Saturday 29 April 2023

U.S. Politics: Trans Days of Violence

 

Trans Days of Violence


Gender ideology + violence = terrorism.


                       Transgender mass murderer Audrey Elizabeth Hale

Hale left a manifesto reportedly detailing her motivation, the contents of which the FBI is still protecting. Joseph Giacalone, former police officer and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, believes authorities are not releasing the manifesto because there may be “something in there that is truly damaging for the transgender community.” Does the manifesto explode the narrative that the Left wants so desperately to maintain: that trans people are the victims of genocidal bigotry and not a threat to anyone? The narrative that the real domestic terror threat in America is Trump supporters and Tucker Carlson viewers?

The shooting came just ahead of something alarmingly called a “Trans Day of Vengeance” set for April 1st (but ultimately cancelled) and took place in a climate of media-driven, hysterical fear-mongering about what is outrageously being labeled a right-wing “genocide” of the so-called trans community. (Fact check: trans people are not experiencing anything that could even remotely be considered genocide.) It is a lie that our doddering President Joe Biden himself has promoted.

This has led many to believe that violence committed by or threatened by trans individuals is justifiable “vengeance” and self-defense. Indeed, the most disgusting and disturbing aspect of the Nashville massacre, apart from the cold-hearted evil at the heart of it, has been the response from many in the news media and on social media rationalizing Hale’s actions. Meanwhile Christians and the Right are blamed for what these apologists falsely label “trans hate” and for political policies that purportedly push troubled trans people to the point of violent retaliation.

Something called the Trans Resistance Network in Massachusetts, for example, released a statement on the Covenant school shooting stating that life for “transgender people is very difficult” due to “anti-trans legislation” and “right wing personalities.” The group also painted a sympathetic picture of shooter Hale as a “complex tragedy” who felt she “had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.”

No other way to be seen than to kill nine-year-olds? There is no one more visible in America today than a trans activist. They are celebrated in the culture, lauded as trailblazing heroes, and given every platform from the daytime gabfest The View to the White House itself. It is a grotesque lie and sick rationalization to claim that Audrey Hale had no other way to be “seen” than to shoot innocents dead – and furthermore, to claim that the trans community is marginalized and endangered.

In a recent episode of All Things Considered on the leftwing propaganda outlet National Public Radio, NPR correspondents Adrian Florido and Melissa Block fretted that the transgender community “fears a further escalation of hate” after it was revealed that the Nashville school shooter was trans, and their fear “has been amplified” due to “a surge of anti-trans rhetoric.” (Has NPR ever done a story on the anti-white, anti-Christian rhetoric pumped into our culture daily? Just curious.)

NBC ran a story with the headline, “Fear pervades Tennessee’s trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter’s gender identity: ‘We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it’s even worse.’” As Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway put it on Twitter, “Gee, you’d think heavily armed Christian children were hunting down trans activists instead of the other way around.”

Courageous opponents of trans ideology from both sides of the political spectrum – e.g., the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling – have been smeared as bigots and threatened with death for stating the simple biological truth about the two sexes that has been known and accepted for many thousands of years of human existence – facts that the radical Left want to erase as part of their deconstruction of the norms and values and universal truths of Western civilization. Because that’s what gender ideology and the other facets of Cultural Marxism like Critical Race Theory are: a concerted assault on our civilization. And the Left is becoming increasingly bold about waging violence to achieve this vision.

The day after the shooting, the press secretary for the Governor of Arizona tweeted an image from a movie in which a character is wielding a pair of handguns, along with the message, “us when we see transphobes.” There’s no other way to read that tweet than as support for the actions of child-killer Hale, and as a threat that others who perceive themselves to be trans are prepared to shoot anyone they deem bigots.

A trans male who goes by the name Tara Jay recently issued a call to his 2400 TikTok followers to buy guns and told them he was prepared to die for the cause of trans “safety” and “freedom”:

If you back an animal into a corner, they become a dangerous animal. So if you want to die on this hill of yours, of righteousness and moral majority, then you go right ahead. I dare you to try and stop me from going into a women’s bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. I dare you to try and stop a transgender woman in my presence from using the bathroom. It will be the last mistake you ever make. This is a call to action and call to arms to everybody within the United States that are scared, worried, have children that are transgender, lesbian, bi, or gay…. This is a call to action. You need to arm up. Plain and simple, go out and buy a gun. Learn how to use it, efficiently. Through and through. Because the time to act is now. You need to protect yourself and you need to protect your fellow transgender…. There are lots of people like me who are not afraid to die. I love my girlfriends to death, but I would rather die for them to secure their safety, freedom, and future than to live and not have anything done.

