Category: Constitution

Be Like Lions, Not Lambs

The shooting at the synagogue in Poway has interesting details
that we might want to keep discussing as we ponder
the aims, successes, and yes, failures of the puppet masters
behind these despicable attacks.

Synagogue First Responder

Combat Vet Who Stopped The Synagogue Shooter: ‘I Scared The Hell Out Of Him’

Rachel Stoltzfoos | Staff Reporter at DailyCaller.com

The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him, yelling so loud the priest at a neighboring church could hear.

“Get down!” Stewart yelled, according to his wife and others who were at the scene. “You motherfucker! I’m going to kill you!”

Others who were there later told him it sounded like four or five people were shouting. He thinks maybe an angel was standing behind him and speaking through his voice. When the shooter ran, he immediately gave chase.

Stewart, 51, told The Daily Caller on Sunday he doesn’t remember any conscious thought from the moment he heard the gun shots until it was all over — he just acted on instinct to stop the shooter and prevent him from leaving so he couldn’t hurt more people somewhere else. The Iraq combat veteran said his military training kicked in.

“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldn’t get to me,” Stewart said. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”

Stewart served in the Navy in explosive ordnance disposal from 1990 to 1994, then enlisted in the Army in 2001 because of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

“Looking back, it was kind of a crazy idea to do, but I did it.” He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and left the military in 2004, as a staff sergeant. He’s now in construction work.

When the gunman opened fire, he was in the back of the synagogue. By the time he got to the lobby, the shooter had killed one woman, blown the finger off of a rabbi, and injured two others.

“I heard gunshots,” Stewart said. “And everybody got up and started trying to get out the back door, so I — for whatever reason — I didn’t do that. I ran the other way. I ran towards the gun shots.”

“When I came around the corner into the lobby area, I saw the individual with a gun, and he fired two rounds. And I yelled at him and I must have yelled very loud, and he looked at me, and I must have had a really mean look on my face or something, because he immediately dropped his weapon and turned and ran. And then I gave chase.”

Stewart said he chased him all the way out to his car and began pounding on it — the shooter had managed to lock himself in. When Stewart saw him reach for a rifle, he punched the side of the car as hard as he could, intending to figure out a way to drag him out of the car. That’s when a Border Patrol agent who attends the synagogue came running out to the parking lot, yelling for Stewart to get down because he had a gun.

Stewart says this man may have saved his life and pointed to his use of a civilian’s gun as evidence that gun control isn’t the answer to these kinds of tragedies. Stewart was off-duty and was apparently handed the weapon by someone else on the scene.

“It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun,” he told the Caller.

The agent fired several rounds into the lower part of the vehicle, intending to disable it, but the shooter managed to drive away. The two of them then grabbed a phone from someone and called the police to report his license plate. The shooter later turned himself in.

After he sped off, Stewart ran back into the synagogue and found a woman he knew, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert Kaye, unresponsive on the floor in the lobby. He began CPR and continued trying to bring her back to life as a couple of doctors arrived and began to assist him. She didn’t make it. The two had talked occasionally, and he remembers her as a passionate and kind woman.

“She had different political views, so we had interesting discussions when we talked,” he said. “We didn’t just talk about the weather. It was kind of cool. She was a very loving woman.”

Stewart considers her the real hero. Eyewitnesses said she jumped in front of the rabbi to save his life.

“People in the aftermath here have been saying it’s important to be strong and defend ourselves. I also think it’s important to know that being strong and defending ourselves requires a lot of sacrifice too.”

“I don’t know if I consciously made the choice to potentially sacrifice myself,” he added. “But I did. And this lady, she stood and she jumped in front of the shooter and she saved the rabbi’s life. When somebody said I was a hero, I’m like, she was a hero. I just did it instinctively, like an animal. There was no conscious decision. I just did it.”

He may not call himself a hero, but Stewart believes his actions effectively stopped the shooter. He doesn’t think reports of the shooter’s gun jamming as the reason he fled are likely to be true, because he was using a semi-automatic rifle. “Full automatic weapons will jam,” he said. “Semi-automatic weapons do not jam.” He thinks maybe the shooter had emptied his magazine. Whatever the case, the shooter let the slung weapon drop and fled.

“He was in the act of shooting when I saw him,” Stewart said. “When I yelled at him he turned and looked at me, and he like froze. And then the look on his face was one of amazement at first, and then one of fear. He saw me coming, and I was ready to do whatever I had to do to stop him.”

For his part, Stewart doesn’t attribute the shooter’s actions to a larger agenda and was reluctant to connect him to a larger political context. He doesn’t blame President Donald Trump and expressed hope that people don’t try to blame anyone else for the man’s actions. “He was an individual acting alone,” he said.

