There is some of that, for sure, but the FBI has been framing people as domestic terrorists for generations. They used to work with organized crime to frame people for murders committed by gangsters. That made the FBI look good and they did not have to do any real work.
The Pentagon announced that it will be conducting guerilla warfare training in North Carolina in the coming weeks. The point of the exercise is to train American soldiers to battle “seasoned freedom fighters”, according to the Army. They say they made the announcement so that the public would not be shocked by the sound of weapons or the sight of the soldiers conducting war games. The exercises are going to be conducted on private lands in the western part of the state
This announcement coincides with the Department of Justice announcing the formation of a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism. According to the DOJ, “We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies.” What they are saying is the hysterical reaction to the January 6 protests is entirely justified as there is an invisible army out there making bombs.
What it shows is Americana, as one of the tweeters noted. Specifically, that’s courage, self-reliance, quick thinking, not panicking, not waiting for the state, the friendliness of the suburbs, home ownership, SUV rides, gun ownership, and above all, as writer Mollie Hemingway noted, the power of marriage and a good husband. It’s everything that’s not “woke” in today’s culture.
I imagine you could find such valued people anywhere except maybe Berkley.
A man in a placid, sylvan subdivision of suburbia, in this case Burgaw, North Carolina, population 3,872, near Wilmington, was saying “good morning” to a passing jogger, and carrying a car cup and a plastic disposable plate of brownies, probably for his workplace, over to his SUV. He remarks to himself that he needs to wash his car as he begins to load it. His name is Happy, his wife’s name is Kristi, she’s bringing out a cat-carrier with a cat in it for a trip to the vet, and they are the Wades, getting ready to be off for the day.
Way off in the distance, some sort of animal darts across the street toward him at high speed and gets under one of the driveway cars.
Suddenly, there’s an unearthly call-of-the-wild scream, and then the man’s wife screams, as some sort of creature claws and crawls up her back and seems to be after the cat, but clawing and biting her as it pursues. She screams in pain and yells to her husband to get away.
The man runs to her instead, not away, emerges, improbably holding the bobcat up like an auntie holding up a baby, and screams: “Oh my G*d, it’s a bobcat! Oh my G*d,” as the beast thrashes. He then flings the filthy thing about 15 feet across his yard, tossing it end over end like a rag doll, pulls out a gun, yells to the jogger, who runs back, either to gawk or help, and yells at her to “get back! get back! get back!” as the bobcat darts back under the car. Then someone, apparently off camera, seems to question him again and he yells, “It’s a bobcat! It attacked my wife!” and he would “shoot the f—–.”
…which, it turns out, he does, before the sheriff comes after a neighbor calls 911 and finishes the job himself.
Leftists on Twitter and beyond screamed bloody murder — animal abuse, foolhardiness, etc. — because the man confronted and flung the bobcat instead of running and calling authorities, leaving his wife to fight it in the meantime.
They had little understanding of what an immediate threat the man faced, let alone the dangers it posed, or the merit of his quick actions. They just wanted the bobcat, which is the equivalent of a small lion or tiger in its power and predatory killing instinct, to feel good.
But anyone watching it could see that this was a good husband, running toward danger, not from it, and protecting his wife from an obvious physical threat.
As news comes out about the disposition of things, it turns out the bobcat was indeed rabid, bit the man three times, bit the man’s wife a lot, too, and bit another neighbor earlier. The creature was rabid, vicious, in pain, a hazard to the community, and had to be put down. They underwent painful rabies shots because it clawed and bit them.
“I’m not happy that this happened, we don’t take any pleasure that I shot the cat” Happy said. “I knew when I realized it was a bobcat, having been born and raised in Eastern North Carolina and hunting all my life, you know, that’s just not normal.”
It was later confirmed the Bobcat did have rabies.
“In my head, I knew it had already attacked two people. If it had attacked somebody else and I didn’t do something, morally it would have bothered me for a long time,” Happy said. “It was hurting my wife and I didn’t want it to.”
What it shows is Americana, as one of the tweeters noted. Specifically, that’s courage, self-reliance, quick thinking, not panicking, not waiting for the state, the friendliness of the suburbs, home ownership, SUV rides, gun ownership, and above all, as writer Mollie Hemingway noted, the power of marriage and a good husband. It’s everything that’s not “woke” in today’s culture.
You wouldn’t see a snowflake wokester doing any of this.
You want a guy like that around when nature strikes unexpectedly and gets out of control.
School employees in one state might be feeling happier these days after learning the bar for failing could be lowered, and by a lot.
The North Carolina legislature is considering a change in the grading system for the state’s public schools.
The bill in question would be based on a 15-point scale, rather than a 10-point scale for grades.
That would mean only scores lower than 39 percent would qualify for an F grade for schools, a far cry from the current 60 percent failure mark in the state and most others.
Student grades would be unaffected by the changing scale system, but would allow underperforming schools to continue operating.
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