FMJRA 2.0: No Satisfaction

Posted on | May 5, 2024 | No Comments

Another bad week for Senators fans, though marginally better than last week. It started well with two wins and a loss against the Tribe at the Mistake by the Lake, but then we came home expecting to sweep Dom’s Reales con Queso only to get shut down by Roger Nelson in the first game and the Reales bullpen in the second. Despite his whining, his team isn’t actually that bad – with a couple of exceptions, every hitter in his lineup but two has C power or better, and they hit a couple of homers off Pat Dobson and Eddie Fisher that proved decisive. Well, we’ll see how we do against Atlanta on Monday or Wednesday; normally it would have been Tuesday but I’ll be en route to Dulles most of the day.
Just picked up the most recent in Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series of CDs on Thursday and ripped it today. First disc seems to have a lot of pseudo-operatic stuff that isn’t too great; we’ll see how the other two work out.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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Secret Service DEI Quota Hire Goes Completely Berserk at Andrews AFB
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FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In The North
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In The Mailbox: 04.29.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.01.24 (afternoon edition)
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In The Mail: 05.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 05.02.24 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 05.03.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.03.24

Posted on | May 4, 2024 | No Comments

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
I have to drive down to Las Vegas Sunday for a Monday morning appointment at the VA, and on Tuesday I’m flying out to the DC area to hang out with friends for a week. So blogging may be a tad episodic.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

No mercy.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Shirley Temple on Hollywood Pedophiles, also, MAGA Pizza Delivery For FDNY
Twitchy: Google Removes Trump Ad Targeting Black Men – Very Suspicious! This Video Of Biden’s Chief Economic Adviser Is Making The Rounds – And It Explains A Lot, and Arrested UCLA Protester Returns To Retrieve His Stuff, Upset To Find Out Where It Is
Louder With Crowder: Baby Boom – Officers At Kentucky Sheriff’s Office Celebrate 15 New Babies In One Year, also, Pro-Hamas dorks at Ole Miss run into a wall of patriotic frat bros singing OUR National Anthem
Vox Popoli: Forget the Autism, Anti-Christian and Anti-American, and Turkey Cuts Ties with Israel
According To Hoyt: The First Of May, Lay Down Your Burden, and Scars
Monster Hunter Nation: History
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Art & Craft of Writing

