Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Saturday, July 18, 2020
We The People Rally at 1 Civic Plaza [Thursday, 16 July 2020 at Albuquerque, New Mexico]
On Thursday, 16 July 2020, I went to the Protest For Freedom — New Mexico rally sponsored by We The People Of New Mexico at 1 Civic Plaza, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Details and pictures follow. All pictures are by myself, unless otherwise noted.
At least 1 x New Mexico State Police [NMSP] officer was patrolling around Civic Plaza in a marked unit (doing laps?).
Several uniformed Albuquerque Police Department [APD] officers were present, watching the event from near the east entrance of the City Hall building
Couy Griffin and the Cowboys for Trump [C4T] "color guard" rode around Civic Plaza on horseback for at least one lap.
Several New Mexico Civil Guard [NMCG] personnel were present on stage, as well as in the crowd.
A camera operator from KRQE 13 News was present and set up his equipment about 15 feet from the center front of the stage steps.
A partial list of speakers follows (apologies if I missed anyone) —
Louie Sanchez, owner of Calibers, was the second speaker (I didn't get any good pictures of the first, an African-American gym owner) and spoke about the Second Amendment.
Hailey Bradford (sp?)
Local pastor Steve Smothermon led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Greg Baca, Republican State Senator from District 29
Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, head of Cowboys for Trump [C4T]
David C. Chavez started his speech with the beginning of "Eye of the Tiger".
The officially-booked speakers concluded the We The People program at 6:45 PM. The stage was handed off to others for the next 15 minutes —
Audrey Trujillo (no pictures available)
Scott Chandler, Republican candidate for House District 32 (no pictures available)
Sergeant Major Hawkins of the NM Civil Guard said that he's running for Bernalillo County Sheriff in 2022 (he's got my vote at this point). He also talked about the Lujan connetion to slavery — Don Pedro Leon Lujan was arrested by the Utah militia in 1851 for slave trading.
Dinah Vargas, Republican candidate for House District 10
Mary Ingham, Republican candidate for NM Senate District 14 (no pictures available)
Stephen Cecco, Republican candidate for New Mexico House District 19 [1].
Mike Cordova, current LPNM Bernalillo County Chair, made contact with me towards the end as I was taking notes — he said Elisheva Levin mentioned me to him.
The crowd started dispersing at 7 PM after the event's end was announced from the podium.
NOTES FROM THE EVENT:
- There was a visible law enforcement presence from at least two agencies — APD and NMSP. During the 90 minutes that I was on the scene, I observed NO altercations between law enforcement and ANYONE — attendees, counter-protestors, the NM Civil Guard personnel, ANYONE. So maybe all cops aren't evil? Better to simply deal with them as you deal with everyone else — as individuals.
- Whatever counter-protest group(s) that were there weren't violent at all, and didn't seem to have much of a presence. (I didn't see any, but the article in the Albuquerque Journal said that there were some there, so whatever.)
- It started raining (slight drizzle, actually — nothing more) at about 6:19 PM, and stopped by 6:50 PM.
- All of the speakers stuck to the general message of "Michelle Lujan Grisham is abusing her powers as Governor" — that's a good thing. No one went off on conspiracy theories, or called for government to be made more intrusive, more expensive or more powerful.
- I didn't see piles of trash of the sort found after lefty-fascists events (water bottles, fast-food drink cups, aluminum cans, snack wrappers and bags, etc.) left on the ground after the event.
- The Facebook page set up for the event advised attendees to bring their own water. I would suggest that for future events, vendors such as food trucks be invited, and that arrangements made for restroom access (there didn't seem to be any for this event).
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Saturday, July 4, 2020
"No one wants to take your guns," v. July 3, 2020
From the Albuquerque Journal, Friday, 3 July 2020, p. A11 OP-ED ("SPEAK UP!")
KUDOS TO the Santa Fe County Commission for passing on the purchase of AR-15 weapons for the Santa Fe sheriff's department SWAT officers. . . . Instead of just waiting, as Sheriff Mendoza seems inclined to do because of "the current climate in the nation," I recommend the funds be redirected to a buyback and destruction of this type of weapon from civilians who have no legitimate need for them. AW
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
Tom Souther
Monday, April 20, 2020 at 8:03 PM
https://facebook.com/hashtag/facebooksucks!
The Wrap — Facebook Will Remove Content Organizing Protests Against Stay-at-Home Orders, Zuckerberg Says by Sean Burch
Consider Diaspora*, Flote, Friendica, Gab, Liberty.Me, MeWe, Minds, Pocketnet, or Spreely as possible alernatives to Facebook and Twitter.
http://diasp.org/people/797c4c40d5020132c71100259069449e
Diaspora* doesn't have pages or groups, and it helps if you can read German, French and Spanish, but there is some interesting stuff there.
https://nerdica.net/profile/mike
Friendica is similar to Diaspora, along with the posts in Russian and Japanese.
Gab is a less-censored version of Twitter.
https://liberty.me/members/mikewb1971/
https://mewe.com/i/mikewb11971
MeWe lets you create groups at no charge, but charges you per month for pages. Also, they don't let you share links for anything there (including your own stuff) outside of MeWe.
