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Updated: Sun., Jan. 1, 2012, 4:22 AM

OWS mob in clash with cops

By KIRSTAN CONLEY and CYNTHIA R. FAGE

Last Updated: 4:22 AM, January 1, 2012

Posted: 2:20 AM, January 1, 2012

Some 800 Occupy Wall Street protesters began the new year by trying to retake Zuccotti Park last night, starting a massive clash with police in which one officer was stabbed in the hand with a pair of scissors.

Not who you think....

A suspect was arrested in the 11:30 p.m. incident, according to a law enforcement source.

Hundreds in the crowd of occupiers then surrounded the ambulance as it tried to leave with the wounded officer, the source said.

The officer, who was not identified, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

Shortly before midnight OWS protesters took to Twitter to proclaim their assault on Zuccotti — from which they were booted by cops in November.

“Barricades being torn down at liberty [Zuccotti] park,” they wrote. “Happy new years!!”

They later tweeted: “Big crowd at liberty square. We have taken back the park.”

Some 100 cops initially responded to the scene, including mounted police to maintain crowd control.

At one point, some of the protestors surrounded the circle of cops, before reinforcements were called in.

Police in riot gear started to attempt to clear the park at about 1:30 a.m. today. Read more here.

I've written repeatedly about how much I appreciate police officers and deputy sheriffs who daily and nightly put their lives on the line for us, all over this country.  And that is still true and will always be so.  Too, I have written about law enforcement "leadership" and how it ~ no, let's personalize this ~ how they are failing us.  Not all of them, but, yes, more than enough of them to pose a danger to us all.  Yes, I know full well that they are permitted by law to fail us: we can't sue them for not protecting us as individuals.  Personally, if I were hiring a police chief or sheriff, the first question I'd ask is this: Have you ever been an American, British, or Australian military officer or senior NCO in charge or command in any of the combat arms or military police disciplines, especially in combat? If I was asking you that question and your answer was No, but... I'd cut you off and politely show you the door, not giving a hoot in hell about your silly college education.  You can catch up on why I feel this way by reading here  and riiiight... here.

Here is a link to a story about where cops are in terms of preparing for a Mumbai-style swarm attack here in the US.  Swarming engagements are characterized by multi-directional pulsing attacks usually made by a small number of crafty, highly-motivated shooters.  They focus on limited objectives, have adequate weapons/ammo and comms and tactics created and rehearsed based on the lay of the land, location and structure of their targets and a high level of situational awareness.  In the video, there's a police officer interviewing someone he describes as a thought leader on strategies and tactics related to responding to prolonged, multiple-location, multiple-cell, terrorist attacks.  The thought leader opines: That [swarm attack] tactic is designed to get inside our decision cycle — our OODA loop — and it works. With modern communication technology they can have those multiple pulsing attacks — different locations and different groups. It’s more a unity-of-effort on their part than centralized command and control at the time. That’s something we’re going to have a hard time dealing with.

Why should a swarm attack get inside anybody's OODA loop? 

Inaction might be expected of inbound officers who have not been trained properly or who are so timid ~ or otherwise somehow incapable ~ that they can't or won't move with courage and resolve.  Such unqualified though sworn officers might have to stop and observe a particular situation, then orient themselves to the totality of circumstances, sort through all the options and make a decision and then finally act on that decision.  That can take hours.  But why can't law enforcement leaders make decisions in advance so that all the officers have to do is identify the person(s) posing the threat and then stop that threat?  

It goes like this:  Anyone can easily observe that terrorism is motivated by an evil, twisted supremacist ideology.  All one has to do is read the truth instead of being confused by deliberate deception.  Anyone can see that terrorists have declared war against all Americans, both here and abroad.  These religious edicts are not concealed, nor are they vague or confusing.  They are clear and unambiguous with innumerable attacks carried out by fatwa followers as they obey the sword verses in their so-called h-h-h-holy book.  Anyone can see that the only thing lacking in any jihad-prone follower of the religion of submission is opportunity, and untold thousands of them are working full-time bringing that opportunity to pass, planning and practicing for a bloodbath, and many of the rest of them are complicit in their traitorous silence.

Based on all these easily discerned truths which needn't be explained to us by experts or "thought leaders"; anyone who is a reasonable man or woman can properly conclude that:

• If someone is in the middle of traffic shooting at passers-by, nobody tells the shooter to drop the gun and assume the position: first officer on the scene uses cover and concealment or just plain ol' suppressive fire to approach the shooter, preferably with a shotgun loaded with slugs and takes the shooter down with head shots.  If someone catches a slug down-range, well, I guess it was their time to catch a round.  Chances are they'll be okay.
• If someone lights a Molotov cocktail or traffic flare and prepares to toss it into a vehicle which is placed in a likely target location such as in a heavily-traveled tunnel or bridge or the parking basement of a major building, shoot that dirtbag in the head.  And then make sure no fire started in the vehicle.
• If someone has a hostage, you shoot the terrorist even if it means you hit the hostage while doing it. Moreover, if terrorists ~ plural ~ have taken hostages and there is an assault on the terrorist positions, you shoot terrorists the second you see them, and don't slow down if you hit hostages ~ plural.  If you're a cop and you haven't read this book, then I want you out of my city because you're a lazy, stupid clown.
• If you're making a check of the local mall and you hear a gunshot around the corner by the salon and when you round the corner see a man with his back turned to you but with an AK47 raised into a shooting position and aiming toward a group of screaming, fleeing customers, you don't say Halt, drop the gun and put your hands in the air.  Advancing toward him ~ or her ~ you shoot that POS with no warning, preferably in the head with at least three rounds. Kneel before you shoot so the bullets are rising as they strike and explode his skull.  Or hers.

That takes two links out of the chain, like so: I observe someone committing a terrorist act ~ or just something that is clearly a deadly criminal act ~ therefore I act to stop that person immediately using all the firepower I brought with me.  In other words: I see a terrorist therefore I shoot the terrorist.  I don't negotiate.  I don't chat.  I don't skitter back to my unit and wait for back-up.  I don't try to shoot him in the leg.  I don't let him take a hostage into a building.  I shoot that fucker where he or she stands.  Why is that so hard to decide?  Because it steps outside the "civilized" rules by which "enlightened" western leaders think we must play.  In their "evolved" view ~ which comes from listening to lame, leftist, pussy, never-been-in-a-fight-in-my-entire-life-and-don't-want-to-be-in-one college professors ~ getting punched in the face is to be answered by apologizing for being in the way of the bad-guy fist.

Go ahead, dhimmi; lean into it.

In every town in which a terrorist attack might conceivably be committed, those in charge of protecting the people need to make several decisions in advance, before a bad-guy of any stripe pulls a trigger or a grenade pin: If they do this, we do that... immediately, automatically.  Yes, I understand that individual situations determine tactics, but there must be principles in place and in force and accepted as SOP by every single sworn street officer or deputy  before the attack.  The fact that Officer Smith was 75# overweight, has not qualified with his duty pistol or the shotgun for the last four years and has repeatedly intimated to colleagues that he has no intention of ever drawing his sidearm so why bother to train or qualify and that his former friends have noticed some of these changes in his life and behavior must not be part of the "situation" that leads him to do what he will or will not do. 

Get it? Every officer must be fully and honestly committed to the mission, capable and willing to carry out the pre-determined measures and tactics required for victory.  There can be no other way, or people will die.

To demonstrate how far law enforcement might be behind the power curve on this vital issue, allow me to parse the article linked to above, text of article in blue, my response italicized: Don’s essentially describing a leaderless effort. Hmmm, where have I recently heard about a leaderless effort that has involved a significant police response? Terrorists are not leaderless OWS dirtbags. Their leader is Muhammad.  And even if that were not true; as you can read here, the LeT in Mumbai were receiving orders and encouragement from Pakistani ISI through their "Army of the Pure" brothers back in Pakistan.  They were not leaderless.  A leader motivates and gives orders in order to reach a specific objective.  Muhammad and the Qur'an are exquisitely clear on what are the motivators and objectives to the shahada.  How can Don be called a thought leader when he can't discern what is so easily seen? Were he to see this, he'd be able to take those two links out of his OODA chain, too.

So, this is the same as...

... this?
The article continues: On the very day Don and I sat down for the above video interview (September 18th), protestors in the now-infamous “Occupy” movement had held control of Zuccotti Park for fewer than 24 hours. On that day, practically no one outside of Manhattan knew who they were or what they were up to. Since then, the phenomenon has gone global, and has maximized the very communications technology about which Don and I spoke that sunny Sunday in Virginia two months ago. We need to do some serious thinking about how we’re going to monitor (and manage a response) to Twitter-based tactical movements by the opposition, whether they are peaceful, First Amendment protesters or radical terrorists bent on destruction.  That's easy, Don.  With great speed, courage, and resolve; you outrun their comms.  You have decisions in place before things go south so there is no delay, no lip-biting, no hand-wringing, no brow-wrinkling... only lightning quick, unexpected, audacious attack attack attack.  This is war.  Stop taking your lessons from what worked once upon a time.  Stop setting policy based on lies you don't have the guts to disbelieve and bury.

“You may be the first to arrive,” [...} “In Mumbai these terrorists engaged and outgunned the first responders. Even if multiple attacks were launched first responders will have a different perspective. You will have to prepare yourself to meet challenges in one incident at a time. Your concern will be one hallway, one room, one gunman or more, who lie in front of you to the left of you, to the right of you, above you, below you, or even behind you. You will have to make the decision to contact or contain. This is bullshit.  If cops do this, any and every active shooter a/o hostage situation will turn into another Beslan ~ hundreds of unnecessarily dead innocents.  Your decision may require you to risk your life to save lives." WTF? You haven't made this decision already? They why are you a cop in the first place? So you can drive fast cars, carry a gun and fuck with people?

“Above all, this will be a fight of the patrol officer in the first minutes of the attack. This type of matter is going to be settled in the first 20 minutes and it’s going to be affected by patrol.  It won't be "settled", but the outcome will be decided in the first 5 minutes, whether the event takes 5 minutes, hours, or days.  The event may still be ongoing, but by responding well and quickly, the severity of the attack can be seriously mitigated.”   How does the chief of an 18-man police force in a "village" south of Chicago come up with that number, "first 20 minutes"?  The Olympia Fields PD site is here.  Their mission statement is: "for every member of the Olympia Fields Police Dept. is to seek and find ways to promote, preserve and deliver a feeling of security, safety and quality services to all members of the community".  To seek... a feeling?  Huh?  You mean they haven't figured this shit out yet? They don't know now?  Hey, Chief, guess what: it's first and foremost your responsibility, your freakin' job to "seek and find ways..." and make sure your guys get it, believe in it, obey it and perform it when the metal hits the meat.

[...] “I know this: If an attack like the one at Mumbai strikes [is committed in] a U.S. community, ordinary police officers will run to the sound of the gunfire. No, some of them will not show up, choosing to be disciplined or fired later for their willing and witting failure.  Those officers will use whatever they are issued — or can scrounge — and will fight to the best of their ability. And, in so responding, many of those officers will die.  We owe those officers as much practical training and equipment as we can muster, to enhance their effectiveness ... and survival. They will go, with or without preparation.” Some of them will go, some of them will cower, and some of them will crouch behind cars because "leadership" doesn't want to issue any orders that will fuck up their golden parachutes.

Could a Mumbai-style attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? You bet it could. Are American law enforcers preparing for the coming swarm? I [bleeping] hope so.  I fucking hope so.  There I said it for him.  He's so worried about getting criticized for throwing an F-bomb, what will he be worried about when he's indexed and moving to the sound of the guns?

Stay safe, my brothers and sisters. If the parting motto in LE is now an admonition to stay safe, what does that signify?

This?  The picture was taken outside the American Civic Center in Binghamton, NY and the reason all those cops are holding down that blue SUV is because of one man:

Chief of Police of Binghamton, Joe Zikuski.  

Read his woeful, cowardly story here and here.  The story here explains that the Big Z ordered his men to stand down for "about an hour before entering the building to make sure it was safe for officers".

Joe's business card.

And Chief Z and the city atty are bald-faced liars for trying to ram this lie down the throats of the people of B'ton.