“If you’re ignorant and you don’t know what people are like, you don’t know that I’m a person just like you. I go to work every day in a manual labor job. I’m not some, you know – supposedly he said in his manifesto that the Jews control this and that — I don’t control anything. I go to work just like you every day. He didn’t know that.”

“If he had gotten to know me, he would know that I’m a great person, that I’m a nice guy, that I’m a very caring person,” he continued. “My apprentices — they all love me. They say that I’m the best teacher in the world, you know, that I care, that I try to teach them, and if he had known any of these people, like the lady Lori who died. She would go give Easter baskets to kids and that’s not even a Jewish thing, you know. … She was just a warm person.”

If anything’s to blame, he says it’s social media and the increasingly disconnected world we find ourselves in. “The whole media thing — people don’t get to know people, and they get to sit in a cocoon, and sit and make opinions on what somebody writes. It’s not good. We need to interact more.”

“The most important thing I want to share is that we need to know each other,” he said. “If you make an opinion on anyone, you need to know what they’re about, and who they are. You can’t generalize and say every blue person is evil because they’re blue. That’s ridiculous.”

The funeral service for Kaye is on Monday. He expects the synagogue will be totally packed.

 


https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1122860395985866753

POWAY, California — Jonathan Morales, an armed off-duty US Customs and Border Patrol agent who recently discovered his Jewish roots, was among the worshipers at Chabad of Poway on Saturday when John Earnest entered the synagogue near San Diego during Passover services and began shooting.
The 19-year-old gunman killed Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounded three people: Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 8-year-old Noya Dahan and her uncle, Almog Peretz.
“Morales recently discovered his Jewish roots. He would travel three and a half hours from [the California town of] El Centro to pray with us at our shul,” Goldstein told media at a Sunday press conference outside the synagogue. “He felt this was his house of worship. And many times I said, ‘Jonathan, you work for the border patrol. Please arm yourself when you are here; we never know when we will need it.’”
US President Donald Trump spoke with Goldstein on Sunday and took to Twitter to praise the rabbi and Morales, writing: “He may have been off duty but his talents for Law Enforcement weren’t!”

As for why there weren’t any active duty guards at the synagogue, in an earlier interview with CNN Goldstein said, “Unfortunately, we couldn’t afford to have an armed security officer at every service, so whenever we had extra help, we were grateful for it.”
In a moment that Goldstein referred to as “miraculous,” Earnest’s gun jammed, and congregant Oscar Stewart, a 51-year-old Army veteran, and Morales attempted to subdue the gunman. Morales was also able to open fire and give pursuit.

After Earnest fled the building, Morales followed in his own vehicle and shot and hit Earnest’s car. Earnest soon turned himself in to law enforcement.
On Sunday, Goldstein, his two hands in fresh blue bandages, gave a detailed recounting of Saturday’s harrowing shooting in Poway, a suburban town just north of San Diego.
“I was preparing for my sermon, I walked out of the sanctuary and into the lobby and I saw my dear friend Lori Kaye,” said Goldstein. “I walked into the banquet hall to wash my hands, walked two or three footsteps and I heard a loud bang.”
That bang was the sound of the first shots fired by Earnest, a college student who entered the Chabad House undetected amid a flow of mourners who were gathering for Yizkor, the traditional memorial service held on the final day of Passover.
“I turned around and saw something indescribable,” Goldstein continued. “Here is a young man standing with a rifle pointing right at me. He had sunglasses on. I couldn’t see his eyes, I couldn’t see his soul.”
The rabbi said that when he saw the shooter he initially froze, then raised his hands to cover his face. Two of his fingers were blown off; one was reattached by surgeons at Palomar Medical Center in San Diego late Saturday.
Gilbert-Kaye, whom relatives and friends on Saturday described as a woman of unconditional love and unbounded generosity, was the only fatality of Earnest’s mass shooting.

Goldstein took several minutes to thank San Diego County law enforcement and to praise the wellspring of warmth and support that the local community has offered in light of the tragedy.

A chain of miracles

In a remarkable series of events, the rabbi and a handful of congregants were able to save a group of children playing in the adjacent banquet hall, preventing a full-fledged massacre.
“I ran [to gather the children],” Goldstein says. “My granddaughter, who is four and a half years old, saw her grandpa with a bleeding hand. She saw me shouting, ‘Get out! Get out!’ She didn’t deserve to see her grandfather like that.”
Aided by Peretz, an Israeli war veteran who was also at Chabad of Poway with his family Sunday, Goldstein was able to usher the children out of the banquet hall with the shooter in pursuit.
But in what Goldstein referred to as a “miracle,” Earnest’s gun jammed. Even while Morales was still on Earnest’s trail, congregants — who had been gathered in the sanctuary and would have made easy targets for Earnest had his gun not jammed — fled to Chabad’s front entrance.

