SECURITY OPERATIONS WITH A COALITION FORCE

By JIM ARROYO

Some time back, Stewart Rhodes asked me to write an article for  the national web site on the security operations we do here in Arizona.  About 2-3 years ago I developed a program we call Operation Braveheart.  This is a coalition of Oath Keepers, III%’s, militia, prepper groups, and many other patriot groups in the State of Arizona.  One group we recruited, known as the Arizona Liberty Guard (AZLG), formed a corporation and a private security company.  This group has worked with the Phoenix Police Department and the Department of Public Safety on several operations.  AZLG and Oath Keepers developed a good working relationship and, as a result, AZLG voted unanimously to join the Braveheart Coalition.

We have since done joint operations in conjunction with the Phoenix Police Department.  When DPS has requested AZLG assistance, they have stated they wanted a high profile presence as a deterrent.  And AZLG is a sight to see when they roll up on the event to provide perimeter and internal security.  They own several military vehicles, including a 5-ton.  They are so squared away that they have been mistaken for the National Guard.  We’re talking matching uniforms with unit patches and full load out.  Arizona OK’s Security Team and AZLG together number approximately 40-50 specially trained men who are capable of protecting a rather large venue.

The Oath Keepers Security Team is a more relaxed looking group, however they have an exceptional amount of experience with some very squared away military and law enforcement veterans.

We have run several operations in Phoenix for large groups, including a Trump Unity Rally, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio was speaking.  That rally brought ANTIFA activists, as well as other radical left wing groups to disrupt the event.  They were not successful.  They decided it would not be prudent to tangle with trained professionals.  The Phoenix Police Department, at the end of the event, told us they were very pleased with our performance and professionalism, and further stated  that we were the only volunteer group that they would work with in the future.  That’s the ultimate compliment from a large city Police Department.

Oath Keepers of Yavapai County, AZ, as well as Oath Keepers of Maricopa County, AZ, also provide much smaller teams to handle smaller venues and events.  Recently the Oath Keepers of Yavapai County have provided not only perimeter security, but also internal security, and personal protection for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is running for the U.S. Senate.  This was done in conjunction with the Arizona Rangers, a private security company who are uniformed and equipped to more resemble law enforcement.

At one recent event with Sheriff Joe, word got out to the local communists in Prescott that there would be a political rally and he would be there.  The local college put together a protest of about 60-70 people.  They started out with a “die-in” in protest of the Maricopa County Jail that Sheriff Arpaio is quite famous for running, and the reason why he is known as America’s toughest sheriff.  Then the communists held a protest out on the street with signs and banners near the entrance to the event.  Sheriff Arpaio went out and attempted to talk with them face to face about their issues.  They only shouted phrases loudly and refused to have any intelligent interaction with him.  It became quite heated, so the Oath Keepers formed up around the Sheriff for his safety.

When the event opened, the communists were permitted into the auditorium , which held about 200 participants.  They sat together at the back of the room.   This event was sponsored by two of our elected representatives to the Arizona State House, who were also present.  They appealed to the audience to be respectful and not to disrupt the presentations.  All went smoothly for about 45 minutes, when cell phone alarms started going off, and the communists stood up and began chanting, shouting down the speakers.  This is on tape and posted on the IGD (It’s Going Down) website.

If interested, watch the video and you will see our team protecting the dignitaries.  After a short while, the Sheriff was escorted out of the room (but he did not leave the venue).  The Oath Keepers Team escorted the communists out of the auditorium and off the premises.  The Sheriff returned to the auditorium and finished his program.  Several communists remained seated though there were no further interruptions.

Appreciation was expressed from the podium for the actions of the Oath Keepers and the Rangers to bring order back to the event, to loud applause.  The Oath Keepers were asked at the end of the event by Sheriff Joe Arpaio to come up on the stage and take a picture with him.  He did the same with the Arizona Rangers.

When finished, we escorted the Sheriff to his vehicle to make sure he could leave in safety.   There was much discussion of the event in local media and on local talk radio programs, with mentions of the Oath Keepers and the Arizona Rangers being there to back down the disruptors.

There was another Sheriff Arpaio event in our area within a month.  It was an invitation-only event, but the organizers were concerned about possible disruptions.  The Oath Keepers were called, along with the Arizona Rangers, for security.  The venue was swept prior to the event, and teams were positioned all around the perimeter.  When the Sheriff arrived, he expressed  his appreciation at again seeing these groups there to keep the peace.  Fortunately, there were no disruptions.  Some thought that they had seen some interested people drive by but, upon seeing the security teams, they decided not to enter the venue, and it was speculated that it may have been because of the successful expulsion of disruptors from the previous event.

The bottom line is that no one group or organization can handle every event. The concept is to work within a coalition of groups to present a much larger show of force, thereby mitigating the need for violence. Some times a simple Psy-Op is quite effective as well. However if things do get out of control, it is nice to have a viable force to fall back on.

Jim Arroyo
Arizona State V.P.
Arizona CPT Director
Yavapai County Coordinator

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Minutemen, Oath Keepers, CA State Militia, on the California Border

Gathering aims to relaunch Minutemen, fortify border, in response to caravan.

Operation Cinco de Mayo: In this video from the San Diego Union Tribune the founder of the Minutemen, former California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly explains why he called for the muster on the border of California and Mexico. The groups that responded to the call were Minutemen, Oath Keepers, and the California State Militia. Tim Donnelly is currently running for Congress.

At the end of the San Diego Union-Tribune excerpt are photos by Lisa Collins. Wonder what the border actually looks like? See the photos below. There are plans to continue these operations on our southern border.

From the article by by Bradley J. Fikes for the San Diego Union-Tribune:

Pledging to report unauthorized entries into the United States — and shame any state leaders who welcome them — about 20 border security supporters assembled Saturday morning near Jamul.

The group, including members of the Minuteman patrol movement, coordinated volunteers to watch designated border regions for 24 hours.

Their vigil, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, was meant to help federal officers, Minuteman leader Tim Donnelly said.

