overcoming various state gun-control laws appears to be at the heart of Mercerโs previously unreported dabbling in Lake Arthurโs law enforcement. In 2004, Congress passed the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, declaring that police officers can carry concealed guns in any state without the need of a local license. The law applies to off-duty officers who are out of their jurisdictions, including volunteers. As a result, the volunteer police badge became an alluring accessory for gun enthusiasts, especially in areas that seldom grant concealed-carry permitsโareas like Suffolk County, where Mercer lives. Since the law was enacted, some police departments around the country (dubbed โbadge factoriesโ by insiders) have been said to swap badges for cash, or hand them out to friends...The new Jim Crow. Exalted orcs only, helots must use "separate but equal" law.
โIf you look at the map of the United States, thereโs all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coasts. But what the map doesnโt show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of Americaโs gross domestic product (GDP). So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forwardโ - Hillary Clinton, last week (emphasis added).
That was Hillary Goldman Sachs-Council on Foreign Relations Clinton saying โfuck you very muchโ to working- and middle-class people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and West Virginia. It was a raised middle finger from a super-wealthy arch-global-corporatist to all the supposedly pessimistic, slow-witted. retrograde losers stuck between those glorious enclaves (led by Wall Street, Yale, and Harvard on the East coast and Silicon Valley and Hollywood on the West coast) of human progress and variety (and GDP!) on the imperial shorelines.
Wow. Call it โDeplorables II.: The Wall Street Witch Strikes Again!โ