I've gone this far, I might as well go all the way.  If you looked at the video at the link above, Don Alwes, who I remind you is a thought leader on strategies and tactics related to responding to prolonged, multiple-location, multiple-cell, terrorist attacks, is on his way to being the size of some of the police officers and deputies depicted below.  How can he be taken seriously when he's forfeited his right to get into the fight by being unfit?  One major principle of leadership is, say it with me: Lead by example.  So, cops are supposed to look at Alwes, a leader, and follow him.  Why?  In the first place, he's not thinking outside his freaking OODA loop, and that means he can't think ~ or hasn't yet ~ of possible ways to beat shooters in a Mumbai-type scenario.  And that means until he does something more than wander around in his loop, he's not worthy of being followed.  I checked his background to the extent that it's available online and he has no military training or experience so basically he's just another "husky" guy with about a quarter century of police work under his belt... and a whole lot more.

Is that a turkey leg?

Don's an instructor for the National Tactical Officers Association, which is basically a consulting firm made up of former cops.  I checked their website to get a little feel for their qualifications but, to my surprise ~ see here ~ it only talks about the history of SWAT.  Looks like NTOA was put together in 2010.  So, here's the deal: NTOA does training for SWAT teams around the country, but no police department is obliged in any way to take their training, no matter how good that training might or might not be.  Understand, I don't have anything personal against any of these guys, but I do object to one of them permitting himself to be interviewed and tagged as a thought leader.  Please.  If he can't come up with anything better than what he said in the clip, he doesn't know a tap-dance from taqiyyah.  The NTOA doesn't need thought leaders who get stuck in OODA loops that a 19 year old Infantryman can navigate in about a half a second.

Fat and dumb... hands do not get stuck into pockets.

Wanna read the qualifications of the NTOA Chief Executive Officer straight from their website? Here goes: NTOA welcomes Mark Lomax as its new Executive Director. Mr. Lomax brings us a unique set of qualifications, with an exceptional blend of law enforcement, training and academic experience.  A retired major with the Pennsylvania State Police, Mr. Lomax subsequently served as training manager for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and then as a program manager for the United Nations Mission in Liberia. He has conducted strategic planning and management consultations for small and mid-sized businesses, and has prior experience in the non-profit arena, having served as chairman of the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia. Mr. Lomax holds master’s degrees in both Higher Education and Business Administration.

This guy is a Sergeant?  Somebody has put him in charge of something!

Where are the parts about how many hostage situations Lomax successfully negotiated a/o how many SWAT teams he's trained and commanded and led into this or that many barricaded gunmen or active shooter situations? There are none.

Looking at this problem from a slightly different angle, take a look here, and be sure to look at the video clip therein.  My point begins making itself at 1:02, when we see that the leader, Chief John Miller, is telling us all what a baaaaaad boy one of his men was for throwing a few F-bombs around, when all the world can see Miller is a pretty bad example himself, but in a much more important segment of example...ness...ing.  He's a fat, out of shape puss and with his ... that's a pet peeve of mine... aversion to profanity, has more business teaching Sunday school than he does leading warriors.   The BPD mission statement reads: ... is committed to providing the city with progressive, reliable and citizen-oriented police service in the most professional and timely manner possible.  This is the kind of progressive, pussy, PC leader that is going to get people killed in a terrorist situation, cops and civilians.

Okay, okay, I know I gotta wrap this up sometime but, today I'm reading about this little Muslim scumbag who felt quite sure that the best way to draw attention to his lovely religion was to kill some cops, so between 0130-0300 he starts lighting up the cozy village of Gadsden, Alabama.  Been there.  To Gadsden.  Just bein' clear.  Anyway, he shot out store windows and for about 90 minutes this guy either strolled through a slumbering residential district all on his own before the cops got there, or once the cops did show up, they let him keep on wandering through the neighborhood ~ at least 6 blocks ~ hoping they could calm him down and not have to shoot him.  Reading the article, I tend to think they let him wander around shooting until they thought they'd calmed down the lad. 

Got that?  They let this guy meander through several city blocks of sleepy neighborhood hoping they could talk him out of that gun he had.  Really?

Remember that little dude up at the top of this post?  That's the Gadsden shooter, Luis Ibarra-Hernandez, not an OWS dipshit.  As the story here tells you, the cops were not so worried about the mayhem little Luis could have inflicted by skipping merrily into any one of many many houses in the area and commencing to shoot the crap out of as many of the locals as he could as they were about following the rules they learned on the shooting range once a year:

• They avoided shooting each othe. Nice.
• Rather than audaciously going after the shooter to close the distance with the enemy and stop him with close-in fire, they didn't fire at all, lest one of their bullets accidentally hit a slumbering Gasdenite.  This "safety consciousness" ignored the fact that the shooter himself could have been accidentally killing an innocent villager with each and every shot he fired... permitted to do so by cops who would not and did not shoot because they were worried about wounding even one.

Google: Dwight Baptist Church, Gadsden, Alabama and look at the map. 

The shooter was in a neighborhood, not an empty industrial park.  He was shooting at windows to draw in the police.  But there were people in the houses all around.  At any moment he could have done a left or a right and been inside a nice rambler to terrorize and destroy as many families ~ ones loved by somebody ~ until Gadsden PD decided to man up.

More unknowns:

• Cops didn't know if he was trying to draw them into an ambush, more shooters. They let the enemy choose the spot of the battle, something which should never be done.  GPD could have chosen the battle ground at any time.
• Cops didn't know if the shooter was going to put up a fight and then fake surrender when he had enough cops around him and then detonate a bomb to kill them all
• Cops didn't know if the shooter would kill them all with a bomb and then kill even more people ~ second responders ~ with a secondary device when they screamed up to the bloody scene to help save lives

So, they got lucky this time.  Luis was just another dipshit amateur wannabe terrorist who couldn't find his butt with both hands. Sure.  Keep telling yourself that, chief.

Okay, let's wrap up.  It's clear here that police brass is capable of learning lessons.  I guess.  But, I wonder if they will ever get these truths:

• Lots of people knew your lessons learned before you wasted time, money, energy and reputation on your song and dance drills
• Lots of "civilians" are in better physical shape and know more about battle tactics than do you and your exalted SWAT guys and NTOA consultants
• Lots of these "civilians" that you think need to be herded into buses and evacuated when the first Mumbai-like shots ring out would actually be quite willing to go on the attack with you and your guys ~ maybe even lead some of your dummies since about 95% of your guys don't know jack about urban warfare
• If you and your men and women can't pass an Army PT test, you have no business running around with guns telling warriors what to do in a shooting situation.  You may have the legal authority, but you don't have the moral right.

 

C'mon, Chief.  You know you want to ...

Mall of America Madness

Read this story about how the security "experts" at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, are going to protect you in event of shooters storming onto the premises.

Mall security... "expert"

They will endeavor to keep  you inside, as much as they can in that attendant turmoil, so they can "minimize potential victims... and buy time for the police to come."

Item one: the way you minimize potential victims in an active shooter situation is to get the potential victims as far away from bad-guy bullets as possible.

Item two: the police might be delayed in their response for any number of reasons. I mean, holy shit, one man might shoot a cop or four, as depicted here, in order to create a distraction at one end of town while a team of shooters attacks the local mall. Any moron with even the most basic tactical training can tell you that. WTF is wrong with those MoA idiots?

Item three: MoA has just increased the likelihood that they will be hit by a terror attack. That area of the US is full of wannabe jihadists and the mall's position essentially tells anyone with a bad attitude and a handgun, Hey, come and act out your aggression on the thousands of shoppers we have walking innocently through our fine facility ~ air-conditioned for your comfort.

Like I've said before here and  here ~ probably a go-zillion-fuckin' times, if you hear shooters in a mall and you are not equipped and trained to defend a/o counter-attack then get the hell out of that building as quickly as you can. Because shooters might be using a hammer-anvil tactic ~ one or two shooters open fire at one end of the mall in order to drive shoppers toward the other end of the mall where even more shooters are waiting for them ~ the best way to exit would be through the rear exit doors of the small shops along the halls and aisles.

Don't get trapped!

Now to the question: why would MoA management and their security provider emplace this dangerous policy? Because they don't want to spend the money necessary to properly train and equip effective security officers and teams. They're hoping nothing bad ever happens and they'll never be sued for incompetent/insufficient security/supervision. See my post here for a little more bitchin' from me on the subject of how security rips off their customers every day.

In closing, I'll again suggest you take a good, long look at this extremely good video on how to survive a mall shooter(s) scenario.

And if you're in a mall and security tries to lock you down, remember they have no authority to do anything but tell you to stay off their property.

Update below: 29 December 11: I told you so.  But don't worry.  Cops and MOA security got together to "debrief security protocol" after the incident.  Hey, if MOA security fucked this up, what will they do when multiple shooters swarm the place.

 

 

Peace, to men and women of good will

 

It's Christmas Day and here is some beautiful, contemplative music to which I listen from time to time.  It has a Christmastime feel to it, at least in my ear and my heart.

In my family, we write notes to one another and put them in each other's stockings.  We try to write all the things we maybe forgot to say or wanted to say or should have said over the previous year ~ or longer.  Well, I'm done with that and will be hanging the stockings in a while. 

Then, on to the lasagna, which is our traditional Christmas feast.  Nothing religious about that particular dish; we just like it.

Like some of you, there are those I'll miss this Christmas, whose absence leaves me a bit teary at times.  Distant family ~ fallen comrades ~ a lost love.  But that's what makes this season so different from any on the calendar.  For in missing them, we affirm again their eternal value, their precious warmth, the touch of God they brought to our lives.

Like God sending his Son for us, we are continually Given the most precious gifts; people to love and those for whom we can give our lives. That is what makes the God of the Jews and the Crusaders a God worthy of our devotion, and the only force to which we should surrender.

Merry Christmas, unerschrocken.

Proactive Shopping

Here we are again, looking down the barrel of another Black Friday.  In view of the on-going threat constituted by various terrorists and now OWS dipshits, here's what I'm going to do: walk around for a few hours. I have a right to do so. And I have a right to be in a public place with a concealed weapon because I am properly licensed in my state to do so.  Are you?   If not, why not?  What kind of mayhem are you waiting for?

Ready or not, here I come.

There's a mall near me that might be targeted in an attack, either by shooters or a bomber.  So that's where I shall take my stroll.  I mean, why not?  It's the day on which the most conspicuous-consumption money gets spent by people all over the world, especially by infidels.  Why the mall near me and not the mall near... you?  I don't know. Maybe it will be the one near you.  I don't have any actionable intel, no premonitions, not making any SWAG.  I'm just going to the mall near me because I can go to that one whereas I can't go to the one near you.  Maybe you could go to the mall near you.  I'm just sayin'.

I live in a state which permits concealed carry of handguns so I'll take my baby with me, as I usually do, and a few travelin' items, listed here for your consideration. Tell me if I'm missing anything.

If you don't have a handgun but would like one, for any reason, take a look here for some thoughts on good, reasonably priced weapons. 

For the truck, just in case; 12GA 2.75', 1 Oz HP Slugs.

If you're going walking ~ a choice only you can make ~ here for your review are some posts I've proffered in the past such as Shooters, here, and Give Me Back My Bullets, here.  Homeless Alert, here, and Lessons from Omaha,  here. Oh, the weather outside is frightful, here.  But the fire is so delightful, here, and This just in, here.

I've tried to cover a host of possibilities in the posts linked to above, but I know I can't cover each and every scenario because there are too many variables.  Still, if I hear shots coming from one end of the mall, I'll move toward the sound of the guns, not run screaming into the parking lot. There will be enough people doing that ~ I don't need to participate. I'll try to get to the intersection closest to the shooter(s) and then try to find cover, if it's available or concealment of some sort if that's all the terrain gives me. 

If the set-up permits, here's what I'll try to do if I am the only... walker: Assuming the shooter(s) is approaching from the direction of Monkey Wards walking up the mall towards Jacque C Penne, I will look for cover behind the centered kiosk, if it's there. If not, I'll take cover in the Pet Store or the Salon. I'll wait til the shooter(s) moves north past the kiosk and engage him with as much firepower as I can, shooting from the Pet Store toward the Salon or toward the Pet Store from the Salon, depending of course on where I'm situated. I'm not going to take a shot or two and then duck. I'm going to shoot until he or she stops his or her threatening/deadly actions and if that means I have to empty a full 30 round mag ~ and I've got three of those ~ into him, then that's what it takes. Followed by a quick reload as I check for other approaching shooters.

If the kiosk is there I can use that as cover. I don't need to get right up next to it for it to block bullets, I can move laterally behind it for several feet to the east or west and as long as I keep it between me and the shooter, I'm covered.