By reporting unauthorized border crossings, the observers hope to help outnumbered border officers, Donnelly said. He is a Republican candidate for the 8th congressional district, which covers much of the desert area north of Imperial County.

The border-watching exercise was in part a reaction to the caravan of Central Americans who traveled through Mexico to enter the U.S. at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, said Donnelly, a former assemblyman.

Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune A group of border security supporters put on their gear in preparation for heading to the U.S. – Mexican border to observe and report any signs of illegal immigration to the U.S. Border Patrol.

It was also meant as a warning to Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the California Values Act, which limits law enforcement in the state from certain kinds of cooperation with federal immigration officials. The law has been criticized as an effort to make California a sanctuary for unauthorized immigrants.

“My hope is that we will reignite the (Minuteman) movement and that people will again be aiding (border agents) for longer periods of time, longer musters,” Donnelly said.

The camouflage-dressed volunteers, wearing boots, bringing backpacks and other wilderness gear, were instructed on safety such as avoiding rattlesnakes before heading out from Pio Pico campground.

Volunteers were told to avoid confrontations with border crossers if possible, and to help those in distress.

“There is no animus toward those who are crossing desperate, you know, to escape oppression,” Donnelly said. “But at the same time, among those people come through wolves, people who mean harm people like Luis Bracamontes, who was just recently sentenced to death here in California for executing two sheriff’s deputies up in Sacramento.”

While expressing sympathy for plight of border crossers, Donnelly and others blasted Brown, who they said has violated his oath of office.

“This is not about waving American flags,” Donnelly said. “This is about actually securing the border and sending a message to the political authorities, to Jerry Brown.

“I dare Jerry Brown to come down and arrest me, because you might get arrested down here for being a tyrant, for being a traitor, for aiding and abetting illegal aliens and harboring them in violation of federal law, which is the supreme law of the land when it comes to immigration.”

Read more at The San Diego Union-Tribune

Photos by Lisa Collins, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. of CA, who handled the logistics for Tim Donnelly:

Securing the border with the Minutemen, Oath Keepers and Militia at Patriot Point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.

On Law Day, we celebrate our Nation’s heritage of liberty, justice, and equality under the law.  This heritage is embodied most powerfully in our Constitution, the longest surviving document of its kind.  The Constitution established a unique structure of government that has ensured to our country the blessings of liberty through law for nearly 229 years.

The Framers of our Constitution created a government with distinct and independent branches — the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial — because they recognized the risks of concentrating power in one authority.  As James Madison wrote, “the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”  By separating the powers of government into three co-equal branches and giving each branch certain powers to check the others, the Constitution provides a framework in which the rule of law has flourished.

The importance of the rule of law can be seen throughout our Nation’s history.  This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution.  The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits States from denying persons the equal protection of the laws or depriving them of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.  The commitment to the rule of law that led the country to ratify that Amendment was no less powerful than the commitment to the rule of law that led the country to ratify the original Constitution.

That commitment to the rule of law lives on today.  It drives the debates we see around the country about the growth of the administrative state and regulatory authority, and about the unfortunate trend of district court rulings that exceed traditional limits on the judicial power.  We also see that commitment in the people’s demand that their representatives comply with the Constitution, and in the Representatives and Senators themselves who take seriously their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower first commemorated Law Day in 1958 to celebrate our Nation’s roots in the principles of liberty and guaranteed fundamental rights of individual citizens under the law.  Law Day recognizes that we govern ourselves in accordance with the rule of law rather according to the whims of an elite few or the dictates of collective will.  Through law, we have ensured liberty.  We should not, and do not, take that success for granted.  On this 60th annual observance of Law Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the rule of law as the best means to secure, as the Preamble to our Constitution so wisely states, “the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in accordance with Public Law 87–20, as amended, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2018, as Law Day, U.S.A.  I urge all Americans, including government officials, to observe this day by reflecting upon the importance of the rule of law in our Nation and displaying the flag of the United States in support of this national observance; and I especially urge the legal profession, the press, and the radio, television, and media industries to promote and to participate in the observance of this day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.

DONALD J. TRUMP

www.whitehouse.gov

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Active LEO Speaks Out on the NY unSAFE Act

by Mert Melfa Media

Poughkeepsie Police Officer: “I REFUSE TO ENFORCE THE NY SAFE ACT”!

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Sheriff’s Association Weighs in Against CA Sanctuary State Laws

By Bob Egelko  4-6-2018

A law enforcement organization whose members include every county sheriff in California and across the nation threw its support Friday behind the Trump administration’s challenge to the state’s sanctuary laws, telling a federal judge that the laws interfere with immigration enforcement and could even subject local officers to criminal charges.

California “compels local law enforcement to violate federal law by concealing, harboring, or shielding illegal aliens,” the National Sheriffs’ Association said in a filing in federal court in Sacramento, where the Trump administration sued in March to overturn three new state laws that restrict local cooperation with federal immigration agents.

 The filing singled out provisions of one law, SB54, that prohibit local jail officials who are holding an undocumented immigrant in custody from notifying federal agents of the immigrant’s release date, or from transferring custody to immigration agents once the local sentence has been served. Those restrictions do not apply to immigrants held for serious or violent crimes.

By concealing an immigrant’s whereabouts from federal agents, and preventing them from taking custody, “SB54 coerces local law enforcement to violate the federal anti-harboring statute,” the sheriffs’ association said.

The association also said the state law was “intended to frustrate federal enforcement of immigration law” and conflicted with government statutes promoting “federal-state cooperation” on immigration. And by enacting “its own policy preferences about which foreign nationals should stay within the nation’s borders,” the sheriffs’ group said, California is interfering with the federal government’s “exclusive authority over foreign affairs.”

In its suit, the Trump administration is also challenging state laws that prohibit local employers from allowing immigration agents into private workplaces without a judicial warrant, and that allow the state attorney general to inspect detention centers that have contracted with the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting possible deportation.

