.  The victim has less rights than the criminal in their world view.  The problem is, a criminal has surrendered all his rights in attempting to violate the sovereignty of another human being.  A citizen has the right to defend themselves from attack using any means of force possible.  If the criminal would rather remain unventilated, I invite him to stay his ass home and leave people alone.  If he continues to prey upon the citizenry, may he one day make a victim selection failure and pay the permanent irrevocable costs for his sins and transgressions against his fellow man.

The myth that giving an attacker what they want will be safe for you is totally false as people have died doing just that.  The myth that it’s not just worth killing someone over is false, your attacker feels you’re worth killing for it.  So remember, when someone tells you to just give them what they want and you’ll be fine, they’re lying.  Not only are they lying, but the care more about the criminal than they do you.  That’s a really friendly thing to do right there, side with the person who wishes you and your family harm.  

SSCC #142 – ICE

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A deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led Arizona state police and federal agents on a high-speed desert chase in his government vehicle, throwing bundles of marijuana out of the window as he fled, the Department of Public Safety said Wednesday.

Now he got caught and it appears they’re actually going to punish him for it, the problem is he was still using government resources to do it.  Not to mention he used his status as a law enforcement officer to accomplish it.

The informant, whose identity was protected, said that he or she was involved with Lowery and another man in a “rip” crew in which Lowery used his status in law enforcement to help steal marijuana from illegal immigrants, wrote Brian Gamberg-Bonilla, a special agent with the DPS’s Office of Investigations.

At the end of the chase he wrecked the truck he was using that was paid for by the US taxpayer.  So good news folks, this entire incident was funded by the US goverment just like Fast and Furious.  He just didn’t get buy a out first.  

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 142 – Jason Alistar Lowery

Because if you’re going to do something like this give your superiors a cut to make it an “operation”.

Thanks Captain Obvious

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At the debate, pitting British barristers against American attorneys, lawyers for the former colonial power argued that America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 “was not only illegal, but actually treasonable,” according to the BBC.

Thank you captain obvious, would you like to inform the world about something we didn’t already know?

The lawyers representing the British team decided that the Americans had no legal grounds for secession. “[President Abraham] Lincoln made the case against secession and he was right.”

The only reason Mr. Lincoln’s case against succession is correct in your eye is because the Union army won.  Had the confederacy won, would you make the case that solidified the right to succession.  You’re lack of a case became obvious at the following:

“The grievances listed in the Declaration were too trivial to justify secession,” the British lawyers wrote. “The main one — no taxation without representation — was no more than a wish on the part of the colonists, to avoid paying for the expense of protecting them against the French during seven years of arduous war and conflict.”

Easy for you crumpet eating tea swilling ass hats to come to America and call that no big deal when you and your ancestors were provided the representation.  Further that list of grievances is not trival and is a list of actions that grossly neglect and constitute a breach of contract between the government and the governed.  Government derives it’s power from the consent of the people, the British lost the consent to the government of the American people.  Unexpectedly the British would view this action as treasonous, hence Franklin’s comment:

“We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”

It was well known at the time the British considered that treason. A revolution like that had never happened in the history of the world.  The idea that the Declaration could be considered null and void went right out the window when Lord Conwallis surrendered at Yorktown.  At that point the Declaration was fully ratified since the British did not have the ability to try and execute us as the treasonous rats they felt us to be.

Take your ball and go home you tea swilling, self-defense hating, morons.  For more of my thoughts on the Declaration of Independence, Independence day, and the Lee Resolution, visit the links.

Those barristers are nothing but a bunch of gorramed dough-assed, bad teethed, yellow bellied, crumpet munching morons.  You’re just upset cause you got your ass handed to you by a bunch of farmers with pitchforks! 

SSCC #140-141 – Fullerton PD

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Fullerton is back in the count again after their previous twin entry.  This incident however provides more than a single incident but lays the frame work for exposing a habit of repeated abuses by the Fullerton PD.

A 23-year-old Fullerton College student was allegedly arrested on false charges of public drunkenness in August of 2008 and then beat up by a Fullerton police officer, according to a Friends For Fullerton’s Future blog post.

Remember Eddie Quiñonez? He also says he was arrested for drunkennes, even though he was sober, and then roughed up by a cop.

Moving beyond just the false arrest it becomes obvious that this officer was looking for some personal entertainment.  The officers response to the person who had already placed his hands behind his back?

Another officer then TOOK HIS BOOT and slammed it on my head, pinning it between the curb and used it as leverage to squeeze pressure on my head. I HONESTLY THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE, I WAS SCREAMING PLEASE STOP I’M NOT RESISTING, I THOUGHT MY HEAD WAS GOING TO CAVE IN. I still have migraines to this day. another cop came over and dropped kneed me in the back. Everybody watching was in awe, THEY KEPT YELLING OUT “PLEASE STOP, HE’S NOT RESISTING!”

Then the officers proceeded to drive around slamming on the breaks and gas so the mans head would continually hit the divider in the vehicle.  The Fullerton police department is obviously out of control and shows absolutely no personal restraint or respect for the rights of it’s citizens.  

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three or more is enemy action.  That first article listed to independent incidents, my first post had two independent instances.  Fullerton PD has decided to jump the rails and become the enemy of the public at large.  If you live there and are reading this, you have been warned.  My suggestion is to seek the support of a federal investigation, that seems to be the only way to get some of these places to clean themselves up.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 139

  • 140 – Officer Perry Thayer
  • 141 – Officer Anthony Diaz

Because when someone is compliant they’re obviously resisting arrest which should promptly be followed by an interrogation using momentum as the method of inflicting pain.