Sunday, May 28, 2017
Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event
Exclusive: Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State
Department
| WASHINGTON
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam's holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.
Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted either an iftar dinner to break the day's fast during Ramadan or a reception marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the month, at the State Department.
Tillerson turned down a request from the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs to host an Eid al-Fitr reception as part of Ramadan celebrations, said two U.S. officials who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
According to an April 6 memo seen by Reuters, the office - which typically initiates such events - recommended that Tillerson hold an Eid al-Fitr reception.
His rejection of the request suggests there are no plans this year for any high-profile Ramadan function at the State Department. The month of fasting and prayer for Muslims gets under way in many countries on Saturday.
When asked by Reuters to comment on Tillerson declining a request to host an Eid al-Fitr event in July for Ramadan, a State Department spokesperson said:
"We are still exploring possible options for observance of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. U.S. ambassadors are encouraged to celebrate Ramadan through a variety of activities, which are held annually at missions around the world."
Muslim activists have accused President Donald Trump's administration of having an unfriendly attitude toward Islam, encapsulated by its attempts to ban citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
The administration says that while it strongly opposes Islamist militants, it has no quarrel with Islam. Aides point to Trump's visit this month to Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam where he addressed the leaders of more than 50 Muslim countries, as evidence of that.
Members of Congress, Muslim civil society and community leaders, diplomats from Muslim countries and senior U.S. officials usually attend the State Department Ramadan event, a symbol of the U.S. government's diplomatic efforts with Muslim countries and people.
If Tillerson avoids hosting one this year, that could send a message "that it is not as important to this administration to engage with Muslims," said former U.S. diplomat Farah Pandith, who served in the Bush and Obama administrations and helped plan Ramadan events at the White House and State Department.
Tillerson issued a statement on Friday to mark the start of Ramadan, which he called "a month of reverence, generosity, and self-reflection."
"Most importantly, it is a cherished time for family and friends to gather and give charity to those who are less fortunate," he said.
PAST RAMADANS
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright started the tradition 18 years ago of America's top diplomat hosting a public event for Ramadan, a lunar month.
The secretary of state of the time usually gives remarks there on the meaning of Ramadan.
In April, the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs made a request to Tillerson's office that he deliver remarks at an Eid al-Fitr reception this year, and suggested a two-week range of dates in July. The event would serve to "highlight State Department initiatives and the importance of Muslim engagement," the memo said.
It noted that by hosting a reception just after Ramadan, rather than an iftar - an often sumptuous dinner at sunset - a State Department event could be held any time of the day, thus preventing "a very late evening for the Secretary."
Several weeks later, that office and other offices at the State Department were alerted that Tillerson declined the request, the officials said.
Reuters was told of the request being declined but did not see Tillerson's reply. An official with the Office of Religion and Global Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
Several prominent Muslim-American groups in the Washington area who are normally invited to the Ramadan event told Reuters this week that they had yet to receive an invitation from the State Department, which they said was unusual.
"If they're having one, we haven't been invited," said Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington. A representative for her group has been invited to the State Department event in the past, she said.
FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP
Trump's administration has had a fraught relationship with Muslims. As a presidential candidate, the Republican urged a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, called for more surveillance of mosques and warned that radical Muslims were "trying to take over our children."
Trump has since toned down his rhetoric and courts have halted his temporary travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries.
White House officials did not respond to a request for comment on whether they would continue the tradition this year of hosting a Ramadan-related event at the White House.
The State Department celebrates other religious traditions though some of those commemorations are not as well-established as the State Department's Ramadan event. In 2014, then-secretary of state John Kerry hosted the first ever celebration at the State Department marking Diwali, the Hindu festival.
The White House also traditionally hosts annual Christmas and Easter events as well as a Seder dinner to mark the Jewish Passover.
The top U.S. diplomat has personally hosted a Ramadan event every year since 1999, often in the State Department's grand Benjamin Franklin room, apart from three years.
In 2006 and 2015, deputies of the secretary of state at the time hosted either an iftar dinner or an Eid al-Fitr reception. In 2014, Kerry hosted a reception for Eid al-Adha, another important Muslim holiday.
