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Aww: Team Hogg Just Got A Taste Of THEIR OWN TOTALITARIAN TENDENCIES, Aren’t Happy About It, :’-(

This is what we call “unintended consequences.”

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Led by David Hogg, for weeks a group of Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting survivors have been clamoring like geese for more government restrictions to be needlessly imposed on America’s millions of law-abiding firearm owners.

Thanks to the combined efforts of the National Rifle Association and conservative media, both of which have rightly sought to protect the Second Amendment from the whims of the inordinately ignorant, America’s gun rights still remained firmly intact as of early April.

Yet interestingly enough, Hogg and his merry band of demagogues’ constant fear-mongering regarding guns had at least engendered one rather serendipitous side effect, as noted Monday by Campus Safety magazine:

Students returning to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following spring break will face added security and safety measures.

All students will be required to use clear backpacks, which they will be given for free when they arrive on Monday morning. They will also be required to wear newly-issued student ID badges at all times, reports NBC. …

Students will be allowed to bring large sports equipment or band instruments in non-clear bags or cases but should expect to have their bags searched, says Superintendent Robert Runcie, who calls the clear backpacks an “initial measure, not a permanent one.”

When students arrive, they will be able to enter using four entry points from 7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. Afterwards, the front office will be the only entry point. By the end of the first quarter of 2019, all schools in the district will have a single point entry for visitors.

But that’s not all. Students at the school must now also contend with “an increased police presence,” real-time surveillance cameras and metal-detecting wands. Full-fledged metal detectors may likewise be installed sometime in the near future.

Sound draconian and totalitarian in nature? Team Hogg certainly certainly believes so:

Even Reason magazine contributor Robby Soave, a libertarian, admitted that these new security measures have indeed made Stoneman Douglas quite “prison-like.”

However, he noted the almost comical irony of it all, writing, “Policies aimed making it harder for people to own firearms aren’t fundamentally different from the above security measures.”

Exactly!

Or, as pithily stated by Brandon Morse at RedState, “[Y]ou cannot ask for more safety without losing some freedoms. That’s just the natural order of things.”

Except, instead of robbing gun-owning Americans of their constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights (all on the premise that doing so would somehow enhance safety), Hogg’s fanatical gun control team wound up robbing itself of its own rights to feel free at school.

“Every day, students lose more and more freedoms at MSD,” one of Hogg’s classmates, Kai Koerber, whined to CNN this week. “Students of color have become targets and white students have become suspects. We do not welcome the militarization of MSD. It is terrible to see our school lose control over the protection of their students and their families.”

Sure, but you asked for it, son. Led by Hogg, you and others like you spent weeks making it clear to the entire country that the most basic American rights mean nothing to you. And now you’re surprised that YOUR RIGHTS have been rescinded? Hah. Welcome to reality, kid.

Better yet, welcome to the notion of principles, i.e. the principles that led you to resent these draconian measures perfectly mirror those of the firearm owners who resent YOU trying to subvert their rights.

Long story short, “No one’s liberties should be infringed just because agents of the state arbitrarily decide that a new policy might somehow make somebody feel safer.” (~Soave)

Let’s just hope you learned your lesson this time. If not, perhaps next week your school district can implement a policy that forces you and your peers to walk with your hands behind your backs. Just sayin’.

Class dismissed.

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Parkland students return to school with mandated clear backpacks — and they are not happy about it

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, returned to school on Monday following spring break — and they were not happy about new security changes implemented during their time off.

Some of the school’s most prominent students, who have become national voices in the gun control debate, used social media to voice their displeasure with the changes.

What happened?

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie announced in March that when MSD students returned from spring break, they would be required to carry their school books in clear backpacks. The decision came after two students from the school were arrested for having weapons on campus.

But the students were quick to voice their displeasure with the change. David Hogg said at a gun control forum the move infringed on students’ right to privacy.

And when students returned to class on Monday, they used their Twitter influence to mock the backpacks.

Many of the students simply bashed the clear backpacks, while others made statements by making tampons visible or posting political stickers and buttons on the outside of the backpacks. Still, others lamented that their school now feels like a “prison.”

