"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008

"You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011

Saturday, September 13, 2025

SMSgt Adam Antonioli Feel Free to Drop Me a Line...


You and I will most certainly not agree about the merit of your statements, your politics, the Constitution, or free speech.  But it would appear, based on your comments that have been released on Twitter and which were responded to by Undersecretary of the Air Force, Matt Lohmeier, that you are having your rights violated as a result of your constitutionally protected off duty speech.

Feel free to drop me an email at wingedryno@gmail.com if you would like some help finding legal resources and exploring options.  Free speech is right up my alley.  You appear to be a fan of Chief Bass.  I sued her successfully for violating the First Amendment on social media because she didn't like my comments on social media.  I also successfully sued the State of Washington for violating the First Amendment and had an unconstitutional law struck down that was being used by leftist fanatics who tried to do great harm to me and my wife because I had the tenacity to say things on social media they didn't agree with.  After I beat these insane Antifa nut jobs in court, I turned around and helped one of them by filing an amicus brief in support of his free speech rights. before the very judge he and his comrades had violate my rights.  While my arguments didn't carry the day before her in my legal proceeding (she was soundly reversed on appeal and ridiculed in media), they did in his case before her.  Have no doubt, I loathed that individual, and that corrupt judge, then and still do today.  They are both truly awful, truly evil, people and at least one of them (and probably both) agree with your disgusting view of Charlie Kirk.

You and I will not be friends (yet I am Facebook friends -- the ultimate kind of friendship -- with Matt Lohmeier and I'm deeply disappointed in his recent action against you).   Not only will you and I not be friends, I am certain you won't likely even see the value in my assistance or share my concern for our right to free speech.  But I don't make this offer because of you, I make it because of the First Amendment and its vital importance for a free nation.

Reach out if you would like to have some assistance defending your speech from somebody who doesn't agree with your speech, but will help defend your right to express it.  As all good Americans should.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Israel Murdered Charlie Kirk

What a tragedy.  The evidence isn't out yet, and as is the fashion when it comes to the evil nation that owns our government and picks off our politicians and thought leaders at will using blackmail and violence, we may never "know."

But it's obvious.  Charlie was pro-Israel but definitely wasn't toeing the line and was platforming people telling the truth about Israel.  Charlie's trend was toward America and away from that fascist little shit hole.  It was a professional hit.  Assassin escaped about as quickly as the Israeli NSA head, Tom Alexandrovich, recently did after getting arrested for trying to molest an American child before escaping to Israel which has a pattern and practice of providing safe haven for pedophiles.  And the timing was convenient as Bibi was able to tweet about how Charlie was just about to visit Israel (an invitation Charlie did not accept).  And the New York Post is publishing idiotic articles about an "expert" saying the shooter was likely an "internet shooter" rather than a military trained marksman, putting out propaganda to distance the shooter from the nation that routinely uses such tactics.

Israel is by far the greatest enemy of the United States and it has a whole menagerie of American Judas' on strings doing its bidding.  Trump is chief among them at the moment and you can be assured as our society further collapses and is ripped apart over this and the fake left/right dynamic, more controls will be introduced on our society.  Those controls will include more digital AI surveillance and digital money from companies owned by Israel and pushed by Trump.

Tragedy about Charlie Kirk.

12 Sep 25 edit:  it's good to see others discussing the obvious.  We Americans have got to realize that the terrorist state of Israel is waging incredible warfare against our nation and has its cronies installing surveillance and other digital systems that will allow it to surveil, de-bank, blackmail, or Charlie Kirk any single one of us for expressing the wrong opinion anywhere, regardless if you're somebody with an audience or just a regular joe you erroneously thought nobody paid attention to (they do and will).  If you support the terrorist nation of Israel, you are literally supporting the murder of your neighbors by a foreign government.  Don't think for a second that your politics play one way or another into it.  The enemy that is Israel cares nothing about your politics.  And for those of you indoctrinated by your corrupt churches, you need to pull your head out.



13 Sep 25 edit:  Israel's immediate and dishonest attempt to frame Charlie Kirk just goes to show how prepared they were for it



14 Sep 25 edit: 
 More than likely Israel will go for the two-fer and go after Nick Fuentes (I have no position on him and know nothing about him other than he correctly identifies Israel as an enemy of the United States) and it's very telling that American traitor, and Israel-plant, Ben Shapiro is determined to pick up and represent college campuses "for" Charlie Kirk.


15 Sep 25 update:


Friday, September 5, 2025

That Time I Told Laughlin AFB Leadership They'd Bend Metal, Then They Did

From the ole memory vault.  Leadership from Laughlin AFB thought it would be good to implement indefinite six day work weeks, so I sent an email to the morons behind this dumb idea including then Col "Pulse" Wills (a clown I had previously called "un-American" to his face when he tried to dress me down in his office with me in my blues and my DO standing next to me), and I made sure my email got sent around the base.  It had the desired effect and this dumb idea got shut down.  Here's a blog post from that time period.

Months later when I was out processing from that shit hole, they brought the plan back.  My very last stop before heading out the gate to my next assignment was to visit the 85FTS commander.  I told him that they'd bend metal if they did this.  He told me to enjoy my next assignment and then said, "by the way, you won't be getting a medal for this assignment."  I laughed and told him I wouldn't disgrace my uniform with a medal from AETC.  I then hopped in my car and drove to my next assignment back to AFSOC.

Less than two months later that 85FTS commander had a Class A when an instructor inadvertently shut an engine off in flight, fouled up the restart procedure, and then failed to dead stick into the aux field.  Fortunately both the instructor and student safety ejected and there were no fatalities.

Here's an email chain between me and a FAIP (now a fighter pilot and commander) from the first time I got this dumb idea cancelled where I laid out how bad an idea it was:

