The Seven Types of Gun Control Do-Gooders
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ACCORDING TO THE FUNKTIONARY:
do-gooders – the touchy-feely holier-than-thou micro-mini moralists in ethical garb. As the femi-linguist Julia Kristena has so insightfully stated, “we must heal our shattered narcissism before formulating higher objectives.” The one who wishes to do good must knock at the gate. For the one who loves, the gate is always open. (See: Morality, Love & Undoing)
From [JPFO] The right of decent private citizens to personally possess, transport, and responsibly use arms without government interference is the ultimate freedom and the main pillar supporting all other liberties. Few cultures have allowed their general population access to weapons, the tools of power, to the same degree as the United States. Instead, most societies have restricted the keeping and bearing of arms to a select few power brokers and their agents, often resulting in oppression on a grand scale.
Despite a massive amount of historical evidence to the contrary, there is a substantial body of Americans, many occupying positions of influence, who contend that the abrogation of the Second Amendment is the quickest path to domestic tranquility. Since this is as absurd as advocating blood-letting as a cure for anemia, it would seem advisable to question the motives and mentalities of the gun control advocates themselves.
In my observation, weapon prohibitionists can be broken down into seven major categories. Even though their motives may vary they all pose a mortal threat to liberty.
ELITISTS
Many of those in favor of oppressive firearms legislation are are best classed as elitists. Elitists frequently identify with a peer group based on wealth, power, rank, social status, occupation, education, ethnic group, etc. and perceive themselves and their peers as inherently superior to and more responsible than the "common people", thus more deserving of certain rights. Since elitists practically consider those outside their class or caste as members of another species, that most anti-elitist list of laws, the Bill of Rights is viewed by them as anathema. Naturally, the Second Amendment is their first target as it serves as the supporting structure for other nine amendments.
AUTHORITARIANS
Another type of individual who favors the restriction of private gun ownership is the authoritarian. Authoritarian personalities are characterized by their belief in unquestioning obedience to an authority figure or group and a disdain for individual freedom of action, expression, and judgement. Those with authoritarian personalities function well in symbiosis with elitists occupying positions of power. Because authoritarians repress their desires for autonomy they harbor a deep resentment toward free and independent thinkers. Of course authoritarians do not want firearms in the hands of the general population as this constitutes a major obstacle to fulfilling their pathological and obsessive desire to control people.
CRIMINALS
It goes without saying that career criminals would like to see the public disarmed for obvious reasons. A well-armed population makes crimes such as assault, robbery, and burglary hazardous for the perpetrator and this is bad for "business." Also, it would seem that even non-violent or "white collar" criminals live in constant fear of retribution from the public that they financially bleed and would therefore prefer that the public be disarmed. Evidence supporting this hypothesis can be gathered by studying the Second Amendment voting records of those legislators who have been convicted of willful misconduct.[MORE]
Belly of the Least Privileged: A Video Drive Through Baltimore Hoods Blightmare - “the day-to-day obscenery within the waking dream of those entrapped knee-deep within the heart of the ghetto”
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According to FUNKTIONARY:
Turdistan – any ghetto, ‘hood or “community” that’s a crime-ravaged shit-hole, hell-hole and economically disenfranchised, inner city war zone. In Turdistan shit goes down every minute but only lives go down the toilet while the same old shit stays afloat as social and economic programs s(t)ink due to budget cuts and widespread fratricide. “…for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit.” Turdistan is a state of mind, and then the condition and position of your ass. Free your kind and the mass will follow. Free your ass, and no one will mind (or question) what you follow.
transplantation – Black folk’s travel from the cotton fields of the plantation to the killing fields of the ghetto.