Yet another example: in a now-deleted post on Twitter, transgender activist Kayla Denker posed with an AR-15 and a handgun along with the words “Kill christcucks. Behead christcucks” and “crucify filthy christcucks” as well as “slam dunk a christcuck baby into a trashcan.” The post was hashtagged “trans day of vengeance.”

Has the FBI investigated this lunatic, or are they too busy investigating parents who complained at school board meetings about their children being exposed to sexually explicit books? Do I really need to point out that if a MAGA hat-wearing person posted pictures on social media in which he wielded a “weapon of war” and called for beheading the LGBT community, the FBI would have raided his house faster than you can say “Jan 6th insurrection”?

More examples of violent rhetoric from gender ideologues: the e-commerce site Etsy allows a significant number of shops to sell trans- and nonbinary-themed items threatening violence.

“Armed queers bash back,” reads a “Pride” flag with a picture of an AK-47.

“Respect my pronouns or yours will be was/were,” reads a sweatshirt.

One t-shirt pictures three daggers along with the words “Protect Trans Kids.”

“Respect gender pronouns or I will identify as a problem,” reads one sticker. Another one reads, “Respect my pronouns or die by my sword.”

“We’re here. We’re queer. I have a brick,” reads another shirt.

These are not vows of self-defense against a legitimate violent threat, but violent threats themselves against someone who might merely “misgender” a trans person. These are public warnings that if you fail to participate in or celebrate this gender delusion, or simply get someone’s “personal pronouns” wrong, some trans people are willing to kill you.

These are not the expressions of a community “living in fear,” but of thugs looking for an excuse to commit murder and mayhem – and confident that the media will circle the wagons around them, and the police will suppress information about their motivation, if they do.

But the trans violence goes beyond just rhetoric. As Tucker Carlson noted in a recent Fox News commentary, a trans girl tried to assassinate Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home last year. A self-described nonbinary shooter later murdered five people and wounded 18 at a Colorado nightclub. In 2019, a trans teenager shot nine people in a Denver high school, killing one. In 2018, a mentally ill transgender person shot up a Rite-Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland, killing four. Then came the Nashville school shooting, and police recently arrested a trans man in Colorado named William Whitworth, who goes by the name Lily. He had a kill list and a manifesto and was planning to attack three schools and churches.

Tucker ended his commentary declaring the trans community to be the most dangerous extremist group in America. I would include in that community its huge support groups in the media, in the Biden administration, in the medical field, and of course among the masked shock troops of Antifa, who can always be counted on to dole out some Clockwork Orange-style “ultra-violence” on anyone who dares speak out against the increasingly dangerous trans movement.

I would also argue that this extremism qualifies as domestic terrorism. Targeting innocent citizens for intimidation, violence, and death for political ends is the very definition of terrorism. By that basic standard, all of the movements in recent years which have been championed by the Democrat Party and protected by the complicit news media – from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Antifa, and now to a growing number of unhinged transgender activists – wage terrorism. Their overlapping political ends involve the complete destruction of the economic, societal, and moral status quo in the West. They are literally a civilizational threat.

As the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh tweeted recently, “Always remember what happened at the Covenant School. Remember what happened to those innocent victims, to those children. We are facing a truly demonic evil. Never forget that.”

It is a truly demonic evil, and it’s time to call it like it is: terrorism.

Security video: Nashville shooter Audrey Hale caught on camera shooting doors at The Covenant School

Pud says : without exception all LGBTQ people are mentally ill & the most severely ill among them are the Transgenders  who need permanent medication and institutionalising in a secure asylum 



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Sled Dog News: Balto the Wonder Dog has Genome Sequenced

New study reveals genes that powered the famous Balto the sled dog

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A statue of Balto the sled dog in New York CityIMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
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A statue in New York City's Central Park honours Balto the sled dog

A new study of the taxidermied remains of a celebrity Siberian Husky has revealed the special DNA that helped the sled dog gain international fame.

In 1925, Balto led a team of sled dogs in a blizzard to deliver lifesaving medication to an Alaska town.

His heroic efforts have been recognised in a statue of the dog sitting in New York City's Central Park.

But unlike what the 1995 cartoon film Balto suggests, it's not wolf ancestry that made him so tough.

Comparing Balto's DNA to other dogs and mammals, researchers found the Siberian Husky's more diverse genes helped him survive the harsh journey better than his descendants would have.

"Balto belonged to a population of small, fast, and fit sled dogs imported from Siberia," researchers wrote in a study published in the journal Science on Thursday.

They found that Balto and "his working sled dog contemporaries were more genetically diverse than modern breeds and may have carried variants that helped them survive the harsh conditions of 1920s Alaska".