Goldstein’s hand was bleeding badly and his two fingers were dangling by cartilage. “I grabbed a prayer shawl,” he said, wrapped his wounds, and stood on a chair to address his congregation.
“I said, ‘I gotta do something,’” he said. “I said to our congregation: ‘Am Yisrael chai [The People of Israel live]. We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall and we will not let anyone or anything take us down.’”

Farewell to an ‘angel’

“Lori took the bullet for all of us. She died to protect all of us. She didn’t deserve to die,” Goldstein said.
Gilbert-Kaye was one of the congregation’s oldest and most devoted members, the rabbi told media. A former employee of Wells Fargo, she was instrumental in helping Chabad secure the loan for the building in the early 1990s. She and her husband Howard were so close with the rabbi and his wife that two weeks ago they flew to New York City for Goldstein’s youngest daughter’s wedding, and danced together with the bride.

Roneet Lev, friend of Chabad of Poway
shooting victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye,
April 28, 2019. (Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

Her generosity and kindness was lauded on Sunday by Roneet Lev, who was at the Chabad of Poway to mourn. Lev described herself as Kaye’s best friend.
“Lori Kaye is an angel on this planet,” Lev said. “She’s touched many lives in her own life. Not just in this community but throughout the entire world.”
Describing a woman who always carried gifts cards and greeting cards to offer as presents and who would regularly purchase extra coffees and donuts for homeless people on the street, Lev explained that Kaye was at Chabad of Poway to say the first Kaddish mourner’s prayer for her mother, who had recently died.
Kaye’s daughter Hannah lives in Los Angeles and had driven down to be with her mother for the service.
Lev offered hope and optimism as she spoke of her friend.
“Even in this horrible, painful event, we know good will come out of it,” Lev said. “Lori is known for bringing out the good in people. And look at these flowers. Look at this law enforcement. Look at the good people of San Diego. Lori is now bringing them together.”

 

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p.s., another article about the shooting from a local paper was originally posted with some odd wording that cast some shadows on the synagogue’s use of DHS funds to strengthen security. The second and third versions fixed this gaff and added a quote from the local ADL spokesperson.

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Oh, VERY IMPORTANT!
The “AR” in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite, NOT assault rifle. This is a point we need to be making with everyone that we talk about such things with. Continue reading “Be Like Lions, Not Lambs” →

The TIPPING POINT for Constitutional Carry – Online Self-Training

There is a LOT going on in the concealed carry world – and in particular the area of CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY.

Constitutional carry is winning big.

For those who don’t know what constitutional carry means – it means (roughly, subject to NUMEROUS state and federal laws) that anybody who is legally allowed to OWN a weapon is allowed to BEAR that weapon in any legal manner, including concealment.

Practically, it means that law-abiding people in a constitutional carry state can carry a concealed weapon without a license. Since most people (particularly non-criminals) are somewhat scared to do this without training, in practice, there is little difference between a state with licensed, law-abiding, trained carriers and a state with unlicensed, law-abiding, trained carriers.

Ironically, this is a byproduct of liberal laws that kept chipping away, federally, at who could own weapons, and how that would be determined. Thus, at this point, one passes an FBI background check to simply OWN a weapon, so there is almost no issue other than TRAINING with the idea of letting the person CARRY that weapon.

And THAT is where I think we need to STRIKE HARD – assuring voters that – yes – concealed carriers in YOUR NEW constitutional carry state are going to be WELL-TRAINED, which is even better and SAFER than simply WELL-REGULATED.

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today applauded Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin for signing Senate Bill 150 into law. SB 150 is NRA-backed legislation that fully recognizes the constitutional right of law-abiding gun owners to carry a concealed firearm.

“On behalf of the NRA’s five million members, we would like to thank Governor Bevin for his leadership on this critical issue,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “This law is a common sense measure that allows law-abiding citizens to exercise their fundamental right of self-protection in the manner that best suits their needs.”

Kentucky already recognizes the right to carry a firearm openly without a permit. Current law, however, requires a state-issued permit to carry that same firearm under a coat or in a bag. This new law simply extends the current open carry rule to concealed carry. Those who obtain permits will still be able to take advantage of the reciprocity agreements that Kentucky has with other states.

NRA Institute for Legislative Action

My prejudice on the topic of TRAINING comes from having known somebody who was an early concealed carry (CC) trainer in an early CC state. That person – a former assistant DA, strongly influenced my thinking, even though I was not a concealed carrier.

Back then, CC licenses were generally hard to get and required considerable training. Not all states were “shall issue”, meaning that the state had to have a damn good reason to deny a permit. Denials were common and arbitrary – kinda like New York City and Washington DC.

There were many excuses NOT to grant permits. TRAINING was the most plausible one, but also the one that was most easily remedied.

“So you want training? I’ll get training.”

