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In the News:  Last Thursday, September 23rd,  California’s “brain dead” Governor, Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 173 into law.

“The bill forces the California Department of Justice to reveal information identifying firearm and ammunition purchasers to a research center at the University of California, Davis or any other university that requests them. This information includes many personal details like the buyer’s name, place of residence, date of birth, what, where, and when they have made firearm-related purchases, and much more.”

How long do you think it will take some gun control zealot at one of these University “research Centers” to make these supposedly Constitutionally Protected Private Information lists available to members of the press and anybody else who wants to use them for political purposes?

These idiots won’t even care that they are providing potential gun thieves not only a shopping list but also a road map for locating just the firearms they want, free for the stealing.

This is what living in an Idiocracy like California is all about.  I hope citizens and trial lawyers sue our governor and legislators for all the deaths and destruction that will be carried out against law abiding gun owners.

Knowing that he is putting lawful gunowners, their families and property at risk of death, injury or loss would make Gavin Newsom criminally liable for signing this legislation.  If he makes claim to not knowing something this obvious would make him “brain dead”.

The complete article follows:

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BREAKING: CA Gov Launches Revenge Strike on Gun Owners

(Big League Politics) – California gun owners will soon have personal and normally private information released to “gun-violence researchers” across the country, with Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signing Assembly Bill 173 into law on Thursday.

The bill forces the California Department of Justice to reveal information identifying firearm and ammunition purchasers to a research center at the University of California, Davis or any other university that requests them. This information includes many personal details like the buyer’s name, place of residence, date of birth, what, where, and when they have made firearm-related purchases, and much more.

“This bill would name the center for research into firearm-related violence the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis,” the bill’s text reads. “The bill would generally require that the information above be made available to the center and researchers affiliated with the center, and, at the department’s discretion, to any other nonprofit bona fide research institution accredited by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, as specified, for the study of the prevention of violence.”

With the state of California already recording all gun and ammunition transactions performed by licensed firearm dealers in a state registry, the infrastructure for sharing the personal information of firearm owners is already set up. This law expands that level of record-keeping even further by requiring the registration of “firearm precursor parts.” The registry will soon be made available to Universities all around the state.

The Reload reported that the primary sponsor of the bill, Assemblymember Phil Ting (D.), did not respond to a request for comment.

Various pro-second amendment activists decried the bill.

“Although the stated intent of this legislation may be to prevent violence, the data that the bill would require DOJ to release includes the personal and confidential information of lawful firearm owners who legally purchase ammunition and firearm parts,” Roy M. Griffith Jr., Legislative Director at the California Rifle & Pistol Association, said in a letter to Governor Newsom. “The identities and confidential personal information of individuals should only be provided by DOJ or other state entities to law enforcement agencies when conducting an investigation that has a specific need for it. No other entity – not even research institutions – has sufficient justification to have access to an individual’s private information.”

Griffith also pointed out the extreme lack of transparency in how members of the state government chose to pass the bill.

“This language amended into a ‘budget bill’ in the final week of the legislative session, providing no opportunity for review or public comment,” Griffith said. “Democracy truly has sunk to an all-time low in California!”

“We are in support of the study and research of illegal firearm-related crime to prevent violence, however, this can be done without violating the constitutional rights of all Californians!” he said.

California is well known for having some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, with many arguing that much of the legislation inherently violates the second amendment of the United States Constitution. Another recently contested law was the state’s requirement to undergo a federal firearms background check for a simple ammo purchase, which was blocked and then reinstated in the state’s court system on April 23, 2020. The case remains ongoing.

bigleaguepolitics.com/california-gov-signs-anti-privacy-legislation-targeted-at-gun-owners/

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This is outrageous and life threatening.  Please share this article with gun owning friends, their families and any other person you might feel is interested.

Bob Bandy – September 2021

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I make no claim of being a prophet.  Three years ago – October 2018 – I posted the following article – “The Garden” – for the first time. That article was based on something I had read some 20+ years earlier from another author (name forgotten) who predicted what is happening today all around us.  It was one of the most shared, copied and requested articles I have ever written.  The original article is copied below the divider.

Unfortunately what was foreseen in the original article has come to pass.  We live in a badly fractured land filled with mistrust, corruption, anger, finger pointing, hate and lies. 