The authors of the study took a DNA sample - supplied by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which has Balto's taxidermied remains - from the dog's underbelly to reconstruct his genes. They also relied on a genetic dataset of 240 mammals and 682 dogs and wolves of the 21st Century.

The investigation into his genes revealed "no discernible wolf ancestry", according to the study authors.

The heroic dog did have other traits that distinguish him from modern-day Siberian Huskies and other sled dogs of his time, including a smaller stature and a better ability to digest starches, according to the study.

Researchers also believe he came from a less inbred population of huskies, which made him genetically healthier and better suited to the extreme environment of 1920s Alaska.

Balto was born in 1919 and imported from Siberia. His owner was Norweigan-American breeder Leonhard Seppala.

In January 1925, an outbreak of a deadly bacterial infection, diphtheria, threatened the Alaskan town of Nome. But the only available medication was in Anchorage, and the only aircraft to take it there would not start because of the freezing temperatures.

That's where Balto and his team of sled dogs came in, pulling around 20 mushers - sled drivers - carrying the medication for 674 miles (1084 km) as temperatures fell to -23 F (-31 C).

News of the historic journey spread quickly, and Balto would later be honoured as a character in comic and children's books and films, as well as in a sculpture at the children's zoo in Central Park.


Heroic Sled Dog and Driver

This Dec. 15, 1925 photo shows a closeup of Gunnar Kasson and Balto"Damn fine dog": Balto with Gunnar Kaasen, his musher, after the 1925 Serum Run.
Enlarge / "Damn fine dog": Balto with Gunnar Kaasen, his musher, after the 1925 Serum Run.

Friday 28 April 2023

Metal Detectors Find Fortune in 9th Century Anglo-Saxon Coins, Try to Sell Them Off-Books

Metal detectorists face years in jail after being convicted of illegal plot to sell £766,000 of ninth century Anglo-Saxon coins abroad when they were caught by undercover detective

  •  Craig Best and Roger Pilling conspired to sell criminal property worth £766,000
  • At their conviction Judge James Adkin said they face imprisonment for years

Two metal detectorists have been found guilty of hatching an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon coins of 'immense historical significance' abroad and told they face 'imprisonment for years.' 

Craig Best, 46, and Roger Pilling, 75, were convicted of conspiring to sell criminal property worth £766,000, namely ninth century coins believed to have been buried by a Viking and which have never been declared as Treasure, and have not been handed to the Crown.

The pair's plot was foiled when they were rumbled by a detective posing as a buyer.  

Following a trial at Durham Crown Court, the defendants were also convicted of separate charges of possessing the criminal property, which was thought to be part of a larger, undeclared find known as the Herefordshire Hoard.

Best of Bishop Auckland, was arrested with three coins at a Durham hotel in May 2019 in a police sting operation.

Craig Best (left) and Roger Pilling (right) were both convicted of the elaborate plot

Craig Best (left) and Roger Pilling (right) were both convicted of the elaborate plot

When he was arrested Craig Best was carrying two rare Emperor coins

When he was arrested Craig Best was carrying two rare Emperor coins 

The coins are believed to have been buried by a Viking and have never been declared as treasure

The coins are believed to have been buried by a Viking and have never been declared as treasure

The court has heard that the undercover police operation was set up after Best tried to sell coins to a different American collector

The court has heard that the undercover police operation was set up after Best tried to sell coins to a different American collector

Best thought he was meeting a metals expert, employed by a broker working for a wealthy US-based buyer, but was in fact speaking to an undercover detective.

Pilling, who owned an engineering business, was arrested at his home in Loveclough, Lancashire, and a further 41 coins were seized.

These 44 coins originated from the Herefordshire Hoard, discovered in 2015, worth millions of pounds, and which was also not declared.

Four people have already been convicted for their roles in concealing that find.

The undercover police operation was set up after Best tried to sell coins to a real American collector, who then contacted UK-based experts about the apparent availability of extremely rare and valuable examples, and the authorities were alerted.

How the metal detectorist's scheme played out

June 2015: West Mercia Police recover 29 Anglo-Saxon coins which were part of a larger hoard that had been found at a farm in Leominster, Herefordshire, as part of what they called Operation Helix.

September 2018: Craig Best contacts a US-based professor who has a passion for ancient coins and tries to interest him in buying some of the 44 coins somehow acquired by co-conspirator Roger Pilling. These coins are believed to be from the same undeclared find in Leominster, known as the Herefordshire Hoard.

May 2019: Undercover police carry out a sting operation and arrest Best at a Durham hotel, where he believed he was meeting a contact of a potential buyer. Pilling is arrested at his Lancashire home later.