More at SFGATE

Photo: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

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Calif Proposal: Limits When Police Can Shoot Suspects

By Faye Higbee  April 5, 2018

A Calif proposal seeks to change the standard for police officers from “reasonable force” to “necessary force.” What does that mean? It means police officers will no longer be able to shoot someone based on what appears to be a weapon.  It removes the presumption that police officers in “reasonable fear” for their lives can shoot a suspect. They must find a way to “defuse” situations or use non-lethal means of stopping a suspect.They have defined “necessary force” as when “there were no other reasonable alternatives to the use of deadly force.” That change could send more officers a) to the grave  or b) to prison. What they are really trying to do is make it easier to prosecute police for shooting someone they believe is a danger, since it is extremely difficult to prosecute police officers under the current standard.

“We should no longer be the target practice or victims of a shoot first, ask questions later police force.” Assemblyman Chris Holden, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus

Delayed responses

“The tougher proposed standard could require officers to delay confronting a suspect they fear may be armed until backup arrives or force police to give explicit verbal warnings that suspects will be killed unless they drop the weapon.” Lizzie Buchen, ACLU

Newsflash: Police officers are already trained to give “explicit verbal warnings.” There appear to be a lot of people who fail to heed them. The Stephon Clark shooting in Sacramento is part of the background on why this proposal was made. You can read about that incident here.

Delaying responses to a suspect who appears to be armed could end up with more police officers and bystanders being killed. It may also cause less officers to be recruited for positions within California departments. Some law enforcement departments are opposed to the changes.

“Officers already use deadly force only when necessary and are taught to try to defuse dangerous situations first when possible… Tinkering with legal protections for police could make it more difficult to hire officers and be dangerous because they may hesitate when confronting an armed suspect, threatening themselves and bystanders.” Ed Obayashi, Plmas County Deputy and Special Prosecutor

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CODE 3 Introduction to a SAR team – Search and Rescue

As long as people have been venturing out into the wilderness and getting lost, there have been those that have felt compelled to go save them. Usually these are individuals that have specialized training, skills, equipment, and the courage to venture into the worst possible terrain, at the worst possible times, in the worst possible weather. As with a lot of our first responder organizations, the systematic approach we have here in the US was born out of war. Early in the 20^th century, several nations needed to develop an approach to find and recover downed aircraft, ships, and missing soldiers. According to NASAR; “Contemporary SAR systems provide response for overdue, lost, injured, or stranded people in many environments.” My experience has all been in rural “wilderness” which is generally considered to be a region that is generally uninhabited and devoid of any manmade amenities. However, this can also describe other locations (even urban) that have suffered a disaster either manmade or natural, or a terrorist attack.

Search and Rescue was my first foray into my life as a first responder and it remains one of my favorites. There are SAR Teams (Search and Rescue) throughout the world, most of them run by the national military or government agencies. Here, in the US, we have a combination of local county, state, and federal agencies that work in a mutual support model for search and rescue responsibilities. According to Wikipedia; “In January 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the National Response Framework (NRF) which serves as the guiding document for a federal response during a national emergency. In addition to the NRF there are 15 annexes relating to Emergency Support Functions (ESF) which includes other federal agencies that contain resources or expertise to support an emergency. Search and Rescue is included as ESF-9 and divides SAR into 4 primary elements while assigning a federal agency with the lead role for each of the 4 elements.

• Structural Collapse-USAR: Department of Homeland Security, FEMA


• Waterborne: US Coast Guard, USCG Auxiliary


• Inland-wilderness: United States Department of Interior, National Park Service


• Aeronautical: United States Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, Civil Air Patrol, United States Air Force Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, US Navy (secondary missions for helicopter squadrons.)

In the US SAR standards are developed primarily by ASTM International and the US NFPA which are then used by organizations such as NASAR (National Association of Search and Rescue) to develop training that will meet or exceed those standards.”

In all reality, it would take a HUGE event for the federal agencies to step in and take over the incident command of a local SAR operation, possibly a Yellowstone caldera eruption or 9-11 type event. Usually, it is the local SAR teams in conjunction with other local first responder agencies that will be involved in a mutual aid scenario . In my neck of the woods, that can include local EMS, city PD, county sheriff deputies, border patrol, US Forest Service, and maybe the state patrol. We also have access to a couple of helicopter units, one that is a part of a life flight type service and one that specializes in SAR operations.

OK OK OK…. I know that was very dry, but we had to get that out of the way. Because in all reality being part of a local volunteer SAR team can be one of the most exciting parts of your life! Seriously, where else are you going to get to train and work with 4×4’s, quads, horses, K9’s, jet boats, snow mobiles, snow cats, rappelling, land navigation, austere emergency medicine, tracking, and maybe get to possibly save lives? You get this training from some of the best sources out there. I myself, have trained with county sheriff, local PD, EMS (to be fair I am on both teams), US Border Patrol, US Forest Service, and the Joel Hardin Visual Tracking System. These activities/trainings are things that many adrenaline-fueled personalities (like myself) would actually pay money for and yet they are almost always paid for by the team!

So, each SAR team in each local area is going to be organized differently as far as equipment and skill sets depending on their unique needs for their local area. I can only speak upon my experience on my own SAR team. Generally, a local volunteer SAR team is going to be a non-profit that falls under the jurisdiction of the local Sherriff as a volunteer organization. Being a non-profit it will have a board of directors, a training officer, and a safety officer. It will then be broken down into teams. For our team this consists of:

• 4×4 team


• boat team


• dive team


• swift water rescue team


• snowmobile team


• tracking team


• avalanche rescue


• rope team (rappelling)


• communications


• Incident Command

In order to become involved in my local SAR team, I first talked with a friend of mine that was already on the team. From him, I learned when the monthly membership meeting was and also found their web site. On the website, I down loaded and filled out a membership application.  I would suggest going to any of the meetings or trainings that they may have, that are open to the public. As part of my application process I had to go through a background check. Generally, if you have no felonies or recent lesser convictions you should be ok, but check with your local SAR team for their local protocols. I then went through an interview process talking about what sort of relevant experience I already had. For me most of that experience came from my involvement and training with the local CPT team in our area where we had covered land navigation, wilderness first aid, etc. They also asked if I would commit to getting my first aid/CPR certification and also study and test for my SAR Tech III certification and go through a year long probationary period before I would become a full voting member of the team. The SAR Tech certification system was first developed in 1991 by NASAR to evaluate three levels of search responders to that a measureable, consistent set of standards, and skills for both individual responders and teams could be had by incident commanders. The three levels are SAR Tech III, SAR Tech II and SAR Tech I / Crew-leader 3.

