Not Fucking Around

coloneljethro in #hive-194913 • 2 years ago

The feds that is. Earlier this week they sentenced Grandmaster Jay, the leader of the Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC), to 86 months in federal prison.

Here in the US we have a long history (see COINTELPRO) of the feds killing or imprisoning on specious charges those that don't worship at the altar of Uncle Sam. Some things never change it seems.

Grandmaster Jay (above, slightly left of center with AR pointed skyward and BDU pattern vest) was sentenced for assaulting LMPD officers on a rooftop by pointing a rifle in their direction. Considering how little it takes for cops to open fire on black people it beggars belief that a black man could point a rifle at cops and nary a shot be fired.

Pointing guns at cops is bad, right? They tend to get very excited when you do. Some context is probably necessary to understand what happened and why. On the first night of protests here in Louisville seven people were shot by still unknown assailant(s). Back before January 6th made them famous the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters were running around downtown Louisville, armed to the teeth and looking for trouble. A couple self proclaimed militia types had been caught attempting to play sniper from the top of a downtown parking garage.

Think you could tell the folks in the photo above from the cops, at night and atop multistory buildings?

Pretty much have to use some sort of optics, either a scope or a long lens.

It was one of the more dystopian parts of the protests in 2020, you could spot snipers on rooftops all around you but only rarely did you have any idea who it was pointing guns at you.

The day after the incident that is being used to incarcerate Grandmaster Jay, hundreds of militia types rushed the square where people where protesting downtown, shoving people and waving firearms about. The only thing more conspicuous than LMPDs absence was the complete lack of charges for any of it. Coming on the heels of that it makes Jay's seven years in the federal penitentiary seem all the more political and targeted.

Photos are all from NFAC's first visit to Louisville on July 25, 2020. The charges against Grandmaster Jay stem from their second visit, in early September 2020.

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2 years ago in #hive-194913 by coloneljethro

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stevenson7 2 years ago

Gee, that's a lot of firearms.
How are these lads able to casually walk amongst civilians with weapons like that?

And hope you're keeping safe?!

coloneljethro 2 years ago

I think you win understatement of the week!
I live in a country with more guns than people and a state with rather lax gun laws, what they were doing was perfectly legal. Many of us at the protests, myself included, were also carrying weapons. Lol, although not obvious from my photos there were also a good number of women there and equally well armed. Technically all were civilians, although with paramilitary groups like that the distinction gets a bit fuzzy.

Oh yes, safe and relatively sound. These photos are from 2020, we haven't had this sort of excitement since the protests tapered off.

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malos10 2 years ago

DAMM is impresive and intimidating to see thay many people armed in one place

coloneljethro 2 years ago

You ain't kidding. It's one thing to see it on the news, something else entirely to be present for it, it was wild. Actually that whole year (2020) was wild, there was a lot of that going on.

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jacobtothe 2 years ago

The Threepers and Oath Keepers have always struck me as sketchy, almost as if they are designed to discredit the gun rights community. I have no doubt they're filled with agents provocateur. I'm told the militia types tried to warn the FBI about McVeigh before the OKC bombing, because they didn't want his flavor of violence. Most also disavow racist KKK bullshit. But we still see the FBI literally instigating things like the plot to kidnap Whitmer just like they find the dumbest kid in the mosque to feed bomb-making blueprints and equipment. Fuck the feds.

coloneljethro 2 years ago

That amount of anger and cognitive dissonance is quite sketchy but I have my doubts they were designed. Lol, the number of times antifa has infiltrated them and then released their comms makes me think there's plenty of agents provocateurs in them as well.

Which ones warned of McVeigh? Not his buddies in Elohim City. Most may disavow the old KKK tactics but there's strong Christian Identity bent to many of the groups out there that's not much different. It's not like the Turner Diaries have fallen out of favor in recent years.

As for the instigating, yeah fuck the feds. It's not just the FBI, although CONINTELPRO kinda puts them into a class of their own, the ATF is just as bad. Pretty sure just about every one of the 'terrorist plots' that were disrupted by the feds were pat me on the back setups to make them look like they were doing something.

alt3r 2 years ago

Was this amount of weapons really necessary?
Creepy dudes.

coloneljethro 2 years ago

Yes/No/Maybe? This country has a very long history of white dudes with guns parading around in public to intimidate and/or attack people, particularly minorities. Almost always it's far right/white nationalist types (this happened just a couple months before these photos were taken).

Are you familiar with the radical flank effect? These folks were here to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, and with how militarized the police are here it was more than a little reassuring to see the same hardware on display in response to them. Think Black Panthers but with better hardware.

Side note, this country has more guns than people, so the carrying of them in public is a bit more normalized.

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alt3r 2 years ago

Almost always it's far right/white nationalist types (this happened just a couple months before these photos were taken).

Why am I not surprised that it's about the far right? By the way, the photos are terrifying just looking at them; I can't imagine what it's like to be there on the spot, with all that energy charged with aggression. Was the hanging really necessary?

Are you familiar with the radical flank effect?

I haven't been until now, but I remember when #BLM started circulating on social media after the murder of George Floyd, and the way the dust rocketed high enough to reach us, just to be forgotten like the hashtag itself. Okay, I have nothing against guns or gun ownership, but the misuse and invasion of private property without a warrant, killing innocent people like Breonna, is a violation of every human right, similar tragedies also happen here that are never solved.

Actually, thank you for such posts and information; these are things that should not be overlooked as each of us can be Breonna at some point.

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dandays 2 years ago

Insert your favorite adjective - photos. You ever been threatened? How often do you feel threatened?

coloneljethro 2 years ago

Taking photos, not directly, no. I tried to walk through NFAC's perimeter the second time they came to town and got directed to go elsewhere but it wasn't a threatening exchange. The thing I was most worried about was someone doing something stupid and accidentally starting a general firefight. The number of people who knew how to handle firearms was a lot less than the number of people out there with guns. The other thing was vehicles, on two occasions cars missed me by six inches or less as they drove into/through marches.

It was more an omnipresent sense of menace, a sense that sooner or later something bad was going to happen rather than a sense of being threatened. There was one weekend in late September (right after they announced there'd be no charges for Breonna's death) that the militia types were making threats against a unitarian church so I ended up pulling guard duty there for a couple nights but I didn't have my camera with me.

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dandays 2 years ago

That picture was as clear as your photos.

If not a camera while on guard duty, what did you have?

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coloneljethro 2 years ago

9mm Smith & Wesson. The church didn't want us openly carrying long guns but some of the protesters (and their security team) they were giving sanctuary to had them. It was wild, the first night I found myself facing off with the cops standing next to a guy carrying one of these.

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dandays 2 years ago

All that and no shot of his holster, what were you thinking?

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coloneljethro 2 years ago

Mostly that if things went south we were going to be the first ones shot. Besides, he had a sling for it, there wasn't a holster.

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