I have been tormented with the realization that there is little that I can do to “fix” what is wrong in Washington D.C. or Sacramento or so many of the broken cities around the country. My readers know that I have written about these issues for some 12 years.  While I receive much appreciated comment and agreement, little has changed in what has become  a downward spiral that I witness continuing.  I don’t have the power to correct what is happening.  

I vote for change and nothing changes.  I have no representation at either a State or Federal level to Champion my Values.

The one area where I can make a difference is in my own life.  I can practice what I believe and try to plant seeds of hope in my own sphere of life.  My family, friends, neighbors, where I worship and those strangers I come in contact with in the normal course of living.  I can demonstrate that I am not a racist, or a “whatever-phob”.  I can tell the truth, keep my word, help a neighbor or friend.  I can practice what I believe, not just in words but by what I do.  

If enough of us do this we can carve out a space or sanctuary around us that resembles, on perhaps a smaller scale, the world I grew up in and cherished.

I can’t fix the mess in Washington or Sacramento but I can work on fixing “me”.  I can plant seeds of hope in my own little garden.

So, in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets.  Matthew 7:12

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Here is the original article

THE GARDEN

Many years ago, twenty or more, I remember reading about a time in the future when the writer believed the United States might very well “Balkanize” itself.  That is turn into a fatally fractured land and people, where reconciliation into any kind of unity becomes impossible.  Or, in other words, goodbye “E Pluribus Unum”.

A people who become so divided along idealogical as well as cultural, religious, political, and ethnic identities that a unified effort for the “greater good of all” becomes impossible. 

A time when our national diversity, instead of being our unifying strength, is instead used as a weapon of destruction.

Elements within our previously “United” government and society become fortresses of non-negotiable demands.  These elements threaten the total destruction of our way of life unless their specific demands are granted.  They will use any means to achieve their goals.  Violence, fear, intimidation, destruction of families, corruption on a national scale and any other means to get their way.  

Following the leadership of writers such as Saul Alinsky and funded by anti-American zealots such as George Soros, these elements seek to impose a society which is in direct conflict with the values and institutions envisioned by our Founders and treasured by most.  For their agenda, co-existence is not an option.

In the process they are planting a garden, the rows of this garden contain the seeds of Lies, Hate, Anger, Rage and Bitterness.  Tell me, what do you harvest if these are the seeds you plant and cultivate?  

They have also infiltrated and corrupted many previously thought incorruptible government agencies and departments like the FBI and Department of Justice,  just to name two.

These,and other Agencies and Departments have become  populated too often by self serving un-elected demigods wedded to the principle that they are entitled to lifetime pay and benefits and are not answerable to the taxpayers.  What is now being referred to by many as the “Deep State”.  

If the average citizen did the things these bureaucrats are allowed to do, the citizen would find him or herself in prison while the government employee or elected official seems to have an endless “Get Out Of Jail Free” card. 

Cross them in any way and they have the power and the taxpayer paid for resources to hound you, bankrupt you and ruin your life just for the fun of it.

I don’t think of Washington D.C. as a Swamp.  It is better defined  as a “Cesspool”.

Original Article – October 2018

Bob Bandy – September 2021

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Will Nancy Pelosi impeach Joe Biden?  An interesting question.

If she does not, she is a hypocrite.  When Donald Trump was president she had him impeached twice.  Both times on a party line vote and on “Trumped up” (forgive the pun) charges using her stooges, the morally and ethically bankrupt Congressmen Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.  The charge…  a “sort of”, “maybe implied”, “cross your fingers”  threat to a foreign leader of a “delay” in U.S. Federal Aid.  A claim denied by the foreign leader.

Now we have President Joe Biden who took an oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution and Laws Of the United States who is in public and blatant violation of the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions on multiple occasions in addition to a factual lie to the American people, to wit:  “We won’t leave Afghanistan until every American is evacuated”. 

For this writing we won’t even consider his incompetence as Commander in Chief during the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle.

But, back to the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

1. He “thumbed his nose” at the Supreme Court when it declared that potential immigrants must be held on the other side of the United States Southern Border until properly processed for entry.  A ruling that President Biden has chosen to ignore and continues to not only allow mass crossings of the border but also provide those who come across with free transportation to cities throughout the Unite States where they are “dumped” on the local government to deal with.  Or, perhaps he believes he is planting the seeds for a future harvest of votes.

