It shouldn’t need to be said but it still needs to be said, and I say it on a recurring basis. The Powers That Be in this country want to see you in prison or preferably dead. Most of you get that but I assume some newer readers might now and need this reminder: don’t make their job any easier. Don’t be dumb online and don’t be dumb in real life.
Something that goes alongside “don’t be dumb” is that just because something should be legal and acceptable doesn’t mean that it is legal. The laws and more importantly the application, interpretation and enforcement of laws are made by people that by and large hate you. Break those laws and at best you get arrested and there is a pretty decent chance you get murdered.
Case in point, the recent murder of an Arkansas business executive named Bryan Malinowski who was gunned down in his own home by an ATF SWAT team. Lee Williams did a good write up of his murder here: UPDATED: ATF SWAT raid that killed Arkansas man raises more questions of excessive force.
Mr. Malinowski was a 53 year old man in Little Rock, the executive director of the Clinton National Airport and a gun enthusiast. He apparently purchased a lot of guns, “142 firearms from 2019 to 2023”, which granted is a lot of guns but then again, guns are perfectly legal and unlike almost anything else you can buy are protected by the 2nd Amendment. The problem seems to be that he was then selling guns at gun shows, which is also legal. I don’t have the affidavit but the New York Times writes:
The authorities accused Mr. Malinowski of having purchased more than 100 guns in recent years and of illegally selling many of them, including at least three that were later found to be connected with a crime. Mr. Malinowski first bought the guns legally, checking a box on purchase forms stating that the guns were for himself, before selling them privately to individuals, the affidavit states.
He would go to gun shows, the affidavit said, including two in Arkansas and one in Tennessee, and sell guns to people “without asking for any identification or paperwork.”
Photographs included in the redacted affidavit show Mr. Malinowski at a gun show, standing behind a booth filled with firearms. The affidavit also states that Mr. Malinowski had sold guns to two undercover agents who were investigating him.
https://archive.fo/oXpMS
I am not sure if those “illegally sold” guns were actual straw purchases or if he was just selling the guns at gun shows to people that weren’t legally eligible to buy a firearm. The ATF was clearly looking at him closely as they had undercover agents buying guns from him at a gun show, and selling guns privately at a gun show is something that again is completely legal. Regardless the ATF decided to make an example of this man and kicked his door in at 6 AM. There was an exchange of gunfire in which Mr. Malinowski was fatally shot in the head and an ATF agent received a non-life threatening wound. This raises a bunch of questions.
I don’t know about your house, but in my home someone banging on the door and yelling “ATF! Search warrant!”, assuming they even did that much, followed by smashing down my door when I am sound asleep means a few things:
One, I almost certainly wouldn’t hear them declaring themselves. I probably would hear *something* but would it be clear enough for me to know what they were saying? Certainly not.
Two, before they even got to the door my dogs would start barking like crazy making it even less likely that I would hear them announce themselves.
Three, as soon as that door was breached my dogs would be on the entry team like white on rice and you know how much the Fed Alphabet bois love to shoot dogs.
Now, here I am up in my bed. I hear my dogs making a commotion and some muffled shouting. Then I hear my door being kicked down and gunfire as they shoot my dogs. At this point what am I supposed to think, especially since I am not a criminal and have no reason to think LEOs are going to be kicking in my door (nor did Bryan Malinowski). My only assumption is that someone is here to harm my family and that means that as a father and husband, and theoretically a free man in the United States of America, I have not only a right but an absolute responsibility to protect my family. As I have no way of knowing who has entered by home, I have to assume the worst.
Now I come downstairs in a home in chaos, armed and prepared to defend my family. The Feds see a guy with a gun and I probably can’t see much with the flashlights shining at me. You can see what happens next.
There is a major quandary here. In Indiana we are under a pretty strong set of “Castle doctrine” laws. When it comes to protecting your domicile, per the Indiana code:
(d) A person:
(1) is justified in using reasonable force, including deadly force, against any other person; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent or terminate the other person’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle.
https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-35-criminal-law-and-procedure/in-code-sect-35-41-3-2.html
If you are trying to break into my home, I am justified in using deadly force if needed to defend my dwelling. That same Indiana code also has specific rules about using force, including deadly force, against “public servants”, emphasis mine…
(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:
(1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;
(2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or
(3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect.