Most state laws had provisions for REQUIRED training, with various degrees of specificity. This was done, in part, to assure both legislators and voters that the CC legislation would not be a RISK to the public and LEOs (law enforcement officers) from untrained or poorly trained individuals.

What I learned, over the years, is that training REALLY IS IMPORTANT. Thanks to the knowledge I gained from this instructor, as well as what I learned myself in the following decades, I came to realize that training is not just a good idea – it is ESSENTIAL. If you, as a gun-owning individual, want your gun to be a guaranteed HELP and not a potential RISK TO SELF – both physically and legally – you NEED training.

I don’t care who DOES the training – even YOURSELF – you need training!

This tweet pretty much sums up the issue, minus my belief in the power of SELF-TRAINING.

https://twitter.com/j_graves1997/status/1118269987754528773

NOW – before you start typing – nobody needs to tell me that forcing people to get more and more training is often a DODGE to knowingly suppress the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA). Training is not cheap – and thus it is in many ways a POLL TAX and in some ways the VOTER SUPPRESSION of RKBA. The TIMING of training is also an annoyance for most, and an obstacle for many.

https://gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/ccw-training.jpg

And yet – of all the excuses that can be mustered up against constitutional carry, training is by far the most reasonable and plausible.

But here it the thing that changes the dynamic. The most important part of CC training, in my opinion, is not HOW TO SHOOT. It is actually WHEN AND WHERE NOT TO SHOOT.

The most important part of training, in my mind, is actually LEGAL. It is these points of KNOWLEDGE:

  • WHEN and WHERE a person may or may not CARRY
  • WHEN and WHERE a person may or may not DRAW
  • WHEN and WHERE a person may or may not FIRE

None of which requires anything beyond self-training, online, or from a booklet.

This is why I think that – if ANYBODY can carry, ANYBODY needs access to the BASICS of training.

If we BELIEVE that self-training is possible, and make it easy to get, then I believe there are no true logical barriers to constitutional carry in TWICE the number of states that now accept it. AND I think it becomes entirely possible for those states to have a reciprocity pact.

Trust me – the main message of all of this stuff is DON’T SHOOT. It’s not just assurance to people who are scared of guns – it’s assurance to YOU, the gun owner.

When I see ANY incident on the news where a concealed carrier is involved in a questionable shooting – either by the carrier or by an LEO, it is almost always apparent that the carrier was either not trained, or not paying attention to their training. And the parts they were not paying attention to were not the parts you learn on the range. They are the parts you get in a classroom, or from a book.

While I am going to support constitutional carry under almost any circumstance, I would PERSONALLY be much happier to see constitutional carry legislation accompanied by a minimalist ONLINE SELF-TRAINING – possibly with self-testing – that makes certain permitless carriers are free to become familiar with the rules of the road before they carry.

And there’s no reason this training can’t provide incentives for REAL training, too.

I don’t think this is a lot of money – probably far less than permit systems. But I do think that it’s going to help make constitutional concealed carry the SUCCESS that it really deserves to be.

Remember – TRAINING and TRAINING REQUIREMENTS are not the same.

WOLF snarls at training requirements, but he makes happy panting noises at TRAINING.

MOAR TRAINING is a good thing. It means fewer and fewer accidents, incidents, and problems. I believe it’s in everybody’s interest, too.

Train your dog. Train your WOLF!

W

Our "Favorite" Gun-Free Zones

Not every business is as dedicated to the Second Amendment as BLACK RIFLE COFFEE COMPANY.

Now – I’m generally of the opinion that a business can do what it wants to, and if a business wants to be a gun-free zone, they are welcome to become one.

However, I also have a right to take my business elsewhere.

One of the interesting things I’ve noticed SINCE the midterms, is that the left is really starting to carry forward their “war on guns” without any pretense or permission.

Part of that war seems to be labeling places as GUN FREE ZONES – meaning they are forbidding even legal concealed carry. Personally, I’ve always LIKED the idea that there are PROBABLY a few CC license holders in most public places. It seemed like the only gun free zones were the “agreed-upon” ones – federal buildings, doctor’s offices, airports, schools, etc. Even those weren’t good ideas, IMO, but at least they were FEW.

WELLLLLLL…..

That’s all changing. I am now noticing that CHL holders are NOT welcome in:

  • Post Offices
  • Starbucks
  • AMC Theaters
  • Certain shopping centers
  • Fancy department stores

Some of this is REALLY SNEAKY, too. You have to read the SUPER-FINE PRINT in places people don’t normally look, to see that concealed carriers, and even off-duty police carrying arms, are not welcome. Other venues are more “in-your-face” now, with stickers at face level on the doors, which is appreciated, but not completely, given that they are treating licensed carriers and law enforcement in ways that they will NOT treat illegal alien CRIMINALS.