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American Conservative: Japan’s Subordination to Washington Is a Disgrace
American Greatness: Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump’s Best Choice as a Running Mate, also, Cannibalism – A Teachable Moment
American Thinker: America Is Headed For A Civil War…Maybe
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Trump Veep Friday
Babalu Blog: Report reveals Cuban dictatorship’s complicity in the violation of human rights in Venezuela, Shocking! U.S. exports to Cuba increase 98.3% in first three months of 2024, and Reports from Cuba: In the Cuban Athens, ‘everything is done on foot’ due to transportation crisis
BattleSwarm: Texas Sues Biden Over New ATF Rule, also, LinkSwarm for May 3
Behind The Black: China launches Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, Lockheed Martin withdraws bid to buy Terran Orbital, Scientists observe orangutan use plant to heal a wound, SpaceX last night launched another 23 Starlink satellites, Curiosity’s journey in Gediz Vallis approaching its end, and The pro-Hamas campus mobs were almost as barbaric as Hamas itself
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Finishing School
Da Tech Guy: The Fram Oil Filter Civil War Choice – Prosecute them Now or Kill them Later
Don Surber: News deserts are an oasis
Gates Of Vienna: Martin Hess: “Stop Taking Our Citizens for Fools”
The Geller Report: FIREFIGHTERS BEG TRUMP “Sir, Save Us Please!” As Trump Delivers Pizza to FDNY Firehouse in Surprise Stop After Sham Trial Adjourns
Hollywood In Toto: Fall Guy Dumbs Down ’80s TV Show…Way Down, Are Film Critics Avoiding Screams Before Silence? Jeanne du Barry Brings Johnny Depp Back to the Big Screen, and The Marvels Set Disney Back How Much?
The Lid: Biden Awards Medal of Freedom Based on the Matthew Shepard Death Lie, also, A Former Crime Family Hitman Says the Biden Family is Worse Than the Mafia
Legal Insurrection: White House Plans to Ease Restrictions on Marijuana, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) & Wife Indicted on Bribery & Money Laundering Charges, Writer Claims Cornell is Biased Against Students in Fraternities While Indulging Left Wing Students, ‘Death to America,’ ‘Long Live the Intifada’: NYPD Reveals Signs Recovered at NYU Pro-Hamas Camp, Rutgers Caves to Pro-Hamas Mob, Agrees to 8 of 10 Demands, and Who Is Funding Anti-Israel Campus Protests? (Online Event, May 8, 12:30 p.m. ET)
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday: FAFO
Outkick: Michael Irvin Out At NFL Network As Part Of Series Of Cuts At League Media Property, Colorado Football Needs To Embrace NWO Heel Persona Under Deion Sanders, MLB Officially Announces Sweeping Changes To Unpopular New Jerseys, Saquon Barkley Gets Into It With Knicks Fans After Courtside Appearance During 76ers Playoff Game, Former Major Leaguer Jonathan Papelbon Says ESPN’s Stephen A Smith Is ‘Racist’ For Mike Trout Injury Take, Ticket Prices For Caitlin Clark’s First WNBA Preseason Game Are Mind-Boggling, and Sydney Sweeney Honors National No Pants Day In New Summer Campaign
Power Line: When it’s better you say nothing at all, The Farce Continues, Now They Tell Us! and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Bilirakis Introduces Bill To Protect Seniors During Medicare Transition
Shot In The Dark: Til I Shine In The Dark, also, DFL – Criminals AND Misogynists
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Government and the Arts
This Ain’t Hell: Marines find a variety of sins in F-35 delivery, Valor Friday, Fed Prosecutors: Woman Defrauded Military Charities, USS Boxer turns around from deployment for repairs in San Diego, Johannah King-Slutzky, faculty member and a PhD candidate, wants “humanitarian aid” for the protestors, and Autism in the Military Next?
Transterrestrial Musings: Screams Before Silence
Victory Girls: On Campus, It’s Not All Bad News
Volokh Conspiracy: Migration and the “Military-Age Male” Fallacy, also, Are State Law Climate Change Tort Suits Preempted by Federal Law?
Watts Up With That: PA Gov. Shapiro’s Misguided Attempt to Cure a Very Healthy Climate, also, Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean
The Federalist: ‘$50 Billion’ Chicago Teachers Union Contract Demands Higher Pay And Lower Expectations, Last Week In Lawfare Land – ‘Vindictive Prosecution’, 10 Lies Democrats Tell About Our Elections (And How To Refute Them), U.S. Government Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Spread Propaganda And Silence American Critics, and It’s Time For Young People To Take Sweat Equity Literally
Mark Steyn: Who’s the Crazy One?

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In The Mailbox: 05.02.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 3, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“What kind of training have you been doing, soldier?”
“MEEEEEEME training, Sir!”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The 39 Steps, Don’t Kick The Bison, The Lady Vanishes, and Dystopian Protests Are Here!
Twitchy: Man Trolls Pro-Palestinian Protesters, Hollaria Briden Takes Pro-Hamas Dipstick Hayley Becker To The Woodshed, and Here’s CNN’s Exclusive Framing Of DOJ Civil Rights Chief Lying To The Senate
Louder With Crowder: Man Goes Off On Australian Court, Holds It Accountable For “Greatest Child Abuse Scandal In The History Of Modern Medicine”, also, “Get her!” Woman brings traffic to a halt starting a fight, then tries running away before eating pavement
Vox Popoli: The Secret Weapon, Dunning-Kruger Science, and Ben Shapiro is “a Sneaky Rat”
Gab: The House Passes HR 6090 – A Threat To The Christian Faith
Upstream Reviews: Out Of The Soylent Planet

