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Politics are like professional wrestling. Behind the scenes, the people with real money are making the decisions about who wins and loses, while paid actors pretend to fight. No amount of yelling or signage in the audience matters, because the fix is in.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
Gun control is tyranny. The actual purpose of the 2A is to fight tyranny. Any questions?
“A republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin
We have failed to keep it. I’m not just talking about this latest election. We have allowed the inmates to run the asylum for decades. I am 56 years old, and I can count the candidates in any race during my lifetime who I would actually vote for on one hand. Probably not coincidentally, I can also count the number of those elected who I don’t believe are corrupt one on hand. It should not be like this.
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I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
the Constitution is a restraining order. like all restraining orders, it is only paper. the subject of a restraining order can never be trusted to abide by the order. therefore, the protectee must ALWAYS be prepared to enforce the order, themselves. Hence The Second Amendment
To all the government agencies signing contracts with Axon (et al), thinking you’ll be immune to the backlash against Flock, you’re wrong. All continuous surveillance in public, regardless of the company providing the technology, is a violation of our Fourth Amendment Rights.
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I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
Good morning, folks...
"Someone else will decide when it is time for you to defend yourself...and you will be given very little prior notice."
Think about that
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
Tate Adamiak has been in prison longer under President Trump than under Biden
There was initially a lot of talk about releasing Patrick “Tate” Adamiak from federal custody after President Donald Trump won his second term.
One senior government official actually said Adamiak would be “home by Christmas” of last year, which thrilled Adamiak’s family. After all, to this day they remain totally convinced he did absolutely nothing wrong—certainly nothing illegal.
Unfortunately, the 31-year-old remains behind bars, with no sign he’s even being discussed, much less released.
Adamiak was sentenced to serve 20 years behind bars in June 2023.
To be clear, he has been in federal prison about a month longer under President Trump than under Joe Biden, and this time is increasing every single minute of every single day.
There is no debate about which president is responsible for putting the former active-duty Navy E-6 in prison. Biden and his corrupt ATF bear responsibility for this, like they do for killing another one of their “suspects,” Bryan Malinowski, who like Adamiak had never been arrested, not even once.
The Trump Administration has kept Adamiak’s pardon request active, unlike the hundreds of other pardons that were denied. Adamiak’s family still has hope he will be pardoned someday, but their hope decreases as his time behind bars increases.
There is no doubt President Trump has been busy during his second round in the White House. His incredibly rigorous schedule is far from the presidential norm. His work restoring and upholding the Second Amendment has been simply amazing—unlike that of any other president in American history. Still, all it would take is a word to a staffer and Adamiak could be a free man. That’s how easily presidential pardons can work.
Adamiak’s next court hearing is Sept. 30th, but no one thinks much will happen. Arenda L. Wright Allen, the federal judge in charge of his case, saw to that. She cancelled a hearing that was scheduled for June and gagged Adamiak’s defense attorney during the resentencing hearing next month.
“His objections were previously addressed at his sentencing hearing and affirmed by the Fourth Circuit and cannot be re-raised at this resentencing hearing. Accordingly, the Court is precluded from considering, and will not hear, any evidence or argument on the objections at the resentencing hearing,” Judge Wright Allen wrote.
Calum Welch, Adamiak’s defense attorney, doesn’t know if a pardon will ever occur, but he remains busy “advocating for Tate’s interests.”
“Since we’re stuck in court and have a strategy, we’re limited to actions taken. It makes it particularly challenging for us to maintain a constant legal strategy when we’re being told about potential executive actions,” Welch said. “We’ve got to keep everybody in the loop, and we’ve got to say promises have been made but I have no info to add. It’s a difficult spot. We have to prepare a legal strategy, if we don’t have something tangible in hand.”
Neither President Trump nor Attorney General Todd Blanche returned emails seeking comments about Adamiak’s plight or whether a pardon is likely.
ATF Director Robert Cekada said he stands by his earlier comments, which stated that Adamiak’s sentence was far longer than other similar cases.
“I think that this is a case that warrants review by the Pardon Office or the President,” Cekada said Wednesday evening.
Questionable charges
Adamiak was arrested and charged by the ATF during the height of the Biden Administration’s war on gun rights and the Second Amendment.
