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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Malcolm Morley; phony Marine

    Malcolm Morley; phony Marine

    Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow, Malcolm McNair Morley who claims in his résumé to be a Marine Corps veteran of the Recon/sniper variety with nine years of service;

    There is a tattoo involved;

    Malcolm was in the USMC from June 22, 1992 – July 21, 1992, so he’s not even a Marine let alone the rest of the stuff he claims;

    He didn’t finish boot camp, so the Marine Corps doesn’t consider him a Marine. He disappeared from Facebook but not before our partners took screenshots. You can run, but you can’t hide.

  • Wednesday morning feel good stories

    Wednesday morning feel good stories

    Bobo and AW1Ed sends us a link from Houston, Texas;

    Police are looking for three armed men who ambushed a woman in her driveway in southwest Houston early Tuesday.

    The crime happened around 2:30 a.m. in the 11500 block of Montverde as the woman returned home.

    When she got out of her Cadillac, the three men attacked and beat her. The victim’s mom was inside the home and called police as the attack continued.

    Somehow the victim managed to get away and get inside the home. As the men tried to break into the home, the woman grabbed her gun and opened fire. The suspects then fled the scene with the woman’s wallet.

    Police are checking area hospitals to see if any of the men were wounded.

    From Athens, Greece;

    A prosecutor filed criminal charges on Tuesday against an 88-year-old man who fired shots at two burglars that entered his house on Monday in Glyfada in southern Athens.

    According to reports, the man appeared frail in court and told the prosecutor that he opened fire fearing for his life, and had no intention to kill.

    However, the man was indicted on charges of intended physical injury, illegal possession and use of a weapon and perjury.

    The two burglars – an Albanian national, 28, and a Greek, 18 – were arrested by police at a hospital where they had gone for treatment, as one of them suffered a light injury to his arm. Both were indicted on burglary charges.

    From Tulsa, Oklahoma;

    Tulsa police are investigating a shooting Monday at the Ashwood Apartments near 31st and 129th East Avenue. We’re told a man in his 40’s was trying to break into and burglarize his ex wife’s apartment where she lives with her kids. She shot him in the side. Police say he had been harassing her and broke out her windows recently.

  • John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

    John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

    Retired Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens called for a repeal of the Second Amendment in the pages of the New York Times today. He says that he was impressed by “the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington” this past weekend, so he’s advising us to repeal the Second Amendment to honor them;

    That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

    Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

    Stevens claims that repeal of the amendment would be simple – even though only the repeal of the 18th Amendment, making alcohol illegal, has ever been accomplished in our history.

    The process is hardly simple. It would take two-thirds of the House and the Senate to ratify an amendment, with two-thirds of state legislatures calling for a Constitutional Convention and then three-quarters of each of the state legislatures would have to approve the amendment traditionally within seven years from the votes in Congress.

    Stevens calls the Second Amendment a relic, and I guess he’d know, being a relic himself. While he’s at it, he can go ahead and declare the Third Amendment protecting citizens from being forced to house soldiers a relic, too.

    The Times uses this graphic to help the senile old coot make his point;

    Scary, huh?

    Here’s my graphic to convince you to repeal the 1st Amendment;

  • Seattle man arrested for packages sent to DC

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that a Seattle man was arrested for mailing the suspicious packages to military installations in the Washington, DC area;

    The FBI has arrested a man believed to be responsible for sending a series of suspicious packages to D.C. area government facilities Monday, a law enforcement official said.

    The man was arrested in the Seattle area and is expected to appear in federal court later Tuesday afternoon. Investigators do not believe the incident was one of terrorism, but they are still exploring the suspect’s motivations, the law enforcement official said.

    The man is believed to have sent more than half a dozen packages — targeting, among other places, Fort McNair, Fort Belvoir, and a military facility in Dahlgren, Va. He also sent packages that were intercepted at mail sorting facilities for the White House and CIA.

    The FBI declined to provide the man’s name.

    That didn’t take long – and he’ll be making appearances in court later today, all the way from across the country. He probably didn’t spend much time trying to hide his identity.

