The Paradox and Absurdities of Carbon-Fretting and Rewilding

Herschel Smith · 28 Jan 2024 · 4 Comments

The Bureau of Land Management is planning a truly boneheaded move, angering some conservationists over the affects to herd populations and migration routes.  From Field & Stream. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft plan outlining potential solar energy development in the West. The proposal is an update of the BLM’s 2012 Western Solar Plan. It adds five new states—Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming—to a list of 11 western states already earmarked…… [read more]

This Is What Happens In The American Justice System

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

News from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Nine of the 13 protesters facing multiple felony charges after a round of arrests early this week saw their bail amounts reduced Thursday, after days of controversy over whether the initial totals were excessive.

District Court Judge Bruce Roth initially set the bail for several protesters at $1 million, a measure which Lt. Gov. John Fetterman called unconstitutional. Other protesters and civil rights groups have said the bail amounts were extreme.

[ … ]

– Alexa Wise F/29 – From $100,000 to $50,000 unsecured; is on house arrest

Wise was the only protester who was not present via video during the hearing.

Assistant District Attorney Travis Anderson told Reinaker that Wise had a “higher level of culpability,” during the incident.

Wise lives in Camp Hill with her grandmother and mother and will have to be on house arrest when she is released.

– Dylan Davis M/28 – From $1 million to $50,000 unsecured; is on house arrest 

Davis will be on house arrest in Ephrata, where he’ll live with his parents, upon his release, Reinaker ruled. Davis was living in the city during the time of the protest with his fiancé, his attorney said.

In many cases, failed mothers and fathers who suck at their jobs are culpable for what we see today.

So when the lawyers, judges and politicians get involved, things go sideways.

As they always do.

The American “justice” system at work.

Oh, by the way, look at the salute as one is released.

Power to the people … er … to the rich white kids who want to overthrow America.

Considering Your Tactics, Techniques And Procedures In The American Civil War II

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

The Gateway Pundit.

A Nebraska bar owner that killed a rioter has been charged with “terrorism” and “manslaughter” by a District Attorney who initially admitted it was blatant self defense.
The DA has also admitted that they were “pressured” by local activists and politicians to bring the charges.

The bar owner, Jake Gardner, has now been indicted by a grand jury on counts of manslaughter, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, attempted first-degree assault and making terrorist threats.

On May 30, the 38-year-old bar owner confronted a group of rioters outside one of the bars he owns in Omaha and was knocked to the ground.

“From there, he fired two warning shots and tried to get to his feet, prosecutors said. As he did, Gardner got into a fight with one man, James Scurlock, 22. The two scuffled before Gardner fired a shot that killed him,” Yahoo News reports.

The incident prompted a wave of further “protests,” particularly after Donald Kleine, the Douglas County attorney, determined that Gardner had acted in self-defense and declined to bring charges.

“A week later, Kleine said in a statement that after hearing from local residents and elected officials he would welcome an outside review ‘in this rare instance.’ He added, ‘I made a decision and I would not change that decision based on everything I know today,’” the Yahoo report explains.

Douglas County District Court Judge Shelly Stratman then appointed a special council, Fredrick Franklin, an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Omaha, to handle the case, though they said they expected the same outcome.

Instead, Franklin bowed to pressure and dug up evidence and came up with charges.

“The manslaughter charge, he said, is related to Scurlock’s death; the attempted assault charge resulted from the second warning shot Gardner fired; the charge of making terrorist threats is linked to ‘a verbal confrontation’ that Gardner had with Scurlock, Franklin continued,” Yahoo reports.

War has been declared on you, your family, and your possessions.  You’ve seen enough instances like this to know how it’s going to go down.

You behave according to traditional Western and Biblical jurisprudence, and then the unthinkable happens.

You’ve been baited into a response.  Every action has been videoed.  A prosecutor charges you with some crime, or even decides not to.