He had been accepted to attend BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training). Had the ATF left him alone, Adamiak would likely be leading a Navy SEAL platoon.
After ATF agents kicked down his doors, they found nothing illegal or even suspected of being illegal. As a result, the ATF brought in a specialist, ATF Firearm Enforcement Officer Jeffrey R. Bodell, who discombobulated the actual items that the agents had found—all of which are still sold legally online, most do not even require an ID—and turned them into machineguns and destructive devices.
Adamiak was charged with illegally possessing a machinegun for a toy STEN submachinegun found during the search warrant. He paid $75 for the non-firing Spanish replica—or toy—which was made by Denix and is still sold online. Bodell inserted a real STEN barrel and receiver, but neither Bodell nor his assistant could make it fire more than one round at a time. Despite their hard work, the toy STEN would not even accept a real magazine. Still, Bodell officially ruled that the toy was a machinegun.
Adamiak was charged with illegally possessing two destructive devices, two inert RPGs that had holes drilled into their receivers and were stripped of internal parts. ATF’s “expert” added parts from real RPGs until they would fire a single subcaliber 7.62x39mm round. As a result, he classified the RPGs as destructive devices. The inert RPGs are still legally sold today without an FFL or any other paperwork.
Bodell’s status at the ATF today is not known.
Adamiak’s prosecution is led by Brian J. Samuels, who served as the criminal chief of the U.S. Justice Department’s Eastern Virginia office for nearly two decades, until he was demoted just a few months ago.
The main reason for Samuels’ demotion was never made entirely clear, but it may have involved a decision to not file charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, each of whom tried to prosecute President Trump.
Once responsible for management and major cases within the office, Samuels is now just an assistant U.S. attorney—the same title given to anyone who graduates law school and joins the Justice Department.
He recently released a document titled “Position of the United States with Respect to Sentencing Factors.”
It shows he will offer Adamiak no mercy.
Samuels never once mentioned Joe Biden or how he was responsible for the out-of-control ATF and their massive stint of illegality that occurred during his presidency. In fact, Biden is mentioned only once in the entire document, in a quote from Adamiak’s father.
Takeaways
Adamiak’s father, Dave Adamiak, does not understand why nothing official has happened to his son’s charges, yet he still is hopeful that Tate will somehow be released.
He thinks about Tate nearly every minute of every single day. It has changed his life and not in any good way.
“That’s why it’s so very difficult to focus on any task,” Dave Adamiak said. “I remember doing things with Tate constantly, and then these thoughts are interrupted by how he royally got screwed. It doesn’t seem like anyone is even paying attention. What can I possibly do to bring more attention to this complete miscarriage of justice, which no one is even doing anything about anymore?”
Tate Adamiak has been held in a dangerous Virginia county jail since June 16 and was not available for comment.
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I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
serious question
let's say i'm a bad guy and i want a machine gun to hurt people with
let's also say that they're completely illegal; not even nfa registered items. no legal channel to obtain one, period
now remember, i'm a bad guy who's ALREADY made the decision to cause harm to many people
i'm either going to modify a legal firearm to be full auto or start looking at other options, like chemical attacks or bombs
it's not like i'm not going to hurt those people, right? the decision was already made. acquiring the tools is just part of executing the plan. plans can change with circumstances
so that's the scenario. here's the question. what's the net benefit to public safety of the outright ban on all machine guns, including nfa items?
(note that interest balancing isn't justification for 2a violations per scotus, so this is hypothetical in every way, but that's the premise behind 'civilians shouldn't own machine guns' so that's the question at hand)
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
"Under Flock, we are all under investigation, at all times, for all crimes."
– Dr. Viet Trinh at Columbus City Council
That quote hits hard.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
The surveillance state is intentionally gradual.
It starts with things like warrantless surveillance of your devices and "red light cameras."
A few years pass, and now you see Flock cameras on every corner.
They are conditioning you to think being constantly watched is normal.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
Tyranny rarely announces itself with tanks.
It arrives as a fee, then a form, then a waiting period, then a registry, then a knock.
Each step may seem reasonable to the ruling class. The staircase is not.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
When folks ask me why gun control laws are unconstitutional, I do NOT explain my belief.
