SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Today, we look at the Spokesman-Review’s Faulty Reporting.
Invasive Ticks in Tennessee
G.P. spotted this: Invasive Tick Detected in Tennessee – WBBJ TV
Foreign Land Ownership in U.S.
Reader D.S. sent a link to this NPR news article: ‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
The U.K.’s Real Minority Report
Reader G.P. sent this: Cops using ‘Minority Report’ predictive policing could see INNOCENT citizens framed
U.S. Warns of Spying Chinese-Made Drones
A hat tip to reader SOG, who sent: ‘We’re Not Being Paranoid’: U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones. A snippet:
“…the Department of Homeland Security is warning that drones manufactured by Chinese companies could pose security risks, including that the data they gather could be stolen.
The department sent out an alert on the subject on May 20, and a video on its website notes that drones in general pose multiple threats, including ‘their potential use for terrorism, mass casualty incidents, interference with air traffic, as well as corporate espionage and invasions of privacy.'”
The Spokesman-Review’s Faulty Reporting
The feckless hacks at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane,Washington got several things wrong, once again, in this article: Liberty State supporters raise funds at event after tense ‘silent protest’ by ex-Matt Shea backers.
The article was a mix of untruths, half-truths, and smears. The newspaper staffer began the piece with this lie: “Supporters of the new Christian conservative state – which would span parts of Washington and Oregon as well as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming…” That is a blatant falsity. It is The American Redoubt movement that encompasses those regions, not the Liberty State movement. And it is is not exclusively directed to Christians. From the beginning, we have encouraged both Christians and Jews to relocate here. The goal of the American Redoubt is not to combine several states into some sort of superstate. Rather, it is simply to encourage internal migration to make those states more conservative and closer aligned to traditional Judeo-Christian values. The Liberty State movement only seeks to partition the counties of eastern Washington into a new state of the Union. This is just how West Virginia came to exist, when it partitioned from Virginia. That process is allowed in the U.S. Constitution and has several precedents.
Next, the author of the article attempted to besmirch the proceedings by mentioning that one of the attendees was Barry Byrd, a former racist, who leads the Marble Community Fellowship, citing a document Byrd had co-authored 31 years ago. Since then, Byrd has a had a genuine change of heart and renounced that document. What was not mentioned is that the Marble Community Fellowship now has two black pastors in residence!
That smear was immediately followed by another lie:
“At one point during her own speech Thursday, Shea’s legislative assistant, Rene’ Holaday, said supporters of the 51st state idea were bound by a common sentiment: ‘It’s either going to be bloodshed or Liberty State.’”
But this was a mis-quote, possibly deliberate. That “…bloodshed or Liberty State” was actually Rene’ Holaday reporting what she had heard several members of the Republican caucus of the Washington state legislature saying, in response to the onslaught of leftist legislation, in Olympia. (And that by the way did not include Matt Shea. It was other Republicans in the legislature who had made those statements.)
The other premise of the article was that there was somehow a deep division within the Liberty State movement. The so-called “silent protest” was led by Tanner Rowe and Jay Pounder former bodyguards of Rep. Matt Shea. They were never leaders of the Liberty State movement.
The article ended with: “Shea then shared screenshots of threats he had received as evidence that he and his supporters are under attack from ominous political forces.”
This seems to imply that Shea is somehow paranoid. No, these were legitimate death threats that he and his family had been sent. If a liberal Democrat State Senator had received the same threats, would The Spokesman-Review have characterized them the same way? I doubt that.
It is amazing how many lies and innuendos that the journalist managed to squeeze into a brief 708-word article.
Anti-Gunner to Head ATF?
H.S. suggested this blog article: Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury Picked To Head ATF
GPS Dialed Down for Red Flag Training in Alaska
A reader in Alaska wrote to mention this announcement: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION FLIGHT ADVISORYGPS INTERFERENCE TESTINGJOINT FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE ALASKA (JFAK) 19-02 01 – 22 June 2019 Eielson, AK
Venezuelan Ex-Pats Arming Up
Another sent to us by Reader SOG: From Colombia, Venezuelan defectors arm themselves to ‘liberate’ their homeland
High Tech Censorship
Over at International Man: Eliminating Free Speech The Smart Way
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