(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Yara Bayoumy and Alistair Bell)
Saturday, May 27, 2017
The Next Civil War
What Will this Next Civil War Look Like?
What Will this Next Civil War Look Like?
A Prelude...
PRELUDE
Make no doubt about it, in much the same way that Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 prompted the first Civil War, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 has prompted this second one.
Make no doubt about it, in much the same way that Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 prompted the first Civil War, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 has prompted this second one.
While ostensibly over slavery, what the election of the Republicans in 1860 signaled was the end of an era, that era beginning in 1824-1828 with the creation of the original Democrat Party, whose cynical purpose was to hold onto political power by maintaining slavery well beyond any economic usefulness, around which almost all American politics would revolve so that the Union would be forever split into two camps of equal electoral size divided by an issue about which there could never be any agreement.
Sound familiar?
While the political parties were held in balance by slavery, they could then go about debating every other issue: taxation, tariffs, national banks, westward expansion in the back and forth fashion American politics has always been defined to be. Cynical, it was still a masterful business model drafted by the Democrats’ original founders, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson.
What the Democrats did not foresee was that it would only take a single generation, roughly thirty (30) years for that failing economic model to be etched into half the national fabric as a socio-cultural, religious and philosophical icon – as a way of life to be protected politically, and a cause to die for.
Sound familiar?
I’d love to discuss this over a bottle of Scotland’s best, but fast forward to 2016 and consider the parallels, namely two intransigent sides fighting over the very root of what it means to be American, when only fifty years ago, two generations, “liberals” as they were known then, largely agreed with the rest of Americans about the fundamental foundations, the institutional building blocks of the Republic, as designed by the Founders in 1776 and 1787.
I won’t wax poetic about the resume this still-imperfect union had built by the 1960s. But it is prodigious, and built entirely by men and women the rest of the world had cast off, it’s detritus. At the time of the first Civil War we were still largely an Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation, but by the early 20th Century, “the shoulders we all stand on” included cast-offs from Eastern Europe, the Far East, and then Latin America and Africa, so that now every American shares that same one aspect, arising out of forbears who were low-born, all our generations, “risen.”
Why that all changed in the 1960s was not because America had fallen on hard times. In fact the generation of the 60s were themselves sired by a generation who had known hard times as no other Americans ever had, and then, just as they were bouncing out of it, had to postpone life for another five years to go fight two wars to liberate half the rest of the world, over a quarter-of-million of them postponing life for an eternity.
It was as if Poland, and others, when they sent their poor and ragged to America in the 1890s, they were really investing in a term life policy in America, so that their grandchildren could then come and rescue them.
Why that generation-to-generation continuity did not continue for a large portion of the children of the 60s, I can’t say. I have my theories as I’m sure do many others. But what can be said with some certainly, as one veteran I knew, speaking of Bill Clinton, put it that when our generation came to its crossroad, the best went one way, while sadly, too many of the brightest went the other. As many as a third, if my rough count in law school is any indicator.
The current generation of millennials are their grandchildren, just coming to full bloom. And suddenly I’m filled with remorse for we (my generation) should have seen this day coming when Reagan left office. All the signs were there. We just missed them (or ignored them).
So it should come as no surprise that the corpus of the voters who elected Donald Trump in 2016 were made up of citizens who, shall we say, had been around the block a few times. We were the grateful ones, children who had been raised to know gratitude, especially for those shoulders we stand on. So it figures many of our children who were raised similarly also supported Trump. That is the bloodline we’d like to see revived in America, and passed on.
If there are objectives from our side in this civil war, this is it…restoring the process of passing the Constitutional blueprint onto future generations.
Trump’s election was about a restoration, although, much as some of the early founders of the Republican Party in the 1850s quietly knew, at some point their political victory would signal an equally resolute, and possibly violent reaction. That is happening now.
Analysts such as myself, not inured to the narrow world view found inside the establishment of Washington, instead immersed in the much broader life perspectives of the ordinary citizenry, (ironically referred to as “parochial” and “nativist” inside the DC circle) knew at least from the ascension of Barack Obama, that the Left had, or soon would “go all in” in for their dream of throwing down the old Constitutional blueprint and launch us into a new world order, a globalist vision, a corporate-cartelist vision instead of the old-style socialist image we’d always imagined. We only fit this last piece in the puzzle late in the Obama era.