If there happens to be another walker with me, here's what we'll try to do: Assuming we're walking at the north end as we hear shooting coming from the south end, we'll head at a range-walk toward the sound of the guns. My partner will take up a position just north of the kiosk and I will go into either Ed's or Oz, and at least get some concealment, if only from a shadow. These positions give my partner the ability to fire north to south from behind cover while I shoot east-west or west-east. My partner stays concealed until I see the shooters have moved into the zone directly between Ed's and Oz. When they're in that zone, I open fire east-west or west-east and my fellow-walker opens up north to south. Suddenly the shooters are taking fire from two directions and if it's accurate and sustained fire, they're going to stop their attack right then and there.

If there is no kiosk, my partner goes into the Pet Store or Salon kitty-corner from me and, using the door-frame along the main hallway as cover, shoots the bad-guys when I open fire. It might be best if he's prone as he fires so the bullets are rising as they hit the bad-guys... and rising if they miss.

These are general tactics I may need to change based on any number of unforeseeable circumstances.

And, of course I'll let the cops do what they have to do whenever it is that they arrive on scene.

And, if they question me, I won't lie to them.

 

Now you know the basics of the L-Shaped Ambush. But they started it, didn't they?

Of course, before I begin to fire, I've determined by the reasonable man standard, seen here, that the shooter(s) pose a clear and present danger to myself and other walkers and shoppers and that the shooter's deadly actions need to be stopped immediately using reasonable force which is in this case, since they're shooting at people, deadly force.

At least that's my estimate. If anyone else were to be in my situation, he or she would have to make their own decision as to what he or she would or would not do. Maybe all one might choose to do is counter-surveillance ~ walking around looking for suspicious people and things to report to the police. I don't know. I only know what I'll do. And those who mutter or shout that we must doooooo something, but then do nothing can keep on muttering. 

Alrightythen,  I'll let you know how it turns out.  Hey, if you're so inclined, equiped and trained and you take a walk, you can let me know how it turns out.

How it turned out, as promised, update 26 Nov 11: Wall to wall people, most tightly packed at the food court.  Saw two security guards the entire hour I was there.  While I was doing recon on the food court by standing there pretending to describe the food options to the imaginary friend on the other end of my phone, one guard waltzes in the door from outside.  She's got a clipboard in her hand and proceeds to walk down the way where you have to line up at the various shops to order food.  At a pretty good pace, she walks the entire length, about 200', and then disappears.  Not once did she slow down to take a look at the crowd as they sat and stood and walked.  I estimate probably 300 people in the food court.

A few minutes later, I see the top of a security hat bobbing up and down and I assume there's a guard under it.  I was right.  I guess.  He's a little guy, but has on his happy face.  As I continue to talk to my phone he walks by and stops to move some sort of sign ~ like a small bucket hanging from a tripod ~ about 2".  Ahhhhh, perfect right there, I guess he was thinking.  Then he spots on the floor a splash of drink that I'd seen as I walked by that spot moments before.  The spot is about 5" square.  And it's dry.  He goes to some closet and comes back with one of those yellow warning signs and puts it on the dry drink spot and marches proudly away.

As I left the mall to head for my favorite pub to watch the Rangers and the Capitals play hockey, I saw the security SUV drive onto property with his little yellow light flashing atop his little white Ford. 

And that is all I saw, about 1330 to 1430 at the mall just down the street.

What I should have seen is a hell of a lot more security officers, all of them armed.  There should have been at least three officers on the building roof surveying parking lots and entry doors, looking for people getting out of vehicles as described in detail here.  There should have been at least two unmarked officers in the food court set up to ambush any shooters coming through the main door.  That fat guard in the booth by the door doesn't count, he's dead meat.

Anyway; you're still on your own out there.  Security will not keep you safe.  They don't have to do anything more than observe and report. So, it's up to you to protect yourself and those you love.

Update: 17 December 11: Going hunting.

Okay, I'm back.  Some observations:

• Wear different shoes next time.
• Saw only four security guards in the two hours I was there.  None armed.  One was a tall, chubby guy you could see coming a mile away.  Problem is, when he closed that mile and was right on top of you, he's still just there to observe and report.  Another was the girl I saw last time in the food court, only this time she was busy showing people how to find some store.  Another one was maybe the little guy who so dutifully marked that spilled but dry beverage my last trip there.  This time he was astride a mount: a Segway.  He had on a helmet reminiscent of old B17 tail-gunners. Goofy. And one tall, slender guy outside.  There may have been one or two on "patrol" in the parking lots but I didn't look there.
• Frozen yogurt brain freeze is like ice cream brain freeze, only quicker.
• There was a "Santa" guy strolling here and there doing little Christmas tunes on his accordian.  He had a little blue ear-ring in his left ear.  So, I forget: does that mean he's gay or that he's a biker?
• Some kid handed me a sample of Thai food and when the toothpick broke off in my mouth, I was momentarily concerned... until I realized the toothpick was actually a piece of uncooked spaghetti.  There is no Off position on the genius switch, eh?

When I first entered the mall, my profiling alarm went off like a roadside bomb because of...

This cupcake.  My guess is that's her son on her right.  Remember; boys and girls; even in the land of the free a Muslim woman is not permitted to be out of the house without escort from her husband or a male member of her family.  The hijab she was imprisoned in wasn't large enough to flow behind her as she walked so it was pretty easy to see from my position that she wasn't hiding a bomb... on her butt.  I kept her in sight from about 50', looking around me for someone who might be her handler, somebody with a detonator who'd blow her up when she got to the most deadly position among the shoppers.  Didn't see anyone who seemed suspicious in that regard and was going to try to get in front of her so I could see if she looked like she was pregnant but I lost her in the crowd ahead.  I think she ducked into the Victoria's Secret to check out the thongs.  Ooo, that's pretty creepy.  Anyway, I took a look around to see if the lovely stuck-on-stupid-in-the-7th-century couple came up for air and they didn't so I continued the promenade. 

About 90 minutes later, I was profiling in an area that had a higher probability of being attacked than most others in the building.  There I saw a young male who appeared to be of Arab extraction who was very focused on texting something to someone.  Okay.  I get it.  Everybody does that.  Sure, but not if and when I'm profiling.  The government cannot profile as a matter of law.  I can, may and will profile since I'm not a government agent.  So, if you're a young Arab-looking male in a likely attack location, tapping on your phone and looking like your head is about to explode because you're so intensely focused as you signal your brothers ~ a/o twitching with hate ~ then I'm going to watch you.  Closely.  I'm going to move to a position where I can see you but you can't easily see me.  Too, I'll try to make that spot one where I can see any of your brothers approaching.  It will probably turn out that you're just letting them know there's a really bitchin' sale on girls undies so y'all can properly dress your bacha bazi boyfriends, like these little fellas.

If it's not that, if you're there calling them in to begin some jihad, you will be resisted... with great vigor, resolve and firepower.

Okay, that being said; I did see the Muslimah and her harmless escort as I was on the way out of the building.  They were both in one piece, seemingly harmless. 

Knife fights and other annoyances

Okay, let's get to it, shall we? I like to try to set the context for why I write what I write about standing against Islam and so here is today's offering; it'll make you sick.  For those who wonder how can people do such horrid things to one another, just look at the third picture down.  That's the answer, right there: Qur'an 9:5.  It's what they're required to do by their religion. 

The way it should be: they whine, we laugh out loud.

And, no, other religions are not the same.  If you take the time to study Islam rather than plan your next frivolous romp in Vegas, or stop listening to the crap coming from Chicago Jesus about the wonders of Islam, you'll quickly discover the truth.  To those of you who have done your homework, goodonya.  To those who have not, what the hell are you waiting for ~ a knife in your throat? 

Speaking of being slaughtered by Muslims: if you were about to be attacked by a representative of the Religion of Peace, what weapon would most likely be used against you? 

Yes, you can kill lots of people at one time by taking over an aircraft and driving it into a skyscraper. But, of all the methods used by terrorists to kill and maim; cutting, slashing and stabbing with edged weapons is the most often used. Why? Because it's easier to obtain or create an edged weapon than a Boeing 757. You break a beer bottle, you got an edged weapon that can kill.  Does anybody not know what a broken beer bottle looks like? How about a broken vodka bottle?  Alrightythen, let's move on.

 

This is a made for police training only video created several years ago, now apparently not restricted to cops.  That's good, because it shows you just how quickly you can get cut long, deep and frequently by someone skilled in the use of edged weapons.  Find some insight into knife-fighting realities here from someone who appears to know that of which he speaks.

Take a look here at how UK Muslims are being encouraged to raise the knife of jihad.  I looked for articles telling us about "moderate" Muslims who had the sand to correct the knife raisers and get them to change their evil,  misunderstanding-Islam ways but found no such stories.  Go figure.  You can read more here about UK Muslim street jihad... with knives.  Maybe the London Muslima who went on a slashing spree here had signed up for the cause.  We find still another Muslim woman who stabbed a Brit MP here, perhaps in response to the call of her confused coreligionists.  And what's the name of their so-called religion, boys and girls?  C'mon, hiss it with me:

Issssslaaaam.

But, of course, the knife of jihad isn't raised only in the British Isles, is it?  We can read here about a Muslim man who walked into a Connecticut grade school with a knife, was released with no charges filed against him... and later stabbed two somebodies at a gas station.  I'm not at all trying to say that the only people who stab others are Muslims, just to make the point again that anyone calling Islam the religion of peace does not know history, not 1400 years or 1400 seconds worth of it.  The plain fact is that most terrorism is committed by Muslims, most terrorist attacks are conducted with easily obtained a/o made edged weapons, therefore you're more likely to be attacked by a Muslim terrorist with a knife than a Babtist rain-dancer with a bumbershoot.

Harmless bumbershooter.

Hey, guess what: there's more.  Looks here as though there's a lady slasher cutting up NYC, so anybody want to bet what which direction she faces when she prays?  I'm just sayin'.  You can read here about Spaniards being attacked by a man with an axe, and here about a Moroccan man ~ probably Muslim ~ who went on a rampage with a knife in Ibiza, a Spanish resort town.  Read here about a woman who was stabbed to death and then beheaded while in Tenerife, still another popular Spanish holiday spot.  While there is no evidence to suggest that the killer was anything but a psychotic, the point of my point about being prepared remains sharp, because the victim was stalked, as we see here.  She depended on others for her survival and the others failed her.  The sheriff here is right to advise people to arm themselves for their own defense.

With that take-care-of-yourself thing in mind, sometime back I wrote here about what to do if you're faced with a slasher on a bus, and here about what to do if you're attacked with a hammer, a weapon suggested by Islamo-thugs because it's deadly yet looks so innocent.

Backing it down a notch, not long ago some Muslim thugs attacked a French couple on the streets of Paris.  I'd like to see them try that on the streets of Parris Island, SC, eh? Sorry, I couldn't find a way to embed the video so you'll have to click here to get a look.  But I'll wait while you watch it.   Go ahead.  In this video, we see the arrogance of perceived power, that of the several savages who have somehow concluded that they have the right to walk the streets attacking people simply for not being Muslim.  How do I know the motivation of these thugs?  I don't know for sure, I'm just playing the odds, running the statistical probabilities.  I read about these kinds of attacks by Muslims against infidels almost every day.  Do you?

Why not?

 

This is what I mean by taking care of yourself.  The guy didn't even think of calling the cops, he just gets back in the face of the Muslims and attacks them.

I try to put helpful videos in my posts, as long as they show tactics and procedures that I, based on my training and experience, believe can be helpful to the guy on the street.  All the knife attack defenses I've found involve a number of steps and the only way you're going to get good at those defensive moves is to practice them all the time so they become second-nature.  But you're not going to do that, are you?  So, without going into the details of how I've been trained to handle people with edged weapons, I'll ask you to have a look at the two Krav Maga videos below for some good, basic, easy-to-remember responses to knife attacks.

Knife to the throat.

Defense against slash.