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Adam Piggott: Is a Nation comprised of a Race or a Religion?
American Conservative: Biden and Blinken’s Timorous Israel Policy
American Greatness: Oklahoma Passes Law to Crack Down on Immigration, also, Can The Current Universities Be Saved?
American Thinker: Marxism and Cowardice are the Hallmarks of America’s Colleges and Universities
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: United Nations helps Cuban dictatorship attract tourists to its apartheid hotels and resorts, When dissident artists have infiltrated May Day parades in Cuba to mock and protest the dictatorship, Cuba may not have bread, but it still has circuses, and Cuban mercenaries in Ukraine kill their abusive Russian commander
Baldilocks: Jesus, Jews, Free Speech, & Nutcases
BattleSwarm: Observing 2024 Victims Of Communism Day
Behind The Black: Hubble out of safe mode and resumed science observations, Astroscale to go public, Private Nova Scotia spaceport company opens spaceport to all rocket companies, The EU’s government-owned satellite constellation is faltering in its attempt to compete with Starlink and OneWeb, Southwest Airlines is deservedly in financial trouble, NASA IG: Major technical problems with Orion remain unsolved, and Pro-American UNC frat boys – Don’t hold a party, use the money more effectively!
Cafe Hayek: The Inanity of Politicians Talking Trade, also, They Can Afford It! – Not
Chicago Boyz: Quote of the Day, Rathergate Edition, also, Worthwhile Reading, Viewing, and Listening
Da Tech Guy: My commencement address, Maybe the Campus Protestors Will Move to Be Tried as Juveniles, Net Neutrality is back just in time for the 2024 Election, and The UCLA “Pigs Go Home” & “All Cops Are Bastards” Crowd get their wish & Then Regret It
Dana Loesch: Like OMG Intifada Or Something
Don Surber: Intifada hurt Democrats
First Street Journal: Gasoline prices will increase; the only question is how much they’ll rise before the election, also, Stupid is as stupid does, and prison cannot cure stupid
Gates Of Vienna: Excommunicating the AfD, The Eye of the Needle, Full-Blown Tyranny ca. 2030, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Evidence, and The UAE Warns Germany: Watch Out For “Islamism”!
The Geller Report: Jewish Students Brutally Beaten By UCLA Terror Mob, also, Thousands of Illegals Tracked To Over 21 Pro-Terror, Jew Hating Protests Across America
Hollywood In Toto: Randy Quaid’s Parents Remains a Bone-Chilling Satire, Lady Ghostbusters’ Revenge? Reboot Ices Out Frozen Empire, Colbert Defends Anti-Israel Protests, Shamed Anti-Lockdown Voices, Joe Rogan Blasts Woke Colleges: ‘Cult Camps’, and Jerry Seinfeld Blames ‘Extreme Left, ‘PC Crap’ for Comedy Decline-UPDATED
The Lid: Poll Shows Donald Trump Now Beating Joe Biden in All Seven Battleground States, also, Biden Has Secretly Flown Hundreds of Thousands of Illegals to 45 Cities — But Most Sent to Punish Florida
Legal Insurrection: Columbia Mob That Took Over Hamilton Hall Demand ‘Humanitarian Aid’, Campus Riots a Marriage of ‘Year Zero’ Leftists and Eighth Century Islamists, ‘Woke’ Air Force Colonel Promotion Still Stalled – An Update, Portland State: Police Recover ‘Improvised Weapons’ Left Behind in Library by Pro-Hamas Mob, Professional Agitator Lisa Fithian Caught on Tape at Columbia With Pro-Hamas Mob, Man at George Washington U. Protest Calls Rep. Byron Donalds ‘Race Traitor’ and ‘Uncle Tom’, and Napa Valley’s Famous Wineries Revolt Against Eco-Activist Bureaucrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Revolt, Revolution, and Constitution, also, It’s true
Outkick: John Calipari Reportedly Spending Millions In NIL Money At Arkansas To Piece Together A Talented Roster, Ole Miss Students Build A Wall, Sing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ As Pro-Hamas Protestors Learn About SEC Country, MLB’s New Blackout-Free Streaming Service May Already Be Dead, Floyd Mayweather Hands Out Stacks of Cash To L.A. Homeless, Shedeur Sanders’ Online Nonsense Hints At Disaster Waiting To Happen In Colorado , Was It Nick Saban, NIL Collectives Or Unlimited Transfers? NCAA Portal Record Broken With Over 3,800 Entries, and Lakers Reportedly Buying In On Bronny James As Desperate Attempt To Keep Dad LeBron James
Power Line: Judy Collins turns 85, Bontasaurus Blocks Parents, and Counterrevolution at Chapel Hill
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signs Bill Banning DEI Training In Teacher Prep Classes
Shot In The Dark: We Don’t Expect Much, Open Letter To Campus Protesters & Their Faculty/Administration Simps, and Urban Progressive Privilege Q – How Do You Make A Minneapolis “Progressive” Scream?
The Political Hat: Victims of Communism Day, 2024
This Ain’t Hell: Army Major stashed firearms inside rice packed blue barrels, then shipped them to Ghana, Back to school, fellas, Arizona rancher gets hung jury, will not be retried, Maybe, just maybe, there’s some hope for this country, and Jack Teixeira to face military justice proceeding
Transterrestrial Musings: May 1st, also, Starship Update
Victory Girls: The Columbia Food And Water Negotiator Worse Than You Thought, also, LA Mayor Karen Bass Only Upset at Campus Violence After Jews Fight Back
Volokh Conspiracy: Victims of Communism Day—2024
Watts Up With That: Conrad Black: Washing away the Climate Lunatics, Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come, Plant Vogtle Unit 4 begins commercial operation, Climate Obsessed Democrats Demand an Oil Exploration Halt in the Middle of a Gasoline Price Crisis, and The Looming Electrical Power Shortage
The Federalist: Democrats Counter Florida’s New Heartbeat Law With Fearmongering Ballot Measure, Republicans’ ‘Antisemitism’ Bill Merely Gives Feds More Power To Trample Free Speech, Keeping College Campus Radicals In Check Is Possible. Here’s How We Did It In Florida, Election Integrity Group Sues Minnesota, Wisconsin To End NVRA Transparency Exemption, Why Won’t Democrats Do What It Takes To Protect Kids From School Shooters? Kristen Clarke Allegedly Knifed Her Ex And Lied About It — But It’s Not The Worst Thing She’s Done, Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Are Bankrolling Anti-Israel Demonstrations, and Poll: More Than 8 In 10 Americans Don’t Trust Corporate Media To Report Facts
Mark Steyn: The Three Rs, Knights and Dame, They Are the Ones, Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 1st, and The New Tentifadah

