Laws and the Biden Administration

 

 

 

Laws and the Biden Administration

 We have federal laws against harassing or attempting to influence judges, obviously including Supreme Court judges.  These laws, which include picketing and parading, are quoted below.

 So, while pro baby-killing rioters dance and prance in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland, where is our justice department?  Where is Merrick Garland?  Where is the FBI?  Where is Christopher Wray?  And, equally egregious, where is the media coverage of the attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh by a California leftist Pro Roe agitator?

 Laws and media coverage in Biden’s Marxist dystopia are ignored for political opponents of the Biden regime, just like in Putin’s Russia or Maduro’s Venezuela.  Only if President Trump is involved are kangaroo courts like the “January Sixth Committee” convened with professional media direction and exposure.

 How sad for our poor, suffering country, which is being run by Biden and his handlers along Marxist, Leninist and Alinsky’s principles, ignoring the laws and trying to imbue the masses with Marxist propaganda.

  

“18 U.S. Code § 1503 - Influencing or injuring officer or juror generally

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). If the offense under this section occurs in connection with a trial of a criminal case, and the act in violation of this section involves the threat of physical force or physical force, the maximum term of imprisonment which may be imposed for the offense shall be the higher of that otherwise provided by law or the maximum term that could have been imposed for any offense charged in such case.

(b)The punishment for an offense under this section is—

(1) in the case of a killing, the punishment provided in sections 1111 and 1112;

(2) in the case of an attempted killing, or a case in which the offense was committed against a petit juror and in which a class A or B felony was charged, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, a fine under this title, or both; and

(3) in any other case, imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine under this title, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 769; Pub. L. 97–291, § 4(c), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1253; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60016, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1974, 2147; Pub. L. 104–214, § 1(3), Oct. 1, 1996, 110 Stat. 3017.)”

 “18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.

(Added Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title I, § 31(a), 64 Stat. 1018; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)”

 

Ray Gruszecki

June 9, 2022

Mass Shootings in the U.S.

 

Mass Shootings in the U.S.

 Some publications like the New York Times article referenced below give lurid accounts of how one demented mass shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, was influenced by fringe white supremacist material on the internet to kill 10 people in a Buffalo grocery store.  The NYT article uses this one incident to represent rampant mass shootings by “racists” and “white supremacists”, as if these were the only such mass murders in the country.

 This led me to research the racial composition of mass shootings in the country.  What I found was a recent extensive unbiased study by the prestigious German firm, Statista, that specifically examined this question.

 Statista found that the race of mass shooters in the U.S. for the past 40 years reflects the U.S. population, and is not related to any specific ideology.  The following refer.

 

 “Mass shootings in the U.S. by shooter’s by race/ethnicity as of June 2022

Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 2, 2022

 Between 1982 and June 2022, 68 out of the 129 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 21 mass shootings, and Latino in 11. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 53 percent, 16 percent, and 8.5 percent respectively.

Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population

Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.

Mass shootings and mental health

With no clear patterns between the socio-economic or cultural background of mass shooters, increasing attention has been placed on mental health. Analysis of the factors Americans considered to be to blame for mass shootings showed 80 percent of people felt the inability of the mental health system to recognize those who pose a danger to others was a significant factor. “

 https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/technology/fringe-mainstream-social-media.html?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=ffb9ed66f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_06_02_02_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-ffb9ed66f0-400245601

 Ray Gruszecki

June 2, 2022

AR-15’s and Such

 

AR-15’s and Such

 A demented eighteen-year-old teenager legally bought an AR-15 (Armalite Rifle-15) in Uvalde, Texas, shot up an elementary school, and killed nineteen children and two teachers.  This was truly a national tragedy, on so many levels.  Texas’ easy gun laws were blamed.

 The previous week, another demented eighteen-year-old in New York State travelled 200 miles within the state, also with a legally purchased AR-15 style rifle, and killed ten people in a grocery store.  Another national tragedy.  New York State has among the most draconian gun laws in the country.  It didn’t make any difference.