2. In violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution his administration continues to prohibit landlords the ability to evict tenants who do not pay their rent.  Such action requires action of Congress but he continues this with an edict from the unelected head of the CDC (Center for Disease Control) who reports to him.

3. His continual threat to compromise the Second Amendment by Executive Order to find a way to confiscate the civilian version, not fully automatic AR-15 rifle from taxpaying American citizens.  One can only guess if it is his intent to make a gift of those confiscated rifles to our new “International Partners”, the Taliban to add to their stockpile of more than 300,000 that were left behind in our withdrawal from Afghanistan.

I could list additional ways in which he has violated his oath of office but no need.  The above is certainly enough for House Speaker Pelosi to bring impeachment charges on.

There might be a very small resistance to such an Impeachment charge by some citizens that her move could be viewed as self serving because as Speaker of the House of Representatives, a successful Impeachment and removal from office of the President would move Ms. Pelosi one step closer to the Presidency herself.  The Speaker of the House of Representatives is second in line of succession for the Presidency under our constitution.

Of course there would still be a need to deal with the nearly invisible Vice President Kamala Harris who would be sworn in to replace the President if/when he is removed from office.  However, since the current Vice President is very unpopular even within her own party – she got only 7% of the vote from her home state during the primaries – it should be relatively simple to have her “pushed aside” with help from the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and perhaps a “nudge” from the “Friends of Bill & Hill” faction.  

Or, Speaker Pelosi might choose not to impeach the current president and just be satisfied with being recognized for the hypocrite that she is.

Whatever her decision, she needs to act before the 2022 mid-term elections where it is just barely possible, even with a “tainted” election process, that her party might lose the House of Representatives and her “golden opportunity” will have melted away.

Decisions, Decisions.

Bob Bandy  Sept. 2021

Rarely do I reprint an article in its entirety with little comment.  But this piece says it all. The incompetence of these leaders leaves them with the blood of countless troops and civilians on their hands not to mention the waste of Billions of Dollars of high tech armaments which were virtually gifted to America’s most ardent enemies.  They should all resign in shame, including their leader, the Commander in Chief.

Homeless camp downtown Sacramento next to Steinberg sign.

(Photo: Katy Grimes for California Globe)

Almost two years ago Sacramento, California Mayor Darrell Steinberg and the City Council approved a 22.5 Million Dollar one year plan for Sacramento’s homeless.  The plan was to provide housing and beds for some 750 homeless.  (Search “Tweedledum & Tweedledee” on this site) At the time I calculated that the cost per proposed homeless recipient to be $29,605 per person assisted and questioned if any of these decision makers owned a calculator.

“Mayor Steinberg also approved tiny apartments in a renovated old downtown hotel, which cost more than $445,000 per unit for about 250 square feet of living space, as the Globe reported. This project only benefitted the union contractors.” (see California Globe Aug. 6, 2021)

The homeless problem has continued to grow worse, not better.

Now Major Steinberg and the City Council has approved a 100 Million Dollar plan on a unanimous City Council vote.

This plan is targeting about 9,000 people living on the streets and byways of downtown Sacramento.

“The Council will authorize an inventory of sites with enough capacity to match the scope of the problem,” the mayor’s office said in a news release. “In addition to specific sites, the plan identifies strategies to tackle homelessness that include motel conversions, increased housing voucher usage and scattered site housing. The plan also includes the intent to create a larger “campus” model that could serve 350 people,” according to the news release.  (KCRA News)

I am sharing the following article excerpts from The Durden Dispatch of July 24, 2021  It is fairly long but a very important read.  The complete article is online and available.

America Is Only One Step Away 

From A South African-Style Social Implosion

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us,

photo: Zerohedge – The Durden Dispatch

“On the global news front I have been watching one event with special attention, mainly because it seems like almost no one else is – I am speaking of course about the social and economic collapse in South Africa that has been escalating over the past couple weeks. What is strange to me is that certain parallels between South Africa and the US are being summarily ignored.”