Emma González posted on Twitter:

Delaney Tarr posted:

Laura Hogg, sister of the famed David Hogg, posted:

Sarah Chadwick posted:

Jaclyn Corin posted:

Kyra Parrow posted:

Cameron Kasky posted:

Runcie told the Sun-Sentinel that the new backpacks were “an initial measure, not a permanent one,” and noted that Broward Schools would consider allowing other backpacks after seeing how well the metal detection wands worked.

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Trump: Until There’s ‘A Wall and Proper Security, We’re Going to Be Guarding our Border with the Military’

Trump: Until There’s ‘A Wall and Proper Security, We’re Going to Be Guarding our Border with the Military’

by Ian Hanchett3 Apr 20180



While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump stated that until there is “a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”

Trump said, “I’ve been speaking with General Mattis. We’re going to be doing things militarily. Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military. That’s a big step. We really haven’t done that before, or certainly not very much before. But we will be doing things with Mexico, and they have to do it, otherwise, I’m not going to do the NAFTA deal.”

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‘My Pillow’ CEO Says He Will Not Be Bullied By Hogg Boycott, Will Stay With Ingraham, Fox

Because it isn’t really about Hogg or Ingraham per se, it’s about fighting the leftist attempt to censor those with which they disagree.

Via Washington Times:

Mike Lindell, of “MyPillow” inventing and founding company fame, put forth a bold message on his Twitter feed that, in just a few short words, smacked to shame-land the would-be fascists and wanna-be censors of the world who’ve been demanding Laura Ingraham’s head on a Fox News platter.

Listen up, all you cowardly and wishy-washy boycotting businesses: This is how it’s done.
Lindellwrote: “I did not take my advertising down from @IngrahamAngle and @FoxNews, nor do I intend to.”

Bam. What a stand-up guy. What a brave guy, a principled, pro-America guy.

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Chicago Suburb Empowers Police Chief to Confiscate ‘Assault Weapons,’ ‘High Capacity’ Magazines

Chicago Suburb Empowers Police Chief to Confiscate ‘Assault Weapons,’ ‘High Capacity’ Magazines

by AWR Hawkins3 Apr 20180



The Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, is giving residents 60 days to get rid of their “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines and empowering the police chief to confiscate them from those who refuse to give them up.

Deerfield previously allowed ownership of such firearms and magazines but had strict storage requirements in place for them. Now, the firearms and magazines will be illegal to posses in one’s home, even if properly stored.

The Chicago Tribune reports the “new ordinance prohibits the possession, sale and manufacturing of certain types of assault weapons and large capacity magazines within the village.” Those in violation of the ordinance will face fines of $250 to $1,000 a day.

Deerfield’s original “assault weapons” ban, including storage requirements. was instituted in 2013. The new ban is being put in place because of instances wherein “assault weapons” have been used criminally in Parkland, Florida, Sutherland Springs, Texas, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Orlando Florida. The ordinance warns that stock “assault weapons” are “customizable to become even more dangerous weapons of mass casualties and destruction.”

Section 15-91 of the ordinance states, “The Chief of Police or his or her designee shall have the power to confiscate any assault weapon of any person charged with a violation under this article. The Chief of Police shall cause to be destroyed each Assault Weapon or Large Capacity Magazine surrendered or confiscated pursuant to this Article.”

The ordinance does not state whether police will regularly knock on doors and enter homes to check in closets and under beds for “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

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MyPillow Ignores Liberal Outrage, Refuses to Pull Ads from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News Show

MyPillow Ignores Liberal Outrage, Refuses to Pull Ads from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News Show

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by Warner Todd Huston3 Apr 20180



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has taken to Twitter to assure customers that he will not be pulling his advertising from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show despite the liberal outrage over her feud with anti-gun Parkland kid David Hogg.

As one company after another rushed to announce an end to advertising on The Ingraham Angle, Lindell stepped forward to tell the world that he won’t abandon Laura.

In a tweet seemingly aimed at Sean Hannity, the company’s CEO and founder insisted, “I did not take my advertising down from @IngrahamAngle and @FoxNews, nor do I intend to. @seanhannity.”

Ingraham got crosswise with anti-gun Parkland student David Hogg when she made a fairly innocuous joke about how the teenager was whining over being turned down by several colleges he applied to attend.