  • Miguel Perez, veteran deported

    Miguel Perez, veteran deported

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports that they handed US Army veteran Miguel Perez to Mexican authorities according to Tuscon News Now. They report that Perez completed two tours in Afghanistan while he served in the Army. Then he delivered two pounds of cocaine to a federal agent which caused ICE to reject his application for citizenship and prompted them to deport his ass because he did not show “good moral character”. So Senator Tammy Duckworth has taken up his cause;

    Perez, his family and supporters, who include Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-IL, had argued that his wartime service to the country had earned him the right to stay in the U.S. and to receive mental health treatment for the PTSD and substance abuse. She sent a letter to Homeland Security asking the Trump administration to review his case.

    “This case is a tragic example of what can happen when national immigration policies are based more in hate than on logic and ICE doesn’t feel accountable to anyone,” Duckworth said in a statement following reports of Perez’s deportation. “At the very least, Miguel should have been able to exhaust all of his legal options before being rushed out of the country under a shroud of secrecy.”

    I don’t think that Duckworth would have supported Perez if he’d been deported a few years ago. Dude was trafficking in cocaine, thousands of veterans who suffer from PTSD didn’t try to sell drugs to federal agents.

    According to the Houston Chronicle, it was two kilos of coke, not two pounds, 4.4 pounds. He was sentenced to 15 years and he’d served about half of that sentence when he was sent back to Mexico.

    I find it difficult to be supportive of a drug dealer, even a veteran who is a drug dealer, especially one who blames his drug deals on PTSD.

  • Daryl Fisher was making a joke

    Daryl Fisher was making a joke

    Yesterday, we talked a bit about R. Daryl Fisher who is running for sheriff in Buncombe County, North Carolina when he told prospective constituents that he would gladly take guns from their cold, dead hands.

    Today he’s claiming on his Facebook page that he was merely making a joke.

    The crowd laughed and I made a joke. I admit the joke was a mistake and I should not have joked. But I go on to relay that the government cannot take away any guns or any items that were legally sold before any new laws take effect. To do this would be unconstitutional because that would constitute what is called an ex post facto law. Responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about. We have to do something different because what has been done is not working.

    I do not mind anyone disagreeing with me and I in fact encourage anyone who has a better proposal to please make that proposal. Being downright rude, making false statements, making half-truths or being utterly disrespectful is unacceptable.

    Ha, ha, ha, I’m rolling on the floor from laughing so hard at his joke about prying a gun from my cold, dead hands. The gun control issue is just so funny. I’m sorry that we didn’t get your joke at first.

    “Responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about.” Well, except that we’ll happily pry their guns from their cold, dead hands.

  • Secret squirrel in Boston

    Secret squirrel in Boston

    QMC sends us a link to Fox News which tells the story of Adrianne D. Jennings, 40 and Francho S. Bradley, 59 who were arrested in Boston when they were found with a cache of weapons in a hotel room. Bradley claimed that he was on a secret government-sanctioned operation and refused to give police further details;

    The report said the couple faces eight counts of possession of a large capacity firearm, three counts of possession of a silencer and other charges including possession of a firearm without a license and possession of a bump stock.

    The two are being held without bail after being arraigned Monday in Lowell District Court in connection with a large seizure of weapons.
    Twelve bump stocks were found in the hotel room of the Las Vegas massacre shooter. Lawmakers, including some Republicans are concerned about their capabilities but what are they?

    Robert Normandin, who represented Bradley at the arraignment Monday, told the paper that his client is a veteran and the weapon accessories were “props” and not actually functional. Normandin reportedly said his client uses them as he conducts business.

    I guess “large capacity firearms” are those types that can operate on “full semi-automatic”.

    Bradley drove across the country from Texas to Boston with the weapons.

  • Suspicious packages at DC-area military bases

    NBC4 reports that suspicious packages were discovered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fort McNair, DC, and at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC. All of the packages were rendered safe by EOD personnel and no one was injured.

    Suspicious packages were sent to two sites at Fort Belvoir in Virginia Monday afternoon: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and another defense university. One contained liquid in a vial and a circuit board, the law enforcement official said. It also was rendered safe.

    Similar suspicious packages were found at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C., a CIA mail processing facility, a White House mail processing facility and Dahlgren Naval Air Station in Virginia, NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reported. Those were all cleared as well.

    It’s not clear if any of the packages was an actual working explosive device that could have been detonated.

    Some included rambling letters and official described as disturbing.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.