 

This ad makes me want to puke every time I see it.  The wife tells us about the emotional pain she suffered because she saw some burglar rummaging through her stuff.  Imagine what she'd be feeling if that burglar had stuck a gun in her face, forced her and her daughter upstairs and then and raped the shit out of them, daughter first, then left them to die.  But ADT won't go near that possible scenario because they know they have no product to mitigate against that kind of crime.  But what's the difference between the burglar in the ad and the rapist/murderer I just conjured up?  Time and opportunity.  That's all.  The narrator says: When a call is received, ADT can call the local authorities... The little lady doesn't see the subtle legal wording that gets ADT off the hook if they somehow don't call the cops.  Saying they can is not the same as saying they will or they shall.  ADT knows it cannot control what their "highly trained professionals" will actually do when that call comes in.  The "professional" might be late, or drunk, or taking a crap, or texting her boyfriend, or watching porn on the computer, or racist and sitting there thinking: that white bitch deserves it.  I'm not calling anyone until I get aaaaaaaaall the facts.  Now, where is it that I put my liiiiiitle, tiny pencil?

ADT can't control how quickly "the authorities" will respond.  As you can read here, Detroit PD won't respond to a burglar alarm unless you have proof a crime has been committed.  And, courts have decided that cops are not required by law to protect you personally, they are sworn to protect "society" in general, of which you and your loved ones make up one small piece.  So, it's up to you.  Take a look at the husband in the ADT ad.  What a pussy.  I know, he's just an actor sitting there with a stupid look on his face, but he depicts too many men in this country who are so fearful or lazy or careless or whatever that they don't see the many dan0gers we face as a society ~ and by extension he and his family are included ~ every day and night.  He gives her peace of mind by saying, I will surrender my responsibility as a man to protect my loved ones to a company who's already lied to me on TV, which employs people I wouldn't trust to go get my mail.

Just wait til they outsource to India.

 

Grab some curb

Have you ever watched helicopter coverage of police chasing some bozo and wondered aloud: Why don't they do something besides chase him?  They could stop him there or there or right there. The longer they let this go on, the more potential there is for innocent bystanders to be hurt because the longer they permit this clown to keep up his antics, the more people he endangers because he's not yet stopped. 

You don't wonder about that?  Really?

Okay, whoever you are, here's the deal: according to Georgia law, Vehicular Homicide is the unlawful killing of another with the use of a vehicle.  Neither malice aforethought nor intent is required as elements of proof for this crime.  In Washington, Reckless Endangerment is a gross misdemeanor requiring conduct not amounting to a drive-by shooting but that creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person.  This tragedy proves my point perfectly, don't you think?

So, let's put some bozo in a car who's running from the cops just because he was doing 25 in a school zone.  Cop lights him up, Bozo punches it because he doesn't have insurance, and they're off to the races.  He's already looking at a speeding ticket of at least 5 over the limit plus no insurance; tack on Reckless Endangerment and Felony Elude, just for starters.  Beginning in a school zone full of kids, the pursuit can run through, past, over and under lots and lots of people who are just out and about, minding their own bidness in various neighborhoods, parks, malls, business districts, narrow alleys, dusty alleys, bowling alleys, along high or low roads to Scotland or elsewhere, downtown, uptown, the back 40, or the north 40...

You know that big-ass parking lot they got.

Let's shift gears, shall we?  Read here about a Mexican drug cartel trying to kill Mexican soldiers by luring them into a trap and blowing them away with what was essentially an IED. 

So that changes the entire angle, doesn't it? 

 

Let's call her Sally Scion.  Behold the old paradigm: reporters ho-humming a commentary on the pursuit ~ yadda-yadda-yadda ~ never even wondering for a moment if the driver of the vehicle could be trying to lure as many cops as she can as close to her car as possible so she can kill them all with one blast.  In this case, it looks like it was maybe a soccer mom who was just having a really bad day.  But do you see all the cops around the Scion at the end?  Geez, what a horrible thing it would be if someone did all what that woman did and then detonated a bomb when all the cops were dismounted and trying to get the driver out of the car.  And I mean that seriously; it would be a horrible thing.

But, you're just a civilian, not a cop.  What are the odds that terrorists will try to provoke you into chasing them up and down the road to finally blow you up when they get to just the right spot?  It's improbable. What's more likely would be a scenario where you're attacked as follows:

Rather than taking a whack at you motoring along in your beige Volvo, terrorists will go for your Ride-Share van because it's an amply-loaded soft target: only one person paying attention ~ the driver, one hopes ~ everyone else trying to stack a few more Zs before being let out at the office to begin a day of honest toil.  Or something.  Some guy comes up behind you and gives you a bumper tap with enough force to rock the van but not do any damage.  You remember doing that in high school, right?  So, ennewaze, then the driver of the car behind you drives up next to you with her ~ yes, I switched the gender of the attacker just to keep you on your toes ~ window down and coos, Oooo, I'm so so sorry.  My insurance will cover everything so follow me up around the corner, out of this traffic, and we'll exchange information.  She drives around the corner, into a parking lot and stops.  She motions for you to pull in behind her and you don't even notice that directly parallel to you, a couple stalls over, is a van with its side door or rear door looking right at you.

What do you think's comin' next? 

Probably nothing more than the exchange of insurance information and some some dirty looks.  But what could happen is that, as soon as you stop behind her car, the door on that van three stalls over pops open and a couple of men open fire on your innocent little "green" shuttle.  And you're dead, but you can die with pride since you gave your life trying to save the planet.  Yea... right.

So, here's what you might do rather than get suckered into an ambush: you lead the way to where the information exchange will take place.  More detail  here, including how to bust through a road-block, cool stuff every motorist should know.  What do you do if you see the cops swarming around a car, trying to do what you saw in the video?  Well, chances are that if you see lots of movement by cops after the suspect vehicle is stopped, then there is probably no bomb in the car, waiting to be detonated.  The bomber most likely would have detonated from inside the car to be sure the detonator wasn't effected by any struggle with arriving and arresting cops. 

Still, what you can do if you decide is drive beyond the site where all the comotion is going on and pull off to the side of the road.  At that time and place, take a look around for suspicious activity a/o people.  Suspicious? 

• Someone in a vehicle or on foot on an overpass or similar good viewing spot who's looking at the scene through binoculars, or taking photos with a full-size camera, video or still.  Can you do a drive-by and get a vehicle/driver description you can quickly pass to the 911 operator?  Good.
• Someone walking just down the street from you who seems frustrated that the cell phone in his hand didn't work properly, which is to say it failed to send a det signal to the bomb in the car over there by all the cops.  Can you do a drive-by and get a description of that guy a/o girl and pass to the 911 operator ASAP?  Excellent.
• Someone who was parked alongside the road watching as the cops got the suspect to stop but who leaves a few seconds after that ~ thereby suggesting with his actions: Dang, the detonator in my hand here didn't set off the bomb over there by all those cops, so I'd better bounce on outta here.  Can you pass that info to the cop comms center?  Great.
  
• Or, can you call the 911 operator and ask if he or she can have one of the units there at the scene break loose and check out the guys mentioned above who just might be on counter-surveillance, or the handler of the person the cops just put in cuffs.  Awesome.

Now, if I may; here are some thoughts for law enforcement officers viz chasing cars around and being bushwhacked. 

Actually, cops can stop any car any time they want.  So why don't they?  Because, as I said here, too many gutless "leaders" trying to protect their reputations and pensions instead of the people and their officers.  As well, they care too much about the feelings of suspects.  I mean, they can't even say suspect anymore to describe a punk found covered in somebody else's blood at a murder scene.  He's just a person of interest.  If you're a regular here, you already know how to stop people in cars who are endangering people.  C'mon, say it with me: shooooot the driiiiiver.  Hey, people who say violence doesn't solve anything are simply cowards and no fun at parties.

Not therapy, softer approaches, or less-lethal weapons.  Violence. 

If someone reported an abandoned vehicle on a crowded street and said there was something that looked like an artillery shell on the back seat, the cops would respond with the bomb guys and those cool little robots, right?  They wouldn't run up to the car, jump on it and start banging on the windows.  So, why would anyone jump on Sally's car just because she finally decided to grab some curb?  What if Sally's plan all along was going to drive slowly but illegally with police motorcade through the town to a park where there's a festival going on and then, with all the choppers in the air and cops flashing their lights and laying on their wailers, she was going to blow the shit out of everybody? What if she, fully loaded with AMFO, stopped next to another vehicle loaded up with even more AMFO?  Blazing fucking inferno, that's what.  All because SOP created by some dipshit community policing wizard says the best way to handle a pursuit is to follow the suspect until she rrrrreally fucks up by pissing off Roscoe Rules.

Listen up: despite all the noodle-rubbing any so-called expert may do, nobody can know if Sally is going to injure or kill someone while having half the freaking police force on her tail as she vents.  To protect cops, she and all her kind need to be stopped as quickly as possible at a spot chosen by pursuing/responding cops, not just followed until she boxes herself into a corner or runs out of gas.   The rules of engagement have changed.  There are more killers among us than ever before, willing to and even planning on killing as many infidels cops as they can.  So, in order to better control the outcome of any traffic stop made in this asymetrical war, cops need to decide where and when the vehicle gets stopped, not leave it to whimsey or treachery. This is a rule of warfare: never let the enemy decide where the battle is to be fought.

Sally Scion is doing exactly what an enemy would do: drive in such a manner as to draw a pursuit but slowly enough to not present a clear and present danger ~ just a bit of a nuisance until enough cops show up to make  some sort of stop.  Oh, you don't think a blonde American woman would getyou to follow her and then blow you up or trick you into an alley full of shooters?  Remember this bitch? 

Have you, a brave blue knight, moved past the belief that pretty girls smile at you when you pull them over because they think you're cute?  Police ladies; you think it's that pony-tail they like and how soft your hands look, eh?  They're playing you.  So, if it's true that you're being zoomed, and it is, then it may also be true that one of them will someday soon be driving you in circles until he or she gets enough of your posse close enough to make the boom he or she's carrying in the trunk turn you and all your responding buddies into pink mist.  See below for a variation on the theme.

Three cop cars in a potential kill zone.  Gray van side door slides open, back one pops up, gunfire erupts from the right flank.

In addition to the gray van in the pic above, the vehicle being stopped is a van.  Rear doors open up, bullets start flying out the back.

Perfect L-shaped infantry ambush, taught in all combat courses in the world.  Fire coming out of the back and sides of  the gray van in the driveway and the back of the green van in the street.

Throw the silver SUV in the driveway into the equation and guess how many bodybags the PD will need.

Putting myself in this last picture, I see lots of patrol cars and at least one unmarked unit and lots of cops and I'd ask myself: which of the people driving by to see what's going on are actually follow-up bad-guys to do even move shooting?  And, I'd also wonder if all this was a diversion to get us all over here, waaaaay far away from the actual target of this group... maybe these knuckleheads are just decoys. 

So, be careful where you make your traffic stops.  Don't make your stops, felony or not, next to vans or cars when your instinct is screaming that you're about to be bombed or ambushed.   If you're caught, the thing to do in an ambush is to get out of the kill zone as quickly as possible.  If possible, stop and engage the enemy from a position of cover once you're clear. 

Remember; a slow pursuit, not a fast get-away, is more likely to be an ambust set-up.  Slow gets you to follow them to the kill zone. Fast prpobably means there is no kill zone, they just don't want to get caught.  In a situation such as depicted above, someone needs to stay in a position where he can see and respond with appropriate violence to any extra shooters coming in batting clean up.  Also, some sergeant needs to remind responding patrols that not every single unit is necessary at the scene, some need to stay active, looking for more shooters inbound, and ready to respond to an even more horrific event across town.  As noted here: one grenade can kill you all.

Speaking of traps: one of my all time favorites...

 

 

Dirty reload

This one's for all my friends at my favorite hang-out, the best hockey bar in town with the best people.  Stick with me on this, it's a long one.  When you're done, please forward this to anyone you know and love who's in the food service profession,  especially wait and bar staff.

So, there you are of a cool autumn evening, tossing back a few cold ones ~ defined here ~ at your favorite pub, bantering with someone who calls himself... Doc.   Next thing you know, some knucklehead shuffles past you on the way to a stool 'round the corner of the bar.  Through your mild but growing buzz, you realize that the shuffler is the same guy you saw shuffling in exactly the same time last week.  Except, last time he had a scruffy little beard and almost no mustache ~ significance discussed here ~ and this time he's clean-shaven and smells like a freakin' bacha bazi.

The eternal question: when is happy hour?  

A few weeks ago some Religion of Peacers put the FUBAR on happy hour for revellers in a Nigerian bar ~ story here.  I tell ya; there's a well-deserved payback come judgment day for the party foul those Boko Haram half-wits committed.  Continuing that theological theme, on 12 July '10, some 74 unlucked Ugandans got bombed while innocently watching soccer.  So, the Muslim skinnnies who pulled this double-bombing caper were not only under the influence of Islam  but probably also fucked up on khat and had had more than their share of Somali domestic beer, alaq.  So, who're the apostates now, boy-lovers?  Anyway, if you're given over to wanderlust and simply must sample the local micro-brew, I'd suggest a chaser for alaq.  A nice ethanol drip should do the trick.