I EXPLAIN THE WHY…
“The Constitution wasn’t written to control We the People. It was written to limit the power of Government.
The Second Amendment does not grant permission to own firearms. It’s a restriction on The Government’s ability to infringe upon that right.
And if the government acts beyond the authority the Constitution gives it, the law IS unconstitutional.”
That is WHY all gun control laws are unconstitutional.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
The state cannot simultaneously claim a monopoly on force and have no duty to protect you (though they often do).
That combination is not a social contract. It's a frickin' hostage situation.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
voting is not consent
if i vote against a policy and it passes anyway i'm still forced to obey
if i don't vote at all i'm still forced to obey
if i vote for the losing candidate i'm still forced to fund the winner's agenda
where's the consent?
democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner then claiming the sheep consented because it had a vote
majority rule doesn't create legitimacy it just means 51% get to force their will on 49%
real consent requires the right to say no and walk away
voting gives you neither
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
If our Founding Fathers found out there were some fellows sitting at the intersections of every trail/road writing down specific details of all the wagons/cargo, horses & people that passed, along with their direction of travel, they would have hanged said fellows on the spot.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man; but only to have the law of nature for his rule.” Sam Adams (quoting John Locke), “The Rights of the Colonists.”
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
This is the march of altruism destroying the greatest and only moral country in history, and the rest of the world along with it. Nearly every item on your list rests on one premise: that a man's life and property belong to the collective, to be seized and redirected by force.
The "unfair, lopsided system" you decry is capitalism, the one where a man keeps what he creates. That system lifted mankind from candlelight and horseback to a life of abundance no king of the past could have dreamed of: cured diseases, full grocery shelves, a device in every pocket. It is the greatest engine of human flourishing ever discovered. What you offer to replace it is fairness by leveling: everyone made equal in the poverty your policies always produce.
Single payer, taxing wealth, taxing capital, taxing AI, a mandated wage. All the same thing: the state takes what a man earned, dictates what he may keep, and calls the theft compassion. You brand success a crime and confiscation a virtue.
You call it courage. It is the oldest cowardice there is, promising people the unearned by pointing a gun at whoever produced it.
Real courage is the to defend the truth that you evade. A man's life is his own. He does not exist to be taxed, drafted, and managed for your causes.
I’m Your Huckleberry… retweeted
The Second Amendment reads:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
If we’re making a textualist argument, we must interpret the ENTIRE sentence. The prefatory clause explains an important purpose of the amendment—a well-regulated militia. The operative clause protects “the right of the people,” the same phrase used elsewhere in the Bill of Rights to describe individual rights. The text doesn’t say “the right of the militia,” nor does it limit the right to militia service.
An originalist argument leaves more room for nuance.
Founding-era leaders frequently discussed an armed citizenry, private firearm ownership, and the relationship between arms, personal defense, civic independence, and resistance to tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson encouraged familiarity with firearms, famously advising his nephew in 1785, “Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
George Washington likewise emphasized that “a free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined,” reflecting the belief that liberty depended upon a capable and armed citizenry.
Patrick Henry was even more direct during Virginia’s ratifying convention, declaring that “the great object is that every man be armed.”
That said, an honest conversation also acknowledges that the founding generation accepted some firearm regulations. I will always reject tribalism. Jefferson and Madison approved University of Virginia rules prohibiting students from possessing firearms on campus. Municipalities regulated gunpowder storage and, in some places, restricted keeping loaded firearms in densely populated areas to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires.
Several states also temporarily disarmed British loyalists whom they viewed as active threats to the new republic. Those measures were wartime security policies rather than ordinary criminal laws, but they demonstrate that the founding generation did not regard every firearm restriction as unconstitutional.
A constitutional originalist, who is still usually considered conservative, could reasonably argue that certain public safety regulations align with the understanding of the Second Amendment from the founding era. However, there still isn't an originalist argument to justify restrictions on specific common weapons based on factors like capacity.
What the historical record does NOT support is the claim that the right to keep and bear arms belonged only to members of an organized militia. The text, the debates surrounding ratification, and the broader public understanding all point toward an individual right exercised by ordinary citizens.
