I felt it was time for Gene, Donald and Debbie this morning. It’s been a while.
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Ethics Alarms 
Generally; too bad there isn’t someone Trump respects unerringly who would supply him with Dutch Uncle advice similar to that offered by LBJ to then AL Governor George Wallace in 1965:
“George, you and I shouldn’t be thinking about 1965; we should be thinking about 1985. We’ll both be dead and gone then. Now, you got a lot of poor people down there in Alabama, a lot of ignorant people. A lot of people need jobs; a lot of people need a future. You could do a lot for them. Now, in 1985, George, what do you want left behind? Do you want a great big marble monument that says ‘George Wallace: He Built’? Or do you want a little piece of scrawny pine lying there along that hot caliche soil that says ‘George Wallace: He Hated‘?”
Regrettably, even if such a person were to exist, it just seems that (IMO) every fiber of his being rejects sound counsel.
PWS
Great Stupid update.
Did you know the NBA has declared that people who own NBA franchises, mostly super rich Jewish guys, are to be called “governors?” As Dave Barry would say, “And I am not making this up.” The stated reason is that the vast majority of the players in the NBA are, wait for it, black guys! Who knew? And the mostly Jewish guys who run the NBA, you know, like Adam Silver, have determined the black guys who play in the NBA and make tens and hundreds of millions of dollars doing so, are too stupid to understand the concept of an employer/employee relationship. They evidently think because a Jewish guy is called an “owner,” he thinks he actually owns the player, as if the player were a slave on his plantation and it’s still 1860! And certainly, none of those black guys would have ever heard a cockney Englishman address his landlord or boss as “Govnuh” in, oh say, Dickens, in a disparaging but disguisedly polite way, because those black guys have never read a book other than “Dick and Jane” because they’ve been playing basketball non-stop since they were in second grade?
Pathetic. Embarrassing.
This may vere close to the forbidden topic in some similarities, and may even have some future direct relevance, but it’s a good thing, by itself.
In an unusual (double?) case of strange bedfellows, SCOTUS has ruled, unanimously (with the opinion written by Sobbing Sonya!) against New York for its mafia-esque actions of coercing banks and insurers to not do business with the NRA. The NRA was supported by the ACLU (!) in the case (First Amendment issue).
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/05/30/scotus-sides-9-0-with-nra-in-first-amendment-case-n1225083?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=3ab34d6e476416c49c095585c5ea5e7481d0093dd0e835d90ba90ff470f62ce1
arrrrgh…typo on “veer”
New York Villainess Letitia James is still trying to destroy the NRA, though meeting some roadblocks. Wayne LaPierre (widely despised for years by most NRA members) has already been ousted.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/judge-tosses-ny-ag-letitia-james-bid-to-break-up-nra-but-suit-still-moving-forward/
So, now that the federal government has made it clear that they will assassinate American citizens to frighten people into complying with new agency-instituted laws, what should the US public do?
If you haven’t followed this, this is what we know so far.
Little Rock Airport Director Bryan Malinowski was shot in the head in an early-morning raid on his house involving 10 carloads of ATF agents in tactical gear. They were there to serve a search warrant. They claim he attacked them, but there is no body camera footage of the raid because either they didn’t have ANY body cameras on anyone during the raid (10 carloads of people) or because they put tape over the cameras (accounts vary).
Why did they raid his house? The ATF noticed that he had purchased ‘multiples’ of certain firearms. He bought 2 or 3 identical firearms and they claim that his indicates someone who is illegally selling firearms. However, I know lots of people who buy identical firearms. They either want ‘his and her’ guns or they want several different configurations of the same firearms for competition purposes (one with a red dot, one with a magnified scope). I have purchased multiple copies of a firearm for collection purposes (they are rare and I bought one to shoot and one to store). The ATF recently changed the law on private sales of firearms and is now claiming that basically all private sales of firearms are illegal. Everyone needs an FFL to sell a firearm. They were applying this new law retroactively to Bryan Malinowski and that was the justification for the search warrant. They were going to search the house and see if he still had all the guns that he had purchased. To do this requires the ATF to have a gun registry on US citizens which is against federal law.
On March 12, all the officers involved gathered in a parking lot early in the morning to raid Maliowski’s house. They got word that he wasn’t home, however, so they cancelled the raid and came back one week later to do it. It was a search warrant (not an arrest warrant), so he didn’t need to be there. They claimed they needed the overwhelming force because of the danger involved in serving a search warrant on a law-abiding gun owner who has a rather important aviation job and has never failed a background check. If that is true, however, why didn’t they search the house when no one was home? Wouldn’t that have been ‘safer’?
The only reasonable explanation is that they intended to kill him from the start. So, what do we do now?
There are reports that the incident involved an “exchange of gun fire” resulting in his death. It’s the ATF, so that is questionable. . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/22/bryan-malinowski-arkansas-airport-atf/
jvb
Reports say Malinowski appears to have fired “at a downward angle” in the direction of the unknown assailants breaking into his his house in a pre-dawn raid while he and his wife were asleep. That would be consistent with trying to scare off a home invasion by criminals.
Pre-dawn, no-knock (or brief knock, then door bash) raids are inherently designed to get someone killed…usually the dwelling occupant. If the agents are lucky, they’ll get a dog or two as well. Sometimes they even go to the wrong address.
To be fair, there may have been enough evidence to justify charging Malinowski with acting as an unlicensed dealer. The uncertainty is due to the lack of specifics in regulations that make the requirements significantly ambiguous.
I agree. A young black teenager was shot locally a couple of years ago while lying in his bed when a no-knock warrant resulted in officers breaking down the door of his home at night looking for his brother who wasn’t even there. The father said he spoke with the offending officers in the aftermath and had explained to them how busting down someone’s door in the middle of night without preamble could be reasonably interpreted as a criminal home invasion by the residents. He said the officers admitted that they understood that line of thinking.
No-knock raids are unethical except in extreme circumstances.
Ruby Ridge without the standoff.
I frequently share your posts across Usenet newsgroups.
https://soc.culture.israel.narkive.com/5QTte8hu/busted-mit-s-anti-white-program-exposed-as-the-illegal-discrimination-it-is-and-was-designed-to-be
This is not the first time “Loose Cannon:” called you an ape.
I wonder why he and this other poster keeps calling you an ape.
Whew! Why here and Althouse and Francis Menton and Turley (with caution) are the only comments I read.
In other news on the firearms front, the director of the ATF has admitted, under Congressional questioning, that there is not, and never has been, a “gun show loophole”. That such a loophole exists has been a long-time favorite canard of anti-Second Amendment politicians, advocacy groups, and news sources.
Bonus in that the admission came up because a hearing was being held questioning the murder of Little Rock airport director, Bryan Malinowski, by ATF agents in a pre-dawn raid to serve a search warrant, where the agency disregarded its own regulations, and had had ample opportunities to serve the warrant peacefully.
OK, I was slowwwwly composing this comment while Michael, above, was giving details on the Malinowski issue. Read his comment.
Did you mean to have a link to the previous post for the word “this”?
Why yes, I believe I did. %$#@!#$%. Fixed. Thanks.
Mr. Marshall’s occasion posts about confronting personal bias have me considering biases in my own life. I’ve noticed that people who start every sentence with ‘I mean ‘ when it’s not warranted, bias me to disregard everything they say afterwards. When speaking, I could understand someone using ‘I mean’ in the same manner as um or uh to allow time to gather one’s thoughts. However, when typing, there is no such need. I think that being biased against people who type ‘I mean’ at the beginning of sentences is unfair. I’m certain others have similar biases against people with similar typing habits.