Lucky we're here where it's safe, eh? I mean, that kind of mayhem is only committed in dusty, dry west Asian a/o north African hell-holes, right.  Well, yea; except when they try it... here. 

Evidence of how Muslims look at bombing restaurants full of innocent people.  These are the poor, woe-begotten Palestinians who are so put upon by those mean Jooooos.  Now can you understand a little bit why Israel does not trust them?

So, if they'll bomb a little pizza joint in Jerusalem where just about every Israeli carries an automatic weapon at all times, what makes you think they won't give it a shot where you live?  By the way, where exactly do you live?  Since they're going to try it sooner or later, let's review some important... importantcies.

There are two kinds of bombers of dining and drinking establishments:

1. A duck walks into a bar... and goes boom. 
2. A duck walks into a bar, drops off a bomb, walks out of the bar... bomb goes boom.

Recon done by either duck will probably go like this: the duck will show up on various days and times to see when the place is the busiest.  He will probably ask for a table toward the back of the house so he can have at least a Dum-dee-dum; I'm walking innocently back to my table now view of the layout.  He'll take his sweet time ordering and eating, and maybe get up at least once to go tinkle.  He will probably leave an average tip when he goes.  Not a little tip to piss off the servers so they remember him as soon as he walks back in.  For the same reason, he will not leave a huge tip.  Following are things I'd think are suspicious of any customer.  Remember, it's not just one red flag, but a few taken together as a whole:

• Wandering around outside the building, ostensibly looking for the main entrance but actually checking to see if doors can be secured from the outside, locking customers inside, which suggests a shooter, not a bomber.  If he's carrying chains or metal or wood wedges when you spot him, call the cops immediately.
• Wandering around inside the building, ostensibly looking to take a leak, but obviously looking for/at exit doors.
• Says to wait staff:  I heard you guys have security.  That's kind of unusual for a restaurant ~ trying to probe you for intel.  I'd lie and say, Yea, we have at least one plain-clothes, armed officer on duty all the time. And they're all hardcore samurai.
  
• Taking notes on paper or a small recorder, see here for more detail.  Notes can be saved on a smart phone and one would have to wonder if he's texting back or forth or making notes.  I guess the best indicator of whether someone is texting or noting is if you hear his phone beep when someone texts him.  That's a really tough one to call.
• Taking pictures a/o video of friends and family there at the table/booth but it appears he's more interested in getting exits and other significant tactical points of the building into the picture. 
• Taking wide-angle shots of pictures and artsy-fartsy memorabilia/junk hung on the walls near doors, saying he wants one just like that for his hootch.  Sure.
• Might come in with a bag or backpack of some sort and leave it under the table or on a chair when he's walking out ~ a probe to see if the staff is alert/trained.

Let's talk about floor plans.  If you have a big open dining room, you're a better target than one with separate booths.

Where a Shari's  bomber would get max death and destruction.   If the bomber is the guy zipping his coat, he only has to take two steps backwards to reach the best spot to detonate.  Shari's is a soft but survivable target because:

• Area behind the waitress in the red shirt is the kitchen, so some of the blast wave will blow through the service window and up/out the kitchen ceiling vents taking stacks and stacks of pancakes with it.
• Ceiling is baffled and suspended, which will absorb some of the blast wave. 
• There's a coffee service island there just right of  center, to the rear of the photo.  It will absorb some blast and shrapnel.
• All booths have high, padded seat backs, which will catch some shrapnel.
• Windows around the circumference of the building will break with blast pressures, sending glass out of the building, not keeping it in.
• There's another smaller dining area to the left of all those pies and sticky buns.  It is all booths down the length of that aisle so the blast effect will be much less severe... but some of the customers will get a ton of flying pie-shrapnel.   Yummy.  Coconut  cream, please.

A disaster waiting to be detonated.

• Heavy wood tables and chairs packed close together makes lots of shrapnel.
• Ditto metal and glass light fixtures.
• Low booth seat backs leave heads and upper bodies exposed, to get hit with that shrapnel.
• Sturdy walls and low ceiling to keep the blast pressures inside the room, maximizing injury and death.

On a crowded Sunday afternoon or Mother's Day, this is the place I'd pick to go boom, if I was a jihadist.  So, why am I mentioning this? To suggest targets for terrorists and do their recon for them?  Nope.  Like I said: this is easy stuff to figure out, even for brains screwed up by centuries of cousin-marrying.  I'm painting this picture so you will know what to look for and avoid.  Lots of restaurants and bars close to military installations have special deals/free meals for active duty and retired military personnel on Veteran's Day, 11 November. Were I the manager of such a store, I'd have at least one of the aforementioned hardcore samurai on the premises all day long.

Y'all still with me?

Once Duck 1 has completed recon, you can expect an attack within a couple weeks of that event, on the same day and at the same time he or she was doing the recon.  But on attack day, he or she won't wait for the hostess to take him to a table.  It will look like this:

• He or she will walk into the restaurant through the main entrance.
• He or she will be wearing a bulky outer garment a/o a backpack, probably.  You might spot one or two wires running from the pack, into the outer garment.
• He or she will may smell strongly of cologne or perfume. Explanation here.
• He or she will perhaps seem to be mumbling something softly. Death prayer?
• He or she will walk past the hostess ~ even if the hostess asks him or her to wait to be seated ~ and head for the middle of the most crowded area. 
• If his or her hands were not in his or her outer garment pockets when he or she came in, he or she will probably put his or her hands in his or her outer garment pockets in order to punch the detonator.
• He or she will shout Allahu Akbar...
• He or she will then self-detonate.
• BOOM!

He or she.  Remember that.  Bomb dynamics and what bombers might look like... here.

Within a week or two of wrapping up recon, a Duck 2 bombing will look like this:

• He will ask for a table near the center of the largest dining area.
• He will have a bag of some sort with him, like a back-pack or brief-case.
• He will take a seat so he can see the front door, in case the deputy comes in for some hush-puppies and sweet tea.
• After he's been given the menu, he will leave his bag on one of the chairs at his table, then get up and head for the restroom. 
• Bag ~ with bomb, of course ~ will be placed on a chair, not on the floor and not on the table top.  Chair-seat height lets the blast wave move out higher so it's not all absorbed by chair and table legs. But, on the chair, it's low enough so it isn't in plain view.  Of course, the bomb bag could be on the floor instead.  Keep your eyes open.
•  If the bomb is set to detonate on a timer, he armed the bomb before he left his table.  You probably have less than five minutes before things get loud and messy.
• Since he doesn't appear to be "forgetting" the bag ~ he's just going to use the restroom and come right back ~ no one will say, Hey, buster, you forgot your bomb.
• If there's an exit door by the restroom he will scoot out and be gone. If not, he will act as though he's looking at the decorations on/in the dining area, and then just slip out the front door when he gets there.
• He will probably go to his vehicle or get picked up by an accomplice.
• Before he leaves the parking lot, he'll remote det, probably with a cell phone.

The deputy.

Sometimes the foyer/lobby/front of the house is the most tightly packed area in the building as people are jammed into that usually small area waiting for tables.  It may happen that that spot is the best place for a bomb to be detonated, so hostesses and managers have to stay alert.  Too.

So, what do you do if the deputy ain't in the house?  I am quite aware that no corporate security weasel will come all the way to where you are to train you in the tactics suggested below.  It ain't gonna happen.  They're more worried about what might happen in court if you do do something than about what might happen to you if you don't.  I am also aware that if you tell your manager about the training here and he or she looks at it, his or her response will be something like this: If you even think of doing any of that, you'll be fired if you don't die. And if it does kill you, the corporate security weasel kill you again.

So, you have to decide what risk to take.  What I write here and at other links at this site are merely options, which you may act upon or not according to what you feel is your moral obligation.  If you do any of the tactics suggested here, it's because you decide to, not because I told you to do anything.  Got it?

That being settled, what you might do if the deputy ain't in the AO is simple.  For Duck 1, Plan A is that you shut off his computer... stop his brain.  Two ways to do that: see here for method one, which you most likely won't be able to pull off because you didn't bring a gun, did you?  On to method two.  If you've got one of those heavy, cast-iron skillets, clang that off his noggin as hard as you can.  You're only going to get one stroke so you have to hit hard and follow through.  If you can hit him in the face, that's a bonus because you might break his nose and drive the nasal cartilage back into his brain, which will help end the threat.  But, of course, you don't have a heavy, cast-iron skillet with you either, do you?

Then, do you have one of these? Then I'll bring mine.

Plan B: if you're close enough to him when the Allahu akbars start, punch or karate chop him in the Adam's Apple.  Hard.  Even if he's a girl.  Even if he's wearing glasses.  The bomb will probably have two switches: one to arm it and one to detonate it.  The bomber will most likely have armed it before he came in the building.  That leaves one hand on the detonation switch, probably a push-button.  When you crush his windpipe with your punch, his natural instinct might be strong enough for him to let go of the detonator and reach for his throat.  When he does, keep hacking at his throat with both of your hands while shouting for help in controlling his hands.  Once he stops struggling, tie up his hands with something because he just might be like those crazed killers in all the horror movies you ever watched and need to be killed again.  And again.

Plan C: If you have a knife, drive it with full force into the top/side of his or her head into the area of the brain which controls movement. It will need to be a knife with a sharp point, though not necessarily not a sharp edge.

In the red circle is the general area where the knife/pointed object needs to be forcefully plunged.  Since most people are right-handed, this strike will probably disable his right hand, making it impossible for him to detonate with that hand.  Once the knife is in his skull, don't take it out but crank it from side to side rapidly and with force in order to destroy that part of his brain.  I know it's gross and icky but it might be the only way to save your life.  And, you need to be really sure this guy's about to detonate a bomb before you try this, if you do.  I can't make this clear enough: if you decide to do this, it should only be done when the the totality of circumstances indicate all of the below almost simultanesously:

• Ability ~ the person has what appears to be a bomb
• Opportunity ~ he's at a time and place where he can hurt you and others 
• Manifest intent ~ he's shouting Allahu akbar, a phrase commonly used by terrorists just before they attack 
• Preclusion ~ you had no other reasonable choice but to defend yourself. 

Excellent essay on that... here.

A word for those who may be armed in this situation and decide to shoot the computer out: your best point of aim is just above the left ear.  I'd try to shoot from a kneeling position, sending the bullet rising from the entry point into the area depicted in the red circle above, and on such an angle that it will most likely not hit bystanders once it passes through the bad-guy's brain.  But that's just me.  It's entirely your call, not mine.

If you're a captive therapist, also known as a bartender, guess what... you get to be on the lookout, too.  During your shift, a guy might come in looking depressed, walking slowly with head down, muttering to himself.  Well, as you know, lots of people come into bars looking quiet, as though the weight of the world is on their shoulders.  But men and women with innocent things on their minds usually just want to be alone, so they'll find a seat away from as many people as possible and then start chugging Irish Car Bombs.  Or something.  Someone who's about to go boom will be quiet, too, but try to get as close as he can to as many people as possible and, lest he be detected and the attack thwarted, detonate ASAP.  So, what you'll perhaps see is this:

• Some guy or girl you saw come in exactly a week ago, at about the same time as it is right... now.  Or some guy or girl you've never seen before.
• Wearing a backpack or carrying something like a gym bag.
• Walking slowly because he may be doped up.
• Walk in as if he's highly motivated to be there and then, and be froggy ~ you know, jumping all over the joint ~ because he's about to blow your infidel shit away.
• Allahu akbar.  Buhm!

Yea, I know: people you've never seen before and people you have seen before walking slowly or purposefully; that's just about everybody, except for the ones who come in dancin'.  Hey, you gotta stay alert, hero.  You're not just a bartender or a cocktailer.  You're one STRAC ~ Strong Tough Ready Around the Clock ~ hombre.  Suggestions for your survival are at Duck 1 and Duck 2 above.

What about the customers, especially the regulars?  Well, lucky you; that's simple as well.