Again, the decision to join my local SAR team has been one of the most rewarding life choices I have made. It has lead me to a career as first responder among several teams. If you are already a member of your local CPT team I would strongly encourage you to look into plugging in and volunteering with one of your own local volunteer first responder teams.

I will be discussing in further articles the fundamentals that actually go into a Search and Rescue call out.

Spyder Thompson

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Public Apathy and the Erosion of Our Liberties

(Oath Keepers and a recent article, Gun Control is Racism, by Greg McWhirter are mentioned.)

Exclusive: Erik Rush urges Americans to stop accepting unconstitutional dictates.

by ERIK RUSH   March 7th, 2018

 

Last week in this space, primarily citing firearms laws and the nascent surveillance state in America, I criticized some on both the right and the left for their tendency to accept an inordinate degree of government intervention in certain areas when it served their particular ideology and Americans’ overall penchant for denial with regard to emerging government tyranny. Finally, I asserted that if we are to survive as a free nation – possibly even restoring some of the rights that have been usurped or diluted by our government – then we are going to have to become far more scrupulous with regard to our vigilance against tyranny, as well as becoming better informed as to what our constitutional rights actually are.

Despite much relief on the part of conservative and libertarian types following the election of Donald Trump and his proclivity for respecting constitutional law in more areas than most of his predecessors in recent memory, we must be (or become) aware that we are still in a fight for our lives, constitutionally-speaking, and that progressivism is very much alive and well in America.

Today I would like to challenge Americans’ tendency to summarily accept the doctrines of institutional orthodoxies, such as certain laws and conventions. There are many dangers associated with such behavior; an extreme example might be German citizens in the 1940s who had nothing in particular against Jews, but who turned their Jewish neighbors in to the Gestapo simply because it was “the law of the land.” When people become slaves to the doctrines of institutional orthodoxies, there is a very real danger of their losing their humanity.

American citizens have been living in a sort of retrogressive groove in this sense for at least a century, as they accept or ignore the myriad laws and dictates of regulatory agencies that chip away their individual liberties.

There are any number of laws and conventions I might use to illustrate this, but some will resonate more readily than others either due to their gravity, or because they have come to light in the recent past.

Firearms laws are far and away among the most dangerous of these. I have repeatedly cited the fact that even those gun control measures most Americans deem “reasonable” have severely eroded our Second Amendment rights, as well as often containing insidious “poison pills” therein that restrict Americans’ right to keep and bear arms far more than the ostensible intention sold to the public at the time of their implementation. I have pointed out that federal law bars many people who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes as well as people who have been institutionalized for any mental issues, voluntarily or involuntarily (a woman’s nervous breakdown after a rape, for example), from ever owning or possessing firearms or ammunition. Look it up.

A “controversial” sheriff recently declared that the Second Amendment is the only concealed carry permit any citizen needs, and in fact there are 12 states in which the law reflects this. And then there are the Oath Keepers, a constitutionally conscious organization of law enforcement personnel that is active in every state in the Union; some of its members will refrain from arresting individuals whom they discover carrying concealed firearms without a permit despite the law, unless they happen to have outstanding warrants or something of that nature.

A little-known fact is that the first gun control laws in America had their roots in racist practices, as Oath Keepers Board of Directors member Gregg McWhirter points out in his article “Gun Control is Racism.”

 

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Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas gives truth-filled speech on our right to self defense

Deligate Nick Freitas spoke after Democrats compared Republicans to Nazis and segregationists for blocking gun control legislation. He is a Republican from Culpeper, Virginia, and he is currently running to unseat U.S. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.

There have been a lot of speeches on our right to defend ourselves and  the 2nd Amendment. This is my favorite so far.

 

A must watch

Posted by S. Chris Anders on Friday, March 2, 2018

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Texas Churches May Establish and Maintain Their Own Security Teams

by Eric Inman

Ten years ago, a private security company in Texas posed a question to the TX dept. of public safety – whether churches were subject to the regulations of occupational code section 1702, which regulate and license  private security companies.  The resulting opinion was that, yes, they were.

From that time forward, Texas churches were honor-bound to not operate armed security teams – unless team members held private security certifications, and were under the authority of a private security certificate holder’s license. 

The same company that posed the question immediately launched their solution: They would train church volunteers for armed security teams,  the church would pay for all the training, plus – churches would pay the company an hourly rate for any hours worked by the volunteers – who, essentially became unpaid employees of the company. The obvious implication was that the company planned this sweetheart deal all along.

Churches all over Texas were compelled to tell their retired law enforcement professionals, and others, who made up their volunteer teams, that they could no longer serve. Now, only active duty LEO’s, and/or level 4 (armed, 40 hours training) security officers could participate. Not surprisingly, many or most law enforcement retirees, with thousands of hours of training and experience, refused to become a private security guard for that purpose. Several of those honorably retired law enforcement professionals testified at various hearings during the past two legislative sessions. Additionally, not many of the approximately 24,000 evangelical Christian churches in Texas could afford to pay for this scheme… and the results were:  a) Churches ignored the opinion and continued to operate their teams, b) They complied, or, c) They disbanded their armed teams or never formed one.

Fortunately, in September 2017 that all changed. Due to the efforts of Rep. Matt Rinaldi, Rep. Matt Schaefer, and many others, HB421 was passed (under another bill as an add-on), which removed “places of worship” from the 1702 security regulations.