On top of this, Facebook won't let you post links to any content on Minds, hence the above URL.
https://pocketnet.app/mikewb1971
https://spreely.com/mikewb1971
Spreely offers the same sort of stuff as Facebook (pages, groups, video channels), but doesn't seem to do the same sort of arbitrary lefty-biased shadow-banning that we've seen on Facebook.
Thus, I'm slowly duplicating my Facebook pages and groups on Spreely, in advance of a mass migration.
Also, while Facebook will allow you to post links to Spreely, the FB system labels it as "403 Forbidden."
https://youme.social/profile/2220
YouMe seems to be a new outfit. Like MeWe, they don't seem to let you share links of what you post outside their system.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
[ABQ Journal] Re: "Hitting the Brakes" ("Speak Up!" submission)
“NM's oil and gas industry is on the edge of a shutdown"
Well, the lefty-fascist economics deniers HAVE stated their desire to make NM "carbon-free" :
https://tinyurl.com/dpnm-luddites-2020
Meanwhile, NM Democrats see the petrochemical industry as an endless cornucopia when they want cash for their "free everything for everyone" plans.
In response to "Hitting the brakes", by Kevin Robinson-Avila, Journal Staff Writer (Wednesday, 8 April 2020)
Submitted on Wednesday, 8 April 2020 [Facebook post by Albuquerque Journal]
As printed (Albuquerque Journal, Monday, 13 April 2020, p. A9 "Speak Up!")
“NM'S OIL and gas industry is on the
edge of a shutdown" Well, the ... eco-
nomics deniers have stated their desire
to make NM "carbon-free" ... Meanwhile,
NM Democrats see the petrochemical
industry as an endless cornucopia when
they want cash for their "free everything
for everyone" plans. MB
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Monday, April 13, 2020
Why Cover Up a Potential Cure for COVID-19?
A few days ago, I received this link from Tom Taylor of the Albuquerque Tea Party —
Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret, by "libertymavenstock"
Here's the original URL — https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
When you click that link, here's what you get —
Now it seems that the described course of treatment (basicallly hydroxycholoroquine with zinc) is turning out to . . . actually work.
Why even try to cover it up?
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Quote of the Day for Monday, 30 March 2020
To paraphrase Pink Floyd —
We don't want no trans-for-mation,
we don't need your mind control . . .
Leave us folks alone.
— Jamie Fraser-Paige, Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 8:10 PM
H/T Shawn Haufe
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DingleBerry Express Shuts Down!
Recently, KOB News reported that the DingleBerry Express[1] has shut down, at least temporarily, due to COVID-19 hysteria —
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The City of Albuquerque continues to adjust services to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"It's very serious and important that we all as a community work on some of this," Mayor Tim Keller said
Public transportation will begin operating on a Saturday schedule, starting March 28.
The mayor also announced Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) service would be suspended on March 28.
"The ART route, that whole thing will stop this weekend," Mayor Keller said.
Never mind that the DingleBerry Express (some call it "Albuquerque Rapid Transit" or "ART") isn't anything more than an overpriced remaking of the Central Avenue "Rapid Ride."
If you look at video clips and photographs of the DingleBerry Express busses, you can see "766 RED LINE" and "777 GREEN LINE" on the top of the buses' front ends. Just like on the "Rapid Ride" that preceded the DingleBerry Express.
In fact, the "Rapid Ride" "Blue Line" (Route 790) still exists, and still uses the same sort of buses that the "Red Line" and "Green Line" used before the DingleBerry Express was created.
The best case that we can expect from this is that the ad hoc demolition derby along Central Ave will be put on something resembling a hiatus until at least Easter weekend (Friday, 10 April 2020), as that's when the Governor's "shelter in place" order is supposed to expire.
"The local 66 route will continue. That's a part of the Saturday operating schedule."
So Albuquerque's Number One rolling bad neighborhood and disease vector continues its operation. Just wonderful.
As for city parks, Mayor Keller said they will be open but playgrounds will be off limits.
"The state is asking people not to go to parks, there is an exception I believe for exercise," Keller said. "We are officially closing all our playgrounds."
The mayor said the Albuquerque Police Department can enforce the governor's stay-at-home order.
That last line there is what separates Albuquerque's First Crook Tim Keller from his freelance comrades.
Mind you, this schtick of Keller and Lujan-Grisham isn't new in any sense. It's the same attitude displayed by French King Louis XIV when he said "L'etat, c'est moi" ["I am The State," in other words, "My every utterance is law."] and had the phrase Ultima Ratio Regum ["the final argument of kings"] cast onto the barrels of the cannon fielded by the Armée royale française — "Do what I tell you, or my guys will point this cannon at your home and light it off."
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- DingleBerry Express — Facebook page, Spreely page
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Going Stir Crazy
And here I thought *I* was going stir-crazy from COVID-19.
H/T Jill Linden via Elizabeth Honce
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Vote Dumpster Fire 2016
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