But all in all, the speed with which they came out of their respective closets about their real ambitions, and their disdain for the Constitution, not to mention for the simple minds who still clung to it, was stunning.
What we did know by 2010, was that if we could win again, they (the Left we’ll call them until a better label comes along) would not go quietly into the night, even though Peggy Noonan thinks they should, and Jeb Bush still believes that they can be talked over. (I’m not sure what Jeb’s big brother thinks, but at this point I’m beginning not to care.)
The Left knew exactly what the tea party movement was all about as a threat when it first emerged in 2010, on the heels of Obamacare’s passage, but predictably, they viewed the tea party as a monolith, as they might design it themselves, for they have no real idea of genuinely grass-roots, spontaneous “movements.” So immediately they began attacking harmless straw-man faux tea party groups who gained prominence with a donor base with large DONATE buttons, but no influence, allowing the real tea party movement to move forward as a native stealth phenomenon who would emerge in 2016 to elect a new type of president.
And the Left totally mis-assessed the common sense and brain power in those old mom-and-pop relics, who, I argued in 2010 had surpassed the Left in knowledge of American history and government (i.e. Civics, see (Richard) DreyfussCivicsInitiative) and by 2016, had left “National Review’s” idea of conservatism laying in the dust.
No one ever went broke underestimating the Left’s inability to size up their enemies. Which is why I’m writing this piece now. SitRep, 2017
What we knew by 2010, was that the Democrat Left had a plan to steal America away through process, to use the constitutional system to provide the means for its own eventual disassembly.
And they almost pulled it off.
I am sure Barack Obama, a waffling sort of true believer, is probably going through some existential moments right now, much as the valiant and esteemed (sic) French General Louis Trochu must have felt before he surrendered Paris to the Germans in 1871 after his own design for the city’s defense backfired, and in typical French fashion, he had no Plan B.
I think Obama knows he made a serious mistake in laying a path for Hillary Clinton to the presidency, especially since he doesn’t like her, and they share entirely different ideas about that authoritarian utopia. Remember, Hillary’s ideal of a ruling autocracy is more in line with that of the Bedouin princess. Now Obama must decide whether to fight to recapture probably what can’t be recaptured, namely power through electoral process, or flee to a safe sanctuary and live out his days very well in retirement, but relative obscurity. Forever the ditherer, he’ll likely choose a middle course, hanging around hoping someone will call for him to ride in to rescue, but only if there are no great risks. But his place in history is being diminished daily, so therein lies the internal conflict…perspirationless comfort versus teeth-gnashing risk.
In short, being a process guy, thus shutting down the use of brute force when he was up on the horse, should he now risk resorting to it now to take back power now that he and his army are afoot. Or, should he take the advice Allende refused and retreat into seclusion?
But by the 2016 campaign season, even before Trump emerged, it was generally believed that all the elements of the Democrat alliance would be enough to put Hillary over the top, and the Obama reign would move into its final phase. By temperament, Hillary would have been the perfect hammer to put the final nails in Liberty’s coffin in America.
Whatever Hillary’s known (only to them) disabilities, the movers of the Party never imagined that the people acting alone would ever be able to derail her.
Of course we now know that Trump, like Aragorn’s summoning of the Army of the Dead, found voters the Democrats had forgotten they once had, and had dismissed, including millions of rank-and-file white working union members, who Ronald Reagan also once stole. Hillary’s slovenly campaigning, general demeanor of entitlement, plus rumors of her ill-temper and criminal dishonesty, suddenly mattered.
And she lost.
But what she lost was more than the Left could afford to lose, for they no longer have any cavalry. Horses. And no army. No national police force who will only answer to the master’s voice. And outside of a few Blue cities not even local police could be relied upon to carry the Left’s war forward to gain new territory, not even across the bridge to Brooklyn, much less up river to Yonkers.
An army without a horse becomes a besieged fortress, no more, no less.
