Poway Rally Message: Our Civil Rights "Shall Not Be Infringed"

In February 2009, Doo Doo Economics began with a message of concern about the future of our country.  We issued what we believed to be simple economic message, that "raising taxes during a recession is doo doo economics." For a growing number of Americans, concern for the future of our country is becoming dismay about the present. On Saturday February 23, 2013, our message of concern joined a larger message of resistance at the "Shall Not Be Infringed" rally in Poway, California.

Hundreds of patriotic Americans stood together to say "NO" to anti-civil rights forces in government and on the progressive left. A local news outlet, UTSanDiego.com reported the rally incorrectly:

POWAY — Several hundred people, mostly men, mostly older and almost universally conservative, descended on Old Poway Park Saturday afternoon to take part in a “Pro-Second Amendment” rally.

This statement is incorrect because there were many young, able-bodied military and ex-military at the rally. As I traveled the crowd, handing out invitations to visit The San Diego Local Order of Bloggers, I spoke with maybe a hundred people. Around 40% of the crowd consisted of young able bodied patriots. One of which informed me that he "had our back" and many more who echoed the sentiment of the rally.

The UT San Diego and other news organizations attended the beginning of the rally, but must not have stayed to the end. When we first arrived, along side a group of former Republican volunteer organizers and ex-officials, I was met with the statement "it is good to see younger people here." As the rally progressed, it became clear that the "mostly older" crowd was giving way to a younger, brasher, group of 2nd Amendment supporters.

Local reporter Bridget Naso of KUSI searched the crowd for television interviews. Her trained eye, focused upon scheduled speakers and older, radically dressed attendees. Since I have had the pleasure of talking with this reporter in the past, I reintroduced myself. The last time we met was on a long trolley ride to Comic-Con. She mentioned with surprise that, "this is a very different setting" to see me. I am a tall, young looking, well spoken, "normal" American. It was clear that I was not who she had been trained to find.

The report incorrectly describes the rally as the "Day of Resistance, Anti-Obama Gun Rally" and estimates the number of attendees at about a "hundred and fifty". My estimate of the crowd is three to four hundred. The opening video of the rally (:26) does show a younger crowd gathering in the center, behind the older seated attendees.

Where the tea party was largely comprised of concerned mothers and children, this crowd included a larger percentage of young, physically fit, men. One young, 2nd Amendment supporting, community college teacher informed me, "they have no idea what they are messing with." To put the statement in context, he was voicing the fact that without the Second Amendment, the U.S. Constitution is void, and that will not be tolerated.

The rally included the Citizen's Oath to the Constitution directed by Terri Linnell. The oath was based upon OathKeepers, but designed for citizens who have not served in the military or law enforcement. The crowd of patriots stood with hand on heart and recommitted to defense of the U.S. Constitution.

A rousing, poetic rally cry was also mustered.  Organizer Roger Cotton did an excellent job finding speakers. One blogger who spoke was Robert Morse of Slow Facts. Robert did a great job in an interview for the KUSI story linked above. His blog features photos of the rally.

The take-way for the event is simple. The divisive and false rhetoric of the left is pushing more Americans into irreconcilable differences over our constitutional civil rights. As Roger Cotton put it, "They HATE us. We do not hate them." Many Californians are fed up and Saturday they reminded us, "Don't Tread on Me" is a warning not a slogan.

Benghazi: The Definitive Report

A new ebook ($2.99) reviews the attacks in Benghazi. Benghazi: The Definitive Report is a timeline of events and detail about the heroic actions taken to save Ambassador Christopher Stevens, by Global Response and former Navy SEAL Ty Woods.

For the next four months, Webb and his team at SOFREP.com, the world's premier Special Ops website, embarked on a relentless investigation to understand exactly what happened to their countrymen, as well as the roles played by the Obama administration, State Department, and CIA. Drawing on unmatched sources, they spoke to individuals who would talk to no one else, including fellow Special Operations team members familiar with the African theatre, and well-placed contacts in the Washington intelligence community.