(j) Notwithstanding subsection (i), a person is not justified in using force against a public servant if:
(1) the person is committing or is escaping after the commission of a crime;
(2) the person provokes action by the public servant with intent to cause bodily injury to the public servant;
(3) the person has entered into combat with the public servant or is the initial aggressor, unless the person withdraws from the encounter and communicates to the public servant the intent to do so and the public servant nevertheless continues or threatens to continue unlawful action; or
(4) the person reasonably believes the public servant is:
(A) acting lawfully; or
(B) engaged in the lawful execution of the public servant’s official duties.
https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-35-criminal-law-and-procedure/in-code-sect-35-41-3-2.html
If you are in the act or on the run after committing a crime (a police pursuit in other words) or you attack the public servant or do something to provoke them or you “entered into combat”, in other words attacked the public servant, then this doesn’t apply. It also doesn’t apply if you “reasonably believe” the public servant is engaged in the lawful execution of their official duties. That becomes awfully murky. On the one hand, the “public servant” in question is “engaged in the lawful execution of the public servant’s official duties” in the execution of a warrant, but on the other hand in the scenario described above I have no way to know that is what is going on and no way to “reasonably believe” that the public servant is engaged in the lawful execution of their duties or even that they are a public servant in the first place. All I know is that someone who is armed has entered my home without permission and shot my dogs.
That is why “no knock” SWAT raids should be extremely rare and reserved only for cases where there is no reasonable and prudent way to execute a warrant in any other fashion. Instead they have become almost the default.
This is the critical point: it won’t matter.
If the ATF shoots me dead after entering my house with a warrant, they will almost certainly face no repercussions. If I shoot and kill an ATF agent who has entered my home because I have no idea who they are and I am trying to protect my family, I will almost certainly be prosecuted, found guilty and imprisoned for life. That is assuming that the other SWAT team members don’t just gun me down.
In the case of Bryan Malinowski, pictured below:
….would it not seem reasonable to come to his home in the light of day, knock on the door and present him with your warrant? Or even as suggested in the linked article from Lee Williams, wait until he leaves, pull him over and then arrest him? A 53 year old executive who has no criminal background (he regularly purchases firearms and is approved in background checks) approached by uniformed law enforcement in a reasonable manner is really not likely to resist or pull a gun.
I am not blaming Bryan here. I am simply pointing out that being visible as a seller at gun shows, shows that are chock full of ATF agents, is a great way to be identified as someone they would like to make an example of. The ATF has declared that they are looking at gun shows and many of the FFLs that have been shut down were targeted because they were primarily selling at gun shows. They also declared that selling guns for a profit is a problem if you don’t have your FFL. Right or wrong (spoiler: it is wrong) that is what the ATF is doing.
This promises to get worse. The people actually running the Biden administration have announced a new National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) (aka red flag laws) Resource Center that will be tasked with encouraging state and local groups to use red flag laws:
The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.”
ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.
https://archive.fo/ZLHg0
The “Safer Communities” act will of course make people less safe and less free. These laws have already proven problematic, both for targeting people inaccurately and not stopping the very sort of people the laws are supposed to prevent from carrying out shootings. So of course the plan is to expand their use.
I am not totally a “Gray Man” sort of guy, obviously I use my real name when I write my ThoughtCrimes. But I still try to be careful and not go out of my way to draw a shitstorm down on my head. They can kill you and they can get away with it and they know it.
One of the items on my personal list of rules to live by (and yes I have an actual list of pithy thoughts) is this:
The future will be made by the people who make it to the future.
If you are dead or in jail, you probably aren’t doing much to win the future for our people
It is a fine line. We need people speaking out publicly about what is happening. I know I put myself at risk by blogging and speaking out using my real name, both from the alphabet agencies and the leftist loons who think mocking trannies is LITERAL GENOCIDE. But we need to be smart about what we are doing. I can’t emphasize this enough: just because you should be able to do something doesn’t mean They won’t kill you for doing it.
Do what you want. I can’t tell you what to do and I wouldn’t if I could. Just weigh the pros and cons and recognize the consequences. Don’t do shit in real life that will draw the Eye of Sauron and don’t say stuff online that will do the same. I want you all beside me when The Time comes and you won’t be if you are dead or rotting away as a political prisoner in some gulag.
There's a myriad of ways currently being used to disarm the population and indeed kill as many of them as possible.
I would have considered this gentleman to be low threat, his death was unnecessary from our perspective but a win win from Government, 100+ guns no longer available to us and a dead White guy.
Good read thanks.