Begin forwarded message:
From: XXXXX
Date: January 28, 2010 6:49:09 PM CST
To: Richard Rynearson
Subject: Re: Knock it Off Request
Reply-To: XXXXX 
No, they said the meeting was not in response to any particular request... which is bullshit, they were trying to save face after your email had made its rounds and shown the emperor to be nekkid. 
The current WX is a convenient thing to blame our timeline problems on, but that is not the root cause of the issues, the increased training load coupled with shitty leadership that wants to see fucking magic happen and won't listen to reality (we lack the resources, AKA triple-turning and manning) are the root causes. 
We'll see how it all ends out, and I'm very happy to be getting "out" by being a student again soon. My fini is on the 12th, see you there? 
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Richard Rynearson wrote: 
Yeah man. I didn't make that meeting...wish I had! 
What do you mean by them saying "this is not in response to any particular request"... you mean a request for more students? 
On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:40 PM, XXX wrote: 
Dude, I got nothing but props for you on a well written rebuttal to the bullshit factor that has been rather high as of late. Way to call out the man! I especially liked the leadership problems section and the discussion of Enron's "magic." 
Hopefully you were as amused as I was at today's briefing, especially as all the timeline problems were being blamed on wx... and the fact that they stated "this is not in response to any particular request"... which was TOTAL bullshit. 
Anyways, good on ya, thank you for being that guy and saving all our asses somewhat. 
From: Rynearson, Richard L Maj USAF AETC 85 FTS/ADO
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:26 PM
To: Binder, John R LtCol USAF AETC 85 FTS/DO; Nesmith, Richard LtCol USAF AETC 85 FTS/CC
Cc: Wills, Craig Col USAF AETC 47 OG/CC 
Subject: Knock it Off Request 
Sir, 
You stated in your email that a mishap is not worth the increased ops tempo. Given this information I would like to provide my assessment of the situation, as I understand it. As a loyal member of the Air Force and the 85th FTS, I believe it's my duty to pass information to my superiors even if that info may not be welcomed. I would like to provide my perspective concerning the increased ops tempo and six day fly weeks that have recently started. I know there is a great deal of information that I don't know and I realize leadership doesn't take action arbitrarily. Given the current climate, there is a chance leadership is not being provided high fidelity information and I hope this email provides some information that is useful. While I can't provide solutions with every perceived problem I identify, I hope my contribution will be seen like the call from the loadmaster who spots fuel leaking from the #2 engine. He might not know how to fix or solve the problem, but he provides a service in merely identifying it to those who can. 
The short of my message is this, there is a belief shared by many that six-day fly weeks are going to become relatively standard for the next several months and perhaps longer. If true, and if squadron members still enjoy the briefed ability to call "knock it off," then I am calling knock it off. I believe this significant increase in ops tempo will increase risk greatly. If the ability to call a KIO has been removed from squadron members, then I would like to give my reasons for my position and provide information and recommendations to help mitigate the increased risk. Whatever decision is made, I, and every other pilot, am ready to implement whatever action leadership decides. 
A 1999 Air Force Times article entitled, "Worked to Death - How Doing Too Much Cost 12 Crewmen Their Lives" took a look at a fatality at Nellis involving two HH-60s that had a midair collision. According to the article, the overwhelming contributing factors that led to the disaster cited by the lead investigator, Col Denver Pletcher, included "a high ops/pers tempo coupled with leadership problems, internal and external training deficiencies, broken squadron processes, low aircrew experience level, and midlevel supervisory breakdown." The Colonel wrote that the "squadron was on a path to disaster." The article explains that the squadron had been operating under that same ops temp for five years prior to this accident but that "By then, problems were chronic: Squadron processes broke down, morale was bad, the training burden was increasing and there seemed ever-less time to prepare for the next deployment or exercise." 
I believe this safety report could easily describe the 85th FTS, and several of your instructors are already citing the squadron as being on the same path to disaster. 
1. A high ops tempo. As you know, your instructor pilots are working roughly 12 hour days, five days a week, with a smattering of cross country weekends thrown in. Several in the squadron routinely work more than 12 hours in an effort to catch up with flight management duties. 
This current 5-day week ops tempo is seen as a grind and I have heard of at least one instructor who has nodded off while taxiing as a result of fatigue. This is the status quo ops tempo and not the greatly increased ops tempo of the six-day work week. 
2. Leadership problems. This may be evidenced by the relatively recent increase in alcohol related incidents that have taken much of the Wing Commander's time lately. I believe it's also evidenced by a perception that leadership has responded with an iron fist that hands out punishment with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel in many instances, a perception I believe has had a severe morale degrading effect. The most important leadership problem I believe exists is a punitive environment for dissent or bearing bad news or for simply having unpopular opinions. While my own personal experiences with the chain of command show punishment will be delivered without an infraction, others' experiences create the perception of unjust punishment. In other cases, punishment is provided in response to mission-centric loyal dissent. 
Careers are ruined for providing mission inspired professional opinions to our leadership and this is widely known to be the case in our ops group. Command leadership from top to bottom in AETC role models a disinterest in the reality of mission related problems and the message is understood to be "I don't care...just do it." It is widely understood by multiple instructors that loyal dissent is simply not tolerated in our wing. This climate, in my opinion, may serve to stifle accurate information from flowing to decision makers and may potentially derail safety processes. The thermometers may be broken and leadership may not be getting an accurate reading. For example, instructors are seen as the last defense against unsafe flying operations and are told "there is nothing we do in training that is so important we can't do it tomorrow." This message isn't supported by leadership actions, however, and the six-day week belies this correct training perspective. 
Instructors are told they have the ability to call safety can ops cancel a sortie. It may be illuminating to track how many instructors have taken this option despite a grueling five-day week. 
3. Broken squadron processes. I believe there is a widespread
perception that the squadron and flights are unable to accomplish everything required without cutting corners. One example is the failure of the squadron to accomplish PT (a requirement that has recently been removed from regulations in testament to an inability to comply service wide). From my perspective, other issues are presented including time to complete routine syllabus events, computer based training events, etc. I believe corner cutting is standard to make due and I think this perception is shared by most of your instructors. 
4. Low aircrew experience level. This is a hallmark of our training
environment in which many pilots are low time FAIPs and the students, of course, bring less than limited experience. It's a continual factor in what we do and an ORM risk that sets us apart from the operational Air Force. 
The cited article discusses an increasing training burden. 
My understanding is the root of the problem in the 85th is exactly that; a significant increase in the number of students to be trained without an increase in instructor manning and given daylight flying hour limitations. Further, my understanding is higher headquarters does not want the 85th to wash out or wash back students in response to this increased burden. 
The article also discusses poor morale. I believe our squadron suffers from poor morale as well, particularly given the leadership climate, although instructors do a good job of dealing with it given a weekend to unwind. A weekend is a light at the end of the tunnel and pilots use it to reset. If this time is taken (cutting off time by 50%), I believe it will exact a psychological toll that exacerbates existing challenges much further than "simply one more day of work." A six day work week is merely one crew duty day from working continuously and will, in my opinion, lead to an outsized decrease in morale and leadership challenges.
A six day week exacts a real toll as people, even now, don't fully use that time to rest but to complete other Air Force related tasks such as PME and master's work in addition to the tasks that every individual in America must do...paying taxes, rent, housing repairs, etc. This is to say nothing of family obligations and raising children. I have talked to instructors who have pulled out of masters programs due to the ops tempo and know of one who predicts he will fail a course as a result of six day weeks. I believe the increased ops tempo, like sleep deficit, will have a compounding effect as individuals are not able to accomplish tasks in both their personal and professional lives. 
Of course, we are a military unit in a time of war. There may be times when we have to give all of our time to the mission. MWS instructors such as myself come from units that have done precisely that and have, in many cases, come to AETC seeking rest from heavy combat operations tempo, realizing they will go back to that same tempo when they leave Laughlin. 
I strongly recommend leadership discontinue any plans to leverage the weekends of its instructors and students. If, however, leadership continues this plan I make the following suggestions in an attempt to mitigate risk. 
First, leadership needs to communicate clearly the importance of the task that is justifying the increased risk through the higher ops tempo. If there is a valid justification, this will not only increase morale and win support for the decision but will serve to bolster the idea of operational risk management. Unless this clear justification is provided, the message may be received that risk does not require a clearly worthwhile reward and may have unintended negative consequences. While communicating to pilots the reason for the increase in ops tempo will not remove the increased risk, it will help mitigate it. 
Second, leadership should communicate an end in sight so people can buckle down and get it done. 
Third, leadership should spread the pain so that six day weeks are not encountered back to back and do not allow a night week to be a six day week which increases the risk even further and enhances the feelings of fatigue. This will allow airmen time to better take care of time sensitive tasks (like PME and master's work). 
Last, leadership should emphasize that the ability to knock off a sortie for safety is not only acceptable, but expected to happen with increased frequency. 
As to solutions on how to accomplish the increased training requirements without increasing the instructor force, the solution is simple. Commanders need to successfully meet their obligations to provide the resources to their people in order to accomplish the mission. Simply put, magic is not an Air Force core competency and there is no magical solution. The often heard "10 pounds in a 5 pound bag" is a denial of reality. This denial isn't healthy for an organization. It reminds me of an account where Jeff Skilling, president of Enron, was presented with information showing that Enron was employing magical solutions that would exact a price in reality. Skilling told the employee that he never wanted to see the slide again. The employee said "it's the facts" and Skilling said, "It may be the facts, but I don't want you to think about it like that!" Enron failed because it refused to accept reality. 
The fact is, as I see it, we can only accomplish so much safely until commanders provide the necessary resources. 
In summary, for the sake of safety I am calling Knock it Off on the six day week plan. If that ability has been removed, I have provided my recommendations to mitigate the significant increase of risk of flying six day weeks. 
Respectfully,