For a while I decided not to let this bother me. Based on what I see online, I figured there were probably a FEW people who might be carrying ANYWAY, and that they could protect me.

However, with the advent of really powerful scanners, I think we’re getting to the point that I can’t actually count on there being any “good guy civil disobedience” in these venues. GOOD PEOPLE will be taking great risks, if they wander into these “target galleries” armed – even off-duty police.

My feeling is that there is only one way. We have to PUNISH these places by withdrawing our business en masse.

SO – with that in mind – please OUT your “favorite” gun-free zones, so that we can start avoiding them and pulling back our dollars. Also, if you know ALTERNATIVE places that are NOT gun-free zones, please let us know who THOSE people are, so that we can switch allegiance.

Thanks!

W

Dear MAGA: 20190329 Open Topic

This FLAGS OUT FRIDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.Candidate Donald J. Trump

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also consider Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Although we enjoyed a truly historic rally today, picking up the trail where it was left off, in GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – where Candidate Trump’s INTENSE work ethic defeated Hillary Clinton…..

Although we are now at a high point – having just won our “Battle of Midway”…..

There is something we need to realize.

You might say…. we need to talk. It’s good, but….. we need to talk.

Two posts by ForGodandCountry, which occurred in two different conversations, will put this in perspective. Because FG&C’s thinking almost perfectly mirrored MY unvoiced thinking, I am certain this is correct, and we need to “get in formation” again.

Here is the background.

The first conversation. It began when I posted this tweet of mine regarding the new TrumpWarRoom account on Twitter.

This resulted in the following…..

ForGodandCountry
March 28, 2019 at 11:27
Guess what makes your Midway analogy even greater than you possibly realized??

wolfmoon1776
March 28, 2019 at 12:59
WOW.

ForGodandCountry
March 28, 2019 at 13:08
Remember……the victory at Midway was made possible by this guy…

He and his small team of intelligence analysts broke the Japanese code and discovered the enemy’s plans.
This was absolutely key to the victory at Midway and thus turning the tide of the war.
I know I don’t need to point out how Q fits into this analogy from here.

Marica
March 28, 2019 at 13:12 Edit
WOW!!! FG&C!! Beyond Cool!! Wolfie is Our Master Codebreaker!!!

wolfmoon1776
March 28, 2019 at 20:34 Edit
Well, maybe not me, but SOMEBODY is! (I’m a bit more of a “code-talker”!)
And who knows – maybe some day we will run into those code-makers and code-breakers!

If you’re not 5:5 on that, here is a hint. There was a small team of secret NSA / Q-class patriots who – as they have said all along – were behind the QAnon operation. This group is not perfectly analogous to the group of codebreakers that gave the Midway victory to the United States in World War II, but – well – it’s still INCREDIBLY analogous. These were both highly complex and massive secret information warfare operations carried out by small teams with much support and assistance by other patriots.

We were incredibly privileged to be a part of this, even if we were not actually the “code makers” and “code breakers”. Just like the many American military and civilians who HELPED the codebreakers of World War II, so we were honored to HELP the Q team pull off what it did.

Are you 5:5 now? Good.

However, that said, you probably know the bittersweet news that’s coming. If you know the history of information warfare operations, then you know that they tend to remain secret for a long time. The actors are suspected, but they vanish. Declassification of the operations is typically FAR OFF in the future. Often, if not always, names are known only after the participants have the best seats in the house.

Now, the next conversation:

TheseTruths
March 28, 2019 at 17:31 Edit
I remember not long ago when Q gear was prohibited at some rallies. I don’t know if it was for security reasons, political reasons, or what. The tide is turning.

ForGodandCountry
March 28, 2019 at 18:22
Not sure how to say it except this…
You don’t serve wine before it’s time. Because even fine wine tastes bad before it’s properly aged, and serving it early can give it a bad name despite its quality.
Btw……we are seeing more and more of Q. Massive # of posts today.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Soon now, Q will be signing off because: Mission Accomplished.
Q’s purpose was to spark the awakening and give it life and energy. The baby is alive now, and growing rapidly. With Declass and hidden info public, Q’s purpose, and mission, will be completed.
Also……Q will never be named. He/she/ (most likely) they will be like the “Unknown Soldier”….forever representing ALL the silent, hidden patriots MAGA.
I propose that we dedicate an open thread to Q, so that we can all say thank you in our own ways before Q goes dark.

ForGodandCountry, March 28, 2019 (WQTH Open Thread)

My only disagreement is that we WILL need MORE than one thread to speak our sincere GRATITUDE to Q, Q+, the Q team, and the many others who made this day – this moment – a reality.

TODAY we BEGIN to thank them. Let today be…..

Flags Out Friday

Even if you have to put out your flag INDOORS because of the rain…..

Even if your flag is like my “special” flag….