One key, as reported by Sean Hannity, the book premises on unreported incidents in which the U.S. initiated attacks. (As we reported in Killing Stevens: The Obama Scandal.) The Benghazi attack may have been a counter attack. Ambassador Stevens was a target within a larger conflict with obvious needs for security.

Senator John McCain recently characterized the Obama Administration's reaction to Benghazi as a "Massive Coverup."

Update: We should also mention the "What difference does it make" comment by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.

Christopher Dorner's Last Resort About Corruption

Christopher Dorner wrote America his manifesto labeled "Last Resort" but it is apparent that the meaning is lost on the news media. The following information is meant to help you understand what Dorner, another left wing killer, is trying to tell you. The short version is "Last Resort" is about corruption and ending it by all means necessary.

In 2012, ABC released 13 episodes of the military drama "Last Resort." It is about a nuclear submarine captain who defies a corrupt American government in the name of honor. The captain refuses back-channel orders to attack Pakistan with nuclear weapons. IMDB describes the series as follows:

A US sub picks up Navy SEALs and receives an order for a nuke launch. Due to the circumstances of the order, the Captain refuses to fire. After escaping an attack from another US sub, the crew and SEALs take refuge on a small island.

The Huffington Post reported to its left wing audience that the show's co-creator knew the series would be cancelled on November 16th, 2012. The finale aired on January 24th, 2013 with nuclear submarine, The Colorado, being destroyed after the captain unveils the government corruption to the media. The final episode is rushed due to the quick cancellation.

Dorner is approaching the LAPD with this same honor in defiance. He states that the LAPD turned on its own when it fired him for reporting police brutality as a police officer.

At the beginning of the series, Andre Braugher's character, Captain Marcus Chaplin, launches a nuclear missile at Washington, D.C. to force the U.S. military to stand down. The missile is actually aimed to fly over Washington, D.C., but proves his resolve.

Dorner has a weapon nearly as terrifying for his intended targets in the LAPD (per ABC News):

Dorner also claims to have a .50 caliber rifle, which fires bullets five inches long -- capable of piercing bullet-proof vests, cutting through cars and some armored vehicles. 

The resolve to defy corruption is the cornerstone of ABC's Last Resort. Understanding this television series, which is dramatic and enjoyable, reveals the mindset behind Christopher Dorner's manifesto by the same name. The series can be viewed online in its entirety at http://abc.go.com/watch/last-resort/SH55199666.

Christopher Dorner's "Last Resort" distinguished between his beloved Obama Administration and the LAPD: (hat tip fellow SLOBs reporter W.C. Varones)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants-TJ. This quote is not directed toward the US government which I fully support 100%. This is toward the LAPD who can not monitor itself. 

The series continues with a Coup d'état of the U.S. government by patriots opposed to the corrupt government. View the series for the outcome of the coup, but as you might imagine, people die.

The final scene of the series begs the question of the audience, "What is the last resort of patriots confronted by corruption and tyrants?"

Click here to watch the final episode.

Commentary

Christopher Dorner identifies with this series. His manifesto appeals to liberal fairness and conservative justice. It also appeals to traditional Americans who believe in honor and duty. There is more here than just a crazed killer.

The media reports only the killing and death without regard to the ideas and motivations. However, action to challenge entrenched corruption is action against those in power. If individuals feel the need to take on the battle against corruption, like the San Diego Local Order of Bloggers, it is because the media is no longer fulfilling its constitutionally protected duty to challenge corrupting power. 

(Doo Doo Economics is in response to a media that fails to report the statistical manipulations that are now common in economic reporting.  Housing sales prices, unemployment, inflation, immigration and other key economic indicators are now openly manipulated for propaganda purposes. This hinders the trusting public from making sound economic decisions.)

A person who decides to fight corruption uses the weapons he is trained in. Reporters are trained in the use of the pen, but no longer raise that pen in the defense of traditional America. Journalists and their educators have allowed bias to overrule duty. This is the result.

