Night Watch is forming (or We Have Already Lost the Fight Against Tyranny)

[Jimmy Higgins]

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You can file this under W for "Won't be able to sleep".

The sheriffs group has railed against gun control laws, COVID-19 mask mandates and public health restrictions, as well as alleged election fraud. It has also quietly spread its ideology across the country, seeking to become more mainstream in part by securing state approval for taxpayer-funded law enforcement training, the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism found.

Over the last five years, the group has hosted trainings, rallies, speeches and meetings in at least 30 states for law enforcement officers, political figures, private organizations and members of the public, according to the Howard Center’s seven-month probe, conducted in collaboration with the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

The group has held formal trainings on its “constitutional” curriculum for law enforcement officers in at least 13 of those states. In six states, the training was approved for officers’ continuing education credits. The group also has supporters who sit on three state boards in charge of law enforcement training standards.

An alt-right grassroots movement within the wing of Government that is supposed to protect the law and the people, not pick and choose what they support or don't support.

 

[Gospel]

Law enforcement doing judicial reviews.


Hey, if their state courts are ok with it then someone is overpaid or taking up space.

 

[laughing dog]

Since all of them swore an oath to upheld the laws of the land, each one should automatically be dismissed from their positions.

 

[steve_bank]

It is exacerbated by modern media, but I don't think we are much difernt than we were at the founding.

The popular responses to COVID are not much different than the Spanish Flu. There was a cover up during WWI.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The 1918-20 flu pandemic,[6] also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer of the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million,[7] and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.[8] Limited historical epidemiological data make the pandemic's geographic origin indeterminate, with competing hypotheses on the initial spread.[2]

 

[laughing dog]

It is exacerbated by modern media, but I don't think we are much difernt than we were at the founding.

The popular responses to COVID are not much different than the Spanish Flu. There was a cover up during WWI.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The 1918-20 flu pandemic,[6] also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer of the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million,[7] and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.[8] Limited historical epidemiological data make the pandemic's geographic origin indeterminate, with competing hypotheses on the initial spread.[2]

Yeah, the popular response was the same if you exclude that humankind knew more about how to deal with a pandemic in this century than in the previous one.

 

[steve_bank]

It is exacerbated by modern media, but I don't think we are much difernt than we were at the founding.

The popular responses to COVID are not much different than the Spanish Flu. There was a cover up during WWI.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The 1918-20 flu pandemic,[6] also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer of the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million,[7] and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.[8] Limited historical epidemiological data make the pandemic's geographic origin indeterminate, with competing hypotheses on the initial spread.[2]

Yeah, the popular response was the same if you exclude that humankind knew more about how to deal with a pandemic in this century than in the previous one.

They actually knew. Accoding to the authorr of a bopk on the Spanish flu masks and self quaretines were as much an issue as today.

 

[laughing dog]

It is exacerbated by modern media, but I don't think we are much difernt than we were at the founding.

The popular responses to COVID are not much different than the Spanish Flu. There was a cover up during WWI.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The 1918-20 flu pandemic,[6] also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer of the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million,[7] and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.[8] Limited historical epidemiological data make the pandemic's geographic origin indeterminate, with competing hypotheses on the initial spread.[2]

Yeah, the popular response was the same if you exclude that humankind knew more about how to deal with a pandemic in this century than in the previous one.

They actually knew. Accoding to the authorr of a bopk on the Spanish flu masks and self quaretines were as much an issue as today.

Medical knowledge has significantly advanced and diffused across the planet since the Spanish Fku pandemic. In addition, the medical community learned from that pandemic.
Which leads me to disagree with the author of a book.

 

[JohnG]

Oath Keepers & members of Secret Service communication back channel

 

[ZiprHead]

Oath Keepers & members of Secret Service communication back channel

"Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

 

[Gospel]

Oath Keepers & members of Secret Service communication back channel

"Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

I still remember them getting banned from Saturday Night Live because they hung upside-down flags (a sign of distress). I never took that show as the edgy it presented itself as ever since.

 

[steve_bank]

Yes today our culture and politics is far more rational than at the time of the Spanish flu.

I stand corrected.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What does the flu have to do with an astro-turfed attempt to unionize Sheriffs nationally with some alt-right agenda?

 

[southernhybrid]

The irony of some of this is that the crazies on the right in Georgia want to remove prosecutors from office because they aren't prosecuting every crime. The stupid law in Georgia that was passed because a Black prosecutor said she wouldn't prosecute people who had small amounts of weed in their possession. After that, some said they didn't plan on prosecuting those who had or performed abortions. Then the law was passed.

Now, the crazies on the right are trying to get Fanni Willis removed from office, although to my knowledge, she has never refused to prosecute anyone based on the law they broke. Of course, it's impossible for any prosecutor to prosecute every single criminal act, so it does make sense that they would go after those who commit the most significant crimes, especially if those crimes are violent or a potential threat to government and democracy.

So, I guess these right wing nuts think it's okay for a sheriff to decide which laws should be enforced, but it's horrific if a prosecutor doesn't want to waste time going after those who commit low level, non violent crimes, when there are so many worse crimes that need to be investigated and prosecuted, especially when the evidence is overwhelming. Right now, Fanni has a lot on her plate with the cases of Young Thug and "Old Thug".