Happily, churches may now – without governmental interference – establish and maintain their own security teams, armed or otherwise.

E. Inman

Sr. Special Agent, USNPS, (Ret.)

Featured photo: Screen shot of Eric Inman testifying before the Texas House of Representatives Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee, March 7, 2017.  Homeland Security & Public Safety – Mar 7th, 2017

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Florida Rapid Motion Murder – The Need for More Warriors

by Brian Krogmann

One September morning a few years ago I entered an office building in Washington DC. I immediately was faced with thousands of employees running out the doors I was trying to get in.

Strobing fire alarm lights, the klaxon of the alarm and screams nearly overwhelmed the senses. I began to square breathe as I was trained to do, and picked out the sounds of a shotgun coming from the floors above.

I went hunting for a killer.

Was I scared? More like anger that someone would come to MY city with this destruction. I took the stairs three at a time, and not once in four flights did I stop to think about what I had to lose. I thought about closing with the killer and stopping the death.

 

Since Columbine, we don’t form perimeters and hunker down waiting for a SWAT team. It’s too costly. In lives.

We may take a second and don a plate carrier with extra magazines and a blow out kit and grab our helmets but goddammit we don’t hunker down behind our patrol cars while our children are murdered! Some things are just bigger than us and dammit that’s one of them.

When you put that uniform on, you better damn well be ready to stand and deliver every single time. If you’re marking time until retirement put your damn papers in and make way, but until then you better be ready.

I call for the resignation of the sheriff, whoever runs the school police department and all their supervisors.

Make way for warriors. Men and women who run to the sound of the guns in shorts and t shirts with an off duty weapon.

Warriors.

Lieutenant Brian Krogmann

USA (RET)

Retired Police Lieutenant

John Wayne said it best…

 

 

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Ohio Sheriff Offers Free Gun Training To 50 Teachers

Forced To Cap At 300 After Huge Response

by Tyler Durden   2/25/2018

An Ohio sheriff who offered free firearms training to 50 teachers was forced to cap his offer at 300, after a flood of local school employees signed up in the wake of a Florida high school shooting that left 17 people dead.

“We put it online, we thought we’d get 20 school teachers maybe. Within 20 minutes we had 40. Within an hour we had 100. Within four hours we had 200. By the next morning, at 300, we cut it off,” Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said on “Fox & Friends.”

The Parkland, FL shooting has renewed a national debate on the Second Amendment. Sheriff Jones noted that only a few schools in Ohio allow the concealed carry of a firearm, and that the plan to arm teachers would only work if “the school boards have the guts to make it a reality.” Jones suggested that school staffers should go through mandatory firearms training to help them identify the sounds of gunfire.

“We have to do something here because we can’t wait for our government to do anything. All they do is fight, they get nothing done,” he said.

 

Read more at Zerohedge

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Let’s Talk About The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting

Why do you suppose this boy fell through the disciplinary cracks so many times? Was it by design?

by  Jacque Guinan

This was an incredibly heart-breaking event. Hearts and prayers across the nation are lifted up to these children and their parents/families. Every day across the nation, parents send their children off to school, as they have for centuries. Up until recently, it has never been even a fleeting concern that their children may not return home at the end of the day. Why now? What has changed?

As more and more details emerge regarding this most recent event; a picture is developing. It is a shocking, devastating, hard to accept picture. We see failures and mistakes that would ultimately culminate into an unimaginable tragedy – Failures and mistakes; or are they?

Let’s venture back to 2013. Here is a quote from Nikolas Cruz’s disciplinary reports, obtained by Miami Herald:

Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he’d been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.

Records show the behaviors continued at Marjory Stoneman Douglas [High School], which he attended in 2016 and 2017 before being transferred, with discipline being dispensed for fighting, profanity, and an “assault.” It appears the Jan. 19, 2017 assault resulted in a referral for a “threat assessment.” A few months later, Cruz landed at an Off Campus Learning Center, where he remained for only about five months.

Why do you suppose this boy fell through the disciplinary cracks so many times? Was it by design?

Let’s go back a little further, to 2011. A familiar name appears – Trayvon Martin. In neighboring Miami-Dade School District. Trayvon was observed on surveillance cameras in 2011, in an unauthorized area “hiding and being suspicious” – Immediately after, he was observed “marking up” a door. The next day, his backpack was searched, looking for a graffiti marker. Instead, what was found was a bunch of womens’ jewelry and a screwdriver that was described as, “a burglary tool”. Without going into a lot of detail; let’s just say that this crime and others were lied about, police reports falsified and evidence hidden, in order to cover up the crimes.

Why?

Here is a Conservative Treehouse article outlining the “backpack incident of Trayvon Martin

Here are the Sworn affidavits of police officers claiming they are instructed to look the other way, destroy/hide evidence, and falsify reports:

1.)  Affidavit of Sergeant William Tagle

2.)  Affidavit of Detective Steven Hadley

3.)  Affidavit of Commander Deanna Fox-Williams

4.)  Affidavit of Sergeant Lourdes Hodges

5.)  Affidavit of Detective Gylamar Ochoa

6.)  Affidavit of Sergeant Bradley Rosh 

Apparently, in order to improve criminal statistics within the school systems of Miami-Dade and Broward counties; the schools intentionally created policies that would culminate into the mass shooting that occurred. Why??

In August of 2012 President Obama had issued an Executive Order and Federal Education Policy establishing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence. Effectively placing “quotas” on school discipline based on race and financially rewarding schools with federal grants who bring down their disciplinary and arrest numbers.

Broward county went even further by completely halting arresting students and changing their policy of suspension.

To put it in perspective:

In 2011/2012 Broward County School Administration made a policy decision to block the arrests of students in order to improve their education statistics.

In 2013 Broward County School Administration was warned what was happening as a result of the policy as more and more serious crimes were being committed and overlooked.

In 2015 The school continued with their “Diversionary Policies” and allowed students to break the law without legal consequence

In 2017 Nikolas Cruz criminally assaulted someone – law enforcement was blocked, repeatedly, by school policy. The sheriffs’ department was contacted over 20 times regarding concerns over Nikolas Cruz.

