Biden Gun Control Plan Would ‘Criminalize’ up to 105 Million People: Gun-rights Group

Biden Gun Control Plan Would ‘Criminalize’ up to 105 Million People: Gun-rights Group

A gun-rights organization said that President Joe Biden’s gun control proposal would potentially make about 105 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals.

“While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws, we firmly believe that the path forward should be focused on supporting and protecting responsible, law-abiding Americans—not criminalizing and punishing them,” the U.S. Concealed Carry Association said in a letter to Biden this week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Gun Control, Gun Rights

Germany: Covid-19 Triggers New Wave of Anti-Semitism

Germany: Covid-19 Triggers New Wave of Anti-Semitism

“Why are the majority of anti-Semitic acts attributed to ‘right-wing’ German perpetrators? One can see a political motive behind this — growing anti-Semitism can be used politically as a weapon ‘against the right.'” — Tichys Einblick.

… A 2017 survey of German Jews by the University of Bielefeld found that 60% of anti-Semitic attacks were said to have been carried out by Muslims, compared to 19% by far-left extremists and 19% by far-right perpetrators. Muslims were also said to be responsible for 81% of anti-Semitic attacks involving physical violence. The survey found that 70% of German Jews believe that mass migration from the Muslim world has fueled anti-Semitism in Germany.

Nevertheless, German police, possibly under orders from political authorities, systematically assign unsolved anti-Semitic hate crimes to the far right. In one well-known case, police blamed far-right extremists for chanting the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” at an Islamist al-Quds rally in Berlin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Anti-Semitism, Germany

Charges stayed in one of Ontario’s largest Mob busts after alleged illegal conduct by investigators

One of the largest police investigations into organized crime in Ontario’s history has fallen apart after police allegedly illegally intercepted phone calls as part of a multimillion-dollar probe into suspected Mob activity in the Greater Toronto Area, CBC News has learned.

The operation, dubbed Project Sindacato, resulted in charges against nine people in Canada who police alleged were part of a criminal organization with ties to the Mob in Italy.

On Jan. 27, prosecutors stayed the charges against six of the accused, including alleged boss Angelo Figliomeni, after defence lawyers raised concerns that investigators committed “significant breaches of solicitor/client privilege.” Three of the accused previously had their charges stayed in 2020.

This seems an odd “own goal,” lawyer client privilege is a fundamental precept. Ain’t it?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘Cancel them before they cancel us’: Gab CEO says banks have banned platform due to media smears

Three banks have refused to do business with Gab, a Twitter competitor outspoken about free speech, in recent weeks, the company’s chief executive revealed. Andrew Torba blamed the development on mainstream media hit pieces.

The third bank to sever its relationship with the company in three weeks told Torba on Monday that they were doing so because of “all the bad things the press has written about Gab,” he said in an interview published by the conservative outlet National File.

Parler is clunky I prefer Gab. You can ignore what you don’t want to see on any social media platform assuming it’s not censored to begin with a la Twitter and FB.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech

Ontario reports 1054 new Wuhan Flu cases … and Me Sainted Irish Mudda

Ontario reports 1054 new Wuhan Flu cases … and Me Sainted Irish Mudda

Tale of two vaccine roll-outs: COVID-19 numbers plummet in Toronto’s long-term-care homes, while Ontario’s remain ‘stubbornly high’

After being at the centre of COVID-19 deaths and mass outbreaks, the city’s long-term-care homes have new, hopeful data that could be a sign of encouraging things to come.

This week, Toronto Public Health reported a “substantial decline” in the rate seniors have tested positive in long-term-care homes, from 10.9 per cent in November to just 0.6 per cent as of the week of Feb. 7 — well below the overall city rate of 4.8 per cent.

It was the “first sign” Mayor John Tory said this week that the city’s vaccination efforts were working.

Mom has been in hospital almost 3 months. She’s 96, currently in a rehab where she caught Covid after dodging a bullet during previous outbreaks at two separate hospitals. No one thought vaccinating hospitalized seniors was a good idea?

Mom is in isolation, alone, I have not yet spoken to her since hearing of the Covid diagnosis yesterday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Political extremists are ‘impulsive’ thrill-seekers, but mentally slower

From destructive protests throughout 2020, to the violent events in Washington on Jan. 6, it’s clear political unrest in America is reaching a boiling point. Psychologists are now asking what turns the civil discord common in partisan politics into extremist behavior. Researchers from the University of Cambridge say certain personalities are more likely to lead to extremism, regardless of their political leanings.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"extremists"

Be aware, “Child Rights” are coming: academics argue that comprehensive sex ed is “a child’s human right”

Attempts to solidify the state’s role as mothers and fathers within society continue to emerge.

Two lecturers from the University College Cork in Ireland co-wrote a recent paper arguing that a very explicit form of sexuality education is “primarily a child’s human right, independent of state discretion and/or parental rights.”

New term: ‘consenting pre-adult’.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inChild Abuse, pedophilia, sex ed