The family of the one who has been shot gets on local television and cries and talks about what a “good boy” he was, and how he had such a bright future, complete with smiling pictures of the boy and local pastors talking about volunteer work he did.  It will all be covered by local talking heads in suits and pretty dresses, who look sad while listening, and show the utmost unction during the interviews.

Local politicians, who want to get reelected and need all the votes they can muster, pressure prosecutors.  The prosecutor changes his or her mind and convenes a “Grand Jury.”

Grand juries don’t have the same protections for you, are unconstitutional, and were constructed to get presumed convictions where they otherwise couldn’t (after all, a real jury would conclude, then why else would a grand jury have indicted someone?).  It doesn’t take a unanimous decision to indict on a grand jury.

The judge watches the local news too, and appoints a “special council” to investigate and prosecute your actions.  You get convicted, or even if you don’t, you spend your life savings and go bankrupt defending yourself.

This all happens if you use traditional TTPs to defend yourself and your family, even attempting to warn rioters with warning shots because you don’t really want to harm anyone, under the assumption that America is still a civilized and just society, not at war with itself.

Arrested For Brandishing A Weapon Inside Your Own Home

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

This is where we are today.  Prosecutors will arrest homeowners for brandishing weapons inside their own home, but fail to turn police loose on rioters who threaten the homeowners.

Plan TTPs accordingly.

WiscoDave sends this update.

As we reported yesterday, on Tuesday evening, a Trump supporter was arrested for holding a shotgun by the window of his own home as it was surrounded by a mob of far-left lunatics — and it turns out it wasn’t this group’s first time showing up at the home of a random person to “protest” and intimidate.

Welcome To Thunderdome!

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

Via The Gateway Pundit.

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

UPDATE: I do not know that no vehicles were damaged during the filming of this movie.

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Antifa Is Not Anti-Fascist

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

Andy Ngo gives us a very quick and good synopsis of Antifa, as well as a primer on his own injuries at their hands and the coming frivolities.

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Woman in Oregon caught someone on her property with matches and held him until police showed up

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

Via WiscoDave.

Wait!  I thought the FBI “debunked” the notion of Antifa igniting fires?

BTW, I hate the term “debunk.”  I think it’s stupid and only stupid people use that term (like the WaPo, Politifact, etc.).

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Conversation Between Clackamas County Sheriff’s Deputy And Militia

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

This is a very interesting conversation (via WiscoDave).  We seem to be in a weird transition phase between empowered prosecutors and dystopia.

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Antifa/BLM = Loathsome Trash

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

Red State.

That’s lying in wait to take a life, and the Scriptures categorize it as murder.  So what did Antifa/BLM do?

They thought it was just special.

The Sheriff’s Office put out on social media that protesters were blocking the entrances to the hospital and ambulances and paramedics were having difficulty getting through.

Antifa/BLM dress trashy and dirty.  They allow their bodies to become trashy because of lack of personal hygiene.  Their choice of clothing is trashy.  Their speech is trashy.  The people they hang with are all trashy.  Their intent is trashy.  Their world and life view is trashy.

Yes it’s true that they are all communists, and that makes them loathsome anyway.  But beyond that, they’re all trashy people.  Their mug shots look awful, they’re all ugly, they have done rude things to their bodies, their women try to make themselves look terrible, their men try to make themselves look like women, and it’s obvious that they hate themselves as well as others.

Antifa and BLM are trash.

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Oregonian Films Alleged Arsonists

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

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Antifa Claims To Have Ignited The Fires Burning America

BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago

But of course, you knew all of this anyway, right?

It’s a terrible thing for the American public to be so stupid to think that any of this has to do with climate, and to be so cloistered and gullible that you must believe the FedGov when they tell you this has nothing to do with the communist revolution.

When the enemy tells you exactly what he’s doing and why, and when people refuse to believe it, the enemy is winning.

Then there is this.

Matt Bracken sends.

UPDATE: I’m told that this is a parody Twitter account that has been suspended. I’ve seen other screen shots of posts, and they’re cute and amusing, but still parody.

Then there is this:

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