With no means to force their will on the people of the United States outside the Blue zones they already control, (see the map)
…save a few federal district judges, college professors, school districts and city/county governments, which I’ll discuss in Part II-III, the power of the Left, however they can be portrayed in the media, will be just as you see them here, small islands, or fortresses, which they will fight mightily to protect, but with no power whatsoever to sally forth to claim new territory.
Their only route to achieving power nationally would be through a power-sharing arrangement with the Republicans, who share many interests with the Democrats. (Note to GOP: Lenin cut similar deals with his generation’s useful idiots in 1918-1920, in Russia’s Duma and intellectual community, to assist in the Bolsheviks seizing power…then sending them all off to the Gulag once safely in power.)
Interdicting this party collaboration should be a major front in our counter-attacks on the Left going forward, (again see Part III), not only by direct communications with the GOP members and state/national headquarters, but in rolling back the Left’s onslaughts in the streets, inasmuch as they are designed to sway GOP members. Let them know the media propaganda campaign is not working, and their jobs are still at risk of having their heads shaved if they collaborate.
This can be done, as I’ll explain later.
“Militarily” these will appear as little more than mop-up operations, as they will change the map very little, but they could have a very meaningful effect on the 2018 elections, as a statement to voters national that the Make America Great Again movement has not gone into retirement, but has moved into a higher gear. And new recruits are welcome.
Changing the map will take many years. But changing the color from blue to a lighter shade of pale will have much to say about just how courageous Republicans who want to keep their jobs will feel by sidling up with bi-partisan babble once it’s made clear that the single purpose of those people across the aisle is to X-out the Constitution of the United States.
And that we won’t have it.
We have to do this while we are still up on the horses.
UNIFIED PATRIOTS....
UNIFIED PATRIOTS....
Two Simple Answers to the Timing of the James Comey Firing.......
Two Simple Answers to the Timing of the James Comey Firing.......
OUR BANKERS AND CONGRESS IN ACTION
Two Simple Answers to the Timing of the James Comey Firing.......
No 1: The first is a simple equation of process, doing things by the book, for which Donald Trump would have been double-damned had he violated in the manner of how, and when he fired FBI Director James Comey.
In two days, I’ve listened to and read at least 50,000 words trying to explain politically what can be easily explained legally in a couple of hundred, and politically, in less than fifty.
Contrary to the general knowledge of citizens, James Comey’s chain of command goes through the Deputy Attorney General, who the FBI Director actually answers directly to, who answers to the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who in turn answers to the President.
Until late April, there was no Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General for Comey to report to – Dana Boente being the acting Deputy AG, who replaced the Democrat deep state embed, Sally Yates, who was fired by her new boss, Donald Trump – until Rod Rosenstein could be sworn in about 20 days ago to take the seat permanently.
One of Rosenstein’s first official acts was to recommend to his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, with a lengthy list of justifications, that Comey be dismissed. Sessions, in turn, with his own letter, passed that recommendation onto the President, who acted on it immediately.
Most say it was three months too late, but I’ve just explained why, crossing all the “t’s”, dotting all the “i’s”.
Comey’s firing was neatly wrapped and tied in a perfect legal bundle, the FBI director fired by a man the Democrats praised to high heaven only three weeks ago as they confirmed his appointment, and his dismissal of a man they universally condemned for having cost their candidate the election.
No. 2: Knowing how quickly the Democrats would change their tune, then, the second answer is also easy to understand.
The sound of stuck pigs squealing is universally appreciated and enjoyed, even by the random passer-by, who has had to put up with the daily stench of their sty as its aroma had wafted over the American landscape the past several years, once it is generally believed that the swine crib is being cleaned out.
Update on Cookie and Three Law Suits
By Anna Von Reitz
Many
thanks to all who have been sending love and prayers and donations for
my Paralegal friend, Cookie. She was stricken with mysterious maladies
that seemed to indicate heart failure and/or kidney failure and so, has
had to undergo a lot of tests.
This
evening she updated me. She had a severe misalignment in her spine
between her shoulder blades (no doubt the result of years spent pouring
over dusty books in dimly lit rooms, perched on tall stools) and that
was causing a lot of problems because the nerves route through that area
to the heart. So that is being adjusted by expert medical chiropractors
and she is already experiencing significant relief.