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In The Mail: 05.02.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 2, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Yes, I am, and I don’t care who knows it.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When Prosecutors Won’t Prosecute?
EBL: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Twitchy: UCLA Protest Spokesperson Shows What Protests Are Really About, A Year After Biden Bragged We “Ended Cancer” Patients Are Still Dying For Lack of Chemo Drugs, and “Are You The Secretary?” Sen. Hawley Makes A Fool Of Interior Secretary Haaland
Louder With Crowder: Pro-Hamas students at UNC take down the American flag, until frat bros get involved and save the day, also, This Woke Assistant DA In Charge Of “Ethics?” She Has Been Charged With 11 Felonies
Vox Popoli: The Carlson-Dugin Interview, Did Not See That Coming, and A Bold Beginning
Ammo.com: Anti-Gun Control Arguments For 2024
Stoic Observations: The Return Of Evil

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CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game Part C
Don Surber: The FTC passes a law

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Covering the Big Issues

Posted on | May 2, 2024 | No Comments

Both of them:

War in the Middle East, surging inflation, the Republican Speaker of the House clinging to a one-vote majority, a presidential election campaign stumbling toward what is certain to be a photo-finish conclusion, with one candidate doddering in senility and the other being hounded in courtrooms by witch-hunt persecutors — these are but a few of the many crises facing the United States in the Year of Our Lord 2024. The list could be almost infinitely extended, but we ought to at least mention rampant crime, an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens, and fentanyl overdoses soaring to catastrophic levels. Amid all these woes and worries, however, it would be negligent to overlook the two most important issues in America, Sydney Sweeney.
In case you don’t recognize the name, Miss Sweeney is a 26-year-old actress who gained prominence for her part in the HBO series Euphoria, and speaking of prominent parts … OK, I apologize. These double-entendres just write themselves sometimes. . . .