Maj Rick "Ryno" Rynearson
85th Instructor Pilot

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Donald J. Trump - The Golden Calf Embarrassment of America

I'm glad that I've never cast a vote for Donald Trump, although the "lesser evil" argument became pretty convincing after the Biden admin and I don't fault those who fell for it.  While Trump's first term was fairly positive, his current showing has been absolutely horrific for America.  Along with all of his stupid statements from his first term, he has added constitutional violation after constitutional violation while lying our nation before a hostile foreign power in the Middle East to be ravaged by it.

Idiotic America-last actions to suppress free speech in America on behalf of his foreign masters.  His unconstitutional conjuring of an "emergency" in order to take power from Congress to tax Americans while claiming his corruption-laden tariffs are paid by foreigners.  Obvious market manipulation and meetings where gifts bestowed upon him result in rapid changes to his economic policies and what companies are targeted by them.

And now he's using our military to murder suspected criminals without due process, replacing courts, evidence, testimony, and convictions with precision strikes.  Just as he stole power not granted to him from Congress to unilaterally impose tariffs, he has also stolen powers not granted to him from the American people who comprise juries and pronounce guilt.  While service members died in order to bring Manuel Noriega to justice and give him his day in court, today due process is just one more key element of America sacrificed by the golden calf occupying the White House.

I still can't wrap my head around why the evil establishment made such a showing to appear to oppose Trump while dismantling the last shreds of credibility our intelligence and law enforcement agencies had with the American people.  But I suspect that amazing theater was meant to convince the Christian conservative segment of the American population to go all in on Trump for his real purpose.  And that purpose is to implement what would have been recognized by that population as the so-called Mark of the Beast.

Technocratic slavery.

At this point it seems to me that Trump's ultimate agenda is to chaperon the demolition of our economy and ensure the adoption of digital identification matched with digital currency; the ultimate tool of any tyranny.  Constant surveillance and the ability to flip a switch to allow or deny the ability of Americans to engage in commerce, be employed, or feed themselves.  A control system that surveils Americans in their communications and applies penalties instantly for wrongthink.  This system would have been mostly strongly opposed by Christians in America as it comes straight from the Book of Revelation, but after years of propaganda and well crafted theater and the invention of DEI insanity as the ultimate foil to herd this population into the arms of an adulterous shallow charlatan, it's uncertain how many in America today will oppose The Mark when it's tied to election integrity and removing illegals and comes with a modest government handout.

Trump has handed over American taxpayer money to fund their unconstitutional surveillance by Israel and CIA tied company, Palantir.  His meddling with the Federal Reserve, along with his record setting spending and borrowing, has all but guaranteed inflation continues to rise and bring more Americans to their knees.  With the inevitable rise of AI and robotics and massive unemployment, the conditions are speeding toward the ultimate end of anything even resembling America.  A great reset, if you will.

America, you have been duped again.  Free speech obliterated, anti identity politics now firmly replaced with identity politics on behalf of a hostile foreign nation, due process dismantled, "no more wars" replaced with new wars, inflation skyrocketing, unemployment rising, and promises to dismantle CBDC replaced with other digital currencies.  While Trump may have lost much of his MAGA following over his coverup of the Epstein files and his insults of his so-called base, at least he's enjoying new found praise from Hillary Clinton.

Buckle up, even the dumbest among us will feel the loss of liberty before long.  Get ready for a Big, Beautiful, Tyranny.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Stuart Scheller's "Motivational Poster" Should Adorn Air Force Hallways

The former USMC lieutenant colonel (who chose the defense of his nation over his own career ambition), combat commander, and current DoD official has absolutely nailed the most pressing issue of our military officer corps.  While the rank and file talk about "careerism" they don't actually get to the real issue with our failing officer corps.  Scheller cuts right down to it with his post and I've seen it play out in real life with grave consequences.

This post should adorn the halls of military buildings so that coward officers, who comprise the vast majority in our military branches, are less able to justify their failings to their subordinates and peers with the same ole "pick your battles" tripe.

I didn’t Speak Up because I was too young and inexperienced
I didn’t Speak Up because I have a family and a mortgage
I didn’t Speak Up because I worked too hard to get to this position

Face it, you didn’t Speak Up because you’re a f’n coward

 Very well said. 

Sunday, August 24, 2025

When the American Military Machine Turns Against America

 


The lack of concern for the Constitution and the principles of liberty keeps certain units freshly stocked with operators oblivious to their treason against the American people.

Monday, June 23, 2025

I Hope Iran Gets Nuclear Weapons

So that it will hopefully be able to keep the terrorist governments from murdering its citizens and violating its sovereignty.  Our terrorist government which is controlled by a Middle East terrorist government that conquered it, and controls it, after murdering American service members on the USS Liberty and then stealing nuclear materials from the United States to develop its nuclear program (which was forbidden by the United States, does that sound familiar) and which spies on the United States and has infiltrated our government in an amazing fashion.

That terrorist government knows that the American people and American service members are so incredibly unprincipled and stupid that it can control them with the most basic information campaign and it has done an amazing job.

Israel leveraging this center of gravity against America (its immorality and breathtaking stupidity) has allowed it to force cowardly politicians to sacrifice America's credibility, treasure, and lives in the idiotic campaign against Iraq and it knows the well spring of hypocrisy and idiocy that America hosts is ripe to be used again.

What a disgrace to our once great nation is our government, the average American military officer and the average citizen.

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Our Enemy in the Middle East is not Iran, It is Israel

 

That foreign government owns our President and most of our government and uses it to loot American taxpayer pockets to fund its genocide and other violent actions.  That terrorist state attacked a United States naval ship that was conducting legal surveillance and murdered American sailors.  It stole nuclear material from the United States to develop its nuclear program when America had said it was not "allowed" to develop nuclear weapons.  They then had our puppet government invade Iraq on their behalf, robbing America of treasure and blood for a war of aggression based on their lies.

