Good Morning Kids. So, a couple of items this morning beg the question of incompetence, malice aforethought, an innate flaw within the system or some perfect storm of all of the above (or something else that I'm missing) that altogether, or piecemeal can result in disaster:
The big story that broke yesterday was a school shooting in Georgia that left four dead and 30 wounded. As many commenters were speculating yesterday, perhaps this might get covered up because it might have been yet another psychotic transexual targeting whites, Christians and/or those labeled as threats to our "precious democracy" by the Leftists.
But here's the kicker:
Colt Gray, the teen suspected of gunning down four people at a Georgia high school Wednesday, has been on the FBI’s radar since last year — when he was investigated by local authorities in connection to online school shooting threats, the bureau revealed.
In May 2023, the FBI received several anonymous tips about threats to carry out violence at an unidentified school, with the harrowing posts including photos of guns, according to a Wednesday night statement from the bureau’s Atlanta field office.
The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office identified Gray, then 13, as a possible suspect and interviewed him and his father. . .
. . . Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey confirmed that authorities are probing any possible links between the 2023 threats and Wednesday’s shooting at Apalachee High School.
“This is not recent. This is in the past, but we wanted to bring that to your attention because we are pursuing that, working with the FBI on this in any connection to that incident that could be connected to today’s incident as well,” Hosey told reporters in a Wednesday night press briefing.
Hosey also said that investigators have been made aware that Gray’s family had contact with children’s services in the area.
So, both the GBI and FBI knew about this nut and were watching him for at least a year. And yet this happened. Well, I guess we have to ask ourselves, do we set up an "Office of Pre-Crime" to prevent these kinds of things, or do we let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way of that. You can bet your life the Left is itching to do just that, oh not to prevent things like this from happening, but to lock up the politically disfavored (to them) that stand in the way of their attainment of absolute power. Since in their eyes, that is the greatest threat to the nation. Pfft.
This was a tragedy, and the decades long drumbeat of moral and societal dissolution that began with the sexual revolution, the concomitant feminist revolution, and cultural rot resulting in alienation, and familial and individual emotional breakdowns more than likely played a large part in driving the shooter to do this. Until we know all the facts, I'd bet that all the aforementioned were at the root cause of why this happened.
Naturally, the Left will blame guns, toxic masculinity, Trump, Christianity and every other straw man they can to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms, for starters.
Now on top of that, we had this little revelation:
If some of the personnel during the Trump assassination appeared completely unready, there was a good reason for it.
They weren’t ready and this wasn’t their job.
Sen. Josh Hawley said he’s been informed by whistleblowers that most of the agents assigned to protect Donald Trump during the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pa., rally in July were Homeland Security personnel who had minimal protective training.
Instead of having dozens of Secret Service agents on his detail for the July 13 rally, Trump was mostly guarded by Homeland Security agents who only received online webinar training before the event, Hawley (R-Mo.) said in an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday evening.
“A two-hour, online webinar. And I’m told that half the time, the sounds to the webinar didn’t even work,” Hawley claimed.
The Homeland Security agents were supposedly pulled off child exploitation cases and other investigations in order to serve on Trump’s protective detail — which was something they did not normally do, Hawley added.
I’m gonna speculate that Jill Biden (sorry, Dr. Jill Biden) wasn’t being guarded by child exploitation agents who got a two-hour webinar.
A former president and presidential candidate’s security actually takes precedence over a first lady. I can’t think of an assassination attempt aimed at a first lady with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton.
But more to the point, Secret Service leadership retasked unready DHS personnel, gave them a webinar and sent them off to protect one of the most targeted men in the world. . .
Incompetence and malice aforethought, that led to Trump avoiding having his brains blown out by a few millimeters.
So, in case 1, the potential shooter was known, in case 2 where you have competent people in place to prevent a potential shooter from being able to shoot because candidates are always likely targets as history has shown us throughout history. And yet, look what happened.
An Arizona mom is now suing the city of Surprise (yes, that's the city's real name) after she was arrested and forcibly removed from a city council meeting when she questioned a pay raise for a city official.
In a video that's now gone viral, Surprise Mayor Skip Hall ordered a police officer to handcuff and haul out Rebekah Massie during the public meeting on August 20 after she used her time at the microphone to criticize a proposed pay raise for City Attorney Robert Wingo. In the official video of the recorded meeting, Massie, whose 10-year-old daughter was in attendance and watching, can be heard demanding to know what crime she’d committed as the officer attempted to detain her, while Hall repeatedly told her she wasn’t allowed to use the time to lodge complaints against “specific” city employees.
Except the pay raise proposal for this guy was official government business, and Massie had every right to voice her concerns.
The shocking clip quickly spread on social media, prompting outrage from free speech advocates who demanded to know why an American citizen was being arrested and silenced for openly criticizing the proposed tax-funded salary of a government official.
Yeah, slap the cuffs on her and haul her off to the Arizona Lubyanka for the dangerous crime of criticizing a politician.
Lest we forget the hundreds of lives ruined and those still rotting in the Garland Archipelago merely for showing up to the Capitol on 1/6/21 to do exactly what this woman did, along with being entrapped in a Pelosi-engineered sting operation.
Oh the humanity. November is going to be interesting, for sure.
Have a good day.
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