She
also has apparently developed a mid-life allergy to MSG which is being
added to all processed food under the euphemism "natural preservatives".
MSG makes food taste better, but it is also a poison capable of passing
the brain-blood barrier, affecting short term memory, balance, and
critical thinking skills. No more processed food is apparently the only
cure.
All
things taken together, the diagnosis could have been a lot worse and so
could the treatment, though chiropractic care is not included in her
major medical insurance and will continue to be an expense for some time
to come.
The
other news I wish to pass on tonight is that The Living Law Firm has
prepared three major systemic claims in behalf of the American states
and people.
I
know this hasn't been easy to understand, but we were faced early on
with a hard choice: we could take our slim resources--- a few dozen
people working on their own shoestrings -- and try to put out 300
million brush fires, or we could concentrate on defining the problem(s)
in a systemic way and bring action to correct the cause instead of the
symptoms.
We took the latter course, at the cost of not being able to offer more direct and immediate help to individuals.
As
the research has progressed it has become clear that the pattern of
"expatriation" and "registration" and "bankruptcy" has been repeated
several times and each time, private property has been removed under
false presumptions into foreign jurisdictions and "pledged" by
governmental services corporations as surety for their own debts.
The
1868 Expatriation Act was followed by the 14th Amendment presumption of
Territorial United States Citizenship. The 1907 Expatriation Act
resulted in Municipal United States Citizenship, which was followed by
the Sheppard-Townsend Act registering babies. The 1934 Emergency Banking
Act was followed by the creation of corporate Municipal Franchises---
another level of expatriation ---and the confiscation of gold.
At no time should any of this have affected American state nationals.
The
financial crisis being addressed in each case was always due to the
profligacy and mismanagement of the foreign Territorial United States
and/or Municipal United States governments. In each case, only their
actual citizens should have been impacted and in each case it was
carefully stated that only "citizens" were subject.
But who is a "citizen" and with respect to which layer of government?
Prior
to the so-called Civil War, people routinely served as State Citizens
when they held office in their land jurisdiction state governments. They
were also routinely referred to as "people of the United States". The
semantic confusion and shuffle between "State Citizen" and "people of
the United States" to "United States Citizen" was easy enough to foist
off on the gullible and trusting public.
From
that point on, the foreign Territorial United States (a British-backed
democracy) and equally foreign Municipal United States (run by the Holy
See as a Congressional oligarchy) worked as a Tag Team to secretively
conscript and register American state nationals--- in effect,
press-ganging them into the foreign international jurisdiction of the
sea and promoting the assumption that they were operating as commercial
"vessels" subject to both municipal and territorial law.
In
fact, American state nationals operate as private, non-commercial
"vessels" engaged in peaceful international trade. They are
internationally "Protected Persons" and they are owed the specific
protection of both the British Crown and the British Monarch.
By
conscripting American state nationals under color of law and
non-disclosure and coercing them to "accept" the status of "United
States Citizen" the Territorial and Municipal United States could
side-step the guarantees of the actual Constitution and seize upon the
assets --- land and labor --- of the unsuspecting Americans who
continued to think of the "federal government" as their own government.
We
are presented with the spectacle of an entire people claiming to be
"United States Citizens" as if they were born in Puerto Rico,
unknowingly subjecting themselves to foreign Territorial and Municipal
law, losing the protections of the actual Constitution, surrendering
their claims to their land and their labor and accepting the debts of
bankrupt foreign governments--- and for what supposed consideration?
"Benefits" ---like "Social Security"---har! har! ---- that they paid for
themselves.
Americans
today give a far greater percentage of their assets and their labor to
the "King" and the "Church" than any serf in the Dark Ages, and
conditions are even worse throughout much of Europe, the former
Commonwealth, India, Africa, South America, and Japan.
This
outrageous crime against law, sense, and nature must come to an end----
and it must come systemically. The whole construct of the Great Fraud
has to be flushed, and the spirit as well as the letter of the law
established by our national trust indenture must be honored.
So---
in the next several weeks, three simple but profound legal actions will
be engaged in behalf of the actual states and the living people. We
will need your support in every way possible--- your prayers, your
sharing of information, your determination to put an end to this fraud
against America and against Americans, and yes, whatever money you can
spare for our Living Law Firm.