Israel will destroy the United States like other parasites that kill their hosts.  We need to cut all ties with that terrorist state immediately.

Of course this will never happen because they have conquered our nation.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Illiterate O-6 Politics Right Down the Middle


It was 1000 percent wrong?  Hardly.  It was a legitimate protest, which Americans have every right to do, and a small number of people got out of hand and a larger number of people were guilty of an arbitrary misdemeanor of trespassing on their own public property.

That does not in any way equate to "1000% wrong."  The people had every right to protest their tyrannical, lying, murderous police state of a government and the actions of a few people jaywalking and such does not change that.

And if you're going to call somebody a moron, perhaps leverage your years in DC and learn how to spell "Capitol."  You moron.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

American Police State Wrongfully Imprisons Army Officer's Wife

 

The police state that America is (and if you think that is hyperbole then you are a moron) steadily increases.  Right now the push to further use our fascist DHS to increase its totalitarian powers is focused more on "illegals" because many know there are real issues, especially after the last administration, with illegal immigrants in the nation.  But this isn't about illegals or even non-Americans.  Even American citizens who enter their own nation, and are greeted by DHS agents that they employ, can have their laptops or cell phones confiscated and searched without suspicion of any wrongdoing on their part.  The DHS thugs can't keep you from entering the nation, but the federal government has decided that they can deprive you of your electronic devices so that they can hack them and download all your information (and you'd better hope they don't plant stuff).  Without any suspicion of any crime, and without our flaccid politicians-in-dresses at the SCOTUS putting a stop to such actions, our tyrannical government thinks it can sift through all your photos and communications simply because you would like to enter your own nation that you fund with your tax money.

About two decades ago I fought this thuggish unreasonable police state and spent about six figures of my own money doing it, only to witness the complete complicity of fascist judges all the way up to the highest court in the nation.

Understand this.  Regardless of political party or your service status, this government hates you and thinks it owns you and has absolutely zero concern for your constitutional rights or the law.  While you might have been able to comply and bow and scrape your way through this nation off the radar while deluding yourself about living in a free country, the economic realities that are unfolding now will quickly fix your delusion for you as it becomes undeniable.  But the truth is, if you don't realize that you're subjugated by a tyrannical government after the past two decades, you're honestly far too stupid to be free anyway.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Finally, an Unmanned Fighter Aircraft

For roughly two decades I have been scratching my head at the lack of an unmanned fighter aircraft.  I blogged about it back in 2009 in a post entitled Why I Believe UAVs are Better Than Manned Fighters and it led to some decent conversation in the comments section.  Since then an AI pilot flying a limited F-16 (limited by Gs like a human would be) was able to beat a manned fighter one hundred percent of the time.  And now the YFQ-44A, that has discarded those arbitrary limits that only apply to humans, is being made known to the public.  It's about time.


Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The Rosenbergs Could Have Been U.S. Ambassadors Under Our Puppet Government

General Mark Milley committed literal treason and didn't even get a slap on the wrist.  Now we have somebody in the white spying for Israel, and instead of getting punished, Mike Waltz gets made the U.N. ambassador.

It's readily apparent that We The People do not own our government.  Our government is owned by a hostile foreign nation.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Yes, it is the POTUS' Job to Interpret the Constitution


 

One of the most authoritarian posters at the digital clown show (similar to Shapiro and Murray and other authoritarian thugs who like to recite correct views when convenient) recently stated that it's not the job of the President to interpret the Constitution.  Of course he would also conveniently ignore his own oath of office in the military by claiming those above him have lawyers and therefore every order is presumed to be constitutional.

Pretty silly of our Constitution to require executive officers to take an oath to support the Constitution if what was really meant was just do what some lawyer tells you to do.  Which is why the document doesn't state that.  Back before cowards like Ratner became the norm within our ranks, it was common sense that educated military officers were required to be educated precisely so that they could bear the burden of interpreting words, whether to determine commander's intent, or to determine legality.  Apparently the training on LOAC that Ratner received was wasted since he believes you're supposed to just presume a lawyer said doing something was okay.

Trump's reliance on lawyers to tell him whether something is constitutional or not is a major black eye.  One would think the top of the executive branch would be bothered enough to read the Constitution himself and, just as a matter of professionalism, even take a gander at the words from the top of another federal branch of government.

But, no, apparently some nameless twenty-something year old law graduate will suffice.  That's the same way Obama behaved when he murdered Americans without due process.  Just get some spineless treasonous ambitious lawyer to write a secret memo saying that whatever it is you want to do is "legal" and away you go.

Lord Ratner has no business occupying a uniform.  By his own admission, he is not up to the task of performing the duties required of an executive officer.  And he's in good company.  Sua Stupidity is just one example, apparently under the impression that the legislative branch doesn't need to interpret the Constitution either.  The Constitution, of course, completely disagrees and charges everybody in the Senate and all judges and all executive officers with interpreting and supporting the Constitution.

It's no wonder we can't win a war anymore.

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Are We the Baddies?


Yes, we are.  We are the country wearing the gimp mask with the bright red ball in our mouth, and a leash held by Israel.  Our politicians and industry and media leaders are not immune to bribes, blackmail, exploding Amazon orders, or JFK-style hits.

Why was Trump's second election rigged, and yet he walked right through on the third one?  He kissed the ring.  The same ring that orchestrated the lawfare and media blitz against him during his first bid for re-election.  But he kissed the ring, bowed down, groveled to his foreign masters, and suddenly the criticism was muted, Bill Maher started saying nice things, the fires and protests nearly ceased, and he got re-elected.  Where he serves at the pleasure of a truly evil foreign government.

Yes, we are the baddies and once they get through collapsing the economy as a pretext to introduce CBDC, the mask will come off completely.

Monday, March 24, 2025

False Flag, or is Our National Security Apparatus & White House this Moronic?


You have to read the Atlantic article about Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and others talking about classified operational planning in a commercial application group chat where they had accidentally, apparently, included a journalist.  Were it not for the fact that I also got included in similar group chats (from a squadron I did not belong to and didn't even know existed) likely because a traitor and absolute moron, now-Colonel Dave Blair, included me in them from previous conversations, I would say that such a thing would not be possible.  But I know that it is.

Somebody should ask how Signal text messages fit into the whole public transparency requirements of our law.  Is government trying to take a page from Hillary and trying to hide from FOIA requirements by using such commercial apps on non-government devices to plan their government adventures?

Also, our courts should revisit their State Secrets doctrine given the state doesn't seem to really be all that concerned with secrets.

Or maybe this is a false flag to suffer a temporary black eye and turn around and have Elon make a new "secure" Grok-powered government system.

What a fucking clown show.

EDIT: and then they double down on lying to Congress about clearly classified information while knowing full well that the American people can see they are lying.  Trump needs to fire every single person in that Signal Chat.  He needs to do it now.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Yes, Trump is a Foreign Asset -- to a Government Far Worse Than Russia

Trump is a foreign asset, just not a Russian asset.  It would be preferable if he were a Russian asset, instead, given that the foreign government he actually works for and which has funded and opened the American doors (that they unfortunately control) to his election has literally attacked and murdered American military members.  And blackmailed Americans of all stripes.  They really have no limits to their depravity.