If you are charged with bringing this situation to an end, appeal to honor, oppose corruption and this situation can be resolved. Americans must know that the star spangled banner yet waves. It cannot wave over a land of the corrupt and cowardly.

Updates

10 P.M. 2/9/2013 via NPR: The LAPD will be reviewing the firing of Dorner. 

This may allow Dorner to surrender to authorities. Well done.

P.S.

In my opinion; conservatives are vilified by the media for supporting our right to bear arms and self-preservation. However, it is the more emotional left that embraces ideas like eugenics and mass murder. Gulagbound blog brings forward this idea and reminds us of the following:

ObamaCare Insurance Denied for Gun Owners

Our report on the intersection between ObamaCare and Gun Control entitled "ObamaCare Insurance Will Not Cover Gun Owners" outlines a theoretical strategy in which the second amendment of the constitution may be subverted.

This approach has three steps, which you can review in the previous article in more detail.

1. Link health and gun ownership in the media and public perception
2. Classify guns as a public health issue
3. After ObamaCare becomes America's "single-payer" for health insurance, deny gun owners health insurance coverage.

The following C-SPAN clip serves as evidence of steps one and two. It is only 30 seconds in length and outlines the intentions behind the Youth Promise Act. Unfortunately, I was not able to embed the clip, so click the image below.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4335660

The full C-SPAN program can be reviewed here. If you REALLY want to go overboard, here is another hearing on gun control by the same group of anti-civil rights activists.

Update 4/1/2013: 

Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who do not have firearm insurance.

ObamaCare Insurance Will Not Cover Gun Owners

Following is the list of President Obama's 23 executive orders on "gun violence." We are highlighting the  orders that we believe will be used to vilify gun owners and report them through health care providers. The end goal is to declare gun ownership a public health threat and then deny health insurance to gun owners when ObamaCare morphs into the "single-payer" health insurance provider in America.

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rule making to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

There are three steps in this process revealed by these new executive orders.

Step one is to create a linkage between mental health and gun ownership background checks. Executive orders 1,2,3 and 4 address this linkage. Once that connection is established, gun ownership background check information is integrated with individual medical information. This information directs ObamaCare, Medicare and other government financed health care professionals to question and evaluate gun owners during normal medical care per orders 16 and 17.

Background check information reveals gun ownership or attempts at gun ownership. Health professionals might then be trained to "flag" gun owners for reasons including:

• Denial of gun ownership by known gun owners (lying)
• Threats of violence
• Violent behavior
• Abusiveness (verbal or behavioral)
• Observed violent or abusive behavior toward one's self

The key to understanding how this can be exploited is to understand the intentional vagueness of the directives. Administrators are enabled to interpret the executive orders as best suits the goals of the anti-second amendment agenda. 

Step two is to classify guns as a public health issue per orders 4, 14, 15 and 23. Order 15 addresses technology including information technology like databases for tracking gun owners and assigning mental health issues. More importantly, statistics are often driven by the ability to identify and/or report.

Closer scrutiny of gun owners will naturally create more reported illnesses with a correlation to gun ownership. This is particularly true for the most common reasons people visit their doctor. This statistical bias also occurs when mandates drive what doctors look for during their time with patients. We might expect to see future headline such as:

• "Gun Ownership Linked to Erectile Dysfunction"
• "High Blood Pressure and Glaucoma Associated with Gun Owners"
• "Report: Gun Owners More Verbally Abusive"

"Experts" will use these flawed statistics to further fear and misunderstanding of gun ownership.

Step three occurs after ObamaCare becomes the "single-payer" insurance in America. The stated goal of ObamaCare in liberal circles is to end private insurance. The argument that Medicare has less administrative cost than private insurance is an example of this train of thought. The core argument is that "capitalism is evil" and cares about "profits over people."