The Paypal address is: avannavon@gmail.com.
The snail mail address is: Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska 99652.
ISIS calls for war on the West - Ramadan message
ISIS calls for ‘All-Out War’ to Mark start of Ramadan – Targets Include Civilians
But remember - Islam is a 'peaceful religion' ??!!
May 26 2017
ISIS has issued a rallying call to its followers for an “all-out war” on the West to mark the start of Ramadan tomorrow. European security services are said to be bracing for more attacks during the Muslim holy month as ISIS’s followers are urged to attack “infidels” in the wake of Monday’s Manchester bomb attack.
The jihadist group made the call in a video message entitled "Where are the lions of war?" published on YouTube, reports The Telegraph.
It said: “Muslim brothers in Europe who can’t reach the Islamic State lands, attack them in their homes, their markets, their roads and their forums.”
Couldn't locate this video: "Where are the lions of war?" on YouTube - wonder why?
Millions of Muslims worldwide are preparing for Ramadan, a "holy month" ??!! of fasting and religious devotion. - and apparently also attacking innocent 'infidels'
Read more at End Time Headlines.
OK America - are you going to change pizzas for a muslim diet restriction?
Muslim man sues Little Caesars for $100M over pork on pizza
A Muslim man is suing Little Caesars for $100 million in Michigan, claiming he was served pepperoni made with pork, which is a food prohibited...
Say WHAT??!!
A FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT if ever there was one! SHOULD be thrown out!
By Ricky Scaparo on May 26, 2017 07:21 pm
the Late Night Intruder
We’re gonna share a story this morning that’ll make your toes curl. This is the kind of situation no one ever wants to face. When it happens, you might read a headline, but never a first-hand report – like this one.
Here’s what happened:
Story by Oilman 2:
Sunday night we went to bed at 10PM. At 1:30AM, the wife woke me saying she heard something in the house. I sleep with CPAP, so I sleep hard and deep.
I listened and heard something. I got the gun, thumbed the safety off, and left the bedroom. I saw a man in my kitchen. He was just standing there, sort of staring. He had switched on the lights and, when I saw his face, he was someone I had met. I aimed the gun.
“Hey!” I said. He spun slowly, almost stumbling. He sort of looked through me.
“Where’s the dog food?” he asked calmly.
Then I noticed the leash on the floor, and a huge Rottweiler walked into view.
“What the f*ck are you doing in my house?” I asked firmly.
“What? This is Jean’s house and I need to get my stuff.” was his reply.
I walked closer, and smelled alcohol on him. I knew him from somewhere but couldn’t place him.
“You need to get out of my house, and NOW,” I said.
“OK.” he said. “But this is Jean’s house and I gotta get my stuff."
I flicked the end of the gun at the door. “Let’s go outside now, so you can get your stuff."
“Good idea, ” he said.
He went out the door, which I had forgotten to lock since there had been no need in 25 years to lock it.
When he stepped outside, the dog followed. The dog was dragging one of those self-winding leashes behind him with about 8 feet of line extended. When he got outside, I noticed there was blood all over his t-shirt, and he was barefooted.
“Why are you in my house?” I asked. He stared at me, eyes sort of blank. He wasn’t staggering, but he was very wobbly.
“I got to get my stuff,” came the repeated answer.
I knew he was massively f*c*ed up, and then finally placed him. I had met him at a fundraiser for a woman running for city council. He was a typical suburban boy, nothing weird I could recall, but this situation was very weird. I thumbed the safety on, and lowered the gun somewhat.
“Look, ” I said. “This isn’t your house and it’s not Jean’s house. Look around you. This is my house and you just walked in. It’s one in the morning, and I was ready to shoot you."
Only then did he look at the gun. It seemed to finally register.
“OH! OK!” he said. Then he walked into my garage door, which was open.
“NO! Not that way. That’s my garage and you don’t need to go in there. You need to go out this gate and go home.” I indicated the gate to my backyard with the gun, and he changed directions.
“Is this your dog?” I asked.
“No, that’s Shelly’s dog, not mine,” he replied as he walked out the gate.