The government of Israel is without question the greatest enemy of the United States.  They are a parasite that controls our nation because Americans are weak and our elected leaders are even weaker.  They use the woke nonsense and claims of anti-semitism to try to cut off any criticism of their absolutely horrific and criminal actions.  They more than likely invented leftist wokeism in order to get Americans to support their "America First, Free Speech" talking heads and politicians while knowing the average conservative wouldn't think any further than that.  Despite their idiotic propaganda technique equating criticism of their government with being antisemitic, the reality is that Judaism is far grander and more beautiful than their shit hole government in the Middle East.  American Jews have been and continue to be some of the greatest Americans to exist, despite the narrative about Hollywood and leftist Jews.  The government of Israel, on the other hand, is nothing more than a criminal organization that oppresses its own people and ours.  Unfortunately the government of Israel has been extraordinarily successful in holding America hostage and targeting our many weaknesses in order to do so.

But have no doubt, there is no government in the Middle East, or anywhere on this planet for that matter, that is more an enemy to America than the government of Israel.

While I have never voted for Trump because he was not nearly good enough for my vote, despite being the best choice among the "choices" offered, I don't begrudge those who did cast a vote for him.  And he has done some good things.  But it is imperative that his supporters be honest and principled and call him out when he fails to deliver on his words.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Reflections From the Road



We rarely get outside the P-N Dubyah, but we did manage to take the van east recently.  A fitting direction as I just heard the news that Murph, a Gunship pilot I used to fly with, headed east permanently.  So many Ghostriders are gone and the list keeps growing.

So it was good to get out of the woods and catch up with one of my old crew dawgs.  We got to stop and see a gunner I was fortunate enough to serve with on several deployments, a guy who made every trip worthwhile.  When you're doing that job, competence is required, but a sense of humor is almost as valuable and this gunner always had laughs on tap.  Hadn't seen him in fifteen years since I ran into him on the River Walk out of nowhere and he showed me some humorous memes on his phone that made me say, "dude, WTF is wrong with you..."  He was easier to spot this time as we pulled up to a place to grab some lunch.  He didn't blend in with a crowd of "Messicans" this time.  Met him at the door, delivered all the niceties that are required in today's day and age ("I just want you to know that I see you and your lived experience as a person of color," etc) and then we ordered some drinks.  Times have changed since we last saw each other so I just wanted to make sure I was doing it right.

Back in the day, before I realized that my skin color made me bad and him good, he was just a bad ass gunner on my crew.  A gunner who used to wake our loadmaster up by putting his sack on his forehead in the morning.  There are a lot of strange customs in the gunner world, it's almost as confusing as the DEI nonsense of today, but far more entertaining.

He sipped his tequila and we ordered some food and we talked a bit about the old life.  I didn't bring up the time we nearly got hit by a mortar next to our fully loaded Gunship and how the explosion rocked us all, nor how he was laughing as we headed into the nearby bunker.  I also didn't mention the time while we were shooting the 105mm that one explosion was so violent it cracked our plumbing and pissed out our utility hydraulic system so that we had to abort our mission and land without niceties like nosewheel steering, and how all the responding emergency vehicles made a light show upon our arrival on the dark runway in Iraq, and how we had to flee the aircraft under a predictable mortar attack, tromping through the UXO laden field.  I imagine he remembered that, and likely also remembers saying "hey pilot, catch" as he cracked a chem light and threw it at me during the adventure.

When doing that job with its lack of cubicles and a coffee machine, it's important to have a healthy view when it comes to death.  It's the kind of physical courage that goes well with the moral courage this old gunner also had in spades, as he risked his retirement (while sporting more Air Medals and more combat time than any other enlisted aviator in the Air Force) by refusing the unlawful experimental drug he was ordered to take, letting the cards fall where they may, but walking out unscathed just like on those mortar attacks.  Retired after twenty years of phenomenal service.  "Missed me."

We finished up lunch, I grabbed the check, he threw a wad of cash on the table making the check meaningless (and made the waiter's week) and we walked out of yet another locale still breathing.

But no amount of competence or work or humor can defeat time itself and it seems like the passing of those we served with is now a regular occurrence.  So it was good that the wife and I got to meet up with my old pal.  Three Ghostriders enjoying some laughs once more as we each await our turns on the ultimate fini-flight.

Monday, February 24, 2025

I Hope Trump Fires More Commanders

The Internet isn't big enough to explain all the reasons why just about anybody at the O-6 level or above should be fired.  This is just one reason, but it's a doozie.


Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Stop Me If You've Heard This One, a Fake Conservative Fluffs a Fascist Leftist Nut Job...

 


Seems like only yesterday ClearedHot was fluffing Adam Kinzinger...  People need to wise up to people playing roles.  The retired O-6 pretends to be on the red-blooded, conservative, patriotic side of things just as the American-hating nav pretends to be star-spangled in love with our country (after re-emerging from his departure from political talk).  NSPunk is super over the top combining his absolutely insane political opinions and cheerleading for obvious corruption and anti-American policy actions with "warheads on foreheads, military, rah!"  And ClearedHot is always quick to bolster this leftist nut job with "you're in the military so you're good, bro" (a habit of his) although I'd love to know how the dinner over at his place worked out between him and Nidal Hassan.  I mean, Maj Hassan might have had some "lunacy" in his "noggin" but CH provides him a welcome because both of them are in the 1% that served in uniform...

The reality is that we have enemies inside our military who seek to undermine the United States.  And both of these two jerk-offs fit that description.  It's not as weird as it once seemed, but the Internet is a battle space and these two are pawns in that game, holding hands and trying to present a left/right matrimony in pursuit of common propaganda interests (oblivious to the fact that many are waking up to the fact that "left" and "right" are really just divide and conquer narratives serving the same agenda).  Our military has been captured and it works, as do those who control our foreign policy, for foreign enemy interests that put significant resources into shaping hearts and minds online.

I do love watching CH stroke the nav though, I just hope Adam doesn't get jealous.

Edit: now this clown nav is demonstrating his complete lack of SA over a decade while calling for the same kind of censorship employed by the foreign governments he wants to fund with our money and weapons and employed by the Biden administration he championed.  This fascist lunatic could not be a more embarrassing component of the Digital Clown Show.  Go with quals.  GTFOH, nav.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Little Known Secret to Career Advancement - Treason


Pictured above (using images from the Public Domain) is Task Force Treason -- [from left to right] Judge David J. Barron, Maj General Steven G. Edwards and Maj General Albert "Buck" Elton

I have not provided many details about the time I was unlawfully ordered to assassinate an American citizen without charge or trial who was outside a war zone and who presented no imminent threat.  The reason is simply because doing so wouldn't have changed anything, there was nothing for the nation to gain, and few Americans even care about the topic.  I have declined several "media" requests and have instead discussed the issue on this blog with its half dozen readers.  Today, however, with the current administration and nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be part of the administration, our nation may actually have a rare opportunity to reform itself at a time where treason has flourished and entrenched itself in the highest levels of government, even to the unfathomable point that a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs literally worked with the Chinese military to subvert a sitting president of the United States.  President Trump immediately, when he took office the first time, ended Obama's treasonous secret kill list and today he is taking greater steps to reform our military.  As such, I would like to provide some additional details about the time I refused a treasonous order and resigned my commission, and I would humbly offer up the three men of TF Treason for consideration as the Trump administration continues its goal of reforming our sickly federal government.  The three individuals pictured above are literal traitors to the United States of America and are unfit for public office.  I have personal and/or professional experience with all three men.