If you have probable cause to believe someone in your restaurant/bar is Duck 1, about to detonate himself, and you can't or decide to not take out his or her Adam's Apple, then all you can do is this:

• Shout: BOMB!!! GET DOWN as loudly as you can as many times as you can while you yourself are actually getting down.
• Getting down means you drop or dive to the floor and try to get your feet pointed toward the about-to-be blast so the shrapnel goes into your shoes and not your head.
• If you can dive behind something affixed to said floor, such as a stone fireplace, that will help but you can't know when the bomber will detonate.  So, it's up to you.

If you believe the Nike bag left on that chair over there by the nervous woman who couldn't wait to run for the ladies room after getting her table and then oddly started meandering toward the front door ~ Duck 2 ~ is about to turn everyone into pink mist, these things might work whether you're a manager, hostess, busser, server, waitress, bartender, cocktailer... customer:

• You might not have time so the best thing to do might be what's listed at the bullet points for Duck 1 above.
• You might have just enough time to loudly tell everyone to get on the floor with their feet toward where the bomb sits ticking or waiting for an incoming det signal.
• You might have a little more time and be able to tell them to get on floor and crawl for the nearest exit.
• Tell them that going out through the kitchen is okay as is going out through doors marked Push to Open.  Alarm Will Sound.
• You might have enough time to pick the bomb bag up ~ it's not going to be motion-detonated ~ and rush it out the back door to a dumpster, into which you might have time to place it.  Or, chuck it in the woods over there, as long as you're pretty sure there's no kindergarten class over there on a field trip.
• Once people are out, if that's what you caused to happen, call the cops on a land-line if possible and have the K9 guys a/o bomb techs come take a look. Hey, you're going to be on the news. I can't wait to hear your answer when you're asked, What did you feel like when...?

Guns are illegal in bars in most states.  If you carry illegally in a bar,  most staff won't call the cops as far as I know.  Not that I know from experience;  I'm just sayin'.  Personally, I'd not risk it.  If it's legal, then go ahead and knock yourself out, carry concealed, not in the open.  If it's illegal and you decide to carry in a bar, be prepared to have the cops drop by and get in your grill if the wrong person sees your weapon.  If a situation arises when you might respond with your weapon, remember you may be charged with violation of the carry laws and you'll have to convince a prosecutor a/o jury that the doctrine of competing harms ~ here ~ is your explanation and defense.

What if someone comes in and starts shooting?  Returning fire from a covered position seems like a good idea to me, but you decide.  If you can't do that, then you need to get the hell out of there immediately.  Know where the closest exit door is and head for it as low as you can crouch as quickly as you can.  Don't sit in your booth or at your table and wonder WTF was that?  Get up and move.  If you're on staff when/where some shooter(s) pop in, get low and tell people to follow you to the nearest exit door.  Understand that the exits might have been locked shut from the outside somehow with either wedges or chains and when you get there you might not be able to get out.  So, on busy nights, maybe someone needs to check those doors every hour or so from the outside to be sure somebody isn't setting you up for failure.  As an alternate, know where the windows are and that you can try getting out that way if doors are blocked.  More importantcies on that issue here.

The entire staff needs to be trained generally in some sort of response to danger close.  You can't just stand there and get killed.  Some thoughts:

• Have duress codes for different danger situations. These words or phrases can be spoken over hand-held radios, or a PA system or just shouted to others who need to know.
• If a robbery or terrorist tries to take you from that building, make him fight you there.  If you go, whether force is used against you or not, you will be killed once he has you wherever the hell he's going to take you... and it will be hell.  It will take days or weeks before your body is found and if you're a woman you will probably have been raped and sodomized repeatedly before you were killed.  Fight him there in the restaurant or bar.  To my friends at the place where everybody knows my name; promise me that. Promise yourself that you will fight there.
• If you're taken hostage, remember these things here.
• Even if corporate won't train you in anything even remotely like these tactical suggestions, you still need to have an awareness that horrible things are done to people by other people every hour of every day. You should decide now what you will or won't do and prepare yourself for that eventuality.

Anyhow, just about last call for alcohol, isn't it?  So, let's say you're a regular at a rustic little pub just over yonder and they've been hustlin' with all the busy-nesses to which they are assigned as it's a hectic night, which has had them working even harder as they keep in mind all that's written above.   May I recommend that you, if you're having multiple Strong Beer Premuim Alcoholic Cold Ones, don't insist on a new glass for each new beer.  Just have them refill the glass you just drank your last one from... what we like to call a dirty reload. 

Cheers, unershrocken.

If I Had My Way

S0, here we are, ten years later.  I remember a couple patriotic songs that came out of the country genre after 9-11-01.  That was good, I suppose. 

Shortly after the attacks, I went to see James Taylor, a well-known liberal, in concert with my daughter.  Everyone was waiting for him to say... something.  But he didn't utter one word about what had occurred a mere 5 days earlier on his side of fly-over country.  Not one key was stroked, string picked or strummed, horn blown, nor drum beat in any musical tribute or call to action.  Well, that was okay, too.   And, honestly, I wish more celebrities would keep their political opinions to themselves. 

Why?

Because of all the people who sing with such joyous fervor: We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way, most of them don't understand a damn thing about the real threat Islam poses to this country and to the entire free world ~ see here.  They think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are just pay-back for knocking over some buildings on the east coast ten years ago.  They don't have any idea what taqiyya is, wouldn't give a hoot in hell about what the Koran actually says about non-Muslims, think honor killings are just harsh Muslim discipline gone wrong and if they've ever heard about sharia law, they probably think it's okay to let Muslims use Islamic law within their US enclaves just to show Americans are ooooooh so very tolerant. They don't get it.  Sorry, boys and girls; singing along with Toby Keith ain't cuttin' it.

Here is evidence that people are not paying attention.

Anyway, with purpose in mind to be revealed shortly, I've posted the clip below for at least two reasons:

• Because I love hockey and I love the Winter Classic, and maybe more people will come to enjoy this great game if I push it a little bit here.
• To give you all a look and listen at how James Taylor does O-oh, say can you see...

 

JT starts at 7:00.  But what about the hoser singing before him?  Ho, Canada? WTF is that? He sings like the Canucks played in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Bruins.

Speakin' o' which...

The Bruins are not my team, my love and loyalty goes to the Detroit Red Wings. But the Bruins began to peak just as The Stanley Cup Playoffs started and by the time the Finals rolled around, they were ready to destroy the team everyone picked to win The Cup.  The series went back and forth, each team winning their games at home.  Game 7 was for all the marbles at Vancouver and the Bruins destroyed the Canucks 4-0.  If you look at the clip you'll see some displays of certain character and temperment that, if I could magically transfer them to every single infidel, I would.  In a heartbeat.

• At 2:56 Tim Thomas makes an incredible stick save against Tampa Bay.  That's just damn good hockey.
• Goalies usually stay in the crease, focusing on finding and stopping incoming pucks. But at 3:41, Thomas does what goalies can do according to the rules but usually do not: he went on the attack, and Captain Henrik Sedin ends up on his ass.  Thomas attacks again at 3:56.
• At 4:14, which is in Game 6 at Boston, you see Brad Marchand punching Daniel Sedin in the face while Sedin just stands there, hoping a ref will blow a whistle on the upstart Michigan rookie.  Sedin is the Alternate Captain of the Canucks ~ his twin brother Henrik is Captain ~ and by unwritten but long-practiced hockey rules, Daniel should have at least taken Marchand to the ice.  But he didn't even do that: he just stood there like a pussy, begging someone to come save him.  What Sedin should have done was to start hammering Marchand in the face thereby telling everyone watching: You beat us tonight on your ice but we're going to kick your Yankee asses when we get to Vancouver for Game 7... eh?  Instead, he did nothing but whine.
• And the next time they met on the ice, Game 7 in Vancouver, Boston beat the hell out of the Canucks.

Hockey players and fans understand that it's okay to drop the gloves and fight over certain things. Of course, there are written and unwritten rules having to do with fighting ~ and one of them really is that you have to drop your gloves.  So, it's okay for infidels to fight about certain things, too.  We don't have to believe the lies of Islam, we can learn the truth so many won't, and how to present it... or at least live it.  The best place to learn the truth about Islam is at Robert Spencer's JihadWatch.  An excellent essay on how we can take a firm but non-violent stand against Muslims can be found here.  And, if you're interested in fighting terrorism in a legal, reasonable way that might even include deadly force, then you can get a real good start here.  As in... here.  At this blog.

 

This is why, when I drink beer, I drink Budweiser. 

Anyway, back on task: let's dissect the love scene between Brad Marchand and Daniel Sedin and see what we can learn from that tender romance.  How about this:

• As already noted, when someone's attacking you, you don't have to stand there and take it. You can fight back.  Learn how and when or suffer the injuries and ignominy that are the natural result of your fear. Daniel and Henrik Sedin are identical twins known for their patience in setting up and taking shots on goal.  They happen to be very good at scoring goals by being patient.  But, though the Canucks won the President's Trophy, their patience didn't do them a damn bit of good against a team that wanted The Cup more than they did and was willing to pay a higher price to get it.  This price included both accepting pain... and dishing it out.
• If and when you do fight, make sure it's for a good reason and that you do so within the rules.  Believe it or not, Marchand was not breaking any rules when he was smacking Sedin. And Sedin would not have broken any rules if he'd hit Marchand a/o taken him to the ice.
• The refs ~ the police/military within our context here ~ don't have to help you.  They may not be around.  They may be busy with other matters.  They may not care.  So, it's up to you to do something.  So-called experts tell us that al-Qaeda can't pull off another attack like they did ten years ago today.  So, we're supposed to relax?  The threat from home-grown terrorists will not dissipate.  Muslims will continue to be more and more pushy unless their not-so-subtle aggression is met with the same degree of vigor that they use to get their way.  There is no reason to think otherwise.  Don't believe me? Look here.  And here.
• Never surrender an inch to the enemy.  General George Patton said he didn't like to pay for the same real estate twice, so retreat was not an option.  We already paid for the freedoms we have in this country.  It began with the original Boston tough guys back in 1775.  Today our warriors continue to give life and limb to keep us free as a nation, as a people, as communities, as families, as couples, as individuals.  It's a fight worth joining. 

Muslims embrace the delusion that they are destined to live in an eternal, world-wide Islamic community, lording it over all non-Muslims. 

My throat was not made for stepping on or for slitting. My fingers were not made to intertwine and beg for mercy... see Psalms 144:1

John Stuart Mill wrote: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made so or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.  The war is not over.  There may never again be a devastation attack like 9-11-01 committed on American soil. But the stealth jihad will continue until its practitioners are defeated one way or another.

As this date approached, I began some research to see what kind of "art" I might attach in this post.  You know; planes plowing into buildings, people jumping to quick demise rather than burn slowly to death, falling towers, crowds running in horror, etc.  In looking at various memorial videos, they all bore a caveat similar to this: Warning: graphic content. Images may be disturbing.  You know what? Forget that.  Man up, America.  Every freedom-lovin' soul should watch those horrific videos at least once a month until the barbarians who are now through our gates are once again outside the walls.  Only by constantly remembering the savagery that is Islam can we be willing and able to stand against it.  And if you won't stand against it then ~ F-bomb deleted for the sake of my sister ~ you can eat my shorts; you're part of the problem.

None of this is post written in memory of anybody. The dead are dead.  Our deaths are on God's calendar, not ours... it was their time.  We must not be concerned about the magnitude of pain these deaths stirred in us.  Rather, these deaths should signify to us the magnitude of evil that is Islam.  The hallowed dead cry out to us in warning every day.  We must not, we cannot permit evil to triumph.

In closing, I was watching a Christmas concert in the winter of 2001 and heard the song you'll hear below.  As much of a hard-ass as I am, the lyric touches me more deeply than any ass-kicking song.  While we fight to keep liberty alive, let's not become so hardened that we can't shed a tear now and then.

If I had my way things would be different

No one would believe that a lie was true

Choices would be clear

Wisdom would be heeded

Warnings never needed

This is what I'd pray,

If I had my way...

 

Take a look and a listen.  Then get back to the battle, unerschrocken.  The war is just begun.

South American Beslan

This is the story of what appears to be another rookie jihadist who, while out in the piney woods of the great Northwest, exited his truck with a gun in his hand and got his ticket to Paradise punched by one of Tacoma's Finest.  Let's hear it for TPD!  Whether Brooks Papineau got deep-sixed because he was just a dumb, depressed white guy or because he'd converted to Islam and saw his chance for jihad glory will never be known unless we find other indicators than listed at the link above that he'd tumbled into the intellectual and spiritual pitfall that is Islam, evidence for which can be found here and here.  Go ahead and check those links, you need to know that stuff, and then get your butts back here, pronto.