blightmare – the day-to-day obscenery within the waking dream of those entrapped knee-deep within the heart of the ghetto. A blightmare isn’t something you wake up from—but constantly wake up to. (See: Capital Punishment)
Fishbowl – a metaphor for the attrition of daily life, the ubiquity of oppression, violence, police brutality and the daily instances of repression and information suppression, especially in urban centers with a high percentage African-American population. 2) the combined inimical forces endlessly conspiring to cloud your bowl and make your life shitty in a million different ways each and every day for the majority of the world’s population, especially for those living in urban centers within developed nations and those relegated to squalor in underdeveloped nations. The fishbowl is a metaphor describing the accumulative effects of cultural imperialism on those subject to and victimized by its power and sway. While back up in Baltimore, I swam through the backup in Baltimore—swirling around, cloudy grey and brown, settling down on the rocky bottom of the fishbowl. Just because you’re in the dark, doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. If you take the stance, to just sit and wait it out, you also become the bait without a shadow of a doubt. The Fishbowl is equipped with a DPS device—deep political shit—domination duty. You just can’t seem to get away, and the market has made you the catch of the day! “We don’t know who discovered the ocean, but it certainly wasn’t the fish, because an all-pervasive environment is all but undetectable and beyond perception.” ~Marshall McLuhan. There for all the world to know—what we do, where we go, and with who. It’s all-out control, tell me do you feel exposed? Welcome one and all to the fishbowl! The fishbowl symbolizes an environment and existential condition that you can see your way out of, but the very seeing becomes the impediment for actually getting out because just the thought of leaving the place wherein you live and have your being is a scary revolutionary and seemingly-suicidal means to freedom—yet it is the only way to be free. While some must jump bail, others must have the courage and dignity to ‘jump free.’ “Living in a fishbowl. Life seems so small and cold—in a fishbowl. Now everywhere I seem to go, they already know in a fishbowl.” ~Jahiti & Brother Ooh (of BrownF.I.S.H.) “How could the fish not jump immediately from dry land into water when the sound of water from the ocean of fresh waves springs to his ear?” ~Rumi. Now, you see me and I see you too. Can’t hide nothing, you see, because it’s all see-through. (See: MEDIA, Surveillance, Culture, Propaganda, Hollow City, Colonization, Public Relations, Politics, Propaganda, Impropaganda, Orderlies, Police, Prison Industrial Complex, Oppression, Imperialism, Overlords & Rat Race)
Tennessee Authorities Botch Their Attempt to Murder Christa Pike with Lethal Injection: 2nd Botched "Execution" in 5 Months
/From [HERE] Christa Pike is in the hospital this morning after surviving the State of Tennessee’s botched attempt to execute her by lethal injection last night.
Her attorneys, who have not been informed about her condition, said in a statement early this morning that “the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.”
Ms. Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed at 10 am yesterday for a murder in 1995, when she was 18 years old.
That morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ordered the execution stayed until further order of the court. The State appealed directly to the Supreme Court, which vacated the stay shortly before 6 pm local time.
Three hours later, a lawyer for Ms. Pike reported that she was still alive and breathing after members of the execution team administered two syringes of pentobarbital. Shortly after 9 pm, media witnesses were required to leave the prison and saw an ambulance and other first responders pull up outside.
At a news conference, media witnesses described hearing Ms. Pike complaining about pain and snoring, and saw her kicking her feet so often that she knocked off the sheets that covered her, according to NBC News.
Journalists said that they entered the witness room at 6:41 pm and the blinds opened at 7:26 pm. They reported hearing Ms. Pike speak multiple full sentences throughout the process.
“My arm feels like it’s about to bust. One spot is really throbbing,” WKRN reporter Tori Gessner heard Ms. Pike say. Ms. Gessner, who has witnessed several executions, said, “Nothing about today was normal, typical, at all.”
The blinds closed at 7:46 pm, but witnesses could still hear Ms. Pike breathing. When the blinds reopened three minutes later, she was still breathing and began snoring, according to witnesses.
The blinds closed again at 8:05 pm and prison officials removed witnesses from the room at 8:53 pm. Even after the microphone was cut off, they could still hear Ms. Pike breathing.
No officials with the Tennessee Department of Correction appeared at the press conference or spoke to the media. The department did not provide a statement for more than two hours, saying in an email that it stood by its protocol and that Ms. Pike had been taken to an off-site medical facility.
Ms. Pike’s attorneys filed an emergency motion to stay the execution and provide medical care to Ms. Pike, writing that even after executioners injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals, she “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat.”
At 10:05 pm, the Tennessean reported that a federal judge ruled the request was moot because the State said that medical care was already being administered.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced shortly before midnight that the state is pausing all executions for the rest of the year. He called for a “comprehensive, third-party review” of what happened to Christa Pike.
A History of Botched Executions
This is the second botched execution attempt in Tennessee in fewer than five months.
On May 21, prison officials strapped Tony Carruthers to a gurney and subjected him to multiple painful and bloody punctures to access his veins while he writhed in agony for an extended period of time before Tennessee’s executioners declared they could not execute him.
This is also the second time that Gov. Lee has paused executions in the wake of a botched execution.
In 2022, a moratorium was declared to allow for a third-party investigation into “operational failures” in Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol after an undisclosed “technical oversight” led the governor to call off the execution of Oscar Smith on April 21, 2022.
Two top corrections officials were fired after that review found that lethal injection drugs were not tested as required by Tennessee’s protocol.
Indeed, the review found that corrections officials failed to tell the pharmacy that made and tested lethal injection drugs that it was required to test all injection chemicals for endotoxins. The State never even gave the pharmacy a copy of the lethal injection protocol, the report revealed.
In Early 2021 Israel and Pfizer Knew COVID Shots Caused Fatal Heart Condition — But Waited Months Before Alerting Public, according to Peer Reviewed Study Using Gov Data
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From [HERE] Pfizer and Israel’s Ministry of Health (MOH) knew in early 2021 about a significant “cardiac event” safety signal associated with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine — but withheld the information from physicians and the public for several months, a new peer-reviewed study has found.