In 2018 Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 students/faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS and injured several more.

Again, why? Why would a school superintendent and a sheriffs’ department blatantly ignore crime and avoid the prosecution of criminal offenders? Nikolas Cruz had shown violent tendencies repeatedly – police were called to his home, repeatedly.

One month before the shooting, there were even phone calls to the FBI tip line – twice – warning that Nikolas Cruz was “going to explode” FBI transcripts show that a girl close to Cruz had called and said she was terrified that Cruz would “get into a school and just shoot the place up”. Cruz had been posting violent messages on his instagram – at first saying he wanted to kill himself; and then switching to a desire to kill other people. The caller went on to describe that Cruz had been cutting up frogs and birds; which she called “a red flag” Why would they ignore this?

One of the motivations to “ignore” illegal activities in the schools, is funding and grants. The school administrators wanted to improve their statistics in order to qualify for state and federal grant money. So, they entered into an agreement with the top LEO officials to stop arresting students for crimes; as noted by the 6 LEO whistle blowers previously linked.

As if things were not bad enough with a school administration and sheriffs’ department adopting policies of “look the other way”; We find out that not just one, but a total of 4 Sheriffs’ Deputies were outside of the school at the time of the shooting. 1 by the front of the building with a clear view of the lobby and 3 others hiding behind their cars, with their guns drawn. Why? Why did they not go in and confront the shooter?

When Coral Springs police officer showed up on the scene, they said they were “stunned and upset” to learn that 4 Broward County Sheriffs’ deputies were stationed outside the building and had not gone inside to engage the shooter. Some even went so far as to call it a “derilection of duty”. Even when the Coral Springs officers went inside the building, the Broward county officers did not join them. Why?

The question needs to be asked; why was there disciplinary action against one deputy and not the other 3? Could it have been because only one was caught on camera?

Where is the CCTV camera footage from the school and what does it show? Where is the Uber driver who supposedly dropped Nikolas Cruz off at the school the morning of the shooting? What was in the large black bodybag that police carried from the building during the shooting and threw in the back of a truck? What happened to Alexa Miednik who was interviewed the day of the shooting and claimed to have been walking down the hall with Nikolas Cruz as gunshots were going off in another part of the building? Why are there several witnesses claiming there was more than one shooter? Who is paying for these kids to travel around the nation in expensive charter buses to rally and demand gun control? Why are they wearing ear-pieces when they speak-who is giving them talking points? These are all relevant questions we need to be demanding answers to because as more information comes out; the official narrative is looking less and less believable.

Lastly, does it seem even slightly suspicious that this sheriff:

A) Allowed crime within his county school system to be actively covered up and to go unpunished and therefore escalate.

B) Ignored multiple warnings of a violently troubled individual within the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS. Including warnings that he had bought a gun and had made open threats to “shoot up the school”

C) Supervised 4 deputies who failed to engage an active shooter as he took aim at over 20 innocent children and unarmed faculty.

D) Refused to accept any responsibility and instead placed the blame on the shoulders of the NRA organization and on top of that, openly calls for gun restriction and confiscation laws, immediately after the shooting.

Is it surprising that this sheriff has been referred to as “best friends” with Debbie Wasserman-Shultz? Is it surprising that this sheriff actively volunteered for the HRC presidential campaign and has been pictured with numerous vocal anti-gun politicians? Curiously, there are no corresponding pictures of the sheriff with conservative politicians.

There are numerous inconsistencies emerging in regards to this tragic event; with each piece of the puzzle being even more alarming than the last. We need to deeply question this situation. We need to locate and follow the money trail and ask some really tough questions about not only how and why this tragedy was permitted to occur; but what events lead up to it, who is profiting from it and what political agenda motives may have played a part.

Redoubt News

 

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Heroic Police Officer Charged into Douglas High School in Shorts and T-Shirt to Save Lives

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week has brought into sharp focus the way warning signs were ignored. Yet, as more details emerge, authorities are having to explain why some armed deputies didn’t confront the shooter. While the sheriff is issuing profuse apologies for his deputies’ actions, another agency is looking exceptionally heroic.

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A second department responded to the emergency, though. The Coral Springs Police Department arrived at the high school and found the sheriff’s deputies hiding behind their cars. So Coral Springs led the way.

As word of this spread, tensions are rising. The day after the shooting, officers from Coral Springs and Broward Country attended a candlelit vigil for victims.

“Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum angrily confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel,” The Daily Mail reports, “in front of a dozen witnesses, over the claims that Israel’s officers had remained outside the high school while students could have been bleeding out inside.”

“Given the horrific events of that day, emotions were running high and the sheriff and I had a heated moment the following evening,” Goodrum told CNN.

“Sheriff Israel and I have spoken several times since and I can assure you that our departments have a good working relationship and the utmost respect for each other.”

That, though, seems to be an effort to calm tensions that are continuing to escalate.

Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi (above) sent an internal email that expressed his department’s frustrations.

“I understand that another agency has given the impression that it had provided the majority of the rescue efforts, and that the tremendous work of the Coral Springs Police and Fire Departments has not been recognized,” he said in the email.

“Please know that this issue will be addressed, and the truth will come out in time.”

Well now the truth is out, and the heroism of the Coral Springs Police deserves to be mentioned.

We can now thank Sgt. Jeff Heinrich of the Coral Springs Police Department. Sgt. Heinrich was off duty and unarmed at the time of the shooting. He has close ties to the school, and was actually on campus, watering a baseball field, when the shooting started.

Sgt. Heinrich’s wife is an assistant athletic director at the school. His son is a student. Sgt. Heinrich was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and was unarmed.

When the fire alarm went off, he didn’t think it was unusual. The panic that ensued changed his mind. When he heard shots, he ran toward the sound of the gunfire. On his way to the school, he found a student who had been shot in the leg. Sgt. Heinrich moved the boy to a dugout and stabilized him with supplies in the baseball team’s first-aid kit.