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In The Mailbox: 05.01.24 (afternoon edition)

Posted on | May 1, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: DEI Will Soon Be Killing You, Literally
EBL: Rating Bottled Marinara Sauces, Hitler Kills Himself, and Evidence of Planet Nine?
Twitchy: WH Staff Strategy To Shield Biden From Cameras & Questions Ramps Up, Illegal Immigrants Take Over Seattle City Park & Put Out Supply Requests, and Kamala Harris Posting About “Trusting Women” Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: “Gender Seasons” Is Now A Thing: People Are Changing Their Gender For The Different Times Of The Year, also, Masked man unites America eating an entire jar of cheeseballs in front of hundreds of adoring fans
Vox Popoli: The Indictments are Blowing in the Wind, Non-Competes are No More, Hub Hub Hurray, The Decline of the Literary West, and The Arkhaven Substack
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Strange March of Time
Gab: A Foreign Government Is Demanding Gab User Data
Upstream Reviews: White Ops

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Is the Navalny Intelligence Leak an Olive Branch to Putin?
American Greatness: Save College Football
American Thinker: Living with Climate Change
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Texas News
Babalu Blog: Nicaragua dictatorship condemns 11 Christian leaders to long prison sentences, demands $880 million from them, Whistleblower exposes the privileged life and violent acts of Cuban general who just turned 92, and Cuban dictatorship dubiously claims 1 million tourists have visited this year
BattleSwarm: Abbott Joins DeSantis In Defying Biden’s Title IX Redefinition
Behind The Black: ESA is taking the Vega rockets away from Arianespace and giving it to the company that builds it, SES to buy Intelsat for $3.1 billion, NASA announces launch coverage for the first Starliner manned capsule launch on May 6, 2024, NASA wants to know the important technology the commercial space industry needs, and Voting by conservatives HAS made a difference, just not enough so far
Cafe Hayek: The Reality of Industrial Policy
CDR Salamander: The Future Imperfect
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, REAL “Islamophobia” in Action, Soros-funded Chicago prosecutor will finally get tough on lawbreaking protesters–but only for the Democratic National Convention, Sports Under the Fedora, and A Blessing in Disguise (and a pretty good disguise it was)
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Pecker Testimony Edition
Don Surber: The lesson from Columbia
First Street Journal: Is a Muslim high school teacher using his position to push #AntiSemitism?
Gates Of Vienna: A Hamburg Caliphate is Stirring, also, Attendance at the Struggle Session is Mandatory
The Geller Report: Violent Anti-Jewish Riot at Columbia As Terrorists Smash, Take Over Academic Building, Barricade Doors
Glenn Reynolds: Notes On The Asylum Where I Was Raised
Hollywood In Toto: David Schwimmer Shreds Campus Antisemitism: ‘Silence Is Complicity’, The Onion and Ben Collins: A Perfect Fake News Marriage, Reflections on Bruce Willis’ Final Decade of Acting, Is Challengers This Generation’s Bull Durham? and Screams Before Silence Must Be Seen and Remembered
Legal Insurrection: Jewish Student Files Lawsuit Against Columbia for Failing ‘to Maintain a Safe Learning Environment’, James Carville Melting Down Over Sagging Support for Biden Among Young Voters, Scotland’s Free Speech Hating First Minister Resigns Before Being Ousted, Anti-Israel Encampments: UCLA PD Admits School Told Them Not to Intervene, Northwestern Caves and Negotiates, Police Clash With Anti-Israel Campus Mob at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Report: Israel Eliminates IRGC Terror Operative Wanted for Attacks on Synagogues in Germany
Michele Catalano: closing time
Nebraska Energy Observer: Just this once
Outkick: TJ Oshie Solidifies Legendary Hockey Guy Status, Played Game 4 With Broken Hand, Seismic Shift From College Sports Leaders Could Bring Revenue Sharing For Athletes Quicker Than First Imagined, Greg Norman Told By The R&A To Check Resale Market For Open Championship Tickets, Man Of The People Bill Murray Rides NYC Train After Watching His Cubs Beat Mets, Paige VanZant Open To OnlyFans Side Bet With Elle Brooke For Boxing Match, and Amazon Thinks People Will Pay Extra To Watch NBA Games They Don’t Watch For Free
Power Line: Feeding our fraud goes to trial, The Daily Chart: Breaking Wind, and Britain Gets Sane
Shark Tank: “Take Your Fake Lab-Grown Meat Elsewhere”
Shot In The Dark: Just Asking Questions, also, Hear Me Out
STUMP: Who survives until 2098?
The Political Hat: Liberty vs. Virtue: The False Dilemma Fallacy
This Ain’t Hell: Soros and Hamas, also, Joe Biden’s proposed tax hike proposal is based on racial criteria
Transterrestrial Musings: Voting For Joe Biden
Victory Girls: Drew Barrymore Slobbers Over Kamala “Momala” Dearest
Volokh Conspiracy: “If He Did Not Want to Be Called a ‘Rioter,’ Plaintiff Should Not Have Admitted…to ‘Participation in…[a] Riot'”
Watts Up With That: Forbes Calls BS on the latest Climate Economics Doomsday Prediction, also, No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
The Federalist: Republican Weakness Taught Democrats Power Works Better Than Persuasion, Voter Registration Groups Slim Down Operations After Florida Upped Penalties For Breaking The Law, Washington’s Sweeping Crime Wave Exposes The City’s Distorted Priorities, Court Stands By Decision Rejecting Undated Pennsylvania Mail Ballots, In Blow To Left-Wing Activists, Federal Agency Had ‘Pallets’ Of Documents Sent To Mar-A-Lago One Year Before DOJ Raid, and Poll: Election-Shifting Percentage Of Voters Admit To Illegal Voting In 2020
Mark Steyn: The Three Rs