The authors of the study, published last week in EXCLI Journal, reviewed an MOH dataset containing 531 hospitalization records dating from March 2021 — just months after the rollout of the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech shot — to May 2022.
The records included 67 deaths, including nine in patients under age 50. Two of the nine deaths were attributed to myocarditis, which can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death.
Myocarditis was recorded in 71.6% of the hospitalization records involving patients under 30. Nearly two-thirds of those patients “had no meaningful medical history” before their diagnosis.
The deaths and injuries were reported to Israel’s MOH and to Pfizer. Yet, public health authorities in Israel, the U.S. and elsewhere downplayed the safety signal, reporting it “only after a delay of approximately three to four months.”
Even then, health authorities described most cases as “rare” or “mild” — and of less concern than the risk COVID-19 posed.
Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said none of the myocarditis deaths are found in the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), even though Pfizer was obligated to report the deaths to VAERS.
“The bereaved and the injured are owed an answer,” Jablonowski said.
Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, said the study’s findings are significant because they are based on “internal government data” instead of data from vaccine makers or from publicly available databases.
Kirsch said the data show that Israel’s MOH “was clearly more interested in protecting the manufacturers than the public.” [MORE]
Judge Orders DOJ to Turn Over FBI Notes Taken During Interview of a Woman Who Claimed Trump Sexually Assaulted Her When She was 14 Yrs Old after Jeffrey Epstein Introduced Them. Must Disclose by 9/24
/From [HERE] A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over handwritten FBI notes from four interviews with a woman who said President Donald Trump tried to force her to perform oral sex after Jeffrey Epstein introduced them when she was a teenager.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan directed the DOJ to submit redacted and unredacted versions of the notes by 11 a.m. on Sept. 24. FBI agents created the records during interviews in 2019 and later used them to prepare four formal interview reports that have since been released.
The order calls for a private court review of the disputed records before any decision on broader disclosure. The process allows Sullivan to examine the material while protecting sensitive information, including details that could identify victims.
The dispute stems from a lawsuit filed by journalist Katie Phang over DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law requires the government to disclose unclassified records tied to its investigations of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell while allowing certain victim information and other protected material to remain withheld.
DOJ argued that the handwritten notes were substantially similar to the typewritten interview reports and raised concerns about safely redacting victim information. Sullivan rejected the duplication argument, finding that the original notes and the later FBI summaries are separate records. Phang’s attorneys also identified nearly 100 examples of handwritten FBI interview notes the department had already produced.
Because the notes were written during the interviews, they could contain details or wording that did not appear in the FD-302 reports prepared afterward.
During the 2019 interviews, the woman told FBI agents that Epstein introduced her to Trump in New York or New Jersey in the 1980s when she was between 13 and 15 years old. She alleged that Trump tried to force her to perform oral sex during an encounter after the introduction. [MORE]
Fed Prosecutors Locked Up a White Grandmother for six months due to a facial recognition mistake - $10 million lawsuit filed against Fargo and police
/A white grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog.
In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice wanted in North Dakota.
The arrest stemmed from an investigation into bank fraud cases in April and May 2025. Detectives reportedly reviewed video of a woman using a fake US army ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.
By using facial recognition software, the investigators identified Lipps as a possible match. She was charged with eight felonies, the most serious of which carried a 10-year prison sentence.
But Lipps had never been to North Dakota in her life, and bank records later confirmed she was more than 1,200 miles away at the time of the alleged crime.
She was held in a Tennessee county jail for 108 days before being transported to North Dakota. Jail staff allegedly denied. [MORE]
Hackers Reveal how Flock Cameras Really Track Cars and Law Abiding People (real criminals are Unidentifiable b/c they are Masked Up or Wear Hoodies)
/Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them.
The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which shared the data with WIRED. 404 Media and WIRED then analyzed those files as part of a joint investigation.
While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag. [MORE]
How US imperialism dehumanizes the 'other' to justify ghastly war crimes and escape accountability
/Does the United States possess the most advanced military technology on Earth? By almost every measure, yes. Stealth aircraft, precision-guided munitions, satellite targeting, and now, by the Pentagon’s own admission, artificial intelligence woven into the targeting process itself.
So the glaring question then is: if the targeting is this precise, why has the US war machine produced some of the highest civilian casualty tolls of any modern military? War after war, decade after decade, on every continent that has had the misfortune of US military presence.
On September 2, 2026, a wedding was underway in Kuhestak, a mountain village in Sirik County, in Iran’s Hormozgan Province. Families had gathered the way families gather everywhere, with music, food and joyful children wearing colorful clothes.