November 2019: George Powell, 41, and Layton Davies, 54, are found guilty of theft, conspiracy to conceal criminal property and conspiracy to convert criminal property at Worcester Crown Court after they failed to report their find and tried to sell the items. They were jailed for more than 18 years.

August 2021: Best and Pilling are charged with conspiracy to convert criminal property.

April 2023: The pair stand trial at Durham Crown Court, where they are found guilty of hatching an illegal plot to sell the coins abroad.

It was believed the coins were made between 874 CE and 879 CE and were buried by a Viking during this particularly violent period of English history.

They included two extremely rare examples of two-headed coins, showing Alfred of Wessex and Ceolwulf, a figure who was discredited by Saxon writers as a Viking puppet ruler.

The law is clear about what detectorists must do if they make a potentially valuable find.

Enthusiasts like Roger Pilling and Craig Best would know that important finds of coins more than 300 years old must be reported as 'treasure' and declared to the Crown.

But the 44 coins that somehow came into Pilling's possession - three of which Best was caught trying to sell to an undercover police officer supposedly acting as a broker for a US buyer - were never declared.

The prosecution never said Pilling or Best dug the ancient coins up themselves - they were part of a larger, undeclared find and were acquired by Pilling.

The Treasure Act did not aim to leave any metal detectorist unrewarded.

British Museum coin expert Dr Gareth Williams said the finder of reported 'treasure' would stand to earn half the expected sale price of the precious items, with the other half going to the landowner.

But some finds, such as the Herefordshire Hoard in 2015, were never registered with the authorities and the finder would have hoped to sell the artefacts 'off the books'.

The popularity of what was once a niche hobby has escalated in recent years, following the success of the BBC show Detectorists, along with better technology capable of scanning deeper beneath the soil.

Dr Williams said: 'The number of finds being legitimately recorded has massively increased.

'We need to assume the majority of materials are going through the system properly because there's not enough showing up in sales to suggest there is a high amount of unrecorded material.

'Some fantastic finds have turned up through the system and we would not want to give the impression that everyone in the museum world thinks metal detecting is a terrible thing.

'It has been responsible for the acquisition of some amazing things. What we don't know is the full extent of the criminal side of it, and the non-reporting.'

It was believed there were around 40,000 legitimate metal detectorists in the UK, some of whom hand over everything they find and do not seek compensation.

Dr Williams said: 'There are people who just the feeling of history going through their hands and being the first person in 1,000 years to handle an object.'

Undercover officers carried out a sting operation to stop a historically important Viking hoard of coins worth £766,000 being sold to an American buyer

Undercover officers carried out a sting operation to stop a historically important Viking hoard of coins worth £766,000 being sold to an American buyer

Some ancient hoards would have been hidden deliberately by the owner for security, while others may have been left, particularly if abandoned in water, as a religious offering, Dr Williams said.

Following the conviction, Durham Constabulary's Detective Superintendent Lee Gosling, said: 'This is an extremely unusual case, as it is not very often we get the chance to shape British history.

'It is astonishing that the history books need re-writing because of this find.

'These coins come from a hoard of an immense historical significance relating to the Vikings and we are delighted that they are now with the British Museum.

'This has been a lengthy and complex investigation and I would like to thank our specialist officers and the historical experts for all their help.'

Dr Gareth Williams, a coin expert from the British Museum, said: 'New finds have the potential to increase our knowledge.

'The coins are very much part of our heritage.

'The theft of finds like this are not just a theft from the landowner, who have rights, it is a theft of our heritage.'

Judge James Adkin said the sentencing exercise would be 'complicated' as the offence was rare and he adjourned the case until Thursday.

Remanding them in custody, he told the pair: 'You have both been convicted of what I consider to be compelling evidence of serious criminality, in relation to these artefacts.

'You are both aware of what the sentence is likely to be, imprisonment for years.'

Gary Fothergill, a Specialist Prosecutor for CPS North East said: 'This has been an incredibly unusual case taking prosecutors and investigators back to the time of ancient Britain and Viking hoards.

'The discovery of these coins has forever shaped the history of Britain. Roger Pilling and Craig Best knew the significance of this hoard and rather than report the coins so they can be studied and provide us with more insights into this country's history, both plotted to sell them for their own selfish gain.

'Today's conviction was the result of the extensive work by the investigators and the prosecution team to build a strong case which proved Pilling and Best's criminal activity. I extend my thanks to Durham Police and the expert witnesses who helped us see both convicted.'

The coins are currently safe with the British Museum and the pair will be sentenced next week.