BREAKING: Shots fired at Capitol Hill, shooter reportedly in custody
A shooting at the U.S. Capital visitor’s center has put the facility on lockdown, multiple sources reported Monday. The Associated Press has reported that one Capitol police officer was not seriously and that the shooter is in custody. This is a developing story. Read more.
Ready to repeal the Second Amendment yet, Congress?
It’s official: North Carolina is getting sued for the passage of HB2, the law that bans LGBT nondiscrimination protections and forces transgender people to use the wrong bathrooms.
Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging HB2 on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and two advocacy groups (the ACLU of NC and Equality NC).
The lawsuit argues that the new law denies LGBT people equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment because the new law was designed to single LGBT people out for discrimination and less protection.
“H.B. 2 was motivated by an intent to treat LGBT people differently, and worse, than other people, including by stripping them of the protections afforded by the City of Charlotte’s Ordinance and precluding any local government from taking action to protect LGBT people against discrimination,” the lawsuit alleges. By doing so, it continues, “H.B. 2 imposes a different and more burdensome political process on LGBT people than on non-LGBT people who have state protection against identity-based discrimination.”
Hell yes. Do the damn thing, y’all. Take. It. Down.
Burn it all down.
Destroy the “law” that was passed in the dark of the night. Destroy the state government that allowed this to happen. Destroy those who would attempt to defend this measure as some sort of “freedom” or “right to comfort.”
Leave nothing standing.
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You would think that this is a good move, but it’s nothing more than caving to corporate pressure.
Had Disney, AMC, NFL, et al. not threatened to cease productions and events in Georgia, this bill would have been signed without issue, even in the face of public protests. This has already happened in North Carolina.
Governor Deal does not care about the citizens of Georgia; his only concern, like the Republicans he aligns himself with, is to ensure that corporate interests are met. And the corporations that put the pressure on are only in it for profit, anyway. They’re taking advantage of the social media firestorm so that they may receive positive press for “taking a stand,” while stealing the support of those who haven’t see through the veil.
They don’t really care about us.
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Saint Ronald
Also, don’t forget that this was all done in order for Ronald Reagan to be elected president.
The hostages were released literally twenty minutes after Reagan’s inauguration.
Former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr even confirmed this. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is factual.
A Nixon adviser admitted the war on drugs was invented to criminalize black people
John Ehrlichman, a former adviser to President Richard Nixon, said the war on drugs was invented to criminalize black people and suppress the radical left, according to an article published by Harper’s. While this doesn’t reveal that much new information, the full quote and admission is so shockingly blunt it crashed Harper’s website.
(via micdotcom)
They also like to close doors behind them too. Immigration, FEMA relief, welfare, whatever they need when they need it, but not for anyone else when they do.
Republicans only care about you when it’s convenient for them to.
(Source: corporationsarepeople)
Gun Control Is About Control, Not Safety
This is a common fear tactic to persuade people into resisting measures that seek to curb gun violence.
Nations like Australia have effectively kept firearms out of the hands of civilians after a mass shooting occurred. And yet, the government has not abused this in order to oppress its citizens through violent means.
Even if the United States did not seek further regulation of firearms, the military would effectively crush any resistance to tyrannical martial law. Assault rifles (defined as rifles that have fully automatic firing capabilities) are standard issue for the military in the form of the M4A1 carbine. Civilians can easily purchase semi-automatic firearms, but would endure heavy financial burdens and a large amount of paperwork in order to legally own a full-auto rifle or handgun. This was accomplished in the 1930s to effectively legislate away the rights of gangs to own submachine guns like the Thompson .45 (also known as the “Tommy Gun”). Semi-automatic firearms vs. fully-automatic firearms is a win for the latter every time.
In short, there is no purpose for owning guns as a means of “resisting government” when the government possesses such superior firepower that any resistance would be crushed almost instantly.
(Source: aslowparadeoffears)