A tiny, cheap, stiff flag, stapled to a piece of pine, but saved in a secret yet open place of honor in a cluttered den – and the flag is special because it was waved enthusiastically at a World War II vet who was extra special – well – TODAY let that flag be out specifically for the Q Team and the hidden patriots who helped them.

Put it out in honor of the PRIVATE KEY which matched our PUBLIC KEY, and thereby pulled off an amazing operation, that people will talk about long after we ALL have the best seats in the house.

God bless the Q Team, God bless us all, and God Bless America.

W

QAnon vs. Big Tech / Socialist Media

It’s been a long time (July 30, 2017) since I published an article on my other blog – which almost nobody read, mind you – that actually had somebody STAKING OUT MY HOUSE.

Yes – there were 7 likes, 31 comments, and the NEIGHBORS called the cops on the guy.

And then there was the other guy. That was not nice. Actually more dangerous than I realized at the time.

Like I said, this is NOT A GAME.

Just look at my header image and you can see why I rattled some cages.

Trump – The Information Trust-Buster

All of this was in the SHADOW of Steve Bannon publicly stating – to the horror of Silicon Valley – that it might have to be regulated under anti-trust to control the CENSORSHIP which was clearly ramping up.

Remember also – THIS was before a variety of desperate communist/media moves against our VSGPOTUS, and the (in my opinion) MILITARY RESPONSE to the Las Vegas massacre.

  • Charlottesville, August 11-12, 2017
  • Las Vegas, October 1, 2017
  • QAnon First Probable Post, Oct 28, 2017
  • MBS Saudi Purge, November 4, 2017

The exact relationship of these events is unknown, but it is clear that 2017 was a time of some kind of internal, government-level warfare in the United States, as the forces loyal to Hillary Clinton attempted to oust President Trump, using a combination of:

  • lawfare
  • leaks
  • violent staged events
  • intimidation and threats against supporters of Trump
  • media coercion
  • social media suppression

This thing was WAY more than just a WITCH-HUNT, in my opinion. The Witch-Hunt (which our VSGPOTUS ultimately cornered into submission, IMO – in large part because of his INNOCENCE)….

….was just a small part of the WAR AGAINST TRUMP.

Why am I stating all this stuff? Because it is BACKGROUND for the DEPLOYMENT of the….

Q Psy-Op

….which we are all following now. It is my personal opinion that the Q project was a long time in the making, but was deployed post-haste after Las Vegas because of the intense level of crisis which this event represented to the nation, if not the world. Alternatively, Las Vegas may have been meant to PREEMPT the deployment of Q. All of this is very fuzzy, buried in the shadows of the hidden world of hidden strategies. But – IMO – the two events were clearly related by CONFLICT.

NOW – understanding the SERIOUSNESS of the social media war in support of “the Hillary Faction”, because of related events, I believe you all can properly appreciate what QAnon chronicler PAUL SERRAN is talking about in THIS great article, spotted and suggested by our own PhoenixRising:

https://ppserran.wixsite.com/allthingsq/all/a-qanon-thread-on-fighting-big-tech

I’m not going to copy any of the article here, but I will instead describe what it is and why you need to read it.

The Q team (basically representing .mil / NSA) has been in a continuous taunt-battle with the forces in control of American social media – or as I like to call them, “socialist media”. Much of this is psy-ops, mind games, disinformation, information as disinformation, and “controlling the opposition”, but in the process, it sheds a lot of light on these things, and more:

  • what goes on in socialist media
  • who socialist media works for and supports
  • how socialist media is used to control us
  • what is going to happen to socialist media (loss of control)
  • what is happening to us as a function of that change (many things)

SO – don’t expect a nice, obvious chronology here, on first glance. This is like American Civil War history. It’s all a blur until you follow the generals, follow the strategies, and fill in a LOT of history.

Nevertheless, it’s a very good read – easy to follow – and maybe more than once. Paul breaks out VERY CLEARLY what each of the Q drops about BIG TECH actually means. You will begin to understand the BATTLES, so that you can understand the WAR.

So read all about it – the FIGHT AGAINST BIG TECH.

https://ppserran.wixsite.com/allthingsq/all/a-qanon-thread-on-fighting-big-tech

W

Military precision. And military HISTORY.

Dear MAGA: 20190320 Open Topic

This PRAY FOR THE TRUTH WARRIORS WEDNESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Our movement

Is about replacing

A failed

And CORRUPT

Political establishment

With a new government controlled

By you, the American People.

Candidate Donald J. Trump

Also consider Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Please continue to be vigilant….