Medicare administrative costs exclude the collection costs which are handled by the IRS through the tax system. Private insurance considers this as accounts receivable, an administrative cost. Further, Medicare has federal law enforcement agencies to pursue people who violate the system and public grants to social workers across the country to sign up new customers. Private companies must employ lawyers and sales people in these roles. All of these uncounted costs show the "low cost Medicare" argument to be a farce.

Once "single-payer" ObamaCare becomes a reality, gun owners will be denied coverage in ObamaCare insurance as public health threats. This possibility is hinted at by executive orders 20,21 and 22. Gun owners could then be fined per ObamaCare insurance tax mandates.  This gets around fining people directly for gun ownership in violation of second amendment civil rights protections.

Court challenges that occur prior to ObamaCare becoming the "single-payer" health insurance in America can be used to provide precedent. ObamaCare defenders will argue that "private health insurance is a valid alternative to avoid the mandatory fine". The argument will change to "ObamaCare is not responsible for the availability or affordability of private insurance" after ObamaCare becomes America's "single-payer" insurance.

If this theory has flaws, please let us know...

Update:

We found a Congressional Research Service paper by William J. Krouse from February 3, 2011 that points out enacted legislation which directly contradicts President Obama's Executive Orders listed above as 16 and 17:

Prohibiting data collection on gun ownership or higher premiums for gun owners who are beneficiaries of healthcare wellness programs (P.L. 111-148).

Note:

This articles is referring to "executive orders" per news reports, but these are actually "executive actions".

Update:

Here is an article outlining the battle in Oregon between the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) privacy provisions and the The Drug Enforcement Administration attempts at accessing the private information without a warrant.

Forcible Rape Jumps 26.76% in San Diego (Updated)

The FBI released voluntarily reported crime statistics for cities and the nation. The Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2012 shows a slight national uptick in violent crime of 1.9% from 2011. In San Diego, rape is up by 26.76% and overall violent crime has increased by 7.87%.

San Diego has not reported a significant number of additional murders, 40 during the first half of 2012 compared with 39 during the previous year. While some Police point out that area murders in 2012 have included several gang related killings, the overall rate of murder in the county is nearly flat.

Earlier this year we reported on a 26% increase in rapes per the San Diego Association of Governments, but the two statistics are fundamentally different. The Union Tribute points to the rape definition from earlier this year:

The number of rapes increased by 26 percent, with 376 reported from January to June. At least part of the increase can be attributed to a wider definition of rape that went into effect in January. The new definition includes any gender of victim or perpetrator, as well as instances in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

The FBI statistics use "Forcible Rape," a term you may recall from the 2012 election. The media did not report the fact that this is an important distinction in crime reporting and legislation.

Forcible rapes in the San Diego area increased from 213 during the first half of 2011 to 270 during the same period in 2012. This is a similar percentage increase, but the numbers differ drastically.

A year over year trend in FBI crime statistics shows that this is the first uptick in violent crime in several years. There are a couple explanations at work.

Some pundits are blaming the poor economy, but some of the San Diego areas hardest hit by the economy are not showing a correlation. The same problem arises when left wing pundits point to gun possession. El Cajon, California shows a 24.8% decrease in violent crime, a 20% decrease in rape and a 24.8% decrease in assaults. El Cajon is an area associated with gun ownership in San Diego.

Carlsbad, Escondido and Temecula have seen sharp increases in reported forcible rapes. These areas are all similar in population size compared to El Cajon, but are more secluded. "Open Carry" was outlawed in California beginning in January 2012. This may point out that scarcely populated areas without the protection of firearms are targeted by criminals.

Another explanation may be prison realignment (AB109). 10 News reports:

San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said gangs are growing as a result of the state's prison realignment with California wardens shifting tens of thousands of inmates to county jail cells or providing early release.

"We're seeing about a thousand additional people out of prison and they don't have quite the level of oversight they would normally have and it's pretty clear that it's having some effect on the gangs and they're being more aggressive than before," Lansdowne said.

Gang violence is up 34 percent, he said.