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The ‘Moorish Sovereign Citizen’ Menace

Posted on | April 30, 2024 | No Comments

Say hello to William Hardison of Pittsburgh and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say goodbye, because he died last August in a six-hour shootout with police “in which it is estimated thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired.” Hardison had a lengthy criminal record and some unusual legal theories:

Defense attorney T. Brent McCune, who represented Hardison in [a 2019 criminal] case, said he hadn’t spoken to Hardison since he was sentenced [to probation in 2022] but remembered his client well.
“I remember him pacing around my conference table, sweat pouring off his brow,” the attorney said, describing Hardison as “a very intense person, hard to handle, stubborn.
“It’s kind of his way or no way,” McCune said.
McCune recounted Hardison’s belief that he was a Moorish citizen.
Hardison believed that if he pulled out his Moroccan flag, it was a free pass or, as McCune described it, an “innate sovereign right to travel that the state, PennDOT, the federal government could not infringe on.”
A video posted on YouTube in May 2019 shows Hardison in a confrontation with Pittsburgh police, repeatedly telling people he is a Moor and waving a Moroccan flag out the window of a white pickup. Moorish sovereign citizens believe a fictitious 1787 treaty between the United States and Morocco grants them immunity from U.S. law, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“You got no jurisdiction over me. We are Moors,” Hardison could be heard saying in the 2019 video.

Now say hello to John Jones Bey of Indianapolis, who was arrested in August 2017 after an armed standoff with a SWAT team:

An Indianapolis man who believes the laws don’t apply to him and once sued the state for $11.5 billion was arrested Monday [August 7, 2017] after a three-hour SWAT standoff.
John Jones Bey, 52, is facing three counts of attempted murder and three counts of criminal recklessness for his alleged role in the incident that played out Monday morning in the 3400 block of Kinnear Avenue.
According to a police report of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Bey fired gunshots at three Center Township constables as they attempted to serve him an eviction order.
IMPD officers responded around 9:30 a.m. Monday, and the SWAT team was called in to assist when the armed Bey refused to leave his home.
After more than three hours, Bey peacefully surrendered, police said. No one was injured during the incident, and officers at the scene recovered the handgun that Bey is accused of firing at the constables.
According to a February decision from the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Bey considers himself a “sovereign citizen,” meaning that he does not believe the laws apply to him. He also does not believe that he can be lawfully taxed in the absence of a contract between him and the state.
Bey, who describes himself as an “Aboriginal Indigenous Moorish-American,” previously filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana what he labeled a “Writ of Mandamus.” Within it Bey was seeking to enjoin state and county officials from taxing property that he owns in Marion County.
Court documents said Bey also asked that state officials be ordered to refund the taxes that he’d paid and to compensate him for their alleged wrongs. He determined that the district court should award him $11.5 billion to cover the 40 years of taxes and the mental anguish caused by the taxation.