Be Vigilant for a News Cycle Changing False Flag Attack in US, UK, France or Italy
3077
Q!!mG7VJxZNCI14 Mar 2019 – 10:39:01 PM
Be vigilant at all times.
(US, UK, FR, IT)
See Something.
Say Something.
Narrative change needed.
FAKE NEWS attempting to REBRAND HARMFUL TESTIMONY and instead provide MISLEADING info to their readers. 
[Example]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-newly-released-transcript-former-fbi-lawyer-fires-back-on-charges-anti-trump-bias-affected-trump-and-clinton-probes/2019/03/12/f669f198-44f9-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?utm_term=.5ca1b8c01716
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
Q

Q Post 3077

Be careful. See something – say something.

Though our Truth Warriors like Praying Medic may come under attack, we will support them, and included in that support is our NUCLEAR WEAPON of PRAYER.

You have your orders. PRAY for our Truth Warriors, led (among mortals) by the greatest one of all.

YOU. KNOW. WHO.

WWG1WGA.

W

“TWITMO LIBERATION IMMINENT SAYS FREE SPEECH EXTREMIST WOLF MOON”

Dear MAGA: 20190304 Open Topic

This MAKE READY MONDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Also consider The Non-Amended Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

But we add that there are NUKES. They’re real. Don’t shoot ’em.

Today’s message is to PREPARE.

We borrow this from the “The Clock Is Ticking” thread…..

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 9e30da No.5488056 
Mar 3 2019 17:59:38 (EST)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-says-country-is-in-full-fledged-crisis-during-speech-in-selma-to-mark-bloody-sunday
Full-scale attack.
March Madness.
Prepare.
Q

-Q Post 2942

Things are getting close. You heard the man. PREPARE.

Most preparation, as I have *ALWAYS* stressed, is MENTAL.

Being short-handed is NOT an unrecoverable situation. What is a major problem is lack of situational awareness, including NOT having already gamed out “what you might do”.

Q says prepare. Q says MARCH timeframe. Be ready. We are TWO DAYS into things. Middle of the month is TWO WEEKS AWAY.

My recommendation is to have most PHYSICAL preparations DONE within the next WEEK. That allows one week for mistakes to be remedied.

Finally, my MOST IMPORTANT tip for preparation.

MENTAL PREPARATION.

Be COOL AS ICE. NO HOT ANGER ALLOWED. Super-cool, cold anger, absolute zero, if any. Better still, NO ANGER – JUST LOGIC.

Warm heart, love your fellow humans, but COLD LOGIC. This is how people survive holocausts. Set all fear aside and ACT or DON’T ACT according to COLD, CLEAR LOGIC.

Divine inspiration will fill you with what you need.

LOGICAL THINKING.

W

Dear MAGA: 20190227 Open Topic

This WINNING WEDNESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Also consider The Non-Amended Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

The rule against shooting at the nukes has ANOTHER evening off.

Today’s daily thread will be used to catch up on Q posts.

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 681f82 No.5397816 
Feb 26 2019 15:01:35 (EST)
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431633-murkowski-to-vote-for-resolution-blocking-trumps-emergency-declaration
Puppet & Puppet Master.
Q

Q Post 2899

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 44cf4d No.5398367 
Feb 26 2019 15:29:03 (EST)
D0W7JzNVsAAR48o.jpg-large.jpg
Truth v Lies – the propaganda war for your mind.
Q

Q Post 2900

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 087672 No.5399134 
Feb 26 2019 16:04:55 (EST)
[INTERNAL CIVIL WAR]
All-out assault against the duly elected President of the United States.
We have never experienced anything like this in our history.
Treason & sedition at the highest levels of office throughout many departments [F + D].
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party prevent-limit ‘sheep (you)’ from learning the TRUTH.
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party retain-control of NARRATIVE (control over you).
House D’s in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
Senate D’s in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
THIS IS THEIR LAST STAND.
Fear of prosecution?
Fear of the public learning the TRUTH?
Fear of losing POWER?
Bribes, blackmail, threats, etc. all being deployed.
WE ARE AT WAR.
Q

Q Post 2901

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 087672 No.5399463 
Feb 26 2019 16:16:29 (EST)
D0WuBeYU8AAqDa3.png-large.png
When the real TRUTH re: Russian collusion is right in front of you but the FAKE NEWS media prevents public awareness.
Conformity and Behavior.
Q

Q Post 2902

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 1e2b4e No.5402061 
Feb 26 2019 18:49:44 (EST)
Anonymous ID: 67117c No.5401939 
Feb 26 2019 18:41:14 (EST)
Feeling like Anons in US will be up late tonight following POTUS/Q in Vietnam.

>>5401939

It’s going to be HISTORIC!
Planned long ago.
[-21]
Within the next 21 days BIG BIG BIG HAPPENINGS are going to take place.
Q

Q Post 2903

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 1e2b4e No.5402283 
Feb 26 2019 18:56:40 (EST)
The Armor of God
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Q

Q Post 2904

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 57f18f No.5407223 
Feb 26 2019 22:54:56 (EST)
>>5406506

Test 5
Q

Q Post 2905

There you have it. More to be added if they appear.