 Immediately, the calls went out, from Joe Biden, our so-called “president” on down, and from people who don’t have a clue about firearms, - politicizing these tragedies while loved ones were mourning the loss of innocent lives.

 As is usual after these tragic shootings, “the guns did it”, not the nut or the crazy behind the gun, or the societal rot that produced the mind of a mass killer.  The misinformed in our country and their brainwashed followers, don’t blame the root causes of the malaise in our society, they blame the type of gun.

 They don’t blame the erosion of morals and ethics in the country on the drift away from religion and spiritual programs by our young people.

 They don’t blame the mental health crisis caused by replacing “in house” psychiatric care with self-administered psychoactive drugs, and the resultant criminality and homelessness.

 They don’t blame broken homes, drugs or alcohol, or child abuse.  “It’s the gun, particularly the AR-15, that’s responsible”.

 They don’t blame the violence in computer “games” and TV “entertainment”.  “SPLAT!!”, goes the game, as a red blotch appears, and an “atta boy” award point is given, as soon as a kid can hold the controls.

 They don’t blame our “educators”, who stress questions about kids’ gender identity, and who instill a sense of insecurity in our kids.

 They don’t blame the universities, who teach and promote the long refuted revolutionary principles of Marxism.

 They blame an inanimate object, the AR-15, the Armalite Rifle -15, (not the “Assault Rifle=15” or “Army Rifle-15”).

 I trained for the Army, and was in the Army in the 1950’s. (I know, I’m a dinosaur).  We first used Springfield 03 or 03A3 rifles for training, and later M-1 Garand rifles in the active military.  These rifles fired a 30-06 cartridge, with a substantial bullet, accurate to long distances.  It had been used since the early 1900’s.

 The M-14, in 1956-1964 was chambered for the NATO .308 round, and finally came the M-16, the selective fire military predecessor of the AR-15, in 1964, chambered for .223.  So, it was essentially a .22 rifle.

 We knowledgeable shooters, and our Vietnam troops called the original M-16 the “mouse gun”, because of its puny .223 round, compared to the prior 30-06 and ,308 rounds.  There were many problems with the M-16 at first, but it was improved with time, along with the semi-automatic, one-shot-at-a-time AR-15 civilian version.

 What happened to our country?  It’s not the guns, or the AR=15’s.  We’ve always had guns.  Guns are endemic to the American ethos and culture.  We just used them as the tools that they were intended to be, and not against each other, or to enter a school and start killing innocent children, or a grocery store, and start shooting innocent people.

 The AR-15 has become the most popular and ubiquitous singular rifle in the country.  Why? - Because of its accuracy, low recoil, easy re-configuration and relatively low price.  Certainly not because of its efficacy as a mass murder weapon. A recent survey shows that there are nearly 20 million AR-15 style rifles in the country.  The same survey shows that 33 firms manufacture and sell some version of the civilian AR-15.

 A 1994 attempt to ban “assault weapons” aimed at AR-15’s failed miserably because of lack of definition and precision about what the politically coined “assault weapons” were.  The usual liars in our government tell us how this 1994 ban reduced crime in the country, but these are the bald-faced lies that we have come to expect from Joe Biden and his handlers. The actual statistics don’t lie.

 Does anyone in their honest and rational mind think that more restrictive gun laws that penalize legal gun owners are going to prevent another demented, disenfranchised crazy person from getting their hands on an AR-15 (of the 20 million available in the country), or a pistol, or a knife, or a car, and killing more people?

 We have a population of nearly 335 million people, and we have just about as many firearms in the country. (Some say over 400 million firearms).  We need to learn to live with the guns we have.  It would help to keep guns out of the hands of the crazies, but left-wingers talking and bloviating at the issue accomplishes nothing. 

 Many Americans, at least in “fly over country” retain solid American values.  But unfortunately, some younger Americans have been misled, and have lost touch with what America is all about, and enough of these are disenchanted or lawless enough to riot violently in the streets and cause destruction, or to pick up a weapon and go on a shooting spree.

 Ray Gruszecki

May 30, 2022

Slaughter of the Innocents

 

Slaughter of the Innocents

 This started out as an answer to Daniel Lewis’ comment on my previous post about the frequency of recent mass shootings.  It ran on and on, so I’m posting separately.