I don't make this serious charge in the ill-defined and insulting way that many have thrown around the word "treason" over recent years.  I mean it quite literally.  The Constitution of the United States defines treason in Article Three as:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The individuals discussed in this blog post all levied war against the United States when they empowered and/or directed weapons of warfare to be used to assassinate an American citizen outside a war zone who presented no threat (leaving aside several other American citizens also murdered in similar circumstances by president Obama, which can also be laid at the feet of Judge Barron).  Whether an American tank, bomber, drone or other military weapon of warfare is used to target an American citizen without due process, or a group of Americans, or a small American town, a large American city or an entire American State or the nation as a whole, the action of planning, directing, or using military weapons of warfare against American citizens, regardless of target scope, is by definition levying war against the United States.  The members of TF Treason all levied war against the United States, adhered to, or aided enemies who were making war on the United States and are therefore guilty of treason as I will explain.

Judge David J. Barron

David Barron is currently the Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Prior to his nomination to this position, which I blogged about a decade ago here and here, Barron worked for President Obama in his Office of Legal Counsel.  In that position, while the Obama administration was seeking to use American military assets to target American citizens for assassination outside war zones without due process (an act of treason), Barron aided and adhered to the treason by drafting a legal "white paper" to justify the act of a sitting president using military assets to murder American citizens without due process.  Barron's memo was leaked and later released as part of a FOIA suit and can be read here.

Before summarizing Barron's embarrassing memo that failed to muster an ounce of legal credibility, I will first note that I have attended several functions where David Barron was also in attendance given that Barron, like my wife, clerked for the late Justice John Paul Stevens.  At the late justice's final clerk reunion, Barron hovered over the justice in a manner that reminded me of an unworthy son attempting to secure an inheritance near the end of his father's life.  Unfortunately any such efforts worked and he was clearly favored by the justice.  At Justice Stevens' funeral at Arlington, I was truly appalled to witness David Barron as the main speaker while his treason blemished the proceedings, the military legacy of the justice, and while the traitor spoke just yards away from patriots buried outside and opined from his treasonous mouth just mere feet from the widow of the iconic American and late justice, Thurgood Marshall.  Thurgood Marshall, and his widow in attendance at the funeral, were keenly aware of perverted government force being used to violate the rights of American citizens as justified by shoddy reasoning masquerading as legal analysis from government lawyers.  I found it deeply offensive that a traitor like David Barron was permitted to disgrace the proceedings on hallowed ground.

Barron's legal memo was astonishingly bad and evidence of a complete lack of professional ethics and personal pride.  No lawyer with any concern for the law would ever dream of crafting such a document.  But I'm far less concerned with the embarrassing product produced by the former Harvard Law professor and much more interested in its purpose.  Its purpose was to waive a magic wand nullifying the Constitution of the United States to give plausible deniability to a treasonous president who sought to murder Americans.  The memo lays out its goal, to analyze whether it would be legal to use lethal military force against American citizens who were allegedly plotting violence against America and who were located outside war zones.  The memo mentions the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment in its portended "analysis" but completely fails wholesale to even mention the most relevant portion of the Constitution quoted in this blog post already.  Article Three, Section Three which defines treason (and very clearly covers American citizens accused of plotting violence against the United States) also includes the recourse for Americans accused of treason.  It states:

No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Since the purpose of Barron's memo was to aid and adhere to a treasonous President intent on levying war against the United States, it makes perfect sense that Barron would fail to mention the relevant part of the Constitution in his "constitutional analysis."  Barron's treasonous memo, reminiscent of the pigs in Animal Farm, also provided a ridiculous attempt to re-define the term "imminent threat" to simply mean "threat."  It also tried to float the concept of capture being infeasible without wrestling with the question "if military assets are present in order to kill an American, why could they not capture the American?"  And Barron's memo doesn't mention Operation Just Cause and the massive expense and resource intensive operation to capture a non-American named Manuel Noriega down in Panama over drug charges (which do not come with due process explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as in the case of treason); an operation that resulted in Noriega being jailed, after receiving due process in court, and which cost the lives of service members in that endeavor.  There was also no mention of the capture of OBL in Pakistan (a nation we were not at war with).  In fairness, I don't expect Barron to have any understanding of martial conflict.  I do expect him to know the law.  That he pretended he didn't in order to aid treason wasn't the result of his intelligence.  It was a result of his complete lack of character and his total lack of respect for the rule of law.

About the same time, and related to Barron's treasonous memo offered up by the lapdog Shoe Shine boy pretending to be a lawyer, I was given an order to assassinate an American citizen without due process outside a war zone and without congressional authorization to even operate in the nation we were not at war with, who was presenting no imminent threat (as in, you know, the imminent kind of threat rather than Barron's re-defined "not writing this garbage would be a threat to my insecure ambitions" kind of threat).  I refused the order and tendered my resignation because the order violated the Constitution; something so clearly the case that even a politician, who now wears a dress and pretends to be a judge and disgraces our federal judiciary, just as he disgraced Justice Stevens' funeral, would have known.  My resignation was not accepted, an attempt to separate me from service failed, and the Air Force found for me despite the efforts of my local chain of command.

The unlawful order to conduct a mission to assassinate an American citizen outside a war zone who was no imminent threat, which I refused, was given to me by then Lt Col Steve Edwards.

Major General Steven Edwards

More than a decade ago I went into work to "fly" the MQ-9 on a mission.  I had volunteered to fly drones because I was a proponent of the technology despite the fact that the location of the unit and the mission itself were not enjoyable.  It was merely a job and I winced when I volunteered for the assignment but I figured it would be my last assignment, it was an important technology that I had vocally advocated for, and it might well save some poor 2Lt from graduating from pilot training and being sent to spend the rest of his days outside an actual aircraft.  Because this was the job that I wanted, I actually had to fight Air Education and Training Command (AETC) for it as then-Colonel "Pulse" Wills pulled the assignment to try to punish me for, among other things, telling him to his face that he was un-American while standing at attention in my blues with my Director of Operations in the room.  But that's another story.  At any rate, Pulse must have been too busy getting ready to become a general officer (which he later did and then did great damage to the Air Force's ability to create competent aviators, but I digress) since I was able to sidestep his little plan for my future by contacting leadership in my community who secured the job I sought.

So, as I said, one day I went into work to fly a mission.  During the pre-mission briefing I was informed of the target.  An American citizen.  I explained to the crew that I would not be flying the mission since it was unlawful and I explained why.  The intelligence individual briefing us and the crew thought I was kidding.  Then they were stunned when I walked out and contacted the squadron Director of Operations, then Lt Col Steven Edwards.  I explained to him why I wouldn't fly the mission.  He later got back to me and arrangements had been made.  I would not be scheduled to fly that particular mission.