“Where do you live?” I asked.
“On Palm Drive,” he answered. “You know that. The house with the purple trim. I put in some vegetables, too."
I watched him sort of meander down my driveway, then took the leash and threw it after him and the dog.
I watched him walk away, glad I hadn’t shot him dead.
When I went in the house, the wife was hysterical, and had called the police. She handed me the phone.
“He is about 5’9″ tall, bald, glasses, wearing a white t-shirt with blood spots on it. He is barefooted and wearing plaid shorts or underwear. He is either very drunk or on something or having a mental break.” Then I handed the phone back to her. She hung it up and was trembling.
“A strange man just walked into our house. The dog didn’t even bark!” she blurted.
“The dog is half-deaf, eleven years old and has cataracts. He was also probably asleep like we were. I know that guy from the shrimp boil we went to last month. I got no idea why he walked into our house, but I am glad I didn’t shoot first."
The police showed up, with lights, looking for the guy. He wasn’t on our street any longer. I was just glad he was gone and that I didn’t have to shoot him.
I spent an hour calming her and showing her that everything was now locked up tight.
The next day the police called and said they had escorted him home. He was clearly under some influence or having a mental break, so we didn’t press any charges.
After lunch the doorbell rang. It was the guy, with his wife, and my wife nervously answered the door, holding it half open. He had come to apologize for what happened, and thanked me repeatedly for not shooting him dead. His wife was crying and repeatedly apologized.
It turns out that his doctor prescribed Ambien for him because he wasn’t sleeping. Apparently, this triggered sleepwalking or else a couple glasses of wine plus Ambien equals incredible effects in some people.
He was indeed trying to get to Jean's house where he had left 3 coolers used for the shrimp boil a few weeks previously. He had no idea why he wound up at my house and only remembered snatches of what transpired the night before. But he remembered the gun. And it was, in fact, his dog that was with him.
This incident is such a great example of what is wrong with many doctors, what is wrong with the pharmacy industry and why shooting first and asking questions later is not always the best plan. I would have widowed a woman, left her with 3 kids and traumatized my wife permanently. I may have been justified, but that doesn’t mean it would have been the best outcome.
I had the gun, was ready and knew I could. At that point I felt confident I had the upper hand. And the entire situation was so strange that it felt wrong to kill him because he wasn’t actually threatening me.
I live in an upper-middle class suburban home in a really safe neighborhood. We have good police (they were there within 5 minutes) and they aren’t trigger or taser happy – they are peace officers and toll collectors mostly. So this incident is way off in the weird end of the spectrum.
I relate it to you because it seems to have multiple things to discuss within it – drugs, guns, etc.
Oilman2“
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Federal prosecutor found dead on Florida beach
May 26, 2017, 9:59 AM
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- The body of a federal prosecutor has been found on a Florida beach with possible head trauma. (reported to be fully clothed in business suit)
Hollywood, Florida police say the body of 37-year-old Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found early Wednesday by a passerby on the city's beach. CBS Miami reports officers pulled the body out of the water and covered him with a sheet.
Police are investigating the case as a crime, according to the Miami Herald.
Authorities believe Whisenant died as a result of a possible gunshot wound to the head or other type of trauma.
Detectives are working to determine if??? foul play was involved in his death.
At this time, no arrests have been made.
Whisenant worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami in its major crimes unit. He had joined the office in January. *
Court records show he had been handling several visa and passport fraud cases.
Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg said in a statement that Whisenant was a "great lawyer and wonderful colleague." The office declined to comment on the investigation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/beranton-whisenant-jr-federal-prosecutor-found-dead-on-florida-beach/
*Question: WHY would Whisenant be murdered UNLESS he WAS ON TRACK and the enemy feared EXPOSURE and being prosecuted for their crimes??? So WHO was Whisenant concentrating on during the investigation? Who would have known? And who of these would most likely have informed the enemy? And WHO is investigating Whisenant's murder?
POLITICS in the swamp
POLITICS
in 'the swamp'
And then he braided .....................
I think it's here somewhere ........
Like my new bicycle?
Obama's 'army'
The bozo's refuse to leave the swamp
and are STILL hanging around
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