“Basically, the South African situation is a more exaggerated version of what is happening in America, and we need to consider if it is merely a preview of future events as the extra financial protections in the US begin to fall away.”

“Cultural Marxism And Social Unrest (The Reparations Con)”

“South Africa’s government under the ANC (African National Congress) was already going full communist in 2018-2019 before the covid pandemic. Under proposed amendments to the constitution, they demanded that “reparations” be taken from white farmers in the form of land grabs, which would then be redistributed to black citizens.”

“This is the classic critical race theory argument – That because colonialism once existed, all beneficiaries and their supposed descendants owe dues to the descendants of indigenous people who lost their lands. The problem is, only the descendants of WHITE colonists are required to pay dues.”

“This is exactly the same path that socialists/Marxists in the Democratic Party are pursuing in the US, with some states and cities demanding reparations for blacks be written into law because of slavery nearly 200 years ago. The reparations movement is tiny, but like all other social justice initiatives it is gaining power because politicians and corporations are supporting it artificially. Why? That’s easy: It’s all about divide and conquer……..”

“Of course, today’s communists don’t really fight for anything, at least not directly. I might respect them a little if they did. Rather, they loudly whine that they are “victims” even though they are not, and then demand they be given free stuff for life even though they never earned it. And, since free stuff has to be taken from somewhere, the people that have things are attacked through color of law even when they did nothing wrong and earned every cent they own.”

“Communists steal from others through government proxy and by claiming victim group status. They work hand-in-hand with the very politicians and corporate oligarchs they say they despise. The governments and corporations do it because they can use the Marxist mob as a social weapon to strike fear in their ideological adversaries (conservatives), and the SJWs do it because they can feed on the scraps from the big boy’s table and use government to forcefully redistribute wealth into their own pockets. It’s kind of a win-win, at least for a while. Eventually the low level commies get nailed to a wall or sent to a gulag when they are no longer useful, but that’s a tale for another time……..”

“As we saw last summer with the $1 Billion in damages caused by the “mostly peaceful” BLM riots, racial conflict is an effective weapon for the elites to create chaos. After all, BLM received most of its initial funding through the Ford Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. They are a fabricated movement built around false critical race theory claims, but they are enough of a movement to enact violence on a nationwide scale…….”

Covid Lockdowns And Vaccine Totalitarianism

“The South African government’s response to covid is brutal and ongoing. The lockdowns are some of the most strict in the world with curfews, zero gatherings indoors or outdoors, alcohol bans and restrictions on travel through certain areas. A large majority of the population has been blocked from participation in the normal economy. The public has been awaiting economic relief for over a year, but the hype and fear mongering around the “Delta variant” has dashed all hope. Lockdowns returned in full force in June.”

“There is NO EVIDENCE that the Delta Variant is as deadly or more deadly than the original iteration of covid, and covid’s overall IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is a paltry 0.26% according to the CDC and other independent studies. Meaning, draconian lockdowns are still being implemented over a virus that 99.74% of people will easily survive…….”

“Economic Decline And The Dark Cloud Of Inflation

…..the US has the ability to hide real poverty through temporary stimulus measures, welfare programs and eviction moratoriums. When the covid checks run out and evictions return, we are going to see a massive spike in poverty levels in the US once again. Furthermore, core price inflation has hit 30 year highs due to trillions in money printing and dollar devaluation, along with struggling supply chains. For now, increased demand created by covid checks is giving the illusion that the economy is in recovery, but just as home sales are now plunging after a short term spike, so too will demand in most sectors of the economy……”

“It is also only a matter of time before a covid variant (like the Delta variant) is used as an excuse to bring back lockdowns across the country. And make no mistake, they will attempt harsher and harsher mandates similar to those in South Africa in order to intimidate people into submitting to the jab and the passports. At this stage, the US government will have not only mass riots on their hands, but also an armed rebellion. Undoubtedly, supply chains will crash if they have not already been disrupted by lockdowns or a related financial crisis.”

‘”The question at that point will be this: Who will rebuild? If it’s the elites and the covid cult, then freedom will disappear forever. If it’s liberty minded people, then there might be a chance to bring our civilization back from the brink. Everything depends on who is left standing after the chaos subsides……”  End of excerpts.

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Bob Bandy  –  July 2021