Months went by.  In that time Lt Col Edwards then became the commander of the squadron and he informed me that I had to fly the mission.  He gave me an order to fly the mission and I refused.  He then brought in a witness and gave me the order again.  I again refused.  He then gave me the order in writing and I refused in writing.  He gave me a Letter of Reprimand (LOR), a referral performance report, and suspended my security clearances.  Meanwhile, the Pentagon's top lawyer (and not a good one), Jeh Johnson, was dispatched to my unit in the middle of BFE to talk to my squadron to convince them that it was lawful to assassinate Americans.  I was not allowed to attend the briefing, ostensibly because my clearances were suspended.  In reality it was because I would have torn Johnson to shreds during the discussion and my command definitely knew that would be the case.  As is a trend, the traitor Jeh Johnson was advanced as Obama later nominated him to be the Secretary of Homeland Security.  In response to the LOR, I tendered my resignation.  FOIA documents show that the command made efforts through the JAG office to try to separate me from the military for refusing the unlawful order but they ceased those efforts when they realized who my wife was.  The acting DO of the squadron told me, "Ryno, I probably shouldn't be telling you this but I just got off the phone with the JAG.  She was like, do you know who his wife is?  Dude, they are terrified of your wife!"  It turns out that not only was the command's O-6 JAG terrified of my wife, she tried to ruin my wife's military career simply for being married to me.  The JAG failed though.  The command then appeared to hope the Air Force would suspend my clearances after an investigation (so the order wouldn't even come up in the proceedings, I'd just be separated because I didn't have clearances).  Again, I had already resigned so they could have just sent my resignation up the chain of command and been done with it but they chose not to do that (likely because the Secretary of the Air Force would have to accept my resignation and the command was too embarrassed to elevate my resignation).  At any rate, the Air Force found for me during the investigation, lauded my fidelity to the Constitution, restored my security clearances and the command then gave me a plum flying assignment (actual flying) in Florida where I retired after twenty years of service.

There was plenty to like about Edwards and despite his treason and trying to separate me from the military five years prior to retirement, he was actually relatively decent to me with just a few exceptions.  I imagine the reason is because I had a similar background to himself and had actual combat credibility.  And despite being at odds with him, he respected the fact that I was doing the right thing and was willing to accept the personal consequences to defend the people of America who paid me to do just that, even against his career ambition and professional failure.  He didn't say that but I found throughout my career that those above me that I fought and who tried to damage me were some of my biggest admirers.  They knew I wasn't naive or ignorant of the risks and that I chose my nation and my countrymen over my own convenience.  They admired me, knew they lacked the strength required to be like me (despite swearing before God they would be and getting paid to make good on their promise), and then tried to destroy me in pursuit of their shallow ambitions.  It was easy to see the conflict in Edwards.  He both wanted to help me and he wanted to destroy me.  I'm sure by now he's had most of that humanity trained out of him but I bet he's still a likable guy.  We did have some laughs.  As is almost always the case with politicians who achieve a position where they can greatly damage our nation, he was likable.  It's hard to be a politician if nobody likes you.  But that is not what should concern Americans, whether you'd like to have a beer with your public officer or not.  You should care about their character because many innocents and their families have been slaughtered by likable men.

I remember one conversation where I explained to Edwards in detail why the mission was unlawful and it's memorable given his reaction during it.  He kept flip flopping from "I don't want to get into this with you" (a retort I was familiar with from commanders doing wrong when I challenged them) to trying to argue with me before quickly retreating back to "I'm not discussing this with you."  His reaction was like a vampire being shown a cross or having holy water thrown on it or being shown light.  At one point I said, "what are you going to do if the order comes down to take out Ron Paul?  What if it's your wife?  No day in court required, you're just gonna trust the president and pickle??"  He said "they wouldn't do that, I don't want to discuss this with you!"  The reason for his outsized defensive reaction where my words pained him, I imagine, was that he knew what he was ordering me to do was clearly unlawful but he simply had other values that he put higher than the rule of law and the rights of Americans and his oath of office.  But he felt bad because he knew his treason was wrong.  As an aside, it's for this reason I believe our military officer corps must be provided serious education on the Constitution where it relates to military action and recurrent training and testing with a failing performance resulting in the loss of a commission and serving the rest of any contract in the enlisted force.  Officers today can get away with violating the Constitution because nobody actually knows or talks about it and that must change.  Knowing the document will in no way guarantee it will be followed, but it will make it more difficult for traitors to do their dirty work.  It should also be noted that the idea that it's a special topic that takes special expertise and training (ie law school), which is often voiced by idiotic lawyers, is patently false and flies in the face of the Constitution itself which requires all officers in all branches to know the document.

Major General Albert "Buck" Elton

I don't have much to say about the traitor, then-Colonel Albert "Buck" Elton, and had little to no interaction with him outside of attending some staff meetings.  He was the wing commander and he was driving the bus locally regarding the unlawful order as well as the attempts to separate me from the military.  There was plenty of treason to go around.  It trickled down from President Obama through the chain of command through layers of traitors in uniform, making its way through Elton and then down to Edwards and then was executed by a great many traitor officers who made similar calculations (choosing themselves over their nation) and who when approached by me sheepishly and guiltily and shamefully lowered their eyes and responded "sorry, Ryno."  I was the only individual to refuse the unlawful order, but far from the only officer who knew the order was unlawful, and the American citizen in question was murdered not long after.

As it turns out, treason is a great career move and a little known strategy to advance your career if you live in a sickly nation that elevates and rewards traitors like Mark Milley.  A slimy lawyer who penned a legal memo that should have gotten him disbarred in a profession that had any standards was elevated to the federal bench and two field grade officers have now "achieved" two stars a piece and get special treatment with all kind of perks that a healthy nation and military would deny to traitors.

It is my sincere hope that the Trump Administration, with the very capable help of Matthew Lohmeier, is able to take steps to rid traitors from our military machinery.  With the rise of drones and artificial intelligence, it will not be long before the American people are surrounded by surveillance and lethal machinery.  It will take professionals to secure the rights of those Americans should we have a president who declares them terrorists for protesting on Capitol grounds or at school board meetings.  Traitors in military office will be a grave threat to our nation.  They must not be allowed to continue to disgrace military office as Judge Barron disgraced Arlington.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

No, Our Constitution Does Not Apply to Foreigners in America

Obviously other laws can and should cover and provide legal protections to foreigners who legally visit America (and Congress has no doubt passed such laws) and basic human rights should be respected, but the view that Constitutional protections apply to foreigners is completely incorrect.  The Supreme Court has gotten this issue wrong in the past and today Glenn Grenwald points to wrongful court decisions, rather than the Constitution itself, to defend this erroneous view.

But the Constitution resolved the issue from the get go in its introduction, the Premable, where it spelled out its scope.  In the Premable the Constitution itself states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Foreigners are not the "we the people" who created the Constitution.  They are not "ourselves" nor are they "our Posterity."  Therefore Constitutional protections do not apply to them.  Similarly, it would be strange for a person to walk into a condo complex where he doesn't live, and is simply visiting, and then claim he's owed a check because the HOA rules state that "each person is entitled to a percentage of interest collected from the reserve account."  A clever wordsmith lawyer might seize on those rules using the term "person" rather than resident, but common sense and the fact the HOA rules intro says it applies to property owners who formed the HOA should make it clear.  There simply is no serious argument that our Constitution applies to foreigners and, sadly, Glenn Greenwald's legal analysis has gotten very unserious over the past year or so.

