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December 8, 2015

Just another day in 2nd amendment America

Welcome to America where guns are easier to get a hold of than the latest Star Wars toys.



Seattle Police Department investigators are piecing together the trail of a 35-year-old violent felon after he brandished two handguns at several downtown businesses Sunday, carjacked three vehicles and fired on officers before a fatal confrontation with police in Northeast Seattle.

Detectives from the department’s Force Investigation Team and Investigations Bureau are reviewing the incident and have compiled a preliminary timeline of the man’s crime spree.

Police received their first call about the suspect from staff at Storyville Coffee in the 90 block of Pike Street around 12:35 PM. The suspect reportedly entered the store, visibly sweating and acting nervously. He began manipulating a handgun in his pocket, leading employees to call 911.

The suspect exited the shop before police arrived and was next seen at the Turkish Delight restaurant in the 1900 block of Pike Place a few minutes later. There, he spoke briefly with employees before he brandished a handgun at the restaurant’s owner and fled.


http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/12/07/suspect-carjacks-three-vehicles-before-fatal-shootout-with-officers/

You don't see this crap happening in the UK.
December 3, 2015

Black officer who "found" racist letter charged with planting it



BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A former police officer in Connecticut who reported finding a letter disparaging black officers has been arrested on charges he planted the note himself.

Clive Higgins was arrested Wednesday on a charge of second-degree falsely reporting an incident.

Higgins reported finding the threatening letter Feb. 9 inside his mailbox at the Bridgeport Police Department. Higgins, who is black, said the note written on police letterhead made him fear for his life and showed there was discrimination inside the department.

A state police investigator wrote in an affidavit that the 50-year-old Higgins admitted during an interview he had typed the letter himself.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clive-higgins-ex-connecticut-officer-who-found-racist-letter-charged-with-planting-it/

Here is video of Officer Higgins joining fellow officers in beating and kicking the shit out of a Orlando Lopez-Soto while he was on the ground

December 2, 2015

Prepare for mass shootings like we've never seen before in the coming year

Because psychos are stocking up on firearms like never before



Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks


More Americans had their backgrounds checked purchasing guns on Black Friday than any day in the on record, according to data released by the FBI this week.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 185,345 requests on November 27, one of the largest retail sales days in the country.

"This was an approximate 5% increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014," wrote Stephen Fischer, the FBI's chief of multimedia productions. "The previous high for receipts were the 177,170 received on 12/21/2012."

Previous spikes for background checks, conducted before a gun buyer can obtain a firearm, occurred after prominent mass shootings, like in December 2012 in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Other Black Friday shopping days in 2014, 2013 and 2012 occupied the FBI's "top 10" list of the most background checks processed in a 24-hour period.

Since 1998, FBI data shows that the bureau has processed requests for more than 220 million firearm purchases.

Licensed sellers deny sales to failed background checks based on a variety of factors including criminal backgrounds, domestic violence convictions or restraining orders.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/01/black-friday-breaks-record-185k-gun-background-checks/76624604/

I'm afraid we've lost on the stricter background check front.

You can't push for stricter background checks on psychos who already have guns. I think we have to start pushing for confiscations and outright bans.

What else can we realistically do?
December 1, 2015

Twitter threats to Black Kean students made by Black alum/activist, police say

Another Ashley Todd/Kerri Dunn/Charlie Rogers



A recent Kean graduate has been charged with being responsible for a series of tweets threatening black students at the school two weeks ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Tuesday.

Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union was charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public alarm.

Park said an investigation by the Union County Prosecutor's Office's Special Prosecutions Unit and Kean University police found that McKelvey, a self-proclaimed activist, participated in a student rally regarding racial issues on Nov. 17, but left midway through the rally and walked to a computer station in a university library.

Once there, McKelvey allegedly created an anonymous Twitter account – @keanuagainstblk – and began posting threats of violence against black Kean students.

The first message around 10 p.m. said "kean university twitter against blacks is for everyone who hates blacks people" and a tweet about there being a bomb on the campus, and then continued with several other tweets about shooting black students at the university.

i will kill every black male and female at kean university

— kean university (@keanuagainstblk) November 18, 2015

After making the posts, McKelvey immediately returned to the rally and attempted to spread awareness of the threats she allegedly had just fabricated, authorities said.

The university said approximately 100 students participated in a peaceful rally on campus that night with 10 students spending the night at the clock tower, "joining students across the nation to raise awareness of recent racial unrest at the University of Missouri and other college campuses."

That night on McKelvey's personal Twitter account she posted photos of the rally and screenshots of the tweets.





http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/12/arrest_made_in_kean_twitter_threat.html#incart_river_home
November 28, 2015

There was a time in America when a Jerry and a Kraut like Donald Drumpf would be chased out of town



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans#World_War_II

...And people would be questing his loyalties to America especially since he first got married to a Czech woman, then a Slovenian woman and says that he wants to negotiate with Putin (a former KGB agent).

