Sipsey Street Irregulars: DHS thugs crap all over their jackboots -- again. Another skirmish with the forces of the evil empire in Washington state.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

DHS thugs crap all over their jackboots -- again. Another skirmish with the forces of the evil empire in Washington state.

The latest from David Codrea: Federal agents 'catch and release' open carry activist in Washington (Be sure and watch the accompanying video there.)

Washington State liberty activist Anthony Bosworth was arrested Wednesday outside a federal building for openly carrying a firearm, an announcement on Bosworth’s Facebook page reports. Within hours, he had been released with no criminal charges, his wife informed supporters. . .

Bosworth was arrested in front of his wife and children by agents for the Department of Homeland Security, who “claimed that Bosworth was in violation of federal law by open carrying a firearm on federal property.” That’s in spite of the reported fact that “The sign on the building states that firearms are not allowed inside the building, but makes no mention of the outside grounds, where Bosworth was standing. . .”

“If you want to leave, step onto public property,” one of the agents told Bosworth’s wife Maria as she video recorded the arrest. Evidently the understanding of the term “public property” is as murky as the grasp of U.S. Code.

This story will be updated if further relevant information becomes available. As it was being written, no charges had been reported filed and the Spokane County Sheriff was in contact with federal authorities. As it was being prepared for publication, word was posted by Maria Boswell on Facebook that "Spokane sheriff supported us...no charges made....only citation!!" Per a phone call from Sam Wilson, the media contact for the Washington activists, the citation charges Bosworth with "Failure to comply."

Be sure and check Kit Lange's site here.

Note, too, the critical support of local (that is to say, constitutional) law enforcement with the intervention of the Spokane County Sheriff.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Rights were codified via enumeration precisely TO protect them in PUBLIC places! One of two things has to happen. Either SCOTUS is going to have to step in directly and state the obvious in a form LEO actually adhered to or the entire judiciary is going to have to let massive numbers of title 42 section 1983 claims go forward - stripping qualified immunity entirely. This madness of catch and release is EXACTLY the kind of intimidating action that rights enumerated are supposed to protect against.

LEO is making a mockery of our Constitution. The danger, the real danger, in doing so is that eventually the rule of law itself will break down entirely and NOBODY will care about law and order. And LEO will be the first targets, with elected fools coming second, of anarchist aggression.

It's time to stop the madness. No, not another conpromise. No, not a "step in the "right" direction. No, not a deal. No, not another half asked bait and switch. Just KNOCK IT OFF!

I say again - Mike V is EXACTLY CORRECT!
Open carry IN GROUPS, as large a group as possible, is EXACTLY what we "gun rights advocates" have to be SUPPORTING and PARTICIPATING in. Those arguing otherwise, well, whether you want to admit it or not, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I hope this fella refuses to be paid off. I pray he presses the point of Liberty and it's violation to the fullest extent, demanding ACTUAL direct accountability rather than dollars.

Now, I'm gonna pop some popcorn and watch the SAF and the NRA run as far away from this as they can get. I'm gonna ask every FUDD I can what those peckerwoods are doing to defend this Patriot and wait for the ho hum the FUDDs bring in retort. Sure, those groups came kicking and screaming along for GunWalker but this? They won't touch this activism - yet. But just you watch - soon they both will be acting like it was their idea!; February 26, 2015 at 3:14 AM
Paul X said...: "anarchist aggression"

Ain't no such animal. If it's anarchist, it can't be aggression. If it's aggression (rather than defense), it can't be anarchist.

I wasn't even aware the OC folks (of whom I thought I was one) were even pushing against the feds - I thought it was a state thing. Good luck to those who try it. And good luck depending on the courts to do what is right, or getting fed thugs to obey law...; February 26, 2015 at 11:23 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

DHS thugs crap all over their jackboots -- again. Another skirmish with the forces of the evil empire in Washington state.

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