Then an American airstrike hit the home hosting the wedding celebration. At least five people died. The youngest was a child who should have spent that night dancing at a family wedding and instead spent it in a cold morgue. And those who survived? Well, they must now learn how to live with the trauma and guilt of survival.
Sirik was not an aberration, though; it was the latest entry in a lengthy ledger. Since December 2001, the US has struck more than a dozen wedding parties across multiple countries, effectively turning weddings into funerals.
In July 2002, the US attacked a wedding in Uruzgan, Afghanistan; only two women survived that attack. Iraq, May 2004: another wedding, another US attack. In July, Nangarhar, Afghanistan: an airstrike on a bridal convoy killed 47 people, including the bride herself, who survived two blasts before the third one found her. Months later, in November 2008, a wedding in Wech Baghtu, Kandahar, was hit — 37 dead, 23 of them children. In December 2013, a US drone fired on an 11-vehicle wedding procession in Rada’a, Yemen, killing at least 12 people; the bride was wounded by shrapnel. Weddings, of all things, keep ending up on American target lists. [MORE]
Committed to War: Republicrats Disregard Their Anti-War, Pro-Individual Freedom, Limited Government Slogans Whenever It Conflicts with Their Master's Real Agenda - Maintaining the Power of Elites
/No matter how often Republicans recite the conservative mantra of the Constitution, limited government, individual freedom, private property, traditional values, free enterprise, and a strong national defense, the truth is that they only selectively believe it.
Republicans don’t follow the Constitution in a great many areas. The only limited government they desire is one limited to control by Republicans. They don’t accept the freedom of individuals to do anything that’s peaceful. They don’t believe in the inviolability of private property. They think traditional values should be legislated by government. They don’t yearn for free enterprise in everything. And they confound the idea of national defense with national offense.
It is on this last point that I want to focus on.
The newest edition of “The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution,” has just been published by The New American, where I am a contributing columnist. The index “rates members of Congress based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements.”
This new edition of The Freedom Index is the third for the 118th Congress, and looks at ten key measures. Scores are derived by dividing a congressman’s constitutional votes by the total number of votes cast and multiplying by 100. So, the higher the score the better.
The average Republican House score was 64 percent. The average Republican Senate score was 52 percent. Only two (Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson) Republican members of the House and one (Rand Paul) of the Senate earned a perfect score of 100. Republican members of Congress can recite their conservative mantra and pass meaningless resolutions condemning socialism all they want, but it won’t give them extra credit to increase their horrible scores. In most college courses, one needs a C or better to receive credit for the course. Congressional Republicans are failures when it comes to constitutional principles.
This is no more evident than when it comes to the subject of war. According to Republican votes in Congress, as relayed by The Freedom Index, House and Senate Republicans—almost to a man—are committed to war. [MORE]
Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Sponsored by Israeli Govt-aligned Outfit, Leaked Contract Shows
/One year after Charlie Kirk’s [faked] killing, The Charlie Kirk Show is distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel and his widow, Erika, has reversed his critical positions on the US-Israeli special relationship.
Now, The Grayzone can reveal that the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization he founded is holding faith events sponsored by an Israel-based non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government.
A leaked contract obtained by The Grayzone reveals that TPUSA entered into an agreement with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) to sponsor a series of ostensibly Christian faith-based summits between 2025 and 2027. Signed on May 16, 2025, the contract committed IFCJ to pay $700,000 to TPUSA over two years. In exchange, the group was to receive a series of promotional benefits including main stage speaking slots for its President, Yael Eckstein, and the distribution of pro-Israel “activism kits” to over 200 college campuses. [MORE]
Insider Trading Proves 9/11 Foreknowledge
/From [HERE] On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was established, any perpetrators identified, or other basic facts ascertained, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into potential insider trading by unknown figures with apparently precise foreknowledge of 9/11. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Mainstream journalists openly mocked the implausibility of numerous deeply abnormal stock market trades immediately prior to the attacks being pure coincidence.
For one, several companies prominently impacted by the event were abruptly ‘shorted’ at inexplicable levels over the preceding weeks. In other words, investors bet certain stocks would perform poorly in the near future, and sought to profit accordingly. For example, just five days before 9/11 over 2,000 shorts were placed against United Airlines - 90 times more in a single day than over the entirety of August. The company’s share price collapsed following the attacks, turning $180,000 in shorts into $2.4 million.
Meanwhile, substantial investments were serendipitously made in private security, intelligence and defence firms that benefited enormously from the 9/11 attacks and ensuing ‘War on Terror’. On September 10th, purchase of shares in major US defence contractor Raytheon surged sixfold. Just one week later, as the Pentagon began bulk purchasing Raytheon’s flagship Patriot and Tomahawk missiles in preparation for invading Afghanistan, the firm’s shares rocketed 37%. Other major defence stocks, including Boeing and Lockheed, also experienced abnormal trading pre-9/11. [MORE]