So, I wonder if Donald Drumpf really wants to return to those "good ol' days".
November 24, 2015

Donald Trump supporter posts Minneapolis Police Chief's home address, makes death threats

The supporter posted these tweets shortly after the Chief announced the arrests of two white supremacists wanted for gunning down 5 unarmed black protesters. He's since deleted the tweet with her address but I did get a screenshot of it.



Source: https://twitter.com/ChiefHarteau/status/669232151498371072


https://twitter.com/faluntopieces/status/669267475997966336

No suprise that you'll see plenty of Donald Trump retweets on the account



and disgusting racist remarks about the protesters.





November 23, 2015

Remember when America used to be wholesome and free?

Remember the good old days when we put thousands of Japanese-Americans into camps then steal their property and take over their businesses?

Remember the simpler times when we would forcefully sterilize blacks, subject them to deadly government experiments, make them sit at the back of the bus and even kill them if they tried to go to college?

Remember those wholesome good times when we would lobotomize young women for being free spirits, expressing independence and believing in self worth?

If you do remember those times and look at them fondly then join Donald J Trump in making America white ...great again.


Source @goddamnedfrank


November 22, 2015

BREAKING NEWS! Multiple heavily armed masked men wearing all black target worship center in Texas

My god, what is this world coming to?



oh wait, the armed masked men are White and the worship center they're targeting is actually a Mosque. False alarm! Sorry!

Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force


A group of armed protesters who wanted to “show force” gathered outside a Texas mosque Saturday in response rumors about Syrian refugees and Sharia law.

The group, calling itself the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, stationed itself outside the Islamic Center of Irving carrying signs with messages like, “Stop the Islamization of America,” according to the Dallas Morning News. A video taken at the mosque shows a man dressed in black with his face masked carrying a rifle.

The group’s leader told the News they were upset because they had heard rumors of a Sharia court at the mosque and the prospect of letting Syrian refugees in. They also claimed members of the local Muslim community had made death threats against Irving’s mayor, Beth Van Duyne, earlier this year. The News found no evidence that this claim was true.

When asked by the News why his group was armed, organizer David Wright said the weapons were “mostly for self protection,” but then added, “But I’m not going to lie. We do want to show force. We’re not sitting ducks.”

He then added,“We don’t want people to think we’re out to kill people or shoot people. It would be ridiculous to protest Islam without defending ourselves.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-stalk-peaceful-muslims-at-texas-mosque-we-want-to-show-force/



Armed protesters set up outside Islamic Center of Irving



About a dozen protestors—most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother—lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.

A pickup tooted on its way down Esters Road, not the first or last driver to endorse the message. Right behind the truck, a sedan pulled out of the Islamic Center of Irving lot, where afternoon prayers had just finished, and blasted Arabic music as it passed.

Two men on the sidewalk mocked the song, distorting foreign lyrics into gibberish as the car sped away. Then they huddled in the cold around their cigarettes, guns and flags, waiting for another passerby to pay attention. It was a strange protest, held at a strange time in a suburb strangely relevant to America’s brand of anti-Islamic politics.

“We tried to talk to the mosque before we did this, but they wouldn’t return our messages,” said David Wright, dressed in black all the way from his backwards baseball cap to the barrel of his tactical shotgun. “So here we are.”


http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-set-up-outside-islamic-center-of-irving.html/

Funny, when whites do this they're called PROTESTERS by multiple news outlets but if a bunch of heavily armed Muslim men showed up to a church and did this they'd be called deceased, dead, worm food, cadavers, napoleon blownapart, organ donors and TERRORISTS.
November 21, 2015

Since we're talking about turning away people based on their race and religion...

because of the actions of a few criminals who happen to be of similar race and claim to be a part of that religion.

Lets talk about a segment that makes up 13.2% of American population but were responsible for 52.5% of all homicides between 1980 and 2008, would we ever consider subjecting them through intense screenings and denying them access to housing, jobs, neighborhoods, etc based on the actions of a few criminals within their population?

No, absolutely not because that would be WRONG to group them together and punish them for the actions of a few.

So why are people within our own party okay with ostracizing, discriminating against and segregating Syrians and Iraqis?

These people rarely commit crimes, they work hard, they strive to be self sufficient and they work to law enforcement root out radicals in their midst which is why the FBI is constantly foiling potential plots.

What if we denied Iranians fleeing decades ago, Beverly hills would look vastly different. It probably wouldn't be the most luxurious cities in the country.

Name one middle eastern crime filled ghetto in the US.

The truth is you're likely to be shot by a White, Black or Hispanic male way way way way before you're ever going to be attacked by someone from the middle east. I guarantee you this weekend we'll see hundreds shot and wounded due to gun violence around the country and ZERO of those will be at the hand of those "scaaaaarrrry" people from the middle east.

By the way, we've had 11,740 deaths[/link] so far due to gun violence but we're afraid of a few Syrians going nuts?





Shame on everyone who voted to deny families like this safe haven in this country

I hope President Obama vetoes the hell out of these upcoming kneejerk racist bills.

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