PJM.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and county leaders are escalating the state’s war on church worship services, dragging pastors into court and demanding thousands of dollars in fines for illegally singing and holding indoor worship services.

This stand-off is getting closer to a religious hot war, with some of the same tactics being used, such as sending “agents” behind enemy lines to “spy” on worship services.

The state is armed with Newsom’s no-worship order and subpoenas. One county even nailed a complaint letter to a church door. Even Martin Luther would see the folly of that move.

In California during the Wuhan coronavirus, you can shop, eat out, riot, loot, and protest. But there are tough constraints on church worship. Churches can feed the hungry, but parishioners can’t take communion. Churches can house the homeless, but can’t sit six feet apart in the same pew with a neighbor.

This is the communist war on God that we had expected.  It has been simmering for years and has begun to come to a boil.  It will get more intense.

We will see who the real churches really are, and some will eventually shut down.  Christians and their pastors will be dragged into court, fined until they cannot pay any more, and perhaps imprisoned.

On the other hand, those pretend churches who have declared fealty to the state will be allowed to continue their existence, albeit with no worship services (which wouldn’t matter anyway since nothing of any value is being said in those services).

Take careful note.  The police will take an active part in posting notices, arresting, serving papers, and carting Christians off to jail.

That last part is for fools who believe that the police are there to protect your rights.

CFSP.

By this point the scouting line often detected the flanking lines of riot police and a riot was formally been declared. Blocs armed with shields deployed defensively to allow time for the rest of the rioters to disengage. These “shield walls” provided a tempting target for a police “bull rush”, video of which can then be used for propaganda purposes. Behind the shield wall other bloc members threw commercial fireworks, frozen water bottles, and paint-filled balloons. The paint balloons are often mixed with sand or abrasive material that scratches clear shields and visors when cleaning is attempted damaging expensive riot suppression equipment. Meanwhile the main element of the antifa black bloc continued to retreat into bordering residential areas.

Antifa chooses the residential areas for specific reasons. As the police deploy flashbangs, tear gas, and assorted non-lethal munitions in order to control the ongoing riot, the disruptive effects are experienced by the local residents. Additionally, as the action moved further into the poorly-lit neighborhoods, small groups of rioters and black bloc would break off to either escape, or engage in vandalism against the original PPB target (if left unguarded) or other nearby targets of opportunity.

In other words, you home, with your family inside.

I judge the actions of the residents in this neighborhood to be unwise.  As Antifa/BLM continues to encroach into neighborhoods, endangering the lives of residents with their actions, I expect there to be an increased occurrence of this sort of thing.

But I don’t expect it will all be out in the open.  There will be an increased occurrence of shooters in cover and concealment, under Ghillie suits, and so forth, looking for their own “targets of opportunity.”

I expect the coming months to be increasingly dangerous for rioters as they encroach into residential areas.

Eh, whatever.  I’ve never had one come loose.  Besides, you should give your weapon a check before use every time anyway.  A guy whose AR castle nut can be removed by hand just hasn’t been paying attention.

Via WiscoDave, via ZH.  Quick note to BLM: You can expect more of the same.

FRANK NITTY II and protesters were marching when white man with gun comes out and start shooting at them shooting one protester in the face. On day 21 walking from Milwaukee to DC 30 miles a day. Police have made no arrest and seen video evidence. pic.twitter.com/pP3bVb3GTv

— Philly (@divahustle) August 25, 2020

They are telling you as loudly as they can, almost begging you to understand, that from their perspective – and they are the ones doing it all so they should know – this has nothing whatsoever to do with the police.

Are you dense, or do you understand yet?

Some residents were harassed by the crowd for protecting a local business (not their own business)

“We’re out here trying to protect residents, we’re trying to protect the innocent people and we’re trying to protect the businesses of the citizens out here…” pic.twitter.com/1uNWHM6kNl

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) August 25, 2020

Thank you to the people of Kenosha. This is how we get them to bend the knee. This is an essential part of the path to our Freedom Dreams. Leftists who claim this limits our ability to win lack a meaningful understanding of movement history and the politics of insurrections. https://t.co/wc9pop2zSx

— Iola Ella (@IolaElla) August 24, 2020

News from Colorado. (via Insty)

Wolves and the rapid urbanization and exploding population of Colorado could test all of us to our limits. Ranchers already deal with a more crowded world on a daily basis, moving cattle on public roads and sharing trails with bikers and hikers. Nothing will hold back the tide of people moving to the Western Slope or the recreationalists escaping the Front Range.

Adding wolves to this crowded landscape could harm elk and deer populations. Mule deer have been declining since the 1970s. There have been serious declines in the elk cow/calf ratio in Southwestern Colorado, concerning Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Wolves prey on elk. As such, wolf reintroduction should not take place until studies, specific to western Colorado, can assess if deer and elk can survive the combined threats of wolves and humans, prior to a vote on reintroduction.

We have learned to coexist with bears, mountain lions, and coyotes, but even with coexistence strategies, wolves will be more challenging. Over time, wolves may colonize the entire state affecting many ranchers. Wolves could push us to the breaking point. As ranchers sell out, songbirds, raptors, and small mammals lose their homes. There is less local agriculture and important wildlife corridors are lost, further stressing elk and deer.

I have absolutely no intention of “coexisting with bears, mountain lions or coyotes.”  I will not learn to do anything of the sort.

Here is a looting spree by BLM rioters in a “mostly peaceful protest exercising 1A rights focused only on police overreach.”  Except of course for the fires, beatings, busting of windows, and destruction of businesses.

BLM rioters in #Kenosha are carrying out a looting spree. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/7O8tnHXaBn

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 25, 2020

Black youths are trying to break into a store to loot it at the BLM riot in #Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/XIkJD9J3YW

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 25, 2020

NRO.

Wisconsin governor Tony Evers ordered 125 National Guard members to the city of Kenosha on Monday, following riots that erupted after police shot a black man while responding to a domestic violence call on Sunday.

The guard members will be charged with “guarding infrastructure and making sure our firefighters and others involved are protected,” Evers told reporters.

Ridiculous … depending upon the answers to the following questions.

1. Are they under arming orders?
2. Who signed the arming orders?
3. Have they been qualified at the range and given a pre-job brief by commanding officers?
4. What is the ROE/RUF?
5. Did they get a briefing from military lawyers on their ROE?
6. Will they be issued ammunition or will their magazines be empty, in which case they are only window dressing?

You see, we’ve been here before, where NG was deployed to the border, but no arming orders issued.

Vortex has a holographic sight.  This came out in July and I’m a little late to the game.

So this wouldn’t surprise me except that it does.  I thought that EOTech was the only maker who could claim ownership of a holographic design.  I said so in a recent post, and readers just let me chatter and prattle on in my ignorance without correcting me, allowing me to look stupid (well, I can manage that all by myself).

Anyway, it would be interesting to see if readers have any experience with it and what you think, although I still think the EOTech just looks better.

From Ken’s place, this video is a little dated but still very good.  I’ll bet they’re working overtime right now.

I wish they had gone into more detail on logistics, supply, raw materials and sources, and warehouse min-max.  But that may be divulging proprietary information.