But, in reply, Hogg hyperbolically went after Ingraham’s livelihood, publishing a list of her advertisers and urging his followers to pepper the companies with complaints about their connection to Ingraham.

Over the next few days, Ingraham’s advertisers began to abandon her for daring to “attack a child.” She quickly apologized for slapping at the student. In yet another tweet she wrote:

Hogg refused to accept Ingraham’s apology and again took to Twitter to urge his acolytes to keep pressuring the Fox host’s advertisers:

Make of this what you will, but the next day Ingraham announced that she was taking a vacation. On the heels of that announcement, Fox News reiterated that it fully supports Ingraham and will not be punishing her or removing her from the air.

“We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News, said in a statement on Monday.

“We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children,” he added.

The list of advertisers announcing that they pulled ads from the Ingraham Angle includes Jenny Craig, Nutrish, Hulu, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Expedia, Nestlé, Johnson & Johnson, and Office Depot.

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Companies Boycotting Laura Ingraham Get Nasty Wakeup Call After Going Too Far

These words are coming back to bite.

As the national media’s cynical infatuation with David Hogg continues into its second month, some of largest advertisers in the country are finding out that reflexive appeasement of tyro tyrants can have a real price.

And Hogg explained why himself, even if he didn’t realize it at the time.

Conservative activists on social media have launched a counterboycott against companies that pulled their advertising from Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” because of the conservative host’s mockery of Hogg via a Twitter post.

Ingraham’s apology to the teenager apparently carried no weight for CEOs bent on signaling their own virtue, but it’s a good bet a grassroots effort to support Ingraham by encouraging consumers to avoid those companies’ products will mean a lot more.

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Because Americans know how to deal with bullies — and Hogg’s own words over the weekend inadvertently summed the situation up perfectly.

In a sneering weekend interview with CNN explaining how he rejected Ingraham’s apology, Hogg told the absolute truth for one of the few times since his arrival on the national scene as an opportunistic “survivor” of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

“No matter who somebody is, no matter how big or powerful they may seem, a bully is a bully, and it’s important that you stand up to them,” quoth the boy wonder from Broward.

Just so. And conservatives recognize it when one of their most articulate spokeswomen finds herself in a bully’s crosshairs.

Are you boycotting companies that abandoned Laura Ingraham?

And they know how to stand up for her.

In Facebook videos and Twitter posts, conservatives are rallying for a counterboycott of companies that pulled their advertising from Ingraham’s show.

In a statement Monday to the Los Angeles Times, Fox reiterated its support for Ingraham when company co-president Jack Abernethy declared: “We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.”

Statements by consumers on social media have the same message, but even stronger, calling the companies out by name:

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This wasn’t what Hogg intended, of course. He’s so covered by the liberal mantle of victimhood that he thinks he’s the one being bullied even while he and his liberal manipulators foster a boycott of a woman’s television show just because his teenage feelings were hurt.

But Americans with a little more life experience, and a well-earned distrust of liberal propaganda in the mainstream media know who’s really being victimized here. And they’re doing something about it.

No one likes a bully, and this counterboycott movement proves it. It’s a wakeup call for every liberal in the executive suites who might finally realize that they’ve taken things too far.

And it’s Hogg’s own words that are coming back to bite.

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What is Mueller Hiding? Mueller Asks Judge to Waive Lawyer’s Right to File FOIA Requests in Russia Witch Hunt

What is Mueller Hiding? Mueller Asks Judge to Waive Lawyer’s Right to File FOIA Requests in Russia Witch Hunt

Cristina Laila
by Cristina Laila
April 2, 2018

Last week, 33-year-old Dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan asked to avoid jail time in the Russian hoax investigation.

Last month Van Der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to Special Counsel investigators about his conversations with Trump’s former campaign aide Rick Gates.

Dirty cop Robert Mueller asked a judge to waive Van Der Zwaan’s right to file a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request ahead of his sentencing which is scheduled for April 3rd.

What is Mueller hiding?

Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked the judge to waive Alex Van Der Zwaan’s right to file a FOIA claiming it would be a strain on “the scarce resources of the Special Counsel’s office.”