Oh yeah, they’re appearing. LOL!

Notice the weird out-of-order phenomenon – same as last time.

W

What follows is one of the best descriptions of the communist media’s “nickeling and diming” that keeps their sad FAKE COMPETITIVENESS in play. Donald Trump Jr. just NAILS the way they…..

FAKE IT TO MAKE IT.

In my opinion, the MSM and Democrats are now nothing but a CHICOM and RUCOM (remember – the communists operate FREELY in Russia) beachhead in America. They PRETEND to be what they are, and they have pretended since Stalin landed them in our media.

Trump Nukes Internet With Pepe-1A Meta-Logical Missile

Well, maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement. Maybe a bit of a bad attribution. Maybe a bit poetic.

If anybody thinks Andrew Torba of Gab isn’t leading the way to freedom, they’re not being honest. But the President Washington of MAGA certainly helped.

This is simple, yet seems complicated because it’s very new and mind-altering, so stay with me.

The Gab Commenting Extension is here.

https://dissenter.com

None of this would have been possible without Trump. Let’s be honest. The communists did their best to destroy Gab, but – HAHAHA – because Trump held the socialist scum off at the pass – long enough that Gab was able to save themselves – Gab is about to destroy communism (knock on wood).

Well – it’s more like Gab is going to make their liddle communist lives QUITE miserable, but that’s almost the same thing

I’ve already made the first comment at this site:

If you’re interested in trying it, follow along.

PLEASE NOTE that this ADDED layer of commenting will NOT replace our WordPress discussion, but it will likely augment it.

Here is the Dissenter homepage:

After you log in, you get this screen:

At this point, you can click on “Download” in the upper left-hand corner, and go to this page, where you can select your browser extension:

https://dissenter.com/download

Just follow the directions. You will get a “green G plus speech bubbles” button in your browser. See my first comment again:

Click on the green button, and the window pops up to see comments.

Whether this works for all platforms, browser, devices, etc., I do not know. We will just have to find out. But I think it’s already working very nicely in the Brave browser on the desktop.

You can also get to any URL to comment, through the Dissenter homepage.

The Dissenter homepage even has several ways to get to current “hot” articles. There are lists, but there is also a scrolling banner at the top.

Basically, it becomes like the Drudge Report WITH comments.

What this means is that you don’t even need the browser extension. Just go to dissenter.com and start commenting.

If there is already a discussion, you join it. Otherwise, you start it.

Here is what one looks like:

In other words, they’re talking about a Twitter post (has its own URL) in a dimension that TWITTER does not control.

Here is a Gab post on Twitter (has a URL) being discussed:

Whoops – can’t see that comment – let’s try lower….

Here is discussion of a Twitter tweet about a Spectator article about Facebook banning people:

The thing is, I can also click on the Tweet itself IN DISSENTER and go straight to the ARTICLE itself. Indeed, I was the first person to comment at THAT URL:

Look more closely at the Dissenter window:

What I said is important.

Notice that I can go BACK to the Dissenter homepage and see this comment:

What you are seeing here is FREE SPEECH going TOTALLY META on the ASS of controlled speech.

5:5?

The whole thing feels revolutionary. To quote Flep – who fortuitously said this today……

NO ####### SHIT!!!

Welcome to the WALLS FALLING DOWN!!!

W

FREEDOM. It’s back in style.

PS – extra points for figuring out why the opening image seems weird. -Wolf

PPS – MOAR NEWS!

Gab has just updated its join policy – NO INVITATION NEEDED.

https://twitter.com/ReclaimNet/status/1100549516397330433
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1100549316291248128
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1069301909821906944
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1100562856821575681
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1069301984237244416

A preview video of Dissenter:

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1099458708038287360

Dear MAGA: 20190225 Open Topic

This MAGA MATRIX MONDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.

Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it.

Keep it civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.

Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here in the January 1st open thread. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven.

Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU.

Also consider The Non-Amended Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

The rule against shooting at the nukes has the evening off.

Today’s header image – a woman taking full control of her life – TRUE EQUALITY – is dedicated to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

RKBA is ultimately how we protect our very lives, and more than that, our Free Speech, which protects our Freedom of Thought, which protects our Belief in God, or No God if we so choose.

Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

Orwellian Hollywood communists, pedophiles and satanists who created the “gateway socialist”, nation-destroying, “People for The American Way“, which sowed the seeds of today’s threatening cultural Marxism – LITERALLY designed to destroy our way of life, and to tear down the American Way, and which almost stole our country from us, with the aid of foreign socialists, can…..

ENJOY.

THEIR.

TRIBUNALS.

Or trials. Whatever.

We’ll supply the popcorn.

Everybody else can have a nice day.

W

They tried a different way. A sneaky way.
NEVER AGAIN.