Month: August 2020

29AUG2020 – OCF Update – Hacked By Putin

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Well it finally happened.  They got me.  Hacked by Putin, just like the DNC.  I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on that Biden ad.  It only took six and a half hours of fumbling around with hosting sites and security companies and threatening the Kremlin but once I got President Trump on the line he straightened the whole thing out in five minutes.

If anyone got spam from me you have my humblest apologies.  I’ll work with the experts to make sure those commies can’t attack again.  By tomorrow I’ll have the photos and quotes up to date and I’ll work on some new pearls of wisdom besides.

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Selective Abandonment of the Law

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If I were President Trump, when I got in front of the microphone at the Republican convention, I would address the citizens living in blue states across the country and ask, “Have you had enough of your democrat masters feeding you to the mob?  If so, then vote them out of office and try the Republicans for a change.  They’re no smarter but they are a little less evil.”

If a state decides to pick and choose who doesn’t have to obey the law and who does isn’t that the same behavior, we passed the civil rights laws to prevent back in the 1960s?  We now have mobs all around the country burning, looting and assaulting innocent Americans with virtual immunity from police action while anyone who tries to resist this felonious attack on property and life is immediately arrested and charged to the fullest extent of the law.

If I were a local, I’d want the mayor of Kenosha and the governor of Wisconsin prosecuted for civil rights violations.  This same playbook was used months ago in the adjoining state of Minnesota.  There is no longer any excuse that they didn’t know what the result of pulling back the police would be.  This is a premeditated sacrifice of the livelihoods and lives of the people of Kenosha to the political allegiance of these politicians.

I guess we’re about to find out if the people of Kenosha are okay with having their city sacked by vandals.  The mayor is up for re-election this year.  I would approximate his chances as 0.0%.  The governor has two years before his election but unless something even more horrible happens that allows the Republicans to take the blame, I’d say his chances are 0.1%.

I read an article that asked a bunch of people in Wisconsin whom they were going to support for President in November and even lifelong Democrats who hate President Trump said they were going to vote for him.  So at least some good has come out of this fiasco.  But why doesn’t the Department of Justice intervene and hold these people accountable for their abandonment of their own citizens?  All they have to do is interview the police and find out if orders were issued to permit the violence that is being perpetrated daily in these cities.  Why isn’t the FBI identifying the ringleaders in these Antifa/BLM gangs and drag them away as domestic terrorists?  It gets hard to believe that there is anyone who cares about these people whose lives are being destroyed.

What I want to hear come out of the Republican convention is that justice will be served against the people who perpetrated and the people who abetted and even the people who allowed this reign of terror to go on and on for months.  The Democrats have turned this country into a banana republic.  Portland and Seattle might as well be in Venezuela.  The leaders use mobs of partisans to terrorize and silence their enemies and law only applies to whom the leaders say it does.  Lori Lightfoot, the noxious Mayor of Chicago is okay with the mob burning down other people’s neighborhoods but has a special police detachment reserved for protecting her home.

The first one who should be charged is that half-wit Jacob Frey.  The DOJ should charge him with the damage that was done to all the businesses in Minneapolis.  And he should be held accountable for any deaths and injuries that occurred because of his abandonment of his city to the mob.

Next should be the idiot governor of Minnesota.  His refusal to utilize the National Guard when the problem was till manageable was equally culpable with Frey’s idiocy.

The rest of the conspirators, the mayors of the rest of the blue cities, New York, LA, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, etc., should also be held accountable.  With the murder rates skyrocketing in many of these places serious charges should be levied against all of them.

Will any of this happen?  I’m guessing no.  As an alternative, do you think the idiot Republicans would at least run on the rioting as a way to try and regain control of the House of Representatives and bolster their hold on the Senate.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that Americans, even Americans in blue states have had enough of watching the United States turned into Beirut.

Something’s Happening Here.  What It is Ain’t Exactly Clear

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Kenosha has added a new dimension to the Antifa/BLM campaign.  For the first time force is being introduced against the rioters.  A 17-year-old kid with a rifle seems to have juxtaposed himself between the rioters and Kenosha and the result is two rioters dead and another one with a big chunk of his arm blown off.  The question is where will it go from here?  In a sensible time, Wisconsin’s governor would declare a state of emergency and shut down the riots.  That would allow him to arrest anyone who wanted to keep this thing going.  I read that he is doubling the National Guard presence to 250.  Since the number of protesters is in the thousands this is another way of saying he won’t be stopping the riots.  So, the potential for more anti-riot resistance is possible.

I think there are three types of resistance.  One is where local people arm themselves and defend their property at the end of a gun barrel.  This has limited effect because the rioters will just move along to the next property where the owner doesn’t have armed friends.  This type of resistance is already happening.

The other type is what this kid did.  A group forms with the objective to protect a neighborhood.  They’ll attempt to patrol an area and interfere with rioting by stepping between the rioters and their victims.  This could be effective but if the state sides with Antifa and BLM you could end up in prison for life.

The third type are guerilla warriors who take up sniping positions and use terror to frighten off Antifa.  If you look at the Antifa types they aren’t exactly Rambo.  I imagine that it wouldn’t take many sniper victims before the rioters gave up on their nocturnal fun and games.  This option is very unlikely because it is a purely ideological decision that also requires a very uncommon skill set.  I would say really the only effective choice is a neighborhood patrol by men who are committed to saving their homes and livelihoods by any means possible.  That has happened in Idaho once already during these riots but that is a rather special case.

Is Kenosha the place where a backlash happens?  Hard to say.  Wisconsin is purple and that doesn’t bode well for anyone who has to stand trial there.  But there may be some people who have finally reached the point where they’ve stopped caring and just want to make the madness end.  We should know soon enough.  By tonight it will be time for Antifa to begin trying to burn out the next neighborhood businesses in line.  If another rioter ends up with a bullet between the eyes then we’ll know that another option exists to waiting for police that never show up.

But all this still leaves the question in November is America going to vote for or against the rioters.  Wisconsin is another battleground state.  It would seem to me that seeing their neighbors in Kenosha burned out of their homes and businesses would provide them with an object lesson as to what voting Democrat does for your safety and security.

The Great Escape – A Movie Review

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The Great Escape came out in 1963.  It’s based on an actual World War II large scale escape by British Commonwealth soldiers from a German POW camp during World War II.  Some American actors were added in to increase the interest for American audiences but for the most part the details of the story are true.

There’s an all-star cast including Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn.  On the British side there’s Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence and a bunch of Brits I never heard of.

The plan is to build a tunnel out of the camp and provide clothes and identification papers for 250 men to scatter over the countryside and escape out of Germany.  Each of the men has a particular skill; tunnellers, scroungers of supplies, document forgers, tailors, etc.  The ingenuity they use to perform this seemingly impossible series of operations is remarkable.  They begin building three tunnels (Tom, Dick and Harry) and accumulating their supplies.  There are setbacks and delays.  The first tunnel is discovered and one of the men despairs and is shot down rushing the fence in broad daylight.  Stress builds up and some of the men crack.  Finally, the escape is run and disaster occurs.  Seventy-six men get out of the camp and we follow them as they attempt the escape from Germany.  Some make it, some are caught and some are killed.

It is an amazing story.  Even if it were just fiction it would be entertaining.  But knowing it actually happened is mind-boggling.  And the movie is well done.  The plot and dialog are good and sometimes quite compelling.  The actors are sympathetic characters and even some of the Germans come across as interesting humans.

If you like war stories and especially if you like history this is a movie you might want to see.  Highly recommended.