CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Hekk posted:

I gave away my last expended AT4 to the movers when I was unpacking my garage here in California. We used to a couple dozen a month when I was in 29 Palms. I had a bunch lying around but they aren’t good for much other than taking up space. Well that’s what I thought anyways. Had I known I could carry one around for street cred I might have held onto a couple.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

You're supposed to turn them into bongs.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

That ma deuce is made of wood.



I mean, I would almost think he's trolling them but he also has an AR on his back.


I'm the akimbo underarm single actions.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Yes.

It just didn't stick out to me as much as his cosplay mixing of army bazooka man and old west cowboy.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

i'm the fat stack of 1s he's pulling from his pocket

PeterCat posted:

https://twitter.com/abq161/status/1259251219484356609/photo/1

I feel like this should piss off anyone who has ever deployed.

Schadenboner posted:

What happen to he big bitey catte Mantacore?



E: Looks like it wasn't destroyed because they did a thing together in 2009 and: Mantacore died on March 19, 2014 after a brief illness. He was 17 years old.

BigDave posted:

http://www.feelnumb.com/2011/01/22/steven-tyler-once-had-14-year-old-girlfriend-that-her-parents-signed-over-to-him/

THREE YEARS

Eej posted:

Softface posted:

It's astounding how quickly in my mind this jumped from "It's pretty hosed up how we used to not protect teenagers from predatory adults" to standard libertarian bitching about age of consent laws.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Libertarians and Conservatives loving hate AOC. Both the laws, and the person.

LongDarkNight posted:

Can't imagine Truckers for Trump will like that too much.

PeterCat posted:

https://twitter.com/abq161/status/1259251219484356609/photo/1

I feel like this should piss off anyone who has ever deployed.

quote:

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is a political organization of local police officials in the United States who believe in an interpretation of the United States Constitution wherein federal and state government authorities are subordinate to local government authority. In this regard, the CSPOA is an outgrowth of the Patriot movement and has some ideological similarities with the Sovereign Citizen Movement, although they are by no means identical. An article by the Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center states that "... the real root of the 'county supremacy' movement that has been explicitly embraced by the CSPOA is the Posse Comitatus, a racist and anti-Semitic group of the 1970s and 1980s that also defined the county sheriff as the highest 'legitimate' law enforcement authority in the country. . . ." and continues to identify several county sheriffs who are in sympathy with the stated goals of the CSPOA.

LongDarkNight posted:

Can't imagine Truckers for Trump will like that too much.

Stultus Maximus posted:

He's a "constitutional Sheriff."

PeterCat posted:

Pussy Communist?

quote:

Sheriff Nick Finch let a pistol-packing man out of the Liberty County, Florida, jail, a decision that led state authorities to charge Finch with a crime — but also made him a hero to a radical and growing movement among sheriffs across the country.

It’s a movement that doesn’t just reject gun control — it encourages law enforcement officers to defy laws they decide are illegal. And it sometimes puts police on the same side as “sovereign citizens,” a fringe group that the FBI considers one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats.

On March 8, 2013, one of Sheriff Finch’s deputies pulled over a driver and found a loaded pistol in his pocket, according to the deputy’s sworn statement. Carrying a concealed firearm without a license is a felony in Florida, so the deputy arrested the driver.

Finch, however, ordered the driver released, and someone whited out his booking record. Finch later said he decided that “I know what law rules the day, and it’s the U.S. Constitution.”

Gov. Rick Scott ordered Finch’s suspension. But then a former Arizona sheriff named Richard Mack called, and a group that Mack heads — the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association — became engaged.

During Finch’s boisterous trial in October 2013, he was joined in the Liberty County courtroom by Mack, several other Florida sheriffs, and dozens of new supporters. The judge had to admonish the crowd not to laugh as the state presented its case against Finch, and in the end, the jury acquitted him of misconduct and falsification of records. He was reinstated as sheriff, and later granted back pay as well as attorney’s fees of more than $160,000. Finch, 53, remains the sheriff of Liberty County.

quote:

A local named Paul Boudreaux, 53, raised his hand from the third row. “What do you do about the sheriffs that are complicit with the federal government?” he asked.

“Ignore them,” Mack replied. He reminded the audience that there are nearly 3,100 sheriffs in the country and that the association is aiming to get approximately one fourth of them to support its mission: “If we get that 600 or 700, there’s going to be no stopping. And then everybody in this country has at least two or three places in each state where they can go for refuge, find a true constitutional sheriff who’ll tell the federal government, ‘You’re not going to abuse citizens anymore.’”

Asked later what the worst abuses were that the federal government had committed in his community, Boudreaux brought up the gopher frog: an endangered species native to the Gulf region. To protect it, Boudreaux said, some of his neighbors have had hundreds of acres of land condemned as habitat where the frog can live. “Fortunately, because of our Second Amendment, we’ve still got the freest country on Earth,” Boudreaux added, crossing his arms.

“But the sheriff needs to know,” Boudreaux said, expressing a view that most legal scholars vigorously dispute, “that he can forbid federal agents from coming into his county and trying to enforce laws that are unconstitutional.”

quote:

The constitutional sheriff movement, according to the teachings of Mack and his supporters, is rooted in the historical definition of sheriffs as the most powerful law-enforcement officers within their counties. The idea harkens to medieval England, when Anglo-Saxon kings tasked sheriffs with enforcing their edicts. English colonists brought the tradition to the Americas, and began electing their own sheriffs in the mid-1600s, entrusting them with overseeing the judicial process, carrying out legal decisions, and keeping the peace. Under the latter authority, they could organize citizen brigades to catch outlaws or defend against attackers, an arrangement known as “posse comitatus.”

In the 1970s, a minister in the white supremacist Christian Identity movement, William Potter Gale, wrote a series of articles that would come to be known as the handbook of the Posse Comitatus movement. Gale described sheriffs as the only “legal” law enforcement officers in the country and urged citizens to form their own militias to resist encroachments on their rights if sheriffs did not. The constitutional abuses he cited included the federal income tax system, gun control, federal education, and civil rights laws. He advised citizens to form their own “common law” courts to try officials who violated the constitution, and prescribed archaic punishments, such as hangings.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/...mber%3D305pti22

https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1259291788839399424

and theres more if you want to read the thread

Fallom posted:

Wait I thought the conspiracy chuds were pointing at the CDC as the authoritive source because it was showing lower, out-of-date numbers?

GoGoGadget posted:

They were. They were even implying that the CDC
But now the CDC numbers seem to be largely caught up...so I guess they can't use that anymore?

CDC Statistics

bird food bathtub posted:

Well give them credit, that's a pretty mask-off statement. "I'm OK with you dying so I can get my nails done."

Stultus Maximus posted:

No. Another in a long history of armed white men refusing to accept laws that inconvenience armed white men.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/constitutional-sheriffs-cops-who-think-government-our-greatest-threat-n557381


Also a reminder that libertarians like to talk about how jury nullification can be used against things like unjust marijuana laws, but in practice jury nullification has always been used to uphold white supremacy against federal civil rights enforcement. The "constitutional sheriff" exists to use laws on the books to persecute minorities and ignore the laws when they bother white men.


The West, more than the South, is the hotbed of insurrection and white supremacy.