 One reason for “the nut or criminal behind the gun” is the release of the mentally ill into our communities in the 1950’s and 1960’s, in hopes that psychoactive drugs will replace the mental hospitals of the past.

 Quoting from the “New York Times”:

 “THE policy that led to the release of most of the nation's mentally ill patients from the hospital to the community is now widely regarded as a major failure. Sweeping critiques of the policy, notably the recent report of the American Psychiatric Association, have spread the blame everywhere, faulting politicians, civil libertarian lawyers and psychiatrists.

 Many of the psychiatrists involved as practitioners and policy makers in the 1950's and 1960's said in the interviews that heavy responsibility lay on a sometimes neglected aspect of the problem: the overreliance on drugs to do the work of society.”

 And from “The Healthy Place”:

 “In the mid-1950s the numbers of hospitalized mentally ill peaked at 560,000 in the United States. This, plus the advent of effective psychiatric medication, led to many mentally ill people being removed from institutions and directed towards local mental health facilities. The number of institutionalized mentally ill dropped to 130,000 in 1980.”

 So, hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients were released into society after 1950.  What the above paragraph omits to say is that many of these patients ended up in prisons, where they were radicalized to crime, or to homelessness, and an anarchic, lawless existence.

 These links refer:

 https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

 https://nami.org/mhstats

 https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis

 https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-illness-overview/the-history-of-mental-illness

  

Another reason for mass shootings:

 Why does an eighteen year old, (one in New York State, and one in Texas), pick up guns, don body armor, and kill multiple people in a super market, on the one hand, and multiple small children in an elementary school, on the other?

 Part of the answer, I’m sure, lies in some form of mental illness as described above.  Another revolves around the apathy toward human life resulting from the many media outlets depicting a rank disregard for human life.  BANG! Goes the video game recording a “kill”, as red splatters on the screen, and an acknowledgement point is rewarded.  Same with “action movies”, where “the enemy” violently dispatched.  And our kids participate in this ersatz carnage as soon as they can sit up and hold the controls.  Our kids are desensitized to violence from babies onward. What do we expect from this exposure, - a respect for human life?

  

There are myriad other reasons, dishonest leaders, false prophets, personal betrayals, that can skew and twist a young person’s psyche, but the over-riding reason is spiritual desolation due to lack of spiritual or religious beliefs.  People all over the world are drifting away from religion, including our young people.

 According to Gallup: “The decline in formal church membership has largely been driven by younger generations of Americans. About one in three U.S. young adults have no religious affiliation. Further, many young adults who do identify with a religion nevertheless do not belong to a church. But even older adults who have a religious preference are less likely to belong to a church today than in the past.”

 Our kids are marinated in internet and entertainment industry violence, while eschewing the Christian belief systems and morals and ethics of their forebearers.

 Even when raised in strong Christian churches, our young people drift away from religion when exposed to agnostic or atheist secular beliefs as part of public or university schooling, or just living in the secular world.  Innovative approaches such as Mike Baughman’s Union Coffee Shop in Dallas aimed at bringing young people back into a spiritual environment, and keeping them focused spiritually have had some success in bringing young professionals back to God.  https://www.uniondallas.org/our-story/

  

What exacerbates the whole issue is the instant availability in everyone’s pocket, of access to all of the knowledge of the world, and the audio/visual means to disseminate it to anyone in the world.  Who needs God, when one can wield such power by manipulating a screen on 3” x 4” device?

 Being a technical puke, I hate to acknowledge it, but our modern world and its technology also contributes to some teenager being able to kill 20 innocent children.

  

How do we get out of this propensity for another demented young man to slaughter masses of innocent people and children?  We can preach at it and say, “Return to God”.  HOW?? 

 It seems that we need almost a Messiah on the order of a Jesus Christ to rectify our spiritual malaise, and we need a political leader on the order of a Washington or Lincoln to cure our political sickness.

 We can pray, and hope that time will bring the cure.  And we can each do our part, by being respectful Christians and citizens, and try to teach our young people to be the same.