We shall return to the case of Mr. Bey in a moment, but first let me bring you some news from this weekend in Polk County, Florida:

Two Polk County deputies are in the ICU after being shot early Saturday by a man who Sheriff Grady Judd said was a sovereign citizen that was killed when backup deputies returned fire.
Around 12:22 a.m., a deputy assigned to Hunt Fountain Park due to its designation as a burglary hotspot noticed a vehicle there despite the park’s 10 p.m. closing time, Judd said at a news conference Saturday morning. The deputy approached the vehicle and spoke with the man inside, asking him why he was in the park, yet the sheriff said he wouldn’t cooperate.
“At this point, he’s resisting a law enforcement officer in the performance of their duty. He’s also violating a county ordinance,” Judd said. “She retreats to her vehicle and she asks for additional backup because he is resisting her. At that time, among other deputies, Lt. Chad Anderson arrives, and Deputy Sheriff Craig Smith.”
Judd said there were a total of four deputies and two trainees working the scene when the shooting occurred.
“Little did they realize at that moment in time that this was a sovereign citizen. He was Moorish, and Moorish sovereign citizens are known to believe that federal law, state law, local law does not apply to them. They are known to resist law enforcement and there is a history where they shoot police officers,” Judd said. “So they started trying to take our suspect out of the vehicle when he produced the gun and started shooting.”
Lt. Anderson was shot in the arm and the bullet went into his chest while Deputy Smith suffered four gunshot wounds, Judd said.
“Lt. Anderson got some rounds off. The backup deputies shot a lot, and we don’t know how much yet, we’re in the initial stages of crime scene investigations and we can report that to you later, but we killed the suspect,” Judd said. “We killed him graveyard dead and we killed him dead in a gunfight, a firefight with our deputies who had no idea they were dealing with anyone other than someone being in the park after the park closed, being suspicious and resisting our efforts to identify why they were in the area.”

Monday, Sheriff Judd identified the deceased suspect as 26-year-old California native Kyran Caples, a/k/a “Kmac El Bey”:

Judd went on to say that the suspect was homeless and had recently been evicted from Hillsborough County and was recently asked to leave a business area in Pinellas County last month.
When investigators contacted the suspect’s mother she said she didn’t know Kmac El Bey. Instead, she said she knows Kyran Caples, her son. She told investigators that he went to Fresno State to study business and left after three years.
“He was apparently radicalized at Fresno State,” Judd explained.

I’ve written several times about the more general “sovereign citizen” threat (e.g., Chase Allen and Geronimo Kee), and in 2016 I blogged about a “Moorish” cop-killer in Louisiana:

The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach, nutritionist, author and spiritual advisor.” . . .
[Gavin] Long officially filed paperwork in Jackson County, Missouri, last year declaring himself Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, a “sovereign citizen” of the United Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur nation, a loosely affiliated network of mostly African Americans who claim to be Native American and don’t believe the U.S. government has jurisdiction over them.

From Wikipedia:

The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a sovereign state of Native Americans within the boundaries of the United States of America. Their name is appropriated from that of the Ouachita tribe, who are also eponymous of the Washita River and of Washita, Oklahoma. The group is part of the sovereign citizen movement, whose members generally believe that they are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state, or municipal levels.
The Washitaw Nation was headed by Verdiacee Hampton Goston (also known as Verdiacee Turner, and as Empress Verdiacee Tiari Washitaw Turner Goston El-Bey, c. 1927–2014). She was mayor of Richwood, Louisiana in 1975 and 1976, and again from 1980 to 1984, and is the author of the self-published book Return of the Ancient Ones (1993). Goston asserted that the United Nations “registers the Washitaw as indigenous people No. 215”.