Mueller has unlimited time and money to go on a fishing expedition; this is his way of moving ahead with no oversight.

New York Times reporter, Kenneth Vogel tweeted a screenshot of the court document released Tuesday:

Kenneth Vogel tweeted: MUELLER asks judge to waive Alex van der Zwaan’s right to file Freedom of Information requests because they: 1) could “suggest to 3rd parties investigative facts that are…not widely known.” 2) would be a strain on “the scarce resources of the Special Counsel’s Office.”

More background on Van Der Zwaan’s charges via Fox News:

Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged by Mueller’s team with making false statements to investigators in an interview about his time working for a law firm hired by the Ukraine Ministry of Justice in 2012, when he helped produce a report on the trial of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko. According to The Washington Post, Van Der Zwaan is the son-in-law of Russian oligarch German Khan.

Some of the reaction from people who are fed up with dirty cop Mueller and his KGB tactics:

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Now Activists Want To Topple Statues ‘Offensive To Native Americans’

Activists in Arcata, California, are looking to topple a statue in the city’s central square, but this time it’s not going to be of a Confederate general or anyone associated with the Civil War; they’re toppling a statue of President William McKinley, for his crimes, they say, against Native peoples at home and abroad.

“Put a rope around its neck and pull it down,” one activist shouted at a recent rally demanding the statute’s removal, according to the LA Times. Others suggested McKinley should go because of his support for “settler colonialism” that “savaged, raped and killed.”

Local Native American tribes and other assorted activists targeted the statue after a Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally to save a Confederate statue turned violent. Arcata officials claim the incident forced the city to look inward at its sins against the Native population, and to consider removing the statue as a protest against what they believe is “racism” on the part of President Donald Trump.

Arcata residents say they believe there’s no marked difference between McKinley, who presided over America’s westward expansion, and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

“Is there a difference between honoring McKinley and Robert E. Lee?” Arcata’s mayor recently asked media. “They both represent historical pain.”

Arcata’s council hopes to “inspire” other cities across the country to remove statues of McKinley. Other cities in California have removed statues of Christopher Columbus for similar reasons. Activists have also taken it upon themselves to vandalize and destroy statues of St. Junipero Serra, a Catholic priest who led missions in southern California.

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Mother Turns Placenta Into Smoothie, Serves To Family

You won’t find this flavor at Tropical Smoothie.

A 33-year-old woman in Britain fed her family a smoothie that was made with her own placenta from a recent birth. Jay Woodall, a mother of four, said eating placenta is common among animals.

“It’s not really much different from eating certain meats,” she said. “A lot of animals do it, especially mammals, we’re the only ones who don’t eat the after birth.”

Well, yeah.

“It just tasted like a berry smoothie, it had coconut water and berries in it, so it tasted really nice,” she said, Fox News reported. By itself, the placenta tasted “a bit like liver, like an irony, metallic taste. It’s not horrible, it’s not a disgusting taste at all.”

She said her husband and 3-year-old son drank the placenta-infused smoothie. “I think everyone had it,” she said. “My husband had some just out of pure curiosity and my son tried some and said it was yummy. But again, it had berries and stuff in it.”

Woodall did a lot with her placenta — and even the umbilical cord. She said she spent $42 to have her placenta made into smoothies, and whatever was left was “dehydrated and turned into pills, she said, costing her another $210.” Fox wrote.

“Jay, a self-confessed hippy from Fleet, Hampshire, also had her umbilical cord dehydrated and turned into a keepsake.”

OK, now it’s all starting to make sense.

“When you think how much some people spend on vitamins, it sounds like a lot, but if it lasts you a whole year then it’s good value for money.”

After drinking the smoothie, Jay said she felt like “a boost of energy, better deeper sleep” and her mood was boosted.

“Milk production was good too, I had to take less because I was producing too much milk,” she added.

“The recovery after birth was quicker as well.”

Consuming one’s own placenta was a fad in the hippy dippy 1970s, but has come back recently with Kourtney and Kim Kardashian “encapsulating” theirs after giving birth.

While many companies offer to prepare the placenta for consumption, the National Institutes of Health says there is no scientific evidence or clinical benefit to eating placenta. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says taking placenta in the form of a capsule should be avoided.

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