 Ray Gruszecki

May 25, 2022

What is Wrong In Our Society?

 

What is Wrong In Our Society?

 What is wrong with our society? 

 We seem to have a mass shooting at a school or a church or a super market, or other such soft target, as often as every week.

 We have a population of nearly 335 million people, and we have just about as many firearms in the country.  So, its’s easy, and it happens after nearly every shooting, to blame the gun, and not the nut or the criminal behind the gun.  Restrictive gun laws don’t work.  Many mass shootings take place in cities and states with the most draconian gun control laws, California, Chicago, New York, etc. 

 What happened to our country?  Its not the guns.  We’ve always had guns.  Guns are endemic to the American ethos and culture.  We just used them as the tools that they were intended to be, and not against each other, or to enter a school and start killing innocent children.  There are over 300 million guns in the country, so confiscation and overly strict laws against lawful gun owners are not the answer.  We need to learn to live with the guns we have.  It would help to keep guns out of the hands of the crazies, but left-wingers talking and bloviating at the issue accomplishes nothing.

 I grew up in the 1940’s and 1950’s in Massachusetts, and I was raised with guns.  A Red Ryder BB gun at age eight.  A .22 rifle at age twelve.  Then shotguns, higher caliber rifles and pistols when I got older.  And we carried these firearms around in our cars and trucks, and didn’t even think twice about it.  They were tools, for hunting, or for target practice.  Never in a million years would the thought arise to turn a gun on another human being.

 But it was different world.  We went to church.  We respected our parents and teachers and the police.  We obeyed the laws.  We were taught to be good citizens by the paragons of our communities.

 Elements of our society lost being decent, God-fearing people, somewhere along the way, and lost their ethical and moral integrity.  Maybe it was related to the reaction to the second world war and the movement away from religion and toward secularization.   Maybe it started with the assassinations in the 1960’s of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, and the world-wide movement toward anarchy.  Maybe it was related to the resurgence of socialism and communism being taught in our universities, with insufficient stress on the corrosive nature of those philosophies.

 And more recently, this ethical and moral degradation has been hastened by the ready availability of destructive anarchic material readily available to young minds on the internet, and the rise of “wokeness”, political correctness and “cancel culture” as active facets of popular thought.  Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa fan the flames of violence, and people like George Soros fund it.   

 Many Americans, at least in “fly over country” retain solid American values.  But unfortunately, some younger Americans have lost touch with what America is all about, and enough of these are disenchanted or lawless enough to riot violently in the streets and cause destruction, or to pick up a weapon and go on a shooting spree.

 Ray Gruszecki

May 24, 2022

Lest We Forget

 

Lest We Forget

 Lest we forget.  This is why we are living in Joe Biden’s unbelievable dystopia.

 We not only have the most abysmal “president” and “vice president” ever, in our history, they should have never been there in the first place.

 The democrats, the left-wing politicians, and much of the media, big tech and entertainment industry have made it seem as if the news just before the 2020 election about Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents was some sort of conspiracy theory or misplaced right-wing lie.  And the gullible American public swallowed the incessant propaganda that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.  He would not have been elected if news about Hunter Biden’s laptop was not suppressed.

 Even after now admitting that Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents are real, this same cabal continues to hide news about it and denigrate its existence. Slowly, the truth is emerging, now that Americans have been conditioned that Biden is the president, and against President Trump.  And where is the FBI, who has had the laptop since December of 2019?

 Let’s remember, if the news about Hunter’s laptop and its contents was not suppressed by the above dishonest mob just before the 2020 election, Joe Biden would never have been elected.  And all you have to do is look at the numbers.

 Biden won the electoral college in 2020 by 306 to 232, with 270 electoral votes necessary to win.  This included Arizona with 11 electoral votes with 10,457 winning popular votes; Georgia 10 electoral votes , 12,670 popular votes; Pennsylvania 20 electoral votes, 81,660 popular votes; Wisconsin 10 electoral votes, 20,682 popular votes.  These four states add up to 51 electoral votes, and would have given Trump a winning total of 283 electoral votes.  The total popular vote in the four states necessary to attain these 51 electoral votes would have been 125,469 out of the 18,360,000 total votes cast, or less than 7 tenths of one percent of the total votes cast in these states.

