I was buying a gun a few weeks ago at [PRODUCT PLACEMENT REDACTED] when something small and important occurred to me. It was a .22 rifle, good for plinking. Charlie wasn't my only nephew, I have several as well as other relatives, and target shooting is an occasional family event for us.
The store is closing up so all of their stuff went on sale, and sometimes you just have to buy something because it's cheap and you'd feel like you left money on the table if you didn't bring it home. This is universal human behavior.
The small, unimportant thing that occurred to me did so while I was filling out the computerized background check. (That, too, is universal in American retail.) Some of the questions had to do with my citizenship. One of them, though, seemed different than it was a few years ago.
In 1996, mind you, the Clinton administration took a bite out of the Second Amendment when it made domestic violence a "qualifying misdemeanor" which would make it legal for the government to take away a citizen's right to own a gun. I wrote about it then; make domestic violence a felony, I said. What's so wrong with that?
So that question didn't surprise me.
Another one did... Something to the effect of, "Are you currently under any restraining order that forbids you from harassing, threatening or stalking any other person?" My answer was 'No'. And the artificial intelligence verified that, and they printed out my paperwork and sent me on my way with a box under my arm. That would not have been possible from August 2017 through August 2018.
I would have had to answer 'Yes' in that time period, when a certain neighborhood plaintiff was fruitlessly suing me for a post on this here blog. I caught said plaintiff in a big fat lie, showed them my cards and asked for dismissal, to which they stipulated immediately. That stipulation ended the unconstitutional Preliminary Injunction that Kalamazoo County's 9th Circuit Court had imposed upon me until then, and which is millstoned to my sister (and to Charlie's Dad) PERMANENTLY (pending appeal).
It doesn't matter who the plaintiff was. Most loyal readers may already know. What matters is that Kalamazoo County Medical Examiner Joyce deJong's Pathology Department, which is also the Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine that is housed on Western Michigan University's campus, sent a fax to the plaintiff (that I knew about), and was the document around which the plaintiff's big fat lie was centered.
I sent a complaint about WMed to the Federal Trade Commission, because the evidence strongly suggests that Joyce deJong provided information to the person who sued me, and the person who sued me denied receiving it. (The FTC's response was to provide me with a link to a website that doles out advice on how not be defrauded, so at least in their eyes, I'm a victim of fraud.)
I also notified my state Senator of the fact that the Medical Examiner had essentially conspired with a plaintiff who sued me, for whatever reason. He, my state Senator, didn't do anything about it at all. Looking at his campaign contributors, I notice a check from the judge in my case, and a much bigger donation from "Friends of WMU". So, reasons.
When I filed a FOIA request specifically requesting communications between the Medical Examiner and the plaintiff's business, since the document was faxed from WMed Pathology to [PRODUCT PLACEMENT REDACTED], the County responded by saying that only communications which were sent across County servers would be available for release, and that no such communications existed on County servers.
When we filed an earlier FOIA with WMed, asking for all documents related to Charlie's case, that very document was provided to my sister's attorney - only without the information that my copy has on it, as applied by the receiving party's fax machine. So they had it, their fax number sent it to the plaintiff who sued me, the plaintiff lied about receiving it until I proved it, at which time the suit against me was voluntarily dismissed.
For an entire year, my First Amendment rights were infringed upon, fraudulently as far as this former defendant is concerned. And, come to find out, so were my Second Amendment rights. Had I tried to purchase a firearm through a licensed dealer during that year, I would have been turned down on a background check, because I was under an Injunction that was enforced ex parte (that means they didn't ask me first) by a court that still refuses to address whether or not the plaintiff is a big fat liar.
You want the details? I'd be happy to share them, but you'd have to email me for that stuff, since my sister remains gagged and these litigious bastards would no doubt file a 4th Motion to Show Cause, saying that I published information about them as her confederate or some dumb shit like that. Oh, yes, Pilgrim: They mean to deprive her of her liberty, right here in America.
There's more. On August 2nd, 2018, while the bogus gag order was still around my throat, Kalamazoo County's Corporations Counsel sent an email to the Sheriff's Department accusing me of threatening the Medical Examiner. They obviously considered it and found the complaint to be without merit (it was over a blog post, funny how that works) because, well, I passed the background check, eh?
Even so, my government took its best shot, because it didn't like what I said about them. That should send a chill down every American's spine.
That was the second attempted blight upon my Second Amendment rights. The court's sacking of my free speech rights was worse, but that's twice that Kalamazoo County has rolled me around in the dust. It's not fun being under that magnifying glass. These are supposed to be unalienable rights, but look, I was found guilty and had to prove my innocence.
That's bullshit. At the risk of sounding grandiose, it can fairly be said that the Constitution did not protect me, but the other way around. And it didn't protect my sister or her son's father, who watched their free speech rights get suffocated, like they needed that.
Maybe you see it differently. Maybe you think I'm all wrong, that I've gone too far... Well, there's a Report Abuse link on the very bottom of the -- see it down there? Yeah, I put that there. No sweat.
I hope you feel free to leave comments, because they have always been welcome on this blog.
But mostly I just hope you feel free.
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