He then ran back to the school. There, he met a Coral Springs SWAT team member who had extra gear. Sgt. Heinrich threw on an extra vest (one that wasn’t rated to stop rifle fire). The SWAT officer handed over his sidearm so Sgt. Heinrich wouldn’t be unarmed, and they entered the building.

Sgt. Heinrich ran into the chaos. He didn’t wait outside. The officers from Coral Springs led the way. Behind them, paramedics were able to triage and treat the wounded. The SWAT medics from Coral Springs provided crucial support.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Department went in after Coral Springs. This isn’t an attempt to minimize the contributions of those deputies, but to celebrate the heroism of those that took the lead.

Here’s the video of Sgt. Heinrich talking through his actions. It takes him a while to regain his composure.

Read more plus photos and video at Tribunist.com

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Broward County Sheriff Under Fire – Should he be removed?

By Faye Higbee  2-24-2018

Does Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel need to resign? Recent revelations appear to reveal a serious flaw in the department’s “law enforcement” methods. A resident of Broward County is calling for the Sheriff Israel’s removal as well as the school board, all of whom he holds responsible for the massacre on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. And he is right, there is more than a smoking gun in this travesty.

“I call on Governor Rick Scott to suspend from office, pursuant to Section 7 of the Florida Constitution, Sheriff Israel, Superintendent Runcie, all members of the school board of Broward County and DCF Secretary Carroll for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, incompetence, and permanent inability to perform official duties and appoint replacements that will ensure the safety of our children.” Wayne Alder, attorney, in the Coral Springs Talk.

The Coral Springs paper wrote,

“School Board Superintendent Robert Runcie admitted the school board was aware that Cruz, who was diagnosed as emotionally disabled, was transferred from a special behavioral center to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 2016, even though educators were aware even before the move that Cruz was preoccupied with guns, violence and people being killed.”

Deaths of students directly lie at the foot of the school and the Sheriff

Breitbart wrote that another report released on Friday revealed that THREE other Broward County Deputies stood outside the building where the  carnage was taking place and still failed to enter to stop the perpetrator. That makes FOUR. As we previously reported, SRO Scot Peterson resigned over it.

According to the report, Coral Springs Police officers joined with the last two arriving Broward County Deputies and actually entered the building. By then, the six minutes of massacring students and faculty were over and the perpetrator had fled. The Coral Springs officers were reportedly extremely upset that the first few Broward County deputies did not enter the building to stop the perpetrator.

It came to light previously that the  security footage of the shooting had been rewound and was on a delay, so that police thought the perpetrator was still in the building after he was long gone. Who did that is unknown, but it seems relevant to the questions raised.

Broward County Schools – Is this why the Sheriff’s office virtually ignored Nikolas Cruz for months?  

How could this happen?

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According to a writer at The Conservative Treehouse, the school district and law enforcement in Broward County entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) back in 2012 that stated students would not be arrested for misdemeanor crimes. It is unclear if that memorandum actually went into effect. The purpose was to keep students who were most likely to be arrested from being prevented from graduation.

Though the MOU does not actually negate law enforcement discretion, it does set up a mindset.  And over time, that mindset seems to have started to excuse crimes far worse than misdemeanors. Politically speaking, it ‘looks good’ for both the schools and law enforcement if the crime rate “drops.”

But it is not a true picture when, for example, a drug situation ends up as a “found property” report instead of a drug arrest. One is counted on statistical summaries, the other is not. Read more of that situation here.

Broward Co Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline – MOU by The Conservative Treehouse on Scribd

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The Daily Caller reported,

“The sheriff has also faced corruption accusations: department employees routinely attended campaign events while on the clock for their taxpayer-funded positions, a Local10 investigation found in 2016.

Sun-Sentinal investigation the same year found that the sheriff had routinely handed out taxpayer-funded jobs to political supporters. The sheriff’s response at the time: “lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.”

Israel is now facing sharp criticism for his department’s repeated failures to stop Stoneman Douglas school shooter Nikolas Cruz. The sheriff’s office was warned repeatedly that Cruz was a school shooter in the making, by both his relatives and those close to him, but failed to act to prevent the shooting.”

It is unconscionable for any law enforcement official to chose the political agenda of others over their duty as a police officer to protect and defend the people of their jurisdictions.

Read more at Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children

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BOMBSHELL REPORT: Broward County Schools and Police Colluded to Shield Criminal Students

Clues about how Nikolas Cruz slipped through cracks are emerging.

Dan Lyman | Infowars.com – FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Bombshell claims alleging collusion between Broward County law enforcement and the Broward school district to protect criminal students from arrests and disciplinary action have been leveled by a journalist familiar with the protocols in practice.

According to information currently available, Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was visited by local law enforcement 39 times over the course of seven years and was also reported to the FBI at least twice, leaving many to wonder how he slipped through the cracks, evaded arrest, continued attending school, and legally purchased firearms that he would later use to kill 17 of his former classmates and teachers.

Some clues may have emerged from a report chronicled by the editors of the Conservative Treehouse (CTH), an independent blog, who have provided corroborating documentation that paint a very convincing picture for the circumstances that may have enabled Cruz to slip through the cracks.

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Broward County Sheriff’s Office Did Not “Miss Warning Signs” or Make “Mistakes”… http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/23/broward-county-sheriffs-office-did-not-miss-warning-signs-or-make-mistakes/ …12:22 AM – Feb 23, 2018

“I spent about 18 months in 2012, 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies and how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices,” CTH explains. “What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict. The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.”

“The motive was simple. The school system administrators wanted to ‘improve their statistics’ and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.”

The 2013 “Collaborative Agreement On School Discipline” between the School Board of Broward County and the Sheriff of Broward Country, as well as the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and a variety of other state and local legal bodies, can be found HERE.

In short, the agreement established new standards and practices by which law enforcement would seek alternatives to arresting students who had committed crimes or “minor disturbances,” with a specific focus on “students of color, students with disabilities and LGBTQ students,” who were “disproportionately impacted by school-based arrests for the same behavior as their peers.”