These claims are entirely fictitious, a bogus mythology invented by semi-literate criminal crackpot scammers:

On the morning of March 21, 2000, the self-proclaimed “empress” of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah — a group that claims sovereignty over a 30 million-acre empire in Louisiana and neighboring states — was about to eat breakfast when the doorbell rang.
On her doorstep were armed agents from the FBI, the IRS, the U.S. Customs Service and the State Police. Acting on search warrants, agents seized a variety of documents in connection with an investigation regarding income tax evasion, mail fraud and wire fraud. . . .
[Verdiacee] Gotson confirmed agents seized a variety of documents available to people who seek citizenship in the Washitaw Nation. Washitaw passports, marriage licenses, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates were available for purchase by Washitaw citizens. A full membership in the Washitaw Nation cost up to $520 per person at the time of the raid, according to reports.
Goston claimed the legitimacy of her claims had been recognized by agencies such as World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and the State of Louisiana.

There is no basis in fact for the assertion that black people in Louisiana (or anywhere else) are descended from the Ouachita tribe (or any other Native American group), nor that they are “Moors” from Morocco (or Mauritania for that matter). All these claims were invented for fraudulent purposes, e.g., the scam of selling fictitious “citizenship” for $520.

As previously promised, we now return to John Jones Bey of Indianapolis, who filed a federal lawsuit claiming to be owed $11 billion — yes, billion, with a “B” — a suit that was laughed out of court, and rejected on appeal by the Seventh Circuit. In dismissing the case, Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner wrote about “persons describing themselves as sovereign citizens by virtue of their alleged Moorish origin”:

Most of them are African Americans who belong to the Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA) and claim to be descendants of the Moors of northern Africa, though they are not; Moors are of mixed Berber and Arab descent rather than being African American in the usual sense of being descended from black Africans. The original purpose of MSTA, founded in the 1920s by Noble Drew Ali, whose followers call themselves “Moors” in place of more conventional designations such as “Black,” “African American,” and “colored,” was to claim government “recognition and respect as full citizens rather than the second-class descendants of slaves.” . . . MSTA focuses on “uplifting” its followers, and encourages them to vote in U.S. elections so that they can escape “political slavery.” . . .
The MSTA home office, located in Washington D.C., has issued a statement clarifying that the organization is neither “a Sovereign Citizen movement [n]or a Tax Protestor Movement” and that it was not founded “for its members to become anarchist or conspiracy theorist[s].” . . . A MSTA temple in Georgia denounces sovereign-citizen propaganda as “completely asinine” and asks that Moors not “adopt[?] the ideals of these European groups who at their core, hate [Moors’] very existence.” . . .
But clearly, sovereign-citizen ideas appeal to many [self-described] Moors, who combine those ideas with Ali’s teachings in an effort to reclaim and rewrite black history. For example, the “Moors Order of the Roundtable” uses eighteenth-century treaties with Morocco to distinguish “Free Moors” from Africans who could be enslaved and teaches that courts have no jurisdiction over Moors. Nelson, ‘Sovereigns’ in Black, supra. Other groups claim that their Moorish nationality gives them the status in the United States of an indigenous people, although the logic behind this claim is deeply obscure.. . . Renita Bey teaches that Europeans are latecomers and Moors never granted them citizenship. . . . She teaches her followers that they are “Muurs” from “Muu” who traveled to North America before Africans did, when the world had only one continent. Many sovereign citizen organizations teach that whenever a Moor’s name is spelled in capital letters in a government document, the name identifies not the individual but instead his “corporate shell identity,” or in other words a “straw man” controlled by the government. . . .
Although the Moorish Science Temple does not buy the “sovereign citizen” line, many of its members do. Many of them argue, without any basis in fact, that as a result of eighteenth-century treaties the United States has no jurisdiction over its Moorish inhabitants, who are therefore under no obligation to pay taxes.

This is a fairly concise summary of the “Moorish” mythology, which appeals primarily to ignorant and/or mentally unbalanced people. These credulous fools are flattered by the grandiose conception of themselves as being something superior to ordinary black people, rather like certain white supremacists who fancy themselves the rightful heirs of the Knights Templar or some other aristocratic medieval order.

Preferring a bogus mythology over actual history is irrational, pointing toward deep-rooted psychiatric problems. Crazy ideas attract crazy people, making it difficult to unravel cause and effect. Does this “Moorish” nonsense make people crazy, or were they crazy to begin with? Probably it’s a little of both, but the bottom line is, by the time one of these imaginary “Moors” gets into a confrontation with law enforcement, there’s a risk of deadly violence, because Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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