 
Brooks Papineau. In researching why Brooks might have insisted that his 15 minutes of fame turn out the way it did, I found here another dead guy named Papineau.  Evidently the Gig Harbor shooter maaaaaay have had some Arab fire in his blood, eh?  Okay, probably not but the story of at least one bearded wannabe terrorist sheihk named Papineau can be found, if only for our amusement... here.

Papineau, the Bearded Terror

Okay, back on task. 

We have no evidence whatsoever that either Papineau, the Bearded Terror  was ever involved in jihad ~  only weird, humiliating wrestling stunts... as if that's not bad enough.  But there is prima facie evidence that Brooks Papineau had gone over to the dark side.  I know what you're thinking: he was a USPS worker so he just went "postal".  Not so fast, buttercup.  Technically, I think you have to be inside a post office building when you go postal for it to be really "going postal".

Now, I want to bring one Wellington Menezes de Oliveira into the narrative. Who's he?  He's the guy who shot up the Tasso da Silveira municipal school outside Rio de Janeiro a few months back and killed a dozen or so kids.  You can find coverage of some of the funerals here.  Let's explore a bit of evidence which suggests that Wellington, too, had crossed over to the dark side.  First, it's interesting that he shot more girls than boys and that he shot the girls in the head and the boys in the legs.  Speculating some but maybe Wellington had a growing hatred of girls because, as Muslim men constantly demonstrate, women are to blame when Muslim men lose sexual control in any way, from thought to deed.  According to Islam, the lustful thoughts of a man are the fault of the Muslimah whose forearm he saw with no sleeve upon it.  A prominent imam from Australia avers that women not dressed according to Muslim law and custom are like uncovered meat attracting dogs and cats... they should expect to be attacked, details here.  As well, the Koran suggests that women are responsible for rape, as you can read here.  So, maybe Wellington went to Tasso da Silveira school that morning to inflict his unrighteous rage on as many slutty little infidel girls as he could.  Why, oh why?  Because they'd tempted him, of course.  It was their fault, they had to die.

On the other bloody, twitching hand ~ and leaving religion out of the calculus ~ it's not unheard of for a boy or young man who experiences rejection from a girl to hate the one who rejects him and to project that hate to all girls. So, maybe Wellington wasn't such a holy warrior after all and really just wanted a piece of some of the girls at the school but they weren't giving it up to some goofy knuckle-head Muslim, so he killed 'em for that reason.  I don't know, so let's look at some more evidence.

  
Wellington with some serious Salafist beard action.  Among other red flags, growing this type of beard can be an indicator that a man has become very serious about Islam, as explained here.  He's speaking Portugese and I can't understand what he's saying so if anyone can offer a translation, it would be appreciated.  Also, one of Wellington's sisters told the cops that he had been attending a mosque in Rio.  In an interview at a local radio station, Roselane de Oliveira, a foster sister of Wellington, said that he had no friends, and... He was so focused on things related to Islam and had let his beard grow long. He was weird, he was on the Internet all day reading related issues and it was very strange, very secretive.  Evidently Wellington described the situation in a letter, which said in part: I made mistakes with my family but I changed with the Koran and they do not trust me.  Wellington also made reference to some sort of group, saying he divided his time between prayers and thoughts about terrorism. He wrote: I'm outside the group but I pray to God every day with my noon prayer, that is the recognition of God, and the other 5 are the dedication to God and four hours every day I spend reading the Koran. Not the book because it stayed with the group but parts that I've copied for myself. And the rest of the time I spend meditating about what I read and sometimes meditating about September 11th. And, then, there's this. I couldn't find any more sourcing than what's at the link but it adds to the evidence that Wellington was a murderous Muslim dirtbag.

So, given the preponderance of the available evidence, I'm going to take an educated guess and say that something in the so-called Religion of Peace compelled Wellington to enter that school and start capping kids.  And, leaping with all my might to the top of the page to Papineau ~ Brooks, not the wrestler ~ I'm going to say it was a 50~50 shot that he was a sudden jihadist.  I think maybe he was tired of his earthly troubles and wanted to end them by killing an infidel cop ~ an oft preached strategy in terrorist training camps, their print and internet media, and probably a thousand or so mosques around the world, including here in the US, which guarantees Brooks a spot in Muslim paradise  ~ and having the cop kill him so he could begin to enjoy those heavenly pleasures right away.  He forces a confrontation where he gets the cop to shoot him and then hopes he can take her out before he dies.  That's my theory.

But whether or not Brooks or Wellington got their 15 minutes because the evil that is Islam had struck deep enough into their souls, or for any other reason one can conjure up, both of them did or attempted to do something suggested a/o commanded in terrorist lore and literature: kill cops and kids.

Why am I drawing out the Islamic bent in these two?  Do I hate Muslims?  No, I hate Islam for fully rational reasons and I don't trust anyone who is uneducated and naive enough to think Islam is okay, or just as good as any other belief system or religion or culture.  Am I planning a war against Muslims or telling you to launch an attack of any kind against anyone, Muslim or not?  No, not at all.  Am I telling you to kill anyone?  Nope. But I am giving you some options you can choose to use if you'd like in order to protect yourself against attacks that will most definitely keep coming from... Muslims.  If you run into Babtist bad-guys, these tactics work on them as well.

But ain't I being mean to all those gentle, kind, moderate Muslims? There is no such animal.  What most knuckleheads will do is put terrorists into the group called radical and muslims who don't misbehave like that are moderates.  But according to their own beliefs, one who follows the Koran to the letter, as it's written, is just a Muslim, not radical or moderate.  It's like being a little dead or a little pregnant.  Can't happen. You're either dead or alive, pregnant or not.  You either practice all the time everything that's in the Koran, hadith and sunna and that makes you a Muslim or you practice it a little or just sometimes and that makes you an apostate.. or at least a slacker.  So, I'm suggesting the not-too-faint nexus between Islam and our two subjects above because you need to stay aware of the sad fact that you can't trust Muslims, even FNG Muslims, and included in that huge list of things you can't trust them with is your life.

Okay, where were we?  Oh, yea: school security officers and teachers don't train for what Wellington did.  They just don't.  They might run through it at a school staff meeting as a Let's do this but not practice it kinda thing but they won't ever train anything effective to the staff and certainly never to the kids because to do so they have to bring up the why, the reason they're being trained to run like hell: so they don't get raped and murdered by a gang of savages while the cops who do manage to show up try to negotiate the situation to a peaceful outcome.  Speaking of security guards who don't or won't do anything, take a look at this. On the other hand, let's give this security guard a crisp salute.

Too often the Let's do this is just a lockdown.  So there's a bunch of savages coming in the front door of the school and your kid's teacher spots them and clearly sees they have weapons and less than friendly intent and depicted below is what that teacher will have the kids do in response to the approaching mayhem...

You happy with that, Mom and Dad?

  
Run. Tell your kids to run.  Kids start running from Room 4, where Wellington is shooting, at 1:05.  About 1:13 we see kids from Room 5 across the hall start to bail.  Wellington appears in the hallway at 1:28.  You're watching time-lapse video, but it looks like it only took the kids in Room 5 about 8 seconds to figure out that running was the best option and they were all out of the classroom, down the hall and safe 15 seconds later.

You should go to the school with your kids when the school is closed and run your own recon.  From the outside of the building find the classroom your kid spends most of his or her time in.  If there is no exit door in the exterior wall, ask him if he remembers where the closest exit door is to the main inner classroom entry door.  Have him show you that outer exit door, probably at the end of some corridor, from the outside of the building.  If he can't do that for some reason, then you're going to have to go inside during school hours and figure it out for yourself and then show him or her.  That's easy enough to do.  Show up for beginning of year registration even if your kid is registered at that school for the coming year and take advantage of any open house type stuff going on. 

If all the classrooms have exterior exit doors, then just explain that exit can be made through any of them whenever there's reason to run.  Show your kids how to open windows, and how to throw chairs through them in order to escape: break with chair legs then run the legs around the frame to break out the big shards still in the frame, they're going to get cut a little but they'll be okay.  Tell them that the Open Only In Case of Emergency ~ Alarm Will Sound doors are okay to go out when they're scared.  Nobody's going to jail for running out one of those doors to safety.  If your kids are old enough, tell them it's okay to disobey school staffers and run if they feel it's better than staying and hiding under a freakin' table.

A while back I got a comment from a reader whose call-sign is Cat.  She had two questions. First: regarding Beslan. What if, like Columbine, staying down simply makes the kid a sitting target? Is there anything I can teach the kid to at least give him a chance?

I address that above and wrote here earlier about how lock-downs should not be Plan A in any given attack situation, it depends on where the attack is coming from, the number of attackers, the availability of near-by safe haven if one chooses to high-tail it out of the AO.  Lockdowns are okay when the threat is a big dumb bear wandering through the playground or tearing the tops off cars in the parking lot looking for Cheetos or Spam. Lockdowns are not okay when there are shooters approaching or inside a school.  

Second: If I have to view every can-collector, every dog-stroller weirdo, piously bag-headed female, and the like as potential threats, I won't be able to enjoy anything outside my house. Hypervigilance is exhausting.

There is the possible and the probable and you can only prepare for the probable without over-doing it.  Lots of things are possible, but not everything is probable.  My advice is to know your enemy so you know what you're looking at/paying attention for, know what to do and not do while observing danger ~ have a plan ~ and then take whatever action you've decided upon and for which you are prepared.

Let me throw this in quickly and then try to wrap up: Bomb threats can be used by terrorists to determine the response time and capability of police and other emergency services so you need to keep your eyes and ears open for this kind of story in the news, a/o from your own kids.  Last school year in the US, there were many bomb threats called in to schools.  Here are just some of the stories: Edmonds, Washintgon here, Spokane bomber here, North Quincy, Massachusetts here, Grants Pass, Oregon here, Alpena, Michigan here... and why was there a lockdown? Then Wakefield, Virginia here, Harrisburg, Virginia here, and Bay City, Texas here.  And, here is a story about how wannabe crooks called in a bomb threat at a school to divert cops from a bank robbery they were fixin' to try.  So, if those two knuckleheads thought of a bomb threat as a diversion to a bank heist, why wouldn't a terrorist plot include a fake bank robbery in order to more easily attack and take-over a school?  There is no reason.

With little Wellington's own photo gallery, let me close with a few thoughts on shot placement:

You're gonna miss.  And, hey, we'll be shootin' back.  COM: Center Of Mass.  Drop to one knee and put at least three rounds in the COM.

 

Proper head-shot alignment: anywhere along the red lines will do the job. 

 
Nobody move or the dipshit jihadi get's it.  If this guy's in a room full of kids and he puts his gun up to his head like this, I'm not calling it a suicide attempt on his part, I'm calling it a chance for me to take him out of the equation: he's getting a full mag of 9mm COM.  I don't know if he's going to suddenly point the gun back at the kids and start pulling the trigger.  He's still a threat, he's going down.  Period.  You're free to do whatsoever you'd like. 
 
Alternative target area. It's going to hurt really bad when you hit him here, plus a broken pelvis a/o femurs will mean he pretty much ain't going anywhere... he's a sitting duck.

If you do end up shooting someone, you might want to give these guys a look.

Back to the future

Well, who knew? I mean other than me who knew that if we backed the blame for 9-11-01 down far enough it would come to the security force at the individual airport boarding gates and not to crossed and confusing comms between competing federal agencies.

I've been saying it since 12 Sept '01 and wrote it here on 24 June '08, and now it finally comes to light here that the boys and girls at Massachusetts State Police, F Troop ~ you can't make this up ~ did not do their jobs, did not use common sense, did not accomplish their mission, did not live up to their oaths.  They purposefully decided that exceptionally suspicious actions by men, who turned out to be the ones who flew planes into the WTC, would not be investigated nor any action taken to identify them.  F Troop could have stopped the 9-11 attackers out of Logan and perhaps could have prevented all the attacks... if they'd simply done their jobs.

Was it all of them?  Certainly not, but all it took was one guy.  And that guy just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I hear all the time when things go wrong and there's a meeting of some sort to try to right that wrong, it's invariably said:  We're not here to point fingers or fix blame, we just need to figure out what went wrong and fix it.  Well, when part of what went wrong was a stupid decision, the person who made that decision needs to pay a price for it, especially if other people were hurt because of his or her incompetence.