CTH asserts that the types of lawbreaking being swept under the rug quickly escalated from minor offenses to serious felonies.

“The need to continue lowering the arrests year-over-year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored. Over time even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police,” CTH writes. “We found out about it, when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide.”

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The Miami Herald alluded to the types of oversights and ‘missed’ signs that enabled Nikolas Cruz to glide through the system in a report on Wednesday.

“And long before Cruz embarked on the worst school shooting in Florida history, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies had multiple warnings that the 19-year-old was a violent threat and a potential school shooter, according to records released Thursday.”

“In November, a tipster called BSO to say Cruz ‘could be a school shooter in the making,’ but deputies did not write up a report on that warning. It came just weeks after a relative called urging BSO to seize his weapons. Two years ago, according to a newly released timeline of interactions with Cruz’s family, a deputy investigated a report that Cruz ‘planned to shoot up the school’ — intelligence that was forwarded to the school’s resource officer, with no apparent result.”

On Wednesday, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel revealed that an armed Parkland school officer, Scot Peterson, arrived on the scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as Cruz was in the process of killing 17 innocent victims, but never went inside the building to render aid.

 

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Oath Keepers Webinar Monday Feb 26, 2018 8:00 PM CST

The Florida School Shooting and How to Counter Renewed Efforts to Disarm Us

Photo: Protecting children in Israel.  If it’s right for Israel, why isn’t it right for America? 

Join us for a vital conversation with:

David Codrea of The War on Guns blog (David also writes for Oath Keepers and for Ammoland.com)

Matt Bracken, US Navy SEAL veteran and accurate predictor of the “Tet Take Two” wave of terrorism now hitting Europe and the US.

Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers.

Please register for a webinar presentation on The Florida School Shooting and the Renewed Efforts to Disarm Us on Monday, Feb 26, 2018 8:00 PM CST at:

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Please join us for this critical webinar with recognized experts on the war on guns and the war on the Constitution.  The recent school shooting in Florida is now being used by the leftist “blood dancers” to push for more infringements on our right to keep and bear arms.   We will discuss the false choice that has been intentionally set up by turning America’s schools into disarmed victim killing zones where mass murderers and terrorists are guaranteed a large concentration of children with no armed adults to protect them, with the only “solution” offered by the left and sell-out Republicans being the further infringement on our right to keep and bear arms, with those infringements doing nothing to actually stop further mass murder of children, leading to more deaths, and then more infringements, in a deadly cycle of rinse (in blood) and repeat, of repeated murder of children and raping of the Bill of Rights.

As President Trump recently alluded to, the obvious answer is to arm and train the teachers and the school staff, just as is done in Israel.

                   Another Armed teacher in Israel.  Again, why is it OK there, but not OK here? 

And another part of the answer is to allow well trained military and police veterans to serve as unpaid armed volunteer guardians in our schools to protect the children against mass murder, and to help train the teachers and staff.  That is how you stop this from happening.   In fact, that is the only way to stop the killing since the average police response time is six minutes, which is an eternity when a madman or terrorist is killing as many as he can as fast as he can.

We’ve done it before.  We’ll do it again. 

We will discuss what you can and must do to fix this problem effectively in your community and counter this bloodthirsty and calculated conspiracy to aid and abet mass murder.  The time to step up and answer the call is now.   And the time to dig in our heels and take a firm “three percenter” type stand against any further restriction on our right to keep and bear arms is now.

 

Our presenters, in the order in which they will speak:

David Codrea is a well regarded expert and writer on the topic of the war on guns.  He will provide us with critical background information and will discuss the legislative assault on the Second Amendment.

A long-time grassroots armed citizen advocate, David Codrea has been writing professionally about the right to keep and bear arms since 1999, initially for GUNS & AMMO magazine, then moving on to HANDGUNS, and for the last nine years at GUNS, where he is a field editor producing the monthly “Rights Watch” column.

A panelist selected by The New York Times blog to discuss the Virginia Tech shootings, he has been written about in various news reports, including by The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Arizona Republic, WorldNetDaily, BuzzFeed, the Romanian newspaper, Adevărul, and even the science journal Nature.

Blogging at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, Codrea has also been a frequent (and frequently invited back) guest on national and major market radio and television programs, most recently with appearances on Lou Dobbs Tonight.

 

Matt Bracken is a Navy SEAL veteran who has written extensively (both in fiction and non-fiction) on the use of terrorism and mass shootings to justify assault on the Second Amendment.   Matt also accurately predicted the Marxist assisted suicide of Europe by means of mass Muslim immigration (with most of the immigrants refusing to assimilate, and instead directly working to destroy all aspects of the liberty inherit in Western Civilization).   He is often called the “Nostradamus” of the American patriot community.

Matt was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1957 and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in Russian Studies. He was commissioned in the US Navy through the NROTC program at UVA, and then graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. Mr. Bracken left active duty after Lebanon, upon completion of his obligated military service, but he remained in an active reserve status through the remainder of the 1980s. Since then he has lived in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, Guam and California. In 1993 Mr. Bracken finished building a 48-foot steel sailing cutter of his own design, on which he has done extensive ocean cruising, including a solo voyage 9,000 miles from Panama to Guam and two Panama Canal transits.

 

Stewart Rhodes is the Founder of Oath Keepers and is a U.S. Army airborne veteran as well as a graduate of Yale Law School, and a former member of Ron Paul’s DC staff.   He is also an experienced firearms instructor and volunteer self defense instructor at universities.   Stewart will discuss Oath Keepers plans to step up and protect schools and train teachers, and what you can do to help in your community.

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE:  You must use a computer if you want to be able to speak and ask questions.  If you call in by phone, you can only listen.  If you join by computer, you can also join in on the running chat feature during the webinar.

The webinar is expected to last between 1.5 and 2 hours, and you will have an opportunity to ask questions of each presenter. 

REGISTER HERE

 

 

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