 It is pretty obvious that these small popular voter margins would have easily been overcome, and Trump would have been re-elected president, if the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop had not been suppressed by our dishonest politicians, mainstream media and big tech.

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-cnn-cbs-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinformation-media

 https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/media-avoided-the-ties-between-joe-biden-and-hunters-laptop/

 https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-big-tech-media-and-dems-killed-the-hunter-biden-story/

 Ray Gruszecki

May 20, 2022

Propaganda and Lies

 

Propaganda and Lies

 How could rational, intelligent, thinking people not seen this coming?  How could we Americans become so blinded by propaganda, so as to accept not only an acknowledged political hack as president, but also a man who was clearly diminished in his mental capacity by age?

 The answer lies in our mainstream news media that have become a propaganda arm of the democrats.  They hid Biden in his Delaware basement and only let him out for scripted events.  They perverted and withheld truthful news, and basted him in sweet lies.  He was to be the great conciliator.  Instead he became the great Marxist disrupter of our society.

 President Trump was controversial and combative in nature, and couldn’t keep his mouth shut, or his thumbs off the “tweeter”, but who can blame him after the merciless tormenting and false charges levelled against him for five years?

 During Trump’s presidency, the country was proud to be American, and ran prosperously, at least before Covid.  He fast-tracked vaccines and was about to bring the country back economically, when the leftist forces arrayed against him finally skewed and withheld news that would have elected him.  The mainstream news media were the perpetrators, but the gullible American electorate was complicit in putting the incompetent Joe Biden into office.

 On another tack, how could we Americans, including many of our big corporations, be taken in by the Marxist charlatans of “Black Lives Matter”, to donate millions of dollars in the name of George Floyd, a murdered Minneapolis petty criminal and drug addict?  And then seeing BLM be the driving force behind $2 billion worth of destruction in our major cities during the summer of 2020, including the destruction of many of the icons of our culture and heritage.  On top of that, BLM then stole and absconded with millions of dollars of the of the donated money, only donating a small pittance to actual intended victims.

 Our gullibility and stupidity knows no bounds when it comes to the lies, propaganda and posturing of the unscrupulous leftists/Marxists.  We are now being lied to daily from Biden’s teleprompter, from Karine Jean-Pierre’s notes, from cabinet members, and from other democrat congresspersons.  And these are not just shadings of the truth.  They are literally, bold, in-your- face reversal of facts that can be checked online or with DVR recordings.  Just how dense and stupid do the democrats think we are?

 It’s beyond arguing political differences.  It’s beyond saying “we told you so”, or “no more pithy tweets”.  The democrats and their leftist allies have gone a long way toward ruining this country, and setting it on the path of another ruined wealthy democracy, Venezuela, once the wealthiest country in South America, and now, another failed state. 

 There is nothing that this Biden administration seems to be able to do to prevent the same fate for the U.S.  The midterm elections in 2022 may get the democrats out of congress, but they can’t get Biden out, or Harris, or, heaven forbid, Pelosi, inheriting the executive.  We have to wait for the 2024 elections, with two years of a stagnant or non-government.

 There is absolutely nothing that this Biden Marxist excuse for a government has done right.  Yet Joe and his minions will go in front of the country and pat themselves on the back for the great job they’re doing, and stubbornly insist that they are right.  Apparently, they have not bought groceries or gasoline recently.

 And 30-40% in the country approve of the job that Joe Biden and the democrats are doing.  Who are these people still showing approval?  Apparently, they are democrats, socialists, Marxists and other leftists that will never question the democrat party, no matter how badly the country (or their city) is doing under democrat rule. 

 Left-wing politics is their mantle from birth, or from the left-wing educational system, and will never change.  Logic is wasted, political science is wasted, emotion is wasted.  These people can be starving or destitute from Marxist policies, and they will try to find a way to blame Trump, or if not Trump, the closest republican.

 Ray Gruszecki

May 20, 2022