Anecdotal evidence supports the Police Chief, but this is a difficult case to make. City by city across California the results of prison realignment are mixed per the Sacremento Bee.

"The state is not collecting data on this," Krisberg said. "I think it is scandalous."

My theory is that prison realignment, illegal immigration, police budgetary restrictions and the banning of Open Carry laws have produced a net effect. Where people are not armed and police are understaffed, crime is exploding. Elsewhere, criminals now understand that Californians are defenseless and our criminal system is not capable of punishing them for crimes when caught.

While this report is focused on the latest FBI report, 2012 full year statistics on murder is being locally reported:

The murder rate in San Diego was up almost 20 percent in 2012 from the year before, and in San Diego County, the numbers increased by almost 23 percent.

The FBI murder statistics for San Diego during January to June 2012 show an increase of only 8% (25 to 27), which leads to the conclusion that these problems must be growing...and we are legally prohibited from protecting ourselves.

Update:

Police chiefs from around San Diego confirmed my suspicion that the increase in crime is due to the "Open Carry" ban. UT San Diego's Pauline Repard issued a report that three police chiefs from San Diego jumped to support President Obama's 23 executive orders on "gun violence." Can you guess which three?

“I was pleasantly surprised when I heard him take a comprehensive approach,” said Carlsbad Police Chief Gary Morrison. “I liked the way he talked about the medical community and the impact of video games on kids, and money to law enforcement and schools to craft emergency response plans.”

“You could not find a bigger supporter of the president than myself today,” said San Diego Police Chief Bill Lansdowne. “It makes my officers safer and it’s going to make the community safer.”

Chula Vista Police Chief David Bejarano said most people in law enforcement welcome the additional measures the president is proposing.

Maybe this is a biased view and the hardest hit police chiefs are simply grasping for solutions to problems. However this looks like anti-gun police chiefs, and Sheriff Gore if you read the full story, reduce the ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves and their property. For these San Diego police chiefs overall violent crime is up 8.32% and forcible rape is up 37.16%. The FBI report shows a 6.29% increase in violent crime and a 3.08% uptick in forcible rape for the other San Diego police chiefs.

In Carlsbad forcible rape skyrocketed 275% and violent crime overall is up 73.42%. On the bright side, there were no murders in the first half of 2012 and auto theft was slightly down. Robbery, aggravated
assault, property crime, burglary and larceny-theft increased.

Chula Vista shows a 16% decrease in reported violent crime due to less aggravated assaults. The FBI report also show a 14.3% increase in forcible rape and increased burglaries, auto theft and property crimes.

Hopefully unrelated, yet interestingly, Chula Vista's police chief David Bejarano had reported ties to Mexican drug gangs and has been accused of writing bad checks.

The city of San Diego shows a 9.55% increase in violent crime and the numbers look to be getting worse as described above.

A full spreadsheet of statistics with my calculations is available here. The stats have been added as an enclosure to this post.

Sources:
CBS News 8
FBI
UT San Diego
10 News
Sacremento Bee

I Want My Buck and a Half Back

Congressman Mike Thompson wants to give us our tax money back. He offered a man named Patrick Mulhany "a buck and a half" during a recent public forum on "gun violence." The money seems to be in compensation for not representing the man's point of view on gun control. As you know, congressmen are elected to represent the people, but only because of their tax based salary.

Congressman Thompson was brave enough to hold a public forum on stopping "gun violence" in Santa Rosa, California. During the proceedings many people made excellent points and offered interesting supporting facts. The entire episode is available on C-SPAN titled "Gun Violence Prevention Public Forum."

Patrick Mulhany was interrupt by Congressman Thompson. When Mr. Mulhany reminded the Congressman that his job is paid for by his constituents, the congressman offered a refund. Here is a short clip of the event, titled "Buck and a Half Back." (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4300245)


Contact Congressman Mike Thompson by clicking here and ask for your "Buck and a Half Back." It is not clear if the offer is good for everyone or just Mr. Mulhany.