The Constitution does, however, discuss the power of the federal government to make Treaties, and those Treaties are on-the-same-level as the very Constitution itself, being listed as part of the Supreme Law of the Land.  It makes sense that laws about what rights visitors may or may not have (as far as our government is concerned) would be passed by our Congress in negotiations with the governments of foreigners to secure lawful rights, with the highest legal protections, of their citizens on our soil.  But the Constitution itself very clearly does not apply its protections to foreigners regardless of whether a portion of its text use the word "citizens" or the word "people."

These facts about our supreme law do not change the dangerous wrong-headed actions of President Trump on behalf of the hostile foreign government that controls him, however.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Israel's Cheerleader is So Cozy with Leftist Fascists Despite Seeming Conservative

 

Whether it is NSPLYR the absolute king of leftist fascist fucktards who had to take a breather from his obvious propaganda, or this Disgruntled account, ClearedHot has a habit of being super cozy with the worst in the Digital Clown Show.  "Brother."  GTFOH, brother my ass.

There is something very not right about this retired O-6 who can't stop posting on a web forum in our age of massive domestic propaganda efforts by three letter agencies.  His combination of populist red meat and Zionist garbage while always extending an olive leaf to the worst-of-the-worst leftist fanatics ("we took the same oath") while pretending to be conservative despite fluffing his leftist friends who truly hate the Constitution is something to give one pause when reading his tripe.

And don't forget that in the early days he was fluffing Adam Kinzinger and talking about his personal conversations with him and how great he was.

Are there problems with Slife?  Most certainly.  His destruction of AFSOC's crown jewel community under the DEI flag is front and center.

But ClearedHot makes a poor representative for such critiques.  His readers should question his motivations.

ClearedHot shares Slife's ability to put his finger up and test the winds and then fashion himself accordingly unmoored by authenticity.  Yet ClearedHot lacked the ability to capitalize on that character deficiency beyond merely making O-6 and getting a contracting job.

Having listened to you for decades and having interacted with you and having been in your staff meetings (despite your recent erroneous comments about not "having dealings with him on active duty") here is my recommendation:  ClearedHot, find some authenticity or STFU.

Friday, January 24, 2025

Tyranny (Actual Tyranny) is Always Justified By "Safety"


Good on the BaseOps crowd for making me aware of this latest demonstration.  Couple of thoughts.

First, you could not have asked for a more compliant American than the driver who allegedly ran a red light when he thought it was yellow.  Second, the reason this driver was disarmed was because he dared question the cop's assertion that he ran a red light.  While many States wrongly and inexcusably "legalize" cops to unconstitutionally disarm Americans during routine traffic stops if they feel "unsafe," there is no way three armed cops in body armor actually felt unsafe from one driver who was, as the cop stated, totally compliant.  Third, notice how this "just for our safety despite you being totally cooperative" operation was conducted.  The driver was told "get out" without a hint of politeness and then made to face his vehicle with his hands on his hood.  The reason for this potentially-life-ending insanity was a variation of contempt of cop.  That's the only explanation.

This third point is related to the tyrannical decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Mimms, where they authorize police to force drivers to exit their vehicles and be subjected to being handcuffed during routine traffic stops if the police officer feels unsafe.  An American citizen who may have run a stoplight or have been over the speed limit must subject himself to being handcuffed by a stranger (with a small arsenal of weapons at his or her disposal) who is part of a profession that is filled with criminal behavior.  For safety.  But for the safety of whom?  Not for the safety of the American citizen, obviously, who pays the bills of the armed government actor, but for the safety of the government employee who is heralded as courageous and as a person who "risks their life" to "serve and protect."  Yet it is the American citizen who must subject himself to be shackled and disarmed and subjugated for a routine ticket offense while hoping the stranger does not do them more harm while they are immobilized and helpless for their routine traffic violation.  

The logic behind the Pennsylvania v. Mimms un-American ruling is that cops can use violence against people who might possibly be a threat to them.  The same logic would allow cops to tackle and arrest any person they walked by in a Wal-Mart because a person could produce a knife and stab them.  Just as a compliant driver who forgot to renew his license plate could present a similar threat despite a complete lack of evidence for such a thing.  The thugs in robes at the SCOTUS think the safety of government actors is more important than the actual safety of citizens who are not wearing body armor and who don't have tasers and weapons and attack dogs and qualified immunity.  That is not a matter of safety, it is a matter of tyranny.

As to the cop who shot the driver, that was pure incompetence.  The kind of incompetence that comes with knowing that you're untouchable and covered by qualified immunity.  The kind of disregard for common sense that is birthed from knowing the system values your convenience more than the life of American citizens.

Many years ago I was disarmed by a Texas State Trooper in Uvalde, Texas.  She pulled me over for speeding.  I was compliant.  She asked me where I was going and I told her Laughlin AFB.  She asked if I was military and I told her I was.  I also informed her I had a gun in my pocket as was required by Texas law at the time.  To my surprise, she made me get out and she disarmed me.  Fortunately in those days I did not carry a round in the chamber since I carried concealed in a cargo shorts pocket so I didn't have to bleed out due to her incompetence.  While troopers are normally a cut above city cops, this particular trooper was a complete moron much like the female cop in the video above.  Not only did she display the same stupidity of the cops in this video by feeling "unsafe" from a routine traffic stop and choosing to disarm me, she also displayed the stupidity the female cop in the video above demonstrated as I'll get to in a bit.

She took my weapon off me (she kept her weapon on her of course) and then she took out the magazine and took the slide off the weapon and scattered the pieces throughout my vehicle.  While I was compliant and had no issue for her stopping me for speeding, her decision to disarm me changed things.  While she was disarming me and scattering the pieces of my weapon I was berating her loudly for being so unprofessional and so cowardly that she had to violate the constitutional rights of an American military officer because she felt unsafe during a routine traffic stop.  Many unprofessional cops would have likely escalated the tyranny in response to my feedback on their incompetence, but fortunately she did not do so.

Instead, she gave me a warning.  A warning!

Oh, but it gets better.  Months later I was informed that I had a warrant for my arrest.  After going to the Uvalde court house to figure out why there was a warrant for my arrest, it turns out that this trooper had turned in a ticket for a different offense (failure to maintain insurance) with my name and since it went unpaid and unanswered, a warrant was issued.  The kicker...  She wrote the ticket with my name and not only for a different offense, but also for a completely different color and make of car with a different license plate.  Apparently paperwork was as challenging for her as feeling safe during routine traffic stops.  The judge cleared it up and I went on my way.  Fortunately I was able to walk away from the court house without a bullet in my leg.

Cops disarming Americans without due process (from a jury of peers) is unconstitutional and we Americans need to stop putting up with this tyranny that makes us unsafe from those who we pay to demonstrate courage in the line of duty.