To our story...

In Sep '93, Joseph Lawless was appointed Massport Director of Security though he had no prior airport security experience.  Joe's job before he was appointed lord and master of Logan security? Driver for the governor of Massachusetts.  Okay, okay; he did more than just that, to be sure.  Here's a look at some of his CV:  he's got an MA in... wait for it: Education.   Then he should have been a gym teacher somewhere.  He arrested killers at gunpoint.  Me, too; and that's usually the best way to arrest them.  He tracked down a teenager who murdered a woman and her 2 children.  I've tracked down murderers as well, though they were all adults.  He said he "participated" in over 100 homicide investigations.  Oh.  When I was a CID Special Agent doing homicide investigations, I'd always take pictures of the location, starting with the establishing photos of course, careful to include in some of them the fine young Military Police officers who were there helping to keep our crime scene secure.  I'd have the photo lab print out some 8" x 10" glossies and then I'd give them to the MP depicted in the picture the next time I saw him or her.  Why?  So they'd feel important, which they were; so they'd feel like they had participated.  Sorry, Joe; saying you participated in 100 homicide investigations doesn't mean shit, not as far as running airport security is concerned anyway.  He raced into a burning building to save residents.  Oops, me too.  He "devised" an Executive Protection program.  No, what he did was take policies and procedures being used in other successful EP programs and put them to use in his own program.  That's not devising. That's compiling... some might call it plagarism.  He cites some "radical anti-abortionist" take-down but evidently all that happened was he got in the way of a pro-lifer who got too close to the governor.  Gee, that's like some Batman kinda shit, eh?  He claims "extensive training " in leadership and investigative techniques from the FBI and was called a "very good investigator".  Okay, then why was there no investigation into the terrorists doing recon at his airport?

In testimony about 9-11-01 before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States on 5 November '03 ~ depicted here ~ we see, and not surprisingly, that his testimony is all about him and his accomplishments ~ nothing like a mea culpa in the entire statement.  He begins with the awe-inspiring "... under my leadership..." and continues "... Shortly after taking this post, I determined that the deterrence, detection and elimination of terrorist threats would be the fundamental focus of my mission at Massport."  Really?  Then why was your airport so fucked up?  Either you didn't know what you were doing or lacked the leadership ability to get it done or both. There are no other options.  See page 15 for how the CTI report of November 2001 blasts him by finding a major challenge facing Massport and [Logan] will be the understanding of why no action has apparently occurred on the many previous safety and security recommendations submitted from multiple sources, including its own department of public safety"... which is to say Lawless wasn't even following his own advice.

In my view, he has no honor.

Thank God we've got Captain America!

On pages 13 and 14 at the link above, Joe tells us he's becoming "increasingly concerned about the threat of global terrorism and the increased risk of a terrorist attack at Logan Airport" as 9-11-01 gets closer but all he's doing is sending reports up the chain complaining about this or that "concern".  Hey, Joe;  as we'll discover below, your boss didn't know shit from shinola.  It was up to you to do something.

What did this guy have to say after it was discovered that 9-11 terrorists easily boarded their flights at his airport and on his watch? With a straight face, he said: ''We have a very high security standard here. We are as secure, if not more secure, than any other airport in the US.''  The fact is that at that point in time, Logan was known as the least secure major airport in the US.  As the FAA Special Agent in the article linked to above says, rampant cronyism just doesn't get the job done.  Joe was stripped of his aviation security duties in Oct '01 but it looks here like he suffered little career damage as a result of his errors.  Evidently the "Port of Boston's top cop" got a friendly bump as he now chairs the American Association of Port Authorities Security Advisory Committee.  Yeah.  Whatever.  Note that while the announcement tells us Joe's still in charge of the safety and security of bridges and maritime properties; there is no listing for any responsibility for the security of anything that flies, not even spit-wads.  Too, it mentions his work at Logan but there's oddly no mention of 9-11-01 and how his incompetence played into the death of so many innocents. Ah, the little details.

Oh, and he also operated as liaison between State Police field operations and State Police detectives.   So, he was a coffee gofer.  Wow.

Next thing you know, he'll tell us his Red Cross BLS cert is up to date.

Rather than take his shame like a man, he whines about how he was blamed for things which were out of his control.  Leaders don't whine.  They get the job done or find someone who can or they get the hell out of the way.  Lawless defends his qualifications here and then snivels "...this need to blame people is not happening in Newark... what does that say about Boston?"  No, Joe. What does that say about you?  If you're the leader, then you're the straw that stirs the drink, not the one who most frequently says "Great question" at staff meetings.  If you're in multi-jurisdictional stuff, then you've done your homework and laid the groundwork so that every swingin' you-know-what knows you are in charge whether the face you're breathing in is the Basket Airways security specialist at Gate C39 or the TSA dork in charge of stacking shoe trays.  For all your silly college degrees and seminars you went to at tax-payer expense, for all the cronyism that got you where you are, the truth is that if they don't know you're in charge by what you do and how you carry yourself, then you're not in charge.

The plain fact of the matter is this: 13 years as a "statie", and with all the improvements he said he suggested or made at Logan, when you boil it down, he failed to get answers to ~ let alone ask ~ the most basic police question: Who are those guys and what are they doing here?  If he had his little ducks in a row then he should have ordered or asked or hinted, Hey, would someone please go over there and find out who those guys are and what they're doing?  But he did nothing.  And we can see here the cost of his negligence and incompetence.

Former Massport Director Virginia Buckingham tells her rather poignant tale here.  And while it's oh so sad that she ended up resigning over Logan's failures, someone had to fall on his or her sword.  With multiple sightings of suspicious persons taking video of boarding gates in the days before the attacks, why was nothing done?  It happened on her watch, she was in charge of the entire airport, with Lawless running security.  Before that, she served Governor Weld beginning in '91, first as spokesperson and later as Chief of Staff. She was retained as CS by Governor Celucci in '97. In '99 she had a child in Apr '99 and was appointed to head MassPort in September '99.  So, how does paper-pushing qualify her or anyone else to command men a/o women with guns.  The highest ethic, the most important thing, the prime directive, the moral imperative for anyone whose decisions touch human life is to protect human life first.  All other considerations come second.  Here she says she wanted to have security professionals on staff after 9-11, that she had contracted with an Israeli aviation security consultant for some help after the attacks.   She authorized an audit by CTI to conduct a security survey.  Maybe she should have had someone other than Joe Lawless as her security chief because all the extra people and stuff she wanted to rent is supposed to be what real security chiefs know and do.  She wanted to be a lumber-jack but either didn't or couldn't carry her end of the log.  And people died because of it.  Buckingham resigned but only after negotiating a large severance package for herself. She should have just fallen on her sword.  Since her resignation she went to work as a deputy editorial page editor for the Boston Herald in January '03.  Read here a couple of editorials about the need for things to be done right at Logan.

Okay, I'm digging the hot MP-5.

Looks here like F Troop thinks they have their act together finally but what did they have in place on 9-11-01 that's so different on 1 April 2002, when the page linked to went up?  Maybe there was no page at all before that, I don't know.  Oh, wait, I think I get it: it's just another April Fool's prank designed to hoodwink people into thinking every thing's okey-dokey.  And what has Massachusetts done about protecting the people in the passing years?  Have they hired warriors to take over and kick ass and make things right?  Nope.  Why, it was just on 14 Jan '10 that the fine, enlightened progressive governor appointed Marian McGovern to run MSP.  Governor Patrick says here that he's sure she's "the best person to lead the State Police." Bull. Shit.  Massachusetts has been known for ever as a cradle of cronyism, second only to Chicago in corruption and sleaze in government.  McGovern's credentials go straight in the toilet here as we read about her open "staunch" support of uber-liberal Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.  Leaders in law enforcement should keep their political opinions to themselves inasmuch as they may be called upon to serve under leaders with whom they disagree politically.  That's the way it is in the US military, that's how it should be in law enforcement.

 

Historic occasion. See? It wasn't about how good she is at her job although that's the cover she's flying under, it's about making history.  Duval Patrick, the first black governor of Massachusets wanted to be the one to appoint the first female MSP Superintendent, who just happens to have worked with all her heart and soul for the election of Hillary Clinton as President.  That's it.  That's how things get done in liberal government bureaucracies: nothing's done on merit, it's all who you know, the color of your skin, whether you sit or stand when you take a leak.  And who the hell picked Beethoven's 9th ~ Ode to Joy as the theme music for the bagpipe band.  Geeeez. 

 

Does she inspire confidence or what?  She looks like she should be selling hand-made jewelry at some freakin' medieval fair.  In police work, the first step in the force continuum is physical presence and the most important part of that is if you look like you can handle yourself.  Sorry, but having read Marian's CV, and seen her in these videos, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say she doesn't belong in leadership just because she put in her time in various departments in MSP.  Nor does anybody, man or woman, deserve leadership based on time in service or college degrees.

Why am I picking on these guys?  Because you need to know you can't trust most of the people you believe are going to save your butt from being bombed.  When DSH was formed, many who became senior managers just moved over from other federal agencies, not necessarily because they were experts or trained in any way in the new disciplines but just because the new agency needed to fill chairs.  Mid-level managers moved from other federal agencies because they were bored a/o wanted to add some lines to their CV, many are the manifestation of the Peter Principle.  Sure, some wanted to be part of the cool new counterterrorism group for good honorable reasons but too much of it wasn't done right and isn't being done right yet. See here and here.  And, back to Logan, read here about a janitor finding a taser on one of the planes there.

Oh, guess what else I found in my research for this post.  Joe Lawless has help with his American Association of Port Authorities work.  His Vice Chairman on the Security committee, here, is Arif Ghouse who runs security at the Port of Seattle.  Doesn't that make all you Starbuckers warm and fuzzy to know that the man who makes policy to keep terrorists away is probably a pious Muslim.  I'll bet you he didn't get his job because he's the most qualified person out there but because he's Muslim and Seattle wants everyone to know they're oh so enlightened and tolerant.  So not only does Seattle and the rest of us have to worry whether Arif is truly competent at his job but also that he may have already instituted policies and procedures which terrorists can easily exploit. 

Nah. It'll never happen that way.

We can't afford to keep doing things the way we've done them before.  By doing so, we will certainly reap the same bitter fruit in the future.  Those charged with ensuring our well-being need to tell us the truth so we can be prepared, not hide information from us that we may need in order to protect ourselves.  They need to hire the absolute best people available to do the protecting, the training, the readiness efforts; not blow sunshine up our skirts by telling us that under-qualified bozos are worthy of our trust.

There have been lots of movies over the last several years with comic book heroes saving the day.  It ain't gonna happen that way.  And, as I've tried to point out above, it's not gonna be "leaders" like Lawless, Buckingham, and McGovern... so it's you who needs to be ready to save the day.  And if you're not settled into that reality, then you don't know your enemy and you need to get up to speed ASAP.

How can you save the day?  How 'bout if you see someone behaving suspiciously, such as something as "innocent" as recording at airport boarding gates, then you start recording them with your cell phone, or at least get close and take some still pics.  If they're in vehicles, get shots of those vehicles to include license plates.  As soon as you can, take your pics to airport security and insist that a report be taken and the photos be made part of the report.  If security refuses, get the name(s) of those who refused and then start climbing the ladder at that airport until somebody listens to you.  Go to the press, if necessary.  Something else to consider if airport security won't take you seriously, go to the local cops or the local office of the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force, which your area may or may not have.   Perhaps the best thing you can do is call 911 and let the operator know what you've seen.  It's on tape then.  They can send out a patrol officer right away if the totality of circumstances leads them to that, or they might transfer you to their version of the JTTF or you can call them yourself.  But whatever the case, do something.  And, if in trying to get security a/o cops to listen to your suspicions and look at your video or pics, don't give them the only one you've got.  Save it somehow, send it to yourself in email or some other trick you can come up with and don't ever give your evidence to a cop or security officer who you believe is Muslim.  Be sensitive about how you do it, but Muslims are loyal to other Muslims first. That's a fact, jack.  You can't trust 'em.  So don't.

I've tried to write some training/readiness stuff at this blog over the years and you're invited to peruse as much as you want.  It's all free, it's all  right, it's all true and it's all totally up to you whether you choose to use any of it or not. 

So, get to it now.  Go on, be that guy.

Update: 23 Sep 11 ~ I told you so. It was security at the boarding gates that let the killers onto those planes as you can and should read riiiiiiiight here.