What do the small towns of Uvalde (TX) and Moscow (ID) have in common with global company Twitter? That would be law enforcement issues. Let’s review, shall we?
According to some reports, Uvalde (TX) local law enforcement officers (LEOs) had just completed active shooter training when, lo and behold, an active shooter proceeded to attack an elementary school and kill a bunch of people, mostly children.
Now, being a rational person, you would think those local LEOs would be excited to be able to save lives by deploying all the great stuff they learned in their recent training. But, again lo and behold, something did not translate from the classroom to the real world. Local LEOs were unable to help, leadership was sorely lacking amongst them, and no one in the rank and file was willing to step up and take the lead.
To this day, explanations for those actions — rather, lack of — has been a huge morass of conflicting excuses, some of which masqueraded as “explanations”, and none of which made one iota of sense. And what are we left with? A small, close community and many parents furious at the local LEOs and politicians and school board members who only seem to be circling the wagons around their own reputations.
Let’s head northwest to the next small town, Moscow, Idaho, where, according to reporting, four out of six college students sharing one house were murdered so quietly that the other two slept right through it and were not harmed. Again, what do we see? We see flat-footed responses from local LEOs.
In both Uvalde and Moscow press conferences galore! But no solutions. Could it be that bad guys are targeting small towns because there is such a lack of preparedness, training, and investigative options? Or is that small town LEOs are like most folks in those tiny towns and think “That couldn’t happen here” and so blithely go about their training as if its just a fun day out of the office and off the boring streets?
Two things are very clear in small towns.
One: We need to Back the Blue. When LEOs do their jobs well and correctly, we are happy to show them respect and let them do their jobs and also jump in and help when needed. But the Blue needs to take their training seriously, too.
We understand the need to respect chain of command. But, in Uvalde for one example, when that chain was broken, and as shot after shot after horrifying shot rang out and the only clear commands given were to physically hold back and threaten those who were willing to go into the fray to save their and others children when the police would not, then Back the Blue becomes an unlikely option because Blue has now become the enemy of the people by failing in their obligation.
Two: Who is providing small-town LEOs with training? With one law enforcement failure after another, is it the mandate of trainers to teach bad methodology? Surely a case could be made for that. Think about it. For years it’s been obvious that law enforcement personnel have been taught bad Constitutional and Bill of Rights interpretations (1A, 2A, and 5A come top of mind). Money spent on new weaponry, vehicle and body cams and armour, computers installed in vehicles, and more, makes each LEO look like he knows what he’s doing and is highly trained for the benefit of law-abiding citizens. Yet obviously that is not the case.
Who is responsible for gutting the Constitution and Bill of Rights of protections? Clearly, it’s Democrats and RINOs. They don’t even pretend they aren’t doing it anymore. So the logical next question is: Could they be behind the gutting of small-town LEOs training so as to more easily usher in Communism by razing those towns defenses?
Yeah. That is very possible…and not far from reality.
What has all that got to do with Twitter?
Jack Dorsey’s Twitter had in-house “local LEOs” who were also badly trained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, most famously 1A and 2A, but also election law and states’ rights, all of which they shredded like so much legal confetti.
When the sheriff’s little deputies in Twittertown permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account because of what they called an incitement to violence, not only did they show their bias against truth and love of freedom they showed unwavering support for Communism. Twittertown deputies did not suspend accounts that really were burning down cities across America and celebrated those destructions as wins for the Commie Cause.
The Twitter Files (1-6 already released) are making public the documentation of pre-Musk internal communications, as well as within the project management app Slack wherein documents and discussions were also held.
Jack Dorsey recently apologized for being a bad sheriff in Twittertown (shades of Uvalde, yes?) and not keeping those bad deputies under control. But his apology falls on users’ ears deafened by years of secret shadow-banning, non-amplification of their tweets, inability to communicate with followers the users worked very hard to attract to their feed.
But there is a new sheriff in town.
Uvalde, Moscow, and other towns experiencing trouble with their hired LEOs not doing their jobs and/or actively supporting or afraid to confront bad guys in their towns should take note of Elon Musk, the new sheriff in Twittertown.
Not only did Musk fire the bad deputies, he replaced them and is taking an extremely tight hands-on approach to policing Twittertown. Is he doing the right thing by users and supporting freedom? Yes. How do we know?
Because mainstream media joint attacks came out hard, fast, and vicious. Musk went from being hailed as a superhuman, heroic, media and tech darling to being a freeloading, looser, lazy, Conservative tool, and idiot zero in less than two weeks wherein he is universally hated.
On the other hand, Conservative media’s opinion of him is mixed. Some like him, some don’t. Some agree, some don’t. Some wish he’d come out harder for Topic A and some wish he’d shut up about Topic A.
As many a new sheriff in town has said, “If both sides are unhappy with me, I must be doing something right.”
And Musk is doing a lot that is right. As he attempts to get a real-world working set of rules and regs on Twitter that supports freedom and acknowledges how many peoples use language, he’s made a few tweaks to what he’s implemented.
To hear MSM tell it, though, Musk is the biggest wishy-washy hypocrite in the world who hates freedom, tells lies all day long, and blah, blah, blah, you get the drift. Of course, the MSM was A-OK with the way Sheriff Dorsey and his deputies were misusing the law in their favor.
But that is not acceptable behavior in Twittertown anymore. If other small towns get LEOs that are more like Musk and his new team that allow Twittertown citizens to defend themselves, bad guys will get the hint. So:
Back the Blue in Twittertown.
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